Grand Traverse Resort & Spa Meetings & Conferences

With the ability to reconfigure meeting rooms, and meet your most challenging sound and lighting requirements, Grand Traverse Resort & Spa offers you practical benefits — in a most unexpected setting. Unmatched for its natural beauty, the Resort offers you countless opportunities to enjoy golf, tennis, spa treatments, Lake Michigan leisure, and the Shores Beach Club, which features a beautiful outdoor pool with a stunning view of the lake.

Ranked in the top 50 travel destinations worldwide by Conde Nast Traveler, Grand Traverse Resort & Spa offers a unique blend of casual elegance, attentive hospitality, and top-notch amenities. Meeting planners weary of look-alike facilities and rubber-stamp service will find the inspiring Grand Traverse Resort & Spa a grand departure.


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Governors Ballroom

Winter Meeting Package

Winter is just another season of fun at Grand Traverse Resort & Spa - treat your attendees to a unique meeting experience. This winter, wake up to fresh powder and days of outdoor adventures with snowshoeing, ice skating and cross-country skiing.

Pick up the pace with snowmobile rides, then warm up by the fireplace and experience a top notch meal at one of our four outstanding restaurants. From outdoor activities to customized team building at our Winter Golf Academy, there’s something for everyone.

Discover your next meeting at Grand Traverse Resort & Spa.

Winter Meeting Special Offer *
Block 10 to 50 guestrooms per night and choose two of the following options.
Block 51 or more guestrooms per night and choose three.
• 1/35 comp policy
• Reduced resort fee of $7.95 for all rooms (reduced from $14.95)
• $15 off spa treatments valued at $99 or more
• Two complimentary upgrades
• Complimentary general session room rental
• 10% A/V discount
• 3 gallons of complimentary Starbucks coffee with a purchased break service
• 1 hour complimentary use of winter activities equipment - snowshoes, cross country skis and ice skates. Limited sizes and quantities. Based on availability.

* Valid on new bookings November 1, 2011 - April 30, 2012. Based on availability and not available for existing contracts.

Call 231-534-6150 for more information or email your RFP to sales@gtresort.com.

Amenities Galore

Fast & Easy Travels
Just ten minutes by Resort Shuttle from Traverse City's Cherry Capital Airport (TVC), Grand Traverse Resort & Spa offers 86,500 square feet of dedicated meeting space in 36 rooms, and can host groups of 10 to 2,500. Facilities feature private boardrooms, ballrooms, expansive conference centers, and outdoor function areas where we can host:

  • Conventions and Seminars
  • Trade Shows
  • Weddings and Rehearsal Dinners 
  • Retreats
  • Theme Parties
  • Corporate Training and Team Building
  • Fundraising Functions
  • Corporate and Group Golf Outings/Golf Instruction

We accept all Major Credit Cards for meeting charges.

Grand Traverse Resort & Spa received Meetings MidAmerica's "Best of" Award in 2011 for the 8th time!

Grand Traverse Resort & Spa a proud recipient of the Smart Meetings 2011 Platinum Choice Award.

We support the Meetings Mean Business initiative. Meetings are an integral part of conducting business successfully in America.

We support the "Face Time. It Matters." initiative.

Grand Traverse Resort & Spa is proud to be affiliated as a partner member with two Representation Firms:  Thomas Silliman Associates and Meetings Michigan .

Grand Traverse Resort & Spa is proud to be a supporting member of Meeting Professionals International.  We fully support the initiatives of and give our full support our home state chapter, Michigan Meeting Professionals International.

Grand Traverse Resort & Spa is a proud member and supporter of the Michigan Society of Association Executives.

Grand Traverse Resort & Spa is pleased to be a partner of Financial & Insurance Conference Planners.

We proudly support the American Society for Association Executives.

Grand Traverse Resort & Spa recognizes and supports the initiatives of the Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International .

Grand Traverse Resort & Spa proudly supports the initiatives of the Michigan Chapter of the Society of Government Meeting Planners.