2019 Pinnacle Awards Supplier of the Year – Renard International
Steve Renard remembers a time when international recruitment meant a lot of legwork, snail mail, rotary-dial phones and the headaches of telex machines. Needless to say, much...
2019 Pinnacle Awards Hotelier of the Year – Edwin Frizzell, Fairmont Royal York Hotel
Growing up on Prince Edward Island, Edwin Frizzell developed an affinity for hospitality at an early age. “When you’re born in a place like P.E.I., the spirit...
2019 Pinnacle Awards Regional Company of the Year – Palm Holdings
The story of Palm Holdings is a true underdog-to-success journey that spans three continents and three generations. Amar Nath Taneja — the entrepreneur who started it all...
2019 Pinnacle Awards Company of the Year – Hilton Canada
It’s a great time to operate a hotel in Canada and for Hilton Canada, Hotelier’s Company of the Year, which celebrated 100 years of operation this spring,...
2018 Pinnacle Awards Company of the Year – Groupe Germain Hôtels
Since opening their first hotel in 1988, Christiane and Jean-Yves Germain have established themselves as innovators and leaders within the Canadian boutique-hotel landscape. From a single independent,...
2018 Pinnacle Awards Regional Company of the Year – Manga Hotels
It’s a Canadian Horatio-Alger story: a new immigrant with no prior experience in the hospitality industry steadily and gradually acquires and builds a stable of successful hotels;...
2018 Pinnacle Awards Hotelier of the Year – Robert Housez
Robert Housez believes in the Golden Rule — treat others the way you want to be treated. It was hammered into him by his father, his role...
