Form 8-K

RYMAN HOSPITALITY PROPERTIES, INC.

Date: March 4, 2013

/s/ Scott Lynn

Scott Lynn

Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

0001193125-13-089782.txt : 20130304 0001193125-13-089782.hdr.sgml : 20130304 20130304164653 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-13-089782 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20130302 ITEM INFORMATION: Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers FILED AS OF DATE: 20130304 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20130304 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001040829 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS [6798] IRS NUMBER: 730664379 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-13079 FILM NUMBER: 13662288 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE GAYLORD DR CITY: NASHVILLE STATE: TN ZIP: 37214 BUSINESS PHONE: 6153166000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE GAYLORD DRIVE CITY: NASHVILLE STATE: TN ZIP: 37214 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: GAYLORD ENTERTAINMENT CO /DE DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19971002 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: NEW GAYLORD ENTERTAINMENT CO DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19970611 8-K 1 d498247d8k.htm FORM 8-K Form 8-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of

the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): March 4, 2013 (March 2, 2013)

RYMAN HOSPITALITY PROPERTIES, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware

1-13079

73-0664379

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

(Commission

File Number)

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

One Gaylord Drive

Nashville, Tennessee

37214

(Address of principal executive offices)

(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (615) 316-6000

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

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ITEM 5.02.

DEPARTURE OF DIRECTORS OR CERTAIN OFFICERS; ELECTION OF DIRECTORS; APPOINTMENT OF CERTAIN OFFICERS; COMPENSATORY ARRANGEMENTS OF CERTAIN OFFICERS.

Effective March 2, 2013, Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Jennifer Hutcheson to the position of Principal Accounting Officer. Ms. Hutcheson, age 35, serves as the Company’s Senior Vice President and Corporate Controller, a position she has held since January 2013. From March 2006 to December 2012, she served as the Company’s Vice President of Accounting and Tax. From May 2004 to March 2006, she served as the Company’s Director of Corporate Accounting. From August 2002 to April 2004, she was the Corporate Accounting Manager at Private Business Inc. (now Goldleaf Financial Solutions Inc.). Prior to that time, she was an auditor with Ernst & Young LLP and Arthur Andersen. Ms. Hutcheson, who is a certified public accountant, has a B.S. degree in accounting from Tennessee Technological University and an MBA from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. Ms. Hutcheson is continuing under her existing compensation arrangements without change. As previously disclosed, Rod Connor, the Company’s Principal Accounting Officer through March 1, 2013, retired after over 39 years of service with the Company.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.