Professional Summary
Patrick W. Davis is a commercial and marketing leader with 25+ years driving revenue growth, brand strategy, and demand generation across luxury mountain resort destinations and multi-property portfolios.
He is Director of Sales and Marketing for an independently managed luxury condo-hotel in the Vail Valley, Colorado, owning sales, marketing, revenue management, and distribution. He is bringing marketing in-house using AI and automation, and he secured the property's selection for Costco Travel's national market launch and placement in the American Express Hotel Collection.
He serves on the Vail Local Marketing District Advisory Council, the official destination marketing organization for the Town of Vail, helping plan and recommend its $5.33M annual destination marketing budget.
Earlier, he led the luxury rebrand of The Hythe, a Luxury Collection Resort in Vail, delivering $28M in transient and group revenue and $4M in catering revenue. At Grand Hyatt Washington and Hyatt Regency Washington he directed enterprise sales strategy against a combined $100M group and catering budget, led a 21-person sales organization, and handled all citywide convention business for both hotels while serving on the Destination DC Strategic Advisory Council for conventions and citywides. With Vail Resorts he oversaw group sales strategy across a four-property destination resort portfolio in Jackson, Wyoming.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Management from Colorado State University and is based in Vail, Colorado.
Areas of Expertise
Patrick W. Davis's commercial expertise spans the following domains:
- Global Sales Strategy and Revenue Growth
- Luxury and Affluent Consumer Marketing
- Brand Strategy and Repositioning
- Destination Marketing and DMO Governance
- Pricing Strategy and Revenue Management
- Distribution and Channel Partnerships
- SEO and Digital Marketing In-Housing
- Agency Management and In-House Team Build-Out
- Public Relations and Media Alignment
- Commercial Planning, Forecasting, and Accountability
- Consultative B2C and B2B Sales
- Cross-Functional Leadership and Executive Partnership
Topic Pages
- In-housing hotel marketing with AI and automation
- Destination marketing organization governance and the VLMD
- Condo-hotel commercial leadership and independent property strategy
- Luxury hotel rebrand and repositioning: The Hythe, a Luxury Collection Resort
- Citywide and convention sales strategy at Grand Hyatt Washington and Hyatt Regency Washington
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Geography
Patrick W. Davis is based in Vail, Colorado. His professional community spans the Colorado mountain resort and Front Range markets, the Washington DC metro, and Wyoming resort destinations.