Associated Luxury Hotels International (ALHI) has opened a professionally-staffed National Sales Office in Toronto, Canada, which is ALHI’s first office outside of the United States, and 14th National Sales Office (NSO) overall. For over 20 years, ALHI has been serving the meetings, incentive, conventions and expositions (M.I.C.E.) marketplace with its national sales responsibilities for its worldwide membership of over 100 premier Four- and Five-Diamond/Star quality hotels and resorts.
This new sales region location provides Associated Luxury Hotels a more extensive and diversified North American sales distribution network to serve the marketplace with ALHI’s other professionally-staffed National Sales operations in Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Boston, Northern California, Southern California, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Eastern North Carolina, Kansas City (MO), New York City, Orlando, and Philadelphia.
ALHI also announced its Toronto office is under the direction of hospitality and meetings industry veteran Susan Bernad, who serves as Area Sales Director. She joined ALHI from HRG Events and Meetings Management, where she served as Account Executive. Previous to that, she was Director of Group Sales for Deerhurst Resort, and led the Toronto regional office for Pan Pacific Hotels and Resorts.
David Gabri, president and CEO of Associated Luxury Hotels, said, “After 22 years of successful sales service in America, and having recently expanded our portfolio with amazing hotels and resorts in Argentina, Brazil, England, France, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico and Scotland, we determined that opening up an international office was the next logical step – and what a better choice than in Canada.”
Gabri continued, “ALHI has had hotel and resort members in Canada for nearly five years, including the famed Pan Pacific Vancouver and Pan Pacific Whistler Mountainside – and more recently the Loews Le Concorde Hotel in Quebec City and the Loews Hotel Vogue in Montreal. We wanted to bring our NSO services to support the planning professionals in Canada, whom we have met and served over the years -- and others -- to support them with their Canadian business, business to America, and elsewhere worldwide. This will allow our hotels and resorts to have a local regional contact in Canada for our entire collection of outstanding luxury hotels and resorts worldwide that specialize in meeting and incentive programs.”
Gabri added, “We are pleased to have such a respected and skilled regional sales professional as Susan Bernad join the ALHI sales team to work with planners in Canada. She will be an excellent regional extension of the remarkable member hotels and resorts we serve.”