Kalahari growing meetings business

From: Toledo Business Journal | Date: February 1, 2008| Author: Anonymous | Copyright information

Since the 2006 addition of a $19 million, 95,000 square foot conference and events center adjacent to the site of Kalahari Resorts' existing waterpark in Sandusky, Ohio, the resort's meeting and conference business has been growing.

"Last year, we got a taste of what [the growth] could be; we ended the year with three times [the traffic] we had in our first year," stated Marls Brenner, Kalahari director of sales and conference services. "We are looking to have two-and-a-half times more...

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