ALHI Launches Global Luxury Alliance

October 9, 2014

Associated Luxury Hotels International (ALHI) launched ALHI Global Luxury Alliance (GLA) as a strategic global resource addition to the extensive luxury-level portfolio it has served throughout North America for nearly 30 years. The GLA enables ALHI to better serve meeting professionals, incentive specialists, association executives, convention planners and business executives managing meetings and programs beyond North America.

The new alliance is designed to provide luxury-level meeting and incentive hotels, resorts, cruise lines, DMC, DMO and similar upper-tier and luxury-level service providers, specifically poised to augment ALHI’s distinguished membership portfolio of four- and five-diamond quality hotels and resorts throughout North America and in the Caribbean.

The inaugural member of the new ALHI Global Luxury Alliance is Global DMC Partners (GDP), which is a partnership of Destination Management Companies serving more than 100 destinations worldwide, which includes more than 50 global DMCs and 65 global markets outside of the U.S.

“We are launching ALHI’s Global Luxury Alliance to further support ALHI’s goal to be the very best global sales resource and provider to the North American Accounts we are privileged to serve,” said ALHI CEO David Gabri. “Through this strategic alliance, ALHI intends to maximize efficiency, advocacy and support for meeting professionals and their organizations with their M.I.C.E. programs worldwide, as we have done for years with our extensive portfolio throughout North America, now including those programs requiring venues and destination support for programs outside of North America. Meeting professionals and executives can depend on ALHI and our Global Sales Office team to provide expert insight, service, and reliable connectivity in the most desirable meeting and incentive destinations worldwide,” said Gabri.

ALHI’s portfolio features more than 115,000 rooms and suites and 10 million sf of meeting space.

There is no cost to planners’ organizations to utilize the ALHI GSO and ALHI Global Luxury Alliance services, expertise, and account advocacy for programs ranging from 10 to more than 6,500 attendees, as members’ dues fund the organizations to best serve planners with local and dedicated professionals.

For a list of ALHI’s portfolio, visit www.alhi.com, and preview details of ALHI’s Membership, including useful information on 12 defined “specialty segments” within the portfolio, which are designed to make it easy for planners to identify properties, destinations, venues and/or ships that will best suit their programs’ objectives, unique desires and specific needs.

ALHI has 20 professionally staffed Global Sales Offices, which are located in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Connecticut, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Kansas City, Louisville, New York City, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Richmond, Southern California (3), Toronto, Washington, D.C. and the state of Washington.