While we always want to get meeting and incentive planners to take a familiarization trip to one of our four all-inclusive properties across Mexico and the Dominican Republic, we understand that it’s not always possible. So to give planners a detailed view of how our properties look and feel for meetings and incentives, we recently created a short video you can view on the meetings page of each Hotel’s website (HRHcancun.com; HRHrivieramaya.com; HRHvallarta.com; HRHpuntacana.com).
Read MorePresident Barack Obama’s outreach towards Cuba in the past few years, coupled with the recent passing of longtime Cuban leader Fidel Castro, has a lot of people in the travel industry talking about Cuba as a leisure travel destination, and perhaps a business travel destination, for Americans in the near future.
Read MoreA few weeks back, American Express released its 2017 Global Meetings and Events Forecast, based on
extensive surveying in Q3 2016 of corporate meeting planners from businesses around the world. As I
read through the report, there was one survey result from planners located in North America that
caught my eye: When they must cut back on one element of a meeting to stay within their mostly-flat
2017 budgets (while business-hotel and resort guest-room rates will likely climb about 3 percent), those
planners most often choose to eliminate an off-site evening event.
Read MoreWell, the leaves are coming off the trees quickly and furiously around most of North America. But to the south, there’s an anticipation in the air right now that feels like something fun is about to begin. And with good reason: The properties that make up Hard Rock’s All-Inclusive Resort Collection will soon celebrate the […]
Read MoreEach autumn, the tradition of Halloween gets all kids (and many adults) in America excited to participate in festivities. Interestingly, Mexico also celebrates a form of Halloween, but one that’s deeply rooted in the culture of its indigenous people and which existed prior to the arrival of the Spanish in the early 16th century.
Read MoreHard Rock Hotel Vallarta has always been a friendly place for incentive programs and small meetings, with its 6,317-square-foot Nayarit ballroom and breakout rooms able to handle both the business and leisure aspects of incentives and meetings.
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