Last week, a small group held court in a hotel conference room along the concrete boulevards that have long since replaced the placid beaches of Hollywood, Florida.
The classiest (and cosiest) address for business travellers in the DF is currently Las Alcobas, a small seven-storey, 35-room hotel nestled among the chic boutiques and leafy European-style outdoor cafes along Avenida Masaryk in the upscale colonia (neighbourhood) of Polanco.
On Small Business Saturday I was sitting in a Las Vegas hotelroom, reading the local newspaper, learning about what Vegas merchants were doing to entice customers to keep their money local.