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“We are also a natural for agricultural events like the National Festival of Breads, which will bring 600 attendees here in June 2013 to compete in America’s only amateur bread-baking contest,” Hibbard said.
Many groups are drawn to the city by Kansas State University, the state’s oldest public university and a renowned agricultural school.
“The university brings so much to our community, providing educational support for meetings as well as event space for 1,000 in the K-State Student Union ballroom and for 450 in the Alumni Center,” said Hibbard.
Adjacent to the campus is a 119-room Holiday Inn with 5,720 square feet of meeting space. All totaled, Manhattan has 1,179 hotel rooms.
Beyond its new meeting and event spaces, the city offers sites such as the historic Union Pacific Depot and the clubhouse boardroom at Colbert Hills Golf Course, a PGA-sanctioned public course.
The newest attraction for this eastern Kansas town of 53,000 is the Nature Exploration Center at the Sunset Zoo, which will open this summer with event space.
And wherever groups want to roam in Manhattan, they have the option of riding the city’s new 20-person MHK Trolley, which can be rented for two-hour tours.
Getting to Manhattan has also become easier with American Airlines/American Eagles’ recent addition of daily flights to and from Chicago and Dallas/Fort Dallas.
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