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Appointment Sales & Marketing

Andrea Foster has been appointed as Senior Vice President, Development at Marcus Hotels & Resorts

Marcus Hotels
Milwaukee, WI, United States
Andrea Foster
Marcus® Hotels & Resorts, a division of The Marcus Corporation (NYSE: MCS), today announced that Andrea Foster has been named senior vice president, development for Marcus Hotels & Resorts and MCS Capital LLC. Foster, a 20-year hospitality veteran and lodging industry expert, will be responsible for marketing the company’s hotel management capabilities and identifying and securing potential acquisition, joint venture and third-party management opportunities for the company. Foster joins Marcus Hotels & Resorts and MCS Capital from PKF Consulting|CBRE Hotels, where she most recently served as managing director, leading PKF’s Boston office and overseeing its national Spa Advisory Practice. From 2006-2011, she served as vice president, marketing and business development for Miraval Holdings, a top-rated destination spa resort and healthy lifestyle brand. Foster began working with PKF|CBRE in Los Angeles in 2002 where she was responsible for hospitality real estate ventures and feasibility analysis. She returned to PKF|CBRE in 2011. Her career also includes operations management positions with boutique-size branded and independent hotel properties on the East and West coasts. During her career, Foster has worked on a variety of assignments involving market positioning and repositioning, feasibility analysis, appraisals, operational analysis, sales and marketing analysis, spa studies, impact studies and tourism studies. She has become a key voice at hotel investment conferences and was the publisher of PKF’s Trends® in the Hotel Spa Industry report. Foster is president of the Cornell Hotel Society New England Chapter, industry advisor to Cornell University Spa Association, scholarship chair for ISPA (the International Spa Association), a member of the NEREJ (New England Real Estate Journal) Hotel Advisory Board, an active member of CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women) Boston, and is a regular speaker at the hospitality schools at Cornell and Boston University. Foster, originally from Maine, is a graduate of Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration with a concentration in real estate finance and operations. Foster can be contacted at [email protected].

Andrea Foster is an alumnus of Cornell | Nolan School of Hotel Administration – Class of 1996.

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Marcus Hotels & Resorts, a division of The Marcus Corporation (NYSE: MCS), owns and/or manages 19 hotels, resorts and other properties in 10 states. A force in the hospitality industry, Marcus Hotels & Resorts provides expertise in management, development and historic renovations. The company's portfolio includes a wide variety of properties including city-center meeting hotels, upscale resorts and branded first-class hotels.