** Top 25 Read
Articles - December 2010 **
- What
We as Hoteliers Can Learn from Southwest Airlines - Confidence! / Jil
Larson
- Five
Ways to Drive Rate over the Next 12 Months / Nick Graham
- Abu
Dhabi's Emirates Palace Luxury Hotel Says It Regrets Attempts to
Overload Tradition with $11 Million Christmas Tree
- What
If A Hotel Brand Could Ask The Same Question Southwest Airlines Asks In
Their New Ad? / Doug Kennedy
- Blackstone
Group Names Interstate Hotels & Resorts to Manage 13 Properties
Adding 5,466 Rooms to Portfolio
- Judge
Slaps $800,000 Judgement on Owner of the Kahala Hotel & Resort Over
Service Fees Charged for Food and Beverages
- Free
Wi-Fi or Bust - A Rebuttal / Matt Harvey
- The
Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, Preparing for its Debut, Could be at
Forefront of a Trend; Las Vegas Casinos Linking up with Hotel Chains to
Build Customer Base
- Ian
Schrager Confirms Sale of His Interests in Gramercy Park Hotel; Plans
to Create Two New Brands for His Private Hotel Company, SCHRAGER HOTELS
- Three
San Diego Hotel Properties that Were Returned to Lender by Sunstone
Hotel Investors Now Up for Sale
- Los
Angeles' Slow Trickle of Bedbugs Could Turn Into a Flood
- Is
the Hospitality Industry Ready for ERP? / Terry Price
- Hilton
Worldwide and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Reach Settlement
Agreement Putting an End to Espionage Lawsuit; Detailed Terms of
Settlement Remain Confidential
- New York
Times: Hotel Sector May Lead Economic Recovery / Jim Butler
- Leisure
and Business Travel Outlook for 2011: Brighter Days Ahead for U.S.
Travel Industry But Value Remains In Vogue For Both Leisure And
Business Travelers
- Aspen
Hotel Management Group in Partnership with AEW Capital Management
Acquire San Francisco's Hotel Frank, Hotel Metropolis and Hotel Vertigo
- The
272-room Capital Plaza Hotel in North Raleigh, North Carolina Set for
Auction Potentially Putting an End to its Tortured History
- New
Cornell Hospitality Study Indicates, In Hotel Acquisitions, Private
Firms Yield the Most Value
- Las
Vegas Welcomes the New Cosmopolitan, But Will Enough Spenders Come?
- Hotel
Sales Professionals: Would You Buy What You Are Selling? / David M.
Brudney
- Craig
Thompson, General Manager at Portland, Oregon's Hotel Monaco, Described
as a Great Boss, Has a Simple Philosophy: "Being a Good Boss Isn't
About Writing Great Reports, It's About Understanding People"
- Four
Basic Hotel Electronic Marketing Tools to Use in 2011 / Neil Salerno
- Contrllong
Costs: It's Time to Begin Cutting Expensive Amenities / Rick Welch
- The
Guest vs. Profit / Alan E. Young
- PKF-Hospitality
Research's December Hotel Horizons® Shows U.S. Lodging Demand
Growth at 7.8% for 2010; Combined with Rise in Occupancy Rates, RevPAR
Gain Forecasted at 5.6% Increase for Year
December 29, 2010
December 28, 2010
December 23, 2010
- Hilton
Worldwide and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Reach Settlement
Agreement Putting an End to Espionage Lawsuit; Detailed Terms of
Settlement Remain Confidential
- Coming
Out of the Slump: How Guest Perceptions and Behaviors Haven’t Changed
in the Past Year / Rick Garlick
- Home
For the Holidays: Tending to Hotel Operations When Your Revenue Manager
is on Vacation / Jean Francois Mourier
- DoubleTree
by Hilton Prepares for Entrance into Bulgaria with Debut of DoubleTree
By Hilton, Varna-Golden Sands; Brand’s First Hotel on the Black Sea
Coast; Claudio Sturm General Manager
- Owned
and Operated by Queensbay Hotel, LLC, The Hotel Maya, Long Beach,
California Becomes The Hotel Maya - a Doubletree Hotel
- Hilton
Worldwide Signs Management Agreement with Silhouette Island Resort
Limited for 111-villa Hilton Seychelles LaBriz Resort & Spa, a
Conversion Property, Schedueld to Open March 2011
- Built
for $35 million, the Hilton Scranton & Conference Center Sold for
$13 million to Partnership Between Linchris Hotel Corporation and Blue
Vista Capital Management
- Sol
Meliá Enters into Agreement with The Resort Group PLC to Manage
New Meliá LLana Resort & Spa on the Island of Sal, Cape Verde
- Shiva
Hotels Limited and Hospitality Management International Open the
117-room Hampton by Hilton Derby City Centre, United Kingdom
- Churchill
Downs Incorporated Completes Acquisition of Harlow's Casino Resort
& Hotel in Greenville, Mississippi for $138 million
- Known
as Colorado’s Favorite Front Porch, Grand Lake Lodge, Acquired by Grand
Lake Ventures, LLC; to Reopen as a Full-Service Resort; Regency Hotel
Management Selected as Operator
- Hyatt
Hotels Affiliate Acquires Land for New Build 408-room Grand Hyatt Rio
De Janeiro; Hotel Will Be Second Hyatt-branded Property in Brazil
- Horizon
Hospitality and the Pittsburgh Penguins Open the 142-suite Cambria
Suites Hotel Adjacent to the Penguin's New Arena
December 22, 2010
- Volatile
Trends and Hotel Performance / Kathleen D. Donahue and Jane L. Rogers
- American
Traveling Public Says "There Has to Be a Better Way"; 9 in 10 Believe
if We Can Put a Man on the Moon, We Can Create a Secure and
Efficient Passenger Security System
- Hotels
Optimistic About Future But Still Not Hiring; Knowland Survey Finds
Majority of Hoteliers Experienced Growth in 2010, Expect More in 2011
- Sterling
Joyce, Maitre d'hotel, at the Casa Marina Hotel and Restaurant,
Jacksonville, Florida Knows How to Throw a Birthday Bash
- Chartres
Lodging Completes Acquisiton of 451-room Ocean Resort Waikiki, Plans to
Renovate, Rebrand and Reposition Hotel; Kokua Hospitality to Manage
Property
- Langham
Hotels & Owners, Great Eagle Holdings & Blackstone Group,
Unveil Planned 361-room Langham, Dalian in the Dongang District of
North East China
- Pan
Pacific Hotels Group Enters into Conditional Purchase Agreement to
Acquire the Hilton Melbourne Airport Hotel in Australia from Mulpha
Australia Limited; May Rebrand as PARKROYAL
- CB
Richard Ellis Analysis Anticipates RevPAR Growth of 1.6% in 2011 and
4.4% for 2012 in Full-Service Hotels, 2.6% in 2011 and 6.5% in 2012 for
Limited-Service Hotels
- Miami
Investors Take Control of Florida's Belleview Biltmore Resort &
Spa; May Sell Part or All Later
- Pensacola,
Florida Lodging Revenues Strong Despite Oil Spill Showing Only a 5%
Decrease Over Same Period in 2009
- InterContinental
Hotels Group Debuts the Crowne Plaza Bangkok Lumpini Park, Formerly the
Pan Pacific Bangkok as Group's Tenth Hotel in Thailand
- Athens
Based Grace Hotels in Partnership with F&F Properties and Owner,
Libra Group, to Open Grace Panama
- Compass
Hospitality Selected to Manage the 582-room Windsor Suites Hotel
Bangkok, Thailand
- Red
Roof® Opens a 49-room Property in Columbus, Ohio, Owned and Managed
by Sunny Patel
- Steigenberger
Hotels Appoints Andreas Schuster as the New COO
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Appoints Rebecca Madan Kollaras Regional
Director of Public Relations
December 21, 2010
- I-Sites
Selected By La Quinta Resort & Club for Website Redesign and Online
Marketing; Waldorf Astoria Collection’s historic Palm Springs property
to benefit from Interactive Sites’ proven web development and online
marketing expertise
- Royal
Caribbean Cruises Ltd. Selects Point-of-Sale Solution by Agilysys;
Cruise Line to Implement InfoGenesis™ POS System on Seven Ships
- The
Confidence to be Transparent: Why Accor Hotel Group Posts TripAdvisor
Reviews Directly to its Website; An interview with Jean-Luc
Chrétien, Executive VP Marketing & Distribution, Accor /
Daniel Edward Craig
- Briad
Lodging Group Sells Portfolio of Ten Northeastern Hotels Comprising
1,100 Rooms for $164 million to MCR Development, LLC
- How
Profitable Will Your RevPAR Be In 2011? / Robert Mandelbaum
- Keys
to Success: Be Aware of and Work with the Law; Do Not be Afraid of it /
Dr. John Hogan
- Conscious
Concierge: Five Hotel Hospitality Tips / Peter Puckett
- Sunstone
Hotel Investors Restructure Leadership Team: Arthur Buser, Jr. Resigns
as President and Chief Executive Officer, Kenneth Cruse Named President
and Robert Alter, Founder, to Co-Lead Sunstone's Growth Strategy
- Hilton
Hotels & Resorts Open First Stage, the Boulevard Tower, of New
Build $700 million Hilton Surfers Paradise, in Australia's Gold Coast
- RBS
Financial Products Takes Back Santa Rosa, California's Courtyard by
Marriott After Auction Fails to Attract Buyer; Rim Hospitality will
Continue to Manage as Court-Appointed Receiver
- Orlando
Hotels Continue Rebound with Gains of 13.5% in Occupany and 14.7%
RevPAR Compared to a Year Ago
- The
Pegasus View November 2010: Corporate Booking Volumes Set New Growth
Record of +30.6% Over 2009; Leisure Revenue Also Sets 2010 Record with
Year-on-year Increase of +17.3%
- Peabody
Orlando Builds 4-Star Service Culture with GUESTScope™
- Mexico’s
Velas Resorts Continue to Make Waves in the Social Media Sphere: Grand
Velas Riviera Nayarit Welcomed Twitter Mavens ZipSetGo.com Girls For
1st Ever #TNI Travel Tweetup
- Waldorf
Astoria Shanghai on the Bund, Shanghai, China Opens Its New 252-room
Tower Extension Wing
- Club
Med Sandpiper Bay in Port St. Lucie, Florida Reopens Following a $25
million Renovation
- Sunburst
Hospitality & Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Open 104-room Wyndham
Baltimore Peabody Court in Historic Baltimore Neighborhood
- Hotel
Debrett in Auckland, New Zealand Joins Design Hotels™ as Part of the
Oceania Portfolio
- International
Association of Conference Centers Names David Haas as New Gen X/Y Board
Associate
- HSMAI's
DFW Chapter Announces 2011 Board of Directors; Kimberly Hutcherson
Elected 2011 Chapter President
- Thistle
Hotels Appoints Paul Knightley as General Manager of Thistle Kensington
Gardens, London
- Hilton
Worldwide Appoints Jerome Luciani as General Manager, Hilton
Villahermosa & Conference Center
- Denihan
Hospitality Group Appoints Sims Foster as VP Restaurants and Bars
- Aimbridge
Hospitality Announces Three New Staff Members; Appoints David Capps to
VP of Development, David Ruger Manager of Development and Gretta Brooks
Regional VP of Sales, Marketing
- Elite
Island Resorts Welcomes Anthony Bowen as Regional Managing Director
- Days
Inn Worldwide Members Elect Anuraag Mullick as Chairman of the
Franchise Advisory Committee
December 20, 2010
- Abu
Dhabi's Emirates Palace Luxury Hotel Says It Regrets Attempts to
Overload Tradition with $11 Million Christmas Tree
- Asia
Pacific’s Hotel Construction Pipeline Stands at 2,009 Projects at
the End of Q3, 2010; China Remains the Fastest Growing but Concerns
Rising About Overheated Economies; LE Report for Asia Pacific
- Facing
Foreclosure, Atlantic City Hilton Casino Resort Heads to Court to Try
and Prevent Lender From Seizing Control of Property; Behind $39.3
million in Interest Payments Since July of 2009
- Interstate
(China) Hotels & Resorts, a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of a
Joint Venture Between Thayer Lodging & Jin Jiang International
Selected by Shanghai Tower Group to Manage the New Build Shanghai Tower
J-Hotel Due to Open in 2014 in Shanghai, China
- HSMAI
Names the 55 Advertising Division Award Winners, the 64 Public
Relations Division Award Winners and the 35 Web Marketing Division
Award Winners for the Year 2010
- Judge
Slaps $800,000 Judgement on Owner of the Kahala Hotel & Resort Over
Service Fees Charged for Food and Beverages
- Gaining
Control of Your Hotel’s Inventory Distribution Channels (Part-II) /
Yogeesh Chandra
- Nobody
Asked Me, But… No. 71 - Impertinent Questions Still Seeking Pertinent
Answers; The Baseball Business…Where Next?; Quote of the Month /
Stanley Turkel
- Shangri-La
Hotels and Resorts Holds Groundbreaking for New Build 319-room
Shangri-La Hotel, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China
- Choice
Hotels International Opens 33 Hotels in November in 14 States and Seven
Countries Adding More than 2,500 rooms
- Work
Stops at Site of Two Hotels, the Town Plaza Suites Hotel and a
Fairfield Inn in Watertown, New York Causing Speculation Over Financial
Woes for Developer Hemisphere Management
- EasyRMS
continues to expand globally with further growth of over 50% in 2010
and over 150 new client hotels implemented ....
- Meetings
Media Rebrands to Meetings Focus
- Hotel
AG Brokers Sale of Econo Lodge, Avon Park, Florida
- Hotel
AG Welcomes Chris Stark as Newest Team Member
- HITEC
2011 Online Registration and Housing Bureau Open
- HFTP
Development Conference Registration Now Available Online
- True
North Hotel Group Opens 18th Hotel, the Holiday Inn Express in Hays,
Kansas; Future Planned Openings Include an Element Hotel, a Hilton
Garden Inn, a Courtyard by Marriott and a Hampton Inn
- BAHA
Names Winners of Annual Hospitality Finance, Revenue Management and IT
Awards: First Ever Awards went to Claire Gilbertson as Hospitality
Revenue Director of the Year 2010 and Stewart Fidom as Hospitality IT
Professional of the Year 2010
- Harjit
(G.T.) Dhillon Appointed Vice President of Global Travel Industry
Relations for Carlson Hotels
- Carl
Emberson Named General Manager of The St. Regis Punta Mita Resort,
Mexico
- Outrigger
Enterprises Group Names Sheryl Tsugawa as Sales & Marketing Manager
for the Holiday Inn® Waikiki Beachcomber Resort
- The
Dorchester Collection Names New Staff Appointments Through its
Collection Including Christophe Saintagne as Head Chef for Alain
Ducasse au Plaza Athénée in Paris and Sally Pedder as
Manager for The Dorchester Spa
December 16, 2010
- Ian
Schrager Confirms Sale of His Interests in Gramercy Park Hotel; Plans
to Create Two New Brands for His Private Hotel Company, SCHRAGER HOTELS
- FelCor
Lodging Trust Sells Virginia's Sheraton Premiere Hotel at Tysons Corner
to JBG Companies for $84.5 million or Approximately $191,000 per key
- Chatham
Lodging Trust Announces Q4 Dividend with Approximate Yield of 4.1%,
Fourth Quarter RevPAR up 5%
- The
HeBS Perspective: Members-Only, Flash Sales and Group Buying Sites –
Are These New Retail Concepts a Good Idea for Hotel Distribution? /
Sara O’Brien
- Demand
Response: Taking Energy Management to a Whole New Level / Richard
Manzolina
- Starwood
to Open Three New Sheraton Hotels & Resorts in China in Under a
Month: Sheraton Wenzhou Hotel in the Zheijang Province, Sheraton
Jiangyin Hotel in Jiangyin City, and Sheraton Shanghai Hongkou Hotel in
Shanghai
- Thayer
Lodging Group & Starwood Hotels & Resorts Open the Sheraton
Miami Airport Hotel, Formally a Wyndham Property, Following Extensive
Upgrades
- Hyatt
Hotels & Resorts and Woodbine Development Corporation Opens the
214-room Hyatt Place Houston/Sugar Land in Sugarland, Texas
- Outrigger
Hotels and Resorts Asia Signed to Open and Manage the 81-key Outrigger
Koh Samui Resort and Spa in Bhoput Beach, Koh Samui, Thailand
- Marriott
and Gateway Hospitality to Open the 100-room Fairfield Inn & Suites
Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina
- Orion
by VingCard Elsafe, the Revolutionary New Wireless Energy Management
Solution, Wins Selective IHMRS Editor’s Choice; Orion by VingCard
Elsafe Chosen as Top Green Technology Innovation for 2010
- Orion
by VingCard Elsafe Offers an Intuitive and Interactive Dashboard for
Maximum Control and Management of Guestrooms; Orion by VingCard Elsafe
Provides the Optimum in Guest Safety, Comfort, and Now - Energy Savings
and Improved Efficiency through Integrated Room Control Dashboard
- Knowland
Hires Seasoned Director for Event Booking Center (EBC); Experienced
Call Center Manager to Lead EBC in Proactive Outbound Sales for Clients
- After
Being Shuttered Due to Foreclosure, Lake Tahoe's Cal Neva Resort
Expected to Reopen Early Next Year
- Italy's
Lungarno Hotels Announces the Appointment of Valeriano Antonioli as
Chief Operating Officer for the Lungarno Alberghi s.r.l.
- Dolce
Hotels and Resorts Appoints Stephen Bello as Corporate Director of
Operations
- Deborah
Lunn Named General Manager of the Sanctuary Hotel in New York
- Leslie
Johnson Named Spa Director of Spa La Quinta for California's La Quinta
Resort & Club, a Waldorf Astoria Resort
- Sarah
Best Named Director of Sales at Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel
December 15, 2010
- John
Ascuaga’s Nugget Casino Resort Increases Revenue with Cendyn’s Online
Reservation Concierge; eConciergeTM Generates $50,000 for Nugget Casino
Resort in 6 Months, Enables Guests to Book Amenities Online Pre-Stay
- Four
Basic Hotel Electronic Marketing Tools to Use in 2011 / Neil Salerno
- Hotel
Sales Professionals: Would You Buy What You Are Selling? / David Brudney
- What
If A Hotel Brand Could Ask The Same Question Southwest Airlines Asks In
Their New Ad? / Doug Kennedy
- Recession
Lessons – Post Recession Hotel Sales & Revenue Management / Carol
Verret
- Optimum
Hotel Brokerage Sells Hampton Inn First Mortgage Note; Note Sold for
90% of Mortgage Balance
- Where
is the Hotel Industry Headed in 2011?: An Interview with AH&LA
Incoming Chairman John R. Campbell
- Hyatt
Hotels and Resorts Opens the 290-room Hyatt Regency Dusseldorf, Germany
- Poipu
Beach Villas, LLC and Azul Hospitality Group Open Phase One of the
Koloa Landing at Poipu Beach Wyndham Grand Resort, Hawaii
- Shangri-La
Hotels and Resorts Enters into Management Agreement with Riverside
Infrastructure (India) Pvt. Ltd to Operate New Build, 246-key
Traders Hotel, Chennai
- Eurostars
Hotels Opens The Eurostars Roma Aeterna, its Fifth in Rome
- The
Rainmaker Group Nominated for TechAmerica ‘Spirit of Endeavor’ Award;
Revenue Management Leader in Two Industries Tapped for ‘Emerging
Business’ Recognition
- StayWell
Hospitality Group has Entered into a Joint Venture with GGI Hospitality
Group to Form a Hotel Management Company in the People's Republic of
China
- Fisher
Island Club Deploys UniFocus’ GUESTScope™
- AH&LA
2011 Events Offer Top Tier Programming For Hotel Owners, Operators;
Events include investment conferences, fundraisers, industry tradeshows
- Driftwood
Hospitality Management.Added Fourteen Management Contracts in 2010
- Corey
Scramstad of The Curtis, a Doubletree Hotel in Denver, Honored with
Hilton's Spirit of CARE Award / December 2010
- Best
Western International Elects New Board Officers; P.G. West Elected
Chairman
- The
Wisconsin Hotel & Lodging Association Names New Officers and
Directors, Robert Y. Dove, Chairman of the Board
- Tamara
Markham Promoted to Vice President of Operations for Hotel Equities
- Shelley
Berry and Dorian Southall Appointed to Catering Team at The Portofino
Hotel & Yacht Club in Redondo Beach, California
December 14, 2010
- Tech
Leader d2o Nominated for Three Elite International Rosing Awards;
Management Intelligence Software Pioneer Cited for IT-Leader of the
Year, Creativity, Usability
- Yellow
Dog Software Provides Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort with Retail
Inventory Management
- The
Potential Effect of the Proposed Payroll Tax Reduction on the U.S.
Lodging Industry; 1.5 Million More Jobs Would Result in Greater Lodging
Demand, Profits / R. Mark Woodworth
- Las
Vegas Welcomes the New Cosmopolitan, But Will Enough Spenders Come?
- Sofitel
to Open Three New Locations in One Week: The Sofitel Vienna
Stephansdom, Austria, Sofitel So Mauritius, Mauritius and Sofitel Phnom
Penh Phokeethra, Cambodia
- Legacy
Hotel Advisors To Develop 129-room Courtyard By Marriott Hotel on
Darden Restaurants Campus in Orlando
- RockResorts
Expanding with Addition of Xandari by the Pacific in Costa Rica: Soon
to be the Alma del Pacifico Hotel
- Milwaukee's
$50 million Planned Downtown Marriott Hotel Garners Support with
Conditions from the Historic Preservation Commission
- Latino
Hotel Association's First Franchising Forum Demonstrates Hotel
Development Interest in Mexico Very Strong
- Kearney,
Nebraska's Ramada Inn & Conference Center Turned Over to Bank as
New Management Firm, U.S. Motels of Denver, Prepare Property For Sale /
Kevin Hervert
- XETA
Technologies Selected by Wingate Frisco for Bundled Hospitality
Communications Solution; Hotel Operator Benefits From Ease of Vendor
Management and 24/7 Managed Services
- Defero3
announces the 90/90 Stimulus Plan
- Join
Dr. Bryan K. Williams for a Complimentary Webinar this Thursday!
- German
yourVoyager launched by Trust International; Central Reservation System
for Hotels now available in German, underlining Trust´s
commitment in Europe
- Harrah’s
Cherokee Casino Implements Guest-Tek’s OneView™ HSIA Solution Into
Their Latest High End Tower Slated to Open in December 2010
- Keys
to Success: Make Your Hotel More Profitable and Successful – 2011 is
the critical time to invest in Your Talent and Your Team / Dr. John
Hogan
- GF
Management Affiliate, RACK Associates to Manage Radisson Resort
Orlando-Celebration in Kissimmee, Florida
- Hoon's
Corporation and GuestHouse International® Open The Poulsbo
GuestHouse International Formerly Known as Holiday Inn Express in
Poulsbo, Washington
- James
Carroll Appointed as President & CEO of Crestline Hotels &
Resorts and President & CEO of Barcelo Crestline Corporation
- Dolce
Hotels and Resorts Appoints Wayne Carney Vice President, Property
Finance
- Davidson
Hotel Company Names Colman Conneely General Manager Of Marriott Teaneck
at Glenpointe Hotel, Teaneck New Jersey
December 13, 2010
- What
We as Hoteliers Can Learn from Southwest Airlines - Confidence! / Jill
Larson
- 2010
Reflections...And a glimpse into 2011 - Guest Room Technology Focus /
Terence Ronson
- Lodging
Econometrics Q3 2010 Reports Europe & Middle East Pipeline Totals
Trend Downward; New Austerity Measures Impact Developer Sentiment
- The
Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, Preparing for its Debut, Could be at
Forefront of a Trend; Las Vegas Casinos Linking up with Hotel Chains to
Build Customer Base
- Chesapeake
Lodging Trust Enters a Definitive Agreement to Acquire the 360-room Le
Meridien San Francisco for $143 million or Approximately $397,000 per
key
- Hilton
Worldwide Signs Management Agreement with Afak Co. for Touristic
Development for the New Build 676-room Hilton Makadi Resort, the Fourth
Hilton Property in Hurghada, Egypt
- Stratus
Properties and Canyon-Johnson Urban Fund II Open the W Austin and The
Residences at W Austin, the Brands 38th Hotel Globally
- New
Century Investments and Starwood to Debut Aloft in Oklahoma; the
143-room Aloft Oklahoma City Downtown-Bricktown Coming in 2013
- Movenpick
Hotels & Resorts Signs Management Agreement with SoftLogic Holdings
to Operate the 180-room Movenpick Hotel Colombo in Sri Lanka
- Hawaii's
Pagoda Hotel Joins Aqua Hotels and Resorts: Kai Management
Services Will Serve as Operator
- Hotel
AG Brokers Sale of Hampton Inn & Suites, Holly Springs, North
Carolina
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Add/Update 143 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel
Construction Projects Database
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Have Updated 157 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with
Changes in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership
- Hotel
Arizona Owner, Humberto Lopez, Contends GM's Statement that Hotel Would
Close without Taxpayer-Funded Incentives was Unauthorized
- Solage
Hotels & Resorts in Early Planning Stages of Exclusive Hotel &
Winery on 80 Acres in Temecula, California
- Former
49ers Joe Montana & Eddie DeBartolo Hoping to Build a Luxury Hotel
& Entertainment Venue Across from the New Santa Clara, California
Stadium Site
- The
Ritz-Carlton Destination Club Opens Its 10th Location, The Ritz-Carlton
Club, Vail
- Ritz-Carlton,
Laguna Niguel Appoints Donna Bond as Director of Marketing and Will
Wiest Director of Sales
December 10, 2010
- Hotel
Staff and Management at the Sheraton Hotel in Abu Dhabi Pledge to
Support Orphaned African Boy Living in an SOS Village for Life
- Hotel
Construction in the Arabian Gulf on Course for Growth: 120 New Hotels
with Over 43,000 Rooms Inaugurated in 2010; Pipeline for 2011 Expects
286 Hotel Openings with a Total of 84,100 Rooms
- Starwood
Hotels Receives $245 Million Refund from the IRS Relating to the 1998
Disposition of World Directories, Inc.
- Marriott
International Enters Management Agreement with Phat Dat Quang Ngai
Hotel & Resort Corp. to Operate the 250-room Hoi An Marriott Resort
& Spa Located at Cua Dai Beach on the South China Sea, Vietnam
- Gaming
Industry Executives Foresee More Tough Sledding Ahead; Some Believe
2011 is Going to be All About Survival
- Recap:
HEDNA's Winter Conference Reveals Data, Customers And Technology To Be
Key Trends For The Hotel Electronic Distribution Industry
- Montage
Hotels & Resorts Opens the 154-room Montage Deer Valley in Park
City, Utah
- Western
Southern Financial Group and Eagle Realty Prepare to Open the Residence
Inn Cincinnati Downtown; Winegardner & Hammons to Manage; David
Meisner Opening General Manager
- Downtown
Las Vegas Breaks 28-month Slide With October's Gaming Posting an
Increase of 10.3%
- Hiren
Patel Opens 81-room Country Inns & Suites by Carlson in Texarkana,
Texas
- Drury
Hotels Plan New Build, 236-room Drury Inn & Suites, Orlando Florida
- Concordia
Group LLC Slated for New Build of Marriott Town Place in Natchez,
Mississippi
- Through
the eyes of a Hotel Butler: The emotional factor in the Hospitability
Industry / Osvaldo Torres Cruz
- Cross
Country Inn Investors, Owners of The Baymont Inn & Suites,
Columbus, Ohio File for Bankruptcy
- Sage
Hospitality Names Matthew Sparks as Senior Vice President of
Acquisitions and Business Development
- Hawaii's
Kona Village Resort Appoints Deaner Snively as Regional Sales Manager
- Isabel
Gracia Named Director of Sales and Marketing for The Raleigh Hotel,
Miami, Florida
- Georges
Karam Named Director of Sales & Marketing for the InterContinental
Mzaar Lebanon Mountain Resort and Spa
December 9, 2010
- The
HeBS Perspective: Hotel Mobile Apps vs. Hotel Mobile Websites / Max
Starkov
- New
York Times: Hotel Sector May Lead Economic Recovery / Jim Butler
- Humberto
Lopez, Owner of the Hotel Arizona in Downtown Tucson, Threatening to
Shutdown Hotel if he Doesn't Receive a Taxpayer-Funded Improvement
Package
- How
Hard Can it be to Operate a Restaurant? When The Object is Objectivity
You Need a Professional Consultant / William Orilio
- Accor
Enters into Agreement with Unibail-Rodamco to Rebrand the 953-room
Méridien Montparnasse as the Pullman Paris Montparnasse
- Marriott
International Signs Management Agreement with Sanding Holding Co. Ltd.
for Development of 281-room Yiwu Marriott Hotel in China's
Zhejiang Province
- Best
Western Opens the 200-room Best Western Premier Guro Hotel in Seoul,
South Korea
- The
Newly Built 120-room Courtyard New York Manhattan/SoHo Opens in New
York City
- Accor
Opens the 52-room Mercure Paris Voltaire in the Bastille Quarter
- 8Hotels
Completes Renovation and Rebranding of the Former Central Park Hotel,
Now Known as Park8 Hotel in Sydney, Australia
- JAL
Hotels Opens the 91-room Suzhou Qingshan Hotel in Suzhou, China
- Best
Western Opens the 62-room Best Western Coral Beach Hotel in Tanzania,
the Fourth to Open in Africa This Year
- Great
Hotels of the World Set to Open the Dom Pedro Laguna Beach Villas, Golf
& Spa Resort in Ceará, Brazil
- Rezidor
Hotel Group Has Record Year of Hotel Openings with 7,200 Rooms
- Operating
Since 1878, Lake Lawn Resort in Delavan, Wisconsin Officially Shuts
Doors
- Two
Baltimore Hotel Projects Open, the Best Western Plus-Envy Hotel and the
Sleep Inn & Suites Downtown/Inner Harbor
- Social
Media – Powerful Referral Tool; FREE Webinar December 16, 2010
Presented by Carol Verret and uRefer
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Announces Agreement with Virginia Tech to
Operate The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center
- The
272-room Capital Plaza Hotel in North Raleigh, North Carolina Set for
Auction Potentially Putting an End to its Tortured History
- Bali
According to Hotel Insiders
- Keith
Harrison of Travelport GDS Recipient of HEDNA's 2010 Award of Excellence
- HEDNA
Names 2011 Board Of Directors And Executive Team: Melanie Ryan of
Orbitz Worldwide, President
- Carlson
Appoints Javier Rosenberg, Christian Urbat, and Jean-Marc Busato to
Senior-Level Executive Positions for Carlson Hotels, Americas
- The
National Conference Center in Leesburg, Virginia Names Gregory Spiller
as Director of Group Sales
- La
Torretta Lake Resort and Spa in Houston Names Jason Weaver as Executive
Chef and Michael Blaksteen as Director of Food and Beverage
December 8, 2010
- Margaritaville
Beach Hotel in Pensacola, Florida Increases Profits by Giving Guests a
Cool Experience with Hot Technology Using Resort Wide ID Card; Maestro
PMS Drives Online Upsell Revenue, Merchandising, Direct Website
Reservations, and Guest Loyalty for Successful Jimmy Buffet-Themed
Destination
- Agilysys
Wins Prestigious G&L Technology Impact Award; Company Takes Top
Platinum Award for LMS+ Property Management Solution
- New
Study by Preferred Hotel Group™ Suggests that Baby Boomers, 77 Million
Strong, Represent Nearly Half of American Leisure Travellers; Worldwide
Travel Surge Ahead as They Start Turning 65
- How
to Get the Best from your Seasonal Staff / Caroline Cooper
- Contrllong
Costs: It's Time to Begin Cutting Expensive Amenities / Rick Welch
- Former
Hotel Blake Joins Wyndam Hotel and Resorts as Wyndam Blake Chicago
- IHG
to Open Two New Holiday Inn Resorts in Vietnam, Holiday Inn Resort Phu
Quoc Duong Dong Beach and Holiday Inn Resort Cam Ranh Bay
- Starwood
Hotels & Resorts Business Strategy and Outlook Assumes a Worldwide
RevPAR Increase of 7-9% Through 2013
- The
Westin Houston Memorial City Set to Debut April 6, 2011
- Nandit
Mehta Building 70-Suite Candlewood Suites in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
- Sonnenblick-Eichner
Company Arranges $20.5 Million of First Mortgage Financing for The
Surfsand Resort in Cannon Beach, Oregon
- Grand
Velas Rivera Nayarit Named a Top Resort In Condé Nast Traveler
2010 Readers’ Choice Awards
- The
World of Revenue Management: Past, Present & Future; Looking back
on hotel revenue management in 2010 and what the industry is expecting
for 2011 / Jean Francois Mourier
- New
York's Grand Island 263-room Holiday Inn Resort and Conference Center
Going on the Auction Block
- Blackstone
Group Names Interstate Hotels & Resorts to Manage 13 Properties
Adding 5,466 Rooms to Portfolio
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Adds World of Whirlpool, Chicago, to
Management Portfolio; Private Day Conference Center to Create Next
Generation Insperience Studio
- G.
Holdings Corporation Completes Renovation of the 166-Room Courtyard by
Marriott in Jamaica, New York
- The
International Hotel Investment Forum Accepting Nominations for the IHIF
2011 Young Leader Awards
- Hong
Kong's PolyU School of Hotel and Tourism Management has New Home
in Kowloon
- Ginny
Morrison Promoted to Vice President, Sales & Marketing for Lane
Hospitality
- Soraya
Fernandez, Who Began as a Housekeeper, Promoted to Sales In.Bassador
for Hotel Indigo in Saint Petersburg, Florida
December 7, 2010
- Cendyn’s
Digital Marketing Strategy Drives Bottom Line Results for Louisville’s
Galt House Hotel, Not Only at Kentucky Derby Time; Program Generates $1
Million in Sales, Boosts Web Traffic by Integrating New Website,
Booking Engine, Mobile Site, SEO and PPC campaigns.
- JW
Marriott Hotel Los Angeles at L.A. LIVE Goes 'Live' with GoConcierge;
Web-based System Adds Efficiencies to Concierge Operations
- PKF-Hospitality
Research's December Hotel Horizons® Shows U.S. Lodging Demand
Growth at 7.8% for 2010, Combined with Rise in Occupancy Rates, RevPAR
Gain Forecasted at 5.6% Increase for Year
- Gaining
Control of Your Hotel’s Inventory Distribution Channels (Part-I) /
Yogeesh Chandra
- ADA
Defense Lawyer: California's Certified Access Specialist program --
Does it provide all of the intended ADA protections? / Jim Butler
- Campus
Apartments L.L.C. To Break Ground on New $50 million Homewood Suites by
Hilton in University City, Pennsylvania
- LaSalle
Hotel Properties Acquires the 113 All-suite Chamberlain West Hollywood
for $38.5 Million
- Midas
Hospitality Acquires 83-room Candlewood Suites in Champaign - Urbana,
Illinois
- United
Capital Corp. Buys Multimilion Mortgage on Ocean Pace Resort & Spa
in Long Branch, New Jersey; Property Currently Scheduled for Sheriff's
Sale in January
- Last
Days to Register: Hotel Sales Webinar Marathon - Updates of The 3 Most
Popular Webinars in 2010, December 10, 2010
- Whiteboard
Labs Releases An iPhone Native App for Their WindsurferCRS
- Tropicana
Entertainment Partners with UniFocus
- The
New Frontier of Mobile Marketing
- Harbor
Beach Marriott Resort & Spa Refines Service with PSAV; After
completing a $50 million renovation, the premier Fort Lauderdale resort
selects PSAV® Presentation Services to supply its Event
Technologies, including: AV Equipment, Rigging Services, Power
Distribution and HSIA Support
- In
its Quest for Growth, Hotel Brand Key West Inns Retains Steven
Belmonte/Hospitality Solutions
- Hotel
Technology Next Generation Releases Interface Specifications For
Kiosks, Payment Systems And Data Sharing
- HEI
Hotels & Resorts Completes First Phase of $20 Million Renovation at
Hanover Marriott in New Jersey
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Names Recipient of the First Annual Bob
Zappatelli Award for Culinary Excellence; Beverlie Terra, Executive
Chef at Chaminade Resort & Spa, Santa Cruz
- Simon
Barlow Appointed President of Carlson Hotels, Asia Pacific
- David
Morgan Named New Vice President, Food and Beverage for Omni Hotels
& Resorts
- Millennium
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Atif N.Yousseff as General Manager to
Millennium Broadway Hotel New York
- Anthony
Gill Named General Manager for Life Heritage Resort Hoi An in Vietnam
- Greg
McDonnell Named General Manager for the Rebranded and Newly Renovated
Courtyard by Marriott Key Largo
- Matthew
Pickett Named Resort Manager for Kauai Beach Resort, Hawaii
- White
Lodging Appoints Mehdi Spadavecchia as Director of Food & Beverage
for JW Marriott Indianapolis Downtown
December 6, 2010
- New
Cornell Hospitality Study Indicates, In Hotel Acquisitions, Private
Firms Yield the Most Value
- Knowland
EBC (Event Booking Center) Expands 500% Due to Increased Demand; 30,000
SqFt Location Opened to Support Professional Business Development
Services
- The
Guest vs. Profit / Alan Young
- Free
Wi-Fi or Bust - A Rebuttal / Matt Harvey
- Santa’s
Performance Management Process / Jim Hartigan
- Dry
Ski Slopes: Year Round Skiing without Snow / Nuresh Maredia
- Los
Angeles' Slow Trickle of Bedbugs Could Turn Into a Flood
- The
306-room Philadelphia Sofitel Hotel Sold for $87 million to Pebblebrook
Hotel Trust
- "Outlook
2030 - The Reality of Economic Recovery in the Caribbean and Central
America" / Josef Forstmayr
- Dominican
Republic Ministry of Tourism Comments on Cholera Outbreak and Safety of
Travel to Region; The World Health Organization is not Recommending
Restrictions
- Keys
to Success: A Common Sense Approach to Success in the Hospitality
Industry; 13 Best Practices for Hospitality Training Managers &
Directors / Dr. John Hogan
- Stowe
Mountain Lodge in Stowe, Vermont Unveils New Facilities and Addition of
173 Rooms
- Compass
Hospitality Opens the Citrus Sukhuvmit 22 Bangkok in Thailand
- Club
Med Opens the All-Inclusive Yabuli Resort Located in China in the
Heilongjiang Province
- The
Liquidation Sale of the LaFont Inn Opens Thursday, December 9th at
10:00 a.m; Sale Will be Conducted by NCL/National Content Liquidators,
Inc.; Building Coming Down * * Everything Goes
- Hotel
AG Closes Eight Hotel Transactions in Month of November
- RIU
Hotels & Resorts Prepares to Open the 390-room All Inclusive
ClubHotel Riu Palm Azur in Tunisia
- Aqua
Hotels & Resorts Selected to Manage the 312-room Queen Kapiolani
Hotel in Waikiki
- Gemstone
Hotels & Resorts Selected to Manage the Tivoli Lodge in Vail,
Colorado
- Marshall
Hotels & Resorts Appointed Receiver for Four Points by Sheraton
Hotel & Suites Allentown Airport, Holiday Inn Danbury, and Holiday
Inn Buffalo Amherst Hotel
- Rani
Resorts To Begin Construction on Paradise Island's $100 million Resort
in Mozambique's Bazaruto Archipelago
- Three
San Diego Hotel Properties that Were Returned to Lender by Sunstone
Hotel Investors Now Up for Sale
- Major
League Baseball Players and R.D. Olson Development Pitch $25 million
Courtyard by Marriott in Oceanside, California
- Knights
Inn Canada Franchise Systems Limited Adds the Knights Inn Dunnville,
Ontario to its Portfolio
- Rocco
Forte Collection Appoints Walter C. Neumann as General Manager for
Hotel Astoria in St. Petersburg, Florida
- Andrea
Kracht Of Zurich's Baur Au Lac Named Chairman Of Executive Committee Of
The Leading Hotels Of The World
- Benchmark
Hospitality Names Taylor Amara as First Recipient of the Bob Zappatelli
Culinary Arts Scholarship In Partnership with The James Beard
Foundation, New York
December 2, 2010
- Wrap
up: Eighth Annual International Hotel Conference Suggests Cautiously
Optimistic Global Outlook for Hotel Industry
- Nothing
Exemplifies the Marriage of Both Modernity and Hospitality More than
the Armani Hotel Dubai - In Terms of the Gulf, They've Come a Long Way
Since the First Starbucks Opened
- Hotel
Sales Webinar Marathon - Updates of The 3 Most Popular Webinars in
2010, December 10, 2010
- The
Palais Stephanie Hotel, on Cannes’ La Croisette, to be Rebranded as the
261-room JW Marriott Hotel Cannes Under a Management Agreement with
Jesta Group
- Aspen
Hotel Management Group in Partnership with AEW Capital Management
Acquire San Francisco's Hotel Frank, Hotel Metropolis and Hotel Vertigo
- CPN
Pattaya Beach Co. Ltd & Hilton Hotels & Resorts Open the
302-room New Build Hilton Pattaya Overlooking the Gulf of Thailand
- Following
Acquistion of TRYP Brand From Sol Meliá, Wyndham Hotel Group
Opens 229-room TRYP by Wyndham Berlin; Sol Meliá to Manage
Property
- Four
Points by Sheraton Debuts in Bangkok, With the Four Points by Sheraton
Bangkok, Sukhumvit 15; Janet McNab, General Manager
- InterContinental
Hotel Group Opening its First Hotel Indigo® in Asia Pacific by end
of 2010 at the Southern Tip of The Bund in Shanghai
- Gaylord
National Resort & Convention Center has begun the search for an
Assistant Director of Sales
- China's
Tourism Industry Taking a Hit From Political Unrest in Korea
- Barceló
Bávaro Palace Deluxe in the Dominican Republic Opens as an All
Inclusive Resort
- Red
Lion Hotels and Elite Concord Group to Rebrand Holiday Inn Concord to
Red Lion Hotel Concord Following New Franchise Agreement
- HEI
Hotels & Resorts Completes First Phase of $20 Million Renovation at
Hanover Marriott in Whippany, New Jersey
- California
Hotel & Lodging Association Honors David Kirken, La Quinta Resort
& Club Operations Director, as 2010 Outstanding Manager of the Year
- Joan
Remington Named Tourism Professional of the Year by Florida
International University School of Hospitality and Tourism Management
- Raymond
Blanc Appointed Vice President, Orient-Express Hotels Ltd
- Joe
Pagone Named Assistant General Manager at Kimpton's Palomar Chicago
- Cheyenne
Mountain Resort Appoints Tammy Page-Boettner as Associate Director of
Sales
- Mobashir
Ahmed Joins Richfield Hospitality as Senior Vice President of Operations
- Kristijan
Konjevic for The Dubrovnik Palace Hotel and Serafin Koutni for Hotel
Excelsior Named Executive Chef's by Adriatic Luxury Hotels
December 1, 2010
- The
Rainmaker Group and EZYield.com Launch Interface for Automated
Distribution of Optimized Room Rates; Rainmaker revolution –
EZYield.com Interface Increases Revenue Across Multiple Reservation
Channels
- PAR
Springer-Miller’s Hospitality Solution Selected by Tanglewood Resort
and Conference Center; Full-Service Resort Integrates Operations with
SMS|Host System
- Five
Ways to Drive Rate over the Next 12 Months / Nick Graham
- Lodging
Econometrics Q3 2010 Americas Real Estate Trends Report; Brazil's
Pipeline Up 87% Year-Over-Year
- AREA
Property Partners and Aimbridge Hospitality, Through a Joint Venture,
Purchase Three Chicago Area Hyatt Hotels for $51 million; The Hyatt
Lisle, Hyatt Deerfield, and Hyatt Rosemont all to Remain Hyatt-branded
Hotels
- Hospitality
Employee Selection and the Venus Fly Trap – A Study in Floral Business
Acumen / Jim Hartigan
- Hilton
Anatole in Dallas, Texas Completes $120 Million Transformation
- Second
Turkish Hilton Garden Inn Opens in Konya, Serhan Dora, General Manager
- eRevMax
appoints Chief Operating Officer for RateTiger; Hospitality software
company announces further team expansions
- Benchmark
Hospitality International's Steve Kander Receives Prestigious Certified
Specialist of Wine Certification from The Society of Wine Educators;
Mentored by Benchmarks Chief Sommelier, Mary Watson-DeLauder
- NH
Hotels Converts Spanish Mansion Into the 84-room NH Palacio de Tepa in
Madrid
- Aimbridge
Hospitality to Manage the Newly Opened 132-room Element Omaha Midtown
Crossing in Omaha, Nebraska
- Wyndham
Worldwide Aquires Vespa Capital's James Villa Holidays for $77 million
- Penn
State’s School of Hospitality Management Launches National Search for
Director to Continue Successful Growth in Hospitality Industry
- Hilton
Worldwide Appoints Olivier Harnisch as Vice President International
Operations for Germany & Switzerland
- Dolce
Names Michael Botha Area Director of Revenue Management
- Kyle
Ketchum Appointed Executive Chef at Hyatt Regency Newport Hotel &
Spa, Newport, Rhode Island
** Top 25 Read
Articles - November 2010 **
- Forbes
Travel Guide, Formerly Mobil Travel Guide, Announces its 53rd Annual
Four-and Five-Star Winners Among Hotels, Restaurants and Spas
- TripAdvisor
Reveals the World's Top 10 Infamous Hotels; From Rock ‘n’ Roll Riots to
Criminal Scandals – Hotels That Will Go Down in History
- Hilton
Worldwide Cuts 101 Jobs in its Memphis Operations Centers as Part of
Restructuring and Outsourcing Plan
- What
Is A Fair Price? - And Who Gets to Decide? What Customer-centric
Lodging Revenue Managers Need To Know / Dr. David Hayes and Allisha
Miller
- The
Average Selling Price per Hotel Room Jumps to $107,988, an Increase of
86% When Compared to the 2009 Year-end Total of $58,190; LE's US Hotel
Transaction Trends Report for 3rd Quarter 2010
- Hyatt
Corporation Fails Mediation with Hawthorn Master Licensee who Claims
$500 million in Damages
- Nobody
Asked Me, But… No. 70: John Q. Hammons, Impertinent Question, Quote of
the Month / Stanley Turkel
- Free
Wi-Fi or Bust - It's Free at McDonalds, Why Pay for it at a Hotel?
Telecom Revenue Drops to Record Lows for Myrtle Beach Hoteliers
- No
Show – No Problem; Hotels Profit from Attrition and Cancellation Income
/ Robert Mandelbaum
- Seven
Destination Hotels & Resorts Properties Listed Among the Best of
the Best in North America by the Readers of Conde Nast Traveler;
Destination’s Stowe Mountain Lodge Makes the Top 100 in the World List
- Hersha
Development and Hyatt Hotels Enter into Agreement for Two New Build
Properties in Union Square and Midtown, New York
- Major
global study into the future of the hotel industry; A gaze into the
future of what travellers’ hotel experience will be like in 2020
- Hyatt
Hotels Affiliate Sells Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay for $58.5 million
- Growing
Your Hospitality Career Up - Part 1 / Kathleen Hogan
- Does
your property’s Facebook page merely exist?
- Distressed
Hotels: Adding Value / Jim Burr
- Where’s
the Money for Hotels and Waterparks? A Developer’s Guide to New Ideas,
Feasibility & Funding / Jeff Coy
- Dr.
Kiran C. Patel, Who Last Month Described Himself as a "Fool" for
Sinking So Much Money into the Former Hilton Pittsburgh, is Prepared to
Give a Little More
- Hotel
Lawyer: Checklist for Negotiating Hotel Management Agreements/Hotel
Operating Agreements; The HMA PRO™ Checklist / Jim Butler
- It’s
all about the mix when quoting groups and meetings
- Profitability
Essentials: How to Help Your Hotel Department Heads ‘Think like a CFO’;
Provide Managers Daily Visibility into Department Budgets and They Will
Manage to Achieve Profitability Targets / Young N. Nguyen
- Trump's
Name is Off of what was to be the Trump International Hotel & Tower
in Fort Lauderdale Further Complicating Foreclosure Proccess
- How
To Maintain A Happy And Motivated Hospitality Team / Caroline Cooper
- Training
Your Team To Master “Channel Conversion” Techniques / Doug Kennedy
- A
Positive Spin on Negative Reviews / Daniel Edward Craig
November 30, 2010
- New
Hotel Build or Renovation? – Put Your Money in Proper Directions - Not
Shipping; HOTELSIGNS.Com Providing Free Ground Shipping for Every
Online Order
- MTech
Seeking Software Analyst/Developers to Support Growth; Miami-based
company is growing its team to better handle its portfolio of
hospitality applications, including HotSOS, REX, PMWorks and more . . .
- How
to Cope with Bad Reviews / Daniel Edward Craig
- Hoteliers
Should Utilize New Tools For Measuring Hospitality and Guest Service
Efficiency / Doug Kennedy
- After
the Financial Challenges of 2009, Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels Forecasts a
30 to 40 Percent Increase in Global Hotel Deals; Worldwide Transaction
Levels Could Reach $28 to $30 billion in 2011
- After
Two Year Closure Due to Hurricane Omar, Four Seasons Resort Nevis, Set
to Reopen Following Extensive Renovations
- New
World Hotels' Expanding to China with Development of 350-room New World
Haikou Hotel as Part of a Mixed-Use Complex
- Carlson
Hotels Opens the Radisson Petra La Dehesa Hotel in Santiago, Chile
- Hotel
Equities Opens 90-room Staybridge Suites in South Bend, Indiana
- Service
Excellence: Inspect What You Expect / Bryan K. Williams, D.M.
- Florida
Hotel Turns to TTI Technologies for New Business Center Solution;
Florida Hotel & Convention Center Upgrades Business Center
- Comprehensive
Social Media Monitoring Tool For Hotels Only $39.95
- Pegasus
Solutions Names David Sjolander Vice President of Product Management,
Distribution Services
- Jumeirah
Group Signs Azinco Holding to Manage the 176-room Venu Bilgah Hotel
Along the Caspian Sea
- IMEX
Global Insights Report Suggests Optimism Replaces Caution for Business
Meetings, Incentive Travel & Exhibitions for 2011
- Tropicana
Entertainment Partners with Koman Family in Bid for $130 million Casino
in St. Louis, Missouri
- Jared
Karras Joins Marshall Hotels & Resorts, Inc. as Vice President of
Operations
- White
Lodging Names Ken Stone Regional Director of Sales and Marketing For
Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville
- Wyndham
Virginia Crossings Hotel & Conference Center Adds Patricia Yeager
as Senior Sales Manager and Hanna Mauck as Sales Manager
November 29, 2010
- How
"Standards" Can Protect Your Hotel Mixed-use Assets . . . / Jim Butler
- All
Science, No Guesswork: The Benefits of Algorithms in Hotel Revenue
Management / Jean Francois Mourier
- New
Report from the International Labour Office States Global Employment in
Tourism Industry to Grow Significantly Over the Next Decade, the United
Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) Expects Industry to Provide
296 million Jobs by 2019
- Editorial:
Hotel Incentives Offered as Enticement for Development Need Further
Answers
- Northview
Hotel Group and Oaktree Capital Finalize Acquisition of Three JELD-WEN
Resorts in Oregon that Cater to Outdoor Enthusiasts; The Brasada Ranch,
Eagle Crest® and the Running Y Ranch
- MTJ
Development Partners with InterContinental Hotel Group to Rebrand
Malaysia's Nikko Hotel; Soon to Become the the 473-room
InterContinental Kuala Lumpur
- Le
Méridien is Now Starwood Hotels & Resorts Strongest
Portfolio Five Years After Acquisition with 105 Properties in 50
Countries; 10 New Le Méridien Hotels in Global Pipeline
- Gulf
Hotels Group Set to Open 237-room K Hotel in Juffair, Bahrain
- Shangri-La
Hotels and Resorts to Open its First Property in Europe, the 81-room
Shangri-La Hotel, Paris; Alain Borgers Opening General Manager
- Hotels
Unlimited, Inc. Opens the 179-room Doubletree Hotel Tinton
Falls-Eatontown Following Renovation and Rebranding of the Former
Holiday Inn in Eatontown, New Jersey
- Lodging
Interactive Recognized by International Academy of Visual Arts
- EasyRMS
Helps Revenue Managers of the Future at César Ritz Colleges
Switzerland; In a new educational initiative, Hotel & Tourism
Management students now benefit from online, interactive sessions of
EzRMS™
- Hotel
AG Brokers Sale of a Florida Hilton Portfolio
- CALL
FOR OFFERS; Residence Inn by Marriott NW-San Antonio, Texas
- Hospitality
Conversations – Looking Ahead! / Dr. John Hogan
- The
102-room Courtyard McDonough by Marriott Featuring New Lobby and Room
Design Opens in McDonough, Georgia; Managed by Hotel Equities;
Richard Welch, General Manager
- Lexington
Park Hotel Partners and Hilton Worlwide Break Ground on New LEED
Certified Home2 Suites by Hilton® in Lexington Park, Maryland
- Apple
Real Estate Investment Trust Selects White Lodging to Manage the
107-room Hilton Garden Inn Silver Spring North in Maryland
- The
Hotel and Lodging Association of Greater Houston Honors Hospitality
Employees For Going Beyond Their Jobs; Douglas Horn Recipient of
Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award
- The
Maine Innkeepers Association Recognizes Accomplishments of Members;
Cornelius “Connie” Russell, General Manager at the Samoset Resort in
Rockport Named Innkeeper of the Year
- Central
Florida Hotel & Lodging Association Elects 2011 Board of Directors;
Duane Winjum Voted Chairperson
November 24, 2010
November 23, 2010
- KABA
Enhances Saflok, ILCO Web Support Portals; Delivers Online Training,
Help Services for Expanding Latin American Client Base and Dealer
Network; Hotel Technology Leader Provides Online Multi-Lingual
Documentation, Comprehensive Training Webinars, Installation Videos,
Manuals, FAQs to Support Growing International Presence
- Does
your property’s Facebook page merely exist?
- A
Positive Spin on Negative Reviews / Daniel Edward Craig
- HVS
Report Indicates London Hotels Lead Europe's Recovery with Double-digit
RevPAR Growth in 2010
- Aimbridge
Hospitality, Through a Joint Venture, Purchases and will Manage Two
Sheraton Properties; the 181-room Sheraton Metairie New Orleans Hotel
and the 159-room Sheraton Jacksonville Hotel
- Pebblebrook
Hotel Trust Acquires the 310-room Sheraton Delfina Santa Monica Hotel
for $102.8 million
- Lyle
Anderson Co. Wins Approval for Development of Arizona's First Luxury
Eco-Resort Near McDowell Sonoran Preserve in Scottsdale, Arizona
- Market
Metrix Announces Third Quarter 2010 Hospitality Index Results; Meeting
& event satisfaction improves at Casinos: Outrigger Hotels and
Resorts shine, outpace luxury hotels
- Sonnenblick-Eichner
Company Arranges $80 million of First Mortgage Financing for Charleston
Place, Charleston, South Carolina
- Argonaut
Private Equity Rebranding Tulsa's Downtown 455-room Crowne Plaza into
Hyatt Regency; Aimbridge Hospitality Chosen as Operators
- Shangri-La
Hotels and Resorts Opens 117-room Traders Hotel, Male, Maldives
- Boutique
Series by Kosmopolito Hotels International Limited Debuts in China with
the 264-room Yue @ Century Park in Shanghai
- Design
Hotels™ Slated to Open the 201-room Nobis Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden
- Betawest,
Ltd. Selects White Lodging to Manage the Nashville Marriott at
Vanderbilt University
- Tampa
Bay Area Hoteliers Thankful for First Time in Months: Bookings
Improving and Absence of Oil News Leads to Cautious Optimism
- David
Noto Named Executive Chef for The Omni Bedford Springs Resort
November 22, 2010
- Tech
Leader d2o Launches Upgraded Website with Enhanced Client Portal for
PMI Users; New d2o Website Provides Streamlined Access for Performance
Management Intelligence Users Globally, Delivers Easy Access to PMI
Features
- Hospitality
Industry Emerges Optimistic During 3rd Annual IDeaS Client Summit;
Survey of more than 90 hotels reveals revenue management priorities
moving into 2011
- Transwest
Resort Properties, Owners of the 412-room Westin Hilton Head Island
Resort & Spa File for Bankruptcy to Avoid Foreclosure
- $4.5
million Judgement Rendered Against Owners of the Oxford Fairfield Inn
and Suites (Formerly the Wingate Inn) and Courtyard by Marriot in
Oxford, Alabama to Plaintiffs that Contracted Legionnaires Disease in
2008
- Focus
on ROI Driven Hotel Website Design and Multichannel Marketing Results
in Significant Hotel Online Revenues and … Major Awards
- How
To Maintain A Happy And Motivated Hospitality Team / Caroline Cooper
- The
Pegasus View October 2010: Pre-Holiday Shopping Drives Leisure Travel
Revenue to Record High Increase of Nearly +15% over 2009; Discerning
Online Shoppers Escalate Look-to-book Ratio to a Staggering +60% Over
Last Year
- Safir
Hotels & Resorts Selects Trust International as Exclusive CRS
Partner for MENA Region; Trust International announces partnership with
Safir Hotels & Resorts as part of Safir’s regional expansion plans
to double number of hotel destinations across MENA
- Rosewood
Sand Hill’s Interactive Staff Portal: It’s a Hit!
- Creating
a Culture of Success at Knowland; Knowland CEO Mike McKean Maps out how
Employees “Belong, Thrive and Arrive”
- As
the Group Meetings Business Gathers Strength Entering 2011, Elite
Meetings International Introduces its First Elite Meetings Alliance
(EMA) for the Gold Collection, January 23-25, 2011 - Paradise Point
Resort & Spa, San Diego
- Hotel
AG Brokers Sale of the 163-room Irish Inn in Shamrock, Texas
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Add/Update 145 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel
Construction Projects Database
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Have Updated 164 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with
Changes in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership
- Learning
from The Greatest Business Leaders of the Twentieth Century / Dr. John
Hogan
- Employees
of Crowne Plaza Five Seasons Hotel in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Learn of
Hotels Clsoing; City Plans to Buy Property and Renovate as Part of New
Convention Complex
November 18, 2010
- TRAVELCLICK®
Hosts Webinar on Third Quarter 2010 Global Hotel Performance: 2011
Preview, Ramping Up with New Interactive Marketing Strategies
- Business
Travel Is Rebounding – Sabre Hospitality Solutions offers 20 Ways to
Help your Hotel Grow GDS Bookings; Industry experts host complimentary
webinar to offer hoteliers best practices in capturing new corporate
business in 2011
- 2010
Worldwide Hospitality Awards in Paris Honor IHG with the Jury Grand
Prix Award; Gerald Lawless, Executive Chairman, Jumeirah Group
Recipient of Lifetime Achievement Award
- Marriott
Signs Preferred Partnership Agreement With PDG Realty for Development
of 50 Fairfield Inn Hotels Throughout Brazil
- Starwood
Hotels & Resorts Debuting New Global Brands Spas Worldwide; Plans
Include Addition of 150 New Spas - 75% of Properties in Growth Pipeline
Include Spas
- Mr.
P.R.S. Oberoi Named 2010 Corporate Hotelier of the World by HOTELS
Magazine
- Can
you risk a downgrade of your AAA rating? The dilemma of going from 3
Diamonds to 2 Diamonds / Harry Nobles
- ‘Why
is it easier to prove a return on investment on hardware – than an
investment in a change of culture?’ is the title of a key hotel IT
debate at the 5th Annual BAHA Hospitality Finance Conference and IT
Exhibition in London, November 25, 2010
- Forbes
Travel Guide, Formerly Mobil Travel Guide, Announces its 53rd Annual
Four-and Five-Star Winners Among Hotels, Restaurants and Spas
- Ariane
Systems’ New Hotel Check-in/out Solution Wins Casino Enterprise
Management’s “HOT” Award; Revolutionary online/mobile/kiosk
self-service technology honored with Hotel Operations Technology (HOT)
Award from leading gaming industry magazine
- Amadeus
set to transform hospitality industry with launch of groundbreaking
‘Amadeus Hotel Platform’
- Social
Media – A Powerful Referral Tool / Carol Verret & uRefer
- Mac-Gray
Intelligent Laundry adds hospitality veteran Robert Mitchell to its
sales team
- A
New Breed of Young Chef's Demonstrate Cooking is an Essential Aspect of
Social Life - One Shares His Thanksgiving Recipes
- Accor
and Tripadvisor Partner to Put Spotlight on Transparency for Hotels:
Since Launching in Australia Claim is Over 52% of Properties Have
Improved Rankings & 11.5% Have Increased 5-Star Rating
- Amherst
Inn Company Selects Waterford Hotel Group to Manage the Lord Jeffery
Inn in Amherst, Massachusetts; Inn to Undergo a $14 million Renovation
- Hilton
Worldwide Honors Three Doubletree Chicago Magnificent Mile Employees
with the Spirit of CARE Award: Alfredo Caliva, Miguel Acevedo & Jim
Ryan
- Bill
Simpson Jr. Named Chief Operating Officer & President of Hershey
Entertainment & Resorts Company
- Barbara
Readey Named General Manager for the Miami Marriott Biscayne Bay as it
Nears Completion of a $31 million Renovation
- Sofitel
Legend Metropole Hanoi Appoints Max Binda to Resident Manager
- Andrew
Chadwick Appointed Executive Chef at Woodlands Inn, Summerville, South
Carolina
November 17, 2010
- How
2010 Conde’ Nast “Top 100,” AAA Four- and Five-Diamond, and Five-Star
Award Winning Independent Properties Consistently Stay on Top and Drive
Guest Loyalty; NORTHWIND-Maestro Users Honored for their Exceptional
‘360-Degree’ High-Touch Guest Service, Rely on Maestro PMS to Increase
Revenue and Optimize Staff Productivity
- Sabre
Hospitality Solutions has been selected by Ascott to launch chain code
and support its aggressive growth plans; The world’s largest
international serviced residence owner-operator will leverage industry
expertise to promote its “AZ” chain code
- No
Show – No Problem; Hotels Profit from Attrition and Cancellation Income
/ Robert Mandelbaum
- Nobody
Asked Me, But… No. 70 -John Q. Hammons, Impertinent Question, Quote of
the Month / Stanley Turkel
- Practice
of Rate Parity Being Scruntinized by the Office of Fair Trading in the
U.K.; Some Believe That Consumers Would be Better Off if Parity Perished
- Up
to 2,000 Particpants Took Over Lobby of the Hilton Hawaiian Village as
Union Members Protested Lack of Progress in Contract Negotiations
- J.W.
Marriott, Jr. To Receive the Albert E. Koehl Lifetime Achievement Award
from HSMAI at Adrian Awards Gala to be Held January 31, 2011
- Diamante
Azul Hotelaria and IHG Open the 128-room Holiday Inn Express
Cuiabá in Brazil; Property is 13th IHG Hotel in Brazil, 74th in
Region
- CN
Hotels Opens 94-room Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott in
Charlotte, North Carolina
- Ariane
Systems Integration of Hypercom’s SmartPayments Wynid Payment Solution
Provides Security, Flexibility for Hotels and Guests; Global leader in
secure electronic payment and digital transaction security provides
centralized IP solution for the French hospitality market
- OpenTravel
Alliance Selects Sonata Venture Solutions for Marketing & Public
Relations Services
- PSAV
Secures 'Best Of 2010' Title for Second Consecutive Year; PSAV named
'Best Audio-Visual Presentation Provider' in Southern California
- American
Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute Signs New Hospitality
Education Program (HEP) Master Licensee in Vietnam
- Central
Florida Hotel & Lodging Association to Honor Marty Belz, President
and Chairman of the Peabody Hotel Group, with the 2010 Charles Andrews
Memorial Hospitality Award for Community Leadership
- Patrick
Sibourg Named General Manager of 500-room Pullman Kuala Lumpur Bangsar
- Starwood
Hotels & Resorts Westin Houston Memorial City Names Sales,
Marketing & Catering Team; The Four Points by Sheraton Houston
Memorial City, Sheraton Houston West and The Westin Houston Memorial
City & Residences Opening Spring 2011
- Denihan
Hospitality Group Appoints Katie Meyer as Vice President, Public
Relations
- Windsor
Hospitality Group Appoints Stephen Valliere as Corporate Sales Manager
at the Asheville Renaissance Hotel
November 16, 2010
November 15, 2010
- Rainmaker’s
revolution Revenue Management Wins Technology Award from Casino
Enterprise Management; Select Panel Honors revolution With Award in
‘Revenue Generation’ Category for Total Customer Value
- Former
AH&LA Chairman John Russell Partners with Auromatrix Group to Form
Advaya Hospitality; Aggressive Growth Plan for 2001 Includes Launch of
Two New Lifestyle Brands
- What
Is A Fair Price? - And Who Gets to Decide? What Customer-centric
Lodging Revenue Managers Need To Know / Dr. David Hayes &
Allisha Miller
- Closed
Since Floods in May 2010, Gaylord Entertainment Co. Reopens the
2,881-room Gaylord Opryland Resort; Restoration On Time and On Budget
- London's
Grosvenor House to be Sold to India Sahara India Parivar for £470
million
- Agreement
Reached Between BlackRock and Shubh Hotels for Loan to Keep Former
Pittsburgh Hilton Afloat
- Last
Days to Register: Habits of Successful Sales People – It’s About
Targeting the Right Contact with the Right Approach! Webinar November
18, 2010
- Hospitality
eBusiness Strategies to Speak at EyeforTravel’s Customer Centric
Strategies for Travel 2011 in Atlanta
- ProfitSword
Announces the Addition of Five Key Executives
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Named A 2010 “Top Work Place” by The Houston
Chronicle; Places in the Top 50
- Built
in 1689, the Perkiomen Bridge Hotel in Collegeville, Pennsylvania to be
Sold at Auction
- Bismarck
Ridgeline, LLC & Dora Hospitality to Open New 100-room Holiday Inn,
Bismarck, North Dakota
- Behringer
Harvard Selects Davidson Hotel Company to Manage Courtyard by Marriott
Kauai at Coconut Beach in Kauai, Hawaii
- Waterford
Hotel Group Associates Receive Top Honors From Connecticut Lodging
Association
- Ronald
D. Vlasic Elected Incoming AH&LA Secretary/Treasurer
- Edward
J. Blum Joins Interstate Hotels & Resorts as EVP Development &
Acquisitions
- New
York's The Michelangelo Hotel Names Andres Julian Grundy as Executive
Chef
- Frederic
Meynard Named Executive Chef at Sheraton Nha Trang Hotel, Nha Trang
City, Vietnam
November 12, 2010
- TRAVELCLICK®
Named Best of Industry Winner in 2010 International WebAwards for the
Second Consecutive Year; Hong Kong’s Harbour Grand Hotels
Website—Designed to Enhance the Consumer Experience— Exceeds Industry
Standards and Generates a Marked Increase in Traffic
- Cendyn
President, Charles Deyo, to Speak at IHMRS on Social Media and Mobile
Marketing; The NEW 360: Driving ROI in the New Era of Communication
- HOTELSIGNS.COM
$25K Sweepstakes Ending Soon; Five to Win Free Product Orders for New
Building or Renovation
- PhoCusWright
Reports that U.S. Online Travel Penetration Stalls: Corporate Market
Leads Recovery; Offline Travel Distribution Will Grow Faster Than
Online for the First Time Since the Rise of Online Travel
- SEC
Football Big Business for Montgomery, Alabama Hotels - Plus - They Put
Away a Lot of Food Inspiring Awe in Hotel Staff
- Pierre
Ashkar, Head of the Hotel Owners Association in Lebanon, Reveals
that Forty-two New Hotels Worth $2.4 billion are in Pipeline -
Successful Implementation Dependent on Security Issues
- Marriott
Opens 500th Property of Original Brand, the 416-room Pune Marriott
Hotel & Convention Center in India
- Wailea
Hotel and Beach Resort, LLC Selects Hill International as Developer and
Project Manager for Andaz Wailea Resort and Residences on Mokapu Beach
in Maui, Hawaii
- Jena
& Andy Sabatini to Open 91-Suite Residence Inn by Marriott, the
First Extended-Stay Hotel in Helena, Montana; JADE Management
Selected as Property Manager
- The
Hilton Vancouver Washington's Financial Woes Could Spell Trouble for
City Events Funded with Lodging Taxes
- Chatham
Lodging Trust Proposing Public Offering of 7 Million Common Shares;
Proceeds will Repay Debt and Acquire Additional Hotels
- Dolce
Appoints Karine Pinson as Regional Director of Sales and Marketing in
Europe
- Alexis
Roberts Appointed Director of Sales and Marketing for Cambridge Beaches
Resort & Spa in Bermuda
- Paul
Krawic Named as Executive Chef at The Mystic Marriott Hotel & Spa
& Octagon in Groton, Connecticut
November 11, 2010
- Profitability
Essentials: How to Help Your Hotel Department Heads ‘Think like a
CFO’; Provide Managers Daily Visibility into Department Budgets and
They Will Manage to Achieve Profitability Targets / Young N. Nguyen
- Initial
Hotel Website Visits Essential to Customer Growth; Sabre Hospitality
Solutions design and development team wins 28 awards with their proven
process that produces results at first sight
- HP
Helps Travel Industry Improve the Customer Experience
- Dr.
Kiran C. Patel, Who Last Month Described Himself as a "Fool" for
Sinking So Much Money into the Former Hilton Pittsburgh, is Prepared to
Give a Little More
- Pilar
Hamil, Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel Manager, Doesn't Want to "Check
Out" of the Hospitality Industry; Loves Working Where People are Happy
- Ground
Breaking Celebrated for the 1,175-room, 46-suite, $520 million
Washington Marriott Marquis, Washington, D.C.
- Wyndham
Hotels & Mining Exchange Group to Open 119-room Mining Exchange, a
Wyndham Grand Hotel in Downtown Colorado Springs
- Chesapeake
Lodging Trust Announces a Definitive Agreement to Acquire the 195-room
Homewood Suites by Hilton Seattle Convention Center for $53 million or
Approximately $272,000 per key
- Marriott
International Plans to Increase Hotels in India From Current 11 to
100 By 2015; Growth Plans Span Seven Hotel Brands from
Ritz-Carlton to Moderate-Tier Fairfield by Marriott
- China's
Home Inns & Hotels Management Inc. Sets Plan to Enter Midscale
Hotel Segment With Second Brand, Yitel; Goal is to Have 50 Hotels in
China Within Five Years
- iPhone
5 will be Compatible with OpenWays CAC™; All next generation
smartphones, including the iPhone 5, Google Android Phones, Windows 7
Mobile Phones, Nokia C7 and N8 Smartphones or Next Generation
Blackberry's will be able to operate the OpenWays Crypto Acoustic
Credential™
- Analyst
Sees Signs of Recovery in San Diego County Hotel Industry
- Casa
de Campo in Domincan Republic Joins The Leading Hotels of the World and
Completes $40 Million Redesign
- Seven
Tides, Owner of London's Dukes Hotel, Goes Independent; Plans are to
Expand Brand Across Europe, U.S. and the Middle East
- Session
Details and Speakers Set for HTNG's Asia-Pacific Hotel Technology Event
in Macau, December 1-3, 2010
- Loews
Hotels Appoints Troy Furbay as Executive Vice President of Acquisitions
& Developments
- Andrew
Pena Named Sales and Marketing Director Of New Dallas Marriott City
Center
- Peter
Bruyere Joins Rosewood Hotel Georgia in Vancouver as Director of Sales
& Marketing
November 10, 2010
- Multi-Brand
Midas Hospitality Implements Centralized, Web-based Sales System to
Increase Revenue, Efficiency; Midas Hospitality selects hotel SalesPro
for its growing portfolio
- Toronto
Yorkville Hotel Joins 20 Other InterContinental Properties in
Benefiting from GoConcierge; Web-based System Adds Efficiencies to
Guest Service Operations
- Winning
Hotel Websites Produce More Online Revenue; HSMAI Recognizes
VIZERGY® as True Leader in Helping Hotels and Resorts Win Sales
- Ariane
Systems Unveils Allegro Online/Mobile/Kiosk Check-in/out Technology
Platform at Equip’Hotel 2010; Flexible new software solution allows
hotel guests to check in when and where they choose from any
web-enabled device, making it possible to bypass the front desk
- Major
global study into the future of the hotel industry; A gaze into the
future of what travellers’ hotel experience will be like in 2020
- Hyatt
Corporation Fails Mediation with Hawthorn Master Licensee who Claims
$500 million in Damages
- New
Report from Cornell's Center for Hospitality Research Finds that Guests
Focus on Prix Fixe Service Charges; High restaurant service charges can
interfere with guests' perceptions of getting a good deal
- The
Prime Group and Marriott Set to Open the 610-room JW Marriott Chicago
Following $396 million Restoration of Historic Burnham Building
- Wyndham
Hotel Group & The Procaccianti Group Expand Orlando Presence with
an Official Walt Disney World® Hotel, the 626-room Wyndham Lake
Buena Vista Resort
- Carlson
Hotels & Retreat Hua Hin Company Limited to Build a 118-room $23
million Radisson Blu Resort Hua Hin in Thailand
- HSMAI
Honors Nancy Friedman with the Winthrop W. Grice Lifetime Achievement
Award; Award to be Presented at the 2010 HSMAI Adrian Awards Gala
January 31, 2011
- Habits
of Successful Sales People – It’s About Targeting the Right Contact
with the Right Approach! Webinar November 18, 2010
- Tepic
Management Group Deploys UniFocus’ GUESTScope™
- Vi
Older Adult Residential Communities Choose AHLEI for Training
- JRK
Hotel Group Relaunches Nations Largest 287-room Holiday Inn Express
Nashville Downtown; Renovations a Part of IHG's Brand Refresh
- Abu
Dhabi Opening Six New Hotels Next Year Adding 1,600 rooms to Region:
Brands Include The St. Regis, Rocco Forte & Westin
- Malcolm
Bryant Corp. & City of Owensboro, Kentucky Reach Agreement to Build
$20 million, 150-room Hampton Inn & Suites
- Choice
Hotels International Opens 24 New Hotels in October Adding More than
1,600 rooms
- The
Shangri-La Hotel Planning a New Traders Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand
- Holidays
Would Be Merrier if Relatives Stay in a Hotel According to New Research
from Cambria Suites - and Top Excuses to Avoid Hosting House Guests
- Jordan’s
Tourism Rises to Record Numbers with a 23.4% Increase in Year-to-date
Numbers Over Same Period in 2009
- Ronald
Hulsey Named General Manager at The Ritz-Carlton Club, St. Thomas
- Yann
Giacomoni Named Executive Chef at Jumby Bay, A Rosewood Resort in
Antigua, West Indies
November 9, 2010
- Softscribe
Inc. Signs d2o, Award Winning Innovator of Integrated Software
Solutions for Hospitality; Public Relations and Hospitality Marketing
Firm Increases 2010 Sales 40% Year-to-Date, Teams with Leading Tech
Companies to Add Industry Value
- iBAHN
Secures a $20 Million Credit Facility to Support Global Distribution of
its IPTV Platform to Leading Hotels; iBAHN’s Integrated IPTV Platform
Enables Hotel Owners to Drive Revenue, Property
Differentiation and Guest Satisfaction
- Milestone
Internet Marketing Wins Multiple New Awards. The Award Winning
Spree Continues with Tally at over 22 Trophies in 2010
- Pegasus
Solutions Licenses RezView NG to HP; Award-winning Next Generation
Enterprise Delivery Platform to Enable Development of Solutions Across
Hospitality and Airline Industries
- Lodging
Econometrics Revises its 3rd Quarter Forecast for New Hotel Openings
Downward to 562 Hotels for 2011 & 515 Hotels for 2012
- Hyatt
Housekeepers in 8 Cities File Injury Complaints With OSHA; First
Multi-city OSHA Filing in Private Sector Seeks to Expose Hazards Women
Face Working in Hotel Industry
- City
of Myrtle Beach Sues Eleven Hotels Over Pool Enclosures that Violate
Federal Safety Regulations
- IHG
Signs with RB Capital Hotels to Open Southeast Asia’s Largest Holiday
Inn Express in Singapore; Up to 500 rooms Planned for the $300 million
Hotel
- Hyatt
Hotels Affiliate Sells Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay for $58.5 million
- Hyatt
& SDI Realty Group to Open Hyatt Escala Lodge at Park City; a
Ski-in, Ski-out 178-suite Hotel in the Canyons Resort of Park City, Utah
- Marriott
International Acquires and Will Redevelop Berners Hotel in London to
Become The London EDITION
- OpenWays:
Check In Today All the Way to Your Room Using 'Your' Cell Phone, ANY
Model and ANY Carrier
- Cvent
to Drive $2.5 Billion in Unique Group Business to Hotels in 2010;
Expects to Grow to $4 Billion in 2011
- Las
Vegas Sands Corp. will power direct sales with Travel Tripper’s
RezTripTM 2.0 booking engine
- eRevMax
Appoints eCommerce Specialist for RateTiger's Corporate Market; RTCorp
made available to Corporate Travel Buyers
- 23rd
Hunter Hotel Investment Conference Scheduled for March 6-8, 2011, in
Atlanta; Keynote Speakers Are Jim Abrahamson and Jack DeBoer
- Bill
DeForrest Assumes Chairmanship of the IAHI Board of Directors, the
Owners' Association Representing the Interests of Over 3,000 Franchisees
- Banyan
Tree Holdings Names Arthur Kiong, Bernold O. Schroeder, and Paul
Rene Lee to Executive Appointments to Support Global Growth
- Mark
Purdue Joins Grand Hyatt New York as General Manager
- Jennifer
Tucker Appointed as Director of Group Sales for Gasparilla Inn &
Club in Boca Grande, Florida
- Stephanie
Greger Appointed Director of Sales & Marketing at The Rocco Forte
Collection’s Verdura Golf & Spa Resort in Sicily
- Waterford
Hotel Group Appoints Margaret Rosen as Director of Catering Operations
for the Mystic Marriott Hotel & Spa in Groton, Connecticut
November 8, 2010
- James
Filsinger Appointed Chief Executive Officer of EZYield.com; Seasoned
travel industry executive with proven success in global startups and
Fortune 500 companies to lead the industry’s leading channel management
platform
- JW
Marriott Marquis Hotel Miami Opens as the 47th JW Marriott Property;
Plans Include an Addtional 20 Properties Over Next Five Years
- The
Capitol Hotel Tokyu, Built on the Site of Japan's First Foreign
Affiliated Hotel in 1963, the Tokyo Hilton Hotel, Opens
- Blanco
Rio, LTD & Dimension Development Open 285-suite Embassy Suites San
Antonio Riverwalk
- Ayala
Land & IHG to Open First New Build Holiday Inn & Suites Makati
in the Philippines
- Cambean
Hospitality Hotels Find Serious Service and Reservation Surge with
InnPoints Worldwide; All Four Miami Beach Hotels Switch to InnPoints
- Ariane
Systems’ Self-Service Check-in/out Kiosks Installed in 3 Stars Hotel’s
First MaxHotel Concept Property; Self-service concept helps hotel group
lower operational costs and provide value for guests
- Libra
OnDemand Earns Prestigious Hospitality Operations Technology Award From
Casino Enterprise Management; Cloud-based CRM solution honored in
leading gaming industry magazine’s inaugural technology award
competition
- Ireland’s
Blue Book App wins Best Tourism/Travel App Award at the The Appys 2010
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Have Updated 153 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with
Changes in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Add/Update 136 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel
Construction Projects Database
- Five
Considerations in Hiring a Hospitality Consultant; Understanding the
Qualifications for Effective Hospitality Consultants / Dr. John Hogan
- The
Kessler Collection and IHG Rebrand Orlando's Castle Hotel as a Holiday
Inn Resort
- Hotel
Le Marais, Formerly the St. Ann/Marie Antoinette, Located in New
Orelan's French Quarter, Reopens Following Renovations
- MHI
Hospitality to Rebrand its Raleigh, North Carolina Holiday Inn to
Doubletree Hotel Raleigh Downtown
- Robert
Y. Dove Named Wisconsin Hotel & Lodging Association's 2010
Innkeeper of the Year
- Martin
A. Reid Joins Interstate Hotels & Resorts as EVP Development &
Acquisitions
- Hilton
Worldwide Appoints Matt Wehling and Ted Ent as the Vice Presidents and
Managing Directors, Development, for the Northwest and Southwest United
States Regions
November 5, 2010
- The
Average Selling Price per Hotel Room Jumps to $107,988, an Increase of
86% When Compared to the 2009 Year-end Total of $58,190 / LE's US Hotel
Transaction Trends Report for 3rd Quarter 2010
- Training
Your Team To Master “Channel Conversion” Techniques / Doug Kennedy
- Where’s
the Money for Hotels and Waterparks? A Developer’s Guide to New Ideas,
Feasibility & Funding / Jeff Coy
- Bad
Hotel Loans Could Total as Much as $560 million in San Diego County and
Take Eight Years for the Market to Absorb
- Accor
Terminates Gilles Pélisson as CEO, Denis Hennequin to Assume
Position January 2011
- Bankruptcy
Judge Orders an Examiner to Review Spending of Ex-Hilton's Books
Because of "Questionable" Payments from Hotel Accounts
- Hilton
Worldwide Cuts 101 Jobs in its Memphis Operations Centers as Part of
Restructuring and Outsourcing Plan
- Hilton
Worldwide's Conrad Hotels & Resorts Slated to Open 14 New Hotels
Over the Next Three Years; Properties Include New York, Asia, Europe,
and the Middle East
- White
Lodging Transferring 16 Marriott & Hilton Hotels to Apple Real
Estate Investment Trust; All Properties to Remain Under White Lodging
Management Agreements
- “Grease
Those Skids, or You Will…” / Ragsdale Hendrie
- Hospitality
eBusiness Strategies Continues its Tradition of Excellence in Website
Design with Eight W³ Awards
- Morgans
Hotel Group 3rd Qtr 2010 Net Loss $37.1 million compared to a loss of
$27.8 million in the 3rd Qrt 2009; System Wide RevPar up 10% / Hotel
Operating Statistics
- Sunstone
Hotel Investors Reports Results for Third Quarter 2010; Comparable
Portfolio RevPAR Increases 3.3% in Third Quarter; Improves Financial
Flexibility With New Credit Facility and Mortgage Refinancing
- The
Setai Fifth Avenue, a Capella Managed Hotel, Opens in Midtown Manhattan
- Pebblebrook
Hotel Trust Acquires 254-room Skamania Lodge in Stevenson, Washington
for $55.8 million; Destination Hotels & Resorts Will Continue as
Management Company
- Chatham
Lodging Completes Acquisition of 145-room Homewood Suites by Hilton in
Carlsbad, California for $32 million, Island Hospitality to Manage
Property
- Red
Lion Hotels Enters into Two New Franchise Agreement in Northern
California; a Red Lion Inn in Rancho Cordova, Formerly a Fairfield Inn,
and the Red Lion Hotel Oakland International Airport
- National
Content Liquidators Releases Hotel Liquidation Industry Update
- Hotel
Technology Veteran Andrew Sanders Joins OpenWays as VP Business
Development
- Evaluate
and Adjust Sales Strategies / Michael McKean
- AAA
Parking Sponsoring 1st Annual Marco Island Beach Music Festival
- Poland's
Hotel Industry on Upward Trend with RevPAR and Occupany Steadily Growing
- Elegant
Hotels Re-opens Tamarind, Formerly Tamarind Cove Hotel, Barbados
Following Multi-million Dollar Renovation
- Mark
Weatherill Named General Manager for Starwood Hotels & Resorts
Memorial City Complex in Houston Featuring Three Brands: Four
Points by Sheraton Houston Memorial City, Sheraton Houston West and The
Westin Houston Memorial City & Residences Opening Spring 2011
- Roland
Baumann Named General Manager of The Eldon Luxury Suites Hotel in
Washington, DC
- GHM
Appoints John Blanco as General Manager of The Nam Hai Hoi An in Vietnam
- Benchmark
Hospitality Appoints Jason Gershon Director of Food & Beverage at
The Heldrich Hotel, New Brunswick, New Jersey
- Sage
Hospitality Names Dean Gress as Executive Chef & Matthew Rosenberg
as Front Office Manager for The Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel
November 3, 2010
- Gainey
Suites Hotel Develops Profitable Online Marketing Mix with Email,
Social Marketing, Group Landing Pages to Grow Business and Rate #1 on
TripAdvisor; Maestro Goes ‘Beyond PMS’ - Leverages Email, Facebook,
Event Landing Pages to Drive Direct Bookings, Group Business and
Loyalty for Independent Luxury Resort Hotel
- VIZERGY®
Recognized by Web Marketing Association; Hotel Internet Marketing
Company Exceeds Design and Marketing Standards
- Jennifer
F. Ranno Joins EZYield.com as Vice President of Global Sales &
Marketing; Experienced hospitality technology sales and marketing
executive to head up global expansion initiatives for industry’s
leading channel management platform
- Paul
Sonnabend, Former Sonesta Hotels President, Philanthropist and Industry
Mentor Dies at Age 83
- Leonard
Green & Partners Bids for MGM's 50% Stake in Borgata Hotel Casino
& Spa
- Trump's
Name is Off of what was to be the Trump International Hotel & Tower
in Fort Lauderdale Further Complicating Foreclosure Proccess
- Hyatt
Hotels Posts Big 3rd Qtr Profit as Corporate and Group Business
Improves; Net Income Was $30 million, Compared to Last Year's $5
million; Comparable North American full-service RevPAR Up 7.5% and
International RevPAR Up 17.3% Compared to Prior Year 3rd Qtr
- Gaylord
Posts Third-quarter Loss of $31.7 million Which Includes Impact of
Closure for Flooded Nashville Properties / Hotel Operating Statistics
- FelCor
Reports 3rd Qtr 2010 Net Loss of $89.3 million which includes a $65.8
million non-cash impairment charge; RevPAR for the 82 Hotel Portfolio
Increased 6.3% for the Quarter
- Wynn
Resorts Ltd. Posts 3rd Qtr Net Loss, Decline Primarily Attributable to
a Loss on Extinguishment of Debt
- Great
Wolf Resorts Reports 2010 Third Quarter Net Loss of $1 million
Compared to a Net Loss $36.9 million for the Same Period a Year
Earlier; Exceeding Third Quarter Guidance
- RockBridge
Capital and Davidson Hotel Company, Through a Joint Venture, to
Open 379-room Sheraton Stamford Hotel, Stamford, Connecticut
- Hyatt
Hotels and Extell Development Unveil Plans for Newly Constructed
210-room Park Hyatt New York; Part of a 90-story Mixed-use Tower
- The
Lodge and Conference Center at Geneva-on-the-Lake Bucks the National
Hospitality Business Trend with Increases in All Key Performance
Indicators
- Roomlinx
Adds CTO Mark Houser to Team; Award winning innovator adds expertise
- The
Economic Development Authority of Portsmouth, Virginia Sues Developer,
Old Towne Hospitality, Over Stalled Holiday Inn
- Sea
Island Creditors Approve Bankruptcy Plan, Former Executives Working
Toward Resolution of Compensation Objection
- Carlson
Hotels and Prime Hospitality Open 299-room Radisson Hotel Ontario
Airport in California, Property was Formerly a Marriott
- Gemstone
Hotels & Resorts Selected to Manage Sky Lodge Hotel in Park City,
Utah
- Behringer
Harvard Selects Redstone Companies Hospitality to Manage Lakeway Resort
and Spa in Austin, Texas
- Owner
David Hornstein & IHG Open the 70-room Holiday Inn Express®
& Suites Kincardine, Ontario
- Three
Distinctly Unique Lake Tahoe, California Lodges For Sale
- Red
Lion Hotels Corporation Hires Dan Jackson as Senior Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
- InterContinental
Dallas Names Scott Blakeslee General Manager
- Arizona
Biltmore, a Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Names Alex Moro Director of Sales
- Gayle
L. Rustenburg Name Director of Sales & Marketing for Laguna Cliffs
Marriott Resort & Spa, Dana Point, California
November 2, 2010
- Softscribe
Inc. Signs KABA Lodging, a Division of KABA; KABA Lodging, world class
supplier of Saflok and ILCO electronic locks, delivers technology
innovation to the hospitality industry
- It’s
all about the mix when quoting groups and meetings
- Ariane
Systems Joins Forces With OpenWays to Offer World’s First Fully
Automated Hotel Check-in/out Solution; New technology partnership
expected to revolutionize hotel check-in/out experience for guests and
optimize operational efficiency for hoteliers worldwide
- Guest
Scores Rise for Platinum Hotels with Deployment of MTech's PMWorks;
MTech's popular preventive maintenance solution is being used across
all Platinum Hospitality Management properties; Since PMWorks was
deployed, guest-service scores have soared
- TripAdvisor
Reveals the World's Top 10 Infamous Hotels; From Rock ‘n’ Roll Riots to
Criminal Scandals – Hotels That Will Go Down in History
- Communicating
with Your Team: Are You on the Same Page & Does Everyone Know the
Score? / Caroline Cooper
- Hotel
Lawyer: Checklist for Negotiating Hotel Management Agreements/Hotel
Operating Agreements - The HMA PRO™ Checklist / Jim Butler
- Hangzhou
Xixi Wetland Management Company Limited Signs Wyndham to Manage and
Open the 251-room Wyndham Hangzhou Xixi Resort, China
- Hampton
Hotels Opens 20 New Properties in Third Quarter Adding 2,015-rooms, Now
Totaling 170,000 Rooms Globally
- HEI
Hotels & Resorts Sells the 293-suite Embassy Suites Irvine –
Orange County Airport; HEI to Retain Management Responsibilities
- Ayala
Land Breaks Ground for New Boutique Hotel in Bonifacio Global City,
Philippines; Aiming for Four New Boutique Hotels by Next Year
- Seven
Destination Hotels & Resorts Properties Listed Among the Best of
the Best in North America by the Readers of Conde Nast Traveler;
Destination’s Stowe Mountain Lodge Makes the Top 100 in the World List
- Boyd
Gaming, IP Biloxi Upgrade to The Rainmaker Group’s revolution V16.3
Revenue Management; Streamlined User Interface and Improved Customer
Segmentation Strengthen Price Optimization
- Skyware
Hospitality Solutions and TTI Technologies announce services for The
Pearl New York in Times Square
- FORECAST:
Cloudy in New York City, as Libra OnDemand Showcases Award-Winning SaaS
CRM Solution at IH/M&RS; Industry-leading CRM provider to
demonstrate how their cloud-based suite of Force.com applications saves
time and money for hotel clients around the globe
- Hotels
Down in the Polls on Election Night; Only 23% of hotels surveyed by
Knowland have election watch parties booked on Tuesday
- Choosing
Your Hotel's Software: Aim for No Fuss, Less Bloat, and Higher Value
Hospitality Software / Greg Schlosser
- Casto
Lifestyle Properties & McShane Construction to Start New Build of
120-room Hampton Inn & Suites in Mount Prospect, Illinois
- Recap
of HSMAI’s California Chapter Educational Conference; Hospitality
Marketers Learn How to Capitalize on New Guest Expectations During
Growth
- Rajiv
Malhotra Appointed General Manager of Four Seasons Resort Bora Bora
November 1, 2010
- Free
Wi-Fi or Bust - It's Free at McDonalds, Why Pay for it at a
Hotel? Telecom Revenue Drops to Record Lows for Myrtle Beach
Hoteliers
- Spas
See Greener Days Ahead / Kate Mearns
- Growing
Your Hospitality Career Up - Part 1 / Kathleen Hogan
- Understanding
Guest Satisfaction - Price & Quality Perceptions Influence Value
Perceptions / Patrik Hellstrand
- First
W Hotel in Southeast Asia Opens with the All Villa W Retreat Koh Samui
on the North Shore of Thailand’s Samui Island
- Hersha
Development and Hyatt Hotels Enter into Agreement for Two New Build
Properties in Union Square and Midtown, New York
- Al
Maha Desert Resort and Spa Joins Starwood Hotels and Resorts’ Middle
East Portfolio; Under Strategic Agreement with Emirates Group, Hotel to
be Renamed Al Maha, a Luxury Collection Desert Resort and Spa
- Lingering
Issues Remain for Philadelphia Area Hospitality Workers Following
Breakup of Merged Unite Here Union
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Chefs to be Featured for the Sixth
Consecutive Year at James Beard House, New York; Seven-course
“Benchmark Holiday Dinner” Set for December 16th, 2010
- The
Resort Company, LLC Acquires Western Seasons Mangement; Properties
Include The Borders Lodge in Beaver Creek, The Aspens in Beaver Creek
& The Seasons Lodge in Arrowhead
- Cheyenne
Mountain Resort's Jason Morris & Naomi Joseph Recipients of
Colorado Hotel and Lodging Associations Employee of the Year Award
- Evy
Garcia Named Director of Sales for El Conquistador Resort, A Waldorf
Astoria Hotel, in Puerto Rico
- Homewwod
Suites by Hilton Opens Second Books for Kids Library in Washington,
D.C. Underscoring Homewood’s Efforts to Help At-Risk Preschoolers
** Top 25 Read
Articles - October 2010 **
- Fallout
Begins After a Hostess at Wolfgang Puck's Restaurant Atop Dallas'
Reunion Tower Turns Away WWII Veterans over Dress Code
- Charlie
Sheen Trashes Guest Room at The Plaza Hotel in NYC; Hotel Security
Estimate the Damage at $7,000
- Former
Hilton Bankruptcy Case Turns Ugly; Aimed to Discredit Current On-Site
Manager a Previous Bribery Attempt was Revealed
- Following
Extensive Research Hilton Creates New Brand Logo and Name for
DoubleTree by Hilton (Currently Doubletree)
- Food
and Dining Trends in Restaurants and Hotels for 2011
- Marriott
Takes Over Management of the Westin City Center in Dallas; Nour Laasri
Named General Manager
- Steve
Joyce, CEO of Choice Hotels International, Featured on CBS TV Show
"Undercover Boss"; Surprising Results as Joyce Goes Undercover at Two
Orlando Hotels - The Econo Lodge Inn & Suites and the Comfort
Suites Downtown
- Starwood
Hotels & Resorts Unveils New Guestroom Designs for Westin and
Sheraton Hotels; Westin Guestrooms Embrace Natural Elements, Sheraton
Introduces a Classical Revival Scheme and Residential Feel
- Walking
After Midnight: How to Avoid Being Bumped from Your Hotel / Daniel
Edward Craig
- Conde
Nast Traveler Selects the Top Hotels, Resorts; The Number One Property
in the World with a Perfect Score is Four Seasons Tented Camp
Golden Triangle in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand
- Report
Details the Top Five Cities in North America Where Hotel Rates Have
Dropped the Most and the Top Five Cities Where Hotel Rates Have
Experienced the Biggest Price Increase; Hotwire Hotel Rate Report for
October 2010
- Social
Media Rock Star: An Interview with the Roger Smith Hotel / Daniel
Edward Craig
- The
Hotel Sales Office of 2011 – 4 Processes to Fuel Recovery / Carol
Verret
- Among
the Package of 14 Hotels that Blackstone Group Has Bought from Columbia
Sussex in Exchange for Acquiring its Debt is the 758-room Sheraton City
Center in Philadelphia
- B
Ocean Fort Lauderdale Set to Open Under Management of Davidson Hotel
Co.; the 42-year-old Former Holiday Inn is Being Resurrected Following
a Shutdown from Hurricane Damage and a Shrinking Tourism Market
- The
Gig: General Manager of the 54-story Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott Hotel
Complex in Downtown Los Angeles
- Why
Hotels Get the Last Word in Online Reviews: An Interview with
TripAdvisor CEO Stephen Kaufer / Daniel Edward Craig
- How
to Make 2011 Suck Less -- A Look Back at 2010 / Dr. Diana Driscoll
- New
Bidder Emerges for Bankrupt Sea Island Company Sending Sale of Resort
to Auction
- Distress
Continues for Hotels and Commercial Real Estate: New Data Suggests 8
year Downturn, Dismal Prospects and Increased Foreclosures / Jim Butler
- Maritz,
Wolff & Co and the Ritz-Carlton Chain in a Management Contract
Dispute Over Minimum Profit Levels at the Ritz-Carlton St Louis
- After
Three Years of Hard Work, The Savoy, A Fairmont Managed Hotel, Reopens;
The most ambitious hotel restoration in history is complete
- Wrapped
in a Complicated Ownership Mess, The W Atlanta-Downtown Hotel Taken
Back by its Senior Lendor
- The
Art and Science of Killer Sales Prospecting / Brenda Fields
- How
to Get a Great Hotel Operator / Jim Butler and Robert E. Braun
October 29, 2010
October 28, 2010
October 27, 2010
- Tech
Leader d2o Improves Profitability, Productivity at the Hotel Contessa;
Daily Performance Reporting Creates Spirit of Competition Among
Departments, Benefits Property and Staff
- Agilysys
Partners with The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas; To ProvideHospitality
Software Solution Suite
- Diners
Dis Lingering, Texting and Tweeting at the Table According to Zagat's
2011 America's Top Restaurants Survey
- The
Right Tool for the Job Makes All the Difference in the World! / Jim
Hartigan
- Actor
Charlie Sheen Trashes Guest Room at The Plaza Hotel in NYC; Hotel
Security Estimate the Damage at $7,000
- The
Proposed 525-room Publicly Financed Sheraton Convention Center Hotel In
Downtown Tucson Rejected; The City Council Votes 7-0 to Kill the $190
million Project Outright
- Tucker's
Point Hotel & Spa on Bermuda Signs Letter of Intent To be Operated
by Rosewood Hotels & Resorts; Brian Young Continues as Managing
Director
- Report
Details the Top Five Cities in North America Where Hotel Rates Have
Dropped the Most and the Top Five Cities Where Hotel Rates Have
Experienced the Biggest Price Increase
- Starwood
Holds its Global Leadership Meeting in Beijing, China; Starwood for the
First Time Has More Hotels Outside of the United States Than Inside
- China
Becomes Starwood's Second Largest Hotel Market Behind U.S. with 60+
Hotels and 86 New Hotels in the Pipeline
- The
Great Debate: Humans vs. Automated RMS: Their strengths, weaknesses and
what responsibilities are best suited for each / Jean Francois Mourier
- Oyster
Bay Beach Resort Selects UniFocus’ GUESTScope™
- GBCblue
Significantly Enhances ORION/GORION Functionality by Integrating with
SynergyMMS®
- Harrah's
Steps in With Plan to Revive and Operate Stalled South Philadelphia
Foxwoods Casino Project
- Lodgian
Selects TPG Hospitality, Inc. as the Operator of Eight Hotels Including
the 270-room Crowne Plaza in Melbourne, FL and the 231-room
Crowne Plaza in Silver Spring, MD
- Knowland
Chief Learning Officer Discusses Fast HR Strategies with Center for
Effective Organizations; 5th Fastest Growing Software Company in North
America Presents on Challenges Developing Training for High-Growth
Businesses
- Dolce
Affiliates With Educational & Institutional Cooperative Purchasing
- Interstate
Hotels & Resorts Names Aaron Greenman Senior Vice president,
Development - Europe
- Lisa
Timbo and Jeanette Ulepic Named General Manager and Director of Sales
Respectively at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel
- Tiffany
Sawyer Named Executive Chef by Stowe Mountain Lodge in Stowe, Vermont
October 26, 2010
October 25, 2010
- Deloitte
Fast 500™ Technology List Ranks Knowland 26th Overall, 5th in Software,
1st in Region; Innovative Business Development Firm Grows 5,764
Percent, Among Fastest Growing Companies in North America
- Food
and Dining Trends in Restaurants and Hotels for 2011 / Joseph Baum
& Michael Whiteman Co.
- Green
Hotels, Butler Service: Oxymoronic, or Two Sides of the Same Coin? /
Steven Ferry
- Once
Scheduled to be Redeveloped as a St. Regis or a W, The Vacant
Renaissance Wailea Hotel on Maui Will Get Significant Makeover from
Architect David Rockwell and Rebranding to Hyatt's Boutique Brand -
Andaz
- Affiliates
of Hyatt and Starwood Capital Group Developing a $90 million Andaz
Branded Resort on Mokapu Beach in Maui, Hawaii
- Construction
Starts on the $120 million 1,000-room Military Hotel on Fort Lee in
Virginia
- Myrtle
Beach Hoteliers Reluctantly Replacing Pool Covers From Glass Enclosures
to Vinyl or Plexiglas
- How
to Make 2011 Suck Less -- A Look Back at 2010; For Those in
Hospitality, 2010 is a Year to Remember / Diana Driscoll
- New
World Hospitality Revitalizing New World Hotels with New Visual and
Service Culture; Investing $1.1 billion with Plans to Double by 2015
- Smart
Meetings Magazine Expands; Leading Industry Resource Extends Editorial
Coverage and Event Calendar
- EasyRMS
Signs Northern Europe's Largest Independent Residential Conference
& Training Centre; Wyboston Lakes opt for EzRMS™ - delivered as a
SaaS Solution
- Hostar
International, Inc. Introduces New ProHost® Smart Housekeeping Carts
- EZYield.com
Taps Veteran IT Developer, Michael Miller, as Chief Technology Officer;
Well-known IT Professional to Lead Future Technology Development
Initiatives for Fast Growing Hospitality Distribution Provider
- Database
Mining -- New Business Hidden in the Database; Free Webinar Presented
by Carol Verret and uRefer November 1, 2010
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Have Updated 127 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with
Changes in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Add/Update 105 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel
Construction Projects Database
- Frasers
Hospitality Opens Fraser Suites Dubai, its Second Property in the
Middle East
- David
Cavallaro of Marshall Hotels & Resorts, Inc., Named 2009 General
Manager of the Year by Wyndham Hotels and Resorts
- Chef
Alain Ducasse Going Back to Basics at His Parisian Stronghold - Alain
Ducasse au Plaza Athénée
- Dolce
Appoints Mark O'Brien General Manager of The Thayer Hotel at West
Point, N.Y.
- Pierre
Ferchaud Appointed General Manager at Hotel Fouquet's Barrière,
Paris
- HEI
Hotels Appoints Joe Shurmur to Manage Detroit Metro Airport Marriott
and Randi Hamilton to Manage Detroit Marriott Southfield
- Kingsmill
Resort in Williamsburg, Virginia Names Peter Pahk Senior Executive Chef
October 22, 2010
October 20, 2010
- Hersha
Hospitality Management Connects 71 Hotels with Centralized Sales System
for Cross Selling, Increased Productivity, and Larger Accounts; hotel
SalesPro Enables Hersha to Leverage Selling Power of 71 Hotels to
Increase Revenue
- Guest
Sentiment Information Strengthens Business Intelligence, Answers
Performance Questions; Web Reviews, Written Survey Card Comments
Translated to Metrics for Analysis
- Kimpton
Hotels Acquires the Historic Lafayette Building in Downtown
Philadelphia; Plans to Rehab into a 270-room Monaco Hotel
- The
124-room Aloft Hotel Opens in NYC's Harlem, the Neighbourhood's First
Major Hotel Since the Famous Theresa Closed in 1967
- Four
Seasons Hotel Denver Opens in the Heart of the Theatre and Central
Business Districts; Thierry Kennel Opening General Manager
- King
Edward Hotel Revitalization Project in Jackson, Miss. Receiving
Preservation Honor Award; Vacant for 40 Years, the Neoclassical Hotel
Lavishly Restored into a 186 Room Hilton Garden Inn
- Cap
Cana and Solaya Hotels Start Construction of US$22 million Eden Roc at
Cap Cana Luxury Boutique Hotel, Dominican Republic
- Developer
Jeff Schmitz Planning a $10 million Hotel Indigo in Downtown Traverse
City, Michigan
- The
Closed Pocmont Resort and Conference Center in Pennsylvania's Pocono
Mountains Sold for $2 million; The Pocmont Was Operated by the Artzt
Family for More than 60 Years
- Aimbridge
Hospitality Chosen to Manage the 248-room Embassy Suites Hotel, Love
Field in Dallas, Texas
- Berryfield
Hotel Group Appointed Management Company for Staybridge Suites
Tallahassee, Florida
- Celebrity
Chef Masaharu Morimoto Does Honolulu Eatery His Way; Morimoto Waikiki
Opens at the Waikiki Edition Hotel
- The
2011 Hong Kong PolyU Winter School, an Executive Development Program
for Senior Hospitality Managers, Set for January 17-29, 2011
- David
Werly Appointed Executive Chef at The Setai, South Beach, Florida
October 19, 2010
- Independent
Hoteliers Find the Perfect Balance of Online Distribution, Direct
Website Bookings and Social Media Presence; Forward Thinking Operators
Use Maestro's ResWave Booking Engine to Take Back Their Guests From
OTA's, Maintain Their Brand Loyalty and Increase Profitability
- Walking
After Midnight: How to Avoid Being Bumped from Your Hotel / Daniel
Edward Craig
- Right
Direction - Wrong Amount: Hotel Managers Underestimated 2009 Declines
in Performance / Robert Mandelbaum
- Unite
Here Local 5 Wants Blackstone to Provide Job Security to All Hilton
Union Workers Since Blackstone Took Money from the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York that was Intended to Prevent Job Losses
- DiamondRock,
Owner of 23 Hotels, Reports 3rd Qtr 2010 Net loss of $3.5 million
Compared to Prior year Profit of $761,000; Revpar Up 4.4% and Occupancy
Up 1.5% to 75% / Hotel Operating Statistics
- Nightmare
on Hospitality Street: Living In a Haunted House - Guests and
Co-Workers Renting Space in Your Head / Gay Lynn Williamson-Grigas
- Nahal
Group Signs Agreement with Kempinski Hotels to Operate a 220-room Hotel
in Tel Aviv Near the US Embassy
- Customer
Engagement Technology World Unveils All New Educational Program Focused
on DOOH/PBM & Mobile Advertising Sales; Two Full Days of
Digital-Out-Of-Home (DOOH) / Place Based Media (PBM) and Mobile
Advertising Strategies at CETW, November 10-11, 2010, New York City
- Last
Chance to Register - Habits of Successful Hotel Sales People for 2011 -
It's All about Prospecting! Webinar October 21, 2010
- Knowland
Moves Reports to the Cloud; Innovative Business Development Firm
Enhances Client Experience
- The
Hotel Group Opens First Hilton Garden Inn in Seattle/Bothell
- The
Real Estate Services Group Selects Langham Hotels International to
Operate a 250-room Hotel in Doha, the Qatari Capital
- Interstate
Hotels Names Kathleen Barone Vice President, Global Sales &
Strategic Accounts
- David
Hall Appointed General Manager of Paradise Point Resort & Spa in
San Diego
October 18, 2010
October 15, 2010
- Fallout
Begins After a Hostess at Wolfgang Puck's Restaurant Atop Dallas'
Reunion Tower Turns Away WWII Veterans over Dress Code
- Managers
at the 3,600-room Hilton Hawaiian Village Resort Step In as Union
Workers Walk on First Day of Planned Five Day Strike
- Unite
HERE Local 5 Strike Casts Dark Cloud Over Hawaii Tourism &
Convention Industry
- Hilton
Hawaiian Village Owner, The Blackstone Group, and Union at Odds Over
Job Security
- Carrollton,
Texas Residents Question the City's Plans for a Major Hotel Supported
with Tax Breaks
- Among
the Package of 14 Hotels that Blackstone Group Has Bought from Columbia
Sussex in Exchange for Acquiring its Debt is the 758-room Sheraton City
Center in Philadelphia
- Is
"No News, Good News" for Your Team? Employees Need Feedback to Become
Great at their Jobs / Caroline Cooper
- Ten
Quotes Addressing the Topic of SERVICE / Dr John Hogan
- Branch
Commercial Development, LLC and Roedel Companies Build and Open the
Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites in Malone, NY in Nine Months
- Hotel
Indigo in New York's North Chelsea Neighborhood Reporting a Summer
Occpancy of 96%
- San
Diego Leads California with Hotels in Distress; Numbers Surge 160% Over
Same Period a Year Ago
- Hyatt
Hotels and Pure Launch Hypoallergenic Rooms Capitalizing on Growing
Number of Allergy Sufferers; Studies Show 54% of Americans are
Sensitive to Allergens
- Former
MICROS Executive Joins Mobile Content Provider; SkyWire Media, Inc.
Names Thomas Castleberry Executive Vice President and COO
- The
Bed Bugs Aren't Biting Meetings Planners; Knowland Survey Finds
Planners most Concerned about Cost, Location, not Bed Bugs
- AmericInn
Acquires a Holiday Inn Hotel In Northeast Indianapolis - The Property
Will be Renovated and be Renamed the AmericInn Hotel & Suites
Indianapolis - Northeast
- The
Sheraton Tribeca New York Hotel, a 369-room Full service Hotel, Opens
in Lower Manhattan
- Waterford
Hotel Group Names Anthony Covino as General Manager for Four Points by
Sheraton in Norwalk, CT
- Alan
Lawley Joins Villa Del Mar Turks & Caicos as Development Director
and Operations Manager
- The
Hilton Orlando Promotes Chris Mueller to Resident Manager
- Hilton
Tokyo Appoints Armin Brandtner as Executive Chef
- The
Wilderman Group Names Kermit Griffin as Director and Executive Chef of
Richmond Hill City Center, Richmond Hill, Georgia
October 14, 2010
- IDeaS
Increases Value for Hotels with Latest IDeaS Revenue Management System
Release; Industry-First Campaign Management Module, Enhanced Reporting
and Chinese Language Support
- Following
Extensive Research Hilton Creates New Brand Logo and Name for
DoubleTree by Hilton (Currently Doubletree)
- Equity
Multiples - Can you Double? EM Brings Clarity to When to Sell a Hotel,
When to Buy a Hotel, and What to Offer / Joe Strain
- Lifestyle
Hotels: Boutiques with Benefits; An Interview with Janis Cannon, Hotel
Indigo's VP of Global Brand Management / Daniel Edward Craig
- Distress
Continues for Hotels and Commercial Real Estate: New Data Suggests 8
year Downturn, Dismal Prospects and Increased Foreclosures / Jim Butler
- Conde
Nast Traveler Selects the Top Hotels, Resorts; The Number One Property
in the World with a Perfect Score is Four Seasons Tented Camp
Golden Triangle in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand
- Life
as a Hotel Housekeeper at the Westin Bonaventure in Los Angeles
- The
Fairmont San Francisco Provides Guests an Alternative to the
Traditional Hotel Lounge - The Multi-media Lounge - Intersect -
Offers Guests the Ultimate Experience in Connectivity
- MGM
Finds Buyer for its Stake in the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa for $250
million - Declines to Provide Details on Bidder or Timeline
- Rate
Parity vs. Rate Integrity—What is Rate Integrity? / Jean Francois
Mourier
- Tybee
Island Summer Tourism Off the Charts in 2010 Breaking Records and
Expectations; Revenue Up 23% Over First Eight Months of 2009
- South
American Hotel & Tourism Investment Conference 2010 Reveals
Colombia's Dynamic Growth in Tourism and Hotel Development
- Certified
Lodging Security Director (CLSD) Revision Includes New Information on
Terrorism, New Format for Study Materials
- EZYield.com
Signs Connectivity Agreement With HotelTravel.com
- RateGain
expands its portfolio of business intelligence solution with
PriceGain-Air for Airlines
- Suburban
Durham, North Carolina Hotel Owners Considering Suing the City Over
Proposed Downtown Hotel Deal Receiving Tax Incentives
- The
Four Seasons Hotel Hangzhou at West Lake, China Opens; Rudolf van Dijk
the Opening General Manager
- The
Omni Mount Washington Resort in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire Completes
$60 million Expansion and Renovation
- Savannah,
Georgia Selects Journeyman Austin Holdings LLC as the Developer for a
Convention Center Hotel
- IACC
of the Americas Elects New Officers of the Board of Directors; Pete
Stockmann Unanimously Elected President
- Carlson
Signs Hotel Agreement for the USD $52 million Radisson Blu Hotel
Mumbai; Plans to Have More than 100 hotels in Operation in India by 2015
- Tourism
Leaders Being Urged to Take Responsibility for Sustainability:
Economically, Socially and Environmentally; Professor Harold Goodwin to
Address a Session at World Green Tourism Abu Dhabi
- Grace
Bay Club Unveils New Modern Glass-Edge Infinity Pool as Part of
Renovation in Turks & Caicos
- Jean
Smith Named to Regional Vice President Position With White Lodging
- Waterford
Hotel Group Names Rosemary Vieira as General Manager for Springhill
Suites by Marriott in Waterford, CT
October 13, 2010
- Study
Finds Guest Satisfaction Levels Higher when Problems are Prevented;
Centralized Web Application Streamlines Preventative Maintenance, Brand
Standard Tracking; hotel ServicePro Helps to Increase Guest
Satisfaction Scores Dramatically at Commonwealth Hotels with Hilton,
Marriott, Hyatt, IHG, Starwood, and Choice Flags
- Slow
Tourism Taking a Severe Toll on South Florida's Small Inns; Mom-and-Pop
Inns Lack the Resources of Bigger Hotels to Weather a Prolonged Slump
- Host
Hotels Net Loss Widens to $58 million from $57 million for 3rd Quarter
of 2010 Compared to Prior Year; RevPAR Up 8.8% from Year Earlier /
Hotel Operating Statistics
- Starwood
Capital Acquires Loan for Viceroy Anguilla Viceroy Hotel Group Will
Continue to Manage and Operate the Property
- Dr.
Kiran C. Patel, Investor in the Ex-Hilton, Plans Full Debt Payoff -
Believes Reorganization Plan is a Win-Win for All Parties Involved
- Xanterra's
Nine Lodging Facilities in Yellowstone Park Serve More Guests than Ever
During Summer of 2010
- Sage
Hospitality Continues as Manager of the Hilton College Station &
Conference Center in College Station, Texas and Assumes Management of 5
Additional Encore Owned Hotels
- HVS's
U.S. Hotel Valuation Index for 2010 Now Available - Get Your Free Copy
- Nobody
“Likes” Me. Your Facebook Account May Not Be Working Because……. /
Amanda Dennis
- Social
Networking Tool Makes Collaboration Easy For Libra OnDemand Users;
Salesforce.com’s Chatter, embedded in Libra OnDemand, boosts CRM
efficiency and improves internal communication
- RateGain’s
upgrades its channel management solution with automated distribution
and booking fetch features for top OTA channels
- EasyRMS
Completes 80+ Property Rollout for Accor UK; Implementation of the
EzRMS™ Internet Product Suite across large proportion of Accor
properties in the UK portfolio is now complete
- Saint
Lucia Enjoys Record Level Arrivals in 2010; Saint Lucia Tourist Board
Highlights New Hotel Openings, Renovations and Attractions
- Developer
Patrick Uy Redesigns Bellingham, Washington Project to Include a
100-room Hotel
- A
213-room Hotel and Convention Center in Early Planning Stages for
Downtown Frederick, Maryland
- Vina
Properties Acquires the Dalat Palace Golf Club and the Dalat Palace
Hotel in Viet Nam
- Hainan
Baolian City (Boao) Company Limited Signs Wyndham to Manage Three New
Wyndham Properties in Boao, Located on China's Hainan Island
- Hersha
Names Gregory Ade as Executive Vice President of Operations and Erik
McDonald as Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing
- Terry
Lewis Appointed General Manager at the 863-room Westin New York at
Times Square
October 12, 2010
- Restore
Honor to Your Organization: Succession Planning for Hoteliers…the Ninja
Way / Jim Hartigan
- Premier
Hospitality Management Raising Productivity with PMWorks; Developed by
MTech, the Web-based preventive maintenance solution maintains and
extends the effective life of furnishings, fixtures and equipment at
all 17 Premier Hospitality Management hotels
- Kohler's
Golf-and-Hotel Venture in Scotland Running Largely in the Red Since its
Acquisition of the Old Course Hotel Golf Resort and Spa in St. Andrews
Six Years Ago
- Starwood
Hotels & Resorts Unveils New Guestroom Designs for Westin and
Sheraton Hotels - Westin Guestrooms Embrace Natural Elements, Sheraton
Introduces a Classical Revival Scheme and Residential Feel
- Rivals
Unite and Form Coalition of Investors to Purchase Sea Island for $212.4
million
- Efforts
to Build a 127-room Hotel on New Mexico State University Land at a
Standstill; The Soon-to-open Las Cruces Convention Center Will Be
Without Hotel
- The
Former Memorial Hospital in Albuquerque Reborn as 74-room Hotel Parq
Central; Los Alamos National Bank the Lead Lender on the $21 million
Project
- Habits
of Successful Hotel Sales People for 2011 - It's All about
Prospecting! Webinar October 21, 2010
- From
the Chalkboard to the Front Line - Blending Academics with Hospitality
Internship Programs / Kathleen Hogan
- San
Diego County Leads California in 3Q Hotel Foreclosures with 13
- Heathman
Hotel Adds GBCblue's ORION Online Guest-Ordering System and GORION
iPad/iPhone App to Personalize Service; Hailed as the 'Best Business
Hotel in Portland,' one of the 'World's Best Places to Stay' and among
the top '500 Best Hotels in the World,' the AAA four-diamond award
winning hotel is enabling guests to manage their hotel experience by
using their iPad, laptops or cell phones to order and receive hotel
services and amenities -- even before they arrive!
- RateGain
Expands its Operations in South East Asia by Entering Thailand
- TTI
Technologies Designs and Installs Business Center at Renaissance New
York Hotel 57; TTI Technologies Streamlines Customer Service for Hotel
Guests
- InnPoints
Worldwide Appoints Tia S. Hobgood as Director of Client Services
- Dorothy
Anderson, a Myrtle Beach Hotelier & Tourism Mogul Dies at Age 77
- 89-year-old
Cheyenne Canon Inn, Colorado Springs, Colorado Going Under Online
Auction Gavel
- Speakers
Set for the Pennsylvania Tourism & Lodging Association's Sales
& Marketing Conference on November 4, 2010 in Harrisburg
- M&R
Hotel Group Opens the 95-room Holiday Inn Express Staten Island, New
York
- Longrose
Buccleuch Management Limited Open the 127-room Hampton by Hilton
Newport/East in Magor UK; Roger Goldsworthy the Opening General Manager
- San
Francisco's Inn at Oyster Point Renovates to Lure the Stylish Business
Traveler as the Areas First Designer Airport Hotel
- Saudi
Commission for Tourism and Antiquities Discovers Half of Hotels and
Rest Houses Violated Health & Safety Regulations in Region with
1,400 Violations Cited During 260 Inspections
- Crestline
Appoints David M. Hill as General Manager for the Four Points by
Sheraton, Washington, D.C., Downtown
- Florida
International University School of Hospitality and Tourism Management
Student, Sagine Delly, Wins Two National Scholarships; the Arthur J.
Packard Memorial Scholarship by the American Hotel and Lodging
Educational Foundation (AH&LEF), as well as the Ellsworth M.
Statler Scholarship of Excellence
October 11, 2010
- Smart
Hotelier's Guide to 2011 Internet Marketing Budget Planning / Max
Starkov and Mariana Mechoso Safer
- Yellow
Dog Software Provides The Inn at Palmetto Bluff with Retail Inventory
Management
- Marriott
and the Spanish Hotel Group AC Hotels Sign Agreement to Manage and
Franchise a New Lodging Co-brand Across Europe and Latin America -- AC
by Marriott
- Extended
Stay Hotels Exits Chapter 11 with Centerbridge Partners, L.P., Paulson
& Co. Inc. and Blackstone Real Estate Partners Purchasing Company
for $3.925 billion
- Hotel
Asset Value Enhancement in Partnership with Fidelity Real Estate Group
to Acquire the Northland Inn in Minneapolis; StepStone Hospitality to
Manage Property
- Hilton
Could Return as the Franchise for Pittsburgh's Largest Hotel if Lender
BlackRock Wins Foreclosure Bid
- Penn
National Gaming Buys Vegas' M Resort for $230.5 million
- Modern
TV Technology Allows Hoteliers to Save Money on Video Content / Les
Spielman
- Hotel
Common Sense - Conference Calls Can be Very Effective, If ... Some
Fundamental Rules Are Followed / Dr John Hogan
- The
Delafield Hotel, a 38 Suite Luxury Hotel Located Just West of Milwaukee
Has New Ownership Partnership - 616 Hotel, LLC and IDM Group, LLC
- Marriott
Net income for the 3rd Qtr 2010 was $83 million Compared to a Loss of
$466 million in the Prior Year Quarter;Worldwide Systemwide Comparable
REVPAR Rose 8.2% / Hotel Operating Statistics
- Bankrupt
Sea Island Company Auction Could Bring End to 80-years of Family
Ownership
- 131-year-old
Lake Lawn Resort in Delavan, Wisconsin to Close; Almost 300 People to
Lose Jobs
- Elite
Meetings International Hits the Green with Fall EMA at Kingsmill
Resort; As Planners and Top Luxury Hotels Come Together to Book
Business and Preview Paradigm Shifts that are Reshaping the Meetings
Industry, EMI Prepares for the Busiest Season in the Company's History
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Have Updated 38 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with
Changes in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Add/Update 81 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel
Construction Projects Database
- Hilton
Worldwide Signs Franchise Agreement for a Former Holiday Inn Near
Mexico City's Benito Juarez International Airport to Rebrand as the
Doubletree by Hilton Mexico City Airport Area
- Rio
Nuevo Board Puts Future of $190 million Convention Center Hotel Back in
City of Tucson's Lap
- Inland
American Real Estate Trust, Inc. Acquires Former Westin City Center
Dallas and Converted to Dallas Marriott City Center for $50 million or
Approx. $123,000/key
- South
Carolina's Grand Strand Hotel Industry Should Prepare for Audits Under
a Department of Labor Initiative
- Starwood
Hotels & Resorts and East Ocean Real Estate & Tourist Joint
Stock Company Open the 30-story Sheraton Nha Trang Hotel, Nha Trang
City, Vietnam
- Patrick
H. Hagen Appointed General Manager of the Golf- und Wellnesshotel
Balmer See Located on the Island of Usedom, a Baltic Sea Island on the
Border Between Germany and Poland
- The
Eldorado Hotel & Spa in Santa Fe, New Mexico Appoints Doug Libby to
Director of Sales and Marketing and Kim Bishop to Marketing Analyst
- Carlson
Hotels Appoints Lyle Lewis as Area Vice President for China
- The
Hotel at Auburn University Welcomes Tim Aylsworth as New Director of
Sales and Marketing
- Roderick
"Rod" Tan Gopiao Joins The Renaissance Hollywood Hotel & Spa as
Food and Beverage Director
- Taj
Palace Hotel Dubai Appoints Joe Vock as Executive Chef
- Amber
Voelker Promoted to Director of Group Sales for the Langham Huntington,
Pasadena
October 7, 2010
- Social
Media Rock Star: An Interview with the Roger Smith Hotel / Daniel
Edward Craig
- Maritz,
Wolff & Co and the Ritz-Carlton Chain in a Management Contract
Dispute Over Minimum Profit Levels at the Ritz-Carlton St Louis
- How
to Get a Great Hotel Operator / Jim Butler and Robert E. Braun
- Wrapped
in a Complicated Ownership Mess, The W Atlanta-Downtown Hotel Taken
Back by its Senior Lendor
- GPS
Capabilities Open Up New Opportunities for Communication Within the
Travel Lifecycle; IN-DEPTH: An Interview with Chris Brown, VP of Retail
Product Strategy for Orbitz Worldwide
- JRK
Hotel Group Sells Hotel Roger Williams in New York City to LaSalle
Hotel Properties; JRK to Retain Management of Property
- EZYield.com
Helps Canada’s Delta Hotels and Resorts Maximize Yield Performance
- An
Unbeatable Offer on an App for Your Hotel - But Hurry, Offer Ends
October 15th! No Sign-Up Fee, Only $150 Per Month If You Act Now
- Leisure
Real Estate Advisors Announces the Sale of the Hampton Inn, South
Lincoln, Nebraska
- New
Owner of Former Pittsburgh Hilton Outlines Reorganization Plans
- Galveston's
Flagship Hotel, Built on a Pier Over the Gulf of Mexico, Set for
Demolition
- The
San Diego Port District Approves Revised Plans for Two Hotels On San
Diego's Waterfront
- Bank
Selects Berryfield Hotel Group to Manage the 47-room Seaside
Amelia Inn, Amelia Island, Florida
- Access
Hotel & Resorts Selected to Manage the 155-room Distrikt Hotel in
Midtown New York City
- Palace
Kämp to Rebrand Hotel Palace Airport as Hotel GLO Helsinki Airport
October 6, 2010
- Leading
Independent Hoteliers and Industry Experts Network and Share Strategies
for Success, Productivity, Guest Experience, and Future of Online
Bookings; NORTHWIND Takes Independent Operators ‘Beyond PMS’ to Totally
Integrated Operations, Guest Loyalty, Mobile, Higher Occupancy and
Greater Revenue at 2010 Maestro PMS Users Conference
- Aptech
Celebrates 40 Years of Leadership with Addition of Text Analytics to
Capture Customer Sentiment Information – Releases Highlight Video;
Aptech Focuses on Relationships, Technology Innovation; Creates
Solutions when Clients Need Them
- KABA®
and OpenWays Partner to Implement World’s First MobileKey Guest Access
Locking System; KABA Works with OpenWays for SmartPhone Check-In
Technology
- The
Most Ambitious Hotel Restoration in History Is Complete - After Three
Years of Hard Work, The Savoy, A Fairmont Managed Hotel, Reopens
- Former
Operator of the Comfort Inn & Suites San Francisco Airport Faces
Imprisonment Following Conviction of Three Felonies; He Failed to Pay
$300,000 in Taxes He Collected from Guests but Did Not Pay to the City
- Lowe
Enterprises Secures $100 Million Capital Investment for Terranea
Resort, Positioning it for Long Term Success; Lowe's Subsidiary,
Destination Hotels & Resorts, Continues as Operator
- HICAP
Hotel Deal of the Year Award Finalists Disclosed
- Sol
Melia Expanding its ME Brand of Lifestyle Hotels to London in 2012
- Legacy
Hospitality LLC Remains Optimistic it Will Find Bank Financing for $25
million 139-room Hyatt in Augusta, Georgia
- Making
the Most Out of the New Last-minute Booking Trend
- Drury
Hotels Signs Five-year CRS Renewal with Pegasus Solutions; 130 Hotels
in 20 U.S. States Set to Migrate to Award-winning Next Generation
Enterprise Solution RezView® NG
- LodgeNet
Creates Dedicated Team to Focus on Broadband Solutions; Veteran
Executive Tapped to Drive Growth, Execution and Migration Toward
Converged Networks
- LodgeNet
Appoints Derek White to Lead its Interactive & Media Networks;
Interactive Marketing and Programming Veteran to Guide Guest Room
Revenue Maximization From iTV Platforms and Web-Based Apps
- Ribbon
Cut for the 80-room Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott in Commerce,
Georgia; Kelly Brower the Opening General Manager
- Midas
Hospitality Acquires 77-room Hampton Inn - Columbia, Illinois
- Groundbreaking
Held for New 132-room Hilton Garden Inn, Watertown, New York; Jody
Pettit Opening General Manager
- HTNG
Announces Details and Speakers for European Hotel Technology Events;
Fifth Annual Gathering to Cover Top-of-Mind Issues for Hotel
Technologists
- Occupancy
Rate at Hotels in Beirut, Lebanon at 70% for the First Eight
Months of 2010
- Ralph
Vick Named General Manager of The Ritz-Carlton Lodge, Reynolds
Plantation on Georgia's Lake Oconee
- Host
Hotels & Resorts, Inc. Names Timothy Marvin Senior Vice President,
Acquisitions - Former Marriott International, Inc. Executive to Oversee
Acquisitions in the Americas
- Leisure
Group of Companies Promotes Jamie Tatge to Regional Manager for all
Leisure Hotel's Resort Properties
- Pan
Pacific Hotels Appoints Cheah Chin Kim and Goh Tee Kay as General
Manager and Director of Sales Respectively for PARKROYAL Serviced
Suites Kuala Lumpur
- Carlos
Olguin Named Director of Revenue Management of the Aruba Marriott
Resort and Stellaris Casino
October 5, 2010
- Tech
Leader d2o Marks 10-Year Anniversary of Increasing Profitability for
Hotel Operators; Sets Sights on Future with decade2 Initiative for
Ongoing Client Success
- Outdoor
Traveler Destinations Launches New brand Affiliation Program with Sabre
Hospitality Solutions' Distribution and Marketing Expertise
- Mobile
Advantage 2010: Change the Game Virtual Conference; Learn About New
Technologies, Devices, and Infrastructure that Are Helping Hoteliers
Improve their Performance and Competitiveness; A Must See Complimentary
Virtual Conference from Motorola Set for October 6, 2010
- The
Hotel Sales Office of 2011 - 4 Processes to Fuel Recovery / Carol
Verret
- The
Waikiki Edition, Created by Ian Schrager in Partnership with Marriott,
Opens in the Former Ilikai Yacht Harbor Tower
- New
Bidder Emerges for Bankrupt Sea Island Company Sending Sale of Resort
to Auction
- City
of Indianapolis Proposes Taking on Role of Banker by Financing a $155
million Privately Developed, Mixed-use Project to Include a Hotel; A
Move Fraught with Risks
- Winery
Owner Bill Foley Buys Swanky Les Mars Hotel in Healdsburg, California
- How
to Attract Great People - It is Estimated that the Average Cost of
Recruitment in the UK Hospitality Industry Is Around £1500 per
Person / Caroline Cooper
- ADA
Alert: New ADA Regulations Now in Effect / Marty Orlick and Jim Abrams
- Nobody
Asked Me, But… No. 69 - Large Banks Creating Crisis For Hoteliers; Are
Room Telephones Obsolete? / Stanley Turkel
- Knowland
Provides 25,000th Customized Event Report Event Booking Center Supplies
Golden Leads to Hotel Sales Teams
- Warmbrodt
Hotel Investments Selected to Advise in the Sale of the Residence Inn
by Marriott - Located in San Antonio, Texas
- Mexico's
Velas Resorts in Riviera Maya, Puerto Vallarta and Riviera Nayarit Earn
26 AAA Diamonds in 2011; Grand Velas Riviera Maya & Grand Velas
Riviera Nayarit Top the Charts with AAA Five Diamond Awards
- Bern
Hotels & Resorts Chooses the Westin Flag for Two New Hotel Projects
in Panama - The Westin Panama Hotel and The Westin Playa Bonita Panama
- London
& Regional Partners Limited Opens the 177-room Doubletree by
Hilton, Novosibirsk Russia; A Strategic Development Alliance with
Hilton Worldwide Expects to Add 25 Hilton Branded Hotels Across Russia
- Onslow
Hospitality, Inc. Building First Hilton Brand in Jacksonville, N.C.;
New Home2 Suites to be Managed by C.N. Hotels, Inc.
- Policy
Advisors Suggesting Relaxation of Regulatory Rules for Atlantic City
Casinos & Steering Money into Marketing Funds - an Idea Not Widely
Embraced
- A
New Day For Timeshares; Using automated RM systems for running your
timeshare company / Jean Francois Mourier
- Michael
Mina Opens His New Restaurant in The Westin St. Francis - Bourbon Steak
- in the Space Formerly Occupied by MICHAEL MINA
- Hilton
Tokyo Appoints Peter van Peborgh-Gooch as Director of Business
Development
- Hilton
Waikoloa Village Names Rikki Grace as the New Sales Manager Responsible
for the Small Group Market for the West Coast, Australia and Canada
October 4, 2010
- Mobile
Advantage 2010: Change the Game Virtual Conference; Learn About New
Technologies, Devices, and Infrastructure that Are Helping Hoteliers
Improve their Performance and Competitiveness; A Must See Complimentary
Virtual Conference from Motorola Set for October 6, 2010
- Courtyard
by Marriott Miami Airport South and Residence Inn Miami Airport South
Install FlyteBoard Real-Time Airport Flight Displays For Business
Traveler Confidence; FlyteBoard Digital Display Includes Shuttle
Schedule for 3-Property Marriott Miami Airport Campus
- Ownership
Turmoil Now History as the Four Seasons Resort at Las Colinas Nears
Completion of a $60 million Renovation
- The
15-story, 276-room Albuquerque Grand Airport Hotel -- soon-to-be
Sheraton Albuquerque Airport Hotel in a Legal Scuffle
- In
Downtown Phoenix the 26-story Freeport McMoRan Center to Include a
242-room Westin Hotel
- The
Casa Madrona Hotel and Poggio, the Italian Restaurant Inside the
Sausalito Hotel Locked in Litigation Battle
- Loews
Hotels CEO Jonathan Tisch Speaks at the Greater Miami & the Beaches
Hotel Association's Annual Meeting
- Should
the US Adopt International Financial Reporting Standards? / Blair Vago
- Pan
Pacific Bangkok to Rebrand Under Crowne Plaza
- Does
Your Website Have Its Own CMS? Why CMS Is a Poor Choice for Hotels /
Neil Salerno
- Hospitality
Conversations - Understanding the Developing Perspectives in Quality
Assurance (Part 2 of 2) / Dr John Hogan
- The
Maldives, Vulnerable to Sea Level Rise, Seeks Dutch Technology to
Construct a Floating Hotel and a Floating Golf Course
- It's
hold-'em-or-fold-'em Time for the Foxwoods Casino South Philly Project;
Agreement About to be Signed with Harrah's to Operate Casino and Apollo
Management to Arrange Financing
- Developers
Have Big Plans in Bellingham, Washington's Bakerview Area Which Include
Three Planned Lodging Facilities; A 77-unit Pacific Plaza Motel, a
204-room Marriott and an 87-room La Quinta Inn
- Arabian
Hotel Investment Conference (AHIC 2011) Advisory Board Meeting
Discusses The Future of the MENA Hotel Industry
- Montage
Hotels & Resorts Names Hermann Elger as General Manager of Montage
Beverly Hills
- Wyndham
Hotel Group Appoints Gareth Gaston SVP of Global E-Commerce
- Claudia
LudlowGonzales Appointed General Manager at the Glorietta Bay Inn,
Coronado, California
- Barcelo
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Stephanie Eppler as Director of Meetings
& Incentives for the South Central Region of the USA
October 1, 2010
- Learn
About New Technologies, Devices, and Infrastructure that Are Helping
Hoteliers Improve their Performance and Competitiveness; A Must See
Complimentary Virtual Conference from Motorola Set for October 6, 2010
- Creating
a More Memorable Experience for Guests Through Their Mobile Devices; An
Interview with Kerry Kennedy, Vice President, Omni Hotels / Ritesh Gupta
- B
Ocean Fort Lauderdale Set to Open Under Management of Davidson Hotel
Co.; the 42-year-old Former Holiday Inn is Being Resurrected Following
a Shutdown from Hurricane Damage and a Shrinking Tourism Market
- LaSalle
Hotel Properties Sells the Westin City Center Dallas for $50.0 million
- Marriott
Takes Over Management of the Westin City Center in Dallas; Nour Laasri
Named General Manager
- Third
Annual Lodgenet Customer Technology Symposium to Offer Insights into
Current Trends and Future Opportunities for Top Hospitality Executives;
Participants Represent Leading Companies in Hospitality Technology,
Media and Networking
- LRA
Worldwide and iSKY to Present Innovative Loyalty Model at Cornell
Hospitality Research Summit
- Hotel
Capitalization Rates Turn the Corner, According to USRC Hotel Investor
Survey / Jeffrey H. Walker, MAI, CHME
- CRF
Debuts State-of-the-Art PSAV Wide Screen at TCT Symposium 22nd Annual
Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics educational event, produced
by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, presented live surgeries
from around the world and clinical-trials to attendees via a 3,300
square-foot curved HD screen with blended imagery support designed by
the hospitality industry's leading event-technology provider
- Roomlinx
to Provide Interactive HD TV for New Luxury Property in Chicago
- Hospitality
Conversations - Understanding the Developing Perspectives in Quality
Assurance / Dr John Hogan
- Revenue
Management: Enhancing the Overall Consumer Proposition with Ancillary
Products; What Really Drives “Value” for our Customers, and What has an
Impact at the Bottom Line for the Business / Ritesh Gupta
- Hampton
Inn Alliance Business Parkway Set to Open in Anderson, South Carolina;
The 79-room hotel is Owned by Ress Investment, LLC and Operated
by Paragon Hotel Company
- Langham
Hotels International Signs Deal to Operate a New 352-room Langham in
Shenzhen, China
- Receiver,
DePalma Hotel Corp., Selects the Ramada Flag for the 215-room Grand
Prairie Hotel and Convention Center in Hutchinson, Kansas
- Caribbean
Casino and Gaming Corporation Secures Its Second Casino Location in
Dominican Republic which Includes a 890-room Hotel
- Ronald
Parker Named General Manager for the Abaco Club on Winding Bay,
Bahamas, a Ritz-Carlton Managed Club
- John
Garth Named General Manager at The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club &
Spa, Jupiter, Florida
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