William Lanting has over twenty five years of experience in all areas of the hotel industry, including property acquisitions, development, renovation, construction, franchise sales and operations, having been involved with hotel properties ranging in size from a boutique hotel of 36 rooms to a major convention-oriented property with over 400 rooms. Since April of 2000, Mr. Lanting has served as President and CEO of Lanting Hotel Group.  In that capacity, he has renovated, repositioned and operated hotels across the United States. Prior to that time, – from January 1997 to May 2000 – he served as Vice President of Development for Radisson Hotels Worldwide.  In that position, he was responsible for all franchise sales in the Western United States.

From 1988 until 1996, he served as Vice President of Development for Hotels of Distinction, Inc., a hotel company based in Palm Beach, Florida. With that firm, he created a $54,500,000 hotel investment fund designed to capitalize upon the fallout in the hotel industry caused by the Tax Act of 1986, the over-building of the late 1980’s and the Savings & Loan crisis of that era. Over a four-year period, he purchased nine hotels for that fund.  During this time period, he also served as a Director, Secretary and Treasurer of the parent company that owned the nine hotels. The entire portfolio was sold to Starwood Lodging Trust in 1996.

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The Cecil Hotel, Los Angeles

In November of 2007, LHG took over as renovation manager and operator of this 600-room landmark hotel in downtown Los Angeles. LHG is currently in the process of opening a new restaurant and lobby bar at the property. LHG is also renovating and repositioning the property’s 600 guestrooms into two distinctly different product offerings: a 240-room mid-priced hotel on floors seven through fifteen, and “Stay”, a 138-room youth-oriented tourist hotel, on the hotel’s lower guestroom floors.

The Belamar Hotel, Manhattan Beach

In March of 2004, LHG took over as Project Manager for the complete renovation of Barnabey's Hotel, a 127-room hotel in Manhattan Beach, California. The previous project managers had allowed the renovation to be shut down by the city due to permit violations and had allowed the original $3,000,000 renovation budget to mushroom to over $6,000,000.  LHG immediately re-established favorable relations with the building department and regained control of the renovation budget. This hotel reopened in March of 2005 as an elegant, upscale boutique hotel. LHG served as manager of the hotel until it was sold in late 2006.