Going Places

Florida

• Visit Jacksonville hired Alex Michaels as special markets sales manager. Michaels most recently served as sales manager for both the Daytona Beach CVB and the Daytona Beach Resort and Conference Center… After representing Beaches of South Walton for more than 10 years, Pamela Watkins was promoted to director of sales and special events for the Beaches of South Walton Tourist Development Council… Regal Sun Resort, inside Orlando’s Walt Disney World Resort, added two new members to its sales team. Efrain Vargas is now national sales manager, responsible for sales efforts in the Southeastern corporate market. Kristine Messuri-Cloonan was named national sales manager, responsible for working with the state of Florida and the Southeastern association market. Vargas previously served as sales manager for the corporate and association markets at the International Plaza Resort & Spa in Orlando… Noble House Hotels & Resorts appointed Eric Sather to general manager of the WaterColor Inn and Resort on Northwest Florida’s Gulf Coast. Prior to his new position, Sather was general manager of The Peaks Resort and Golden Door Spa in Telluride, Colo.… Barcelo Hotels & Resorts named Christy Ortiz director of marketing for Latin America. Ortiz will be headquartered at Barcelo’s Miami offices.

• TradeshowLogistics, with headquarters in Atlanta, appointed Charlie Robinson vice president of sales. Robinson was most recently director of sales with Washington, D.C.-based Meeting Management Services and has over 30 years of sales and marketing experience, including work with Sheraton Hotels, later Starwood Hotels and Resorts… The Georgia World Congress Center named Karen Boatright national sales manager. Boatright previously worked for Delta Air Lines for 30 years, including as a meeting planner.

• The New Orleans Marriott appointed Mark Barton director of sales and marketing. Most recently, Barton served as director of sales and marketing at another Marriott-branded property, Atlanta’s Renaissance Concourse Hotel.

• Craig Lovell was appointed general manager at the Hilton Garden Inn at the Tulsa Airport. Prior to accepting this position, Lovell was the general manager at the Hampton Inn in Rogers, Ariz.

• The Memphis CVB named Emily Lynn director of convention center sales. Prior to joining the MCVB, Lynn was the executive director for Women Chefs and Restaurateurs, headquartered in Louisville, Ky.

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• Lisa Hamilton, director of sales and marketing at Frenchman’s Reef and Morning Star Marriott Resorts in St. Thomas, was tapped as the new president of the U.S. Virgin Islands Hotel & Tourism Association (HTA).