The former Watermark Hotel in San Antonio is now the Mokara Hotel & Spa, the first in a collection of luxury boutique properties under the new

How do you get the boss not to cancel that meeting?Being a meetings industry advocate to stakeholders like C-level executives, procurement managers,

In her recent presentation at Affordable Meetings National in Washington, D.C., Christine Duffy, president and CEO of Maritz Travel, characterized

Southwest Airlines agreed to buy AirTran in a $1.4 billion deal that will combine two of the country's largest low-fare airlinesThe acquisition gives

Wyndham Hotel Group announced a license agreement with Planet Hollywood Resorts International to franchise the Planet Hollywood Resorts brand and

The Hyatt Regency Buffalo recently completed a multiyear, $15 million renovation with the unveiling of a new spa and an indoor rooftop pool.The redo

Courtyard by Marriott introduced a new lobby and room design concept with this week’s opening of the 124-room Courtyard Pittsburgh Settler

Expanding to hotel business, Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group is looking to operate properties in major North American cities such as New

When the economy put the damper on her 2010 marketing budget, Connie Del Signore, president and CEO of the Annapolis & Anne Arundel County CVB,

The Peabody Orlando completed a $450 million expansion that nearly doubled its number of guest rooms to 1,641 and increased the amount of its meeting

Visit Jacksonville appointed Daniel O’Byrne to be the new president and CEO of the organization.Formerly CEO of the Little Rock [Ark.] CVB, O

Kudos Houston is now home of Texas’ first LEED-certified hotel, the

Florida The JW Marriott Marquis Miami is

Construction recently started on a 70-room Holiday Inn and 15,000-square-foot convention facility that is scheduled to open in downtown Newton, Kan

Carlson Hotels announced plans for what will be the second property bearing its new luxury Radisson Blu flag: a 500-room hotel set to open in

B Hotels and Resorts, a new hotel company that calls itself “an innovative brand alternative for the conversion of existing flagged and

PCMA plans to co-locate its 2011 International Summit with IMEX America, a new trade show for the meetings and incentive industry, when it takes

The gaming destination map in the East continues to widen as more states launch gaming, intensifying competition and opening new opportunities for

When the economic downtown credit crunch arrived, many casino projects in the pipeline at Native American gaming destinations hit roadblocks. While a