SHREVEPORT-LA -The Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau, the local chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and the Shreveport Convention Center partnered to secure the 2010 regional conference. Some 2,500 delegates will come to Shreveport-Bossier for the event.
Tourist bureau staff members Dianna Douglas, regional sales manager, and Suzanne Manfredi, convention sales manager, sold the group on Louisiana’s Other Side at the recent Little Rock, Arkansas conference.
The 2010 event will be held at the Shreveport Convention Center with the Hilton Shreveport as host hotel. This will be a citywide event with delegates staying at multiple hotels throughout Shreveport-Bossier. This group's estimated economic impact is $484,040.
"This has been a real partnership and an example of success that can be achieved by a local delegate and the tourist bureau," said Stacy Brown, president of the tourist bureau.
Other partners who extended incredible resources toward securing this convention were the Shreveport Convention Center, Hilton Shreveport, AKA Soror Burnadine Moss Anderson, Chairman, AKA Soror Evelyn Valore along with the AKA Northwest Cluster.