Successful Meetings - November 2008 - (Page 140) Meeting Meeting Sites Sites Left: Networking at BCEC; below, Boston Park Plaza’s Hancock room Essential Tool Box Convention Center/Facilities: Boston Convention & Exhibition Center (BCEC), 516,000 sf of dedicated exhibit space, 85 meeting rooms, largest holds 4,376 theaterstyle. John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center, 175,000 sf of dedicated exhibit space, 42 meeting rooms, largest holds 4,000 theater-style. Daily Business Costs*: Hotel $205.05 F&B $122.68 Car Rental $105.40 For More Information: Greater Boston CVB www.bostonusa.com For complete listings visit Facility Quick Search at www.successfulmeetings.com *Business Travel News 2008 Corporate Travel Index Boston A M E R I C A’ S B I R T H P L A C E : Key to Boston’s appeal is its incomparable array of landmarks related to the American Revolution, and every year the city attracts visitors from across the nation and around the world who come to view historic sites from Paul Revere’s House to the Old North Church to Boston Common. The oldest public park in the United States, the Common, is a short walk away from the Old Granary Burial Ground, where many leaders of the drive for independence were laid to rest, including Revere, John Hancock, and Samuel Adams. Leisure and business travel have long been vital to Boston’s economic well-being, and a steady uptick in corporate meetings and incentive travel have helped recent prosperity, which is also fueled by financial services, health care, institutes of higher learning, and Internet technology. By Jonathan Siskin The Big News To accommodate growing group demand, 2,300 new hotel rooms have already been added or are opening between 2007 and early 2009, when the total hotel rooms within 15 minutes of the city’s downtown convention venues will cross the 20,000 mark. Among the most notable infrastructure improvements in recent years was the completion of a $4 billion modernization at Logan International Airport, featuring new terminals and roadways and a new harbor tunnel NOVEMBER 2008 SUCCESSFUL MEETINGS 140 successfulmeetings.com http://www.bostonusa.com http://www.successfulmeetings.com http://www.successfulmeetings.com
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