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Posts Tagged ‘Broadmoor’

Hotels strategize to gain conference business (access required)

by Monica Mendoza Published: November 23,2011

Tags: Broadmoor, conferences, conventions

November marks the beginning of the off-tourism season, when demand for hotel rooms is at its lowest and the pursuit of group meetings starts. [...]

Attendance high at 2011 U.S. Women’s Open

by Monica Mendoza Published: July 14,2011

Tags: Broadmoor, Sports, Tourism, U.S. Women's Open

The U.S. Women’s Open just missed its target goal in attendance to the seven-day event at The Broadmoor. The final tally shows attendance at this year’s open at 130,485. “We were trying to beat the record, which was set in 2005 and was 131,407 and we came in just shy of that,” said Becky Petro, 2011 U.S. [...] [...]

Group sales help Broadmoor finish year on high note (access required)

by Rebecca Tonn Published: December 31,2010

Tags: Broadmoor, Tourism

The Broadmoor, a barometer of sorts for the convention and meeting business in Colorado Springs, closed out 2010 with group room-night sales significantly higher than expected. The hotel had braced for a decline in group business for the year but instead, thanks to a recovering, if unsteady, economy, was able to post results in line with [...] [...]

City committee a good idea, but … (access required)

If you’re inclined to keep score, I’ll help you out: There will be five uses of “but” in this column, which means that almost every time I am making a point, I’ll be contradicting something I previously wrote. In an open letter that ran in the CSBJ’s Jan. 29 edition, Steve Bartolin, the CEO of The [...] [...]

Resort, travel companies pay price for TARP indiscretions (access required)

by Becky Hurley Published: March 20,2009

Tags: Broadmoor, hospitality, TARP

When financial services giants announced plans to send executives on incentive trips to chi-chi hotel/resort destinations last fall and earlier this year – drawing the ire of Congress and the public – the travel and upscale hospitality industries were suddenly caught in the “AIG effect” crossfire. “They (financial companies) didn’t understand the impact of the Treasury’s [...] [...]

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