Associated Luxury Hotels Adds First Hotel in Europe

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. October 14, 2008

WASHINGTON, DC, July 19, 2006. To meet the growing needs of North American meeting planners in this increasingly global market, Associated Luxury Hotels International (ALHI) has expanded its international membership with the addition of its first hotel in Europe. The famed InterContinental London Park Lane in London, England is Associated Luxury Hotels' newest member, and first in Europe. It joins other notable international members Fiesta Americana Grand Aqua, Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach, and Fiesta Americana Grand Los Cabos in Mexico; La Samanna on St. Martin in the French West Indies in the Caribbean; and Pan Pacific Vancouver and Pan Pacific Whistler Mountainside in British Columbia, Canada. Associated Luxury Hotels also has four members in Puerto Rico, El Conquistador Resort & Golden Door Spa, Condado Plaza Hotel & Casino, El San Juan Hotel & Casino, and Westin Rio Mar Beach Golf Resort & Spa.

Associated Luxury Hotels has served the North American meetings industry for over 20 years with its national sales responsibilities for its membership of more than 80 of America's premier four- and five-diamond/star quality hotels and resorts, plus several extraordinary international hotels and resorts in Canada, Mexico, The Caribbean and now in Europe.

"With the addition of InterContinental London Park Lane to the select international hotels and resorts in the portfolio, Associated Luxury Hotels is more strategically positioned to best serve meeting planners in North America," said David Gabri, president and CEO of Associated Luxury Hotels. "The globalization of the meetings, incentive, and convention business is increasingly apparent, so we're simply meeting the demands of our meeting professional clients to offer them an array of upper-tier member options for their groups, with easy one-call access to ALHI's National Sales Network."

Gabri continued, "Associated Luxury Hotels is celebrating our 20th anniversary of serving the meetings, incentive, convention and exhibition industries in North America. Expanding our international membership helps North American meeting planners by providing to them easier access to these exceptional hotels and resorts, and it helps the properties by becoming more accessible to meeting planners in North America."

Overlooking the Royal Parks and Buckingham Palace on Hyde Park Corner in London, the InterContinental London Park Lane is nearing completion of a lb60 million (approximately $107 million) renovation. Reopening in Fall 2006, the new hotel will reveal 387 elegant rooms and designer suites, 23,000-square-feet of exceptional meeting space with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking Park Lane and the Royal Parks, a chic city spa, and the exceptional new restaurant Theo Randall at The InterContinental.

With an incredible portfolio of more than 68,000 rooms and suites and over 8.3 million square feet of meeting space, Associated Luxury Hotels enables planners to gain easy access to outstanding hotels and resorts for meetings and incentive programs ranging from 10 to 5,000 rooms by one-call to its professionally staffed National Sales Network. Member properties include extraordinary meeting resorts, incomparable city center hotels, exclusive smaller hotels, properties in international destinations, and hotels with gaming or entertainment.