Associated Luxury Hotels Adds Two to Washington, D.C./Mid-Atlantic Region Sales Team

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. March 12, 2013

March 12. 2013 - Highly respected hospitality industry sales professional Laura Arth has returned to Associated Luxury Hotels International (ALHI) as Regional Vice President for the Mid-Atlantic region. In her new position she is responsible for leading ALHI's Global Sales team, in the Mid-Atlantic region, in serving meeting professionals, association executives, convention specialists, and business executives with ALHI's Global Sales Organization (GSO) services and support.

In addition, David Folkeson has joined ALHI as Director of Sales, also based in ALHI's Washington, D.C. GSO office. Both will work with the region's association and corporate executives and meeting professionals as a local extension for ALHI's distinctive portfolio of more than 140 Four- and Five-Diamond quality hotels and resorts worldwide, which feature more than 100,000 rooms and suites and over 10 million square feet of meeting space, according to David Gabri, president and CEO of ALHI.

An 11-year veteran of ALHI as Vice President of Sales and later as Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Arth most recently developed her private company that launched a meeting and convention industry website. Prior to her 1996 - 2007 tenure with ALHI, Arth provided two years of service with Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts in National Sales. She may be reached at [email protected] and (202) 887-7023.

Folkeson joins ALHI from La Quinta Resort & Club in Southern California, where he served for six years, most recently as Director of Mid-Atlantic and Southeast Sales. His focus has been on serving key national association accounts in the greater Washington, D.C. marketplace. The 16-year hospitality sales professional's prior experience includes serving as Director of Sales and Marketing for Hotel Zoso in Palm Springs, California; and as Director of Group Sales for Wyndham Emerald Plaza in San Diego. He may be reached at [email protected] and (202) 887-7027.

“We are so pleased to have Laura back with us at ALHI, and David as a new member of our Global Sales team in Washington, D.C.,” said Gabri. “Laura brings tremendous experience, and sales and managerial skills, and is a dedicated professional who takes pride in being an incredible asset to meeting and convention professionals and the members ALHI serves. It is good to have David on board, who has proven to be a very effective and solutions-oriented sales professional serving the Washington, D.C. marketplace, and who brings so much to the team and to the accounts he will serve.”

Meeting professionals have chosen ALHI (www.alhi.com) for nearly 30 years, for reliable one-call professional sales assistance and access to their distinctive hotels and resorts for meetings and incentive/recognition programs. There is no cost to planners' organizations to utilize the ALHI GSO services, expertise, and account advocacy, as its members' dues fund the Global Sales Organization to best serve planners with local professionals.

Member hotels include extraordinary Four- and Five-Diamond quality meeting and incentive resorts, incomparable city hotels, exclusive smaller hotels, golf resorts, historic and landmark properties, island destinations, resorts with spas, properties in international destinations, and hotels with world-class gaming and entertainment.

For a list of ALHI's entire portfolio, visit ALHI's website www.alhi.com, and preview details of ALHI's membership, including easily useful information on several defined specialty segments within the ALHI portfolio to serve distinctive meeting, convention and incentive travel needs. On the website, planners can quickly see details of the properties' meeting, accommodation, recreational and dining offerings, as well as destination information and “Luxury on Sale” value opportunities. A photo gallery, meeting floor plans and specs, and a location map for each property are also easily available.

ALHI has 17 professionally-staffed Global Sales Offices to serve, with locations in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Kansas City, Louisville, New York City, Northern California, Orlando, Philadelphia, Richmond, Savannah, Southern California, Toronto, Washington, D.C., and Washington (state). Go to www.alhi.com to identify the “ALHI Team” sales professionals in your state/area.

For more information about ALHI, to inquire about any of the ALHI member properties, and/or to acquire a free copy of ALHI's “2012-2013 Global Sales Guide To Meeting Facilities,” contact your nearest ALHI Global Sales Office, or call the “ALHI Group Desk” toll-free at 866-303-ALHI (2544), and visit www.alhi.com .