Hotel & Motel Management - November 3, 2008 - (Page 48)

48 Design H&MM November 3, 2008 | HotelMotel.com OUTDOOR LIGHTING Celebration preparation Though many hotels have created lavish holiday scenes for years, the preparation still continues every year, often starting long before the yuletide season and sometimes turning into a year-round event. At the Mission Inn Hotel & Spa in Riverside, Calif., setting up the 2 million lights for the hotel’s Festival of Lights takes a 12-person team eight weeks, but preparation for the following year begins during the current year’s event, said Chris Henny, director of sales and marketing for the hotel. “Before the lights get torn down from one season, we already do our walk-around [to note] changes that we need to make and what we’re going to add for the following year.” The next year’s design changes are based on feedback from customers and the hotel’s owner, Duane Roberts, as well as a brainstorm session MISSION INN HOTEL & SPA Serve the best. On demand. Guarantee guest satisfaction for any size group by ensuring that every cup of coffee is perfect with Autocrat’s shelf-stable Coffee on Demand. Made with fresh-roasted 100% Arabica beans and ﬁltered artesian well-water, this is the ideal product offering for banquets, room service, employee dining, and continental breakfast. Eliminate waste, save time and money. from the staff, he said. “It’s a process. This isn’t just getting engineers to throw up six strands of lights.” Staff at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Dallas head outside in June with a map of each of the 57-acre property’s 550 trees. “We walk each one of them and decide which one is going to be white lights, which is going to be green lights and how many lights will go on them,” said Ann Maner, horticulture manager at the resort. “We then put that onto a rough map and from that, it’s transferred onto a ﬁnal map that’s color-coded. Then, somewhere on the tree it’s color-coded.” Quotable “ We have a lot of what I would call neighbors coming to see the show. They love this, and they love the tradition of it. … We’ve stayed with that traditional design because it’s what everybody wants, what everybody expects.” HOLLIS MALONE, director of horticulture at Gaylord Opryland Resort Call 1.800.288.6272 x129 today for a FREE trial offer. For more info Company Circle No. Ameritec Lighting . . . . . . . . . 273 Brownlee Lighting. . . . . . . . . 274 General Electric . . . . . . . . . . 275 Philips Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . 276 Prescolite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 Progress Lighting . . . . . . . . . 278 Sylvania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 CIRCLE NO. 110 http://www.HotelMotel.com http://www.autocrat.com http://www.autocrat.com

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Hotel & Motel Management - November 3, 2008

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