Corporate Travel Destinations

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina is one of the most popular travel destinations in the South. With world-class golf courses, beautiful beaches, resort hotels, fabulous shopping, exquisite dining options and a plethora of entertainment, visitors to Myrtle Beach are never at a loss for how to spend their time, which means that your event attendees will have plenty of options for evenings and free days while attending your corporate meeting or event.

As for meeting space, Myrtle Beach is home to several hotels that can accommodate small- to mid-size groups, as well as the Myrtle Beach Convention Center, which offers 250,000 square feet of customizable space to meet your needs. Part of this space includes a 100,800-square-foot exhibition hall that has no columns and can be divided into three separate spaces. All meeting spaces are equipped with high-speed, wireless Internet access, and the exhibition hall has water, cable and electricity available throughout. The Convention Center also has a banquet kitchen that is able to cater full-meal events with up to 5,000 in attendance, 1,400 parking spaces, and 402 guest rooms in the newly opened Sheraton Myrtle Beach Convention Center Hotel on the same property.

Located just three miles from the Myrtle Beach International Airport and walking distance to dining, shopping and entertainment, the Myrtle Beach Convention Center is as convenient for your participants as it is for you as a planner.

Airport hotels almost always get a bad rap and, other than the convenience and close proximity to the airport, most travelers see little positive about staying in them. This is even truer when it comes to actually holding a conference, convention or corporate meeting in one. Ask most planners and they are sure to say that they and their clients would rather use a downtown property, and don’t even get them started about the noise from the planes flying overhead. However, it turns out that many airport hotels really do not deserve this reputation and recent full-scale renovations have many competing quite successfully with their downtown counterparts.

An excellent example of this is the Hilton Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport Mall of America, located just three miles from the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport. This 300-room hotel has 22,000 square feet of space for events, including a 7,500-square-foot ballroom and nine meeting rooms. As an added bonus, the hotel is adjacent to a wildlife refuge, which offers excellent views from many of the rooms and meeting spaces and – perhaps most importantly – makes the entire area a no-fly zone. The wildlife refuge also has a 125-seat auditorium and 8,000 square feet of event space located in its visitor center, increasing the possibilities for planners that opt for this destination.

The Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort knows just what it takes to create the most imaginative meetings that generate the highest possible results.  Their approach definitely lightens the work load for meeting planners, since the resort takes the responsibility for achieving the "WOW" factor for your meetings and events. 

Their approach, called ReImagine Meetings, puts the focus on combining creativity, theme, technology, and relationships. In addition to more than 329,000 square feet of indoor meeting space, the resorts proximity to Walt Disney World offers access to the parks and fabulous Disney events.

Why not ReImagine your next meeting or event at a place where the unforgettable surroundings will inspire creativity?  For meetings from 15 to 15,000, the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin have been delivering top notch events for two decades.
 

The Warwick Melrose Hotel in Dallas completed a multi-million dollar renovation this year that touched every room in a different way.  Styled after 1920's era Hollywood, the hotel is a Four-Diamond resort where no two guest rooms are the same.  The Warick Melrose offers 184 luxury guest rooms including 21 suites and a Presidential Suite, many with a dramatic view of the city.

The Warwick Melrose is convenient choice among Dallas TX hotels, centrally located in the Uptown Oak Lawn and Turtle Creek area, five minutes from Love Field Airport and twenty-five minutes from D/FW International Airport. Within minutes from the Market Center, Downtown, the Convention Center as well as the West End and McKinney Avenue entertainment areas.

With 6,000 square feet of meeting space, the hotel and Four-Diamond Landmark Restaurant can accommodate your groups of up to 300 people.  

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The beauty of the Smokey Mountains is just one of the attractions of the Knoxville area. The convention center has 500,000 square feet of space to utilize for meetings, trade shows, or other industry needs.

The Holiday Inn Select is just 25 paces from the Knoxville Convention Center. That certainly makes it a challenge for any visitor to get lost on the way back to the hotel. The hotel is also within walking distance of several local attractions such as Market Square, the University of Tennessee, and the Knoxville Museum of Art.

A mild climate is another attractive feature of the Knoxville area. It is easy to plan team building events here that might be impossible to conceive in a harsher climate. Sports minded convention attendees can take a break and visit the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame or attend a sporting event at the University of Tennessee.

A riverboat cruise could be exactly what your clients need to decompress after a long day of meetings. Would you consider offering a trip to the Knoxville Zoo or a round of golf at one of the cities 13 golf courses as part of your incentive package? There is a lot happening in Knoxville, don’t miss out.

What make the International Centre in Toronto one of the best spots for international conferences? Many things, top among them is location.

Toronto is closer than you think, in fact, 60% of the United States population is a 90-minute plane ride away from this magnificent city. Major cities within this area include Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, and Washington, D.C.

The International Centre offers 48,000 square feet of conference space. It is possible to break this down into 15 rooms to accommodate several venues at one time. Parking is never a problem as they have space for 5,000 vehicles (although finding your car could be challenging). An onsite UPS store is available for copying and other business services. Wireless internet service is also available throughout the complex.

Team building is done in the Centre’s kitchen. Groups of eight to twenty can play Iron Chef in the state of the art kitchen. The exercise can be purely competition or instructional. Either way, the team that cooks together works together better in the boardroom.

The chef’s table is located in the kitchen giving conference attendees a behind the scenes view. Chef Joe Levesque presides over a team that serves up to 2,500 people at a time. Try matching that on the Iron Chef.