Welcome to Meridian

National Association of Entrepreneurship NAE Meridian is the United States based authority on unique luxury meeting hospitality. Our members and staff travel the country to assess properties and their meeting facilities, restaurants, spas and amenities based on special, specific and objective standards that determine Meridian selection and status. Our “transformative experience” focus is unlike any other rating or award program. 

We experience every property in it's entirety, including, property vibe or feel, guest service, restaurant/food service options, meeting facilities, recreation, spa and amenity array. We recommend through the eyes of a CEO or Business Owner staying anonymously as a individual guest or on formal site visits. Our primary objective is to validate a unique, luxury meeting experience. Every Meridian selection is earned through our unique process.

While we assess multiple factors including service, programming, amenities, location and facility, our system emphasizes service because your experience at a property goes beyond the normal — delivering high end luxury meetings is both an art and a science.  Not every property can pull that orchestration off.
 

The origin of the NAE Meridian program began over 20 years ago as a closed group  property referral service and evolved to the creation of the CEO Guide Book (and program) in 2007. We further advanced the program's services and rating through a more in depth offering that led to the NAE Destinations Program in 2015.  In 2020 we decided to create a public facing designation and the Meridian program was born. 2020 which was a challenging year for both association and the hospitality industry in general. However, we were able to make the transition and announcement of the national designation was in Fall 2020.  The first class was make up of some perennial selections and few unique designation winners.  The 2026 selections feature some of the nation's finest properties
 

We are the only designation, recognition and national rating system that is not only independent, but we have traveled the county, experienced luxury meetings at the properties and worked with real customers (our members), so we give guests the most reliable information on where to experience the unique.   
 

Ultimately we are not only a national rating service, we are also the customer, because our 8,000+ CEO members host thousands of meetings and events each year. We are driven to find them the best properties possible.
 

As a public facing designation we want all CEO/Executive decision makers to easily recognize that a Meridian Property truly is the “Pinnacle” of luxury meeting properties that provide a “Transformative Experience”.