Big Changes for Storied NYC Hotel

Big Changes for Storied NYC Hotel Outlook Bright for Hotel Industry Historic D.C. Hotel Shows Off New Look Hotel Indigo Branches into London, New Orleans New Hyatt Place Opens by LAX Kalahari Resorts Making Upgrades in Wisconsin, Ohio San Diego Resort Launches $150 Million Expansion Oahu’s Turtle Bay Resort Begins Huge Makeover California Lodging Unveils High-Tech Website Detroit Casino-Hotel Debuts New Dining Spot Million-Dollar Incentive for Atlantic City Event Hosting Event-Friendly Wisconsin Hotel Bouncing Back San Antonio Resort Begins $35 Million Makeover Springfield and the Berkshires Roughly squared off by interstates 91 and 90 (the Mass Pike) and routes 7 and 2 (the Mohawk Trail), the northwestern corner of Massachusetts offers planners... Read more >> Harrisburg/Hershey/ Lancaster On one hand, south-central Pennsylvania is an idyllic country quilt of Amish farms and covered bridges. However, the cities of Harrisburg, Lancaster and the resort town of Hershey are well stocked with convention space... Read more >> Harrisburg/Hershey/Lancaster News >> State College In the middle of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania lies a beautifully hilly, forested area known, somewhat mysteriously, as the Happy Valley... Read more >> State College News >> Greater Cleveland Northeast Ohio is booming. New venues and hotels are sprouting up throughout the region and visitors are pouring in, so planners seeking an energetic... Read more >> Greater Cleveland News >> What is CSR? CSR—corporate social responsibility—was an acronym you weren’t hearing much a half-dozen years ago. Today, it’s one of the hottest terms in the meetings industry and only getting hotter... Read more >> Is your meeting destination safe? There is no city or country that wants anyone to believe it is anything but safe for residents and for visitors. As a Washington, DC resident (yes, in the District not in a suburb!) I know the comments made... Read more >> Collateral Damage The fallout from last spring's scandal over extravagant event spending at the General Services Administration (GSA) has prompted drastic cutbacks in federal government meetings... Read more >> Growth Curve Never have so many Eastern states been in play when it comes to casino gaming, their growth leaving new glitzy upscale options for meetings and conventions in their wake... Read more >> Looking Ahead to 2013 With 2013 just around the corner, the IMEX Group (organizers of two award-winning annual exhibitions - IMEX in Frankfurt and IMEX America in Las Vegas) offer their top 10 predictions on trends... Read more >> State of the ‘Art’ The Alexander Hotel is opening in January 2013 in Indianapolis, and aims to draw business, leisure and meetings clientele with its modern design elements, central locale and emphasis on artwork... Read more >> Site Scene Kimpton’s 268-room Hotel Monaco opened this month inside a 100-year-old building along Philadelphia’s Independence Mall. The refurbished luxury property offers 12,000 square feet of meeting space... Read more >> Short Takes Pittsburgh’s LEED platinum certified David L. Lawrence Convention Center established a waystation for monarch butterflies on the center’s north terrace. Each summer, the butterflies migrate South across North America to Mexico... Read more >> Signs of Optimism for Atlantic City Casinos - 12/10/12 East Coast Year-End Airfares Show 2012 Rise - 11/26/12 ‘New’ PSAV Moves Forward Following Merger - 11/19/12 Atlantic City Bounces Back - 11/12/12 Hurricane Sandy Slams East Coast - 10/29/12 Long Island Hotel Wraps Big Renovation - 10/22/12 Huge New Casino Development for Massachusetts? - 10/15/12 Good News, Bad News for Travel Industry - 10/8/12 IACC Appoints New CEO - 9/24/12 Top Dining and Wining Trends Revealed - 9/17/12 Philly CC Seeks Out Private Management - 9/10/12 December 17, 2012 Contracting with Sovereign Nations Wed. January 16, 2013 Join Meetings Focus and Lisa M. Koop, an attorney for Washington state’s Tulalip Tribe, to discover the many considerations, and advantages, when entering into a contract with a sovereign people, such as Native American tribes. This free one-hour video webinar travels to the Tulalip Resort Casino for the presentation, where we catch up with Linda Botts, the resort’s national sales manager, and take a look around the property with a group of meeting planner FAM participants. Exclusively Sponsored by: Tulalip Resort Casino