Melissa Oliver has been appointed as Director of Sales and Marketing at Marriott Syracuse Downtown
Marriott Syracuse Downtown has named Melissa Oliver as its new director of sales and marketing. A native New Yorker, Oliver brings to her role a decade of leadership experience in the hospitality industry.
Oliver most recently served as director of sales and marketing at the Crowne Plaza Syracuse where she effectively oversaw all sales, marketing and social media efforts. While leading a team of sales managers, conference services and administrative staff, she also created special events to drive revenue, acted as a main point of contact for the sales team and hotel ownership, and worked with the general manager to execute top-level projects in the hotel's various departments.
Prior to that, she held the position of general manager at Lake Placid Summit Hotel Resorts & Suites in Lake Placid, New York. Among her many accomplishments there—in addition to improving hotel operations and implementing new quality control standards—Oliver significantly grew average daily rates (ADR) in her first six months and maintained a year-round occupancy rate of 75 percent.
Previously, she served in various sales and operations roles with Courtyard Lake Placid, DelMonte Hotel Group, Holiday Inn Waterloo/Seneca Falls, Holiday Inn Downtown Ithaca and Holiday Inn Syracuse.