ORLANDO, Fla. (August 2004) — Rosen Centre Hotel, located next to the Orange County Convention Center, has captured three prestigious awards from the meetings industry: Successful Meetings magazine’s 2004 Pinnacle Award, Meetings & Conventions’ 2004 Gold Key Award and Medical Meetings’ 2004 Merit & Distinction Award.

All three of these awards recognize hotels and resorts that represent the highest standards of excellence within the hotel industry. The publication's readers, who are mostly corporate and association meeting planners, voted for hotels that best handled their recent meetings or conventions, and featured high-quality guest rooms, superior meeting facilities, exceptional catering and convention services, and advanced audiovisual/technical support.

“We are delighted to be honored with these outstanding awards this year,” says Todd Frappier, Director of Sales & Marketing at the hotel. “I am extremely proud of our staff, as they consistently exhibit the superior level of service that Rosen Centre is known for.”

Rosen Centre is a multi award-winning hotel that offers 106,000 square feet of sophisticated meeting space, which includes a 35,000-square-foot Grand Ballroom. Rising 24 stories, Rosen Centre features 1,334 deluxe guest rooms that have recently undergone a multi-million dollar renovation. Guests of Rosen Centre enjoy six restaurants and lounges, among them Everglades Restaurant, which was just named “Best Kept Secret” by the readers of Orlando Magazine. Other hotel offerings include a spa and health club, a heated tropical pool and lighted tennis courts.

Rosen Centre also offers a unique airport check-in service called BAGS Inc., which allows guests to obtain their airport boarding passes and check bags at the hotel for a small fee. Bags are scanned by U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) representatives, and then transferred to a secure vehicle and routed to the airport. Rosen Centre was the first hotel in the United States to introduce the innovative service, which is the first secure off-site multi-check-in option to be approved by the TSA.

For more information on the Rosen Centre Hotel, call (800) 800-9840 or (407) 996-9840.