NORWALK, Connecticut—Shatterproof will host its seventh annual Hospitality Heroes Reception on the Americas Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS) on January 23, 2024, from 6:30 – 7:forty five p.m. on the J.W. Marriott in Los Angeles. The reception will honor Designate Hoplamazian, president and CEO, Hyatt Accommodations Corporation, who has been integral in uniting hospitality leaders to elevate awareness and crash the stigma surrounding dependancy. The occasion will elevate funds to enhance Shatterproof’s efforts to remodel how dependancy is treated in the USA. Hoplamazian and Hyatt bear been supporters of Shatterproof and its mission to full the dependancy disaster. Most recently, Hyatt was once the Uncommon Presenting Sponsor for Shatterproof’s annual breeze in Chicago, the put apart Hyatt is headquartered.
In 2023, Hyatt and bigger than 60 hospitality companies joined together to sponsor the occasion in enhance of Shatterproof’s mission and its founder and CEO, Gary Mendell, a musty hotelier who served as the chairman of HEI Accommodations & Accommodations. The occasion raised higher than $2 million to force alternatives to dependancy and this public health disaster in the USA.
The involvement of Hyatt will fabricate scalable alternatives to support households get better from dependancy. Analysis bear proven the hospitality industry is impacted by substance use concerns at twice the rate of other industries, which makes Shatterproof’s mission relevant to Hoplamazian and Hyatt’s aim.
“I am so delighted to honor Designate Hoplamazian this year. I could well perhaps now not be extra grateful for his dedication to full the devastation triggered by the illness of dependancy and put extra lives,” talked about Mendell. “His leadership is making a profound affect towards reducing the stigma of dependancy and bringing mighty-wished changes that will lower the high rates of dependancy for the length of the hospitality industry. Having Hyatt as a main in supporting this cause will bring commerce, and we hope it will support other companies to affix forces with us.”
Mendell based Shatterproof ten years ago after dropping his son to the stigma of dependancy. His purpose was once to ensure that other households didn’t want to skills the same fret and heartbreak he went thru. Since its founding, higher than 100 hotel companies and 500 workers bear raised higher than $5 million to support attain Shatterproof’s mission.
“I am humbled and honored to net the Shatterproof Hospitality Hero Award and survey the mammoth different for the hospitality industry to bring awareness to this kind of in actuality necessary cause,” talked about Hoplamazian. “Real to our aim of care, Hyatt is proud to enhance this work, in particular in consideration of how significantly the hospitality industry at mammoth is impacted by substance use concerns.”
