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MMH&LA - the source for information and education, and the advocacy voice for the hotel and lodging industry in the metropolitan Memphis area.
May 2016
MMHLAMMHLAMetropolitan Memphis Hotel & Lodging Association
www.mmhla.com
MMHLA OFFICERS & BOARDMMHLA Offices:901-581-56188544 Rankin Branch Rd.Millington, TN [email protected] Ross Administrative Assistant
MMHLA Officers:Mary Calorio.........................ChairmanWayne Tabor.........................PresidentTricia Weatherford........Vice PresidentDoug Owings.......................TreasurerMatt Huss.............................SecretaryJohn Rucker............Sergeant-at-arms
MMHLA Board of Directors:Doug BrowneNoe CerratoShawn DankoAnne-Marie FamaletteAngie HinesDavid Jachetta
Kevin KaneJimmy KiserPierre LandaicheChuck PinkowskiSam Ward
MMHLALuncheon!
June 15 – MMHLA Golf Tournament!
Hilton MemphisMay 18, 2016
To Make Reservations:Phone: 901-581-5618Email: [email protected]
Registration 11:30 a.m.Luncheon at Noon
M M H L A G o l f To u r n a m e n t !
Noon, North Creek, Southaven, MS901-581-5618
JUNE 15, 2016!JUNE 15, 2016!
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These Are Your Stars!Dannah Scott, Sheraton Memphis Downtown – Sales Em-ployee of the Year, Full Service Property.
Michelle Howard, Madison Hotel – Lodging Employee of the Year, Full Service Property.
Carl Wilson, Wes-tin Memphis Beale Street – Mainte-nance Employee of the Year, Full Service Property.
Clarence Jen-kins, Hampton Beale Street – Maintenance Em-ployee of the Year, Limited Service Property.
Rosie Benner, FedEx Family House – House-keeper of the Year, Lim-ited Service Property.
Gretchen Peless, Elvis Presley’s Heartbreak Hotel – Lodging Employee of the Year, Limited Service Property.
Jamarcus Frazier, Westin Memphis Beale Street – Food & Beverage Employee of the Year, Full Ser-vice Property.
Caroline Fleming,
Westin Mem-phis Beale
Street – Up-coming Star of
the Industry.
Patsy Morgan, Memphis Conven-tion & Visitors Bureau – Guest Relations Award.
Jim Holt, Memphis in May International Festival – Special Events Award.
Jimmy Kiser, US Foods – Allied Award of Excellence.
Andy Odle, Holiday Inn Downtown – Man-ager of the Year, Full Service Property.
CharliAnn Tidmore, Elvis Presley’s Heart-break Hotel – Manager of the Year, Limited Service Property.
Westin Memphis Beale Street – Community Service Award.
John Oros, Memphis Convention & Visi-tors Bureau – Associ-ate Award of Excel-lence.Cayce Starr, Tri
Delta Place, St. Jude Children’s Hospital – Gen-eral Manager of the Year, Limited Service Property.
Pierre Landa-iche, Memphis Cook Conven-tion Center – General Manager of the Year, Full Ser-vice Property.
Shakendra Merriweather, Marriott East – Housekeeper of the Year, Full Service Property.
Are you seeing Stars? Sure! Because Wednesday, April 20 at the Memphis Cook Convention Center, MMHLA honored the brightest stars in our Heavens! Who bring GUESTS! back again and again! People who make American service and hospitality the envy of the world! Applaud loudly for the world’s most WELCOMING!
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These Are Your Stars!Dannah Scott, Sheraton Memphis Downtown – Sales Em-ployee of the Year, Full Service Property.
Westin Memphis Beale Street Gang gather to celebrate their awards!
Lodging Employee of the Year, Madison Hotel’s Michelle Howard, celebrates with co-workers.
Jimmy Kiser, with his wife, Alice, Weston God-frey on the left & Debbie Berryman on the right, both with US Foods.
Sheraton Memphis Downtown’s Dannah Scott, Full Service Sales Employee of the Year, & a host of co-workers!
Pierre Landaiche with daughter Caroline & wife, Gay. And a Gen-eral Manager of the Year award!
D on’t Leave Yet! How ‘bout a few Group Pix?
You like winners? Below are a few hospitality
Keep the ball rollin’! You could say that’s the idea behind the MMHLA Schol-arship programs. Appropriately, Wayne Tabor presents these Certificates of
Scholarship just prior to the MMHLA Stars of the Industry program!
Jeff Homad: $500 for Renee Homad.
$500 scholarship for Justin Linder.
Quindetta Brown, El-vis Presley’s Heartbreak Hotel re-ceives her $500 schol-arship.
Margaret Callahan: $500 scholarship.
Amanda Solomon, Ex-tended Stay, receives a $500 scholarship.
Wooddale High School schol-arship winners: Amanda Tay-lor, Kayla Jones, Saminya Taylor, Jayla Scruggs.
industry stars of the future!
Are you seeing Stars? Sure! Because Wednesday, April 20 at the Memphis Cook Convention Center, MMHLA honored the brightest stars in our Heavens! Who bring GUESTS! back again and again! People who make American service and hospitality the envy of the world! Applaud loudly for the world’s most WELCOMING!
Individuals stand out. Teams hang together. Here are a few individuals who support one another and become a team!
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MMHLAMetropolitan Memphis Hotel & Lodging Association
This was last year’s Buyers’ Guide.
Wait til you see 2016’s!Are you in? Contact John Rucker
901-458-3912, [email protected] for advertising rates @ information!
Memphis in May Music Festival is in the books, and in spite of rain and poor weather the guests that stayed at our hotel were very pleased with the event. We received a lot of posi-tive comments and feedback from attendees.
Jim Holt Delivers Another Great Memphis in May! Convention Center Renovations Move Forward! Andy Odle Is New “Bed Tax Cop!”
Jim Holt Delivers Another Great Memphis in May! Convention Center Renovations Move Forward! Andy Odle Is New “Bed Tax Cop!”
This year’s lineup had something for everyone. All those I spoke with had a great time.
Congratulations to Jim Holt and the Memphis in May team for a success-ful event!
As I’m writing, the BBQ Festival is setting up and it looks like the park is filled with the teams competing for the championship.
After studying the renovation plans as proposed by Scott Fleming Archi-tects, the Cook Convention Center
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Like it never happened.R
Wayne TaborPresident MMHLA
Wayne Tabor
Board of Directors have ask for a few changes to be made to the design. The proposed changes are positive and will make for a more functional center.
After the design changes are completed, the next step will be to get city approval. Scott Fleming and Kevin Kane will make that presentation. After the city approves the plans, the Convention Center Board will oversee the renovation process.
The city has a new bed tax cop. The MCVB has recently hired a person to audit hotel bed tax collection for the city and county clerk office. His name is Andy Odle, and chances are if you’re a hotel GM, then you will be seeing Andy sometime in the near future.
Andy worked with us at the Holiday Inn Downtown for several years as our Con-troller. He did an ex-cellent job and under-stands the
hotel business. He has been on the MMHLA Golf committee for a couple years and was responsible for nego-tiating a deal for us to trade rooms for use of North Creek golf course for our annual MMHLA golf tournament.
Many cities have auditors that do bed tax auditing, and I think it is good for us to have someone who has previ-ously worked in the industry.
I guess I need to look for a new ringer for my golf team now that Andy works for Kevin.
Well, that is it for this month. See you around town and send me your over flow.
MMHLA8544 Rankin Branch Rd.
Millington, TN 38053
2016 CALENDARMay 18 – MMHLA Luncheon; Hilton Memphis.June 7 – Board Meeting; Kooky Kanuck Cordova.June 15– MMHLA Golf Tournament; noon, North Creek, Southaven, MS.Aug. 16-17 – 14th Annual Southern Lodging Summit.
Dates & locations subject to change. (*Indicates change from normal 3rd Wed. of month)All 2016 luncheon programs and locations are not yet set. If you would like to volunteer a venue or present a luncheon program please contact Deanna Ross. Her numbers are in the Upcoming Events box on the cover.
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