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Covington, KY/February 21, 2007—The Northern Kentucky Convention and Visitors Bureau announces the following:

• Cincinnati Marriott at RiverCenter has hired Lee Palaschak as General Manager, Joey Fay as Assistant General Manager and Christine Paul, Sales Manager.  The hotel also announced it is undergoing refurbishing with new carpet in all guest rooms and adding flat screen, high-definition televisions at its Zebo’s restaurant.
• Holiday Inn Cincinnati Airport has hired Ryan Minto as Assistant General Manager.
• Cincinnati Airport Marriott has hired Susan Ragonesi as Sales Account Manager.
• Northern Kentucky Convention Center has hired Andrea Reitano as Event Coordinator and Rick Schmadel as Director of Sales and Marketing.
• Northern Kentucky Convention and Visitors Bureau has hired Emily Pidgeon as Sales Production Assistant and Carla Albrinck as Convention Service/Housing Coordinator.
• Courtyard By Marriott, Florence, has named Sandi Hill as Director of Sales.
• Comfort Suites-Riverfront, Newport, announces it is in the midst of a room renovation effort involving bedding and flat screen televisions that should be completed May 1.

The mission of the Northern Kentucky Convention and Visitors Bureau is that of an aggressive sales, marketing, service and informational organization whose primary responsibility is to positively impact the Northern Kentucky economy through conventions, meetings and visitor expenditures.  The direct economic impact of visitors’ spending in Campbell, Kenton and Boone counties in 2005 was $255 million.