When you are booking a hotel for business or pleasure, there are a lot of things to consider in the planning stages. Often you will have to co-ordinate flights or other travel arrangements, and if you are a big group try to get everyone booked at the corresponding hotel, or in close proximity. Alas, the preparation does not stop there. You have to make sure the hotel has all the accommodations you could call for during your stay, including maybe, an all important group discussion center. In order to get the best hotel and to ensure that your business trip goes as projected, here are a few tips to help make your preparation less complicated.

If you are a group one of the foremost things you should consider before booking into a hotel is your guests. When you are reserving the business trip for other people, you want to make certain they will have everything they could want. This probably includes net access, as well as a sizable workstation. Even though they might be utilizing a conference center, you still need to make sure they can do work at their room, if they need to do so. Essentially, you want them to feel as if they have their private mini business office right in their hotel room. This will make your guests feel more homey and will start any business trip off great.

Another tip you might want to use when looking for a hotel for your next business trip is to find one that has a conference center right on the site. There are several reasons why this helps. The main reason is because everyone will be at the meetings on time each day. Many of your guests will not be from the area, so that gives them more of an opportunity to get lost if they need to travel to and from the center. But if all your meetings are on site, all they have to do is wake up and literally walk into the meeting, which allows everything to run a lot smoother. It is also helpful to be sure there is additional off-street parking for speakers or attendees who are not staying at the hotel.


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Blackstone President Throwing Swank Party For Nancy Pelosi

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The NYPost is reporting that Blackstone's president, Tony James, is throwing a party at his house for Nancy Pelosi. Their sources tell the Post that the party is meant to encourage Pelosi to vote against the proposed tax rate increase on carried interest, the profits people make on money they have invested. Raising taxes on carried interest is a hot topic because carried interests isn't really income, but some people want to tax it as if it were. Currently carried interest is taxed at 15%. The proposed tax rate for carried interest is the same as the income tax rate,...

Published on Thursday 29th of July 2010 05:26:34 PM

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Blackstone's Schwarzman Tops U.S. CEO Payroll: Study

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BOSTON (Reuters) - Taking his private equity firm public paid off big for Blackstone Group LP's Stephen Schwarzman, who became the top-paid chief executive in the United States last year, a title he is likely to retain for some time, according to an analysis released on Thursday. But the surest route to big bucks was running an oil or natural gas company. Their CEOs represented seven of the 10 highest-paid U.S. CEOs in 2008, according to a report by independent research group The Corporate Library. Schwarzman bumped Oracle Corp's Larry Ellison down to No. 2 on the list. They were...

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Enough Is Enough

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"The rich are different from you and me," wrote Fitzgerald and I suppose they are, but the differences – they wax and wane with the economic tides. Gilded ages come, go, and are reborn on the monsoon cloudbursts of seemingly intangible forces such as globalization, innovation, and favorable tax policy. For the rich to be truly rich and multiply their numbers, they need help. Adept surfers they may be, but like all riders, the wealthy need a seventh wave that allows them to preen their skills and declare themselves masters of their own universe, if only for a moment in...

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Blackstone Group to buy Hilton for $26 billion

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Blackstone Group said on Tuesday it would buy Hilton Hotels Corp. for about $26 billion in cash. Under terms of the deal, Blackstone will pay $47.50 for each Hilton share.

Published on Thursday 29th of July 2010 05:26:34 PM

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