Turning Stone Resort Casino Recognized as Top Destination in the U.S. for Meetings and Events by Smart Meetings
The 2025 Platinum Choice Awards honor the hospitality industry’s top-ranked hotels, venues and destinations
Oneida Indian Nation Homelands (December 5, 2025) – Smart Meetings, the leading community for event professionals has recognized Turning Stone Resort Casino with a prestigious 2025 Platinum Choice Award, presented to the industry’s top-ranked hotels, venues and destinations. Turning Stone Resort Casino made the list of the best-of-the-best in the nation after being nominated and voted on by meeting professionals and planners. The awards provide a list of partners to location sourcing decision-makers that deliver the highest standards of overall excellence.
Turning Stone Resort Casino is preparing for the early arrival of the $370 million Turning Stone Evolution – the largest reinvestment in the resort’s history – which will transform the destination into New York State’s largest meetings and conventions resort with 200,000 square feet of event space. This massive expansion includes state-of-the-art convention facilities (The Grand Expo opening Labor Day 2026), a new luxury hotel (The Crescent Hotel opening June 29, 2026), a fine-dining restaurant (Salt Seafood & Raw Bar), enhanced outdoor event spaces, a 1,600-space parking garage and upgraded guest amenities which will offer planners even more options to bring their events and meetings to life.
The 2025 Platinum Choice Award applauds Turning Stone Resort Casino for “exceeding every expectation from the grandest moments to the finest details. Every detail is designed with planners in mind – and simplified in one seamless contract.” Planners appreciate Turning Stone’s convenient location in Central New York, more than 1,000 guest rooms, flexible event space, on property restaurants along with nightlife, golf, spa, recreation, entertainment, and gaming. In 2025 the resort hosted more than 1,500 events.
“Everything we create at Turning Stone Resort Casino centers around an exceptional and world-class guest experience in which no detail is too small or overlooked,” said Oneida Indian Nation Representative and Turning Stone Enterprises Chief Executive Officer Ray Halbritter. “Planners appreciate our team’s commitment to proactivity, ease of execution and anticipating their needs every step of the way. The Turning Stone Evolution is an extension of those core values and our ambitious expansion with the Turning Stone evolution will set a new national standard for modern and elevated events right here in Central New York.”
About Turning Stone Enterprises
Turning Stone Enterprises is the parent organization for all business operations of the Oneida Indian Nation. One of the largest employers in Central New York with more than 5,000 team members, Turning Stone Enterprises’ portfolio of hospitality, gaming and recreational destinations includes Turning Stone Resort Casino, YBR Casino & Sports Book, Point Place Casino, The Lake House at Sylvan Beach, The Cove at Sylvan Beach, Maple Leaf Market and SavOn convenience stores, an RV park, two marinas, a hunting preserve and salmon-fishing destination and Wáhta’ Maple Farm. Collectively, these properties offer guests from across the region and around the world five award-winning hotels, nearly 30 signature restaurants and dining venues, two spas, five golf courses, Las Vegas-style casino gaming, a state-of-the-art sports betting lounge, two concert venues and several nightlife venues.
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