Association
of Human Resources Managers
In the Hospitality Industry
"Recognizing
Service Excellence in the Hospitality Industry"
The
"Mabuhay Awards" is a yearly recognition awards program by
the Association of Human Resources Managers in the Hospitality
Industry (AHRM). The program recognizes outstanding rank & file,
supervisors and managers
from its member establishments. 
Respected
industry leaders are invited to judge the best candidates guided by
a very high criteria standard that
balances both the job knowledge and skills as well as
the
behavioral aspects of each candidate.
Since its inception in 1996, the following have already been
recognized as Mabuhay Awardees:
| Year |
Rank
& File |
Supervisory |
Managerial |
| 1996 |
Eric
Davie Uy Mandarin Oriental Manila |
Imelda
Cardeño
The Peninsula Manila
Florentino Estamo Makati Shangri-La Manila |
Rudy
Velasco
Century Park Hotel |
| 1997 |
Jay
Marvin Mascariñas
The Manila Diamond Hotel |
Rose
Nilda Dizon
The Peninsula Manila |
Humprey
Navarro
Mandarin Oriental Manila |
| 1998 |
Benjamin
E. Rada
EDSA Shangri-La Manila |
Ma.
Pilar Panaligan
The Manila Diamond Hotel |
Bernardino
Maglaque
EDSA Shangri-La Manila |
| 1999 |
Raymundo
Pallega
EDSA Shangri-La Manila |
Sharon
L. Pelayo Hyatt Regency Manila |
Victor
San Pedro, Jr.
Westin Philippine Plaza |
| 2000 |
Ramon
De la Cruz
EDSA Shangri-La Hotel
|
Rene
Mortezo
Mandarin Oriental Manila |
Paolo
Campillo
Westin Philippine Plaza |
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The
“Mabuhay Awards”, the most prestigious service excellence awards
in the hospitality industry was launched at the Edsa Shangri-La
Hotel last August 14. The officers of the Association of Human
Resources Managers in the Hospitality Industry (AHRM) were present
to orient this year’s board of judges on the strict selection
criteria. The Mabuhay Awards night is scheduled on October 27 at the
Edsa Shangri-La Hotel. Shown above are the judges (seated left to
right): Fr. Joemar Sibug O.P., Rector of Collegio de San Juan de
Letran; Luz Filmer, Executive Director of Punlaan School; Nars Lim,
Managing Director of Asia Pacific Projects, Inc.; Edith Lotta
(representing Undersecretary Evelyn Pantig) of the Department of
Tourism; (Standing from left to right) Rod Cornejo, Assistant to the
president of GMA-7; Gerry Plana, Executive Director of the Personnel
Management Association of the Philippines; Ret. Gen. Roberto
Santiago, General Manager of the Camp Aguinaldo Golf & Country
Club; and Donald Patrick Lim, AVP-Classified Ads of the Philippine
Daily Inquirer.
AHRM
also bestows the "Mabuhay Gold Award" every year to a
Filipino Hotelier/Restaurateur who has greatly contributed to the
uplifting of the Filipino Hoteliers'/Restaurateurs' mark in the
international hotel and restaurant industry. Among those bestowed
with the Mabuhay Gold Award are:
| 1996 |
Mr.
Perfector F. Quicho |
A
graduate of De La Salle, Mr. Perfecto F. Quicho started his
hotel career at the Hotel Aurelio. He joined the Hyatt
Regency Manila in 1973 where he rose to become its Resident
Manager. He moved to Hyatt Regency Vancouver as Resident
manager and was only 32 years old when he became General
Manager of Hyatt Regency Thailand. He has the distinction of
being the very first Filipino manager to become a General
Manager of an international de luxe hotel chain in the
Philippines, when he became General Manager of the Hyatt
Regency Manila from 1984 to 1992. He is currently owner of
the very popular Giraffe Bar & Grille in Makati. |
| 1997 |
Mr.
Larry J. Cruz |
Restaurateur.
Tourism industry leader. Writer and Publisher. Mr. Larry J.
Cruz is all of these and more. He comes from a family of
writers, his father being the distinguished writer-painter
and former UNESCO Ambassador Emilio A. Cruz, and his mother
Felicidad de Jesus who wrote for the pre-war Graphic. He was
HRAP (Hotel & Restaurant Association of the Philippines)
President for 8 years. Aside from HRAP, Mr. Cruz is also the
Chairman of the Hotel and Tourism Institute of the
Philippines. President of the Tourism Industry Board
Foundation, the former President of the Asean Tourism
Association or ASEANTA and Charge de Presse of the Chaine de
Rotisseurs. He owns and is actively involved in managing his
14 restaurants and theme bars here and abroad, aside from
being the Editor-In-Chief of Metro Magazine and the
Philippine News Agency. |
| 1998 |
Doña
Trinidad Diaz-Enriquez |
Born
on May 27, Doña Trinidad Diaz-Enriquez is fondly known by
her employees as Doña Trining. Her hotel and restaurant
empire started as a small ice-cream parlor cum snack shop
which she and her husband put up after World War II. This
humble start gave birth to a chain of restaurants,
cafeterias and catering services (including airline
catering), and later to hotels such as the Sulo Hotel, the
Philippine Village Hotel, the Grand Boulevard Hotel and the
Puerto Azul Beach Hotel. She was the first woman President
of the Hotel & Restaurant Association of the Philippines
(HRAP). In 1981, she was given the "Les Dames
d'Escoffier" award which is a hotel service award given
to only nine women by the Grand Hotels of the World in New
York City. |
| 1999 |
Mrs.
Glenda Rosales-Barretto |
Via
Mare at the Greenbelt Square is one of Manila's famous
seafood specialty restaurants.And behind the success of Via
Mare is Glenda Rosales-Barretto. Glenda was the President
and currently the Vice President for Restaurant Division of
the Hotel & Restaurant Association of the Philippines (HRAP)
and President of the Hotel and Restaurant Tripartite
Consultative Board (HRTCB). Her international affiliations
include membership in the L'Orde Mondial de Gourmets
Degustateurs based in Paris, the National Restaurant
Association USA, the Asean Hotel and Restaurant Association,
Les Chaine de Rotisseurs Baillage National de Philippines
and the Les Tóques Blanches Philippines. Presently, she is
the Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of
Via Mare Catering Services, Inc., President & Chief
Executive Officer of Pizza Inn Philippines and Sunrise
Restaurant of the Philippines and President of Pagsanjan
Rapids Hotel in Laguna. Among Glenda's numerous awards are
three silver medals from the International Menu Competition
at the NRA in Chicago, USA, and the Restaurateur of the Year
Award in 1986 given by the HRAP. She has served in the panel
of judges for several culinary competitions, including the
very prestigious Bocuse d'Or Culinary Comptetition
International where she was the first and only Filipino
judge invited. |
| 2000 |
Ms.
Guillerma
Gabor |
Popularly
known as "Mina" to her friends and colleagues, she
served the Philippine government as its Secretary of Tourism
from 1996-1998, where she was able to achieve an 8.5%
increase on tourist arrivals. Mina is also the one who
conceptualized and organized the annual Kalakbay Awards, of
the Department of Tourism which gives recognition to
deserving companies and individuals in the Tourism industry.
Among
her many awards are the Philippine Legion of Honor, the
highest award given by the President of the Philippines to a
citizen for exemplary contributions to the development of
the whole country; she is one of the Twelve Outstanding
Women in Government; Centennial Awardee as one of the 100
Outstanding Women of the Phils., the Filipina First Award of
Honor; one of the Most Powerful Women in Travel, and Travel
Personality of the Year Awardee.
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