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December 2005

Opus Solutions Announces New White Paper - The Integrated Event Model
Although companies have experienced a decline in event activities during the last three years, event marketing is making a comeback. The challenge for marketing groups tasked with delivering events is having commensurate resources, knowledge and infrastructure to meet this increasing demand. Faced with shrinking internal resources, lack of scalability, and dispersed event marketing spending, marketers are rethinking event-marketing practices. More companies are looking beyond traditional "outsourcing" of meeting planning and are choosing instead to partner with integrated event providers that enable them to focus on domain expertise, recognize cost efficiencies, and gain expert, scalable resources.

Download the white paper at www.opus-solutions.com/whitepapers

Getting the Most Out of the Post-Con Meeting
Managing feedback is one of the most effective methods for improving the quality of future events. That's why it's a good idea to have a strategy for whom to talk to and what to ask in order to get the most benefit out of this exercise.

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Source: Meetings Industry Mall, November 2005

Keeping Up Appearances
How do you manage the challenge of a tightened budget on a repeat event where the customer may already have existing expectations? For example, you may have held your annual conference at a luxury resort hotel for the last three years. How do you cut costs without impacting impressions? This article provides some helpful solutions and insight from companies in the same position.

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Source: Successful Meetings, June 2005

Westin Hotel Chain to Become Smoke-Free
The Westin line of 77 upscale hotels in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean will become 100 percent no-smoking hotels, including guest rooms, meeting space and other public areas, effective January.

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Source: The Business Journal of Portland, December 2005

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The Fairmont Orchid - Kohala Coast, Hawaii

Nestled along the Kohala Coast on the Big Island of Hawaii sits the luxurious 32-acre resort known as The Fairmont Orchid. Located just 20 miles north of the Kona International Airport, this destination is easy to get to and offers meeting space, activities, and many other amenities to meet the needs of your guests and events.

The Fairmont Orchid provides a wide variety of indoor and outdoor meeting space. Inside, there is over 30,000 square feet of meeting space located on two levels, including a full size amphitheatre. Outside the hotel offers 76,000 square feet of meeting space with spectacular views and private locations, including the Plantation Estate and the Coconut Grove. The grounds also offer beaches, waterfalls, an outdoor spa, large pool area, and a wide range of activities including kayaking, snorkeling, bicycle riding, fitness classes, tennis and golf. A recent addition to the guest room accommodations is the Fairmont Gold floor, which offers exclusive VIP treatment for your guests and includes its own lounge.

Overall, this lavish resort has a tremendous amount to offer. With the quality and reputation of The Fairmont Orchid, you will have to plan for this in your budget, but you will not be disappointed!

Please visit The Fairmont Orchid website at: www.fairmont.com/orchid.

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  • Real Christmas trees are an all-American product, grown in all 50 states, including Alaska and Hawaii. The top Christmas tree producing states are California, Oregon, Michigan, Washington, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. Oregon is the leading producer of Christmas trees - 7.3 million in 2004!
  • Christmas trees are edible. Many parts of pines, spruces, and firs can be eaten. The needles are a good source of vitamin C. Pine nuts, or pine cones, are also a good source of nutrition.
  • Due to the time zones, Santa has 31 hours to deliver gifts. This means that he would have to visit 832 homes each second!
  • Hallmark introduced its first Christmas cards in 1915, five years after the founding of the company. An average household in America will mail out 28 Christmas cards each year and see 28 cards return in their place. More than three billion Christmas cards are sent annually in the United States.
  • During the holiday buying season, Visa cards alone are used an average of 5,340 times every minute in the United States.
  • The Santa Claus suit was developed in the 1930s. The Coca-Cola Company hired American artist Haddon Sundblom in 1931, to redesign Santa Claus. Sundblom chose the official colors of Coca-Cola, red and white.

Source: Twinkle Bulbs

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