Boscolo Hotels is opening a conference center at Budapest’s 5-Star New York Palace Hotel. The Boscolo Conference Center wing, opening at the end of this year, will have a sleek Italian design and several atrium piazzas serving as a skating ring in winter and a lake garden café in summer. The conference center will be on three levels with a spacious lobby and reception on the ground floor, four conference rooms on the first floor and three more event rooms and a business center on the second floor. All rooms will have built-in sound systems, projectors and screens. In total, the Boscolo Conference Center will feature seven event rooms accommodating from 20 to 600 attendees.

The New York Palace Hotel has 112 guest rooms and suites. Event facilities include eight function rooms catering for 12 to 150 attendees. #

E-mail: reservation@newyork.boscolo.com   
www.boscolohotels.com  

Germany’s SevenCenters were awarded a prize for unique marketing concept at this year’s Conga-Awards, which took place on 16 June at the Berlin Exhibition Centre. The SevenCenters are a consortium of Germany’s largest convention centers. Its members are the ICC Berlin-International Congress Center Berlin, DüsseldorfCongress, Congress Frankfurt, CCH–Congress Center Hamburg, Congress-Centrum Koelnmesse–KölnKongress (Cologne), ICM–International Congress Centre Munich and ICS International Congress Center Stuttgart. It’s one-stop shopping for large events in Germany.

The Conga-Award was initiated by the Vereinigung Deutscher Veranstaltungsorganisatoren e.V. (Association of German event organizers) in cooperation with the Seminar- und Tagungsbörse (STB) three years ago. Within that short time, the Conga-Award has become one of the German event business’ most important honors. Each year, ten of Germany’s best events businesses are acknowledged in ten different categories.

Email: info@sevencenters.de
Website: www.sevencenters.de   

By August 2009 two new buildings will be completed on the Messe Frankfurt exhibition site: the entrance building “Portalhaus” on an area of 2,000 sqm/21,530 sqft and the adjacent 2-storey Hall 11 with more than 23,000 sqm/247,600 sqft of exhibition space.

The Portalhaus and Hall 11 are part of an architectural concept that give a new look to this part of the Frankfurt exhibition site.

“Until now the venue portfolio included the Congress Center, the historic Festhalle and the Forum. The new space complements the existing venues perfectly,” said Claudia Delius-Fisher, Head of Congress Frankfurt. The site has a total exhibition area of 321,000 sqm/3,455,565 sqft. The venues for congresses and meetings currently offer seating for more than 20,000 participants.

Congress Frankfurt, a service department of Messe Frankfurt, offers event organizers individual and tailor-made room solutions, responding to the exact requirements and ideas of the customer and providing the ideal venue for any event.

Email: claudia.delius-fisher@messefrankfurt.com
www.congressfrankfurt.de

Villa San Michele, the Orient-Express property in Florence, Italy, is available for exclusive hire for corporate groups. With 46 unique and historical guest rooms, the property is well suited for senior-level meetings, corporate retreats and top shelf incentive travel programs. The hotel sits in the midst of gardens on a hill overlooking Florence. Each of the guest rooms and suites has its own unique style and is furnished with antiques. For meetings, both the Cenacolo Room and the Antico Restaurant have capacity for 30 attendees. For team building, the Buono Buonissimo! Cookery School offers hands-on cooking classes where participants work, play, taste and learn to cook with the Chefs. Villa San Michele’s restaurants; Loggia and the Pool Restaurant, serve Tuscan cuisine made from local, seasonal products and the sommelier offers wine tastings of Tuscan wines in the hotel’s wine cellar.

Email: info@villasanmichele.net
Website: www.villasanmichele.com

The Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town was named ‘Africa’s Leading Hotel’ World Travel Awards Africa ceremony. The luxury property is situated in a garden estate in Cape Town’s center. Each of the property’s 201 guest rooms and suites has a view of either Table Mountain or the hotel’s lush gardens. For meetings, The Mount Nelson’s seven event rooms accommodate from 12 to 400 attendees for conferences, gala dinners or exhibitions. The Grand Ballroom has capacity for 400 and is divisible into two separate rooms. The gardens provide a charming outdoor event venue. For dining and libations, there are the Oasis and Baia restaurants and the Planet Bar.

Cape Town’s beaches, wineries, golf and attractions such as Table Mountain, Robben Island and the Cape of Good Hope are not far away.

E-mail: groupreservations@mountnelson.co.za
Website: www.mountnelson.co.za

The Swiss-Belhotel Doha Suites & Residences had its soft opening on 1stJune. The 165 room property features Executive Club Floors, an Executive Lounge and 78 serviced apartments. Meeting facilities comprise three rooms, the Al Yasnine Grand Ballroom (seats 300), the Meeting Room (seats 50) and the Executive Boardroom (seats 12). A fully equipped Business Center offers secretarial services. For dining, InAzia Restaurant offers an array of Asian cuisines, the Cigar Bar and the Maxill Restaurant offer international dishes and the Café Mezz lounge serves light snacks and specialty drinks. Additional facilities include a health club, swimming pool, sauna, massage and steam rooms.

The Swiss-Belhotel Doha Suites & Residences is located in the city’s business district, 8 km/5 miles from Doha International Airport.

E-mail: ressbdh@swiss-belhotel.com
Website: www.swiss-belhotel.com