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Julian Alden has been appointed as Director of Sales at The Pierre, A Taj Hotel

For 10 years, Alden held increasingly demanding positions at The St. Regis Hotel. As Director of International Sales for eight years, he was responsible for dramatic growth of transient and group business as well as successful sales and marketing initiatives in Europe, the Middle East and Latin America, and was recognized year after year as a top performer for consistently exceeding his sales goals by significant margins. In 2009, he was promoted to Associate Director of Sales, handling strategic planning for pricing and market segmentation while also far exceeding his revenue goals and propelling the hotel into a more prominent competitive ranking in the marketplace. A native of Malta, Alden attended the island republic’s Institute of Tourism Studies – St. George’s Bay, St. Julian’s, where he received a Diploma in Hotel Management awarded with Distinction and was recognized with the “Management Student of the Year” by the Malta Hotel and Restaurant Association.

The Pierre, A Taj Hotel
New York, New York, United States
External Article Design & Architecture

The iPod of hotels: New York's tiny Yotel | smh.com.au

Forget the bellhop. Meet the luggage robot. It's the first of several high-tech, sleek amenities guests encounter at the Yotel, a new US hotel that aims to provide a trendy stay at an affordable price. Purple lighting, throbbing music in the elevators and futon-like lounges that transform to lie-flat beds at the touch of a button help set the mood. Or maybe they just distract you from the tiny size of the rooms. At 16 square metres, perhaps "room" is too generous of a term. Yotel, in New York, prefers to call them cabins.

smh.com.au
New York, New York, United States
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Lisa Iaquez has been appointed as Director of Corporate and Group Sales – The Americas at Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces

Iaquez, based in New York, is responsible for corporate transient sales and group sales in the Eastern US. She brings more than a decade of corporate transient and group sales to her new role with Taj Hotels. Most recently, she was Global Director of Corporate Sales with Jumeirah Hotels, where she represented 11 luxury hotels. Previously, she spent five years as Director of Corporate Sales with New York’s SoHo Grand and Tribeca Grand hotels, and two years as pre-opening Group Sales Manager with Hilton Times Square. Her additional experience includes conference sales planning for the Paramount Hotel, Merrill Lynch and Estee Lauder. A graduate of SUNY New York with a degree in marketing, Iaquez also holds certification from Master Connections sales training and Hilton Sales College. She is a member of British American Business, Hedge Fund Association, NYCBTA NY chapter and ACTE, and supports the Sankara Eye Foundation, the Sikh Arts Foundation and UNICEF world water projects.

IHCL
New York, New York, United States
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Frances Maxwell has been appointed as Director of Corporate, Group and Incentive Sales – The Americas at Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces

Maxwell, based in Chicago, is responsible for group and corporate segments with a specialty in incentive and insurance sales. With 15 years of experience in hospitality and business-to-business sales, she joined Taj Hotels from her position as Director of Regional Accounts, Midwest, for Wynn and Encore Las Vegas. Her prior experience includes serving as Business Development Director with BI, a Minneapolis-based business improvement company, where she advised C-level clients and sold reward, recognition, marketing and other programs. She also held Corporate Sales Manager positions with Pheasant Run Resort & Spa and Wyndham Hotels in Illinois, was a wedding planner for Radisson Lisle, Lisle, IL and was Director of Food & Beverage for the Drake Hotel in Oakbrook, IL. Maxwell is a member of Meeting Planners International, where she is also on the board of directors for the organization’s Chicago Area Chapter, and HSMAI. She has a degree in Psychology from Illinois State University.

IHCL
New York, New York, United States
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Yotel Review – New York Hotels Times Square | bloginity.com

Something big lands in Manhattan today. Imagine the offspring of a Japanese capsule hotel, a transatlantic first class cabin, a rocking meatpacking district club and you may get close to the idea behind Yotel. Bringing technolicious $150 hotel rooms to Midtown Manhattan (or MiMa as the acronym proclaims), Brit Simon Woodroffe aims to shake up our perception of the hotel experience the way Ian Schrager, “Hip Boutique Hotels” and the W crowd did a decade ago. In fact, sit on New York’s largest terrace and you can scoff at the big purple W Times Square logo, knowing that you are enjoying the standard which others now have to attain.

New York, New York, United States
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Adele Gutman Milne has been named Sales & Marketing Executive of the Year at HSMAI Greater New York Chapter

Adele Gutman Milne, Vice President of Sales & Marketing for HKHotels, was named the "Sales & Marketing Executive of the Year" by the HSMAI Greater New York chapter during its 18th Annual Frank W. Berkman Tourism Achievement Award Black Tie Gala Dinner Dance June 8th. Ms. Gutman was selected as a result of her commitment to the hospitality industry, career accomplishments, and industry service. In fact just last year, all four of the HKHotels properties in New York were ranked in the top four in New York City by the members of TripAdvisor — an achievement which Ms. Gutman and everyone at HKHotels has been working toward for over six years. As a result, the hotels have enjoyed consistently high occupancy throughout the year and Ms. Gutman was a featured speaker at TripAdvisor's Master Class held in New York last year.

HSMAI Greater New York Chapter
New York, New York, United States
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Jim Mooney has been promoted to Director of Sales & Marketing at The Westin New York at Times Square

The Westin New York at Times Square is pleased to announce the promotion of Jim Mooney to director of sales and marketing. No stranger to the 863-room hotel, Mooney has spent the past two-and-a-half years as director of sales. Mooney, who has spent most of his career in the Big Apple, joined The Westin New York at Times Square in 2008, and was previously the director of sales at the Millennium Broadway Hotel. Prior to that, he held various positions within the Starwood Hotels & Resorts, the management company for The Westin New York at Times Square, in New York City and Baltimore for nearly 15 years.

The Westin New York at Times Square
New York, New York, United States
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NY hotel books Yobot the luggage-handling bot | cnet.com

Not so keen on schlepping your suitcases through the streets of New York City after checking out of your hotel? Hand them over to Yobot, the luggage-handling robot. The 15-foot bot will await visitors in the lobby of Yotel, which opens June 1 in Times Square and calls itself the "iPod of the hotel industry" for such sleek techno flourishes as touch-screen check-in, flat-panel TVs, purple mood lighting--and, of course, Yobot.

cnet.com
New York, New York, United States
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CitizenM New York Hotel Coming to 185-191 Bowery

With years-dormant project sites reactivating across the neighborhood, it’s safe to say that hotels are back on the Lower East Side agenda. Just last week, it was reported that the stalled Orchard Hell Building was acquired by Brack Capital, who planned to convert the decrepit concrete eyesore into a Hotel Indigo. But the real estate investment firm has another ace up their collective sleeve, and as a result, the lower Bowery is definitely in Dutch. Big-time.

New York, United States