George Aguel, president and CEO of Visit OrlandoOrlando is riding high on the heels of a record-breaking 2014 for its hotels, including average daily rate (ADR) and room night demand. With 31.6 million room nights sold, that stat is up 5.6 percen...

Exterior of the Golden Nugget Lake Charles—Photo courtesy of Landry's, Inc.The $700 million Golden Nugget Lake Charles, which recently opened adjacent to L’Auberge Casino Resort in Calcasieu Parish in Southwest Louisiana, features 740 guest rooms...

Wynn Resorts, which was awarded the license to operate Massachusetts’ only Boston-area casino by state regulators last fall, revealed a revamped design of its $1.6 billion resort on Thursday. The resort is scheduled to open in Everett in 2017. T...

The Mayo Civic Center, located near the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., is undergoing a $79 million expansion that will bring the total amount of space at the center to more than 200,000 square feet. Slated for completion in 2017, the expansion ...

The George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston recently installed a CoinVault ATM—a machine that issues bitcoin, the virtual currency that has garnered an equal mix of cheers, criticism, and confusion since its launch...

The Boston Convention & Exhibition Center is installing a full-building, real-time location services system to provide turn-by-turn navigation inside the BCEC, helping visitors find meeting rooms, exhibit halls, exhibit booths, or whatever...

The Sheraton Hotel Kansas City and The Westin Kansas City at Crown Center in Kansas City, Mo., boosted its bandwidth from 200MB to 1G, switched to fiber delivery, and is upgrading hardware to support the new speeds. “Fast, reliable Internet...

The BestCities Global Alliance continues its expansion into emerging markets with the announcement that Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, and its bureau, the Greater Bogotá Convention Bureau, is its first South American partner.
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