Tag: Florida

More venues, celebrations and attractions in the Sunshine State. [...] Read more

This Hollywood, Fla., resort and hotel offers elegant meeting space and panoramic views to match. [...] Read more

Just north of historic St. Augustine is Ponte Vedra, a high-end resort destination with immaculate beaches and impressive accommodations. [...] Read more

This four-diamond property has 720 guest rooms and suites, 70,000 square feet of meeting space and a 36-hole golf course. [...] Read more

With more than 16,000 guest rooms, an international airport, 160 golf courses and miles of beaches, the Palm Beaches area offers a lot for meetings. [...] Read more

Restaurant and hotel owners speculated all summer about the effect of the oil spill on business and revenue. The latest figures, released by the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association, deliver the bad news. Tourism businesses averaged a 30 percent drop in income this year, or what Carol Dover, president and CEO of the association, called an “economic meltdown.” [...] Read more

Innisbrook’s Meeting Mulligan package, Mission Point Resort’s Double Value Added promotion and more. [...] Read more

The Santa Rosa County region is a slice of Old Florida, providing planners with a bit of solitude and simplicity for their meetings and events. [...] Read more

The inaugural Best Performing Hotel Awards were given by hotel research company STR during the 2010 Hotel Data Conference. The hotels were divided into seven chain-scale segments and judged based on reported performance by hotels, including occupancy, average daily rate and revenue per available room, compared with their respective market-scale performance.

The winners:

• Luxury Segment: Four Seasons Hotel New York

• Upper Upscale Segment: Westin Sunset Key (Florida) Guest Cottages

• Upscale Segment: Homewood Suites Jackson (Wyoming)

• Midscale-with-Food-and-Beverage [...] Read more

A united front of local, state and government officials from Florida, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi formed the Gulf Coast Economy: Ready 4 Takeoff Coalition to bolster the beleaguered region’s economy. Local stakeholders, including representatives from the public, private, nonprofit and academic sectors, are pushing the region’s skilled workforce, pro-business environment and other assets to help the region bounce back from a string of hardships ranging from hurricanes to April’s BP oil spill.

“As our fishing communities, [...] Read more