The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) recently announced the new federal per diem rates for Fiscal Year 2011 (FY2011), which take effect October 1, 2010, and run through September 30, 2011.
To learn more about the new rate changes, view OH&LA's email message online or visit GSA's website.
The City of Tulsa Development Services department just released a letter containing more information about the new "Code Compliance Process" (CCP).
A brief excerpt from the letter states, "the CCP includes a preliminary design meeting with the participants to examine design code concepts and to identify crucial code issues and compliance options that are useful in developing the design. This collaboration aims to assist the design community to arrive at code compliant designs at an early stage before it gets too costly to modify plans."
To learn more, see the official "Code Compliance Process Letter"
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Enhance your on-the-job experience with Hospitality classes at TCC. Eight week classes start August 16th. Most are on-line, or "blended"; part on-line with minimal class time, in order to fit into your busy schedule. Earn credit toward a certificate in Hospitality, Restaurant Management, Gaming Operations or Event Management.
Visit with your Human Resources Department -- many area hotels offer tuition reimbursement.
For additional course information, please see the attached:
Fall 2010 Hospitality & Gaming Class Schedule.
Go to: www.tulsacc.edu and get started!
Contact your senators and representatives today and ask them to oppose the “Internet Travel Tax Fairness Act (ITTFA).” This legislation has been drafted and efforts are being made to surreptitiously insert it into another bill without examination or debate.
Learn more about “Internet Travel Tax Fairness Act (ITTFA)” and how it threatens the lodging industry by visiting AH&LA's website.
Details for the 2011 OklaStrong Travel Show Program are now available. Applications for attending travel shows will be taken beginning on May 12th, 2010. Besides the amazing line up of shows, TravelOK is also offering some new brochure benefits and sponsorship opportunities.
To learn more, see the official 2011 OklaStrong Travel Show flyer.
We welcome the following Hotels and Vendors to the Tulsa Hotel & Lodging Association family!
Hotels:
Vendors:
Last but not least, we're proud to announce a new Hotel opening: Holiday Inn Tulsa - City Center.
THLA's Food for Families Food & Fund Drive
Although we did not meet our goal, we did raise a significant amount of food for the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma. And that happened to be a total of 5,778 pounds of food raised for needy families. See the results of each category below:
Allied:
Large Hotels:
Small Hotels:
Total: 5,778 lbs
Lacey Lamm sweeps both categories with her delicious Cherry Bombs! Carly Rush and Steve Smith from the KBEZ Morning Show were on hand as the Celebrity Judge's for this exhilarating event on March 25th.
Thank you to all of the Sponsors' and the Stokely Event Center for making this event a huge success! Last but not least, we'll report on the fundraising goals at the next luncheon.
Tulsa Tech
Congratulations to our students from Tulsa Tech! They demonstrated their hospitality knowledge by competing in a question and answer knowledge bowl, completed room inspections, hotel accounting and night audits, analyzed case studies, as well as demonstrated their knowledge, skills and abilities in planning an event and presenting the event to a panel of judges.
Left to right: Andre Fulson, Grant Quin, Heather Michael, Alan Keith, & Lacey Lamm
Left to right: Jonathan Salay, MacKenzie Wiard, Shelby O'Bryant, & Bacur Vaultz
Invest in your organization! How? Join one of the six THLA committees outlined in the below PDF file to help advance our goals and objectives. In exchange, you'll gain valuable knowledge on issues relevant to your business and the Tulsa lodging industry as a whole.
file for a complete description of each of the six committees.On January 12th, the Oklahoma Hotel & Lodging Association held its 2009 Stars of the Industry Awards. The Annual Award Competition was created to honor exceptional professionals in Oklahoma's lodging industry. We are proud to announce the two Tulsa area lodging professionals who received an award.
Center: Oreland Sparks, Outstanding Manager/Supervisor, Hotel Ambassador
Left: Micheal Frimel, 2010 THLA President, Hotel Ambassador
Right: Joe Martin, 2009 AH&LA Chairman, American Hotel & Lodging Association
Left: Lacey Lamm, Mentor of the Year, & 2009 THLA President, Hilton Tulsa
Southern Hills and Packard Hospitality Group
Right: Jeanetta Williams, Nathan Hale High School
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