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Roadshow Life: Making Connections Over Good Food and Good Deeds

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If you know us you know we love good food! Each Roadshow event takes in to careful consideration a curated dining experience for our attendees and hotel partners.

Depending on the region we are in, of course, you may find yourself having a fine dining experience with us, or grazing on a beautiful mezze board or sampling a full plant-based meal to stuffing yourself with comfort food. One thing we know is no one walks away hungry from our Roadshow events! Food is one of our favorite experiences to bring you when you attend. There’s nothing like good conversation over good food!

You know what else we do well and love to do?
Give back.

Thanks to our generous hotel partners we have been able to auction off incredible travel packages at each of our recent Roadshows. Our fabulous meeting and event planner attendees then get the opportunity to bid on these travel packages during the travel showcase. Some of them are once in a life time trips!

The money from those auctions then goes to one of our favorite charities, Wine to Water, who this year, in a time of desperate need, has a fund to help people in Ukraine.

To date, in 2022, Retreats Resources has proudly raised and donated $42,000 for the Wine to Water Ukraine Fund! Thanks to our extremely giving family of hotel partners and meeting planners.

You make us proud every day we get to do something like this and give back.

To everyone who has joined us in 2022 so far…Thank you!

Featuring: the Hotels and Travel Partners of the Northeast Roadshow Luxury Travel Showcase

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Registration is open for the Northeast Roadshow!

This series of showcases and events is one of our best yet! As we land in each of the iconic northeastern cities of New York, Hartford and Boston we have paired our showcases with Restaurants with Taste, Chefs with Heart in each location. After each travel showcase we have something very special planned in some very cool venues. We hope you can join us, or send a MICE industry friend!

New York, NY – July 19th
Hartford, CT – July 20th
Boston, MA – July 21st

Wonder who will be joining us?
Take a look at the fabulous list of hotels on the road with us thru the Northeast:

Auberge Resorts Collection
Ritz-Carlton Bachelor Gulch
SilverSea Cruise Lines
Aspen Chamber Association
The Hythe, Vail
Hippo Lakes Safari Lodge, South Africa
Melia International
The St. Regis Bal Harbour
EPIC Hotel Miami
The Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe
Trump Hotels International
NBC Universal Parks and Resorts
Hacienda Altagracia, Costa Rica
Royal Caribbean Cruises
Hotel Jerome, Aspen
W South Beach
Secrets Maroma Beach
Hilton Aruba
Secrets & Breathless Riviera Cancun
Hotel Madeline – Telluride

We hope to see you there!

Venue Spotlight: Stop #3 on the New South Roadshow – Roaring Social, Alpharetta, Georgia

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Retreats Resources brings the Roadshow to you, but did you know we select the host venues with an experience in mind for every Meeting Planner and Event Specialist who attends. Let’s start with a little background on our third and final stop on the New South Roadshow: Roaring Social in suburban Atlanta.

We are seeing the meetings and events industry come ROARING back, and we are just loving that theme for this Roadshow. Roaring Social is a 20s themed speakeasy located in The Hamilton Hotel, which is part of the Curio Collection by Hilton, in the popular Atlanta suburb of Alpharetta.

Then:

With a whispered secret password (speaking easy so as not to be overheard), doors opened to a world where whiskey and moonshine flowed freely and prohibition was nothing but a dirty word. Roaring Social brought exuberance, entertainment and good times to the Roaring 1920s.

Now:

With a nod to its infamous past, revelers enter the respectable storefront of RoSo Clothiers. Those in the know will find the secret password, a password opening an unassuming door to unexpected delights.

As you sink into velvet sofas you will swear you hear the whispered conversations, laughter and strains of music of a bygone era…or maybe that’s just us celebrating the present day Roaring (20)20s.

We look forward to welcoming you to Alpharetta and Roaring Social and the third and final stop on the New South Roadshow!

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Venue Spotlight: Stop #1 on the New South Roadshow – Virgin Hotels, Nashville

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Retreats Resources brings the Roadshow to you, but did you know we select the host venues with an experience in mind for every Meeting Planner and Event Specialist who attends. Let’s start with a little background on our first stop on the New South Roadshow: Virgin Hotels, Nashville.

Did you say…Virgin Hotels? Yes, as in that same iconic red logo lifestyle brand you see in the air on Virgin Atlantic, the same brand you see out at sea on Virgin Voyages, with the same hip vibe we know and love about the Virgin brand. As part of the Curio by Hilton collection Virgin Hotels will appeal to many clients being able to offer guest membership rewards and service standard consistencies they count on in business travel…while also feeling like a rock star, or in the case of Nashville, a country star, staying just off of Music Row. Opening amid a Pandemic in 2020, with hotels currently located in Dallas, Chicago, Las Vegas, Nashville and New Orleans (and coming soon to New York, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Miami) they are now available in some of our favorite cities for business (and fun!).

And did you know…Virgin Hotels are pet friendly? Virgin is a big fan of the fuzz. Pets stay free, with no breed or size restrictions. (If you have ever traveled with your dog you know this is unheard of!)

The hotel of course has cool features like the Shag Room, a private space off the lobby, that features a (shag) fiber sculpture in the ceiling.

The Funny Library Coffee Shop is part coffee shop, part lounge, part remote work space, part favorite place to hang.

The well appointed rooms are referred to as “Chambers” at Virgin. The virtual assistant’s name is Lucy, and she can do anything from order you room service or lower the temperature in your room.

The space where we will meet you on our Roadshow? Well, that’s top secret. You will have to join us to find out and sip away the end of this 21st century Prohibition….as we see the events industry come ROARING back!

We look forward to welcoming you to the Virgin Hotels and Music City and the first stop on the New South Roadshow!