It is Profitable... New Glacier Hotel...
Another Hilton brand, Homewood Suites, will open its first Montana property, a 119-room, upscale extended-stay hotel in Bozeman in September. A 115-room Homewood Suites property is scheduled to open in Kalispell near Glacier National Park in March 2010. Homewood Suites spokesman Brad Carmony said the brand usually locates near airports and office parks, but the Kalispell franchise was green-lighted because it will “attract the tourism, transient segment.”Carmony added, “Our profitability model is based on people staying five-plus nights, and if there are places in Montana that support that then the brand is totally behind it.”Tourism officials are delighted about Hilton’s focus on the state. “Probably the newest thing in Montana would be that the Hiltons have come in,” says Donnie Sexton of the Montana Office of Tourism.
