Ellen Meyer
Checking In With Colleen Keating, IHG’s COO, Americas
IHG’s recently appointed chief operating officer for the Americas, Colleen Keating, is now responsible for leading the operations for more than 4,000 IHG hotels across the region. As she told LODGING, she expects her...
Shruti Gandhi Buckley: Building Teams of Partners
Shruti Gandhi Buckley’s connection to the hospitality industry dates back to her childhood, when she spent summers with an uncle who was the owner and operator of a small independent hotel in Atlantic City....
Rajiv Trivedi on La Quinta’s New Home at Wyndham
When LODGING profiled Rajiv Trivedi back in 2014, he was executive vice president and chief development officer of La Quinta, which had then just gone public. Catching up with him four years later, he...
Margaritaville in the Smokies
A Margaritaville resort in the Great Smoky Mountains? Actually, there are three.
The Margaritaville Island Inn and the Margaritaville Island Hotel—both in Pigeon Forge—are nearly side by side, and Margaritaville Resort in Gatlinburg, Tenn., is...
Crisis Management
No one in any type of business likes to think about all the things that can go wrong over the course of a day. But the worst thing that can happen when the worst...