For Immediate Release
SCOTTSDALE RESORT & CONFERENCE CENTER LAUDED AS MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES LEADER
SCOTTSDALE, AZ – September 2007 – Two of the leading magazines in the meetings industry, Successful Meetings and Corporate & Incentive Travel, have cited the Scottsdale Resort & Conference Center as one of the best venues in the marketplace.
The Pinnacle Award, bestowed by the readers of Successful Meetings magazine, is a prestigious symbol of exemplary service demonstrated by the resort’s entire staff. Capturing the 2007 Pinnacle Award makes the Scottsdale Resort & Conference Center a 20-time winner, dating back to 1986. According to the magazine, properties and their staffs are rated on a ten-point scale in four different areas and winners are those who have demonstrated going above and beyond to impress a demanding clientele of meeting event, convention and incentive planners with an unwavering commitment to hospitality and service.
The Scottsdale Resort & Conference Center has also been awarded Corporate & Incentive Travel magazine’s Award of Excellence for the 23rd consecutive year. Since 1985, the readers of this leading conference industry magazine have honored the Scottsdale Resort & Conference Center as one of the best in serving their corporate meetings and/or incentive travel programs during the past year. Award winners will be highlighted in the November issue of the publication and honored at a black-tie gala in New York.
Benchmark Hospitality International, an independent hospitality management company based in The Woodlands (Houston), Texas, operates the Scottsdale Resort & Conference Center and other resorts, conference centers, hotels and condominium resorts both domestically and internationally. For locations of Benchmark Hospitality properties and for additional information, visit Benchmark's Website at www.benchmarkhospitality.com.
The resort is owned by Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers, Inc. ("Cornerstone"), a Registered Investment Advisor headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut. It maintains regional offices in Chicago, Hartford, and Los Angeles, and a REIT securities office in New York City. As of December 31, 2002, Cornerstone managed over $3.5 billion of equity real estate assets located throughout the United States, with a limited number of real estate assets located in Canada. Cornerstone was established in 1994, as an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company ("MassMutual") of Springfield, Massachusetts.
The MassMutual Financial Group - with over $234 billion in assets under management - is a global, growth-oriented, diversified financial services organization whose companies offer a broad portfolio of asset management and insurance products and services. Our family of companies provide life insurance, annuities, disability income insurance, long term care insurance, retirement planning products, trust services, money management and other financial products and services. The MassMutual Financial Group is a marketing name for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual) and its subsidiaries, which include: OppenheimerFunds, Inc.; David L. Babson & Company Inc.; Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers, Inc.; MassMutual International, Inc.; MML Investors Services, Inc; Persumma Financial LLC; The MassMutual Trust Company, FSB; Antares Capital Corporation; MML Bay State Life Insurance Company and C.M. Life Insurance Company. MassMutual's web site is www.massmutual.com.
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