Category: Meetings & Conventions

The M&C Team Hosted the “Happy Hour” portion of the Opening reception recently at the Meeting Professionals International (Potomac) Chapter MACE Education Day last month.  As part of the reception, M&C sponsored Virginia Beach Authentic Orange Crushes and conducted a customer drawing for a custom Beach Cruiser!     The Beach Cruiser was won by Ms. Macarena De Martini, CMP – Communications and Events Manager with International Finance Corporation

 Our team brought the 10 x 10 display and customers and attendees had fun posing for pics with the VB Beach Bike!

Representatives from Sister Cities International, based in Washington DC., local Virginia Beach Sister Cities and CVB M&C, recently joined Mayors Sessoms for a planning dinner to put the finishing touches on preparations to host the 61^st Annual Convention in Virginia Beach this summer.

 Virginia Beach will host international dignitaries and guests from around the Globe July 13-15. 

For more information visit http://www.sister-cities.org/annual-conference

Check out this great shot of Linda Eisan meeting and Dean Miller of VisitFairfax visiting with an appointment at Rendezvous South in Roanoke, VA.

Check out these great pictures from M&Cs tour of Norfolk’s new flagship hotel, The Main!

Our very own Dawn Whitaker had the opportunity to meet Anderson Cooper at Connect DC in Washington DC! Also pictured is Rachel Reim from the Holiday Inn & Suites, North Beach. Way to go, Dawn!

Jamie Mitchell went to Nashville recently to conduct sales calls. While there, she volunteered with the Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee and was joined by two clients, Kirk McNeill with the Virginia Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church and Dean Jones with the Religious Conference Management Association (RCMA). They (along with other volunteers) sorted, boxed, and stacked 14,000 lbs of food.

 

Gina Parcells of Virginia Beach Resort & Conference Hotel, Colleen Briley of Hilton Oceanfront/Hilton Garden Inn Oceanfront, Don Meador of Holiday Inn Virginia Beach Norfolk Hotel & Conference Center and Linda Eisan, Virginia Beach CVB M&C , at Association Executives North Carolina Annual  Tradeshow.

The Nursing Organization Alliance was in Omaha NE this past November and Sally Noona was visiting with many of the Nursing specialties on the tradeshow floor! This picture represented the Emergency Nurses Association.

On Friday, DEC 2, 2016, Lisa MacArthur was awarded and honored with the VSAE Associate Member Award of Excellence in front of 250 members of the Virginia Society of Association Executives at their Annual Silent Auction and Holiday Awards Luncheon. This recognition allows the association community to recognize those leaders of and within the association community along with the suppliers and vendors among its membership who have distinguished themselves among their peers through their leadership qualities and professionalism.

Please join me in congratulating Lisa on such a coveted and wonderful honor!

Pictured:

Richard G. Johnstone, Jr. EVP – CEO Award of Excellence
VA, MD, DE Assn of Electric Cooperatives

Lisa MacArthur, CSM – Associate Award of Excellence
Convention Sales Manager, VBCVB

Wilmer N. Stoneman, III, Associate Director – Association Staff Award of Excellence
VA Farm Bureau Federation

Barbara Homiller, MBA, CAE/Senior VP – VSAE President
Better Business Bureau Serving Central VA

Todd Bertka and Teresa Diaz, supported by Hilton Virginia Beach Oceanfront partner Colleen Briley, represented Virginia Beach recently during PCMA’s Great Mid-West chapter’s (GMC) annual charity event in Chicago. This year’s fundraiser was a Bowl-a-thon to benefit several Illinois charities including Little Brother’s Friends of the Elderly and GMC’s student scholarship program. The GMC serves 1200 members from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. The event, which included a silent auction of items donated from the various chapter cities, was sold out weeks in advance and while final numbers are still being tallied, it appears to have been another very successful fundraiser for GMC.

Pictured (Left to Right, Back to Front): Todd Bertka, Bill Martin (Global Accounts, Experient Inc.), Tracy Stein (Regional Director of Accounts, HPN Global), Dave Larsen (VP of Meetings and Tradeshows, National Funeral Directors Association), Teresa Diaz, Colleen Briley, Melissa Jacobsen (Meetings and Events Manager, American Association of School Librarians)