- Tim O'Connor
- Food, Beverage & Hospitality
Best Western
Best Western’s Canadian Supply and Studio Design group helps shape the hotel company’s seven distinct brands.
By Tim O’Connor
Every year, Best Western® Hotels & Resorts holds a convention for its North American members as well as a Global Conference for its international offices. During these events, attendees have the opportunity to meet with a diverse array of global suppliers.
Priscilla Nesbitt, director of Supply and Studio Design for Best Western’s Canadian market, has made it part of her mission to promote and endorse suppliers from all across Canada and ensure adequate representation at Best Western’s events. These efforts are to enhance support for Canadian members by providing them with increased options and to conduct business in Canadian currency.
The result of that effort is best represented at the Annual North American Conference, which now includes about 40 Canadian companies annually. “I try to make sure the offering I have for the Canadian members is equal to the U.S.,” Nesbitt says. “Although we have a smaller portion of hotels, I want to ensure Canadian members have a wide variety of local suppliers to choose from.”
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