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Rolling with the punches

Meeting planners adjust in pandemic’s second year

Retired Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Detective Gil Carrillo speaks at CrimeCon, a popular true-crime convention organized by Henrico County-based Convention Connections Inc. Photo by Red Seat Ventures/Mollie Corbett

Flexibility is once again the name of the game for meeting planners in 2021. In 2020, most planners’ clients postponed or canceled conferences, while others decided to go virtual instead…

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One of Virginia’s oldest businesses, the Omni Homestead Resort & Spa in Bath County is expected to reopen its remodeled Warm Springs Pools in late 2022. Photo courtesy Omni Homestead Resort & Spa

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Despite pandemic and staff shortage, hotels press forward

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It’s no secret that the hospitality industry is hurting from the ongoing pandemic. Although widespread shutdowns are in the past, hotel executives are now challenged by the sector’s labor shortage…

The Sessions Hotel in downtown Bristol is named after the historic 1927 Bristol recording sessions that are considered the birth of modern country music. Photo courtesy Sessions Hotel

2020 Virginia Meetings

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Welcome to the second issue of Virginia Meetings. Below you’ll find content about how hotels have reopened with caution during the pandemic and how virtual conferences have become the new…