Amber Voelker Joins Associated Luxury Hotels International (ALHI) As Regional Director of Sales For The West Region

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. April 22, 2015

ORLANDO, FL. - April 22, 2015. Associated Luxury Hotels International (ALHI) has expanded its Global Sales team with the addition of Amber Voelker, who joins as the Regional Director of Sales for ALHI's West Region. In her new position she is responsible for assisting meeting professionals, association executives, incentive specialists, and business executives in the West U.S. with ALHI Global Sales Organization (GSO) services and professional sales support for its distinctive portfolio of more than 170 Four- and Five-Diamond quality hotels and resorts worldwide. She is based in ALHI's Global Sales office in Los Angeles, California, and reports to ALHI Division Vice President Chris Riccardi. The announcement of her appointment was made jointly by Riccardi and ALHI President Jim Schultenover.

Voelker comes to ALHI from the elegant The Langham Huntington in Pasadena, California, which is a long-time ALHI Member hotel, where she served that property for almost 12 years including the past four years as the Director of Group Sales. Prior to that, she was Senior Group Sales Manager, and served for five years in Sales (two of which were as Group Sales Manager) for The Ritz-Carlton, Huntington Hotel & Spa before it was converted to The Langham Huntington. Previous to that she was the Director of Sales for the Hollywood Hotel. She is a graduate of California State University-Northridge, and an active member of the MPI Southern California Chapter. She may be reached at [email protected] .

“Our team has had the privilege of working with Amber for the past six years during her tenure at The Langham Huntington, and know first-hand what an outstanding job she does, with tremendous dedication, talent and great sales and leadership skills,” said Schultenover. “She will be a valuable advocate and asset for ALHI clients in the region, and for our worldwide portfolio of Member hotels and resorts. She is there to assist planners in helping them to identify and coordinate the right site solutions at luxury-level and upper-upper tier hotels and resorts for their meetings, conventions, and incentive programs.”

ALHI (alhi.com) is the leading independent Global Sales Organization (GSO) serving the North American meetings & incentive (M&I) marketplace. In addition to the 115,000 rooms and 10 million square feet of function space in the hotel portfolio, ALHI also provides GSO services for 9 luxury cruise ships appropriate for M&I programs; a worldwide Destination Management Company (DMC) offering program support from 100 service providers in over 65 countries; and select Destination Marketing Organization (DMO) alliances, such as the Bermuda Tourism Authority. One call to an experienced ALHI GSO Sales Professional connects association executives, meeting professionals, incentive specialists, and business executives with advocacy and sales assistance for their meetings, conventions, and incentive programs.

To assist planners, ALHI also provides very useful information on 12 defined “Specialty Segments” within the ALHI portfolio which makes it easy for planners to quickly identify site-specific solutions for their programs. The specialty segments include: “Big Box Solutions,” “Level 5 Collection,” “City Solutions,” “Passport Collection,” “Golf Collection,” “Entertainment & Gaming Collection,” “U-200 Gems,” “Historic Collection,” “Beach & Island Collection,” “Mountain Collection,” “Bahamas, Bermuda & Caribbean Collection,” and “Ocean Line Collection."

ALHI provides a team of experienced and knowledgeable sales professionals for Account advocacy with full market one-call professional GSO sales assistance and access to their distinctive hotels, resorts, and venue resources for M&I programs of any size and scope worldwide. ALHI helps Accounts best achieve their objectives and budgets, with distinctive venues, vital insights, and responsible service to enhance the ease and success of their programs. Plus, there is no cost to the corporate, association, and planning organizations to utilize ALHI's professional services and expertise, as ALHI's Members' dues fund the North American sales organization to best serve planners with GSO sales professionals in their local area. For more information about ALHI, and/or any of its Member hotels or resorts, planners should contact their nearest of the 20 professionally-staffed ALHI Global Sales offices situated coast-to-coast in the United States and in Canada. There are ALHI Global Sales Office locations in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Connecticut, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Kansas City, Louisville, New York City, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Richmond, Southern California (3), Toronto, Washington, D.C., and Washington (state). For specifics, go to alhi.com to identify the “ALHI Team” sales professionals in your state/area.

To acquire a free copy of ALHI's “2015 Meeting Facilities Guide” or the ALHI app, contact your nearest ALHI Global Sales Office, or call the “ALHI Group Desk” toll-free at 866-303-ALHI (2544), and visit alhi.com.

Media Contact:
Karen Lamonica
407-788-7070
[email protected]