Last week I joined a group of golf writers and Pam Shaheen of Crossroads Marketing Inc. for a week-long trip to play golf courses in Alabama. We played several of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail courses, plus a couple that are marketed as part of the Honours...
We started early on Wednesday, teeing off at 7:00 a.m. on the Lakes Course of the RTJ complex at Grand National in Auburn-Opelika. Many consider this course to be among the most scenic in the entire RTJ system. By starting early, we saw lots of holes draped...
Renaissance Ross Bridge Golf Resort and Spa is carved out of the Appalachian foothills just minutes from busy Birmingham, Alabama. As soon as you drive onto this resort property that carries a Scottish theme for its namesake, you can feel yourself begin to...
A high school band and drum corps welcomed delegates to the William J. Clinton Presidential Library for the opening event of the 2011 Small Market Meetings Conference A beautiful evening gave way to a spectacular event as the 2011 Small Market Meetings Conference...
Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau CEO Gretchen Hall, far left in doorway, and other Little Rock representatives welcomed delegates to the River Market event Delegates to the Small Market Meetings Conference in Little Rock, Arkansas, were treated to a...
In perhaps the biggest party ever thrown at one of their hotels, the Gaylord staff staged a massive celebration last night to officially mark the grand reopening of the Opryland Resort. My day started with a tour of the hotel lead by general manager Pete Weien, who...
Opryland -- and Nashville along with it -- is back, and in a big way. When flook waters ripped through the streets of downtown Nashville in early May, residents and business owners alike were floored. Never in recorded history had Nashville seen an inundation like...
When we pulled into the Grand Hotel in Point Clear, Alabama on a Sunday afternoon, there were three wedding parties set up on the grounds. As it turns out, this is the place to get married on Alabama's Gulf Coast. Leon Maisel, president of the Mobile Bay Convention...
From our homebase at the Grand Hotel in Point Clear, we made a daytrip today down the coast and inland a bit to Foley, Alabama. Someone had told us to check out Stacey"s Rexall Drugs, and to maybe do a lunch stop there. It sounded like our kind of place. There is a...
I was invited to join a good friend, Ron McConnell, and others from the Mobile Bay Convention and Visitors Bureau for dinner and a round of golf during their annual Slice and Hook program for meeting planners during a getaway to the Alabama Gulf Coast. We joined their...
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