7. Researching a Venue for a Company Retreat: As a new intern at a real estate firm in Columbus, Ohio (or a city of your choice), you've been given an important assignment from the VP of sales: to explore a possible venue for a weekend retreat for the sales staft. The boss is wondering whether a nearby state park, the Salt Fork State Park Lodge and Conference Center, might be a good choice (you can plck a different venue to explore). He'd like to hold the retreat during the season (you decide which). He's thinking that, counting the 25 employees and their families, about 75 people would attend. He'd anticipate having a welcome party on Friday evening, meetings for the staff during the day on Saturday. a dinner and some kind of entertainment on Saturday evening, and one last business meeting on Sunday morning. Are the Salt Fork facilities the appropriate size for this gathering? How long does it take to get there? Does the center have the meeting room and technology you'd need? Would it offer sufficient leisure activities for the employees and their families? What would the price tag likely be? He leaves it to you to figure out what else might be good to know. Of course, you began your research by studying the center's website. But it doesn't provide answers to some of Page 247 your questions, so you decide to email the manager of the center, whose address is on the website. Craft a wellorganized emall message to her to get the information you need, and ask her to mail you any conference.planning materials and price lists she has. Be sure to tell her what she needs to know about your event in order to give you heipful answers. You are writing a letter asking for information. See Problem-Solving Cases on page 246 in the book. Problem 7 is Researching a Venue for a Company Retreat