Kiersten Pearce serves as the Senior Vice President, Strategic and Executive Initiatives for AHLA. Kiersten’s role is to ensure that AHLA continues to deliver a compelling value proposition model to the more than 26,000 members across all membership categories. Kiersten comes to AHLA with extensive experience within the hospitality industry and most recently project managed AHLA’s Consumer Innovation Forum (CIF), where she served as Director of Industry Relations at Kalibri Labs for nearly four years.

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Mr. Knight joined the Apple REIT Companies in 2000 and has served as Chief Executive Officer of the Company since May 2014 and served as President of the Company from its inception to March 2020. Mr. Knight also served as President of each of the former Apple REIT Companies, except Apple Suites, until they were sold to a third party or merged with the Company. Mr. Knight held various senior management positions with the Apple REIT Companies prior to his appointment as President. Mr.

The hotel industry takes the health and safety of their guests very seriously, and that includes ensuring pest-control procedures are in place to prevent and eradicate any pests, including bedbugs, that might seek to invade their properties.

WASHINGTON (September 28, 2016) - A hotel’s windows are a huge source of solar heat gain especially when the windows face the sun. We already know that the drapes in a guestroom, when not occupied, are kept closed to reduce the solar heat gain and lower energy costs. What else can a hotel do, especially in common areas, to reduce solar heat gain? There are two options: install new low-E windows or retrofit the existing windows with energy-saving film.

Washington, D.C. – September 28, 2016 – The American Hotel and Lodging Association (AH&LA) today commended Congressional action to pass $1.1 billion in funding to battle the Zika virus. The hotel and travel industries have been advocating for Congress to pass emergency funding to combat the virus, most recently writing an op-ed in The Hill and sending a letter to Congressional leadership underscoring the importance of pursuing preventive measures to fight the virus.