LAS VEGAS – The American Lodge & Lodging Affiliation right this moment introduced its 2023 Common Managers of the 12 months, TechOvation, and Know-how Acceleration Award winners throughout displays at The Hospitality Present at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas.
AHLA’s 2023 Common Managers of the 12 months are:
- Travelodge by Wyndham Memphis Common Supervisor Harold Daniels, AHLA Common Supervisor of the 12 months – Choose-Service Property
- Embassy Suites by Hilton Minneapolis Airport Common Supervisor Katie Ward, AHLA Common Supervisor of the 12 months – Full-Service Property
- Hyatt Regency Coconut Level Resort & Spa Common Supervisor Brian Kramer, AHLA Common Supervisor of the 12 months – Resort Property
- Monterey Plaza Lodge & Spa Managing Director Chris Sommers, AHLA Common Supervisor of the 12 months – Impartial Property
- SpringHill Suites by Marriott Orange Seaside Common Supervisor Michelle Davis, AHLA Common Supervisor of the 12 months – Prolonged Keep Property
- Hyatt Regency New Orleans Common Supervisor Michael O’Keith Smith, AHLA Common Supervisor Lifetime Achievement Award
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Common managers acquired their awards through the inaugural Common Managers Summit at The Hospitality Present. The primary-of-its form occasion will probably be held yearly and convey collectively lodge GMs from throughout the nation to listen to from knowledgeable audio system, share finest practices, community, and rejoice the business’s finest GMs by way of an awards ceremony.
AHLA and its know-how committee, HTNG, introduced that PolyAI is the winner of the annual TechOvation Award for its guest-led voice assistants, which use superior conversational AI to grasp and reply to widespread visitor requests. The TechOvation award acknowledges essentially the most important current innovation in hospitality know-how. Judges and members of The Hospitality Present viewers picked this 12 months’s winner from ten semifinalists who offered their revolutionary merchandise to The Hospitality Present attendees.
AHLA and HTNG additionally named the next winners of the inaugural Know-how Acceleration Award:
- Actabl
- Agilysys
- Belmond
- BOUNTE, INC.
- BluIP
- Clairvoyix
- Directful
- Hapi
- Instio Expericences, Pvt Ltd
- iOpen Improvements
- Logistics
- Phonesuite
- TigerTMS
- TipQwik
- Visible Matrix
Every year, the AHLA Know-how Acceleration Award will acknowledge firms which have taken particular steps to advance innovation in hospitality. This 12 months, the award showcased firms which have adopted HTNG Categorical, a brand new answer that shortens the method for post-booking lodge property administration system integrations from months to only days.
“These esteemed winners symbolize a few of hospitality’s brightest stars and most revolutionary firms,” stated AHLA President & CEO Chip Rogers. “The Hospitality Present gives a super discussion board during which to acknowledge the people and organizations who embody excellence in hospitality service and ingenuity. We sit up for recognizing America’s high lodge GMs and know-how innovators once more subsequent 12 months at The Hospitality Present 2024 in San Antonio.”
Subsequent 12 months, AHLA’s Common Supervisor of the 12 months, TechOvation, and Know-how Acceleration Award winners will probably be introduced at The Hospitality Present 2024, which will probably be held on the Henry B. Gonzalez Conference Middle in San Antonio Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, by Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. These occupied with subsequent 12 months’s occasion can full this way for extra data.
About The Hospitality Present
The Hospitality Present is a brand new occasion for the whole hospitality ecosystem with one shared purpose: working accommodations effectively and profitably. Produced by the American Lodge & Lodging Affiliation (AHLA) and Questex, the occasion brings collectively high business leaders, senior executives of lodge manufacturers, homeowners, operators, administration firms, procurement specialists and their groups. The Hospitality Present 2023 is going down June 27-29 on the Venetian Resort Las Vegas. Study extra at thehospitalityshow.com.
