According to Oregon’s tourism web site, there isn’t a single amazing thing about Oregon, there are about ten zillion. While none of us had time to calculate that figure to be sure, we’re all in agreement that Oregon is truly a special place.

We’ve just returned from a week-long marketing summit with Starwood Hotels & Resorts’ top communications leaders in Portland and are so pleased to be among only a handful of vendors invited to participate in a conference of this scope.

We received a warm welcome from everyone we spoke with and are especially thankful that we had the chance to sit with key members of the Starwood global management team.  Above all this was a chance for us to build on the existing trusted partnership between Starwood and WebCanada that we have enjoyed for more than eight years.

Despite minor turbulence before we took off (our flight was cancelled and we were sent to Seattle) the week was truly outstanding. Following our scenic drive down to Portland our Account Director Mark took an impressive bike ride at 6:00am the next day! He joined several members of the Starwood management team and returned with reports of “stunning scenery”. (We are pleased that Mark took pictures!)

Well this week it’s back in the office and back to work; we’ve taken the tremendous amount of insight we’ve gathered from our week with Starwood and to create even more intuitive, easy-to-use, and efficient web solutions that ameliorate the customer experience, boost conversions, and make the brand shine.