Disney begins selling convention space in Hawaiian resort

Jason Garcia, News — By Jason Garcia on November 5, 2009 at 11:11 am

With construction progressing on its 831-room hotel and time share in Hawaii, Walt Disney Parks and Resort has begun reaching out to meeting planners in hopes of convincing them to stage conventions and other events at the resort when it opens in 2011.

Disney says the mammoth resort will feature approximately 63,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor event space, in addition to its 350 hotel rooms and 481 Disney Vacation Club time-share units.  The meeting space will include a 14,000-square-foot conference center that can be divided into four meeting rooms plus almost 50,000 square feet of outdoor space available in the form of three event lawns. A full-time planner will have an onsite office.

Disney began soliciting group sales for the resort last month. The project on Oahu, Hawaii’s most populous island, is part of Disney’s strategy to begin building standalone resorts independent of its theme parks.

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