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Introduction to the AHLA

Our Services:

We help our members prosper through:

Our Values:

The AHLA serves its members and achieves its purpose by living its five key values:

  • We live with integrity
  • We take pride in serving
  • We embrace challenge
  • We are stewards
  • We have fun

If you are interested in becoming a member, please contact Azia Onofrychuk, Director of Member Services, at 780.423.9244.

Our History

The Alberta Hotel Association was formed in 1919 to:

  • Influence the government on questions of prohibition,
  • Counter the criticisms of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union,
  • Improve the public image of hotels in the community,
  • Reduce rivalry in the hotel industry,
  • Lobby municipal governments on local taxation matters,
  • Establish common policies regarding staffing, training, work hours, security, and cheque cashing, and
  • Organize a common front to address the Bartenders’ Union.

One hundred years later, hotels continue to work together on many of these same issues through the AHLA. The AHLA currently serves approximately 720 hotels, motels, and inns in Alberta.

Learn more about how the AHLA and Alberta’s hotel industry have evolved over the last hundred years. Thank you to the very talented staff at the Studio at Olds College for production of our Centennial videos.