1. Eleven Dining Trends for 2008 / Forecasted by Joseph Baum & Michael Whiteman Co.
2. 2008 Top Hotel and Restaurant Trends To Watch / Andrew Freeman & Co.
3. Pritzkers Turn Page In Saga of Breakup: Warren Buffett's Purchase of Marmon Stake May Supply Clue on How Hyatt Hotel Chain Might be Sold
4. Major Changes Made in the Tenth Edition of Uniform System  of Accounts for the Lodging Industry
5. 25 Most Extraordinary Sales and Marketing Minds in Hospitality and Travel; HSMAI
6. From Millions of Reviews and Opinions TripAdvisor Furnishes  Funniest Traveler Comments of 2007
7. 2007: The Best Hotel Gyms in the U.S.
8. Top Ten Luxury Travel and Lifestyle Trends for 2008 / Karen Weiner Escalera
9. A 10-day Boot Camp Required for Prospective Resort Hotel Employees;  Push-ups, a Two-mile Run, MREs and a Lecture on Hotel Accounting
10. Hotel Industry Outlook 2008:  A Roundtable Discussion / JMBM
11. New Jersey Casino Control Commission Denies a License Renewal for the Tropicana Casino & Resort; A Trustee will Run Hotel Until a Buyer Takes Over
12. Lodgian Identifies Nine Hotels that it Intends to Sell, Will Reclassify These Hotels to Discontinued Operations in the 2008 First Quarter
13. Top Trends Impacting the Travel Industry Revealed at HEDNA's Conference
14. Israeli billionaire and Elad Group Owner Yitzhak Tshuva Comments on the Aquisition of the Plaza Hotel in New York; Wants to Build 30 More Plaza Hotels
15. Indian Hotels Vice-Chairman Seeks Apology from Orient Express Hotel's CEO Paul White For Putting Taj Hotel's Business in Poor Light
16. Hotelier�s 2008 Top Ten Internet Marketing Resolutions / Max Starkov & Jason Price
17. Richmond Marriott Hotel Being Acquired by Apple REIT Seven for $53.3 million;  The Procaccianti Group Had Bought the 389 room Hotel in 2002 for $10.4 million
18. Dallas Businessman, Kelcy Warren, Acquires the Bankrupt Lajitas Resort on the Rio Grande for $13.5 million; Previous Owner Spent  $100 million to Create Exclusive Golf Resort, Retreat
19. Sage Hospitality Resources Overshoots its Budget for The Nines Hotel Project in Downtown Portland; $118 million Cost Estimate Grows to $133 million
20. Travelodge Offering Couples Called Mary and Joseph a Free Night's Stay At 322 UK Hotels; To Make Up for the Hotel Industry Not Having Any Rooms Left on Christmas Eve Over 2,000 years Ago When 'Mary and Joseph Had to Settle for the Night in a Stable
21. The Once Hot Condo-hotel Trend Continues to Chill; Trump Has Contracts for About 65% of the 339 Condo-hotel Units at Chicago's Trump International Hotel & Tower  
22. Hotelier�s Confession: Second Voyage Confirms There is a Difference in Cruise Experiences / David M. Brudney
23. Owned by Kimberly-Clark Corp. the 5-year-old 875 room Renaissance St. Louis Hotel Continues to Struggle Financially
24. Engaging Service Part 2: It�s All About the Culture / Bryan K. Williams
25. Developers of Two Minneapolis Hotel Projects Put Plans on Hold Citing Difficult Financing Conditions

• Indian Hotels Vice-Chairman Seeks Apology from Orient Express Hotel's CEO Paul White For Putting Taj Hotel's Business in Poor Light
• The Inn of the Seventh Mountain Near Bend, Oregon Facing Dissident Condo Owners Following a Special Assessment of $17.7 million to Pay for Repairs to the Resort's Condo Buildings
• Ski Resort Have Everything to Lose from Global Warming; Taking Steps to Reduce Substantial Carbon Footprints
• San Diego Tourism Outlook Is Overcast; Hotel Occupancy Down from 73.3% in 2006 to about 72.9% in 2007
• Super 8 China Now Has 124 Properties Open or Under Construction in Sixty Cities Across China
• Restaurant Industry Outlook Softens: U.S. Restaurant Operators Reporting Negative Same-store Sales for the First Time in Nine Months / National Restaurant Association

December 27, 2007

• Pritzkers Turn Page In Saga of Breakup: Warren Buffett's Purchase of Marmon Stake May Supply Clue on How Hyatt Hotel Chain Might be Sold
• From Millions of Reviews and Opinions TripAdvisor Furnishes Funniest Traveler Comments of 2007
• Barron Hilton Contributes $1.2 Billion from Sale of Hilton Hotels & Harrah's to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Expands Philanthropic Legacy of His Father Conrad Hilton
• Lodgian Identifies Nine Hotels that it Intends to Sell, Will Reclassify These Hotels to Discontinued Operations in the 2008 First Quarter
• Investor Group Buys the Historic Wacker Apartments Hotel in Chicago's River North Neighborhood, Plans Renovation, Reopening as Upscale Boutique Hotel
• The Ritz-Carlton, Westchester Opens in Downtown White Plains, New York; The 118-room Hotel Is Set in a 44-story Glass Building Designed Architect Costas Kondylis
• HEI Hotels & Resorts Acquires the 234-suite Embassy Suites Tysons Corner in Northern Virginia; HEI's 7th Acquisition of the Year, the Hotel Will Undergo $7 million Renovation
• Owned by Dow Chemical and Managed by Dolce International, The Ashman Court Hotel in Midland, Michigan Rebranded H Hotel, Dually Named for Herbert Henry Dow, Dow Chemical's founder and "The Human Element," Dow's Advertising Campaign
• New Compact Between the State of Florida and the Seminole Tribe Will Allow Blackjack and Baccarat at Two Hardrock Casinos in Florida
• Hotel Equities Breaks Ground On its 20th Hotel, a 110 room Courtyard by Marriott in Buford, Georgia Near the Mall of Georgia
• Crestline Hotels & Resorts Appoints Hans J. Schmitt as General Manager for the Hotel Derek, Houston, Texas

• Dallas Businessman, Kelcy Warren, Acquires the Bankrupt Lajitas Resort on the Rio Grande for $13.5 million; Previous Owner Spent $100 million to Create Exclusive Golf Resort, Retreat
• Elad's Las Vegas Plaza Project Will Include the Largest Casino on the Strip, 4,100 hotel rooms, 2,600 condominiums - All Modeled after New York City's Plaza Hotel
• 25 Most Extraordinary Sales and Marketing Minds in Hospitality and Travel; HSMAI
• The Lexington Hotel at Orlando CityPlace, Downtown Orlando's First Condo-hotel Conversion Project, Sold in Bankruptcy Court to First Mortgage Holder for the $25 million Owed To It
• Are Design Professionals Worth the Fees they Charge? / Allan Wich
• Milestone Capital Corporation Acquires the Doubletree Hotel Greensboro; Doubletree Franchise Awarded to the Former Howard Johnson Hotel Upon Completion of $18.0 Million Renovation
• FelCor Lodging Trust Acquires The Renaissance Vinoy Resort & Golf Club, St. Petersburg, Florida and the Renaissance Esmeralda Resort & Spa, Indian Wells, California for $225 million 
• City of Baltimore Collects First Profit-sharing Check -$819,826 for Fiscal 2006 from the 733 room Marriott Waterfront Hotel
• The Knowland Group Improves Breakthrough READERS Service; Innovative upgrades put users in the driver's seat
• Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 128 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database
• The Knoxville Cumberland House Hotel Maintains its Local brand Despite a Four Points by Sheraton Affiliation
• Niagara County Community College Selects the First Floor of the Crowne Plaza Hotel Niagara Falls as Home for New Hospitality and Tourism Institute
• Rudy Sharp Named Managing Director of the 223-room Edgewater in Seattle
• Paul Howard Named Director of Hospitality Industry Relations at Penn State School of Hospitality Management

• Worldwide Electronic Hotel Revenue Up 16.4 Percent In Q3 2007, According to TravelCLICK; Quarterly eMonitor Reports Annual Growth for Room Nights at 5.9 Percent
• Hotelier's Confession: Second Voyage Confirms There is a Difference in Cruise Experiences / David Brudney
• Hotelier's 2008 Top Ten Internet Marketing Resolutions / Max Starkov and Jason Price
• Extended Competition Leads to Extended Recovery: An Analysis of the Extended-stay Lodging Segment / Robert Mandelbaum
• Developers of Two Minneapolis Hotel Projects Put Plans on Hold Citing Difficult Financing Conditions
• Sage Hospitality Spends $6 million to Ready the Connecticut Grand Hotel and Conference Center in Waterbury, CT for Conversion to Holiday Inn Brand
• Pan Pacific Hotels Adds Second Hotel in Singapore, the Negara on Claymore Will be Rebranded the Pan Pacific Orchard; Planning a New Build 342 room Pan Pacific Hotel in Tianjin, China
• FelCor Rebrands the Former Crowne Plaza San Francisco Union Square as the hotel 480
• U.S. Travel Industry Lauds Congress for Action That Improves Security and Sends Welcoming Message to International Visitors

• Knowland Signs 700th Client, Less Than Two Months After Signing Number 600; Cutting-edge technology and commitment to international growth spur market intelligence firm's phenomenal success
• Carlson Hotels Worldwide Completes Initial Phase of JDA Software's Enterprise Demand Outlook for Chain-Wide Revenue Optimization; Carlson Partners with JDA for Rapid Eight-Month Delivery of Unique, Actionable Enterprise Demand Outlook to 615 North American Properties for Better Decision Making
• 2008 Top Hotel and Restaurant Trends To Watch / Andrew Freeman & Co.
• Owned by Kimberly-Clark Corp. the 5-year-old 875 room Renaissance St. Louis Hotel Continues to Struggle Financially
• Richmond, Virginia Area On Track for its Best Year ever in Hotel Occupancy; 2,000 Rooms are Under Construction
• Hyatt Place Equiping All Hotel Rooms with a 42-inch HDTV with 11 Channels of HD and an Integrated Panel Allowing Guests to Plug in Numerous Devices for Big-screen Interaction
• Hospitality's Response to the "Green" Movement / J. Ragsdale Hendrie
• The 600-room MGM Grand Macau Resort Casino Opens; The $1.25 billion Project a 50/50 Joint Venture Between MGM MIRAGE and Pansy Ho Chiu-king, the Daughter of Stanley Ho
• Krisam Group Adds Four Upscale Resorts, Achieves 42% Year-Over-Year Revenue Growth Among Existing Resort Members; Anticipating Continued Strength in the Resort Group Market in 2008, Krisam now has 100 Resort Members with Unique Offerings
• Dolce International Signs 20-year Management Contracts with Inchydoney Partnership to Manage Dolce Fregate in Provence, France and Dolce Bad Nauheim in Frankfurt, Germany
• Joan M. Esneault Promoted to Vice President of Resort Sales for Foxwoods Resort Casino and MGM Grand at Foxwoods
• Paul Scanlon Named Director of Operations for Nita Lake Lodge in Whistler, British Columbia
• Benchmark Hospitality Appoints Laura Batchelor Director of Conference Services for The Chattanoogan
• Michelle K. White Appointed Director of Sales of the Homewood Suites by Hilton, Frisco, Texas

• Where Does User-Generated Content Fit Into Suppliers' Overall Online Marketing Strategy? Social Media Strategies for Travel 2008 Special
• Used Cooking Oil Helps Heat Juneau's Westmark Baranof Hotel; A Mix of 1/2 Used Vegetable Cooking Oil and 1/2 Fuel Oil Used to Heat the Hotel
• Palm Springs Offers Unprecedented Hotel Tax Rebates for Two Proposed Resorts, The Hard Rock Hotel and Mondrian Hotel
• Strategic Hotels & Resorts Acquires 57 Acres of Oceanfront Land in Punta Mita, Mexico for an As-yet-unnamed Mixed-use Resort Development
• Around the Kansas City Metropolitan Area About 3,400 Hotel Rooms in Mixed-use Settings Proposed in the Past Year
• Best Western Ville-Marie in Montreal Chooses MSI's Products to Automate Luxury Hotel
• 'Last Call' for Pre-Early Bird Registration for 2nd Annual HR in Hospitality� Conference; Speakers hail Human Resource Executive® / Cornell University-led event as 'much needed' for all HR professionals; Wynn Las Vegas, March 16 - 19, 2008
• Vista Capital Company Arranges $27.3 Million of First Mortgage Financing for the Hilton Garden Inn in Fairfax, Virginia
• Casa Dorada Los Cabos, Resort & Spa Opening January, Ups the Ante in Cabo San Lucas
• Hotel A.G., a Hotel Brokerage Company Sells the Courtyard by Marriott hotel Harrisonburg, Virginia
• Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts Opens First Hotel in Southwest China, the 593 room Shangri-La Hotel, Chengdu
• Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International Comprehensive Calendar On-tap for 2008; Chock Full of Educational Opportunities, Business-to-Business Forums
• Nylo's Plano, Texas Hotel Targeting a Discreet Group of Travelers; The $22.8 million, 176-room Property Designed to Look Like an Urban Loft, with Brick Walls, Exposed Ductwork and Polished Concrete Floors
• Thomas Becker Named General Manager of  The Harmon Hotel, Spa & Residences at MGM Mirage's CityCenter, Las Vegas
• MGM MIRAGE Hospitality Appoints Three to Top Executive Positions;  Stuart Fearnley, Tobias Mattstedt and David Van Kalsbeek
• Joseph Palmieri Named General Manager of the Hilton Americas-Houston
• Big Island Chef Peter Merriman Expanding to the Kapalua Resort on Maui

• Top Names to Speak at TravelCom 2008; Executives from InterContinental Hotel Group, YouTube, Priceline, Travelocity, and TripAdvisor to Headline Event
• Major Changes Made in the Tenth Edition of Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry
• More Social Media Chatter�a Hotel Marketing Tool / Neil Salerno
• Kuwait Based IFA Hotels & Resorts Enters the United States with a $300 million Hotel to be Built in Manhattan
• DOC-Economou Acquires Land from Pittsburgh's Urban Redevelopment Authority for Development of a Luxury Hotel, Condominiums and Spa
• Charlotte's Ballantyne Resort, with a Helipad, a $300 Signature Drink and Commanding Exterior Presence May Send Message to Locals to Pass it By
• Hotel A.G., a Hotel Brokerage Company Sells the Courtyard by Marriott hotel Somerset, New Jersey
• HSMAI Announces Brenda Fields of Fields & Company Among its 2007 "Top 25 Most Extraordinary Minds in Sales & Marketing
• The Bluestone Project - a New Generation Short-break Destination Resort in Wales, UK / Barry Napier
• Agenda Set for The Council of Hotel and Restaurant Trainers - Hospitality Training Conference Scheduled for March 1-4, 2008, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Tom Netting Named Managing Director of the New Grand Hyatt San Antonio
• Central Florida Hotel & Lodging Association 2007 Hotelier of the Year Award Presented to Peter Kacheris of the Walt Disney World Swan & Dolphin Resorts
• Bruce Grosbety Named Vice President of Operations for Terra Resort Group and General Manager for Hotel Terra Jackson Hole
• Athens Based Grace Hotels Appoints Philippe M.E. Requin Chief Executive Officer

• Gomes + Cordish Gaming Management LLC and Wynn Resorts Possible Bidders for Atlantic City's Tropicana Casino and Resort
• Tropicana Provides Update on Atlantic City License; Company intends to repay senior debt with proceeds of potential sale of its Tropicana Atlantic City property
• Approval of Hotel Plans in Tacoma's Downtown Brewery District Will Require a Creative Architect and Some Out-of-the-Box Thinking, a Typical Freeway Hotel Not Wanted
• Aston Development Eyeing Waco, Texas for 120-room Hotel Indigo
• V3 Hotel Management Breaks Ground On a 164 room Hotel Indigo in Downtown Brooklyn, New York; The Property Will be Managed by Graves World Hospitality
• Tourism Asset Holdings Limited Building Two Accor Branded Hotels in Syndey, Australia, the Pullman Sydney Olympic Park and Hotel Ibis King Street Wharf
• Sage Hospitality Resources and the Amstar Group Partner with Inland Pacific Companies to Aquire the 369 room Westin Westminster in Westminster, Colorado
• Benchmark Hospitality's Burt Cabañas Recognized As One Of The  "100 Most Influential Hispanic Business Leaders for 2007"
• Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants to Enhance Online Presence; Selects VFM Interactive as Rich Media Production & Distribution Provider; - VFM to produce and distribute new rich media for all Kimpton properties
• Tourism Can Help in Global Action on Climate Change and Poverty / World Tourism Organization
• Viceroy Hotels and Resorts Partnering with Indochina Land and Secured Capital Japan to Develop Resort on Vietnam's China Beach
• Gemstone Hotels & Resorts Names Michael Straube Regional Director of Operations; Will Operate out of the Carlton on Madison Avenue in New York City
• Nicholas Emery and Jennifer Harding Appointed to General Manager Positions with Fairmont Hotels & Resorts
• Adam J. Roston Appointed to the Pan Pacific Seattle as Regional Director of Marketing, North America for Pan Pacific Hotels and Resorts

• New Jersey Casino Control Commission Denies a License Renewal for the Tropicana Casino & Resort; Columbia-Sussex and its CEO, William J. Yung III, Fail to Meet the State's Operating Standards for Financial Responsibility, Character and Integrity / A Trustee will Run Hotel Until a Buyer Takes Over
• Cendyn Honored with Thirteen Awards; Nine Adrian Awards and Four WebAwards
• A 10-day Boot Camp Required for Prospective Resort Hotel Employees; Push-ups, a Two-mile Run, MREs and a Lecture on Hotel Accounting
• 2007: The Best Hotel Gyms in the U.S.
• Plans for a $25 million Conference Center and a $37.5 million Hotel in College Station, Texas Come to a Standstill
• Casino Expansion Has Transformed America / Stanley Turkel
• Hilton Hotels Signs Management Agreement with Amplio to Open a Hilton Garden Inn in Diyarbakir, Turkey
• Bald Mountain de Mexico's Resort Development in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico to be a Rosewood Resort
• The ProHost® Housekeeping System Has Been Selected for the 319 room Westin Alexandria in Virginia
• Castle Resorts & Hotels Acquires New Contract with Queen Kapiolani Hotel in Waikiki
• Concord Hospitality Spending $11.1 million to Renovate and Convert the Hamiltonian Hotel in Hamilton, Ohio to a Courtyard by Marriott
• Construction Begins on The Cougar Canyon Golf Resort and Spa, Trinidad, Colorado
• Royco Hotels Adds Management Depth, New Systems in Response to Growth from Largest Client Supertel Hospitality
• Robert Trotter as General Nanager and Kristen Pryor as the Director of Sales and Marketing at The Westin Riverfront & Spa in Avon, Colorado

• Recap: HSMAI Travel Internet Marketing Strategy Conference, Highlighting Social Media Marketing Trends
• Flyte Systems, Javits Center Earn Kudos for Providing Airline Info at IH/M&RS; Innovator Javits Center provides attendees at IH/M&R Show with airline departure information for La Guardia, JFK and Newark International Airports
• Israeli billionaire and Elad Group Owner Yitzhak Tshuva Comments on the Aquisition of the Plaza Hotel in New York; Wants to Build 30 More Plaza Hotels
• Prince Resorts Spending $150 million on Repairs and Renovations to the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel and Mauna Kea Golf Course; Scheduled to Reopen in December 2008
• Sage Hospitality Resources Overshoots its Budget for The Nines Hotel Project in Downtown Portland; $118 million Cost Estimate Grows to $133 million
• Travelodge Offering Couples Called Mary and Joseph a Free Night's Stay At 322 UK Hotels; Offer Makes Up for the Hotel Industry Not Having Any Rooms Left on Christmas Eve Over 2,000 years Ago When Mary and Joseph Had to Settle for the Night in a Stable
• General Manager sought for the 320 Guest Ranch, Big Sky, Montana. Opportunity of a lifetime. Requires 5+ years experience in hospitality, ranch or travel related business
• Sonnenblick-Eichner Company Arranges $19,300,000 of Acquisition Financing for Hotel Fifty, Portland, Oregon
• Led by Developer Ralph Burnet, the 229 room W Minneapolis - The Foshay Scheduled for late 2008 Opening
• SoftBrands Signs Navy Lodges Contract; SoftBrands and Navy Lodge Program to Deploy Property Management Suite of Software to Navy Lodges Worldwide
• The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company Opens Third Property in China, the 305-room Ritz-Carlton, Beijing
• The Reef Atlantis, The Newest Kerzner Resort, To Fund Conservation of Failing Coral Reef Environments In Bahamian Waters
• The DeVos Family, Former Owners of Peter Island in the British Virgin Islands, Open the $85 million Cape Eleuthera Resort & Yacht Club on Eleuthera Island, The Bahamas
• Elizabeth Baum Named National Sales Manager Topnotch Resort and Spa, Stowe, Vermont

December 11, 2007

• Drilling into CRM Opportunities Throughout Your Travel Company
• Staff Members of the Hotel Washington Hold Keys to Storied Past; D.C. Hotel Set to Close 90 Years After Opening
• Apollo to Buy Regent Seven Seas Cruises From Carlson; Carlson Retains Regent Brand, Appoints Bjorn Gullaksen as President, Regent Luxury Group
• Sunstone Hotels and Strategic Hotels Partner to Own and Operate BuyEfficient, an Internet Based Purchasing System for the Hospitality Industry
• The $13.3 million Renovation of the Hyatt Regency Buffalo Receiving a $5.1 million State Grant plus $1.16 million in Tax Breaks; the 396-room Hotel Has Not Made a Profit Since it Opened in 1984
• Sunstream Hotels and Resorts Continues to Benefit After 5 Years As an EZ Yield.com Client
• Driftwood Hospitality Driving Revenue with Help of AnyRate Competitive Rate Intelligence Tools; Leading-Edge Pricing Tools to be Deployed at Additional Properties in 2008
• William F. Burruss Jr. and Daniel D. Hanley Form Distinguished Hotels & Residences International
• Riu Hotels & Resorts Begins Construction of its 14th Mexican Resort, the 484 suite Riu Palace Pacifico in Puerto Vallarta
• L.A. Hotel Turns to HotSOS/Vocera Technology to Ensure Top Service; InterContinental Los Angeles Century City enhances its renowned reputation for world-class service with unique technology combination
• Benchmark Hospitality Appoints Andrew Zinni General Manager for Costa d'Este Beach Resort, Vero Beach, Florida
• Mark DePiero, Sean Anderson, Tom Cole and Melissa Fromento Elected to the IACC Board of Directors
• Steve Hicks Named Vice President of Resort Operations, North America for Diamond Resorts International
• Vlad Gritsman Appointed General Manager of the Homewood Suites by Hilton® hotel in Frisco, Texas

• TravelCLICK and Travelport GDS Improve Travel Agent Advertisement Awareness and Bookings; Worldspan Accents Now Delivers Top-of-Screen Placement to Worldspan by Travelport Terminals Worldwide
• MGM Grand Macau Selects Materials Management System by Agilysys; New Luxury Property Implements Industry-Leading Inventory and Procurement Software
• Richmond Marriott Hotel Being Acquired by Apple REIT Seven for $53.3 million; The Procaccianti Group Had Bought the 389 room Hotel in 2002 for $10.4 million
• Clarence McLeod, Manager of the 51-room Gold Floor at the Fairmont Washington DC, Caters to Guests' Every Whim
• Tom Chase, John Holland, Kirby Payne, Candice Sweeney Inducted Into Minnesota Hospitality Hall of Fame; AmericInn of Mt. Iron/Virginia, Bluefin Bay on Lake Superior Named 2007 MLA Properties of the Year
• Not As Great in 2008 for U.S. Hotels / PKF
• Merchant Equity Group Building 500 room Hyatt Regency Toronto Airport; The $300 million Mixed-use Complex Will Replace the Regal Constellation Hotel
• Capella Hotel and Resorts, Promotora Turistica Punta Arrecife, and Textron Financial Corporation Building Capella Ixtapa, a Cliffside 59 Suite Resort
• Horwath HTL Arranges Sale of Cocoa Beach Oceanside Inn Cocoa Beach, Florida
• Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 144 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database
• Missing Variables in Assessing the Potential for Tourism Development in Croatia / Barry Napier
• Developer Robert L. Clement III Planning a 250-room Luxury Hotel in Downtown Charleston, South Carolina
• Luckey's Management Inc. Building a Crowne Plaza and a Hampton Inn in Respectively Fort Lauderdale and Miramar, Florida
• Nearing Completion, the $32 million Le Rivage, Sacramento's First Riverfront Luxury Hotel
• Stan Kantowski Named General Manager of the Miramonte Resort & Spa, Indian Wells, California

December 7, 2007

• Hospitality Industry IT Benchmarking Survey re-released in a new format designed to broaden and encourage participation
• Hotel Industry Outlook: Industry Fundamentals - Where have we been? Where are we going? / Global Hospitality Advisor 
• Top Trends Impacting the Travel Industry Revealed at HEDNA's Conference
• Right-Sized Staffing Ensures Front Desk Sales & Service Success / Doug Kennedy
• Trump Hits into Rough in Scotland: Sand and Farmer Trap Plans for "The World's Greatest Golf Resort"
• NCH-Transwest Properties Acquires the Westin La Paloma Resort and the Westin Hilton Head Island for about $310 Million
• With New Supply at a Near Standstill, Now Is the Time to Buy Hotel Assets / Rick Swig
• Konocti Harbor Resort in Northern California for Sale
• Benchmark Hospitality International and French Lick Resorts & Casino, LLC Re-negotiate Management Responsibilities
• Hospitality eBusiness Strategies Wins Gold Adrian Awards in 2007
• Orion Communities and R.L. Pearson & Associates Developing The Ritz-Carlton and The Residences at The Ritz-Carlton, Tampa Bay
• Present Day Travelers Checking into Shaner Hotels' Experimental Guestroom of the Future at the Courtyard Newark-University of Delaware
• Hilton Hotels and Azul Management Breakground on 144-room resort in Kralendijk, Bonaire, 50 miles off the Coast of Venezuela
• Developer Joseph Posh Receiving $14.9 million Pennsylvania State Loan to Finance a $16.5 million Hyatt Place Hotel in Downtown Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
• Hotelier Jeroen Gerrese Leading the Sheraton Stockton Hotel at Regent Pointe to Four Stars and a Revival of Stockton's Historic Waterfront
• Tynette Lynch Named General Manager of the Wynfrey Hotel in Birmingham, Alabama
• Juan Costa Ribas Appointed Executive Assistant Manager at the Caravelle Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
• Marion Hughes, Nancy Little and Duane Overgaard Elected to HEDNA's Board of Directors

• Fairmont Hot Springs Selects Maestro to Drive Revenue and Strengthen Marketing for 4.5-Star Resort; Maestro's total integration and single-image database support guest-centric service & targeted marketing
• Noble Investment Group Implements Aptech's Targetvue Budgeting and Forecasting System, Execuvue Business Intelligence; Noble automates business analysis, budget planning to support growth of rapidly expanding portfolio
• Eleven Dining Trends for 2008 / Forecasted by Joseph Baum & Michael Whiteman Co.
• AH&LA Responds to Recent Isolated Incidents of Housekeepers' Unsanitary Guestroom Glass Cleaning Actions With a Sample of Recommendations for Effective Glassware Procedures
• Memphis Based Cooper Hotels Gravitates Toward Hilton Properties -- Has Developed at Least One of Each of the Six Hilton Brands
• "Supplier Sites Gaining Ground on Third-Party Portals" - Third-Party Travel Aggregators�Who Needs Them? / Neil Salerno
• Daniel Vosovic, 26 Year-old Graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City,  Designs Line of Uniforms and Accessories for NYLO Hotels (No Polyester or Burgundy with Brass Buttons)
• Sonnenblick-Eichner Company Arranges $24 Million of First Mortgage Financing for Hotel deLuxe in Portland, Oregon
• Fairmont Hotels & Resorts Taps UniFocus for New Labor Management System
• SoftBrands Selected by Salamander Hospitality for Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club
• Michael Burton Named Director of Operations at the Westin Galleria Dallas
• Brian Allen Appointed Executive Food and Beverage Director for the Stoneleigh Hotel & Spa Dallas

• Experts from YouTube, Hilton, Starwood, Orbitz and Travelocity Discuss How to Monetize Social Media 
• Tech Savvy Road Warriors Expect Travel Innovations from Hotels; The Crowne Plaza Dulles Airport responds with real-time flight information in lobby
• EliteMeetings.net Takes Bronze in the 51st Annual Adrian Awards; Official Award Presentation by HSMAI to be January 28, 2008 at New York City's Marriott Marquis
• Engaging Service Part 2: It's All About the Culture / Bryan Williams
• A Series of Lawsuits Reveals a Rift Within the Family that Controls Evans Hotels, the San Diego Company that Operates The Lodge at Torrey Pines, the Bahia Resort Hotel and the Catamaran Resort Hotel
• The Victorville, California Planning Commission Denies Application for a 120 room Value Place Extended Stay Hotel; Plans Lacked Pool, Gym and Recreational Space
• Hotel Owners and Operators Expecting Higher Yield from Increases in More Personalized, Direct Selling Expenses / David Brudney
• Over $18 billion in New Hotel Developments Planned in the Persian Gulf States of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates; the Largest, Asia-Asia Hotel in Dubailand, Will Have 6,500 rooms
• HEI Hotels & Resorts Acquires Properties in Philadelphia and Cambridge, Massachusetts; Will Brand Both Le Méridien
• Interstate Hotels & Resorts Forms Joint Venture with Harte Holdings of Ireland, Signs Agreement to Acquire Four-hotel Portfolio from Blackstone for $208 Million
• October, 2007 Arrivals to Hong Kong Exceed 2.56 Million, U.S. Visitors Up Nearly 12% for Month, Average Hotel Occupancy 89%
• Plaza Internacional Building a $77 million 264-room Crowne Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Shaner Hotels Forms Partnership with an Investment Fund Managed by Rothschild Realty; Up to $200 million of Debt and equity Available for Up to Fifteen new Marriott-branded Hotels
• Two Hotel Projects, 1157 Chapel and Centerplan, Expected to Remake the Hotel Scene in New Haven, Connecticut
• About 240 Developers Have Requested Forms to Show "Expression of Interest" in the 172 room Hampton Marina Hotel, Owned by the City of Hampton, Virginia
• Evelyne Oreskovich of Pegasus Solutions Receives HEDNA's 2007 Award of Excellence
• Top Ten Group Events in North America and Selected Markets -Toronto and Detroit / Knowland Group
• Inn at Middletown Reaps Big Benefits from Online Sales and Catering Solution for Mid-Scale Properties
• Budget Host Switches to InnLink, LLC for Reservation Services
• Tom Luersen Appointed Regional Managing Director, Pacific Northwest for Lowe Hospitality Group
• Elysian Hotels & Resorts Appoints Thomas Lind Executive Vice President of Operations and Managing Director of the Elysian Hotel, Chicago
• John Hamati Joins Carefree Hospitality as Vice President of Hospitality and Development

December 3, 2007

• Growth Properties Hospitality Management Signs Two Harrisburg PA Properties; Building upon an already strong presence in Pennsylvania
• Ten Ways Preventive Maintenance Can Help Reduce Energy Costs This Winter; Courtesy of Mintek Mobile Data Solutions-Lodging's PM Expert
• The Once Hot Condo-hotel Trend Continues to Chill; Trump Has Contracts for About 65% of the 339 Condo-hotel Units at Chicago's Trump International Hotel & Tower
• Hiring 22 Sous Chefs and 200 Cooks Not a Big Deal for Greg Carroll, the Executive Chef of MotorCity Casino Hotel, Detroit
• City of Albany, NY Selects SMG and Starwood to Operate the $325 Albany Convention Center and 400-room Sheraton Hotel
• Linchris Hotel Corp. Acquries $100 Million Hotel Portfolio from Fine Hotel Corp.
• From The Desk of Karen Weiner Escalera� Top Ten Luxury Travel and Lifestyle Trends for 2008
• Molinaro Koger Facilitates Sale of BWI Airport Marriott to European Joint Venture
• New World Development Company Limited and Global Hyatt Building a 384 room Hyatt Regency in Kowloon's Tsim Sha Tsui District, Replaces the Former Hyatt Regency on Nathan Road
• Integrity, Diversity and Productivity in Foodservice Discussed at Upcoming HR in Hospitality� Conference
• Pacifica Capital & Brokerage, Inc. Arranges Another Successful Hotel Refinance
• One of New Zealand's Finest Boutique Hotels, the Princes Gate Hotel in Rotorua, Now Managed by Accor
• Last Chance to Register for the CVCT WebCast Marathon - Three Web Casts December 7, 2007; A Double Shot of Hotel Sales Caffeine and a Single Shot of Revenue Management
• Colleen A. Brzozowski Named Director of Sales, Grand Traverse Resort & Spa near Traverse City, Michigan
• Lucien Barriere Hotels & Casinos Selects OPERA Multi-Property PMS Solution
• Ghee Alexander Appointed General Manager of the Wyndham Princeton Forrestal Hotel & Conference Center, Plainsboro, New Jersey

Top 25 Read Articles - November 2007

1. Eight Hotels Achieve 2008 AAA Five Diamond Status For the First Time; Complete List of 100 Hotels and 60 Restaurants
2. Groom Dies of Heart Attack Five Days Before Wedding; Buck Hotel in Feasterville, Pennsylvania - Has No Intention of Refunding the $21,725 Reception Deposit Paid by the Family
3. Hotel Manager Shot Dead at the Comfort Inn, Columbia, Missouri
4. Hotel Bed Wars Giving Way to the Breakfast War; Doughnuts, Coffee a Thing of the Past
5. Habits of Highly Successful Revenue Managers Ramped Up for 2008 / Carol Verret
6. Top Five Reasons for Meeting Planner Site Selection; Knowland Group Research Reveals That Price Isn�t Everything
7. How Far Will Hotels Go? Replacing Gideon Bibles with "Intimacy" Kits! / Barry Napier
8. We Don't Have to Sell Any More? Focus of Hotel Sales Personnel to Shift from Selling Room Nights to Capturing More Dollars / Robert Mandelbaum and Viet Vo
9. Historic Washington, D.C. Hotel to Close after 90 Continuous Years of Operation; Property Will Re-open As W Hotel Following 12-month Renovation
10. Carlson Companies Continues Search for Either Internal or External Candidates for the CEO Position; Onetime Heir Apparent, Curtis Carlson Nelson, Not in the Mix
11. The Fairmont Turnberry Isle Resort & Club in Aventura, Florida Facing Legal Challenge Following the Cancellation of Passover Holiday Event for More than 500 Orthodox Jews
12. The Colour of Hotels; The Politics of Going Green / Barry Napier
13. Developer Chris Ansley Puts the 3-year-old, 575-room JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort & Spa Up for Sale
14. Sofitel's Ambitious Strategic Plan: Two New Sister Brands,; Robert Gaymer-Jones Named Sofitel's New COO
15. "It's the Dollar, Stupid!" Where the Destination Management Company (DMC) Business Is Going, 2008
16. San Francisco Hotels Experiencing a Flood of Sales, Acquisitions and Renovations as Occupancy Rates for the City's 33,000 Hotel Rooms Topped 88% in August, 2007
17. Hyatt's Break with Tradition; London's Former Great Eastern Hotel Re-Opens as the 236 room Andaz Liverpool Street;  Five Restaurants and Four Bars, No Check-in Counters
18. Pause for Reaction: New Generation of Hospitality Sales Professionals Lesson #9 / David M. Brudney
19. The Top Ten Unconventional Buildings Converted to Hotels Determined by TripAdvisor Travelers and Editors
20. The Real Deal Behind Green Hotels and Carbon Footprints / Barry Napier
21. Adam's Mark Hotel in Dallas Could Become a Sheraton - Texas' Largest Hotel, with 1,840 rooms and 230,000 square feet of Meeting Space
22. What If The Naysayers Are Right? U.S. Hotels Could Lose 6.1 Percent In Revenue
23. InterContinental Hotels Group Signs Multi-year Agreement with Online Travel Company Expedia; 3,800 IHG Branded Hotels Will Be Available for Booking on expedia.com, hotels.com and hotwire.com
24. Loud Arguments, Parties and Amorous Couples Top List of Most Common Hotel Noise Complaints, Says New AmericInn Hotel Survey; More Than One-Quarter Of Hotel Guests Put Up With Disruptions Rather Than Try To Get A Quiet Night's Rest
25. Will a Hotel's SUSTAINABLE GREEN Program Generate New Revenue and Increased Profits? / Richard Namovich

• The Peninsula Manila Posted Messages on its Website at the Height of its Takeover by Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV and Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim on November 29, 2007; Hotel Expected to Re-open December 3, 2007
• The Top Ten Unconventional Buildings Converted to Hotels Determined by TripAdvisor Travelers and Editors
• Crestline Hotels & Resorts Selected as the New Management Company for the New Otani Hotel in Los Angeles; Hotel to be Renamed The Kyoto Grand Hotel and Gardens
• Newport Creek Hospitality Opens Office in Osaka, Which Will Serve as NCH Japan Headquarters
• Chef John Tesar Discusses the $20 million Makeover for the Mansion - the Original Dallas Restaurant Institution
• Starwood Signs Management Agreements to Operate Westin Hotels in Hyderabad, Pune and Kolkata, India
• Offer Nissenbaum Appointed Managing Director of The Peninsula Beverly Hills
• Mark Eads Named General Manager for the Two Bunch Palms Resort and Spa, Desert Hot Springs, California
• Chet Surmaczewicz Named General Manager of the Embassy Suites Lake Buena Vista, Orlando, Florida

• Top Five Reasons for Meeting Planner Site Selection; Knowland Group Research Reveals That Price Isn't Everything
• Green Heat For the Holidays: The innovative Buffet Burner from Pineapple Hospitality is so hot it can help keep the environment cool 
• Historic Washington, D.C. Hotel to Close after 90 Continuous Years of Operation; Property Will Re-open As W Hotel Following 12-month Renovation 
• What Were The Major Factors Affecting Hotel Capital Expenditures From 2000 To 2005? / Vi Thi Dang - HVS Canada
• Reading a Restaurant's Decibels; Design Elements May Increase - or Diminish - Noise Levels
• Tohono O'odham Gaming Enterprise Selects Newmarket International's Delphi® Sales and Catering Solution for its Multi-Property Casinos
• Trust International Successfully Implements Okura Hotels & Resorts on Trust|Voyager CRS; Hotels smoothly transitioned to new OC two-letter GDS Code 
• Affiliates of Waterford Group, LLC, Slavik, Inc., and Glenn Jette Building a 120 room Courtyard by Marriott in Stuart, Florida 
• Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP) Reaches 4,700 Members in 50 Countries
• Gregor Andréewitch Named General Manager of the Conrad Tokyo
• Brett Miller Named General Manager of Nashville's Union Station Hotel, a Wyndham Historic Hotel 
• Linda OBrien Named General Manager and Lori A. Fuhrmann Named Director of Sales and Marketing for the 198-room Crowne Plaza Milwaukee-Wauwatosa
• The American Tourism Society Elects David Parry Chairman of the Board and Phil Otterson as President; Plans to Improve and Develop Travel Between North America and the Baltics, Central and Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean / Red Sea Region and Russia 
• Jim Palmeri Appointed Executive Chef at the Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, New York 
• Kevin D. Climer Named Food and Beverage Director and Rodney Rivers Named Executive Sous Chef of the Whitetail Club & Resort, McCall, Idaho 
• Benchmark Hospitality Appoints Mara Xenos Director of Conference Services for Eaglewood Resort & Spa, Itasca, Illinois

• Hotwire.com Tops Independent Travel Web Sites in Customer Satisfaction, Orbitz.com Last According to J.D. Power Report
• SynXis Adds Caesars Palace and Bally's Further Enhancing its Market Leadership in the Global Gaming Industry; Harrah's Operating Company, Inc. renews longtime SynXis relationship while consolidating  30 properties onto the RedX Distribution Management System
• Rosewood Hotels and Sun Country Airlines Take First Place Away from Industry Leaders; Market Metrix Announces Third Quarter 2007 Hospitality Index Results
• Detroit's Second Permanent Luxury Casino Hotel Opens - The 400-room MotorCity Casino Hotel
• Two Developers, American Design & Build Inc and Raymond Management, Planning Three Hotels Near Milwaukee's Mitchell International Airport
• IFA Hotels & Resorts Planning its Third Yotel at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol; Concept Inspired by the Japanese Capsule Hotels and British Airways First Class 'Cabins'
• Noble Investment Group Acquires the Richardson Hotel in Northeast Dallas from Lowe Enterprises; Will Invest $6.4 million in Improvements and Convert to the Hyatt Regency Brand
• Hard Rock International and Lagomar Resort, S.A. Planning Hard Rock Hotel Along Playa Blanca Beach in Farallon, Panama
• Hyatt Sarasota becomes Hyatt Regency with a $22 Million Upgrade
• The Kessler Collection Selects Newmarket's Delphi; Leading Luxury Hotel Collection to Standardize Sales Automation with Sales and Catering Application from Newmarket
• Grand Velas All Suites & Spa Resort Awarded AAA Five Diamond-Award for Second Year in a Row
• Luxury Travel 360, New Online Newsletter, Delivers Unique Marketing Insights, Support and Services to the Luxury Travel Industry
• NFS Hospitality Corporation Appoints Brian Primeau as Business Director of Operations for the New West Coast Office
• More Pets On The Road During 2007 Holiday According to BringYourPet.com
• Shaner Hotels Establishes $100,000 Endowed Scholarship at The University of Delaware Department of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management
• Katie Benson Appointed Managing Director of The Langham, Hong Kong
• Guy Underkoffler Named Senior Vice President of Aqua Hotels, Honolulu, Hawaii
• Stuart Newmark Named Senior Vice President & General Manager for the Grand Bohemian Hotel, Orlando, Florida
• Grant MacPherson Named Culinary Director and Head Chef at Sandy Lane in St. James, Barbados
• Simon Crawford-Welch Named President and COO of Diamond Resorts International

November 27, 2007

• Luxury Link Makes It Easier Than Ever for Hotel Partners to Connect to Affluent Consumers; Premier online luxury travel resource announces launch of cutting-edge call solutions from eStara
• Gaylord Entertainment Company Acquiring the Westin La Cantera Resort in San Antonio, Texas for $252.5 million; Planning Three-year, $250 million Expansion
• Surprise! Many Hotel Web Sites Are Still Dysfunctional and Under-utilized / Neil Salerno
• A Web Cast Marathon -- Three Web Casts December 7, 2007; A Double Shot of Hotel Sales Caffeine and a Single Shot of Revenue Management
• How Far Will Hotels Go? Replacing Gideon Bibles with "Intimacy" Kits! / Barry Napier
• Relais & Chateaux Adds 34 Privately-Owned Hotels and Restaurants to its Global Association
• The Fairmont Turnberry Isle Resort & Club in Aventura, Florida Facing Legal Challenge Following the Cancellation of Passover Holiday Event for More than 500 Orthodox Jews
• Five Jobs in a Hotel: Average Pay from $17,179 to $112,763
• Auction Set for the Colonial Revival-style Hotel Prince Charles in Fayetteville, North Carolina on December 11, 2007; Bidders Required to Bring $100,000 Certified Check
• Hotel & Leisure Advisors Announces New Project Development Analysis Services
• Booking.com Revealed as No. 1 in Hotel Availability this Christmas; Research by HotelsCombined.com across eight popular travel websites finds Booking.com to have the most available hotels this Christmas
• SoftBrands Combines Epitome and Karyon to Fuel the Rapid Growth of GrandStay Hospitality, LLC
• The ProHost® Housekeeping System Selected for the 420 room Hard Rock Hotel San Diego
• Hotel Miramar Hong Kong Unveils US$50 Million Renovation Project; Lifestyle Guru Colin Cowie the Creative Director for the Ballroom Refurbishment Phase
• Fitness-Minded Hotels Join Fit Hotel Directory
• WexTrust Capital, LLC Expanding into Hotels, Forms Axela Hospitality, LLC Headed Elmer Coppoolse
• Sequoia Development Signs LodgeWorks to Manage the First New-build Hyatt Summerfield Suites Prototype in Sandy, Utah
• Hispanic Hotel Owners Association Holding Investment Seminar on December 3-4, 2007 in Dallas; Seeks to Attract High-net Worth Latino Investors for Hotel Ownership
• Pechanga Resort & Casino Selects the MICROS OPERA Enterprise Solution

• We Don't Have to Sell Any More? Focus of Hotel Sales Personnel to Shift from Selling Room Nights to Capturing More Dollars / Robert Mandelbaum and Viet Vo
• Pause for Reaction: New Generation of Hospitality Sales Professionals Lesson #9 / David Brudney
• Hotel Manager Shot Dead at the Comfort Inn, Columbia, Missouri
• Groom Dies of Heart Attack Five Days Before Wedding; Buck Hotel in Feasterville, Pennsylvania - Has No Intention of Refunding the $21,725 Receiption Deposit Paid by the Family
• The Rosewood Sand Hill Hotel Well into Construction; Stanford University Owns the 120-room Hotel/spa as an Investment
• Trust International Expands Relationship with Small Luxury Hotels of the World to Include Call Center Services in Asia-Pacific and Arabic Countries
• Forest Vestures Holdings, Japan and Newport Creek Hospitality Planning to Develop a World class Internationally Branded Hotel in the Heart of Kobe's Harborland 
• INNCOM international inc. Ranked No. 33 in Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 Program
• J-4 Development and JL Burke Contracting Building Hickory Creek Resort and Indoor Water Park in Chicago Southland
• Three Young Hoteliers from Abu Dhabi and Dubai Form.... www.YoungHotelier.com, a Dedicated YouTube Channel
• VSi Offers Business Center Packages to Mirror Brand's Budget, Design and Standards Needs; Individual Hotels and Brands alike can now select from Silver, Gold, or Platinum Automated Business Center packages complete with hardware, software, HSIA and furnishings
• Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 105 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database
• Mandy Chomat Named VP of Sales and Marketing for Karisma Hotels

• Sofitel's Ambitious Strategic Plan: Two New Sister Brands, Robert Gaymer-Jones Named Sofitel's New COO
• Atlanta Hotels Addressing Georgia's Ongoing Drought with Water-reduction Measures
• Microsoft Sues Fattal Hotels: Alleges Pirate Versions of its Windows Operating System and Office Software Used at the Israel Hotel Firm
• VSi Offers Business Center Packages to Mirror Brand's Budget, Design and Standards Needs; Individual Hotels and Brands alike can now select from Silver, Gold, or Platinum Automated Business Center packages complete with hardware, software, HSIA and furnishings
• Over the Top: JW Marriott & Ritz-Carlton Beijing Choose Safeplace Safes
• Financial Mismanagement Forces City of Merced, California to Terminate the Merced Conference and Visitors Bureau's $373,100 City Contract
• Rebranding Finished for the New Planet Hollywood Resort on Las Vegas Strip, No Trace of the Moroccan-themed Aladdin Resort Remains
• IHG's Great Idea, Sound-Proofing Hotels, Best Western Enters the  Upper Midscale Segment / Stanley Turkel
• LodgeWorks Building a 127 unit Sierra Suites Hotel in Shelton, Connecticut
• Millennium Bostonian Hotel in Boston Appoints Three Executives - Including Dominique Marty as General Manager

• Habits of Highly Successful Revenue Managers Ramped Up for 2008 / Carol Verret
• San Francisco Hotels Experiencing a Flood of Sales, Acquisitions and Renovations as Occupancy Rates for the City's 33,000 Hotel Rooms Topped 88% in August, 2007
• The Former Pointe South Mountain Resort in Phoenix Now the Arizona Grand; Sam Grossman, One of the Few Owner Operators of Big Resorts, Bought the 21-year old Resort for $206 million
• Liverpool Will Have its First Themed Beatles Hotel in Early 2008; The Hard Days Night Hotel Will Feature Commissioned Beatles Artwork by Artist Shannon in the Guest Rooms and in the Public Areas, Telling the Beatles' Story
• MGM Grand Detroit -- Note the Absence of the Word "Casino" -- Is One Impressive, $800 million Piece of Eye Candy
• Fairmont Enhances Environmental Kitchen Operations that Lessen the Brand's Footprint on the Planet
• Wright Investment Completes $16 million Renovation of the Historic Aladdin Hotel in Downtown, Kansas City; Reopens as a Holiday Inn
• Hotels Catering To Fitness-Minded Guests Increase Exposure with Fit Hotel Directory
• Vancouver, Washington: Plenty of Room for Building or Expanding Hotels
• The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Has Florida's Largest Gaming Area Following $120 million Expansion
• Wisconsin Department of Tourism Begins Effort to Create a "Brand" for State of Wisconsin, Following the Path of Michigan: "Pure Michigan" and Kentucky's "Unbridled Spirit"

• "It's the Dollar, Stupid!" Where the Destination Management Company (DMC) Business Is Going, 2008
• Ian Schrager and Laura Davidson to Receive HSMAI Lifetime Achievement Awards
• Andaz Liverpool Street, London Opens; Hyatt's New Brand Seeks Travelers and Developers Who Are Looking for Casual and Relaxed Boutique Hotel Experience
• Designed by Morris Lapidus, The Americana's Architectural Pedigree Could Not Save it from Implosion; Once a Jewel in Miami Beach's Heyday
• The Great Grandfather Clock in the Westin St. Francis' Lobby Plays Important Role in Romantic San Francisco Tales
• The Hotel Association of Greater Dallas Recognizes Individuals, Hotels, and Companies for Contributions to the Hotel Industry; Joe Palmieri, GM at the Hilton Dallas Lincoln Centre, Awarded General Manager of the Year for Full Service Hotels
• New Edition of Supervisory Skill Builders Prepares New Leaders for Role
• INNCOM Takes Home Kenneth F. Hine 'Best of Show' Award at IH/M&RS for ecoMODE
• Britain's Harrogate Centre Selects NFS for Venue Management
• Southern DataComm Acquires eN-Concert
• NxTV Earns 'Fastest Growing' Awards from Business Press; Los Angeles-based NxTV, first and largest provider of IP VOD, honored for outstanding revenue growth
• Makar Properties, LLC, Investing More than $60 million in a Makeover of the 1,572-room Hilton Anaheim
• Golden Tulip Hotels, Inns & Resorts Names Eight Properties as 2008 Inns of the Year
• Hotels of Ural Ltd. Signs Franchise Agreement with Hilton to Rebrand the Plaza Olympia Hotel to the Hilton Garden Inn® in Perm, Russia
• International Society of Hospitality Consultants Announces 2007-2008 Officers and Board of Directors
• Ocean Properties, Ltd. Hotels & Resorts Converting the 351 room Holiday Inn Logan Airport to the Courtyard by Marriott Logan Airport, Boston
• Saunders Hotel Group Completes Multi-million dollar Upgrade at the Hawthorn Suites Alexandria, Virginia
• William Velardo Named President and COO of the MGM MIRAGE / Kerzner Multi-billion dollar Integrated Resort Property on the Las Vegas Strip
• James Scott Appointed General Manager of One&Only Ocean Club in the Bahamas
• Jeffrey Klein Named Director of Food and Beverage Operations and Sebastian Nohse Executive Sous Chef at The Fontainebleau Miami Beach

• EliteMeetings.net to Launch First-Ever Online Community for the Luxury Meetings Market
• Luxury and Service Make Life Different at The Residences at Two Liberty Place; Staff utilizes The Concierge Assistant® software to deliver superlative service in a luxury environment
• The New Microtel Suite Prototype an Outgrowth of Interior Design Students at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Microtel Franchisees and Guests; A New Standard for Economy Hotels
• InterContinental Hotels Group Signs Multi-year Agreement with Online Travel Company Expedia; 3,800 IHG Branded Hotels Will Be Available for Booking on expedia.com, hotels.com and hotwire.com
• Quaintance-Weaver Restaurants and Hotels Open the 147 room Proximity Hotel in Greensboro, North Carolina; Built to Use 40% Less Energy and 30% Less Water than a Comparable Hotel
• The Colour of Hotels;  The Politics of Going Green / Barry Napier
• Implosion Marks End of the Second Hotel-casino Built on the Las Vegas Strip; Partially Built with Mob-backed Funds the Last Frontier Opened in 1942 with 105 rooms
• Luxe Worldwide Hotels Expands Its Collection of Famed Italian Resorts with the Deltahotel
• Interstate Hotels & Resorts Partnering with Avalon Report for Travel 2.0 Solutions
• TravTech Selects TRUST International for Worldwide Distribution and Central Reservation Services
• Passkey Unveils RoomList Express�, World's First Fully-Automated And Secure Room List Tool For Hotels; First to Offer PCI Compliance and Complete Automation for Hotel Groups using Room Lists
• Developer Ocean Land Names Davidson Hotel Company to Manage 256 room New-Build Hilton Pompano Beach Resort; A Second, Unnamed 317-room Hotel Also in Planning
• First Pennsylvania Casino with Lodging Opens; Owner's Wife, Daughter Designed the 188 Rooms at theMount Airy Casino Resort
• HFTP's Caribbean Hospitality Finance and Technology Professionals Conference Set December 10-11, 2007 Relocated to the Ritz-Carlton Golf & Spa Resort, Rose Hall, Jamaica
• Developers Mike Levis and David West Building a 60-room Holiday Inn Express in Antigo, Wisconsin
• Kurt Matsumoto Named General Manager of the Club, Spa and Lodge at Kukui'ula, a New Resort Community on the South Shore of Kaua'i Near Poi'pu Beach
• Marta Lautin Named Vice President of Marketing for the Fontainebleau Resorts Brand, Which Includes the Fontainebleau Las Vegas and Fontainebleau Miami Beach

• Eight Hotels Achieve 2008 AAA Five Diamond Status For the First Time; Complete List of 100 Hotels and 60 Restaurants
• Loud Arguments, Parties and Amorous Couples Top List of Most Common Hotel Noise Complaints, Says New AmericInn Hotel Survey
• Orient-Express Acquires the Donnell Branch of the New York Public Library for $59 million in cash; Will Build 150 room Hotel with a Rebuilt Donnell Library in Mid Manhattan Adjacent to the  '21' Club
• Hyatt's Break with Tradition; London's Former Great Eastern Hotel Re-Opens as the 236 room Andaz Liverpool Street;  Five Restaurants and Four Bars, No Check-in Counters
• Raymond N. Bickson, CEO Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces, Named 2007 Corporate Hotelier of The World by HOTELS Magazine
• The St. Joe Company Signs Noble House Hotels & Resorts to Manage the WaterColor Inn and Resort, Santa Rosa Beach, Florida
• The AH&LA Elects David Kong as 2008 Secretary/treasurer; The President and CEO of Best Western International Will Serve as the Association's Chairman in 2010
• Vista Capital Company Arranges $21.1 million of First Mortgage Financing for the Best Western Sea Wake Beach Resort Located in Clearwater Beach, Florida
• Harvest Construction Lands Contracts to Build Two Hotels; A Holiday Inn Express in Texas and a Value Place Extended Stay Hotel in Virginia
• The Plasencia Group Advises Premier Hotel Corporation on Acquisition of Cabot Lodge Gainesville (FL)
• Downtown Redevelopment Partners Planning a $16 million Hotel Indigo Near the Bloomington, Indiana Downtown Convention Center
• Gleneagles Selects Newmarket's Delphi Sales Advantage; Scotland's premier resort enlists the Delphi sales and catering solution from Newmarket to assist in streamlining operations
• CustomerSat Honors Newmarket International with ACE Award for Excellence in Customer Service; Leading sales and catering software provider is recognized for the second year in a row with prestigious award for its customer support and project management
• Desatur Cariari, S.A. Rebranding the 222 room Meliá Cariari in San Jose, Costa Rica to the Doubletree Cariari by Hilton
• PSAV Relocates Its Event Technology Warehouse in Dallas; With a new 87,000 square-foot warehouse PSAV® Presentation Services is better equipped to showcase and store its state-of-the-art event equipment while supporting its growing customer base in Texas
• Crowne Plaza Addresses Comfortable Meeting Room Seating, Rolls Out a Fleet of Herman Miller Ergonomic Chairs In all U.S. and Canada Hotels
• Xanterra Installing One of the Largest Solar Photovoltaic Energy Systems in the Country at the The Furnace Creek Inn & Ranch Resort, Death Valley National Park; Expected to Produce Two million Kilowatt-hours per year of Clean Renewable Energy
• The Caribbean Hotel Association Pays Tribute to Four Travel Companies and Two Individuals for Significant Contributions Towards the Development of Caribbean tourism in the United Kingdom and Europe
• Benchmark Hospitality Appoints Linda Dennis Director of Sales and Marketing for Naples Bay Resort
• National industry leader in Program and Project Management, Cost Control and Scheduling Management seeking a Business Development Leader. This is a Corporate position. Requires prior business development experience in high-end hospitality projects

• Sandman Hotels Selects SynXis and RedX Distribution Management System; Canadian Hotel Group to market their 35 properties to all channels via RedX
• Adam's Mark Hotel in Dallas Could Become a Sheraton - Texas' Largest Hotel, with 1,840 rooms and 230,000 square feet of Meeting Space
• The Real Deal Behind Green Hotels and Carbon Footprints / Barry Napier
• Hilton Garden Inn Placing the All-natural Hot Beverage Paper Cup, ecotainerTM, at 340 Locations Across North America
• JW Marriott Planning to Operate a Luxury Hotel on the Site of Orlando's Legendary Langford Hotel; Developers John Anderson and Jim Heistand Building a 250 room Destination Hotel with Spa
• Las Vegas On Target to Be the Number 1 AAA Five-Diamond Destination in the World
• Countries are Brands Too! Australia Ranks #1 For World's Top Country Brand, Croatia, China and the United Arab Emirates Named 'Rising Stars' for Tourist Destinations
• No Hard and Fast Rules When it Comes to Advertising, Except Throwing Money Down that "Black Hole" / J Ragsdale Hendrie
• The Hotel Group Named IHG's 2007 Upscale Developer of the Year 
• Chef Laurent Tourondel's BLT Burger Restaurant Replacing The Mirage's White Tiger Habitat
• NYLO Interlocken To be Built in the Heart of the Denver/Boulder High-tech Corridor
• IH/M&RS Gold Key Awards for Excellence in Hospitality Design Presented to Six Design Firms; HBA/Hirsch Bedner Associates Named 'Designer of the Year'
• Two Brands Better then One; Six ANA Hotels in Japan to be Co-branded ANA Crowne Plaza Hotels
• VingCard® Partners with SARGENT®, Yale® and Corbin Russwin® To Offer New Security Solutions for Hotels and Resorts; Industry Leaders Join Forces to Provide Door Hardware Continuity for Hospitality Properties
• MSI Introduces The Helm; A seamless interactive tool, centrally located, providing real time access to data management across an entire hotel portfolio 
• Benchmark Hospitality Chefs Invited by The James Beard Foundation to Cook at the Prestigious James Beard House in Manhattan; "Benchmark Holiday Dinner," Will Take Place on December 27, 2007
• Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts Building its Second Shanghai Hotel the 574 room Shangri-La Kerry Centre Hotel, Pudong Shanghai
• Carlson Hotels Worldwide Adds 16 New Properties to Its Global Portfolio From August Through October, 2007
• Conrad Hotels & Resorts Appoints Jean-Pierre Mainardi as General Manager of the Conrad Shangha
• Andrew Furrer Joins Destination Hotels & Resorts as Chief Information Officer
• Craig Pearson Appointed Assistant General Manager for The Blackstone-A Renaissance Hotel, Chicago

November 12, 2007

• Royal River Casino & Hotel Selects Agilysys for Point-of-Sale Solution; Property Implements InfoGenesis POS by Agilysys to Enhance Service and Efficiency
• The Chicago O'Hare Crowne Plaza Attracts Business with Unique Technology Perks; Focus on the business traveler includes real-time flight information 
• Jury Convicts South Dakota Hotel Owners on Federal Peonage and Document Servitude Charges; Owners of Comfort Inn and Suites in Oacoma, South Dakota Forced Filipino Workers to Work Up to 160 hours a Week
• Developer Chris Ansley Puts the 3-year-old, 575-room JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort & Spa Up for Sale
• New Orleans Developers Angelo Farrell and Lee Laporte Restoring the Cosmopolitan Hotel in the French Quarter and Adding New 26 Story Tower with 131 Condominium Units; The Royal Cosmopolitan Is First New Hotel Project Post-Katrina
• Ten Exhibitors Receive Editors' Choice Awards at the 92nd Annual International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show® (IH/M&RS); INNCOM International Wins 'Best of Show'
• Summit Associates LLC,  A&R Development and Hospitality Partners Hotel Management Building a $23 million Fairfield Inn & Suites in a Former Brewery; Will be Baltimore's First Leed-Certified Hotel
• Delta Chelsea Hotel Enlists TimeLox® to Install Wireless Electronic Locking System; Canada's Largest Hotel to Utilize New TimeLox Wireless DC-ONLINE System
• VingCard® to Secure Newly Renovated Plaza Hotel in New York; Contactless Signature RFID Electronic Locks Installed at Legendary Central Park Property
• Bridging the Technology Gap, Achieving Rapid Adoption of Critical New Technology Takes Planning/ Jennifer Minogue
• Thomas Corcoran Inaugurated as 2008 AH&LA Chairman of the Board; Chairman of FelCor Lodging Trust Thinks Outside the Box for AH&LA's Future
• What If The Naysayers Are Right? U.S. Hotels Could Lose 6.1 Percent In Revenue
• Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 101 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database
• Doherty Hotels Appoints Accor to Manage the Historic Hadleys Hotel Hobart and the Doherty Ballarat Hotel & Convention Centre in Victoria
• Omni Hotels Promotes Mike Garcia to Senior Vice President of Development, Was the Chief Financial Officer
• John Sartain Appointed General Manager of Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore
• David Renker Named SVP of Sales & Marketing and Edgar Elliott as VP of Design & Development for Millennium Hotels & Resorts
• Kevin Donahue Named Director of Sales at the Grand Bohemian Hotel in Downtown Orlando

November 9, 2007

• NORTHWIND Delivers Condo Ownership Online: Drives New Business for Condo Operators; First to market with online owner access module available within Maestro 'Web Connection' Suite owners monitor unit performance, accounting, availability, book reservations
• MGM Mirage Planning a $3 billion Nongambling Resort and Entertainment Complex on Abu Dhabi Island in the Persian Gulf
• Tale of Two Cities: The Strength of the Pound Against the Dollar Has Made a Christmas Spending Spree in the Big Apple a British Traveler's Paradise; London Extremely Expensive for American Travelers
• Florida International University (FIU) Invites Nominations and Applications for the Dean of the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management
• Flyte Systems Installs Airline Flight Information Display at Javits Center for IH/M&R Show; "Meet me at the  FlyteBoard"- IH/MRS attendees confirm airline flights on FlyteBoard in Javits Center lobby, make confident travel  plans
• Sunstone Hotel Properties, Inc. Deploys Passkey for Online Group Reservations Sunstone Hotel Properties, Inc. Offers Passkey as a Complimentary Service for Meeting Planners at Twelve Hotels across North America
• - Hospitality Innovators Converge - Creating The Total Resource: Asset Management, Design, Development, Food & Beverage and Technology For Hospitality Industry Owners. eXceed Hospitality Asset Advisors, LLC
• The Renaissance Montgomery Hotel and Spa at the Convention Center Selects Guest-Tek to Provide High-Defination Video, Voice, and Data Services Over a State-of-the-Art, $3.3M Converged IP Network
• Sabre Travel Network and Travelocity Select VFM Interactive to Provide End-to-end Hotel Imagery and Rich Media Management Solution - As part of Solution Sabre to offer Partner Hotels With Free Vscape Still Image Distribution Solution
• Manga Hotels Building a 224 room Hilton Garden Inn at the Toronto Airport; The First LEED Certified Hotel in Canada Will Cost an 5%-7% Over Traditional Construction
• Vail Valley's Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa On Track to Achieve Colorado's First Resort LEED Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council
• Wrap Up HFTP 2007 Annual Convention & Tradeshow; Robert Patasnick Recognized with The Paragon Award
• Hotel developers Eric Snow and David Darling Planning Cape Cod's First New Hotel in 20 Years on Site of Americana Holiday Motel

• Hotel Bed Wars Giving Way to the Breakfast War; Doughnuts, Coffee a Thing of the Past
• Cendyn Garners "Outstanding Public and Private Partnership" Award at 2nd World Tourism Marketing Summit in Beijing
• Garfield Traub Development Selected by City of Tucson to Build 707 room $203 million Sheraton on City Land
• With Prices for Airfare, Hotel Rooms and Rental Cars Increasing, the Push and Pull Between Travel Buyers and Suppliers Intensifies
• City of Bedford, Texas Seeks to Close the Bedford Plaza Hotel, formerly known as the Holiday Inn DFW West, for Failure to Pay Hotel-motel Taxes
• Travel Industry Association, Discover America Partnership and the Travel Business Roundtable Will Becoming a Single Organization; Seeking New Name

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• Hospitality eBusiness Strategies Wins Three W3 Awards
• Veteran Hospitality Executive Forms Hotel Wise Man; Unveils New Product Designed to Bolster Sales, Marketing Efforts
• ProHost®  Mobiles to be featured at the New York City International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show, November 11-13 in booth number 2572
• Radisson Hotel - Dublin, California Sold
• R.D. Olson Development Opens the $37 million Burbank Marriott Residence Inn; Features A Light-emitting Diode (LED) Display Integrated into the Architecture and Wrapped Around all Four Sides of the Hotel Exterior
• Anthony Marnell III Planning to Build the M Resort, a $1.8 billion Casino, Resort and Commercial Center in Henderson, Nevada; Wants to Push the Envelope with the Design and Architecture
• Alex. Brown Realty, Inc. and Piedmont Hospitality Complete $1.6 million Conversion of the Doubletree Club to a Full Service Doubletree Hotel - Atlanta Airport
• The Druker Company Providing The Colonnade Hotel in Boston's Back Bay an $18-million Redesign
• Missouri Hotelier John Q. Hammons Files Plans for a 250-room Marriott Hotel with130,000 square feet of Convention Space Located in Downtown Boise, Idaho
• Lodgworks Opens the First of a New Brand - Hotel Sierra Washington Dulles in Sterling, VA
• Andrew Cornelio Named Director of Sales & Marketing for the Dusit Thani Bangkok
• www.caribbizbrokers.com features billions of dollars of hotel inventory in the Caribbean, Bahamas, Mexico and USA, etc. We also need hotels for our clients. Principles prefered

November 7, 2007

• Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. Building a 200 room Four Seasons Hotel at Their St. Louis Casino; Successfully Negotiated with Lodge of Four Seasons at the Lake of the Ozarks to Use Similar Name in State of Missouri
• New European Hotel Brand, citizenM, Launches with Integrated Online Campaign Powered by Web 2.0 and Achieves Immediate Results; Award-winning E-site Marketing partners with Dutch hotel group and creates an innovative Internet Marketing campaign yielding a high ROI
• The San Diego-area Fire Tragedy Dominated Donn Hooker's First Month as WHG's New General Manager at the Embassy Suites Temecula Valley
• Pushes Monterey, California Area Properties to Renovate and in Some Cases, Reinvent Themselves
• Joie de Vivre Hospitality Needs Help to Rename its New Property the Former Dream Inn in Santa Cruz, California
• Donnelly Development LLC Planning a $152 million Destination Entertainment Facility In Blaine, Minnesota; Includes Indoor Water Park and 400 to 500 room Hotel
• Developer Justin Chapman Puts Together Partnership to Build a $30 million Cluster of Three Hotels on  I-40 in Amarillo, Texas; A Holiday Inn,  a Candlewood Suites and a Staybridge Suites
• Winport Developments Teams Up with Choice Hotels To Target Largely Untapped Canadian Market for Mid-Scale and Economy Extended Stay Properties
• Michael Hirst to Receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 11th International Hotel Investment Forum in Berlin, Germany
• Rosewood Completes Redesign of the Classic Mansion Restaurant and the Mansion Bar Within the Historic Sheppard King Mansion
• The International SPA Association Recalls its 2007 Global Consumer Studies Citing Statistical and Analytical Errors
• Pyramid Hotel Group LLC Names Davis Sezna as President of La Quinta Resort & Club and PGA WEST
• AmericInn International, LLC Names Thomas Giuliano Director of Franchise Sales and Development
• HPL Hotels & Resorts Appoints Andrew J. Drummond as the General Manager of Kandooma - Maldives, a 160 Villa Resort Occupying an Island in the South Male Atoll
• Bridget Oliva joins RoomLinX as VP Sales and Marketing; Industry veteran to expand awareness of In-Room Media and Entertainment System
• Michael Newman as Director of Sales & Marketing at Millennium UN Plaza, New York
• eXceed Hospitality Asset Advisors is a team of hospitality industry veterans prepared to provide - Asset Management, Hotel & Restaurant Management, Property Acquisition/Disposition, Financing/Refinancing, Residential Whole/Fractional Ownership

• Carlson Companies Continues Search for Either Internal or External Candidates for the CEO Position; Onetime Heir Apparent, Curtis Carlson Nelson, Not in the Mix
• Personalized Luxury Made Easy at Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead; GoConcierge.net's Total Operations Solution Implemented Across Multiple Departments
• Engaging Service Part 1: Not Just for the Chic; www.engagemenow.com

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• Caribbean Hotels Match U.S. Profitability; Unique Operating Environment Reduces Some Costs
• Hotel Sales 2.0 - Online and Email RFP and Inquiry Response Web Cast - November 16, 2007
• Still Under Construction, Great Wolf Resorts Decides to Add 203 Suites to its 402 Suite Grapevine, Texas Hotel
• Jean Luc Daul, Pastry Chef at the Four Seasons Las Vegas, Talks About His Profession
• Strategic Hotels Investing $6.9 million into the Development of Michael Mina's Bourbon Steak Restaurant at the Fairmont Scottsdale
• Six Houston Hotel Workers Honored as the Best in the Industry
• Book4Time Launches Industry's First Ajax-enabled, Web-based Spa Management and Reservation Platform at this Year's ISPA Conference & Expo
• Holiday Inn Cincinnati Airport Wins InterContinental Hotels Group 2007 Torchbearer Award for the Ninth Year
• Andreas Nieto Named Executive Chef at The Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites, Los Angeles
• Davidson Hotel Company Names Erika Chesley Director of Sales for Hilton Pasadena
• Pegasus Solutions Names Darin McAuliffe Vice President of Distribution Solutions

November 5, 2007

• PAR Springer-Miller Systems & EasyRMS Announce Final Certification of Full 2-way Interface Between EzRMS and the SMS|Host Hospitality Management System
• Downtown Detroit's Hotel Market Rapidly Evolving; Sheraton Detroit Riverside Opens Following $35 million Makeover, Historic Pontchartrain Name Abandoned
• The Pierre, New York's Landmark Hotel on Central Park and Fifth Avenue Will Close For a Year to Renovate 200 Guest Rooms; Taj Hotels Spending Up to $100 million on 77 Year Old Hotel
• Will a Hotel's SUSTAINABLE GREEN Program Generate New Revenue and Increased Profits? / Richard Namovich
• Albuquerque's Tourism Officials React to Tucson's Convention-center Hotel and Arena Plans
• Pacifica Capital & Brokerage, Inc. Secures Construction Financing for Southern California Hotel
• Golden Nugget Strikes Gold in EZ Yield
• A $13 million Renovation Transforms Lodgian's DFW Holiday Inn Select to the Wyndham® DFW Airport North
• Kjell Rognoy Named General Manager of The Regent Shanghai in China
• Benchmark Hospitality Appoints Mark Galbreith, Director of Sales at Lansdowne Resort
• Franklin Smith Named Director of Sales and Marketing for the Renaissance Concourse Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia

November 2, 2007

• Worldwide Electronic Hotel Revenue Up 14.6 Percent In Q2 2007, According to TravelCLICK; Quarterly eMonitor Reports Annual Growth for Room Nights at 4.4 Percent
• Hilton and Developer Partner Faulkner USA Win Crucial Vote to Build a 1,000-room Hotel Next to the Broward Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
• Design and Installation Flaws Likely Caused a Roof Section to Collapse at an Eight-story Atrium at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Hunt Valley, Maryland
• State of Rhode Island Working Fast on Certification Program for Hoteliers Embracing Green Strategies
• Knowland Group - Top 10 Group Events: October 2007 including Boston and Atlanta
• Newmarket International Launches Certification Program; NICE (Newmarket International Certified Engineer) program gives  IT professionals the skills to optimize  Delphi technical environments
• The Plasencia Group Arranges Sale of Premier Hilton Hotel in East Cleveland
• Dolce International Implements Changes in the Organizational Structure of their Senior Management Team
• The ProHost® Minibar Mobile will be featured at the New York City International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show, November 11-13 in booth number 2572
• Hotelier Richard C. Kessler to Open New Boutique Property in Asheville, North Carolina - The Bohemian Hotel at Biltmore Village
• HFTP Installs 2007-08 Executive Committee and Board of Directors; Anna McFarland Appointed HFTP President
• Benchmark Hospitality's Cheyenne Mountain Resort Awarded Four Diamonds, First Time in Resort's History
• VISTA® Chooses InnLink, LLC for complete reservation services strengthening VISTA® Operations Support
• AmericInn SoundGuard� Construction the First of its Kind in the Hospitality Industry; Pioneering the Quiet Room Amenity
• Pacific Management Corporation and Penta-Ocean Construction Co., Ltd. Sign Starwood to manage a New-build 245 room W Hotel in Yokohama, Japan
• Citigroup Principal Investments Japan Signs Hilton Hotels to Manage the Niseko Higashiyama Prince Hotel; The Re-branded Hilton Niseko Village Expected to be a Top Mountain Destination Resort in Japan
• Telecharge.com to Provide Ticketing for TTI's 'ConciergeonDemand' Lobby Kiosk; New guest service and revenue tool to be showcased at  the IH/M&R Show in New York, November 11-13 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Booth No. 3053
• Passionate and Multi Faceted Hotelier seeks a new challenege as a Hotel/Resort General Manager, Multi Unit General Manager, Conference Center GM or Resort Complex Operations Manager. Due to ownership and management restructuring, I am now available to take on a new challenge
• The Hilton Prague Old Town Completes Multi million dollar Transformation; Gordon Ramsay's Maze Opens Within Hotel
• Wolfgang Nitschke, General Manager of The Regent Berlin, Marks 50th year in Hotel Business
• Kor Hotel Group Enters Joint Venture Agreement with Orascom Hotel and Development for Two Viceroy Resorts in Switzerland and Oman
• Innkeepers USA Opens the Embassy Suites Valencia; California Property Features Brand's New Prototype Design
• Crestline Appoints Richard Lundt as General Manager for the Marriott Plaza San Antonio
• Gale "Buck" Drossart Awarded the Wisconsin Innkeepers Association 2007 Innkeeper of the Year Award
• Pride Hospitality, LLC. Names Keith Lachney General Manager of the Year
• Mark C. White Named Director of Sales for Wintergreen Resort Near Charlottesville, Virginia

Top 25 Read Articles - October 2007

1. Blackstone Appoints Christopher Nassetta President and CEO of Hilton Hotels, Replacing Matthew J. Hart
2. IHG Making the First Major Change to the Holiday Inn Logo in More than 50 years; Will Replace More than 11,000 Signs Around the World by 2010
3. The Ten Spookiest Hotels in the U.S. 
4. Atrium Collapses and Falls Eight Stories at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Hunt Valley (Baltimore); No Injuries, Building Temporarily Condemned
5. Optimum Hotel Brokerage Sells Westport Inn in Westport, Connecticut; Boutique Connecticut Country Inn Sold to New York Developer
6. Conde Nast Names Top Hotels Around the World; Top Hotel Mainland US -Ritz - Carlton Chicago Top Resort Mainland US - Lodge on Little St. Simons Island 
7. Former GM of the Radisson Hotel Schaumburg Charged with Felony Theft; Issued then Deposited Bogus Payroll Checks into Personal Bank Account
8. Blowing the Basics: Hotel Sales Managers Fail to Respond to Customer Inquiries More than 25% of the Time
9. Computer Glitch Desrupts Operations at Seven MGM Mirage Hotels; A Bug in Guest Information Management System
10. Want Best Rates? Call the Hotel; A Window Into How the Online Travel Business Works 
11. For Gay and Lesbian Couples, Checking In at the Front Desk Can be Uncomfortable - Teaching Hotels to Be Gay-friendly
12. 10 Ways to Optimize your Hotel Website through Copy; How to Use Copywriting to Achieve Higher Search-Engine Rankings for Your Site
13. The $26 billion Acquisition of Hilton Hotels by Blackstone Finalized on October 24, 2007
14. Nicky Hilton's Would-be Miami South Beach Condo-Hotel Set for Auction Block;  Lendors Are Seeking $60 million for the 95 room Complex
15. Strategic Hotels & Resorts Agrees to Sell Katrina-ravaged Hyatt Regency New Orleans for $32 million, About One-fifth of 1997 Acquisition Cost
16. Coined the World's Best Hotel School, the Cornell School of Hotel Administration Celebrates 85 Years; The School�s Five Living Deans Attend NYC Event
17. Peter Strebel, President Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, Details Three-pronged Strategy to Expand, Improve Guest Satisfaction and Build Revenue
18. Japan's Ubiquitous Love Hotels:  Some Questions and Answers
19. Developer of Condo-hotel Project in Key Largo, Florida Files for Bankruptcy
20. The Fort Lauderdale Condo Boom is Over and a New One Has Begun: Hotels 
21. Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels Arranges the Sale  of the Laguna Cliffs Marriott Resort & Spa
22. Service Excellence: A Destination or a Journey?
23. What's the Key to a Good Hotel?
24. Donald Trump and Partners Suspend Plans for the Trump Las Olas Condo-hotel Resort in Fort Lauderdale 
25. The Factors Involved Concerning the Clark County Investigation of Room Remodeling Projects at the Rio and Harrah's Las Vegas

• India's Freshest Hotel Group Smells Success with SynXis; Lemon Tree Hotels to use the RedX Distribution Management System to Fuel Expansion Plans
• The "Real Economics" Behind GREEN Hotel Development, Conversion and Operation / Jim Butler
• A Simple Guide to Boost Hotel Electronic Marketing in '08 / Neil Salerno
• U.S. Construction Pipeline Sets Another Record at 5,011 Hotels with 654,503 Rooms During 3rd Qtr - 2007 According to Lodging Econometrics; Reflects the Surge of Select Service and Mid-market Brands
• The Largest Pillar-free Resort Ballroom in the U.S. Opens at the Orlando World Center Marriott Resort & Convention Center; 450,000 square-feet of Event Space
• "Viva La Quinta!": La Quinta Opens First Franchised Hotel in Mexico; 89-Room New Construction La Quinta Inn & Suites Opens in  Juarez, Mexico - Additional Franchised Growth Expected Throughout Mexico Market
• Hotel Waterpark Developers Workshop Set for February 28 & 29, 2008 at Kalahari Resort in Sandusky, Ohio
• Managed by Intrawest Hospitality, the Origin at Seahaven Opens; The 329 unit Condo Hotel the Foundation for Towne of Seahaven, a Beach Urbanism Development in Panama City Beach, Florida
• Inexperienced Gambler at the Craps Table, Who Bet Both For and Against the Shooter, Acquitted by Jury for Trying to Obtain Money Under False Pretenses
• 1957 Murder at the Park Sheraton Hotel; How Much Does A Franchise Really Cost? / Stanley Turkel
• Renaissance Nashville's $9 Million Makeover Provides Hotel with New Identity
• MHI Hospitality Corp Acquires the 250-room Former Clarion Hotel in Tampa, Florida for $13.5 million, $54,000 per room; Planning a $20 million Renovation and a Crowne Plaza Rebranding
• Wyndham 3rd Qtr Net Income Up 27% to $117 million from $92 million a Year Ago; Wyndham Brands Operating Statistics
• Federal Judge Strikes Down the Shinnecock Indian Nation's Bid to Build a Casino On Long Island Near Southampton
• Winegardner & Hammons, Inc. Managed Properties Wins Prestigious Partnership Circle Award and Service Excellence Award for the 10th Consecutive Year; Awards Presented at the Marriott International National Association (MINA) Conference
• The Siegel Group, Inc. Acquires the Emerald Suites Tropicana, a 225 room hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada for $20.25 million; Will be Renamed Siegel Suites Tropicana
• Benchmark Hospitality Appoints Joe Di Girolamo Director of Sales & Marketing for The Heldrich

• Nine Independent Luxury Resorts Install Maestro PMS Suite, Leveraging 'Web Connection' Technology; High touch resorts choose Maestro to boost on-property and online revenue; maximize internal communications and provide guest-centric service second to none
• Nicky Hilton's Would-be Miami South Beach Condo-Hotel Set for Auction Block; Lendors Are Seeking $60 million for the 95 room Complex
• Five Tips to Improving Hotel Customer Service with User Generated Reviews / Carol Verret
• Calm Before the Storm: Mega Resorts Scheduled to Open by 2012 in Las Vegas Will Create 50,000 New Jobs
• Today's Meeting Planner: New Generation of Hospitality Sales Professionals Lesson #8 / David M. Brudney
• The Washington, DC Convention & Tourism Corporation Posts Strongest Performance Figures in its History; 18 Citywide Conventions Booked for 2008
• NYLO Hotels Hires Chef Wiley Bates III for Senior Management Team; Will Create a New Approach to F & B at the NYLO Hotel in Plano, Texas
• Olympia Development Planning Three New Hotel Projects in Three States
• Grand Velas All Suites & Spa Resort Named a Top Hotel by Condé Nast Traveler Readers
• Molinaro Koger Capital Markets Arranges  €20 Million Re-Financing for Canyon Equity's Amanresort Le Mélézin
• Krisam Group and Global Events Partners Announce New Chief Financial Officer; Peter De Angelo Appointed CFO out of Washington, D.C. Headquarters
• The Irvine Company Resort Properties Names Thierry Grandsire General Manager of The Resort at Pelican Hill

• Blackstone Appoints Christopher Nassetta President and CEO of Hilton Hotels, Replacing Matthew Hart
• Michael Gallegos, CEO of American Property Management Corp, Didn't Hesitate When the Fires started Taking People's Homes
• Midpriced Courtyard by Marriott Reflects Trend on Fort Lauderdale Beach; Standard Rates Topping $300 a Night
• For Gay and Lesbian Couples, Checking In at the Front Desk Can be Uncomfortable - Teaching Hotels to Be Gay-friendly
• A $130 million Hotel and Convention Center Rising Up in Michigan City, Indiana Overlooking Lake Michigan
• Kerry Hotels Comes of Age; "The Next Generation" in Boutique Hotel Sales and Marketing Has New Name and Image
• Three Oaks Hospitality Signs Agreement with Portones Del Mar Yacht Club and Resort
• John Q. Hammons Opens the 320 room Marriott Renaissance Glendale Hotel & Spa in Glendale, Arizona
• Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 103 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database
• The "Real Economics" Behind GREEN Hotel Development, Conversion and Operation / Jim Butler
• Hansji Hotels Breaks Ground on 239 suite Residence Inn by Marriott in San Diego Gaslamp Quarter
• Greg Ortale, 20 Year Veteran with Minneapolis CVB, Prepares to Depart for the Houston CVB as the President and CEO
• Wrap up: Fifth Annual International Hotel Conference
• William "Bill" Henderson Appointed VP of Development of Aqua Hotels
• HEI Hotels Appoints James Gross as the General Manager of the Sheraton Austin Hotel, Austin, Texas

• Computer Glitch Desrupts Operations at Seven MGM Mirage Hotels; A Bug in Guest Information Management System
• Hard Rock International and the Luckie Street Partners Planning a 270 room Hotel with 30 Condos in a Mixed-use Development in Downtown Atlanta
• Joint Venture Between Australia's Richest Man and the Son of Macau's Casino Pioneer Ready to Challenge Nevada's Top Casino Operators
• Acquest Development Converting a 17-story Government Office Building in Downtown Buffalo into a 150 key Embassy Suites Hotel
• The Sheraton Fisherman's Wharf Completes $33 million Renovation; A Stark Departure from the Original San Francisco Waterfront Theme
• Finvarb Group Breaking Ground on a 208-room Residence Inn by Marriott in Phoenix, Ariz., on the Campus of the Mayo Clinic
• Fire Breaks Out at Unfinished Westin Hotel in the Village of Imagine, Orlando
• Optimum Hotel Brokerage Sells Westport Inn in Westport, Connecticut; Boutique Connecticut Country Inn Sold to New York Developer
• Kids, Smoking And Casinos Don't Mix
• Celebrated Decorator Jacques Grange Redefines French Tradition at Sofitel's Hotel Scribe in Paris, France
• Gary W. Loveman, Chairman of Harrah's and Howard Schultz, Chairman of Starbucks Inducted into Hospitality Industry Hall of Honor at the Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management at the University of Houston
• The Pennsylvania Tourism & Lodging Association Annual Sales & Marketing Conference Set for December 13, 2007 in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania; Will Provide Resources to All Levels of Lodging Sales Professionals
• Ernest Thompson Appointed General Manager of the Residence Inn by Marriott in Danbury, Connecticut

• TravelCLICK Selected by Crown Towers for Brand-Strengthening Hotel Marketing Solutions;  Luxury Casino Hotel in Macau Implements the iHotelier Solution: CRS, Market Intelligence and Media
• Sofitel Chicago O'Hare's European Style Embraces Guest Airline Services; The focus on amenities like FlyteBoard delivers a value-add for business travelers
• The $26 billion Acquisition of Hilton Hotels by Blackstone Finalized on October 24, 2007
• UK's Travelodge Issues Guides to Hotels on How to Handle Sleepwalkers; Preserving Sleepwalker's Dignity
• Business Travel Survey from Carlson Hotels Reveals the Reality of Business Travel; Most Popular Hotel Perks - a room Upgrade Followed by Free Internet Service - go to
• Morgans Hotel Group Completes 17.5 million dollar Renovation of the Re-thought and Re-imaged Royalton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan
• A "Card Check" vs Secret-Ballot Election at Center of Labor Dispute at the Hartford Marriott Downtown and Connecticut Convention Center
• Business Travel Demand Will Outpace Capacity in 2008 and Drive Air, Hotel Rate Increases;  -- U.S. Rates Expected to Increase at a Slower Pace While Demand-Heavy Markets Incline Sharply; Hotel Rates Rise Globally
• Hospitality eBusiness Strategies Launches 2008 Benchmark Survey; Survey to Measure Hotel Internet Marketing Strategies, Budget Planning and Best Practices
• Historic Hard Rock Hotel To Light Up Michigan Avenue Following Completion of $106 million Renovation
• Stephen Holmes, Chairman and CEO of Wyndham Worldwide, Named TIA's 2007 Hall of Leaders Inductee
• Playa Hotels & Resorts Acquiring Six High-End All-Inclusive Resorts in Mexico and Dominican Republic from a Subsidiary of the Apple Leisure Group
• Starwood Hotels Reports 3rd Qtr Net Income Fell 17%, Net income of $129 million vs $155 million in the 3rd Qtr of 2006; Worldwide System-wide REVPAR Up 9.5%
• Amusement Leisure Completes its 200th Waterslide Installation at Hotels & Aquatic Centers
• Buccini/Pollin Group Acquires the 276-room Sheraton Raritan Center in Edison, NJ from Starwood Hotels and Resorts
• Scott Siebert Appointed Director of Food & Beverage at the The Eden Roc Renaissance Beach Resort & Spa, Miami Beach
• Larry Silver Appointed Director of Hotel Development, Southeast Region for Larry Blumberg & Associates

• Crowne Plaza Purchases INSIGHT from the Knowland Group; Properties are offered breakthrough group sales tool through national co-op
• IHG Making the First Major Change to the Holiday Inn Logo in More than 50 years; Will Replace More than 11,000 Signs Around the World by 2010
• Texas Rangers Owner Tom Hicks and Gatehouse Capital Planning to Build a 300-room Westin Hotel and a 140-room Aloft hotel in Arlington, Texas
• Former GM of the Radisson Hotel Schaumburg Charged with Felony Theft; Issued then Deposited Bogus Payroll Checks into Personal Bank Account
• When Is it Profitable to Add a Waterslide to Your Hotel? / Tracy Heebner / HVS Canadian Lodging Outlook - August 2007
• Acqualina Decides to End Relationship with Rosewood, Will Create Own Luxury Brand; Florent Gateau Continues as Vice President - Managing Director
• Rancho Bernardo Inn Evacuated, Escapes Serious Damage from San Diego Area Wildfires; Will Open Doors to Displaced Residents
• The Occupancy Rate at Philadelphia Center City Hotels During Summer 2007 was 82%, up 5% from Last Summer
• Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels Arranges the Sale of the Laguna Cliffs Marriott Resort & Spa
• Buccini/Pollin Building a $25 million 123 room Element Hotel at at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport
• California Hotel Sales Down 44% with San Diego County Feeling the Brunt of the Hesitant Market
• Langham Hotels International Redefining its Two Brands - The Langham and Langham Place
• Eight Hotels Australia Opens First Diamant Branded Hotel in Sydney, Australia 
• Shristi Corporation Joint Ventures with Domina Hotel Group to Manage 25 New Hotels in India Under the New Brand Vedic Domina Hotels & Resorts
• Bill Hess Named General Manager of the Springfield Marriott in Downtown Springfield, Massachusetts
• Lyn Locke Appointed Director of Sales & Marketing for the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington, DC.

October 23, 2007 

• Peter Strebel, President Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, Details Three-pronged Strategy to Expand, Improve Guest Satisfaction and Build Revenue
• Accor Outlines New Business Model for its Hotels Division
• Hoteliers, Don't be fooled by the Web 2.0 Hype
• How Global Warming Laws Will Affect Hotels; Will California's New Legislation Set The "Standard" For The Country? / Global Hospitality Advisor
• Mount Airy Casino Resort, a $412 million Destination Resort Opens; First Stand Alone Casino to Open in Pennsylvania
• The ProHost® Housekeeping System has been selected for the 242 room Dubai hotel The Palace, The Old Town
• HR in Hospitality� Conference Provides Actionable 'Food For Thought' for Restaurateurs
• Diamond Resorts International® Joins the ICE Portal Network; ICE Produces & Distributes Rich Content for Diamond Resorts International
• INNCOM Creates New Opportunity for Hotels to Reach Environmentally Aware Guests
• Affiliates of Warburg Pincus Real Estate I, L.P. Appoint Crestline to Manage the 314 room Hotel Derek in Houston
• Green Hotel Development; Gaining In Popularity / Global Hospitality Advisor 
• Robert LaCasse Named General Manager of the 360-room Le Meridien San Francisco
• Pacific Palms Resort & Conference Center Names Robert Nelson as Vice President & Managing Director Along with a New Management Team
• Ian Jones Appointed General Manager of Swissôtel Grand, Shanghai

October 22, 2007

• The Accuracy of Hotel Budgets; Hoteliers Underestimate 2006 Unit-Level Costs / Robert Mandelbaum
• Developer of Condo-hotel Project in Key Largo, Florida Files for Bankruptcy
• UNITE-HERE Lobbies Against One of Three Finalists to to Operate New Convention Center with Two Hotels in Albany, New York
• Columbus, Ohio Seeking Solutions for a 500 room Hotel Adjacent to Greater Columbus Convention Center
• How Do You Tip at a Casino?
• Nicholas A. Montemarano Dies at 90; Purchased Gurney's Inn in 1956, and Built it Into a Year-round Resort, Spa and Conference Center
• Pre-Dawn Fire Forces Evacuation at Stein Eriksen Lodge, Park City, Utah
• Malmaison Oxford Castle, Once a Jail, Now a Posh Hotel in UK's Lively College Town, Oxford
• Raffles Signs Agreement with Royal Monceau Pte Ltd to Manage the Historic Le Royal Monceau Hotel in Paris; Scheduled for Refurbishment in 2008
• Infinity Hotel Group Acquires the 121 unit Comfort Inn in Pottstown, Pennsylvania
• Patty Maher Named General Manager of the 740-room Aqua Island Colony Hotel in Waikiki
• Benchmark Hospitality Appoints Renee Brenner, CPA Controller for Turtle Bay Resort, O'ahu, Hawai'i

• Knowland to Provide INSIGHT to Over 400 Preferred Hotels Group Member Properties; Luxury Hotel Brand Recognizes Value of Revolutionary New Tool
• A Hotelier's Guide to Budget Planning in '08; Best Practices in Developing the 2008 Hotel Internet Marketing Budget / Max Starkov and Jason Price
• Hampton Hotels Incorporates a Brand-wide Guest Room Odor Control Program, Non-Scents Wins Over Signature Scents
• City of Arlington, Texas Considering Placing a Moratorium on Development of Limited-service Hotels; 92% Of Hotels are Economy and Midscale, Hopes to Lure Full-service Hotel Development
• The State of Illinois Takes Title to the Beleaguered Collinsville Holiday Inn; Debt to State Ballooned to $32 million
• The $1.6 billion Palazzo Casino Resort Examining 55,000 Applicants for 3,936 Positions
• Niagara University College of Hospitality and Tourism Management Honoring David Kong, President & CEO of Best Western International, with the Lifetime Hotelier Leadership Award
• The Hotel Investment Conference Asia Pacific Selects ANA Japan Hotel Portfolio as the Merger & Acquisition Deal of the Year and the Venetian Macau Chosen for the Reggie Shiu Development of the Year
• Spectrum Design Services Interior Design Firm Approved for Hilton Hotels Suppliers' Corner; Recognized For Excellence in Design and Exemplary Service
• The Kessler Collection and LRA Worldwide Partner on Quality Assurance Initiative to Measure the "WOW" in the Guest Experience
• The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company Adds its Brand to a $160 million Resort - Residential Community in Northwest Tucson;  The 250-room Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain Will Be One of the Largest in the Ritz-Carlton Portfolio
• Social Media, eCommerce & Online Branding On Agenda at Travel Internet Marketing Strategy Conference, Dec. 3, 2007, Phoenix
• Gansevoort Hotel Group Opening of the Gansevoort South Hotel, Spa and Residences, South Beach in January 2008; The 1960's Art Deco Roney Plaza Being Entirely Redesigned
• SoftBrands Selects AnyRate to Provide Competitive Intelligence Solution; AnyRate Software to Provide Karyon Members Competitive Rate Tools
• Harris Hotel Group Appoints Brian Jungling Vice President of Operations
• Annette Bennitz Appointed Director of Sales for Foxwoods Resort Casino and the MGM Grand at Foxwoods
• Renee Wilhite Appointed Director of Sales and Marketing for the Chateau on the Lake Resort, Spa and Convention Center, Branson, Missouri
• Nance Trevithick Named the Director of Group and Incentive Sales at The Resort at Pelican Hill on Southern California's Newport Coast
• Spottswood Companies, Inc. Names George Galvan and Tiffany Boeckman Respectively as General Manager and Director of Sales at the Beachside Resort & Conference Center, Key West, Florida

• Travel-Generated Content and Web 2.0 is here to stay. Why not put it to work for you?
• The Peabody Orlando, Four-Star, Four Diamond Service "Gold Key" to Success; Anticipating guest needs is the hallmark of Peabody's impressive service reputation
• Strategic Hotels & Resorts Agrees to Sell Katrina-ravaged Hyatt Regency New Orleans for $32 million, About One-fifth of 1997 Acquisition Cost
• Conde Nast Names Top Hotels Around the World: Top Hotel Mainland US: Ritz - Carlton Chicago, Top Resort Mainland US: Lodge on Little St. Simons Island
• Free Money: A Primary Marketing Tool for Casinos / Bill Geoghegan
• Construction Pipeline in Europe at New Cyclical High; Hotel Openings in 2008 to Set Record Pace
• Following Death of Owner Myron Nelkin, the Landmark Garden City Hotel On Long Island Put On Market
• PAS Achieves Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Status for Hosting and ISV/Software Solutions
• Lazer Lodging And REVPAR International Merge To Create Formidable Hospitality Asset Management and Advisory Services Company
• IH/M&RS Technology Innovation Center - It's not too late!
• NxTV Appoints Tech Innovator Hooman Honary as CTO to Drive Development of Next-Generation Wired and Wireless IP Digital Entertainment; Advanced technology initiatives to be led by new hires on NxTV executive team
• Thailand's Home-grown Hotel Management Company Taking Brand Overseas with Roll-out of Dusit International
• Istithmar Hotels FZE and Golden Land Property Development PLC Developing 400 room W Hotel in Bangkok; Starwoods Second W Branded Property in Thailand
• Choice Hotels International Completes Full Deployment of its Proprietary Web-based Hotel Property Management System, choiceADVANTAGE
• John G.C. Wood Named General Manager at the Mövenpick Resort & Spa on Mauritius
• The Procaccianti Group Promotes JD Tamez to Regional Director of Sales to Oversee Mid-West Region
• Lisa Bertomeu Named Area Director of Sales and Marketing for the Chicagoland Hilton Hotels
• Anuraag Mullick Elected to the Board of AH&LA

October 16, 2007

• Elite Meetings International Welcomes Brad Pirman as CIO
• Oliver Companies Credits Rapid Growth to Well-Trained Employees, Effective Performance Management Tools; Owner operator with short hospitality history develops, acquires seven hotels in three years
• Travelodge Offering up to £150,000 (US$ 305,000) to Any Individual that Finds a New Location or Existing Building in the UK that Results in a New Travelodge Hotel Opening
• Japan's Ubiquitous Love Hotels: Some Questions and Answers
• The 230-acre Scrub Island Is Site of First Resort Development to Take Place in the British Virgin Islands in 15 Years
• Driftwood Hospitality Management Investing $140 Million in its Properties, Currently Renovating 26 Hotels
• The Third Venture Between Intrawest and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. - The Westin Monache Resort Set to Open at Mammoth, California
• Marcus Hotels and Resorts Selected to Manage the Venturella Resort and Spa in Orlando, Florida (Formerly the Riu Hotel)
• RLJ Development to Acquire 184-Room Hilton Mystic in Connecticut, Crescent Hotels & Resort to Oversee Completion of $6 Million Renovation and Operate Hotel
• Lowe Enterprises Investors Acquires the Inn and Spa at Loretto in Santa Fe, New Mexico for $47.5 million from Noble House Hotels & Resorts
• Curaçao Experiencing a Tourism Boom, Prompting Development of Six New Resorts and Expansion of Five Existing Resorts
• Last Chance to Register! Webcast - Habits of Highly Successful Revenue Managers - Expanded for 2008!
• BookIt.com® Announces Industry Veteran Laura Veglia Will Oversee Caribbean Market
• Twin River Selects MICROS 9700 Hospitality Management Solution
• Craig Waterman Appointed General Manager of Setai San Diego
• The Irvine Company Names Giuseppe Lama Managing Director of The Resort at Pelican Hill, Newport Coast, California
• Ron Moler Named Executive Chef at Sedona Rouge Hotel & Spa, Sedona, Arizona

• Want Best Rates? Call the Hotel  / A Window Into How the Online Travel Business Works
• What's the Key to a good Hotel? / The Philadelphia Inquirer Road Warrior Column
• The Fort Lauderdale Condo Boom is Over and a New One Has Begun: Hotels
• MJR Development and the Branded Lodging Co. Building a $45 million Destination Hotel at Woodinville Village Near Seattle; Plans Include a Culinary Amphitheater for Demonstrations and Cooking Competitions
• Talon International Starts Construction on Toronto's $500-million 57-storey Trump International Hotel & Tower; A 261 room Hotel Located on Floors 11-29
• Choice Chooses Nexus for Wholesale Contracting
• Newmarket International Launches New Version of its Delphi.Net Sales and Catering Solution
• Video and Distribution Leaders Partner to Bring Internet Video to Travel and Hospitality Industry
• Prism Looks to Centrada Solutions to Maximize IT Efficiency and Bolster Bottom-Line Results; Fast-growing hotel-management and ownership company is discovering the advantages of outsourcing its technology-management needs to Centrada
• Students at the Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management at the U of Houston Have Been "Serving Up" Success with Par Ex - Their 25 Year Old Student Club
• MICROS Delivers Harmony to POS Technology with Simphony�; The Industry's First True Enterprise POS Solution, Featuring Service Oriented Architecture, Debuts at FS/TEC
• Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 90 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database
• Quentin Incao Joins MTM Luxury Lodging as Director of Operations
• Adrian Constant, Former Orient Express Hotels Senior Executive, Will Head Up KSL Capital Partners European Division
• Jay Barter, Former COO of Rim Hospitality, Forms Hong Kong Based Hotel Management Company with Jackson Y. C. Lam, Owner of Amage Hotels and Resorts Management 
• Pan Pacific Hotels and Resorts Appoints Three Execs to Lead Company in Technology, Distribution & Revenue Management and e-Commerce
• Reinhard J. Heermann Named General Manager of the Steigenberger Frankfurter Hof in Frankfurt
• Bruce M. Johnson Appointed Director of Sales & Marketing for the Georgia Tech Hotel & Conference Center in Atlanta

• The Factors Involved with the Clark County Investigation of Room Remodeling Projects at the Rio and Harrah's Las Vegas
• Knowland Crosses the Atlantic; Market Intelligence Firm Begins Service in the United Kingdom
• A Bane of Restaurateurs - the Dine and Dashers
• Thomas Enterprises Inc. Envisions 5-6 Hotels at the Rim, a Mega Shopping Center Development in San Antonio
• The Muckleshoot Tribe Pays $62.5 million to Acquire the 89 room Salish Lodge & Spa in Snoqualmie, Washington
• Horve Hospitality Management Inc. Wins Management Contract for the Decatur (Illinois) Conference Center and Hotel; Plans to Add Waterpark, Seek Top Franchise
• Hundman Hotel Management Planning a Hilton Garden Inn at the Central Illinois Regional Airport in Bloomington, Illinois
• The Hotel and Lodging Association of Greater Houston Selects Nominees for Annual Excellence in the Hospitality Industry Awards
• Manga LLC's Proposed 8 Story aloft Hotel near Buffalo Niagara International Airport May Be too High For Residential Neighbors
• Canadian-based Canad Inns and City of Bismarck, North Dakota Agree to Further Study for a Hotel and Convention Center Planned Adjacent to the Bismarck Civic Center
• Langham Hotels Selected by Rawi Warin Resort & Spa Company Limited to Manage the The Langham Place Eco Resort + Spa on Lanta Yai Island, in Southern Thailand
• Sea Island Resorts Chooses PAR Springer-Miller; Famed Golf Resort to install PAR's Guest Centric SMS|Host® Hospitality Management System
• Waterford Hotel Group Appoints Kevin Pagnano and Tina Fleming to General Manager Posts
• Benchmark Hospitality Appoints Heidi Kaufman Controller for The Chattanoogan

• Atrium Collapses and Falls Eight Stories at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Hunt Valley (Baltimore); No Injuries, Building Temporarily Condemned
• Macon, Georgia Mayor Suddenly Backs Away from Controversial Convention Center Hotel Deal with Noble Investment Group 
• City of Paducah, Kentucky Soliciting Proposals from Developers to Build a 300-room Hotel and 100,000-square-foot Convention Center Downtown
• The Opening of $412 million Mount Airy Casino Resort in the Poconos Delayed While Pennsylvania Gaming Regulators Complete Final Review of the Casino
• Dubai  - One of the World's Most Exciting Countries for New Hotel Developments / Ted Horner
• Paying a $20 Cover to Gamble Proves Successful at the Playboy Club at the Palms, Las Vegas
• Dallas' Landmark Fairmont Hotel Receiving a $14 million Makeover; Includes Transforming Three Floors Into 'Gold' Rooms
• Donald Trump Brands His Condominium Hotels as The Trump Hotel Collection
• IHG Signs 80 New Hotel Deals During the Past One Year Period in Asia Pacific; Doubles Staff in Corporate Offices Located in Shanghai, Sydney, Singapore, New Delhi and Tokyo
• Following Two Years of Construction, the $270 million Grand Del Mar Opens, Operated by Manchester Grand Resorts
• Newmarket International Breaks Ground on First Commercial LEED-Certified Building in Portsmouth
• Lotus Hotel Investment Fund, a US$1 billion Private Equity Fund, Aligns with Carlson Hotels to Target Hotel Development in China and India
• Advisory Council Named for the 2008 European Hospitality Technology Educational Conference - February 10-12, 2008 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Richard McLennan Named General Manager at Resort at Squaw Creek in Olympic Valley, California
• Benchmark Hospitality Appoints Victor M. Rodriguez Director of Rooms for The Heldrich, New Brunswick, New Jersey

• TIG Global Philanthropy Unit Using Internet Marketing Expertise to Take on Global Diseases; Bill Clinton spotlights TIG Global�s Online Marketing Efforts at the Clinton Global Initiative for the Fight against Neglected Tropical Disease
• Strand Development Nearly Doubles Portfolio � Automates Ownership Services with Tech Partner; Strand adds 12 properties, but only one additional accounting staffer
• The Ten Spookiest Hotels in the U.S.
• MGM MIRAGE Proposing a $4.5-$5 billion Atlantic City Resort with Three Hotel Towers, 3,000 rooms on Site Adjacent to the Borgata; Would Mimic the Company's Huge $7.4 billion CityCenter Project Under Construction on the Las Vegas Strip
• Zagat Survey: Daniel Reclaims the Top spot for Food from Le Bernardin, Little Doubt that New York is the Dining Capital of the World, Dress Codes Continue to Lose Ground
• Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Cancels Land Lease for a Highly-publicized Multi-million Dollar Spring Green Lodge Conference Center to be Constructed on the School Land
• The Next Wellness Craze: Boca Raton Resort & Club Now Offers On-site Medical Institute, Cenegenics Provides Preventive Medicine Program
• Turnberry Associates and Corner Partnership Complete $10 million Renovation of Nasville's Historic Union Station � a Wyndham Historic Hotel
• ReviewAnalyst to Provide Hotels Simple Monitoring of Online Reviews; New Tool from Standing Dog Interactive Launches with 100 Properties
• Mintek Mobile Data Solutions Ranked Among Top 500 Global Software Companies; Florida Company Honored for Third Consecutive Year
• Merchants Urged to Reduce Risk of Data Breaches; Removing Credit Card Data Seen as Key to Real Security
• innRoad, Inc.TM Partners With Comtrol® for Lodging Link® Compatible Property Management System; New Technology Partnership Allows Integration of Over 500 Individual Hotel Software Interfaces
• Edward Gannon Named Resort Manager and Anthony Dawodu as Executive Chef at Caneel Bay, A Rosewood Resort on St. John, USVI 
• Christian Passath Appointed Director of Restaurants at the Renaissance Tampa Hotel International Plaza
• Erin Mercer Named Director of Human Resources for Chaminade at Santa Cruz, California

• Top Yield Management Pros Balance Experience and Judgment to Increase Revenue with Maestro PMS Technology; Properties Orchestrate Proactive Yield Management Strategies to Optimize Rates, Drive Profitability
• Oberoi Hotels & Resorts Selects Luxury Link as Key Online Partner for "INDIA in LUXURY" Program
• Donald Trump Says Trump Taj Mahal, Trump Plaza and Trump Marina Are Still for Sale; Big Obstacle in Finding a Buyer is the Company's $1.5 billion Debt, Even After a 2005 Chapter 11 Restructuring
• Cypress Equities and The Staubach Company Selects Montage Hotels & Resorts as Operator of Luxury Resort in Bahamas; Montage Royal Island Bahamas to be Centerpiece of Cypress Equities' Private Island  Community near Eleuthera
• Restaurateur Chef Emeril Lagasse Opening His Newest Restaurant, Table 10, at The Palazzo in Las Vegas
• Web Cast October 19, 2007: Habits of Highly Successful Revenue Managers - Expanded for 2008!
• The Legendary Eden Roc Renaissance Beach Resort & Spa Begins $170 million Transformation, Includes New 21-story, 283 Guest Room Tower
• ARTE Hotels, LLC Selects Expotel Hospitality Services to Manage The Holiday Inn Brentwood (Nashville)
• Gemstone Chooses UniFocus Programs to Enhance Employee, Guest Satisfaction; Luxury asset management company now using GUESTScope® and STAFFScope® to provide positive reinforcement for staff and guests while building retention
• VingCard® to Secure Baha Mar Resort Hotels on Nassau's Cable Beach; Hotel Security Leader will Install Electronic Locks at New Development in the Bahamas
• Bloomington (MN) Hospitality Association Awards First Scholarship to Normandale Community College Student Megan Palmer
• HEI Hotels & Resorts Acquires The 255 room Westin St. Louis; Planning a $7 Million Upgrade
• Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company Signs Hyatt International to Operate 200 room Hotel at Capital Gate in Abu Dhabi
• Rodolphe Van Weyenbergh Appointed General Manager, Hotel Metropole Brussels
• Christophe Depuischaffray Appointed Executive Chef at InterContinental Mark Hopkins San Francisco
• Benchmark Hospitality Appoints Sara Plaster Director of Conference Services for Hotel Contessa, San Antonio, Texas
• TeleAdapt Names New Leader for Global, Hospitality Sales Team

• Marcus Hotel Group and KB Partners Submit Bid to Take Over Bankrupt Developer Raymond Goad's Wildflower Resort Project in Grand Prairie, Texas
• Rainmaker Group Leads Revenue Management Panel at GA Tech Conference; Rainmaker hosts Harrah's, MGM MIRAGE, Archstone-Smith execs for Revenue Management thought leadership event
• Service Excellence: A Destination or a Journey? / Bryan K. Williams
• San Jose's Gamble on Fairmont Hotel Wins Praise 20 years Later, Even Though Substantial City Subsidy Nowhere Near Being Paid Off
• Owned and Financed by the City of Baltimore, the $302 million Hilton Convention Center Hotel is Halfway Built; 85 Groups with 150,000 Room Nights Booked for Future
• Hotel Construction in the Asia-Pacific Region Is at a Record Level; A Burgeoning Pipeline in China Is Set to Unfold
• Steve Vissotzky, Hyatt Regency Dallas General Manager, Receives the Donald N. Pritzker Award of Excellence
• The UNLV-JMBM Hotel Developers Conference  New platform launches with first comprehensive hotel development summit to focus on Green. March 11 - 13, 2008
• ONETECH is Successfully Integrated with Comtrol's Lodging Link System; Meet the newest Lodging Link Compatible PMS Partner
• Knowland Signs 600th Client in Less Than Three Years; Market intelligence firm continues tremendous growth, attributes success to adding client value
• Warmbrodt Hotel Investments ("WHI") Advises in the Sale of the Holiday Inn Downtown - Salt Lake City, Utah
• As Many as Seven New Hotels Will Pop Up in Broomfield, Colorado Beginning Summer 2008
• Benchmark Appoints Kevin Rupp General Manager for SC Johnson's The Council House and Wingspread, Racine Wisconsin
• Linda Little Named Director of Marketing for Magnolia Lodging LLC

October 5, 2007

• Walt Disney Co. Planning an 800 room Hotel and Time Share Near the Ko Olina Resort & Marina on Oahu, Hawaii
• Donald Trump and Partners Suspend Plans for the Trump Las Olas Condo-hotel Resort in Fort Lauderdale
• Marriott Reports 2007 3rd Qtr Net Income of $131 million Down from $141 million in the Same Period a Year Earlier; Attributes Drop in Income to Smaller Timeshare Profits and a Higher Tax Rate / Key Lodging Stats
• Nick and Vicki Massad Gift $1.5 million to Conrad N. Hilton College at University of Houston; Gift to Enhance College's Library and Hospitality Industry Archives
• Developer Robert Spottswood Opens 222 room Beachside Resort & Conference Center in Key West, Florida; Restaurants Created by Chef Norman Van Aken
• All the Details: Seminars Addressing Global Issues and Hot Button Topics Scheduled for 2007 IH/M&RS November 10-13, 2007 In NYC
• Hospitality Veteran Forms New Company to Focus on Management, E-Marketing and Four Diamond Training for Small, Upscale Hotels and Inns
• American Travelers Turning Green (But Not at Any Cost), According to New National Survey
• Triyar Hospitality and Warburg Pincus Launch Joint Venture Targeting Select Service Hotel Development Such as Starwood's aloft
• Palmetto Investment Group Nearing Completion of 80 room Hampton Inn in Columbia, South Carolina
• Bob Alter, Chairman, Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. to Present at Cornell's "Conversations with Entrepreneurs"
• The Generation Companies Breaks Ground on a $8.23 million Candlewood Suites in Destin, Florida
• VFM Interactive and Omni Hotels Complete Study on the Impact of Rich Visual Media On Hotel Bookings
• IDeaS Revenue Optimization Solution Deployed Worldwide by Millennium Hotels and Resorts
• Settle Inn & Suites Switches to InnLink Central Reservation Services
• Estancia La Jolla Hotel Invites New Food and Beverage Director to the Team; La Jolla Hotel Adds Top-Notch Veteran to Their Staff
• Steve Sackman and Nancy Lindemer Appointed Chair and Vice Chair Respectively for the International Association of Conference Center's Marketing Committee
• Richfield Hospitality Appoints Frederik Houben as Vice President of Sales and Marketing
• Dani Elhachem and Lisa Schmitt Appointed General Manager and Director of Sales and Marketing Respectively for the 343 room Holiday Inn on the Hill, Washington DC; Property Scheduled to be Repositioned to Affinia Brand
• Bill Hanley Appointed Managing Director of International Development for Vantage Hospitality Group
• Torgerson Properties Names Joe Kohaut as Vice President of Food and Beverage
• L'Auberge Del Mar Creates Changes In Their Sales Team
• Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa Names Jim Hatfield as Assistant Restaurants Manager

• 10 Ways to Optimize your Hotel Website through Copy; How to Use Copywriting to Achieve Higher Search-Engine Rankings for Your Site
• Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts Switches to SynXis for its Single Distribution Source; International chain will use SynXis Worldwide Call Centers for Private Label Reservation Services
• Five Exercises to Pump-up your Hotel eMarketing Muscle
• Intensive Training for 150 at the Michael Mina Operated SaltWater and Bourbon Steak Restaurants at the MGM Grand Detroit Casino Resort
• Station Casinos Next Big Thing - The $675 million Aliante Station Going Up in North Las Vegas, 20 Miles from the Strip
• Related WestPac Receives Approvals to Breakground on the 236 unit Viceroy Snowmass at Snowmass Base Village; Ski-in/ski-out Property to be Operated by Kor Hotel Group
• Hilton Longboat Key Beachfront Resort Subject of Wrongful Death Suit; Hotel Guest Drowned While Boogie-boarding
• Sage Hospitality Resources Opens the 272 room Renaissance Providence Hotel; Completes $100 million Restoration of the 78 Year Old Masonic Temple
• Fresh Impressions; Many hotels listed on FreshStay.com® are finding success by going beyond providing smoke-free environments and offering guestrooms, meeting rooms and public spaces with Indoor Air Quality IAQ enhancements
• Doubletree Carson in Los Angeles Sold
• Inland American Lodging Corporation Signs Davidson Hotel Company to Manage the 248 room Hilton University of Florida Conference Center, Gainesville, Florida
• Noble Investment Group Acquires the Hilton Birmingham at Perimeter Park; Hotel Will Receive a $5.5 million Renovation
• Hotel Equities Launches 'HELP' Leadership Training Program
• Luxe Worldwide Hotels Adds The Clarendon to its Portfolio of Stylish and Boutique Properties
• IDeaS Revenue Optimization chosen by Oberoi Hotels & Resorts
• MotorCity Casino Hotel Selects PAR Springer-Miller's SMS|Host® Hospitality Management System; Focus on Guest Service is a Match
• New York's 75-year Old Jumeirah Essex House Completes $90 Million Refurbishment Project; New Design Evokes The "Golden Age of Travel" of the 1920s and '30s
• The Prague Renaissance Hotel in Czech Republic Undergoing Refurbishment and Transformation to Hilton Prague Old Town
• MGM MIRAGE Announces Top Executive Promotions at Las Vegas Resorts; Bellagio, Monte Carlo, and City Center Hotel Get New Presidents
• Albert Lacle Named Regional Vice President Sales and Marketing for Benchmark Hospitality International
• Dave Duncan Appointed the Director of Sales and Marketing at the St. Louis Airport Marriott

• Blowing the Basics: Hotel Sales Managers Fail to Respond to Customer Inquiries More than 25% of the Time
• Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel Provides Guests with Airline Flight Information To Speed Their Travels; Real-time airline departure-arrival screens set The Westin Boston Waterfront apart
• The Ethics and Safety of Overfilling a Hotel Room; Keeping a Family of Six Together in a Two Bedded Room
• A Three-way Split in Control of Oklahoma City's Cox Convention Center Poses Some Problems; The Renaissance Oklahoma City Convention Center Hotel, the Convention and Visitors Bureau, and SMG Struggle with Service Problems
• More Hotels See Value of Investing in the Environment; A Host of Green Strategies May Also Win Market Share
• In Case Anyone Thinks that Going GREEN Is Still Optional, the SEC May Soon Be Pushing the GREEN Bandwagon / Jim Butler
• Interesting Facts For the Twelve Hotels Added to National Trust Historic Hotels of America
• The Oberoi Group Extends Successful Relationship with TRUST International & Fosters CRS Integration
• Educational Institute, Workplace Languages Offer English-Spanish Phrase Guides for Hotel, Restaurant Industry
• Three's Company; Pineapple Hospitality's EcoRooms & EcoSuites adds three new members to its Board of Advisors, providing additional environmental insight and perspective for the hospitality industry
• Charlestowne Hotels Saves Time with EZ Yield
• JDA Software Group and The Rainmaker Group Continue Partnership, Expand Relationship in Hospitality Market; Rainmaker Gains Worldwide Rights in Non-gaming Hospitality Market
• The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation Gifts $ 1 million to Endow a Professorship in the Hospitality and Tourism Management Department at Virginia Tech's Pamplin College of Business
• In Melbourne, Australia, the Iconic Rialto Hotel on Collins Closing for an Extensive Refurbishment, Will Reopen as an InterContinental Hotel in 2008
• Playa Hotels & Resorts, S.L. Acquires the 249 all-suite Grand Baja Resort & Spa in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico; Will Add 476 new Suites and Rename The Barcelo Los Cabos Resort
• Gillian Murphy Appointed Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Highly Anticipated MGM Grand at Foxwoods Opening in 2008

• Website Form and Function: It Is Possible to Achieve Both; E-site Marketing, winners of Nine Web Awards, also delivers impressive results
• Jim Butler, Hotel Lawyer, at Phoenix Lodging Conference Day Two: Return to "Normalcy" or "Irrational Pessimism"?
• North America Top Ten Group Events - September 2007; Including Selected Markets Los Angeles and Seattle / Knowland Group
• The Principal Owner of Galveston's Flagship Hotel Pleads Guilty of Filing False Claims for Lodging for Hurricane Victims; Facing Possible Five Years in Prison
• Bedford Springs Resort Returns to its Roots Following $120 million Restoration; Parts of Pennsylvania Resort Date to 1806
• Prism Hotels & Resorts, Cambridge, Telemark Hotel Developers, and Hotel Assets Group form Viking Hospitality Fund, LLC; Viking Hospitality Fund to build 25-30 hotel properties, actively seeking hotel sites nationwide
• Speaker Roster Set for HTNG's 2007 European Member's Conference, Oct 8-10, 2007, Lausanne
• Starwood Capital Group and Perseus Realty, L.L.C. Developing 180 key 1 Hotel, Washington, D.C.; D.C.'s First 'Green' Luxury Hotel
• Haven Holidays Selects JDA Software to Deploy New Revenue Management System; Haven Partners to Leverage JDA's Revenue Management Solution to Maximize Sales Revenue Across its 36 U.K. Holiday Parks
• Signature Worldwide Introduces Industry's First Comprehensive Customer Experience Program; Customer Experience Edge� Earns Impressive Returns for Program's First Participants
• Heads Above the Rest � Now Available by Subscription Only
• Stretch of Interstate 25 Near Greeley, Colorado Getting 4 Hotels with 500 rooms
• Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 99 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database
• Michael Goar Named Managing Director of The Canyons Resort, Park City, Utah