(This is a new occasional feature of our Chapter’s blog, spotlighting key members of our hospitality industry. If you are interested in participating, please contact Julie Wernick, HSMAInsider, at jwfranklin1@gmail.com)
Name: Carlos M. Molinet, CHA
Title: General Manager
Company: Hilton Worldwide – based at Hilton Fort Lauderdale Marina
HSMAInsider: How Long Have You Been at Your Current Job at This Location?
Carlos: 5 years and 2 months
HSMAInsider: Where Were You Before?
Carlos: Area GM for Hyatt Pier 66 and Bahia Mar
HSMAInsider: How Did you Get Started in the Industry?
Carlos: I started as a Front Office Cashier in NYC
HSMAInsider: What is your Favorite Thing about your job?
Carlos: The ability to mentor and develop the future leaders of our industry as well as the interaction with our guests and creating memories for their stays.
HSMAInsider: What advice, if any, would you have for someone starting out in the Hospitality Industry?
Carlos: Engage your guests daily and always look for opportunities to seek out mentors to help guide your career. Additionally, involve yourself with the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association, as this will help you network and build your base of contacts for future success. Finally, I would say live up to a mantra of some kind, mine is from Conrad Hilton “To fill the earth with the light and warmth of hospitality”
HSMAInsider: When guests/friends visit and ask you what not to miss in South Florida, you tell them not to miss:
Carlos: The Water Taxi, The beach, The Everglades, Sawgrass Mills, and a show at either the Broward Center for the Performing Arts or in Miami at the Arsht Center.
HSMAInsider: Anything else you’d like to tell our readers?
Carlos: The hospitality business is richly rewarding especially if you adopt the servant leadership model and truly serve your hotel and community. My philosophy of life is based on the Success Poem – “To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or redeemed social condition: To know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived – this is to have succeeded” - Additionally, you have the key to unlock your possibilities in life and choose to do anything that you want with this.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
HSMAI – Headquarters – Recap – August 2011
(Editor’s Note: Here’s some selected information previously sent by our Association headquarters that you may have missed... HSMAInsider, Julie Wernick)
The Adrian Awards – Celebrating its 55th year!
This competition has evolved into the worlds most renowned and prestigious advertising, public relations, and digital marketing event specifically tailored for the hospitality, travel, and tourism industries. The Awards honor creative brilliance and best practices in hospitality, travel, and tourism-related marketing.
Just a reminder that the early entry deadline is September 2 and the final deadline is September 16th. For more information on the Adrian Awards Competition, contact Desiree LaFont at (703) 506-3297 or email AdrianAwards@hsmai.org
In addition, HSMAI is also accepting nominations for the 2011 HSMAI Top 25 Extraordinary Minds in Sales & Marketing.
Barry Brown Receives Award:
HSMAI named Barry Brown, Regional Director of Sales and Marketing, the Del Coronado and La Costa Resort & Spa, the 2011 Resort Marketer of the Year. The award, presented by HSMAI and LivingSocial, was awarded to Brown for exemplifying the highest degree of excellence and commitment to the hospitality industry.
Affordable Meetings becomes MEET National:
This “new” meetings event takes place September 7-8, 2011 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, in Washington, DC. Meeting and event planners get to take advantage of the latest educational updates, increase their professionalism and their contacts, attend planner-supplier scheduled meetings, etc., all in a new format. Will you be there?
HSMAI Insights Newsletters - An exclusive benefit of membership in HSMAI
Have you seen these weekly newsletters? Each issue is chock full of useful details and tidbits. These are divided into several sections including: “Fueling Sales”; “Inspiring Marketing”; “Optimizing Revenue”; “Update”; Pictures; and “On The Move”. It includes news briefs from around the media, with access to in-depth articles, columns, reports and multimedia on eConnect (which is a one-stop portal to global information and resources on hospitality sales and marketing topics provided by the HSMAI Foundation).
HSMAI and VIZERGY: Best Practices
HSMAI has partnered with VIZERGY to provide a white paper on best practices for integrated marketing. The paper provides an in-depth look at why travel marketers should move away from a singular focus on campaigns toward a more integrated marketing approach. In addition it addresses best practices for Establishing cross-functional teams; Defining appropriate goals; Matching consumer-preferred channels to defined goals; and Focusing on the right success measures. The white paper can be found online by visiting http://www.hsmaieconnect.org/index.html
The Adrian Awards – Celebrating its 55th year!
This competition has evolved into the worlds most renowned and prestigious advertising, public relations, and digital marketing event specifically tailored for the hospitality, travel, and tourism industries. The Awards honor creative brilliance and best practices in hospitality, travel, and tourism-related marketing.
Just a reminder that the early entry deadline is September 2 and the final deadline is September 16th. For more information on the Adrian Awards Competition, contact Desiree LaFont at (703) 506-3297 or email AdrianAwards@hsmai.org
In addition, HSMAI is also accepting nominations for the 2011 HSMAI Top 25 Extraordinary Minds in Sales & Marketing.
Barry Brown Receives Award:
HSMAI named Barry Brown, Regional Director of Sales and Marketing, the Del Coronado and La Costa Resort & Spa, the 2011 Resort Marketer of the Year. The award, presented by HSMAI and LivingSocial, was awarded to Brown for exemplifying the highest degree of excellence and commitment to the hospitality industry.
Affordable Meetings becomes MEET National:
This “new” meetings event takes place September 7-8, 2011 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, in Washington, DC. Meeting and event planners get to take advantage of the latest educational updates, increase their professionalism and their contacts, attend planner-supplier scheduled meetings, etc., all in a new format. Will you be there?
HSMAI Insights Newsletters - An exclusive benefit of membership in HSMAI
Have you seen these weekly newsletters? Each issue is chock full of useful details and tidbits. These are divided into several sections including: “Fueling Sales”; “Inspiring Marketing”; “Optimizing Revenue”; “Update”; Pictures; and “On The Move”. It includes news briefs from around the media, with access to in-depth articles, columns, reports and multimedia on eConnect (which is a one-stop portal to global information and resources on hospitality sales and marketing topics provided by the HSMAI Foundation).
HSMAI and VIZERGY: Best Practices
HSMAI has partnered with VIZERGY to provide a white paper on best practices for integrated marketing. The paper provides an in-depth look at why travel marketers should move away from a singular focus on campaigns toward a more integrated marketing approach. In addition it addresses best practices for Establishing cross-functional teams; Defining appropriate goals; Matching consumer-preferred channels to defined goals; and Focusing on the right success measures. The white paper can be found online by visiting http://www.hsmaieconnect.org/index.html
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