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The Holiday Inn Express & Suites - Verona, WI has recently been awarded the prestigious "Torch Bearer Award" from InterContinental Hotels Group. Hotels receiving this award are ranked in the top 3% of the InterContinental Hotels Group properties across the United States based on cleanliness customer service and intent to return by guests. The hotel received the "New Comer of the Year" award last year so this was a great honor for the property and staff. |
About Great Lakes Management Group
Great Lakes Management Group
is a Wisconsin owned and operated hotel Development and Management
Company. Its President Neil Densmore formed the company in 1997. Neil, a
Certified Hotel Administrator, has 25+ years of direct hotel management
experience. His background encompasses an extensive hotel career in full
service, limited service and resort properties, which include: Hilton
Brands, Choice Hotels International Brands, and IHG Brands. During his
tenure at these facilities, Neil gained first hand knowledge of all
aspects of hotel management including food and beverage, convention
services, sales, maintenance, revenue / yield management, reservations,
front office and general hotel operations. Neil is a past Board Member
of the International Operators Council of Choice Hotels, Past Chair of
Choice Hotels International’s Wisconsin Marketing Cooperative and Past
Chairman of Choice Hotels International’s Education Committee.
Mavis Dare, Vice President of Hotel Sales and Marketing joined the
Great Lakes family in 2002. Mavis oversees the sales and marketing for
all properties in Iowa and Wisconsin. Based out of Moline, Illinois,
Mavis is able to provide the “hands-on” attention to these properties
for which Great Lakes Management group is known. She is instrumental in
coordinating sales efforts, attending motor coach shows, and following
up on the ongoing sales process at the properties. Mavis has over 20+
years of hotel management experience in both full-service and
limited-service properties. Her full service experiences included the
management of onsite restaurants, lounges and conference facilities in
addition to the typical rooms division. Mavis is Past Chairperson of the
Choice Hotels Marketing Cooperative for Iowa, serves on the Advisory
Board for the Quad Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau and serves on the
Advisory Board for the Quad Cities Lodging Association.
Randy Haynes joined Great Lakes
Management group in 2004 as the company’s Vice President of Hotel
Operations overseeing all properties. Randy, a Certified Hotel
Administrator, has 25+ years of hotel experience as a Corporate
Controller and General Manager of full service hotels, which include
Hilton, Holiday Inn and Renaissance. His extensive experience provides
Great Lakes Management hotels expertise in all aspects of the hotel
business; sales, finance, revenue management, food and beverage and
guest service. He has previously been on the board of the Iowa and
Montana state hotel associations and has served board positions of
various cities Convention and Visitors Bureaus.
Great Lakes Management Group currently operates twelve
hotels with two additional property under construction. They include five
properties in Wisconsin and seven in Iowa. The specific hotel’s are: MainStay Suites – Oak Creek, WI; Comfort
Suites - Hayward, WI; Comfort Inn -Plover, WI; Hampton Inn – Plover, WI;
Holiday Inn Express & Suites - Verona, WI; Sleep Inn & Suites – North
Liberty, IA; Comfort Inn – Story City, IA; Sleep Inn & Suites - Mt. Vernon,
IA; MainStay Suites – Cedar Rapids, IA; Holiday Inn Express – Le Claire, IA;
Sleep Inn & Suites – Council Bluffs, IA; and the MainStay Suites – Dubuque,
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