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** Top 25 Read Articles - December 2009 **
  1. Sunstone Hotels Investors Inc. Defaults on Additional 11 Hotels with 2,500 Rooms
  2. South Beach's Gansevoort South Hotel to be Auctioned in Foreclosure Sale Less than Two-years After Opening
  3. When it Comes to Gratuities, Hotel Housekeepers Don't Exactly Clean Up
  4. What's Hot? What's Not? Leisure and Business Travel Outlook for 2010
  5. Ever Controversial, Donald Trump Rains on CityCenter's Parade Calling it "An Absolute Catastrophe"
  6. Can the Playboy Bunnies Keep the Sagamore, One of South Beach's Most Fashionable Hotels, Out of Foreclosure?
  7. Chef Survey: What's Hot in 2010
  8. It's Almost Time to Close the Door on 2009 and for Most Hoteliers, Not a Moment Too Soon; Our Hotel Industry Predications For 2010 / Jean Francois Mourier and Bruno Perez
  9. Interstate Hotels & Resorts Signs Merger Agreement for Aquisition by Hotel Acquisition Company, LLC Through a Joint Venture Between Thayer Lodging Group and Jin Jiang Hotels for $307 million
  10. 2010 Will Continue to be a Tough Year for U.S. Hotel Owners and Operators; 2010 U.S Lodging ADR Now Forecasted by PKF at Minus 1.5% from 2009 ADR
  11. Ask a Restaurant Server: Things You Want to Know, but Were Afraid to Ask
  12. 5 Simple Ways To Improve Hotel Sales In A Lousy Economy; Some Hotels Are Successfully Gaining Market Share / Neil Salerno
  13. Foreclosure Looms for the Hotel Ivy, Minneapolis; A Spectacular Come-down for the 2-year Old $88 million Project
  14. A Big Tax Threat to the Hotel Industry: Cities Taking Steps to Enable Them to Collect from Hotels the Transient Occupancy Taxes Owed by Online Travel Companies / Jim Butler and Jim Abrams
  15. Bill Marriott, Jr Sees Bright Future for South Florida Hotel Market
  16. White House Dinner Crasher, Tareq Salahi, One of 15 Hand-picked Board Members for the State of Virginia's Tourism Authority
  17. Hilton Employees in Puerto Rico Detail Reasons for a Possible Strike
  18. Recession Lessons: What Will Drive Hotel Sales & Revenue Management in 2010 / Carol Verret
  19. Savvy Hoteliers To Steal A Bigger Share of The Market in 2010 Start with the Basics, Add A Pinch of Grit, and A Whole Bunch of Common-Sense / Neil Salerno
  20. Why Your Hotel Should NEVER USE TinyURL to Redirect Links
  21. Starwood Searched Across the U.S. for a New Corporate Home and Liked Best 333 Ludlow Street in Stamford, Connecticut
  22. Health Department Removes Guests from the Epic Hotel in Downtown Miami; Legionnaire's Suspected
  23. Jin Jiang International Hotels, the Leading Hotel Operator in China, In a Joint Venture with Thayer Lodging Group to Acquire Interstate Hotels & Resorts
  24. HSMAI Names the 37 Advertising Division Award Winners, the 53 Public Relations Division Award Winners and the 33 Web  Marketing Division Award Winners for the Year 2009
  25. Kennedy Associates Real Estate Counsel LP to Close the 466-room Wyndham O'Hare Hotel in Chicago on January 1, 2010: Unite Here Union Seeking Delay of Shutdown

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** Top 25 Read Articles - November 2009 **
  1. Sixteen Hotels Achieve 2009 AAA Five Diamond Status For the First Time
  2. Consultants Predict 13 Restaurant and Hotel Food and Dining Trends for 2010
  3. What if You Reduced Your Hotel Room Rates and Nobody Noticed? / Rick Garlick, Ph.D.
  4. Hospitality/Hotel/Restaurant Trends for 2010
  5. Marriott's New Brand, The Autograph Collection, Seeks Existing Luxury Independent Hotels Provides Marriott with Another Platform for Growth
  6. New Email Marketing Tactics For Hotels To Use in 2010
  7. Hotel Common Sense – Where Is Your Desk? / Dr. John Hogan
  8. Hotel Occupancy Tax Alert: Online Travel Company Suits Over Transient Occupancy Taxes Raise - 5 Things Every Hotel Owner and Operator Needs to Know / Jim Butler and Jim Abrams
  9. South Florida Hotels Distress Could Lure Buyers:  Buyers are Waiting for the Misery to get a Bit More Miserable
  10. What is really going on with group rates? How to obtain critical competitive intelligence
  11. The Westshore Hotel, Tampa Foreclosure Caused by High Debt, Mismanagement
  12. PricewaterhouseCoopers 2010 Lodging Forecast Suggests Continued Decline for Hotels ADR
  13. Amelia Island Company, Operator of the Amelia Island Plantation, Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
  14. Found! The Obligatory Hotel Restaurant that Perpetuates the Bad Name of Hotel Restaurants
  15. Starwood Hotels & Resorts Moving Headquarters from White Plains, NY to Stamford, CT
  16. Going Rogue on Group Pricing; How to Compete with Irrational Discounting
  17. Miami's Fontainebleau Grand Launch a Dim Memory as Hotel Cannot Pay $60 million in Contractor Bills, Seeks to Reduce $660 million Construction Loan
  18. Internet-based Hotel Room Wholesalers Lose Class Action Lawsuit Over Unpaid Hotel Occupancy Taxes;  Jury Awards $20 million to 170 Texas Cities
  19. A “High Touch” Lesson for Hospitality Managers - Understanding Body Language / Dr. John Hogan
  20. Electronic Proposals - Easy for Sales Managers, Frustrating for Customers; Pretty pictures are no substitute for substance
  21. Unite Here Local 1 Warns 200 Meeting Planners that Possible Strikes Could Disrupt Events Booked at 5 Chicago Downtown Hotels
  22. Twelve Caesars Palace Guests Injured in Escalator Mishap
  23. “A Hidden Gem!” or “Lame!!!”?  Online Travel Reviewers to Watch Out For / Daniel Edward Craig
  24. Not That and Do This: Do not embrace the “New Normal” and increase your RevPAR in 2010 / Jay Delerno
  25. 4 Post Recession Shifts  in the Hotel Sales Environment; What You Need to Know for Success in 2010 / Carol Verret

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** Top 25 Read Articles - October 2009 **
  1. The Attorney for ESPN Reporter Erin Andrews Criticizes Hotel Where Alleged Peephole Incident Occurred
  2. Conde Nast Readers Name the Top Hotels Around the World: The Top Hotel United States - 21c Museum Hotel, Louisville and the Top Resort Mainland U.S. - Sanctuary at Kiawah Island
  3. Do You Think Like a Leader or a Manager? / William P. Fisher, Ph.D.
  4. Taking Back Hotels by Foreclosure or by Deed in Lieu of Foreclosure:  Lenders Beware / Rob Nicholas
  5. Seven Independent U.S. Properties Come Together to Form Kindred Resorts and Hotels; A New Logo and Website Kicks Off the Initial Phase
  6. America's Top Barbeque, Burger and Pizza Restaurants According to Zagat's 2010 America's Top Restaurants Survey
  7. The Growing Tension Between Hoteliers and Online Travel Agencies: The Prisoner's Dilemma, The Stockholm Syndrome or a Case of Both? / Max Starkov
  8. Hilton Worldwide Closing its Hazleton, PA Reservations Center Eliminating 176 Jobs
  9. Growing Tension Between Hoteliers and OTA's…NONSENSE: An Alternative Viewpoint / Neil Salerno
  10. Overcoming The "All They Want To Hear Is The Rate" Mentality / Doug Kennedy
  11. Kansas City Suffers Huge Body Blow with Loss of Three Top Conventions
  12. Steve Wynn's Political Voice Gets Louder, Views Not Shared by All
  13. Hilton Hawaiian Village Sued Over Fatal Drowning in its Rebuilt Duke Kahanamoku Lagoon
  14. Chicago Luxury Hotel Market: When Will the Pain End
  15. Lodgian Update: In Default on $45.6 million Loan Secured by Six Hotels, May Return Hotels to Lender
  16. In Just Eight Months, the Number of San Diego Hotels Facing Possible Foreclosure Nearly Quadruples
  17. The 335 room Fremont Marriott Silicon Valley Defaults on $38.5 million Mortgage; Joins Several Other Prominent San Francisco Bay Area Hotels
  18. Make Sure the Right Contingency Plans Are in Place; Secrets of a Hotel Asset Manager / Jim Burr
  19. Hotel Sales Director Firings Impact Meeting Planners, Too / David Brudney
  20. Disney Resort Taking Shape on Oahu; Expects to Invest $800 million, Employ 1,000
  21. Four Managers and Owners of the Holiday Inn Philadelphia-Stadium Charged with Burglary Following Attempt to Oust Restaurant Lease Holders
  22. Concord Hospitality Enterprises is Forming a $300 million Private Equity Fund to Buy Distressed Hotels and Debt
  23. Hyatt Hotels Revised IPO Filing Warns of Risks Related to Pritzker Family's Infighting
  24. A Breakfast Conversation with Horst Schulze, CEO Capella Hotels and Resorts, at the Hotel Schloss Velden, Austria
  25. How to Handle Google Maps Mixups

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