In order to promote one of its member properties, the Peabody Orlando, Associated Luxury Hotels International (ALHI) has announced that it will give away a 1-carat diamond necklace named for the property at Holiday Showcase 2009, taking place Dec. 15, 2009, in Chicago.
"Association executives and meeting planners should definitely stop by the ALHI booth and Luxury Lane to meet our team, and to register for this diamond necklace, as it is a truly beautiful gem," Associated Luxury Hotels President and CEO David Gabri said in a statement. "We're giving this diamond away to spotlight the exceptional Peabody Orlando, and to showcase our entire portfolio of distinctive Four- and Five-Diamond quality hotels and resorts worldwide, which provide distinctive solutions for meetings and incentive/recognition travel programs."
Organized by the Association Forum of Chicagoland—which is Chicago's "association of associations," representing more than 3,500 members from nearly 1,500 membership organizations—Holiday Showcase is the largest business services and meeting sites exposition in the Midwest. At its booth there, called "Luxury Lane," ALHI plans to market and sell meeting space from more than 125 Four- and Five-Diamond hotels and resorts, which collectively offer more than 90,000 guest rooms and over 9 million square feet of meeting space.
The Peabody Orlando—which is currently undergoing a $450 million renovation that will give it a total of 1,641 guest rooms and 210,000 square feet of meeting space, including two new ballrooms, one with 55,000 square feet and the other with 35,000 square feet—is the seventh hotel ALHI has promoted to meeting planners this year as part of its "2009 Diamond Tour," which included the "AQUA Diamond," awarded at MPI's MeetDifferent in February; the "Arizona Grand Diamond," given away at ALHI's Luxury Showcase in Washington, D.C., also in February; the "Grand Wailea Resort Diamond," given away at ASAE & The Center's Springtime Expo in April; the "Resort at Squaw Creek Diamond," awarded at MPI WEC in Salt Lake City in July; the "Chateau Elan Diamond," given away in August at IncentiveWorks 2009; and "The Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach Diamond," which was awarded last month at The Motivation Show.
"The Peabody Orlando Diamond" that will be given away at Holiday Showcase will be this year's second; the first "Peabody Orlando Diamond" was awarded at ASAE & The Center's Annual Meeting in August.
To register for Holiday Showcase 2009, visit
www.holidayshowcase.org.