May 21, 2019
Spring 2019
A Tourist in My Own Town: Taking A Fresh Look at Coastal Alabama
By Marcia Bradford, ConventionSouth Senior Editor
My experiences with the Alabama Gulf Coast go WAY back. My husband and I have lived in Gulf Shores for more than 20 years and our children were raised …
December 13, 2018
By D. Fran Morley
For nearly 25 years, starting in the early 1990s, I lived in Fairhope, Alabama, just a few miles down the road from the “Queen of Southern Resorts,” the Grand Hotel Golf Resort and Spa at Point Clear, a 550-acre resort complex on the shore of Mobile Bay. Over the …
October 24, 2018
Several Southern Properties Among Historic Hotels of America’s
Top 25 Most Haunted Historic Hotels for 2018
Looking for a spirited spot to stay?
Historic Hotels of America®, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation for recognizing and celebrating the finest Historic Hotels, has just named the Top 25 Most Haunted Historic …
July 11, 2018
by D. Fran Morley
Within minutes of checking in to my room at Wyndham Grand Clearwater Beach, I unpacked, changed clothes and hit the beach for a long walk. That set the stage for the rest of my site visit trip: if I had even a short break, I was …
May 24, 2018
Our destination was Legacy West, a recently opened 225-acre development anchored by the magnificent new Renaissance Dallas at Legacy West Plano. Like Legacy, its older sister property a couple blocks over, Legacy West is a true multi-use development, home to the headquarters of major corporations such as Toyota North America, Liberty Mutual, JP Morgan Chase & Company.
May 16, 2018
It’s easy to use the cliché “string of pearls” when describing the 16 communities and neighborhoods that dot the beach and back bays of South Walton County, Florida. But reflecting on the days I recently spent there as part of a press trip hosted by Visit South Walton, I think …
June 1, 2017
Written by Chad Frank
“Wow” has many meanings. Merriam-Webster’s definition is:
1. used to express a strong feeling (as pleasure or surprise)
2. a striking success
3. …
April 25, 2017
Written By Contributing Editor Sherri Middleton
Time seems to fly when you are having fun and it apparently flies faster when you are on a tight deadline. It’s that way for me anyway, so I thought I’d spend a few of my precious minutes to jot down some of …
June 15, 2016
True confession: I have traveled through Birmingham, Alabama on many road trips but have never really spent any time there. On the other hand, I have had the pleasure of staying at one of the Kessler Collection’s Grand Bohemian properties (in Asheville, N.C.) and had lunch at another (in …
