Davidson Hotel Company Wins Three Top Hilton National Sales Awards
Kansas City, Memphis, San Antonio Hotels Cited
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Davidson Hotel Company, one of the nation's largest hotel management companies, today announced that Hilton Hotels & Resorts had recognized three of Davidson's directors of sales as the top performers in the Hilton Hotels system, in three categories.
The winners include:
- Lori Haskell, director of sales, Hilton Kansas City Airport -- Thehotel achieved the highest year-over-year percentage gain in revenueper available room (RevPAR) for an airport hotel, compared to its peergroup.
- Tom Goodwin, director of sales, Hilton Memphis -- The hotel achievedthe highest year-over-year percentage gain in RevPAR growth for acommercial hotel, compared to its peer group.
- Brent Hartman, director of sales, Hilton San Antonio Airport -- Thehotel generated the greatest revenue from Hilton's on-line booking andtravel management tool for small and medium-sized businesses.
"Our hotels won three of the 19 top awards out of 229 hotels in the Hilton system, which is a remarkable statistic," said John Belden, Davidson's CEO and president. "No other independent Hilton Hotel operator matched our success. This is the largest number of Hilton awards we've won in a single year in our company's 40-year history. What makes this especially rewarding is that we were able to outperform the top hoteliers across the country in a year when the hotel industry is performing at top levels. Our hotels continue to show strong growth through the first half of 2006, and the outlook remains very positive."