• This process verifies you are eligible to vote in the 2023 AAHOA Elections and confirms your identity to cast your ballot via the Voatz app, the official app of the 2023 AAHOA Elections.
• When completing this process, ensure your mobile phone number matches the mobile phone number on record in MyAAHOA.com.
• Important: If you do not complete the credentialing process by Friday, April 7, you will NOT be able to participate in the 2023 AAHOA Elections. For those who have previously used Voatz, please use the same account information and don’t try to create multiple Voatz accounts.

• Thursday, April 13, 2023, is AAHOA Election Day. Eligible voters who have completed the credentialing process between March 22 and April 7 will be able to cast their ballot between 12 noon* and 7 p.m. PDT via their smartphones using the Voatz App.
  *Pursuant to AAHOA Policy 12.06(e)(ii), polls will open immediately following the Secretary debate, and times published are approximate. Tune in to the debate LIVE on AAHOA's YouTube channel or attend in person at the Los Angeles Convention Center, and be prepared to cast your ballot immediately after the debate concludes.

Check out the AAHOA Elections Resource Center to guide you through the process:

The April 2023 issue of Today's Hotelier is out now!

This month, we're examining a wide variety of topics, with a special focus on AAHOACON23. Check out some of the featured content such as:

Don't miss out on this exciting new issue. Read it today and get the full scoop on insights from your AAHOA Officers on the industry's past, present, and future.

AAHOA is proud to release the Point 12 webinar, the final installment in the 12 Points Education Webinar Series. Point 12 takes a deeper dive into the sale of the franchise system hotel brand(s). It states that if a Franchisor sells one or more of its various hotel brands to another entity, the Franchisor should promptly give notice of the sale to its existing Franchisees and pledge to work with them and the new Franchisor owner to ensure the transition is as smooth as possible.

 

In this webinar, AAHOA President & CEO Laura Lee Blake and Northwest Regional Director Taran Patel weigh in on the importance of Point 12.

 

“My family’s first new construction project was in 2004. About four to five months after opening, the brand was sold to another parent company,” Patel shared. “The parent company had other plans with the brand, which is no issue at all, they reserve the right to have other brands. They actually did a very good job of navigating the [sale]. They had open dialogues with the Franchisees, and we were able to transition out of the new brand to another option we felt was more suitable for the market that we're in.”

 

For the past six months, AAHOA has strived to educate its members on the importance of fair franchising in the industry. You can review the entire 12 Points Educational Webinar Series, download the 12 Points Educational Primer, and use the 12 Points Questionnaire to empower yourself with the tools to have a successful franchise hotel business. 

With AAHOACON23 less than a week away, the excitement continues to build. One of the many highlights of this year's convention is the brand new, sold out AAHOA Garage!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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No Vacancy with Glenn Haussman is the travel industry’s most exciting podcast. It's a fun, fast-paced, genre-bending program that peels back the veneer of the travel business. Click here to subscribe to the No Vacancy Podcast. Follow Glenn on Twitter @TravelingGlenn or visit www.rouse.media.

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With more and more consumers expecting the marketplace to offer robust technology-based solutions, regardless of industry, some hoteliers are finding that having a stable tech platform supporting their internal and guest-facing operations can yield intanbigle long- and short-term benefits.
(Source: PhocusWire)

Although women occupy a growing number of leadership positions within hospitality, there is much progress yet to be made.Here, several high-ranking women in the industry share their perspectives on the work that remains.
(Source: CoStar)

When it comes to finding the balance between bottom-line revenue and top-line profit, there's no one-size-fits-all approach for hotels, but there are several key best practices that are suitable for all types of properties.
(Source: HospitalityNet)

Truist Securities reports, “Overall U.S. RevPAR was +10.9% y/y for the week ending 4/1/2023, per STR, up from the prior week's result of +4.1%, but below the trailing 10-week average of +15.1 as the easy Omicron comp has faded. Versus 2019, RevPAR was +15.7%, up from the prior week’s result of +12.0%, and above the trailing 10- week average of +11.9%. Last week’s results were above the trailing 10-week average due to normalizing seasonality (March stronger travel than January/February) and a pull-forward of business travel (especially large groups/conventions) in advance of upcoming April holidays, starting with Passover which commenced this Wednesday evening. Upscale RevPAR: +14.7% y/y and +8.5% vs. 2019; Upper Midscale RevPAR: +10.9% y/y and +15.2% vs. 2019.”