Destination Hotels & Resorts and Odyssey Teams Announce Partnership to Offer Conference Clientele Innovative, Life Changing Team Building Experiences
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Destination Hotels & Resorts and Odyssey Teams Announce Partnership to Offer Conference Clientele Innovative, Life Changing Team Building Experiences
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Category: Worldwide - Industry economy
- New brands / Affiliations
This is a press release selected by our editorial committee and published online for free on 2009-08-20
Destination Hotels & Resorts, consistently rated one of the top 10 independent hospitality management companies in the United States with more than 30 upscale hotels, resorts and conference centers, today announced it will be partnering with Odyssey Teams, creator of the renowned Life Cycles program and leader in innovative, philanthropic team building and leadership programs, to bring its conference clientele a one-of-a-kind offering for their team building needs.
“We are very excited to have Odyssey Teams as a preferred partner at our more than 30 properties coast-to-coast as we believe this is an incredibly impactful philanthropic program to offer our group and meeting clients,” said Maureen Callahan, vice president of marketing for Destination Hotels & Resorts. “Our properties are very much a part of the local community where they reside and Odyssey Teams’ programs, which encourage groups around the world to give back to their communities, fits in perfectly with our company’s core values.”
Odyssey Teams, founded in 1991 has provided programs for eBay, Wells Fargo, Spherion, Pfizer, Kinko’s, Walmart and other blue-chip corporations, non-profits and educational institutions. Recognizing that people perform best professionally when their work is tied to a sense of purpose, Odyssey Team’s programs incorporate a philanthropic component: As participants build teamwork, creativity, leadership and intelligent risk-taking, they also build a sense of civic spirit and community service.
“We get people connected to who they are, who they work with, what they do at work and why they do it, which in turn helps them improve their connections to customers, customers service and their lives outside the office,” said Bill John, Odyssey Team’s president and co-founder. “We are thrilled to be a part of the Destination Hotels & Resorts experience and share in the sense of community it evokes while offering its clientele a life changing experience.”
Odyssey Teams Philanthropic Team Building Program Highlights
Life Cycles is a program invented by Odyssey Teams, and now much-copied in the industry, where participants assemble free bicycles for deserving children. More than 10,000 bikes have been donated worldwide since 2000. Helping Hands is Odyssey Teams’ newest program and brings together teams to assemble basic but highly functional prosthetic hands for donation to amputees in developing countries. To date, 1,035 adults and children have received a prosthetic hand at not cost to the recipients. Project Playhouse, allows participants to emphasize their organization’s community ties by building playhouses for children’s groups and donating them to various local children’s hospitals, youth hostels, orphanages, and residences.
For more information about Odyssey Teams’ programs please visit www.Odysseyteams.com or telephone Lain Hensley at 530-342-1650. For more information about Destination Hotel & Resorts’ meeting solutions please visit www.destinationhotels.com.
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