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Aloft

Easing Employees Through the Kokua-Filament Merger With Transparency

At the 2019 Lodging Conference in September, the hotel management company Kokua Hospitality, LLC, announced that it has merged with Filament Hospitality to become the hybrid third-party management company Sightline Hospitality. According to Kirk...
Electric canal boats at Hilton Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii - Hilton sustainability goals

Hilton’s Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approach to Its ‘Ambitious’ Sustainability Goals

As Executive Vice President and President of the Americas, Danny Hughes oversees Hilton’s interests across North, Central, and South America, with a focus on enhancing the company’s managed portfolio. Yet, as the 30-year Hilton...
Hotel career development

Three Tips for Advancing a Career in Hotels

Given that Hotel Equities Chief Development Officer Joe Reardon wasn’t even aware that there was such thing as “the hotel business” when he became part of it, he advises those seeking to enter the...
Peter Berk

The State of Hotel Real Estate Development

Peter Berk, who has been president of PMZ Realty Capital LLC for more than 10 years, views the hospitality industry from the “glass three-fourths-full” perspective that he says is typical of developers, in contrast...
TWA Hotel - Tyler Morse

Rocking the Boat

Tyler Morse is CEO and managing partner of MCR, the hospitality company he founded in 2006. Although he barely mentions his degree from Harvard Business School, this hospitality innovator proudly produces for LODGING a...