Issue link: https://digital.copcomm.com/i/1515188
36 B M & T ••• January/February 2024 ••• www.blackmeetingsandtourism.com B eing in nature, a place you feel safe, can lower your blood pressure and stress hormone levels. Likewise, spending time at the beach can lessen anxiety and nervous system arousal, which is what makes you feel stressed and anxious. It lifts your mood. Beach meetings clearly create an environment for attendees that make it easier to focus on work while enjoying the leisure benefits of being located at a beach front destination. These venues provide access to ample meeting space, both indoors and outdoors as well as plenty of water activities and natural experiences that will keep guests well entertained after business is com- plete. We will be taking a look at several beach front prop- erties that Meeting Planners and leisure travelers alike can explore as possibilities for that next special event. MYRTLE BEACH CONVENTION CENTER Myrtle Beach Convention Center is set in a destination known for VARI- ETY and VALUE in hotel and motel accommodations; succulent, steaming seafood, and sparkling entertainment options. The venues is well equipped for an event of any size with 400-room luxury hotel, a 100,800 square foot Exhibit Hall, a 18,000 square foot Grand Ballroom, seating 1,500 people, twenty attractive and functional meet- ing rooms, accommodating breakout meetings for 10 to 120 people, spacious, sunlit glass-enclosed pre-function areas as well as on-site parking for 2,250, with convenient overflow parking within a seashell's throw. MEETING AT THE BEACH BY SOLOMON J. HERBERT II