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Shannon Gilbert Named Director of Sales and Marketing for The Ritz-Carlton, Denver, Opening Spring 2007

Shannon D. Gilbert, a hospitality sales executive with more than a dozen years of experience with The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C., has been named Director of Sales and Marketing for The Ritz-Carlton, Denver, a 202-room luxury hotel in the heart of the downtown business district. Scheduled to open in spring 2007, the hotel is in the Denver Place Tower on the first 14 floors of the building at 1881 Curtis Street.

Gilbert comes to her new position at the third Ritz-Carlton location in Colorado (Bachelor Gulch and Aspen) from the award-winning Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel where she was Director of Group Sales since 2004. Prior to that position, Gilbert held the title of Associate Director of Sales at The Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay on California's Pacific coastline. She also worked as Director of Northwest Sales for La Quinta Resort & Club and as National Sales Manager for The Ritz-Carlton, Rancho Mirage, both in Southern California. At Rancho Mirage, Gilbert was named 1998 Leader of the Quarter.

A graduate of The Palm Desert School of Business Administration, Gilbert has attended numerous sales and training educational classes and programs sponsored by The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. "We are very pleased to have someone with Shannon Gilbert's wealth of sales experience and knowledge of The Ritz-Carlton, heading the sales and marketing team at our new property in Denver," said Jo Anne Hill, regional vice president sales and marketing for the Western Region.

Gilbert's new office is located at 999 18th Street, Suite 245, Denver, Colorado 80202. For more information on The Ritz-Carlton, Denver with 13,000 square feet of meeting space, she can be reached at 303-312-3810.

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C. of Chevy Chase, Md., (USA) currently operates 61 hotels in the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Over 20 projects are under development around the globe with hotel openings planned for Moscow, Ireland, and two in Beijing over the next year. The Ritz-Carlton is the only service company to have twice earned the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, which recognizes outstanding customer service.

For more information contact The Ritz-Carlton toll free reservations at 1 (800) 241-3333, your travel consultant or visit www.ritzcarlton.com.

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