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Appointment Sales & Marketing

Jess Johnson has been appointed as Director of Sales and Marketing at Hotel Van Zandt

IHG
Austin, Texas, United States
Jess Johnson
Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants is pleased to welcome Joe Pagone as general manager and Jess Johnson as director of sales and marketing for its highly anticipated Hotel Van Zandt in Austin, set to open in summer 2015.As general manager, Pagone will oversee the opening of the hotel and is responsible for all personnel, business development, property operations and guest relations for the 319-room and 41-suite hotel located in the Rainey Street Historic District. Johnson comes to the property from the Horseshoe Bay Resort in Texas where he steered sales and marketing operations to record revenues during his time there. He also raised the resort’s average daily rates and group occupancy to unprecedented levels. Prior to that, Johnson was appointed director of sales and marketing for the Sheraton Nashville Downtown and was responsible for achieving combined revenues of $14 million for the hotel. Johnson is a graduate of Pima Community College and a member of ASEAE, MPI Global Community and the Society of Incentive Travel Executives.
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IHG Hotels & Resorts is a global hospitality company, with a purpose to provide True Hospitality for Good. With a family of 19 hotel brands and IHG One Rewards, one of the world's largest hotel loyalty programmes, IHG has over 6,000 open hotels in over 100 countries, and more than 1,900 in the development pipeline.