The vacation ownership company recognised team members and programmes across sales, resorts and talent, underscoring the operational breadth behind its guest experience.
Holiday Inn Club Vacations Incorporated, also known as Holiday Inn Club Vacations and HICV, recognised multiple team members, leaders and programmes as winners at the 2026 ARDA Awards. The announcement, issued on May 15, 2026, highlighted awards across sales and marketing, management and administration, resort operations, and advertising, promotions and communications. The breadth of the honours places employee performance and programme execution at the centre of the company’s account of its vacation ownership business.
The awards are presented within a vacation ownership operation whose network includes 22 resorts across the United States and the Mexican Caribbean, according to the company. Based in Orlando, Florida, HICV describes itself as a resort, real estate and travel company focused on family travel and easy-to-plan holiday experiences. Its release also traces the business to 1982, when Holiday Inn founder Kemmons Wilson opened the flagship property at Orange Lake Resort near Walt Disney World Resort.
The 2026 winners span both individual roles and broader teams. Recognised names include Thomas Grimes for marketing, Will Bratcher for sales management, David Dunn and Jason Solano for sales, Sheena Kinnaman for human resources, Melissa Stewart as a resort general manager, and Vicki Bowers for housekeeping management. The company also cited the VIPX Programme and Marketing Team, the Talent Acquisition Team, the Activities Team at Orange Lake Resort, and the Masters Trip 2025: Ready. Set. Rome. event.
Chief Executive Officer Jim Mikolaichik said the recognition covered resort operations, sales and marketing, talent and guest experience. His comments framed the awards as a reflection of the work carried out across the organisation, rather than as a single product or property achievement. That emphasis makes the announcement relevant to the wider hospitality category, where the guest-facing experience depends on coordination between front-line resort teams, commercial functions and internal support operations.
For Holiday Inn Club Vacations, the awards provide a public measure of how the company connects its family-travel positioning with the people and programmes operating across its resort network. The release does not attach financial results or operational targets to the honours, but it does show recognition reaching from marketing technology and sales roles to activities, housekeeping, human resources and major incentive events. The result is a portrait of a business presenting organisational capability as an important part of its customer proposition.
