HOSPITALITY HEADLINES

• Banyan Tree may spin off SE Asia hotels into Reit (The Straits Times, Singapore / Asia News Network)
• Historic Santa Fe hotel will sell parts of its past before remodeling (Albuquerque Journal, N.M.)
• Sonesta to manage 200-room Bee Cave hotel (Austin American-Statesman)
• Rundberg-area motels take first step toward united front against crime (Austin American-Statesman)
• Cuomo raises possibility that Seneca casinos could close in 3 years (The Buffalo News, N.Y.)
• Old Lady Luck on track to reopen this fall as Downtown Grand (Las Vegas Sun)
• Sonesta resort on Hilton Head officially reopens after $30 million renovation (The Island Packet (Hilton Head Island, S.C.))
• Popular Ginza boutique hotel closing its doors (Japan Times, Tokyo)
• EDITORIAL: Whitefish hotel plan good for city (Daily Inter Lake, Kalispell, Mont.)
• Foreclosure, finally, for South Shore Club in South Beach (The Miami Herald)
• Builder plans huge hotel, housing, retail complex (Boston Herald)

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DAILY EMAIL NEWS

• Boston Marathon Bombing A Lesson for the Hospitality, Travel and Tourism Industry: TERRORISM IS HERE TO STAY / James Braver and Dov Shiloh
• Launch of TrustYou Sabre Red App Delivers Tremendous Time Saving & Transparency to Travel Agents; Agents Can View Hotels' Overall Ranking Across All Guest-Review Platforms to Get a Comprehensive Look at How Properties Fare Without Spending Hours Online
• Nobody Asked Me, But...No. 102; A Hotel Consultant's Eclectic Opinions; Hotel History: The Hermitage Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee; Turning Gray Into Gold; Quote of the Month / Stanley Turkel
• Delaware North Companies and Boston Bruins Principal, Charlie Jacobs, Planning Massive Mixed-Use Development for Boston's TD Garden
• Years After the Process Began, Foreclosure Finally Comes for South Shore Club in South Beach, Miami, Florida; Online Sale Set for the 309-room Hotel Operated by Morgans Hotel Group with Majority Owner Philips International
• Resorts Group, Banyan Tree, May Spin off its Southeast Asia Hotels into a Real Estate Investment Trust
• Granite Properties Breaking Ground on 299-key Hilton Granite Park and Granite Park IV, a Flagship Master-Planned Development in Plano, Texas
• Engage Hospitality Personality Hotels Collection Joins Forces with innRoad; Burgeoning boutique hotel management company sees the value of integrated hospitality management practices in the cloud
• MICROS mTablet and mStation Revolutionizes the Hospitality and Retail Experience; Released in tandem, mTablet and mStation provide hospitality and retail industries a business solution lacking in consumer tablets
• Bernard Ellis Joins Infor as Vice President of Industry Strategy for Hospitality
• University of New Hampshire Lodging Executives Sentiment Index Remains Flat for April 2013
• CNBC's Simon Hobbs to Emcee Cornell Hospitality Icon & Innovator Awards Gala; Tom Pritzker to Receive Icon of the Industry Award; Steve Ells to Receive the Innovator Award
• The Hotel Group Celebrates Grand Opening of its DoubleTree by Hilton in South Bend, Indiana; Multi-Million Project Transitions Former Marriott to DoubleTree by Hilton
• The 125-room Hotel Vermont Opens in Burlington, Vermont
• Sonesta to Manage 200-room Hotel in Bee Cave, Texas; Developer, Hill Country Texas Galleria, to Break Ground on the Hotel this Year with a 2015 Opening Planned
• Janice O'Neill-Cox, Director of Sales and Marketing for Hilton Americas-Houston in Texas, Receives Prestigious Circle of Excellence Award
• Rodolfo Fao Appointed General Manager of Hawaii's Newly Re-Opened Volcano House Hotel
• Highgate Hotels Appoints Deirdre Yack as Director of Sales and Marketing for the 723-room Lexington New York City
• Julian Haddon Appointed as Director of Sales & Marketing for Rosewood London; Core Management Team Members Named Ahead of the Property Opening in October 2013
• Jackson Ferguson Named as Director of Sales & Marketing for the 74-room Warwick San Francisco in California
• JW Marriott Denver Cherry Creek in Colorado Hires Colin Bennett as Sales Manager

• At Ataway Exchange 2013, Cendyn® Shares Latest Research/Findings on How to Compete in a Data-Driven Marketplace, Moderates Panel Discussion; Cendyn Hosts Hospitality Digital Marketing Professionals During Private Lunch Session Titled 'Data is the New Currency of Hospitality Digital Marketing'
• Hyatt Place Pensacola Airport Installs FlyteBoard to Give Airport-Bound Guests More Free Time; Property Gives Guests the Confidence to Stay On Property Longer, Save Time During Flight Delays
• Aptech, MSI Implement Interface for Data Communication Between Properties and Execuvue® Business Intelligence; MSI ? Execuvue Interface Enables Right-Time Property Performance Analysis for Companies with Multiple Properties, Flags, and Profit Centers
• In Memoriam, A Tribute to Jeff Henschel, Director of IT, Benchmark Hospitality; 1963 - 2013
• Silverstein Properties to Develop $950 million, 82-Story Tower in New York City Housing the Cities Tallest Hotel & Residences; Project Includes a 185-room Four Seasons Hotel and is Slated to Open in 2016
• From Red to Black: How Las Vegas' CityCenter Pulled out of the Economic Morass and Started Making Money
• Marriott Awards Ten Employees with Company's Highest Honor, the J. Willard Marriott Award of Excellence
• Value Place Honors Group of Franchisees, Properties and Property Managers for Outstanding Performance in 2012
• Sheraton Myrtle Beach Convention Center Hotel's Suzanne Hinde Named General Manager of the Year by Interstate Hotels & Resorts
• Camelback Mountain Resort in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains Plans $145 Million Expansion; The Project Includes a 453-room Hotel
• Choice Hotels Enters Joint Venture with Fillmore Capital Partners to Develop Multiple Cambria Suites Hotel Properties
• Meetings Focus Live! Cleans the World!; Meetings Focus's Las Vegas hosted buyer program participants join with Geoteaming and CleantheWorld.org to donate sanitary supplies to the needy
• Hotel Assets Group Sees Strong YTD 2013 Closings
• Shaftesbury Hotels Collection Optimize Sales Distribution and Reservation Processes with RateTiger; Hotel group connects PMS to RateTiger to improve operations
• Intelity Releases Cenium Integrations; The POS and PMS integrations are already being installed at several hotel properties worldwide
• North Carolina Developer, Winston Hospitality, Takes on Norwich, Connecticut Hotel Effort; Completes Foreclosure Action on the Long Abandoned, Partially Constructed Hotel with Hopes to Complete Construction
• UNWTO and PolyU Co-Host China Tourism and China Hotel-Branding Forum 2013
• Thailand Voted the Most Attractive Nation in Southeast Asia for Hospitality Industry Investment at the Asia Pacific Hotel Investment Conference
• Cambria Suites Enters Agreements for the 121-suite Cambria Suites McAllen Convention Center in McAllen, Texas and the 103-suite Cambria Suites West Fargo in North Dakota; Construction for Both Properties will Begin in 2013
• The 173-suite SpringHill Suites New York Midtown Manhattan/Fifth Avenue Opens in New York City; Owned by Hidrock Realty and Robert Finvarb Companies and Managed by Marriott International
• Choice's Ascend Hotel Collection Opens its 100th Hotel with the 62-key Hotel Elan in Calgary, Canada
• Owned and Managed by Visions Hotels, the 79-room Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Opens in Elmira, New York
• White Lodging Executes Management Contracts with RLJ Lodging Trust for the Residence Inn and Courtyard at Houston's Downtown/Convention Center in Texas; Both properties will be Led by General Manager Ryan Frederick
• Love Hotel Management Company to Manage the 70-room Heritage House Resort in Mendocino, California
• Keith Vieira, Longtime Head of Starwood's Hawaii & French Polynesia Region, to Retire at Year's End
• Noble House Hotels & Resorts Welcomes Joe St. Laurent as General Manager and Jeff Gillick as Director of Sales and Marketing at Kona Kai Resort and Spa in San Diego, California
• Gary Johnson Named as General Manager for Bay Point Wyndham Resort in Panama City Beach, Florida

Top five viewed pages during April 2013

• 2013 World Rankings of The Top 10 Hotel Groups and Top 15 Brands; IHG Retains Top Spot in Groups With Nearly 660,000 Rooms; Holiday Inn & Holiday Inn Express Overtake Best Western for Top Spot in Brands
• Top 10 Trends of The Next Generation of Travel: The Millennials / Teresa Y. Lee
• TripAdvisor Caught Red-Handed; Glasgow's Bellgrove Hotel, a homeless shelter, finds itself in TripAdvisor's Top 100 best hotels in the United Kingdom / Georges Panayotis
• Identifying Meth Lab Red Flags / Alissa Ponchione
• Musical Chairs: A History Behind the LodgeNet Bankruptcy / Mark Haley