1. Michael Smith, General Manager of the Hyatt Regency in Downtown New Orleans, Has Some Stories to Tell
2. Habits of Highly Successful Hotel Sales People / Carol Verret
3. New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau Update As of 9 A.M. Tuesday, September 6, 2005
4. Hotels Rethink Cancellation Policies
5. Starwood Targeting the Select-Service Hotel Category with  a New Brand - aloft; Wants 500 Properties by 2012
6. Fred Kleisner's Desk is Looking Spare, As the Chairman CEO of Wyndham International Inc. Passes the Reins Over to New Owner, Blackstone Group
7. The Accuracy of Hotel Budgets / Robert Mandelbaum and David Murff 
8. Cendant Corporation Acquiring the Wyndham Hotel Brand and Franchise System for $100 million in Cash
9. Spa Industry Study: What Happens When Guests “Phone It In”
10. Dubai Investment Group Acquires the Essex House Hotel from Strategic Hotel Capital LLC;  Jumeirah Hospitality & Leisure Named to Replace Starwood as Operator of the 605-room Hotel Bearing Two Brands: Westin and St. Regis
11. When Times Get Tough…Get Tougher! Sell Harder Before You Cave-in on Rates / Neil Salerno
12. The Shutdown of New Orleans' Economic Engine -- its Convention and Tourism Business --  Has Implications Nationally for Other Convention Cities
13. The Closed Hotel Count in Louisiana is 160 Hotels, in Mississippi, 93 Hotels and in Alabama, 33 Hotels as of September 15, 2005
14. How Can You Get Your Customers to Behave?
15. The California Mid-Year Lodging Report / San Francisco, Los Angeles, Anaheim/Orange County, San Diego
16. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Seeking Blocks of Rooms for Housing Evacuees and Emergency Contractors; AH&LA Leads Program to Provide 250,000 Guestrooms
17. Las Vegas' Hotels Set to Outdo One Another with In-room Amenities, Latest Gadgetry
18. Luxury Link Launches New Site
19. Nobody Asked Me, But…./ Stanley Turkel
20. New Orleans' Canceled Conventions Being Relocated Rapidly; Chicago Hotels Offer Rebate of  $10 per Room per Night to Recovery Efforts
21. Search Engine Marketing in Hospitality / Max Starkov and Jason Price
22. The Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group Will Manage the Hotel Anchor at MGM Mirage's $5 billion CityCenter Project on Las Vegas Strip
23. Tallahassee Hoteliers Politely Informed Evacuees to Leave; FSU-Miami Football Fans Need the Rooms
24. Yes, Hotels Can Make Money and Sustain Growth! / Craig W Cooley
25. Brennan's, one of the Most Famous Restaurants in the French Quarter, Survives

September 30, 2005

• Morgan Stanley Creates Hotel Management Company, Panorama Hospitality K.K., to Manage 13 Hotels in Japan and Asia Pacific
• The Sale by Raffles Holdings of its Hotel Business to Colony Capital, LLC for an Enterprise Value of S$1.72 billion Effective September 30, 2005
• Nine Months After their Partnership Began, Noble Investment Group and Callaway Gardens Breaking Ground on The Lodge and Spa at Callaway Gardens
• Unsettled Spirits Rattle the Halls Inside Some of America’s Oldest Hotels
• Restaurant Pagers that Flash, Vibrate or Beep May be Getting Some New Bells and Whistles
• VingCard Elsafe Providing Emergency Support  to Hotels Hit By Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
• Visual One’s Users Conference is a Success Despite Hurricane Rita; Over 200 Attendees, Minimal Cancellations, Sets Record for V1
• A New Build St. Regis Hotel Under Development in Mexico City; Architect Cesar Pelli Designing the 189 room and 100 Private Residence Building
• AMResorts Building a 365 suite Property on Playa Maroma near Playa del Carmen, Mexico
• Estimated 200 Technology Companies Bringing their Products to the 2005 International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show®
• Senate Hospitality Group Selected to Manage the Proposed Riverwalk Resort and Convention Center in Orange Beach, Alabama
• TravelCLICK Announces Call For Entries for The 2005  E-Marketer of the Year Awards
• Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International 2005/2006 Event Calendar
• Roger Warren, a Former President of PGA of America, Named President of The Kiawah Island Golf Resort

• Choice Hotels Acquires Suburban Franchise Systems, Inc. for Approximately $10.5 million; Suburban Extended Stay Hotels Becomes the Tenth Brand in the Choice Hotels System
• Chic Loft Lodging Trend Propelled by NYLO; High-End and Highly Affordable - NYLO Hotels Launches New Lodging Category
• Marriott Pursuing Development of the Renaissance ClubSport, a Sports/fitness and Lodging Concept - an Extension to the Renaissance Hotels & Resorts Brand
• Landry's Restaurants, Inc. Completes Acquisition of Golden Nugget Hotel- Casinos; Hope to Revitalize Downtown Las Vegas with a Transformation of the 1,907 room Golden Nugget
• Mid-America Hotel Partners, LLC. Selects the Westin Brand for a 500 room Hotel and Conference Center in Lombard, Illinois
• Study Shows Chinese Travelers Are a Market Force to Be Reckoned With
• Chinese Government Enlisting UNLV's Harrah College of Hotel Administration to Send Faculty Members to China To Provide Hospitality Management Instruction
• Hotel Occupancy in Atlanta from January through July of 2005 Averaged about 64%; Expecting About 2% Growth in New Rooms During Next 3-5 Years
• Sentry Hospitality Ltd Developing $60 million 250 room Hotel and Conference Center in New Jersey, Just Across Delaware River from the Philadelphia International Airport
• Heathrow Hotel Market Gets Boost from British Airway’s Labor Problems
• Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center on Lake Grapevine Building $16 million, 29,000 sq ft Entertainment Complex
• The 40-storey Hilton Nanjing Voted the Most Beautiful High Rise in Nanjing
• Novotel Brand Selected for 286 room Hotel Being Built Near the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre
• Wisconsin Innkeepers Association Creates Web Site for the Traveling Public Featuring Its 1,000+ Lodging Members
• ResortQuest Names Robert Stenhammer General Manager of ResortQuest Breckenridge
• Jean-Pierre Bagnato Appointed Executive Chef of The Mark, New York

• Spa Industry Study: What Happens When Guests “Phone It In”
• Chic Loft Lodging Trend Propelled by NYLO; High-End and Highly Affordable - NYLO Hotels Launches New Lodging Category
• A 350 room Westin to Be Cornerstone of Miami's $480-million Mixed-use Island Gardens Project
• Dolce Awarded Management Contract for the Former IBM Training Center in La Hulpe near Brussels; Following Renovation and Expansion the 264 room Property Will Reopen as the Dolce La Hulpe Brussels
• Starwood Targeting the Select-Service Hotel Category with a New Brand - aloft; Wants 500 Properties by 2012
• Interstate Signs Management Contract to Operate the 402-room Radisson Plaza Hotel Myrtle Beach Convention Center, Will Convert the Hotel to the Sheraton Flag
• HFTP Annual Convention & Tradeshow Set For Myrtle Beach, S.C. Oct 26-29, 2005
• Mintek Mobile Data Solutions Ranked Among Top 500 Global Software Companies Software Magazine’s Ranking Based on 2004 revenues
• World Travel & Tourism Council Selects Washington DC for Site of 6th Global Travel & Tourism Summit- April 10 to 12, 2006
• Elizabeth Hotels Implements Guestline’s Internet Native, Centralised PMS Solution
• Janis Cannon Named Vice President, Brand Management, InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, the Americas
• Angela Rafuse-Tahir Named Director of Marketing & Sales for Victoria Marriott Inner Harbour
• Mauro Governato and Jan Tibaldi Appointed to GM Posts with One&Only Resorts
• Raffles International Appoints Four to Swissôtel GM Posts

• Luxury Link Launches New Site
• Nobody Asked Me, But…. / Stanley Turkel, MHS, ISHC
• Labor Wars: A Hotel Survival Guide - Watch Out For Neutrality Agreements / Marta Fernandez
• Sales & Marketing Disciplines Undergo Changes, Experts Declare End to Normal, Redefine Rules at HSMAI, NYU Industry Strategy Conference
• The San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau Books 2,229,979 Room Nights (925 Convention Groups) Over the Next 16 Years
• Financing Condo-Hotels in Boom Times; A Check List
• Radisson Plaza-Warwick Hotel Philadelphia Receiving $15 million Renovation; Top Floors to be Converted into 100 Condominiums
• Highly Qualified New Orleans Hotel Professionals Transistion to San Antonio, Houston
• The 490-room Coast Anaheim Hotel to Be Reflagged as the Sheraton Park Hotel Following $32 million Renovation
• ARAMARK Integrates ARAMARK Harrison Lodging with its Parks and Resorts Business; Bruce W. Fears Named President, ARAMARK Harrison Lodging
• Visual One Wins Contract for Torquay Leisure Hotels
• Georg Fuchs Named Executive Chef at Rocco Forte’s The St David’s Hotel & Spa in Cardiff; Until Recently Executive Chef at The Savoy in London
• Terry Rufer Appointed Vice President Sales & Marketing, North America, Corinthia Hotels International

• Habits of Highly Successful Hotel Sales People / Carol Verett
• The Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center Replaces all 1,298 Guest Room Toilets; Resolves No. 1 Guest Complaint - Toilets that Flushed Incompletely
• HEI Hospitality Now Owns or Operates 26 Hotels Throughout the United States Following Acquistion of Algonquin, its First Hotel In Manhattan
• Alice Waters of Chez Panisse, Thomas Keller of the French Laundry, and Laura Chenel, Whose Name Is Synonymous with Goat Cheese, Continue to Impact American Food
• How Can You Get Your Customers to Behave?
• Coastal Hotel Group Selected to Manage the 62-room Chateau Avalon, Kansas City, Kansas
• Hotel Financial Strategies Finances Numerous Projects Totaling $175,000,000
• TravelHero Announces Plan for Spin-off of GolfHero
• VFM Interactive’s Innovation and Expansion Delivers Strong Client and Distribution Growth Reinforcing VFM Market Leadership Position
• Hurricane Katrina to Cause Hotel Revenue Growth in 2005
• Orange Lake Resort's Charles K. Swan III Steps Down; Former CEO of both Trendwest Resorts and Hilton Grand Vacations Company Don Harrill Named to Succeed
• Somerston Hotels Implement EzRMS™ in 2 of their Flagship Properties
• Roger Aufieri Named Executive Vice President and COO for Merritt Hospitality; Formerly the President and COO at White Lodging Services
• Benchmark Hospitality Appoints Tom Cupo General Manager at Virginia Crossings Resort in Richmond, Virginia
• Robert Boyle Named Resort Manager for Turtle Bay Resort on Oahu, Hawaii
• Raffles International Appoints Four to General Manager Posts
• Tecton Hospitality Appoints Three to GM Posts

September 23, 2005

• Suns Legacy Hotel Investors, L.P. Selects Starwood to Operate a W Hotel and W Residences Being Built Adjacent to America West Arena in Downtown Phoenix
• Ashford Hospitality Trust Signs Agreement to Acquire the 316- room Hyatt Dulles in Herndon, VA, for $72.5 million from an Affiliate of Colony Capital, LLC
• Couples Resorts Acquires the Sans Souci Resort & Spa in Jamaica; Pierre Paul Battaglia Continues as General Manager
• HEI Hospitality Acquires the 174-room Algonquin Hotel in New York City from Miller Global Properties L.L.C. for Approximately $74 million
• Continental Development Corporation Building a 550 room InterContinental Hotel Near San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center
• California Lodging Industry Association and the Asian American Hotel Owners Association Jointly Producing the California Lodging Expo® and Conference November 8-9, 2005  in Santa Clara
• First Joint Meeting of the Oregon Lodging Association and Oregon Restaurant Association Provides Organization and Unification for Common Legislative Interests
• Digital Alchemy Manages Guest Relations While Hoteliers Handle Hurricane Headaches
• Hotel Occupancy in the Dallas - Fort Worth Area At Record Highs; Rita Evacuees Going to Oklahoma for Hotel Rooms
• The City of Paso Robles, California has Approved Plans for 11 Resort and Hotel Projects
• Maine Coastal Destination Ogunquit Wants to Defend Town's Unique Character by Banning Restaurant Chains
• Urgo Hotels Plans to Sell the 188 unit Marriott Residence Inn in Downtown Baltimore to RLJ Development LLC
• VFM Interactive Expands Board of Directors Amid Record Growth; Appoints 20-year Veteran Michael W. McCormick to New Seat
• World Travel & Tourism Council Spells Out Policy Recommendations for Trinidad and Tobago to Tap Travel & Tourism Potential
• The Stonewall Jackson Hotel & Conference Center in Staunton, Virginia Opens after $21.1 million Renovation; Owned by the Persinger Family and Armada Hoffler
• The RIU Chain Opens the 856 room ClubHotel Riu Ocho Ríos, its Third All-inclusive Resort in Jamaica
• Hamister Hospitality Group Acquires the Sleep Inn in Louisville, Kentucky
• Kevin Stuessi Named SVP of Food & Beverage for the W Las Vegas Hotel, Casino; Project Will Have 20+ Unique Restaurants, Lounges and Nightclub Outlets
• Linda Finley Named Director of Group Sales, Incentives & Meetings for Barceló Hotels & Resorts

September 21, 2005

• See Ramesys’ New DASHBOARD View of Property Performance that puts Hospitality Executives back in the Driver’s Seat
• InterContinental Hotels Group Develops Two New Niche Hotel Concepts, a Repositioning of the Holiday Inn Select and a new Holidome® Recreation Center Model
• Fred Kleisner's Desk is Looking Spare, As the Chairman CEO of Wyndham International Inc. Passes the Reins Over to New Owner, Blackstone Group 
• Red Lion Hotels Launches New Brand Image and Outlines Growth Initiatives; New Corporate Name, New Look Reinforce Brand Revitalization
• Houston Hotels Bracing for Another Wave of Evacuees
• Marriott Initiates New Marketing Approach with "mSpot", a Live Times Square Billboard; Reaching Out for Next Generation of Marriott Customers
• The Sheraton Cancun Resort & Towers to be Redeveloped as a Starwood Vacation Ownership Resort and Branded the Westin Lagunamar Ocean Resort
• Partnership Between Nicklaus Design, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company and Juno Properties Developing the Creighton Farms, A Ritz-Carlton Managed Community near Washington D.C.
• Cendant Timeshare Resort Group and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creating new Timeshare Curriculum at the William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration; Available to Students in the Fall of 2006 
• La Quinta Owned Baymont Inn & Suites Opens 100th Franchised Property
• Connecticut Lodging Association Names John Trudeau as "Outstanding Manager of the Year" and Juan Rivera  as "Outstanding Housekeeping Associate of the Year"
• Leslie Ng to Join Interstate Hotels & Resorts as Chief Investment Officer 
• ResortQuest Names Scott Bunce Territory Vice President for the Western Region
• Lodgian Sells Holiday Inns in Gadsden, Alabama, and Rolling Meadows, Illinois for Aggregate $6.5 million
• Accor Opening Sofitel Hotels in Guangzhou and Shanghai

September 20, 2005

• The Accuracy of Hotel Budgets / Robert Mandelbaum and David Murff
• When Times Get Tough…Get Tougher! Sell Harder Before You Cave-in on Rates / Neil Salerno
• Intrawest Corporation Building a Resort Village in Orlando; `The Village of Imagine'' Will Include Two Condominium-hotels
• Beijing City Inspectors Take Action Against The Hotel New Otani Chang Fu Gong in Beijing Over Quality Issues of its Mooncakes Entrepreneurs
• The Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group Will Manage the Hotel Anchor at MGM Mirage's $5 billion CityCenter Project on Las Vegas Strip
• Development, Financing and Design Issues Snarl the Proposed 222 room Hotel at the Columbia (SC) Metropolitan Convention Center
• The Bed and Breakfast Business -a Business and Lifestyle that Continues to Attract Entrepreneurs
• Got Pineapple? Hotelier-turned-industry-innovator Ray Burger Launches Pineapple Hospitality™ — bringing fresh ideas and business-building products and programs to your guests’ doors and your bottom line
• Two Outrigger Hotels Select GuestWare to Manage Guest Response, Guest Recognition Processes; Island Level of Hospitality Expected to Reach New Heights at Oahu-Based Properties
• Embassy Suites Hotels new Advertising Campaign – "Everything for a Reason" Will Serve as a Common Strategic Umbrella for All Ongoing Marketing and Communication Efforts
• GolfHero Announces Partnership Agreement to Power All Rosen Hotels and Resorts with HOTELPAR
• The 6th Annual Resort Management Conference Set for Mar. 19-21, 2006 at the Pinehurst Resort, North Carolina
• Cushman & Wakefield Completes Jacksonville Hotel Transaction
• The 96 room Colony Club in Barbados Receives Extensive Renovation
• Kinseth Hospitality Companies Opens Three Hotels; the Courtyard by Marriott in Columbia, Missouri, the Country Inn and Suites, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Airport, and the Country Inn and Suites, St. Charles, Missouri
• Tennessee Pet Friendly Hotels Join BringYourPet.com
• Jack Burkam Named General Manager for the Rocky Gap Lodge & Golf Resort Near Cumberland, MD
• Andrew N. Gajary Appointed Hotel Manager at the InterContinental Hotel Cleveland
• Sandrine Le Biavant Named Director of Sales & Marketing for Bavaria Executive Suites Dubai

• Search Engine Marketing in Hospitality / Max Starkov and Jason Price
• FelCor's 430 room Sheraton Park Central in Dallas Housing and Feeding Employees of the Sheraton New Orleans, W French Quarter and W New Orleans
• After 40 years of Business, the 319-room Continental Inn in Lexington, Kentucky Closes its Doors; Auction Ahead
• Developers of the The Harrick, a 138 unit Condominium Hotel in West Palm Beach, Florida Select Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group LLC, as Operator
• Hilton Hotels Corporation Updates Status of Hotels Affected by Hurricane Katrina; Hilton New Orleans Riverside is Partially Operational and is Housing Relief Workers
• AEG Breaks Ground on $1 Billion Sports and Entertainment District in Downtown Los Angeles; Hilton Selected as Operator of 1,100 room Convention Center Hotel
• Promoting the Dining Experience by Matching Expectations / John R. Hendrie
• Buccini/Pollin Group and Lubert Adler Management Inc. Acquiring the 427-room Sheraton Meadowlands Hotel for $54 million from the Blackstone Group and Prime Hospitality Corp
• A Wide Range of Educational Offerings and Entertainment Planned for the 35,000 Lodging and Foodservice Professionals Attending the International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show Starting November 12, 2005 at New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
• After Two Decades as Georgia's Tourism Tagline, "Georgia on My Mind" is Going with the Wind
• IMIC Hotels Opens  the $13 million, 117 room Inn at USC; Students in Univerisity of South Carolina's School of Hospitality, Retail and Sport Management Will Work in the Hotel
• Ferenc Szony Named the Gaming Industry's Top Performing Chief Executive Officer by HVS Executive Search
• Noble Investment Group Opens the 146 suite Embassy Suites Hotel Winston-Salem, NC; Part of the Conversion of the Former Adam’s Mark Hotel
• Gunter Muller Named General Manager of ResortQuest Aspen in Colorado
• Domina Vacanze S.p.A. and Domina Hotel Group Complete Management Agreement for 7 Hotels in Italy

• The Closed Hotel Count in Louisiana is 160 Hotels, in Mississippi, 93 Hotels and in Alabama, 33 Hotels as of September 15, 2005 / Lodging Econometrics Report
• Harrah's Entertainment Promises to Build Something "Spectacular" if Mississippi Drops Dockside Casino Requirement
• A $300 million Schlitterbahn Waterpark Resort, Hotel & Retail Shops Planned Near the Kansas Speedway in Wyandotte County
• Canadian Developer Westbank Acquires Fairmont Owned Land Across from Vancouver Convention Center; Will Build 415 room Hotel to be Managed by Fairmont
• AMC Delancey Group, Inc. and Paramount Hotel Group Acquire the 394-room Orlando North Hotel in Maitland, Florida; Will Renovate and Reposition
• Crescent Heights Signs Agreement with Outrigger Hotels to Provide Hotel and Condominium Management Services for the Ala Moana Hotel
• Nicklaus Design Building 18-hole Jack Nicklaus Signature Course in Baha Mar’s Planned $1.6 billion Mega-resort on Nassau’s Cable Beach in The Bahamas
• Las Ventanas al Paraiso, A Rosewood Resort, Again Named the Top International Resort by Andrew Harper’s Hideaway Report
• Beverly Hills Plaza Hotel Selects SMS|Host Hospitality Management System
• Second Arabian Hotel Investment Conference Scheduled for Dubai in 2006; Every Hotel Chain Is Eyeing the Middle East

• New Orleans' Canceled Conventions Being Relocated Rapidly; Chicago Hotels Offer Rebate of  $10 per Room per Night to Recovery Efforts
• Cendant Corporation Acquiring the Wyndham Hotel Brand and Franchise System for $100 million in Cash; Includes 82 Franchise Agreements and 29 Hotel Management Contracts
• HSMAI's 5th Travel Internet Marketing Strategy Conference Set for San Francisco, CA,  Dec. 7, 2005
• The Disaster Resource GUIDE Annual Edition Available Free of Charge; Provides Hard-to-find Information for Disaster Preparedness
• Although Orange County, California Saw Zero Hotels Open in the First Half of 2005, the Construction Pipeline Is Now Picking Up
• Four Seasons Hotel in East Palo Alto Will Be the City’s Largest Revenue Generator
• General Development Plan for Lake Lawn Resort's $390 million Expansion Approved; Wisconsin Resort Adding 1,000 Suites, 130,000 sq ft Water Park
• Orient-Express Hotels' Windsor Court Was Fortunate – Plans Re-opening on November 1, 2005 / Also - Paul M. White Named Vice President - Finance and CFO of Orient-Express Hotels
• The Briad Group Planning Twelve Extended and Limited-stay Hotels in the Northeast
• Innkeepers USA Trust Completes $4.5 million Conversion of the Former Clarion Hotel in Downtown Louisville, Kentucky to a Hampton Inn
• Esther Rodriguez Appointed Vice President, Controller for Benchmark Hospitality International
• Sanibel Harbour Resort Selects PAR Springer-Miller Systems; Exclusive Florida Property Installs SMS|Host Hospitality Management System
• Tynette Lynch Named Director of Sales and Marketing for the Wynfrey Hotel at Riverchase Galleria, Birmingham, Alabama
• Christopher W. Deegan Named Director of Food and Beverage at the Resort at Split Rock in the Western Pocono Mountains
• MonteLago Village Resort, Lake Las Vegas, Appoints Jan Baird Sales Manager
• Mark Miller Appointed Director of Operations at Clayton on the Park, Clayton, Missouri

September 14, 2005

• Hotels Rethink Cancellation Policies
• Retaining Employees Now a Bigger Issue than Food Cost for Many Restaurateurs
• Basic Concepts of Co-Branding, With Examples from the Hospitality Industry / Peggy Yip / Canadian Lodging Outlook - July  2005 YTD
• Great Wolf Resorts, Inc. Developing a 400-suite Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine, Texas Across from the Gaylord Texan; Will Include 80,000 sq ft Year-round Waterpark
• New Orleans Restaurants Foresee a Slow Recovery
• Fort Lauderdale Leaders Resurrect Effort to Build a $300 million 750 room Hotel at the Greater Fort Lauderdale Broward County Convention Center
• Ocean Properties Selects Westin as Brand for Planned 400 room Convention Hotel in West Palm Beach, Florida
• Four Wisconsin Resorts, Lake Lawn, Interlaken, the Abbey and Grand Geneva, Spending Millions to Establish Market Share
• Las Vegas' Hotels Set to Outdo One Another with In-room Amenities, Latest Gadgetry
• Former Holiday Inn in Downtown Orlando Undergoing $25 million Conversion to a Luxury Condo-hotel  to be Called The Lexington
• Bermuda Wary of Boom; Now Importing Foreign Labor to Service 500,000 Tourists a Year
• SECURE-RES Reservation System For Navy Lodge (DON) Program Meets With Success
• Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas Selects Materials Management System from Agilysys, Inc.
• The Private Club Industry to Benefit from New Strategic Partnership
• Marriott South Florida Business Council Executives Deliver Lunches to All Area Fire and Police Stations
• Dina Koss Named Director of Acquisition and Development for Kimpton Hotels

September 13, 2005

• Yes, Hotels Can Make Money and Sustain Growth!
• The California Mid-Year Lodging Report / San Francisco, Los Angeles, Anaheim/Orange County, San Diego / Ernst & Young
• Arte Nathan, SVP and Chief Human Resources Officer for Wynn Resorts Ltd., Wants to Be the Greatest Human Resources Executive in the World
• More than 200 Orlando-based Disney Employees Part of Task Force to Train 5,000 New Hong Kong Disneyland Employees; Working Behind the Scenes to Orchestrate Compromises that Respect Asian Traditions Without Losing Disney Flavor
• Coyle Hospitality Group’s 2005 Spa Industry Survey Finds Quality of Service Provider and Cleanliness are Keys to Satisfaction
• A Chance for You to Respond: Katrina Employee Relief Fund Set up by Highpointe Hotel Corporation
• Offering Price Guarantees on Your Website – the New Paradigm
• Hotel Projects Boom in Western United States
• Strategic Hotel Capital, Inc. Selling the Marriott Schaumburg for Approximately $23.9 million, or $60,000 per room to the Procaccianti Group
• PhoneSuite Signs 900th PBX Customer
• AmeriSuites Upgrades to MSI’s WinPM; Multi-Systems Inc. Transitions 43 Properties in 35 Days from its DOS System to the Windows-based Property-management Platform
• Intrawest Corporation Reports Net income of $32.6 million for Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2005; Results of Abercrombie & Kent During First Year of Ownership Exceeds Expectations
• Florida Hotels Join BringYourPet.com to Promote Pet Friendliness
• Maple House Hotel Selects Visual One

• Senior Strategists to Debate Which Travel Distribution Business Model Will Dominate
• The Cast of Characters Behind the Scenes of Mickey’s Newest Hotels – the Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel and Disney’s Hollywood Hotel / Steve Shellum
• The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Seeking Blocks of Rooms for Housing Evacuees and Emergency Contractors; AH&LA Leads Program to Provide 250,000 Guestrooms
• The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Contributing $6 million to Katrina Relief Efforts
• Two Weeks after Katrina Laid Waste to the Gulf Coast's Gaming Industry, It's 14,000 Casino Workers Grow Anxious About the Future
• Carpionato Properties Inc. Planning a $40-million 200-room InterContinental Hotel in Downtown Providence; Condos on the Upper Floors to Finance the Project
• Advertising: How to Create Award Winning Ads (Yes, Even on a Budget) / Brenda Fields
• The Sofitel Los Angeles Undergoing a $35 million Extreme Makeover; World-Class Designers, a Celebrity Chef and a Leading Bar & Lounge Operator to Transform the Hotel Into One of LA's Most Vibrant Locales
• Edward Rohling Elected CEO and Board Member at Lodgian, Thomas Parrington Steps Down Under Transition Plan; Reports Status of Hotels in New Orleans
• Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong Opens within the International Financial Centre
• Oxford Lodging Named Asset Manager of New York's Famed Essex House after Serving as Lead Investment Advisor to New Owner
• Speranza Forms Hospitality Talent Scouts, Inc.; Executive Search and Consulting Firm to Provide “Key People” Services
• Visual One Systems Celebrates Its 500th Restaurant Installation
• Rick Medwedeff Named General Manager of the 727 room Marco Island Marriott Resort, Golf Club and Spa
• Christine Toguchi Appointed by HSMAI to Establish a Chapter in the Asia Pacific Region
• Darrin Pinkham Named Vice President, Application Systems at Ginn Clubs & Resorts

• Dubai Investment Group Acquires the Essex House Hotel from Strategic Hotel Capital LLC;  Jumeirah Hospitality & Leisure Named to Replace Starwood as Operator of the 605-room Hotel Bearing Two Brands: Westin and St. Regis
• Biloxi Was On a Winning Streak Since the First Casino Opened in 1992
• Ashforth Pacific and its Partner Garfield Traub Given Nod to Negotiate with Portland Development Commission to Build 400 room Westin Hotel next to Convention Center
• Hotel Developer William S. Stallings Files Bankruptcy; Owes $13.3 million on Failed WS Hotel in Downtown St. Louis
• MGM MIRAGE Comes to the Aid of 3,400 Beau Rivage Emloyees; Commits to Rebuild and Rebuild Quickly
• Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, a Joint Venture of The Walt Disney Company and the Government of the Hong Kong SAR Opens; Includes the 400 room Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel and the 600 room Disney’s Hollywood Hotel
• Harrah's Stepping Up Efforts to Help 8,000 Harrah's Employees; Opens Gulfport Assistance Center with On-site Primary Health Care Services
• The New Print Technology that Will Change Your Direct Mail
• Our Uneasy Psyche /  John R. Hendrie
• Lucien Barrière Group Chooses RateTiger to Manage 3rd Party Websites
• Society of Critical Care Medicine Moves 9,000 Room Night Convention from New Orleans to San Francisco
• CSM Lodging Completes Full-scale Renovation of the Lincolnshire Homewood Suites by Hilton, in Lincolnshire, Ill., Formerly a Hawthorn Suites

• Orange County, California Ranked No. 2 in the Nation in Hotel Occupancy in July, Nearly 87%
• The State of Texas Waiving Hotel Occupancy Taxes for Evacuees for Sixty Days
• Convention Business is Evacuating New Orleans, and Kansas City is Booking
• GIC Real Estate Pte Ltd Acquires the InterContinental Hotel Paris from IHG for 315 million euros (U.S.$ 390 million); The 438 room Hotel to be Rebranded Westin Paris
• Marriott International and the Marriott Family Pledge a Total of $3 Million to Support Hurricane Katrina Relief
• The Nation's Tourism Industry Is Battling for the Meetings and Conventions Business Once Headed for New Orleans
• Agri-tourism: $240 a Night plus Chores
• At Midyear 2005, Europe’s Hotel Industry Occupancy Up 0.9 points Over Previous Year; The Return of American and Asian Clientele Was Beneficial
• Aqua Palms Opens As Waikiki’s Newest Hotel; The 260 unit Condotel Formerly the Waikiki Parkside Hotel
• The Non-profit Ida Cason Callaway Foundation Begins Extensive Renovation of the Southern Pine Cottages and the Mountain Creek Inn at Callaway Gardens, Pine Mountain, Georgia
• Marco A. Roca Named Senior Vice President, Development for Cendant Hotel Group
• Eric Danziger, Former President and COO of Carlson Hotels Worldwide, Named to Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group Holdings, LLC Board of Directors
• Opening of Comfort Suites in Lake Geneva, WI, Heralded by Choice Hotels Executives as “Marker on a Continuum”
• e-CRM and e-Business: How it Can Be Synergized in the Hospitality Industry
• Visual One Lands Major Contract with Folio Hotels
• Bob Ulery Named General Manager of ResortQuest Outer Banks, NC
• TravelCLICK Names New CFO and CIO
• Bavaria Hotels International appoints Philip Stathkias Vice President Finance

• Operators Weigh Options as Senate Moves toward New Data Security Rules
• Kansas City Convention & Visitors Association Balancing Donations with Efforts to Book Displaced Conventions
• Searching for Hotel Software? A Guide to Finding and Purchasing the Right Property Management System
• Free Revenue Management Seminars in Miami and San Francisco; Conducted by leading RMS consultant Carol Verret, Paid-for by Optims America: who said there’s no such thing as a free lunch? 
• Blackstone Group Likely to Make Significant Upgrades at the 144 room Carmel Valley Ranch
• LaSalle Hotel Properties Acquires the 803 room Westin Copley Place, Boston for Approximately $318 million
• Coyle Hospitality Group Partners with HOTEL BUSINESS® Magazine for Third Annual Travel Sentiment Survey
• National Hotel Construction Reports; Hotel-Online Teams with BuildCentral to Offer Hotel Construction Project Reports
• Benchmark Hospitality Cleans Up Island as Part of Special 25th Anniversary All Employee Outing
• Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. Acquires the 297-suite Embassy Suites Hotel - St. Louis-Downtown from FelCor for $38 million
• HSMAI Foundation Awards Four Baccalaureate/Graduate Degree Scholarships to Ambitious Students of Hospitality
• Interstate Hotels & Resorts Sells the Residence Inn Pittsburgh to Apple Six Hospitality Ownership, Inc. for $11 million
• The Erie County Convention Center Authority Awards $1.9 million in Contracts for the Design of 200 room Convention Center Hotel and Parking Garage
• Sheraton Suites Fairplex in Pomona, California Undergoing $9.5 million Facelift
• The Historic Black Hawk Hotel in Cedar Falls, Iowa Entering Final Phase of Three and a Half Year Renovation
• The Inn at St. John's Selects PAR Springer-Miller's SMS|Host Hospitality Management System
• TIG Global to Exhibit at International Hotel Conference in Monaco
• Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts Appoints Mary McCarthy as Director of Sales Eastern United States and Canada

• Good Nite Inns Streamlines Management of 13 property Hotel Chain with Ramesys’ Centrally Hosted, Multi-property Entirety Solution
• New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau Update As of 9 A.M. Tuesday, September 6, 2005 from Bureau President J. Stephen Perry
• Michael Smith, General Manager of the Hyatt Regency in Downtown New Orleans, Has Some Stories to Tell
• The Shutdown of New Orleans' Economic Engine -- its Convention and Tourism Business -- Has Implications Nationally for Other Convention Cities
• Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc. Details Workforce Relief Fund and Payroll Details for 1,150 Team Members Affected by Hurricane Katrina
• Marriott Provides Assistance for More than 2,800 Associates in the Greater New Orleans Area
• Harrah's Takes Additional Steps to Bolster Relief Efforts for its 8,000 Employees in Biloxi, Gulfport, and New Orleans
• Hilton Hotels Corporation Reports Status of Hotels Affected by Hurricane Katrina; Establishes Employee Relief Fund
• Pinnacle Intends to Rebuild Casino Magic in Biloxi; Boomtown New Orleans Received Minor Damage, Currently Being Used as a Base for Utility Crews Restoring Electricity
• Texas Hotels Work to Accommodate Evacuees and Future Guests
• FEMA Sets Up Shop in The Imperial Palace-Biloxi, Hotel Weathered Hurrican Better than the Other Dozen Casino Hotels in the Gulf
• Tallahassee Hoteliers Politely Informed Evacuees to Leave; FSU-Miami Football Fans Need the Rooms
• Brennan's, one of the Most Famous Restaurants in the French Quarter, Survives
• Hotel Broker, Joe McCann, Finds Success Working as the Intermediary Between the Buyer and Seller
• Developers Doug Rohde and Joel Cairy Open The 102 room Lodge at Brainerd Lakes & Paul Bunyan Water Park
• Bedford Resort Partners, Ltd. Begins $90 million Restoration of the Historic Bedford Springs Hotel; Benchmark Hospitality Will Manage the 218 room Destination Resort and Conference Facility
• StayOnline Receives $15 Million from Technology Investment Capital Corp.
• Radisson SAS Royal Viking Hotel Becomes 9th SAS Property with EzRMS™
• Michael Fernandez Named General Manager and Frank Fuentes Director of Sales for The Regent South Beach in Miami Beach
• InterContinental Hotels Group PLC Sells Nine Hotels in Australia and New Zealand to Eureka Funds Management Ltd for £164 million in Cash
• Paul P. Hutton Named General Manager of Hilton Kuala Lumpur
• Matthew Bartle Appointed Front Office Manager, The Palms in the Turks & Caicos Islands
• Benchmark Appoints Paul Gibson as Director of Food & Beverage at Edith Macy Conference Center, Briarcliff Manor, New York

1. Amenity Creep Making It Almost Impossible for Housekeepers to Clean a Hotel Room in 30 Minutes, the Pace Required to Clean 15 Rooms per Shift
2. Hilton and Marriott Chains Experimenting with Dumping the Tub
3. Mayor of Biloxi Says Storm's Surge Has Put Five Casinos Out of Commission;  Hard Rock Casino -- Scheduled to Open Next Week - Was Half Destroyed,  Grand Casino Biloxi Washed Across U.S. 90
4. Joe McCann of Optimum Hotel Brokerage Brokers Sale of Chicago’s Legendary Palmer House Hilton, Represents Thor Properties in $230 Million Transaction
5. Blackstone Real Estate Advisors Combines 14 Wyndham Properties with  Seven Other Owned Hotels to Form the LXR Luxury Resorts Brand
6. What is the One Product or Service Missing from Your Hotel Stay that You Would Be Willing to Pay More for to Have? Harris Poll Survey
7. Time-share Giant Fairfield Resorts Being Sued; Buyers Contend Their Purchases of Fairfield Vacation Time in Recent Year  have Proved Virtually Worthless
8. Starwood Hotels & Resorts Signs Definitive Agreements to Acquire the Le Meridien Brand and All Related Management and Franchise Business for the Brand’s 130 Hotels 
9. Marriott Update on Hurricane Katrina 22 Hotels Temporarily Closed
10. Identity Thieves and Scavengers Find a Gold Mine at the Defunct Best Western Greenwood Inn & Suites in Beaverton, Oregon
11. Global Update: Who’s Where and Doing What  / August/September 2005
12. Top Five Complaints About Hotel Reader Board Services
13. How to Stretch Your Marketing Budget; Using  Unsold Room Inventory as Currency / Jody Merl
14. Condo-Hotels: Expanding the Options for Lodging Development / Anwar Elgonemy
15. A Discrimination Suit Prompted by Management Decision to Close  Swimming Pool Due to pH Imbalance Settled Out of Court
16. W Hotel Las Vegas Planning Lifestyle Elements That Will be Unheard of Even for Las Vegas; Will Compete with the Palms,  Wynn Las Vegas and Four Seasons
17. The Irvine Company Taking Over Management of the 295-room Four Seasons Hotel Newport Beach; New Name for Hotel Not Chosen Yet
18. Once Again, it is Time to Ask: To Buy a Hotel or Build a Hotel? / R. Mark Woodworth
19. Intercontinental, Expedia, Starwood, Cendant, Yahoo! and More Assess the Future of Online Travel Distribution
20. The Hotel Terminal Cap Rate Delimma  / PKF
21. J.D. Power and Associates Reports: Hotel Guest Satisfaction is Up, Despite Rising Room Rates and Increased Occupancies
22. Hip South Beach Hotel, The Shore Club, Abandons Plans to Convert to a Condo-hotel, Project Falls Apart After Ian Schrager Quit as CEO of Morgans Hotel Group, the Operator
23. The Gratuity Revolution / John R. Hendrie
24. The Mirage, the Hotel that Introduced the Concept of  Destination Resort to the Las Vegas Strip in 1989,   Ups the Ante on the Strip With 2005/2006  Transformation
25. Triple Witching Hour - The Marketing Plan, Revenue Management Strategy and RFPs for '06 / Carol Verret

• Mayor of Biloxi Says Storm's Surge Has Put Five Casinos Out of Commission; Hard Rock Casino -- Scheduled to Open Next Week - Was Half Destroyed, Grand Casino Biloxi Washed Across U.S. 90
• Who Posed for Her First ad, for Suntan Lotion, on the Diving Board of the Hotel Roosevelt's Pool? – Hotel Trivia (and a Lot More Information) Now Included in the Knowland Group’s 8AM Comp Set Reports
• Orient-Express' Windsor Court Hotel Hurricane Katrina Update
• The Hines Co. Planning a Hotel Conference Center with 280 rooms and 45 Condominiums on Lake Grapevine in Flower Mound, Texas
• Pinnacle Entertainment Expects to Invest $800 million in Two St. Louis, Missouri Area Hotel-Casino Projects
• The Ritz-Carlton, Dearborn Providing a Workshop Designed to Share Service Philosophy with Detroit Area Businesses
• Atlantic City Finally Catching On - Casino Travelers More Likely to Play at Gambling Resorts that Offer More than Just Slot Machines and Table Games
• Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts’ Website Producing 80% More Room Reservations Over Previous Year; Credits Best Rate Guarantee
• The Westin Seattle Names Andrea Norton as Hotel Manager

August 29, 2005

• Hilton and Marriott Chains Experimenting with Dumping the Tub
• Waiter, There's a Service Charge On My Soup; Making Sense Out of a Service Charge
• Triple Witching Hour - The Marketing Plan, Revenue Management Strategy and RFPs for '06 / Carol Verret
• Related Las Vegas and Centra Properties to Partner With George Clooney, Rande Gerber in $3 billion Hotel-Condominium-Casino Complex
• Creating a Marketing Success Story
• Yellowstone Club, a Ski and Golf Destination-club in Big Sky, Montana, Marketing Membership Fees of Up to $10 million
• Middle East Hotel Industry Continues With More than Satisfactory Results
• Charles Marshall Elevated to Chairman and Founder of Marshall Management, Michael Marshall Named CEO and President
• Accor Asia Pacific Appoints 11 to GM Posts
• The Dow Hotel Company Names Ernie Catanzaro Vice President of Operations and Frank Rodriguez Named General Manager of the Doubletree Hotel Bellevue, Washington
• AmericInn Lodge & Suites of Ashland, Wisconsin Honored for Significant Contributions Made Towards the Development of the Ashland Community
• David Bayes Named Managing Director of Choice Hotels Australasia

• Best Western Expects the Addition of 360-degree 'Virtual Tour' Feature for 2,400 North American Hotels to Propel Online Reservation Bookings
• Club Med Set to Open the New $60 million Club Med Buccaneer’s Creek Resort on the island of Martinique
• Kempinski Hotels, Following a Long and Careful USD 40 Million Renovation, Reopens the Legendary "Kili" Hotel in Tanzania's Port City of Dar es Salaam; The 180 room Kilimanjaro Hotel Kempinski Totally Rebuilt
• Billionaire Robert L. Johnson's Role as Owner or Fee-based Developer in Baltimore's $305 million Publicly Financed Convention Center Hotel Uncertain
• Hotel Occupancy in Downtown Dallas Hotels Forecasted at Only 54% Through 2006, While the Entire Dallas Area Hotel Occupancy Expected to be 63%
• Starwood Files a Complaint with the U.S. Justice Department for $63 million Worth of Land it Claims the Cuban Government Seized in 2003
• Regent Development Inc. Breaks Ground on $45-$50 million 178  room Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center in Stockton, California
• Agenda Set for HSMAI / NYU Stategy Conference on ROI in Today's Changing Sales and Marketing Landscape
• Francois Chopinet Appointed General Manager of the InterContinental Carlton Cannes
• Double Diamond Resorts Appoints Chris Tomboni as Executive Chef at The Cliffs Resort on Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas

August 25, 2005

• Starwood Hotels & Resorts Signs Definitive Agreements to Acquire the Le Meridien Brand and All Related Management and Franchise Business for the Brand’s 130 Hotels
• Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. Acquiring the 728-room Century Plaza Hotel & Spa in Century City, California for $293.0 million; Will Reposition as Hyatt Regency Century Plaza
• Thompson Hotels and Its Equity Arm the Pomeranc Group, Opening Second Hotel in Los Angeles -  the 110-room Thompson Hotel Beverly Hills
• W Hotel Las Vegas Planning Lifestyle Elements That Will be Unheard of Even for Las Vegas; Will Compete with the Palms, Wynn Las Vegas and Four Seasons
• Report Challenges a Favorable Gambling Study Prepared for the Greater Cleveland Partnership; Claims Shallow Research Conclusions and Flawed Economic Assumptions Made for Supporting Casino Gambling in Ohio
• Wisconsin Hotels Want Another Chance to Get on List for State Employee Approved Lodging; More than 3,300 Lodging Properties Out of the Mix for State Business
• Fractional Ownership Market Booming in the U.S.
• Dow Hotel Company and AEW Capital Management Purchase 272-room Hilton Atlanta Northeast; Plans to Undergo Multi-million Dollar Renovation Upgrade
• Harrah's Promotes Don Marrandino, John Koster, and Wade Faul to Lead Seven Resorts in Nevada
• Stephane Zaharia Appointed General Manager for The CuisinArt Resort & Spa, Anguilla
• Former Wyndham Execs Colleen Quinn and Frank Solano Join FelCor as VP's of Asset Management
• HREC Investment Advisors Financing Practice is "Shining," As it Arranges $13 million for the Storied Stanley Hotel, Estes Park, Colorado
• Boykin Appoints Kimberly Hayden as General Manager of the Hampton Inn Miami Airport- West

August 24, 2005

• Hotel-Online Teams with BuildCentral to Offer Hotel Construction Project Reports
• Conferon Is No Household Name, But that Won't Stop the Seattle CVB and Downtown Hotels Treating It Like Royalty
• In Recent Years, the Fall Convention Business Has Been Scarce in Anaheim
• Developer Gary Prosterman Set to Open $13 million Cumberland House Hotel Adjacent to the Knoxville Convention Center; Did Not Want to be a Typical Franchise Hotel
• Starwood Joint Ventures with Edge Resorts to Build a 3,000 unit W Branded Hotel, Condominium and Casino in Las Vegas; Project May Cost Up to $1.7 billion
• Apple REIT Six, Inc. Appoints White Lodging Services to Manage Five East Coast Hotels
• Donald Trump's Trump International Hotel & Residences One of 11 Companies or Groups of Companies Seeking City Qualification to Serve as "Master Developer" of Denver's Historic Union Station Redevelopment
• Singapore-based City Developments and US-based Westbrook Partners Nearing Completion of 543-room - Millennium Hilton Bangkok 
• The JBG Companies Selects Crestline Hotels & Resorts to Manage the Sheraton Reston, VA;   Sami Zeitoun Appointed General Manager
• Equity Inns, Inc. Acquiring Four Midwest Hotels for Approximately $25.9 million, or $69,000 Per Room
• Radisson SAS the First International Hotel Chain to Provide Free Broadband Internet Service in all Hotels
• Pride Hospitality, LLC Sells the Holiday Inn Express Brown Deer, Wisconsin
• Omniture Enables TIG Global to Enhance Reporting Performance Metrics
• Visual One Selected for Barnsdale Hall Hotel
• Four Seasons Names John Davison Chief Financial Officer
• Lisa Lyon Named Executive Chef at Hyatt Regency Boston

• Amenity Creep Making It Almost Impossible for Housekeepers to Clean a Hotel Room in 30 Minutes, the Pace Required to Clean 15 Rooms per Shift
• Top Five Complaints About Hotel Reader Board Services 
• The Landmark Sam Houston Hotel in Houston to be the Prototype for Tim Miller's New Brand - Alden Hotels
• Disneyland Helped Cultivate Anaheim Convention Activity; Supported First Visitor and Convention Bureau in 1961
• Developed by the Mesa Arizona Police Department, the Crime Free Hotel/Motel Program Turns Hotel Workers into Crime-fighters
• Harrah's Acquiring the Imperial Palace Hotel & Casino for $370 million from the Ralph Engelstad Trust
• The John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center in Boston Posts  Record Annual Revenue and Smallest Operating Loss in 15 Years; Some Want to Shut it Down
• Downtown Houston Hotel Execs Split on Idea of Astrodome as a 1,200 room Hotel
• Gemstone Resorts International, LLC Signs Contract to Asset Manage the Sedona Rouge Hotel & Spa in Sedona, Arizona
• Luxe Worldwide Hotels Grows Its Elite Collection
• Steven Hilton, the Grandson of Conrad N. Hilton, Named Chairman & CEO of Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
• Harborside Resort at Atlantis is a 50/50 Joint Venture Between Starwood Vacation Ownership and Kerzner International Limited Opens 116 Villas
• L’Auberge du Lac Hotel & Casino Selects LMS Guest Express Handheld Check-In from Agilysys, Inc.
• The Robert Earl Investor Group Betting the Planet Hollywood Brand Will Change the Fate of Aladdin Casino & Resort
• The Suncadia Resort and Golf Community Will Provide the Pacific Northwest with Another Must-stop Destination for Golf Enthusiasts
• Alain Bachmann Appointed Food & Beverage Director at Rocco Forte’s The Lowry Hotel, Manchester, England
• Vernon Briggs Appointed General Manager for The Hampton Inn Portsmouth, New Hampshire

• Two Hyatt Regency Hotels Will Pay More for Electricity from Pollution Free Sources; However, Owner Hunt-Woodbine Realty Corp. Will Counter with Marketing Effort Aimed at Consumers' Environmental Soft Spots
• Global Update: Who’s Where and Doing What / August/September 2005
• Once Again, it is Time to Ask: To Buy a Hotel or Build a Hotel? / R. Mark Woodworth
• The Web Site Conundrum…Are You Winning the Electronic Marketing Game? / Neil Salerno
• The Gratuity Revolution / John R Hendrie
• What is the One Product or Service Missing from Your Hotel Stay that You Would Be Willing to Pay More for to Have? / Harris Poll Survey
• Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Deploys Four German Shepherd Dogs to Assist Security Team
• Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau Reviving Idea for $80-100 million Convention Center Hotel
• After Six Years of Relative Stability, the Biloxi Casino Market Entering a New Era of Expansion and Increased Competition
• Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa Initiating a $547-million expansion Program at the Atlantic City Mega-resort
• MSI, Best Western Two-Way CRS Interface Installations Building Momentum
• Isabel Gracia Named Director of Sales at One&Only Ocean Club on Paradise Island

August 19, 2005

• Accor Founders Gerard Pelisson and Paul Dubrule Seek More Zing As Worldwide Hotel Competition Intensifies; Opened their First Hotel in 1963
• Randy Smith Admits His Job Is Easy These Days...He Has an Abundance of Good News About the Hotel Business to Spread
• Fairfield Resorts in Williamsburg, Va. Subject of  Overtime Lawsuit Filed by 44 Immigrant Workers; Dispute Involves Independent Contractor vs Employee Status
• Houston Investment Company Claims it Has $450 million in Financing to Convert Houston's Astrodome into 1,200 room Hotel and a Riverwalk Similar to San Antonio's River Walk
• Edward Giannasca, a Developer of Baltimore's Ritz-Carlton Residences, Files Countersuit Against Partners Claiming They Cheated Him Out of His Ownership Interest in the $250 million Hotel-condo Project
• American Leisure Holdings, Inc. Obtains Construction Financing for The Sonesta Orlando Resort at Tierra Del Sol; Upon Completion Resort to Include 972 Vacation Units and Large-scale Water Park
• The $100+ million 401 suite Great Wolf Lodge at Paramount's Kings Island Now Under Construction
• The Retirement Systems of Alabama's Hotel Management Company, PCH Hotels and Resorts, Opens the Renaissance Ross Bridge Golf Resort & Spa on Alabama’s Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail
• InterContinental Hotels Group Selected to Manage the Former Pan Pacific Glenmarie Kuala Lumpur, Will Reflag Holiday Inn Glenmarie Kuala Lumpur
• Kevin Mitnick to Keynote Inaugural Transaction Security Summit; World’s Most Famous Former Hacker to Address the Human Factors of Credit Card Security
• The Public Now Able to Purchase Hilton's New Beds, Clocks and Amenities
• Turnberry Associates Acquires Union Station - A Wyndham Historic Hotel, Nashville; Plans Multi-million dollar Restoration
• Jeff Dahl, President and COO at MGM Mirage's Beau Rivage, and Two Other Top Executives Leave Abruptly
• Paul Joseph is Named General Manager at the Headquarters Plaza Hotel, Morristown, New Jersey, Soon to be Reflagged the Hyatt Morristown

• Joe McCann of Optimum Hotel Brokerage Brokers Sale of Chicago’s Legendary Palmer House Hilton, Represents Thor Properties in $240 Million Transaction
• A Discrimination Suit Prompted by Management Decision to Close Swimming Pool Due to pH Imbalance Settled Out of Court
• Hotelier Paul Rusesabagina, the Real-life Inspiration for the Movie Hotel Rwanda, Will Deliver the Keynote Presentation at the 2005 IH/M&RS Hospitality Leadership Forum
• The California Department of Corporations Files Suit Against Fund Manager; Claims He Conned 25 Investors Nationwide out of $1.5 million for a Bogus Casino Planned Near Six Flags California
• Casino Operators Struggle to Manage Mounting Waves of  Federal and State Regulations
• Opened in 1972, The 12-story Holiday Inn Ventura Beach Resort Receiving $8 million Remodel and Conversion to Crowne Plaza Settled Out of Court
• Harrah's Entertainment Re-branding the 503 room Caesars Indiana to a Horseshoe Casino
• Thor Equities Planning a Renovation in Excess of $100 million on the Palmer House Hilton
• Hospitality International Taps Belmonte as Featured Speaker; Company officials say veteran hotelier’s down-to-earth, no-nonsense approach to management and marketing will serve as valuable lessons for franchisees
• Select Inns’ Reservations Increase through InnLink
• Adaco Services Partners with SCLogic On New Package Tracking Software
• Hamister Hospitality Group, LLC Purchases the MainStay Suites Knoxville Airport
• Sandy Lane Resort Names Marcel Driessen Executive Chef; Will Oversee the Barbados Resort's Four Restaurants
• Benchmark Appoints Four Executives to the Senior Leadership Team at the French Lick Springs Resort and Casino
• Boykin Appoints Robert Magrath General Manager of The Best Western Ft. Myers Island Gateway Hotel

August 17, 2005

• Guest Service Crests at the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort and Spa With the Help of GoConcierge; Web-based Solution has Ripple Effect on Concierge Operations, Guest Satisfaction
• Blackstone Real Estate Advisors Combines 14 Wyndham Properties with Seven Other Owned Hotels to Form the LXR Luxury Resorts Brand
• The Hotel Terminal Cap Rate Delimma / PKF
• European investors and Amanresorts Planning a $125 million Resort with a 40-room Hotel, Spa and 28 Villas near Lake Powell in Utah
• Boyd Gaming's $600 million 1,350-room South Coast Hotel and Casino Is First to be Built South of the Airport Runways on Las Vegas Boulevard
• Winston Hotels Forms Joint Venture with Grand Heritage Hotel Company to Acquire the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado
• Marriott's Diversity Initiatives Add Five African American and Hispanic Owned Hotels Since May, 2005
• German Hoteliers Struggle to Maintain Growth at the Same Levels During the First Six Months of 2005; RevPAR Up Just 1.2% / Deloitte
• The Procaccianti Group Starts Conversion of the Holiday Inn Downtown Providence to The Hilton Hotel Providence; Redevelopment Includes Complete Interior and Exterior Renovations
• Equity Inns, Inc. Acquires a Homewood Suites and a Hampton Inn in Peabody, Massachusetts from Paramount Hotel Group for $15.2 million, or $74,000 per Room
• Flags for Two Columbus, Georgia Hotels in Limbo; From Wyndham Brand to Marriott and Amerisuites Brand to Hyatt Place
• Owner Walter Banks Planning a $15 million Addition to the Lago Mar Resort & Spa, Fort Lauderdale
• UK Largest Segment of Las Vegas' Overseas Visitors with 392,000 Citizens in 2004; Japan Second with 217,000 Visitors
• The Procaccianti Group Converting the  Holiday Inn Miami Beach to a Condo-Owned Hotel - SixtySixty Resort Residences
• The Kahler Grand Hotel Spinning Off the 11th Floor to Create Ultra Exclusive 26 room Hotel - The International; Targets Affluent Mayo Clinic Visitors
• BridgeStreet's Deployment of a Web-based, Customer Relationship Management Tool Produced 10% Increase in Annual Revenue and an Average Increase in Sales Per Person of 42%
• Hersha Hospitality Trust Names Two New Vice Presidents; Robert Hazard Named VP of Acquisitions and Development, William J. Walsh Named VP of Asset Management
• Andreas Ioannou Named General Manager of the Hilton Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort

August 16, 2005

• ZMail Tapped by Intellistrand to Grow Customer Base in 19 Major Metro Areas; Top intelligent email provider, ZDirect, turns ‘C’ lists into ‘A’ lists, ensures delivery, grows quality customer databases
• Guest Service Crests at the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort and Spa With the Help of GoConcierge; Web-based Solution has Ripple Effect on Concierge Operations, Guest Satisfaction
• Hard Rock Hotels and Intrawest Corporation Plan to Develop Hard Rock Hotels at Intrawest Resorts
• LaSalle Hotel Properties Plans to Acquire the 803 room Westin Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts for Approximately $318 million
• Poof! Many Miami Hotel Vanishing, Victims of the High-rise Condo/hotel Boom
• Spanish Architect Santiago Calatrava's Proposed $500 million Hotel and Condominium Skyscraper, Called the Fordham Spire, a Hot Topic Among Architects
• Robert Foster Named President of Noble House Hotels & Resorts
• Jenifer Zeigler Appointed Senior Vice President, Global Brand Management for InterContinental Hotels & Resorts
• CNL Hotels & Resorts, Inc. Reports Net Income of $32.9 million for the 2nd Qtr Ended June 30, 2005 / Hotel Operating Statistics
• Pelican System Launches Call Center Reservation System; Pelican System, developer of advanced hotel reservation software, announces the release of its new Call Center Reservation System 
• GolfHero Announces Partnership with Hilton Garden Inn Scottsdale North/Perimeter Center with HOTELPAR
• Pegasus Solutions Chosen by Distinguished Hotels for Reservation System, Internet and Voice Services Offerings
• The Myrtle Beach Area Hospitality Association Sorting Through Changes in Funding, Leadership and its Role Serving the Area's Tourism Industry
• Hilton Appoints Mark Hartman and Shaun Robinson to GM Posts
• Patricia Steinmetz Promoted to Director of Food & Beverage Services at The Thayer Hotel

• Time-share Giant Fairfield Resorts Being Sued; Buyers Contend Their Purchases of Fairfield Vacation Time in Recent Years have Proved Virtually Worthless
• Lumbermen's Investment Corp. and Marriott International Inc. Advance Plans with San Antonio  to Develop a 1,000-room Hotel and Two 18-hole Golf Courses
• Outrigger Enterprises to Purchase the 500 room Waikiki Beachcomber Hotel; Majority of Beachcomber Employees to be Offered Jobs with Outrigger
• Audit of Hotel Invoices Turns up Overcharges that May Add up to Millions for Business Travelers; About 7.5% of Negotiated Rates Entered Incorrectly in Hotel Databases
• McKibbon Hotel Management, Inc. Planning Three Hotels at Avion Park of Westshore, A Mixed Use Project Near Tampa International Airport
• Napa Valley's Vintage Inn and Villagio Inn & Spa Joint Venture with Chef Thomas Keller on a Multi-million Dollar Special Events and Private Dining Venue
• Plotting His Travels; Some Bumps Encountered / Chaper III
• The Summit Group, Inc. Acquires the 139-room Hampton Inn & Suites in El Paso
• After $8 million in Renovations, Memphis's Downtown Radisson Hotel Morphes into an Upscale Doubletree Hotel
• StayOnline Tapped by Spectralink to Offer WI-FI Telephony to Hospitality Industry; VOfi added to StayOnline’s Certified Solutions Program
• Rich Worldwide Travel Direct Adds BusinessJet Class Private Air Charter GDS Capability
• Nevada Casinos Continue Record-setting Pace in June 2005; Receives Healthy Kick from Wynn Las Vegas
• Bryan Guillot Named Chief Marketing Officer of Baha Mar Development Company and Cable Beach Resorts and Crystal Palace Casino Inc.
• Crestline Hotels & Resorts Appoints Richard M. Lundt to General Manager of the 299 room Omaha Marriott
• Robin Harlow Appointed general Manager for the 260-room Aqua Palms Hotel, Honolulu
• Laurent André Promoted to Hotel Executive Chef at InterContinental Hong Kong; Tjaco van Eijken Appointed to Executive Chef of SPOON by Alain Ducasse

• Wyndham International Stockholders Approve Merger with an Affiliate of The Blackstone Group
• Cushman & Wakefield Advises Significant Hotel Transaction; Sale of Radisson Stockton is Largest Known Hotel Transaction in this Market in the Past Few Years
• The Long-awaited Tourism Rebound Has Arrived in Southern California; Disneyland Said to be Drawing Thousands More Per Day than Expected / Sandi Cain
• NCL/National Content Liquidators, Inc. Liquidating the Contents of the Park Hyatt Washington DC as First Phase of the Hotel’s $24 million Renovation and Redesign Project
• Winegardner & Hammons Set to Open 295 room Cleveland Marriott East; Todd Raburn Appointed General Manager
• RockResorts Names William Hall Vice President of Operations
• Urgo Hotels Opens New Marriott Residence Inn in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor; First Extended-Stay Hotel in Downtown Area
• Boykin Management Company Appoints Craig Campbell as Vice President of Sales
• HSMAI’S Revenue Management Special Interest Group Makes Huge Strides in Start-up Year
• Four Seasons Hotels Inc. Which Manages 65 Hotels Around the World, Reports Net Income of $15.8 million for the 2nd Qtr Ended June 30, 2005 Up from a Profit of $12.8 million in the Year-earlier / Hotel Operating Statistics
• The Irvine Company Taking Over Management of the 295-room Four Seasons Hotel Newport Beach; New Name for Hotel Not Chosen Yet
• Roger Ploum Appointed General Manager of the Westin Grand Bohemian in Downtown Orlando
• Global Events Partners (GEP) Appoints Dawn Barbeau as Director of Sales for GEP Chicago
• Brent Loving Named Executive Chef at White Bluff Resort on Lake Whitney, Texas
• New Casino Development Survey, Published by HREC®, Identifies Trends for 2005 and Beyond
• Hip South Beach Hotel, The Shore Club, Abandons Plans to Convert to a Condo-hotel, Project Falls Apart After Ian Schrager Quit as CEO of Morgans Hotel Group, the Operator 
• John Rovie Named Director of Sales of the Arizona Biltmore
• Las Cruces CVB Reports Lodging Tax for Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2005 up 7%, New Hotels Planned
• Ilario Turri Appointed Chef at the Sheraton Dongguan Hotel’s Luigi Italian Restaurant

• Starwood Sells the 193-room St. Regis Hotel, Washington, D.C. for $47 million; Hotel Will Remain in the St. Regis Portfolio, Acquired by Joint Venture of  Brickman Associates and New Valley Corporation
• Georgia Businessman Virgil Williams Plans to Acquire the Rights to Operate Lake Lanier Islands, Which Includes the 216-room Emerald Pointe Resort, Conference Center and Golf Club
• Three Marquee Golf Projects, Collectively Costing $1 billion, Nearing Completion in Sarasota, Florida Area: Ritz-Carlton Members Golf Club, The Concession Golf Club & Residences and The Founders Club
• Identity Thieves and Scavengers Find a Gold Mine at the Defunct Best Western Greenwood Inn & Suites in Beaverton, Oregon
• Le Meridien Khao Lak, Opened in November 2004 One month Before the Tsunami Struck, Plans to Re-open in October, 2005
• AR