Please check back in a week or so for the Gala slideshow. Thanks to The Lions Gate Hotel team for a marvelous reception and dinner at the Aerospace Museum of California.
Congratulations to our award recipients.
EMPLOYEES OF THE YEAR
The Citizen Hotel - Benjamin Wehrle, Front Desk Host
DoubleTree by Hilton - Bill Miller, Maintenance Engineer
Embassy Suites - Genoveva Magallanes, Suite Attendant
Hilton Arden West - Logan Parton, Lead Audio Visual Technician
Holiday Inn Capitol Plaza - Leticia Hernandez, Restaurant Server
Hyatt Regency - Ardavan Jahani, Dawson’s Food & Beverage Server
The Lions Gate Hotel - Alicia Esparza, Food & Beverage Supervisor and Mary Grace Dolendo, Housekeeper
Marriott Cal Expo Hotels - Maria “Pilar” Guerrero, Housekeeping Supervisor
Residence Inn at Capitol Park - Will Comstock, Bar Manager
Sheraton Grand - Jose Gomez, House Attendant and Loren Colvin, Front Office Supervisor
SUPPLIER OF THE YEAR
AVMS - Audio Visual Management Solutions, Inc.
SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS
Jackie Nakapaahu, The Art Institute of California−Sacramento
Noppon Pongpacharapan, Cosumnes River College
5th Annual Community Service Project
The Hospitality Industry Helping in the Community
On Saturday, September 24, 2011, the Sacramento Hotel Association and more than 160 volunteers from 12 member hotels and two vendors offered a day of improvements and donations at the Sacramento Children’s Home, Sacramento Crisis Nursery-South, Sacramento Area Emergency Housing Center, Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services, two city parks and three city libraries. Volunteers also completed a holiday card-making project for the California Marine Families. In addition, we donated disposable diapers and toddler pull-ups to the Sacramento Crisis Nursery-South.
Thanks to everyone’s efforts and participation, our community service project was a tremendous success. We had a dynamic cadre of team leaders and volunteers as well as terrific partner organizations.
"FACE TIME. It Matters." is a grassroots industry campaign theme designed to promote the benefits of meeting face-to-face. Major industry associations aligned under the Convention Industry Council (CIC) to promote the benefits of meeting face to face. The campaign was developed in response to one of the most challenging years ever faced by the meeting, convention and exhibition industries. It was based on the findings of a recent national survey of corporate and association meeting planners, plus in-depth personal interviews with the industry's leading executives as well as focus groups consisting of corporate and association executives, business travelers and professional meeting planners. More information at www.facetimematters.org
While virtual meetings and communications have their merits, face-to-face events have certain intrinsic benefits that are unequaled in other forums. According to the research:
Face-to-face meetings build trust and relationships;
Education and training delivered during are more effective in a live setting;
Live meetings actually save time and money;
Live meetings result in a more effective exchange of ideas;
Face-to-face meetings provide the human connection that powers business;
Face-to-face meetings create jobs and power the economy.
Members - Web Site Request Hotels: Send an exterior image/photo of your property to be added to the Web site. Vendors: Send a company logo for inclusion in the Web site. Send images (photos and logos) to info@sacramentohotelassociation.com
Discover Gold Card
Get exclusive savings at Sacramento area attractions, restaurants and retailers with your FREE Sacramento Gold Card. Plus, enjoy instant benefits at participating hotels, such as room upgrade and complimentary breakfast. Simply ask for your FREE Sacramento Gold Card when you check into a participating Sacramento-area hotel.
The Sacramento Hotel Association (SHA) is a nonprofit, professional trade organization of lodging properties representing more than 5,000 guestrooms in the greater Sacramento area. Our members represent large convention hotels, all-suite inns and family-owned properties. The association also represents allied businesses and suppliers engaged in the local visitor industry.
The mission of the Sacramento Hotel Association is to provide the environment within which those engaged in the lodging/hospitality industry in the Sacramento region may obtain educational, informational, and networking experiences, to actively advocate the SHA position on issues, and to foster local government and community recognition of the industry as an important segment of the regional economy.
Association members have opportunities to learn about current industry trends and information, understand the importance of the hospitality industry in our community, have a collective voice in local government issues, and interact with a cross section of industry colleagues and community leaders.
Our members also strive to provide high-quality customer service to their guests 365 days a year! Suppliers and vendors are key partners in providing comfortable and memorable experiences for guests in our community. Each year at the Spring Hospitality Gala, industry and community leaders and employees honor local hospitality employers and suppliers. The evening is a memorable way of recognizing exceptional hotel employees and a key supplier.
The association also maintains close contact with industry organizations such as the California Hotel & Lodging Association, the California Lodging Industry Association, and the Sacramento Convention & Visitors Bureau.
March Reader Board available for download [click here]
Meetings Mean Business
A new comprehensive “Meetings Mean Business” campaign has been launched to ensure that media and policymakers understand the importance of meetings, events and incentive travel and the affect irresponsible grandstanding has on jobs, as well as local economies. Included in the campaign is a new Web site, MeetingsMeanBusiness.com, which is a comprehensive resource with materials for you to use in helping us tell our story. [See press release.]
Roger Dow, President & CEO, United States Travel Industry
"FACE TIME. It Matters." is a grassroots industry campaign theme designed to promote the benefits of meeting face-to-face. Major industry associations aligned under the Convention Industry Council (CIC) to promote the benefits of meeting face to face. The campaign was developed in response to one of the most challenging years ever faced by the meeting, convention and exhibition industries. It was based on the findings of a recent national survey of corporate and association meeting planners, plus in-depth personal interviews with the industry's leading executives as well as focus groups consisting of corporate and association executives, business travelers and professional meeting planners. More information at 
A new comprehensive “Meetings Mean Business” campaign has been launched to ensure that media and policymakers understand the importance of meetings, events and incentive travel and the affect irresponsible grandstanding has on jobs, as well as local economies. Included in the campaign is a new Web site,