The Muskegon County Convention & Visitors Bureau recently announced Bernadette Benkert as meetings and conventions sales executive. Benkert is a west Michigan native with more than 20 years of hotel and hospitality experience.
“We’re pleased to have Bernadette join our staff at the Muskegon County CVB,” said Bob Lukens, CDME, community development director for Muskegon County and director of the CVB. “Bernadette’s wealth of experience in the west Michigan hospitality market made her the ideal candidate for the sales executive position at the bureau.”
Benkert has held sales and management positions at various hotel properties, including five years at the Holiday Inn Spring Lake as general manager. Most recently, Benkert was general manager of Seredipity Resort in downtown Grand Haven.
