Wright Investment Properties General Manager receives TN Hotel Lodging Association General Manager of the Year Award
Cordova, TN, September 8, 2009 – Tricia Weatherford, General Manager of the Residence Inn by Marriott Downtown Memphis, was recently honored with the 2009 Outstanding General Manager of the Year - Select Service Hotel by the Tennessee Hotel Lodging Association. Weatherford received the award during the Stars of the Industry Luncheon in Nashville on August 14, 2009.
The Outstanding General Manager of the Year Award honors an hotelier who has demonstrated superior professionalism in operating a Tennessee Hotel Lodging Association member property and has taken a leadership role in the industry by actively participating in association, community or industry programs. “Tricia genuinely deserves this type of recognition”, said Charles Swan, Executive Vice President of Wright Investment Properties and President of Hospitality Management Advisors, Wright’s management company. “Tricia has cultivated a unique work environment with an extremely loyal group of associates, which is hard to find in today’s work environment by having one-on-one interaction with every single hotel employee almost everyday.”
Under Weatherford’s guidance the Residence Inn by Marriott Downtown Memphis has received several awards including the Marriott 2006 Silver Circle Award for Superior Guest Services and Marriott International’s Best Opening Award in 2004. Earlier in 2009 she was named Outstanding General Manager of the year by the Metropolitan Memphis Hotel and Lodging Association and in 2008 was the recipient of the prestigious Billy Hicks Award at the Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau Annual Awards Luncheon.
Wright Investment Properties is a leading privately held national hotel development company that is consistently recognized as one of the top 35 hotel management companies in the United States by Hotel Business Magazine. Wright’s development focus is on primary and secondary markets. For more information on the company visit their website at www.wrightinvestments.com.
Hospitality Management Advisors, Inc. is one of the premier hotel management companies in the United States. The company works with private ownership groups as well as some of the largest public and private investment groups in the United States and has a proven long-standing reputation for performance-driven results through excellent operating and asset management standards. Hospitality Management Advisors operates hotels in more than nine states with a wide range of franchises including Marriott, Hilton, Carlson Hotels and Intercontinental Hotels Group. Hospitality Management Advisors is headquartered in Cordova, TN, a suburb of Memphis. For more information about Hospitality Management Advisors, visit the company’s website at www.wrightinvestments.com
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