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HOW TO CREATE Mindful Meetings Phoenix Rising Foodie-Friendly8 Meet the City’s Restaurants Hotspots For Your Group The Fabulous SAM FOX Mr. SHARES Fox HIS SECRETS OF SUCCESS azmeetings.com azmeetings.com PUBLISHER Barb Krause EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Shayna Mace ART DIRECTOR Kayla Collins GRAPHIC DESIGN Kayla Ermer Jerriann Mullen 35 ADVERTISING COORDINATOR Jerriann Mullen ARIZONA MEETINGS & EVENTS 2018 EDITION DIGITAL EDITOR Kristen Rouse Departments Features ADVERTISING SALES MANAGERS 4 FROM THE EDITOR 14 A Resort-Ready Meeting Linda Mittag Welcome to the new and improved Experience [email protected] Arizona Meetings & Events. The state’s top golf properties offer more Matt Cross than just par-for-the-course amenities. [email protected] 4 INDUSTRY UPDATES What’s exciting in the world of Arizona 20 Phoenix Rising hospitality news. Meet the city’s most creative, offbeat ADVERTISING SALES — GOLF Tom Hyslop settings to meet, dine and mingle in. [email protected] 5 PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT Ready, Set, Goal! Five solid ways to plan for and achieve your ACCOUNTING Danielle Stachowski goals. 7 TECH TRENDS PUBLISHED BY Nei-Turner Media Group, Inc. A Bigger Picture Phone (480) 321-7270 Four ways to make your event video work Fax (877) 245-2545 for you. ntmediagroup.com 8 WHERE IT’S AT 30 Prescott Perfection Copyright 2018. All rights reserved. 30 Adventures in Northern Arizona No part of this publication may be How Prescott became a must-visit Wow your group with eye-popping vistas, reproduced or transmitted by any means destination with cultural attractions and exciting activities and even exotic animals. without consent of the publisher. history galore. Every effort has been made to ensure this publication is as accurate as possible. 35 Touring Tucson The publisher will assume no responsibility 10 WORD OF MOUTH for errors, changes or omissions. This southern city offers history, delectable Good for a Group dining and luxe properties to impress your Creative cuisine abounds at these indie attendees. chef-driven spots around the state. 12 PLANNER TIPS Mindful Meetings: Adding Resources Wellness to Your Event 19 Group Activities How to incorporate today’s best fitness and 25 Dining: Greater Phoenix food practices for healthy, happy attendees. 28 Accommodations: Greater Phoenix 42 FIRST PERSON 29 Venues The Fabulous Mr. Fox 34 Accommodations: Northern Arizona How Sam Fox built Fox Restaurant Concepts into a hospitality juggernaut. 39 Destination Showcase: Visit Tucson 40 Convention Services ON THE COVER: Match Restaurant & Lounge at the 43 YOU ARE HERE 41 Tours & Transportation FOUND:RE Phoenix. Photo courtesy of FOUND:RE Phoenix. A map to the state. AZMeetings.com | 3 FROM THE EDITOR Makeover Magic Welcome to the 2018 edition of Arizona Meetings & Events! I’m so excited to share our brand- new look with you, which includes a refreshed logo, new departments and features, and an overall revamp of the magazine’s look. I’m grateful to the talented designers we worked with to convey our modern feel to you, the readers we serve and aim to please. Although I’m not a meeting planner by trade, I always appreciate a well-thought-out event, convention or meeting. The best types of events are ones that make me feel encouraged, insightful and thoughtful about the work I’m trying to accomplish every day. (Kind of what a great meeting is supposed to do, right?) And in this issue we cover all kinds of ways in which the meetings and events industry in the state has continued to evolve and provide fresh insight, ideas and trends. Be sure to peruse all of the new departments we’ve introduced, like Word of Mouth, where writer Katherine Adomaitis takes us on a culinary tour of eight indie chef-driven spots throughout the state—which also happen to be great for a group. Seasoned “brain-based leadership” instructor Molly Rose Teuke shares five concrete ways you can implement goals in her Personal Development column—and actually follow through with accomplishing them. It’s one of the best and most approachable articles I’ve read in a while on the topic! In every issue we’re also bringing you Where It’s At, a shorter feature on a cool destination in the state to bring a group; a Tech Trends column on the latest in meetings and events technology; a Planner Tips piece with great takeaways on how to make your meetings better; and a First Person profile on an inspirational leader in the industry. For the 2018 edition I had the honor of interviewing Sam Fox, the incredibly down-to-earth yet immensely successful founder of Fox Restaurant Concepts. Please enjoy this edition, and be sure to email me at [email protected] with any suggestions or comments you have about Arizona Meetings & Events. I look forward to hearing from you! Shayna Mace, Editorial Director INDUSTRY UPDATES ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: OPENING SOON CREATING SECURE EVENTS The brand-new After last October’s shooting in Las Vegas Hampton Inn & Suites at the Route 91 music festival, event Phoenix Downtown security is once again at the forefront of is opening its doors event planners’ minds. So how can you in May 2018. This ensure that the meetings and conventions downtown property MEET OUR NEW WEBSITE you work on are safe and secure? Writer will have 210 guest Our magazine isn’t the only thing that got Ronnie Garrett interviewed some experts rooms and suites a makeover—so did azmeetings.com! in the field to lend some insight on and 580 square feet Read all of our great content anytime, plus what planners can do to factor in safety of meeting space. Located adjacent to the peruse articles from back issues. And did measures for their events. Read this online new downtown Arizona State University you know we send out a monthly e-news- exclusive at azmeetings.com. campus and close to CityScape Park, letter? It’s full of industry updates, hospi- Talking Stick Resort Arena and Chase tality sector events and interesting reads Field, it’s also across the street from a Valley from the magazine. If you’re interested in Metro Rail stop. Visit http://hamptoninn3. subscribing, please visit azmeetings.com hilton.com and type in “Phoenix” in the and click on the “Subscribe” link. search area for more information. 4 | AZMeetings.com PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT By Molly Rose Teuke When you set a goal, ask yourself “Why?” Repeat the question, peeling off the layers until you find a reason that sparks something in your heart. It’s also helpful to be clear on Chunking also lets you focus on the time frame, because it lends the behaviors within your control. urgency. Most of us are pretty good Perhaps you can’t give yourself a at cutting ourselves slack, and promotion, but you can undertake that’s not helpful in goal pursuit. A the professional development that timeline keeps us on track. will make it easier for someone else to promote you. If your goal MAKE IT A CHOICE remains out of reach, consider what Goals are easier to achieve when new behaviors might get you closer. they mean something to us—when Confucius wisely suggested that they have emotional clout. If you’re when a goal seems unachievable, pursuing a goal because someone you’re better off adjusting the action else wants you to do it, it’s important steps than changing the goal. Ready, set, goal! that you find a way to make it By Molly Rose Teuke meaningful to you. If your doctor SORT OUT THE IF-THEN told you to improve your fitness— Believing you can achieve your goal well, we know where that’s likely is essential to your success—but it’s We set goals every day. Most of BE SPECIFIC to go. But if you get that message not enough—not by a long shot. them are immediate and easily It starts with defining precisely what and decide you want to be around When you focus on the power of achieved: fix a great dinner, be on you want. Sounds simple, yet it’s to play with your grandchildren, it your optimism and confidence and time for the quarterly sales meeting, where many of us go wrong. How becomes more meaningful. ignore the potential distractions and call mom. Some are near-term: much is “enough to buy a house?” upsets you’re likely to encounter, finish the annual report on time, Does “learn a language” mean learn When you set a goal, ask yourself you sabotage your success. plan a friend’s birthday party—also basic travel phrases, or do I need to “Why?” Repeat the question, pretty easy to achieve. For the most be fluent? What, exactly, do I mean peeling off the layers until you find Heidi Grant, author of Succeed: part, we know what to do and how by “fit?” The likelihood of success a reason that sparks something in How We Can Reach Our Goals, to do it, and we have an external diminishes if we can’t adequately your heart. Making the goal into says studies suggest that when motivation for getting it done. define what success means. something you choose to pursue, we believe that achieving a goal with an outcome that energizes you, will be a piece of cake, it increases Then there are the long-term goals: Quantitative goals are easy: “Save increases your likelihood of success. the odds of failure. “Not only is save enough to buy a house, learn $40,000 over the next 7 years.” “Run visualizing ‘effortless success’ not a new language, create a stronger a marathon (26 miles).” Qualitative CHUNK IT INTO A helpful, it’s disastrous,” she says.