Courtesy Lake Charles/Southwest La. CVB Where is Lake Charles, La.? Lake Charles (population 71,993) is 75 miles west of Lafayette, La., and 57 miles east of Beaumont, Texas, in Louisiana’s southwest corner. How do I get there? Continental and American Airlines serve the Lake Charles Regional Airport, with flights from Houston and Dallas. Interstate 10 […]

Courtesy Dover Downs Hotel and Casino Dover Downs Hotel and Casino 1131 North Dupont Highway Dover, DE 19901 800-711-5882 www.doverdowns.com Recognition: AAA Four Diamond Award each year since 2002, News Journal’s Top Places to Work in 2011, Delaware Today magazine’s Best Music and Best Nightspot 2010 What’s new: The hotel doubled in size in 2008, […]

By Dan Limke, courtesy Little Rock CVB “My favorite special event was the reception at the Capital Hotel. The space was beautiful, the staff was gracious and the food was delicious! Small Market Meetings is always a fun conference during which you really feel as if you get to know other attendees. I look forward […]

Drums, trumpets and marching heralded the arrival of Small Market Meetings Conference delegates to Little Rock, Ark. The second annual conference on Sept. 26-28 began with the Central High School marching band providing a musical entry to the opening-night reception at the William J. Clinton Presidential Library. More than 100 meeting planners from 23 states […]

American Express Meetings and Events, a full-service global meetings and events management provider, has started a new initiative to help meeting planners create events that have less impact on the environment. In partnership with Maxvantage, the company is providing information to interested planners that compares various hotels’ standardized footprints of carbon, water use and waste […]

Released in October, the Annual Airline Survey helps travelers wade through the positives and negatives of the five largest domestic airlines. Published by Business Travel News (BTN), the report polls 406 travel managers and buyers who spend more than $500,000 a year on flights booked in the U.S. To decide airline rankings, BTN uses 10 […]

Hotels and resorts are not the only places to find team-building programs. Where there is a kitchen, there could be a chef, ready to whip up a friendly cooking competition. • Some culinary schools and college culinary arts programs offer team building for nonstudents. One example is Lane Community College in Eugene, Ore., home to […]

By Keith Snyder, courtesy National Park Service Hagerstown/Washington County CVB 16 Public Square Hagerstown, MD 21740 888-257-2600 www.marylandmemories.com What’s new: The 92-room Courtyard Hagerstown opened in 2010 in a cluster of hotels and restaurants along Interstate 81 west of Hagerstown. The older but larger Ramada Plaza was recently renovated. The Holiday Inn Express Hagerstown began […]