Frequent Traveller (Cathy Dixon #1) by Pandora Poikilos

attraction in Uden, it is for this reason that exclusive properties such as MoonStar Uden were able to stand out from the other hotels located within the area.
     
    For more than three years, the Global Leaders Symposium (GLS) had been an annual event. Each year the organising committee picked a different MoonStar property and organised a seven-day workshop for at least two hundred company managers and business owners. Participants arrived from around the world and were from various successful companies with different backgrounds. Key speakers comprised of highly recommended personalities with vast knowledge in IT, property development, foreign investments and other related trades.
     
    Each key speaker delivered detailed presentations on varying angles that provided necessary tools for business owners to build successful brands. Sessions were also focused on creating better leaders for their respective trades. Each participant was charged $8000 per person which included accommodation, three daily meals, a gala dinner at the end of the symposium and related GLS materials.
     
    Every year the MoonStar properties with adequate space to host such an event looked forward to being selected. Although it meant their workload tripled during the seven days, it was guaranteed income. Additional sales from food and beverage outlets would also boost overall hotel revenue.
     
    This year, it was MoonStar Uden. The property had been ideally designed for these very purposes. It was an all-suite hotel that offered numerous team building facilities, an equestrian area and even motivational individual or group sessions with a licensed therapist. Upon request, personalised butlers were available and each of the 280 suites came with a workstation that accommodated two people. When no events took place, it was known to attract business owners craving lavish rejuvenation with the opportunity of being able to keep an eye on their business via Internet and telephone.
     
    As the GLS staff registered this year's workshop participants, Cathy watched. She remembered when corporate sales had first clinched the GLS deal. Guaranteed room nights for any hotel chain was a big deal. It often made the difference between an entire chain or single property collapsing to the brink of obscurity or staying in the clear to receive guests. However this year, the sales department appeared edgy.
     
    On previous occasions, GLS hired event planners to work out the more intricate details of the sessions. Within the course of the year, the event planners for the variety of workshops were fired and changed at least six times. More than once, GLS reasoned that "good help was hard to find". Planning events on a global scale took skill and Cathy understood the complications. She sometimes shared the exact sentiment.
     
    Now, however the redhead was convinced that it was not the event planners that were the problem. As far as she knew, her Communications Department dealt with three people, Joel Gil the Co-Founder, Marcus Lum also a Co-Founder and their Executive Secretary, Brooke. All of them were based in Singapore. Joel Gil or JG as he preferred to be known, currently stood in front of a poster the GLS had approved, printed and placed at the entrance of an event room. Marring the poster with a black marker, he screamed at a timid Front Office MoonStar associate who was not at all sure what a guest's poster had to do with her.
     
    Cathy approached him and gently asked if there was anything she could do to help. He curtly remarked that he was able to handle the matter at hand and stomped off, still angry. That was the other thing the MoonStar sales team had started to get fidgety about.
     
    Because of the number of room nights GLS provided MoonStar, the co-founders were allocated a certain number of complimentary room nights while staying at other MoonStar properties around the world. Common practice for a General Manager of any MoonStar property was to acknowledge this