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New iPad App for Meeting Planners & Incentive Specialists
Provides Quick & Easy Access to ALHI’s Portfolio
of 160+ Four- & Five-Diamond Hotel & Resort Members
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The free ALHI app enables planners to access useful information, photos, floor plans, and capacity charts for each ALHI Member hotel and resort. This includes details about each property’s accommodations, meeting facilities, dining and recreation offerings, as well as destination information. One of the unique features of the app is a “Favorites” function that allows users to select up to six properties to compare key features side-by-side. Planners can then choose to share the “Favorites” with colleagues for their review.

In addition, planners can use the app to search for the properties, destinations, venues, and/or cruise ships that will best suit their programs’ objectives, unique desires, and specific needs. The app provides the ability to search based on ALHI’s 12 defined specialty segments within its portfolio, which includes the “ALHI Big Box Solutions,” “Level 5 Collection,” “Golf Collection,” “Beach & Island Collection,” “Entertainment & Gaming Solutions,” “City Solutions,” “U-200 Gems,” “Historic Collection,” “Mountain Collection,” “Caribbean Collection,” “Passport Collection,” and “Ocean Line Collection.” In addition, the app enables you to search by hotel name, state, U.S. region, country, the number of guest rooms, and/or the amount of meeting space.
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To access and use the free ALHI app, planners simply need to: go to the iTunes App Store, search for “ALHI Sales,” and download it to your iPad; or click on itunes.apple.com/us/app/alhi/id765341138?mt=8 from your iPad; or contact your nearest ALHI Global Sales Office. ALHI has 20 professionally-staffed Global Sales Offices to serve, with locations in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Kansas City, Louisville, New York City, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Richmond, Savannah, Southern California (3), Toronto, Washington, D.C., and Washington (state). Go to www.ALHI.com to identify the “ALHI Team” sales professionals in your state/area.

“We created this app in response to input from our ALHI Global Sales team and our Industry Advisory clients,” said ALHI CEO David Gabri. “Meeting and incentive professionals, and business executives can use the app whenever they need to quickly access information about ALHI Member hotels or resorts, without having to worry about a Wi-Fi connection. This is yet another resource to make it easy for planners to coordinate their programs, in addition to our comprehensive ALHI Guide and ALHI website, and in conjunction with working with their skilled and experienced ALHI Global Sales professional.”

Thomas Hallin, co-founder of ITM Mobile, said, “We are very excited about this opportunity working with ALHI. Though fairly new on the U.S. market, we have over 10 years of experience developing mobile technology for meetings. This app, which puts the entire portfolio of ALHI Member hotels and resorts at meeting planners’ fingertips, makes it quick and easy for planners to narrow down their initial search for destinations and properties that meet their criteria, and to share these with their sales professional or other decision-makers within their organization.”

Convention and meeting executives, incentive professionals, and business executives have chosen ALHI for nearly 30 years, for reliable one-call professional sales assistance and access to their distinctive hotels and resorts for meetings and incentive/recognition programs. There is no cost to planners’ organizations to utilize the ALHI GSO services, expertise, and account advocacy, as its Members’ dues fund the Global Sales Organization to best serve planners with local professionals.

ALHI’s 160+ Member hotels and resorts include extraordinary Four- and Five-Diamond quality meeting, convention, and incentive resorts on land and sea, incomparable city hotels, exclusive smaller hotels, golf resorts, historic and landmark properties, island destinations, resorts with spas, properties in international destinations, and hotels with world-class gaming and entertainment.

With a worldwide portfolio of over 115,000 rooms and suites and nearly 10 million square feet of meeting space, ALHI provides planners and their organizations experienced Global Sales services with diverse options among its outstanding worldwide member hotels and resorts which specialize in meetings and incentive programs. ALHI provides reliable one-call professional sales assistance and access to their distinctive hotels, resorts, and venues for programs ranging from 10 to more than 6,500.

Contact any office for professional assistance and let ALHI help you identify distinctive opportunities to meet your objectives with your meetings, incentives, and conventions. For more information about ALHI, to inquire about any of the ALHI member properties, and/or to acquire a free copy of ALHI’s “2014 Global Sales Guide To Meeting Facilities,” contact your nearest ALHI Global Sales Office, or call the “ALHI Group Desk” toll-free at 866-303-ALHI (2544), and visit www.ALHI.com.

PR Contact:
Karen Lamonica
407-788-7070, ext. 208

Note: High-resolution photos of ALHI member properties, as well as a photo of the new ALHI app, are available by contacting Karen Lamonica.