Edmond, Oklahoma - Northstar Meetings Group and its leading brands, Meetings & Conventions and Successful Meetings, honored the Edmond Conference Center as a 2023 recipient of the 7th Annual Stella Awards. A total of 242 organizations from around the globe are recognized for consistently delivering quality service and innovation to meeting and event professionals.
Edmond Conference Center is featured as a Silver Winner for the Best Conference Center. Voted on and judged by meeting planners, Northstar's Stella Awards recognizes the world's best hotels, airlines, convention and conference centers, cruise lines, destination marketing organizations and destination management companies. This year, nearly 10,000 votes were cast from around the world for the 770 destinations, hotels and service providers nominated in 16 categories across six regions in the United States and worldwide. Winners were selected for achieving overall excellence, superb food and beverage, professionalism of staff, sustainability initiatives, and other critical aspects of the meetings and events experience.
Gabby Trad, Manager, "Since opening in December 2018, we are proud to be the only joint hotel/event space in Edmond. Our central location at I-35 and Covell attracts travelers and groups from across the region." The conference center has 20,178 total square feet of event space and 11 meeting rooms. Sherri Banister, Director of Sales, works with a variety of event planners, "Every day is different and fun as we welcome local meetings, national associations, professional conferences, sport banquets and teams."
Janet Yowell, executive director of Edmond Economic Development Authority, said, "We value the economic benefit provided by the Hilton Garden Inn and Conference Center. The city of Edmond made a significant investment to assist with the development of the facility and it has outperformed our expectations. We appreciate the efforts by everyone at the Hilton Garden Inn & Conference Center and are so glad to have them in Edmond."
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