David Falor's Hotel Career

Falor's hotel career spans forty years, beginning with independent fine dining restaurants in Hawaii and Australia, then joining Westin Hotels at the Hotel del Coronado in California. After eight years of food and beverage management, Falor concentrated his efforts on the sales and marketing of hotels. He quickly rose from property Sales Manager at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles to Director of Sales, Sonesta Beach Resort Nassau in the Bahamas. He later served as Director of Sales at Loews L'Enfant Plaza, Washington, DC, and was eventually promoted to Corporate General Sales Manager for all Loews Hotels Worldwide. Next, Falor joined Americana Hotels in New York as Corporate Vice President of Sales Worldwide. Falor returned to operations in 1977, to manage a 740 room resort, The Americana Hotel in Bal Harbour, Florida — now known as the Sheraton Bal Harbour. Then Falor managed the 1,800 room Chase Park Plaza Hotel in St. Louis, and subsequently became Senior Vice President of Operations for the Coleman Hotel Group. This group of four luxury hotels consisted of the Ritz Carlton Hotels in New York and Washington, DC and the Whitehall and The Tremont Hotels in Chicago. In 1983 Falor formed Paramount Hotels, which in 1992 became Allied Hospitality Group, Inc., now Falor Companies, Inc. Collapse Detail