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African theme for Ohio’s new meeting center
Ohio’s largest independently-owned conference center is described as the only facility in the region to provide convention facilities “under one roof.”
The $19 million, recently-opened Kalahari Resort in Sandusky includes 95,000 square feet of conference space, 596 attached guest rooms, on-site restaurants, shops, water parks and a spa.
The Kalahari’s NIA Center transports guests to Africa via African artwork, décor and furnishings.
“As an independently-owned facility, we were able to think outside the box and create a distinctive meetings philosophy, design and aesthetic plan,” said Todd Nelson, owner of Kalahari. The center started out as a water park resort in May of 2005.
Mr Nelson said the center offers various comfortable amenities for meeting-goers such as extra-comfortable ballroom chairs.
The center uses “MeetingMatrix,” an online planning tool used by properties to enable meeting planners to plan, diagram and model their plans from a virtual location.
The center is in the Wisconsin Dells next to a water park. “But corporate groups that come to Kalahari to conduct meetings never have to come into contact with inner tubes and swimsuits,” according to Mr Nelson.
Report by David Wilkening
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