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Forbes
Travel Guide Expands Its
Five
Star Rating System Into the Caribbean and Mexico
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Forbes Travel
Guide will Provide Ratings to Help Consumers Make Better
Luxury Travel
Decisions in Two Growing Markets, and soon, in all of Latin America
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Lourdes Hainlin
Joins as Vice President, Client Services for the Region
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New
York, NY – July 2014 / Newsmaker Alert / Forbes
Travel Guide—the originator of the Five-Star hospitality rating system
and formerly Mobil Travel Guide—announced that it will begin rating properties
in the Caribbean and Mexico. It will unveil the region’s first group of
five star properties in 2015, and will expand further in Latin America
in coming months. The company also named Lourdes Hainlin Vice President,
Client Services, to drive its growth in the region. Hainlin reports to
Peter Kressaty, Forbes Travel Guide’s Senior Vice President, Client Services.
“We
are proud to announce this important step in Forbes Travel Guide’s world
growth, as it continues to set the global standard for luxury hospitality,”
said Kressaty.
The
company announced its entry into the United Kingdom market in 2013. This
comes on top of the more than 150 markets in which the company currently
rates hotels, restaurants and spas in the United States, Canada, China,
Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau.
Kressaty
concluded, “With a new foothold in Mexico and the Caribbean, we look forward
to announcing our continued expansion in Latin America in the coming months.
We are proud to welcome Lourdes Hainlin, a talented and experienced hotel
development professional, to the Forbes Travel Guide team to lead our regional
growth effort.”
Hainlin
comes to Forbes Travel Guide from the Eden Roc hotel, Miami Beach. She
brings more than twenty years of sales & marketing experience in various
leadership roles for Denihan Hospitality Group, Starwood Hotels and Resorts
Worldwide and the Westin brand. Mrs. Hainlin spent more than twelve years
as the Director of Sales & Marketing for the South Florida and Caribbean
regions for Starwood, and is bilingual in English and Spanish, with a working
knowledge of Portuguese. She is based in Miami and can be reached at lhainlin@forbestravelguide.com.
George
Sotelo, General Manager of the Dorado Beach, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve hotel
in Dorado Puerto Rico, welcomed the expansion, calling it “an important
recognition of the growth of the luxury hotel segment in Puerto Rico and
throughout the Caribbean.” He concluded, “We welcome Forbes Travel Guide
to Puerto Rico and the region, a move which will provide benefits to regional
hotels and consumers alike.”
About
Forbes Travel Guide
Forbes
Travel Guide, formerly Mobil Travel Guide, is the originator of the prestigious
Five-Star Rating system, and has provided the travel industry’s most comprehensive
ratings and reviews of hotels, restaurants and spas since 1958. Forbes
Travel Guide has a team of expert inspectors who anonymously evaluate properties
against up to 800 rigorous and objective standards, providing consumers
the insight to make better-informed travel and leisure decisions. Forbes
Travel Guide is the gold standard for luxury hospitality ratings worldwide.
For more information about Forbes Travel Guide, visit ForbesTravelGuide.com.
ForbesTravelGuide.com
combines the objectivity and heritage of the Forbes Travel Guide Star Rating
system with insightful recommendations from a hand-selected group of travel
experts, tastemakers and Forbes Travel Guide inspectors. ForbesTravelGuide.com
is the exclusive online destination for Forbes Travel Guide’s list of Star
Rated hotels, restaurants and spas, and gives its registered members exclusive
access to special offers and curated experiences from select Forbes Travel
Guide partners.
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Media
Contact:
Michael
Frenkel
MFC
PR – New York
for
Forbes Travel Guide
212-808-6559 |