Holiday Inn – Airport/Marina Receives ConventionSouth Magazine’s Inaugural Readers’ Choice Award

In December 2004, Holiday Inn – Airport/Marina was presented with ConventionSouth magazine’s inaugural Readers’ Choice Award. ConventionSouth
has been the recognized leader in covering the South’s meetings industry for the last 21 years.

After more than a decade of recognizing some of the most talented meeting professionals in the nation through its annual “Meeting Professionals To Watch”
designation, ConventionSouth editors turned the tables by asking meeting professionals to name the convention and visitors bureaus (CVBs), convention centers, conference centers, hotels, resorts and other meeting sites that
they believe display exemplary creativity and professionalism to groups.

Only the top vote getters out of approximately 2,000 meeting sites and CVBs received this recognition. Readers’ comments ranged from the very simple, “Great facility to work with,” to the very detailed, with some readers even
bestowing accolades to particularly outstanding staff members.

“The value in receiving this recognition is that it comes from the United States’ top meeting planners who book events in the South. These planners demand the highest level of customer service and quality facilities, and they
have determined that the recipients of ConventionSouth’s Readers’ Choice Awards do indeed display the commitment to professionalism, creativity, excellence and outstanding customer service they require,” said ConventionSouth President and Publisher J. Talty O’Connor. “It is an honor to announce that Holiday Inn – Airport/Marina was selected by these planners as one of the best in the South.”

Distributed nationally, ConventionSouth, a publication of Covey Communications Corp., is read by more than 16,000 BPA-qualified meeting professionals.

Covey Communications Corp. has been a leader in publishing nationally and internationally circulated market-specific magazines for more than two decades. Among its other magazines are SportsEvents, Condo Owner and Crossties. Covey Communications Corp. is based in Gulf Shores, Ala., with additional offices located in Tampa, Fla., and Charlotte, N.C.

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Contacts:
Publisher
J. Talty O’Connor
toconnor@coveypubs.com

Editor
Kristen McIntosh
kmcintosh@coveypubs.com

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Tiffany Burtnett
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