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Smart Moves in Wailea, Cambridge and More

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He has held sales and marketing directorships at The Ritz-Carlton Maui, Kapalua, Starwood Hotels & Resorts in Maui, The St. Rothberg is now hotel manager of Kimpton Marlowe Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Schult brings over 20 years of marketing management experience to his new role. Tara Anne Rothberg.

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Smart Moves in Roanoke, New Orleans and More

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Dawson joined Vespera Resort on Pismo Beach, an Autograph Collection Hotel as director of sales for this c entral California coast venue. Bringing over a decade of hospitality sales experience, Dawson was most recently Pacifica Hotels’ regional sales manager. Sharma joined Kimpton Hotel Monaco DC as director of catering.

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15 of 2016’s Hottest Meeting Destinations

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It provides more than 10,000 hotel rooms and nearly 300 restaurants and major conference venues, including Georgia World Congress Center and Atlanta Convention Center at AmericasMart. The city, with its abundance of world-class hotels, restaurants, attractions and more, seems to offer something to every attendee. of event space.

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Mapping the Way Forward

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Hotels have executed multiple rounds of layoffs and attendees are settling in for an extended case of Zoom fatigue. Hotels and venues, too, are stepping up with protocols and GBAC STAR certifications , but, in many cases, no one is there to answer the meeting planner’s call. Airplanes are clean; they’re being very diligent.

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10 Smart Moves at Visit Santa Cruz, Benchmark, Turtle Bay Resort, Westgate Park City and More

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Visit Santa Cruz County (VSCC) in California has hired Laura Manriquez as the new director of sales and marketing. She brings more than eight years of experience in the tourism and hospitality industry and will focus on management of sales and marketing programs for group travel. Jim Koutsky. Barret De Santos. Felipe Facchin.

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Up Your Virtual Value Prop

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So, when attendees weigh whether or not to come to your event, they have to parse the cost associated with the tickets, time out of the office, airfare, hotel room—all of that—against the benefits above. On a whim, he called a contact at The Heldrich Hotel & Conference Center in New Jersey, a few minutes from his house.

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