Hotel has a new way to generate convention business
Since some employees at the Hilton Americas-Houston unionized, the hotel will now benefit from union convention business:
Q: Does this open the door for union conventions to finally come to Houston?
A: Not only union conventions but in general, union business.
We want to be recommending the Hilton to everyone within the AFL-CIO labor movement. We have small, medium and big union conventions. And there are a lot of them.
Q: Does the Hilton management elicit your help in attracting conventions?
A: Well that was part of the understanding from the beginning. Richard Shaw (secretary/treasurer of the Harris County AFL-CIO) made a presentation to the Convention Center Hotel Corp. and the city to let them know about bringing union business to the hotel and the city.
We presented some figures showing the potential of union business coming to the Hilton Hotel and put it up on our Web site promoting the Hilton.
We got letters from unions pledging to come to this hotel if it's union. We plan to utilize all the resources — Web sites, newspapers and direct mail communications — to reach out to all AFL-CIO affiliates and community organizations, religious organizations and political organizations like the Democratic Party and the NAACP to get them to come to the Hilton.
Which leaves me to wonder if Jordy Tollett is working on this convention-business-generating angle, since we already know he doesn't care for "Houston. It's Worth It."
Posted by Anne Linehan @ 01/07/05 09:55 AM | Print | Comments (1)
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