Shuffle at Danbury Holiday Inn

The owners of the Holiday Inn on Danbury”™s east side have shifted management of the 114-room hotel to a sister business, New Generation Hospitality in Warren, N.J. “We come in and operate the hotel at the direction of the ownership,” said Bill Toole, vice president of sales and marketing at New Generation.

New Generation Hospitality is a hotel acquisition and management company and CEO Sujal Mehta is also separately part owner of the Danbury Holiday Inn under a different corporate name ”“ SMP Investment Corp. SMP purchased the 33-year-old Danbury Holiday Inn from the Meyer Jabara Hotels chain in 2004. The full-service hotel recently renovated all its guest rooms, and is about a half-mile from Interstate 84”™s exit 8.

SMP had managed the hotel by itself until the first of this month, when it signed an agreement with New Generation Hospitality”™s hotel management division to take over management operations, Toole said. The change will not affect the Holiday Inn brand affiliation, and all current staff has been retained.