Hotel.Online Hospitality News
October 2, 2009

• Developers plan to break ground next year for $640 million resort project on St. Croix (The Virgin Islands Daily News, St. Thomas)
• Historic Inn Goes Boutique: Spanish-Inspired Hotel Andaluz Employs Green Technology (Albuquerque Journal, N.M.)
• Historic Inn Goes Boutique: Spanish-Inspired Hotel Andaluz Employs Green Technology (Albuquerque Journal, N.M.)
• Grafft believes in a future for Janesville's Monterey Hotel (The Janesville Gazette, Wis.)
• Jacksonville hotel group rewards good customer service (The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville)
• Holiday Inn opens doors (The Lima News, Ohio)
• Lawyers drop out of Fontainebleau case: The $60 million contractors' case against the Fontainebleau Miami Beach has been delayed until December while the resort finds new lawyers. (The Miami Herald)
• Marco Polo hotel builder (The Miami Herald)
• Disney World brings back its free-hotel-nights promotion (The Orlando Sentinel, Fla.)
• Disney gets on board fast-train proposal: Walt Disney World offers up to 50 acres for station, backs Orange convention-center stop (The Orlando Sentinel, Fla.)
• R.I. House speaker: Maybe it's time for a full-blown casino (The Providence Journal, R.I.)
• Ordinance to protect jobs of hotel workers clears hurdle in Providence (The Providence Journal, R.I.)
• Phuket preps for poor peak season: Fewer tourists, lower rates depress revenue (Bangkok Post, Thailand)
• Olympic pick of Chicago would be tourism boon to Madison, Wisconsin (The Wisconsin State Journal)