ALHI Adds California Gem to Portfolio with The Resort at Pelican Hill

. October 10, 2011

October 7, 2011 - Associated Luxury Hotels International ( ALHI ) has expanded the California and “ALHI Level 5”/AAA Five-Diamond offerings within its portfolio of distinctive hotels and resorts designed for meetings with the addition of The Resort at Pelican Hill to its membership. Situated along the picturesque coast of Newport Beach in Southern California, The Resort at Pelican Hill sits nestled on 504 acres and features incredible panoramic views of The Pacific Ocean. The resort will now receive dedicated National Sales Organization (NSO) services and support by ALHI and its professional and established sales force throughout North America to serve the meetings and incentive marketplace.

Addition Boosts ALHI's Level 5 Collection

With their membership acceptance into ALHI's worldwide portfolio, The Resort at Pelican Hill becomes the newest offering in the “ALHI Level 5 Collection,” which is an ALHI “Specialty Segment” that now consists of ALHI's 18 hotels and resorts which have achieved the Highest Industry Recognitions, including the prestigious AAA Five-Diamond rating, and/or the esteemed Forbes (Mobil) Five-Star rating.

ALHI (www.alhi.com) is a prestigious dues-based National Sales Organization, which for 25 years has specifically provided dedicated and professional NSO services to meeting professionals, association executives, incentive specialists and business executives interested in conducting successful face-to-face programs, exclusively for its more than 130 Four- and Five-Diamond quality hotel and resort Members. There is no cost to planners' or executives' organizations to utilize the NSO services, expertise, and account advocacy of ALHI, as its members' dues fund the National Sales Organization to best serve planners with local professionals.

The Resort at Pelican Hill is the newest addition to the impressive ALHI Member collection of California hotels and resorts, joining its sister property Island Hotel Newport Beach in scenic Newport Beach.

Additional exceptional and distinctive California members include: La Costa Resort and Spa (Carlsbad/San Diego); Hotel del Coronado (Coronado/San Diego); Loews Coronado Bay (Coronado/San Diego); Miramonte Resort & Spa (Indian Wells); The Meritage Resort and Spa (Napa); Ojai Valley Inn & Spa (Ojai); Resort at Squaw Creek (Olympic Valley/Lake Tahoe); The Langham Huntington (Pasadena); The Pebble Beach Resorts including The Lodge at Pebble Beach, Casa Palmero, and The Inn at Spanish Bay; Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa (Rancho Mirage); Terranea Resort (Rancho Palos Verdes); The Grand Del Mar (San Diego); Hotel Nikko San Francisco (San Francisco); InterContinental Mark Hopkins San Francisco (San Francisco); InterContinental San Francisco (San Francisco); Hotel Valencia Santana Row (San Jose); and Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel (Santa Monica). Five of these California Members share the ALHI Level 5 distinction, while all the others provide extraordinary Four-Diamond/Star services and facilities.

“We are very proud to feature The Resort at Pelican Hill as a truly exceptional new resort within our portfolio,” said David Gabri, president and CEO of ALHI. “While the resort is new, it is already winning all types of awards, and is becoming recognized as one of the very finest resorts in the entire world. The Resort at Pelican Hill has the complete package as an outstanding choice for meetings and incentive/recognition programs seeking an extraordinary experience. They are a terrific complement to the other Level 5 options we provide planners every day.”

Located on 504 acres of sun-drenched hillsides, the elegant Resort at Pelican Hill features 332 luxurious ocean-view bungalow guest rooms and villas with spectacular vistas of the Pacific; 44,000 square feet of meeting space; two championship 18-hole golf courses with beautiful ocean views from nearly every hole; the Five-Star, 23,000-square-foot full-service Spa at Pelican Hill; five dining experiences with ocean and golf course views; the unique and striking Coliseum Pool; and incredible outdoor venues, including the majestic Event Lawn that features an iconic Italian rotunda perched 300 feet above the ocean. The resort is able to accommodate groups of 10-300. Area recreational options available to groups and guests include boating, whale watching, snorkeling, scuba diving, Crystal Cove State Park, world-class shopping, sailing, dinner cruise excursions, Catalina Island, and art galleries. The resort is 15-minutes from Orange County's John Wayne Airport and a 45-minute drive from Los Angeles International Airport.

Among the many honors bestowed on The Resort at Pelican Hill was being voted by the readers of Conde Nast Traveler magazine as #2 among the “Top 100 U.S. Mainland Resorts” and #22 among the “Top 100 Best in the World 2010.” The resort also was ranked #6 in Travel + Leisure magazine's “Top Resorts in the U.S./Canada” and in the “Top 100 World's Best Hotels” in 2011.

100,000 Reasons For ALHI

With a worldwide portfolio of over 100,000 rooms and suites and more than 10 million square feet of meeting space, ALHI provides planners and their organizations experienced National Sales services with diverse options among its outstanding worldwide member hotels and resorts which specialize in meetings and incentive programs.

Meeting professionals, association executives, and incentive specialists have utilized ALHI's National Sales services for 25 years, with reliable one-call professional sales assistance and access to their distinctive hotels and resorts for meetings and incentive/recognition programs ranging from 10 to more than 6,500 rooms.

Member hotels include extraordinary Four- and Five-Diamond quality meeting and incentive resorts, incomparable city hotels, exclusive smaller hotels, golf resorts, historic and landmark properties, island destinations, resorts with spas, properties in international destinations, and hotels with world-class gaming and entertainment.

For a list of ALHI's entire portfolio, visit www.alhi.com, and preview details of ALHI's membership, including easily useful information on several defined specialty segments within the ALHI portfolio to serve distinctive meeting, convention and incentive travel needs.

On the website, planners can quickly see details of the properties' meeting, accommodation, recreational and dining offerings, as well as destination information and “Luxury on Sale” value opportunities. A photo gallery, meeting floor plans and specs, and a location map for each property are also easily available.

ALHI has 16 professionally-staffed National Sales Offices to serve, with locations in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Kansas City, Louisville, New York City, Orange County (CA), Orlando, Philadelphia, Richmond, San Diego, Savannah, Toronto and Washington, DC. Go to www.alhi.com to identify the “ALHI Contacts” sales professionals in your state/area.

Additionally, in 2011 ALHI will launch Associated Destinations Worldwide (ADW), a new Global Sales Organization (GSO) that will be a dedicated business unit of ALHI to specifically promote the first-class member destinations, hotels, and convention facilities from around the world to U.S. and Canadian meeting professionals, association executives, incentive specialists, and business executives. ADW will be ALHI's new Global Sales arm, which will serve North American companies and associations by developing outbound international group programs specifically for its members. Supported by ALHI's 16 National Sales Offices, ADW also will feature a dedicated team of highly experienced, internationally trained, and culturally astute ADW Global Sales specialists who will focus on international business development. ADW will initially feature three GSO sales offices, in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Chicago.

For more information about ALHI, to inquire about a future meeting at any of the ALHI member properties, and/or to acquire a free copy of ALHI's new “ 2011-2012 ALHI National Sales Guide To Meeting Facilities ,” contact your nearest ALHI National Sales Office, call the “ALHI Group Desk” toll-free at 866-303-ALHI (2544) , and visit www.alhi.com .

Business Contact:

Karen Lamonica
T: 407-788-7070
E: [email protected]

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