Anton Eckert
Eckert is associate vice president of tourism development at Visit Salt Lake. Eckert most recently worked as chief industry development officer at Travel Nevada. She has also led travel trade sales and marketing teams at DMOs such as Visit California, San Francisco Travel and Visit Vacaville in California
Karen Codilla
Honolulu’s Prince Waikiki has named Codilla corporate director of commercial strategy. Codilla comes from Outrigger Hospitality Group, where she worked as corporate director of revenue and distribution. She has also led leading positions with The Modern Honolulu, Travelocity, Handlery Hotels, Hotel Nikko in San Francisco and Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa in California. She is an executive board member at PATA Hawaii and serves on the national HSMAI Revenue Optimization Advisory Board.
Damien Abrams and Jennifer Byerly
The Steward, a Tribute Portfolio Marriott Hotel in Santa Barbara, California, has named Abrams general manager and Byerly director of sales.
Abrams previously worked at Renaissance Newport Beach in California as hotel manager. He has extensive experience working in the Southern California region, including working in leadership roles at Irvine Marriott, Marriott Irvine Spectrum and The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel.
Byerly comes from Residence Inn by Marriott San Francisco Airport, where she worked as director of sales. She also worked as director of sales and marketing at Residence Inn in Worthington, Ohio, director of sales at Homewood Suites by Homewood Suites by Hilton Columbus in Ohio, and sales coordinator at Hyatt Regency Columbus, where her hospitality career began.
Julie Van’t Hul
San Francisco Travel Association promoted Van’t Hul to vice president of convention sales. She previously worked as director of citywide accounts for the last six years. Before joining SF Travel, she worked as director of West Coast corporate sales at Choose Chicago. She has also worked as director of Chicago Convention Bureau, global account director for Starwood Hotels & Resorts and area director of sales and marketing for Kimpton Hotels.
Scott Gubrud
Gubrud is Montage Deer Valley’s director of sales and marketing. Now in Park City, Utah, Gubrud worked in Scottsdale, Arizona, working with events company EPIC International as president and CEO. He also worked in Colorado at Four Seasons Resort Vail, Park Hyatt Beaver Creek Resort and Spa, and Vail Cascade Resort & Spa. He is a former board member of the Vail Local Marketing District Advisory Council and president of Destination Colorado.
Alisha D. Staes
Staes is director of sales at The Ponchartrain Hotel in New Orleans. Staes previously worked as senior sales manager at NOPSI Hotel. She has also led sales teams at Hilton New Orleans St. Charles, The Troubadour Hotel New Orleans and Four Points by Sheraton French Quarter.
Craig Caron and Stefanie Hassan
360 Destination Group has promoted Caron to chief operating officer and Hassan to general manager for its Los Angeles and San Francisco offices.
Caron joined the team at 360DG as senior vice president of sales. In 2018, Caron worked as vice president of global sales for Encore/PSAV. Before working in audiovisual, he worked in sales, as executive director of the Hilton Worldwide sales team. He has also worked with Loews Hotels and Marriott International.
Hassan has been with 360DG for 17, most recently as senior account executive, and before this, as senior operations manager and operations. Before working at 360DG, she was meetings manager at United Telecom Council.
Tracy Solly
Trump National Doral Miami has named Solly director of sales and marketing. Before this position, she worked as a consultant through her company The Luxury Compass. She has also worked as vice president at West Orange Chamber of Commerce, as well as high-level positions with Performance Hospitality and Aimbridge Hospitality, and the United Kingdom with Cameron House, Macdonald Hotels and Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group.
