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Hotels To Celebrate National Hotel Employee Day
AHLA | August 30, 2024
WASHINGTON (Aug. 30, 2024) – Top hotel industry groups, including the American Hotel & Lodging Association, the Asian American Hotel Owners Association, the National Association of Black Hotel Owners, Operators & Developers, and the Latino Hotel Association, will recognize National Hotel Employee Day today and throughout the weekend along with hoteliers across the country. AHLA and the National Day Calendar established National Hotel Employee Day in 2022 to honor the nearly two million employees who work in America’s hotel industry. It is observed annually on September 1. Every day in communities across the nation, hotel empl...
Hotel Groups Celebrate Second Annual National Hotel Employee Day
AHLA | September 1, 2023
WASHINGTON (Sept. 1, 2023) – Leaders of top hotel industry groups, including the American Hotel & Lodging Association, the Asian American Hotel Owners Association, the National Association of Black Hotel Owners, Operators & Developers, and the Latino Hotel Association today released the below statements on the second annual National Hotel Employee Day. “Employees are the lifeblood of every hotel, and we created National Hotel Employee Day to help thank America’s nearly two million hotel professionals for their incredible service and dedication,” said AHLA President & CEO Chip Rogers. “Today and throughout the year, ...
BOLD by Wyndham Hits the Accelerator, Signs Nearly 20 Hotels in Just Over Six Months
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts | February 22, 2023
PARSIPPANY, N.J., Feb. 22, 2023 -- Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, the world's largest hotel franchising company with approximately 9,100 hotels in over 95 countries, today announced the rapid expansion of its groundbreaking BOLDSM by Wyndham program. In just over six months, the program has signed deals for 18 hotels across the U.S., including 10 under its newly launched ECHO SuitesSM Extended Stay by Wyndham brand. Based on data provided by the National Association of Black Hotel Owners, Operators and Developers (NABHOOD), Black employment in the hotel industry represents nearly 20 percent of all team members in the indus...
Report: Hotel Industry Facing Historic Wave of Foreclosures
AHLA | August 18, 2020
WASHINGTON (August 18, 2020) – A new national report shows that the hotel industry is facing a historic wave of foreclosures as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to devastate small business hotel owners and its workforce. Since the beginning of the pandemic the hotel segment has faced a historic number of delinquencies and is the most heavily hit sector of the commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) market. Nearly 4,000 hotel industry leaders sent an urgent letter to Congress urging immediate action to help hotels avoid foreclosure and the loss of tens of thousands of jobs. The report, compiled by Trepp, shows that the percentage of...
Choice Hotels Signs Franchise Agreements With Organizations Led By African-American Women to Develop Six Hotels Across US and Caribbean
Choice Hotels | April 18, 2019
ROCKVILLE, Md., April 18, 2019 -- Businesses owned by women of color grew three times faster than other women-owned businesses in the United States last year, yet it is estimated by the National Association of Black Hotel Owners, Operators and Developers (NABHOOD) that less than one percent of hotels are owned by African-American women. Choice Hotels International, Inc.'s (NYSE: CHH) one-of-a-kind emerging markets franchise development team is helping to bridge this gap and extend the opportunity of hotel ownership to underrepresented populations—most recently by awarding six franchise agreements to organizations led by Africa...
