Connect Your Meetings » Battle Creek http://connectyourmeetings.com Connect Your Meetings Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:33:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Airlines add new flights http://connectyourmeetings.com/2010/08/18/airlines-add-new-flights/ http://connectyourmeetings.com/2010/08/18/airlines-add-new-flights/#comments Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:35:10 +0000 Libby Hoppe http://connectyourmeetings.com/?p=6398 In November, American Airlines adds service to three new destinations from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK). Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Norfolk, Va., will be serviced by American Eagle 50-passenger jets with one daily round-trip flight for each.

That same month, Alaska Airlines adds nonstop service between San Jose, Calif., and Los Cabos, Mexico. The airline will operate three round-trip flights a week on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday.

Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla., will add flights to and from four new destinations in November. The flights, serviced by carrier Direct Air, include once-weekly roundtrip flights to Worcester, Mass.; Niagara Falls/Buffalo, N.Y.; Kalamazoo/Battle Creek, Mich.; and Rockford/Chicago, Ill. Based in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Direct Air currently services 15 cities.

]]> http://connectyourmeetings.com/2010/08/18/airlines-add-new-flights/feed/ 0 Casino helps county tourism http://connectyourmeetings.com/2010/02/02/casino-helps-county-tourism/ http://connectyourmeetings.com/2010/02/02/casino-helps-county-tourism/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:29:12 +0000 Joan Drammeh http://connectyourmeetings.com/?p=4061 The Calhoun County Convention & Visitors Bureau in Battle Creek, Mich., saw a big jump in the last half of 2009, thanks to the new FireKeepers Casino. After the casino opened Aug. 5, 2010, tourism in the county jumped 11.8 percent from August to December 2009. “The only obvious thing that’s different from the second half of 2008 was the opening of the casino,” says Dwight Butt, president of the Calhoun County CVB. “One could conclude that a good bunch of that 11.8 percent increase is because of the casino.” The CVB expects a 3 percent increase in tourism in 2010 due exclusively to the casino, and another 3 percent jump due to CVB conventions.

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