
They also will be showcased online for one year. Smart Stars winners will be featured in the June edition of Smart Meetings print and digital magazines, reaching more than 65,000 meeting professionals. " Giving our readers the opportunity to vote for their favorite properties allows both meeting professionals and hotels and destinations to learn from each other and to grow the meeting planning community." " We are excited that the Smart Stars Awards have become such an industry benchmark and are honored to celebrate these exquisite properties," said Marin Bright, Smart Meetings founder and CEO. The Smart Stars Awards have come to serve as an essential resource for meeting planners who look to their peers to recommend leading venues and destinations to hold meetings and events. Meeting professionals nominate and then vote to select winners in 25 inspiring categories. Ranked against thousands of beautiful properties, these exceptional venues have been hand selected as the best in their distinguished categories. The prestigious awards platform, now in its fifth year, celebrates the most popular properties, hotels, resorts, cruise lines and convention and conference centers across North America. Smart Meetings, the leading media company and most trusted resource for meeting professionals, is excited to announce the winners of its 2016 Smart Stars Awards contest. Set on the beach and surrounded by mangrove trees, Paradisus Playa Del Carmen is an all-inclusive four Diamond resort with its promise of all-inclusive fun and LUXExclusive experience designed with the entire family.
