Advantage Travel and Events

10/10/2016

Brian Deegan snapped a five-year winless streak at Red Bull GRC Los Angeles, while Scott Speed cemented his second consecutive Supercar championship.

11/03/2016

We're proud to announce the full regular season schedule for our inaugural season. Tickets on sale soon. Stay tuned for updates:

4/17/16: SF at SAC & OHIO at DEN
4/23/16: SAC at SD
4/24/16: DEN at SF
5/01/16: SF at OHIO & DEN at SD
5/08/16: SD at SF & OHIO at SAC
5/15/16: DEN at SAC & OHIO at SD
5/20/16: SF at DEN
5/22/16: SAC at OHIO
5/28/16: SAC at SD
5/29/16: OHIO at SF
6/05/16: DEN at SD
6/12/16: SD at OHIO
6/18/16: SF at SD
6/19/16: OHIO at DEN
6/26/16: SF at OHIO & SAC at DEN
7/03/16: SAC at SF & SD at OHIO
7/09/16: OHIO at SAC
7/10/16: SD at DEN
7/16/16: SD at SF
7/17/16: SAC at DEN
7/23/16: SD at SAC
7/24/16: DEN at SF
7/30/16: SF at SAC
7/31/16: DEN at OHIO

23/02/2016

02/02/2016

Looking for great places to eat in the Bay Area during Super Bowl 50? Head down to Santa Cruz, it's more than just surf city!
https://t.co/u2Gy2Cz1dR

Santa Cruz County is a place for surfers and foodies alike. On our first day we had lunch at West End Tap & Kitchen, at the Ingalls Street Courtyard. While

01/02/2016

If you are heading to the Bay Area for Super Bowl 50 make sure to swing down to Santa Cruz (Visit Santa Cruz). It's one of my favorite parts of the area! Beach, mountains, what more do you need?
https://t.co/ngAq8JH9Lp

Warm and sunny – not words I normally use to describe the days before Thanksgiving. This year they were. My first full day in Santa Cruz, CA saw clear skies and

31/01/2016

A must visit in Indiana is the French Lick Resort. It's always cool to see the grandeur of 20's style resorts! The 2 hotels are in French Lick, IN because of the mineral baths. Their Pluto water apparently cured all back in the day. The resorts are part of Historic Hotels of America. Beautiful grounds, lots of activities, several restaurants and the town of French Lick is the perfect setting. It is a quick drive from Louisville. Side note: this is also Larry Bird's hometown.

27/01/2016

Looking for a hotel in San Francisco during Super Bowl 50? There are lots of great ones, but make sure to check out The St. Regis San Francisco.
http://t.co/rCFYOBx8tF

The St. Regis San Francisco is very cool, beautiful and luxurious, in an accessible way. You walk in off the street and know that you are in a hip, high end

26/01/2016

Heading to Super Bowl 50? Visit San Jose CA is a great city! Check out our suggestions for what to do and where to eat. https://t.co/K9YDe5UchG

My bother has been in the San Jose area for the past 10 years. He and my sister-in-law bought a home in the historic Rose Garden neighborhood last November.

11/12/2015

Good for Hilton Hotels & Resorts and good for the consumer! It is so much more beneficial to book directly through the hotel, for everyone. Hopefully, this starts a trend at other hotel chains.
http://skift.com/2015/12/01/hilton-negotiated-favorable-concessions-from-online-booking-sites/

Hilton Worldwide completed a series of negotiations with major online travel agencies over the last quarter and wrangled important economic and marketing c

03/12/2015

The last 2 days of my Thanksgiving trip to the Bay Area were spent in San Francisco and San Jose. Not enough in my opinion, but I did have to go home at

12/11/2015

I have a friend who has been telling me for 8 years how great Cleveland is. Yes, I am the bad friend who never visited him and his supposedly fantastic town

03/11/2015

Innovation is a moving target. You have to keep seeking it out. We are going to take a look at some of the most innovative ticketing tech for your next event

30/10/2015

Are you looking for innovative team-building activities to help your players bond? While staying at The Greenbrier the Arizona Cardinals unexpectedly discovered that a little haunting brought the team closer. Having visited the property many times over the years and having never experienced anything similar, I suspect this is just a ghost story. Happy Halloween!

The Saints have spent the last two training camps at The Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, with no accounts of any supernatural encounters. Maybe their nickname is their garlic-and-crucifix protection from the underworld. Or maybe ghosts simply don’t like people from Arizona…

29/10/2015

Check out these sports tourism industry organizations in our post featuring National Association of Sports Commissions, TEAMS Conference & Expo, SportsEvents Magazine and SEME - The Sports Events Marketing Experience.

Every industry has professional organizations or associations to join right? It’s a great way to get involved with the community, learn and network. There a

28/10/2015

John and I have worked with sports on a professional and national level for many years and love it, but recently we decided to learn more about sports on

23/10/2015

We’ve known Marriott Hotels' loyalty program has always been generous when you earn and burn points through hotel stays. IdeaWorks' and Switchfly's study makes it official. However, it’s important for consumers to keep in mind how members plan to use their points. According to the study, overall, Starwood Preferred Guest® (SPG) provides the best cash value per point. What do you want in a loyalty program, “return on spend for free nights” or more valuable points?

Are you getting the most from your hotel loyalty program?

21/10/2015

Why use an event housing service? Aside from the fact that they (we) are awesome…these companies are hotel and tech savvy experts who want to make your

14/10/2015

You have made big plans to travel to your favorite event. You have the tickets, you booked the flights, now you just need a place to stay. Yes, you saw that

13/10/2015

Hyatt has gone from having one hotel in New York City several years ago to now having eight properties. Opening in late 2013, the Hyatt Times Square New York is

12/10/2015

My room keys and a drink? Yes, I want to check-in at the hotel bar! Cross training employees to help in all departments, genius! Although, at the same time, it could be slightly confusing for the staff. I love that Arrive Hotels want to integrate technology, without forcing you to download an app. One thought with the no in-room phone idea is, what about an emergency? What about the fact that so many hotels are reception nightmares? Things that can easily be worked out though. I think I need to plan a trip to Palm Springs later this year!

09/10/2015

Interesting idea! It would be a cool experience to book the exact room you will stay in, walking into the hotel and straight to your room. The Hotel Schani Wien has some great ideas about personalization and coworking.

When travelers book a room online at the new Hotel Schani in Vienna, they book the actual room they’ll be staying in, just like people do when they book fl

07/10/2015

Recently we gave you some questions to ask prior to and during check-in at your hotel, but what about before you check-out? Is there anything you should be

06/10/2015

A little over a month ago I read an article about questions you should ask when you check-in to a hotel. As a former Front Desk Manager, I disagreed with

01/10/2015

Until 2 weeks ago, I knew nothing about the Icelandair Stopover program. It’s kind of awesome! As you may know I recently visited France and to get there we

30/09/2015

Full disclosure, I LOVE Paris! This is by no means an unbiased piece. Paris is and will always be, my favorite city on the planet and I say that having been

29/09/2015

The small, independent hotel I stayed at in Saint-Malo, France made a comment about this at check-out. We had booked through hotels.com (I know, it was before all we have learned!) and the owner talked about how hard the commissions are on top of the next to nothing rate they get from these sites (remember, the sites pay hotels even less than you pay the site). As long as we use these sites, booking "direct" or indirect still means big fees for hotels. While the Marriott Hotels of the world can handle that, the independent hotels, sites like trivago are targeting, cannot, but then they get left out of the game. Skip these guys and book straight through hotels, we're telling you, it's better for everyone!

Search for a hotel in New York City on travel-comparison site Trivago.com and the booking links you'll see are overwhelmingly to online travel agencies, fr

29/09/2015

Where to stay in Paris? How about the Normandy Hotel Paris? It feels like there is a hotel around every corner (I suspect there may actually be!), so how do

24/09/2015

I completely fell in love with Saint-Malo, France! I have wanted to see Mont-Saint-Michel for 18 years and when deciding to take a trip to France, that was

23/09/2015

The Hotel du Palais, Saint-Malo, France is exactly what you’d expect from a tiny, independent, European hotel. Charming, the same incredibly friendly