Marina Inn at Grande Dunes Launches New Website
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WTS International Acquires Meet Hospitality, Will Expand Services
WTS International | December 20, 2021
ROCKVILLE, Maryland (Dec. 20, 2021) – WTS International, a global provider of hospitality and amenity services for commercial, residential and hotel properties, today announced it has acquired Meet Hospitality Services LLC, which provides design and management services for meeting, conference and amenity centers in New York City. Barry Goldstein, WTS Chief Executive Officer, said Meet Hospitality’s resources and expertise in conference and meeting management will enable WTS to offer a broader spectrum of services and attract a new category of clients while providing an additional base of operations in New York, one of North America’s...
WTS International Appoints John Edwards as Chief Information Officer
WTS International | December 2, 2021
ROCKVILLE, Maryland (Dec. 2, 2021) – WTS International, a portfolio company of private equity firm CI Capital Partners and a global provider of hospitality and amenity services for commercial, residential and hotel properties, today announced the appointment of hospitality veteran John Edwards as Chief Information Officer, reporting to Barry Goldstein, WTS Chief Executive Officer. Bringing over 24 years of technology experience, Edwards will be responsible for leading IT strategy and project management and delivery in addition to overseeing the reliability and security of all IT systems and infrastructure across fitness, spa and conferen...
A Sharpened Focus on Hotel Owners Interests Prompts AHA Hotel Consulting to Add Principals
AHA Hotel Consulting | November 18, 2021
Atlanta, GA – AHA Hotel Consulting has long stood apart from other consulting firms in the eyes of hotel owners due to their results-driven and hands-on approach to asset management. With the recent addition of industry veterans Larry McAfee and Mark Hindle, the company is poised for rapid portfolio expansion to meet growing demand. The timing is ideal as hotel owners are seeking consultants to be their advocates now more than ever before. On an owner’s behalf, AHA addresses often-overlooked issues such as a significant drop in group business, staffing shortages, and the decreased availability and attention of management companies. Key...
Veteran Hospitality Executive Forms Aries Hospitality Group, LLC
Aries Hospitality Group | November 16, 2021
Kevin Croke Launches Consulting Company to Assist Hotel Owners and Operators with Hospitality Support Services Jupiter, FL November 16, 2021 — Veteran hospitality executive Kevin Croke is proud to announce today the launch of Aries Hospitality Group, LLC (AHG), an organization geared towards providing independent hotel owners and managers an array of business advisory services including strategy development, sales and marketing, operations management, recruitment, revenue management and more. AHG comes to the market with 30 years of hospitality industry expertise in the full service, select service, resorts, lifestyle, and convention ...
PPDS Announces New Role Dedicated to Hospitality for Industry Expert Joe King
PPDS | October 20, 2021
With increased demand and growth for PPDS in North America, King’s focus will be on serving hotels and resorts in North America ATLANTA - PPDS, the exclusive provider of Philips Professional TV and Digital Signage products, software, and innovations announced today that industry expert and long-time Philips leader Joe King’s new role will focus exclusively on hospitality for North America. With accelerated and robust demand for upgraded smart hotel TVs this year, PPDS is adjusting its organization to provide dedicated senior leadership for each market segment they serve. A well-respected leader in hospitality technology, King’s c...
New Survey Finds Nearly 50% of Hospitality Workers Consider Switching Jobs for Better Workplace Technology
Relay | September 27, 2021
Approximately one in five employees felt unsafe at work because of faulty walkie-talkie radios, and more than 70% of workers have resorted to using personal smartphones on-the-job because of radio malfunctions Raleigh, North Carolina, September 27, 2021 — A new survey examining hospitality employees’ satisfaction with their company’s current walkie-talkie radios has found close to 50% of workers would consider quitting their jobs for better, safer workplace communication technology. The survey, conducted by Relay, the voice-first communications platform for frontline workers, finds that approximately one in three respondents consid...
WTS International Announces Barry Goldstein as Chief Executive Officer
WTS International | September 20, 2021
ROCKVILLE, Maryland (Sept. 20, 2021) – WTS International, a portfolio company of private equity firm CI Capital Partners and a global provider of hospitality and amenity services for commercial, residential and hotel properties, today announced the appointment of Barry Goldstein as Chief Executive Officer. Goldstein has more than 30 years of executive leadership experience at both Fortune 100 companies and privately held organizations, in management consulting, consumer packaged goods, information technology and, for the last 17 years, in the hospitality industry. From 2019 through 2021, he was Chief Commercial & Marketing Officer...
Terranea Resort Shares Leisure and Group Luxury Travel and Event Insights
Terranea Resort | August 31, 2021
Southern California’s Premier Oceanfront Resort Redefines Connectivity, Wellness, and Unparalleled Experiences Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. Terranea Resort continues to evolve and redefine its leisure, group, and wedding offerings within the luxury segment to satisfy and exceed guest expectations. As Southern California’s hidden gem on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, the destination resort has invested in the evolution of its enhanced standards of safety and well-being, advancements in technology, reimagined indoor and outdoor spaces, and experiences to promote integrated wellness, reconnection, and rediscovery. “Our industry is resili...
Paramount Lodging Advisors Successfully Closes a Five-Hotel Portfolio Sale in Texas
Paramount Lodging Advisors | August 16, 2021
Paramount Lodging Advisors (PLA) has successfully executed the sale of a TownePlace Suites and four Fairfield Inn & Suites(s) located throughout the Houston MSA and Victoria, TX. The PLA team representing the seller included Texas-based Managing Director Kami Burnette and Associate Mason McDavid, as well as Senior Managing Directors Bennett Webster and Brent Clemens. The five assets totaled ~360 rooms and were sold to individual buyers. “In spite of the continuing COVID-related impairments, market fundamentals are improving and the midscale buyer segment is aggressively pursuing acquisitions with the assistance of SBA financing ...
Paramount Lodging Advisors Successfully Transacts in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma With Seven-Asset Portfolio Sale
Paramount Lodging Advisors | August 12, 2021
Paramount Lodging Advisors (PLA) has successfully executed the sale of the Courtyard Houma LA, Staybridge Suites Laredo TX, Holiday Inn Express & Suites Cotulla TX, Fairfield Inn & Suites San Angelo TX, Staybridge Suites San Angelo TX, Springhill Suites Ardmore OK and Hampton Inn Denton TX via online auctions. The hotels were part of a larger portfolio. The PLA team representing the seller was led by Kami Burnette, Brent Clemens, and Bennett Webster “Despite the ongoing national and regional challenges in the current market, our team remains very bullish on the longer-term industry rebound and we believe Texas will remain at...
An Old Soul With a Fresh Twist, Crystalbrook Kingsley Embraces Technology and Sustainability With Solutions From McLaren Technologies
McLaren Technologies Asia Pacific | July 20, 2021
Sophisticated and with a nod to the area’s history, the new hotel is offering a fully contactless and paperless guest experience. Sydney, Australia (July 20, 2021) - A commitment to responsible luxury by Newcastle’s first five-star hotel, Crystalbrook Kingsley, has prompted a partnership with Asia Pacific’s leading hospitality solution specialist, McLaren Technologies. The new hotel was keen to embrace mobile-first guest experience technology and environmental change to enhance, not compromise, the quality of its guest experience. The new hotel, which opened its doors on June 9, worked with McLaren to tailor its approach to techno...
Inntopia Launches School Calendar Explorer to Help Travel Providers Identify Revenue and Marketing Opportunities Within School Break Trends
Inntopia | July 15, 2021
STOWE, VT - Inntopia is thrilled excited to announce the launch of the School Calendar Explorer, a comprehensive, human-vetted dataset with an interactive dashboard to give travel providers an unprecedented view of year-over-year school break patterns, trends, and data across the United States. “School calendar data is full of opportunities for travel companies, but the dataset has always been handcuffed by being stuck in a spreadsheet,” said Trevor Crist, CEO of Inntopia. “This new dataset and interactive dashboard give operators the chance to explore this data in ways that was simply not possible until now.” Built on a fully i...
Paramount Lodging Advisors Arranges the Sale of the Holiday Inn La Mesa San Diego, California
Paramount Lodging Advisors | July 14, 2021
Paramount Lodging Advisors (PLA) is pleased to announce the sale of Holiday Inn La Mesa San Diego to Greens Group based in Irvine CA. The hotel is located at 8000 Parkway Dr, La Mesa, CA, proximate to a diverse base of demand generators that included San Diego State University, Sharp Grossmont Hospital, Regen BioPharma, Zander Therapeutics, Grossmont Center for Clinical Research, and Kaiser Permanente. The two-story, 141-room, Holiday Inn hotel will undergo a multi-million-dollar renovation to be repositioned as a Holiday Inn Express. The PLA team members Senior Managing Director, Scott Griemsmann and Senior Associate, Subu Thiagarajan ...
Paramount Lodging Advisors Successfully Transacts Las Vegas Hotel
Paramount Lodging Advisors | June 29, 2021
Paramount Lodging Advisors (PLA) is pleased to announce the sale of the property at located at 1440 E Craig Rd, North Las Vegas was represented by Associate, Suzanna Farley Aldrich. “The My Place Hotel Franchise added a new franchisee to its family with the sale of the North Las Vegas My Place Hotel. Congratulations to both the seller and the buyer! This property is a great addition to the buyers’ growing portfolio and allows the franchise to continue its impressive growth even in this challenging market,” stated Suzanna. The four-story, 63-room, MyPlace Hotel opened in 2018 in one of Nevada’s fastest-growing cities. The Hotel i...
McLaren Signs Strategic Agreement With AnMeng in China
McLaren Technologies Asia Pacific | June 17, 2021
Sydney, 17 June 2021 – McLaren Technologies has signed a partner agreement with Guangzhou AnMeng Intelligent Technology Co. as a reseller of the McLaren solution suite in China, as it looks to fortify and grow its operation in the region. “We are very proud to partner with Guangzhou AnMeng Intelligent Technology and excited for the potential our partnership represents,” said McLaren Technologies Managing Director, Matthew White. “The agreement marks an exciting new chapter for McLaren and has us feeling positive about our future in China.” Headquartered out of Singapore and Sydney in Australia, McLaren Technologies is one of...
Paramount Lodging Advisors Arranges the Sale of the DoubleTree by Hilton St. Louis Airport Hotel
Paramount Lodging Advisors | May 25, 2021
St. Louis, MO—Paramount Lodging Advisors (PLA) has successfully sold the DoubleTree St. Louis Airport located at 4505 Woodson Rd. PLA Associates Beau Mullenix and Lora Simpson, and Senior Managing Director Adam Montufar represented the seller in this transaction. The sale of the 158-room hotel is the second property transacted by PLA in the St. Louis market to close this month. The DoubleTree by Hilton STL Airport recently underwent a comprehensive $5.5MM renovation and is ideally located directly South of St. Louis Lambert International Airport. "Selling a privately owned, full-service airport hotel during COVID is not an easy assign...
RDP Integrates With PointCentral for Seamless, Contact-Free Access to Hospitality Properties
RDP | May 24, 2021
Vail, CO. (May 24, 2021) – RDP today announced a new integration with PointCentral, a cloud-based property automation platform that hospitality businesses use to offer a premium smart home experience with contactless access. Following over 30 years of tailored service in the hospitality industry, this integration with PointCentral is RDP’s next evolution in its full suite Property Management Software solution. In response to a trying 2020 for properties, RDP has developed a full Touchless Check-In and Check-Out platform that will change the nature of guest-staff interaction on partner properties in the future. By integrating with RDP, Poi...
Hotel Tech Report Launches the 2021 HotelTechIndex Market Leaders Report to Help Hotels Identify Top Technology Solutions in the Recovery
Hotel Tech Report | May 6, 2021
The 2021 HotelTechIndex report is the hotel industry’s definitive guide to technology solutions influencing more than $72 million of buying decisions each year Los Angeles, California / Hotel Tech Report released the 2021 HotelTechIndex™: Hotel Software Market Leaders Report, the most comprehensive view of technology solutions aiding hotel businesses in the industry recovery. Despite the uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic during the 3-month data collection period, 318,466 hoteliers across 127 countries visited Hotel Tech Report and spent more than 3,000 hours contributing 10,227 verified hotel software product reviews about ...
LEVL Releases Device Intelligence Platform for Hospitality Network Industry
LEVL Technologies | May 5, 2021
Scale-Validated Platform Eliminates Issues Resulting from MAC Address Randomization Palo Alto, Calif. – May 5, 2021 – LEVL Technologies, Inc. today released its LEVL-IQ™ device intelligence and identity platform, which resolves issues caused by MAC address randomization which poses challenges to the hospitality network industry, while offering intelligence and insights on all devices in the network. As the need for consumer privacy has increasingly pushed device and OS manufacturers to incorporate MAC address randomization into their products, hospitality network providers have had to evolve to ensure an optimal guest network experie...
Lancemore Crossley St. Hotel Partners With Liveport to Meet Guest Expectations for High-Speed Wi-Fi
Liveport | May 4, 2021
Cosmopolitan boutique hotel implements reliable and secure network capable of accommodating a multitude of guest devices without affecting performance. MELBOURNE, Australia — May 4, 2021 — Liveport, a leading provider of internet services and IoT-based technology, has today announced its successful deployment of a high-speed internet network at Lancemore Crossley St. Hotel in Melbourne, Australia. A trendsetting 114-guestroom property that combines both the glamour and grit of Melbournian culture, Lancemore Crossley St. can now also solidify its reputation as a modern and technologically advanced hotel by being able to cat...
Bill Doak Joins Stockdale Capital Partners as Head of New Hospitality Platform
Stockdale Capital Partners | April 19, 2021
LOS ANGELES – April 19, 2021 – Stockdale Capital Partners (“Stockdale”), a Los Angeles-based, vertically-integrated real estate investment firm, announced that hospitality veteran William “Bill” Doak has joined the company as a Managing Director and Head of Stockdale Hospitality. Bill Doak has more than 30 years of hospitality industry experience, with senior leadership roles in operations, marketing, product development, and asset management with top real estate investment and hotel firms including: CIM Group, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Ian Schrager Company, JRK Hotel Group, Loews Hotels, and Morgans Hotel Group. With CI...
Paramount Capital Advisors Welcomes Eli Levenfeld to the Team
Paramount Capital Advisors | March 22, 2021
Paramount Capital Advisors (“PCA”) is pleased to announce the addition of Eli Levenfeld as the newest Associate to the team where he will be responsible for business development, underwriting and closing transactions. Most recently, Levenfeld worked on the Secured Debt Team at Equity LifeStyle Properties, where he originated and closed over $660 million in debt for the company’s portfolio. Mr. Levenfeld received his Bachelor’s degree from The University of Texas at Austin in American Studies and received a Business Certificate from the McCombs School of Business. “We are very excited to have Eli as part our team”, said Jo...
INTEREL Names Scott Watts to Head Expanded Americas Presence
INTEREL | March 4, 2021
LAS VEGAS – March 4, 2021 -- INTEREL, the global leader in providing award-winning hospitality guest-room automation solutions, is pleased to announce that Scott Watts has joined the company as the Senior Vice President, Americas. In this role, Watts will provide the company’s overall direction for INTEREL’s continued growth and expansion in the Americas market with a focus on increasing market share in multiple vertical markets including hospitality, senior living, and MDUs. Watts joins INTEREL after serving as President of the Americas for GuestTek Interactive Entertainment, and previously served in other leadership positions for G...
Porter, a New Contact-Free Food Ordering Technology, Launches in 10 U.S. Hotels
Porter | March 4, 2021
Company Aims to Disrupt Traditional Hospitality Model with Room Service via Smartphone LOS ANGELES, March 4, 2021 – A web-based technology called Porter is powering up a new digital era of food service at hotels, starting in Los Angeles but with its sights set on growth across the United States. Porter, an award-winning business transformation platform that fundamentally changes hospitality, is now operational at the H Hotel Los Angeles from the Curio Collection by Hilton, Homewood Suites by Hilton LAX and the Courtyard by Marriott Los Angeles LAX/Century Boulevard. Together with seven limited-service hotels near the company’s head...
