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AAHOA Reschedules 2021 Convention & Trade Show
AAHOA | January 26, 2021
ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 26 – The 2021 AAHOA Convention & Trade Show is being rescheduled to August 3-6. It will still be held in Dallas, Texas, at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Dallas (KBHCCD). “AAHOA prides itself on delivering America’s hoteliers, vendors, and partners the best convention and trade show in the hospitality industry. With the end of the pandemic in sight, it is our goal that attendees to the 2021 AAHOA Convention & Trade Show be able to gather safely as we continue on the road to recovery and celebrate the resiliency of our industry. Therefore, we are rescheduling our Convention & Trade Show for A...
AAHOA President & CEO Cecil Staton Talks Politics and the Campaign to Assist Hoteliers
Fran Worrall | November 12, 2020
The Asian American Hotel Owners Association (AAHOA) is the nation’s largest hotel owners association, representing nearly 20,000 members who own almost one in every two hotels in the United States. With billions of dollars in property assets and hundreds of thousands of employees, AAHOA members are core economic contributors in communities across the country. Recently, Hotel Online talked with AAHOA President & CEO Cecil Staton about the association’s ‘10,000 Letters, One Purpose’ campaign, which encouraged hoteliers to engage with members of Congress and the White House to implore them to pass a stimulus package that would eas...
Travel Channel Star & Industry Expert Anthony Melchiorri Calls on Congress to Save Hotel Industry
AAHOA | August 18, 2020
Anthony Melchiorri, CEO of Argeo Hospitality, host of Travel Channel’s Hotel Impossible and one of the hospitality industry’s top podcast, Anthony Melchiorri Live, appealed to Congress to address the liquidity crisis facing the nation's hotel owners as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. In a video message, Melchiorri urged lawmakers to enact substantive measures to help hoteliers such as as a second round of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), banking relief for holders of commercial mortgage-backed security (CMBS) loans, access to the Main Street Lending Program for commercial real estate, and increased resources for the Economic Inju...
AAHOA Elects New Secretary and Board Members
AAHOA | August 18, 2020
ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 18 – Bharat Patel, CHO, of Sarasota, Fla., is the new AAHOA Secretary. Patel is the owner of Gulf Coast Hospitality Solutions, LLC. Previously, Patel served as Florida Regional Director on AAHOA’s Board of Directors. A record-setting number of eligible voters voted in this year’s election. The announcement came at the conclusion of AAHOA’s 2020 Virtual Convention & Trade Show. AAHOA members also elected the following individuals to the Board of Directors: Arkansas Regional Director: Chintu (Danny) Patel Florida Regional Director: Rahul I. Patel Georgia Regional Director: Vikesh (Vik) Zaver Greater...
Report: Hotel Industry Facing Historic Wave of Foreclosures
AHLA | August 18, 2020
WASHINGTON (August 18, 2020) – A new national report shows that the hotel industry is facing a historic wave of foreclosures as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to devastate small business hotel owners and its workforce. Since the beginning of the pandemic the hotel segment has faced a historic number of delinquencies and is the most heavily hit sector of the commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) market. Nearly 4,000 hotel industry leaders sent an urgent letter to Congress urging immediate action to help hotels avoid foreclosure and the loss of tens of thousands of jobs. The report, compiled by Trepp, shows that the percentage of...
America’s Hotel Owners Optimistic About HOPE Act
AAHOA | August 3, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 3, 2020 – AAHOA President & CEO Cecil P. Staton issued the following statement in response to the introduction of the Helping Open Properties Endeavor (HOPE) Act of 2020, a bill to provide relief to small businesses, like hotels, who hold commercial mortgage-backed security (CMBS) loans. The legislation would require the Department of Treasury to establish a facility to guarantee certain preferred equity investments in CMBS borrowers impacted by COVID-19: “Many of AAHOA’s members, the small business owners who run local hotels, use CMBS loans. This crisis hit them hard, and there is no other relief for th...
2020 AAHOA Convention Goes Virtual
AAHOA | June 23, 2020
Parts of Convention will be held in an exclusive online virtual event New Florida Department of Health guidelines recommend against large gatherings ATLANTA, Ga., June 23 – AAHOA, the nation’s largest hotel owners association, announced that its 2020 Convention & Trade Show will not proceed in person due to new health and safety guidelines for combatting COVID-19 issued by the Florida Department of Health (DOH) on Saturday, June 20. The state is experiencing a significant spike in new COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations, and the DOH now recommends limiting recreational gatherings to fewer than fifty people. The AAHOA Convention...
Quore Bringing Its Award-Winning Housekeeping and Engineering Solutions to HX: The Hotel Experience Powered by AAHOA
Quore | November 7, 2019
Experience why Quore is quickly earning the trust and respect of hospitality’s biggest brands; Visit Quore in Booth 1220, November 10-11, at the Javits Center in New York FRANKLIN, TENN.– NOVEMBER 7, 2019 – Quore, an award-winning provider of workforce communication and engineering/housekeeping management technologies, is exhibiting at HX: The Hotel Experience Powered by AAHOA for the first time next week. Attendees visiting Booth 1220 will see innovative cloud-based solutions that help hotels operate more efficiently and improve communications between guests and staff by streamlining housekeeping, guest relations, engineering, a...
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