Last week I had a nice mini vacation, and now I am back in the office picking up where I left off.
The past few weeks have been pretty crazy! Our team has had to dedicate a lot of time to fixing some issues will hotel rates that went unnoiticed for 2 months! This was a great experience to get to help solve the problem with my team, although it was a pricey mistake that took 2 weeks to fix.
On to a great note, if you havent heard WWE is holding an international event at the University of Phoenix Stadium in 2010, thanks to the GPCVB. Our team is heading over to the press conference this afternoon.
As for the rest of this week, I have a few site visits and pre-con meetings to attend...which I actually really enjoy!
"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when their right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust noone but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together." —Marilyn Monroe
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Monday, February 9, 2009
It already been a month?
The time has been passing by so quickley, cant believe it's the start of week 5!
Last week was very busy, as usual. I have come across my first complication- an event coordinator I'm working with for her upcoming conference for March did not block off enough shoulder dates for her attendees. Normally the hotel would be able to provide us with more rooms but this conference is scheduled at the same time as another convention and there arent anymore rooms to give. After much diliberation we were able to add on another hotel and fix the mess, thankfully!
This week is filled with meetings! Tomorrow is by far the busiest day for me, I have a presentation and then our office is getting together to head over to the capitol. For those of you who may not know, the Arizona Office of Tourism was being considered to have a budget cut by the state. After countless amounts of letters poured into our senators and legislators, the AOT was lucky enough to survive without any cuts to their department. So we are all heading over to thank our representatives!!
A new project I am working on is setting up a registration website for an incoming social event. This is new to me so I can't wait to see the finished product!
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt
Last week was very busy, as usual. I have come across my first complication- an event coordinator I'm working with for her upcoming conference for March did not block off enough shoulder dates for her attendees. Normally the hotel would be able to provide us with more rooms but this conference is scheduled at the same time as another convention and there arent anymore rooms to give. After much diliberation we were able to add on another hotel and fix the mess, thankfully!
This week is filled with meetings! Tomorrow is by far the busiest day for me, I have a presentation and then our office is getting together to head over to the capitol. For those of you who may not know, the Arizona Office of Tourism was being considered to have a budget cut by the state. After countless amounts of letters poured into our senators and legislators, the AOT was lucky enough to survive without any cuts to their department. So we are all heading over to thank our representatives!!
A new project I am working on is setting up a registration website for an incoming social event. This is new to me so I can't wait to see the finished product!
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Warming Up...
Hello again!
I am in the middle of my fourth week here at the GPCVB and I am really starting to get in to a routine. But last week was pretty crazy with all that I have to work on and the excitment in the office for the big game this past Sunday. We celebrated Friday with a big luncheon feast cooked by our CEO's wife and Honey Baked Ham... lucky us!
We finally closed on my first housing assignment, the SC Del Sol Presidents Day Soccer Tournament, which was pretty relieving. Teams from all over the country as well as some international teams are participating in this big event. We had over 35 hotels just for this tournament!
We started on our next big conference, the VFW annual convention and for only being open 3 business days we have received hundreds of reservation forms. So for now I am busy adding this reservations into their hotel blocks. On Friday we are meeting with the event coordinator for the VFW to go over the final paperwork.
I have a feeling February will be gone before I know it...
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." - Thomas Jefferson
I am in the middle of my fourth week here at the GPCVB and I am really starting to get in to a routine. But last week was pretty crazy with all that I have to work on and the excitment in the office for the big game this past Sunday. We celebrated Friday with a big luncheon feast cooked by our CEO's wife and Honey Baked Ham... lucky us!
We finally closed on my first housing assignment, the SC Del Sol Presidents Day Soccer Tournament, which was pretty relieving. Teams from all over the country as well as some international teams are participating in this big event. We had over 35 hotels just for this tournament!
We started on our next big conference, the VFW annual convention and for only being open 3 business days we have received hundreds of reservation forms. So for now I am busy adding this reservations into their hotel blocks. On Friday we are meeting with the event coordinator for the VFW to go over the final paperwork.
I have a feeling February will be gone before I know it...
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." - Thomas Jefferson
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