{"id":20881,"date":"2013-08-01T09:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T09:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/hilton-cincinnati-netherland-plaza-awarded-best-of-midamerica-by-meetings-focus-2\/"},"modified":"2013-08-01T09:54:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T09:54:00","slug":"hilton-cincinnati-netherland-plaza-awarded-best-of-midamerica-by-meetings-focus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/08\/hilton-cincinnati-netherland-plaza-awarded-best-of-midamerica-by-meetings-focus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza Awarded \u201cBest Of MidAmerica\u201d By Meetings Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><a data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www3.hilton.com\/en\/hotels\/ohio\/hilton-cincinnati-netherland-plaza-CVGNPHF\/index.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www3.hilton.com\/en\/hotels\/ohio\/hilton-cincinnati-netherland-plaza-CVGNPHF\/index.html\" style=\"line-height: 19px;\" target=\"_blank\">Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\">has been awarded the prestigious &#8220;Best of MidAmerica&#8221; award by Meetings Focus magazine in its September 2013issue.<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">For the eighth consecutive year, the hotel has been selected by meeting planners as a top meeting destination. Only 50 properties received this award in MidAmerica, which includes hotels not only in Ohio, but also states in the MidAmerican region including Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Key cities that Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza competed with for this award included&nbsp;<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PalmCourt_FP\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-403778\" data-mce-src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/PalmCourt_FP-300x160.jpg\" height=\"160\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/PalmCourt_FP-300x160.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left;\" width=\"300\" \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit and Milwaukee. The annual award, where professional meeting planners select their preferred hotels, is based on the following criteria: meeting space, guest rooms, guest services and amenities, food and beverage service, high-tech services, recreational facilities, efficiency and helpfulness of the staff and overall value and experience.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">&#8220;Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza is thrilled to be named a \u2018Best of MidAmerica&#8217; winner! We are honored that the meeting planners continue to select us as one of the best. We know that planning a meeting with us brings peace of mind to the customer since our tenured conference services team has a strong planning focus. Executing a meeting with us reduces the stress of meeting planning and being on site with us allows the meeting planner to focus on the successful delivery of content without the distraction of unexpected planning errors,&#8221; said Michel Sheer, managing director, Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza have been honored with numerous accolades including:<\/span><\/div>\n<ul style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Hilton Hotels &amp; Resorts&#8217; #1 Food and Beverage Hotel in the USA for the fourth consecutive year (2010, 2011, 2012 &amp; 2013)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Hilton Hotels &amp; Resorts&#8217; &#8220;Brand of Excellence&#8221; winner &#8211; given to the top five performing hotels in the chain<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Hilton Hotels &amp; Resorts&#8217; HHonors Guest Recognition Award &#8211; four time winner &#8211; given to the top hotel for exemplary customer service<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">AAA Four-Diamond Hotel and Fine Dining Restaurant (2004-current)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Chef Kelly was named the American Culinary Federation&#8217;s USA Chef of the Year, the highest honor given in the 20,000+ chef national organization<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Chef Kelly is also one of Hilton Hotel&#8217;s Signature Chefs, just one of six in the USA.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Zagat named Orchids at Palm Court as Cincinnati&#8217;s &#8220;Top Restaurant&#8221; for 2011, 2012 &amp; 2013<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Meetings &amp; Conventions magazine &#8220;Gold Key Award&#8221; &#8211; five time winner<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Meetings Focus is a national publication designed for meeting planners who book groups and events in the United States. The magazine has a circulation of 57,000 meeting planners and 100% of their subscribers have requested the magazine directly.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plazahas been awarded the prestigious &#8220;Best of MidAmerica&#8221; award by Meetings Focus magazine in its September 2013issue. For the eighth consecutive year, the hotel has been selected by meeting planners as a top meeting destination. Only 50 properties received this award in MidAmerica, which includes hotels not only in Ohio, but also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}