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$298,825 Awarded Via AH&LEF’s Core Scholarship Programs - More

The American Hotel & Lodging Educational Foundation (AH&LEF), the not-for-profit affiliate of the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA), is awarding 292 scholarships totaling more than $400,000 this year – of which approximately 35% will be to minority hospitality management students. - More

Ciliena K. Nunes, a recent graduate of the High School of Hospitality and Management in New York, has received a $2,500 scholarship awarded by the Council of Hotel and Restaurant Trainers (CHART) and the American Hotel & Lodging Educational Foundation (AHLEF) during the semi-annual CHART Hospitality Training Conference held July 24-27 in New Orl... - More

The American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute (AHLEI) has partnered with Safety Source Productions to offer two new training videos on important topics for all hospitality operations—bed bugs and sexual harassment. - More

The American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute (AHLEI) has introduced a time payment option for its Distance Learning program. Students who enroll in three or more courses can choose to pay over several months rather than paying their complete enrollment fee upfront. - More

The American Hotel & Lodging Educational Foundation (AH&LEF), the not-for-profit affiliate of the American Hotel & Lodging Association, awarded three scholarships via its Arthur J. Packard Memorial Scholarship Program, the Foundation’s most prominent and oldest scholarship award. - More

The American Hotel & Lodging Educational Foundation (AH&LEF), the not-for-profit affiliate of the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA), administers three scholarships on behalf of industry suppliers and partners American Express, Ecolab, and PepsiCo. These scholarship programs, totaling $37,000, contribute to AH&LEF’s total of more... - More

Vazquez leads a seven-member marketing team responsible for marketing and public relations activities related to AHLEI’s lodging, specialized markets, academic, and international audiences. - More

For 2009, the U.S. lodging industry posted pre-tax profits of $16 billion – down from $25.8 billion in 2008 – and $127.2 billion in sales – down from $140.6 billion in 2008, according to the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA) Lodging Industry Profile (LIP), an annual statistical analysis of the industry. - More

In an attempt to bring pressure on the lodging industry in regard to bargaining for 2010 contracts covering 45,000 unionized hotel workers in 10 cities, the labor union that represents hotel workers is staging a National Civil Disobedience Day. - More