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CHARLESTON, SC – After important inside and portfolio development in 2022, main hospitality administration firm Charlestowne Resorts as soon as once more celebrates a profitable yr bookended by thrilling enlargement, quite a few accolades for its properties and executives, and advances in its company construction and know-how.

Charlestowne’s 2023 development was characterised by deeper enlargement into the Midwest and school cities, heightened work with delicate manufacturers, and the expansion of our income and advertising providers for properties across the nation. We additionally continued to rework our company construction and redefine our management mannequin, launching a refreshed web site to introduce our new VPs and administrators and showcase the forward-thinking work we’re doing to offer our companions with best-in-class service. Kyle Hughey, CEO of Charlestowne Resorts

Amongst different high-level positions, Charlestowne promoted longtime worker Max Spangler to VP of Know-how. The corporate additionally launched its “Rooms for Progress” incentive program, which allows staff to remain at any Charlestowne-managed property at particular charges.

HOTEL OPENINGS + DEVELOPMENT

In 2022 & 2023, Charlestowne Resorts centered efforts on turning into extra concerned with delicate manufacturers, including two properties: The Memphian(Memphis, TN) and Lodge Marcel(New Haven, CT), the latter of which is the primary and solely 100% electrical zero emission resort in the USA. Portfolio development continued in 2023, with highlights together with:

Lodge Verdant (Racine, WI): As soon as the Zahn’s Division Retailer constructing, this 80-room adaptive reuse property is Charlestowne’s sixth within the area. Lodge Verdant is on monitor to grow to be a LEED Licensed boutique resort that’s each pleasant to the surroundings and impressed by it, incorporating hygge into its design aesthetic. Charlestowne additionally oversees its two eating places: Marguerite and Eave.

The H Lodge (Midland, MI): This 139-room, AAA 4-Diamond property transitioned from a Dolce by Wyndham to an unbiased property in October. Its first property in Michigan and seventh within the Midwest, Charlestowne is now overseeing the administration of this iconic group staple, together with its three on-site eating places: Café Zinc, One eighteen, and Oxygen Lounge. A go-to for space occasions, the resort has 25,000+ sq. toes of indoor/outside assembly house.

Little Mod Lodge (Charlottesville, VA): Charlestowne’s thirteenth property in a college market, Little Mod is a 20-room resort located in a Nineteen Sixties revitalized constructing, charming visitors with nostalgia, groovy furnishings, whimsical F+B choices, and an unapologetically hip vibe. The administration firm’s third Virginia-based property, Charlestowne additionally oversees the airstream-style meals truck, The Mod Pod.

Starkville, MS: Charlestowne additionally took over the administration of three best-in-class properties at Mississippi State College: Consolation Suites Starkville (which has now been transformed to an unbiased resort below Charlestowne’s administration), Courtyard by Marriott Starkville, and Hampton Inn Starkville.

PORTFOLIO + LEADERSHIP ACCOLADES

Charlestowne properties proceed to reign as the perfect within the nation, due to extremely customized operations, advertising, and income administration methods that set every asset aside from its competitors. Most notably, three Charlestowne-managed properties had been honored in TripAdvisor’s Better of the Finest Awards, which acknowledge the 25 most distinctive accommodations within the U.S. (Deer Path Inn in Lake Forest, IL, and The Spectator and French Quarter Inn in Charleston, SC).

Different stand-out {industry} accolades in 2023 included:

Prime Charlestowne executives had been additionally acknowledged as leaders within the {industry}:

LOOKING AHEAD + AREAS OF FOCUS

Charlestowne is well-poised to take care of its stronghold within the administration of boutique, unbiased, and soft-branded belongings.

In 2024, we’ll develop properties in Charleston, Santa Fe, and Orlando, as we stay centered on strategic development in beloved and rising tourism markets, Hughey says. Out west, now we have plans to rebrand and relaunch a ski-in/ski-out resort in Aspen, Colorado, coinciding with a full property renovation slated to debut in October 2024. With the help of our new company infrastructure and our best-in-the-industry leaders, we’ll additionally discover alternatives to accomplice with accommodations with bigger key counts.

Key areas of ongoing development in 2024 will embrace know-how (each on the company and property ranges), F+B programming, and the administration of other lodging with experimental programming, with bulletins to be shared within the coming months.

For extra details about Charlestowne Resorts and their progressive method to administration, go to CharlestowneHotels.com.

About Charlestowne Resorts

For greater than 40 years, Charlestowne Resorts has been acknowledged for its administration of way of life accommodations and is persistently ranked by prime {industry} publications as one of many main hospitality administration corporations for unbiased, collegiate markets, delicate manufacturers + manufacturers, condominium accommodations and adaptive reuse properties. The corporate’s household of particular person accommodations features a portfolio of 60+ properties and 40+ meals & beverage shops positioned in city metropolis facilities, secondary cities, and resort locations. Charlestowne’s administration experience encompasses all phases of operations, inclusive of day-to-day administration, new improvement, property renovations + repositioning tasks, and resort transitions. Charlestowne properties persistently obtain above-average RevPAR development and obtain among the nation’s prime journey accolades together with topping the “finest accommodations” lists by Journey + Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, USA At this time and TripAdvisor. To attain this, Charlestowne treats every property like its personal model, working with homeowners and on-site groups to implement way of life operations, income optimization and strategic advertising that elevate the property’s distinctive story and improve the visitor expertise. For extra data go to www.CharlestowneHotels.com.