Laura Armitage is now chair, Regina Hotel Association. Yola Marshall and Beata Cieplik have new jobs at IHG. Chris Zappala joins Morbern.

Andrea Myers is back at HAC. Catherine McAuley joins Westin Prince as director of sales and marketing. WorldHotels announces five new additions to its executive team.

A nightmare for guests and hotel managers alike, bed bugs are biting into business – in more ways than one. A bed bug sighting is the number one reason a guest would switch hotels immediately.

LAS VEGAS — Choice Hotels Canada honoured its platinum and gold award winners for 2017, and chose the Hotel of the Year, once again the Quality Inn and Suites, Val D'Or, Quebec.

LAS VEGAS — Earvin “Magic” Johnson shared lessons from his basketball career with more than 6,000 delegates to the Choice Hotels International Conference in Las Vegas this month.

SHELTON, Conn. — Gerry Chase, president and COO of New Castle Hotels and Resorts, will retire June 30, paving the way for Julian and Jeremy Buffam to take the helm of its growing portfolio on both sides of the border.

Radisson's Americas sales team appointments. Didier Dolivet to manage Westin Prince. Ian Ricci joins AccorHotels. Larry Mogelonsky is SLH ambassador. Marriott welcomes Paul Loehr. New Sheraton GMs. Stephen Sullivan…

Stuart Alexander Jolliffe, well-known GM of the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel, passed away April 11. “Stuart had a lasting impact on the associates he worked with over so many years in the Canadian hospitality community,”…

TORONTO — “He was a man of intellect, poise and passion,” said Dr. Steve Gupta of Michael Jackson, who passed away on March 28 at the age of 63 following a six-month battle with pancreatic cancer.

VANCOUVER — Silver Chef, a leading dedicated hospitality funding partner, recently announced $500 million for Canadian hospitality businesses, to help them purchase the equipment they need to achieve their potential…