FORT LAUDERDALE
Renaissance Fort Lauderdale Cruise Port Hotel announced the appointment of Ben Johnson as director of sales and marketing.
In this position, Johnson will manage a team of sales, event management and reservations staff as well as the marketing and communications efforts of the hotel.
With more than 15 years of hospitality experience, Johnson has a wide range of industry knowledge including sales and marketing for a CVB, international city-wide medical convention wholesale groups and group sales experience with Sheraton, W Hotels, Hilton, and Hyatt.
Johnson was most recently at the Hyatt Regency Pier Sixty-Six where he served as director of transient sales managing agency, consortia, corporate transient, retail packages, airline contract and wholesale FIT/leisure segments.
Located in the 17th Street Cruise Port/Convention Center entertainment district, the 236-room Renaissance Fort Lauderdale Cruise Port Hotel has 10,000 square feet of function space that can accommodate groups up to 325.
