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 Day Hospitality Group Opens 11th Hotel; a Hampton Inn 
at the Mall of Georgia, Atlanta
ATLANTA (April 17, 2000) � Day Hospitality Group (DHG) recently opened a Hampton Inn, the first hotel at the Mall of Georgia north of Atlanta.   The five story, 92-room hotel located directly across the street from the regional mega-mall marks the 11th hotel developed and managed by Peyton Day and Fred Cerrone, CEO and COO respectively of Norcross-based Day Hospitality Group. Kathy Thomas serves as the General Manager; Ryan McPhail serves as Assistant General Manager.  

�Day Hospitality Group is proud to open the first hotel at the Mall of Georgia,� said Peyton Day, DHG�s Chairman and CEO.  �We are pleased to extend our special brand of hospitality to the growing Gwinnett County area of Atlanta.  The new hotel fills a definite need.�

Those participating in the Ribbon Cutting ceremony included Peyton Day, DHG Chairman and CEO, Fred Cerrone, DHG President and COO; Steve Crabill, Vice President, Franchise Operations, Hilton Hotel Corporation; Wayne Hill, Chairman, Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners; Marci Davis, Gwinnett County Chamber of Commerce, Bob Harris Executive Director, Gwinnett Convention & Visitors Bureau. and Kathy Thomas, General Manager of the hotel.

The Hampton Inn hotel is geared to both business and leisure guests, who seek in-room amenities such as a desk with an ergonomic chair, telephone with data port and room-wide extension cord and a color television with free HBO and ESPN.

Standard hotel amenities include a swimming pool and spa, meeting room, exercise room, guest laundry, and complimentary continental breakfast served in a spacious area lined with windows adjacent to the lobby.  The public areas feature living-room ambiance complete with wingback chairs, a dual-sided fireplace, floor-to-ceiling bookshelves and two desks with available
dataports for business use. The hotel bakes fresh cookies in the afternoon to offer guests at check-in. 
       
Day Hospitality Group (DHG) is a full-scale management, development and consulting firm specializing in the select-service lodging segment of the hotel industry.  DHG operates five Fairfield Inn by Marriott properties in Midtown Atlanta, Alpharetta, Perimeter Center, Buckhead and Kennesaw, a SpringHill Suites hotel in Alpharetta, and TownePlace Suites hotels in Alpharetta and Kennesaw. The company has a Fairfield Inn hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina and Macon, Georgia.

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Contact:
Frederick W. Cerrone, CHA
President, Day Hospitality Group
(770) 446-1500
Also See: Day Hospitality Group Provides Unique 90 Day Paid Sabbatical for Hotel General Managers / Dec 1999 
Minnesota's Mall of America Generated $1.2 billion in New Money from Out of State Tourists / Shoppers in 1998 / Aug 1999 
Study Released Examining the Correlation Between Cultural Tourism and Shopping / Dec 1998 
Warren Schatzle GM at Day Hospitality Group's Just Opened TownePlace Suites by Marriot in Kennesaw, Georgia / April 2000 

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