ALHI Offering New Specialty Segment Featuring 30 Impressive Entertainment & Gaming Options (United States)
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ALHI Offering New Specialty Segment Featuring 30 Impressive Entertainment & Gaming Options (United States)
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Category: North America & West Indies / Carribean islands - United States -
This is a press release selected by our editorial committee and published online for free on 2011-02-21
When you are considering conducting a meeting, convention, or incentive program with extraordinary entertainment and/or gaming at your fingertips, you will be interested in Associated Luxury Hotels International’s “ALHI Entertainment & Gaming Solutions” collection. This new specialty sub-segment within ALHI’s worldwide portfolio consists of 30 Four- and Five-Diamond resorts and hotels in the U.S. and abroad that provide hallmark entertainment and/or gaming, and which specialize in serving meeting and incentive programs.
ALHI (www.alhi.com) is a prestigious dues-based National Sales organization, which is dedicated exclusively and authorized specifically by the 130 Four- and Five-Diamond quality member hotels and resorts worldwide that it serves. Established in 1986, ALHI offers over 100,000 rooms and suites, and more than 10 million square feet of meeting space in its extraordinary portfolio of the best venues for meetings. There is no cost to planners’ or executives’ organizations to utilize the National Sales services of ALHI, as its members’ dues fund the National Sales organization to serve planners.
“We created the ‘Entertainment & Gaming Solutions’ collection as an easy-to-access resource for planners who want to quickly identify exceptional entertainment and gaming options that are available to them,” said David Gabri, president and CEO of ALHI. “This specialty segment features many of the world’s finest meeting resorts and hotels that offer exciting on-site entertainment and/or gaming, which enables planners to select the right venue that will suit their program’s needs for an extremely appealing program venue and productive and cost-effective meeting.”
The “Entertainment & Gaming Solutions” collection features a diversity of options in Las Vegas, as well as throughout the U.S. and in international locales.
In Las Vegas, this specialty segment includes:
* the newly-designated AAA Five-Diamond ARIA Resort & Casino, offering 4,004 guest rooms, 300,000 square feet of meeting space, and the impressive “Viva ELVIS by Cirque du Soleil”;
* the renowned AAA Five-Diamond Bellagio, featuring 3,933 rooms, 200,000 square feet of meeting space, 19 dining options, “’O’ by Cirque du Soleil,” and the magnificent ballet of dancing fountains;
* the 3,220-room Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, offering 1.7 million square feet of flexible meeting space, a beachside casino, “Disney’s The Lion King,” and the Mandalay Bay Events Center;
* the sophisticated and newly-designated AAA Five-Diamond Mandarin Oriental Las Vegas, elegantly situated with 392 luxurious guest rooms at the forefront of CityCenter in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip;
* the renowned MGM Grand, featuring 5,034 rooms, 600,000 square feet of meeting space, 18 restaurants, 8 bars and clubs, and a 171,000-square-foot casino;
* The Mirage, a AAA Four-Diamond resort offering 3,044 redesigned guest rooms and suites, 170,000 square feet of meeting space, and “The Beatles – LOVE” show;
* Monte Carlo Resort and Casino, boasting nearly 3,000 luxurious guest rooms, a 1,200-seat theatre, four pools, and a 400-foot-long Lazy River;
* the all-suite, non-smoking Signature at MGM Grand, providing an exclusive gated environment just steps from the entertainment of MGM Grand;
* the sophisticated and modern THEhotel at Mandalay Bay, offering 20,000 square feet of meeting space just steps from the 1.7 million-square-foot Mandalay Bay Convention Center;
* and Vdara at CityCenter, an internationally-inspired all-suite hotel and spa that features 1,495 spacious suites and more than 10,000 square feet of meeting space.
The collection also includes the Moroccan-inspired Loews Lake Las Vegas in nearby Lake Las Vegas, which features 493 guest rooms and suites with sweeping lake and mountain views, and over 100,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor meeting space.
Options in the collection in the Midwest include:
* Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center (Grapevine, Texas), situated on 150 acres overlooking majestic Lake Grapevine, and offering over 1,500 rooms, 400,000 square feet of meeting space, and an upscale onsite nightclub;
* the elegant InterContinental Chicago, located on Chicago’s famous Magnificent Mile (featuring 460 stores in eight city blocks), and offering 792 guest rooms, 42,000 square feet of meeting space, and a wine, cheese and chocolate tasting room;
* the AAA Four-Diamond MGM Grand Detroit, offering 400 oversized rooms, 30,000 square feet of event space, and a 100,000-square-foot casino;
* The Peninsula Chicago, recently voted the #1 hotel in the United State by Condé Nast Traveler and Zagat Survey, and featuring exquisitely furnished guest rooms and exceptional meeting space in the heart of downtown Chicago;
* and Sofitel Chicago Water Tower, which provides stunning views of Lake Michigan and the Chicago skyline, and is located in downtown Chicago’s prestigious Gold Coast district.
In the East, options in the specialty segment include:
* InterContinental New York Barclay, situated just off of fashionable Park Avenue in midtown Manhattan’s East Side, and offering 685 guest rooms near exclusive Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue shopping and Broadway theaters;
* the elegant and stylish Jumeirah Essex House, a landmark on New York City’s Central Park South, which recently completed a dramatic $90 million renovation;
* the AAA Four-Diamond, recently renovated Loews Regency Hotel in New York City, offering 353 guest rooms and suites, and the popular Feinstein’s at the Loews Regency nightclub;
* the legendary Mohegan Sun, situated on 240 acres along the Thames River in scenic southeastern Connecticut, and offering 1,175 guest rooms, 100,000 square feet of meeting space, and 360,000 square feet of gaming space;
* and The New York Palace, offering 899 beautifully appointed rooms with spectacular panoramic views in midtown Manhattan., as well as 40,000 square feet of meeting space that includes the historic Villard Mansion.
In the South, the collection includes:
* the AAA Four-Diamond Beau Rivage Resort & Casino (Biloxi, Mississippi), which recently completed a $550 million renovation, and offers 50,000 square feet of meeting space, 1,740 guest rooms, a casino, and a 1,550-seat theater;
* Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center (Nashville, Tennessee), featuring 2,881 guest rooms and suites, 600,000 square feet of meeting space, and access to the world-famous Grand Ole Opry;
* the 1,406-room Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center, providing over 400,000 square feet of meeting space, and located just five minutes from the Walt Disney World theme parks in Central Florida;
* the spectacular Loews Portofino Bay Hotel at Universal Orlando, offering 750 elegant guest rooms and easy access to Universal Orlando’s two theme parks;
* the lush AAA Four-Diamond Loews Royal Pacific at Universal Orlando, providing 85,000 square feet of meeting space, and UNIVERSAL EXPRESS ride access at both Universal Orlando theme parks;
* and The Peabody Orlando, which just completed an impressive $450 million expansion and now features 1,641 guest rooms and 300,000 square feet of meeting space.
Island options in the collection include:
* the 3,400-room Atlantis on Paradise Island in The Bahamas, which offers 200,000 square feet of indoor function space, 300,000 square feet of additional outdoor event space, 21 restaurants, 19 bars, and the Aquaventure water park.
* Atlantis, The Palm, featuring a stunning beachfront setting in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and offering over 60,000 square feet of meeting space, as well as 17 restaurants, bars and lounges.
* and Puerto Rico’s all-suite Gran Melia Golf Resort, nestled on the northeastern coast in Coco Beach, and featuring two golf courses, and a casino.
Additional ALHI Specialty Segments
The launch of this collection follows seven other specialty segments launched by ALHI in 2010. Included among these are: “ALHI Level 5 Collection,” for ALHI’s 18 hotels that have earned the highest and most distinctive recognitions including the prestigious AAA Five-Diamond rating, and/or the esteemed Forbes (Mobil) Five-Star rating; and the “ALHI Big Box 5-50 Solutions Collection,” featuring ALHI’s 26 member hotels and resorts that offer more than 500 rooms, feature over 50,000 square feet of meeting space each, and have at least one 20,000-square-foot ballroom or more.
Other specialty segments include: the “ALHI Historic Collection,” consisting of 37 legendary hotels and resorts with more than 50 years of heritage; the “Mountain Collection,” for planners desiring to conduct programs with inspiring mountain views; the “ALHI U-200 Gems Collection,” consisting of ALHI members with 200 rooms or under, which specialize in serving meeting and incentive programs; the “ALHI Golf Collection,” consisting of ALHI’s 43 Four- and Five-Diamond golf resorts that cater to the meetings and incentive marketplaces; and the “ALHI Beach & Island Collection,” featuring 33 Four- and Five-Diamond beach and/or island resorts and hotels with distinction which are designed to serve meetings and programs worldwide.
With trends showing hotels and resorts are back in style for meetings, and to make it easy for planners to access options within any of the specialty segments, there is an “ALHI Specialty Segments” quick reference button on the www.alhi.com Home Page. The button provides easy access for planners to preview the options available in each specialty segment, to be augmented by their ALHI national sales executive, also easily identifiable at www.alhi.com . On the site, planners can quickly see details of the properties’ meeting, accommodation, recreational and dining offerings, as well as destination information and “Luxury on Sale” value opportunities. A photo gallery, meeting floor plans and specs, and a location map for each property are also easily available.
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