HOSPITALITY HEADLINES

• Makena resort hotel to be auctioned off: Golf courses, land part of foreclosure sale (The Honolulu Advertiser)
• BRIEF: EDC to aid convention center plan (The Daily Star-Journal, Warrensburg, Mo.)
• Seneca Gaming targets debts: Reserve fund to let casino operator reduce debt (The Buffalo News, N.Y.)
• Boulder hotels see 4% traffic drop in '09: City's accommodation tax collections down 14.6% through November (Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.)
• Hotel could be in condo project (The Charlotte Observer, N.C.)
• The Dallas Morning News Leslie Brennerthe Dallas Morning column: Ten chefs to watch for the next delicious thing (The Dallas Morning News)
• NBA All-Star events expected to have little effect on Tarrant hotels (Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas)
• Shutting down the Ritz: Company to close hotel at Lake Las Vegas (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
• MGM to divest from Atlantic City (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
• Ramada Plaza, once Macon's largest hotel, to be auctioned (The Macon Telegraph, Ga.)
• EDITORIAL: Improve tourism with fewer cars (The Day, New London, Conn.)
• BRIEF: Two charged with theft from employers: Women embezzled from bank, hotel, prosecutor says (The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio)
• Meetings and conventions bookings up in 2nd half of '09 (The Orlando Sentinel, Fla.)
• Hotels to take over visitor bureau duties: Hotels to take over visitor bureau duties ? City hands off $240K-a-year ?Destination Palo Alto' (Palo Alto Daily News, Calif.)
• Tourism authority set to streamline hospitality sector (Arab News, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
• SE Iowa tourism continues to grow (The Hawk Eye, Burlington, Iowa)
• BRIEF: Tampa Bay area hotel industry took hit in 2009 (Tampa Tribune, Fla.)
• Lodging tax eyed by Dade officials (Chattanooga Times Free Press, Tenn.)
• Room for more inns: Patel company is building area hotels (Tulsa World, Okla.)
• Convention centers end Aramark's food-service contract (Boston Herald)
• Ohio rep explains decision on Youngstown casino (Vindicator, Youngstown, Ohio)

INSIDE HOTEL ONLINE TODAY
DAILY EMAIL NEWS

• TRAVDEX - the travel technology event of 2010. Your competition will be there - will you?
• New VIZERGY® Webinars - Increasing Website Bookings and Social Media; Free Expert Advice from the Search Marketing Experts
• Hoteliers… What is Your eMarketing Proficiency? An Electronic Marketing White Paper / Neil Salerno
• A Hotelier Takes a Fresh Look at the Economic Concept of Marginal Analysis; Looking at the Small Picture / Olivier Harnisch
• Gaylord Entertainment Co. Reports Fourth Quarter 2009 Net Loss of $600,000 Compared to Prior Year Same Period Net Profit of $8.4 million; Net of Cancellations, Advance bookings in the 4th Qtr for all Future Periods Up 8.7% Compared to the same period last year / Hotel Operating Statistics
• Avoiding the Pitfalls of Foreclosing in California on Hotels and Other Mixed Collateral / Jim Butler & Guy Maisnik
• The Former Maui Prince Hotel Scheduled for Public Foreclosure Auction in April, 2009; Resort Previously Acquired in 2007 for $575 million
• PKF Capital Arranges Sale of Sheraton Hotel in Pleasanton
• Cvent is Now the Largest Source of Meeting RFPS in North America; Cvent Supplier Network Accomplishes Hockey-Stick Growth in 2009 by Sending 100,000 RFPs to Meeting Venues in Q4 2009
• OpenWays Responds to FAQs Regarding its Front Desk Bypass Solutions that Securely Open Hotel Room Doors by Cell Phone; Mobile solution provider that developed the world's first acoustic solution for check-in/out and room access via a guest's mobile phone regardless of type answers hospitality industry's most frequently asked questions
• Largest Hotel in Macon, Georgia, the 298-room Ramada Plaza, to Sell at Absolute Auction on March 9, 2010
• White Peterman Properties Signs Windsor Management Services to Manage the 403-room Embassy Suites at Denver Convention Center, Slated to Open December 2010
• Hotel Association of Canada Recognizes Recipients of Hall of Fame Awards
• Boulder, Colorado Accommodation Taxes Down 14.6% for 11 months 2009 Compared to Same Period a Year Ago
• Massachusetts Convention Center Authority Ends Aramark's Long Time Food-service Contract; Expects to Sign Levy Restaurants to a Contract Valued at $27 million a Year
• Sè San Diego Hotel Adds to Executive Team; Joe Velasquez Named Director of Sales and Marketing

• InterContinental Takes Aim at Hilton's Loyalty Program Members with Bold Move to Entice Customers
• The 414-room Loews Hotel Atlanta Set for April 2010 Opening; Last of New Luxury Hotels in Atlanta for Some Time to Come
• The First New Hotel in Newark in 38 years; Tucker Development Corp Building a 150-room Courtyard by Marriott in Downtown Newark, New Jersey
• Hollywood's Walk of Fame Attraction Plays Crucial Role in Making Tourism the Biggest Industry in Los Angeles County
• HFTP Now Accepting Concurrent Session Presentation Proposals for Annual Convention and Tradeshow
• Marriott Contemplating Introducing Budget Brand Fairfield Inn & Suites to India
• Penn National Gaming Completes Purchase of Former General Motors/Delphi Automotive Plant in Columbus, Ohio; Planning to Build $400 million Casino Complex
• Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 96 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database
• The Plaza and the Pierre; La Quinta's Backward Step / Stanley Turkel
• Rainy Chan and Nicolas Beliard Receive New Executive Appointments with The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Limited
• Dolce Executive, Mike McNeill, to Serve as General Manager of its 120-room Dolce Norwalk in Norwalk, Connecticut
• Keith York Named Senior Director Revenue Management for Aqua Hotels
• Chris Dolce Appointed General Manager of the 206-room IBM Palisades Executive Conference Center in Palisades, New York

Top five viewed pages during January 2010

1. San Francisco's Heritage Marina Hotel Claims the Title of America's Dirtiest Hotel; TripAdvisor Identifies the 10 Grmiest U.S. Hotels
2. With Levity, Here's My List of Predictions for Trends in the Hotel Industry in 2010 / Daniel Edward Craig
3. Dan Brannan, General Manager of The Heritage Marina Hotel, Offers Response Concerning the Inaccurate Information by TripAdvisor.com in Their "10 Dirtiest Hotels in America"
4. Sunstone Hotel Investors Provides Business Update - Forfeits Additional 11 Hotels to Mass Mutual, Holder of $246 million Loan on the Hotels; Expects a $83 million Impairment Charge Related to the Forfeitures
5. The iPad is Coming to a Hotel Near You! / Terrence Ronsen