Lynn Mohrfeld
President & CEO

We work for you.

The sole purpose of the California Hotel & Lodging Association is to protect the rights and promote the interests of the California lodging industry. If you are in the lodging industry, we are your biggest advocates.

As a non-profit membership organization, CH&LA and CABBI are directed by industry leaders who volunteer their time on behalf of the entire industry, to the benefit of the entire industry. Our boards, councils, committees and task forces are 100% volunteer-driven and we are extremely lucky to have their guidance.

This leadership has guided our association quite well, especially in this past year. Our advocacy efforts resulted in stopping legislation that would have required fitted sheets for every hotel in California and mandated long-handled tools for housekeepers (even if they preferred short-handled tools). Additionally, we influenced legislation that would have limited room cleaning to a minimum time to clean each room, regardless of room size or any other factor. And these are just two of the myriad of issues that we watch, analyze, track, and lobby. Just with these two examples, we saved the industry over $30 million in unnecessary regulations.

Additionally, our education and networking offerings continue to grow. Our conferences were our best ever and this year, we produced the highly successful California Tourism Safety & Security Conference in conjunction with the Anaheim Police Department, among others.

We didn't do this alone. Our partnerships with the American Hotel & Lodging Association, the Asian American Hotel Owners Association, and many, many state, regional, and local organizations all contributed greatly to our success. Additionally, the team at our Sacramento office contributes greatly to our successes. We couldn't do it without either the industry support or the efforts of our exceptional group in Sacramento.

CH&LA and CABBI are all about your business and only about your business.