CT "Hospitality Heroes" Named by CT Convention & Sports Bureau

Over the past year, Connecticut Convention & Sports Bureau (CTCSB) members across the state have been hit hard by the health, safety, and economic effects of the Coronavirus. Many meeting venues, hotels, restaurants, attractions, and related vendors laid off employees or closed their doors temporarily or permanently, and almost all have been forced to modify the way they work.

That's why the "Connecticut Convention & Sports Bureau's Hospitality Heroes Recognition" was established. The new recognition program highlights hospitality industry members for their innovative business initiatives and community support over the past difficult year.

Today, the CTCSB announced its first group of honorees:
the Connecticut Event Industry Coalition; Max Cares Foundation; Mohegan Sun; and the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale.

"Several times a year, we will present this recognition to members and partners who have made a business or social responsibility impact in the meetings and hospitality industry, with their employees, their clients, or in their local communities," explains Robert Murdock, President of the Middletown-based Connecticut Convention & Sports Bureau, Connecticut's only statewide meetings and sports event sales and marketing organization that works with planners and promoters to book new or returning conventions, meetings, and sports business. "Our hope is that it encourages others in our industry as the state and the nation safely reopen."

For all Project and Honoree info, go to: www.CTMeetings.org/hospitality-heroes