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Show New Yarrow general manager likes hotels in resort towns rm QSEBSESir y c I I... i K-.Jk1! 21 J Neal Palumbo New Yarrow general manager Joe Jafarian wants to make the hotel a center for local events. by JIM SMEDLEY Keloid staff writer The new general manager of The Yarrow Hotel, Joe Jafarian, will be serving two masters. He said although tourists dominate the activity at the Omni-Dunley Omni-Dunley hotel during the winter, he wants the local people not to forget that the hotel is there for them also. i have extensive plans for the hotel to try and make it basically a hub for Park City and the surrounding surroun-ding area," Jafarian said. "We want the local people to know us for our restaurant and our meeting and convention con-vention facilities. "We are also putting on a large liimpaign with the Dunfey people around the country to promote Park City as a place for more conventions during the non-skiing season," he added. Jafarian is familiar with hotel management in a resort town. For the past six years he worked for Mountain Hotels, a management group, as the general manager of the Holiday Inn in Steamboat Springs, Colo., and directed the activities of :wo other hotels there. He became enchanted with hotels when he was a student at the University Univer-sity of Utah in 1968, seeking a degree in electronics His first hotel-related job was with the Ramada Inn, Salt ! ,ake City, where he served as a ban-quel ban-quel coordinator. He remained with the Ramada Corp. until 1978, serving in various rapacities w ith the chain's hotels in San Francisco and Beverly Hills, 'alii'., and then Kansas City, Mo. Jafarian left the Ramada chain to work with independents in Santa Clara, Calif., and Lubbock, Texas. Hut after working in these varied places, Jafarian said he prefers the -mall resort-town assignment. "I like to manage in small-city resorts. That's why I stayed in Steamboat Springs for six years," Jafarian said. "I find that the people that you meet, the ones you get to know and trade with, offer many rewarding experiences. " Since beginning his job at the first of the year, Jafarian has made few changes. The staff was kept "pretty much" intact and no major changes have been made internally or externally. exter-nally. . "So far, working here has been busy, but enjoyable," Jafarian said. "The Yarrow has a great staff that made the transition easier for me." Jafarian and his wife, Kathy, are living in Park City and have two sons. Tyler is 1 year old and Justin is 4 12 years old. He said his hobby is skiing, which he learned in Steamboat Steam-boat Springs. |
