Austin, Texas’ Barton Creek Resort & Spa Becomes New Member of Associated Luxury Hotels (United States)
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Austin, Texas’ Barton Creek Resort & Spa Becomes New Member of Associated Luxury Hotels (United States)
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Category: North America & West Indies / Carribean islands - United States - Industry economy
- New brands / Affiliations
This is a press release selected by our editorial committee and published online for free on 2011-02-07
Barton Creek Resort & Spa, widely regarded as the #1 golf resort in Texas, has been accepted as the newest member of Associated Luxury Hotels International (ALHI). The Austin, Texas resort completed an impressive two-year multi-million dollar renovation project in 2010 which included enhancements to its indoor and outdoor meeting space, guest rooms, world-class spa, clubhouse, guest floor corridors, and restaurants. The resort, which sits on 4,000 acres in the heart of the picturesque Texas Hill Country, will now receive dedicated National Sales services and support by ALHI as its authorized National Sales extension to the meetings, incentive/recognition, and convention marketplaces.
ALHI (www.alhi.com) is a prestigious dues-based membership National Sales organization that represents more than 130 Four- and Five-Diamond hotels and resorts worldwide to meeting professionals, incentive/recognition specialists, association executives, product launch specialists, and business executives wishing to conduct programs at one or more of the member properties. There is no cost to planners’ or executives’ organizations to utilize the National Sales services of ALHI, as its members’ dues fund the organization to serve planners in their region.
Seven Texas ALHI Options
Barton Creek Resort & Spa becomes ALHI’s second member in popular Austin, joining the legendary and newly-renovated The Driskill. The resort also becomes ALHI’s seventh member in Texas, joining such other properties in ALHI’s impressive portfolio as: the historic The Adolphus (Dallas), known as the “Grande Dame of Grand Hotels”; InterContinental Dallas, offering exceptional meeting spaces and located in the heart of North Dallas within walking distance of 175 restaurants and entertainment venues; the incredible Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center (Grapevine), situated on 150 acres overlooking majestic Lake Grapevine, with 400,000 square feet of meeting space; the AAA Four-Diamond The Houstonian Hotel, Club & Spa, located in Houston’s popular Galleria area and offering 32,000 square feet of meeting space; and the contemporary and luxurious Hotel Valencia Riverwalk on the banks of the famed San Antonio River Walk, in San Antonio.
“Barton Creek Resort & Spa is an exceptional new addition to ALHI’s membership,” said David Gabri, president and CEO of ALHI. “The extremely popular resort for meetings of all types features four incredible championship golf courses, impressive meeting space, beautiful outdoor venues for events and meetings, and truly first-class facilities with easy access to the airport and the nearby Austin vibe. Especially with the now-complete renovations and resort enhancements, along with the resort’s genuine Southern hospitality, Barton Creek is an outstanding Texas choice for programs.”
Located just minutes from vibrant downtown Austin, Barton Creek Resort & Spa presides over 4,000 acres of rolling hills, scenic woodland and winding creeks in the scenic Texas Hill Country. Offerings at the 312-room resort include more than 43,000 square feet of meeting space, four 18-hole championship golf courses designed by masters of the game, the Barton Creek Golf Academy, the world-class Three Springs Spa, a lighted 11-court Tennis Academy, a state-of-the-art fitness center, indoor and outdoor pools, an indoor running track, a nature trail, miniature golf, and several dining options including the acclaimed Hill Country Dining Room.
Recent enhancements at the resort include the enclosure of the property’s 6,000-square-foot Resort Pavilion, as well as the addition of a “Texas-sized” limestone wood-burning fireplace and an all-new 40-foot observation deck with panoramic views of the acclaimed Fazio Hills course and Texas Hill Country. The resort also added a 4,800-square-foot patio adjoining the Hill Country Dining Room, upgraded the spa treatment rooms and fitness center, enhanced the meeting space, and opened a new boutique.
A consistent recipient of the meetings industry’s highest honors, the resort is just 13 miles from Austin Bergstrom International Airport, and is convenient to the many sites of Austin, which is the state capital of Texas and is known as the “Live Musical Capital of the World.”
Meeting professionals, association executives, and incentive specialists have utilized ALHI’s National Sales services for 25 years, with reliable one-call professional sales assistance and access to their distinctive hotels and resorts for meetings and incentive/recognition programs ranging from 10 to more than 6,500 rooms.
With a worldwide portfolio of over 100,000 rooms and suites and more than 10 million square feet of meeting space, ALHI provides planners and their organizations experienced National Sales services with diverse options among its outstanding worldwide member hotels and resorts which specialize in meetings and incentive programs.
Member hotels include extraordinary Four- and Five-Diamond quality meeting and incentive resorts, incomparable city hotels, exclusive smaller hotels, golf resorts, historic and landmark properties, island destinations, resorts with spas, properties in international destinations, and hotels with world-class gaming and entertainment.
For a complete list of ALHI’s entire worldwide portfolio, visit www.alhi.com, and preview details of ALHI’s impressive portfolio, including easily useful information on several defined specialty segments within the ALHI portfolio to serve distinctive meeting, convention and incentive travel needs.
Included among these are: “ALHI Level 5 Collection,” for ALHI’s 18 hotels that have earned the highest and most distinctive recognitions including the prestigious AAA Five-Diamond rating, and/or the esteemed Forbes (Mobil) Five-Star rating; and the “ALHI Big Box 5-50 Solutions Collection,” featuring ALHI’s 27 member hotels and resorts that offer more than 500 rooms, feature over 50,000 square feet of meeting space each, and have at least one 20,000-square-foot ballroom or more.
Other specialty segments include: the “ALHI Historic Collection,” consisting of 36 legendary hotels and resorts with more than 50 years of heritage; the “Mountain Collection,” for planners desiring to conduct programs with inspiring mountain views; the “ALHI U-200 Gems Collection,” consisting of ALHI members with 200 rooms or under, which specialize in serving meeting and incentive programs; the “ALHI Golf Collection,” consisting of ALHI’s 43 Four- and Five-Diamond golf resorts that cater to the meetings and incentive marketplaces (and which will now include Barton Creek Resort & Spa); and the “ALHI Beach & Island Collection,” featuring 33 Four- and Five-Diamond beach and/or island resorts and hotels with distinction which are designed to serve meetings and programs worldwide.
To make it easy for planners to access options within any of the specialty segments, there is an “ALHI Specialty Segments” quick reference button on the www.alhi.com Home Page. The button provides easy access for planners to preview the options available in each specialty segment, to be augmented by their ALHI national sales executive, also easily identifiable at www.alhi.com . On the site, planners can quickly see details of the properties’ meeting, accommodation, recreational and dining offerings, as well as destination information and “Luxury on Sale” value opportunities. A photo gallery, meeting floor plans and specs, and a location map for each property are also easily available.
ALHI has 16 professionally-staffed National Sales Offices to serve, with locations in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Kansas City, Louisville, New York City, Orange County (CA), Orlando, Philadelphia, Richmond, San Diego, Savannah, Toronto and Washington, DC. Go to www.alhi.com to identify the “ALHI Contacts” sales professionals in your state/area.
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