ALHI's New Associated Destinations Worldwide Names Dawn Eagleton Global Sales Manager
ADW Is Associated Luxury Hotels International's New Global Sales Specialist Team Serving Planners With Outbound International Group Programs
November 15, 2011 - Dawn Eagleton has been named Global sales manager at Associated Destinations Worldwide (ADW), the new Global Sales Organization (GSO) launched by *Associated Luxury Hotels International (ALHI) in October 2011. Built upon ALHI's 25 years of National Sales experience, ADW specifically provides local GSO services to the U.S. and Canadian meetings and incentive marketplace for its world-class member destinations, upper-tier hotels, and first-class convention facilities from around the world. In her new position Eagleton is responsible for providing meeting planners, association executives, incentive/recognition specialists, and business executives in the eastern United States and Canada with dedicated ADW Global Sales Organization services. She is based in the ALHI/ADW Sales Office in Washington, D.C. The announcement of Eagleton's appointment was made by ADW Executive Vice President Kevin Hinton, who oversees ADW day-to-day sales operations and services.
ADW (www.adw-gso.com) is a dedicated business unit of specialists that serves North American companies and associations by providing expertise, guidance, and local authorized sales services as an extension of their international members, and is an advocate to accounts on their outbound international group programs. ADW works in concert with the ALHI National Sales Offices (NSO) and therefore is the first and only company in the United States to offer authorized Global Sales services and expertise for international destinations on a national level across America, specifically for the Meetings, Incentives, Conventions, and Exhibitions (M.I.C.E.) sectors.
ALHI (www.alhi.com) is a prestigious National Sales Organization (NSO), which exclusively provides dedicated NSO services and sales support for its distinctive portfolio of more than 130 Four- and Five-Diamond quality hotels and resorts to the meetings and incentive marketplace. ALHI is celebrating its silver anniversary this year. There is no cost to planners or their organizations for ALHI's or ADW's services, as their services are fully funded by their members' dues.
Eagleton joins ADW from Tourism Toronto-Toronto Convention and Visitors Association, where she served for six years as Citywide Director for the U.S. Association sector for the Washington, D.C. and Southeast U.S. regions. In that position she was responsible for developing meetings & conventions for Toronto, the largest city in Canada. Prior to that position she served for two years as National Sales Manager for the Norfolk Convention and Visitors Bureau. Other experience includes serving as National Sales Manager for Sheraton, and as Executive Director of the Northeast Pennsylvania Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Eagleton is the incoming Vice-Chair of the ASAE Meetings & Exhibition Section Council, and serves on the national Marketing Task Force for the PCMA Annual Meeting Program Committee. She is the Immediate Past Chair of the Sponsorship Committee for the PCMA Capital Chapter, and is an active member of the MPI Potomac Chapter, HSMAI DC Chapter, AMPs, and IAEE. She may be reached at [email protected] and (202) 887-7025.
“We are very proud to have such an outstanding sales professional as Dawn on our Global Sales specialist team for Associated Destinations Worldwide,” said David Gabri, president and CEO of ALHI and ADW. “She is a highly motivated, results-driven sales professional with exceptional experience representing hotels and convention and visitors bureaus. She will be a tremendous asset for meeting planners, incentive specialists and business executives who have programs for distinctive first-class venues outside of the U.S.A.”
Hinton added, “Dawn is a highly skilled, internationally trained, and culturally astute Global Sales specialist who will focus on serving our North American meeting planner and incentive specialist clients with international solutions that will best suit their program needs. She is very adept at providing expert insight and innovative solutions, and will prove to be a very valuable resource to her clients.”
Hinton added, “We are delighted to have such a talented professional as Dawn as our newest teammate of our expanding GSO team, helping us keep up with the demand and enabling North American planners to have a reliable local GSO with which to quickly and easily discuss options on a variety of appealing international venues for their programs, with just one-call professional sales assistance right here in America.”
Associated Destinations Worldwide already features many exceptional members, including its newest member Grand Resorts at Cap Cana collection in Dominican Republic, which includes Fishing Lodge Cap Cana, Sanctuary Cap Cana, and Ocean Club Cap Cana. Plus, ADW features the popular Punta Cana Resorts in Dominican Republic with the Paradisus Palma Real Resort and Paradisus Punta Cana Resort. Elsewhere other outstanding ADW members include the luxurious Half Moon in Montego Bay, Jamaica, and the incredible Paradise Island, Bahamas ATLANTIS, including The Cove, The Reef, The Royal Towers, and more.
Offerings in Mexico include the AAA Five-Diamond Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach Resort & Spa (Cancun); the chic Live Aqua (Cancun); the brand new and amazing Paradisus Resorts in Playa del Carmen with the Paradisus La Perla, and the Paradisus La Esmeralda; and the magnificent Fiesta Americana Grand Los Cabos Golf & Spa Resort in Los Cabos. Canadian hotels include the Four-Diamond Loews Hotel Vogue Montreal and the exceptional Loews Hotel Le Concorde in Quebec in the east, and the sophisticated Pan Pacific Vancouver along the west coast.
ADW also features the famed InterContinental London Park Lane (London, England), the spectacular Atlantis The Palm (Dubai, United Arab Emirates), and more. ADW is expected to make announcements on new members in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and elsewhere in Europe and Asia in the months ahead.
ADW and its sales team are interactive and supported by ALHI's respected and dedicated National Sales Organization which now features 16 National Sales Offices (NSO) located across North America, with its dedicated team of 50 sales professionals. The ADW GSO team and the ALHI professionals provide a combination of specialists to best serve accounts with expert insight, innovative solutions, and well-established/connected relationships to assure their programs' success.
For more information about Associated Destinations Worldwide, call (312) 346-5768 , and visit www.adw-gso.com . For information about ALHI, contact your nearest ALHI National Sales Office, call the “ALHI Group Desk” toll-free at 866-303-ALHI (2544), and visit www.alhi.com .
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