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AMH’S Kirby Payne, Travel Marketer Peter Yesawich Join Lineup of Experts Associated with Hospitality Artists NAPLES, Fla. – (November 21, 2002) – Two of America’s foremost travel authorities, Kirby Payne and Peter Yesawich, have been added to the lineup of strategic consulting experts associated with Hospitality Artists, a Naples, Fla.-based consultancy specializing in assistance to the hospitality and lodging, travel and tourism industries. Payne and Yesawich join more than 20 other recognized experts within
the hospitality industry Kirby D. Payne, CHA, is president of American Hospitality Management
Company based in Minneapolis, Minn., and is serving as the 2002
chairman of the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA). Payne’s company operates limited- and full-service hotels for third parties and its own affiliates; undertakes consulting assignments, including litigation support for selected clients; and provides asset management, oversight management, and receivership services for institutional hotel owners. Peter Yesawich is president and CEO, Yesawich, Pepperdine, Brown
& Russell (YPB&R), Orlando, Fla. , America’s leading
marketing, advertising and public relations agency specializing
in serving travel and leisure- industry clients. The company’s
offices—Orlando, New York, Honolulu, Los Angeles, London, São
Paulo and Zurich—serve more than 50 clients worldwide. Yesawich
is globally recognized as a leading authority about the travel behaviors
of Americans who take to the road for leisure and business. Yesawich is a co-originator of the Yesawich, Pepperdine & Brown/Yankelovich Partners National Leisure Travel Monitor, now in its 11th year of measuring the behaviors of American leisure travelers. The Monitor is regarded as an important annual benchmark reflecting how American vacationers view future travel. Hospitality Artists is comprised of a distinguished lineup of successful, authoritative “artists” from the hospitality, lodging, travel and tourism industries. The organization’s consultants provide knowledgeable, results-oriented management assistance to corporate and individual hotel and resort property owners and operators, as well as nations and destinations whose economies rely upon travel and tourism . Hospitality Artists is managed by John Russell and Toma Brashear, each of whom has a respected individual record of achievement within the hospitality, lodging and travel industry. Comprehensive information about Hospitality Artists is available at www.HospitalityArtists.com. Information about American Hospitality Management Company can be found at www.American-Hospitality.net. # # # For more information: Photos in 300 dpi, jpeg format of Kirby Payne and Peter Yesawich can be obtained from Rod Caborn, YPB&R Pubic Relations, 407-838-1799.
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as part of the Hospitality Artists roster of qualified executives
able to advise and assist in the management and consultation of
hospitality, lodging, travel and tourism-related products and services.
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