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Bunny Grossinger Receiving the W. Grice Award and
Peter Warren, CHME the Albert E. Koehl Award
from HSMAI

Will be Honored at the HSMAI Annual Awards Gala in
New York City on Jan. 28, 2003 

MCLEAN, VA (Nov. 14, 2002) � Recognizing individuals who have made significant contributions and lasting impressions on the hospitality and travel industry, the Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International (HSMAI) announces the recipients for its annual Winthrop W. Grice Award for public relations and the Albert E. Koehl Award for advertising and marketing excellence. 

The 2002 recipients of these lifetime achievement honors, who will be acknowledged at the Annual HSMAI Travel Industry Awards Gala on Jan. 28, 2003 in New York City, are Bunny Grossinger, who will receive the Grice Award, and Peter Warren, CHME, with the Koehl distinction. 

�The hospitality and travel industry is so fortunate to have the dedication of bright, caring and committed individuals who serve their profession and industry beyond compare,� states Robert A. Gilbert, CHME, CHA, president and CEO of HSMAI. 

�These annual awards are HSMAI�s way of paying tribute to them, and hopefully encouraging others to make similar commitments to their careers, the discipline and the industry,� Gilbert adds. 

Winthrop W. Grice Award: 

With a career that has spanned 40 years in hospitality and travel marketing, Bunny Grossinger is the 14th honoree of the Winthrop W. Grice award.  Grossinger, who has been recognized for pioneering the opening of U.S. markets abroad and cited for recognizing segments markets � most notably her work with women business travelers � got her start in the sales and marketing department at the Grossinger Hotel and Country Club in Grossinger, New York. 

Throughout her long career, she worked at a number of companies, including Global Four Star Tours, Global of London, Encore Travel Marketing, and KLM Airlines.  At Western Union Travel Services, she served as regional director of corporate sales, and at Encore, a division of American Leisure Industries, she was director of industry relations.  Today, she heads the consulting firm, Bunny Grossinger Enterprises. 

Active in community affairs, Grossinger served on the New York State Tourism Advisory Board, as well as the New York State Job Training Partnership Council, the U.S. Congressional Tourism Caucus Advisory Board, the Governor�s Economic Advisory Board and the Port Authority Gateway Task Force.  She continues to remain active in the American Hotel & Lodging Association. 

In 1981, Grossinger received the Travel Industry of America Award for Women of the Year, and in 1984, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from Johnson & Wales University.  She currently serves as co-chairman of the New York Academy of Travel and Tourism, and is a member of the executive committee of the New York University Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism and Travel Administration�s advisory board. 

Albert E. Koehl Award: 

Peter Warren, CHME, president and founder of Warren Kremer Paino Advertising, is the 27th recipient of the Albert E. Koehl award. 

For more than three decades, Warren has been a major force in the advertising business.  Over that time, the international and domestic account roster at his New York-based, full-service agency has been diverse and impressive, with names such as Marriott, Holiday Inn, Four Seasons, Inter-Continental, Hershey Resorts, Curacao, St. Lucia, American Express, and NYC and Company. 

Before forming Warren Kremer Paino, his advertising, promotion, and direct response efforts had been for a prestigious portfolio of companies such as the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the governments of Brazil, Panama and Morocco. 

Warren�s commitment to the industry has been long and fruitful.  He serves as an executive committee member on the advisory board of the New York University Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism and Travel Administration, the Marketing Advisory Committee of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), and is currently on the board of CTO�s Greater New York Chapter. Warren is also a past chairman of HSMAI and serves on the association�s board of directors. 

He has written numerous articles and lectured on the subjects of hospitality marketing, direct response, and business-to-business advertising and new technology. 

The HSMAI Adrian Awards Committee established the Albert E. Koehl award in 1975 to recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to advertising and marketing in the hospitality industry.  A lifetime achievement award, it was named in honor of Albert E. Koehl, a pioneer in hotel advertising.  Past recipients include: Horst H. Schulze, John J. Russell, Jr., CHME, and Michael A. Leven, CHME. 

The Grice Award was established in 1989 to recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to public relations in the hospitality industry.  It was named in honor of Winthrop W. Grice, a long-time senior marketing executive with Marriott, who was the award�s first designate.  Eric Friedheim, Jack Vaughn and Melinda Bush are among the previous recipients. 

HSMAI is an international organization of sales and marketing professionals representing all segments of the hospitality industry. 

Tickets and table sales for the HSMAI Awards Dinner at the New York Marriott Marquis are available at $2,500 per table ($250 a ticket), and can be purchased by contacting Cass Bullock at phone: (609) 628-2348; fax: (609) 628-2819; or e-mail [email protected]

 

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Contact:
HSMAI
8201 Greensboro Drive, Suite 300
McLean, VA 
(703) 610-9024
www.hsmai.org


 
Also See Horst H. Schulze and Eric Friedheim Honored for Significant Contributions to the Hospitality Industry / October 2001
HSMAI Competition Reveals the Best of Travel and Hospitality�s Advertising, Public Relations and Web Marketing / Jan 2002


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