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CORINTHIA TOP
CHOICE FOR AMERICAN MEETING PLANNERS ORGANIZING
CONFERENCES IN EUROPE
Featuring
Tech-Savvy Facilities and Unique Events@Corinthia
Program
Corinthia
Hotels, the
five-star luxury hotel collection comprising the
unique Events@Corinthia portfolio, are located in
some of the hottest meeting/conference cities in
Europe - Prague, Budapest, Lisbon and St.
Petersburg, Russia and Malta. Recently, Corinthia
Hotels announced a staggering 70% increase in room
revenues for 2006 from the U.S. sector &endash;
with the Meeting, Incentives, Conference, and
Events (MICE) market leading the growth.
While
statistical growth is an excellent barometer of
Corinthia's outstanding record attracting, growing
and retaining the MICE market, there is no better
testimonial than the positive feedback of
high-level planners about their Corinthia
experience. According to Stacy Davis of New
York-based Carino Collection of Hotels and
Resorts, that represent Corinthia's Five
-Star hotels in the Corporate Sales and Meetings
markets, "It's easy for us to sell Corinthia
to our meeting planner clients because we are
confident that they will be handled by
Events@Corinthia professionals at each
property."
One of Carino's
clients, Barry Zidel, President of Las Vegas-based
Meeting Connections, Inc., who brought a group to
the Corinthia Lisboa in Portugal in 2006, commented
"I cannot find the words and accolades which do the
Corinthia Lisboa justice. … I work all over
the world with my clients, and have experienced
just about everything, everywhere. The property,
the staff, the executives, made this experience
second to none! Having said that, all subsequent
locations and staff are being measured by me and my
client as The Benchmark for conferences." It
comes as no surprise that Zidel is now planning to
bring this group to the Corinthia Towers
Hotel in Prague this year.
Another meeting
planner, Ludwig Krammer, Director of Operations,
Bucom International Inc., based in St. Louis,
Missouri, arranged a meeting on behalf of Hoffmann
LaRoche, Inc. at the Corinthia Grand Hotel
Royal in Budapest: "I have had the pleasure of
working in the hospitality business and the overall
service industry for many years…given the wide
range of hotels that I have experienced, there are
just a handful that fall into a true superior
category. The Corinthia Grand Hotel Royal is one of
these hotels."
Following a recent
meeting held at the Corinthia Nevskij Palace Hotel
in St. Petersberg, Russia Oleg Nesterov,
Diagnostics Manager, Roche-Moscow Ltd, praised the
perfect arrangements and management of their
three day forum held at the Corinthia Nevskij
Palace Hotel. "We were so impressed with the
excellent skills and professionalism of the
Corinthia Staff," said Mr. Nesterov, "there is no
question that their great support was a
major factor in the success of our
event."
Mr. Shawn
Pisani, Corinthia Hotels' Director of Outbound
Sales & Events@Corinthia, attributes this
success to several factors. "We recognize that the
American MICE market is very different from that in
Europe, and have focused our Events@Corinthia
program to cater to the special needs of meeting
planners in the US. From the beginning,
Corinthia Hotels has promised to 'Hold the Quote'
in U.S. dollars at the beginning of our
arrangements for groups staying in our properties.
We also offer free internet connections for groups
originating from the US."
Innovative
Events@CorinthiaFeatures
In tune with
Events@Corinthia motto, "Stress &endash;free and
Success-full," the Corinthia team is always
looking for new ways to facilitate the meeting
planners work and offer the ultimate in resources.
With this objective in mind, Corinthia recently
launched the new Events@Corinthia Web Page
(www.corinthiaevents.com),
designed as a one-stop shop web site for meeting
planners, making it easy to search by hotel,
destination, or date, and check for
promotions and special offers available at
all Corinthia Hotels. "The feedback we have
received &endash; and the increased bookings
&endash; has been extremely positive," notes
Shawn.
Another
Corinthia-exclusive is the Events@Corinthia
dedicated traveling assistant. Every group
organizer and meeting planner is provided a
dedicated 24/7 experienced Events@Corinthia staff
person to assist with all the needs and
requirements of the planner and his/her group. Now,
Corinthia has launched the Traveling Assistant
Program, which is available for organizers of
groups totalling 300 or more room nights. The
planner can have the same dedicated
Events@Corinthia staff person who assisted them for
their meeting in the first Corinthia Hotel,
travel to a second (or more) Corinthia
location prior to their next meeting, where they
brief the new Corinthia team on the special needs
and requirements of that group.
Pisani
concludes, "We recognize that running an event
is a major investment for any organization, and it
is in Corinthia's best business interest to ensure
the total success of the event."
About Corinthia
Hotels
Corinthia Hotels is
a luxury collection of five-star hotels in Budapest
- Hungary; Lisbon - Portugal; Malta; Prague - Czech
Republic; St. Petersburg - Russia; and Tripoli -
Libya. Founded by the Pisani family of Malta in the
1960s, the Corinthia brand stands in that proud
tradition of European hospitality and its signature
services communicate the 'Warmth, Colour and
Vitality' of its Maltese heritage. All Corinthia
hotels feature state-of-the art conference areas
and extensive business traveller facilities.
Corinthia Hotels' portfolio includes
two award-winning properties: In Budapest,
The Corinthia Grand Hotel Royal which
received Europe's 'Best Hotel Architecture Award'
and was selected to join the privileged list of
'The Most Famous Hotels in the World' and also
won the International Five-Star Diamond
Award for its commitment to excellence in
luxury amenities and top quality services. In
Prague, The Corinthia Towers Hotel, first hotel
ever to win best Gastronomy Concept in the Czech
Republic; and its award-winning Oriental
Restaurant Rickshaw, recipient of the "5 stars and
6 stripes" designation from re- known US
reviewer Seven Stars and Stripes. Corinthia Hotels
is associated with the Wyndham Grand Collection and
this year features among the top 50 hotel groups in
Europe, as reviewed by Hotel Management
International, an official publication of the
European Hotel Managers Association.
For more
information on Corinthia Hotels
visit www.corinthiahotels.com
Editorial
Contact:
Karen
Hoffman,
The Bradford
Group
Tel: (212)
447-0027
E-mail:
bradfordmktg@aol.com
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