The BTS Summit is The Most Memorable Experience on Earth! It’s a three-day convention packed with events for owners, managers and instructors. The BTS Summit will educate, inspire and motivate your team to new heights. We are ready to ensure you have a memorable experience. Let’s Move!  


 

Business of BTS Management Seminar -  This seminar is ALL-NEW for 2008, focusing on three key components for you to compete and thrive:

  1. How to take on low-price competitors
  2. How to attract the deconditioned market
  3. How to improve retention

You'll discover how to maximize your space and compete by servicing more members through Group Fitness. The topics covered will MOVE your business forward by increasing memberships, referrals and retention - bottom line, you become more PROFITABLE! (Thursday, Aug 21st: 8:30am-4:30pm)

Click here to register for the management seminar! (free for BTS licensees)

 

Discover the Power of REX™ Roundtable for Executives!
This is a special management session that is presented by REX Roundtables for Executives. The REX team will share the power behind professionally chaired, industry roundtables and present opportunities for BTS Licensees to join a REX Roundtable.

REX helps business out-perform the competition. Since 1985, CEOs and General Managers have participated in REX Roundtables. Sharing detailed best practices within an industry is the single most powerful way to improve performance and success.

Each REX Roundtable consist of up to 14 CEOs and General Managers who meet three times a year. The group shares successes, solves problems, challenges and supports one another. This is best practices in action. The REX community is committed to supporting one another professionally and personally.

Over the past ten years, the average health club owner in a REX Roundtable has seen their business grow almost 20% per year and achieve sustainable double-digit improvements in profitability.

executive roundtablesBTS is very excited to bring this opportunity to our Licensees. It is a can’t miss session for CEO’s, Owners and General Managers!

Learn more about Rex Roundtables at www.rexonline.org.
(Friday, Aug 22nd: 8:30am-10:30am)


Get The Red Out! Solutions To Improve Retention.
If your member wore a red shirt on their final visit to your club, would you treat them any differently? Research shows that if you do, chances are they will continue to be members. We’ll discuss the 4 keys to improving retention;   
1. Identify members at risk of leaving,
2. Promote interaction with these members,
3. Measure results of the interaction and
4. Refine the process.

In this session, you will explore issues that effect retention and preview the industry’s innovative retention software from The Retention People. Anyone concerned about retention must attend! (Friday, Aug 22nd: 11:00am-12:30pm)

BTS Best Practices!
This session is packed with golden nuggets for you to take back to your club and implement immediately. Some of the best operators utilizing BTS to sell more, service more and retain more, share great ideas that will take your group fitness and club to the next level. Need ideas on how to sell memberships, recruit instructors, fill classes, manage internal traffic, put the zing into your marketing? Well, these managers are doing it day in and day out, and they will share the who, what, when, where and how. This will be a rapid moving session so get ready to load up on best practices from some of the best!
(Friday, Aug 22nd: 1:30pm-5:00pm)

BTS Super - Be part of The Most Memorable Exercise Experience on Earth! This is your chance to preview the upcoming Summer 08 releases for all seven programs! Get ready for an exercise blowout! Group Active™, Group Ride®, Group Kick®, Group Centergy®, Group Step®, Group Power® and Group Groove®.  Let's Move!
(Saturday, Aug 23rd: 7:30am - 5:00pm)

Activate Your Life! on Friday & Saturday as you experience our newest program introduction - Group ActiveTM!
(Friday, Aug 22nd: 6:00pm - 7:00pm & Saturday, Aug 23rd: 7:30am - 8:30am) 

BTS Bash - After three days of education and perspiration, let’s move to a more casual environment. The BTS Team looks forward to sharing some stories and laughs, and even making some more memories.
(Saturday, Aug 23rd: 7:30pm - 10pm)

  

 

BTS Intensives - Good to Great - ALL NEW!
Let’s Move from Good to Great! The newest BTS Intensive series will focus on the Teaching Essentials to take your teaching experience from good to great. These program intensives are loaded with theory and practice to help you pack your classes. So get ready to listen, learn and sweat!
Pre-requisite to attend a program Intensive: You must have completed the appropriate program training.

Featured at BTS Summit Hartford:
Group Groove Intensive - Thursday Aug 21st, 2:00pm-6:00pm (Located at: Court House Plus - 47 Hartford Turnpike,Vernon, CT 06066)
Group Centergy Intensive - Friday Aug 22nd, 8:00am-12:00pm
Group Ride Intensive - Friday Aug 22nd, 9:00am-12:00pm
Group Power Intensive - Friday Aug 22nd, 9:00am-12:00pm
Group Power Intensive - Friday Aug 22nd, 1:00pm-4:00pm
Group Step Intensive - Friday Aug 22nd, 1:00pm-4:00pm
Group Kick Intensive - Friday Aug 22nd, 5:00pm-8:00pm

BTS Super - Be part of The Most Memorable Exercise Experience on Earth! This is your chance to preview the upcoming Summer 08 releases for all seven programs! Get ready for an exercise blowout! Group Active™, Group Ride®, Group Kick®, Group Centergy®, Group Step®, Group Power® and Group Groove®.  Let's Move!
(Saturday, Aug 23rd: 7:30am - 5:00pm)

Activate Your Life! on Friday & Saturday as you experience our newest program introduction - Group ActiveTM!
(Friday, Aug 22nd: 6:00pm - 7:00pm & Saturday, Aug 23rd: 7:30am - 8:30am)

BTS Bash - After three days of education and perspiration, let’s move to a more casual environment. The BTS Team looks forward to sharing some stories and laughs, and even making some more memories.
(Saturday, Aug 23rd: 7:30pm - 10pm)

 

  

 

Newly opened in 2005, the Connecticut Convention Center is an award-winning venue owned by the State of Connecticut. Its operations are overseen by the Capital City Economic Development Authority. It is professionally managed by Waterford Venue Services Hartford, a subsidiary of Waterford Group, a leader in the hospitality and gaming industries.

THE VENUE. With over 140,000 square feet of exhibition space, a 40,000 square foot ballroom and 25,000 square feet of flexible meeting space, the Connecticut Convention Center is the largest convention facility between New York and Boston. The venue also features exceptional demographics and highway access at the crossroads of New England, where Interstates 84 and 91 meet.  With a prominent visual presence on Hartford’s historic skyline, the Center’s 110-foot glass atrium dramatically rises 10 stories above a grand public plaza and a tree-lined riverfront esplanade.

THE AMENITIES. A pristine new venue, the Connecticut Convention Center has been constructed to spare no detail in making every function accommodating. From state-of-the-art rigging, wiring and WiFi to flexible spaces, abundant pre-function areas and on-site sheltered parking, the facility has taken every facet of hosting an event into consideration. That includes a AAA Four Diamond lodging experience at the 22-story Marriott Hartford Downtown, conveniently connected to the convention center.

The 409 room Hartford Marriott Downtown hotel rises 22 stories above the Connecticut River in downtown Hartford, CT. It is interconnected to the Connecticut Convention Center. This is the newest luxury hotel in Hartford, and the only hotel located on the riverfront. The Hartford Marriott Downtown is located at I-91 and I-84 and is near Bradley International Airport. Local Hartford attractions include the Capitol, Front Street, Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Old State House, UConn, Cabela's, great restaurants and shopping. This Marriott hotel combines the beauty of a grand hotel with today's contemporary amenities such as a spa, fitness center and high-speed Internet access. With 13,500 sq ft of meeting space, the hotel offers a unique setting for events, meetings, conferences, receptions, ceremonies and weddings in downtown Hartford CT. This Hartford hotel is perfect for business, family and leisure travel.

Hotel Highlights

  • This hotel has a smoke-free policy
  • 401 rooms, 8 suites on the Connecticut River in downtown Hartford, perfect for business or leisure
  • Interconnected to Connecticut Convention Center; high-speed Internet access, spa & fitness center
  • Unique setting for events, meetings, receptions, ceremonies & conferences in downtown Hartford CT
  • Marriott Rewards category: 4
  • AAA Diamonds: 4

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Area Information >>

Top Attractions

  • Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
  • Titanic @ Hartford 21 Civic Center
  • The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

We currently have room blocks on hold and you will need to refer to the "Body Training Systems" group when calling in to make reservations.

Marriott Hartford – Downtown
200 Columbus Blvd.
Hartford, CT 06103
860-249-800

Marriot Hartford – Downtown/Convention Center offers a rate of:
Single/Double - $145

Cut off date for these special BTS group rates is July 30th, 2008.

Cancellation refund policy: Cancellation refunds are accepted until July 31st, 2008 and are subject to a $15 administrative fee. Registrations are not refundable after July 31st, 2008. Sorry, no exceptions.

BTS Summit Registrations: If more than one person is registering, then a separate registration is required for each registrant.