Associated Luxury Hotels International (ALHI) Expands Sales Team In Northeast

With Addition of Joanne Kolata and AshleyJames

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. June 03, 2014

June 3, 2014 - Associated Luxury Hotels International (ALHI) has expanded its sales team with the addition of two new Global Sales professionals to its Northeast U.S. Global Sales Office. Joanne Kolata has joined ALHI as Regional Vice President of Sales for the Northeast U.S. region, and Ashley James has joined as Director of Sales for the Northeast U.S. region. Both Kolata and James are based in ALHI's Global Sales Office in New York City. The announcement of the appointments was made jointly by ALHI President Jim Schultenover, and ALHI Division Vice President Ashly Balding.

Highly respected hospitality industry sales professional Kolata brings a wealth of experience to ALHI. In her new position she is responsible for leading ALHI's Global Sales team in the Northeast region, in serving meeting professionals, association executives, convention specialists, and business executives with ALHI's Global Sales Organization (GSO) services and support for its distinctive portfolio of more than 160 Four- and Five-Diamond quality hotels and resorts worldwide, with more than 115,000 rooms and suites and nearly 10 million square feet of meeting space.

Kolata comes to ALHI from Morgans Hotel Group, where she served for the past two years as the Regional Director of Sales in New York, where she productively led a team of 10 sales professionals for four New York City Morgans Hotels. Her experience also includes sales positions with InterContinental Hotel Group in New York, and Hilton Hotels, which includes the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. She may be reached at [email protected] or (212) 986-5078.

James comes to ALHI from USMotivation Meeting Services where she was a Senior Account Manager based in New York City since 2006. In her previous role, she acted both as a Strategic Account Manager and in operations which allowed her the opportunity to interact with the ALHI team on many of her clients' programs. Prior to that, she was an Account Executive with Experient Inc. serving several large Fortune 100 clients. She reports to Kolata, and may be reached at [email protected] or (212) 986-5306.

"Joanne and Ashley are outstanding additions to our ALHI Global Sales team and our services in the Northeast,” said Balding. “They will be valuable assets and advocates for meeting professionals and incentive travel specialists, augmenting the ALHI team that has been serving the market for years with exceptional Four- and Five-Diamond quality Member hotels and resorts.”

“Joanne takes over as our Regional Vice President in the Northeast from Vicky Hettleman, who has been promoted to Senior Vice President at ALHI and is based in Florida,” said Schultenover. “Joanne brings tremendous experience, energy, and skills to her new Regional Vice President position. It is also great to have Ashley on board, who has proven to be a very effective and energetic meeting professional serving the New York City marketplace. Ashley's experience will provide great value to her customers because she can thoroughly appreciate her customer's perspective and needs. Together, we have further augmented our GSO team to best serve the growing clientele and demand for our members.”

ALHI's 160+ Member hotels and resorts include exceptional Four- and Five-Diamond quality meeting, convention, and incentive resorts on land and sea, incomparable city hotels, exclusive smaller hotels, golf resorts, historic & landmark properties, island destinations, resorts with spas, properties in international destinations, and hotels with world-class gaming and entertainment.

ALHI provides planners and their organizations experienced Global Sales services with diverse options among its outstanding worldwide member hotels and resorts which specialize in meetings and incentive programs. ALHI provides reliable one-call professional sales assistance and access to their distinctive hotels, resorts, and venues for programs ranging from 10 to more than 6,500. 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.

For a list of ALHI's portfolio, visit www.alhi.com, and preview details of ALHI's Membership, including useful information on 12 defined “specialty segments” within the portfolio, which are designed to make it easy for planners to identify properties, destinations, venues, and/or ships that will best suit their programs' objectives, unique desires and specific needs.

On the ALHI 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 20 professionally-staffed Global Sales Offices to serve, with locations in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Kansas City, Louisville, New York City, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Richmond, Savannah, Southern California (3), 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 “2014 Global Sales Guide To Meeting Facilities” or the new ALHI app, 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 .