WarningTravel Restrictions In/Around Chicago During NATO Summit
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Enhanced security and travel restrictions will be implemented across the greater Chicago region during the upcoming NATO Summit May 19th through May 21st.  Residents and visitors to the city should expect intermittent road closures, disruptions to public transportation, and restricted access to other public facilities including parks and museums.  In addition, thousands of protesters are expected to march in the city's center during the Summit.

Visit the NATO Summit website for additional details and contact a Peak Travel agent with questions or for assistance.

The purpose of a company meeting is to motivate, inform and educate your people. Therefore, your meeting is an investment in the future of your company. Meeting planning can be a substantial investment of capital resources for the cost of producing the meeting. Clearly, there's a lot at stake.

Successful meeting planning takes a multitude of skills. Each detail must be perfect to convey the message you want to communicate. The professional meeting planners at Peak Travel Group can help with venue selection, room layout, creative themes, audio visual equipment, meal planning, innovative fun activities and entertainment. The Peak Travel Group meeting planners will help you arrange the perfect company meeting on budget and on time.

For meetings with 30 or more, our IT department will work with you to develop a custom registration website branded with your logo. This will allow your group travelers to register and sign-up from the web.

To managed registrations. you will have access to our Group Travel Management Console? for up to the minute listing of who has signed up for your group and the choices they made. This information is downloaded in Excel for you to sort the registration data as needed. You may need to find out who requested for no smoke or smoking rooms, what meal choices were made, shirt size and any other registration data you may need.

We can also provide you with a dynamic colorful e-mail to send out directing participants to sign-up online.

With our long-established worldwide contacts and buying power, Peak Travel consultants offer you exceptional, personalized meeting planning including:

  • Destination and venue selection assistance
  • Facilitate vendor negotiations on your behalf
  • Web-based participant registration
  • Access to "online" database of who has signed up
  • Data Management through our Group Travel Console
  • Airline reservations & e-ticketing
  • Hotel negotiations for special rates & amenities
  • Ground transportation for large & small groups
  • Meal planning & catering services
  • Meeting & event planning
  • Program budgeting for cost containment
  • Special excursions and fun things to do to add excitement
  • Create themed events
  • Complete group travel management
  • and much more......

Our Director of Group Travel and Meeting Management is Lisa Marciano. Lisa and her staff are group travel professionals with years of meeting planning experience. They handle groups of all sizes and needs. The Peak Group department understands the unique requirements of group travel and meeting planning. Lisa and her staff can assist with sales meetings, President's Club top performers, Board meetings, fun side trips, theme parties and more.