Hilton Anatole Appoints New Senior Sales Manager

WHY IT RATES: Alan Enns, a seasoned hospitality professional with more than two decades of sales experience, is a strategic addition to the hotel's team. He will be the point person for the hotel's Mid-Atlantic and Northeast association markets.—Mia Taylor, TravelPulse Senior Writer.Hilton Anatole, Dallas’s foremost hotel for business and events, announces the appointment of Alan Enns to senior sales manager.As a seasoned hospitality professional with more than 25 years of sales experience, Enns will serve as the 1,606-room hotel’s lead representative for the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast association market. MORE People “With the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast market among Hilton Anatole’s most lucrative markets, Alan is a strategic addition to our sales team,” says Kavin R. Schieferdecker, director of sales and marketing. “His extensive experience, knowledge of a key competitive destination and his history of driving substantial sales growth will ensure the Anatole’s continued success within this important market.”Most recently, Alan served as the account director at The Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin in Orlando, Florida.Prior sales experience includes 17 years as the director of sales at The Peabody Orlando, national sales manager for the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, national sales manager for the Westin Hotel Cypress Creek in Fort Lauderdale, and sales manager for the Westin Bellevue Stratford Hotel.With 600,000-square-feet of total event space, nine ballrooms, and 79 meeting rooms across a 45-acre campus, Hilton Anatole offers some of the most noteworthy meetings capabilities in the country.As a unique urban hotel adjacent to Dallas’s Design District, groups experience resort-style amenities including one of the largest hotel art collections in the world, a three-acre pool facility, and an 80,000-square-foot fitness club and spa.With eight restaurants and bars, groups favor the private dining rooms at SER Steak + Spirits which overlooks downtown Dallas through floor-to-ceiling windows.SOURCE: Hilton press release