1. Four Obstacles Preventing Hotels from Implementing Service at the Level of Creating Truly Memorable Experiences / Peter McAlpine
2. Global Update: Who�s Where and Doing What  / June 2006
3. St. Regis Resort, Bora Bora Opens in French Polynesia; Milton Sgarbi, the Opening GM
4. The Politics of Revenue Management / Doug Kennedy
5. Curse of the Hotel Lobby-Dwellers / Larry Mundy
6. Revenue Management for Dummies�Smaller Hotels Should Reap the Benefits Too / Neil Salerno
7. A Future Vision for Hotel Revenue Management / Caryl Helsel and Kathleen Cullen
8. More Hotel Web Site Hints, Tips, and Tricks � Unwrapped / Neil Salerno
9. Beyond �Outrageous,� and �Legendary� Customer Service Training: Creating �Ordinary Excellence, Daily!� / Doug Kennedy
10. �A Bakers Dozen� of Strategies for Hotel Sales & Marketing Professionals / Dr. John Hogan
11. Hotel Developer Suing Attorney for $100 million in Damages; Claims Attorney Represented a Lender that Had No Intentions of Fullfilling a Loan Commitment
12. Memo to GMs: The Pros and the Con of Relationship Selling / Larry Jackstien
13. Good Service is Not Enough: Global Travel Reshapes Guest Service in the 21st Century / Michael Squires
14. Create a Successful Hotel Restaurant / Robert R. Cohn
15. Top 50 Destinations List For Summer 2006; Priceline Survey Indicates Boston with Biggest Hotel Rate Increase, Washington Has Biggest Rate Decline
16. Top 5 Group Events - North America - May 2006
17. Seven Franchisees Awarded Marriott�s Highest Honor, the Partnership Circle Award
18. Some Long-term Trends that Might Be Adverse to the Future of the Hotel Industry / Steve Rushmore
19. The Hospitality Industry Facing Four Transformative Issues Over the Next Five Years,  Including Brand, Emerging Markets, Human Assets and Technology
20. Dubai Boasts 22 Five-star Hotels
21. How to Keep The Winners: Some Proven Business Management Techniques for Maintaining Great Staff / Jack Turesky
22. The Sterling Companies Planning a 33-acre Full-service 1,700 unit Condominium Resort in Panama City Beach, Florida
23. Create a Sales Proposal in Less than 60 Seconds with Cendyn's eProposal Tool; A Success for More than 700 Hotels Worldwide
24. Marketing to the Next Generation of Buyers; A Test for Your Hotel Reservations System / Debra Kristopson
25. The Employer Wins! Union Withdraws Complaint Against Hotel NLRB Concludes Owners Do Not Have to Re-hire Workforce / Marta Fernandez

• Travelport and TravelCLICK Announce Restructured and Expanded Media and Business Intelligence Partnership
• Travel Hotlink Enters Into a Strategic Alliance with ZDirect, the Leading Hospitality Electronic Marketing Company
• What Makes a Successful Condo-Hotel Project? Excerpts from a Panel Discussion at JMBM's The Hotel Developers Conference�
• The Exercise Room in Your Hotel - Sweating the Details
• Hotel Development in the Anaheim, California Area Picks Up, But Lags the Pace in San Diego, Los Angeles and San Bernardino
• Arthur Keith Named Outstanding GM of the Year by American Hotel & Lodging Association in the Large Property Category
• Dubai - a Hot New Vacation Spot; Hotel Room Inventory to Reach 52,000 by 2010
• Owned and Managed by Driftwood Hospitality, the 140 room Hotel Indigo Houston Opens; Fourth Property for the InterContinental Hotels Group New Brand
• Starwood Vacation Ownership Acquires 28.7 Acres Inside the Desert Willow Golf Resort in Palm Desert, California; New Timeshare Development Expected to Carry the Westin Brand
• MGM Grand Las Vegas Turns to MTech to Streamline Guest Services Work Flow; HotSOS Internet-based guest services tool helps world-class Vegas venue improve on even its own high standards of operation
• Portola Plaza Hotel Upgrades Its Group Business By Implementing Passkey
• Hotel Source Closes 6th Wisconsin Dells Transaction
• Choice Hotels Names Mark Weiner as Vice President, Customer Care; Move a Part of Choice�s Emphasis on Guest Satisfaction
• Five New Country Inns & Suites Properties Open During May, 2006
• Chris Van der Baars Named Vice President, Development for Interstate Hotels & Resorts

• The Informed Meetings Exchange (INMEX) Launches with the Support of over 100 Organizations
• Early Enrollment Surges for the Fall 2006 Elite Meetings Alliance; Ultra exclusive event for corporate meeting planners and luxury hoteliers to take place September 10-12, 2006, at The Club at Hammock Beach in Palm Coast, Florida
• What's New in the Hotel Guestroom? Digital, HD or IP Televisions / Ashok Kumar
• Hotelier Larry Broughton Survives Rough 2001 Start; Broughton Hospitality Group Runs 14 Hotels; $28M in Revenue / Sandi Cain
• Top 50 Destinations List For Summer 2006; Priceline Survey Indicates Boston with Biggest Hotel Rate Increase, Washington Has Biggest Rate Decline
• HITEC 2006 Held in Minneapolis Draws 4,700 Attendees; HITEC 2007 Set for Orlando, Florida on June 25-28, 2007
• Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. Acquires the W San Diego Hotel for Approximately $96 million, or $370,000 per room
• Neptune Hospitality Advisors Arranges $22 million Acquisition of Wyndham Dallas Hotel
• The 180 room Pelican Beach Resort in Fort Lauderdale Sold; Hotel Will Go Condo
• A Proposed 100-room Hotel and Conference Center Raises Many Concerns with the Isle of Wight County (Virginia) Planning Commission; Proposal too Vague
• Louise Cragun, Co-Founder of Northern Minnesota's Largest Year Round Resort, Cragun's Resort and Hotel on Gull Lake, Dies at 96
• New York City-based DHG Chooses HotSOS to Enhance High Guest-Service Standards; Owner of Affinia and The Benjamin upscale/luxury brands installing MTech�s Internet-based guest-service system in all its hotels
• Hawaiian Hotels & Resorts Installs Datavision�s Business Intelligence and CRM Tools; Datavision to provide revenue management and CRM Tools for The Royal Kona Resort and The Royal Lahaina Resort
• Leading Chicago Hotel �Migrates� to HotSOS to Maximize Guest Services, Satisfaction; InterContinental Chicago now features MTech�s Internet-based Hotel Service Optimization System to streamline service response
• Hotel Source, Inc.is Pleased to Announce its 6th Successful Hotel Sale in the Wisconsin Dells
• Peter Odle, Owner of the Mango Bay Hotel in Barbados, Takes the Reigns as President of the Caribbean Hotel Association
• Raffles Beijing Hotel Opens After Nine months of Careful Refurbishment
• InterContinental Hotels Group and Shanghai University�s Advanced Polytechnic College Create Specialty Academy Aimed at the Fast Growing Hotel Industry in China
• Red Lion Hotels Corporation Completes Remodel and Expansion of Red Lion Kalispell Center Hotel
• Coral Hospitality Appoints Charles Burton General Manager of Brasstown Valley Resort

• Senior Executives from America�s Most Profitable Travel Companies Discuss How to Thrive in Today�s Highly Competitive Marketplace
• Guest Satisfaction Not a Gamble at Tropicana Resort & Casino with Help of GuestWare
• General Manager, Hans-Rudolf Rutti, Discusses His Management Style and the Ongoing Renovations at One of the Most Famous Hotels in Romania, The Bucharest InterContinental
• Good Ideas are a Dime a Dozen�But, Success or Failure is in the Execution / Neil Salerno
• Adding an"I" for Interaction to �Management By Wandering Around� / Mark Hamister
• Summer 2006: Hotels Profit, Guests Pay / PKF
• Nobody Asked Me, But� Do Hotel Franchisees Need Independent Franchise Associations? / Stanley Turkel
• Wineries in Oregon's Willamette Valley Oppose a New "Napa Valley" Style Hotel; Claim the Land Needs to Be Preserved for Agricultural Use
• Hotel Tax Waiver Spurs Lawsuit Between the Developers of Four Seasons Hotel Silicon Valley and City of East Palo Alto
• Choice Hotels Names Eleven Properties Inn of the Year Winners for 2006
• Sanjay Bedi Joins Hospitality Talent Scouts as Senior Vice President; Executive Search Firm Notes Talent Harder to Locate in Current "Good Times"
• FreshStay® Online Network Unites Hotels Worldwide,Fuels Smoke-Free Movement: Kentucky is the 48th state to join the FreshStay® union of nonsmoking lodging properties
• Adam�s Mark Hotels Implements Passkey as its Online Group Reservation & Management System
• Holiday Inn on The Hill Announces Travel Agent Appreciation Month in August; Travel Agents Can Stay for $69 throughout August 2006
• Sonnenblick-Eichner Company Arranges $41.5 million of First Mortgage Financing for the Maui Coast Hotel in Maui, Hawaii
• Interstate Hotels & Resorts Acquires the 131-room Hilton Garden Inn in Baton Rouge, La. for $14.4 million,  $110,000 per key
• Linda Canina Named Editor of Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly
• Robert Gartner Joins Northwest Hospitality Group, LLC as the Director of Acquisitions
• Destination Properties Company Limited Acquires the Kamala Bay Terrace Resort in Phuket; Plans to Turn Property into a 5-star  Resort
• Danat Hotels and Resorts Names Ali Salih the General Manager at the Mafraq Hotel, Abu Dhabi

• Three Years After Union Workers at Chicago's Congress Plaza Walked Out in a Contract Dispute, the Sides Remain Deadlocked
• Bill Peeper, Longtime President of the Orlando/Orange County CVB, Retiring at the End of 2006
• Memo to GMs: The Pros and the Con of Relationship Selling
• MGM MIRAGE Begins a Transformation of the Las Vegas Strip with the $7 billion Urban Metropolis - Project CityCenter
• Guest at Royal Solaris Resort in Cancun Falls to Death in Elevator Accident
• Journey�s End Resort in Belize Repositions Itself with $2 million Renovation
• F & F Realty, Ltd. Completes Multi Million Dollar Hotel Transformation, Opens the Doubletree Hotel Chicago-Arlington Heights
• HEI Hospitality Acquires the 293-room Embassy Suites in Irvine, Calif., HEI Subsidiary, Merritt Hospitality, Will Operate the Hotel
• John Vanderslice, Former Executive with Club Med, Named CEO of Miraval, the Tucson Wellness Resort Company
• Industry veteran Clive Taylor, previously IT Director for the Savoy Group & CIO of Extended Stay of America joins EasyRMS as Director of Sales & Operations
• Benchmark Appoints Marcia Abel as Director of Human Resources for The Northland Inn, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota
• Heidi Stone Appointed Director of Sales & Marketing for Berry Hill Plantation Resort, South Boston, Virginia
• Amber Anthony Fox Joins Signature Worldwide as Regional Sales Manager

June 23, 2006

• Remembering the Old-time Hotel Engineering Department / Larry Mundy
• Florida Keys Tourism Officials Carefully Examine Effects on the Bed Tax as More then 2,400 Hotel Rooms Go Condo
• Rosewood Hotels & Resorts Has Plans to Manage and Build a Host of New Hotels Around the World
• Fraport AG, Owner of the Frankfurt Airport, Signs Hilton International to Operate Two New Build Hotels on the Airport - a 314-room Hilton Garden Inn sitting alongside a 247-room Hilton Hotel
• Benchmark Hospitality Selected to Manage the Naples Bay Resort, a Four Star Mixed-use Destination Resort Being Constructed in Naples, Florida
• City Wide Conventions Are Back in New Orleans with the Arrival of 18,000 American Library Association Delegates; New Orleans Metropolitan CVB Had Cancelled $2 billion in Meetings Business Since Last Fall
• Gaylord Entertainment Co. Joint Venture Acquires the 311 room Courtyard by Marriott Kauai; Property Will be Renamed the ResortQuest Kauai Beach at Makaiwa
• Sofitel Los Angeles Unveils Its New Look After $40 Million Extreme Makeover
• The First W Hotel in Texas, the W Dallas Victory Hotel and Residences Opens with 252 Guestrooms and 144 Condos
• Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians Receives Financing for $400 million Four Winds Casino Resort Outside New Buffalo, Michigan
• Broadway Hospitality Chooses the Knowland Group for Group Sales Leads
• Air-Transport IT Services, Inc. Launches Web-Based Airline Check-in Kiosk Pilot Project at Hilton Garden Inn at Seaworld International Center
• Thailand Hotel Company, Dusit and Le Cordon Bleu Set up a Joint Venture to Operate Culinary School in Bangkok

• Resort Hotels; Wanted: Eaters, Golfers, and Shoppers / Robert Mandelbaum
• Restaurant Ambiance: �Pay the Cashier on the Way Out� / John R Hendrie
• Despite Setback in Redevelopment Plans, the Sonesta Beach Resort Key Biscayne Will Lay Off  Entire Staff of 385 When the Resort Shuts Aug. 31, 2006
• The Wisconsin Dells Getting Another Water Park Resort; Mac McDonald and Ron Flock Building $163 million Grand Cambrian Resort
• How to Keep The Winners: Some Proven Business Management Techniques for Maintaining Great Staff
• California, Connecticut, Arizona Are One, Two, Three in Indian Casino Revenue
• Beau Rivage Resort & Casino Will Reopen 12 Months After Katrina; Will Employ 3,800 Mississippians
• Focus Lodging Group Co-Developing a Resort Condo Hotel with 130,000 Sq Ft Indoor/Outdoor Waterpark in Hoffman Estates, Illinois
• General Hotels Corporation Spending $6 million to Renovate and Rebrand the Holiday Inn Select Indianapolis Airport to a Crowne Plaza
• Marriott Vacation Club International Building 88 Villas Within St. Kitts Marriott Resort & The Royal Beach Casino Property
• Interstate Hotels & Resorts Acquires 10.9% Equity Interest in The Statehouse Inn in Boise, Idaho
• First Hospitality Group Acquires Two Indianapolis TownePlace Suites
• TeleAdapt Launches the DeskPoint� on Board the Sunborn Yacht Hotel in London
• LRA Worldwide Appoints John Roberto to Lead Quality Assurance Group; Hospitality Industry Veteran to Oversee Multiple Brand Teams and More Than 4,000 Annual Site Visits
• Tim Miller Rejoins Morgans Hotel Group as Chief Branding Officer and Jennifer Nellany Named General Counsel
• Cornell Hotel School Professor Steve Mutkoski Named Wine Educator of the Year

June 21, 2006

• Exclusive Dorchester Group Hotels Install EzRMS� in 5 Luxury Properties Worldwide
• Turn Trash into Cash; Pineapple Hospitality® and Midas Consulting Identify Eight Red Flags For Hotel Operators to Improve Environmental Practices and Reduce Waste Management Expense
• Create a Successful Hotel Restaurant / By Robert R. Cohn, ex-Food and Beverage Director
• Regulating Condo Hotels; Bad Condo Hotel Municipal Ordinances Will Discourage Good Projects / Catherine DeBono Holmes
• Employees of the Hotel Palomar in Washington DC Receive Unconventional Training from the Washington Ballet; Incorporating Ballet Moves into Opening Doors, Picking Up Luggage
• Hotel Association of New York City and Union Reach Tentative Agreement; Six-year contract Provides Wage Increases of 4% in Each of the First Three Years and 3.5% in Each of the Last Three Years
• New Mexico Ski Resorts Report Worst Season in 6 Years; 2005-6 Skier Visits Totaled 416,617 vs 954,181 in 2004-05
• Private Equity Group Permira and Starwood Hotels Among Possible Bidders for De Vere, Owner of 19 Hotels in Britain
• Innco Hospitality Inc. Completing $6 million Renovation of the Hotel Pere Marquette in Peoria
• The $73.1 million, 226-room City Owned Hilton Vancouver Concludes Year 1 of Operations; Hotel Has Helped the Washington State Community With Recognition and Creation of Spinoff Businesses in the Downtown Core
• Sonnenblick-Eichner Company Arranges $236 million in Construction Financing for Viceroy Anguilla Resort and Residences, Anguilla, B.W.I.
• E-site Marketing Announces RSS Application for Destination Hotels & Resorts
• StayOnline Responds to Meetings Market Uptick with On-Site Meetings HSIA Support; Conference Services Division Rate of Adoption Strong
• St. Regis Resort, Bora Bora Opens in French Polynesia; Milton Sgarbi, the Opening GM
• The Knowland Group Begins Service in San Francisco, CA; Market Intelligence Firm Continues Solidifying Its West Coast Presence
• Orco Property Group Reopens the Riva - Hvar Yacht Harbour Hotel Following Reconstruction
• James Douglas Named General Manager for Pan Pacific Whistler Mountainside and Pan Pacific Whistler Village Centre
• Lazer Lodging Appoints James Hovark as Vice President, Asset Management

• TravelCLICK Introduces iStay Booking Engine to Revolutionize How Hotel Guests Book Online; iStay gives shoppers control of the shopping experience and provides superior merchandising that drives incremental revenue
• TravelCLICK Introduces Powerful New Rate Recommendation Tool, RateADVISOR; Created in partnership with IDeaS, RateADVISOR is the industry�s first rate recommendation tool within a rate shopping solution
• Hotel Labor - Big Cost, Big Issue
• Starwood's Preopening Squad Performs the "White Glove" Test on the New 790 room Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel
• Nobody Asked Me, But� No. 10 / Chinese Tourists, Gasoline Prices and Alternatives, GLBT Segment, Travel Agents, FAC�s, Manhattan�s Record Breaking Year, Impertinent Questions
• Lodgenet Reports on Successes in High-Speed Internet Access; Company Receives Highest Satisfaction Ranking Among Major HSIA Providers
• Lodgenet Facilitating the Move to HDTV as Interest, Implementation Increase Among Leading Hotels; �Easy HD� Program Brings All Components Together To Manage The HDTV Transition, Help Maximize ROI And Deliver A Superior In-Room Experience
• Lodgenet Connecting Guests with New In-Room Solutions for Entertainment, Information and Productivity; Company Goes Live With Entertainment 2GoSM Content Download Service
• Seven Spring Mountain Resort, Pennsylvania's Largest Ski Resort, Sold by the Dupre Family to the Nutting Family in a Family-to-Family Transaction
• E-site Marketing Releases Latest Version of RSS Enabled Website Content Management Tool
• Clairvoyix Releases Database Marketing Software Upgrades at HITEC
• MSI Launches Web-Booking Engine at HITEC; To increase property revenues and attract a new online customer base for hotels
• MSI Features New Self-Service POS Solution and Pocket Concierge at HITEC�s Guestroom 2010
• Teledex Announces New DECT 1.9 GHz and 1.8 GHz Digital Cordless Phones; New phones offer global compatibility with frequency assignments, new features
• Softscribe Inc. Launches College Intern Program; Adam Travis, business major at Georgia State University, tapped as first intern
• Business JetClass Introduces Private Jet Specialist Program
• Grand Heritage Hotels Group Giving the Casa del Mar Beach, Golf & Spa Resort a $2 million-plus Renovation; General Manager of the Cabo San Lucas, Mexico Resort is Oscar Ornelas
• J&A Jaidah Signs Starwood to Manage the 292 room W Doha Hotel & Residences in Qatar
• The 393 room Renaissance St. Louis Airport Hotel Acquired by a Joint Venture Between RockBridge Capital, LLC and Davidson Hotel Company
• Hilton Petaling Jaya Appoints Markus Kaliss as Director of Business Development

• TravelCLICK Announces Next-Generation Hotel Internet Advertising Capabilities; Interactive technology drives qualified demand, maximizing campaign performance through advanced keyword optimization with enhanced direct revenue tracking
• Create a Sales Proposal in Less than 60 Seconds with Cendyn's eProposal Tool
• TRUST.WIZCOM and IDeaS implement one of the first interfaces using new industry standards; New interface allows seamless exchange of data between IDeaS� revenue management solution and Voyager Central Reservation System
• Beyond �Outrageous,� and �Legendary� Customer Service Training: Creating �Ordinary Excellence, Daily!� / Doug Kennedy
• Chefs Rick Tramonto and Gale Gand Joining Other Celebrity Chefs in the Trend that is Transforming Hotel Dining; Marriage Between Hotels and Celebrity-Chef Restaurateurs Can be Mutually Beneficial
• Pennsylvania Starts Adding 61,000 Slot Machines from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh and Casinos in Atlantic City Reinventing Itself As a Getaway for Vacationers and Conventioneers
• The San Francisco Bay Area Hotels Are Displaying the "No Vacancy" More Frequently, However, Not So for "Help Wanted"
• Dubai Boasts 22 Five-star Hotels
• Twenty-two Years after Detroit's Book-Cadillac Hotel Closed, The Ferchill Group's $176-million Rehab is Close to Happening - Plans Call for a 455 room Westin with a Condominium Component
• Twenty Thousand Librarians to Test New Orleans Rebuilt Infrastructure; First Citywide Convention Since Hurricane Katrina
• City of San Jose Not Sure What to Do with the Historic and Financially Struggling Dolce Hayes Mansion Hotel and Conference Center; Annual Subsidy Expeced to Reach $4.2 million
• MSI Celebrates 15 Years of Hospitality Service; Leading provider of property-management and integrated operations/marketing technologies reflects on growth and industry success; Company achieves more than 2,800 hotel installs and business partnerships with leading hotel companies
• StayOnline�s 2nd Annual Symposium Scores Broadband
• The Embassy Suites Hotel Anaheim South/Garden Grove Wins Large Business of the Year Award at the Garden Grove Chamber of Commerce Installation Event
• Guests Connect with TeleAdapt Solutions at HITEC in Booth 735
• Great Wolf Resorts Installs Datavision�s Business Intelligence System
• Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 37 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database

• The Ritz, London Selects EzRMS� for Continued Revenue Management Performance
• SynXis Offers Online Activity Scheduling with Nirvana Technology; SynXis and Nirvana booking engines connect to form real-time scheduling system
• Union Withdraws Complaint Against Hotel; NLRB Concludes Owners Do Not Have to Re-hire Workforce / Marta Fernandez
• Mississippi Gaming Commission Approves a $250 million Isle of Capri Casino and a $400 million Foxwoods Resort
• Interstate Hotels Acquires for $2 million, a 21% Equity in the 286-room Doral Tesoro Hotel & Golf Club near Dallas/Ft. Worth
• ARAMARK Harrison Lodging Survey Reveals Venue Selection Plays Critical Role in Overall Success of Meeting or Conference
• LaSalle Hotel Properties Acquires the 109 room Alexis Hotel in Seattle, Washington, for $38.0 million
• Ground-breaking Held for The Grand Waikikian, a 38-story Timeshare Development at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort and Spa
• GBCblue Teams With IKON and Canon U.S.A. To Deliver Self-Service Copy/Fax Stations To Hotels
• Experts: Chains Leave �Group� Money on the Table; Manugistics Webinar team decodes group pricing; �total property spend� is new measure
• Don Shula�s Hotel & Golf Club Jumps �Into the Revenue Zone�
• Best Value Inn Brand Membership Exceeds 650 properties in Seven Years of Operation
• Ginn Company installs Datavision�s Business Intelligence System at all their resorts and at Corporate
• Eydeas Technology Software Automates Leading Electronic Marketplace for Booking Vacation Rental Properties
• Marc-Henri Dumur Named GM of the Meritus Chiang Mai Riverside Spa Resort in Thailand
• Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints Diane E. Barr Director of Training

• SynXis to Unveil a Major Upgrade to the RedX  Distribution Management System at HITEC; Release continues a year of tremendous growth in customers and offerings
• Aptech�s Data Manager Automates Multi-Property Information Gathering; Replaces Manual Spreadsheets, Centralizes Financial Data for Faster Decisions
• Hotel Developer Suing Attorney for $100 million in Damages; Claims Attorney Represented a Lender that Had No Intentions of Fullfilling a Loan Commitment
• Revenue Management for Dummies� (Like Me); Smaller Hotels Should Reap the Benefits Too
• Curse of the Hotel Lobby-Dwellers / Larry Mundy
• Starwood Selected to Manage the Astir Palace Hotel Complex in Greece; The Three Hotels to be Branded a Westin, Luxury Collection and a W Hotel
• Irish Private Equity Fund, Inchydoney Partnership, Acquires the Spanish Resort Dolce Sitges for Approximately USD $77 million

• TechTeam Global Offers Comprehensive PMS/POS Technology Support and Training; Package of solutions includes training, technology rollout, and ongoing support/help-desk services
• SECURE-RES Presents SEO Super Reporter (SM) at HITEC 2006
• PrinterOn invites HITEC 2006 attendees to experience the convenience of �Guest Printing� and print to the PrinterOn sponsored Printing Station
• Hotel Concepts Awarded Microsoft® Gold Partner Status
• Looking for a CRM Solution at HITEC? Checklist Helps Find Best-Fit Solution

• Managed by Columbia Sussex Corporation, the Former Wyndham Boston Now Operating as Hilton Boston Financial District
• District Court Dismisses Securities Class Action Suit Against Great Wolf Resorts
• Jonathan Tisch Receives Tourism Achievement Award for Dedication to New York City
• Four Seasons Hotel Miami Elevates Poolside Service, F&B Sales with intelliChaise® Personal Ordering System by Tiare Technology
• Manugistics Announces Unconstrained Demand Forecasting to Optimize Revenue; Newest Revenue Management product more accurately predicts demand to aid price setting
• art�otel, Park Plaza's Quirky Art-focused Hotel Brand, Adding Fifth Hotel in Bucharest, Romania
• Amadeus Partners with HSMAI Foundation to Sponsor 'Defining Revenue Management' Special Report
• Destination Development Initiative Unfolds in the Caribbean
• Pegasus Scottsdale Data Center Becomes Hosting Facility for MSI�s Web-based Solutions
• Onity Revolutionizes Hotel Security Design and Technology with Introduction of ADVANCE  by Onity�
• John Q. Hammons Considering a Second Hotel In Colorado Springs, Colorado
• SynXis Answers the Hospitality Industry's Interface Needs with RedX� Property Connect sm and Channel Connect sm (Clarification to the original June 6, 2006 press release)

• SoftBrands Adds a Trio of Solutions to Growing PMS Business; At least one SoftBrands PMS sold every day across the globe from October 2005 to April 2006
• SynXis Announces New Enhanced Revenue Management Services; Furthers customer ability to drive distribution via the RedX System
• Hotel HDTV:  The Picture is Getting Clearer / David Bankers
• Who Are Your Online Customers?; Does Broadband Effect How They Find Your Web Site? / Neil Salerno & David Hart
• Generation X Hotel Sales Associates: All Important Curiosity Factor Missing? / David Brudney
• Hotel Management Fees on the Rise, Incentive Clauses Triggered In 2005
• Giuseppe Cipriani Redeveloping the Shuttered Saxony Hotel in Miami Beach; Will be Transformed into170-room Cipriani Resort and Residences South Beach
• Hyatt Regency Azulera Resort & Spa and a Greg Norman Designed Golf Course Part of $300 Million Resort Village in Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica
• The Lodge at Rancho Mirage to be Closed on August 13, 2006 for Re-Development
• Pre-Show Report: 2006 International Hotel/Motel and Restaurant Show - November 11-14, 2006
• The Levante Parliament, Vienna: A Progressive Hotel Concept Uniting Art and Hospitality
• The Harrah's Employee Recovery Fund Distributed $6.6 million in Relief Funds to Non-management Employee Impacted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
• A Group of Duluthians Building a 116 room $17 million Hotel on Duluth's Downtown Waterfront
• Warnick & Company Advises on the Acquisition of the Outrigger Keauhou Beach Resort
• InnLink Set to Showcase New features at HITEC 2006
• Pelican System Launches GDS/IDS Solution
• New Consumer Research To Be Presented at Aug. 24 - 25 Tourism e-Marketing Conference in Chicago
• PAR Springer-Miller Systems Debuts Self Service Kiosk At Club Quarters Hotel in New York City
• Hotel Information Systems and Active Golf Solutions Provide Integrated Management Solution for Resort Hotels
• Interstate Hotels & Resorts Promotes Ted Knighton to President, Hotel Operations
• Rosario Bianchi Named General Manager for the Fitzpatrick Grand Central Hotel, New York City
• Highland Hospitality Names Graham Wootten  Vice President and Corporate Controller and Sean Dell�Orto as Vice President and Treasurer 
• Benchmark Appoints Thomas Barretta Food & Beverage Director at Glen Cove Mansion Hotel and Conference Center
• Himanshu Vahal Appointed Chef of the Hilton Garden Inn in Greenbelt, Maryland
• Global Events Partners (GEP) Announces Management Promotion, Addition

• Luxury Skytop Lodge Increases Revenue with Focus on Groups, Packages; Package Strategy Helps Drive 48% Reservation Conversion Rate
• Meyer Jabara Hotels Selects Cendyn's eConnectivity� Services
• Feeding the Revenue Elephant � Hotel Revenue Management Summer 2006 / Carol Verret
• Successful Hotel Brand Differentiation Means Connecting With Customers / Rick Swig
• Unique Partnership Moving Forward with Downtown Los Angeles Convention Center Hotel; 54 story Tower to Include 876 room Marriott Marquis, 124-room Ritz Carlton and 216 Condominiums
• An American Love Affair with Pubs and Bars; National Trust Historic Hotels of America Showcases Many Legendary Bars

• Looking for a CRM Solution at HITEC? Checklist Helps Find Best-Fit Solution
• Hotel Concepts to Reveal Smart Client Enterprise Solution at HITEC 2006
• PrinterOn invites HITEC 2006 attendees to experience the convenience of �Guest Printing� and print to the PrinterOn sponsored Printing Station
• SECURE-RES Presents SEO Super Reporter (SM) at HITEC 2006
• TechTeam Global Does it Again, Continuing its Successful String of Successful Rollouts

• Former Melrose Hotel Company Executives Launch New Management Company; Access Hotel Advisors Will Offer a Broad Range of Hotel Management Services
• New Zealand Tourism's Official Quality Agency, Qualmark, Signs the Country's Largest Hotel Operator, Millennium Hotels and Resorts
• Focusing on �The Politics of Revenue Management,� the 3rd HSMAI Revenue Management Strategy Conference Attracts 47 Different Hotel Brands and Management Companies
• Westin to Manage the Former Wyndham Resort on Aruba;  Starwood Vacation Ownership Building 154 two-bedroom Villas Adjacent to the Hotel
• Davidson Hotel Company Seeks to Augment its Sliver Equity Focus with Third-Party Management
• Hotel Companies Experience Power of Mintek�s Automated Asset Management Systems; Lodging Asset Management Suite Extends Asset Life, Improves Operations, Increases Guest Satisfaction 
• The Knowland Group Begins Service in Sacramento, CA
• Donnie Lee Named General Manager The Gant Condominium Resort in Aspen, Colorado
• Dan Shaughnessy Appointed Director of Sales at JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa, Phoenix, Arizona

June 12, 2006

• Good Service is Not Enough: Global Travel Reshapes Guest Service in the 21st Century; Well-traveled guests transform concierge duties, expect more personalized services faster
• Owner Operator Lodging Industry Inc. Grows by Exceeding Brand Standards; 24-property hotel company builds loyalty by delivering value, guest security
• A Future Vision for Hotel Revenue Management / Caryl Helsel and Kathleen Cullen
• Some Long-term Trends that Might be Adverse to the Future of the Hotel Industry / Steve Rushmore / Canadian Lodging Outlook
• Even as Hurricane Scientists Predict a Cycle of More Storms, The Blackstone Group Has Acquired 17 Waterfront Hotels in Florida During the Last 18 Months
• Capital Properties Acquires the Historic Chatham Bars Inn on Cape Cod for $166 million; First Hospitality Venture for Capital Properties
• Bermuda Hotel Association Creates �Hurricane Guarantee� Program, 16 of the Island�s Resorts Participating
• The Former America's Best Inn & Suites in Memphis Being Converted to an Artisan Hotel, Fashioned After the Artisan Hotel in Las Vegas
• NCL/National Content Liquidators, Inc. Awarded Liquidation Contracts for Two Hotel Properties for the Month of June
• ProfitSage Business Intelligence Software Fuels Productivity and Profitability at New Castle Hotels & Resorts
• Benchmark Hospitality Completes Renovation of Classic Golf Course at Chicago-area Eaglewood Resort & Spa; Circa 1928 Charles Maddox-design Course
• Trump Entertainment Resorts and Diamondhead Casino Corporation Sign Letter of Intent for Mississippi Casino Development; Diamondhead Owns 404 Acres on the Bay of St. Louis
• Steigenberger Strandhotel Zingst Opens in the Baltic Sea Spa of Zingst
• Kalahari Resorts Selects Signature Worldwide for Reservation Training
• Benchmark Appoints Jerry Gleason Managing Director for West Baden Springs Hotel
• Marshall Management Names Benjamin N. Seidel Joins as Executive Vice-president and Patrick Welton as Corporate Director of Revenue
• Benchmark Appoints Donna Miklich Director of Human Resources for Glen Cove Mansion Hotel and Conference Center
• Rocco Forte Hotels Appoints Robert Singer as Director of Sales for Hotel de Rome in Berlin

June 9, 2006

• Four Obstacles Preventing Hotels from Implementing Service at the Level of Creating Truly Memorable Experiences / Peter McAlpine
• Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG) Unveiling New Initiatives at HITEC® 2006
• Seven Franchisees Awarded Marriott�s Highest Honor, the Partnership Circle Award
• Focus Development Joins Project to Build 185-room Hotel on Baltimore's Fells Point Pier
• Microtel Inns & Suites Adds 31 Executed Contracts During the First Quarter of 2006;  The Majority of New Microtel Hotel Owners Have Never Owned a Hotel Before
• InterContinental Hotels Group Appointed to Manage the 560-room Holiday Inn Resort Regent Beach Cha-Am, Formerly the Regent Cha-Am Beach Resort & Spa
• Pride Hospitality, LLC Renovating the 160 room Holiday Inn � Houston Willowbrook
• Windsor Management Services Names Brad Poncher and Amanda Frank as General Manager and Director of Sales for the Homewood Suites in La Quinta, California
• Starwood Appoints Victor Barothy-Langer General Manager of the THE US GRANT - A Luxury Collection Hotel in San Diego
• Mari Palace Named General Manager of the Courtyard by Marriott in Warwick, Rhode Island
• InnLink CRS and REMco Software Forge Alliance
• EasyRMS Enters Cyprus Market With the Help of the Internationally Acclaimed Leptos Calypso Group
• Victor M. Rodriguez Named Director of Rooms, North Maple Inn in Basking Ridge, New Jersey
• Several CSM Lodging Employees Named for Excellence by Marriott International
• Benchmark Appoints Diana Wellman Director of Conference Services for Cheyenne Mountain Resort
• In case you missed it - Nobody Asked Me, But� No. 9 / Blang, Bathtubs, Best Green, Arbitration, Best Western, AAHOA, State Franchising Laws, VFR / Stanley Turkel

• More Hotel Web Site Hints, Tips, and Tricks � Unwrapped / Neil Salerno
• �A Bakers Dozen� of Strategies for Hotel Sales & Marketing Professionals / John Hogan
• The Politics of Revenue Management / Doug Kennedy
• W Dallas Had 3,000 Applications for 200 Positions; Wit, Whimsy Are Keywords for W Staffers in Training
• Two Companies with No Experience in the Gaming Industry Planning a 2,300 room Hotel/Casino on Las Vegas Strip Themed on Mens Life Style Magazine - Maxim
• Fairmont And Apollo Partner On Scotland's 209-room St Andrews Bay Golf Resort & Spa 
• Owned by GH Capital LLC and Managed by Joie de Vivre Hospitality the 209 room Hotel Angeleno Opens in Los Angeles
• Holiday Inn Hotels Begins Multi-million-dollar Marketing Campaign that Asks Guests to "Look Again" at the Brand; Campaign Targets Generation X and Baby Boomers
• Mövenpick Opens First Non-smoking Hotel, the 288 room Mövenpick Hotel Frankfurt City; Bernhard Haller Opening GM
• The Culinary Institute of Virginia Opens at the Former Johnson & Wales Campus in Norfolk, Virginia
• Clairvoyix Maps Out �Best-Guest� Marketing Strategies for Grand Heritage Hotels & Resorts
• Leonardo to Provide Cultuzz with Rich Media Content for eBay Travel 
• True North Hotel Group Receives Marriott International�s Partnership Circle Award
• Key West Inns, Inc. Adds Brian Robinson as Franchisee Success Coach
• Ghee Alexander Named General Manager of Melbourne Crowne Plaza in Florida
• Noble Investment Group Names James E. Conley, Jr. as CFO and Paul Burke as EVP of Operations
• 111 Benchmark Hospitality Executives Converge on Norfolk, Virginia Landmark To Expedite Major Wetlands Restoration Project
• Dolce International Names Gerald Lampaert as Vice President of Global Information Technology
• Mohammad Zolfagharian, Room Service Server at the Calgary Marriott Hotel, Receives the J. Willard Marriott Award of Excellence

• The West Paces Hotel Group Selects TravelCLICK�s Integrated Distribution Solution Featuring iHotelier Central Reservation System
• Donald Trump Will Have Two Hotels on Fort Lauderdale Beach; Is there Enough Brand Drawing Power to Keep Two Hotels on the Same Beach Profitable?
• Marketing to the Next Generation of Buyers; A Test for Your Hotel Reservations System / Debra Kristopson
• Conference Centers Thrive In 2005; Viewed as Stable, Relatively High Revenue-per-Guest Yielding Assets with Potential Upside Given Professional Management
• Thayer Lodging Group Planning a 575 room Expansion at the Wyndham Miami Airport Hotel and Executive Meeting Center
• The Sterling Companies Planning a 33-acre Full-service 1,700 unit Condominium Resort in Panama City Beach, Florida
• Survey Reveals Vacationers Will Travel Farther and Stay Longer this Summer; Look to the Internet as Primary Resource for Researching and Booking Travel Plans
• HVS International Honors the Board of Directors of Four Seasons Hotels Corp. and Hilton's Steve Bollenbach with Lodging Leadership Awards
• The Spanish Hotel Industry has Finally Seen the Light at the End of the Tunnel
• Orbitz Data Base Now Has Over 90,000 "Authentic" Hotel Customer Reviews
• Shanxi Jinhao International Hotel Company Limited Signs Hilton Hotels Corporation to Manage 450 Hilton in Taiyuan, Capital of Shanxi Province in China
• Visual One Selected for Warren House, a Management Conference Venue Near London
• �B2B Reservation System�� New Perspective in Organizing Reservation from Travel Agents
• Brandon McCarter Named Regional Director of Operations for Florida for Noble House Hotels & Resorts
• Benchmark Appoints Rikki Boparai General Manager for the Historic Bedford Springs Resort
• Bill Oates Named to Passkey Board of Directors
• Christine Nevers Named General Manager of the Boutique Hotel Providence, Providence, Rhode Island
• Waterford Hotel Group Names Suzanne Longo General Manager of the Courtyard by Marriott in Norwich, Connecticut
• Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints Mike Wilkins Director of Sales & Marketing for Turtle Bay Resort

• SynXis Answers the Hospitality Industry's Interface Needs with RedX� Property Connect sm and Channel Connect sm
• The Knowland Group Presents Services to Southern California Embassy Suites Co-op; Market Intelligence Firm will Provide Group Sales Leads to Properties in San Diego, Los Angeles and Palm Springs
• Global Update: Who�s Where and Doing What / June 2006
• What Do You Do With an Old Hotel? / Larry Mundy
• Asian Spa Market Experiences Brand Expansion / Bernard Burt
• Following $10 Million Renovation, the 532 room Holiday Inn Martinque on Broadway in New York City to be Reflagged Radisson Hotel Martinique
• The Hospitality Industry Facing Four Transformative Issues Over the Next Five Years, Including Brand, Emerging Markets, Human Assets and Technology
• The Previously Announced $3 billion Las Ramblas Project in Las Vegas Pulls the Plug; Construction Costs Came In More than Twice the Estimates
• The $8.5 million Remodeling Project for the 1,000 room Kansas City Marriott Downtown Should Help Attract More Conventions
• The Wyndham Lake Buena Vista Hotel and Spa at Bonnet Creek Resort To Be Centerpiece of a Nine-tower Vacation Ownership Resort Being Developed and Managed by Fairfield Resorts®, a Wyndham Vacation Ownership Company
• HITEC�s GUESTROOM 2010 Featuring intelliChaise® Personal Ordering System by Tiare Technology
• Visual OneDB to be Launched at Hitec 2006; Real Time Graphical Statistics at a Glance!
• CMX Introduces New Online Prospecting Management Application; Readerboard Data Information Service Provides Group Sales and Catering Managers With New Competitive Intelligence Tool
• Intergroup�s Tandy O. Lofland Arranges Equity and Management for Florida To-be-built Sheraton Prototype
• Puerto Rico Tourism Creates the Brand  'Porta Caribe' to Develop Tourism in Southern Puerto Rico
• Carlson Hotels Adds 12 Properties to Portfolio of Brands in April, 2006
•  Harold Rowland Named Senior Director of Hotel Operations at L�Auberge du Lac Hotel & Casino, Lake Charles, Louisiana

• American Indian Gaming Fuels Opportunities for Hospitality Industry/ Valerie Red-Horse
• Houston Looks Again at Suing Online Travel Companies for Uncollected Hotel Occupancy Tax
• Hotel Sales �Steps� and �Processes� Are Out; Today�s Inquiry Caller�s Want a Personalized Sales Experience / Doug Kennedy
• The Doubletree Hotel Tucson Used a Seven-step Process to Convert 10 Guest Rooms into Allergen-Resistant Environments at a Cost $2,100 per Room
• Several New Hotels Planned for Yuma, Arizona, Including a 172 room La Jolla Suites & Spa
• A Good First Year for Harford's Connecticut Convention Center, However Unsettled Questions Threaten Continued Progress
• Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 62 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database
• Leonardo Announces it Has Been Selected by Starwood Hotels & Resorts to Distribute its Online Rich Media Content
• Accurate Forecasts Achieved Using Carnus Systems Automated Software at 966-Room Hyatt Hotel
• Hotel Financing Professionals - Pacifica Real Estate Brokerage - Arrange Refinance of Las Vegas Hotel
• Morning Star Hospitality Services, Inc., Selected to Manage the El Tropicano Hotel, on the Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas
• The Westin Chain Goes Smoke Free in Australia & Fiji
• A Record 33.04 million Domestic and Overseas Travelers Visited Chicago in 2005 � Up 3.5% over 2004
• Intrawest Corporation Joins K2 Developments in the Operation of Solara Canmore Resort and Spa in Alberta 
• Nemacolin Woodlands Resort Preps Employees for Peak Season; Signature employee training program to impact the customer experience at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort
• Richard C. Kessler Honored by the Developer�s & Business Alliance as Florida�s Developer of the Year
• Daniel Carusone Named General Manager of the Westin Columbus, Ohio
• Holly Shumate Named General Manager Glorietta Bay Inn,  Coronado, California
• Mark Theis Named Executive Vice President, Sales, Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau
• Benchmark Appoints Heather Cunha Director of Human Resources for Chaminade Resort
• Trevor Roots and Mark Tapling Join the Executive Team at InfoGenesis / June 2006

• The Kahala Hotel and Resort Seeks the Power of an Integrated Distribution Solution from TravelCLICK; Legendary hideaway island resort selects iHotelier to drive greater web conversion
• The Trump Organization and Irongate Capital Partners Developing The Trump International Hotel and Tower - Waikiki Beach Walk; The Project, with 460 Hotel Rooms and Condominium Residences, Will Be Part of Outrigger Enterprises' Waikiki Beach Walk
• Some Speculation About a Planned W Hotel Planned Near Denver's Historic Union Station
• The Development of Cotai Strip Helps Complete a Personal Vision for 72-year-old Sheldon Adelson - Creating a Second Las Vegas; Up to 3 billion People Live a Short Distance from Macau
• �Social Computing� and Enhanced Rich Content to Shape Future of Hotel Electronic Distribution
• Vail Resorts Subsidiary, Grand Teton Lodge Company, Selected to Continue as the Concessionaire in Grand Teton National Park
• Gallery One Fort Lauderdale - A Doubletree Guest Suites Hotel In Final Phase of a Two-year, $20 Million Conversion to a Condo/hotel Business Model
• Top 5 Group Events - North America - May 2006
• Lazer Lodging Debuts As Aggressive, Proactive Hotel Asset Manager
• The Softwear Group Introduces Chain-Link�, a Multi-Branded Hotel Company Solution
• Atlas Hospitality Group Structures Sale of Palm Springs Riviera Resort & Racquet Club
• Embassy Suites Hotel Tampa-Downtown Building a Sky Bridge Connection to the Tampa Convention Center
• Best Western Sebastian Hotel & Suites in Sebastian, Florida Scores 1,000 Points Out of a Possible 1,000 for Cleanliness and Maintenance
• The Former Wyndham Dallas Market Center Converted to Doubletree Brand Following $2 Million Renovation
• The Landmark Claremont Inn in Claremont, California Completes $10 million Renovation and Transformation to a Doubletree Hotel
• Donald Martelli Named Corporate Director of Restaurant Operations for Shilo Inn Suites Hotels
• Dany Barakat Appointed Director of Human Resources for Bavaria Executive Suites Dubai

Top 25 Read Articles - May 2006

1. Are We Teaching Our Guests that the Front Desk Cannot be Bothered? Getting Back to the Basics of Hospitality: Treating Our Guests as Friends /  Kent Sexton
2. Seven Ways to Be a Better GM � Today! / Bruce Wienberg
3. Starwood Details Clear Strategies for its 8 Brands; New Signature Service Elements Created in Each Brand
4. Global Update: Who�s Where and Doing What / May 2006
5. Soon Every Town in America Will Have an Unused Convention Center / Larry Mundy
6. Top 50 Destinations for Memorial Day 2006
7. A Bakers Dozen� of Strategies for Hotel General Managers / John Hogan
8. Where Not To Build a Hotel / Larry Mundy
9. Using Fraudulent Hotel Appraisals to Scam $67 million from JP Morgan Chase Gets 3 and 5 Year Prison Terms for Two Former Hoteliers
10. Nine Tips to Create a Dominant Hotel Web Site / Neil Salerno
11. The Future of Hotel Reservations / Larry Mundy
12. Hotel Liquidators Have Little Room for Error
13. The "Tipping Point"; Identifying the Touch Points in Hotel Sales / Carol Verret
14. Affiliate of Westmont Hospitality Group Acquiring Boykin Lodging Company for Approximately $416 million
15. Unfinished $71 million Embassy Suites in La Quinta, California Has Been Foreclosed On, Franchise Yanked
16. Your Hotel Web Site: If It Ain�t Broke�Break It! Create change. Develop a �break-it� routine. / Neil Salerno
17. Whitehall Acquires 130 Hotels from the Tharaldson Family for $1.2 Billion;  Tharaldson Property Management Inc. Will to Continue as Manager of Properties
18. Turning a Transaction into a Relationship � Creating the Memorable Experience / John R. Hendrie and Brecca Loh
19. What is Customer Service Like at the Level of Creating Memorable Experiences; How Do You Create It? What Does it Look Like? / Peter McAlpine
20. Some Believe Dallas' Fragile Hotel Market Does Not Have Enough Demand to Support Addition of 1,400 Luxury Rooms
21. Independent Hotel Web Sites - Marketing Winners�and Losers / Neil Salerno
22. Morgans Hotel Group Co. to Acquire Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas and Related Assets for $770 Million
23. What You Must Do to Create a Hotel Experience Based on Service at the Level of Creating Truly Memorable Experiences? /  Peter McAlpine
24. The 2006 LIIC � The Lodging Industry Investment Council - Top Ten:  An Annual Survey of Lodging Investment Trends and Challenges
25. Starwood's aloft Select Service Brand Will Franchise Two New Build Hotels in Toronto and at Montreal's International Airport

• A 1,000-room Hilton and a 500-room Waldorf=Astoria Planned for Bonnet Creek Adjacent to Walt Disney World Resort; The First Ground-up Waldorf=Astoria Hotel to be Built Since the Original in New York
• Noble House Hotels and HBF Holdings Acquire the 475 room Palm Springs Riviera Resort & Racquet Club; Hotel Closes for Ambitious 18 month $50 million Renovation
• San Antonio's River Walk On Track to Get an Embassy Suites Hotel, Years After an Exclusivity Deal Barred the Brand from Entering the Downtown San Antonio Market
• Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Starwood Form Third Party Development Arm for Restaurant Concepts in Starwood Branded Hotels
• Jewish Resorts Thrived for Decades Around the U.S.; The Ethnic Specific Vacation Became a Casualty of Air-conditioning, Air Travel and Assimilation
• Molinaro Koger Structures Shamrock-Hostmark Acquisition of Radisson Hotel Princeton, New Jersey
• Cambria Suites, Choice Hotels New All-suites Brand, Has 23 Executed Contracts, With Boise, Idaho, and Green Bay, Wisconsin Under Construction
• Right Man, Right Time:  Denis Ivosevic - the Head of Tourism for Istria, Croatia
• The Softwear Group, LLC Announces its New Multi-Property Management Solution is a New Breed Among Multi-Property Systems
• After Three Years of Planning, Arrowood Development Begins Building Cascade Highlands, a Destination Resort and Golf Course Near Bend, Oregon
• Kwek Leng Beng, Among Singapore's Three Richest Persons, Spearheaded the 543 room Millennium Hilton Hotel Development in Bangkok
• Benchmark Announces the Appointment of Robert Boyle as Managing Director for Turtle Bay Resort
• Napa Valley�s Silverado Resort's  Growing List of Sustainable Cuisine Offerings Includes Beef, Produce, Seafood and Wine

• Hampshire Hospitality & Leisure Selects TravelCLICK for Web Booking Engine and GDS Connectivity
• Big Boost in Time-share Ownership Has Orlando Hoteliers and Orange County Hotel Occupancy Tax Collectors Worried
• Cell Phone Chargers are the No. 1 Item Left Behind by Hotel Guests
• Even in Myrtle Beach the Hotel Water Park, Once a Resort Amenity, Is Now a Necessity to Stay Competitive
• Correction & Praise - Foundation for Excellent Front Desk and Sales Training / Neil Salerno
• Hotel Smokers: A Dying Breed / Larry Mundy
• PKF Study Suggests Hotel Investment Market Still Positive Despite Peak-of-Cycle Behavior
• PURE Solutions Signs On As A Corporate Sponsor Of FreshStay�; FreshStay��s rapidly growing online directory of non smoking hospitality properties is the perfect match for the PURETM Rooms program, which converts guestrooms to allergy-friendly rooms within 24 hours
• A Top Golfing Destination in Phuket, The Blue Canyon Country Club, Exits Bankruptcy Court
• The Grand America Hotels and Resorts Use Hospitality Call Center Training to Increase Reservations, Convert Calls; Lessons from Signature Worldwide Training Program Translate to Additional Customers
• The Augusta (Georgia) Inn & Conference Center Likely to Be Demolished, to be Replaced with a Hilton Garden Inn and a 150 room Sheraton
• Manitoba Based Canad Inns Makes Pitch for 260 room Hotel with Water Park Adjacent to the Bismarck Civic Center
• The Palms Hotel By Lexington in Kissimmee, Florida Adds the 160 Room Former Hampton Inn Following $2.5 million Renovation
• Sivica Hospitality Receives Partnership Circle Award for Exemplifying Marriott�s Vision of Hospitality Excellence 
• Sofitel Opens Two Hotels in Two Different Areas of Nanjing�s Expanding Downtown and Suburbs, A Gary Player Designed Golf Course Surrounds the Surbanban Sofitel Zhongshan Golf & Resort
• Fattal Hotel Management Franchises Five Israeli Hotels with Golden Tulip Hospitality

• Las Vegas Sands Corp. Selected by the Singapore Government to Build and Operate a $3 billion Resort/Casino at the the Marina Bay Waterfront Site
• AH&LA Applauds Senate Passage of Comprehensive Immigration Bill; Lodging CEOs Say the Bill is Critical to the Economic Future of the Industry
• John Burns and Jon Inge  Inducted into the HFTP International Hospitality Technology Hall of Fame
• Approximately 36 Companies Selected to Provide Technologies for HITEC's Guestroom 2010;  Some Technologies Not Included Because they Lacked a Working Model
• Portland, Oregon Proposed Convention Center Hotel Faces Large Funding Gap, City Council Opposition
• Interstate Hotels & Resorts to Manage 1,100-unit Pinnacle Condominium Resort in Las Vegas
• Pacifica Hotel Company Acquires Two Marina Del Rey, California Hotels, the Marina del Rey Hotel and the Marina International Hotel & Bungalows
• Ramada Inn Governor House in Olympia, Washington Severs Ramada Affiliation; The 119 room Hotel Will Operate Independently as the Governor House
• What You Must Do to Create a Hotel Experience Based on Service at the Level of Creating Truly Memorable Experiences? / Peter McAlpine
• The Peabody Hotel Group Acquires the Management Contract and Will Assist in the Repositioning of the 193 room Holiday Inn in Newton, Massachusetts
• Vagabond Franchise System, Inc Gains New Franchise in Rancho Cordova, California;  The former 116-room Fairfield Inn by Marriott Re-branded Vagabond Inn Executive Sacramento (Rancho Cordova)
• Benchmark Appoints Dan Santiago General Manager at North Maple Inn, Basking Ridge, New Jersey
• Deborah Stinebert Named to Head the the Washington, D.C. National Sales Office for Peabody Hotels

• The House of Blues Hotel Turns to TravelCLICK iHotelier CRS for Fast Implementation and Impressive Results; Boutique Chicago Hotel Drives New Business through GDS and Award-Winning Online Booking Engine
• At Pinnacle Hotel Management, GM Entrepreneurs and Centralized Accounting Support Growth; When the corporate office handles  accounting, properties focus on profitability
• Opposition from Neighbors Forces Sonnabend Family and Fortune International Realty to Withdraw Plans for Redevelopment of the Sonesta Beach Resort on Key Biscayne
• Get Them At Hello: Establishing Personal Relationships With Our Hotel Guests / Mark Hamister
• Unionization Fight Hurting Business At the Connecticut Convention Center and 409-room Marriott Hartford Downtown; Disagreement Over How Workers Should Be Allowed to Organize
• Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association Finalizes Branding and Marketing Initiative; "Get in on it"
• Montelucia, the $200 million Reincarnation of the Former La Posada, No Longer Affiliated with Horst Schulze's West Paces Hotel Group
• The Hilton Philadelphia Cherry Hill Receiving $5 million Renovation and Brand Conversion to Crowne Plaza; the 408 room Hotel Opened as the Hyatt Regency in 1975 and Later Converted to a Hilton
• Istria's Housekeeper; The Property Rental Market in Istria, Croatia Has Grown Markedly, Now often Referred to as the New Tuscany / Barry Napier
• Orient-Express Hotels Acquiring the Napasai, a Luxury Hotel and Villa Development on Koh Samui island in the Gulf of Siam
• Holiday Inn Hotel and Conference Center Long Beach Airport Listed for Sale
• Hilton Hotels' Shareholders Overwhelmingly Approve Binding By-Law Amendment to Redeem Poison Pill
• Columbia Sussex Corp. Completes the Caesars Tahoe Makeover to MontBleu Resort Casino & Spa
• Jean-Pierre Boespflug, Tamarack Resort CEO,  Says the Idaho Mountain Resort Sold $89 million Worth of Real Estate in First Year
• Gary Mano Appointed General Manager of the Fairfield Hawaii at Waikiki Beach Walk
• Chris Tsoi Appointed Hotel Manager at the St. Regis Hotel, Shanghai
• Carol Mellon and Marie Pennington-Buonanno Join Hersha Hospitality Management as Regional Directors of Sales

• New Maestro �GEM� Guest Experience Management Drives Repeat Business, Captures Comments Online; Automated Response Analysis Boosts Guest Loyalty
• Seven Ways to Be a Better GM � Today! / Bruce Wienberg
• Starwood Details Clear Strategies for its 8 Brands; New Signature Service Elements Created in Each Brand
• The $75 million Umstead Hotel and Spa Being Built in Cary, North Carolina, Sets Sight on Five Star Ranking
• Hotel Industry Leaders Urge Senate to Pass Historic Immigration Bill; Hoteliers Seek Adequate Guest Worker Program with a Fast and Reliable Employment Verification System
• Auberge Resorts New Hotel Concept Being Built in Calistoga, California - the 89-room Cottage-style Solage
• The New Food & Beverage � Food �Just Like Home� / Larry Mundy
• Mitchell C. Hochberg Named President and Chief Operating Officer, Ian Schrager Company
• Naman Hospitality and Sree Hospitality Group LLC Each Plan to Build Limited Service Hotels in Downtown, Columbia, South Carolina
• Seattle Marriott Hotel Sea-Tac Airport Completes Transformation of 459 Guestrooms as $15 Million Renovation Continues; Washington State's Fifth-Largest Hotel Continues Multi-Year Renovation
• Signature Worldwide and the WTC Dulles Airport Announce Cooperative International Sales and Customer Service Training Program
• Buffalo Lodging Associates Opens Fifth Homewood Suites by Hilton;  Holyoke, Massachusetts Property Managed by Sarah Jewell
• Brian Dees, Director of Golf at Barton Creek Resort & Spa in Austin, Texas Named One of Golf Inc.�s Most Admired Operators
• Tomas Hansson Appointed General Manager of Sheraton Shenzhen Hotel, Futian
• Eight Canadian Radisson Hotels Receive the President�s Award
• Stacy Dreyfus Appointed Global Sales Director for Boutique Hotels & Resorts International
• Kaaren Hamilton Named Sales Manager at the Hyatt Regency Jersey City on the Hudson

• SynXis Makes Executive Appointments with Two Industry Veterans in North and South America; Kim Tisdale and Laura Brouk join SynXis to address customer needs and rapid growth
• Hoteliers and Corporate Planners Give High Marks to Inaugural Elite Meetings Alliance; Next Alliance scheduled for September 10-12, 2006, at The Club at Hammock Beach in Florida
• Hotel Website Mythbusters:  Search Engine Marketing is the Bait; Content Makes the Sale / Shane Ettestad
• Nobody Asked Me, But� No. 9 / Blang, Bathtubs, Best Green, Arbitration, Best Western,  AAHOA, State Franchising Laws, VFR / Stanley Turkel
• U.S. Hotels: Revenues and Profits Rise, But So Do Expenses / 2006 Trends in the Hotel Industry
• Unfinished $71 million Embassy Suites in La Quinta, California Has Been Foreclosed On, Franchise Yanked
• Hotels Increasingly Putting Out the Welcome Mat for 63% of American Households with Pets; Generating New Revenue through Fees and Services
• First Quarter Worldwide Hotel Revenue Up 12.9% from Electronic Channels According to TravelCLICK
• Pineapple Lights Up Hotels� Bottom Lines; Hospitality Properties Reap Significant, Sustained Economic Benefits By Embracing Environmentally-Friendly, Energy-Efficient Bulbs; Lighting Retrofits Reduce Costs & Bolster Guest Satisfaction
• Choice Hotels Has Chosen EthoStream to Implement the Wireless Hotspot Initiative for the 800+ Property Econo Lodge Hotel Chain
• Opportunity Is Knocking - Will Hoteliers Answer the Door? / Joseph Gravish
• New Hotels and Resorts Popping Up in Curaçao While Existing Properties Are Taking Strides to Keep Up
• Genesis, a Costa Rican Developer, to Build an Ultra-Luxe St. Regis Resort and Residences in the Playa Coyol Area of Costa Rica
• The Kessler Collection Enters into a Management Agreement with the Historic Sundy House in Delray Beach, Florida
• Benchmark Appoints Nicole Ferrer Director of Sales & Marketing  for Danfords on the Sound
• Carlos Cerda Named General Manager of the 144-room Hampton Inn in Marlborough, Massachusetts
• Metro-Home Corporate Apartment Owner Linda Coughlin Wins National Award for Leadership in Advancing Women-owned Businesses

• Nine Tips to Create a Dominant Hotel Web Site
• Affiliate of Westmont Hospitality Group Acquiring Boykin Lodging Company for Approximately $416 million
• Demolition of the 12-story Grand Casino Island Hotel in Biloxi Clears Way for Harrah's $1 billion Casino and Resort Project
• Using Fraudulent Hotel Appraisals to Scam $67 million from JP Morgan Chase Gets 3 and 5 Year Prison
• Federal Realty Investment Trust, Developers of Hotel Valencia, Planning a 27 story Hotel and Condominium Complex in Downtown San Antonio; Some Speculate the Project Will Carry the Fairmont Brand
• Host Hotels & Resorts to Acquire The 732 room Westin Kierland Resort & Spa for $393 Million
• Rustic Cuisine of Istria, Croatia; Family Owned Restaurant-Hotel Provides Immense Pleasure / Barry Napier
• The Holiday Inn Brand�s 11th Indoor Waterpark, the  60,000 sq.-ft.Fort Rapids, Opens at the Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites Columbus (Ohio) East
• Winds Blow in Washington DC; Tax Code Changes Affecting The Lodging Industry / Kevin F. Reilly
• What is Customer Service Like at the Level of Creating Memorable Experiences;  How Do You Create It? What Does it Look Like? / Peter McAlpine
• Top 50 Destinations for Memorial Day 2006
• CIM Group Signs Joie de Vivre to Manage The Strand Hotel in Huntington Beach, California
• The Ritz-Carlton, St. Thomas Undergoing $40 million Renovation
• Greg Champion Named President of Noble House Hotels & Resorts
• John Neutze Appointed Director of Business Development for Hilton�s National Sales Office � Thailand
• Hyatt Hotels Corporation Names Elsa Pagan Individual Travel Sales Manager of the Year
• Sterling Resorts Signs Management Contract for Sea Breeze Condominiums-Resort in Biloxi, Mississippi

May 19, 2006

• Does Your Hotel Have an Ethics Policy? Now more than ever, �Good ethics is good business� / Kirby D. Payne, CHA and Bill Gillette
• Guest Privacy � It�s Not Just a Door Tag Anymore / Larry Mundy
• Hilton Hotels Corporation Recognizes 2005 Development Champions for Hilton, Doubletree and Embassy Suites Hotels Brands
• Canyon Ranch and LR Development Company Building 128 Hotel Condominiums and 256 Residential Condominiums in a 67-story Tower in Downtown Chicago
• Managed by Heartland Hotel Company, the 227 room Hilton St. Petersburg at Carillon Park Set to Open
• St. Regis Hotels & Resorts Breaks Ground on Luxury Property in Punta Mita; St. Regis Resort, Punta Mita Will Have 120 guest rooms and 65 villas for Fractional and Whole Ownership
• Monarch Hotels and Resorts Selected to Manage The Blue Rose, Orlando�s New 1,300 Unit Condo Hotel
• Roedel Companies Set to Open First Hotel in Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire in 20 Years - the 125 room Hilton Garden Inn
• A $100 million-plus Hotel and Condominium Project for Downtown Escondido, California Waiting for City Approval; Some Say Hotel "Yes", Condos "No"
• Small Luxury Hotels of the World Adds 15 Properties; SLH Portfolio Reaches 374 Hotels in 60 Countries
• Jack Nicklaus Begins Work on a Signature Golf Course in Istria, Croatia
• The Caribbean Hotel Association and The Caribbean Tourism Organization Launch New Branding Campaign with Single Identifiable Logo
• Donna Leong and Ruthann Yamanaka Appointed to Senior Vice President Positions with Outrigger Enterprises Inc.
• Benchmark Appoints Keith Battaglia Director of Sales & Marketing For Glen Cove Mansion Hotel and Conference Center
• Leslie Power Named GM and Rene Hampton DOS at the 95 room Hotel Indigo Sarasota
• Yin Yin Wong Named Director of Marketing, Millennium & Copthorne Hotels International

May 17, 2006

• Starwood's aloft Select Service Brand Will Franchise Two New  Build Hotels in Toronto and at Montreal's International Airport
• Dancing Bear Lodge � New Lodge in the Smoky Mountains Debuts
• British Hoteliers Voice Concerns Over the New Hotel Rating System; Diamonds Aren�t Forever! / Barry Napier
• The New UK Hotel Grading System Explained / Barry Napier
• Loews Makes Comeback in Washington DC Hotel Market, Signs Management Contract for the Madison Hotel
• The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C. and Developer Louis R. Cappelli Planning a 123-room Hotel with 400 Condominiums in Downtown White Plains, New York
• Germany the Conventions and Meetings Market Leader in Europe; Many New Hotels and Convention Centres in Germany
• Aztec Group Arranges the Sale of the Hampton Inn & Suites Ft. Lauderdale - Airport in Hollywood, Florida
• Neptune Hospitality Advisors Arranges Sale of Downtown San Diego Hotel
• Leonardo and ICE Expand Products to Satisfy Growing Demand for Online Rich Media Content
• M3 Hotel Accounting Now Offers Flex Budgeting; Management Listened Carefully
• Golden Tulip Takes Over the Management of Golden Tulip Accra - Ghana's Capital and Largest City
• John Meeske Named Chief Executive Officer for Myriad Entertainment and Resorts, Inc., Developers for a Planned $1.9 billion Casino Resort in Tunica, Mississippi
• La Quinta Hotels Promotes Jim Mitchell to Executive Vice President Information Technology
• TIG Global Receives Two Webby Awards for Website Design; LXR and the Boulders Resort Recognized as Top International Websites

• The 2006 LIIC � The Lodging Industry Investment Council - Top Ten: An Annual Survey of Lodging Investment Trends and Challenges
• Hospitality Safe Corporation Installs 8,500 Challenger Series Safes in Casino and Hotel Guest Rooms in 1Q�06; Flamingo Las Vegas, Tropicana Tap Market Leader for  Reliability, Uptime, Security for Guest Valuables
• Hotel Feasibility/Market Demand/Valuations and Appraisals / By: Betsy MacDonald and Steve Rushmore / Reprint From 1997 and CANADIAN LODGING OUTLOOK / March 2006 Year-to-Date
• The Future of Hotel Reservations / Larry Mundy
• Morgans Hotel Group Plans to Team with a Licensed Gaming Company to Operate Hard Rock's Casino; Expects to Bring the Margins at the Hard Rock up to Morgans Standards
• If You Disagree With Your AAA Rating / Harry Nobles
• The Middle East (Qatar, Oman, Abu Dhabi) Recorded a World-beating 21% Growth in RevPAR in 2005
• The International Association of Conference Centers Brings Clarity to it's Mission to Champion the Conference Center Concept
• The Hilton Ras Al Khaimah Resort & Spa Set to Open December, 2006; Ras Al Khaimah is the Northern Most Emirate of the UAE
• The Hilton Family of Hotels Caters Uniquely to the Travel Agent through a Committed Web Site
• The Knowland Group Begins Service in Seattle, WA; Demand for Market Intelligence Firm�s Unique Service Continues as Hoteliers in Pacific Northwest Sign up for Service
• Gary Jutz Named General Manager of the Radisson Aruba Resort & Casino
• Tim Bridwell Promoted to Area Vice President, Hilton Hotels Corporation - Central & Northern California
• Daniel Peterson Named Regional Vice President of Operations for CSM Lodging

• Thor Equities Planning a $150 million Rehab of the Historic Palmer House Hilton; Preservationists Standing By to Criticize the Necessary Work to Bring Economic Viability Back to the Landmark Structure
• New Lodge Positioning Itself to Rival the Best Properties in the Southeast
• Sales Incentive Plans: Hotel Owner's Friend or Foe? / Brenda Fields
• Ty Warner Brings In Rosewood Hotels & Resorts to Manage the Historic San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito, California
• Pinehurst Resort Excluded From Possible Sale By its Parent Company ClubCorp
• Gemstone Resorts to manage the Historic, 107-room La Posada de Albuquerque in New Mexico; Poperty Currently Closed While it Completes a $12 million Restoration
• Maritim Hotel Company Opens the 60 million Euros Maritim Hotel Dresden
• Portland Harbor Hotel Earns AAA Four Diamond Award for Third Consecutive Year
• 2005 San Francisco Numbers Show Increase in Tourism, Dollars
• Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort and Spa�s Sales Team Selected as Hyatt's "Sales Team of the Year" for Hotels with 501 Rooms or Less
• Sivica Hospitality Completes Re-do of the 115-room Hampton Inn - Hilton Head, South Carolina � go to
• Environmental Protection Agency Recognizes Xanterra as a Top Environmental Performer for Voluntarily Going Beyond Compliance with Environmental Regulations
• Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 54 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database
• Carlson Companies Promotes Carmen Baker to Vice President of Diversity
• Steve Giblin, President and COO at Dolce International, Talks on Innovation and Design Within the Meetings Industry at UNICON
• T. Steele Edwards Jr. Named General Manager of Whitetail Club & Resort in Northern Idaho
• Peter Högh Pedersen Appointed General Manager of Hilton Cebu Resort & Spa; Maria Lourdes Aguilar Named Director of Sales and Marketing
• Peter Lloyd Wynne Named General Manager of the Raffles Beijing Hotel
• Martin van der Reijden Named Managing Director Resort Collection,  Per Aquum Resorts, Spas & Residences
• Ben Koopman Named VP of Operations, Jackson Hospitality Services

• Morgans Hotel Group Co. to Acquire Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas for $770 Million
• Interstate Hotels & Resorts Installs PMWorks in All of its Crossroads Division Properties; Executive says company�s priority of protecting owners� assets efficiently and effectively led to division-wide install of innovative preventive-maintenance software
• MGM Mirage Believes its $7 billion Project CityCenter Setting New Standard for Las Vegas Developers; Considering  a Project CityCenter East Adjacant to the Borgata in Atlantic City
• Leisure Sports Inc. and R.D. Olson Development Building a 174 room $65-million Renaissance ClubSport in Aliso Viejo, California
• MGM Mirage, With 70,000 Employees, Unveils 2005 Diversity Report
• Checked Your Hotel�s Reviews Lately? Odorous hotel rooms are getting stinky reviews on travel sites; Is your hotel up to �sniff�?
• Orange County California Tourism Set to Hit Another High Mark; Disneyland's 50th Anniversary Boosts Attendance, Hotel Room Rates / Sandi Cain
• Five Multi-year Trade Shows Contract to Take Residence at The Venetian Macao; Las Vegas Sands Corp. Flexes Trade Show Muscles in Macao
• Starwood Hotels & Resorts Victorious in an Arbitration Relating to the Ownership and Management of the Westin St. Francis Hotel and the Westin Michigan Avenue Hotel
• The Knowland Group Begins Service in Portland, OR; Market Intelligence Firm Continues Expansion � Begins Service in Pacific Northwest Market
• The 38 Year Old Reston Hotel & Convention Center in Medford, Oregon, Gets New Owners, Fix Up
• The Caribbean Hotel Industry Conference Set for June 25-28, 2006 in Miami;  Focus on Strategic Approaches for the Caribbean Hotel Sector to Respond to the Global Tourism Challenge
• Strand Development Company LLC Acquires Management Contract of Country Inn and Suites-Duluth, GA
• Caribbean Tourism Organization Presenting Lifetime Achievement Award to Dame Billie Antoinette Miller
• MSI�s NovaPlus Wins Continued Acceptance, Best Western Two-Way Interface to be Deployed
• Coral Hospitality Hires Ron Taylor as New Regional Director of Sales and Marketing, and Appoints Terry Kingery to Regional Sales Manager
• Mohonk Mountain House's Chef Andrew Comey Earns Certified Executive Pastry Chef (CEPC) Through the American Culinary Federation

• Kingdom Hotels International and Colony Capital Complete Acquisition of Fairmont; The Fairmont and Raffles' Portfolios Now Combined with 120 Hotels in 23 Countries, Headquartered in Toronto
• Your Hotel Web Site: If It Ain�t Broke�Break It!
• Soon Every Town in America Will Have an Unused Convention Center
• Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group Will Manage a 120-room Hotel and 90 Branded Residences Within the Victory Park Development in Dallas
• Noble Investment Group Acquires Former Wyndham Metairie Hotel in New Orleans, La.; Hotel to Re-Flag as Sheraton Brand Following Multi-Million Dollar Upgrade
• Waco Businessman Clifton Robinson To Make a Low-interest Loan of $6 million to $9 million Eliminating the Need for a Public Subsidy for Proposed $35 million Hotel in Downtown Waco
• NEW Signature by VingCard Door Locks Selected by Kauai Beach Hotel and Resort
• Westin Rio Mar Resort and Spa Benefits From Its priZem Labor Intelligence Reporting Tool
• Slim Growth in Orange County, California Hotel Room Count; Hoteliers Expecting a Very Strong Summer / Sandi Cain
• Aztec Group Arranges the Sale of the Stirling Suites (Formerly SpringHill Suites � Fort Lauderdale Airport) in Dania Beach, Florida
• Hilton Hotels Corporation and Star Estates Company Ltd Sign Management Agreement for Hilton Ulaanbaatar, the Capital of Mongolia
• In India, Hotel Room Rates for Airline Crews Up 60-80% in the Last Year; Some Hotels Insisting on Annual Contracts, a Departure from Usual Three-to-Five Year Contracts
• InterContinental Hotels Group Appoints Guillermo Valencia to General Manager of the Holiday Inn Resort Aruba

• Charleston Place Offers Top-Floor Luxury for Business and Pleasure; The Club at Charleston Place Delivers Service and Cachet for Elite Visitors
• HDTV Installations Accelerate as Hotel Operators Look To Current Needs, Future Opportunities; LodgeNet Customers Say HDTV Is Differentiating The Guest Experience
• Whitehall Acquires 130 Hotels from the Tharaldson Family for $1.2 Billion; Tharaldson Property Management Inc. Will to Continue as Manager of Properties
• San Antonio Suing 16 Online Booking Services; Claims City Shorted $10 million in Hotel Occupancy Tax Revenues Since 1999
• Dave Anderson of Famous Dave's Barbecue Restaurant Chain Building a 611-room Resort with 80,000 sq ft Water Park North of Chicago in Gurnee; The KeyLime Cove Resort Expected to Cost $125 million
• Market Metrix Announces First Quarter 2006 Hospitality Index Results / Drury Inns Ranked Number 1 in Customer Satisfaction for the Hotel Industry
• KSL Capital Partners to Acquire the Marriott Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa from Strategic Hotels & Resorts, Inc. for $56.0 million; Plans a $30 million Renovation
• Belfonti Capital Partners Acquires Former Wyndham Resort, Spa & Casino on Island of Aruba in $230 Million Transaction; Plans to Renovate and Rebrand to Westin
• HEI Hospitality Rebranding the Park Hyatt Hotel, San Francisco to a Le Meridien Hotel; Conversion a Key Move in Starwood's Aggressive Expansion of Le Meridien Properties in the U.S. and Worldwide
• Senior Management Team, Led by John A. Belden, President and CEO, Acquires Davidson Hotel Company from its Former Owner, Chick Hill
• HEI Hospitality Acquires 360-Room Park Hyatt Hotel in San Francisco from a Subsidiary of Strategic Hotel Capital, LLC
• Winston Hotels, Inc., Primarily an Owner of Limited-service and Extended-stay Properties, Loans $20.3 million to Help Refinance the 627 room  Lady Luck Casino Hotel in Las Vegas
• Donna Shaw Named Vice President of Marketing for the Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau
• FelCor Lodging Trust Reports 1st Quarter 2006 Net Income Applicable to Common Stockholders of $0.2 million, Compared to a Net Loss of $18.1 million in the 1st Quarter of 2005; RevPAR Increased by Double Digits in Nearly All Key Markets
• Benchmark Appoints Mark Bommarito Project Vice President of Sales and Marketing for French Lick Springs Resort & Casino
• Hersha Hospitality Trust Reports 1st Qtr Net loss Applicable to Common Shareholders of $5.1 million Compared to a Net Loss of $1.0 million in 1st Quarter 2005; Owned Hotels RevPAR Increases 20.5% / Hotel Operating Statistics
• Softscribe Inc. Sponsors Georgia�s First Youth Birding Competition; Team Event for Teens Develops Professional Abilities:  People Skills, Goal Achievement, Respect for Nature

• SynXis Launches Their Own Call Center Service in North and South America
• Leonardo Launches WebGallery - A New Concept for Enhancing Web-based Marketing
• KSL's Proposed Construction of a Condominium-Hotel in Encinitas, CA Facing Unique Project Fees, Restrictions
• Hotel Liquidators Have Little Room for Error
• Morgans Hotel Group Reports a First Quarter 2006 Net Loss of $16.9 million on Revenues of $64.1 million / Hotel Operating Statistics
• Hotel Pool Safety 101 / Room With a View - a Column by Larry Mundy
• Boykin Lodging Enters Into Agreement to Sell Radisson Suite Beach Resort-Marco Island for $58 million
• Second Wi-Fi Symposium to Focus on Bandwidth Needs; StayOnline Hosts Top Hotel & Technology Execs Gathering in Coral Gables May 24-26
• HSMAI's Revenue Management Strategy Conference on June 19, 2006 Will Deliver Insight and Ideas for Those Involved in Revenue Management at the Hotel and Corporate Levels
• The Knowland Group Begins Service in Annapolis and Colombia, Maryland
• World-Famous Golf Resort Driving Sales More Effectively with Clairvoyix Software
• Pet-Friendly Properties Join BringYourPet.com to Reach Niche Market
• Benchmark's Glen Cove Mansion Salutes the Community, Launches Operation Clean Up!
• Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts Breaks Ground on the 418 room Shangri-La Hotel, Guilin in Mainland China
• Home-Towne Suites Acquires Arbor Suites Located in Prattville and Auburn, Alabama
• Hersha Hospitality Management Signs Management Contract to Operate the 307-room Sheraton at Woodbridge Place in Northern New Jersey
• Hilton Hotels Corporation and Anhui Yuanyi Hotel Company Ltd Sign Management Agreement for 566 room Hilton Hefei, China
• Accor Asia Pacific Appoints Four to GM Posts in China
• Michael Lennon Named General Manager for the 338 room Meritage Resort at Napa (California); Sean Dempsey, Jeff Longnecker and Ross Anderson Named to Executive Team
• Benchmark Appoints Heath Carter Director of Sales & Marketing for Stonewall Resort Near Weston, West Virginia
• Brad Colton Named Resident Resort Manager at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa, Phoenix
• Commonwealth Hotels Adds Development Director

• Hyatt International Continues its Roll-out of IDeaS Revenue Optimization
• The "Tipping Point" - Identifying the Touch Points in Hotel Sales / Carol Verret
• Local Governments and Residents in South Florida Becoming Cncerned with Boom in Condo Hotel Developments; May Seek New Rules
• Philip S. Harris Promoted to General Counsel and Chief Executive Officer, Shilo Inns
• The Opening is Two Years Away, But the $115 million Omni Fort Worth Hotel Sets Up Advisory Board to Weigh In On Everything from Volume of Lobby Music to Scents in the Restrooms
• Orlando Basking in Spotlight with 1,600 Travel Buyers from 70 Countries in Town for the Travel Industry Association of America's International Pow Wow 
• Management Companies Seeing Big Value in Effective Preventive-Maintenance Programs; From huge national firms to small regional operators, management companies are turning to PMWorks as their preferred preventive-maintenance tool

• Remember the �Bakers Dozen� of Ideas for Hotel Management Company Executives? Now Read A Bakers Dozen� of Strategies for Hotel General Managers / John Hogan
• Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts Reports 1st Qtr Net Income of $13.4 million Compared to $5.2 million in Prior Year,  Hotel Management Fees increased 23.1% / Hotel Operating Data
• The Cordish Company Wants to Attract a W Hotel to Proposed Entertainment District in Downtown  Kansas City, Missouri 
• A Collaboration Between The Trump Organization and Nakheel Hotels & Resorts, The Trump International Hotel and Tower, The Palm Jumeirah  Expected to Pioneer the Condo-Hotel Concept in Dubai
• UNITEHere's Message Resonates; Pay Me Now, or Pay Me More Later / John R. Hendrie
• Thirty Two Benchmark VPs, Managing Directors & General Managers Clean Up Museum's Rail Yard in Chattanooga
• Noble Investment Group and DiamondRock Acquire the 369-Room Westin Atlanta North at Perimeter Center for $61.5 million
• Delaware North Companies Parks & Resorts Assumes Management of Montana�s The Resort at Glacier; 117 Room Destination Resort At The Gates Of Glacier National Park To Officially Re-Open May 26 Under New Operator
• Radisson SAS Hotels & Resorts to Take Over the Management of the InterContinental Hotel Dubai; Opened Three Decades Ago, the Hotel to be Renamed Radisson SAS Hotel Dubai, Deira Creek
• Joe D'Alessandro, Head of Portland Oregon Visitors Association, Appointed CEO of San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau
• Morgans Hotel Group Co. Acquires the 194-room James Hotel in Scottsdale; Will Re-Brand as Mondrian Scottsdale, Don Jacinto Named General Manager
• Accor Asia Pacific Appoints Seven GMs at Hotels in Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines
• JHM Hotels Acquires The Stirling Suites, Ft. Lauderdale Airport; Plans to Invest $4 million to Renovate and Re-brand the Property
• Profile: David Wirebaugh, Hyatt Regency Wichita Executive Chef
• Former Disney Executives Take Over Palace Entertainment, Operator of 32 Water Parks and Amusement Centers in the U.S.
• Laila Oinas Named Candlewood Suites-Sterling Operating Partner
• Benchmark Appoints Todd Gillespie Director of Sales & Marketing for the Historic Bedford Springs Resort
• Augusto Negrete Named Director of Operations for Embassy Suites Hotel® Tampa-Downtown Convention Center
• Undergoing $110 million Renovation, The Eden Roc Renaissance Resort & Spa Hires/Promotes Several Executives
• Interstate Hotels & Resorts Names Christopher L. Bennett Executive Vice President and General Counsel

• Charleston Waterfront Developer Sponsors Lowcountry �Offering�; Richard H. Coen to Build 165-Unit Condo-Hotel on Prime Shem Creek Property
• Global Update: Who�s Where and Doing What / May 2006
• �Exterior Corridors� � Disappearing, Because They Never Existed / Room With a View - a Column by Larry Mundy
• Hotel Companies Need to Be on the List � the Right List; Employees Can Make it Happen / Joseph M. Gravish
• Not Allowed to Advertise, The117 room  Inn at USC in Columbia, South Carolina Exceeding Occupancy Goals
• Some Believe Dallas' Fragile Hotel Market Does Not Have Enough Demand to Support Addition of 1,400 Luxury Rooms
• Duane Hagadone's Vision Hits 20-year Mark; The Coeur d'Alene Resort a Gamble that's Still Paying Off
• Hotel Business Centers by Uniguest Make Airline Check-In Easy
• Thirty Two Benchmark VPs, Managing Directors & General Managers Clean Up Museum's Rail Yard in Chattanooga
• Hotel Booking Solutions Incorporated Chief Executive Lawrence Hall to Address Demand Management Strategies at Travel Distribution Summit

• Are We Teaching Our Guests that the Front Desk Cannot be Bothered? Getting Back to the Basics of Hospitality: Treating Our Guests as Friends / Kent Sexton
• Do YOU Have The �Digital Alchemy Advantage?� Hotels that have adopted property-level email marketing and customized CRM tools are finding themselves light years beyond the competition in online bookings and  guest loyalty
• Tatweer Developing $27.2 billion Bawadi Project Which Will Create 31 Hotels (29,000 rooms) Within Eight Years in Dubai
• Independent Hotel Web Sites - Marketing Winners�and Losers / Neil Salerno
• AAA Evaluation Procedure: Is It Fair? / Harry Nobles
• Big Tribute Planned for John Marks, the Retiring President of the San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau; Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown Called Marks "the Best CVB CEO in the Country - Bar None"
• Recap - AmericInn 11th Annual Franchise Convention; AmericInn of Mountain Iron/Virginia, Minnesota Named Lodging Property of the Year
• Marcus Hotels Acquires the 186 room Westin Columbus Hotel; Continues to Seek Expansion Through Equity Investments
• Joint Venture Between Golden Tulip and the Leyland Group will Focus on Developing Hotels in India and Pakistan
• Shaping the Future of High-end Tourism in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is The Qasr Al Sharq, a 46 suite Hotel Adjacent to the Jeddah Hilton and Managed by Hilton International
• The 146-room Courtyard by Marriott in Andover, MA Completes Renovation as Part of Courtyard�s Nationwide Hotel Reinvention
• City of Anchorage Back on Track with Plans for a Four Season Resort on City-owned Land; Proposed  Winner Creek Resort Includes Golf Course, Nordic and Alpine Ski Trails
• Choice Hotels International Promotes Mary Beth Knight to SVP eCommerce and Bill Carlson to SVP Consumer Revenue Growth
• Sunil Marya Named new Vice President and General Manager for Dubai�s Marco Polo Hotel
• Michael Lyman Named Director of Sales and Marketing for the JW Marriott Grand Rapids
• Benchmark Appoints Linda Perin Director of Casino Finance for French Lick Springs Resort & Casino
• Hospitality International Selects MSI As Preferred PMS Partner
• InfoGenesis Teams Up With Leading Companies to Form Innovative Relationship; Unique Offering Provides An Integrated Solution Suite For Gaming Industry

• Is Your Hotel A Mess? / By Kirby D. Payne
• "Big Daddy" Is Big Winner for Cendyn; Cendyn's eVisibility Product Generates Increased Revenue for Clients Based on Google Changes
• Where Not To Build a Hotel / Room With a View - a Column by Larry Mundy
• Exhaust Hood Problems: Not Just Smoke and Mirrors / Lee Simon
• Turning a Transaction into a Relationship � Creating the Memorable Experience / John R. Hendrie and Brecca Loh
• Candlewood Suites Approves Two Locations in Canada, Plans New Bedding Package
• Hilton Hotels 1st Qtr 2006 Net Income Up 63% to $104 million from $64 million a Year Earlier; Revpar Rose 9% / Hotel Operating Statistics
• Gaylord Hotels Posts 1st Qtr 2006 Net Income of $13.2 million Compared to a Loss of $8.9 million in prior Year; Total RevPAR Surpasses $300 for Gaylord Hotels / Hotel Operating Statistics
• French Lick Springs Resort & Casino Retains Employees at 100 % of Compensation & Benefits During Year-long Suspension of Operations for Restoration and New Construction
• Istithmar Hotels, based in the United Arab Emirates, Signs Master Franchise Agreement with easyHotel Limited to Open a Chain of Budget Hotels Across the Middle East
• Molinaro Koger Structures Sale of Fairfield Inn, Scottsdale
• Edge Resorts and Starwood Hotels and Resorts Finalize Development Team for W Las Vegas Hotel, Casino and Residences
• Tampa's Wyndham Harbour Island Reflagged as a Westin; Westin Harbour Island is the First of Seven Wyndham to Westin Conversions
• The Territoria Group and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Joint Venture to Develop  205-room W Santiago Hotel 
• The Dow Hotel Company Completing Multi-million Dollar Renovation at the 353 room Doubletree Hotel in Bellevue, Washington; Will Rebrand the Hilton Bellevue
• The Harp Group in Partnership with Mid-America Development Partners and AMC Delancey Group, Inc.Acquire the Holiday Inn Select in Naperville, Ill.  for $31.5 million
• Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 43 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database
• Hotel Booking Solutions Incorporated Selected by Unique Vacations to Provide Demand Management for Sandals and Beaches Resorts
• Responding to the Growth of Condominium Hotels, A Non Profit Association Formed to Provide Information for Prospective Condominium Buyers
• The San Diego Convention & Visitors Bureau Names David Peckinpaugh as its President and CEO at a Base Salary is $240,000
• Jim Metzger Named General Manager for Great Wolf Lodge in Mason, Ohio
• Joe Dantoni Appointed General Manager The Lodge at Woodloch, Hawley, Pennsylvania
• Pam Swanner Named Vice President of the Greenville (SC) Convention and Visitors Bureau

• Las Vegas Hosted a Record 44 Major Trade Shows in 2005, Orlando Ranked Second with 26 Events, Followed by Chicago (20), New York (16) and Atlanta (11)
• Top 5 States and Top 10 cities for Non Smoking hotels in the U.S.; www.freshstay.com adds 25 non-smoking properties during April -California is the number 1 state and Seattle the number 1 city
• Blogger who Criticized Proposed Tourism Advertisements for the Maine Department of Tourism Hit with a $1 million Lawsuit; The State's Ad Agency Claims False Statments Made On Blogger�s Website www.mainewebreport.com
• Chicago Losing Ground in Convention Battle; Drops to No. 3 in the National Ranking for the First Time
• Physical Therapy Sessions: A Good Reminder for Professional Selling Fundamentals / David M. Brudney
• The 80-villa InterContinental Resort and Thalasso Spa on Bora Bora Providing New Dimensions to Ecotourism, Escape and Wellness; Over the Water Villas Air-Conditioned by Deep-Drawn Seawater
• The Knowland Group Begins Service in Colorado Springs, Colorado; Market Intelligence Firm Continues Expansion � Offers Group Sales Leads in Key City for the Aerospace Industry
• Ralph Lauren's Double RL Filet; Restaurants Seeing the Benefit of Selling Brand Name Beef
• Blue Square Studios' Hospitality ToolkitTM Levels the Web Presence Playing Field for Hotels
• The Steigenberger Hotel Group Ends 2005 with Average Occupancy Rates Up 1.7% to 63%, the Highest Levels Since 1991; Redesigns Corporate Identity Under the Slogan �Younger, Bolder, Fresher�
• Hospitality Career Network and Hotel-Online Announce Joint Venture; Hotel-Online to offer its members a customized version of the Hospitality Career Network website
• JMBM's Global Hospitality Group Hosting its 16th Annual Meet the Money® Conference, Focusing on the Latest Trends and Issues in Hotel Finance, on May 11, 2006 in Los Angeles
• William J. Velardo Resigns as Chief Executive of the Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority; Led Mohegan

1. The Top Ten Most Memorable Hotel Movie Scenes Ever
2. The 2006 Ranking of the Top 10 Hotel Groups Worldwide
3. The Greatest Bellman I Ever Met�  / Bryan K. Williams
4. Hottest New Hotels, Restaurants, Spas, and Clubs in the U.S. Named by Conde Nast Traveler
5. Top Ten Worst Hotel Inventions / Larry Mundy
6. Hotels Are Hot; Pritzkers Could Find Timing Right for Hyatt IPO
7. Hotel Revenue Management. . . The Way I See It / Neil Salerno
8. Living at the Ritz-Carlton Chicago: For Hotel Manager Peter Roth and Family, It's Not a Luxury Accommodation, It's Home
9. What Are Hotel Employees Worth? /  Joseph M. Gravish
10. �A Bakers Dozen� of Ideas for Hotel Management Company Executives / John Hogan
11. Spacious Shower or an Old-fashioned Tub; Marriott Designing Shower-only Rooms
12. Service - It�s Not About What You Want to Give,  It's About What the Customer Wants / by Bryan K. Williams
13. The "Tipping Point" Touch Points Make a Difference in Customer Service Training / Carol Verret
14. Nobody Asked Me, But� No. 8 / Bathtubs, Smokefree Hotels / Stanley Turkel
15. A Sense of Arrival / Larry Mundy
16. Global Update: Who�s Where and Doing What  / April 2006
17. One Miami Condo-Hotel Owner Considering Switching Tactics; Wants to Sell Condos as a Security Investment Rather then a Real Estate Investment
18. Hotel Labor Union Negotiations -a Perspective /  Joseph M. Gravish
19. Sheraton's $20 Million TV Ad Campaign About the Emotion  of the Experience, Not Just the Physical Experience
20. The 1,195 room Westin St. Francis San Francisco Being Acquired by Strategic Hotels & Resorts, Inc. for $440.0 million
21. Ritz-Carlton Edges Out Peninsula as the Most Prestigious Luxury Hotel Brand in 2006
22. The Daily Revenue Report by Spreadsheet Process Is Obsolete!
23. Let Them Eat Cake: The Growing Contribution of Hotel Food and Beverage to the Bottom Line / Gregory J. Miller
24. After a 20 Year Hibernation, The Playboy Club Will Open Atop the Palms Casino Resort's New $650 million Fantasy Tower Addition
25. What NYC's Revenue Managers Want You to Know Insights from the HSMAI NYC Revenue Managers Summit /  Laura Osborne and Donna Quadri-Felitti

• Zontec� Sponsors FreshStay.com to Identify Best Places Where Guests Can �Breath Easy, Sleep Great��; Leading provider of air purification systems partners with industry�s newest online resource listing hotels committed to providing a clean, odor-free environment
• Hoteliers Hail Zontec� to Remove Room Odors; Manufacturer of ozone-based odor removal system receives rave reviews for eliminating unpleasant guestroom smells
• Top Ten Worst Hotel Inventions / Room With a View - a Column by Larry Mundy
• Recap HSMAI's 6th Travel Internet Strategy Conference:  Effectively Using Metrics, Legal Issues, Blogs
• Cendant Hotel Group to Merge the AmeriHost Inn Franchise System into the Baymont Inn & Suites Brand; To Expedite the Rebranding Cendant Offering AmeriHost Inn Franchisees Free Leases for New Exterior Signage
• Highlight of $60 Million Expansion at Lansdowne Resort is the 12,000 Sq. Ft. Spa Minérale
• Starwood Hotels & Resorts Reports 1st Qtr Net Income Falls to $5 million from $79 million a Year Earlier; Takes a $72 million Expense Related to a change in Accounting for Timeshare Transactions;  Management Fees Grew 55.6% to $56 million and Franchise Fees Grew 20% to $36 million / Hotel Operating Results
• Investcorp and Ceebraid-Signal Acquire Holiday Isle Property in Florida Keys for $98 Million; Property to Be Redeveloped into Luxury Condominium Hotel and Marina Resort
• Amstar Completes Sale of the Repositioned Doubletree Hotel in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, to Thayer Lodging Group
• The IH&RA 43rd Annual Congress Set for Buenos Aires October 26-29,  2006; Will Host its First Ever Hospitality Human Resources Development Forum
• Hotels Turn Pet Friendly Using How-To Guide by BringYourPet.com
• Jeff Weinthaler Named General Manager of the Embassy Suites Hotel Tampa-Downtown Convention Center
• Shanghai Forrester (Zhabei) Development Ltd Selects Starwood to Manage the Four Points by Sheraton Shanghai, Daning; Starwood Now Has 50 Hotels in Greater China, 25 Operational and 25 Under Construction
• Dallas Hotel Development Firm Gatehouse Capital Expands Executive Team
• Jennifer Thomas Appointed Director of Sales for the Hampton Inn & Suites � Boise / Downtown

• TravelCLICK iHotelier Selected by Hotel Arena for Central Reservation System Solution; Trendsetting European Independent Hotel Uses TravelCLICK�s Integrated Distribution Solution to Increase Revenue
• Rosewood Hotels & Resorts and Partner Maritz, Wolff & Co. Quietly Showing the Posh Mansion on Turtle Creek to Prospective Buyers
• Embassy Suites Hotels Refines Cooked-to-Order Breakfast Experience; 10 Ingredient Options for Omelets, Improved Signage and Equipment
• Canyon Ranch and The Penrose Group Planning a Wellness Complex in Bethesda, Maryland; Plans Include 157 Lifestyle Hotel Rooms and 434 Condominiums
• Hotelier Richard Kessler Planning a  150-room Hotel within Mix Use Project in Downtown Orlando
• The Knowland Group Begins Service in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Market Intelligence Firm Continues Expansion � Offers Group Sales Leads in Tenth Midwest Market
• Host Hotels & Resorts Reports First Quarter 2006 Net Income of $172 million, Includes $146 million from Gains on Hotel Dispositions; Comparable RevPAR for 98  Hotels Up 7.6% Over Last Year First Quarter / Hotel Operating Data
• Choice Hotels Reports First Quarter Net Income Grew 47% to $17.7 million Compared to the Same Period Last Year; Domestic Hotel Franchise Contracts Up 17% / Brand Operating Data
• Desires Hotels Selected to Manage the New Hotel La Mela in New York City
• Cornell's Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship Names Charles Mund, Bruce Reinstein and Larry Reinstein as Recipients of the 2006 Hospitality Innovator Award
• Pacific Hospitality Group, the Development and Management Company of the Meritage Resort at Napa, Building a Second Similarly Named Hotel in Healdsburg, California
• Scott Simpson Appointed Executive Chef at JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa, Phoenix
• Choice Hotels Names Stacy Ragland Vice President, Franchise Performance and Hires Shaun Smithson to Focus on Franchisee Retention, Product Quality
• Omni Hotel at CNN Center Names Peter Cronin Director of Sales and Rosalyn Y. Smith Area Director of Human Resources

• NORTHWIND Expands Client Support with Four-Diamond Service; Maestro Users Receive Online Training and Upgrades to Boost Productivity
• Tired of Hotel Sales Training That Excites� But Doesn�t Change Anything? / Neil Salerno
• What NYC's Revenue Managers Want You to Know; Insights from the HSMAI NYC Revenue Managers Summit / Laura Osborne and Donna Quadri-Felitti
• Bed Tech / Room With a View - a Column by Larry Mundy
• MGM Mirage Will Open a $700 million Hotel and Casino Alongside Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut
• South Florida Hotel Room Rates Soar During 1st Qtr 2006 Compared to Previous Year; Are Higher Room Rates a Guarantee of Success? 
• Vision Hospitality Group Inc. Acquires Downtown Chattanooga's Clarion Hotel for $7 million, Plans to Put Another $7 million in Renovation and Rebranding to Doubletree
• The Limited Service Brand Key West Inns Now Accepting Conversions, Modifies Franchise Agreements
• China�s Travel & Tourism Industry is Moving at the Speed of Light; World Travel & Tourism Council Report on China, China Hong Kong SAR and China Macau SAR
• Visual Marketing Turning Heads, Filling Beds;  ICE Portal Says Hotels Which Audit Online Hotel Images to Accurately Represent their Facilities and Features Are the Ones Getting the Best Bookings
• Meeting Planners Seeking International Business Partners Will Get Connected at HSMAI's World Quest
• Legendary Reid's Palace in Madeira, Portugal Completes US $10.5 million Renovation and Spa Construction
• Investment Group Led by Oxford Lodging Unveils Four New Restaurants and Upscale Business Casual Motif for the 966 room Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront
• Carlson Hotels Worldwide Adds Seven New Hotels to its Brands in March, 2006
• LXR Luxury Resorts Selects TIG Global as their Internet Marketing Partner
• Noble Investment Group Names Susan E. Benshoff Corporate Director of Revenue Management and Nelson F. Garrido Vice President of Information Technology
• Paula Winkler Named Chief Information Officer for Carlson Hotels Worldwide

• After a 20 Year Hibernation, The Playboy Club Will Open Atop the Palms Casino Resort�s New $650 million Fantasy Tower Addition
• Nobody Asked Me, But� No. 8; Bathtubs, Smokefree Hotels, Maps, Saving Water, Nevada Revenues, H.P. Rama, Ritz-Carlton, Statler Service Code, Mother�s Day / Stanley Turkel
• Fears About an Overbuilt Downtown Denver Hotel Market Dissipating as Occupancy Rates Rose 13 Percentage Points in March, 2006 Compared with a Year Ago
•  Study: Hotel Housekeeper Work is Dangerous; Majority of Housekeepers Cope with Persistent Pain on the Job
• Raleigh, Durham North Carolina Area Adding Up to 2,500 New Hotel Rooms
• The Daily Revenue Report by Spreadsheet Process Is Obsolete!
• Rezidor SAS Names VingCard Elsafe a Preferred Security Partner for Providing Electronic Locks and In-Room Safes
• Forbes Hamilton Management Company Awarded Management Contracts for the Holiday Inn Orange Park, the Boat Slip Resort, and the Hawaiian Inn
•  Langham Hotels International Makes Several Executive Appointments; Andrew Jessop Appointed Vice President � Brands
• Mark Harmon, CEO Auberge Resorts, to Share Entrepreneurial Vision With Cornell Hotel Students
• Geoff Stewart Named General Manager of the Sheraton Bradley Hotel in Windsor Locks, Connecticut
• Mark Sapienza Appointed Executive Chef, The Langham Hotel in Boston
• The American Culinary Federation Grants Jason Koppinger, Executive Chef of the Outrigger Keauhou Beach Resort, Two Professional Designations: Certified Executive Chef and Certified Culinary Educator

• A Sense of Arrival / Room With a View - a Column by Larry Mundy
• Let Them Eat Cake: The Growing Contribution of Hotel Food and Beverage to the Bottom Line / Gregory J. Miller
• Hottest New Hotels, Restaurants, Spas, and Clubs in the U.S. Named by Conde Nast Traveler
• Developer Plans for Ute Lake in New Mexico Include a Jack Nicklaus Design Golf Course, a Marina and Up to Five Hotels
• Lafayette, Louisiana Developers Receive a $20 million Tax Free Loan at a 4.25 Interest Rate to Build a 110 unit Homewood Suites; Loan Provided through The Gulf Opportunity Zone Act of 2005 to Support the Rebuilding in the Gulf States Devastated by the Hurricanes of 2005
• Construction Starts on the 160 room Shilo Inn Adjacent to the Killeen (Texas) Civic Conference and Convention Center
• Marriott and Whitbread Sell 46 U.K. Hotels to The Royal Bank of Scotland; Marriott Will Continue to Manage the Properties Under Long-Term Contracts
• To Improve Travel Agent Loyalty, the Hilton Family of Hotels Now Offers All North American Hotels with the Travel Agency Commission Settlement (TACS) Service

• Memphis Based Crescent Development Group Planning a $100 million Golden Tulip Hotel at Craig Ranch, in McKinney, Texas
• Luxury Resort Achieves Dramatic Results with Integrated Distribution Solution from TravelCLICK; Case Study: Kapalua Villas Increases Website Bookings and Web ADR
• Marriott 1st Qtr Net Income Falls to $65 million from $145 million a Year Earlier; Takes a $105 million Charge for an Accounting Change Involving Timeshare Business / Key Lodging Statistics
• The Radisson Hotel at Waterfront Place, Morgantown, West Virginia Will Become the Waterfront Place Hotel, Disaffiliating With the Radisson Chain
• Developer Sam Savarino Calls of Purchase, Possible $70 million Rehab of Buffalo's Historic Statler Hotel
• Service - It�s Not About What You Want to Give, It's About What the Customer Wants / Bryan K. Williams
• LaSalle Hotel Properties Reports 1st Qtr Net Income of $33.3 million, Largely Due to Gain from the Sale of the Chicago Marriott; The 25 Luxury Hotel Portfolio Produces 13.7% RevPAR Increase Over Prior Year / Statistical Data for the Hotels
• Pinnacle Realty Investments Advises on over $400 million in Hotel Transactions in First Quarter 2006 Including the World-Famous Hay Adams Hotel
• Collegiate Hospitality Installs priZem Labor Intelligence In Its Harvard Square Properties
• Solare Hotels & Resorts Signs Management Contract for the Okinawa Marriott Resort Kariyushi Beach
• American Hospitality Services to Reopen and Manage The Saint George Hotel in Weston, Missouri
• Pan Pacific Hotels and Resorts Relinquishes Management Contract of San Francisco Hotel; Pan Pacific Hotel Has Become the JW Marriott Hotel San Francisco
• Anna Marie Presutti Takes the Helm at Hotel Nikko San Francisco; Japanese Company's First Female General Manager
• King Pacific Lodge, A Rosewood Resort, Brings Maxim Ridorossi Aboard as the New Chef

• Five Hotel Projects Join the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center at National Harbor; The Five Properties Adding 900 Hotel and Timeshare Units on Top of the Previously Announced 2,000-room Gaylord National Resort
• Fairmont Sharehoders Accept a $3.9-billion Takeover Offer from a Consortium that Includes Saudi Billionaire Price Alwaleed bin Talal
• The Waterford Group, Owner of the Marriott Hartford, Asks the National Labor Relations Board to Conduct a Vote Among Hotel Employees If They Want to Unionize; Unite Here Claims Move Is Part of Anti-union Playbook
• Strategic Hotels & Resorts Inc. Reaches Agreement to Pay Up to $10.4 million for Termination Fees and Related Severance Cost to Terminate Marriott's Management Contract at the Marriott Rancho Las Palmas Resort in Rancho Mirage, California
• The Lodging Construction Pipeline Accelerates Forward for a 10th Consecutive Quarter; Mid-Market Projects Are Driving the Pipeline
• The San Juan Marriott Resort & Stellaris Casino Receiving $35 million Renovation; 402 Guestrooms, Ballrooms and Casino Getting Total Makeover
• Holiday Inn Express Brand Inititates Triple Sheeted Bedding; Expected Cost is $53 million for 1,400 North American Properties
• City of Rancho Mirage, California Not Happy About Tribes Plan for a 16 story Hotel
• The Knowland Group Beings Service in Rochester, Minnesota; Market Intelligence Firm Uncovers Small Market with Unusually High Concentration of Health Care Events (Biotech, Pharmaceutical, HMOs, Others)
• Neptune Hospitality Advisors Arranges $49 million Financing of 672 room Portfolio
• Kingdom Hotel Investments Acquires Movenpick Resort & Spa Mauritius for US $50 million; Movenpick Continues to Operate the Resort
• Texas Investor Harold Rosbottom Seeks to Turn Old Santa Fe, New Mexico Hospital Buildings Into Hotel
• Kor Hotel Group Reaches Definitive Agreement to Acquire Mosquito Blue and Mosquito Beach Resorts in Playa del Carmen
• Residence Inn by Marriott Daytona Beach Opens with the Marriott Gen7 Suite, Showcasing Zones for Cooking, Dining, Working, Relaxing and Sleeping

• SynXis Adds Hong Kong Disneyland to the RedX�Distribution Management System
• TravelCLICK iHotelier Selected by CHIP Hospitality for Central Reservation System Solution
• Living at the Ritz-Carlton Chicago: For a Hotel Manager Peter Roth and Family, It's Not a Luxury Accommodation, It's Home
• Hawaii Taken by Storm; Six Weeks of Rain Leave Fouled Beaches and Ruined Vacations
• In 1986 Scottsdale had Fewer than 4,000 Hotel Rooms, in 2006 the Number of Hotel Rooms is Approaching 13,500
• Thomas D. Smith, GM of the Hyatt Regency Hill Country, Named Hyatt Hotels Corporation�s General Manager of the Year
• Dolce International has Four Major Projects Underway and Two Properties Slated to be Opened: Zermatt Resort & Spa in Utah and La Hulpe in Belgium
• Hilton Hotels Corp Domestic Asset Sales Program Virtually Complete, Focus Switches to Disposition of Certain International Hotel Properties
• Hospitality Properties Trust Acquires the 150-room Staybridge Suites in Parsippany, New Jersey for $21 million
• LRA Worldwide and W Hotels Featured Presenters at 18th Annual Internal Branding Conference
• Pet Friendly Travel Statistics Reported for First Quarter of 2006
• Tecton Hospitality Signs Contract to Manage the Sagamore Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida
• Developer David Hale and Hotelier Elizabeth Tullis Renovating the 48 unit GuestLodge Motel in Boise, Idaho; Spending $2 million for Retro Theme and New Name - The Modern Hotel
• Jinjiang Inn Company, Based in Shanghai, Appoints Christopher Sheldon as Vice President of Operations
• Crescent Hospitality Names William F. Driscoll Vice President of Business Development

• The Greatest Bellman I Ever Met� / Bryan Williams
• Andrew J Wood Has Been in the Hotel Business for Three Decades, Now Enjoyably Stuck as the GM of Chaophya Park Hotel & Resort in Thailand He Talks About the Tourism Industry
• The Historic Dearborn Inn, Owned by Ford Motor Land Development Corporation, Receiving Multi-Million Dollar Renovation; Built by Henry Ford in 1931 with a Vision to Create One of the World's First Airport Hotels
• Visitors to Barcelona Continue to Rise But Hotel Performance Heads South
• The Billion-Dollar Off-Strip Luxury Resort - Red Rock Casino, Resort and Spa Opens in Summerlin, Nevada
• Hyatt Responds to Consumer Demand With New Products and Services Including 24 Hour Fitness Centers, a Non-smoking Room Guarantee, and Bed Type Guarantee
• Condo Hotels Sweeping Metro Orlando
• Swisscom Eurospot Acquires Core Communications to Become a World Leader in Conference Services
• Visual One Systems to Install Integrated Suite of Products at the 1500-room Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando Florida
• Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 36 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database
• The Peabody Hotel Group Names the Hilton Greenville, South Carolina the PHG Hotel of The Year, 2005
• The Agenda Set for HSMAI's Revenue Management Strategy Conference in Minneapolis on June 19, 2006 -  �The Politics of Revenue Management�
• Victoria J Wilkins Named GM of Hilton Garden Inn-Harbison, Columbia, SC

• The 2006 Ranking of the Top 10 Hotel Groups Worldwide
• Every Franchising Obstacle Presents an Opportunity to Improve Your Position; Hospitality Solutions LLC assists California franchisee facing $110,000 in liquidated damages
• Man Who Could Not Find an Apartment Because of Bad Credit, Stiffs the Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield Hotel for $17,000
• John Williams and Phillip King Are Two Hotel Operators On Almost Identical Missions, Overseeing the Details in Re-opening Downtown Oklahoma City's Two Historic Hotels, the Skirvin Hilton and the Colcord Hotel
• Choice Hotels International Announces Development Opportunities Seminar at Jordan Creek Town Center in West Des Moines, Iowa; Evening Planned for Hotel Owners, Developers, Brokers and Builders
• What Are Hotel Employees Worth? / Joseph M. Gravish
• The La Quinta 2005 "Inn of the Year" Awarded to Albuquerque West and Tampa South
• Recently Acquired by St. Lucia Hotelier Craig Barnard, the Jalousie Plantation to Undergo a Two Year Restoration Program
• Affiliate of Oxford Capital Group Acquries the Historic Hotel Cass in Downtown Chicago
• The International Association of Conference Centers Celebrates 25 Years with Honors and Awards; Bob Johns Recipient of the Mel Hosansky Award
• Golden Tulip, with One Franchised Hotel in the U.S., Preparing an Initiative to Re-enter the U.S. Market
• Sam Nazarian Signs 15 Year Agreement with Philippe Starck for the Creation of a New Luxury Hotel Brand to Debut in 2008
• Global Travel and Tourism Summit Affirms U.S. Should Ease Facilitation of Visitors to the U.S. and the Creation of a Significant International Marketing Campaign
• Wendy Little Named Chef de Cuisine at The Boulders Resort in Carefree, Arizona; Plans Include Transforming The Boulders Into an All Organic Resort, with Large Gardens on the Grounds
• Michael Hoe-Knudsen Named General Manager of the 530 room Holiday Inn SunSpree® Resort in Montego Bay, Jamaica
• Benchmark's Brendan Slaven, Executive Chef at Glen Cove Mansion Hotel and Conference Center, Wins Global Copper Skillet Culinary Competition
• A 137 year Old Former Mansion and Bordello Has Developed a Repution as One the Best Hotels to Stay in Buffalo, New York
• Atlanta Marriott Marquis Completes $38 million Renovation to all 1,675 rooms
• The Agenda Set for 6th HSMAI Travel Internet Marketing Strategy Conference on April 19, 2006 in NYC

• Web Marketing Association Awards TravelCLICK iHotelier Website Booking Engine with 2006 Best Interactive Application for Hotel and Lodging Industry
• Hotel Common Sense -  �A Bakers Dozen� of Ideas for Hotel Management Company Executives
• Hotels Are Hot; Pritzkers Could Find Timing Right for Hyatt IPO
• Starwood Seeks to  Foster a Sense of Community for its Starwood Preferred Guest Loyalty Program with Blog - TheLobby.com
• The Former Owner of the Hotel Europa in Raleigh, North Carolina Charged with  Embezzlement of $69,000 in State and County Taxes
• The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority's 2006 Budget May Exceed One Quarter of a Billion Dollars
• Kathleen Ratcliffe, the No. 2 Tourism Chief in New Orleans, Hired to Lead the St. Louis Convention & Visitors Commission
• With the U.S. Hotel Industry Facing Labor Shortages, Especially at the Entry Level, Bill Marriott Presses Congress for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
• Radisson Hotel Utica Centre Named the Top-performing Radisson Hotel for 2005
• Managed by the German Company, Bavaria Hotels International, The Bavaria Executive Suites Dubai with 2,100 Suites in Two 40 storey Towers, Prepares for Late 2006 Opening
• GenaRes Offers Enhanced Hotel Reservations Channel Management through System Integration with Ez Yield; New York City�s Flatotel is GenaRes� First Hotel Customer to Benefit
• Hospitality eBusiness Strategies to Present Internet Strategy Workshop at Economy & Budget Hotels World 2006 in London; Internet strategies to boost revenues and property valuations highlighted
• Warmbrodt Hotel Investments Structures Sale of the Sleep Inn-Airport, Kansas City, Misssouri
• The Carlyle Group Acquires the Radisson Los Angeles Westside; Davidson Hotel Company Selected to Manage
• Benchmark Hospitality Executives Receive Prestigious Education Awards from International Association of Conference Centers
• Line-up of 20 Educational Seminars Set for the 10th Annual HSMAI Affordable Meetings West Show, June 14-15, 2006, Long Beach, CA
• Marriott's 2,700 Hotels Worldwide Generating Momentum in Cleaning Up Their Communities and Conserving Energy
• BringYourPet.com Helps Pet-Friendly Hotels Reach Niche Market and Create Incremental Revenues
• Debra Harris Named Director of Sales at Chateau Avalon, Kansas City, Kansas

• The Top Ten Most Memorable Hotel Movie Scenes Ever
• Merritt Hospitality Expands GuestWare Commitment to 10 Hotels; Software Selected to Strengthen Customer Loyalty, Overall Guest Satisfaction
• Managing Online Consumer Awareness for Your Hotel / Tim Henthorn
• The Fontainebleau's Contents, Tinged with Nostalgia, Being Sold Piece by Piece as the Resort Awaits a Two-year, $450 million Renovation
• Carlson Hotels Worldwide Honors Top Performing Hotels, Managers and Employees
• Boston Hotel & Restaurant Employees Union and the New InterContinental Boston Reach Labor Agreement
• Hilton Hotels Corporation and Shanghai Li Xing Hotel Company Ltd Sign Management Contract for Conrad Shanghai
• Asteco Signs Mövenpick to Manage Four Exclusive Hotels within the City of Dubai
• The Water Club Changes Name to San Juan Water & Beach Club Hotel; Many Perceived The Water Club As a Members-only Establishment
• Great Wolf Resorts, Inc. Promotes Julie Stokes to Vice President of Sales & Marketing and Melissa Wheeler to Vice President of Brand
• Benchmark Hospitality Appoints Ellen Ruane-Johnson General Manager of The Founders Inn
• Steven Eidelberg Named Director of Travel Industry Sales for Noble House Hotels & Resorts
• The Victorian Resort & Conference Center in Galveston Adds Hawthorn Suites to Its Name

• Resorts & Great Hotel�s June 2006 Private Meetings Summit Set to Begin
• TravelCLICK Reports Fourth Quarter Worldwide Hotel Revenue from Electronic Channels Up 10.9%
• Spacious Shower or an Old-fashioned Tub; Marriott Designing Shower-only Rooms
•  One Miami Condo-Hotel Owner Considering Switching Tactics; Wants to Sell Condos as a Security Investment Rather then a Real Estate Investment
• Celebrity Chef Charlie Palmer Planning to Build build the Charlie Palmer Hotel, a 35-story 400 room Boutique Non-gaming Condo Hotel; John Sharpe, Former COO with Four Seasons for 22 years, Joining Hotel Management
• Sheraton's $20 Million TV Ad Campaign About the Emotion of the Experience, Not Just the Physical Experience; Includes Debut of the "Warm Welcome" Program - Guests Will be Greeted by Lobby Ambassador, Receive Free Ten-minute Phone Card and a Prepaid Postcard
• Cendant Hotel Group Completes Baymont Inn & Suites Acquisition; Brand Will be Led by Keith Pierce
• Ritz-Carlton Edges Out Peninsula as the Most Prestigious Luxury Hotel Brand in 2006
• Mere Battles in the War for Brand Awareness
• Last Guests Check Out of the 196-room Kapalua Bay Hotel; Considered Maui's Finest When it Opened in October 1978
• InterContinental Hotels Group to Manage New Hotel Development in Islamabad, Pakistan
• The 554 room Paradisus Palma Real Resort Opens; $120 million Resort is Sol Melia's 2nd Paradisus in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
• Receap - HSMAI's Affordable Meetings® Mid-America Show at Chicago�s Navy Pier
• Benchmark Hospitality Appoints Bryan Forsythe General Manager at Berry Hill Plantation Resort in South Boston, Virginia
• John G. Marshall Named General Manager of Te Tiare Beach, an Outrigger Resort in French Polynesia
• Tom Petot Named Named General Manager Inn By The Sea in Cape Elizabeth, Maine
• Fenwick Inn Opens New Indoor Year-Round Water Experience; Completes Major Upgrade of Landmark Ocean City Hotel
• Silverleaf Resorts, Inc. Acquires the 64 room Pinnacle Lodge, Winter Park, Colorado for $3.6 million

• The 1,195 room Westin St. Francis San Francisco Being Acquired by Strategic Hotels & Resorts, Inc. for $440.0 million
• Hotel Web Site Productivity�The New Way to Measure Your Site�s Effectiveness
• Hotel Project In the City of Westerville, Ohio Gains Noble Investment Group as a Partner for the Development of a 250-room Full Service Hotel
• Dolce International Selects the Knowland Group for Group Sales Leads; Knowland Continues Stunning Growth � Group Sales Leads / Market Intelligence Now Offered in Underserved Markets
• Bank Looks To Foreclose On Staywood Inn Hotel & Conference Center in Normal, Illinois
• Reig Capital Group Selects Mandarin Oriental to Operate 144 room Hotel in Spain's Second Largest City, Barcelona
• Gemstone Resorts International to Manage House of Blues Hotel in Chicago
• HPT Purchases Two Crowne Plaza Hotels from FelCor for $63 million
• Scott Candland Named Vice President of Operations, Condominium/Timeshare Division for Outrigger Enterprises
• King Pacific Lodge, A Rosewood Resort, Names Daniel Ilias General Manager of the Floating Wilderness Lodge in British Columbia
• Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints John Hines Director of Sales for The Heldrich, New Brunswick, New Jersey
• Annette Nichols Appointed Director of Sales at the AmeriSuites Rogers, Arkansas

• Web Marketing Association Awards TravelCLICK iHotelier Website Booking Engine with 2006 Best Interactive Application for Hotel and Lodging Industry
• Has Your Hotel Recently Gone Smoke Free? Now Available as a Guest Amenity � Nicodrops � a Natural Lozenge for Guests Who Need to Reduce the Stress Associated with Not Smoking
• The Big Chains Reaching Out to Blacks, Latinos to Franchise their Brands; Of  50,000 Hotels in the United States, Fewer than 100 are Majority Black Owned
• Checking Into the New James Hotel Chicago -- Before It Opens
• Tucson to Get a 'Boutique Hotel';  Aloft Label May Add Hip New Facility in 2007
• The Procaccianti Group Completes $25 million Upgrade of the Harvey Hotel DFW Airport, Now Reflagged as The Westin Dallas Fort Worth Airport
• The Hotel Association of New York City Begins Negotiations with the Hotel Trades Council On a New Labor Contract for Hotel Employees
• CNL Hotels & Resorts, Inc. Reports Net Income of  $6.9 million for the Year Ended December 31, 2005; Ended Year with 90 Properties
• The Holiday Inn Elmhurst, Illinois Completes $30 million Water Park in Former Holidome
• Orangewood, LLC Opens the Doubletree Guest Suites®  Anaheim Resort/Convention Center
• Dubai-based Emaar Group and Indian Partner MGF Planning 10 Luxury and 15 to 20 Budget Hotels in India
• UNIQUE HOTEL DEVELOPMENT SITE - Richardson, TX  - offered by PKF Capital Markets Group in the heart of the Dallas Telcom Corridor. Palisades Villages planned mixed-use development. For more info � Visit http://cmg.pkfc.com  or contact [email protected] 
• Jean-François Gatti Appointed as New GM at InterContinental Mark Hopkins San Francisco
• John Murtha Appointed General Manager of Ocean Edge Resort & Club on Cape Cod
• David Sanderson Named General Manager for the Mission Point Resort, Mackinac Island
• Linda Coughlin, Founder & President of Manhattan-based Metro-Home, Receives Prestigious "Enterprising Women of the Year" Award

• Harrah's Selects Hotel Booking Solutions Incorporated for Room Demand Management Solution
• The Iroquois New York Installs SIGNETURE TV-HDSM from LodgeNet to Deliver Full Range Of HDTV Content, Including Current Release Video-On-Demand Movies
• Global Update: Who�s Where and Doing What / April 2006
• John L. Segreti Remembered as a Hotelier with a "Take Charge" Dynamism; Took the Luxury New York Palace Hotel to New Heights
• Faulkner, Whiteco and Starwood/Host Marriot Among Five Entities Submitting Proposals to City of Indianapolis for a 800 room Downtown Hotel
• The Financially Troubled Sheraton Billings Hotel Attracting Interest from Several Investor Groups
• Pyramid Hotel Opportunity Ventures Acquires the 373 room Sheraton Framingham Near Boston;  Intends to Maintain the Hotel's Current Brand
• Tandy O. Lofland of Intergroup Companies Structures Partnership for Casa del Mar Beach Golf & Spa Resort in Los Cabos, Mexico
• The 274-room Sheraton Royal Denarau Resort Refurbished, Transformed to the Westin Denarau Island Resort & Spa
• Luxe Worldwide Hotels Signs Plantation Inn and Golf Resort
• Blue Square Studios Partners with Microsoft for Hospitality ToolkitTM 3.0 Release
• Lufthansa and BusinessJet Class Sign Private Jet Agreement
• Doubletree Guest Suites Naples, Florida a Success Story � Named U.S. �Best of the Best� Doubletree for the Fourth Time
• Matt Crall, GM SpringHill Suites-Mall of Georgia, Named General Manager of the Year for 2005 for the Marriott SpringHill Suites Brand 
• Olivier Glattfelder Appointed Rooms Division Manager, Barton Creek Resort & Spa - Austin, Texas

April 4, 2006

• Champagne On Ice & Online, as Von Essen Combines Tradition with Technology Using the SynXis RedX� Distribution Management System
• Hotel Labor Union Negotiations - a Perspective / Joseph M. Gravish
• Hotel Revenue Management. . . The Way I See It / Neil Salerno
• Recap: 6th Annual Resort Management Conference; Chris von Imhoff, CEO, Alyeska Resort, Named Resort Executive of the Year
• Occupancy Taxes Up, Room Rates Up, But Occupancy Down for Orlando Hotels in February 2006
• The Navy Accepts Hotel Developer Doug Manchester's Plan for an 800-room, 40-story Hotel at Broadway and Pacific Highway in San Diego
• The $70 million InterContinental Resort and Thalasso-Spa Bora Bora Set to Open May, 2006
• Steigenberger Hotel Group Opens the 185 room Steigenberger Hotel de Saxe, Dresden; Replaces the Hotel de Saxe Constructed in 1786
• Benchmark Hospitality International Introduces The Benchmark Conference Plan; Benchmark's Brand Promise Repositions the Complete Meeting Package
• Nicodrops Provides Solution to Travelers Who Smoke; All Natural lozenges reduce the stress associated with not smoking, and are now available as hotel guest amenity
• The Hilton Cleveland South Rebranded Doubletree Hotel Cleveland South, Receiving $2 Million Renovation
• Greg Wolkom Appointed Chief Financial Officer, Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants
• UNIQUE HOTEL DEVELOPMENT SITE - Richardson, TX  - offered by PKF Capital Markets Group in the heart of the Dallas Telcom Corridor. Palisades Villages planned mixed-use development. Visit http://cmg.pkf.com/ or contact  [email protected] or 972-208-1820.

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