Tag: Detroit

Partnership helps planner manage room blocks in city’s 250 hotels. [...] Read more

Three-year project is first for the center in 20 years. [...] Read more

Discriminatory travel taxes and fees on travel-related services can add up quickly for travelers. A recent study by National Business Travel Association (NBTA) and Concur, the world’s leading provider of on-demand Employee Spend Management services, determined that discriminatory travel taxes and fees such as car rental, hotel and meal taxes impose an average increased cost on visitors of 56 percent on top of general sales tax.

“The business and travel communities are increasingly concerned about the [...] Read more

Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cincinatti — the economy has surprising destinations popping up as convention cities for associations. [...] Read more

Through city revitalization projects, creative sales and marketing efforts, and an emphasis on the kind of personalized customer service you can’t always get in top-tier destinations, several second-tier cities are demonstrating that once meeting planners experience their destinations, their minds, and their misconceptions, will be forever changed. [...] Read more

The Michigan state legislature has approved a bill allowing the expansion and renovation of Detroit’s Cobo Center, the city’s main convention venue. [...] Read more