The Aloft is scheduled to open Sept. 26 in downtown Orlando with 118 rooms and 7,000 square feet of meeting space.
The Orlando World Center Marriott recently completed a five-year, multimillion-dollar renovation, with property-wide enhancements that upgraded guest rooms and meeting space, restaurants and the Falls Pool Oasis, now featuring a poolside bar and grill and new waterslides. The 2,000-room property includes 450,000 square feet of function space and an 18-hole championship golf course.
The Rosen Inn at Pointe Orlando added two new meeting rooms, Camellia and Magnolia, offering a combined 1,400 square feet of meeting space off the hotel’s main lobby.
The Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate recently unveiled the 55,000-square-foot Osceola County Conference Center, featuring a 28,800-square-foot ballroom, prefunction space, eight flexible meeting rooms and an event lawn. The resort now offers a total of 128,000 square feet of function space, including three ballrooms and 46 meeting rooms.
The Villas of Grand Cypress in Orlando “reimagined” its villas to the tune of $14 million, modernizing decor and furnishings and taking a big technological step forward with interactive TV control panels.
The Alfond Inn, a new boutique hotel owned by Rollins College featuring 112 rooms and nearly 10,000 square feet of meeting space, opened in Winter Park in August.
Visit Central Florida, the official destination marketing organization for Polk County, redesigned its website to feature spotlight pages focusing on the elements of air, earth, fire and water, with click-through to landing pages that suggest related activities and attractions such as kayaking or hot-air ballooning.
The Mission Inn Resort & Club in Howey-in-the-Hills will host the country’s top collegiate golfers for the Division III Women’s Championship in 2014 and 2015. Located 35 minutes from Orlando, the Spanish-inspired resort includes two championship golf courses, a full-service spa, a fitness center and 30,000 square feet of meeting and function space.