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HFTP Moves Forward to Publish the USALI, 12th Revised Edition, Ends Relationship with AHLA
HFTP | August 1, 2022
August 1, 2022 (Austin Texas) — Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP®) has been associated with the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry (USALI) since the association was established in 1952. In recent editions, HFTP has provided expertise support and funding for its publication without reimbursement. Widely used across the globe as the standard for hospitality financial and operational reporting, the successive revisions to the USALI have consistently been a collaborative process between representative industry organizations, ensuring the information presented best represents current reporting stand...
HFTP Board of Directors Rejects AHLA Unsolicited Merger Offer
Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals | May 2, 2022
May 2, 2022 (Austin, Texas USA) - Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP®) announced today that it rejected a recent unsolicited offer by the American Hotel and Lodging Association (AHLA) for it to merge with them. The HFTP Global Board of Directors determined that a global association with members from the entire hospitality spectrum would not be serving their membership by merging with a North American association with an advocacy focus whose constituents are primarily hotels. A counteroffer was made by HFTP to AHLA to work via MOUs like HFTP’s work with other hospitality industry associations. Currently, HFTP w...
San Francisco Hotels Call Out Cleaning Proposal as Unscientific, Costly
June 30, 2020
SAN FRANCISCO, June 29, 2020 - Hundreds of members of San Francisco's hotel community assailed the costly, unscientific, environmentally harmful and job-killing proposed "Healthy Business" ordinance at Monday's Land Use and Transportation Committee meeting. Members of the Hotel Council of San Francisco, California Hotel and Lodging Association, American Hotel and Lodging Association, environmentalists and the San Francisco business community expressed frustration at the proposal's lack of scientific support and, if approved, the economic harm it will impose on hotels already expected to be closed for several months. San Francisco hote...
15,000 U.S. Hotels Sign Up to Support Healthcare Community
AHLA | April 6, 2020
WASHINGTON (April 6, 2020) – The American Hotel and Lodging Association (AHLA) announced today that more than 15,000 hotels have signed up for its new initiative – “Hospitality for Hope” – which identifies hotel properties that have offered to provide temporary housing for emergency and healthcare workers as the COVID-19 public health crisis grows. While the program will primarily focus on housing for the healthcare community, some hotels could potentially be used as “Alternative Care Sites” such as an emergency hospital or place for those quarantined to stay if needed. AHLA's “Hospitality for Hope Initiative” was creat...
Hotels Nationwide Sign Up To Support First Responders; Provide Housing
AHLA | March 25, 2020
WASHINGTON (March 25, 2020) – In an effort to support communities across the country during this unprecedented public health crisis, the American Hotel and Lodging Association (AHLA) today announced a new initiative – Hotels for Hope – to connect hotel properties with the health community, struggling to find housing and support as the COVID-19 public health crisis grows. The newly launched initiative, just announced in partnership with AHLA partner state associations across the country, has identified over 6,500 properties nationwide located in close proximity to established healthcare facilities that are at the ready to assist gover...
Industry CEOs to Host Press Conference Call Following Meeting With VP Pence & White House COVID-19 Taskforce
March 17, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Tuesday March 17, at 3:45 PM ET the American Hotel and Lodging Association’s (AHLA) President and CEO, Chip Rogers along with U.S. Travel Association’s (USTA) President and CEO, Roger Dow will join leading hotel industry CEOs to host a press conference call following a meeting with Vice President Pence and White House officials where they will discuss the industry’s response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and the catastrophic economic impact on the hotel industry, its employees and U.S. economy. As it continues to be unknown how long this public health situation will last, the coronavirus has already ha...
Hotel Industry Releases Public Service Announcement, Unites Around Nationwide Day of Action to Fight Human Trafficking
AHLA | July 30, 2019
Washington (July 30, 2019) – As part of the hotel industry’s ongoing commitment to combat human trafficking, today the American Hotel and Lodging Association (AHLA) launched a public service announcement (PSA) raising awareness about the No Room for Trafficking Campaign, which unites the industry around a single, comprehensive approach to fight human trafficking. The launch of the PSA also marks the No Room for Trafficking Day of Action, where hoteliers across the country are uniting and taking action by hosting training sessions for employees, raising awareness on their properties and pledging their commitment to the No Room for T...
New AHLA Research Reveals Online Hotel Booking Scams Are on the Rise, Duping Consumers, Translating to Nearly $4 Billion Each Year
the American Hotel & Lodging Association | June 14, 2017
Washington, D.C., June 14, 2017 – Every 60 seconds, Americans make 500 hotel bookings online. And new research reveals that online scams and fraudulent sites are on the rise. In 2015, just six percent of American travelers reported having booked on what they believed was a hotel's official website, only to find they had booked on a fraudulent site – websites that use a variety of marketing tactics to mimic hotel websites but are not, in fact, affiliated with the hotel. Just two years later, the number of travelers reporting that same experience has nearly quadrupled to 22 percent. Today, that amounts to 55 million hotel book...
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