LAS CRUCES, N.M. – The Las Cruces Convention and Visitors Bureau has named Philip San Filippo as executive director. He has more than 20 years of hospitality and tourism experience and has worked for Cayman Islands Tourism Association and the Aladdin Resort and Casino...
Nathan J. Breen, a partner with the Chicago law firm Howe and Hutton, Ltd., has signed on to speak at the SMM Conference in Jacksonville, Fla.
Laura Schwartz will share tips with meeting planners at the third annual Small Market Meetings Conference Oct. 28-30 in Jacksonville, Fla.
DANBURY, Conn. — The former Danbury Plaza Hotel has reopened as the Crowne Plaza Danbury. The reopening follows a major renovation of the hotel, which is located off Interstate 84 near the corporate offices of General Electric, Honeywell, Pitney Bowes and others. The...
Courtesy Peoria CVB PEORIA, Ill. — Downtown Peoria will add 400 hotel rooms adjacent to its convention complex over the next several years as a historic hotel is renovated and a new hotel is built. Developer EM Properties took ownership of the shuttered Pere Marquette...
SPOKANE, Wash. — Red Lion Hotels announced in March that it would suspend its attrition clause for new meeting, convention and group business booked and consumed through the end of 2012. “We want to show meeting planners that Red Lion Hotels is committed to making...
Courtesy Towson University Marriott TOWSON, Md. — New event space and a lobby that is more of a social hub are among the improvements at the Towson University Marriott Conference Hotel. The 192-suite property is adjacent to Towson University in a busy Baltimore...
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Laura Schwartz, former White House director of events for the Clinton Administration, will be a speaker at the 2012 Small Market Meetings Conference.
Business travelers have been marking fewer trips on their calendars, but they are making those trips count. According to a recent study by the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), American business travelers have been spending more on fewer excursions. The...
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