Fort Lauderdale Airport & Cruise Port. Hyatt is opening two new properties—the 149-room Hyatt Place Fort Lauderdale Airport–South and the 143-room Hyatt Summerfield Suites Fort Lauderdale Airport–South.The Crowne Plaza Fort Lauderdale Airport/Cruise Port is also opening, with 150 guest rooms. And Choice Hotels’ new, 119-room Cambria Suites Fort Lauderdale/Dania Beach is set to open this spring. The Greater Fort Lauderdale Con- vention & Visitors Bureau supports the destination’s extraordinary choice of hotels and meeting facil- ities with a full menu of programs and services designed to make meeting planning easier and guest experiences richer:
Anew“one-stop-shopping”meetings Web site, atwww.sunny.org/meetings, offers an e-planners’ guide and the ability to perform personalized searches, generate elec-
CONVENE HERE: The Broward County Convention Center, a 600,000-square- foot, state-of-the-art meeting and exhibit space, offers five- star food service, an Internet café, and elegant banquet rooms.
tronic RFPs,and search for properties and venues with specific attributes and/or features. The Plan.It.Green programis helping offset the carbon footprint of groups by planting trees in Broward County parks. Meeting planners have the opportunity to be“meeting planters” by stop- ping by the Greater Fort Lauderdale booth at trade shows, where a donation will be made on their behalf to help plant a tree in a Broward County park. The “Immersadome,” a virtual-reality and multi- sensory experience, brings the pleasures of being in Greater Fort Lauderdale to meeting plan- ners at trade shows and receptions. Under a “Fly Free” program for meeting plan- ners who are considering South Florida as a meeting destination for groups of 200 or more roomnights, the CVB sponsors round-trip airfare for up to three decision-makers to visit Greater Fort Lauderdale for site inspections. The CVB is continuing its SUNsational Summer Savings offer, providing more meeting for less for planners who book a minimum of 750 rooms formore than two nights. Incentives include free space at the Broward County Convention Cen-
Greater Fort Lauderdale’s more than 610 hotels, resorts, and Superior Small Lodging properties are ideal for meetings large and small, offering everything from airport hotels to five-star brands.
ter; a free one-hour welcome reception with dis- played and passed hors d’oeuvres and an open bar for registered attendees; a 10-percent dis- count on F&B, electricity, security, telecommu- nications, andAV services as contracted through the BCCC’s exclusive providers; and 2.5-percent additional commission or credit to the hotel mas- ter account based on hotel revenues consumed. The promotion is valid for conventions booked for June 15 through Oct. 15 in 2010, 2011, and 2012. Special values for attendees include two-for- one water-taxi passes and offers from partici- pating partners along the route; dine-around programs on the chic Las Olas Boulevard—aka the “Style Mile”—and in downtown Hollywood, hosted by Marilyn Monroe and James Dean; and a water-taxi Dock-n-Dine-Around. The newest guest-experience enhancement in Greater Fort Lauderdale is the state-of-the-art iVis- itLauderdale app, which provides an overview of attractions,shopping, dining,events,special deals, and more using the latest GPS mapping technol- ogy, with video, images, and other features.
Greater Fort Lauderdale at a Glance Convention Facilities: The Fort Lauderdale/ Broward County Convention Center features 600,000 gross square feet of space. Number of Hotel Rooms: 33,000 For More Information: Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention &Visitors Bureau, 100 East Broward Boulevard, Suite 200, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301; PHONE: (954) 765-4466 or (800) 356-1662; FAX: (854) 756-4467; WEB SITE: www.sunny.org or www.sunny.org/meetings