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Bret Chittenden Promoted to President of Expotel Hospitality
March 27, 2024
Metairie, LA, March 27, 2024 – Expotel Hospitality, a prominent full-service third-party hotel management company, announced today that Bret Chittenden, formerly the firm’s Chief Operating Officer, has become its new President. Expotel Hospitality Chairman George Newton made the announcement. Mr. Chittenden has been part of the company since its inception in1999. He also previously worked for the founders of the company George Newton and the late David Burrus. “I want to thank Mr. Newton and late Mr. Burrus for a lifetime of building value in me through conversations and lessons geared both professionally and personally,...
Ed Robison Joins Expotel Hospitality as Chief Development Officer
Expotel Hospitality | March 1, 2024
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Brent Baudier Named Vice President of Food & Beverage and Hospitality for Expotel Hospitality
October 30, 2023
Metairie, LA, October 30, 2023 - Expotel Hospitality, a nationally recognized hotel owner, developer, and manager, announced today that it has hired accomplished industry executive Brent Baudier to serve as the company’s Vice President of Food & Beverage and Hospitality. Mike Nixon, President and Chief Development Officer of Expotel, made the announcement. A seasoned hospitality executive, Brent has more than 20 years of executive-level experience in the hospitality industry including resorts, private clubs, and restaurants. During that time, Brent served both the PGA TOUR and the PGA of America with increasing levels of responsibi...
Expotel Hospitality to Open and Manage Historic 118 Room Hotel Indigo in Memphis, Tennessee
Expotel Hospitality | September 25, 2017
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA - August 25, 2017 - Expotel Hospitality (www.expotelhospitality.com), a New Orleans-based hotel management and development company, today announced it has signed an agreement to provide development consulting, pre-opening services, and post-opening operations management services for the previously announced adaptive re-use project of the circa 1963 former Holiday Inn in downtown Memphis. The iconic, "mid-century modern" structure on the corner of B.B. King Boulevard and Court Avenue will undergo an intensively thorough renovation to include all new mechanical, plumbing, and electrical, new guest room finishes...
Expotel Hospitality Names New President
Expotel Hospitality | June 12, 2017
Expotel Hospitality has appointed Larry Spelts as the new president and chief development officer of Expotel Hospitality located in New Orleans, Louisiana. With a career spanning 30 years in all facets of the hospitality industry, Spelts brings uniquely diverse experience. Prior to joining Expotel Hospitality, Spelts served as vice president of business development for Charlestowne Hotels. In this role, Spelts developed strategic relationships for Charlestowne Hotels with diverse hotel ownership and development groups and led the acquisition of management contracts that added 34 properties and development projects over 7½ years. ...
Turning Tables: Movement Towards the “Un-conference Meeting Experience” Growing
Willoz Consulting | August 31, 2015
New Orleans, LA -- August 31, 2015 -- Julie Couret Willoz plans a lot of corporate meetings. She's presented at conferences and facilitated presentations that number in the hundreds – most in hotel meeting spaces designed for precisely that purpose. So when her client, New Orleans-based Expotel Hospitality Services, LLC told her of their plans for trying something "new" for their annual summer meeting this year, she was excited. Besides, she knew, who better to test the limits of the industry movement towards out-of-the-box "meeting experiences" than a hotel management company that specializes in the meeting business? The Expotel Hosp...
