Great Group and Meeting Incentives

Fiesta Americana is offering several great group promotions for Mexico. You can receive up to 35% off on Food and Beverage and 25% off rooms & spa services.

Palace Properties has fantastic group promotions based on the number of rooms you block you can received free unlimited promotions.

Curacao Tourist Board just announced its newest property: the Hyatt Regency Golf, Spa and Marina Resort. Groups can save up to 20% on their master bill including meeting facilities, guestrooms and catering/banquet. The group must block at least 10 rooms and events can be held between now and December 20th.

JW Marriott Meeting Matters Program

The JW Marriott group is offering up to $100 per stay per room for each attendee for a meeting block. The credit can be used for on-property amenities or as a credit to the master account. Participating resorts include those in Arizona, California, Texas, Nevada and Mexico.

Ritz Carlton's New "Meetings Within Reach" Promotion

Ritz Carlton just announced a new "Meetings Within Reach" promotion available at most of their properties. Ten or more room nights must be blocked and the benefits include daily continental breakfast, a general session meeting room, high speed Internet access in one meeting room, up to a 20% discount on AV and select suite upgrades. To qualify for the promotion, meetings must be booked by September 30th for events scheduled through December 31.

If you have a meeting scheduled at the Ritz, it would be worth a call to see if any of the inclusions could be added to your contract. Never hurts to ask!

Florida Meetings

Florida has an overabundance in locales for all types of meetings regardless if you are looking for an intimate corporate retreat or a convention center for 2000 guests. Several new venues have just been announced by the Florida Meeting Professionals program.

The new Charlotte Harbor Convention Center will be opening January 2009 and will bring a new waterfront convention center to the Southwest area of Florida.

Looking for a green option, Saddlebrook Resort has many shades of green from its championship golf courses to be rated in the Florida Green Lodging program.

And Key West's Southernmost Hotel Collection is almost ready to debut its new oceanfront rooms with amazing rates of only $119 a night.

If you needs lots of meeting space, don't forget about the Marriott World Center in Orlando. Its an amazing location with the theme park attractions for those that want to bring the loved ones, championship golf courses, luxury spa, close to an international airport, more than 450,000 square feet of meeting space and it offers the nation's largest pillar free resort ballroom.