The New Jersey Meeting Planning Guide is designed to serve
as your authoritative resource for choosing meeting and
conference venues in New Jersey. The Garden State, comedians
to the contrary, makes a superior meeting location. Although
the fifth-smallest state as measured in square miles, New
Jersey offers almost as wide a variety of locales as the
United States itself. If you want to find a rural venue,
an urban setting, an historic location, a relaxing seaside
resort, or a national reserve rivaling the size of the
Grand Canyon—the Pinelands National Reserve is over 1 million acres—New
Jersey has it.
The state’s comprehensive highway system—with major, well-maintained roadways including the New Jersey Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway running the length of the state, and the Atlantic City Expressway, Routes 195, 78, and 80 traversing New Jersey from the shore to the Pennsylvania border—provides
conference-goers a direct route to almost any resort or
conference center. This is a benefit whether people are
traveling from other states or from elsewhere in New Jersey.
The state also enjoys access to several major airports,
including Atlantic City International in the south and
Newark Liberty International in the north.
This 2010 edition of the New Jersey Meeting
Planning Guide provides comprehensive listings of facilities, contacts,
and business and community resources. This year’s edition also points you towards useful web sites, including:
Visitnj.org—providing detailed travel and tourism information, updated regularly, maintained by the state.
Regional contact and tourism office web sites—providing
current business listings and specific information for
each region of New Jersey.
NJMeetings.com—an interactive version of the New
Jersey Meeting Planning Guide, providing articles and detailed
listings from the print publication along with interactive
search tools.
You will find more information about
these web sites throughout this Guide.
In closing, we want to acknowledge the contributions of Gordon
S. Reinauer, publisher of the Guide for many years until his
retirement this year. Working closely with Ken Barker, Joyce
Bartkewicz, and the editorial and graphic design staffs, Gordon
has helped make the Guide a key meeting planning resource,
and we wish him well in his retirement.
Allen Brodsky
Editor
