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The conference will be held at
the Sloan Convention Center, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Holiday Inn University
Plaza Hotel
Bowling Green, I-65 Exit 22, Hartland Business Park
Local: (270) 745-0088 (Reservation desk)
Toll Free:1-800-HOLI-DAY (1-800-4654-329)
Driving Directions
Airport Shuttle (Toll Free: 1-877-479-5483) |
Accomodation:A
special rate of $99 U.S. per night has been arranged for Conference
attendees. To make reservations for your overnight accommodation,
please call the hotel directly.
Bowling Green serves as a
regional medical, service, retail, business, and entertainment
hub for an eight-to-twelve county region with a population of
approximately 250,000. The area is served by Interstate 65, William
Natcher Parkway, Cumberland Parkway, and several U.S. Highways
that intersect in the Bowling Green area. Bowling Green and Warren
County are home to approximately 10 manufacturing operations,
both large and small. Twenty-two percent of the workforce of 49,700
is in manufacturing. There are 62 automotive and truck assembly
plants that lie within next day delivery of Bowling Green, Kentucky(Refer
Figure Below).
Bowling Green
is home to thirteen corporate offices and several regional administrative
operations including four major Japanese companies and a Swedish
company. One of the corporate offices is the North American headquarters
for Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems, Inc.
The Bowling Green area has sustained good growth over the past
eight years. This growth has expanded the diversified industrial
base, retail, and professional services for the area population.
The next logical and progressive step will be to create business
and international education programs to foster more international
business. This step will include a multi-faceted economic development
strategy that will continue to recruit manufacturing, but will
give priority efforts to expanding distribution operations, corporate
and regional administrative offices, telecommunications centers
and services industries.
Western Kentucky University serves as an incubator and planner
in these efforts as an educator and cultural resource.
Information
about Area attractions and restaurants may be accessed at: http://BowlingGreen.Ky.net/tourism
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