Spotlight on Atlanta

This year's Systems Thinking in Action® Conference community eagerly returns to dynamic Atlanta. With more restaurants, entertainment venues, and cultural attractions than any other city in the Southeast-—all within 10 minutes of downtown—this diverse and stimulating metropolis provides the perfect backdrop for the conference.

Newly Renovated Hyatt Regency Atlanta
This year, conference participants will be staying at a new location—the Hyatt Regency—in downtown Atlanta. This magnificent hotel, 13 miles from the airport, has an indoor connection to MARTA (public transportation). Attached to the Peachtree Center Shopping Complex, it features a 23-story atrium and provides convenient access to Atlanta Market Center, Georgia World Congress Center, Georgia Dome, Underground Atlanta, and Centennial Olympic Park.

Delta Airlines Improves Flight Schedule
Since 1941, Delta Airlines has based its hub in Atlanta, offering domestic and international travel out of Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport. This spring, Delta reworked its flight schedule, adding more evening flights and creating new domestic and international connections during prime departure times. Contact our travel partner Fugazy Travel (888-338-4777 or 781-994-1267) to receive excellent airfares—with no Saturday night stay required!

What Makes Atlanta Unique?
Perhaps it's the Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site, where the great civil rights leader was born and lived. Possibly it's Turner Field, the new "home to the Braves" that opened in 1997 and has quickly become the benchmark for future baseball park design. Or maybe it's the Coca-Cola Museum, the three-story pavilion encompassing the rich 110-year history of the soft-drink legend. All these sites—and more—are compelling landmarks you can choose to explore and visit during your stay.

Stellar Food and Nightlife
We think Atlanta's appeal lies in the delicious restaurants peppering Buckhead and other metro neighborhoods. Pitty Pat's Porch offers gourmet Southern cuisine; Nava is always buzzing and serves an original seafood menu with Southwestern spices; Maggiano's Little Italy provides romance as well as "family style" tasty dinners. Atlanta's nightclubs also offer pizzazz: Dante's Down the Hatch, with pirate-ship decor, performs live jazz and pop standards nightly, and Sanctuary is one of Atlanta's oldest—and hottest—Latin nightclubs (free salsa lessons at 8:00 pm!).

For more details on Atlanta and what this city has to offer, go to www.atlanta.com. For more details about the conference, go to http://www.pegasuscom.com/stapage.html. We look forward to seeing you there!