For four days and three nights in mid-August, Sheila Crump Johnson, cofounder of Black Entertainment Television and CEO of Salamander Hotels & Resorts, hosted hundreds of guests at her 340-acre Salamander Resort and Spa near Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains.
The Aspen Institute announced Thursday its selection of Salamander Hotels & Resorts, based in the D.C. area, to run the Aspen Meadows Resort as a luxury property.
Loudoun County, Virginia, is one of those meetings destinations that’s a bit of an enigma; a sprawling horse country with a burgeoning winery scene that’s a half-hour from Washington, D.C., and all of the attractions and federal government trappings of the nation’s capital.