Merry Christmas, Dixon Scholars!
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. On Friday, December 15, 2017, Innisfree Hotels hosted a Christmas luncheon at the Hilton on Pensacola Beach for Dixon School of the Arts scholars and staff. The event featured festive singing and dancing performances by...
Innisfree Promotion Announcement 2017
It’s been part of the Innisfree culture to promote from within, so it’s our honor and privilege to announce six exciting new promotions. Jasmine Hunt, currently the Assistant General Manager at Holiday Inn Resort Pensacola Beach, will be taking the reins as General...
2018 Hospitality Industry Trends
The Brands, They Keep A-Comin’ Today’s travelers face a bewildering choice of hotel brands. Back in the day, people knew what Holiday Inn, Hilton, Hyatt or Marriott could offer, and that familiarity bred comfort. This is changing. Today, who knows the difference...
Digital Marketing Musings for 2018
Here are some (okay, a lot) of things Innisfree’s in-house marketing agency will be thinking about next year. Building ‘Duck and Weave’ Marketing Teams Marketing roles are changing faster than in any other business department. The pace is fast, and the flux is...
Opening Night for Luna Fine Art Gallery
On November 3, 2017, Innisfree Hotels celebrated a private reception for Luna Fine Art Gallery at the Hilton Pensacola Beach, during an evening filled with food, drink, artists and art lovers. While the gallery’s name is a nod to Tristán de Luna y Arellano - the...
Chef Dan Dunn Wins Chef of the Year!
Innisfree Hotels and Hilton Pensacola Beach’s very own Celebrity Chef Dan Dunn has been awarded as Chef of the Year with the Florida Restaurant & Lodging Association. Chef Dan Dunn is a Florida native, born in St. Pete and raised in Pensacola, that has been...
Cool Stuff Happening in Our Hive
As we begin a new year in Innisfree's From the Ground Up Garden (this is the new year in the garden), it seems fitting that we take time to reflect upon all the great things that happened around the garden in the past 12 months. New Innisfree volunteers are always...
Innisfree Recipes: Beef Brisket by Chef Rafael Vallejo III
Chef Rafael III, Executive Chef at McCamly Plaza, has brought his love and passion for food from his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia to Battle Creek. Like most chefs, Chef Rafael III has a favorite dish. We caught up with him and asked him all about it. “If I had to...
VP of Hotel Operations Jason Nicholson Appointed to Chairman of Visit Pensacola Board of Directors
“Grit is inherently unique to every single person, which is why I find myself drawn to it like the Gulf to the shore.” This is how Jason Nicholson, Vice President of Hotel Operations for Innisfree Hotels, explained to me his climb from poverty, beginning at the...
2nd Annual Dixon Dub
The Second Annual Dixon Dub Lip Sync Battle at the Hilton on Friday evening, September 29th was a night filled with fun, dancing and plenty of entertainment! The Dixon Dub event helped raise an impressive $62,000 for Dixon School of the Arts. We would like to send...
