The Hospitality Gross sales & Advertising and marketing Affiliation Worldwide Basis is proud to announce this 12 months’s recipients of the Mike Dimond Pupil Profession Success Grant. This prestigious program helps degree-seeking college students who plan to pursue careers in hospitality. The 2023 Mike Dimond Pupil Profession Success Grant awardees are Eleanor Brillo, Mayu Miyata, and Yana Kyrylyuk.
- Eleanor Brillo obtained her B.S. in Tourism Growth and Administration from Arizona State College and expects to obtain an M.A. in Sustainable Tourism from Arizona State College in 2024. She has developed and executed advertising technique for Arizona State College Profession Skilled Growth Companies, labored as an account supervisor and digital strategist for Hackett Promoting, Public Relations Interactive, as a advertising and commerce specialist for Arizona Workplace of Tourism/Go to Arizona, and as a visitor expertise specialist at Courtyard by Marriott. Eleanor is president of ASU’s Tourism Pupil Affiliation, a board member of ASU’s Sustainability Advocacy and Consciousness Board, a committee member of PCMA’s Rising Leaders Committee, and the advertising director of the Tourism Pupil Affiliation at ASU. Her final purpose is to execute hospitality advertising and branding and contribute to income optimization and industry-wide financial empowerment.
- Mayu Miyata expects to obtain a B.S. in Hospitality Administration with a advertising focus from Boston College in 2024. She obtained an Affiliate in Science diploma from Dean School, majoring in enterprise administration. She is a vp of HSMAI’s Pupil Chapter in Boston. She performed a digital advertising methods evaluation for the Envoy Lodge Boston’s restaurant, Para Maria, and developed web site and search engine marketing advertising suggestions for the restaurant. Mayu has labored as an intern at Marriott’s Ko Olina Seaside Membership, a entrance desk agent at InterContinental Boston, and an intern at The Ritz Carlton Kyoto in Japan. Her purpose is to be in hospitality gross sales and usher in visitors and companies from everywhere in the world.
- Yana Kyrylyuk expects to obtain a Bachelor’s diploma from Breda College of Utilized Sciences in Worldwide Lodge Administration in 2024. She spent a semester in an trade program at Rosen School of Hospitality Administration on the College of Florida in 2022. As a member of the Erasmus Pupil Community at Breda, she has served on the occasions committee, as treasurer and native consultant, and on the Council of Recommendation. She is chair of HSMAI Europe’s Pupil Council and helped to start out the Ukrainian Fund supported in partnership with HSMAI Americas and HSMAI Europe. Yana has labored on the Hilton Brussels Grand Palace in Group, Convention and Occasions. Yana is a local of Ukraine and speaks Ukrainian, Russian, English, Spanish, and French. Her targets lie in hospitality administration, strategic considering and planning in hospitality, organizational habits, and worker efficiency and tradition. She believes that “driving gross sales, optimizing income and fueling advertising” is achieved by way of “having the best individuals on the proper time in the best place” in your group.
The competitors for the Pupil Profession Success Grant is difficult and considers the general expertise and keenness of the candidates. Standards for functions embrace {industry} work expertise, submission of a private essay, skilled suggestions, and sustaining a gentle grade level common. To find out the awardees, HSMAI Basis Board Members overview and charge the submissions based mostly on a confirmed curiosity in a profession in hospitality gross sales, advertising, income administration, or distribution, {industry} work expertise and different submission supplies.
The Grant package deal contains the appointment of a specifically chosen mentor for one 12 months, utility charges for the recipient’s alternative of HSMAI Certifications, a one-year Premium subscription to LinkedIn, and complimentary registration and journey honorarium of as much as US $1000 to attend the HSMAI Regional Technique Convention of the recipient’s alternative in HSMAI Americas, Europe, Center East, or Asia Pacific. To be taught extra, go to the Mike Dimond Pupil Profession Success Grant web page.
We’re delighted to assist the intense futures of those proficient hospitality college students by way of the esteemed Mike Dimond Pupil Profession Success Grant. The 2023 program will present these college students with entry to assets and occasions that may enrich their educations with sensible instruments and experiences. Michelle Woodley, HSMAI Basis Chair, and President of Most well-liked Motels & Resorts
Mike Dimond was widely known as one of many prime lodge advertising executives in america, serving the {industry} in prime positions, together with Senior Vice President of Gross sales and Advertising and marketing on the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. He’s a member of the HSMAI Corridor of Fame and honored as one in every of “The 25 Most Extraordinary Minds in Hospitality & Journey.” This grant was created by his household to develop and improve the event alternatives out there to hospitality college students enthusiastic about careers in industrial technique.
Concerning the HSMAI Basis
The HSMAI Basis is a 501 c3 group established in 1983 to function the analysis and academic arm of the Hospitality Gross sales and Advertising and marketing Affiliation Worldwide. The Basis’s mission is to raise the general caliber and efficiency of gross sales, advertising, and income administration professionals within the world hospitality {industry} by driving initiatives that may entice new expertise, develop rising expertise, and interact current expertise. The work of the Basis is supported by non-public donations and company expertise companions. Go to hsmaifoundation.org for extra data.
