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The Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta is truly unique: approximately 200 acres of facilities capable of expertly hosting your convention, conference, retreat, and trade show, as well as sporting events and pretty much any kind of special event you could imagine. 3.9 million square feet with 1.4 million square feet of prime exhibit space can accommodate anything!  Add to that 12 exhibit halls 106 meeting rooms, and 2 ballrooms, and there is nothing this venue can’t hold!

Besides, the Georgia World Congress Center is complemented by the Georgia Dome (think SPORTS!) and Centennial Olympic Park.  All together, these facilities make the finest venue for anything in the world .

The venue is right in the middle of downtown Atlanta, making it convenient to almost anything and everything you and your attendees might want to visit after hours or during breaks.  Your speakers and exhibitors will have access to the venue’s many amenities, including WiFi.

Oh, and not only is the Georgia World Congress Center the 4th largest convention center in the world; it’s also one of the most popular!

This is a green venue, as well.

The Georgia World Congress Center is also very much into social media; interested potential customers can find it on Twitter and Facebook, as well as Linkedin.

If you are seeking a venue for your conference/convention/retreat/trade show/etc, seek no further than downtown Atlanta, Georgia, and the Georgia World Congress Center!

There are two conference centers at Louisiana’s Wildwood Resort, so no matter what the size of your convention/trade show/retreat/conference, this venue can accommodate you easily and well.

There are superb facilities here – anything and everything your speakers, organizers, and attendees could possibly need, from food and furniture to wifi and electronics.

This venue is also a hotel, so your attendees can stay on-site.  I think this is always the best way.

At the resort’s W.J. Brown Conference Center, your large conference will be housed in surroundings that look like a grand old country lodge.  Don’t be fooled, however; the amenities are as modern as can be found anywhere in the world.

If you are planning a smaller conference, the Junior Conference Center can accommodate smaller groups of up to 50 attendees: perfect for corporate events or retreats, special occasions, or just simply a smaller convention.

After the day’s meetings and seminars are over, your attendees can take advantage of the fantastic fishing, swimming, golf, or just simply relaxing and taking in the beautiful scenery.

Oh, and if you want your conference to be catered, this venue can offer your attendees a little bit of everything, from a fish fry to an elegant prime rib dinner.

WILDWOOD RESORT
129 WILDWOOD DRIVE
ZWOLLE, LOUISIANA 71486
(800) 341-3668
(800) 450-5103
www.wildwood-resort.com

And, at the end of the day, your attendees will find that their beds are fantastic in every possible way.

If you are looking for a convention/conference/retreat venue that is located near a myriad of local wonders for evenings and free time, look no further than the Parkway Plaza Hotel and Convention Center in Casper, Wyoming.  Whether your attendees are golfers, fishermen or outdoor adventurers, historians, sports fans, or just interested in local color, this venue is only a short distance from all of those, and more.

The Parkway can offer your convention a large conference center along with many meeting rooms.  The hotel’s catering service can take good care of a group of any size with cuisine so good, your attendees -and you – will remember it for a long time thereafter.

This venue has, in fact, 20 meeting rooms and over 25,000 square feet of flexible meeting and conference space that can accommodate up to 1,500 people.  You’ll have access to any audio-visual equipment you might need, as well as high speed internet and teleconferencing capabilities.

The Parkway Plaza Hotel & Convention Center also offers your attendees transportation to and from the airport or group outings.

It’s always best, in my opinion, when the conference venue also houses the hotel and dining room, and the Parkway Plaza Hotel & Convention Center does all of that, and much, much more.

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The Albuquerque Convention Center is the perfect venue for your convention/conference/trade show/retreat.  This venue has a LOT of exhibit space: 167,000 square feet, most of it column-free.  The building has 27 meeting rooms capable of hosting small intimate meetings as well as huge breakout space for up to 1,110 people.

Add to this space the 31,000 square feet of ballroom, which could also be a banquet space for up to 2,000 attendees.  If your conference requires a large space in which all the attendees at once listen to a keynote speaker, the 2,300-seat Kiva Auditorium is exactly what your conference needs!

The Albuquerque Convention Center has any and all of the services your convention could possibly require.  A few of these services include room set-up, rentals, catering, sound operation, audio-visual services, and internet connection.  This is only a partial list, remember; there are many more services available!

This venue has its own airport transportation, as well!  Not only does the venue get your attendees to and from the airport, it is also convenient to the Rapid Ride system and the historic trolly to Old town.

The Albuquerque Convention Center is right in the middle of downtown Albuquerque, but it has plenty of handy parking space for your attendees.

In the evenings, there is much for your attendees to see and do in Albuquerque.  No matter what the season, Albuquerque has something for everyone!

For a truly unique Victorian experience, why not bring your small conference to Delaware?  The Boardwalk Plaza Hotel is right on the Rehoboth Beach boardwalk, at #2 Olive Avenue.

The hotel is filled with Victorian antiques and reproductions, and, in direct contrast to the vintage look of old England, you’ll also find high speed internet, climate control in each room or suite, a heated indoor-outdoor pool, a fully equipped exercise room, and several pubs/restaurants of every kind, from inexpensively informal to elegant.  On weekends, there is live entertainment.

Your conference attendees will enjoy banquet rooms with ocean front views, state of the art electronics, high speed T-1 internet, and complimentary valet parking.  Whether you have 10 – 15 people or up to a hundred, the Boardwalk Plaza Hotel can offer you excellent meals: the wide selection of menu items and buffets for all three meals and in-between, will be a real crowd-pleaser.

The Boardwalk Plaza Hotel is perfect for small executive meetings, receptions, seminars, lectures, retreats, and any small conference or convention.  The hotel can offer your group a conference-style room, banquet hall, reception, classroom, and a theater, all of which accommodate at least sixty people, and some rooms up to 150.  There are also breakout rooms, which can accommodate up to 25 people each.  Several of these areas are wheelchair-accessible, and the glass elevator makes access even easier.

The Boardwalk Plaza is the only AAA Four Diamond oceanfront hotel in the Mid-Atlantic!

During the evening, your conference attendees can relax in the adults-only spa and hot tubs, or stroll the boardwalk and take advantage of the beach.

Downtown Rehoboth Beach is well within walking distance for those who wish to do a little shopping in their free time.

For more information about group/conferences/conventions, contact the Boardwalk Plaza Hotel’s group sales manager.

Boardwalk Plaza Hotel
2 Olive Ave. & the Boardwalk
Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971
Phone: (302) 227-7169
Toll Free: 800-33-BEACH
Fax: (302) 227-0561

Canaan Valley Resort and Conference Center, in the heart of West Virginia’s beautiful Canaan Valley Resort State Park, looks a lot like a chalet you might encounter while skiing in the Swiss Alps, doesn’t it!    Well, while it might not be in the Alps, it’s in the Allegheny Mountains, and many people believe the Alleghenies are as beautiful as any mountain you’d find in Europe or anywhere else!

Heidi would be right at home here.  The skiing is magnificent, and the views even more so!

Canaan Valley Resort and Conference Center can handle a large gathering – up to 900 attendees can be comfortably accommodated here.  No matter what kind of rooms – large or small – that you need for your convention/conference/retreat/trade show, etc, this venue can handle it.  With an assortment of floor plans, from theater-style to classroom to small group, etc, Canaan Valley’s got your number.

I am of the belief that the best conference venue is one that is also a hotel, so your attendees will have the luxury and convenience of having it all in one place.  Canaan Valley Resort and Conference Center has 250 guest rooms or suites, enough to give all of your attendees a good night’s rest.  Breakfast?  Lunch?  Dinner?   This venue can accommodate your attendees’ stomachs, too!

Your guests won’t have to leave Fido or Fluffy at home alone, either.  Small pets are welcome at Canaan Valley Resort and Conference Center.

There are also 23 private cabins and cottages at Canaan Valley Resort and Conference Center!

Oh, and I mustn’t forget to mention the free high-speed internet access. . . .

Canaan Valley Resort and Conference Center is on Flickr; check us out and see why people love us so!  To see us in motion, check our YouTube videos! We’re on Facebook, too!

Canaan Valley is the highest mountain valley east of the Rocky Mountains, with a base elevation of 3,100 feet, but it’s situated on a plateau, which makes it ideal for skiing and golf.

To make your convention/conference/trade show/retreat/large group reservation, contact Alicia Lewis in Group Sales, at 304-866-4121, ext. 2686, or fill out the online request form.

For more information, please feel free to download Canaan Valley Resort and Conference Center’s free brochure.

Canaan Valley Resort and Conference Center

HC 70, Box 330, Davis, WV 26260
1 800-622-4121 | 1 304-866-4121
Email Us reservations@canaanresort.com

It’s hard to find the words to describe the beauty of Rhode Island’s Whispering Pines Conference Center.  It reminds me of something out of a movie, maybe Dirty Dancing.  Yes, that’s it.  At Whispering Pines, your attendees would look around for Baby, to make sure she wasn’t sitting in the corner!

Whispering Pines is made up of several separate lodges, all of which are awesome.  The lodges are located “here and there” on 2300 acres of real forest, complete with lakes and streams.  The lodges, two of which are handicapped-accessible, are equipped with all the modern conveniences, including high-speed internet and any audio-visual equipment you might need.

Staying at Whispering Pines isn’t like staying at a high-rise hotel in the middle of a city.  It’s quiet at Whispering Pines, and it smells. . . . wonderful, like flowers, and freshly-cut grass.

This is not a place for a huge conference, mind you.  Whispering Pines is the perfect venue for a small gathering – from 18 to 100 attendees.  If you are planning a corporate retreat, for example, this is the place!

With four good-sized conference rooms, you’ll even be able to divide your agenda into segments or seminars, and meet in different rooms.  As for food. . . .

As an added benefit, Whispering Pines even offers your attendees a Golf Clinic, and if your gathering is actually an overnight corporate retreat, why not call it a Golf Getaway and take advantage of Whispering Pines’ offer of 2 full days for teambuilding and productivity with plenty of time to “squeeze in” golf, 14 hours of golf learning, scoring, and entertainment facilitated by the S4 Tour Pros, AND lessons divided into 6 hours of classroom and range learning along with 8 hours of course time, all customized to meet your needs.

For more information on the Corporate Golf Getaway, call Whispering Pines at 401-397-3361, extension 6056.

For all other questions, and for reservations, here is Whispering Pines’ contact information:

Whispering Pines Conference Center

W. Alton Jones Campus, URI

401 Victory Highway

West Greenwich, RI 02817

401-397-3361 extention 6056

www.wpinescc.com

wpines@etal.uri.edu

Whispering Pines is also on Facebook!

Not all conferences, conventions, trade shows, corporate retreats, etc, are huge. Some are small-to-medium, and the Spring Mill Inn is the perfect spot for your not-so-huge gathering.

Located right in the middle of southern Indiana’s Spring Mill State Park, the Spring Mill Inn is quite well known for beauty: both its own and its surroundings!  Rustic on the outside and thoroughly modern on the inside, people are sometimes surprised to find every convenience, including high speed internet, at their disposal, for both personal and large group needs.

Contact information for the inn and the park are:
Spring Mill State Park
P.O. Box 68
Mitchell, IN, 47446
812-849-4081
Fax: 812-849-4647
Reservations:
877-LODGES-1
877-563-4371

For your group reservation, call 877 – 977 -7464 and ask for Group Sales.

The Spring Mill Inn is known for many things, all positive, and one of them is the view.  Every one of the group rooms has a spectacular view from windows that cover almost an entire wall.  The Inn is also known for its food; you’ll find none better anywhere you look.

Conferences are always better when the venue is also the hotel, and the Spring Mill Inn is both.  Conferences are also better when there is plenty to do in the evening or during free time.  Nobody is ever bored at Spring Mill State Park.  This is southern Indiana, remember, and the caves are everywhere.  Some caves here can be traveled on foot, but for others, you’ll have to use the boats.

The Pioneer Village isn’t merely a modern-fabricated imitation; each of the cabins, stores, workshops, barns, etc, is an authentic building.  You can walk around the Village for hours, going in and out of the homes, shops, etc, and learning while you gawk.

Need a swim?  The park pool is huge and inviting.  In fact, the entire venue and its surroundings are huge and inviting.  What your attendees will probably remember above everything, though is the Spring Mill itself.

It’s actually still run by spring water – see the big wheel? And I’d bet money, if I had any, that every single one of your conference attendees will go home with a sack of stone-ground cornmeal.  Yes.  They’ll watch it being ground and they’ll watch it being sacked and they’ll watch the man tie off the sacks and they’ll jostle to the front of the line and buy one.  Or two.  It makes the best corn bread they’ll ever taste.

People come to the Spring Mill Inn for all kinds of gathers, small to medium, every day, year-round, but if your conference, convention, trade show, retreat, etc, is in summer, be sure to make your arrangements as early as you can, in order to get exactly what you want.  You might not have heard of this venue today, but I guarantee that you’ll remember its name all the days of your lives.

It’s got everything.  Even blind prehistoric fish in the caves!

The beautiful Capitol Plaza Hotel & Conference Center, located at 100 State Street in Montpelier, Vermont 05602, is like taking a step back in time but with ALL of the most modern conveniences of the present.

If your convention is HUGE, this is perhaps not the venue for you, but if you are expecting between 3 and 300 attendees, Vermont is the venue you’ve been seeking.

You can find the various rooms and resources of the Capitol Plaza Hotel & Conference Center right here.

It’s always nice when a conference venue is also a hotel, in my opinion, and the Capitol Plaza is both.  There are a variety of rooms from which your attendees might pick, in fact.

And, what are people saying about the Capitol Plaza Hotel & Conference Center?  Lots of things, all good; in fact, so many good things that it was voted Best of the Best!

Need a place for your attendees to eat?  There’s a J. Morgan’s Steakhouse right in the venue!

Or, you can arrange to have your convention catered!

During evenings and other free time, there is much for your attendees to do.  Remember, this is VERMONT, and the skiing is wonderful.  In summer, so is the hiking.  There are many other attractions as well.

For more information please email or phone us at 1-800-274-5252.

I’ve mentioned before how beautiful the Pacific Northwest is, and now here’s yet another great convention center in the same general area!

Washington State Convention Center not only offers your convention, conference, meeting, retreat, trade show, etc. premier facilities and services; it also gives your attendees access to the city of Seattle itself!  Conveniently located in the heart of downtown Seattle, your attendees will have access to many things, including on-site parking, always important to conference-goers.

Whether your convention is large or small, the Washington State Convention Center is happy to accommodate it.  With 205,700 square feet of dedicated heavy-load exhibit space, which can be divided into six halls, your gathering will be well “set.”

Got a lot of heavy equipment to unload?  the Washington State Convention Center has 20 covered bays at two loading docks.

Need a large, open room?  WSCC has 45,000 square feet of carpeted ballroom space.

Need a lot of individual meeting or lecture rooms?  Seattle’s convention center has 57,000 squre feet of carpeted meeting space, which translates into as many as 61 versatile meeting rooms.

WSCC will also cater your convention if you wish.

Need high-speed WiFi for your conference?  Got it.  Video cameras?  Check.  Audio equipment?  Worry not.  Any kind of electronic equipment and services you could possibly need are available.

After hours, your attendees have many choices for evening activities.

Washington State Convention Center
800 Convention Place
Seattle, WA 98101-2350

Phone: 206-694-5000
Fax: 206-694-5399
Email: info@wscc.com