ACHLA Scholarship Foundation Awards $25,000 to 22 Students

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., June 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Atlantic City Hotel &
Lodging Association -- ACHLA Scholarship Foundation awarded $25,000 in
scholarships to 22 area hospitality and culinary students at its annual
Scholarship Awards Luncheon held at the Atlantic City Hilton Casino Resort.

County Executive Dennis Levinson was the keynote speaker. "The recession
won't be here forever, but the competition will be," said Levinson. He urged
members of the Association to help create a city where tourists want to return
again and again. "The future belongs to us, especially the scholarship
recipients who are here today," he said. "We want you to stay and work in
Atlantic City."

The scholarship committee, chaired by its Executive Director, Howard
Bacharach, presented scholarships to hospitality and culinary students at
Atlantic Cape Community College, Atlantic County Institute of Technology, Cape
May Technical School, Drexel University, Fairleigh Dickinson University,
Richard Stockton College, Temple University and University of Delaware. The
program, which began in the early 1980's, has now awarded in excess of
$240,000 to date.

Through close collaboration with local and regional educational institutions
that offer programs in hospitality education, ACHLA actively support
activities and programs that promote the hospitality/culinary industry as a
desirable career alternative. ACHLA also promotes our members as the employers
of choice.

ACHLA has created the Education/Scholarship Program, which is dedicated to
offering regional high school and college students a career path in the
Lodging, Hospitality, Culinary and other Tourism professions.

For more information, contact ACHLA at (609) 345-8910 or visit
www.achotellodging.com.

SOURCE Atlantic City Hotel & Lodging Association

Atlantic City Hotel & Lodging Association, +1-609-345-8910