Looking for an impressive and stylish venue for your next event? Boutique hotels may be just the answer. Susan Bailey, Director of Sales and Marketing at Skyline Boutique Hotels and Resorts gives her Top 5 reasons for booking a boutique.
* Personalized accommodation. Boutique hotels offer rooms that are unique and individual — from funky art-themed to high-end luxury.
* Personalized service. From the sales rep to the hotel chef, all service personnel are on hand and ready to execute on the details of your event.
* Great food, great facilities. Most boutique hotels offer unique meeting spaces, intimate private areas and excellent dining.
* A creative approach. Boutique hotels tend to partner with like-minded companies that provide unique on-site services or out-of-the-ordinary off-property events and venues.
* Secure and discrete. Boutique hotels are ideal for high-profile events and meetings. With their small intimate spaces and attention to detail and discretion, boutiques are the perfect choice for events that have a high public profile or that may attract celebrities.
Q: Mary Ellen, I have to move 342 people from the Courtyard by Marriott San Diego Downtown to the Water Conservation Garden. How can I stretch my transportation budget and still make sure everyone gets to the venue?
A: If you are flexible on your transportation timing, consider providing a shuttle from the hotel to the venue. That way, you are able to move your guests using fewer coaches, which can reduce your costs by over twenty-five per cent.
Mary Ellen Tristram is a DMC expert and partner at WTTC.com.
Do you have a DMC-related question that you’d like answered? Ask Mary Ellen by sending your questions to met@wttc.com.
Orlando is the latest destination to be added to the WTTC.com network of key convention cities. With an growing inventory of quality hotel rooms, meeting spaces, restaurants and entertainment options, as well as world-class golf courses and spas, Orlando is one of North America’s ultimate business destinations.
Orlando is also a designated green destination. The Orange County Convention Center is the first U.S. facility of its kind to be ISO 14001-certified for its recycling program, and the center is currently developing a solar energy project. Many of the area’s convention hotels and resorts have also been admitted to the Florida Green Lodging Program by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
With only 455 days to go until the start of the XXI Olympic Winter Games, WTTC.com has added an Olympics category to its Vancouver Website. The category includes links to ticketing, schedule and venue information. If you are located in the Vancouver area and would like to have your business listed in this category, please contact Mary Ellen Tristram at 1-888-224-3178.
WTTC.com will be attending MACE 2008 (Mid-Atlantic Conference and Exposition), December 8 - 9, 2008, at the Gaylord National Hotel in Washington, DC. The event is sponsored by the Potomac Chapter of MPI .
Please drop by and say hello. We’ll be at Booth #100.
