Geneva Rinehart wasselected because the 2023 Hospitality Monetary and Know-how Professionals (HFTP®) Paragon Award recipient for her important contribution to the manufacturing of a key hospitality know-how info useful resource for almost three many years. She can also be acknowledged for inhabiting the position as a central connector amongst {industry} gamers — distributors, lodge firms, consultants — guaranteeing that each one are apprised of present tendencies and acknowledged for his or her contributions to the evolution of hospitality know-how.
Rinehart is senior vp and managing editor at Hospitality Improve, the place she has served in a number of capacities since 1995. HFTP and Hospitality Improve are long-time allied companions working collectively to develop hospitality know-how info and sources, and Rinehart has labored intently with HFTP and its community to satisfy this relationship. Rinehart will probably be honored on October 18 on the HFTP Annual Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana USA.
“I’m honored to be chosen as HFTP’s 2023 Paragon Award recipient and be a part of a powerful group – lots of whom are on my private admiration checklist. I’ve had the good pleasure of collaborating with so many {industry} teams, leaders and professionals over time with Hospitality Improve Journal, The CIO Summit and the Govt Vendor Summit,” mentioned Rinehart. “And it positively helped to have surrounded myself with superb people who find themselves devoted to the trigger, all the time push the bar larger, and are by no means afraid to strive one thing new. The HFTP group has been completely unbelievable to work with on our many tasks and occasions, and I thank them for this recognition.”
Geneva Rinehart’s publishing profession started in 1995 with the launch of H&A Replace, the precursor to Hospitality Improve journal. She has been a driving power behind key {industry} conferences, together with the Govt Vendor Summit and the CIO Summit. Geneva’s pioneering spirit led to the introduction of the journal’s first digital version in 2003, which integrated cutting-edge applied sciences resembling QR codes, augmented actuality, video and multimedia. In 2017, she curated a particular publication on the historical past of know-how for the lodge {industry} and compiled Hospitality Improve’s Marriott Americas’ IT version. She additionally performed an integral position in growing and revamping the Hospitality Improve and Lodge On-line web sites and newsletters.
Along with her {industry} work, Geneva has logged greater than 600 hours of volunteer service to her neighborhood. In collaboration with HFTP Worldwide Hospitality Know-how Corridor of Fame inductee Sherry Marek she has created a group of mentor articles to encourage and encourage {industry} professionals. She holds a Bachelor of Arts diploma in journalism from Pennsylvania State College’s College of Communications. She and her husband, Rick, have two kids.
“Throughout these 29 years Geneva, as managing editor, has helped to maintain the {industry}’s main supply of know-how info contemporary and related and in doing so has helped to coach hundreds of hoteliers world wide about know-how points and options,” wrote Robert Bennett, co-founder of Kalibri Labs, LLC, in help of Rinehart’s nomination. “The conferences hosted by Hospitality Improve, and arranged with Geneva’s assist, have accomplished a lot to advertise cooperation amongst distributors and lodge operators. There isn’t any scarcity of examples to point out how Geneva has contributed to the betterment of hospitality know-how.”
Hospitality Improve is the unique know-how journal for HFTP and sponsor of HFTP occasions resembling HITEC® and the HFTP Annual Conference. HFTP additionally helps coordinate the annual Govt Vendor Summit and CIO Summit, based by Hospitality Improve in 2002.
Established in 1999, the distinguished HFTP Paragon Award acknowledges people every year who’ve made a major and lasting contribution to each HFTP and the hospitality {industry}. Paragon Award nominees could be HFTP members; representatives of industry-related associations, societies or commerce publications; leaders from hospitality companies, instructional establishments and different associated disciplines. A panel of {industry} consultants selects the award recipients who’re historically acknowledged at HFTP’s Annual Conference.
Earlier Paragon Award winners embrace: Alice Banks, CHAE (1999); Henry “Buddy” Weeks, CHAE (1999); Frank Santos, CHAE, CHA (2000); Katherine Cavanagh, CHAE (2001); Raymond Schmidgall, PH.D., CPA, CHAE (2002); Frank Wolfe, CAE (2002); Len Bartello, CPA, CHAE, CHTP (2003); John J. Cahill, CHA, CHTP (2004); Wendy Zurstadt, CPA, CHAE, CHTP (2005); Richard Braa, CHAE (2006); Robert Patasnick, CPA (2007); George Glazer (2008); Agnes DeFranco, Ed.D., CHAE (2009); Stephen LeBruto, CPA, CHAE, Ed.D. (2009); and Steve Doherty, CHAE, CHTP (2010); Frank Agnello Jr., CMA, CHAE (2011); Howard Area, FBHA, FCA (2012); Joseph McInerney, CHA (2013); Evelyn Adams (2014); Ralph R. Miller, CPA, CA, CBV, CHA, CHAE (2015); Raman (R. P.) Rama B. Com, CHA Emeritus, CHTP, CHAE (2016); Kris S. Shoemaker, CMA, CGFO, CHAE, CHTP, CPFIM (2016); Mary Gerdts (2017); Anna McFarland, CPA, CFE, CHAE, CHTP (2018); Thomas Smith, CHAE (2019); Ian Millar, CHTP (2020); Tanya Venegas, MBA, MHM, CHIA (2021); Sanjay Nadkarni, Ph.D. (2021); and Daniel Conti, Jr., CHAE+ (2022).
The HFTP Annual Conference is October 18–20, 2023 on the JW Mariott Indianapolis in Indianapolis, Indiana USA. Register to attend. For extra details about HFTP occasions, contact the HFTP Conferences & Particular Occasions Division at [email protected], +1 (512) 249-5333. For extra info on the Paragon Award, contact the HFTP Communications Division at [email protected] or +1 (512) 249-5333.
About HFTP
Hospitality Monetary and Know-how Professionals (HFTP®), established in 1952, is a hospitality nonprofit affiliation headquartered in Austin, Texas USA with places of work within the EU and Center East. HFTP is acknowledged because the spokes group for the finance and know-how segments of the hospitality {industry} with a global community of members and stakeholders. HFTP uniquely understands the {industry}’s urgent points, and assists its stakeholders to find options to their challenges extra effectively than any group. HFTP affords skilled networks, instructional sources, profession improvement applications, analysis, management alternatives and conferences and occasions. HFTP produces worldwide occasions all year long, together with the world’s largest hospitality know-how tradeshow and convention model: HITEC. As well as, it oversees the hospitality-specific Pineapplesearch.com® and the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Business (USALI). For extra details about HFTP, go to www.hftp.org. For the newest information, go to the HFTP Information web page at information.hftp.org and the HFTP Join weblog at weblog.hftp.org.
