Meetings and events have been back in a big way since late 2022, but they haven’t been without their challenges. Event planners have been dissatisfied with venue and supplier performance since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, but planner opinion is finally swinging the other way. This is great news for venues, which will benefit from a closer relationship with event planners. Cvent and the Northstar Meetings Group conduct a bimonthly survey of event planners
ROCKVILLE, Maryland—Choice Hotels International, Inc. reported its Q3 2023 results. Highlights include: Total revenues were $425.6 million for the third quarter of 2023, a third-quarter record and a 3 percent increase compared to the same period in 2022. Total revenues, excluding reimbursable revenue from franchised and managed properties, increased 9 percent to $219.6 million for the third quarter of 2023 compared to the same period of 2022. Net income was $92.0 million for the third
GULF SHORES, Alabama—DD Partners, LLC of Birmingham, Alabama, and Marietta, Georgia, Peachtree Group of Atlanta, and Woodbine Development Corporation of Dallas announced the development of Embassy Suites Gulf Shores. Now underway, Embassy Suites Gulf Shores is a joint venture among the three firms. DD Partners and Woodbine are leading development and asset management efforts, and Peachtree will manage operations for the resort upon completion in the summer of 2025. The architect of record for the
CHICAGO—Sertifi announced an expanded partnership with Concord Hospitality. In late 2019, Concord rolled out Sertifi’s credit card authorization solution to their managed properties, offering guests a secure way to provide credit card information. After rollout, as well as early success with e-signatures for properties using Amadeus Delphi, the management company has decided to extend their use of Sertifi to property sales staff, offering a way to capture contract e-signatures from any device and location. Today,
WASHINGTON, D.C.—AHLA Foundation has received a $605,000 grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation to support its Empowering Youth Program (EYP) over two years. The primary goal of EYP is to address the workforce shortage in the U.S. hotel and lodging industry by promoting equitable hiring practices and training untapped talent, including opportunity youth (age 16-24 and currently not in school or employed) and other priority populations. This year’s grant expands on the work of
