{"id":267441,"date":"2026-06-08T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/choice-hotels-names-tony-pallas-chief-technology-officer\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T11:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:10:14","slug":"choice-hotels-names-tony-pallas-chief-technology-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/choice-hotels-names-tony-pallas-chief-technology-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Choice Hotels names Tony Pallas chief technology officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoteldive.com\/news\/choice-hotels-appoints-tony-pallas-chief-technology-officer\/822229\/\">Choice Hotels names Tony Pallas chief technology officer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoteldive.com\/news\/choice-hotels-appoints-tony-pallas-chief-technology-officer\/822229\/\">https:\/\/www.hoteldive.com\/news\/choice-hotels-appoints-tony-pallas-chief-technology-officer\/822229\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-08 10:41:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.hoteldive.com\">www.hoteldive.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        Listen to the article<\/p>\n<p>            <span class=\"text-to-speech__button__audio-length\">2 min<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback.<\/p>\n<p>Choice Hotels International has appointed Tony Pallas as chief technology officer, the company announced Monday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In this role, Pallas is tasked with leading enterprise technology, engineering and SkyTouch Technology, Choice\u2019s hotel operations and property management technology platform, according to a news release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pallas has worked at Choice Hotels for roughly 11 years, leading \u201cplatform modernization efforts, expanding cloud-based capabilities and delivering scalable solutions that help drive hotel performance, operational efficiency and franchisee success,\u201d according to the company.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During his tenure, Pallas served as chief commercial and technology officer for Choice\u2019s hotel property management system business, during which time he grew annual revenues by 68% and EBITDA by nearly 100%, per the release. He also recently served as executive sponsor and chief architect for CHARLIE, one of several AI-powered solutions Choice debuted last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reporting directly to Anna Scozzafava, chief data, AI and technology officer at Choice, Pallas will continue to support the development and adoption of the company\u2019s recently launched AI-enabled capabilities, per the release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTony is a proven leader with deep technology and hospitality experience. He has consistently demonstrated the ability to build high-performing teams, create cutting-edge technology platforms, and keep customer needs at the center of every decision \u2014 delivering meaningful business results,\u201d Scozzafava said in a statement, adding that his \u201cleadership will help strengthen our ability to scale innovation quickly, execute with excellence, and create long-term value for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoteldive.com\/news\/choice-hotels-appoints-tony-pallas-chief-technology-officer\/822229\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choice Hotels names Tony Pallas chief technology officer https:\/\/www.hoteldive.com\/news\/choice-hotels-appoints-tony-pallas-chief-technology-officer\/822229\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-08 10:41:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":267442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imgproxy.divecdn.com\/gD4BB-zyYzWEDj6XefbYbFgjGTbgLG-2Qwd4JlFKgxc\/g:ce\/rs:fit:770:435\/Z3M6Ly9kaXZlc2l0ZS1zdG9yYWdlL2RpdmVpbWFnZS9Ub255X1BhbGxhc19oZWFkc2hvdC5qcGc=.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-267441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267443,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267441\/revisions\/267443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}