Source: Historic Hotels of America®

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Historic Hotels of America® and Historic Hotels Worldwide® are participating with multiple Emmy Award-winning producer and Travel Detective television host, Peter Greenberg for the Hotels with a Past series. Hotels with a Past is a Peter Greenberg Worldwide featured video that highlights and reveals the untold stories of the world's most iconic hotels. Peter Greenberg and his expert correspondents go inside historic hotels to uncover the stories and bring a whole new understanding and awareness of these grand icons, where the past, present and future converge.

Hotels with a Past is distributed across multiple web and social media platforms. Videos are also broadcast on The Travel Detective show on PBS, posted on PeterGreenberg.com, HuffingtonPost.com, and made available on YouTube. Hotels filmed to date include French Lick Resort (1845) in French Lick, Indiana, The Omni Homestead Resort (1766) in Hot Springs, Virginia, and The Buccaneer (1653) St. Croix, in the U.S. Virgin Islands, The Plaza (1907) in New York, New York and Hotel Raffles (1887) in Singapore.

Peter Greenberg is America's most recognized, honored and respected front-line travel news journalist. He is travel editor for CBS News, appearing on CBS This Morning, CBS Evening Newsand Sunday Morning, among other broadcast platforms. Greenberg hosts a television show, The Travel Detective with Peter Greenberg, airing on Public Television across the United States. The series offers 42 half-hour episodes with information and insider tips you need to know before you ever leave home. It also showcases hidden gem destinations across the country, and around the world. In 2016, Peter Greenberg was awarded the Historic Hotels of America Journalist of the Year.

"Historic Hotels of America and Historic Hotels Worldwide are thrilled to be collaborating with Peter Greenberg to increase the recognition and celebration of many iconic and legendary historic hotels through his Hotels With A Past series," said Lawrence Horwitz, executive director Historic Hotels of America and Historic Hotels Worldwide. "Historic hotels appeal to all types of travelers from millennials to seniors. Whether celebrating a special occasion, enjoying a romantic escape, or looking for a great family getaway, historic hotels are chance to create lasting memories. Hotels With A Past will feature many of the most places where history has been written."

In addition to his work as Travel Editor for CBS News, Peter Greenberg's multiple media platforms include video (TV and digital), radio, social media networks, books, articles, blogs, newsletters and websites, reaching millions every day. Peter Greenberg Worldwide is a weekly nationally syndicated radio program highlighting different destinations and featuring both local and national travel news guests. The Travel Detective series on Public Television serves to inform and influence millions of discriminating travelers as they make their choices about where to play, to work and to live.

"Great travel is, at its core, great storytelling, and the great historic hotels of the world have the great stories" said Peter Greenberg. "It allows travelers to put their experience into a sense of place, a sense of perspective, and of course it gives each trip added meaning."

Peter Greenberg's audience is comprised of that hard-to-reach highly educated and affluent sector of Americans who have the time, the interest and the disposable income to travel. They are not aspirational consumers; they hit the road and see the world.

About Historic Hotels of America

Historic Hotels of America® is the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation for recognizing, celebrating, and promoting the finest historic hotels in the United States of America. To be nominated and selected for membership in this prestigious program, a hotel must be at least 50 years old; designated by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior as a National Historic Landmark or listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places; and recognized as having historical significance. Of the more than 300 historic hotels inducted into Historic Hotels of America from 44 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, all historic hotels faithfully preserve their sense of authenticity, sense of place, and architectural integrity. For more information, please visit HistoricHotels.org

Heather Taylor
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