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 their meetings more profitable and successful and less stressful,” said […]

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 in April and said it planned to begin renovating the […]

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 242-room hotel is also near Western Connecticut State University and Danbury Hospital. […]

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 report showed business travel spending rose from $243 billion in 2000 to $251 billion in […]

CHICAGO – The Preferred Hotel Group, a provider of marketing support to independent hotels around the world, has named Christie Weller director of group sales for southern California and the Southwest. Weller will be a liaison between meeting planners and hotel members in her region. She has more than 10 years of hotel experience, including […]

Courtesy Branson Lakes Area CVB BRANSON, Mo. – Southwest Airlines recently announced plans to replace its subsidiary AirTran Airways’ flights to the Branson Airport with Southwest flights. The transition is part of Southwest Airlines intended conversion of 22 domestic and international airports from AirTran Airways into Southwest operations. The transition does not yet have a […]