Better Together: The Value of our Partnership with AHLA

As an esteemed hospitality company working to add value for our stakeholders while making lasting impressions on our guests, we’ve long been challenged to strike a balance between our needs for representation, education, and our ability to innovate. Since joining the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) in June 2019, our experience in working to…

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A Community Collaborates to Build New Beginnings

How Aberdeen businesses built two basketball courts in two weeks Basketball is a popular activity for clients at the New Beginnings Center (NBC), a youth care facility in Aberdeen, S.D. It’s been that way since Liesl Hovel started with Lutheran Social Services years ago. Liesl is the Director of Development for Lutheran Social Services (LSS),…

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Watertown is Forever 50

It’s fitting that Watertown, S.D., finally has a My Place Hotel, Terry Kline, the company’s EVP of Franchise Development, told a large crowd gathered for the Oct. 29 grand opening and ribbon cutting. “I recall when we were just starting to launch the franchise system, some of the owners came to Aberdeen to visit us,…

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The Monthly Rewind: October 2019

While the days seem to grow shorter with every day that passes as we make our way through Fall, the memories we make continue to grow in vibrancy and meaningfulness as we travel to new places and develop new stories to celebrate and share with one another. With a focus on telling the story of…

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Best of Blog: A Celebratory List from the First Year

Ask our fearless leader, Ryan Rivett, what the most effective touchpoint is and he’ll tell you it’s – without a doubt – storytelling. At least that’s what he told us in a recent conversation you’ll hear soon. When we launched the official My Place Hotels Blog a year ago, the primary goal wasn’t to just…

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