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Resort at Squaw Creek™ Receives Smart Meetings Platinum Choice Award

Meetings contunue to be focus for resort

Olympic Valley, Calif. – Resort at Squaw Creek™ has been chosen as a winner of Smart Meetings magazine’s 2010 Platinum Choice Award.  This prestigious award recognizes excellence in service and amenities among meeting facilities in the Western U.S., Canada and Mexico. Out of thousands of qualified properties, only 100 are chosen.

Winners earn this recognition by providing the best in ambience, amenities, facility quality, guest services, meeting space, restaurant and dining facilities, staff attitude, technical support and recreational activities.  They are chosen by Smart Meetings readers, who vote for their favorites over a two-month period, with additional input from our editors and industry experts. 

“This year’s winners demonstrated superior effort in a challenging economic environment, which clearly set them apart from their competition in the marketplace,” said Marin Bright, founder and publisher.

“Meetings business is a large part of our business,” says Les Pedersen, director of sales and marketing for Resort at Squaw Creek™.  “We really appreciate this accolade, especially because it comes from Smart Meetings readers.”   In addition to the Platinum Choice Award, Resort at Squaw Creek™, a Destination Resorts & Hotels property, has been honored with numerous meeting and conference industry awards over recent years:

Meetings West - Best of the West Readers vote based on quality of meeting space, guest rooms, guest services and amenities, food and beverage service, efficiency and helpfulness of staff, the availability of technical equipment, recreational facilities an activities and overall value and experience.

Successful Meetings - Pinnacle Award Winners are chosen by association and corporate executives and meeting planners for their superiority at serving the needs of meetings in a consistent exemplary fashion.

Meetings & Conventions - Gold Key Award Presented for consistent excellence in serving the meeting industry as selected by executives and meeting planner - based on quality of meeting rooms, guest services, food & beverage, reservations handling and availability of technical equipment and support services.

Meeting News - Planners' Choice Award Selected by the readers of Meeting News magazine for exemplifying the highest levels of quality and service in the meeting industry.

Corporate & Incentive Travel Award of Excellence - for outstanding facilities and services to the meeting and incentive travel industry.

Located at the base of Squaw Valley USA, five miles from the shores of Lake Tahoe, Resort at Squaw Creek™ is a AAA Four-Diamond year-round resort featuring 365 luxuriously appointed rooms and suites, four restaurants, a full-service spa, championship golf course and the Mountain Buddies™ children’s program.  The property also features over 33,000 square feet of indoor conference space and over 14,000 square feet of outdoor meeting space. 

Smart Meetings is published monthly, in print, digitally and online, by Bright Business Media, LLC, a multimedia company based in Sausalito, Calif. BBM also hosts smartmeetings.com, an award-winning, interactive website, and produces The Smart Meeting and The Smart Mart, live events connecting meeting planners and hoteliers.

For more information on Resort at Squaw Creek visit www.visitsquawcreek.com.  For more information on Destination Hotels & Resorts visit www.destinationhotels.com. 

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