Awards

The Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association (HSMAI) Americas is now accepting nominations for its Lifetime Achievement and Top 25 Extraordinary Minds in Sales, Marketing, and Revenue Optimization honors. HSMAI will recognize honorees during the HSMAI Adrian Awards Dinner in conjunction with the HSMAI Marketing Strategy Conference and other HSMAI Marketing Week events in 2021. Nominations are open until December 1, 2020.

Travel industry leaders Joe D’Alessandro, president and CEO of the San Francisco Travel Association, and Ernest Wooden Jr., former president and CEO of the Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Board, will be honored as the 2020 inductees into the U.S. Travel Association Hall of Leaders, the organization announced Wednesday.

The Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI) Foundation is proud to honor hospitality professionals and organizations who have excelled in providing exemplary leadership in uncertain times with the second-ever Talent and Leadership Development Adrian Award.

The 64th Annual Adrian Awards focuses on the best practices, innovation, and community shown in hospitality campaigns and coronavirus crisis responses. This year, HSMAI has redesigned the Adrian Awards to reflect the current travel landscape and streamlined entry, lowered costs, as well as set a later submission deadline to allow recognition of more great work.

an Millar, CHTP was selected this year as the HFTP® Paragon Award recipient for his unwavering support of the association and substantial contributions to increase knowledge sharing and promote growth in the hospitality industry at large, specifically amongst students and hospitality professionals within Europe.

Over 100,000 Hotel Employees Supported through Industry Certifications, Apprenticeships, Scholarships, and Degree Programs

In June Travel Massive, Hochschule für nachhaltige Entwicklung Eberswalde (HNEE), the Berlin Travel Festival and ITB Berlin came together to organise The Social Entrepreneurship in Tourism competition. As the only competition of its kind worldwide it recognises social innovation and entrepreneurship in tourism. Its focus is on the challenges that result from developments in tourism.

Paolino is the co-founder of Hotel Solutions, LLC alongside her husband Buck. In this capacity, they provide a robust accounting department for even the smallest portfolios, and over the last 10 years, they have helped hundreds of hoteliers with an outsourced accounting department.

Millar was selected for his long-standing leadership in promoting HFTP and HITEC in Europe

AAHOA honored excellence and achievement in hospitality on the final day of the 2020 Virtual Convention & Trade Show. The awards recognize AAHOA members for their achievements and contributions to the hospitality industry in 2019.