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Candela Hotels Opens New Hotel Management Services Group
3/31/2009
Seattle, WA – Candela Hotels recently launched its Hotel Management Services Group, which provides independent hotel owners and operators with expertise focused on increasing profitability through optimized operations, marketing and hotel greening.

“We use a tailored approach designed to each individual owners goals, market and property,” said Alphy Johnson, Executive VP of Operations for Candela’s Hotel Management Services Group. “Our team of veteran hoteliers delivers a comprehensive range of services including on-site management, detailed operations evaluations, debtor-in-possession operations and effective marketing and customer loyalty programs.”

The Hotel Management Services Group offers short-term hotel management agreements, which allow owners to maintain a virtually unencumbered property. The company also specializes in “bottom-line” improvement through the Lean Six-Sigma implementation and sustainable/green hotel practices. Both Alphy Johnson and Tom Pigott, the CEO of the company, are Six Sigma and LEED certified Accredited Professionals.

In addition to management agreements, the company provides consulting services for immediate need areas, and recently completed a successful assignment in Central America for the opening of the Bristol Buenaventura in Panama. Consulting services include: hotel launches, marketing, public relations, signature service style and system development, restaurant re-concepting and development.
For more information visit www.hotelmanagementservicesgroup.com or phone 206-388-0980.

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ABOUT CANDELA HOTELS
Candela Hotels' business model responds to the demonstrated need for an all-encompassing clean-slate approach that puts the needs of the executive level business traveler and his or her family first, whether traveling to gateway cities on business or to destinations that allow for personal growth and rejuvenation. It is customizing and integrating Customer Service Management Software (CRM) to guarantee thoughtful and respectful communication with travelers. It is choosing architects and designers who can create spacious rooms with natural light and fresh air. And it is launching innovative operations procedures that will ensure everything from seamless arrivals to check-out times as individual as the clients are met seamlessly.