** Top 25 Read
Articles - December 2009 **
- Sunstone
Hotels Investors Inc. Defaults on Additional 11 Hotels with 2,500 Rooms
- South
Beach's Gansevoort South Hotel to be Auctioned in Foreclosure Sale Less
than Two-years After Opening
- When
it Comes to Gratuities, Hotel Housekeepers Don't Exactly Clean Up
- What's
Hot? What's Not? Leisure and Business Travel Outlook for 2010
- Ever
Controversial, Donald Trump Rains on CityCenter's Parade Calling it "An
Absolute Catastrophe"
- Can
the Playboy Bunnies Keep the Sagamore, One of South Beach's Most
Fashionable Hotels, Out of Foreclosure?
- Chef
Survey: What's Hot in 2010
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Ask
a Restaurant Server: Things You Want to Know, but Were Afraid to Ask
- 5
Simple Ways To Improve Hotel Sales In A Lousy Economy; Some Hotels Are
Successfully Gaining Market Share / Neil Salerno
- Foreclosure
Looms for the Hotel Ivy, Minneapolis; A Spectacular Come-down for the
2-year Old $88 million Project
- 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
- Bill
Marriott, Jr Sees Bright Future for South Florida Hotel Market
- White
House Dinner Crasher, Tareq Salahi, One of 15 Hand-picked Board Members
for the State of Virginia's Tourism Authority
- Hilton
Employees in Puerto Rico Detail Reasons for a Possible Strike
- Recession
Lessons: What Will Drive Hotel Sales & Revenue Management in 2010 /
Carol Verret
- 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
- Why
Your Hotel Should NEVER USE TinyURL to Redirect Links
- Starwood
Searched Across the U.S. for a New Corporate Home and Liked Best 333
Ludlow Street in Stamford, Connecticut
- Health
Department Removes Guests from the Epic Hotel in Downtown Miami;
Legionnaire's Suspected
- Jin
Jiang International Hotels, the Leading Hotel Operator in China, In a
Joint Venture with Thayer Lodging Group to Acquire Interstate Hotels
& Resorts
- 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
- 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
December 31,
2009
December 30, 2009
- Libra
OnDemand Making Significant Strides in Spearheading, Supporting CRM
Initiatives; By leveraging the power of the world’s most popular on
demand platform – Force.com – and by signing global channel
partnerships, Libra OnDemand’s hotel portfolio grew considerably in
2009; Continued global growth forecasted for 2010
- Chef
Survey: What's Hot in 2010
- Online
Hotel Booking Sites Experiencing Big Surge in Look-to-Book Ratios; A
Few Years Ago a Couple of Hundred Lookers Would Turn into One Buyer,
Now it is 10,000 or Even 100,000 Per Buyer
- Nick
Rich, IHG’s Director of Consumer Insights for Europe, Middle East and
Africa, Provides Predictions for Business and Leisure Travel in 2010
- Despite
Intrawest ULC's Missed $524 million Debt Payment, the Operator of
Venues for the 2010 Winter Olympics, Predictions are Ski Resorts Will
Beat the Travel Industry Meltdown
- The
Grand Cayman Islands Ponder the Eventual Competition with Cuba for
American Tourism Dollars
- Caesars
Palace Officials and Las Vegas Dealers Local 721 Union Reach Impasse:
Contract Talks Stalled After Two Years of Negotiations: Resort to
Implement Provisions from Offer Sent to Dealers in August
- Federal
Judge Allowing Trump's Keystone Redevelopment Partners Suit Against the
Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board to Move Forward; Action Claims State
Denied Casino Application Because of Ties to Atlantic City
- Park
City Hotels Find Tech-Savvy Travelers Requiring More From Their
Accommodations; Free Wi-Fi Now an Expectation
- CIT
Lending Services Files Foreclosure Action on 72-room Barton Hill Hotel
& Spa, Lewiston, New York; Owners to Name New Investment Partner in
Effort to Save Hotel
- New
Year's Eve on Las Vegas Strip Strip Boosting Hoteliers Spirits: Fuller
Hotels, Higher rates, Room Fees 4 Percent Higher than 2008
- As
2009 Comes to a Close, Florida Keys Suddenly Bursting with Tourists:
Hotels and Restaurants Report Significant Spikes in Visitation
- High
Profile Soccer Tournaments in Cary, North Carolina Fill Hotels and
Restaurants; Sports Marketers Say Branding and Positioning Key to
Success
- Sports
Tourism Plays Strong Role in Lifting Hotel Occupancy Rates During
Economic Downturn for Rochester, New York Hoteliers
- Omni
Hotels & Resorts and Global Hotel Alliance Partner for Charity to
Honor Former Team Member, Jason Harmon
December 29, 2009
December 28, 2009
- After
a Two Week Forced Closure, Miami Health Officials Now Confident the
Epic Hotel's Water Is Safe
- Global
Insurance Giant Aviva Takes 17 Months to Disallow £500,000 Hotel
Fire Claim; UK Case Highlights the Unfair Advantages that Insurers Have
Over its Customers
- Cheyenne
Mountain Resort's Good-neighbor Policy Pays Off; GM Laura Neumann Seen
as Champion in Commitment to Social Responsibility
- Holiday
Inn Express Created Inside a Historic Structure; Old Town National Bank
Receives $11.5 million Transformation to the 70-room Holiday Inn
Express Downtown Baltimore
- Only
in Vegas - Two New Hotel Towers Open; Planet Hollywood Resort Adds
1,202 rooms and Hard Rock Hotel Adds 374 rooms
- Stonestreet
Hospitality Corp. Opens $29 million Hyatt Place Uncasville Located Near
the Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods Casinos
- The
Westward Look Resort and Omni Tucson National Resort Regain 4-Diamond
Designation Following Extensive Renovations
- Africa-Israel
Investments Ltd. Planning Conversion of Old New York Times Building,
Additional $170 million Investment to Include High End Hotel
- Swift
Hospitality Group Assumes Management of Champaign-Urbana Lodging, LLC's
Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express, Champaign/Urbana, Illinois
- Kalispel
Tribe's New 250-room Northern Quest Resort & Casino to Open Near
Spokane, Washington
- Cap
Cana and AM Resorts Open 126-suite Golden Bear Lodge & Spa at Cap
Cana Resort, Dominican Republic
- Chippewa
Partners LLC's Project East Proposal to Link Italian Culinary School,
Apicius and a 196-room Hotel to the University of South Carolina
Beaufort Moving Forward
- ITC's
Hotel Royal Gardenia, Bengaluru, India Becomes the World's Largest LEED
Platinum Rated Green Hotel and First in India to Achieve This
Recognition
December 23, 2009
December 22, 2009
- 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
- Homewood
Suites by Hilton Wraps Up 2009 with 286 Hotels and a Development
Pipeline of 120 Planned Properties
- Palace
Resorts Affiliating Four of its All-inclusive Mexican Resorts with the
Wyndham Brand; Expects Wyndham to Drive Bookings in the Leisure, Bridal
and Meeting Travel Segments
- Mehmet
Bayraktar, the Turkish Developer Behind Long-delayed Luxury Resort on
Miami's Watson Island, to Receive One Last Chance for Survial on $640
million Venture
- Stonestreet
Hospitality Realty Corporation and Hyatt Place® Open First Newly
Built Hotel in Uncasville, Connecticut Since 2001
- Three
Bear Lodge in West Yellowstone Reopens After Natural Gas Explosion;
Creative Recycling of Old Building Incorporates History
- D&D
Lodging to Open 92-room Holiday Inn Express in Port Arthur, Texas
- Omni
Hotels and its Partner Bill Lenox Form Agreement with Lemmon Avenue
Holdings, the New Owners of the Original Bob's Steak & Chop House
in Dallas, to Continue Operations Under Brand Name
- Glen
Cove Mansion Hotel and Conference Center Receives Top Marks for
Excellent Customer Service; Conference Guests Respond In Third-party
Survey
- Hospitality
eBusiness Strategies (HeBS) Announces HSMAI Foundation eConnect Website
Re-Launch; Hospitality eBusiness Strategies, the industry's leading
Internet marketing and distribution strategy consulting firm,
relaunches the HSMAI Foundation eConnect site, which provides insights
into hospitality sales and marketing topics
- Sheraton
Puerto Rico Convention Center Hotel & Casino Chooses to Implement
an Effective Cost Savings Strategy for its 503 room Property
- Genares
Worldwide Reservations Services awarded HTNG Certification; Genares
completes Hotel Technology Next Generation certification process
- Optimum
Hotel Brokerage Advises on Sale of Crowne Plaza in Enfield,
Connecticut; Distressed Connecticut Full Service Hotel Sold to
California-Based Owner/Operator
- Carlson
Hotels Worldwide Adding New 252-room Park Inn® Hotel in Louisville,
Kentucky
- Country
Inns & Suites By Carlson Opens New 81-room Hotel in Washington,
Pennsylvania
- Country
Inns & Suites By Carlson Opens New 88-room Hotel in Lexington Park,
Maryland
- A
Proposed 200-room Hotel in Greensboro, North Carolina Clears First
Hurdle; Nonprofit Neighborhood Association to Share in Ownership
- Richard
Geiger Named the President of Visit Winston-Salem; Previously Served 14
Years as President of the Buffalo Niagara CVB
- The
French Culinary Institute Announces New “Union Square Hospitality Group
Restaurant Management Scholarship”
December 21, 2009
- Jin
Jiang International Hotels, the Leading Hotel Operator in China, In a
Joint Venture with Thayer Lodging Group to Acquire Interstate Hotels
& Resorts
- Recession
Lessons: What Will Drive Hotel Sales & Revenue Management in
2010 / Carol Verret
- Is
Your Site Hospitable? 5 Simple Strategies You Can Use to Improve the
Customer Experience and Dramatically Boost Conversion / Claude Guay
- Bill
Marriott, Jr Sees Bright Future for South Florida Hotel Market
- The
Future of the Fenway Hotel Remains Clouded; The Preservation Effort for
the Once Posh Dunedin, Florida Resort Lacks $17 million
- The
Restaurants of CityCenter's Aria - More Wondrous, More Spectacular
- Will
CityCenter's Opening Affect Las Vegas Room Rates? Observers Believe
Rates Can't Go Much Lower
- Tune
Hotels.com Enters Partnership with Evolution Capital Public Company
Limited to Roll Out 44 No-frill Hotels Across Asia
- Marriott
Names Chris Tatum to Succceed Ed Hubennette as Hawai'i's Top
Executive; Hubennette to Run London Based Operations
- American
Hotel Development Partners Opens 124-room Candlewood Suites Hotel in
Hazleton, Pennsylvania
- The
Illinois Hotel & Lodging Association Honors Dale McFarland as the
"Hotelier of the Year"
- Hilton
Signs Management Agreement For a 154-room Hilton Hotel in Windhoek, the
Capital and Largest City of the Republic of Namibia
- Sol
Meliá and LRA Worldwide Launch Global Brand Assurance Program
- DB
Hospitality Pvd. Ltd. Signs Hyatt to Operate Five New Hotels in India
- Intrawest
Names Patrice Malo as President and Chief Operating Officer at Mont
Tremblant Resort, Quebec
- David
Zamarin Named Chief Marketing Officer at Tropicana Entertainment, LLC
- Benchmark
Appoints Wende Blumberg General Manager for Hotel Contessa in San
Antonio, Texas
- Andrea
Mayer Appointed General Manager for the Hilton Garden Inn Chicago
Downtown/Magnificent Mile
- Harold
Beltran Appointed Executive Chef and Dietrich Chillous Food and
Beverage Manager at the Outrigger Reef on the Beach
- Ashley
Sneddon Appointed Director of Catering at Blackstone Hotel, Chicago
- Wasabi
by Morimoto , Harbour Bar and Golden Dragon At The Taj Mahal Palace
& Tower, Mumbai, India Reopen
December 18, 2009
- Local
and Federal Health Agencies Disagree if the Epic Hotel and Residences
Is in the Clear in the Death of a Guest from Legionnaires' Disease
- Westin
Tampa Bay’s On-Property Airport Flight Information Adds Confidence to
Holiday Travel; Vacationing families in the busiest travel season
appreciate real-time airport flight info in the comfort of the hotel
- Aligning
Digital E-commerce, Distribution, IT, Revenue Management, Sales,
Operations and Marketing Objectives
- The
Fed Rate - Governmnet Travelers Welcome in 2009 / Robert Mandelbaum and
Reed Woodworth
- Cuban
Government Officials Try to Sell U.S. Travel Operators on Tourism; Cuba
Planning to Build 30 Hotels with 10,000 rooms Over the Next Five Years
- 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
- The
250-room Ritz-Carlton Dove Mountain Resort Opens in Marana, Arizona
- HMP
Properties Opens $14 Million 104-room Holiday Inn Express & Suites
in Norfolk, Virginia
- The
H-2B Workforce Coalition Says Comprehensive Immigration Reform Must
Include Relief for Seasonal Employers
- Greenland
Group Signs Eaton Hotels to Operate its New Brands, the Eaton Luxe and
the Eaton Smart Brands at Three Locations in China
- JAL
Hotels Opening a 443-room Nikko Hotel in Xiamen, China
- The
Pegasus View November 2009: ADS and GDS Channels Experience Positive
Year-on-Year Net Revenue Growth for First Time this Year; +13.28%
Increase in GDS Net Revenue and +2.09% Jump in ADS Net Revenue Beat
2008 Figures, but Numbers Still Fall Short of 2007 Levels
- The
254 room Westin Lake Mary, Orlando North Chooses ProHost® for a
Smart Material Handling Solution
- Aimbridge
Hospitality, Milwaukee River Hotel LLC Open Aloft Milwaukee Downtown
- Owner
Highland Hospitality and Operator Crestline Complete Extensive
Renovation and Rebranding of the Former Wyndham to The Renaissance Palm
Springs Hotel
- Bandera
Hospitality Awarded the Management Contract for the Re-branded Holiday
Inn & Suites Hotel in Fullerton, California
- Owner
Groupe Cible Expansion Rebrands the Crowne Plaza Paris Champs Elysees
to the InterContinental Paris Avenue Marceau
- Accor
Hospitality Names Olivier Poirot Chief Financial Officer
- Darrin
Frowery Appointed General Manager of the 327-room The Dolce Valley Forge
- Rachel
Moniz Named General Manager of The Liberty Hotel in Boston
December 16, 2009
- How
to Leverage Social Media to Add Value to Your Hotel Business;
Softscribe Inc. CEO tracks with expert Chris Brogan: video gives
hoteliers a social media power snack
- hotel
SystemsPro Announces New Senior Director of eSales & eMarketing to
Direct New Initiatives; Industry Veteran Will Help Customers Optimize
Their Use of Web-based Solutions to Increase Profitability
- Leading
Travel E-Marketing Firm Partners with 1,001st Client; TIG Global
Attracts a Growing Client Base with Leading–Edge Services and Customer
Focus
- Hilton
Employees in Puerto Rico Detail Reasons for a Possible Strike
- Be
On Guard - Assessing Your Hotel's Vulnerability for Unionization /
Joseph M Gravish
- Who
is the Voice of Social Media in Your Hotel? / Daniel Edward Craig
- Ask
a Restaurant Server: Things You Want to Know, but Were Afraid to Ask
- Is
the DOJ's ADA Compliance Survey Coming to Your City Soon?; What to do
when you receive the DOJ's ADA Compliance Review questionnaire /
Jim Butler
- Ever
Controversial, Donald Trump Rains on CityCenter's Parade Calling it "An
Absolute Catastrophe"
- Madison
City Council's Refusal to Overturn Landmark Commission's Decision
Blocks Proposed $93 million Edgewater Hotel Project, Madison Wisconsin
- Service
Disconnect!! / Derek Wood
- Mexico's
Velas Resorts in Riviera Nayarit and Puerto Vallarta Earn Five and Four
2010 AAA Diamond Awards; Two Grand Velas Riviera Nayarit Restaurants,
Lucca and Piaf, Take Home AAA Four-Diamond Award for Fine Dining
- Trust
International Activates DerbySoft IDS Interface for Chinese Market
- VFM
Leonardo Selected to Distribute Videos for Accor North America’s Motel
6 Properties; North American operator of more than 1,000 hotels selects
VFM Leonardo for distribution of videos for 142 Motel 6 properties
- The
Green Team Promotes Hospitality Education; Helps Position Kirkwood
Community College's New Hotel and Sponsors 2009 Middle Tennessee
Hospitality Championship Series
- The
Greenbrier Resort's Introductory Gaming Facility Catching On; Gambling
Revenues Double
- The
Boot Hill Casino and Resort Opens in Dodge City, Kansas; Owned and
Operated by the State of Kansas, the $48 million First Phase Employs 265
- Mehmet
Bayraktar, the Turkish Developer Behind Long-delayed Luxury Resort on
Miami's Watson Island, Seeking Extension from the City to Secure
Financing for the $640 million Venture on City-owned Land
- Steve
Horve, Winning Bidder at $6.5 million for the Lincoln Hotel and
Conference Center in Springfield, Illinois, Confident in Ability to
Turn Hotel Around
- LBA
Properties and Hilton Hotels Break Ground for the First of New Brand,
Home2 Suites in Fayetteville, North Carolina
- Frank
Santos, Rosen Hotels & Resorts' Chief Financial Officer, Wins CFO
Award from Orlando Business Journal for Success in Meeting Revenue
Goals Despite Tough Economy
- Michele
Dionne of Dolce Hayes Mansion Named to IACC Board
December 15, 2009
December 14, 2009
- Hotel
Hospitality Inspirations Learned From My Mentor: Howard Feiertag / Doug
Kennedy
- Will
CityCenter's 5,800-room Project Stimulate New Visitors or Cannibalize
the Existing Vegas Market?
- Health
Department Removes Guests from the Epic Hotel in Downtown Miami;
Legionnaire's Suspected
- The
Lender, Dougherty Funding, Has Poor Prospects to Recoup the $56 million
Owed on the Ivy Hotel + Residence in Downtown Minneapolis
- Cheeca
Lodge & Spa in Islamorada, Florida Set to Reopen Shy of One Year
After a New Year's Eve Fire Damaged Most of the Resort's Main
Oceanfront Building
- Hotel
Common Sense - Now is the Time to Invest in Your People / Dr John Hogan
- MGM
Mirage Pursuing Developers to Build Non-gaming Bellagio and MGM Grand
Branded Hotels in India, China
- What
Makes a Hotel Loyalty Program Most Competitive? Is it Elite Benefits or
a Variety of Options? Turns Out it Depends on Who's Asking
- Spa
Trends 2010: Prevention Trumps Pampering / Bernard Burt
- Sol
Melia Opening the 686-room Gran Melia in Shanghai, China
- Why
Are Sleep Inn, Minot Numbers Up in a Down Market? Roomlinx iTV Delivers
Competitive Edge
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Add/Update 87 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel
Construction Projects Database
- MGM
Mirage Founder, Kirk Kerkorian Labels CityCenter 'Amazing'
- Revival
Hopes for Downtown Dallas' Decaying Statler Hilton by Owners, Warwick
International Hotels, Begins to Take Shape
- Starwood's
Four Waikiki Hotels Offer Employees Educational Program Geared to
Nuture, Expand Existing Staff's Range and Skills
- Paul
Kirwin Succeeding Arnold Angeloni as Chief Executive Officer at
Northcott Hospitality International, the Owner and Franchisor of 219
AmericInns
- Jean-Claude
Messant Returns as General Manager of Hotel Métropole
Monte-Carlo, Monaco
- Steve
Dorcy Named General Manager of the Inn at Pelican Bay in North Naples,
Florida
- The
Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels Appoints David Williams to Head Up
Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability and Ian Longbon to Lead
Audit & Risk Management
December 11, 2009
- Belmonte’s
Hospitality Solutions LLC Offering Financial Relief to Franchisees in
2010; Headquarters Relocated to Windermere, Florida
- Has
Your Hotel Ever Asked, “What Would Google Do?”; Recap of Jeff Jarvis
presentation at SES Chicago
- Colony
Capital Surrenders Resorts Atlantic City Casino and Resort to its
Lenders Led by Wells Fargo Bank; Had Not Made a Payment on its $360
million Mortgage Since October 2008
- A
Class-Action Lawsuit Against Kahala Hotel & Resort, Hawaii, Alleges
Resorts Tipping Policy Deceptive; Improperly Kept Tips Intended for
Employees
- Delhi
International Airport Ltd's Delay in Awarding Hotel Contracts Could
Spell Lodging Disaster for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, New Delhi, India
- Schottenstein
Property Group Planning to Transform Historic Buildings in Downtown
Columbus, Ohio to a $26.6 million 117-room Indigo Hotel
- Foreclosure
Hits Another Florida Beach Resort; Lender Claims Luper Enterprises Inc.
Defaulted on $2.88 million Loan for Bungalow Beach Resort
- Introducing
onPeak™; Travel Technology Group & Ambassadors are Now Under One
Name
- TeleAdapt
Unleashes More Power to Hotels; New Universal Mobile Device Charging
Station is Compatible With More Than 2,000 Devices, a Convenient
Amenity for Guests That Forget Their Charging Cables
- InnPoints
Worldwide Hotels See 15.4% Increase Year Over Year Despite Recession
- Rajesh
Khubchandani Appointed Hotel Manager of The Ritz-Carlton, Los Angeles
at L.A. Live
- Malia
Osterbauer Named the General Manager of The Portofino Hotel & Yacht
Club in Redondo Beach, California
- XV
Beacon, a 60-room Boutique Hotel on Boston's Beacon Hill, Names Amy
Finsilver as General Manager
- Juan
Pablo Loza Appointed Executive Chef of Jumby Bay, A Rosewood Resort
- Benchmark
Hospitality Appoints Joseph Yadvish, Jr. Regional Director of
Information Technology
December 10, 2009
- Leading
Hotel Chain in Europe, Sol Meliá Selects EZYield.com For Channel
Management Automation
- 2010
Edition of The Hotel Yearbook Goes Digital; Annual Forecast Reveals
Forward Looking Insights from Global Hotel Industry Leaders
- One-of-a-Kind
Sparkling Hill Resort and Wellness Hotel Grows Online Bookings Daily
for Guests and Groups for Much Anticipated April 2010 Grand Opening;
Spectacular $100 Million British Columbia Destination Partners with
Canadian-based Maestro PMS to Drive Online Bookings, Guest-Centric
Automation and World Class Service
- Pulso
Hotelero, S.A. de C.V. and Marriott Sign the Largest Multi-unit
Development Deal in Marriott International's History; Fairfield
Inn & Suites Brand Will Add 36 Hotels In Mexico
- Ashford
Hospitality and Special Servicer Mutually Agree to Transfer the
772-room Hyatt Regency Dearborn to Receivership
- Social
Media For Hotels - What Helps, What Doesn't / Neil Salerno
- Recap:
HEDNA's Winter Meeting - Lessons from 2009, Currents Trends that
Will Continue
- Thayer
Lodging Group Closes Fifth Investment Fund with $280 million in Equity
Commitments; Expects to Acquire $600 to $700 million in Hotels
- eRevMax
receives PCI compliance certification; PCI Security Standards Council
recognizes security of RateTiger’s parent systems
- Harte
Holdings Names Interstate to Manage Three Boutique Hotels in London
- As
Holidays Near, Domestic Hotel Rates Drop While International Rates
Increase
- The
Asia Pacific Lodging Pipeline Dominated by China and India; China the
Focal Point of Hotel Construction in Asia Pacific, With 1,068 Projects
/ 293,639 Rooms in its Pipeline
- The
Hilton Garden Inn New Delhi/Saket Opens; Marks the Brands First
Property in India
- Hope
Lake Lodge & Indoor Waterpark at Greek Peak Mountain Resort Opens
in Cortland, New York
December 9, 2009
- SEO:
In-house or Outsource / Joe Hyman, VIZERGY® President & CEO
- hotel
SystemsPro Taps Industry Experts to Sharpen Customers’ Competitive
Advantage; New team members help clients maximize effective enterprise
solutions
- Can
the Playboy Bunnies Keep the Sagamore, One of South Beach's Most
Fashionable Hotels, Out of Foreclosure?
- South
Beach's Gansevoort South Hotel to be Auctioned in Foreclosure Sale Less
than Two-years After Opening; Analysts Predict Gansevoort Could be
Leading Edge for Wave of Hotel Seizures Throughout South Florida Next
Year
- Foreclosure
Looms for the Hotel Ivy, Minneapolis; A Spectacular Come-down for the
2-year Old $88 million Project
- InterContinental
Hotels Group and Siraj Capital Sign Deal for Three New Holiday Inn
Express Hotels in Saudi Arabia
- Hard
Rock International, Owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida and Palace
Resorts In Deal to Rebrand the Moon Palace Golf & Spa Resort in the
Dominican Republic as the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Punta Cana
- Sunstone
Hotels Investors Inc. Defaults on Additional 11 Hotels with 2,500 Rooms
- Vail
Resorts Reports a 1st Qtr Net FY 2010 Loss of $41.2 million; Total
Revenue was $80.8 million Compared to $152.8 million in the 1st Qtr of
Fiscal 2009, a 47.1% Decline, Driven by Lack of Real estate Closings
- The
Jekyll Island Authority Suspends Contract Negotiations with Linger
Longer LLC, the Development Company Was to Build Two Hotels, a
Time-share Condo Complex on the State-owned Island
- Park
City Hotels Feeling Stress with Shorter Holiday Bookings and Slower
Pace of Reservations
- Hampshire
Hotels & Resorts Planning $50 million Conversion of Union Trust
Building into 180-room Hotel, New Haven, Connecticut
- Core
Pismo Appoints Central Coast of California Hospitality as the
Management Company for the SeaCrest Resort in Pismo Beach, California
- Franklyn
Hotels and Resorts Partner with Property Logic to Operate Two Le Jardin
de Fleur Properties in Mediterrania Saïdia, Morocco
- Ten
Malaysian Hotel General Managers Receive the Certified Hotel
Administrator CHA Designation from the Malaysian Association of Hotels
- Tammy
Peter of Wyndham Hotel Group Recipient of HEDNA's 2009 Award of
Excellence
- Andrew
Hedley Named as Managing Director for Jumby Bay, A Rosewood Resort in
Antigua, West Indies
- The
Magnolia Hotel Dallas Appoints Juan Morales as General Manager
- Paul
Crafton Joins The Homestead as Director of Motor Coach Sales
December 8, 2009
- 21
Independent High-Touch Hotels & Resorts Close 2009 with Focus on
Future; Select Maestro PMS to Maximize Revenue, Bring Guests Back and
Reduce Costs; Savvy Operators prepare for growth in 2010; Maestro’s
Guest-centric, integrated functionality, powerful online capabilities,
PCI compliance and Diamond Plus Service key to success
- Fast
Growing Asia-Pacific Hotel Chain, Park Hotel Group, Switches to Sabre
Hospitality Solutions for Distribution Expertise
- Starwood
Searched Across the U.S. for a New Corporate Home and Liked Best 333
Ludlow Street in Stamford, Connecticut
- Meeting
Planners Struggle to Control Costs / David Brudney
- Technology
and Profitability in the Meetings Industry/ Kelly Foy
- Will
2010 Be The Year Of (Missed) Opportunities? / Klaus Kohlmayr
- Raphael
Hotel's $10 million Restoration Finished; Built in 1927 as a Apartment
Building Near the Then-new Country Club Plaza in Kansas City
- Judge
Denies a Request to Appoint a Receiver for The Grand Condominium
Association, Which Controls The Doubletree Grand Hotel Biscayne Bay, a
Condo-hotel Downtown Miami
- Internal
Revenue Service Asks Federal Bankruptcy Court to Put the Artisan Hotels
in El Paso and Las Vegas into Chapter 7 Liquidation
- VIDEO:
Search Goes Visual
- W
Boston's 235-room Property Has Invested in its Future
- It
is the Last Days to Register: Hotel Sales and Revenue Management
Marathon - The 3 Most Popular Web Casts in 2009 Updated with New
Research and Info! / Carol Verret
- Uniguest
Gives Hotels a Help-Desk Upgrade with the Creation of U-Crew™;
Uniguest™ announces the creation of "U-Crew™", an in-house,
fully-staffed IT help desk to support hotel business centers, boarding
pass printing kiosks and digital signage.
- Roomlinx
Names Renowned Media and Advertising Expert L. Marilyn Crawford to Its
Advisory Board; Crawford will offer Roomlinx management the benefit of
her extensive experience in strategic branding, advertising and
communications and broad network of media industry relationships
- Meetings
Industry Leader Joins PSAV; Joe Hirsch to lead branch sales effort
- Joint
Venture Between IHDA and Longhorn Lodging Partners Building Three
Microtel Hotels in Texas
- Honua
Kai Resort & Spa on Maui Completes the Konea Building, Adding 310
Suites and a Network of New Swimming Pools
- Davidson
Hotel Company and Square Mile Capital Management Complete the
Multimillion-Dollar Renovation of Sheraton Suites Tampa Airport
Westshore
- Starwood
Opens The Westin Pune Koregaon Park - the first of Six new Westin
Hotels to Open in India Over the Next Three Years
- The
Opening of Milwaukee River Hotels LLC New 160-room Aloft Marks First
New Hotel Built in Downtown Milwaukee Since 2001
- David
Wahba Named as Complex Director of Sales and Marketing for The Westin
Beach Resort and Sheraton Fort Lauderdale Beach Hotel, Fort Lauderdale,
Florida
- Xavier
Lim Appointed General Manager at The Waterhouse at South Bund,
Shanghai, China
- Steve
Lindburg Moves to Dakota Mountain Lodge at The Canyons as General
Manager from Downtown Hilton Salt Lake City
- Tropicana
Las Vegas Names Thomas Recine Vice President of Food and Beverage
- Erica
Held Named Senior Sales Manager of the Omni Bedford
Springs Resort & Spa, Bedford, Pennsylvania
December 7, 2009
- In
the State of Kansas, Where Hotel Safety and Sanitation Inspections of
Hotels Has Been Suspended, Some Officials Refer to Online Sites, Such
as Trip Advisor, to Get Inspection Reports
- When
it Comes to Gratuities, Hotel Housekeepers Don't Exactly Clean Up
- Haiti's
Private Sector Fueling a Wave of Hotel Investment in a Country Long
Saddled Lawlessness
- Breakfast
with General Manager Michele Frignani at The Westin Excelsior, Rome /
Andreas Augustin
- The
Starwood Operated $320 million St. Regis Deer Crest Resort Opens in
Park City, Utah
- Wells
Fargo Bank Takes Ownership of Big Sandy Lodge & Resort in Northern
Minnesota
- Pennsylvania
Governor Breaks Ground on $36 Million Hotel, Office Tower in
Coatesville; The 125-room Courtyard by Marriot Plays
Important Role
in Revitalization Project
- Why
Your Hotel Should NEVER USE TinyURL to Redirect Links
- Flagship
Completes Transformation of the Holiday Inn San Juan to the Verdanza
Hotel
- Kohler
Co. Acquires Historic Hamilton Hall in St Andrews; Landmark Building
Adjacent to the Royal & Ancient Golf Club Overlooks the 18th Green
of the Old Course
- Orient
Express Selling the 85-room Lilianfels Blue Mountains in Australia for
US$ 19.3 million
- Reminiscing
The Mint Hotel and the Ritzy "Top of the Mint" Restaurant in Downtown
Las Vegas
- Led
by General Manager Rajesh Jhingon, the 392-room Mandarin Oriental Las
Vegas Opens
- Central
Florida Hotel & Lodging Association to Honor Jim Atchison,
President & CEO of SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, with the
2009 “Charles Andrews Memorial Hospitality Award for Community
Leadership”
- A
1930s Pueblo-style Concrete Hotel Designed by Southwest Architect Henry
C. Trost Carefully Restored in Van Horn, Texas
- Philipp
Kainbacher Appointed Chief Development Officer of Luxe Hotels and Luxe
Worldwide Hotels
- Culinary
Tourism Gaining in Popularity with
Surge of National Media Attention for "All Things Culinary"
December 4, 2009
- Install
Analytics on Your Hotel Website
- 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
- AH&LA
to President Barack Obama: To Quickly Deliver More Jobs - Reinstate
Business Travel Tax Deduction for Spouses, Restore the 80% Tax
Deduction for Business Meals
- Tidhar
Ltd. and Adi's Investments Ltd. Plan to Build First Ritz Carlton Hotel
in Israel at Herzliya Marina
- Willow
Valley Resort & Conference Center Begins $8 million Renovation and
Partial Conversion to DoubleTree Resort, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- The
U.S. Virgin Islands Tourism Department Spends $250,000 For New Website;
Previous Website, Which Cost $700,000, Was Launched in 2001
- William
Weinberg, Owner of the Kahala Hilton from 1977 to 1993, Dies at 81
- Canyon
Capital Realty Advisors Acquires Hotel 71 in Downtown Chicago through
its Canyon Value Opportunity Fund
- Mohegan
Tribal Gaming Authority Seeking Partner to Help Complete Project
Horizon Hotel at Mohegan Sun in Effort to Reduce Debt Load
- Educational
Institute's Resort Textbook Has New Name, New Content
- VFM
Leonardo Selected to Distribute Virtual Tours for Aston Hotels &
Resorts; Leading Hawaiian Hotel and Resort Company to use VFM
Leonardo's VBrochure Online Merchandising System to distribute virtual
tours for 25 hotels and resorts throughout Hawaii and its two new
mainland properties
- W
Barcelona Completes Vision with Signature by VingCard®; Latest
Starwood Development Selects Leading Hospitality Security Provider for
the Ultimate Security
- SMS|Host
Users Group 20th Anniversary Conference Connects Users to Technology;
Members Elect Three New Individuals to Board of Directors
- 12
Hospitality Workers Receive 2009 SUNSensational Courtesy Awards by the
Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention and Visitors Bureau for Service
Excellence
- Florencia
Tabeni Appointed General Manager for the JW Marriott Marquis Miami and
Hotel Beaux Arts Miami
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Appoints Kelly Lewis General Manager of
Makena Beach & Golf Resort, Maui
- Jeffrey
Ong Appointed General Manager, Pan Pacific Suzhou in Jiangsu Province,
China
- Christopher
R. Clark the New Hotel Manager at The Ritz-Carlton, Tokyo
- Vanessa
Williams Named Executive Assistant Manager/Sales, Marketing and Hotel
Operations of Sandy Lane, Barbados
December 2, 2009
- Specialized
Technology Helps Seattle's CVB Make the Right Connections Between
Visitors and Members; Concierge Assistant; Software Builds Profitable
Relationships for CVB Members
- New
Service Provides Forward Looking Competitive Group Rate Reporting and
Analysis
- Attract
Guests to Your Hotel by Producing Video Content Related to Travel;
O'Rourke Interview with Tubemogul Co-Founder Brett Wilson
- 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
- Women
Hotel Workers Suffer Higher Injury Rates; A Hole on Park Avenue /
Stanley Turkel
- Atlantic
Stars Hotels Opens the 177-room Strand Hotel Located in New York City's
Midtown Fashion District
- Joint
Venture of Penn National Gaming and International Speedway Corporation
Selected by State of Kansas to Develop $386million Hollywood-Themed
Destination Gaming Facility at Kansas Speedway, Kansas City, Kansas
- Agenda
Set for HEDNA's Winter Meeting -- "Don't Gamble with Your Distribution
Strategy" - December 7-9, 2009, Las Vegas
- Jumby
Bay, A Rosewood Resort in Antigua, West Indies, Reopens Following a $28
million Resort-wide Transformation; Juan Pablo Loza Appointed Executive
Chef
- Rise
in Bookings May Signal Rebound for South Florida Hotels; Profits May be
Another Story
- Hospitality
Industry Integration Initiatives May Be Moot with Debut of Cenium ERP
in North America; Blue Mountain Resorts Ltd., Ontario is first North
American property to deploy Cenium; Dynamic property replaces 17
software solutions with one system built on Microsoft Dynamics™ (NAV)
- Hospitality
eBusiness Strategies Announces the Fourth Annual Benchmark Survey;
Survey to Measure Hotel Internet Marketing Strategies, Budget Planning
and Best Practices
- The
California Hotel & Lodging Association Elects 2010 Chair -
René Boskoff and Names the Winners of the Stars of the Industry
Awards
- Trustee
Hopes Latest Delay is the Last for the Sale of Daufuskie Island Resort,
South Carolina
- The
2009 Dallas Hotel Conference Presented by Aimbridge Hospitality,
Alvarez & Marsal Real Estate Advisory Services and Gardere Wynne
Sewell LLP Provided Attendees with a State of the Industry and How to
Plan for Recovery
- The
491-room Grand Hyatt Shenzhen Opens in Southern China
- Mamaison
Hotels & Apartments Rebranded into MamaisonHotels & Residences
- Brian
Young Joins Bermuda's Tucker's Point Hotel & Spa As General
Manager
- Millennium
and Copthorne Appoint Melvin Lim and Ruprecht Schmitz to GM Posts
- Kevin
Schwab Named Vice President and General Manager of the Aruba Marriott
Resort and Stellaris Casino
- Thomas
J. McCartney Named President of the Tropicana Las Vegas Resort Casino
December 1, 2009
- Las
Vegas Sands Debut on Hong Kong Stock Exchange Hurt by Trouble at
Dubai World, Still Raised $5 billion for Resort on Macau's Cotai Strip
- VIZERGY®
Undergoing Expansion; Hotel Internet Marketing Company Thrives in Tough
Economy
- Ken
Seaton, Head of Family Inns of America Facing Five Charges of Alleged
Sexual Battery
- Landmarks
Commission Blocks $93 million Edgewater Project in Madison, Wisconsin
- The
Owner of Binion's to Close Downtown Las Vegas Hotel, the Former Mint;
Lay off 100 Workers
- Completion
of $6.5 million Hotel in Madison, Wisconsin in Limbo; Construction
Halted, Liens Filed
- White
House Dinner Crasher, Tareq Salahi, One of 15 Hand-picked Board Members
for the State of Virginia's Tourism Authority
- And
So it Begins: 1500-room Vdara Hotel is First to Open, Kicking Off
CityCenter
- Dolce
Selected to Manage The Thayer Hotel Located at the U.S. Military
Academy at West Point, N.Y.
- Desires
Hotels Appointed the Management Company for the New Hotel Development
Villas CeSar in St. Petersburg, Florida
- 5
Simple Ways To Improve Hotel Sales In A Lousy Economy; Some Hotels Are
Successfully Gaining Market Share
- The
Five-Star Millennium Resort Patong Phuket Prefers VingCard® for
Property Protection; Classic by VingCard Offers the Elite Beach Resort
the Highest Standards in the Industry
- Hotel
Sales and Revenue Management Marathon -The 3 Most Popular Web Casts in
2009 Updated with New Research and Info! / Carol Verret
- VIDEO:
OTAs and TPIs – The Gateways to Purchase Consideration
- Genares
Worldwide Offers Flag-Threatened Hotels Affordable Solutions; Brands
Facing Flag-Loss Turn to World's Fastest Growing Reservations Services
Provider
- Elite
Meetings International to Host Three Elite Meetings Alliances in 2010;
Annual Spring and Fall Elite Meetings Alliances are Joined by a New
Offshore EMA in Hawaii, January 2010, to Bring Qualified Business to
Destinations Hit Hardest by the Challenging Economy
- EZYield.com
to Provide Channel Management Solution for Three New Desires Hotels;
World’s first web-based channel management solution continues to
simplify distribution and fuel expansion for rapidly growing boutique
hotel collection
- InnLink
CRS launches new Franchise Promotion Program
- Uniguest
Named to BusinessTN Magazine’s “Hot 100”
- Brad
Davidson Joins Digital Hospitality as Director of Sales and Marketing
- IACC
Americas Launches Series of Customer Roundtables
- Gordy
& Kathy Jarvis, Owners of the Afton House Inn, Inducted into
Minnesota Restaurant Association's Hospitality Hall of Fame
- Angela
Landgraf Joins Richfield Hospitality as Senior Vice President of
Development & Management Services
- The
Magnolia Hotel Omaha Appoints James Finnegan as General Manager
- E.J.
MacEwan Appointed General Manager for the Pan Pacific Sonargaon in
Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Rocco
Forte Collection Names Jodi Masterson as Director of Sales and
Marketing at the Recently Opened The Augustine in Prague, Czech Republic
- WOW
Restaurant Group Reopens Ruth's Chris Steak House at InterContinental
San Juan
** Top 25 Read Articles -
November 2009 **
- Sixteen
Hotels Achieve 2009 AAA Five Diamond Status For the First Time
- Consultants
Predict 13 Restaurant and Hotel Food and Dining Trends for 2010
- What
if You
Reduced Your Hotel Room Rates and Nobody Noticed? / Rick Garlick, Ph.D.
- Hospitality/Hotel/Restaurant
Trends for 2010
- Marriott's
New Brand, The Autograph
Collection, Seeks Existing Luxury Independent Hotels Provides Marriott
with Another Platform for Growth
- New
Email
Marketing Tactics For Hotels To Use in 2010
- Hotel
Common Sense – Where Is Your Desk? /
Dr. John Hogan
- 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
- South
Florida Hotels Distress Could Lure Buyers: Buyers are Waiting for
the
Misery to get a Bit More Miserable
- What
is
really going on with group rates? How to obtain critical competitive
intelligence
- The
Westshore Hotel, Tampa
Foreclosure Caused by High Debt, Mismanagement
- PricewaterhouseCoopers
2010 Lodging Forecast Suggests Continued Decline for Hotels ADR
- Amelia
Island Company, Operator of the Amelia
Island Plantation, Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
- Found!
The
Obligatory Hotel Restaurant that Perpetuates the Bad Name of Hotel
Restaurants
- Starwood
Hotels & Resorts Moving Headquarters from White Plains, NY to
Stamford, CT
- Going
Rogue
on Group Pricing; How to Compete with Irrational Discounting
- Miami's
Fontainebleau
Grand Launch a Dim Memory as Hotel Cannot Pay $60 million in Contractor
Bills,
Seeks to Reduce $660 million Construction Loan
- Internet-based
Hotel Room Wholesalers Lose Class Action Lawsuit Over Unpaid Hotel
Occupancy
Taxes; Jury Awards $20 million to 170 Texas Cities
- A
“High
Touch” Lesson for Hospitality Managers - Understanding Body Language /
Dr. John
Hogan
- Electronic
Proposals - Easy for Sales Managers, Frustrating for Customers; Pretty
pictures are no substitute for
substance
- Unite
Here
Local 1 Warns 200 Meeting Planners that Possible Strikes Could Disrupt
Events
Booked at 5 Chicago Downtown Hotels
- Twelve
Caesars Palace Guests Injured in Escalator
Mishap
- “A
Hidden
Gem!” or “Lame!!!”? Online Travel
Reviewers to Watch Out For / Daniel Edward Craig
- Not
That and Do This: Do not embrace the “New Normal” and increase your
RevPAR in 2010 / Jay Delerno
- 4
Post
Recession Shifts in the Hotel Sales Environment; What You Need to
Know for Success in 2010 / Carol Verret
November 30, 2009
- Prepare
Your Hotel for Google Sidewiki Comments! Tips on What your Hotel Should
Do, and How to Monitor Reviews with RSS Feed
- Texas
Banker Andrew Beal Bids for Bankrupt Trump Casinos; Seeks to Convert a
$486 million Loan to the Casinos into a Majority Equity Stake
- Union
Contracts for 8,000 Hawaii Hotel Workers Expiring in 2010; Union
Leaders Not Prepared to Accept Any Benefit Cuts or Increases in Workload
- Found!
The Obligatory Hotel Restaurant that Perpetuates the Bad Name of Hotel
Restaurants
- 'Tis
the Season to Find Folly... Customer Service - Then and Now / Ragsdale
Hendrie
- "Life
Liberty And You" the City of Philadelphia's New Signature Brand; City
Expects to End 2009 with a 68% Hotel Occupancy
- The
Proposed Redevelopment of Lake Tahoe's Biltmore Lodge & Casino with
a $140-million Eco-Friendly Resort Facing Battle with
Environmentalists; Supporters Believe Environmental Opposition to
Redevelopment the Biggest Obstacle to Environmental Progress
- Stein
Eriksen Lodge CEO Russ Olsen Not Intimidated by St Regis and The
Montage Opening in Park City, Stein Eriksen Lodge Only Hotel In Utah
Holding Both 5 Diamond and Five Star Distinctions
- MGM
Mirage Officials Betting Consumers Will Come to the $8.5 billion
CityCenter Despite its Widespread Financial Problems
- CityCenter
Opening Raises Fears and Optimism with Industry Employees
- Four
Seasons Hotel Hong Kong Only Hotel in the World to Have Two Michelin
Three-star Restaurants; Cantonese Restaurant, Lung King Heen and the
French Restaurant, Caprice
- The
Taj Mahal Palace & Tower Unveils the Permanent Memorial in
Remembrance of the 31 Fallen People
- M3
Partners with Apple REIT for Hotel Performance Reporting Tool; One of
the country’s largest hotel REITs chooses M3 Link for data mining
- Keller
Development Corp. Wins Approvals for a 97-room Holiday Inn and Suites
to be Connected to the Thelma Keller Convention Center in Effingham,
Illinois
- The
Que Huong - Liberty Group and Accor Building a 350-room Novotel Hotel
on the Site of the Metropole Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Kent
State University Leasing the Hotel Rousseau in Downtown Geneva,
Switzerland to House Students in Foreign-study Program
- Harrah's
Entertainment Attempting to Acquire Planet Hollywood Resort Through a
Debt Purchase
- The
$21 million Seven Clans Casino, Hotel and Event Center Set to Open in
Northern Minnesota
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Add/Update 80 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel
Construction Projects Database
- Superior
Hospitality Systems provides quality cleaning labor for all levels of
hotels, casinos and convention centers. Staffing areas include
Housekeeping/ Room Attendants/ Houseman/ Laundry Attendants/
Stewarding/ Banquet Staffing and more.
- University
of Tennessee Conducting Feasability Study for 150-room Hotel and
Conference Center on the Cherokee Farm Research Campus in Knoxville,
Tennessee
November 25, 2009
- What
if You Reduced Your Hotel Room Rates and Nobody Noticed? / Rick Garlick
- Hotel
Guests Feel They Are Getting More for Their Money - Casinos Struggle;
Economy Hotels Shine- Market Metrix Announces Third Quarter 2009
Hospitality Index Results
- Hotel
Common Sense - Robbery Attempts on the Increase - Safety and Security
Reminders / Dr John Hogan
- Secluded,
Luxury Desert Getaway, A Cowboy's Dream, Now a Reality; Situated 90
Miles North of Las Vegas, the Eight-suite B&B Defines Opulent
- Best
Western International Elects New Board Officers; Beth Campbell Elected
Chairwoman
- Osoyoos
Indian Band Proceeding with Canyon Desert Golf Resort, a $150-million
Destination Resort Community in Oliver, British Columbia
- Shangri-La
Hotels and Resorts Signs Agreement with Themed Attractions and Resorts
to Open 292-room Traders Hotel, Puteri Harbour, Iskandar, Malaysia in
2012
- VIDEO:
Marketing Your Hotel to Gen X and Y
- Benchmark
Hospitality's Makena Beach & Golf Resort, Maui, Hosts Phillies
All-Star Shane Victorino and his Celebrity Golf Classic Benefiting the
Hawai'i Children's Cancer Foundation
- CityCenter
Opening Expected to Raise Las Vegas Vistitation by 2% to 5% in 2010
- Wyndham
Signs Agreements for a Wyndham, Ramada Encore and a Ramada Plaza in the
Middle East
- The
254 room Westin Lake Mary, Orlando North Opens in Central Florida's
High-Tech Corridor
- Vision
Development Planning a 132-room Hilton Garden Inn, Watertown, New York
- Minute
Suites to Debut at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport
- Dorchester
Collection Appoints Zoe Jenkins as General Manager at New Country House
Hotel, Coworth Park near Ascot, UK
- Cherri
Dukes Appointed General Manager of the Residence Inn, Merrimack, New
Hampshire
- Clement
Gelas Named Executive Chef for The Canyons' Grand Summit Hotel,
Park City, Utah
November 24, 2009
- Maestro
PMS Certified for PCI Compliancy, PA-DSS Standards; Maestro earns
certification from PCI Security Standards Council to support its
clients’ PCI compliance obligations
- Corporate
Raider Carl Icahn Outbids Penn National Gaming for Fontainebleau Las
Vegas; Doubling Original Bid by Pledging $156.5 million
- Effectively
Manage Your Hotel's Reputation in the 21st Century
- Utah's
Decline in Hotel Occupancy Levels Off in October; Mountain Resort
Bookings Improve
- 39-Year-Old
Developer Randy Salvatore Opens Hotel Zero Degrees Amid Tough Times in
Stamford, Connecticut
- Owner
Harriet Bullitt Providing the Sleeping Lady Resort in Washington's
Cascade Mountains with Extensive Renovations and Upgrades
- The
220,000 sq ft Lancaster (PA) County Convention Center Faces $1 million
Deficit
- Majestic
Star Casinos Files for Bankruptcy Protection in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Genares
Worldwide Reservations Services is Fastest Growing Reservations
Provider, Signs it's 2600th Hotel, The MAve in NYC; Boutique Midtown
Manhattan Hotel Signs with Genares for GDS Booking Services
- EZYield.com
Wins Silver Adrian Award for Newly Redesigned Website; EZYield.com is
the only travel supplier website to be honored in HSMAI’s 2009 Adrian
Awards competition
- Cvent
Supplier Network Spans the Globe Profiling 100,000 Meeting Hotel and
Event Venues; Expanded Worldwide Site Selection and eRFP Service to be
Showcased at the 2009 EIBTM Exhibition
- Premier
Meetings Magazine Launches the Smart Mart; New networking format
connects planners and hoteliers
- The
Pegasus View October 2009: Report Shows Bookings and Net Revenue
Figures Climbing Back to 2008 Levels; North America's Corporate
Bookings Jump +3.5% in October 2009 vs. October 2008 and Leisure
Bookings Offset Dwindling ADR with +21% Increase for the Same Period
- Abu
Dhabi Tourism to Collaborate with Hong Kong Polytechnic On Educational
Strategies
- The
School of Hospitality Business at Michigan State University Links with
University of Macau; Agreement Expected to Foster Cooperation in
Education and Research Between the Two Institutions
- Langham
Hotels Appoints Sean Seah to Director of ECommerce
- Cristina
Romero-Peri Named Director of Sales for the Americas of Vila Vita Parc
and Herdade dos Grous in Porches, Faro, Portugal
- Michel
Louws Named Executive Chef for Huka Lodge, Taupo, New Zealand
- Patrick
Newman Appointed Executive Chef at InterContinental Stephen F. Austin,
Austin, Texas
November 23, 2009
- Amidst
Recession, TIG Global Develops Philanthropy Task Force; Travel
E-Marketing Company Dedicates Resources to Giving Back During Tough
Times
- The
Mirage Turns 20 - Steve Wynn's Tropical-Themed Resort Symbolizes the
Start of a 20-year Building Boom that Changed the Scope and Face of the
Strip
- Siegfried
and Roy - Synonymous with The Mirage
- Nearly
6,400 Employees Were On Duty Nov. 22, 1989, When The Mirage Opened; 623
Are Still Working on the Hotel's 20th Anniversay
- Honolulu
Wins Bid to Host the 2011 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders
Meeting; Up to 20,000 Dignitaries, Support Staff, Security forces, and
Global Media Expected to Attend the International Conference
- $300-million
Mixed Use Project, Including 300-room Hotel, Gains Approval in Warwick,
Rhode Island; Development to be Built Next to Intermodal Station
- Luxury
Requires Budget: Dubai Expecting 15 million Tourists a Year by 2015 -
Will Do So with a Full Complement of Budget and Limited Service Hotels
- Owner
Duane Roberts Finding Success with Food and Beverage Outlets; F&B
Revenue Pushing 60% of Total Revenue at Historic Mission Inn in
Riverside, California
- Hotel
Council of San Francisco Urges Unite Here Local 2 to Negotiate
Throughout the Holidays to Reach New Contract Resolution
- Chartres
Lodging Group Completes $70 million Renovation of Colorado's Largest
Hotel, the 1,231-room Sheraton Denver Downtown
- Gemstone
Hotels & Resorts and Goodman Realty Group Re-Open Albuquerque's
Hotel Andaluz Following $30 Million Restoration
- Davidson
Hotel Company Completing $14 million Renovation of the Hyatt Regency
Suites Palm Springs
- Sheraton
Orlando Downtown Hotel Acquired by Resolution Services LLC and Glenmont
Capital Management, LLC
- Westin
Hotels Opening Six Hotels in Six Weeks
- Morgans
Hotel Group and Walton Street Capital Form Management Agreement for
Hotel Las Palapas in Playa del Carmen, Riviera Maya, Mexico
- Judge
in Station Casinos Bankruptcy Case Grants Extension for Station to
Submit its Own Restructuring Plan; Rival Boyd Gaming Corp. Stands by
for Takover
- Oklahoma
City's Proposed $280-million Convention Center Aims to Improve City's
Future
- Quick
- Turn out the Lights - Vancouver, Washington Hoteliers Cutting
Operating Costs but Not Customer Service
- Michael
Hutchins Named Vice President of Development for Radisson Hotels &
Resorts for the Eastern United States and Canada
- La
Costa Resort and Spa Names Christine Cooper as Director of Sales
- The
Crowne Plaza Changi Airport Singapore Names Patricia Ortega as Director
of Sales and Marketing
November 20, 2009
- Hospitality/Hotel/Restaurant
Trends for 2010 / Andrew Freeman & Co.
- New
Study by The American Journal of Industrial Medicine Finds Female,
Hispanic and Asian Hotel Workers Face Higher Risk for on the Job
Injuries
- Hotel
Common Sense - Where Is Your Desk? / Dr John Hogan
- Normandy
Real Estate Partners and Morgans Hotel Group Open Ames in Boston, a
Transformation of Boston First Skyscraper into a 114 room Hotel
- Landry's
Restaurants Completes $150 million 500-room Rush Tower at the Golden
Nugget Las Vegas; Property Now Has 2,300-rooms in Four Towers
- Once
Thought Dead, The Albany Convention Center Authority in New York
Unveils Proposed Design for 300,000 Square-foot Facility at a Cost of
$220 million
- HEI
Hotels & Resorts' Fund III Acquires Doubletree Guest Suites in
Waltham, Massachusetts; Hotel to Undergo $16 million Renovation
- Barceló
Hotels & Resorts Set to Open the All-inclusive 626 room
Barceló Los Cabos Palace Deluxe in Los Cabos, Mexico
- IHG
Opens the 119 room InterContinental Resort in Hua Hin, Thailand
- North
San Diego Hotel Occupancy Slides Further: Improvement not Expected
Until 2011
- Hotel
Horizons Reports Dallas Area Hotels Should Expect Rates to Rise by
Mid-to-Late 2010
- Losing
Money From Day One, the 7 Year-old Renaissance Hotel, St. Louis,
Missouri in Need of Financial Help
- Ginger
Hotels Expansion Continues in India; on Target to Have 30 Hotels in
Portfolio by End of 2010
- Michael
Benecke Named President of Noble House Hotels & Resorts
- Tom
Mason Named General Manager of the Radisson Plaza Hotel Minneapolis
- Central
Florida Hotel & Lodging Association Elects 2010 Board of Directors;
Paul Tang Voted Chairperson
November 19, 2009
- Largest
Japanese Hotel Consortium Switches to Sabre Hospitality Solutions as
Marketing Provider; Japan Rail Hotel Group cites local Tokyo office and
Japanese version of CRS as top reasons for switching
- Going
Rogue on Group Pricing; How to Compete with Irrational Discounting
- Starwood
Hotels & Resorts Moving Headquarters from White Plains, NY to
Stamford, CT; Lured to Connecticut With $80 million in Tax Credits and
$9.5 million Loan
- Health
Care Legislation; Which Hotels Might Get Sick? / Robert Mandelbaum and
Taylor Beauchamp
- Judge
Rules in Favor of Columbia, South Carolina Stating City Does not Have
to Pay up to $4 million to Designers, Builders and Architects for
City-Funded Hotel that was Never Built
- Mosaic
Company, the World's Largest Producer of Phosphate, in Early Planning
for a Luxury Resort Facility on 200,000 Acres of Reclaimed Phospate
Land near Fort Meade, Florida
- Horizon
Hospitality and the Pittsburgh Penguins Partner to Build 142-suite
Cambria Suites Hotel Adjacent to the Penguin's New Arena
- Interstate
Hotels Completes Sale of the Hilton Garden Inn Baton Rouge Airport to
Fairwood Capital for $10.6 million
- Haik
Enterprises and Aimbridge Hospitality Open the 216-room All-suite
Houston Embassy Suites
- Guest
Satisfaction - October 2009 Chatter Guard Benchmark Report Is Released
- Qasr
Al Sarab Desert Resort by Anantara Solves Distribution Challenges with
The ProHost® System by Hostar
- Construction
Resumes on Stalled Marriott Residence Inn Project in San Marcos,
California
- Sage
Hospitality Rebrands The Sheraton Ferncroft Resort as Crowne Plaza
Hotel Boston North Shore, Massachusetts
- Developer
Bharat Patel's Proposal for 125-room Upscale Hotel Gains Aprroval in
Hampton, Virginia
- U.S.
Casino Industry Could be on Road to Recovery; Rate of Revenue Declines
Slows
- Brian
Brandstetter Named Wisconsin Innkeepers Association 2009 Innkeeper of
the Year
- Hilton
Waikoloa Village Adds Five Area Sales Executives
- Corinthia
Hotel St Petersburg, Russia Appoints Three Executives - Gianluca Tozzo,
David Stern and Evgenia Nagimova
November 18, 2009
- Hampton
Inn Increases Profitability with Focus on Higher Revenue Transient
Guests; ‘Sales Team of One’ Counts on Solution to Build Relationships,
Transient Business
- TRAVELCLICK®
Hosts Webinar on Third Quarter 2009 Global Hotel Performance: Creating
and Sustaining Competitive Advantage in 2010
- Milestone
Internet Marketing Wins Six New Website Design and Internet Marketing
Awards
- The
International SPA Association Pinpoints Spa Trends for 2010
- 4
Post Recession Shifts in the Hotel Sales Environment -- What You
Need to Know for Success in 2010 / Carol Verret
- Innovative
Hotel Website Ideas for 2010; O'Rourke Interview with Chris Brogan
- Marriott.com
Updated: Now the World's 7th Largest Online Consumer Retail Site, Books
$6 Billion in Annual Gross Revenue
- Penn
National Gaming Offers $102 million to Buy the Fontainebleau Las Vegas,
the Unfinished and Bankrupt Casino Hotel that Spent about $2 billion on
Construction
- Sheraton
Anchorage Hotel and Hilton Anchorage Workers Unite to Promote Boycotts;
Union Claims Room Attendants Must Clean 17 Rooms Rather than 15 and
Monthly Premium for Family Health Insurance Raised to $800
- Commissioners
for Clark County, Nevada Have Little Appetite to Sue Online Firms for
Room Taxes; Belief is Litigation Could Jeopardize Partnerships
- $140
million Hilton-Downtown Columbus Convention Hotel Set to Start
Construction in August, 2010
- Donald
Trump Gives Up Fight to Reclaim Control of the Three Bankrupt Trump
Atlantic City Casinos; Corporate Bondholders Take Over
- 4
Ways to Maximize Returns from Your Pay-Per-Click Campaign
- Newmarket
International Wins Top Honors from the Software Association of New
Hampshire
- EZYield.com
System at American Casino & Entertainment Properties Achieves 100
Percent Yielding Accuracy; Optional system upgrades provide
optimization of efficiency
- Trust
International Launches "Experience Better Business" Campaign with
Delivery of Its yourVoyager CRS to the Hotel Industry; Hotel Groups
Exchange Revenue Generating Ideas and Share Perspectives at the Trust
Customer Advisory Board
- VFM
Leonardo Announces Toby Kubis Joins Executive Team; Travel Industry
Veteran Toby Kubis Joins VFM Leonardo as Vice President Corporate Hotel
Sales
- Innisfree
Selects Hampton Inn and Suites as the Brand for their $31 Million
Development in Orange Beach, Alabama
- The
Harilela Group Completes Relaunch of Holiday Inn Singapore Orchard City
Centre with $25 million Renovation
- Michigan
State's School of Hospitality Business Honors Alum Patrick M. Nesbitt,
Sr; Inducts Five New Members to its Wall of Fame
- Entrepreneur
Damian Griffiths Signs Eight Hotels Australia to Operate the Lux 21
room Limes Hotel in Brisbane
- Mark
Carrier Inducted as Chairman of the IAHI Board of Directors, the
Owners' Association Representing the Interests of Over 3,000 Franchisees
- McKibbon's
Residence Inn by Marriott Savannah Downtown Receives Historic Savannah
Foundation Award
- Greg
Mount Named President of Richfield Hospitality
- Desires
Hotels Appoints David Lopez as General Manager of Cassa NYC Hotel and
Residences
- DMC
Hotels Names Bobby Sparks Director of Sales & Marketing for Holiday
Inn Frisco/Stonebriar, Frisco, Texas
November 17, 2009
- VIZERGY®
Wins Prestigious Adrian Awards; Company Recognized for Best in Web
Marketing by the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association
International (HSMAI)
- Lodging
Investment Roadmap - a National Perspective / The Plasencia Group
- Flyte
Systems Implements Airport Information Displays at Oracle and Lockheed
Martin Facilities; Corporate headquarters, training centers benefit
from real-time airport travel information and boarding pass printing
- Western
Pennsylvania's Hotel Industry Being Probed for Compliance with Pay Laws
by the Department of Labor
- World
Hotel Waterpark Construction Report; 11 Hotel Waterparks Open in Asia
Pacific & Middle East in 2009 / Jeff Coy & Amanda McDaniel
- 2009
Median Hotel Sales Prices Plummet - Is It Time to Appeal Your Property
Taxes? / David J. Sangree and Joseph Pierce
- PricewaterhouseCoopers
2010 Lodging Forecast Suggests Continued Decline for Hotels ADR
- Amelia
Island Company, Operator of the Amelia Island Plantation, Files Chapter
11 Bankruptcy
- Getting
Social: Why All Travel Professionals Need to Use Social Media; TIG
Global complementary webinar on Getting Social – Thursday, December 3,
2009 – 2:00PM (EST)
- Elite
Meetings International to Present SpeedRFP™ at The Travel Innovation
Summit@The PhoCusWright Conference; Available in Q1 2010, SpeedRFP
offers a Solution to the Inefficiencies and Costs of Submitting Request
For Proposals Online
- HP
and Technology Service Provider Pegasus Solutions to Collaborate on
Travel Technology
- HFTP
Helps Educate During the 4th Annual BAHA Conference in London
- The
Greener Side of San Francisco Seen In its Hotels, Restaurants and
Attractions; Greening the Meetings Industry in San Francisco
- Crown
Center Arena to Undergo $3.85 million Overhaul; Proposal for 4-Star
Hotel is Disclosed, Fayetteville, North Carolina
- Trump
International Hotel Waikiki Beach Walk Opens; First Luxury Hotel to
Open in Waikiki in Over 20-Years
- The
Hotel and Lodging Association of Greater Houston Honors Hospitality
Employees For Going Beyond Their Jobs
- The
Conference Center Network Opens the Sentry Centers - Midtown East; the
40,000 Sq Ft Venue Near Grand Central Terminal, NYC
- The
Marriott Foundation Awards 29 Hotel/Hospitality Management Students
Renewable 4-year Scholarships of up to $9,000 Annually
- Sylvia
Lima Named General Manager at The New Yorker Hotel, NYC
- Allan
W. Kronberg Named General Manager for Tropicana Express and the River
Palms Resort and Casino in Laughlin, Nevada
- Starwood
Hotels & Resorts Names Jim Curtis Area Director of Sales &
Marketing, Caribbean
November 16, 2009
- It
Stays in Las Vegas: The Rainmaker Group Sponsors Golf Tourney, Co-hosts
Gaming Industry Executive Reception; Rainmaker holds Client Steering
Committee in Las Vegas during G2E
- How
to Get More Sales from Your Public Relations and Marketing Dollars /
Julie Keyser-Squires
- New
Study from Cornell's Center for Hospitality Research States Hotels
Listed with Online Agents Boost Reservations by 7.5% to 26%
- Taking
Off with Online Distribution in a Big Way But with Feet Firm On All
Channels; Hilton Worldwide Builds its Online Distribution Capabilities
in China / Hriday Malik
- Brian
McGuinness, SVP of Starwood's Specialty Select Brands, Discusses Aloft
Brand and the Newest Aloft in Abu Dhabi
- Developers
of Limited-service Hotels Feel Braver About Jumping into a Rocky
Lodging Market
- Miami's
Fontainebleau Grand Launch a Dim Memory as Hotel Cannot Pay $60 million
in Contractor Bills, Seeks to Reduce $660 million Construction Loan
- Family
Owned Shamin Hotels Opens its Flagship, the $48 million, 254-room
Hilton Richmond Hotel & Spa
- Unite
Here Local 1 Warns 200 Meeting Planners that Possible Strikes Could
Disrupt Events Booked at 5 Chicago Downtown Hotels
- La
Quinta Inns & Suites Recognized for Commitment to Employee
Learning; LQUniversity Wins ASTD "BEST Award" for a Second Consecutive
Year, Ranks Top Among Hotel
- Millennium
& Copthorne Hotels to Open First Studio M Branded Hotel in Singapore
- Urgo
Hotels Acquires the Resort at Singer Island from WCI Communities for
$7.1 million; The 239-suite Condo-hotel Converted to the Palm Beach
Marriott Singer Island Beach Resort & Spa
- Support
the Arbitration Fairness Act of 2009; Hi-tech Hotel Rooms in the 19th
Century / Stanley Turkel
- Flamingo
Structures Invests $35 million in a 129-room Non-gaming Holiday Inn in
Las Vegas
- InterContinental
Hotels Online Videos Prove More Effective Than T.V. Spot
- Service
Ambassadors: The Key to Providing World-Class Service / Bryan K.
Williams
- Lodging
Interactive Offers Turn-Key Mobile Websites For Hotels
- Choice
Hotels Launches New Sales & Marketing Training for Franchise
Properties; New Choice Hotels Effective Sales System Program Taps
d'Orleans Hospitality Training for Beneficial Sales Training Resource
- New
on VTV Channel: The Role of Online Information in Travel Shopping
- Aqua
Hotels & Resorts Assumes Management of the 596-room Maile Sky Court
in Waikiki
- Twelve
Caesars Palace Guests Injured in Escalator Mishap
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Add/Update 66 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel
Construction Projects Database
- David
Weyrich Facing Foreclosure on Prized Properties Including Martin and
Weyrich Winery and the Luxury Bed-and-Breakfast Inn, Villa Toscana,
Paso Robles, California
- Juan
Carlos Contalba, Benchmark's Director of International Development,
Appointed to the Board of Directors for the Hispanic Hotel Owners
Association
November 13, 2009
November 11, 2009
November 10, 2009
November 9, 2009
- Webinar:
Outlooks for Successful Online Merchandising in 2010, November 12th,
2009, 2:00pm Eastern; Complimentary webinar on what smart hoteliers are
doing to extract more value out of their hotel's presence online in the
year ahead with speakers Henry Harteveldt from Forrester Research and
Edward Perry from WORLDHOTELS
- Award-Winning
Indonesian Resort Increases Online Revenue Over 200 Percent with Sabre
Hospitality Solutions; Maya Ubud Resort and Spa benefits from Guest
Connect Booking Engine
- Construction
Report: 18 Hotel Waterparks in USA Open in 2009 / Jeff Coy and Amanda
McDaniel
- Packing
the PR Punch: The Power of Public Relations Is Now vs Later / Carol
Baetzel
- "A
Hidden Gem!" or "Lame!!!"? Online Travel Reviewers to Watch Out For /
Daniel Edward Craig
- Columbus,
Ohio Hotels Try to Outdo the Others with Their Presidential Suites
- The
Westshore Hotel, Tampa Foreclosure Caused by High Debt, Mismanagement
- Bittel
UNO™ Wins Two Awards at International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant
Show; Less than two weeks after its introduction, UNO win Editors'
Choice "Best in Show" and "Best New Technology Product" awards at hotel
industry's biggest annual event
- Worldwide
Revenue Solutions Announces "Turnkey Package" to Assist Hotels through
Brand Changes or Flag Loss; Internet Marketing Company Offers
Full-Service Solutions from "Awareness to Booking"
- EI's
Revised CourseLine® Offers Expanded Features, Easier Navigation for
Online Learning
- INNCOM
Showcasing In-Room Integration, New RF Solution with Industry
Partners at IH/M&RS
- Educational
Institute Honors Hospitality Industry Leaders with Certified Hotel
Administrator Emeritus and Master Hotel Supplier Emeritus Designations;
Recipients' Recognized for Long and Illustrious Careers in the
Hospitality Industry
- Hawthorn
Suites by Wyndham Creates New Logo Featuring a Design Derived from the
Wyndham Crown
- David
Kong Inducted as 2010 AH&LA Chairman; Nancy Johnson, EVP and Chief
Development Officer for Carlson Hotels Worldwide - the Americas,
Elected Incoming Secretary/Treasurer
- Michael
Bernath Joins Hotel AG as Vice President of Investment Sales
- Ten
IH/M&RS Exhibitors Honored with Editors' Choice Awards; Bittel
Electronics Named 'Best of Show'
- Dolce
Hotels and Resorts Appoints Barry Goldstein as Chief Revenue Officer
- Wendy
Kallergis, Head of the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce, Named to Lead
the Greater Miami & the Beaches Hotel Association
November 6, 2009
- Outlooks
for Successful Online Merchandising in 2010: Register to learn how the
travel industry is shaping up in 2010, based on first-hand experience,
how hoteliers can prepare and position their properties online for a
prosperous year ahead.
- hotel
ServicePro Simplifies New-Build Opening Process at Hilton Garden Inn
and Homewood Suites in Lake Buena Vista/Orlando; hotel ServicePro
Web-based maintenance tracking, asset management solution saves
hundreds of hours in new-build hotel checklist approval completion
- SAFLOK™
and MTech Deploy Interface at theWit; Dynamic Integration Between
SAFLOK™ Messenger LENS™ and HotSOS Enhances Hotel Operations and Guest
Satisfaction
- SAFLOK™
and INNCOM Introduce New RF Interface; Hyatt Regency Chicago to Upgrade
Security and Energy Management Solutions
- Sixteen
Hotels Achieve 2009 AAA Five Diamond Status For the First Time;
Complete List of 113 Hotels and 52 Restaurants
- Hyatt
Hotels Shares Make Strong Showing in First Day of IPO Trading
- New
Law Suit Takes Aim at Soffer Empire; Claims Family Created a "Corporate
Shell Game" to Borrow Nearly $3 billion for the Fontainebleau Las Vegas
- Does
AAA Approval Help? / Harry Nobles
- MGM
Mirage Shrugs off 3rd Quarter Loss of $750.4 million, Claims CityCenter
will Spur Rebound
- Hotel
Occupancy Tax Alert - Update; Transient occupancy tax litigation by
cities and local governments continues to mushroom
- eRevMax
/ RateTiger announces strategic growth plan; Leading hospitality
technology provider prepares for new global position, Sascha Hausmann
named CEO
- Thistle
and Guoman Hotels Choose EZYield.com Channel Management Solution For
Combined Property Portfolio; Technological advantages, including the
integration of booking information, placed EZYield.com ahead of key
competitors for the major UK hotel group
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Adds The Villas of Grand Cypress Resort,
Orlando, Florida, to its Portfolio
- Hotel
Common Sense - The Annual Review: Options to Avoid Struggling to
Measure Staff Performance (Part 2 of 2) / Dr John Hogan
- Philadelphia's
$786 million Convention Center Halfway to its Big Rebirth
- Nader
Agha's Revamped Proposal for a 300-plus Room Hotel in Pacific Grove, CA
Includes a Desalination System and Low Cost Housing
- A
Latham, New York Hotel Owner Facing National Labor Relations Board
Action for Allegedly Terminating Three Employees for Trying to Organize
Union
- HSMAI
Holds First Hotel Management Company Marketing Executive Roundtable
- Two
Unions Seeking to Organize Thousands of Rivers Casino Workers in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Amid Charges Casino Trying to Block Effort
- Edgewater
Hotel Proposals Face Continued Hurdles in Madison, Wisconsin
- Ileana
Rousseau Named Group Development Manager for Almond Resorts, U.S. and
Canada
- Benchmark
Hospitality Appoints Robb A. Rybicki Director of Catering for Eaglewood
Resort & Spa
November 5, 2009
- Outlooks
for Successful Online Merchandising in 2010: Join Our Complimentary
Webinar on November 12th, 2009, 2:00pm Eastern; Henry Harteveldt from
Forrester Research and Edward Perry from WORLDHOTELS will share what
smart hoteliers are doing to extract more value from their hotel's
online presence in the year ahead.
- VIZERGY®
Webinars - Internet Marketing and Social Media; Free Expert Advice from
the Leaders in Search Marketing
- SAFLOK™
Integrates with Control4®; Electronic Lock Leader Completes
Agreement to Enable Smart Room Interoperability With Control4
- Consultants
Predict 13 Restaurant and Hotel Food and Dining Trends for 2010
- Interstate
Hotels & Resorts to Assume Management of Hilton Pittsburgh,
Downtown as Part of Ownership Change; The Related Group and Stephen
Ross Finalizing Purchase From Shubh Hotels, LLC
- New
$45 million 21c Art Hotel to Open in Cincinnati, Ohio
- The
Charanachitta Family Plans Major Expansion into Hotel Development in
Thailand with Seven Projects in the Next Year
- Tilman
Fertitta of Landry's Restaurants Makes Buyout Offer to Take Golden
Nugget Casino Private
- Wynn
Resorts Ltd. Withdraws from Aqueduct Racetrack Bidding in New York City
- The
Egyptian General Company for Tourism and Hotels Appoints the Rocco
Forte Collection to Manage The Shepheard Hotel in Cairo Following a
Full Renovation
- IH&RA
Head Joins OpenWays as Advisor; Abraham Rosental, former Director
General of the International Hotel & Restaurant Association, joins
OpenWays Advisory Board
- AboutAnywhere.com
Partners with EZYield.com Channel Management Solution to Automate
Extranet Updates
- Libra
OnDemand Selected as Finalist in Force.com Forty Innovation Showcase;
Comprehensive suite of hospitality-specific applications consolidates
customer information, develops deep profiles and delivers guest
satisfaction
- TTI's
Scan2PMS / roomMaster 2000 Interface is Receiving Rave Reviews Coast to
Coast
- The
2009 European Hotel Design Awards Winners Recap
- Seagate
Hospitality Group Opens the 162-room Seagate Hotel & Spa in
Downtown Delray Beach, Florida
- Malaysia's
Tourism Continues to Grow and The Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre Wins
International Awards
- Morgans
Hotel Group Names David Curell General Manager and Diane Wesley
Director of Marketing for Clift, San Francisco, California
November 4, 2009
- Secure
Your Property's Future; PCI Compliance, Direct Website Bookings and
Web-Based Training are Essential for Success in 2010 and Beyond
- What
is really going on with group rates? How to obtain critical competitive
intelligence
- Sabre
Hospitality Solutions' Innovative Web Site Designs Earn Dozens of
Awards While Ensuring Results; Proven Web site performance highlights
the successful science behind the art of Web site design
- SAFLOK™
Unveils Integration with OpenWays; SAFLOK™ Introduces New Remote Access
Technology at IH/M&RS 2009
- Hotel
Brand Management Agreements* and the Economic Downturn: Lessons Learned
or Lessons Forgotten? / Rob Nicholas
- Full-Service
Hotels Look to Gain Group Business as Physicians Avoid Resorts / David
Brudney
- Florida
Attorney General Suing Expedia and Orbitz for Failure to Remit the
Appropriate Amount of Taxes on Hotel Room Rentals
- The
American Hotel and Lodging Association Joins the Campaign against the
Military's Plan to Build a $114 million 1,000 room Hotel at the Fort
Lee Military Post in Virginia
- Ohio
Voters Approve Las Vegas-style Casino at Four Locations - Toledo,
Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati
- Hawaiiana
Hotel on Waikiki's Beach Walk May be Shutting Down
- Interstate
Hotels & Resorts Reports Third-Quarter 2009 Net Loss of $10.3
million; Adds 10 properties to third-party management portfolio / Hotel
Operating Statistics
- Orient-Express
Hotels Reports Third Quarter 2009 Net Loss of $13.0 million Compared
with Net Earnings of $6.4 million in Prior year Same Quater; RevPAR
Down 26% in US dollars; Hotel Operating Statistics
- For
the 3rd Quarter 2009 Great Wolf Resorts Reports Net Loss of $ 42.1
million; Takes $24.0 million Impairment Charge Related to Blue Harbor
Resort & Conference Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin / Hotel
Operating Statistics
- Hotelier
Charles Helm Opens Opens the 74-room Best Western Atrea Crown Chase Inn
and Suites in Denton, Texas
- David
Colella, VP and Managing Director The Colonnade Hotel, Inducted Into
Massachusetts Lodging Association's 2009 Hall of Fame
- Aqua
Hotels & Resorts Names Gary Rohanna, Director of Operations Based
In Waikiki
- Destination
Hotels & Resorts Names Russell Craney, Assistant General Manager
and Rob Henderson as Head of Sales and Marketing for the Vail Cascade
Resort & Spa, Vail, Colorado
November 3, 2009
November 2, 2009
- Webinar:
Outlooks for Successful Online Merchandising in 2010, November 12th,
2009, 2:00pm Eastern; Complimentary webinar on what smart hoteliers are
doing to extract more value out of their hotel's presence online in the
year ahead with speakers Henry Harteveldt from Forrester Research and
Edward Perry from WORLDHOTELS
- Luxury
Link Partners with Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group; Award-winning luxury
hotel collection now featured on LuxuryLink.com
- Internet-based
Hotel Room Wholesalers Lose Class Action Lawsuit Over Unpaid Hotel
Occupancy Taxes; Jury Awards $20 million to 170 Texas Cities
- Arbitrator
Rules the Soffer Family's Turnberry Isle Resort Must Pay $6 million to
the Hotel's Operator, Fairmont -- Fees Held Back Over Allegations of
Mismanagement
- Caesars
Palace Bellman Clyde Watkins Garners Fame Through Lifetime of Casino
Service
- Top 10
Group Events September 2009; Including Selected Markets Tampa-St
Petersburg, FL and New Orleans, LA / Knowland Group
- Fort
Lauderdale Hoteliers Hope Oasis of the Seas, the World's Largest Cruise
Ship, Will, Lead to More Room Sales
- Ozean
Development LLC, Says the 450-room Hilton Emerald Coast Resort, on
Okaloosa Island, Fort Walton Beach, FL. Is Still a Go
- TripAdvisor
Signs Agreement to Acquire Kuxun.cn, the Second Largest Travel Related
Web site in China
- EZYield.com
Launches RoomRez Web Booking Engine; Proprietary solution adds enhanced
functionality and seamless integration to channel management, GDS
distribution, revenue management and PMS systems
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Add/Update 104 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel
Construction Projects Database
- PROFILE:
Janet Green, Director of New Mexico State University's School of Hotel,
Restaurant and Tourism Management
- For
$12 million a Year, Contra Costa County, California Would Turn its
Opposition to Outright Support for a Major Indian Casino-hotel Resort
on the Richmond Waterfront
- The
International Union of Gaming Employees Files Complaint About Wynn
Tip-Pooling Policy
- Las
Vegas Commissioners Propose Casinos Ability to Provide Temporary Child
Care: Proposal Aims to Improve Convention Chances
- Vail
Resorts Names Doug Lovell Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of
Keystone Resort
- Matthias
Roeke Appointed General Manager of the 278-room China World Summit
Wing, Beijing, a Shangri-La Hotel
** Top 25 Read Articles - October
2009 **
- The
Attorney for ESPN Reporter Erin Andrews Criticizes Hotel Where Alleged
Peephole Incident Occurred
- 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
- Do
You Think Like a Leader or a Manager? / William P. Fisher, Ph.D.
- Taking
Back Hotels by Foreclosure or by Deed in Lieu of Foreclosure:
Lenders Beware / Rob Nicholas
- Seven
Independent U.S. Properties Come Together to Form Kindred Resorts and
Hotels; A New Logo and Website Kicks Off the Initial Phase
- America's
Top Barbeque, Burger and Pizza Restaurants According to Zagat's 2010
America's Top Restaurants Survey
- The
Growing Tension Between Hoteliers and Online Travel Agencies: The
Prisoner's Dilemma, The Stockholm Syndrome or a Case of Both? / Max
Starkov
- Hilton
Worldwide Closing its Hazleton, PA Reservations Center Eliminating 176
Jobs
- Growing
Tension Between Hoteliers and OTA's…NONSENSE: An Alternative Viewpoint
/ Neil Salerno
- Overcoming
The "All They Want To Hear Is The Rate" Mentality / Doug Kennedy
- Kansas
City Suffers Huge Body Blow with Loss of Three Top Conventions
- Steve
Wynn's Political Voice Gets Louder, Views Not Shared by All
- Hilton
Hawaiian Village Sued Over Fatal Drowning in its Rebuilt Duke
Kahanamoku Lagoon
- Chicago
Luxury Hotel Market: When Will the Pain End
- Lodgian
Update: In Default on $45.6 million Loan Secured by Six Hotels, May
Return Hotels to Lender
- In
Just Eight Months, the Number of San Diego Hotels Facing Possible
Foreclosure Nearly Quadruples
- The
335 room Fremont Marriott Silicon Valley Defaults on $38.5 million
Mortgage; Joins Several Other Prominent San Francisco Bay Area Hotels
- Make
Sure the Right Contingency Plans Are in Place; Secrets of a Hotel Asset
Manager / Jim Burr
- Hotel
Sales Director Firings Impact Meeting Planners, Too / David Brudney
- Disney
Resort Taking Shape on Oahu; Expects to Invest $800 million, Employ
1,000
- Four
Managers and Owners of the Holiday Inn Philadelphia-Stadium Charged
with Burglary Following Attempt to Oust Restaurant Lease Holders
- Concord
Hospitality Enterprises is Forming a $300 million Private Equity Fund
to Buy Distressed Hotels and Debt
- Hyatt
Hotels Revised IPO Filing Warns of Risks Related to Pritzker Family's
Infighting
- A
Breakfast Conversation with Horst Schulze, CEO Capella Hotels and
Resorts, at the Hotel Schloss Velden, Austria
- How
to Handle Google Maps Mixups
October 30, 2009
- MSI
and eRevMax Collaborate to Provide Rate Shopping Information Access
through Property Management Systems
- Luxury
Link and Lexus Go Green; Eco-friendly packages offering luxury
accommodations and use of the Lexus LS Hybrid sedan now available on
Luxury Link
- Taj
Hotels, Resorts & Palaces in Talks with Orient Express Hotels
- Green
Street Advisors Says the Corporate Governance Structure Proposed in
Hyatt Hotels Corp.'s IPO "the Worst"
- Chris
Brogan Interview - Hotels that Listen to Social Media Generate Business
- Request
for Proposals: Development and Operation of a New Hotel &
Conference Center Near the Indianapolis International Airport in
Hendricks County
- Despite
its Small Stature, the 44-room Motel 9 in Oceanside, California Offers
an Example of the Punishing Effects of the Recession on the Hotel
Business
- HFTP
Seeks Technologies for Next Version of GUESTROOM 20X
- Nickelodeon
Family Suites Hires EzRMS™; Family-Friendly Resort to Utilise New
Revenue Management Services
- Hospitality
eBusiness Strategies Wins Three W3 Awards for Outstanding Achievement
in Web 2.0 and Website Development
- Molinaro
Koger Promotes Veteran Broker Mark Morris to Executive Vice President
- 255
Hospitality Students Receive $382,000 in Scholarships Via AH&LEF's
Core Scholarship Programs
- Driving
Force Behind Choice Hotels International Stewart Bainum, Sr. Honored
for Decades of Charity Work in Montgomery County, Maryland
- PolyU
School of Hotel & Tourism Management's World Leadership Position
Strengthened According to World Ranking of the Top 18 Hotel Schools by
Research Output
- As
the Largest Hotel in Manhattan, the Hilton New York is an Innovator in
Implementing Sound Environmental Practices
- Kinseth
Hospitality Opens New Hilton Garden Inn Omaha East/Council Bluffs at
Horseshoe Casino in Council Bluffs, Iowa
- Frasers
Hospitality Pte Ltd Signs New Property in Shanghai, Fraser Place
Shanghai
- Tom
Freimuth Named as Executive Chef for Casino Arizona's New Talking Stick
Resort, Scheduled for Opening Early 2010, Scottsdale, Arizona
- Georgia
World Congress Center Names Patrick Skaggs New Assistant General Manager
October 28, 2009
- IDeaS
Helps Hoteliers Gain Confidence and Validate Pricing Strategies with
Launch of Rate Optimization Service; New service optimizes hotel's rate
spectrums, improves revenue without change to existing business
practices
- Hotel
Operators Tap New Profitability Strategies that Work in the Current
Economy; Companies Save Money, Improve Performance with Reduced Staff;
Leverage Business Intelligence and Accounting Tools
- Philippine
Court Orders Makati Shangri-La Hotel to Pay $1.1 million in Damages
Over Guest's Murder; Argues a Five Star Hotel Must Provide Five Star
Security
- Can
the Customer "WOW" Go Mainstream? The W Hotel Enters Boston's
Competitive Lodging Market
- Rev
Up your RevPAR In 4 Different Ways / Jean Francois Mourier
- Orange
County, Florida Wants $50 million More for an Already Cash
Strapped Convention Center
- Wyndham
Worldwide Corp.'s 2009 3rd Qtr Net Income Down 27% , RevPAR Drops 17% /
Brand Operating Statistics
- In
Just Eight Months, the Number of San Diego Hotels Facing Possible
Foreclosure Nearly Quadruples
- The
Beverly Hills Hotel to Debut Two New Bungalows in 2010
- Singapore's
Marina Bay Sands Selects SDD's JAZZ Fusion Software for Converging
Guest Voice and Internet Billing and Provisioning
- This
Year at IHM&RS: New Ways for Hotel Guests to Use their
iPod/iPhone® in the Hotel Room; New Audio/Video Pull-Through™ from
TeleAdapt Lets Guests Watch Video and Listen to Music from their
iPod/iPhone® Through the In-Room TV/Sound System
- UrbanAmerica
and Pyramid Hotel Group Debut Former International Plaza Resort and Spa
as Doubletree Resort Orlando Following $35 Million Dollar Makeover
- HFL
Corp.'s Plan for a Comfort Inn & Suites in State College, PA Slated
to be First Project in Pennsylvania to Benefit from Federal Recovery
Zone Facility Bond Money
- Taj
Hotels Set to Open 166-Room Taj Cape Town in December 2009, Its 80th
Hotel and First in South Africa
- Related
Group of Miami May Join Stubh Hotels in Ownership of the Pittsburgh
Hilton Hotel
- Sharon
Kilmartin Appointed General Manager of the 189-room InterContinental
Stephen F. Austin Hotel, Austin, Texas
- Rocco
Forte Collection Makes Key Executive Appointments at Brown's Hotel,
London Including Friederike Lockau to Director of Sales and Marketing
- Baglioni
Hotels Names Maurizio D'Este Vice President, Sales and Revenue
October 27, 2009
- Create
Videos about Your Hotel - Your Guests Already Are!
- Luxury
Link adds New "Insights" Section; A White Paper Resource for the Travel
Industry
- TIG
Global Sweeps the WebAwards Competition with Wins in all of the Travel
Categories; TIG Global Honored with 10 WebAwards for eMarketing
excellence in the Hotel and Lodging, Travel, and Restaurant Categories
- Four
Managers and Owners of the Holiday Inn Philadelphia-Stadium Charged
with Burglary Following Attempt to Oust Restaurant Lease Holders
- Hoteliers
and OTA's, Partners or Opponents? / Neil Salerno
- The
Owner of the Pacific Beach Hotel in Honolulu Appealing Administrative
Judge's Decision in Favor of a Labor Union; Claims Judge Showed Blatant
Unfairness and a Disregard of the Rights of Employees
- Morgans
Hotel Group Reports a 3rd Qtr Loss of $28.6 million Compared with an
$8.9 million Loss in the Year-ago Quarter, RevPAR Drops 32.2%,
Occupancy Down 8.9%; Takes Impairment Charge of $17.2 million Related
to its Las Vegas Joint Venture at Echelon
- Continental
Real Estate Planning a 134 room Hotel Near the Ohio State University
Campus
- An
Epilogue for Eastover Resort and Conference Center, Lenox,
Massachusetts; Resort's Final Days Tinged with Sadness
- Bittel
Announces UNO™, A New Communications and Entertainment Platform
Company's new product line combines hotel phone, clock/radio, and audio
player interface in first-of-its-kind device
- Kingkey
Chooses Reliability and Guest-Friendly Interaction from VingCard®;
Leading Hospitality Security Provider Supplies New Kingkey Palace Hotel
with the Right Balance of Security and Ease-of-Use with Classic
by VingCard
- INNCOM
Partners with EI to Offer Advanced, Integrated Hotel Technology
Solutions
- 4
Billion Cell Phones Now Opening Doors to Better Guest Service Thanks to
OpenWays; Hotel industry's newest cell-phone based application for
check-in /-out and mobile room keys will debut at the International
Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show
- New
on VTV Channel: The World Tweets, Should I?
- FaceTime
to Help Planners and Suppliers "Meet Different" at MPI's February
Conference; After a Successful Debut at the 2009 Motivation Show, Elite
Meetings International's FaceTime™ Appointment Scheduler will Power the
Hosted Buyer Program at MeetDifferent 2010
- EZYield.com
to Present Leading Online Distribution Management and Web Booking
Engine Solutions at 2009 World Travel Market
- Sea
Island Resorts is Hip on MTech's Hotel Inventory & Purchasing
Solution; Award-winning multi-outlet island resort ties HIP into HotSOS
to reduce paperwork, stay on budget and generate cost reports for
service orders
- VFM
Leonardo Chosen by Carlson Hotels Worldwide to Distribute Images and as
Primary Distributor of Rich Media; Largest distributor of visual
content for hotels worldwide expands relationship with Carlson to
enhance visual presentation of its hotels on Carlson brand websites and
thousands of websites used by travelers to research hotels online.
- InterContinental
Hotels Group and KLP Emprendimientos S.A. Through Franchise Agreement
to Develop New Hotel in Mendoza, Argentina
- Swissôtel
Hotels & Resorts to Open its First Hotel in the Middle East:
Swissôtel Makkah in Saudi Arabia
- Barcelo
Crestline Corporation Announces the Promotion of James Carroll to Chief
Operating Officer for Crestline Hotels & Resorts
- Jennifer
Marchetti Named Vice President of Marketing and Innovation for Wyndham
Hotels and Resorts
- India's
Mirah Group Appoints RamNidhi Wasan as CEO and Joy Ghosh Marketing
National Head of Marketing and Sales for Hospitality Business
October 26, 2009
- Secrets
of a Hotel Asset Manager: Make Sure the Right Contingency Plans Are in
Place / Jim Burr
- Triyar
Companies, Owner of W Scottsdale Hotel, Reaches Resolution with Its
Lender and Contractors, Canceling Foreclosure Proceedings
- Union
Contract Negotiations at 31 Chicago Area Hotels Are "Very Far" from
Settlement; Anything Can Happen!
- Oriental
Bangkok - The Making Of / Andreas Augustin
- Five
Florida Counties Preparing to Sue Expedia, Orbitz, Priceline and
Travelocity Over Shortchanged Bed Taxes
- 900
New Hotel Rooms Scheduled For Completion this Year in the Norfolk, VA.
Area Evan as Hotel Occupancy Drops to Lowest Level in Decades
- The
Stonewall Resort in West Virginia, Developed as a Public-private
Partnership, Working on a Firmer Financial Footing; Has Not Made
Payment on its $42 million in Bonds Since 2006
- NAI
BT Commercial Hospitality Group Retained To Offer 67-Room Rocklin Park
Hotel For Sale
- Red
Lion Hotels Selects Newmarket International's Delphi® and
MeetingBroker®; Implementation will support North American Groups
and Meetings Sales Organization
- Warwick
International Hotels Renews Contract with Utell® and Selects
Pegasus Solutions' NetBooker® NG Enhanced Internet booking engine
will drive online bookings directly to 27 Warwick Hotels and Resorts
worldwide
- Champion
Hotels Planning to Spend $10.5 million to Convert the Closed Days Inn
in Alton, Illinois into Two Hotels, a Best Western and a Hampton Inn
- The
Executive Inn Rivermont, the Biggest and Best Hotel Owensboro, Ky Has
Ever Known, Slated for Spectacular Implosion
- Historic
Columbia Gorge Hotel in Hood River, Ore., Acquired by Hotelier Vijay
Patel of Kennewick
- InterContinental
Hotels Group and Splendid Hotel Group Sign Management Agreement
for New InterContinental Hotel in London's Westminster
- Crestline
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Ronald C. Paynter General Manager for the
Marriott Plaza San Antonio
- Golden
Sands Resort, Penang, Malaysia Names John Brock as Executive Sous Chef
October 23, 2009
- Seven
Independent U.S. Properties Come Together to Form Kindred Resorts &
Hotels; A New Logo and Website Kicks Off the Initial Phase
- Update
on Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for
the U.S. Hospitality Industry
- City
of Indianapolis Issues a "Request for Information and Qualifications,"
for a Private Firm to Manage the Indiana Convention Center and Lucas
Oil Stadium
- B.R.
Guest Restaurants Overhauls the Former Travelodge in St. Pete Beach;
the 196 room Postcard Inn on The Beach Designed for the Budget Conscious
- John
Q. Hammons Might be Abandoning Planned 225-room Hotel in Downtown
Colorado Springs
- A
Bankruptcy Judge Toured the Bankrupt Fontainebleau Las Vegas and
Declared it Was a Great Project -- with Lousy Timing
- Massachusetts
Governor, Who Called for a Hyatt Hotels Boycott, Not Swayed with
Campaign Contributions from Pritzker Family
- Mount
Airy Casino Resort Breaks Away from Pennsylvania's "Slot Machine Filled
Barn" Image with Golf Course, Hotel, Spa, Entertainment, Fine Dining
and More
- It
Took Years of Struggle to Get the Westin Book Cadillac Hotel Ready for
its Grand Reopening a Year Ago, Then the Really Hard Part Started
- The
Former Radisson Hotel North Richardson Completes Conversion to the
Doubletree Hotel Dallas/Richardson
- Kite
Properties, LLC and Hotel Equities Celebrate Ribbon Cutting at New
Hampton Inn in Okeechobee, Florida
- CityCenter's
Retail, Dining and Entertainment Complex Receives LEED Gold
Certification
- Hannah
Zulueta Returns to ResortCom International Team as Director of Sales
October 22, 2009
- TRAVELCLICK®
Wins 18 W3 Awards for Creative Excellence in 2009 Website Design
Competition
- Starwood
Reports Net Income of $40 million, Down from $113 million a Year
Earlier; Revenue Decreased 21% to $1.22 billion; Hotel Statistics
- Surprised,
or Stubborn? U.S. Hotel Managers Missed Their Budgets In 2008 / Robert
Mandelbaum
- Do
You Think Like a Leader or a Manager? / William P. Fisher. Ph.D.
- Lasalle
Hotel Properties Records 3rd Qtr Net Income of $3.4 million, Compared
to $12.5 million in Prior Year; Occupancy Was 79.4% down 2.5%
- W
Austin Hotel & Residences Secures Construction Financing from Beal
Bank Nevada to Complete Project on Schedule
- Orlando
Hoteliers Better Prepared in this Downturn as Occupancy Falls to Levels
Last Seen in 2001
- Sour
Year so Far for Hotels in Greater Philadelphia
- Ayres
Hotels Chief, James E. Roos, Upbeat on California's Inland Region for
Hotels
- A
Labor Backed Proposal that Would Require Hotel Developers Getting San
Diego City Council Approval for Projects and Possibly Force Use of
Union Workers is Underway
- Chattanooga
Convention Center Back on Track
- Owned
by YRG Hotel and Managed by the Yedla Management Company Inc., the 253
room Westin Lake Mary, Orlando North Set to Open
- The
Pegasus View September 2009 Reports GDS Average Daily Rate Reaches High
Point; GDS Reservations Up By +7% in September 2009 Compared to
September 2007, While Overall Booking Lead Times Across All Channels
Remain Short
- 10
Bogus Reasons to Buy a Franchise / Stanley Turkel
- Canon
U.S.A. Announces Availability of the COPYblue MEAP Kiosk Version 2.1
Solution
- Venezia
Capitol Srl and Hilton Worldwide Through a Franchise Agreement to Open
Hilton Garden Inn in Venice, Italy
- Hospitality
Management Corporation Opens "Green" Holiday Inn Northwest/Sea World
Area in San Antonio, Texas
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Appoints Giorgi Di Lemis Vice President Food
& Beverage
- Kitty
Huang Named Vice President of Global Sales Asia Pacific for Wyndham
Hotel Group
October 21, 2009
October 20, 2009
- Booming
Banff Lodging Company Maximizes Tour Group Revenue, Occupancy and Staff
Productivity for 8 Hotels with Integrated Maestro Multi-Property PMS;
Independent Resort Company Manages Hotels, Condos, Restaurants, Spa,
Ski School and Retail from Centralized Maestro Single-Image Database
for Accurate Cross Selling, Streamlined Operations, Personalized Guest
Service
- South
Point Hotel, Casino & Spa Selects Solution Suite from Agilysys;
Hotel Implements Property Management, Document Management and Guest
Marketing Systems
- Hyatt
Hotels Revised IPO Filing Warns of Risks Related to Pritzker Family's
Infighting
- Barry
Swenson Builder Seeks to Demolish Capitola Village Theater and Build
Beachfront Hotel, Capitola, California
- New
on VTV Channel: eBusiness for Hoteliers - Panacea or Pain? - The Role
of Visual Content in Travel Shopping
- Libra
OnDemand in Full Social Swing with Presence on Facebook, Twitter, and
LinkedIn; Hospitality CRM provider encourages hotels to integrate
customers' Tweets and Facebook profiles with CRM profiles to obtain a
more complete picture of guests' preferences and better tools to market
to those guests
- Last
Days to Register - The 20% Solution - Increased Share and Revenue - Web
Cast October 23
- OpenWays
Introduces the Fastest and Greenest Way to Check In and Open a Hotel
Room Door; Mobile room-key application for ALL cell phones NOW
AVAILABLE; Solution debuts at the International Hotel/Motel &
Restaurant Show in New York
- EZYield.com
Provides Complete Distribution Solution For Australian Hotel Group,
Metro Hospitality Group; The country's oldest 100 percent
Australian-owned and operated hotel chain expands its relationship with
EZYield.com to streamline online distribution
- NHH
Hotels & Resorts Introduces Café Zest; A brand new
restaurant concept redefines hotel dining at two exceptional properties
- Trust
International Gains 13 New Clients, On Track for Increased Revenue in
20th Anniversary Year; Anniversary celebration to continue with Trust
at ITB Asia in Singapore
- LRA
Worldwide Consultant Roxanna Lopez Earns LEED Green Associate
Accreditation
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Chefs Staging a Culinary Event at The James
Beard House, New York; A Five-course "Benchmark Holiday Dinner" Set for
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
- EMCVenues
Providing Complimentary Educational and Professional Development
Webinars for Meeting and Event Planners
- Hyatt
Regency Clearwater Beach Resort and Spa Appoints Brad Gillespie as
Executive Chef, Andrea Honan as Director of Catering and David Powell
as Food and Beverage Director
- Crestline
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Douglas C. Varsano to Director of Sales
& Marketing for the Hilton Parsippany and the Adjacent Hampton Inn
Parsippany, New Jersey
October 19, 2009
- Call
for Entries Now Open - TRAVELCLICK's 2009 eMarketer of the Year Award;
Annual Competition Spotlights Innovation in Integrated Hotel eMarketing
- SMS|Host
Users Group Presents the 20th Anniversary HUG Conference
- The
Growing Tensions Between Hoteliers and Online Travel Agencies: The
Prisoner's Dilemma, the Stockholm Syndrome, or a Case of Both? / Max
Starkov
- A
Breakfast Conversation with Horst Schulze, CEO Capella Hotels and
Resorts, at the Hotel Schloss Velden, Austria / Andreas Augustin
- How
to Handle Google Maps Mixups
- Hotel
Common Sense - The Annual Review: Options to Avoid Struggling to
Measure Staff Performance / John Hogan
- Niki
Leondakis Recipient of the Penn State Hotel and Restaurant Society's
Hospitality Executive of the Year Award
- Leland
C. Pillsbury Recipient of the 2010 International Society of Hospitality
Consultants Pioneer Award
- Steve
Wynn's Political Voice Gets Louder, Views Not Shared by All
- Meet
VIBE: The Versatile Internet Booking Engine InnPoints Worldwide's New
Booking Engine Provides Limitless Customization through JSON Interface
- Aztec
Brokers Sale of First Mortgage Note on the Palm House Hotel in Palm
Beach, Florida
- Doubletree
Updates Richardson Property With Combination of VISIONLINE and
Signature RFID by VingCard®; Hilton Family Property Modernizes
Security System at Prime Location With Wireless RF-Online System and
Contactless RFID Electronic Locking Solutions from VingCard
- MGM
Mirage Explores IPO in Hong Kong For Expansion in Macau
- The
417-room Royal Palm Resort Hotel in Miami's South Beach Owes Wachovia
and BlackRock $180 million; Current Value of Hotel Approximately $100
million
- The
Hawaii Supreme Court Will Hear Case Whether Kuilima Development Should
be Required to Update 24 Year Old Environmental Study for its Planned
Expansion of Turtle Bay Resort
- Gentry
Group LLC Plans $27 million Mixed Use Development in Spring Lake, North
Carolina Including 180-Room Hotel
- Musselman
Hotels Planning a Marriott Spring Hill Suites Adjacent to Western
Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky
- Tourism
Spending in Virginia's Tri-Cities Up by 37% From Previous Five Years
- Waterford
Group, Owners of the Hilton Hartford, Working with Lenders, City and
Union to Get Hotel Through Economic Downturn
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Add/Update 110 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel
Construction Projects Database
- The
Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Limited Returns to Shanghai with the
Opening of The Peninsula Shanghai
- Andrew
Stull Appointed Vice President of Operations for the 90-property
Hawthorn Suites® by Wyndham Brand
- Peter
J. Regan Appointed Director of Sales & Marketing at Wyndham
Virginia Crossings Hotel & Conference Center in Glen Allen, Virginia
- Hispanic
Hotel Owners Association (HHOA) Elects Juan Carlos Contalba and Jose
Luis Lopez as New Board Members
October 16, 2009
- Preferred
Hotel Group™ Selects Sabre Hospitality Solutions as Global Marketing
and Distribution Provider; Newly formed Sabre Hospitality Solutions
meets industry's needs as evidenced by this comprehensive agreement
- 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
- Hotel
Hospitality Training Tips For The Era Of Social Networking / Doug
Kennedy
- Space
Still Available at the Technology Innovation Center at the 2009
International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show; Comprehensive Kiosk
Exhibit Package Priced at $2800 for the Three Day Show
- The
Hotel Investment Conference Asia Pacific Selects the Westin Melbourne
as the Merger & Acquisition Deal of the Year and The Park Hyatt
Shanghai Chosen for the Reggie Shiu Development of the Year
- The
791-room Grand Hyatt Macau Opens on the Cotai Strip in the City of
Dreams Development
- Indianapolis
Tax Collections for Debt Payment on Convention Center and Stadium Beat
Projections by 12.5%
- $130
million Fishers Marketplace Hotel/Mixed Use Development in
Indianapolis, Indiana Fizzles
- Meeting
Professionals International Establishes a Training Centre on the Campus
at the School of Hotel and Tourism Management at Hong Kong Polytechnic
University
- Hotel
Operator Hospitality Ventures Consistently Increases Market Share While
Simultaneously Reducing Operating Costs within its Portfolio of 19
Hotels
- La
Quinta Inns & Suites Strong Growth Continues through the End of 3rd
Quarter, 2009
- Raymond
Bickson, Eric Danziger, Ed Fuller, Hubert Joly, and Chris Nassetta
Participating on The Hotel Leaders Forum at Hotel Investment Forum
India, January 12-14, 2010, Mumbai
- Warmbrodt
Hotel Investments - WHI Selected to Advise in the Sale of the Ramada
Stevens Point Located in Stevens Point, Wisconsin
- Al
Hokair Group and Hilton Worldwide Open Hilton Garden Inn Riyadh Olaya
in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- Hamilton
Park Hotel & Conference Center Advances Green Initiatives by
Introducing Electric Car Charge Stations, a First in New Jersey
- Hotel
Properties Group and IHG Sign Management Agreement for First Holiday
Inn Resort in the Republic of Maldives; Re-Branding as Holiday Inn
Resort Kandooma
- Sir
Michael Kadoorie, Chairman, The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Receives
the 2009 HICAP Lifetime Achievement Award
- Newcrest
Hotels and IHG Open Two New Properties; Holiday Inn Express in Paris,
Texas and Texarkana, Arkansas
- Restaurant
Industry Veteran Joins Uniguest™ to Lead National Foodservice
Initiatives
- Diego
Concha Appointed General Manager at the Hyatt Regency Curacao Golf
Resort, Spa
- Michael
Herrmann Named General Manager for InterContinental San Juan
- Pinnacle
Entertainment Promotes Todd George, Kim Townsend and Jeff Babinski
- Andrew
Helliwell Appointed Executive Chef at the Glen Cove Mansion Hotel and
Conference Center, Glen Cove, NY
- Sandy
Lane, Barbados Names Conny Andersson as Executive Chef and Claire Clark
as Executive Pastry Chef
October 14, 2009
- MSI's
WinPM Solution Replaces Wytestone's Legacy Property Management Systems;
MSI Empowers Wytestone Properties
- Hilton
Garden Inn Minneapolis Installs Flyte Systems' Solutions to Serve
Airline Travelers, Guests print boarding passes at chic lobby kiosk
- What
is Your Hotel's Online Market Share? / Neil Salerno
- Hilton
Worldwide Selected to Operate New Columbus, Ohio 500-room Convention
Headquarters Hotel
- Indianapolis
Scrambles to Retain Two Top Conventions; Competing Cities Offering Deep
Discounts
- Detroit
Cites Affordability as it Seeks to Fill 5,000 New Hotel Rooms with
Conventioneers
- New
York State Awards $4 million in Economic Development Funding for
Transformation of DeWitt Clinton Building in Albany into Hotel Despite
Developer Owing Over $600K in Back Taxes and Bills
- The
Crosby Street Hotel Opens in New York City's SoHo Neighborhood; 86-room
New Build Owned and Designed by Tim and Kit Kemp's Firmdale Hotels
- Fortuna
Realty, LLC Opens 122-room Hotel Indigo in New York City's Chelsea
District; George Buchelli the Opening GM
- Recap:
Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association Small Hotels Retreat Which
Attracted 225 Delegates from 17 countries
- The
20% Solution - Increased Share and Revenue - Web Cast October 23
- OpenWays
Introduces the Fastest Way to Check In and Open a Hotel Room Door;
Mobile room-key application for ALL cell phones NOW AVAILABLE; Solution
debuts at the International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show in New
York
- EasyRMS
& Visual Matrix Complete EzRMS Upload Activation for Best Western
Richmond Suites ….. Further Best Western Properties Will Follow
- Amadeus
Extends Relationship with VFM Leonardo; Amadeus to source and manage
all hotel visual content using VFM Leonardo's VScape® Digital Asset
Management System
- New
on VTV Channel: Generational Marketing - Matures and Baby Boomers
- Harrah's
Entertainment Partnering with TriGranit in Metropolis, a $2.2 billion
Resort Planned for Slovakia in Central Europe
- If
Ottumwa, Iowa Receives a Casino License the Developer, Ingenus,
Proposes to Build a 50,000 sq ft Casino with 100-Room Hotel
- Developer
Kenneth Puller's $130 million Hotel/Mixed Use Project in Indianapolis
18 Months Behind Schedule
- Grandview
Project Proposes an $80 million, 110-room LEED Hotel and 50 Condos for
Mt. Washington, Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania
Tourism & Lodging Association Names Leeann MacWilliams Vice
President
October 13, 2009
- Concord
Hospitality Enterprises Forms a $300 million Private Equity Fund to Buy
Distressed Hotels and Debt
- The
Hotel Sector Now Leads as the Property Type with the Largest Proportion
of Loan Delinquencies According to the Loan Delinquency Index Results
from Fitch Ratings
- Excavation
Hole Dug in 2007 for Starwood's Stalled $200 million 1 Hotel in Seattle
to be Filled, Made into Temporary Parking Lot
- Makeover
for Florida Keys Hits a Wall; 18 Pricey Projects Screeched to a Halt in
2007 and 2008
- Las
Vegas Hotel Occupancy in August was Strong at 81.4% - but Average Room
Rate Down 21.5% Compared to Previous Year
- Isleta
Casino & Resort Transforming Itself Into Hard Rock Hotel &
Casino, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Sol
Kerzner and Vivian Deuschl Recipients of HSMAI Lifetime Achievement
Awards; Recipients to Accept Honors at HSMAI Adrian Awards Gala Feb. 1,
2010
- Southwest
Airlines is Riding the Blogosphere Like a Wild Horse!
- Request
for Proposals: Development and Operation of a New Hotel Attached to the
Convention Center and Bemidji Regional Event Center Bemidji, Minnesota
- IHG
Capitalizes on Strong Growth Potential in Latin America; Company Looks
to Leverage Its 60+ Years in Region and Further Expand Opportunities
with Both New and Existing Hotel Owners
- Sunstone
Hospitality Management Contracts with Holualoa Companies to Manage
Radisson Hotel Denver Stapleton Plaza
- Hotel
AG, A Hotel Brokerage Company Closes the Hampton Inn Rochester, MN
- Through
the Eyes of a Hotel Butler: The Empathy in Customized Services /
Osvaldo Torres Cruz
- HFTP
Installs 2009-2010 Global Executive Committee
- George
Kalogridis Named President of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim,
California
- George
Jordan Appointed Area General Manager for the Hotel Felix Chicago and
Hotel Cass, a Holiday Inn Express
- Crestline
Appoints Marion Elawar Director of Sales for the Hilton Garden Inn and
the Homewood Suites in Baltimore's Inner Harbor
- Chris
Forbes Appointed Director of Hotel Operations for Almond Casuarina
Beach Resort in Barbados
- Vinh
Nguyen Appointed Assistant General Manager of The Eldon Suites Hotel in
Washington, DC
- Jim
Herd Named Executive Chef by Oasis Hotel Near Montgomery, Alabama
October 12, 2009
October 9, 2009
- Jonathan
Tisch Hoping a $50 million Renovation Will Liven Up the 11-year-old
Loews Miami Beach; Using Cash Reserves to Fund the Work
- City
of Columbus, Georgia Files Motion to Force Expedia Inc. to Relist the
City's Hotels; Claims Malicious Effort by Expedia is Punishment for the
City Enforcing its Tax Laws
- Hotel
Sales Director Firings Impact Meeting Planners, Too / David M. Brudney
- Salt
Lake City Hotel Owners Raise Red Flags as the City Ponders Construction
of a Publicly Financed 1,000-room Convention Hotel
- Fontainebleau
Las Vegas Developer Jeffrey Soffer Recuses Himself from Negotiations to
Sell the Bankrupt Project; Judge Skeptical
- Chicago's
Planned Olympic Village Receives New Ideas for Development: A
Casino/Entertainment Complex, Hotels or a Public High School Focused on
Preparing Students to Work in Hospitality Industry
- Zagat
Surveyors Vote Gramercy Tavern the Most Popular New York City
Restaurant, Le Bernardin Wins for Top Food
- SPA
Resorts Are Booming in Asia, Yet Are Very Hard to Find on the Map of
Europe / Berno-H. Feuring
- Albuquerque
Area Hotels Report a 7-Month YTD Occupancy of 57.8% Compared to 65.4%
in Previous Year; Hotel Activity Tied to Convention Center Down 40%
- Commonwealth
Hotels Opens New 143- Room aloft Hotel Phoenix Airport
- Choice
Hotels International Opens 43 New Hotels in September
- Summerside
Properties, LLC and Choice Hotels International Open the Cambria Suites
Hotel in Traverse City, Michigan
- Barcelo
Crestline Corporation Names Hernan Vanegas General Manager for the
Barcelo Los Cabos Palace Deluxe Resort, San Jose del Cabo, Mexico
- KSL
Resorts Names Peter Faraone as Vice President and General Manager of
The Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Names Myra Hughes Director of Rooms for
Stonewall Resort
October 8, 2009
- Five-star
Abu Dhabi Hotel Increases Middle East Market Share Through Partnership
with TIG Global; TIG Global Launches New Website and Online Marketing
Plan for Vision Hotel Apartments Deluxe
- Milestone
Expands Product Offering for Social Media and Web 2.0 Strategies for
Hotels
- WWA’s
Waterpark Resort Development & Expansion Workshop PLUS the WWA
Annual Symposium and Trade Show – all for just $199! Register by
Friday 10/16
- Chicago
Luxury Hotel Market: When Will the Pain End
- Marriott
Reports a 3rd Qtr Net Loss of $466 million, Takes $752 million Charge
Related to its Timeshare Business; Revenue Decreases 17% and Worldwide
Revpar Down 22% from Previous Year
- Is
It Brand Loyalty or Something Else that Drives Hotel Business
- Rockbridge
Capital LLC Acquires the 212-room The Shores Resort & Spa, Daytona
Beach from Lowe Enterprises for $29 million
- The
Annual Two Week "Gem Show" Putting Pressure on Tucson to Upgrade the
Convention Center and Build a New Downtown Hotel
- Developer
EM Properties Ltd Optimistic About $102 million Marriott Hotel Project
Moving Forward in Peoria, Illinois
- Editorial:
Wilmington, North Carolina Convention Center Must Rise to the Challenge
Without a Full-Service Hotel
- Guests,
Staff at Paramount Hotel New York Enjoying 'At Home' Experience via
TTI's New Business Center PCs with Virtual Home Office; Midtown hotel
sees increase in Business Center use, revenues
- KoolConnect
Delivers Custom HDVOD & Interactive TV For New York's Newest
Boutique Hotel
- Disney's
Kidani Village Take the Necessary Steps Towards Successful Back of the
House Operations
- Hilton
Signs Management Agreement with Otel LLC to Manage a Hilton Garden Inn
Hotel in Samara, Russia
- Early
Hotel Bookings Suggest Slow Winter for Central Oregon
- W
Hotels Worldwide Appoints Michaelangelo L'Acqua as Global Music
Director, Tasked with Creating Ways to Integrate Music into the W's
Branding Efforts
- The
Hotel & Lodging Association of Volusia County (Florida) Honors
Their Employees; The Lodging Employee of the Year Awarded to Maryclaire
Pendergast
- The
Watermark Beach Resort in Osoyoos, British Columbia Names Ingrid
Jarrett General Manager, Paul Scanlon Hotel Manager and Joseph Dubois
Director of Sales
- Viceroy
Hotel Group Names Michael Rauter as Executive Chef and Patrick Dang as
Chef de Cuisine at New Viceroy Anguilla Resort and Residences
October 7, 2009
- Luxury
Water's Edge Resort and Spa Selects Maestro PMS to Maximize Efficiency,
Guest Service & Online Bookings with Single-Vendor, Single Database
Solution; Maestro provides integrated total-property solution with Web
Booking, S&C, Spa, POS, Condo, Analytics and GDS interface
supported by the industry's best Diamond Plus Service for most
productive and profitable operations
- VIZERGY®
Webinar - Internet Marketing: Are You Doing the Basics? Free Expert
Advice from the Leaders in Search Marketing
- The
Hotel Industry Re-examining Guest Privacy Safeguards in Light of the
Case of ESPN Reporter Who Was Videotaped Through the Peephole of Hotel
Room Door
- Roy
E. Winegardner, a Pioneer in the Hotel Industry, 1920 - 2009
- The
335-room Fremont Marriott Silicon Valley Defaults on $38.5 million
Mortgage; Joins Several Other Prominent San Francisco Bay Area Hotels
- Candle
Fire Prompts Evacuation of 600 Guests at Uniondale Marriott, Melville,
New York
- Hotel
Common Sense - Recognizing the Many Ways to Reach and Influence
Potential Guests
- West
Virginia Parkways Authority Looks at Possible Hotel Development Next to
Tamarack Conference Center
- Hospitality
Performance Endorses Avalon Buzz Report for Virtual Guest Feedback
Solution; Exciting new alliance allows John Hendrie's leading
consulting company, Hospitality Performance, to add the Avalon Buzz
Report© to their suite of services for hotel and resort
clients
- Interstate
Hotels & Resorts Signs Two Management Contracts in New Orleans with
MCC Real Estate and Development, LLC
- HSMAI's
Western Hospitality Conference Provided Leading Tactics for a
Profitable Business in a Bad Economy
- Commissioners
Approve 90-day Liquor License for Prive at Planet Hollywood Resort;
Final Approval Could Take 18 Months
- Rocco
Forte Collection Makes Key Executive Appointments Including Martin
Elsner to Operations Director
- Domingo
Velasco Appointed Director of Marketing for Rosewood Little Dix Bay on
Virgin Gorda, B.V.I.
- Pan
Pacific Hotels Group Names Reddy Kalluru as Director, Online Revenue
and Distribution
October 6, 2009
- Hilton
Worldwide Closing its Hazleton, PA Reservations Center Eliminating 176
Jobs
- Australia's
Barnbougle Dunes Selects Solution Suite from Agilysys; World-Famous
Golf Resort Implements Point-of-Sale, Golf Management Systems
- CityCenter,
On the Las Vegas Strip, Cuts Condo Prices 30% at The Residences at
Mandarin Oriental, Veer Towers and Vdara Condo Hotel
- In
a 6-1 Ruling, Georgia Supreme Court Sides with City of Columbus in Suit
Against Hotels.com
- The
20% Solution to Increased Market Share and Revenue / Carol Verret
- Tejon
Mountain Village, Located 60 miles north of Los Angeles, Receives
Endorsement of County Supervisors; Permit and Approval Process
Continues for Resort with 750 Hotel Rooms and Two Golf Courses
- Hersha
Hospitality Management Adds 1,000-plus Rooms to Portfolio, Outlines
Aggressive Growth Plans Via Third-Party Management/Joint Ventures
- Waldorf
Astoria Hotels & Resorts Partners with Luxury Link; Special section
for Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts now featured on LuxuryLink.com
- Olive
Hospitality Consulting to Offer Sustainable Solutions to the
Hospitality Market
- Destination
Hotels & Resorts to Manage Manor Vail Lodge Located at the Largest
Ski Resort in North America
- New
on VTV Channel: How to Leverage Content Online
- For
the Second Consecutive Year, Benchmark Hospitality is Named to Inc.
500/5000 Fastest Growing Companies List
- Hong
Kong Polytechnic University's School of Hotel and Tourism Management
Conducts Research to Define the Optimal Level of Co-branding in a Hotel
Room Setting
- NNP
Investments Appoints Alliance Hospitality Management to Operate the
Fairfield Inn & Suites-Clarksville, Tennessee
- How
to Maximize Value of Your Distressed Hotel / Jim Butler
- Northside
Development & Kinseth Hospitality Break Ground for New Candlewood
Suites at Three Rivers Plaza, Downtown La Crosse, Wisconsin
- Aston
Hotels and Resorts Adds Resort Properties in Lake Tahoe, California and
Sun Valley, Idaho
- Key
West Inns Appoints Matthew J. Cohen As the Chain Brand Manager
- Ryan
Cimei Appointed General Manager of The Eldon Luxury Suites Hotel in
Washington, DC
- Certified
Master Chef Peter Timmins Joins The Gasparilla Inn & Club, Boca
Raton, Florida
- The
Inn at Pocono Manor Appoints Gregory T. Corvelle Assistant General
Manager
October 5, 2009
- The
Attorney for ESPN Reporter Erin Andrews Criticizes Hotel Where Alleged
Peephole Incident Occurred
- Innisfree
Obtains $31 million Loan for Site Acquisition and Construction of a
160-room Beachfront Hotel Orange Beach, Alabama
- Orient-Express
Hotels Sells the 324-room Windsor Court Hotel, New Orleans to The
Berger Company, Inc. for $44.25 million
- Partnership
Led by The Berger Company, Investor Dr. Eric George and Crow Holdings
Obtain Debt Financing from IBERIABANK for Windsor Court
Acquisition; Aimbridge Hospitality to Coordinate Management
- Financial
Crimes Enforcement Network Investigators Allege Evidence of Growing
Trend in Casino Money Laundering
- EDITORIAL:
With Unemployment Nationally at 9.8%, Why the Outrage Over 100 Job
Losses at Hyatt as Opposed to Nearly 7 million Nationally
- Kor
Hotel Group Changes Name to Viceroy Hotel Group; Viceroy Hotel Group
will function as an umbrella company for the sister hotel brands that
formerly fell under Kor, Viceroy Hotels & Resorts, The Tides and
Urban Retreats
- Hyatt
Regency Hong Kong, Tsim Sha Tsui Opens in a New Location, Retains the
Spirit of the Much Loved Former Hotel
- Concord
Hospitality Forming a $300 million Discretionary Private Equity Fund to
Focus on Acquiring Distressed Hotels
- Analysts
See More Challenges on Horizon for Las Vegas Turnaround
- Bartender
Fernand Petiot Created the Bloody Mary 75 Years Ago at the King Cole
Bar at the St Regis Hotel In New York City
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Add/Update 110 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel
Construction Projects Database
- Settle
Inn & Suites® Opens New Facility in Gillette, Wyoming
- Waterford
Hotel Group Appoints Michael Heaton Vice President, Operations and
Karen Bachofner as Vice President of Sales, Select Service
- Crestline
Appoints Michael D. Solis Director of Sales & Marketing for The
Silversmith Hotel & Suites in Chicago
- Barceló
Hotels and Resorts Appoints Ana Diaz-Coreas as Director of Sales - West
Coast
October 2, 2009
- TRAVDEX™
and Hospitality Upgrade Partner on Travel Technology Trade Show
- Lodgian
Update: In Default on $45.6 million Loan Secured by Six Hotels, May
Return Hotels to Lender; Also Intends to Return the Crowne Plaza in
Worcester, Masschussetts to the Lender
- Kansas
City Suffers Huge Body Blow with Loss of Three Top Conventions,
Representing 42,000 Room Nights
- Copia,
the Failed Napa, California Wine and Food Center Backed by Robert
Mondavi and Julia Child, Up for Sale
- Denihan
Hospitality Group to Reopen the Surrey Hotel, New York City Following
$60 million Renovation
- Lawyers
Defending the Fontainebleau Miami Beach Against $60 million in
Construction Claims Drop Out Citing Irreconcilable Differences
- Intrawest
to Recommend that all Resort Skiers Wear Helmets and Sets Some
Mandatory Helmet Requirements for Children
- CARINO
Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Announces Realignment; Under direction of
its Executive Committee and Advisory Board, Luxury Hotel Group Plans
New Initiatives
- Whiteboard
Labs Jumps Into Mobile Site Development for Hotels
- California
Opens Door to More ADA Litigation, But Also Offers Protection to the
Well-informed Business / Jim Butler
- Hotel
Andaluz Opens in Albuquerque; Owner Gary Goodman Completes a $30
million 4-year Renovation of the Hotel Built in 1939 by Conrad Hilton
- Magnolia
Hotels Takes Over the Landmark LaSalle Hotel in Downtown Bryan, Texas
- Bennett
Lifter Dies at 83, Once Known as the "Biggest Hotelman" in Miami
- Sage
Hospitality Names Ted Watson Vice President of Marketing & Sales
for CoCo Key Water Resort
- Kris
Horacek Named as General Manager for Two North Carolina Hotels:
Charlotte Marriott SouthPark and Charlotte Renaissance SouthPark
October 1, 2009
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