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The Facts About Business Travel

With all of the continuing rhetoric about meetings, it's important to learn a few key facts:

The Facts

• Business travel creates 2.4 million jobs nationally. Meetings and events are directly responsible for 1 million jobs.
• The U.S. Travel Association estimates that 200,000 travel jobs were lost in 2008 and expects another 247,000 to be lost in 2009
• Business travel accounts for $39 billion in tax revenue at the federal, state, and local levels.
• Meetings and events are responsible for 15% of all travel-related spending.
• Business travel supports more than 200 hotel and convention centers across the country.
• According to the results of a Meetings and Conventions magazine study, 52 percent of respondents claim that the backlash against meetings has been extremely or moderately influential on their company’s decisions to hold events.
• In a recent survey, 87 percent of Americans say that encouraging people to travel recreationally within the U.S. could improve the country's economic landscape.
• Each meeting and event traveler spends an average of $1,000 per trip.
• According to a recent survey of Fortune 1,000 Chief Marketing Officers, meetings and events provide the highest return on investment of any marketing channel.

HelmsBriscoe VIP Superbowl for Your Company's Event!

A brief description of the packages I am currently working on for my clients. It's not too soon to book your incentive trip, corporate or board meeting for the Superbowl! Get a group of friends together and have the experience of a lifetime!

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One of My Favorite Hotel Pools...

Lists are constantly being published about the best hotel pools...this topic is very close to my heart as I am a sucker for a great hotel pool.  As I have a chance to see these pools, I most certainly will keep my readers up to date.

My very favorite pool to date would be the amazing floating pool at Villa d'Este in Cernobbio on Lake Como in Northern Italy.  I had the opportunity to spend a few weeks at this magical place and I will never forget it.  I will talk more about the hotel itself in a separate post, for now, let's talk pools!  While Lake Como is most recently famous for George Clooney and Star Wars...it has a rich and abundant history.  The pool is not high tech, it has been around for a while.  The hotel was built in 1568, I am uncertain as to when the floating pool was added.  It is amazing to be enveloped in lovely warm water while overlooking one of the most beautiful lakes I have seen.

 Another view of the property from above, giving you a better idea of this amazing lake...