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Two Contests! Enter to WIN! see below for details..
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A Message from the President...
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Well, the sun is finally shining, the days are getting longer (and warmer), horses are starting to arrive for training, the flowers are out along Broadway and in Congress Park and Groups and Conference delegates are arriving!! May is a very busy month for Saratoga Springs; there are two Saratoga Rowing Assn. events…the NYS Scholastic Rowing Championships on May 7 – 9, and the 72nd Annual Scholastic National Regatta on May 26 – 30. And in between these two events are several large conferences and forums, attracting several thousand additional visitors, and we are looking forward to rolling out the red carpet for all of them.
On, Wed May 19, the Bureau will hold its annual Golf Classic at Saratoga National Golf Course. We look forward to hosting our members, prospective members, meeting planner guests and group tour organizers for a day of fun and friendly competition. This year, we will also be raising money and awareness for B.E.S.T. which benefits the Backstretch Workers at Saratoga Race Course. There is still time to register for this event.
Please visit www.discoversaratoga.org to sign up today!!
Saratoga will also be the host for the Board of Directors of the Westfield CT. chapter of Meeting Planners International. This group will arrive on Wed., May 19 for 3 days of meetings and tours of Saratoga.
From a services and membership perspective, we will continue to provide the world-class service and hospitality that differentiates Saratoga Springs from other destinations and keeps our groups coming back year after year!
WIN a Private Box at the Saratoga Race Course!!
*Submit an RFP and book a new group of 25 rooms or more during racing season, July 23 to September 6, by June 1st.
(Travers Weekend is not eligible)
Click HERE to submit an RFP!
The Saratoga Convention and Tourism Bureau sales team would like to talk with you! Marie Moynihan and Heather McElhiney are hitting the road for all points New York – and Northeast – in an effort to see all of our valued customers and to meet some new ones as well. We want to learn more about you and your group – what is new with your company or association? What are your challenges? What changes are happening? What are you looking forward to? We want to hear about your Saratoga experiences – what did you like? What did you not like? What do you love? We want to know what the Saratoga Convention and Tourism Bureau can do to make your day a little easier and your task list a little shorter. If we have not had the chance to say hello recently, keep an eye or ear out for us – we will be in touch soon. If there is something we can do for you today, we are ready to help – give us a call!
Comment on these questions and be entered to WIN an iPOD!
*E-mail your comments to angela@discoversaratoga.org by June 1st!
May promises to bring another busy convention month to our city. We have many repeat customers coming this month along with some who have met in our city previously but it has been awhile. We welcome all of you to our city – when you see our Welcome Posters hanging in many windows along Broadway.
There is an Association for Everything and Everyone!
This month I would like to highlight Saratoga Rowing Association. Saratoga will see not just one but TWO Rowing Regattas being held in Saratoga Springs in May 2010. May 7-9, 2010 we will see the State Championships being held at Saratoga Lake. This event will bring approx. 4,000 people to the area including the competitors, officials, families and spectators. May 26-30, 2010 will bring the 72nd Scholastic National Regatta to Saratoga Springs. This event will bring approx. 10,000 people!
We would like to thank Chris Chase and his entire team along with the Saratoga Rowing Club for their tireless efforts to host these competitions. Countless of volunteer hours go into each one of these events that will bring thousands of people to Saratoga to stay in our lodging properties, shop in our retail stores and eat in our fabulous restaurants.
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Saratoga Springs City Center Expansion is Underway!
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Click here for more information on the expansion! Targeted completion late 2010!
Read the City Center's Blog, click here!
Daily trips on Broadway past the City Center showcases the construction progress of the facility’s expansion. Moving full-steam ahead, the contractors have begun laying the cross pieces for the floor decking and the wall boards that will hold the exterior brick facing. Recently, the City Center staff was given the opportunity to sign a beam and then watched as “our” beam was raised to 2nd floor height.
Signing the beam!
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Upcoming Saratoga Conventions!
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April 30-May 5---Rotary District #7890---200 ppl
April 30-May 2---NY Chapter American College of Physicians---70 ppl
May 1---Time Warner Cable---800 ppl
May 2-5---Empire State Association of Assisted Living Facilities---240 ppl
May 5---Saratoga Economic Development Corporation---900 ppl
May 5-9---NY Council of Health-System Pharmacists---420 ppl
May 7-9---Saratoga Rowing Association---4,000 ppl
May 10-11---Quandt's Food Service-Food Expo--Private
May 10-12---Hearing Health Care Alliance of NYS---75 ppl
May 10-14---NYS Local Government Technology Directors Association---200 ppl
May 16-18--- New York Newspaper Publishers Association---125 ppl
May 16-18---NYS Conference of Mayors---325 ppl
May 18-20---Home Care Association of NYC, Inc.---300 ppl
May 21-23---Empire State College Graduate Studies---300 ppl
May 22---Skidmore College Commencement---1,000 ppl
May 23---Jewish Federation of NE NY Saratoga/North Country Event---300 ppl
May 25---New York State Association of Educational Office Professionals
May 23-26---NY Association of homes & Services for the Aging/FLTC---500 ppl
May 26-30---Saratoga Rowing Association---10,000 ppl
May 27---Saratoga County Office for the Aging---800 ppl
June 1-3---New York Insurance Association, Inc.---175 ppl
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The Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence recently came to Saratoga...
"Our organization was overwhelmed with the hospitality, expertise, talent, punctuality, pleasantness, sense of humor, cooperation, and all the other positive things that all of you exhibited in the planning, suggesting, cooperating, and executing the many details of our Spring Meeting.
The DSDI attendees certainly expressed their gratitude to me for hosting this magnificent event, and I continued to make sure they went away with an appreciation of the great cooperation I encountered by every person I worked with in setting up this event. You are all very worthy representatives of your fine community. I, my wife and family, and the members of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence thank you again!"
---Mel Livingston, DSDI Governor for New York
The DSDI group at the Gideon Putnam Resort
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