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10 Top Literary Oases for Groups—in Hotels!

Smart Meetings

Featuring everything from bedtime storybooks to digital books and new titles, library rooms are popping up at high-end properties. Some have transformed a classic room into a book suite, while others have turned the lobby lounge in a literary club or have teamed up with specific companies to offer books for bedroom reading.

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Atlantis Bahamas: A Leader in Environmental Stewardship

Smart Meetings

These programs can be booked through the group sales team upon request. Just one example of its success on this end is Atlantis aquarium’s achievement as the world’s only aquarium to have seen successful reproduction of the smalltooth sawfish, a critically endangered species.

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Becoming a writer

Conferences that Work

Since 2005, I’ve written three successful books on meeting design and facilitation and over 800 weekly blog posts on a wide range of topics. My books continue to sell, and this blog is the world’s most popular website on meeting design and facilitation. Write a book? Outwardly, I’ve succeeded. My 1977 Ph.D.

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What Does the Cvent-Choice Hotels Agreement Mean for Planners?

MeetingsNet

Online hotel-research and -booking engine Cvent has finalized an agreement with Choice Hotels to offer Instant Book functionality across the entire Choice portfolio, Cvent’s first such arrangement with a hotel company’s full roster of properties. Cambria, a brand launched in 2005, now has 72 properties around the country.

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10 World Famous Event Planning Companies

Social Tables

Colin Cowie is a book author, designer, and TV celebrity. Founded in 2005 by Anabel Fielding and Caroline Villamizar Duque, they deliver an unrivaled experience with their international network. Also, Goyal is well known for organizing private events for celebrities like Jessica Simpson and Janet Jackson. Colin Cowie – New York.

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The job you’ll be doing in the future hasn’t been invented yet

Conferences that Work

2005: I realize that the conference process I invented and since improved is incredibly popular with participants. I decide to write a book about it, and in… 2009: I self-publish Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love. This is something new.

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Hong Kong turmoil benefits Singapore MICE, hotels

Travel Daily Media

in July, the highest in records going back to 2005, and up from 92.5% Hotel operators also reported lower occupancy rates and booking cancellations. Data released on Monday by Singapore’s tourism board showed average occupancy rates in the city-state’s hotels hit 93.8% a year ago.