etc.venues 360 Madison Avenue, New York City has been voted Best Conference Center in the world, winning the Gold Medal as Best Conference Center (Global, Standalone Facility) in the 2021 Stella Awards.
The venue, which occupies two inter-connected floors, offers first class service and hospitality. It features 10 state-of-the-art, tech-enabled rooms with the largest accommodating up to 312 people.
Garrett Ronan, chief operating officer for etc.venues USA, says, “We’re thrilled to be recognized by both meeting planners and independent industry expert judges for the quality of our venue and our service. What makes this a particularly remarkable achievement is that this is the second consecutive year that the venue has won a Stella award, being voted Best Conference Center – US Northeast in 2020. As we only launched in early 2020, we’ve now won a major award in every year we’ve been open. Next year our new venue at 601 Lexington Avenue New York City will provide stiff competition!”
The Stella Awards, now in their 5th year, are the meeting industry’s highest honor, recognizing hotels, conference centers, airlines, cruise lines, DMOs/CVBs and DMCs that consistently deliver quality service and innovation to meeting and event professionals.
Created by Northstar Meetings Group, the Stella Awards are the first comprehensive awards program in the meetings industry that combines public, planner voting and third-party, objective planner judging.
This year, more than 6,000 votes were cast from around the world for the 603 destinations, hotels and service providers nominated in 17 categories across six regions in the United States and worldwide. Winners were selected for achieving overall excellence, superb food and beverage, professionalism of staff, sustainability initiatives, and other critical aspects of the meetings and event experience.
“Congratulations to all of the 2021 Stella Award winners and finalists,” said Loren Edelstein, vice president and content director for Northstar Meetings Group. “All of the honorees truly represent excellence in the meetings and events industry as valued and respected suppliers. We’re delighted to recognize the best of the best once again, especially as the industry recovers from the pandemic.”
For more info, visit www.etcvenues.com/ny
