Incorporated in 1974, the Oklahoma Hotel & Lodging Association is Oklahoma's trade association for the lodging industry. The OH&LA actively provides operational, educational, technical, marketing and communications support, as well as legislative representation on behalf of Oklahoma's entire lodging industry. The OH&LA is a state partner of the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA), the voice of the $122.7 billion lodging industry, employing more than 1.8 million hotel property workers.

Our mission is to promote good will in the hospitality industry; provide programs of education and recognition to improve professionalism and the quality of services for guests; provide information to the membership on matters of government which relate to the hospitality fields; and establish programs which will be helpful to the membership in purchasing, marketing and in areas of general cooperation for the benefit of the industry and the public.

Upcoming Events

Odyssey de Culinaire is back! Tulsa: Thursday, July 29th at the Renaissance Hotel and Convention Center; Oklahoma City: Thursday, August 12th at Gaillardia Country Club.  Make plans now to attend one or both of these unique benefit dinners. Tickets are $125/person or $200/person for both evenings.

 


August 19, 2010 Quarterly Meeting: OH&LA Lodging Property Members and Allied Members are invited to join the OH&LA Board of Directors on August 19, 2010 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Northwest Expressway in Oklahoma City, for one of four committee meetings to formulate association activities, followed by our Networking Luncheon, and quarterly OH&LA Board of Directors meeting.

Latest News

6/28/10: Compliance Reminder: July 1, 2010 Visa Mandate

6/04/10: Last Minute Anti-Business Provisions of HB 2359

5/26/10: Exciting News About Workers' Compensation Insurance

5/25/10: Heartland Payment Systems® Commercially Launches State-of-the-Art Payment Card Security Technology

3/23/10: Landmark Health Care Reform Passes Congress: What it Means for You

2/22/10: Travel Promotion Act Faces Final Passage: Contact Your Senator and Urge their Support

2/17/10: Legislative Update

2/15/10: Hotel Theft Alert

2010 Federal Per Diems Announced

News: Heartland Payment Systems Returns to List of Certified Processors

This eight-minute video can be downloaded and then played via your computer to your managerial staff, educating them on the many threats card check poses to the U.S. lodging industry.  Presently, legal recognition of a union is achieved through secret ballot elections, in which each worker decides whether or not to support a union in the privacy of the voting booth.

Help the American Hotel & Lodging Association defeat card check legislation.  Circulate this ad to all of your member companies and let them know what we are doing to educate the public about the real purpose of the so-called "Employee Free Choice Act" and to defeat this ill-conceived legislation when union leadership presses for another vote in 2009. You are an essential component in this effort, as we need our members to bring this to your legislator's attention via writing letters and backing the ad campaign.