Alabama
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South Carolina
St. Maarten
Texas
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Virginia
- Christy Berryman recently joined Birmingham-based Integral Hospitality Solutions as corporate director of sales. Previously, Berryman led the sales team at Hampton Inn & Suites Memphis–Beale Street. Berryman will work with sales departments at over 40 properties for the company, which specializes in Hilton brands.
Aruba
- David Wahba was appointed director of sales and marketing at the Westin Aruba Resort. Prior to his new position, Wahba served as complex director of sales and marketing for the Sheraton Yankee Trader and Sheraton Yankee Clipper hotels in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
Bahamas
- The Westin and Sheraton Grand Bahama Island Our Lucaya Resort named Amina Hassan director of group sales. Hassan previously served as account director for the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel in Toronto.
Florida
- Eric Marshall was hired as director of event and group sales at Universal Orlando Resort. Marshall formerly served as director of group sales for Universal Orlando Resort and most recently as director of sales for the new Blue Man Group show during the pre-opening phase. In his new role, Marshall is responsible for overseeing the event sales department, selling after-hours special events at Universal Orlando, Islands of Adventure and Universal CityWalk… Celebration Golf Club in Celebration recently appointed Stephen Horne director of events. Horne was affiliated with The Golf Channel and has more than four years of experience... Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando recently added three conference sales managers: Kristine Erickson, Jennifer Lane and Molly Rock. Erickson will be responsible for managing the Southeast and mid-Atlantic small meetings market of 150 rooms or less. Lane will be responsible for cultivating and maintaining short-term association and corporate business in the West Coast, lower Midwest and Florida’s small meetings market. Rock will be responsible for managing the corporate and association small meetings market in the Northeast.
Georgia
- Michael Munroe was appointed director of sales at the Hilton Atlanta Airport. Munroe most recently served as director of sales and marketing at the Hilton University of Florida Conference Center in Gainesville.
Kentucky
- Bank of Kentucky Center at Northern Kentucky University in Highland Heights named Les Crooks general manager of the facility, a 10,000-seat venue slated to open in fall 2008. Most recently, Crooks worked as general manager at the Eastern Kentucky Exposition Center in Pikeville.
South Carolina
- Kiawah Island Golf Resort recently appointed Spencer Hux as director of Carolina sales. Hux is responsible for booking and assisting groups from North and South Carolina… The Midlands Authority for Conventions, Sports & Tourism, which directs and manages the Columbia Metropolitan CVB, recently restructured. Kelly Barbrey was promoted to vice president of sales and marketing. Her previous role with the organization was as director of sales for the Columbia CVB. Crystal Morris was promoted to director of sales for the CVB, while Twila Jones was promoted to senior sales manager for the CVB.
St. Maarten
- Sonesta Great Bay Beach Resort & Casino in Philipsburg hired Joan Maduro-Samson as sales manager. Previously, she served as sales manager for the Aruba Marriott Resort & Stellaris Casino in Palm Beach, Aruba. Maduro-Samson will be responsible for Caribbean corporate transient and group segments.
Texas
- Kate Neu took the helm as marketing manager for the Stoneleigh Hotel & Spa Dallas, which is reopening under new management by the end of the year. Neu was previously marketing manager at Austin’s historic Driskill Hotel.
U.S.V.I.
- Caneel Bay, A Rosewood Resort on St. John promoted Nikolay Hotze to managing director. Hotze was previously hotel manager of Acqualina, A Rosewood Resort in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla… Graeme Davis, vice president of operations for Starwood Resorts Caribbean and South Florida, stepped down as chairman of the board of the U.S.V.I. Hotel & Tourism Association. Richard Doumeng, general manager of Bolongo Bay Resort in St. Thomas and a past president of the U.S.V.I. Hotel & Tourism Association, will serve as interim chairman until elections in 2008… Laura Krueger joined the sales team at Wyndham Sugar Bay Resort & Spa in as senior group sales manager, responsible for group sales from the mid-Atlantic Region for the St. Thomas resort. Silvia De la Rua was named meeting services manager at the resort.
Virginia
- Tamara Christian resigned from her position as CEO of Alexandria-based National Trade Productions (NTP), effective at the end of this year. Jennifer Hoff, general manager and vice president of operations at NTP, will be promoted to COO.