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Marriott Pioneers Building Blocks to Fast Growth

SmartMeetings

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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Smart Moves in Colorado, Florida and More

Smart Meetings

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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Smart Moves in Colorado, Florida and More

Smart Meetings

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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8 March Madness-Inspired Meeting Destinations

SmartMeetings

Games tip off at Amway Center, a high-tech 20,000-seat venue near the downtown entertainment core featuring modern architecture and a signature illuminated spire. Tulsa, Oklahoma. Planners, file away these facts: Tulsa features a 310,000-square-foot convention center and more than 14,500 hotel rooms citywide. Orlando, Florida.

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The Road Ahead: What’s In Store for the Event Industry In 2021 & Beyond – Part Two In-Person Events

Event Leadership Institute

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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What Does It Take to Land a Spot on the ‘Best Small City’ List?

PCMA Convene

Besides university rankings and the number of Fortune 500 companies in each city, were there any other ways you measured a destination’s knowledge economy, like if it has a strong start-up or tech community? Tulsa, Oklahoma. For the purposes of the Best Cities rankings, it’s only those factors.

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PSAV acquires Encore – Event Tech Podcast Episode 2

Endless Events

On this episode of Event Tech Podcast Will Curran of Endless Events and Brandt Krueger of Event Technology Consulting take a deeper dive into what this could mean for the events industry and AV companies. Hello everyone Will Curran from Endless Events here ready to talk some tech. Well the hotel says I have to use the in-house.