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10.16.2009 Outlet: San Francisco Chronicle When Jeremy Umland was considering opening a second location of his popular San Francisco restaurant, Ozumo, he considered Napa and Walnut Creek. Instead, he decided to follow the money. "Investors and developers, all with a lot more cash to risk • 'Duck' Into Citizen Hotels Grange Restaurant For Some 'Fowl Play' 10.14.2009 Outlet: HotelChatter Where: 926 J St. [map], Sacramento, CA, United States, 95814 October 15, 2009 at 9:19 AM | by EricRosen | 0 Comments When it opened last December, we told you all about the geeky glory of the Citizen Hotel in Sacramento. Now we want to tell • Hotels get creative to cope with hard times 10.12.2009 Outlet: Miami Herald - Online, The Faced with the toughest financial crunch in decades, hotels are moving beyond typical discounts and offering unusual promotions to lure clients and create buzz. The 27-room Crane's BeachHouse in Delray Beach, for example, offers a ''The Bed-in for • I'M ASITTING IN MY OWN PRIVATE CABANA HERE AT THE HOTEL MAYA SWAGO. 10.12.2009 Outlet: KTLA Morning News - KTLA-TV HI, ALLIE. Reporter: GOOD MORNING, YOU GUYS. I'M ASITTING IN MY OWN PRIVATE CABANA HERE AT THE HOTEL MAYA SWAGO. WE'RE GOING TO WIND UP DINE LARESTAURANT WEEK. COMING UP WE'LL SHOW YOU ALL THE APPETIZERS, ENTTRAYS, ALL COMING UP LIVE FROM LONG BEA • In San Francisco, hotel rooms for less than $100 10.09.2009 Outlet: Austin American-Statesman - Online TRAVEL By Helen Anders SAN FRANCISCO The Good Hotel is a good hotel. Its rooms are small and spare but contemporary-cool, and they have everything you need: a bathroom, a safe, TV, free wireless, an iPod dock and clever art. Some rooms are even ai • San Francisco Japantown hotel delivers anime immersion 10.02.2009 Outlet: Los Angeles Times - Online Check into mainstream manga: A Bay Area Best Western rethemed by a boutique hotel chain buzzes with vibrant comic sensibility. Click to Enlarge Three unique restaurants in San Francisco Hotel Guide Restaurant Guide Attraction Guide • HOTELS 10.01.2009 Outlet: Los Angeles Times Infobox Infographic Hoping to keep its 119 rooms filled, Hotel Erwin on Venice Beach is offering an unusual promotion for its countercultural clientele: an Ink and Stay package that includes $100 toward a tattoo and a bottle of tequila to numb • Treating Your Employees Like Honored Guests = Outstanding Customer Service = Business Success 09.30.2009 Outlet: Fast Company - Online FC Expert Blog This blog is written by a member of our expert blogging community and expresses that expert's views alone. Chip Conley, founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre, the largest group of boutique hotels in California, believes in treating hi • Gourmet Stimulus Plan 09.30.2009 Outlet: North Bay Bohemian More than two dozen restaurants are offering $25 prix fixe menus as part of the inaugural Santa Cruz Restaurant Week, Oct. 1-8. Full menus are posted at www.santacruzrestaurantweek.com. Our advice: make reservations. Aptos Sanderling's Oc |
Joie De Vivre Hospitality Appoints Linda Palermo As Chief Revenue Officer
New Position Confirms Company’s Commitment to Aligning All Hotels’ Revenue Goals and Future Vision
San Francisco, August 1, 2007 - Joie de Vivre Hospitality, long known for creating experiential, one-of-a-kind boutique hotel concepts, is now bringing a greater business focus and organization to its properties, creating a cohesive outlook for the goals and vision of its properties. The company appointed hospitality veteran, Linda Palermo, to the strategic position of Chief Revenue Officer. In this role, Palermo will be responsible for overseeing all revenue-generating departments of the company, including sales, revenue management and marketing.
“I am very excited about the chance to develop and expand these revenue-generating departments for Joie de Vivre Hospitality,” says Palermo. “This is such a dynamic company, creating such distinctive hotel experiences. The opportunity to join them in bringing a sense of cohesiveness to the next level is tremendous.”
Palermo brings to this new role her 20-plus years of operations and sales experience in the hospitality industry. Prior to joining Joie de Vivre Hospitality, she was Regional Director of Sales for TravelCLICK’s Western North America division, where she led a team responsible for generating Western North America revenues and worked with brands, management companies, hotels, and owners to drive additional profit through growing and shifting business to electronic distribution channels. Before then, Palermo spent over six years based at InterContinental Hotels’ Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco as the company’s western regional director of sales and marketing. In this position, she oversaw sales, marketing, revenue management, and catering and conference services for the Mark Hopkins and eight managed/owned Crowne Plaza Hotels. Palermo also brings her experience as Vice President of Human Resources for The Flatley Company’s Tara Hotels in Braintree, MA. Palermo, a graduate of Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration, started her hospitality career with Hyatt Hotels in 1988 and has worked for Hyatt Hotels and Le Meridien Hotels in addition to InterContinental Hotels and TravelCLICK.
“Welcoming Linda to Joie de Vivre is, in a way, a celebration of a new era for our company,” said CEO Chip Conley. “With our rapid expansion, we know it has become critical to build a more strategic focus across our businesses. Linda’s skills and experience make her ideal to help us succeed.”
About Joie de Vivre Hospitality
Based in San Francisco, Joie de Vivre Hospitality (www.jdvhotels.com) is a creative collection of lifestyle businesses. As California's largest independent boutique hotelier, Joie de Vivre encompasses other hospitality businesses such as restaurants and spas. Celebrating 20 years of creating dreams, Joie de Vivre Hospitality is expanding its California presence in Sacramento, Oakland, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Sunnyvale, Huntington Beach and beyond.
