Pinehurst, Southern Pines Area Hotels Featured In Small Market Meetings Magazine

SOUTHERN PINES, NC – MARCH 1, 2006. The February issue of Small Market Meetings features three area meeting properties, The Fair Barn, Pinehurst Resort, and Mid Pines Inn & Golf Club. "The return of a historic barn as an event venue and major renovations are among the meeting-related improvements on tap in Pinehurst, NC", reports Small Market Meetings magazine. The restored Fair Barn, with a professional lighting and sound booth, a dressing room and a full catering kitchen, can seat 500 for formal dinners and 600 theater-style, making it a truly unique meeting venue. www.thefairbarn.org

"While other businesses are going into winter hibernation, Pinehurst Resort is getting busy. The resort's ambitious and expensive renovation list includes extravagant room renovations, a new golf academy and new outdoor event venues, all scheduled for completion in April 2006", according to Small Market Meetings. www.pinehurst.com

In 2005 Mid Pines Inn and Golf Club completed another phase of ongoing renovation, remodeling 63 of the 110 guest rooms, adding a foyer with grand piano to the dining room, and updating the windows, doors, paint, wallpaper and crown molding in the hotel's 2,600-square-foot convention center. The resort features a Donald Ross-designed golf course and is a member of Historic Hotels of America. www.pineneedles-midpines.com

"This is great national exposure for our area", says Beverly Stewart, Director of Sales at the Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Aberdeen area Convention & Visitors Bureau. "It shows that we have the meeting facilities and modern, up-to-date amenities to fulfill any group's needs. Everyone should know just how special this area of North Carolina is."

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The Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Aberdeen Area Convention & Visitors Bureau is an economic development organization and non-profit authority of Moore County, North Carolina. The CVB mission is to promote the area as a destination for visitors, meetings, conventions and tours. The CVB is funded primarily by a three percent hotel / motel room occupancy tax paid by visitors to Moore County.