Lane Hospitality Overview
Lane Hospitality, a division of Lane Industries, is one of the nation’s leading and most respected hotel development and management companies. Having successfully owned and managed hotels and resorts for more than 30 years, we have what it takes for you to be successful in every area of your operation and to protect and enhance the value of your asset.
We bring decades of hands-on experience gained in good times and bad, and our relationships with such leading hotel brands as Carlson, Choice, Hilton, Hyatt, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) and Marriott continue a history of profitable returns.
Most important, we take pride in our committed leadership team of industry professionals and hard working hotel associates, aligned and focused on giving you the results you need – in any marketplace and any business cycle – and on delivering the finest in the industry today.
Lane Hospitality’s focus is on the guest -- and we challenge our hotels to strive for those key service deliveries that will best enhance the guest experience. This follows at the corporate level as well, combining the expertise of a large organization with the character and close-knit relationships of a small family-run business.
Our company is led by President and CEO Bill DeForrest, a 30-year hospitality veteran whose philosophy takes a visionary approach that empowers associates to utilize Lane's resources, skill and ability to innovate and exploit change, coupled with the passion to be successful. There is a direct hotline to the corporate office and daily revenue property meetings to share information.
Lane Hospitality enjoys excellent long-term relationships with leadership with the major hotel brands. In addition, CEO DeForrest is on the InterContinental Hotel Owners' Association Board of Directors and has was Chairman of the IHG Owner's Association and its more than 3,000 owner members worldwide for 2011. In fact, Lane's entire executive team is active in hotel brand and statewide hotel associations.