JULY 2006

JAMES BOUCHER HIRED AS DIRECTOR OF SALES AT THE SPA AT NORWICH INN

NORWICH, Conn. – James A. Boucher, a seasoned hotel executive with experience at AAA Four Diamond and Mobil Four Star properties, has joined The Spa at Norwich Inn Director of Sales.

“We’re delighted to welcome Jim Boucher to head our sales team,” said John G. O’Shaughnessy, general manager of The Spa at Norwich Inn. “His background with the luxury Westin and Starwood hotel brands and his experience at The Delaney House, a Mobil Four Star restaurant and catering facility in Holyoke, Mass., are a very good fit for The Spa at Norwich Inn’s luxury market for corporate meetings, executive retreats, weddings and special events.”

Boucher comes to The Spa at Norwich Inn from the Sturbridge Hotel and Conference Center in Sturbridge, Mass., where he was director of sales and marketing for a 233-guestroom hotel with over 30,000 square feet for meetings and special events. During those years, he also served on the Board of Directors of the Worcester County Convention and Visitors Bureau.

From 2001 to 2002 he was director of catering and convention services at The Westin Providence, R.I., a Starwood hotel.

At the Delaney House from 2000 to early 2001, he was director of sales and marketing and was hired to assume the post of general manager for the new Country Inn and Suites Holyoke that was being built to complement the Delaney House.

He worked earlier in his career at the Warren Conference Center & Inn in Ashland, Mass, the Radisson Hotel & Conference Center in Cromwell, and at properties managed by the Fine Hotels Corporation of Wellesley Mass. and the Interstate Hotels Corp. of Pittsburgh.

Boucher graduated magna cum laude from Bryant College in Smithfield, R.I. In 1988, earning a bachelor of science degree in business administration, hotel, restaurant and institutional management. During his career he has attended advanced training seminars and certification programs provided by Radisson, Marriott, Holiday Inn, Starwood Hotels & Resorts and The Disney Institute.

Boucher resides in Holland, Mass., with his two sons.
To reach him directly,
call 860-425-3682 or email him at jboucher@TheSpaAtNorwichInn.com.

The Spa at Norwich Inn is an intimate, 100- guestroom retreat. It is home to an elegant, world-class spa offering a blend of fitness programs, nutritional instruction and beauty and body treatments designed to restore and rejuvenate the mind, body and spirit. Guests are housed either in the 1930 Georgian Colonial inn building, or in villas with wood-burning fireplaces and balconies. Yankee Magazine named it the “Top Destination Spa in New England” in its 70th Anniversary issue; Boston Magazine’s New England Travel & Life named it one of its “2006 Best of New England” Hotels, Inns & Resorts. It was been named one of the Top Ten Spas in the nation in 2003, 2005 and 2005 in the Zagat Survey of U.S. Hotels, Resorts and Spas; voted as one of the Top Ten Spas in the nation for massage in 2002 and for massage and facial skin care in 2003 by the readers of Spa Finder magazine; and voted “Best Day Spa” by the readers of Connecticut Magazine for eight years in a row. For information and reservations on a wide variety of weekend, weekday , wedding, social, meeting and overnight options, call 800-ASK-4-SPA or visit on the web at www.thespaatnorwichinn.com.

The Spa at Norwich Inn is a member of the National Trust Historic Hotels of America, a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. For information, visit on the web at www.historichotels.org.

Press Contact:
Peggie Cosgrove
Peggie Ford Cosgrove Public Relations LLC
860-447-9217

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