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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Funded through gifts and sponsors like Atento Capital, a Tulsa, Oklahoma-based investment firm, the NYU School of Professional Studies (NYU SPS) and Jonathan M. Smart Meetings sat down with Dr. The mentors and investors are business executives internationally established from Google to Hilton Hotels.

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MAY 27, 2021

In addition the recent groundbreaking of a major new facility at Omni PGA Frisco Resort in Texas, award-winning Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort cut the ribbon on Hotel Effie in February and world-renowned Pebble Beach Resort in California is reopening to guests at the new Fairway One accommodations and meeting space. Omni Oklahoma City Hotel.

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DECEMBER 13, 2021

Rankings were based on each city’s delayed and canceled flights, average departure delay time, attractions around the airport, getting to the airport, hotels and F&B, and the city’s affordability. The 10 worst cities for layovers are: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. A recent study by Lawn Love ranked 56 of the largest U.S.

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MAY 19, 2023

He began working with The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company in 2009 at The Ritz-Carlton Golf and Spa Resort in Rose Hall, Jamaica as travel sales industry coordinator. Manzari has an extensive past with Marriott International, most recently working as general manager at W Hollywood Hotel & Residences, Los Angeles. Before this L.A.-based

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AUGUST 4, 2022

Here are the 10 best hotels to meet at when venturing below the Mason-Dixon line. . Perry Lane Hotel Savannah, Georgia. A post shared by Perry Lane Hotel (@perrylanehotel). The Perry Lane Hotel opened in the Spring of 2018 and stays true to the history of its location while mixing in contemporary designs and comforts.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Call it the Oscars version of the hotel world (or maybe not, judging from Sunday night’s unprecedented best-picture gaffe). The Travel + Leisure 2017 It List does hand out an award of sorts by visiting all of the best new hotel and resort openings of the past year and ranks them in this envious list. Location: Oklahoma City.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Omni Hotels & Resorts has launched a loyalty program for planners that offers immediately redeemable awards as well as free nights, elevated tier status and unique, local experiences with every booking. “We Twenty award credits can be redeemed for a free night at any of Omni’s luxury resorts and hotels across North America.

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JUNE 30, 2022

They feature pottery, jewelry, and the hotel’s namesake, a custom talking stick. Today, the tribes have over 10,000 registered members that cultivate the land and operate several casinos, hotels and businesses. While we celebrate Independence Day, it’s important to remember the cost of settling in a not-so-new land. of meeting space.

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MAY 5, 2017

Marriott Development ’s secret for scaling hotel development fast? Four more modular hotels are under way—Courtyard Pullman in Washington, AC Oklahoma City in Oklahoma, AC Louisville in Kentucky and AC Chapel Hill in North Carolina. Preassembled modular construction at a grand scale.

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JULY 31, 2017

Oklahoma City is using influencer marketing in the form of a travel-writing team who will highlight the city’s leisure attractions — and is also bolstering its meetings portfolio with a new convention center. Like many second-tier convention destinations, Oklahoma City doesn’t suffer from a negative perception. TESTING, TESTING.

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AUGUST 3, 2018

Radisson Hotel Group. Oklahoma City CVB. Oklahoma City. Bellagio Hotel and Casino. Sacramento, California. Jacob Fabbri. 39 • Senior Vice President of Marketing. Washington, D.C. Melissa Winfield Faber. 29 • Director of Sales—Meetings and Events, Americas. Bozeman, Montana. Kara Ferguson. 33 • Meeting Planner.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 15, 2022

Andaz West Hollywood , LA’s premier hotel on the Sunset Strip, named Tucker general manager and Frederick director of sales, events and marketing. Frederick brings 15 years of hotel operations experience to the new role. Suescun was previously director of global accounts at Omni Hotels & Resorts, where she worked for four years.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Johnston has worked for Union Pacific Railroad in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas and R.L. Torrenga is vice president of sales at Nuvola , the hotel service and guest engagement software company. Torrenga has also held leadership sales, strategy and hospitality roles at EDT Enterprises and Cendyn hotel management. Erynn Torrenga.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Johnston has worked for Union Pacific Railroad in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas and R.L. Torrenga is vice president of sales at Nuvola , the hotel service and guest engagement software company. Torrenga has also held leadership sales, strategy and hospitality roles at EDT Enterprises and Cendyn hotel management. Erynn Torrenga.

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Unique Venues

JULY 18, 2019

After celebrating, guests can be accommodated at several partner hotels for a discounted rate. Located just outside of Oklahoma City, the University of Central Oklahoma is another amazing venue to host your next holiday party. University of Central Oklahoma. Happy Holidays! Lone Star Park. Dallas, TX. Navy Pier Chicago.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

Along with easy airport access and walking opportunities for hotels and restaurants, this east Tennessee hotspot is less than one hour from the most visited National Park, the Great Smoky Mountains and award-winning amusement park Dollywood. Find out how to book the event and adventure of a lifetime at the premier venue in the Blue Ridge.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2023

While your central location should be your primary concern, hotels, restaurants, entertainment venues, and other social settings should also be considered. Shannon Copeland is an industry manager and meteorologist for StormGeo and a graduate of the University of Oklahoma’s School of Meteorology.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Benchmark named Colin Ankersen general manager for The Heldrich Hotel & Conference Center in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Prior to joining Benchmark, Ankersen was vice president of Boast Management and general manager at the Westminster Hotel, located in Livingston, New Jersey. The Heldrich Hotel & Conference Center.

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OCTOBER 13, 2016

billion renovation of its downtown area, complete with 300 new hotel rooms and a burgeoning food scene. Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Fayetteville, Arkansas, both turned heads this year with high rankings on the U.S. Tulsa, Oklahoma. For example, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, just welcomed a sprawling IBM campus and is undergoing a $1.25

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JANUARY 15, 2019

Photo credit: Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts. Photo credit: Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts. As one of the last original Wright designed and built hotels, Historic Park Inn in Mason City, Iowa, earned its spot on the National Registry of Historic Places by preserving the classic design with updated amenities.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Branson Convention Center in Missouri gets major points for its location on Branson Landing nearby Hilton hotels. Brandi Ashlock, Market Senior Sales Manager for Marriott IndyPlace notes the center’s location makes it accessible to many Indianapolis hotels. Oklahoma City. Best-Value Destinations. Louisville. Saint Louis.

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Endless Events

APRIL 19, 2021

This model would consist of boutique hotels or small to medium independent venues with one large presentation space, up to 5 breakout rooms, and a maximum of 200 attendees in-person. The catering would be provided by the hotel or the independent venue, and much like the Star, the Moon can be a hub or a spoke.

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Cvent: Event Marketing

JUNE 14, 2018

Allen is welcoming the Delta Hotels by Marriott Dallas Allen & Watters Creek Convention Center, which is slated to open January 2019. The hotel will have 300 elegantly appointed guest rooms and suites, each equipped with lush amenities. To find out more, go to VisitAllenTexas.com/ConventionCenter or call 214-509-4670.

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APRIL 29, 2019

How I got here: After graduate school, I worked for the University of Oklahoma serving the fraternal community and student activities eventually moving to Indianapolis to work for Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity. Our goal is to help men lead lives of excellence in their communities, chapters, homes, families and relationships. .

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JANUARY 17, 2019

Amidst the thousands of celebrations happening world-wide for the 2018-2019 roll over… the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO) played a very special Great Gatsby themed party in the super-plush lobby of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Dallas, which required diligent lighting to produce the correct ambience.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

So if a convention hotel says they had a great June, that means they had a lot of events occur in June, all of which were likely booked months or years prior. Leisure travel will return first, and when air and hotel numbers start going up in decent numbers, that’s a strong indicator. Hotels will be converted to apartments.

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MARCH 15, 2017

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Planners, file away these facts: Tulsa features a 310,000-square-foot convention center and more than 14,500 hotel rooms citywide. million-square-foot development project encompassing office space, residential units, hotels and retail shops. This week, 19,000-seat BOK Center trades hockey for hoops.

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MAY 31, 2017

Tracy Copeland is president of a Tulsa, Oklahoma, nationwide association called Western Association of Veterans Education Specialists (W.A.V.E.S.), We like getting all our people in the same hotel, and the Hyatt Regency Albuquerque enabled us to do that,” Copeland says. “We Sky City, Acoma Pueblo. Our people just loved it.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 1, 2018

Tulsa, Oklahoma. They realized that there were a lot more synergies to working together and creating one organization — that all of these groups put funding into creating one brand, one platform, and some consistent messaging. There are relatively few in North America, I think.

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

Likewise, last week Indianapolis announced a $120 million renovation for Indiana Convention Center, adding a 50,000-square-foot ballroom—the state’s largest—and two more connected hotel towers for a total of 1,400 additional guest rooms. Oklahoma City Convention Center Rendering. Washington State Convention Center Proposed Addition.

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JUNE 26, 2019

The winner was determined by an audience vote, combined with votes by Stuart Ruff-Lyon, PCMA Board chair-elect, and Keith Talbert, CMP, director of sales for the Oklahoma City Convention & Visitors Bureau, which sponsored the hackathon.

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MARCH 21, 2017

Originally served at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, this is a refreshing choice for a scorching Tennessee day. Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tulsa is esteemed as the culture and arts center of Oklahoma. Since Oklahoma is known for both barbecue and fish, this blend is an ideal order. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Food: Fried Catfish.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Let’s see that was mainly luxury hotels, key markets. Unrelated to this news I was already starting to see people saying, “Wow, it just feels like hotels and venues and in-house AVs are bending a lot less. Well the hotel says I have to use the in-house. That right now hotels are prioritizing their transient business.

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AUGUST 2, 2016

Photo from Hotel Emma. New hotels are springing up in some unusual places, including the former homes of a brewery, model-T car assembly plant and post office. Hotel Emma in San Antonio occupies the spot of a brew house built in 1894, but instead of establishing a totally new identity, it puts a contemporary spin on its roots.

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