Make Bleisure a Breeze It’s easier than ever to combine business and leisure travel. BY ILONA KAUREMSZKY TAHOE TREASURES: Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe Resort aerial view of the beach (top) and (bottom, left to right) fire pit, winter mountains and secret cove PHOTOS: © HYATT REGENCY LAKE TAHOE RESORT
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HEAD TILTED SKYWARD, standing on the edge of North Lake Tahoe on this moonlit fall evening, I think the constellations never looked brighter. The universe is in full glory. So is our small bunch of international conference attendees, doing a double-take into a big Celestron telescope and listening to the starry revelations of an ace local astronomer. At this exclusive private beach next to the Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe Resort, the gasps echo across the crystal, still waters of Big Blue as we realize the hairball in the sky appearing in full lens view
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lies about 25,000 light years away. Tony the Star Gazer, a local star tour operator — used to showcasing the galaxy to the resort’s blue-chip group clients like Google — is quick on the scene, ready to reveal some of the great mysteries that lurk above. I have come to Reno, Nevada, to attend the Nevada Governor’s Global Tourism Summit but also to explore the treasures of the High Sierra in a post-conference trip with other like-minded attendees combining business and pleasure — what marketing gurus aptly coin “bleisure.” It’s the overlapping of the two travel
