CVB Website empowerMINT.com Spotlights the Irving Convention & Visitors Bureau in Texas
Designed by the Destination Marketers Association International, empowerMINT.com Features Convention & Visitors Bureaus Nationwide to Drive Leads to DMOs' and CVBs' Destinations

WASHINGTON, DC, May 21, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- empowerMINT.com, a website for convention and visitors bureaus (CVBs) nationwide, has cast a spotlight on the Irving CVB in Texas, a destination that is opening a new, large facility in the fall of 2010. Designed by the Destination Marketing Association International (DMAI) to connect meeting planners with destination marketing organizations (DMOs) and their experts, empowerMINT.com is home to destination profile pages for more than a hundred CVBs nationwide, promoting these destinations and meeting space. On a bi-monthly basis, the site distributes empoweringNews, an e-mail newsletter that reaches thousands to highlight different regions' CVBs and meeting facilities.

"We are pleased to cast the spotlight on Irving, Texas," said Christine Shimasaki, managing director of empowerMINT.com. "Our goal is to keep meeting planners informed of new meeting facilities for their convention needs."

As described at empowerMINT.com, the Irving CVB has information on the destination's more than 75 hotels, 11,000 rooms, and large array of facilities for meetings and events. Of note is the Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas, opening in the fall of 2010 and featuring a 50,000-square-foot exhibit hall, a 20,000-square-foot ballroom and an additional 20,000 square feet of breakout space. Construction has already begun on the $137 million dollar facility.

To receive more information from the Irving CVB, meeting planners may submit an RFP at empowerMINT.com, where a roster of several of the Irving destination experts, complete with their contact information, is also available.

Meeting planners may complete free registration at empowerMINT.com. Doing so automatically adds them to the list of empoweringNews recipients. Additionally, they may create a profile and access their meetings' post-event reports, serviced by empowerMINT.com's DMOs and CVBs.

empowerMINT.com features several additional functionalities highly useful to anyone seeking a centralized repository of dynamic information on CVBs nationwide. Every destination profile includes the following:

• The ability to connect with a number of destination experts
• A distillation of the top reasons to meet at that destination
• Up-to-date photos
• Key information on surrounding airports and hotels
• A link to send an RFP to one or more destinations
• Information on meeting facilities

Furthermore, meeting planners may search and compare CVBs at empowerMINT.com according to the following criteria:

• Location
• Exhibit gross square feet
• Meeting space
• Peak sleeping rooms
• Meeting rooms
• Permanent seating
• Minimum largest ballroom space
• Nearby hotels and airports

Press Release Contact Information:

Christine Shimasaki
empowerMINT.com
Managing Director
2025 M Street, NW Suite 500
Washington, DC
USA 20036
Voice: 858-935-9179
Fax: (202) 296-7889
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