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McKibbon Hospitality Celebrates Promotion & Appointments to Corporate Revenue Generation Team
McKibbon Hospitality, an award-winning leader in hotel management, is pleased to announce the promotion and appointment of four key leaders to its corporate team, responsible for driving revenue generation and supporting the company’s growing portfolio of hotels across eCommerce, Sales & Marketing, and Revenue Management disciplines.
Read MoreMcKibbon Hospitality Announces Corporate Leadership Appointments & Promotions
To support ongoing portfolio and associate growth, award-winning leader in hotel management, McKibbon Hospitality, is pleased to announce the promotion and addition of two best-in-class hospitality human resources professionals to the company’s expanding corporate leadership team.
Read MoreMcKibbon Hospitality Appoints Anthony Sambrato Jr. Food & Beverage Director for Select-Service & Extended Stay Hotels
Bringing more than 20 years of industry experience to McKibbon’s in-house Food & Beverage team, Sambrato will be responsible for implementing brand standards and strengthening the food and beverage culture and execution across McKibbon’s portfolio of hotels.
Read MoreMcKibbon Hospitality & Aloft Asheville Downtown Receive Marriott CONNECT 2022 Renovation Excellence Award
McKibbon Hospitality is pleased to announce it has been recognized as a Renovation Excellence CONNECT 2022 award winner from Marriott International, celebrating the all-encompassing renovation of its Aloft Asheville Downtown completed in the spring of 2020.
Read MoreMcKibbon Hospitality Appoints James House as Opening General Manager of Home2 Suites by Hilton Wildwood-The Villages
Upon completion, House will be responsible for overseeing all operations of the 96-room hotel adjacent to The Villages retirement community slated to open this spring.
Read MoreMcKibbon Hospitality celebrates year of growth as Covid recovery continues
McKibbon grew its footprint over the past year by assuming management of 19 hotels throughout Florida, Georgia and Virginia, the company has revealed. The new additions – totaling 2,280 rooms – span select-service and extended-stay properties across various Marriott International, Hilton Worldwide and Hyatt Hotels Corporation brands. Since the pandemic began in 2020, the company has assumed management of 27 new properties in total. This brings the company’s current portfolio to 96 schemes, which together comprise 11,097 keys.
Read MoreMcKibbon Hospitality Celebrates Considerable Growth in 2021
A mix of select-service and extended-stay properties including flagship Marriott, Hilton, and Hyatt brands, McKibbon assumed management of the following 19 hotels in 2021, expanding its existing presence in key Florida, Georgia, and Virginia markets.
Read MoreMcKibbon Hospitality Adds 19 Hotels to Management Portfolio
McKibbon is pleased to announce the addition of 19 new hotels and 2,280 total guest rooms to its ever-growing management portfolio in 2021. This considerable portfolio growth paired with McKibbon’s valued workforce building back to more than 2,300 associates this year, is a clear and promising indication of the company’s ongoing recovery, revitalization and overall upward trajectory following the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. A mix of select-service and extended-stay properties including flagship Marriott, Hilton, and Hyatt brands, McKibbon expanded its existing presence in key Florida, Georgia, and Virginia markets.
Read MoreHotel Revenue Managers Adapt to Unpredictable Demand Patterns
Acting quickly was key, said Jihad Lotfi, vice president of revenue management at Tampa, Florida-based McKibbon Hospitality.
Read MoreCelebrate Groundbreaking of the Courtyard by Marriott Gainesville, Georgia
Capstone Property Group, LLC, McKibbon Places and McKibbon Hospitality recently celebrated the official groundbreaking of the Courtyard by Marriott Gainesville, Georgia on Monday, December 6. The 130-room select-service hotel is set to anchor the highly anticipated mixed-use development, The National - a revival and redevelopment of Gainesville's long-vacant First National Bank building, which also broke ground during the event. Both the hotel and The National are anticipated to open in mid-2023.
Read MoreUSF announces new partnership to give students access to 93 teaching hotels
Out of the ashes of a grueling pandemic, leading area hotel firm McKibbon Hospitality and the USF Muma College of Business have risen to the challenge of combating the industry's crippling workforce shortage. Through a new partnership, the pair created a program that combines classroom-style of teaching with practical on-the-job experience. The agreement, announced Nov. 10, will provide students access to 93 teaching hotels within the McKibbon portfolio.
Read MoreTampa hotel company’s USF deal aims to train hospitality’s next generation
McKibbon recently announced a partnership with the University of South Florida in which students at USF’s School of Hospitality and Tourism Management will engage in hands-on training at some of its nearly 100 hotels across the country, including the Courtyard by Marriott Tampa Downtown and the Kimpton Hotel Arras in Asheville, N.C. The partnership comes as USF aims to expand its hospitality management program from its Sarasota-Manatee campus into St. Petersburg and Tampa, opening the doors to hotel careers for entirely new swaths of students.
Read MoreJames Merrihew Appointed as Asset Manager
Merrihew will be working closely with McKibbon's Vice President of Asset Management, J.B McKibbon on these efforts. The fourth-generation family member to work for the company, J.B. McKibbon oversees all aspects of existing McKibbon investments, including acquisitions and ground-up developments, guiding asset management and financial analysis for our current properties and development analysis for proposed projects.
Read MoreUSF and hotel operator partner to help train the next generation of hospitality managers
McKibbon hopes to shape the next generation of hospitality managers by turning their hotels into learning environments. The partnership became a reality in November as USF and McKibbon Hospitality inked an agreement that will transform the school into a leader in educating the next generation of hospitality managers in the state's most important industry. That partnership will help propel the school to expand from close to 200 students – all located today on USF's Sarasota-Manatee campus – to more than 500 students spread across the Sarasota-Manatee campus, St. Pete campus and the Tampa campus in the next couple of years.
Read MoreWith McKibbon partnership, USF’s hospitality workforce pipeline to expand
USF’s School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, which is one of six schools in the USF Muma College of Business, has inked a partnership agreement with McKibbon Hospitality, which operates 100 hotels with large brands such as Marriott, Hilton and Hyatt. The partnership agreement with the Tampa-based hospitality group formally creates an accredited internship program for students to gain real-world, hands-on knowledge of working in the sector.
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