June 6, 2013
- MGM
Resorts and Hyatt Hotels Join Forces; Travelers to Gain Perks from
MGM's M Life and Hyatt Gold Passport Loyalty Programs Simultaneously
- InvoTech
Uniform System Selected by Trump National Doral® Miami to Track
3,000 Uniforms with Laborsaving Efficiency; The $250 Million Resort
Transformation Includes Uniform Management Technology that Increases
Profitability and Reduces Uniform Expenses
- GSA
and Trump Organization Reach Deal on Lease for Old Post Office Building
in Washington, D.C.; The $200 Million Deal to Preserve the Historic
Landmark, Converting it into a Mixed-Use Development, Now Goes to
Congress
- Meliá
Hotels International has Begun Construction of the 252-room Gran
Meliá Riyadh in Saudi Arabia; A 2015 Opening is Planned
- Jin
Jiang International Hotel Management Company Secures Management
Contract for Stone Forest Jin Jiang International Resort with Yunnan
Jia Yi Real Estate Co; The 118-room Resort in China's Yunnan Province
is Scheduled to Open in February 2014
- Interwest
Capital Acquires the 149-room Tutwiler Hotel, Birmingham, Alabama; HRI
Lodging Selected as Property Manager
- Optimum
Hotel Brokerage Sells Philadelphia Area Select Service Hotel; Best
Western Quakertown Sold to Local Partnership
- Educational
Institute Signs Agreement with LinguaTV to Market English Language
Training Programs for Hospitality Employees
- Dusit
Hotel Group selects RateGain's Rate Intelligence and Distribution
Management Solutions to help drive Revenue Growth
- Owned
by MAM-Charlotte Hotel and Managed by McGlashan Hospitality, the Crowne
Plaza Charlotte Executive Park Hotel Opens in North Carolina; Formerly
a Marriott Hotel, the 297-room Property will Undergo a Multi-Million
Dollar Renovation
- The
266-room Four Seasons Hotel Shenzhen to Open on September 1, 2013 in
China
- Shangri-La
Hotels and Resorts Set to Open the 211-room Shangri-La Hotel, Qufu in
China on August 1, 2013
- Scheduled
to Open in Early 2014 in Turkey, the 102-room Holiday Inn Express
Manisa - West will Operate under a Franchise Agreement with Procons
Turizm and be Managed by T&T Consulting
- The
120-suite TownePlace Suites Buffalo Airport is Set to Open in Buffalo,
New York; Managed by Buffalo Lodging Associates
- Homewood
Suites by Hilton Opens the 92-suite Homewood Suites Newport in
Middletown, Rhode Island and the 112-suite Homewood Suites Fort Worth -
Medical Center in Texas
- McKibbon
Hotel Group to Open the 107-suite Residence Inn by Marriott in Little
Rock, Arkansas
- Kenneth
Widmaier Named Chief Operating Officer for Sage Hospitality
- Vision
Hospitality Group Promotes Reggie Piercy to Vice President of Operations
- Crescent
Hotels & Resorts Names Noel Daniel as General Manager for the
123-key Hotel Madeline Telluride in Colorado; Also Appointed are Todd
Gehrke as Director of Sales & Marketing and Elizabeth Howe as
Director Front of House Operations
- Shingi
Rukuni Appointed as General Manager at Sonesta ES Suites Charlotte in
North Carolina
- Chef
Paul Piscopo Named as Executive Chef for The St. Regis San Francisco in
California
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Names Jordan Mackey Executive Chef for Hotel
Contessa, San Antonio, Texas
- Bjorn
van der Horst Appointed as Director of Food and Beverage at Rosewood
London; Hotel to Open in England in October 2013
June 5, 2013
- Task
Force Operations...Filling the Void in Hospitality Leadership / Gary
Brown
- Six
Top PMS Trends to Make Independents More Productive and Profitable;
NORTHWIND Showcases Enhanced Technology and Services at HITEC; Guest
Engagement, Maestro Cloud, Big Data Dashboard, Loyalty, MyMaestro
Knowledge Center, Mobile, Direct Web & Social Media Booking
- Milestone
Internet Marketing Announces User Conference; A Marketing Forum
Providing Insights into the latest trends and changes in Digital
Marketing and its relevance to hospitality industry
- Possibility
of Host Hotels Putting the 1,408-room Philadelphia Marriott Downtown Up
for Sale Due to Lagging Convention Business Raising Eyebrows
- NewcrestImage
to Acquire 25 Properties From La Quinta Adding 2,978 rooms to Portfolio
- Mid-Year
U.S. Hotel Transaction Volume Up 50 % to $8.0 Billion in 2013 According
to Jones Lang LaSalle; Five Secondary Cities Claim Top Spots for Hotel
Investment
- Social
Media and Reputation Management for Hotels: Eight Key Takeaways /
Daniel Edward Craig
- PMC
Property Group in Talks with Kimpton Hotels to Convert the James Reed
Building in Downtown Pittsburgh to Upscale Hotel with up to 250-rooms
- Vista
Capital Company Closes $14,700,000 of Acquisition Financing for a
Beachfront Hotel in North Carolina’s Outer Banks
- Intelity
Makes Changes to Meet Hotel Design Needs; The impact of evolving hotel
technology has led to the need to rethink traditional guestroom design,
and with the new ICE Sapphire, Intelity looks to inspire change
- SignUp4
and Newmarket Streamline the RFP Distribution Process via Certified
Integration; The power of two leading technology providers
strategically leveraged
- HotelTravel.com
Connects to eRevMax Channel Ecosystem
- Hotels
Looking to Heighten SEO and SMO Need to Engage with SoLoMo; Lodging
Interactive is taking the stress and confusion out of managing and
monitoring a hotel's search engine and social media optimization by
working with marketers to 'CoMMingle' Social, Local and Mobile
marketing strategies
- HTNG
Appoints David Sjolander Chief Operating Officer
- Nevada
Supreme Court Weighing Arguments on Flawed CityCenter Harmon Hotel
Tower Before Case Goes to Trial
- Hyatt
Regency McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois Completes its $110 Million
Expansion and Renovation Project; Hotel Now Totals 1260 Rooms
- The
189-room DoubleTree by Hilton London - Ealing Opens in England; Ealing
Hotel Transformed by Over $15 Million Conversion and Redesign
- RFR
Holding and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Unveil the 125-room W Tel
Aviv Site and Design in the Old City of Jaffa in Israel; The $50
Million Project Converting an Historic 19th Century Building is Slated
for a 2015 Opening
- The
1,500-room Tropicana Las Vegas - a DoubleTree by Hilton Plans
Significant Expansion of Meeting and Convention Facilities
- Ribbon
Cutting Set for the Newly Built 117-room Holiday Inn Express Hotel
& Suites - Troy, Michigan
- InterContinental
Osaka Opens in Japan; The 215-room Hotel was Built as Part of Grand
Front Osaka, a New Mixed-Use Development
- IHG
Opens the 137-room Holiday Inn Baltimore - BWI Airport Area Hotel in
Maryland
- Sage
Hospitality Completes $12.5 Million Renovation of Eight Ohio Hotels
- The
Lodge at Tiburon in California Completes Renovations of Guestrooms,
Pool, Lobby and the New Tiburon Tavern Restaurant
- Philip
Goldfarb, Fontainebleau Miami Beach President & COO, Honored with
Excellence in Tourism Award; Presented by Miami Beach, Florida Chamber
of Commerce
- Outrigger
Appoints Mark Simmons as VP Sales and Marketing, Asia-Pacific
- Hotel
Equities Promotes Carlos Melgar to Vice President of Finance
- Paul
Scott Named as Complex General Manager of Two Hilton Worldwide Hotels
in New Orleans, Louisiana; Responsible for the Operation of the
1,622-room Hilton New Orleans Riverside and the 367-room DoubleTree by
Hilton New Orleans
- Charles
Hill Appointed as General Manager of the 384-suite Embassy Suites
Washington, D.C. - Convention Center
- Alliance
Hospitality Appoints Muktar Dougisyeh as General Manager for the
Fairfield Inn & Suites Atlanta Downtown Hotel in Georgia
- Ivan
Casadevall Named as General Manager for the 278-room Pan Pacific
Nirwana Bali Resort in Indonesia
- Hay
Creek Hotels Welcomes Kathleen DeVitto as the New Director of Sales at
the Eagle Mountain House in Jackson, New Hampshire
June 4, 2013
- North
Central Group Implements hotel SystemsPro Multi-Property Sales and
Catering, and hotel WebSpace Online Marketing to Increase Business for
31 Properties; Marriott and Hilton Operator Relies on Cloud-Based hotel
SalesPro and hotel WebSpace to Centralize Sales Processes and Create
Search-Optimized Property Web Landing Pages
- Aptech
VUE: The Big Data Challenge – Multiple Properties with Multiple Flags
Meet Big Challenges; Reap Big Rewards with Business Intelligence;
Hotel Companies with Large Diverse Portfolios Make Better Decisions
When Business Intelligence Overcomes Multi-System Data Gathering and
Translation Challenges
- Adaco
Continues to Grow with New and Existing Clients - Meet Adaco at HITEC
2013; The global provider of SaaS-based procurement solutions is
pleased to announce that a number of new and existing clients have
selected Adaco.Net in recent months
- Travel
Tripper Announces Upcoming Booking Engine Launch
- Nobody
Asked Me, But...No. 103; John Q. Hammons (1919-2013): Master Hotel
Developer and Builder; On the Site of the Drake Hotel; The Origin of
Memorial Day; Quote of the Month / Stanley Turkel
- Service
Excellence: It's About Your Heart / Bryan K. Williams
- Wynn
Resorts Facing Federal Probe Over $135 million Donation Made to the
University of Macau, Which is Headed by a Chinese Official with Gaming
Oversight
- AH&LA
Commends White House on Patent Troll Reforms
- Swire
Properties Elects to Develop its Own East Hotel Brand for Miami's
Brickell CityCentre; The 236-room East, Miami will be the first East
hotel in the United States
- Sandwiched
Between Two Giant Hotel Developments, COMO Hotels Making First U.S.
Push in Miami Beach with the 74-room Metropolitan by COMO
- iRiS
Software Systems to Unveil Strategy with Suite of New Applications at
HITEC 2013
- Cendyn®
Wins Six Coveted Industry Awards for Superior Website Design
- Educational
Institute's India Vice President Retires After Nearly 20 Years
- South
Street Partners Acquires Kiawah Partners, Developers of the Carolina's
Kiawah Island; Charleston-based firm spent past 25 years as Kiawah
Island's master developer
- Benderson
Development to Include a 105-room Home2 Suites by Hilton at New Cabela
Crossings Project in Cheektowaga, New York
- Starwood
Hotels & Resorts Expansion in China Continues with Planned Openings
of 20 Hotels in 2013; 70 Percent of Pipeline Planned for Tier Two and
Three Cities
- The
267-room DoubleTree by Hilton Cedar Rapids Convention Complex at the
U.S. Cellular Center Opens in Iowa Following Two-Year $144 Million
Transformation of the Former Crowne Plaza Five Seasons
- IHG
Opens the 290-room Holiday Inn Riyadh Meydan in Saudi Arabia
- Owned
and Managed by Sunridge Hotel Group, the 71-suite TownePlace Suites by
Marriott is Set to Open in Roswell, New Mexico
- Red
Lion Hotels to Add the 300-room The Riverside Hotel in Boise, Idaho to
its Leo Collection
- Aston
Hotels & Resorts Expands its Collection of Waikiki, Hawaii Hotels,
Adding the 72-room Hotel Renew by Aston
- StepStone
Hospitality Selected to Manage Two Baton Rouge Properties; The
Residence Inn by Marriott Siegen Lane and Courtyard by Marriott Siegen
Lane
- Christian
Hylander Named as Vice President Sales at Rezidor Hotel Group
- Rick
Rogovin Joins The Dow Hotel Company as Vice President of Hotel
Investments
June 3, 2013
- Leisure
Reservations Surged Ahead in April as North American Corporate Bookings
Struggled to Maintain Global Pace; Pegasus Solutions Reports on
Region's Mixed Performance Concurrent to the 35th Annual NYU
International Hospitality Industry Investment Conference
- SAI
Now Offering Guestroom Controls with Acquisition of Scientific Control
Systems; As a former distributor of SAI's CONTROLIQ energy management
solution for public spaces, the purchase of SCS extends SAI's reach to
guestrooms, delivering an integrated and comprehensive building
management solution that is web-based, user friendly and affordable
- Las
Vegas Culinary Union Creates Website to Warn Visitors of Potential
Strikes and Disruption of Services
- PwC
US Indicates U.S Lodging Sector Recovery Continues, Albeit Cautiously,
with a Projected RevPAR Growth of 5.9% for 2013
- General
Contractor Awarded Bid for Faro Blanco Resort Hyatt Hotel in Marathon,
Florida; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 123 Hotel Projects to
the New Hotel Construction Projects Database
- Kennedy
Training Network and LogMyCalls: 5 Lessons Learned from Recording, and
Auditing Calls; Webinar will unveil industry research on marketing
tactics and phone sales
- Prominent
Industry Executive Joins Towne Park to Drive Strategic Growth; Steven
M. Zaccagnini Named Executive Vice President of Corporate Development
- Host
Hotels & Resorts Acquires the 426-room Hyatt Place Waikiki Beach in
Honolulu, Hawaii for $138.5 million from an Affiliate of Chartres
Lodging and Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund VII Global
- AWH
Partners Acquires a Premium-Branded Three Hotel Portfolio from Lane
Hotels with Planned Renovations for Each; Properties Include the
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Annapolis, Hilton Grand Rapids Airport and
the Courtyard Durham Near Duke University/Downtown
- Chesapeake
Lodging Trust Acquires the 313-room Hyatt Fisherman's Wharf for $103.5
million, or Approximately $331,000 per key; Evolution Hospitality
Selected to Manage
- Driftwood
Hospitality Management Enters Internaltional Joint Venture with Pacrim
Hospitality Services; Initial Expansion Targeting Canadian Market
- Starwood
Hotels Le Méridien Brand Ownership Groups to Invest an
Additional $1 billion into the Global Portfolio
- Marriott
International to Import its European AC Hotel Brand to the United
States and the Americas
- Michael
Evans Named Chief Executive Officer of MGM Hospitality; Will Oversee
Operations for Bellagio, MGM Grand, Skylofts
**Top 25
Read
Articles - May 2013**
- RoomKey.com:
Hotel Brands’ Misguided Attempt to Become an OTA / Vikram Singh
- What
the Hotel Industry Can Learn From "Heads in Beds" by Jacob Tomsky /
Vikram Singh
- Hoteliers:
Be Prepared for Penguin 2.0; Google Head of Web Spam Quoted as Saying
"Updates will be Jarring and Jolting" / Brandon Dennis
- Marriott
Awards Ten Employees with Company’s Highest Honor, the J. Willard
Marriott Award of Excellence
- Hoteliers
Beware! The Consequences of Overbooking - Reservation-Holders Booted
Out on Jam-Packed Weekend
- Marriott
Signs Official Agreement with iRiS Software Systems
- Starwood
Targeting Young Millionaires from Generation X and Y Who Comprise 85%
of Groups Luxury Guests
- In
Memoriam: A Tribute to Jeff Henschel, Director of IT, Benchmark
Hospitality - 1963 – 2013
- Intelity
Wants Hotels to Shine With All-New ICE Sapphire
- LBA
Hospitality Increases Business for 72-Property Portfolio with Web
Booking Pages and Corporate Sales System
- The
323-room JW Marriott Houston Downtown Hotel Set to Open in Texas in
Spring 2014; The $80.8 Million Conversion of an Historic Building is
Under Development by Pearl Hospitality
- Revenue
Managers - Feeling on Edge? Here's a Way to Stop Costly Pricing
Mistakes / Marco Benvenuti
- PKF's
2013 Annual Trends in The Hotel Industry Survey Results - A Video Recap
- A
Restaurateur’s Guide to Successful Digital Marketing / Emily Ditman
- The
Press Release: Reports of Its Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated /
Anne Sweeney
- Legendary
Developer John Q. Hammons Dies at Age 94; Missouri Native’s Legacy
Lives on in U.S. Lodging Industry and Philanthropic Endeavors
- Without
Warning, Sun Travel & Tours, Owners of Hilton Maldives Iru Fushi
Resort, Terminate Hilton Contract; Guest Cancellations and Staff
Resignations Reported; Hilton Praised for Peaceful Conduct
- Lake
Las Vegas Hotel Getting New Name -- Again: The 349-room Ravella at Lake
Las Vegas to Become the Hilton Lake Las Vegas Resort & Spa
- Emerging
a Bit Battered and Bruised, MGM CEO, Jim Murren, Discusses MGM's
Financial Turnaround, the Park on the Strip and the Rolling Stones
- Sam
Nazarian, Larry Levy and Bob Heyat Partner to Launch The Redbury Hotel
South Beach
- Hard
Rock International, in Collaboration with Bayshore Capital, Plans
Development of Hard Rock Hotel in Daytona Beach, Florida
- HVS
Projects Hotel Values to Return to Pre-Recession Highs Last Seen in 2006
- Hyatt
Appoints Four to Brand and Marketing Leadership Positions Furthering
Focus on Brand Development and Innovation
- Years
After the Process Began, Foreclosure Finally Comes for South Shore Club
in South Beach, Miami, Florida
- Summit
Hotel Properties Closes Six Hotel Acquisitions Totaling 786 Guestrooms
for $153 Million
May 31, 2013
- Thoughts
from the Golf Industry Show: Part Two of Three / Darius Hatami
- NewcrestImage
Finalizes Merger and Brings All Three Companies Under the Same Banner
- Slaying
Oxymoronos Maximus, the Great Dragon of Cheap Imitation in the Luxury
Market / Steven Ferry
- Hoteliers
Score Business with Sports Groups / Eric B. Hansen
- Five
Questions to Chef Nobu Matsuhisa, One of the World's Finest
- Chesapeake
Lodging Trust to Debut Le Méridien New Orleans in 2014 Following
a $29 Million Renovation; Currently Operating Under Starwood's W Brand
- Intelity
Offers New ICE Sapphire As Native and HTML5 Web App
- The
320 Guest Ranch Awarded TripAdvisor's Certificate of Excellence for 2013
- Midas
Hospitality Acquires the 104-room Residence Inn by Marriott - Columbus
/ Worthington in Ohio
- Commune
Hotels & Resorts Introduces Tommie, a Value-Conscious Brand; Two
New York City Properties are Currently Under Development with Early
2015 Openings Planned
- Construction
Begins for the 91-room "Generation 4" Fairfield Inn & Suites by
Marriott in Leavenworth, Kansas to Open in Spring 2014
- Shangri-La
Hotels and Resorts Set to Open the 283-room Traders Hotel, Puteri
Harbour, Johor, Malaysia
- MAZEX
Holdings Selects Driftwood Hospitality Management to Manage the
148-Room Clarion Hotel and Conference Center in Deland, Florida
- Charlestowne
Hotels Selected to Manage the New 43-room Sewanee Inn and Conference
Center Currently Under Development by the University of the South in
Sewanee, Tennessee
- Sawgrass
Marriott Golf Resort & Spa in Ponte Vedra, Florida Begins
Multi-Million Dollar Resort-Wide Refresh Project
- California's
56-room Calistoga Spa Hot Springs Completes its Major Renovation
- Survey
Exploring Generational Buying Preferences in the Meetings Marketplace
Released by IACC and DCI (Development Counsellors International)
- Tourism
Growth in Hawaii Hit Brakes in April; Year-to-Date Numbers Show Visitor
Arrivals 1% Below and Spending 6.4% Below Projected Targets
- Buck
Drossart, 2013 Wisconsin Hotel & Lodging Association Chairman and
General Manager of The Pointe Hotel & Suites and Conference Center,
Minocqua, Receives a State Leadership Award from the AH&LA
- Larry
Daniels, General Manager of HRI Lodging's Hyatt French Quarter
Property, Promoted to Vice President/General Manager of HRI Lodging
- Lee
Ann Benge Named as Vice President of Human Resources for HRI Lodging
- Matthew
Boris Promoted to Hotel Manager for the 400-key Wyndham Grand Orlando
Resort Bonnet Creek in Florida
- Florida's
408-key W South Beach Hotel & Residences Appoints Samantha Spurgeon
as Director of Sales and Marketing
- Hyatt
Key West Resort and Spa in Florida Appoints Dan Higgins as Chef de
Cuisine, Jillian Pahren as Catering Manager and Miki Hirakawa as Spa
Manager
May 30, 2013
- MSI
Significantly Reduces PCI Burden for Hotel Operators; New Cloud-Enabled
Payment Processing Solution, MSI CloudPay Debuts at HITEC 2013
- Wet
'n' Wild Las Vegas Selects InfoGenesis POS by Agilysys; POS Solution
Enhances Efficiency and Guest Service at Nevada's Largest Water Park
- Believed
to be the Longest Hotel Strike in the World, the 10-Year Strike at
Chicago's Congress Plaza Hotel is Over
- Stay
Confident, and Don't Sell Out Too Soon / Marco Benvenuti
- A
Change In Caribbean Hotel And Tourism Leadership / Robert MacLellan
- Summit
Hotel Properties Closes Six Hotel Acquisitions Totaling 786 Guestrooms
for $153 Million
- Sage
Hospitality Completes Sale of Four Select Service Properties, Retains
Management Contracts with New Owner, Blackstone Real Estate Partners
- Hersha
Hospitality Trust Increases Presence in Southern California and
Florida; Closes on the Purchase of the 245-room Courtyard San Diego
Downtown for $71.1 Million and Signs Agreement to Acquire the 140-room
Residence Inn Coconut Grove in Miami for $21.8 Million
- Carey
Watermark Investors Acquires the 247-room Hutton Hotel in Nashville,
Tennessee for a Total Investment of $77.3 Million; Amerimar Enterprises
Will Continue to Manage the Property
- Outrigger
Acquires Mauritius Beachfront Property, the 181-key Mövenpick
Resort and Spa Mauritius; Following a Six-Month Renovation, the
Property will Reopen as the Outrigger Mauritius Resort and Spa
- Deal
to Buy and Reopen the 200-room Semiahmoo Hotel in Bellingham,
Washington May be Near Completion
- Nor1
Expands Global Operations to Asia Pacific; Hires Allan Taylor as Vice
President of Business Development for the Region
- Pegasus
Solutions Names Diana Imber Vice President, Sales, Open Hospitality;
Practiced Hospitality Professional Assumes Lead Sales Role for Web
Services Division
- Hodges
Ward Elliott and Hotel AG Advise Apple REIT 6 on Sale of 66-Property
Portfolio
- Pineapple
Hospitality Increasing Email Marketing Effectiveness, Customer Loyalty
with ZMail from ZDirect
- Educational
Institute Welcomes New Academic Partner in Shanghai, China
- UNWTO
Calls for Nominations for the 2013 Awards for Excellence and Innovation
in Tourism; All Submissions Should be Received by October 1, 2013
- Margaritaville
Gets Final Green Light in Hollywood, Florida; The $147 Million Project
Including a 350-room Hotel will be Developed by Margaritaville
Hollywood Beach Resort LP, a Partnership between Lojeta Millennium,
Margaritaville of Hollywood and Starwood Capital
- Wyndham
Hotel Group Launches Super 8 Hotel Brand in Turkey; Signs Development
Agreement for 20 Super 8 Hotels in Turkey Over the Next 10 Years
- Hyatt
Affiliate Enters Management Agreement with KY Development Co. for a
Hyatt Place Hotel in Seoul, South Korea; Currently Under Development,
the 204-room Hyatt Place Seoul will Open in 2016
- Swire
Hotels to Open The Temple House in Chengdu, China in Q4 2014; The
142-key Project is Being Jointly Developed by Sino-Ocean Land and Swire
Properties within the Chengdu Daci Temple Cultural and Commercial
Complex
- IHG's
Holistic Wellness Hotel Brand, EVEN Hotels, Signs Second New York City
Property; The New Build 150-room Property will Open in Mid-2015
- The
333-room Renaissance Cairo Mirage City Hotel Opens in Egypt
- Hyatt
Hotels and Interstate Hotels & Resorts Open the 130-key HYATT house
Minot in North Dakota; Owned by North Hill Suites
- The
73-suite TownePlace Suites by Marriott is Set to Open in Saginaw,
Michigan; Owned and Managed by DML Management
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Names Gerald Lampaert Vice President of
Information Technology
- Professor
Stowe Shoemaker Named as New Dean of UNLV's Harrah College of Hotel
Administration
- Marcus
Hotels & Resorts Makes Two Executive Management Appointments;
Promotes Scott Shoenberger to Senior Vice President - Operations and
Acquisitions and Peggy Williams-Smith to Corporate Vice President of
Food & Beverage
- Omni
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Terry Green as General Manager of the
Omni Severin Hotel in Indianapolis, Indiana
- Chef
Krisztian Karkus Hired as Executive Chef for the 322-key Meritage
Resort and Spa in Napa, California
May 29, 2013
- RoomKey.com:
Hotel Brands' Misguided Attempt to Become an OTA / Vikram Singh
- The
New York Palace Emerges from Renovation with Advanced UHF-RFID Uniform
System to Streamline Uniform Operations for Staff of 1,000; Luxury New
York Property Reduces Labor, Increases Profitability, Enhances Green
Operations with Automated Uniform Tracking and Delivery to Employees
- Robinsons
Land Corp. (RLC) and Okada-led Universal Entertainment Corp. Call Off
Their $1 Billion Joint Casino Project in Pagcor Entertainment City in
the Philippines
- Gateways
to Citizenship and Hospitality: Hotel Financing through EB-5 / Li Chen
- Developer
Bruce L. Thompson Signs Contract to Acquire The Cavalier Hotel in
Virginia Beach, Virginia for $35.1 Million; Legal Hurdles Remain, Court
Must Approve Sale
- La
Quinta Inns & Suites Outpaces Growth Of Competitors Over Past Ten
Years; Future Points to Continued Rapid Expansion in the U.S. and
Around the World
- Innkeeper's
Lodge Selects RateTiger to Optimise Price Strategy
- Beijing
Hospitality Institute Becomes EI Global Academic Partner (GAP) School
- Alliance
Hospitality Reports Strong First Quarter Growth; First Quarter Results
Show Outstanding Accomplishments Across the Board
- Boomerang
Hotels Brands Earn 2013 Tripadvisor Certificate of Excellence
- Harbans
Singh Selected as the 2013 Inductee into HFTP's International
Hospitality Technology Hall of Fame
- Patton
Hospitality Management Selected to Operate Four Escapes Resort
Properties; Expands Portfolio in Alabama, Arkansas and Missouri
- Guy
Harvey Outpost Resorts Adds the 139-key Islander Resort in Islamorada
in the Florida Keys to its Portfolio
- The
345-room Renaissance Johor Bahru Hotel Opens in Johor Bahru, Malaysia
- Owned
by Kreesh Hospitality and Managed by KB Hotel Group, the New 87-room
Hampton Inn is Set to Open in Middletown, Ohio
- Florida's
Wyndham Orlando Resort Becomes Wyndham Orlando Resort International
Drive; Part of its Multi-Million Dollar Re-Imagination with Anticipated
October 2013 Completion
- New
World Hospitality Changes Name to Rosewood Hotel Group
- Leslie
A. Pchola Named Area Vice President Hilton Worldwide, Southeast
- Jim
McSwigan Named General Manager of the 289-room Atlanta Marriott Century
Center/Emory Area in Georgia
- Scott
Ward Appointed as Director of Sales and Marketing for Scrub Island
Resort, Spa & Marina in the British Virgin Islands
May 28, 2013
- Marriott
Signs Official Agreement with iRiS Software Systems
- Adaco
to Launch 'Procure-to-Pay' for Adaco.Net at HITEC 2013; The global
provider of SaaS-based procurement solutions is unveiling a new
hospitality product that provides hoteliers with electronic integration
with vendors, supports automated Catalogue and invoice management, and
integrates with the recently announced Adaco Analytics Solution
- TrustYou
Continues to Expand Team in USA Headquarters; Ellis Connolly Appointed
VP Sales Americas & Australia; Robust Client Service Talent On
Board Hailing from Companies Such as Google
- Legendary
Developer John Q. Hammons Dies at Age 94; Missouri Native's Legacy
Lives on in U.S. Lodging Industry and Philanthropic Endeavors
- South
Carolina Hospitality Association Bouncing Back with Positivity After
Being Stung by Embezzlement Scandal
- Benchmarking
Your Reservations Call Conversion Ratio / Doug Kennedy
- The
Indivisible Image of France; With two consecutive quarters of 0.2%
growth decline, France officially entered into recession / Georges
Panayotis
- Tennessee's
Memphis Peabody Hotel Celebrates 80 Years of Ducks
- Restaurant,
Hotel Industry Bounces Back in Bay Area in California
- Hotel
AG and Hodges Ward Elliott Advise Apple REIT 6 on Sale of 66-Property
Portfolio
- Warmbrodt
Hotel Investments Announces Sale of the Red Roof Inn, St. Louis,
Missouri
- The
Future of Hotel Revenue Management / Jean Francois Mourier
- Accor
Unveils Global Repositioning Strategy for Pullman Hotels & Resorts
- Hilton
Worldwide Signs Agreement for the 281-room Hilton Abu Dhabi Capital
Grand in the United Arab Emirates; Currently Known as Abu Dhabi Al
Maqta, the Hotel will Rebrand in Summer 2013
- Historic
Atlantic City Madison House Hotel Sells at Auction for $4 Million;
Shuttered Since 2006, it May be Reopened Soon as a Hotel
- Fibra
Inn, a Mexican REIT, Completes Acquisition of the 145-room Holiday Inn
Express Playa del Carmen Hotel; Plans to Begin Construction on an
Additional 51 Rooms in Q1 2014
- Interstate
Hotels & Resorts Opens Seven Hotels in the United Kingdom, Ireland,
The Netherlands and Hungary
- IHG
Opens the InterContinental Shanghai Ruijin, its 200th Hotel in China;
The Rebranding of an Historic Landmark Hotel Owned by Shanghai Donghu
Group Corporation
- Courtyard
by Marriott Enters Saudi Arabia with Opening of the 286-room Courtyard
Riyadh Diplomatic Quarter
- The
224-room Courtyard New York Manhattan/Times Square West Opens; Owned
and Managed by Stonebridge Companies
- Renovations
are Complete for the 80-room Half Moon Bay Lodge in California
May 24, 2013
- PKF's
2013 Annual Trends in The Hotel Industry Survey Results - A Video Recap
- Embassy
Suites Hotels Honors Top Brand Performers of 2012: Embassy Suites
Houston - Downtown Named 'Hotel of the Year'
- Buying
and Selling Hotels In Today's Market; Timing, timing, timing. Seizing
the day makes more and more sense / Jeff McKee
- Declines
in Hotel Delinquencies Leads CMBS Rate Down
- Vacant
Since February of 2011, Sangha Hospitality LLC, Plans Purchase of
Macon, Georgia's 297-room Ramada Plaza, Converting to a Park Inn by
Radisson
- Hyatt
Hotels Completes Rebranding of Four Iconic French Properties; Hotel du
Louvre, a Hyatt Hotel, will become an Andaz following a renovation
- Intelity
Partner Infrability Introduces ICE at Kingdom Hotel Expansion Summit;
Intelity and Infrability have formed a partnership to provide local
sales, service and support to the rapidly growing Middle Eastern hotel
market
- New
HTNG Standards Will Help Hotels Increase Guest Satisfaction and
Increase Efficiency of Payment Systems
- PolyU
Study Finds Adjustments Needed to Hainan Tax-Rebate Policy to Enhance
Benefits
- The
75-suite Candlewood Suites Atlanta West I-20 Hotel Opens in Georgia;
Owned by HSNT Lithia Springs Lodging and Managed by Aysa Hospitality
- The
94-room BEST WESTERN PREMIER Herald Square Opens in Midtown Manhattan;
Developed and Managed by LeTap Group
- Nebraska's
DoubleTree by Hilton Omaha Downtown Hotel and Executive Meeting Center
Completes its $20 Million Renovation
- Hyatt
Appoints Four to Brand and Marketing Leadership Positions Furthering
Focus on Brand Development and Innovation
- Perry
Grice Appointed as Director of Sales for The 150-room Lodge and Spa at
Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain, Georgia
- Louis
Gonzalez and Jackie Payano Promoted to Assistant Directors of Group
Sales for the 1,504-room Fontainebleau Miami Beach in Florida
- Valeria
Benner Named Executive Chef of the Historic 306-room Millennium
Knickerbocker Hotel Chicago in Illinois
- Hilton
Dunkeld House in Perth, Scotland Welcomes Raymond Sterpaio as Head Chef
May 22, 2013
- LBA
Hospitality Increases Business for 72-Property Portfolio with Web
Booking Pages and Corporate Sales System; "Sales is All About
Qualifying," LBA Combines Savvy Web Strategy and Centralized Account
Management to Qualify and Close New Business
- Maestro
Launches Big Data Mobile Business Intelligence and Performance
Management Dashboards for Faster "Time to Information" Decisions;
Maestro BI Gives Operators Real-Time On-The-Go Access to Comprehensive
Performance Numbers for Single Hotels or Multi-Property Hotel Groups
- Real
Hospitality Group Named Management Company for an Approximate Quarter
Billion Dollar (Phase: I) Hotel Investment Fund Representing Only the
First Phase of Hospitality Funding Ability. RHG to source deals and
management for hotel investment fund in leisure destinations
- Hoteliers
Beware! The Consequences of Overbooking - Reservation-Holders Booted
Out on Jam-Packed Weekend
- Getting
Your Tenured and Tired to Grow and Evolve / Gary Hernbroth
- Owners
of Las Vegas' Golden Gate Hotel & Casino Hit Rock Bottom - Going
Geothermal, Property Reduced Electrical Bills by 40% and Spends Zero on
Hot Water
- Addressing
the Social Side of Sustainability: Guidelines for the Hospitality
Industry / Michael Estabrook
- Revel
Emerges from Bankruptcy Under New Ownership; Shaves $1.5 billion in
Debt Down to $272 million
- A
Restaurateur's Guide to Successful Digital Marketing / Emily Ditman
- Company
Headed by Texas Investor John Bushman Acquires the 500-room Crowne
Plaza Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado for $14 Million; Plans to
Reflag to Bushman's MCM Hotels Chain and Begin a Major Renovation
- University
of Phoenix and American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute
Announce Educational Partnership; EI's 60th Anniversary Drives Focus on
Education and Talent Development for Hospitality Workforce
- Kempinski
Hotels Begin Deployment of Nor1's Data-Driven Upsell Solutions Across
Brand Portfolio; Strategic Agreement to Heighten Guest Experience for
Europe's Most Luxurious Hotels
- Digital
Alchemy Continues Expansion into Spa Market with Debut of eClub Opt-In
Client Messaging System; Customizable email subscription solution
allows day spas and hotel spas to build and maintain targeted customer
databases and effective eMarketing programs
- Hotel
Clarence and The Red Mill Inn Select Infor Hospitality; Infor HMS
Overhauls Hotel Management System for Improved Service to Guests
- PAR
Springer-Miller Systems, Inc. Awarded Gold and Bronze Distinctions for
ATRIO® Guest Experience Management at 8th Annual 2013 "Hot
Companies and Best Products" Awards Ceremony
- Hotel
Pricing and Parity Analysis for the Week of May 13, 2013 in APAC Region
- Clear
Sky Software's Beverage Inventory Management System Selected by
Canadian Hotel
- Cityzenbooking
Certified for eRevMax Channel Eco-System for Seamless Connectivity
- Early
Easter Leaves Orlando Hotels with April Hangover as Occupancy Slides
Downward 3%
- Circa
1898 Mansion at Judge's Hill in Austin, Texas, Once a Wedding Present,
Gets a Makeover as Hotel Ella; Steve Shotsberger is Serving as General
Manager for the Boutique Property
- Best
Western International Enters Agreement to Take Over Management of the
189-key Green Hill Hotel in Myanmar's Largest City, Yangon; Best
Western Becomes First U.S. Hotel Brand to Operate in Myanmar
- Swissôtel
Hotels & Resorts Signs Management Contract with Shaanxi Puyu
Industrial for the 350-room Swissôtel Xi'an; A 2016 Completion is
Planned for the Hotel in Xi'an, the Capital of Shaanxi Province, China
- The
177-room Holiday Inn Express - New York Manhattan West Side Opens;
Owned by GLSC 48 Special LLC and Managed by the Gemini Hospitality Group
- The
507-room Hotel Riu Yucatan, Mexico is to Reopen in July 2013 Following
its $15 Million Renovation
- A
June 2013 Opening is Planned for the 78-suite SpringHill Suites by
Marriott in Deadwood, South Dakota; Owned by Optima and Managed by ISIS
Hospitality
- A
Member of Design Hotels, the 215-room Mainport Opens in Rotterdam,
Netherlands
- MGallery
Collection Hotel Opens 118-room Hotel on the Island of Murano in
Venice, Italy
- Red
Carnation Hotels Adds Ashford Castle in Ireland to its Portfolio
- Midas
Hospitality Hires Michael Heater as General Manager for the 97-room
Candlewood Suites - Greenville, South Carolina; The Hotel is Currently
Under Development with an October 2013 Opening Planned
- Benchmark
Resorts & Hotels Names Tiera Steele Director of Revenue Management
for Eldorado Hotel & Spa in Santa Fe, New Mexico
- KSL
Resorts Appoints Donna Smith as Director of Leisure and Travel Industry
Sales and James Buck as Digital Marketing Manager for Two Properties;
Responsible for The Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina and The
Homestead in Hot Springs, Virginia
May 21, 2013
- Eurasia
Resorts International & Global Financial Trust Plan New Las Vegas
Mega Resort; Project Concept to be Finalized in Q1 2014
- Adaco
to Launch 'Analytics' for Adaco.Net at HITEC 2013; The global provider
of SaaS-based procurement solutions is unveiling a new hospitality
product that provides hoteliers with a three-dimensional view of their
data and an unprecedented return on investment; Visit Adaco in Booth 309
- Sam
Nazarian, Larry Levy and Bob Heyat Partner to Launch The Redbury Hotel
South Beach; Set to Open Early Fall 2013, Marks the Debut of One of Los
Angeles Hottest Hotel Brands in Miami
- Albuquerque,
New Mexico's Hyatt Regency Downtown to Soon to be Under New Ownership
and Local Control
- Urban
Commons and Brighton Management Purchase the Embassy Suites in Palm
Desert and the Radisson Plaza in San Jose, Both in California
- California
Hotels Corporation to Develop 17-acre Hotel Project in Troy, Michigan;
Expansion and Renovation Project of the 200-room Met Troy Hotel will
Begin in June 2013 with Completion Planned for April 2014
- Fibra
Inn, a Mexican REIT, Completes Acquisition of the 100-room Holiday Inn
Express Guadalajara UAG Hotel with Plans to Add 99-Rooms; Group to
Purchse Five Additional Hotel Properties
- Las
Vegas Strip Culinary Union Preparing for Worst; With Contracts
Expiring, Vote on Increasing Dues to Support Strike Funds
- Um,
Could You Repeat That Please?; Listening Tips from a Once-Terrible
Listener / Tommy Taylor
- Pegasus
Solutions Reports that Global Corporate Bookings Set New Growth Record
in April; +8.8% Increase Over April 2012 is Highest Year-over-year
Increase Since August 2011
- iRiS
Software Systems Reports Record Sales in Q1 and Expands Team Across the
Globe
- Vista
Capital Company Raises $32 Million of Financing for a Portfolio of Five
Hotels in Arizona and Utah
- Duetto
Launches New Product - Duetto Insight - a Revenue Management Solution
Catering to the Unique Needs of Small and Limited Service Hotels
- Eleven
Appoints Industry Veteran Cyndi Shepley as Senior VP of Sales
- Sonnenblick-Eichner
Company Arranges $59,500,000 of Financing for The St. Regis Deer
Valley, Deer Valley, Utah
- New
London Office and EMEA Sales Director Boosts Intelity's Regional
Presence; The company behind the most advanced guest service enterprise
platform in the world sets its sights on Europe, the Middle East and
Asia with further expansion in regional sales and support
- Educational
Institute Honors Navy Lodge Training Programs for Excellence
- HOSPA
and HFTP in Initial Discussions to Expand Association's Showpiece
'HOSPACE' Hospitality Conference and Exhibition
- U.S.
Travel Industry Poised for Strong Summer According to Travel Industry
Leaders; Panelists Discuss Tourism's Impact on the U.S. Economy and
Changing Vacation Demographics
- The
$41 million 200-room Westin Jekyll Island in Georgia Breaks Ground with
a September 2014 Opening Planned; Under Development by Jekyll
Oceanfront Hotel, a Joint Venture Between Leon N. Weiner &
Associates, New Castle Hotels & Resorts and Other Investors
- Kaminski
Hotels Opens the 678-room Grand Kaminski Hotel Shanghai in Pudding,
Shanghai; Reflagging the Former Gran Meliá Hotel Shanghai
- The
127-suite SpringHill Suites by Marriott Set to Open in Green Bay,
Wisconsin in Early June 2013; Owned by Green Bay CS Hotel Group and
Managed by HP Hotels
- Boston's
Newest Boutique Hotel & Restaurant, The Boxer & Finch, Open;
New Owner, Hersha Hospitality Trust, Completes Transformation of the
80-room Hotel, Formerly the Bulfinch Hotel
- The
61-room BEST WESTERN Pioneer Plaza Hotel Opens in Carbondale,
Pennsylvania; Owned by Daniel Sinawa and Managed by Marshall Hotels
& Resorts
- White
Lodging Names Stan Iliev, Amy Davis, Kirsten Monsen, and Nicole
Patterson as General Managers for Properties in Indiana, Nebraska,
Colorado and Illinois
- Brent
Truax Appointed as the General Manager of the 149-room Sierra Nevada
Lodge in Mammoth Lakes, California
- Michael
R. McMahon Named as Director of Sales and Marketing for the 740-key
Arizona Biltmore, A Waldorf Astoria Resort, in Phoenix, Arizona
- Daniel
Keyser and Nancy Wilkerson Appointed to Top Sales Leadership Positions
for Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort in Destin, Florida
- New
Castle Names Jasmin Kobajica as Executive Chef/Director of Food and
Beverage for The Algonquin Resort in New Brunswick, Canada; Currently
Undergoing a $30 Million Renovation, the Hotel will Reopen in Summer
2013 as Part of Marriott's Autograph Collection
May 20, 2013
- The
323-room JW Marriott Houston Downtown Hotel Set to Open in Texas in
Spring 2014; The $80.8 Million Conversion of an Historic Building is
Under Development by Pearl Hospitality
- IHG
Signs Agreement with Dyafah Al Mutahida LLC to Open the 200-key
Staybridge Suites Hira Street in Jeddah; The Debut for the Brand in the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- Wyndham
Hotel Group Enters Singapore with the Opening of Two Properties; The
384-room Ramada and the 405-room Days Hotel Have Been Developed at
Zhongshan Park, Singapore's Newest Development Area
- IRG
Rubber City and Summit Development to Begin Development of a 136-room
Hilton Garden Inn in East Akron, Ohio; A June 2014 Opening is Planned
- Architect
Named for Palm Springs Hard Rock Hotel Rebrand; Hotel-Online and
BuildCentral Add/Update 187 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel
Construction Projects Database
- Supply
of Hotel Rooms to Increase by 7.5% in Chattanooga, Tennessee with at
Least 728 New Rooms Under Construction
- Are
You Ready for The Affordable Care Act? Prepare with Labor Management
Systems by UniFocus
- Pegasus
Solutions Names John Kiszla Vice President, Demand Account Management;
Sales Team Adds Yet Another Executive with Significant Hotel Leadership
Experience
- Warmbrodt
Hotel Investments Announces Sale of the DoubleTree Suites by Hilton
Hotel Omaha, NE
- Cornell
Studies Examine Global Hotel Industry Strategy and Restaurant Social
Media
- Historic
Resort, La Casa del Zorro, to Re-open this Summer in Borrego Springs,
California; The Shuttered Property is being Revived and Managed by HMG
Hotels
- Lausanne,
Switzerland's Beau-Rivage Palace Completes First Phase of Major
Renovation, Unveiling 37 Newly Renovated Rooms and Suites; The $28
Million Project Including 61 Additional Guestrooms will be Complete in
April 2014
- Operated
and Managed by Affiliates of Widewaters Hotels, the 107-room Hilton
Garden Inn Rochester/Pittsford Opens in Upstate New York
- PM
Hospitality Strategies Selected to Operate the 132-key Homewood Suites
by Hilton Oakland Waterfront in California
- Caesars
Entertainment Names Tom Arasi President of Hospitality; Tom Jenkin and
John Payne to Assume New Responsibilities as Global President of
Destination Markets and President of Central Markets and Partnership
Development
- Host
Hotels & Resorts Names Gregory J. Larson as Chief Financial Officer
- Michael
C. Coolidge Named as Senior Vice President, Real Estate & Lodging
Development for CSM Lodging
- Boumediene
Ouadjed Promoted to General Manager of the 99-key Le Méridien
Bora Bora
- Fisher
Island Club Names Samuel Garcia Hotel Manager of the Fisher Island Club
Hotel
- Richard
Ross Appointed as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the 598-key
Hilton Sandestin Beach Golf Resort & Spa in Florida
May 17, 2013
- Boston
Marathon Bombing A Lesson for the Hospitality, Travel and Tourism
Industry: TERRORISM IS HERE TO STAY / James Braver and Dov Shiloh
- Launch
of TrustYou Sabre Red App Delivers Tremendous Time Saving &
Transparency to Travel Agents; Agents Can View Hotels' Overall Ranking
Across All Guest-Review Platforms to Get a Comprehensive Look at How
Properties Fare Without Spending Hours Online
- Nobody
Asked Me, But...No. 102; A Hotel Consultant's Eclectic Opinions; Hotel
History: The Hermitage Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee; Turning Gray Into
Gold; Quote of the Month / Stanley Turkel
- Delaware
North Companies and Boston Bruins Principal, Charlie Jacobs, Planning
Massive Mixed-Use Development for Boston's TD Garden
- Years
After the Process Began, Foreclosure Finally Comes for South Shore Club
in South Beach, Miami, Florida; Online Sale Set for the 309-room Hotel
Operated by Morgans Hotel Group with Majority Owner Philips
International
- Resorts
Group, Banyan Tree, May Spin off its Southeast Asia Hotels into a Real
Estate Investment Trust
- Granite
Properties Breaking Ground on 299-key Hilton Granite Park and Granite
Park IV, a Flagship Master-Planned Development in Plano, Texas
- Engage
Hospitality Personality Hotels Collection Joins Forces with innRoad;
Burgeoning boutique hotel management company sees the value of
integrated hospitality management practices in the cloud
- MICROS
mTablet and mStation Revolutionizes the Hospitality and Retail
Experience; Released in tandem, mTablet and mStation provide
hospitality and retail industries a business solution lacking in
consumer tablets
- Bernard
Ellis Joins Infor as Vice President of Industry Strategy for Hospitality
- University
of New Hampshire Lodging Executives Sentiment Index Remains Flat for
April 2013
- CNBC's
Simon Hobbs to Emcee Cornell Hospitality Icon & Innovator Awards
Gala; Tom Pritzker to Receive Icon of the Industry Award; Steve Ells to
Receive the Innovator Award
- The
Hotel Group Celebrates Grand Opening of its DoubleTree by Hilton in
South Bend, Indiana; Multi-Million Project Transitions Former Marriott
to DoubleTree by Hilton
- The
125-room Hotel Vermont Opens in Burlington, Vermont
- Sonesta
to Manage 200-room Hotel in Bee Cave, Texas; Developer, Hill Country
Texas Galleria, to Break Ground on the Hotel this Year with a 2015
Opening Planned
- Janice
O'Neill-Cox, Director of Sales and Marketing for Hilton
Americas-Houston in Texas, Receives Prestigious Circle of Excellence
Award
- Rodolfo
Fao Appointed General Manager of Hawaii's Newly Re-Opened Volcano House
Hotel
- Highgate
Hotels Appoints Deirdre Yack as Director of Sales and Marketing for the
723-room Lexington New York City
- Julian
Haddon Appointed as Director of Sales & Marketing for Rosewood
London; Core Management Team Members Named Ahead of the Property
Opening in October 2013
- Jackson
Ferguson Named as Director of Sales & Marketing for the 74-room
Warwick San Francisco in California
- JW
Marriott Denver Cherry Creek in Colorado Hires Colin Bennett as Sales
Manager
May 16, 2013
- At
Ataway Exchange 2013, Cendyn® Shares Latest Research/Findings on
How to Compete in a Data-Driven Marketplace, Moderates Panel
Discussion;
Cendyn Hosts Hospitality Digital Marketing Professionals During Private
Lunch Session Titled 'Data is the New Currency of Hospitality Digital
Marketing'
- Hyatt
Place Pensacola Airport Installs FlyteBoard to Give Airport-Bound
Guests More Free Time; Property Gives Guests the Confidence to Stay On
Property Longer, Save Time During Flight Delays
- Aptech,
MSI Implement Interface for Data Communication Between Properties and
Execuvue® Business Intelligence; MSI – Execuvue Interface Enables
Right-Time Property Performance Analysis for Companies with Multiple
Properties, Flags, and Profit Centers
- In
Memoriam, A Tribute to Jeff Henschel, Director of IT, Benchmark
Hospitality; 1963 - 2013
- Silverstein
Properties to Develop $950 million, 82-Story Tower in New York City
Housing the Cities Tallest Hotel & Residences; Project Includes a
185-room Four Seasons Hotel and is Slated to Open in 2016
- From
Red to Black: How Las Vegas' CityCenter Pulled out of the Economic
Morass and Started Making Money
- Marriott
Awards Ten Employees with Company's Highest Honor, the J. Willard
Marriott Award of Excellence
- Value
Place Honors Group of Franchisees, Properties and Property Managers for
Outstanding Performance in 2012
- Sheraton
Myrtle Beach Convention Center Hotel's Suzanne Hinde Named General
Manager of the Year by Interstate Hotels & Resorts
- Camelback
Mountain Resort in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains Plans $145 Million
Expansion; The Project Includes a 453-room Hotel
- Choice
Hotels Enters Joint Venture with Fillmore Capital Partners to Develop
Multiple Cambria Suites Hotel Properties
- Meetings
Focus Live! Cleans the World!; Meetings Focus's Las Vegas hosted buyer
program participants join with Geoteaming and CleantheWorld.org to
donate sanitary supplies to the needy
- Hotel
Assets Group Sees Strong YTD 2013 Closings
- Shaftesbury
Hotels Collection Optimize Sales Distribution and Reservation Processes
with RateTiger; Hotel group connects PMS to RateTiger to improve
operations
- Intelity
Releases Cenium Integrations; The POS and PMS integrations are already
being installed at several hotel properties worldwide
- North
Carolina Developer, Winston Hospitality, Takes on Norwich, Connecticut
Hotel Effort; Completes Foreclosure Action on the Long Abandoned,
Partially Constructed Hotel with Hopes to Complete Construction
- UNWTO
and PolyU Co-Host China Tourism and China Hotel-Branding Forum 2013
- Thailand
Voted the Most Attractive Nation in Southeast Asia for Hospitality
Industry Investment at the Asia Pacific Hotel Investment Conference
- Cambria
Suites Enters Agreements for the 121-suite Cambria Suites McAllen
Convention Center in McAllen, Texas and the 103-suite Cambria Suites
West Fargo in North Dakota; Construction for Both Properties will Begin
in 2013
- The
173-suite SpringHill Suites New York Midtown Manhattan/Fifth Avenue
Opens in New York City; Owned by Hidrock Realty and Robert Finvarb
Companies and Managed by Marriott International
- Choice's
Ascend Hotel Collection Opens its 100th Hotel with the 62-key Hotel
Elan in Calgary, Canada
- Owned
and Managed by Visions Hotels, the 79-room Fairfield Inn & Suites
by Marriott Opens in Elmira, New York
- White
Lodging Executes Management Contracts with RLJ Lodging Trust for the
Residence Inn and Courtyard at Houston's Downtown/Convention Center in
Texas; Both properties will be Led by General Manager Ryan Frederick
- Love
Hotel Management Company to Manage the 70-room Heritage House Resort in
Mendocino, California
- Keith
Vieira, Longtime Head of Starwood's Hawaii & French Polynesia
Region, to Retire at Year's End
- Noble
House Hotels & Resorts Welcomes Joe St. Laurent as General Manager
and Jeff Gillick as Director of Sales and Marketing at Kona Kai Resort
and Spa in San Diego, California
- Gary
Johnson Named as General Manager for Bay Point Wyndham Resort in Panama
City Beach, Florida
May 15, 2013
- The
Press Release: Reports of Its Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated /
Anne Sweeney
- Rainmaker
Signs Agreement With Bloomberry Resorts Corporation and Global Gaming
Asset Management To Implement GuestREV® At New Solaire Resort &
Casino in Manila; Flagship Property Is First Integrated Resort To Open
At Entertainment City Mega-Project
- Industry
Recovery and Data Driven Results Propel Hotels & Resorts to
Success; Vizergy Clients Experience Record Quarter
- What
the Hotel Industry Can Learn From "Heads in Beds" by Jacob Tomsky /
Vikram Singh
- FelCor
Lodging Trust Agrees to Sell the 160-room Holiday Inn-Santa
Barbara/Goleta in California for $24 Million
- Laurus
Corporation Acquires the 392-room Hunt Valley Inn Hotel in Maryland;
Concord Hospitality Enterprises to Operate Hotel, Oversee $10
Million-Plus Renovation and Relaunch as Wyndham Grand Hotel
- JMBM's
Meet the Money® in the Wall Street Journal; Conference panelists
discuss financing new hotel construction / Jim Butler
- Preparing
for Google Penguin 2.0: How To Protect Your Hotel Website / Asher Fusco
- Can
Gift Certificates be a Hotel Digital Marketing Technique? / Pedro Colaco
- First
Textbook on Butlering and Lifestyle Management to be Published; Being
Developed by Experts from The Savoy Hotel and the School of Hospitality
and Tourism at the University of West London with Proceeds Going to The
Prince's Trust and Hospitality Action
- The
Palais Hansen Kempinski Vienna Becomes the First Hotel Property to
Install Quadriga's Award-Winning PMN™ Solution
- Hunter
Hotel Advisors Announces Sale of Hilton Garden Inn in Greenville,
South Carolina
- Luxury
Link Social Experience Debuts with Unforgettable Weekend at Travaasa
Austin; Leading Luxury Travel Website Unveils Its Likeable, Tweetable
Familiarization Trip Concept
- Bittel
is Recharging Hotels' Mobile Services Offering with the Debut of UNO
Media 4 at HITEC
- Lodging
Interactive Awarded for Exceptional Website Design
- Bloomberry
Resorts and Hotels Selects MICROS Technology for its Solaire Manila
Resort & Casino
- Canyons
Resort Expands Insights into Customer Experience with UniFocus Mystery
Shop
- The
Value of Fresh Eyes / Tiffany DeShazo
- New
Lodging Trend, "Cabineering," Debuts in West Yellowstone; New Explorer
Cabins Offer Hotel Perks while Immersed in Nature
- With
Their Research Indicating a Need for More Three-and Four-Star Hotels in
Saudi Arabia, Onyx Hospitality Group Grows Pipeline in the Region;
Beyond the Gulf, Growth Plan Includes Indonesia, India, China, Maldives
and Sri Lanka
- Hostel
Industry Evolves with Launch of Generator's Flagship Urban Design
Property in Barcelona, Spain; With the 154-room Barcelona Hostel, the
Design-Led Hostel Brand, Generator, Opens its First Hotel and
Hostel Combination
- True
North Hotel Group Opens the 126-room Hampton Inn & Suites in
Henrietta, New York
- Following
Major Renovations, the 66-room Holiday Inn Express® Hotel &
Suites Indianapolis North - Carmel Opens in Indiana; Owned by HC Carmel
and Managed by Hotel Capital Management
- L'Auberge
Casino Resort Lake Charles, a Pinnacle Entertainment Property in
Louisiana, Completes its More than $20 Million 754-room Renovation
Project; Phase Two, Renovating Remaining 246 Rooms, to Begin in Early
2014
- Starwood
Hotels & Resorts to Increase Hotel Footprint by 50% in Latin
America in the Next Five Years
- Sleep
Inn by Choice Hotels International Brand Reaches Milestone of 100
Designed to Dream® Hotels; The Brand Currently Ranks at the Top for
New Construction within the Choice Hotels Family of 11 Brands
- Bankruptcy
Trustee Selects Hotel Market Solutions (HMS) to Manage Downtown
Seattle's 114-year-old Montvale Hotel
- Diaoyutai
MGM Hospitality Appoints Mr. William Scott as the Executive Director of
Board
- Choice
Hotels International Appoints Eben Hewitt as Chief Technology Officer
- L'Auberge
Del Mar in California Makes Changes to Sales Team; Promoting Robert
Harter and Jeffrey Livingston and Hiring Jamie Clave
- Sage
Hospitality Names Brandon Hendricks as Area Director of Sales &
Marketing; To Oversee Denver, Colorado's 80-room Oxford Hotel and the
New Union Station Hotel Opening in July 2014
May 14, 2013
- Leading
Meeting/Event Planners Come Together to Review, Praise getplanning at
Cendyn® 2013 Technology Roundtable May 2-4; RoundTableHQ®
Showcases The Latest Technology to Veteran Planners
- Softscribe
Inc. Wins 2013 Communicator Award for Buyer Persona Messaging;
Technology Public Relations Company Earns Award of Distinction for
Second Consecutive Year, Honored from Among 6,000 Entries
- Relax!
Resorts Are Recovering / Robert Mandelbaum & Caroline Robichaud
- Starwood
Sets Targets on Young Millionaires from Generation X and Y Who Comprise
85% of Groups Luxury Guests
- Meet
the Money® 2013 -- Mood of the Hotel Industry and Conference
Presentations / Jim Butler
- Madinah,
Saudi Arabia Needs 500 Hotels in Five Years to Avoid Hospitality
Crisis; 1 Million Visitors Per Month Anticipated Upon Completion of
Expansion Work at the Airport and the Prophet's Mosque
- Playa
Hotels & Resorts Issues a Correction Regarding Reports About its
Intent to Purchase The Ritz-Carlton Rose Hill Jamaica
- Atlantic
City's Revel Exits Bankruptcy with Hopes for a Strong Summer; Will Work
to Reposition Itself with New Marketing and Amenities, Taking Advantage
of $1 Billion Less in Debt and Access to as Much as $69 Million in New
Financing
- Choice
Hotels to Put $40 Million Into its Biggest Brand; Comfort Brand
Nationwide Refresh to be Expanded and Accelerated
- Alex.
Brown Realty, PEG Development and Blue Diamond Capital to Develop Two
Hotels in Downtown Salt Lake City, Utah; The 159-room Hyatt House and
the 175-room Courtyard by Marriott will Both be Managed by Lodging
Dynamics
- The
Westin Ka'anapali Ocean Resort Villas Embraces Guests as 'Ohana' by
Deploying VOC Systems Guest Feedback Solution; Unique mid-stay spoken
reporting system helps renowned Maui resort bolster its impeccable
reputation by capturing and positively impacting guest experiences
- Radisson
Edmonton South Becomes First Hotel in Canada to Launch Lobbyfriend to
Engage Guests in Real-Time; New social network platform for hotel
guests to connect with hotel staff and other guests
- Pennsylvania's
Historic Cornwall Inn, Dating Back to the American Revolution, Going on
the Auction Block
- Montgomery,
Alabama's Winter Building, a Civil War Landmark, to Become Hotel;
Developers Plan the 32-room Hotel Dexter in the Circa 1841 Building and
Two Nearby Buildings
- Lodge
Partners LLC, Owners of Tucson, Arizona's 77-Year-Old Lodge on the
Desert, File for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Reorganization; No
Business Interruption Expected
- Masters
Inn in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina to be Replaced with a 133-room
Hilton Garden Inn
- Kimpton
Hotels & Restaurants and Wessman Development Company to Open New
Palm Springs, California Hotel; Currently Under Development the
190-room Hotel will Open in 2015
- Aureus
Hospitality Group Nears Opening of The Pearl in Rosemary Beach,
Florida; Work on the 55-room Resort Began Seven Years Ago
- Affiliates
of Hyatt Hotels, Aedes Real Estate and UBM Realitätentwicklung AG
to Open the 211-room Hyatt Regency Hotel in Amsterdam in 2015
- Hotusa
Group Debuts in Cuba with the 854-key Eurostars Cayo Santa María
- The
176-room BEST WESTERN PREMIER Waterfront Hotel & Convention Center
Opens in Oshkosh, Wisconsin
- Owned
and Managed by BPR Properties, the 89-room Fairfield Inn & Suites
by Marriott is Set to Open in Smithfield, North Carolina
- Alliance
Hospitality Completes Renovation and Re-Opens the Microtel Inn &
Suites, North Canton in Ohio; The Property Closed in May 2012 Due to
Fire Damage
- Four
Points by Sheraton Pipeline Includes 27 Hotels Slated to Open in the
Next 12 Months; On Track to Open 200th Hotel in 2014
- Choice
Hotels International Opens 88 New Hotels in Q1 2013
- Amy
Wiseman Joins The Dow Hotel Company as Project Management Administrator
May 13, 2013
- hotel
SystemsPro Gives Back: Donates Solutions to Ronald McDonald House
Charities Across the Country; Ronald McDonald House Keeps High Touch
Charity Facilities Running Smoothly with hotel ServicePro Property
Maintenance and Guest Request System
- William
"Bill" Cancellare, 1936 - 2013; The Travel Industry's Favorite
Photographer
- Making
a Difference: Eleven-Year-Old Milo Cress Pushes Restaurants to 'Be
Straw Free,' Or Initiate 'Offer First' Policy
- Labor
Unions Now Looking to Casinos to Bolster Membership in Effort to Combat
Shrinking Ranks
- Register
Now for David Brudney's Sales and Marketing Process Class at Lausanne
Hospitality Consulting's Executive Education Program July 1-3, 2013 in
Lausanne, Switzerland
- Cosmopolitan
of Las Vegas Reports Loss of $24.7 million for Q1 2013
- New
Owner Makes Many Changes at Gothenburg, Nebraska Hotel; Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Have Updated 284 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with
Changes in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership
- Steve
Wynn Ups Ante on Everett, Massachusetts Casino Resort to $1.5 Billion;
Unveils Plans for 550-room Waterfront Hotel with a Projected Summer
2016 Opening
- Millennium
Gaming, Developers of a Salem, New Hampshire Casino, Boost Plans with
$150 million to Add Conference Center, Hotel and Spa to Project
- Bees
are the Buzz at the W Hotel in Austin, Texas
- Greater
Miami & The Beaches Hotel Association Honors Hotel Employees from
Miami-Dade County During its 19th Annual Inn Key Awards Luncheon; Geno
Marron, Bartender, The Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne, & Alisha Heller,
Hostess, The Clevelander Win 'Lodging Employee of the Year' Awards
- EB-5
Alert: California Moves to Make EB-5 Financing More Competitive in the
State -- Changes Rules on TEA Designation / Jim Butler
- HeBS
Digital's CMS Technology Named Finalist for Best Software Programming
by the 2013 American Business Awards and Will Receive the Coveted
Stevie® Award for this Category
- Hotel
Assets Group Brokers Sale of Huntsville Radisson Airport
- Glen
Cove Mansion Launches Roaring 20s Meeting Package On Long Island's
Historic Gold Coast, Setting for 'The Great Gatsby'
- Beating
Out New York City and Miami, Hawaii's Room Rates are Now the Highest in
the U.S.; Latest Figures Show a 13% Room Rate Increase in Hawaii for Q1
2013 Over Q1 2012
- 2013
Industry Relevance Award Given by the Cornell Center for Hospitality
Research to Two Studies Focusing on the Use of Technology to Boost
Industry Revenues
- Check
Out Miami's New Hotel Scene
- Occidental
Hotels & Resorts Closes Agreement on Long-Term Debt Refinancing and
is Set to Begin Refurbishment Plan for its Hotels; Will Renovate 17
Properties throughout the Caribbean and Central America with 2016
Completion Planned
- Embassy
Suites Hotels and Kemmons Wilson, Inc. Break Ground on the Embassy
Suites Tuscaloosa Downtown in Alabama; A Q4 2014 Opening is Planned for
the 154-suite Hotel to be Managed by Wilson Hotel Management Company
- Value
Place Begins Construction on a 124-room Extended-Stay Property in Lake
Charles, Louisiana
- Two
Marathon, Florida Hotel Projects Get Close to Launch; Work Should Begin
Soon on a 125-room Hyatt and a 95-room Courtyard by Marriott
- IHG
Signs Agreement for the 130-room Holiday Inn Quito Airport Currently
Under Development in Ecuador; A 2016 Opening is Planned for the Hotel
Owned by BPO Asesores Empresariales S.A.
- The
99-room Hotel Xenia, the Latest Addition to Great Hotels of the World's
Premium Collection, Opens in London
- Steve
Zanella Promoted to President & COO MGM Grand Detroit
- Barry
Cockrum Named as Director of Sales and Marketing for The 209-key
Alexander, a Dolce Hotel, in Indianapolis, Indiana
- Daniel
Harrison Dumont Appointed as Executive Chef for the 273-key Taj Boston
in Massachusetts
- HTNG
Appoints Senior Hotel IT Executives to Key Leadership Roles
May 10, 2013
- Gloria
Hotel Dubai Expands Digital Marketing with Sabre Hospitality Solutions
- The
LIIC Top 10: Annual Survey of Lodging Investment Trends and Challenges
/ Jim Butler
- DiamondRock
Hospitality Reports 1st Qtr 2013 Net Loss of $4.1 million Compared to
Net Income of $8.9 million for Same 2012 Period.; Qrtly. RevPAR
Increased 2% / Hotel Operating Statistics
- Ashford
Hospitality Trust Report Q1 2013 Net Loss of $23.2 million Compared to
Net Loss of $29.5 million in the Prior Year Quarter; RevPar for all
Hotels Increased 4.3%; Hotel Performance Indicators
- California
Hotels Corporation to Open the World's Largest Econo Lodge in Orlando,
Florida; To Begin Conversion of the 297-room Metropolitan Resort in
June 2013 with an October 2013 Opening Planned
- Ultima
Hospitality Acquires the DoubleTree by Hilton Pittsburgh Airport in
Pennsylvania; The 135-room Hotel will Undergo a Multi-Million Dollar
Renovation Beginning in Q3 2013
- Affiliates
of Hyatt, DiNapoli Capital Partners and Rockwood Capital to Convert a
Denver, Colorado Hotel to the Hyatt Place Denver/Cherry Creek; The
194-room Property will Undergo a Nearly $10 Million Upgrade with a Fall
2013 Opening Planned
- Clear
Sky Software Selected as Preferred Partner for Food & Beverage
Inventory Solutions by Technology Training Associates
- InnLink
CRS and Five Star Hotel Systems Partner to Offer Enhanced Two-Way
Property Management Interface; Adds New Technology, Partnership
Programs for the Hospitality Industry
- Lifeclass
Hotels Doubles Directs Booking with RateTiger; Increasing product
packages and exposure results in 30% revenue growth across 6 properties
- AH&LA
Commends the Appointment of Trudy Rautio, President and CEO of Carlson,
to the U.S. Department of Commerce Travel and Tourism Advisory Board
- White
Lodging and REI Real Estate Services Begin Construction on a 172-room
Hyatt Place Hotel in Bloomington, Indiana; Slated to Open in July 2014
- RAM
Hotels Breaks Ground on the 99-room Courtyard Marriott in Phenix City,
Georgia
- Telluride
Ski & Golf Resort to Acquire the 32-suite Inn At Lost Creek in
Telluride, Colorado
- Owned
by Bristol Hotel, LLC and Managed by Prestige Hospitality Group, LLC,
the 141-room DoubleTree by Hilton Opens in Bristol, Connecticut;
Completing the $20 million Renovation and Rebranding of the Former
Clarion Hotel
- Boomerang
Hotels Enters Agreement with S8MQT, Inc. to Convert their 80-room Hotel
in Marquette, Michigan, to a Settle Inn; A Mid August 2013 Opening is
Planned
- Starwood
Hotels and PT Tiara Raya Bali International Open the 118-room New-Build
Le Méridien Bali Jimbaran in Indonesia
- Turkey
Welcomes the 186-room Shangri-La Bosphorus, Istanbul as it Opens this
Week
- DoubleTree
by Hilton to Open Two Hotels in London this Summer; The DoubleTree by
Hilton London - Hyde Park and DoubleTree by Hilton London - Ealing are
Both in the Final Stages of Renovations Totaling Over $30 Million
- Duke
Hospitality is Set to Open the 112-room Fairfield Inn & Suites
Atlanta - Gwinnett Place in Duluth, Georgia
- The
107-room SpringHill Suites by Marriott to Open Next Week in Midland,
Texas; Owned and Managed by Insignia Hospitality Group
- Abdul
Latif Jameel Real Estate Investment Company to Open its 1,743-room
Anjum Hotel Makkah in Saudi Arabia in July 2013
- The
103-room Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott is Set to Open in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Owned and Managed by Magna Hospitality Group
- Dorchester
Collection Appoints Christophe Hilty as Hotel Manager for 45 Park Lane
in London, England
- Jessica
Andreola Appointed as Assistant General Manager for the 125-room Hotel
Vermont Opening this Month in Burlington, Vermont
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Names Denielle Godwin as Director of Sales
& Catering for Costa d'Este Beach Resort, a Personal Luxury Resort,
in Vero Beach, Florida
May 8, 2013
- YOUR
Guide to Multiscreen Marketing for Hotels and Resorts; Tim Peter
and Vizergy® Provide the Mindset and Strategies You Need to
Capitalize
- NORTHWIND
Announces ResWave2 with Enhanced Direct-Booking and Upsell
Capabilities for Guests, Groups: Strengthens Online Package Promotions,
Activity Bookings, Group Management, Mobile and Social Media
Reservations
- Agilysys
Announces General Availability of InfoGenesis POS v4.4; Latest
Version Features Simplified Architecture, Infrastructure Enhancements
- Walt
Disney Company Parks Division Profit Soars 73% in Latest Quarter;
Overall Profits Grew 32%
- Red
Lion Hotels Reports 1st Qtr 2013 Net Loss of $3.1 million
Compared to Net Loss of $7.2 million Same Period 2012; RevPAR for Owned
and Leased Hotels Increased 1.3%
- Chatham
Lodging Trust Posts 1st Quarter 2013 Net Loss of $1.6 million
Compared to Net Loss of $1.7 million Same Period 2012; RevPAR Increased
4.2%
- Chesapeake
Lodging Trust Posts Q1 2013 Net Loss of $4.9 million
Compared to Net Loss of $.8 million in the Same Quarter 2012; Pro Forma
RevPAR Increases 2.4% / Hotel Operating Statistics
- Labor
Advocates Ask Court to Step Into J.W. Marriott Hotel Dispute
Currently Under Construction in Austin, Texas
- James
Beard Awards 2013 Honor Food World's Finest; Outstanding Chef
Awards Presented to David Chang of New York's Momofuku Noodle Bar and
Paul Kahan of Chicago's Blackbird
- Ashford
Hospitality Trust to Acquire the 142-room Pier House Resort and
Caribbean Spa in Key West, Florida for $90 Million or $634,000 per key
- Use
the Improv's "Yes, AND" Principal to Build a Customer Centric
Culture / Jim Hartigan
- Hotel
Assets Group Sees Strong Transaction Pipeline for 2013
- Pegasus
Solutions Names Temple Weiss Chief Financial Officer; New
Corporate Officer Blends Extensive Hospitality, Finance and Development
Experience
- Latest
Caribbean Tourism Report Delivers Mixed Numbers; Hotel Occupancy
Remains Level Even as Overall Arrivals Dip
- New
Chinese Hotel Group, Ahn Luh, Signs Management Contract with the
Qinsen Group for Two Hotels; The 99-key AhnLuhLanting to Open in
Shaoxing in Fall 2014, and the 35-villa AhnLuhZhujiajiao to Open in
Shanghai in Spring 2015
- Wyndham
Hotel Group Opens the 56-room Days Hotel Olaya in Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia; The First Days Inn Hotel of the 10-Property Deal Between
Wyndham and Riyada International Hotels and Resorts
- Owned
by B & H Group, the 79-key BEST WESTERN PLUS Coldwater Hotel
Opens in Michigan
- The
207-room DoubleTree by Hilton Binghamton Opens in New York
Following Two-Year $15 Million Renovation of the Former Riverwalk Hotel
and Conference Center; Owned by Alfred Weissman Real Estate and
Operated by the Newport Hospitality Group
- W
New York - Union Square Completes $15 Million Renovation
- Kana
Hotel Group Selected to Manage the Hilton Garden Inn - Greenville,
South Carolina
- David
Altobello Joins Interstate Hotels & Resorts as Senior Vice
President of Development and Acquisitions
- Destination
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Kevin Barosso as Assistant
Vice President of National Sales
- Rim
Hospitality Welcomes Two Senior Level Hires; Tony Bruno Joins as
Vice President of Special Projects and Al Ferrone Becomes Vice
President of Food and Beverage
- Jenifer
Cutter Named by Amway Hotel Corporation as General Manager of
the Downtown Courtyard by Marriott in Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Outrigger
Enterprises Group Names Brent Kitsu as Assistant General
Manager for Both the Airport Honolulu Hotel and Best Western The Plaza
Hotel
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Appoints Andrew Blair as Controller
for the 316-key Cheyenne Mountain Resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado
- IACC-Americas
Presents Scholarships and Awards to Hospitality Students
Hanna Giem, Amanda Greenwood and Maggie Baker Basler
May 7, 2013
- Intelity
Wants Hotels to Shine With All-New ICE Sapphire
- Milestone
Internet Marketing's Leading Edge Social Media Products Grabbed Major
Honors with Two IAC Awards
- Without
Warning, Sun Travel & Tours, Owners of Hilton Maldives Iru Fushi
Resort, Terminate Hilton Contract; Guest Cancellations and Staff
Resignations Reported; Hilton Praised for Peaceful Conduct
- Sunstone
Reports 2013 1st Qtr Net Income of $17.5 million Compared to a Net Loss
of $21 million Same Period Prior Year; RevPAR Increases 2.1%
- Summit
Hotel Properties Reports 1st Quarter 2013 Net Income of $1.9 million
Compared to a Net Loss of $2.8 million in the Prior Year Quarter;
RevPAR Increased 7.7%; Acquired Nine Hotels Totaling 1,501 Guestrooms /
Hotel Statistics
- Hospitality
Properties Trust Reports 2013 1st Quarter Net Income of $19.4 million
Down from Net Income of $28.8 million in the Year Ago Qrt.; RevPAR
Increases 7.2%
- Ryman
Hospitality Properties Reports 1st Quarter 2013 Net Income of $53.8
million, Which Includes a Tax Benefit of $66.3 million, Compared to Net
Income of $6 million in the Year-ago Quarter; RevPAR Declined 1.2% /
Hotel Operating Statistics
- U.S.
Hotel Guests Spend More to Rent Rooms, But Not on Much Else; PKF
Reports on Hotel Industry Revenues, Labor Costs, Operating Expenses,
and Profits
- The
Truth is in the Numbers: 2013 is Undoubtedly the Year of the Three
Screens in Hospitality / Max Starkov
- EMEA
Hotel Investment to Hold Firm at $11 Billion for 2013; Jones Lang
Lasalle Reports Hotel Demand Recovering in the Middle East Since the
Arab Spring with RevPAR Moving Towards its 2008 Peak
- Lodging
Interactive Offering Independent Hotels Fully-Integrated Online
Marketing
- Glen
Cove Mansion Hotel and Conference Center on Long Island, New York Names
Jay Zelkowitz as Front Office Manager
- JDA
Software Joins Shift4 as a Preferred Partner
- Case
Study - Expedia Partnership Keeps Ship Afloat During Challenging Times
/ Brett T. Forshag
- Sunstone
Hotel Investors to Purchase the 1,053-room Boston Park Plaza Hotel for
$250 Million
- GF
Management Affiliate Acquires the 123-room Hilton Garden Inn Orlando
North/Lake Mary in Florida; The Property Will Remain Open During a
Planned Six to Twelve Month Renovation
- The
Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company and Jnan Amar Company to Develop the 80-key
Ritz-Carlton Marrakech; Construction is Set to Begin in Q4 2013 with
Completion Planned for Q3 2016
- The
Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company to Open The Ritz-Carlton, Kyoto in Japan in
February 2014; Mr. Yuji Tanaka Appointed as the General Manager for the
136-room Property
- The
Luxury Collection Hotels & Resorts Celebrates the Grand Opening of
the Historic Gritti Palace in Venice, Italy Completing its Over $45
Million Restoration
- NewcrestImage
Plans to Break Ground this Summer for a 124-room Residence Inn by
Marriott in Tyler, Texas; A Summer 2014 Opening is Targeted
- Ocean
Properties Completes Renovations and Re-Opens The Sagamore Resort in
Glens Falls, New York; The 375-room Lake George Destination Returns to
Year-Round Operations for the First Time Since Late 2008
- Lane
Hospitality Re-Branding as Spire Hospitality; Following its 2012
Ownership Change, Lane is Re-branding, Launching New Website and
Relocating its Headquarters
- AH&LA
Representatives to Testify Touting Economic Benefits of Travel and
Tourism at Congressional Hearing; Pro-travel Policies will Increase
Economic Impact of Resident and International Visitors
- Sean
Dee Joins Outrigger Enterprises Group as Executive Vice President and
Chief Marketing Officer
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Appoints Philippe C. Eversdijk as General
Manager for the 350-room Santa Barbara Beach & Golf Resort, Curacao
May 6, 2013
- HVS
Projects Hotel Values to Return to Pre-Recession Highs Last Seen in 2006
- Union
Ties: The Fates of Culinary and the Las Vegas Strip are Inextricably
Linked
- Revenue
Managers - Feeling on Edge? Here's a Way to Stop Costly Pricing
Mistakes / Marco Benvenuti
- Boutique
Hotel Projects in Tampa and St. Petersburg Taking Off as Demand and
Financing Grow
- Architect
Named for 157-Room Coppell, Texas Hotel and Coference Center;
Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 164 Hotel Projects to the New
Hotel Construction Projects Database
- After
a Six Year Delay, the $90 million, 322-room Hotel Van Zandt in Austin,
Texas Set to Rise 16 Stories with Construction to Begin in June
- Hilton
Hotels Heading for Roll in China; To Launch the Hilton Garden Inn Brand
in Five Chinese Cities, Nears Opening of Beijing Conrad Hotel and On
Track to Grow from 32 to 150 Mainland Properties
- JW
Marriott Hotels & Resorts, Under a Long-Term Agreement with
DesarrollosHotelco Turks and Caicos Ltd., to Open a New 380-room JW
Marriott Hotel and Casino on the Island of Providenciales, Turks and
Caicos
- Hilton
and Tashyeed Properties Company to Open the 350-room DoubleTree Suites
by Hilton Bahrain in 2015
- Wyndham
Hotel Group to Open First Wyndham Hotel in the U.A.E.; Partners with
British Developer, The First Group, to Develop the 497-key Wyndham
Dubai Marina Set to Open by 2016
- Hyatt
Hotels & State Unitary Enterprise Enter Agreement for a New Build,
300-room Hyatt Regency in Tashkent, Uzbekistan; Slated to Open January
2015
- The
Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company and Sienna Investment Group Unveil Plans for
New Urban Resort in Sabat, Morocco
- Khalaf
Al Habtoor Receives Lifetime Achievement Award at Arabian Hotel
Investment Conference (AHIC 2013); Second Day of Conference Included
Discussion of Renewed Confidence in Hospitality Development Throughout
MENA Region
- innRoad
Names Matt Neff Executive Director of Sales, North America
- Hotel
Assets Group Has 16 Hotel Portfolios on the Market Today
- Pegasus
Solutions Names Mark Swetman Vice President, Global Sales, Americas;
Experienced Hotel Sales Executive Assumes Leadership of Regional Sales
Team
- Travel
Employment Accelerates in April; Travel Industry Has Added 85% of Jobs
Lost During the Great Recession
- Starwood
Hotels Invests More Than $400 Million in Refreshing its New York City
Portfolio; Unveils Several Newly Renovated Properties Including
Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, Westin New York at Times Square
and W New York - Union Square
- World's
Leading Hotel Groups Announce Major Deals and Project Openings During
the Arabian Hotels Investment Conference (AHIC 2013); 150 Hotels are to
Open in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries in 2013 with 450
in the Pipeline
- Hotel
Rooms in Thailand's Khao Lak to More than Double in Five Years From
9,000 Rooms to 20,000
- Scaled
Down Convention Center Projects in Osceola County, Florida Does Little
in Bolstering Areas Tourism Corridor
- Emaar
Hospitality Group Unveils Vida Hotels and Resorts; New Hotel Chain to
Roll Out in Emaar's Key Global Markets, Starting with the 156-room Vida
Downtown Dubai (Formerly the Qamardeen Hotel)
- Singapore
Brothers Hit Jackpot in China Hotel Sector; Starting with a Single
Hotel in 2004, the Frontier Group Now Has 45 Existing Properties with
130 Building Projects in the Works
- Jakarta-based
Ciputra Group Selects Rosewood Hotels and Resorts to Manage the
Rosewood Tanah Lot Bali and Rosewood Jakarta; Both Scheduled to Open in
2017
- Asha
Companies Acquires Ten New Hotels and Selects Hospitality Management
Corporation (HMC) to Manage the Properties; The Portfolio Totals 860
Guest Rooms Located within North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, and Texas
- Cobblestone
Hotels Breaks Ground on the 44-room Cobblestone Hotel and Suites in
Crookston, Minnesota
- Vienna,
Austria's Hotel Bristol, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Completes First
Phase of Two-Year Restoration Project; Owned by Sacher Group, the Hotel
Plans Completion of Second Phase by Year End
- FelCor
Lodging Trust Appoints Michael C. Hughes as Senior Vice President,
Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
- Shawn
Prescott Named as Sales and Events Manager for the Oceanfront 50-room
Timber Cove Inn in Sonoma County, California
May 3, 2013
- Emerging
a Bit Battered and Bruised, MGM CEO, Jim Murren, Discusses MGM's
Financial Turnaround, the Park on the Strip and the Rolling Stones
- Host
Hotels Reports 1st Quarter 2013 Net Income of $56 million with RevPAR
Up 5.1% / Hotel Operating Statistics
- The
Lowest in Two Years, Hotels Lead CMBS Delinquency Decline
- Wine
Prices Climb as Swelling Demand Puts Squeeze on Supplies
- What's
on Tap? At Caesars Palace, the Answer May Surprise You
- Hard
Rock International, in Collaboration with Bayshore Capital, Plans
Development of Hard Rock Hotel in Daytona Beach, Florida; A 2016 Debut
is Planned for the Beachfront Site Currently Slated for 250 Hotel Rooms
and 100 Condominium Units
- Australia's
First TRYP by Wyndham Hotel to Open in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley;
Owner and Developer Jay McPhee Plans a Mid 2014 Completion
- IHG
Signs Agreement with Airport Hotel Limited for first Holiday Inn in
Mauritius; The 140-room Old Manor House at Plaisance Airport Will
Become the Holiday Inn Mauritius - Plaisance Airport
- Salesforce
and Industry Experts to Present General Sessions at NICC 2013
- innRoad
Names Sandee Swearingen Director of Sales, Southeast
- innRoad
Names Susan Cotton Director of Sales, Northeast; Recognized hotel
industry veteran, Susan brings more than twenty years of hotel sales
and marketing leadership to innRoad
- Boost
Productivity to Control Labor Costs / Ralph Varble
- The
World's Top Concierges Celebrate 60th Anniversary in Queenstown, New
Zealand for the International Congress of Les Clefs d'Or Concierges
- Newly
Submitted Plan for Hotel and Conference Center in Naperville, Illinois'
Freedom Plaza has Commissioners Excited; Proposed Development Includes
a 168-room Embassy Suites
- AWH
Partners and The Lane Organization Begin Construction to Transform the
Recently Acquired Waterfront Boca Raton Bridge Hotel in Florida
- R.D.
Olson Development Breaks Ground on $50 Million 210-room Courtyard by
Marriott at Irvine Spectrum in California; A July 2014 Completion is
Planned
- The
UK's Newcastle upon Tyne Business District Development to Include the
251-room Crowne Plaza Newcastle -Stephenson Quarter
- The
214-room Langham Place, Fifth Avenue to Open Next Week in New York City
as Langham Hospitality Takes Over the Management of The Setai Fifth
Avenue
- b2
Hopes to B the Place to Be; B Hotels & Resorts Opens its First b2
Brand, the b2 Miami Downtown
- Hilton
Worldwide Opens the 177-room DoubleTree by Hilton Sukhumvit Bangkok in
Thailand
- Radisson
Expands Caribbean Presence with Opening of the 124-room Radisson
Aquatica Resort Barbados; Owned by Grand Hotel Limited, the Property
Recently Completed Renovations
- Following
the Completion of a Comprehensive Refurbishment Project, the 201-room
DoubleTree by Hilton Bristol City Centre Opens in England
- The
American Club Resort Hotel in Kohler, Wisconsin Completes its
Renovation of The Carriage House; The Upgrade for the 55-room Annex
Completes the Final Phase of the Resort's Multi-Year Renovation Project
- The
D Las Vegas Teams Up with Lexington by Vantage in Effort to Reach
Untapped Markets
- Demetrio
Maduro Appointed as General Manager for the 433-room CasaMagna Marriott
Puerto Vallarta Resort and Spa in Mexico
- Waterford
Hotel Group Names Christopher Beattie as General Manager of the 78-room
Residence Inn by Marriott in Danbury, Connecticut
May 2, 2013
May 1, 2013
- Flip.to
Brand Advocate Platform Adds Mobile Functionality; Mobile landing page
makes it easier than ever for hotels to leverage guest incentives into
future bookings
- Canalta
Hotels Adopts RoamingAround's Roam Boost Mobile Phone Signal
Enhancement Technology; Boutique hotel operator solves signal strength
weaknesses with affordable solution deployed quickly and without
interruption to the business
- International
Hotelier Claude Feninger Dies at 87
- Hyatt
Hotels Reports 1st Qrt. 2013 Net Income of $8 million Compared to $10
million Same Period Last Year; RevPAR Increased 4.5% / Hotel Operating
Statistics
- Hersha
Hospitality Reports 1st Quarter 2013 Net Loss of $13.1 million Compared
to a Net Loss of $10.7 million in the Year-Ago Quarter; Consolidated
RevPAR up 12% for its 56 Hotels
- Plunging
Production on Hotels and Industrial Property Loans Pull Down CRE
Originations for Q1 2013
- Nobody
Asked Me, But...No. 101; Hotel History: The Pierre Hotel (1930);
Nothing Like Home: Designing the Hotel Experience; My Service as an
Expert Witness; Quote of the Month / Stanley Turkel
- How
Hoteliers Can Leverage New Pinterest Features to Enhance Their Online
Marketing Strategy / Victoria Hsia
- Lake
Las Vegas Hotel Getting New Name -- Again; The 349-room Ravella at Lake
Las Vegas to Become the Hilton Lake Las Vegas Resort & Spa
- Hilton
Banking on Popularity of Thailand; Plans Two More Hotels in Bangkok, A
Hilton and a Waldorf Astoria
- Hotel
Assets Group Contracts the Hilton Garden Inn Ft. Myers with Auction.com
- ZDirect
Updates Forms Center to Create Forms and Surveys on the Fly via ZMail
- Best
Western International Selects MICROS as its Preferred Hosted PMS
Solution Provider
- Pegasus
Solutions Reports First Quarter Global Leisure Bookings Climbed +5.1%;
Global Rates Paid for Both Corporate and Leisure Hotel Stays Moved Past
Prior Year Levels
- Hotel
Pricing and Parity Analysis for the Week of April 25th, 2013 in Europe
& Africa Region
- James
Beard Foundation & Benchmark Hospitality Announce Applications Are
Open for the 2013 Bob Zappatelli Culinary Arts Scholarship
- Cornell
Study Connects Work-Family Imbalance to Employee Turnover
- Bismarck,
North Dakota's United Tribes Technical College (UTTC) Campus to Get
Hotel; A July 2013 Groundbreaking is Planned for the 160-room Hyatt
Place with a Summer 2014 Opening
- Hilton
Garden Inn Team Members Rebuild Staten Island Park Six Months After
Hurricane Sandy
- The
Historic 331-room St. Ermin's Hotel in London Joins the Autograph
Collection
- IHG
Army Hotels Portfolio Expanding to Reach 76 Hotels on 39 U.S. Military
Installations
- Microtel
Inns and Suites to Build Three Hotels in 2013; Currently Operating 10
Properties, the Company Plans for 25 by 2016
- Saudi
Arabia's Frontel for Hospitality Inc. Looks to Grow its Portfolio of
Properties; With Three Hotels to Open in the Kingdom by 2015, the
Company has Strategic Development Plan throughout the Middle East
- The
897-room Grand Hyatt Washington, D.C. and the 836-room Hyatt Regency
Washington, D.C. Complete their Combined Renovation, Totaling $42
Million
- Hospitality
Management Corporation Selected to Manage the New-Build 52-room
Microtel Inn & Suites in Gonzales, Texas; A June 2013 Opening is
Planned
- Bill
Farrell Appointed as General Manager for Tennessee's Hyatt Place
Nashville/Downtown, Joining Director of Sales Nicole Nielsen; The
255-room Hotel, Owned by Affiliates of Host Hotels & Resorts and
White Lodging, Will Open Later in 2013
- Valencia
Group Names Todd Scholl as Director of Sales and Marketing for the
132-room Hotel Sorella Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri
- Carlos
D. Quinones Appointed as Sales Manager for the 187-key Glen Cove
Mansion Hotel and Conference Center on Long Island, New York
- Devon
M. Casciaro Named as E-Commerce Manager the 1,015-room Roosevelt Hotel
in Midtown Manhattan, New York
**Top 25
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Articles - April 2013**
- 2013
World Rankings of The Top 10 Hotel Groups and Top 15 Brands; IHG
Retains Top Spot in Groups With Nearly 660,000 Rooms; Holiday Inn &
Holiday Inn Express Overtake Best Western for Top Spot in Brands
- Top
10 Trends of The Next Generation of Travel: The Millennials / Teresa Y.
Lee
- TripAdvisor
Caught Red-Handed; Glasgow's Bellgrove Hotel, a homeless shelter, finds
itself in TripAdvisor's Top 100 best hotels in the United Kingdom /
Georges Panayotis
- Identifying
Meth Lab Red Flags / Alissa Ponchione
- Musical
Chairs: A History Behind the LodgeNet Bankruptcy / Mark Haley
- When
Should You Choose a Brand for Your Hotel? And When Should the Brand
Manage Your Hotel? / Jim Butler
- Permission
to Say No? Permission Denied. Responding to Guest Requests / Jim
Hartigan
- Don't
Write to Me in that Tone of Voice! 3 Quick Tips to Improve Your
Communication / Tommy Taylor
- Hyatt
Recognizes Excellence Among Owners and Developers with 2013 Awards
- Conde
Nast Traveler Unveils its 17th Annual Hot List of New Hotels &
Spas; 2013 List Features 154 New Hotels and Resorts and 35 Spas from
Around the World
- Hotel
Owner-Operator Disputes: Marriott v Eden Roc; What it All Means for
Terminating Hotel Management Agreements / Jim Butler
- What
the STR Report is to Revenue, TrustYou Comp Index is to Reputation;
Hotels See How They Measure Up - Number of Reviews, Overall Score,
Management Responses, Positive vs. Negative - All in One Report,
Platform-By-Platform Comparison on TripAdvisor, Expedia, Yelp!, Google+
and more
- The
Next Big Hotel Online Revenue Driver Is Here: Google Hotel Price Ads
(HPA) / Sue Wiker and Sara O'Brien
- Airbnb:
More than a Threat, It's a Great Disruptor to the Hotel & Travel
Sector / Vikram Singh
- Blackstone
Group Makes Big Splash in Hawaii with $450 million Purchase of
Leasehold Interest for the 1,230 room Hyatt Regency Waikiki Beach
Resort & Spa; Additional $80 million to be Invested in Property
Renovations
- A
Call to Arms: How to Shift Market Share from the OTAs to the Hotel
Website / Max Starkov
- A
7-Step Strategy to Manage Hotel Online Guest Reviews: Inspired by the
most recent research on responses to TripAdvisor reviews / Miguel Rivera
- Hotel
Asset Management for Colleges and Universities / Matt Arrants
- Excluding
Toiletries, 35% of Hotel Guests Admit to Pocketing Room Amenities;
Danish Guests Most Honest While Americans Rank 23rd According to
Hotels.com Global Survey
- A
Scant 35 Feet from Detonation Site, Boston Hotelier, Mark Hagopian,
Operator of The Charlesmark Hotel, Recounts Aftermath of Marathon
Bombings
- How
to Increase your TripAdvisor Scores by 1.4 Stars with Two Easy Changes
- Interested
in Controlling the Bellagio Fountains? It'll Cost You $250,000 to Push
that Button!
- Five
Years Later, Having Had a Rocky Start, Las Vegas' $1.3 billion Trump
International Hotel - How's it Doing Now?
- Service
Excellence: Can you MAKE your team work like they own it? / Bryan K.
Williams, D.M.
- 4,000
New Hotel Rooms on the Way to Austin, Texas Market
April 30, 2013
- TripAdvisor
Caught Red-Handed; Glasgow's Bellgrove Hotel, a homeless shelter, finds
itself in TripAdvisor's Top 100 best hotels in the United Kingdom /
Georges Panayotis
- Stonebridge
Companies Selects hotel SalesPro for its Entire 47-Property Portfolio;
Stonebridge Taps Cloud-based hotel SalesPro for Integrated Sales
Processes that Close More Business Across Multiple Brands
- Starwood
Reports 1st Qtr 2013 Net Income of $213 million Compared to $128
million Same Period 2012; Worldwide System-wide RevPAR Up 5% /
Systemwide Hotel Statistics
- FelCor
Lodging Trust Posts 1st Qtr 2013 Net Loss of $35.9 million Compared to
Net Loss of $38.1 million in the Year-ago Quarter; RevPAR for its 45
Core Hotels Increased 6.7% / Hotel Operating Statistics
- Strategic
Hotels & Resorts Reports 1st Qtr 2013 Net Loss of $23.4 million
Compared to Net Loss of $31.5 million Same Period 2012; Total North
American RevPAR Up 6%
- Morgans
Hotel Group Reports 1st Qtr 2013 Net Loss of $14.3 million
Compared to a Loss of $16.9 million Same Year Ago Qtr.; System Wide
RevPAR up 17%, the Highest Gain Since 2007 / Hotel Operating Statistics
- Stand
Up And Stand Out – Five Ideas To Heighten Your Hotel's Guest Experience
/ Tom Costello
- Guest
Experience Management: Driven by Genetics, Environment or Both? /
Roberta Nedry
- Refinancing
is the Key to Unlocking Trapped Equity in Hotel Portfolios / Jeff McKee
- Abu
Dhabi's 141 Hotels & Hotel Apartments Post Promising Across the
Board Growth for Q1 2013
- Leonardo
Hotels Extends Contract with RateTiger for Future-Proof eDistribution
and Company Expansion; Online sales of expanding hotel group monitored
and managed with channel management technology by eRevMax
- Tom
Stoffo, CHTP, Earns HFTP's 2013 Certified Hospitality Technology
Professional (CHTP) of the Year Award; Tom is the Director of
Information Technology for Mainsail Lodging & Development
- Affluent
Consumers Prefer to Book Vacation Travel Online
- JW
Marriott Hotels & Resorts Celebrates Opening of its Newly Acquired
Manhattan Landmark, the 509-room JW Marriott Essex House New York
- Marriott
International Enters Agreement with CJSC Globus to Open the 175-room
Marriott Novosibirsk Hotel in Russia; A 2014 Opening is Planned
- Red
Lion Hotels to Expand into Arizona through the Conversion of the
Current Hampton Inn & Suites Phoenix/Tempe-ASU; The 162-room
Property will Convert by the End of May 2013
- Boomerang
Hotels Opens the 180-room GuestHouse International Hotel in Haikou,
China
- Bricton
Group Chosen to Manage the 109-room Hampton Inn & Suites in Ocala,
Florida
- The
Westin Imagine Orlando Changes its Name to The Westin Orlando Universal
Boulevard and Celebrates 5th Year Anniversary
- Trump
Entertainment Resorts Appoints Mario DiGuiseppe as General Manager of
the Struggling Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey
- Lake
Tahoe's West Shore Café and Inn in California Hires Stacie
Krenicki as General Manager and Mike Davis as Executive Chef
- Aqua
Hospitality Hires Steve Velez for Newly Created Mainland Sales Position
April 29, 2013
- Jackie
Robinson's Legacy to Hospitality / David Brudney
- DO's
and DON'TS of Hotel Technology v5 / Terence Ronson
- Choice
Hotels Posts 1st Qtr 2013 Net Income of $15.5 million Compared to $19.9
million Same Year Ago Period; Domestic RevPAR Increases 4.6%; Executed
83 New Domestic Hotel Franchises for Q1 2013, a 30% Increase Over 2012
/ Hotel Operating Statistics
- Hotel
Front Office Staff Still Need Training On Local Area Information / Doug
Kennedy
- Winston-Salem
Holiday Inn Acquires New Ownership; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Have
Updated 241 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with Changes in Personnel,
Property Management or Ownership
- Developers,
Mark Stebbins and Leo Xarras, Plan to Build 15 Hotels in New Hampshire
and Massachusetts within the Next Two to Three Years
- Miami,
Florida Homegrown Hotel Company, Menin Hotels, Seeking Role as South
Beach Powerhouse; Current Projects Represent a $100 Million-Plus
Expansion for the Company
- Investors
on the Lookout for Hotel Opportunities in Asia's Emerging Markets;
Jones Lang LaSalle Reports Hotel Transactions in Asia up 190% in Q1
2013 Over Q1 2012
- Grace's
Distinctive Properties Announces New Italian Hotel Collection Brochure;
Guide Highlights Superior Luxury Properties Throughout Italy, Providing
Trusted Resource for the Travel Professional
- Public
Notice of Request for Proposals for Development and Operation of a
Limited Service Micro-Hotel at Minneapolis - St. Paul International
Airport
- Pegasus
Solutions Names John Owens Senior Vice President, Distribution Sales;
International Sales Executive and Company Veteran Chosen to Develop
Core Business
- Hotel
Assets Group Discusses How the Firm Markets Individual and Portfolio
Hotel Deals
- Warmbrodt
Hotel Investments Announces Sale of the Red Roof Inn, Minneapolis
Plymouth, MN
- Pressure
Building at the New Jersey Shore: Sandy Recovery in Full Swing, but
Tourism May Fall Short in Contrast to the $19 billion Generated Last
Year
- The
First Middle East Hotel Investment Forum will be Held Ahead of the
Arabian Hotel Investment Conference (AHIC 2013); Industry Experts will
Provide Insight into Hotel Deals Closed in 2012 and Opportunities for
2013
- AH&LA
Establishes Scholarship to Honor Joe McInerney; More than $150,000 will
Help Future Lodging Students
- Meet
Minneapolis Convention and Visitors Association Board Forms Task Force
to Complete Hotel Feasibility Study
- Choctaw
Casino Hotel to Open this Week Near the Arkansas-Oklahoma State Line as
Part of the Casino's Expansion Project
- The
91-room Magnuson Hotel, Formerly the Reagan Hotel and Suites, Opens in
Dixon, Illinois
- Several
New and Renovated Hotels Targeting Upscale Tourism to Open this Summer
in the Southern New Jersey Shore
- Wyndham
Hotel Group Appoints Kathy Maher as Senior Vice President, Revenue
Management
- Barry
Bloom Joins Inland American Lodging Advisor as its Executive Vice
President of Asset Management and Chief Operating Officer
- White
Lodging Promotes Dave Montrose and Michelle Steffens to Senior Regional
Vice Presidents of Select-Service
- Noble
House Hotels & Resorts Appoints Angie Combes as Director of
Catering and Conference Services for The Commons Hotel in Minneapolis
April 26, 2013
- Forbes
Travel Guide Adds London as its First Destination in Europe for its
Five Star Rating System; 31 Hotels and Spas in London Honored,
Including 6 Hotels and 2 Spas Achieving the Coveted Five Star Rating
- Biggest
Myths About WordPress Perpetrated by Hotel Marketing Agencies / Vikram
Singh
- Wynn
Resorts Reports 1st Quarter 2013 Net Income of $203 million Compared to
$140.6 million Same Quarter 2012; RevPAR for Las Vegas Operations up 6%
Over the Prior Year Quarter
- Pebblebrook
Hotel Trust Reports Q1 2013 Net Loss of $4.9 million Compared to Net
Loss of $7.2 million Same Year Ago Quarter; RevPAR Increased 8.5% /
Hotel Statistical Data
- Starwood
Completes Sale of the 410-room W New Orleans to Chesapeake Lodging
Trust for $65 million; Closely Follows Chesapeake's March 2013
Acquisition of W New Orleans - French Quarter
- Chicago's
Circa 1912 Atlantic Bank Building to Undergo $20 Million Renovation and
Re-Open as the Hotel Indigo Chicago-Millenium Park Hotel; A Spring 2014
Opening is Planned for the 156-room Hotel Owned by Crown Series 168
North Michigan LLC and Managed by First Hospitality Group
- RIU
Hotels & Resorts to Expand its City Brand, Riu Plaza Hotels; To
Open Riu Plaza Berlin in Germany in Early 2014 and the Riu Plaza New
York Times Square in 2015
- Red
Lion Hotels Sells Commercial Mall in Kalispell, Montana; Enters Lease
Agreement to Continue Operating the 170-room Red Lion Hotel Kalispell
- How
to Increase your TripAdvisor Scores by 1.4 Stars with Two Easy Changes
- Eleven
Updates Gaylord Hotels with Feature-Rich Guest Internet Access; The
ElevenOS guest Internet management platform was deployed to nearly
8,000 guest rooms in just one week
- eRevMax
Focuses on APAC Growth to Meet Demand Acceleration; Prashant Menon
promoted to Vice President of Sales for the region
- Pegasus
Solutions Sells Financial Services Division; Company Goes Into Growth
Mode to Renew Focus on Core Distribution and Reservation Business
- Marriott
International Selects Cloud-based MICROS OPERA as Its Next-Generation
Property Management System for all North America Properties
- CSM
Lodging Executives Receive "President's Award" by Carlson
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Names Erin Hockey Recipient of the Annual Bob
Zappatelli Culinary Arts Scholarship; Presented annually with The James
Beard Foundation, New York
- Hotel
Statistical Data Provides Optimism in Owensboro, Kentucky with Two New
Hotels Coming to Fill Void
- Cobblestone
Hotels Breaks Ground on the 36-room Cobblestone Hotel and Suites and
One Box Convention Center in Broken Bow, Nebraska
- Hyatt
Hotels, Concord Hospitality Enterprises, and Oxford Development Company
Open the 136-key HYATT house Pittsburgh-South Side in Pennsylvania;
Under the leadership of General Manager Michael Rhoten and Director of
Sales Danielle Phillips
- The
134-room Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites New Orleans Airport
South Opens in Louisiana; Owned by New Orleans Hotel Partners, and
Managed by Expotel Hospitality
- Owned
and Managed by SilverBirch Hotels & Resorts, the 148-room Fairfield
Inn & Suites by Marriott is Set to Open in St. John's, Newfoundland
in May 2013
- The
50-room FairBridge Inn Express Opens in Roseburg, Oregon
- Sonesta
to Open the 426-room Sonesta Gwinnett Place in Atlanta, Georgia;
Assuming Management of the Current Atlanta Marriott Gwinnett Place
- Michelle
Strong Appointed Dual General Manager at the Marriott Courtyard and
TownePlace Suites in DFW
- Konover
Hotel Corporation Appoints Three New General Managers within its
Midwest Hotel Portfolio; Naming Heather Ann Bennett, David Rains and
Pete Fortune as the New Leaders
- Jackson
Cherry Named Manager of Hotel Operations for the 598-key Hilton
Sandestin Beach Golf Resort & Spa in Florida
- Waterford
Hotel Group Appoints Alan Miller as General Manager of the 120-room
Courtyard by Marriott in Norwich, Connecticut
- Dan
McKeon Appointed as Resident Manager of the JW Marriott Washington, DC
- The
Kessler Collection Names Jeannie DiGrappa as Regional Sales Manager for
its Western Properties
- Cedric
Sordillon Named as Director of Food and Beverage for the 252-key
Radisson Blu Resort, Marina & Spa St. Martin in French St. Martin
April 24, 2013
- The
Spa at Ponte Vedra Inn & Club Uses Online Booking to Dramatically
Increase Revenue; Gift Card Sales Increase 24% over Prior Year with New
Website
- What
the STR Report is to Revenue, TrustYou Comp Index is to Reputation;
Hotels See How They Measure Up - Number of Reviews, Overall Score,
Management Responses, Positive vs. Negative - All in One Report,
Platform-By-Platform Comparison on TripAdvisor, Expedia, Yelp!, Google+
and more
- Denis
Hennequin Removed as Accor's Chairman and CEO; Board of Directors
Releases Statement Regarding Transition of Executive Team
- Wyndham
Worldwide Reports 1st Qtr 2013 Net Income of $27 million Compared to
$32 million for Same Period 2012; Domestic RevPAR Grew 6% While System
Wide RevPAR Increased 4% / Brand Operating Stats
- Caesars
Entertainment Forming New Growth-Oriented Venture with $500 million
Investment from Apollo Management and TPG Capital; Capital will Allow
Caesars to Fund Growth Opportunites in a Less Levered Environment
- Thoughts
from the Golf Industry Show: Part One of Three / Darius Hatami
- HOTELSnyc
Keynote Announcement: Richard Born - Save 25% & Register Today!
- AH&LA
Honors Members From Across the Country with State Leadership Awards and
the John Whitaker Award; J.W. Marriott, Jr. Presented with Voice of the
Industry Award
- LeisureLink
and ReviewPro Team Up to Integrate Online Reputation Management with
Hotel Distribution; Consumer reputation scores influence distribution
and revenue management decisions
- Sonnenblick-Eichner
Company Arranges $34,000,000 of Financing for VWI Hotel Portfolio
- Hotel
Assets Group Speaks On Today's Current Real Estate Cycle
- Always
Big, March Bigger Still this Year for Orlando Hotels; Occupancy Rates
are the Best in Eight Years at 84.3% Along with ADR Increase of 6.8%,
the Best in Five Years
- Westgate
Resorts Founder David Siegel Named to Central Florida Hospitality Hall
of Fame for 2013
- Depression
Era Madison House Hotel in Atlantic City Going on Auction Block; The
126-suite Boutique Hotel has been Closed since 2006
- Great
Wolf Resorts Investing in Resort-wide Expansion; All 11 Great Wolf
Lodge Resorts to Receive Renovations and New Amenities and Attractions
in 2013
- White
Lodging to Build a 346-suite Hyatt Place/Hyatt House Dual-Branded
Property in Downtown Denver, Colorado; Construction Start Planned for
Fall 2013 with a Spring 2015 Opening
- Doubletree
by Hilton to Debut in Portugal with the 139-room DoubleTree by Hilton
Lisbon - Fontana Park Opening in Summer 2013; The Conversion of the
Fontana Park Hotel with Occur Through a Management Agreement with
Turismadeira SA
- Hilton
Worldwide Signs Franchise Agreement with Panchshil Hotels Pvt. Ltd. to
Open the DoubleTree by Hilton Pune-Chinchwad in India; A June 2013
Opening is Planned for the 115-room Hotel
- IHG
Opens the 213-room Crowne Plaza Duqm in Oman
- The
506-key Crowne Plaza Madinah Opens in Saudi Arabia
- Marriott
Institute of Hospitality Education Makes Debut in China in Co-Operation
with Anhui Zhong-Ao Institute of Technology; To Enroll 300 Students in
2013 for a Three-Year Diploma Program
- Unite
Here and Chicago Area Hilton Hotels Reach Agreement Several Months
Before Existing Contract Expires
- Atlantic
City's Trump Plaza Woes Continue as General Manager, Eddie Llambias,
Moves On to Try His Luck Elsewhere; Named as Vice President and General
Manager of the Bally's Casino in Tunica, Mississippi
- Mary
Jo "MJ" Baird Hired as Group Sales Manager for the 322-key Meritage
Resort and Spa in Napa, California
April 23, 2013
- The
Next Big Hotel Online Revenue Driver Is Here: Google Hotel Price Ads
(HPA) / Sue Wiker and Sara O'Brien
- Agilysys
Announces Availability of Lodging Management System® v7.2; LMS v7.2
Includes Key Enhancements, Can be Viewed at HITEC 2013
- Travel
Tripper Now Offers Inbound Booked Airline Data Integrated into the
Revup Revenue Management Platform
- Billionaire
Investor Carl Icahn Blocks Sale of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino to the
Meruelo Group; Argues that the Location of the Atlantic City Property
Alone Makes it More Valuable than the $20 Million Proposal
- U.S.
News & World Report Releases Inaugural Ranking of the Best Hotels
in Mexico
- Trends
in Hotel Marketing: Social Search, Utility Marketing and Converged
Media / Daniel Edward Craig
- March
Brought Gold to South Florida Hoteliers; Perfect Storm of Events and
Factors Generated Highest Occupancy and Room Rates in Years
- Boom
Years are Over for Singapore's Tourism Industry with Growth Rate
Expected to Slow by 50% Over the Next 10 Years
- Elite
Meetings Alliance at Hotel del Coronado Delivered Record Appointments,
Enthusiastic Teamwork and Outstanding Business Results
- Grand
Pacific Resort Management Wins Gold at ARDA World 2013; Timeshare
Management Company Receives Four Top Prizes among its 16 Finalists
- Top
10 Ways 'VirtualHotel' is Enhancing the Guest Experience; Designed by
hoteliers for hoteliers, the interactive mobile app is proving to drive
revenues, satisfaction, loyalty and more.
- Is
Your Hotel Part of the Social Media Conversation? CoMMingle by Lodging
Interactive is bringing relevancy and consistency to a hotel's social
media marketing campaign while planning, socializing, engaging and
measuring effectiveness
- ZENO
Controls LLC and ILLUMRA Collaborate to Develop InnPoint Solution for
Hotels; InnPoint Hospitality Solution is the first product jointly
engineered by these lighting and energy-control technology partners
- Guest-tek
Welcomes New Addition to Sales Team
- Educational
Institute Announces New Vice Presidents for Domestic Sales, Global
Sales, and Information Technology
- The
End of the Luxury Market as we Know it? / Jean Francois Mourier
- Outlook
is Good for State of New Hampshire's Tourism Industry; Attendees at
Annual Governor's Conference on Tourism Express Optimism for 2013
Spring and Summer Season
- Doubletree
by Hilton Debuts in Australia with Three Northern Territory Openings as
Hilton Hotels & Resorts Opens its First Property in Darwin; The
Four Hotels will Open May 1, 2013 through Conversions
- Owned
and Operated by Ascent Hospitality, the 131-room DoubleTree by Hilton
Montgomery Downtown Opens in Alabama; Completing the 16-month, $13
million Renovation and Re-branding of the Former Clarion
- Generations
Resorts by Karisma Brand to Debut in June 2013 in Riviera Maya, Mexico;
The 30-suite Generations Maroma to Open in June Followed by the 144-key
Generations Riviera Maya in November 2013
- New
Jersey's Teaneck Marriott at Glenpointe on Schedule to Complete
Multi-Million Dollar Renovation Project in June 2013
- Yelda
Taluk Ülker Named as Assistant General Manager, Sales &
Marketing for the 270-room Marti Istanbul Hotel in Turkey
April 22, 2013
- Having
Led the Nation in Every Negative Economic Indicator, New Signs of Life
Begin to Arise in Las Vegas
- Inland
American Real Estate Trust Acquires Colorado's Residence Inn Denver
City Center for $80 Million; Sage Hospitality will Continue to Manage
the 228-room Hotel
- Modus
Hotels Partners with Alex. Brown Realty to Acquire The Normandy Hotel
in Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C.; The 75-room Hotel was Purchased for
$16 Million or $213,000 per key
- Robert
Earl Holding, Owner of the Sun Valley Resort in Idaho, Dies (1926 -
2013)
- Japanese-style
Hotel and Spa Proposed for Morikami Park in Palm Beach County, Florida;
County Officials Considering Putting the Project Up to Bid to Seek
Interested Developers
- Financial
Woes Once Again Facing Park Hyatt Aviara as Owners, Broadreach Capital
Partners and Maritz, Wolff & Co., Become Delinquent on $186 million
Loan for the Carlsbad, California Property / Lori Weisberg
- Hotels
in Owensboro, Kentucky Experience Banner Year; Revenue Up 21 Percent
from Last Year to $15 million and Occupancy at the Highest Level Since
1994
- New
Murray, Utah Hotel Set to start Construction in Second Quarter of 2013;
Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 147 Hotel Projects to the New
Hotel Construction Projects Database
- Interested
in Controlling the Bellagio Fountains? It'll Cost You $250,000 to Push
that Button!
- Downtown
Milwaukee, Wisconsin Hotels Likely to Feel the Impact of Projected
Development; Including the 205-room Marriott Set to Open in July 2013,
the Area's Room Count is Expected to Increase by 26% Over the Next Few
Years
- Hotel
Assets Group Speaks On Current State of Hotel Debt
- How
to Value a Hotel Using The Economy, Financing, Market Place, Brand,
Product and PIP as Guides / Greg Morris
- Award
Winning iRiS Software Systems to Launch New Spa Application at AHTEC
2013 in Hong Kong
- PolyU
Study Investigates Link Between Leadership Style of Hotel Managers and
Their Perceptions of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
- Sale
of the 140-unit Pier House Resort and Caribbean Spa in Key West,
Florida Appears Imminent
- Another
Peninsula Hotel, a 54-room Project, Proposed as Charleston, South
Carolina Looks to Tighten Lodging Rules; With More than 1,800 Rooms
Already Proposed for the Area Some are Concerned About Overbuilding
- Hyatt
and Huayuan Property Co. to Develop the 324-room Grand Hyatt Hotel in
Changsha, Hunan Province in Central China
- Stonebridge
Companies Set to Open the 302-room Dual-Branded Hampton Inn &
Suites and Homewood Suites by Hilton Denver Downtown-Convention Center
in Colorado
- Carlson
Rezidor Hotel Group Adds to Asia Pacific Portfolio in Q1 2013; New
Deals and Hotel Openings in China, India, Indonesia and Philippines
Result in a Total of 163 Hotels in Operation or Under Development in
the Region
- IACC-Americas
Presents Education Awards for Excellence; Recognizing Tom Cole, Sean
Anderson and Sean Sands for their Contributions to IACC Education
- Noble
House Hotels & Resorts Appoints Robert Sawyer as Director of
Accounts for Gateway Canyons Resort in Gateway, Colorado
April 19, 2013
April 18, 2013
- Blackstone
Group Makes Big Splash in Hawaii with $450 million Purchase of
Leasehold Interest for the 1,230 room Hyatt Regency Waikiki Beach
Resort & Spa; Additional $80 million to be Invested in Property
Renovations
- Top
10 Trends of The Next Generation of Travel: The Millennials / Teresa Y.
Lee
- LaSalle
Hotel Properties Posts 1st Qtr 2013 Net Loss of $7.4 million Compared
to a Net Loss of $16.1 million in the Prior Year Quarter: RevPAR Grew
to $132.89, an Increase of 3% / Hotel Operating Statistics
- Whitefish,
Montana Could be Home to a $70 million Resort with a Convention Center
and 150-room Upscale Hotel; Unnamed Developer Could Break Ground as
Early as Fall 2013
- Chartres
Lodging Acquires the 360-room Radisson Plaza Hotel Minneapolis in
Minnesota; Renovations to Begin with Completion and ReBranding to
Radisson Blu Planned for 2014
- Hilton
Garden Inn Steps Up Development in College Locations
- Philippine
Developer, Ayala Land Inc (ALI), to Develop Chain of Affordable Hotels;
Plans for Portfolio of 4,000 Rooms by 2015
- Raising
the Bar: Five-story, $100 million Hakkasan Setting a Precedent for Las
Vegas Nightlife
- 'Metropolis'
High Profile Downtown L.A. Full City Block Development Site Comes To
Market
- California
School Wins Educational Institute's 2013 International Lodging
Management Program Competition
- The
H Hotel in Michigan Selects Clear Sky Software's Food & Beverage
Inventory System for Managing and Controlling all F&B Inventory
- Premier
Inn India Increases Online Bookings to over 20% with RateTiger
- Renowned
Hotel eCommerce Expert to Address Second Annual Hospitality Marketing
Exchange Event in Miami; Ocean Properties' Loren Gray to open 2013 HME
Conference with session entitled "Generating Revenue in Hospitality -
Old School Style with Today's Tools"
- Hampton
Hotels Continues Growth with 22 Openings in Q1 2013; Including Two New
Properties in Colombia and First Dual-Branded Hampton Inn &
Suites/Home2Suites in Huntsville, Alabama
- Marriott
International to Open the 135-room Courtyard by Marriott Ulyanovsk in
Ulyanovsk, Russia; To Open in 2015 Operating Under a Management
Agreement with LLC New City
- The
465-room Novotel Dubai Al Barsha is Set to Open in Dubai in Summer 2013
- Hotel
Indigo Brand to Debut in Italy with the 64-room Hotel Indigo Rome-St
George; A Q1 2014 Opening is Planned Following the Conversion of the
St. George Hotel
- AH&LA
Shows Support for Introduction of Immigration Legislation
- Destination
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Mark Hays as Senior Vice President &
Chief Financial Officer
- Hilton
Garden Inn Names Heidi Wilcox as the Brand's First Female Owners
Advisory Council (OAC) Chair
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Appoints José Castro as Director of
Revenue for Bonaventure Resort & Spa in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
April 17, 2013
- A
Scant 35 Feet from Detonation Site, Boston Hotelier, Mark Hagopian,
Operator of The Charlesmark Hotel, Recounts Aftermath of Marathon
Bombings
- Kokua
Hospitality Managing Grand Historic Venue; Vizergy® Delivering
Online Presence to Match; Companies Expect 100% RFP Increase at Premier
East Coast Meeting Venue
- Hyatt
Recognizes Excellence Among Owners and Developers with 2013 Awards
- Go
With the Flow; An Analysis of Flow Multiples Measuring Revenue Retained
as Profits / Gary McDade & Robert Mandelbaum
- North
Carolina's Fort Bragg to See Nearly $60 Million in Improvements to
Guest Lodging; Army Turns Over Guest Lodging Operations to IHG with a
Holiday Inn Express and a Candlewood Suites Planned
- Survival
of the Fittest - Analysts State Closing of Atlantic City's Weak Casinos
Would Benefit Survivors
- A
February to Love for Hawaii's Hoteliers; Records Broken by Visitors
Include RevPAR, Which Rose 16.4%, Setting an All Time High
- The
Historic 104-room Abraham Lincoln Hotel in Reading, Pennsylvania is
Acquired; New Owner, Alan Shuman, Plans $10 Million Renovation and
Extends Contract with Wyndham
- Norfolk,
Virginia's Rush for New Hotel and Conference Center Persuades Nobody
- "Still
On The Road To Sales and Guest Service Excellence": A Collection of
Articles by Doug Kennedy
- The
SmarTV Company and InterKnowlogy Partner to Bring Powerful
Next-Generation Guest Interaction Experience to Hoteliers
- Hotel
Assets Group Announces Sale of the Holiday Inn, Jacksonville, Florida
- Carlton
Hotel Budapest Extends 10-year Relationship with Pegasus Solutions;
Boutique Hotel Renews for Three Years Under Pegasus Connect+ Gold
- TRITON
HK Application is Revolutionizing Housekeeping Operations
- Pullman
Selects Quadriga as its Preferred Global Guest Technology Partner
....and deploys Quadriga's HTNG award-winning PMN solution (Most
Innovative Hospitality Technology of 2012)
- Santika
Hotels & Resorts Augments Their Pricing Decision Support Process by
Selecting RateGain's Rate Intelligence Solution
- Two
New Studies from Cornell Center for Hospitality Research Focus on Hotel
Technology and Brand Market Research; Provides Model for Strategic
Integration of Hotel Technology and Details Best Western's Process for
Brand Research
- New
85-room Hampton Inn & Suites Hotel Planned for Chippewa Falls,
Wisconsin; Groundbreaking Slated for July 2013 with Completion Planned
for May 2014
- Getting
Serious? Broward County, Florida Claims to be Ready for Convention
Center Hotel, Again.
- Best
Western Hotels in Denmark Experience Another Record Breaking Year in
2012 with Revenue Growth of 15% Over 2011; 2013 Marks 30th Year for
Best Western in Denmark
- DoubleTree
by Hilton Hotel & Conference Center La Mola Opens in Catalonian
National Park in Spain; Completing the Renovation and Rebranding of the
186-room Hotel
- The
153-room Courtyard Cleveland University Circle to Open this Month in
Ohio; Owned by the Snavely Group and Managed by Concord Hospitality
- Laurus
Corporation Opens the 130-room Holiday Inn Express at New Orleans
Airport, Completing the Renovation and Rebranding of the Former Ramada
Suites Hotel
- Marriott
International Names Stephanie Linnartz as Chief Marketing and
Commercial Officer; To Focus on Next Generation Travelers New Global
Position Bundles all of the Company's Consumer-Focused Disciplines
- White
Lodging Names New General Managers for Three Properties in Colorado,
Florida and Indiana; Promoting Nick Kelley, Jason Crumpacker and
Lynnette Tjaarda
- Dow
Hotel Company Makes Two Senior Management Appointments at the Hyatt
North Houston in Greenspoint, Texas; Appoints Jayne Murad as Director
of Human Resources and Benjamin Moore as Controller
- Equus
at Castle Hotel & Spa in Tarrytown, New York Names Marc Lippman as
Executive Chef
- Bavarian
Inn Matriarch, Dorothy Zehnder, at 91 Receives the Outstanding
Achievement in Tourism Award; Honored by Michigan Lodging and Tourism
Association
April 16, 2013
- Conde
Nast Traveler Unveils its 17th Annual Hot List of New Hotels &
Spas: 2013 List Features 154 New Hotels and Resorts and 35 Spas from
Around the World
- Wyndham
Indianapolis West Hotel Enhances Guest Experience with Flyte Systems
Real-Time Airport Flight Display; Real-Time Airline Schedule Display
Keeps Guests on Property When Flights are Cancelled
- Killing
Mobile Phone Dead Spots in Specific or All Areas of a Hotel is Now an
Economically Viable and Practical Solution Thanks to RoamingAround
- Permission
to Say No? Permission Denied. Responding to Guest Requests / Jim
Hartigan
- A
Call to Arms: How to Shift Market Share from the OTAs to the Hotel
Website / Max Starkov
- A
7-Step Strategy to Manage Hotel Online Guest Reviews: Inspired by the
most recent research on responses to TripAdvisor reviews / Miguel Rivera
- 22-Year-Old
Amelia Fredenburg, Room Attendant at the Otesaga Resort Hotel in
Cooperstown to Receive the New York State Hospitality & Tourism
Association's 2013 Outstanding Roomkeeper of the Year Award; Promoted
to Housekeeping Office Coordinator after Just a Year of Employment
- AAA
Michigan Presents Four Diamond Awards to 15 Hotels and 5 Restaurants at
"2013 Pure Michigan Governor's Tourism Conference"
- Thirteen
Michigan Tourism "Stars of the Industry" Honored by the Michigan
Lodging and Tourism Association
- Lodging
Interactive Teams with InnLink to Offer Booking Engine, GDS/OTA
Connectivity; Integration partnership offers hotels a complete turn-key
approach to online reservations and website marketing
- Newmarket
Receives 2013 Confirmit ACE (Achievement in Customer Excellence)
Awards; Confirmit's prestigious awards program recognizes leaders using
Voice of the Customer to increase customer satisfaction and improve
business results
- MHI
Hospitality Corporation Changes Name to SoTHERLY Hotels Inc.
- The
451-key Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center in Colorado Completes $5
Million Renovation of Public Spaces
- California's
245-key Courtyard by Marriott San Diego Downtown Completes $5.8 Million
Renovation of Public Spaces, Meeting Rooms and Guest Rooms; The Hotel
is Owned by Affiliates of Wheelock Street Capital and Managed by Sage
Hospitality
- Griffin
Gate Marriott Resort & Spa in Lexington, Kentucky Completes $5
Million Upgrade to Guest Rooms; Finishing Phase One of Expansive Three
Year Renovation Project
- The
199-room Chattanoogan, a Benchmark Hotel, in Tennessee Renovates
Meeting and Event Facilities
- RLJ
Lodging Trust Promotes Leslie D. Hale to Executive Vice President; Ms.
Hale will Serve in a Dual Role of Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer
- Carlson
Rezidor Hotel Group Appoints Todd Folbrecht as Vice President,
Development, Americas
- Natalia
Luna Named as Director of Sales and Marketing for The Courtyard Isla
Verde Beach Resort in Puerto Rico
- Carl
Anderson Appointed as Director of Food and Beverage for The Modern
Honolulu, a 353-room Boutique Hotel in Waikiki, Hawaii
- La
Toque at the 180-room Westin Verasa Napa Names New Sommelier Team;
Richard Matuszczak Appointed as Lead Sommelier and Zoe Hankins as
Assistant Sommelier
April 15, 2013
- Stop
Over-Taxing Tourists, Says Marriott Hotel Boss, Arne Sorenson, With an
Eye on Global Growth
- In
Memoriam: Dan Musser Jr. (1932-2013) Turned Mackinac Island's Grand
Hotel in Michigan into a Destination
- Excluding
Toiletries, 35% of Hotel Guests Admit to Pocketing Room Amenities;
Danish Guests Most Honest While Americans Rank 23rd According to
Hotels.com Global Survey
- New
Property Manager for 638-room Las Vegas Hotel; Hotel-Online and
BuildCentral Have Updated 197 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with Changes
in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership
- Coffee
Day Hotels and Resorts, a Subsidiary of Bangalore, India-Based
Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading Co., Plans to Add Seven Properties in
the Next Five Years, More than Doubling its Current Luxury Hotel
Portfolio
- RFR
Holding and W Hotels Worldwide to Debut W Brand in Israel with the W
Tel Aviv - Jaffa and the Residences at W Tel Aviv - Jaffa; Slated to
Open in 2015 in Revitalized and Historic Jaffa District
- Hilton
Worldwide Signs Management Agreement with YAPAR SA de CV for the
130-room DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Toluca, Mexico; Currently the
Hotel Campanario, the Hotel will Undergo Major Renovation, Expansion
and Re-Branding, to Reopen Late in 2014
- Chef
Alain Ducasse Given The Lifetime Achievement Award, Part of The World's
50 Best Restaurants Awards 2013
- Newly
Renamed The Lodge at Gainesville Aligns Itself with the City It Loves
- Hotel
Industry Veteran And FSU Alumnus Frank Nardozza Inducted Into FSU
College of Business Hall of Fame
- HeBS
Digital Continues to Raise the Bar with Four Internet Advertising
Competition Awards
- Hotel
Assets Group Announces 24 New Hotel Engagements in the Last Six Weeks
- Boomerang
Hotels Caters to Travelers on the Go with Robust Mobile Websites;
Boomerang Hotels partnered with HeBS Digital, the hospitality
industry's leading digital technology and marketing firm, to launch
mobile websites for their brands Settle Inn & Suites® and
GuestHouse International®
- AH&LA
Applauds Passage of Preventing Greater Uncertainty in Labor-Management
Relations Act
- U.S.
Travel and Tourism Exports Continue to Increase Beyond Record-Breaking
2012; International Visitors Spend $14.3 Billion in February 2013, Up 5
% Over February 2012
- Courtyard
by Marriott Brand to Debut in Colombia with the 146-room Courtyard in
Bogota to Open in April 2014
- Shangri-La
Hotels and Resorts to Open the 508-room Jing An Shangri-La in West
Shanghai in June 2013
- Hilton
Opens its First DoubleTree in South Africa with the 183-room DoubleTree
by Hilton Cape Town - Upper Eastside; The Newly Renovated Hotel is
Owned and Operated by Upper Eastside Hotel (Pty) Ltd
- The
74-room Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott to Open in Moscow, Idaho
in June 2013; Owned by Ferguson Properties and Managed by True North
Hotel Group
- Cobblestone
Hotels Opens the 45-room Cobblestone Inn and Suites and Convention
Center in Bottineau, North Dakota
- Woodbine
Development Corporation Completes $50 million Renovation of the
1,120-room Hyatt Regency Dallas in Texas
- Ultima
Hospitality Completes Multi-Million Dollar Renovation of the 100-room
Holiday Inn Express Mill Valley San Francisco Area Hotel in California
April 12, 2013
- Pegasus
Solutions Selects New RFP Provider; Pegasus Sales Connections Uses the
Nexus RFP Tool to Produce Superior Outcomes for Hotels
- Announcing
the HOTELSnyc: The Forum for Greater New York Hotel Real Estate on May
3, 2013 **Save 25% with Promo Code: 25HOTEL**
- Cyber
Security Alert: How to protect your proprietary information from
employees / Jim Butler
- Country
Inns & Suites by Carlson, for the First Time in its 25 Year
History, Launches New Brand Identity and New Generation Hotel Prototype
- Pentahotels
Enters Belgium with Five Properties to Open in 2013; Total Portfolio to
Grow by More than 70% in 2013 to 27 Locations Worldwide
- What
Makes the Perfect Las Vegas Hotel-Casino? World-Class Restaurants, No
Smoking and Crunchy Cannolis
- Design
Miami/ Basel and W Hotels Worldwide Name Winners of the 2013 W Hotels
Designers of the Future Award; Seung-Yong Song from Korea, Canadian Jon
Stam and Bethan Laura Wood from the United Kingdom
- HEI
Hotels Acquires the 170-room Stoneleigh Hotel in Dallas, Texas and the
115-suite Residence Inn Clearwater Downtown in Clearwater, Florida
- California's
Grover Beach Lodge and Conference Center Project Gets Approval; City
and State Parks to Begin Construction of the 135- to 150-room Lodge and
Conference Facility
- Customer
Comment and Sentiment Analytics is now Easy to Use and Affordable with
UniFocus
- The
Byron at Byron Resort & Spa Deploys Delphi.fdc Sales and Catering
Solution from Newmarket; Leveraging the Force.com platform, Delphi.fdc
allows The Byron at Byron Resort & Spa to yield improvements in the
management of their sales and catering operations
- Lee
Pillsbury Joins the Duetto Board
- Marunouchi
Hotel Increases Website Revenue By 900% with Pegasus Solutions; Tokyo
Hotel Drives Online and Mobile Bookings with OpenView Internet Booking
Engine
- The
Bourbon Orleans Adopts Quadriga's LobbyFriend to Enhance the Guest
Experience
- HTNG
and HOTREC Form Partnership to Promote Hospitality Industry Technology
Interoperability and Standardization in Europe
- Napolitano,
Hoyer, Collins to Keynote AH&LA Legislative Action Summit
- Rezidor
and Cenpropsaroten Hotel Management to Develop the 206-key Radisson Blu
Hotel Port Harcourt Olympia in Nigeria; A Q1 2016 Opening is Planned
- The
Rezidor Hotel Group to Open the Park Inn Istanbul Ataturk Airport in
Turkey; The 144-key Hotel is Part of an Office Building Conversion and
is Scheduled to Open in Q1 2014
- Best
Western International Opens the 151-room BEST WESTERN PLUS Condado Palm
Inn & Suites in San Juan, Puerto Rico
- The
91-room Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott is Set to Open in
DuBois, Pennsylvania; Owned by Exit 101 LLC and Managed by Interstate
Hotels & Resorts
- Best
Western International Opens Nine New Properties in March 2013
- The
122-room Courtyard Columbus New Albany to Open this Month in Ohio;
Owned by New Albany Hotel Associates and Managed by American
Hospitality Management
- Multi-Phase
$30-Million Renovation Project is Complete for the 416-key Westin
Hilton Head Island Resort & Spa in South Carolina
- IACC's
2013 Copper Skillet Award Goes to Belgium's Chef Pascal Marcin of Dolce
La Hulpe
- South
Carolina's Westin Hilton Head Island Resort & Spa Makes Three
Executive Team Appointments; Names Tim Freisen as General Manager, Gail
Wargo as Director of Sales & Marketing and Jim Barnett as Director
of Food & Beverage
- Howard
Spittle Appointed as General Manager for the Magdalena Grand Beach
Resort in Tobago
- Marriott
International Executive, Paul Puzzanghero, Joins T.R. ENGEL Group
April 10, 2013
- Seismic
Shift: Brands Are Looking for Tech Partners, Not Vendors / Marco
Benvenuti
- NORTHWIND-Maestro
PMS Celebrates 35 Years of Stability, Technology Innovation and Passion
for Providing the Industry's Leading Service for Independents;
Longevity Based on 3 Generations of Commitment to Each Client's Success
and System Development Strength
- Huntington
Hotel Group Acquires Land, Plans to Develop Two Marriott-Branded Hotels
Near San Jose Airport in California; A May 2013 Start is Planned for
the 175-room Residence Inn and the 146-room Springhill Suites
- MIG
Real Estate Acquires the 152-room Hilton Garden Inn Tampa East/Brandon
in Florida
- TripAdvisor
Acquires New York-Based Jetsetter.com
- At
Long Last, Norfolk, Virginia Poised for Development of New $126 million
Luxury Hotel and Conference Center; City Council Approves Gold Key/PHR
Hotels & Resorts Project
- Environmental
Issues Blamed for Decline in China's Tourist Arrivals and Spending
- Hotel
Assets Group Announces it has 36 Full Service Hotels on the Market
- ThinkHotels
Integrates with RateGain for Channel Management Solution
- GHOTEL
Hotel & Living Selects RateTiger for Smart Online Room Distribution
- Waterfront
Shaw Becomes Educational Institute's First Certified Guest Service
Property in India
- Red
Roof Inn - Detroit-Plymouth, MI - SOLD by Warmbrodt Hotel Investments,
Inc.
- Experiential
Hospitality: Doing More With Less / Osvaldo Torres Cruz
- Marshall
Hotels & Resorts Expands Portfolio with Five Management Contracts
in Q1 2013; Sees Uptick in Lender-Owned Hotels Changing Hands
- GHM
Signs Management Contract for the 54-room Al Bait Sharjah Hotel,
Scheduled to Open in Early 2015 in the United Arab Emirates
- Hyatt
Hotels Corporation and Innisfree Hotels Open the 127-room Hyatt Place
Pensacola Airport in Florida Under the Leadership of General Manager
Adam Emling
- Hotel
El Ganzo, a 72-room Boutique, Waterfront Hotel Opens in San Jose del
Cabo, Mexico
- Rotana
Upbeat Over Bahrain's Hospitality Industry with the Opening of The
Majestic Arjaan by Rotana; Two Additional Properties are in the
Pipeline for Region
- Alliance
Hospitality Completes Renovation Project of its 132-room Holiday
Inn-Cleveland East/Mentor in Ohio
- Bangkok,
Thailand's Praya Palazzo Choses New Management with the Lifestyle Brand
and General Manager Gijsbert Roodenburg; Luring More International
Travelers, the 17-room Boutique Hotel in a Circa 1923 Mansion, has been
a Local Secret
- Carmen
Lam Named as Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Asia Pacific for
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts
- Marco
Menzhausen Appointed as General Manager for the 420-room Hard Rock
Hotel San Diego in California
- Neisja
Jones Promoted to General Manager of the 360-key Mainsail Suites Hotel
& Conference Center in Tampa, Florida
April 9, 2013
- Identifying
Meth Lab Red Flags / Alissa Ponchione
- Hotel
Performance, Transactions, and Values: Recap of News from the 25th
Annual Hunter Hotel Conference / Jennifer Pope
- As
Trial Against Las Vegas Sands Corporation Continues, Sheldon Adelson
Changes Testimony to Clarify Details of Macau Deal
- 4,000
New Hotel Rooms on the Way to Austin, Texas Market; New Inventory
Should Bring More Convention Business to the City
- Fattal
Hotels Group Acquisition Completed, Leonardo Hotels Puts the New Hotel
Portfolio of Former Queens Moat Houses Holding GmbH Germany Hotels into
Operation; The Portfolio of 20 German Hotels Totals 3,600 Rooms
- Owning
It! 3 Keys to Build a Service-Driven Team; Join us for this special
complimentary tele-seminar April 16th, 2013
- Don't
Write to Me in that Tone of Voice! 3 Quick Tips to Improve Your
Communication / Tommy Taylor
- Intelity
Adds Technology to Kimpton's Nine Zero Hotel
- NCED
Conference Center and Hotel Leverages Pegasus Solutions to Deliver
Online and Mobile Guest Room Sales; Powerful OpenView Booking Engine
Expands Booking Options for 964-room Property
- Bittel
Americas Assisting Guests with Charging, Connecting, Playing and
Enjoying their Personal Mobile Devices in Rooms
- Managing
All Food & Beverage Inventory Has Never Been Easier; The Ballantyne
Hotel & Lodge Implements Clear Sky Software's F&B Inventory
Control System Resulting in Greater Efficiency and Cost Control
- Hotels
Completing the Guest Experience with Roll Out of 'VirtualHotel' to U.S.
Market; A new mobile concierge designed by hoteliers for hoteliers is
now on the U.S. hotel scene
- Velas
Resorts Named Classic Vacations Mexico Partner of the Year for 2012
- HSMAI
Names Twelve Chapters as Winners of its "Chapter Best of the Best
Awards"; Chapter of the Year Award Presented to the Dallas / Fort Worth
Metroplex Chapter
- The
Wild, Wild West of Hotel Star Ratings / Jean Francois Mourier
- Recently
Acquired by New Midwest Hotels Mattoon S, the 62-room Baymont Inn &
Suites Mattoon, Illinois Launches Comprehensive Renovation
- Atmosphere
Hospitality Management to Develop a 300-room Adoba Eco Hotel in
Abilene, Texas; Adoba Hotel Brand Plans Further Portfolio Expansion
Including Three Hotels in the Northeast by 2014
- Everything
Clicked into Place for the Opening of the Legoland Hotel in Carlsbad,
California; Design Complete with 3,400 Lego Models that a Staff of 40
Spent One Year Building and Installing
- IHG
Opens the 348-room Holiday Inn & Suites Makati in the Philippines
- AC
Hotels by Marriott Opens Two New Properties in Europe; Completing
Renovations, the 143-room AC Hotel Nice Opens in France and the
152-room AC Hotel Sant Cugat Opens in Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
- The
487-room Westin La Paloma Resort and Spa in Tucson, Arizona Appoints
Jacqueline McAbee to New Marketing Manager Position
- Noble
House Names Brendan Mica as Executive Chef to Restaurant Cuvée
at River Terrace Inn in Napa Valley, California
April 8, 2013
- The
Case for NOT Promoting Sustainability at Your Hotel, Resort, or Lodge /
Hans Pfister
- Nobody
Asked Me, But...No. 100; Hotel History: The Magic of 800-325-3535;
Protect Yourself Against Fires; Litigation Support Services; My New
Book; Quote of the Month / Stanley Turkel
- ADA
Defense Lawyer: A Blast Against Frivolous, Serial ADA Lawsuits in
Striking the Right Balance / Jim Butler
- Kempinski
Hotels, Once Near Bankruptcy, to Open Nine Hotels This Year
- Park
Hotel Group Enters Agreement to Sell Singapore's 336-key Park Hotel
Clarke Quay to Ascendas Hospitality Trust for Approximately $242 Million
- Owner
and Developer in Contract Negotiations for Roseville, California Hotel
and Conference Center Development; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral
Add/Update 71 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects
Database
- Revenue
Management: A Necessary Evil, but Not Sufficient for Delivering
Profitably / Young N. Nguyen
- Plans
for Redevelopment of Florida's Key West Triangle Hotels Taking a New
Turn; Rather than Replacing, Existing Hotels to be Renovated at a Price
Tag of $30 million
- Despite
Massive Purchasing Power, New Survey Reveals Chinese Tourists Spending
Less on Hotels than Travelers From Elsewhere in More Than Half of
Countries Contacted
- Hotel
Assets Group Engaged on Four Portfolios Since January
- B4Checkin
Completes Certified Interfaces with Infor's Medallion and Epitome PMSs;
Hotels operating on popular Infor systems to see increased efficiencies
through two-way integration with B4Checkin's customizable CRS
- Family
Owned Outrigger Enterprises, Founded in 1947 by Roy & Estelle
Kelley, Pushes Beyond its Waikiki Core and Morphs Into One of the
Largest Privately Held Hotel Firms in the Pacific
- Costa
Rica's Colon Caribe Hotel Closes Due to Ongoing Crime Wave; Tourists
and Staff Robbed at Gun Point at Several Properties in Region
- Complete
AH&LA's National Policy Agenda Survey and Make Your Voice Heard
- Latest
Employment and Exports Numbers Confirm Travel is Leading Driver of U.S.
Growth; Travel Employment Growth Outpaces Overall Economy by 10%
- Agenda
for Arabian Hotel Investment Conference (AHIC 2013) to Include Industry
Leader Panel Discussion on Global Hotel Industry Outlook and a Round Up
On WTTC's Summit Outcomes
- Originally
Built in 1895 as Housing for Seminary Students, MCR Development and The
Brodsky Organization to Debut The High Line Hotel in Manhattan's
Chelsea District
- IHG
Opens the 300-room Holiday Inn Bangkok Sukhumvit 22 in Thailand
- The
Historic 80-room Carlton Lyon in France Reopens as an MGallery
Collection Hotel after a 10-month Revamp
- Autograph
Collection to Debut in the United Kingdom with Addition of
Threadneedles in London and The Glasshouse in Edinburgh, Scotland
- Gemstone
Hotels & Resorts Assumes Management of the 139-room Nautical
Beachfront Resort in Lake Havasu City, Arizona; Steven Boswell
Appointed General Manager
- El
Dorado Seaside Suites by Karisma in Riviera Maya, Mexico Nears
Completion of Expansion; Increasing Resort Size by More Than 30% with
an Additional 96 Suites
- Canada's
OPUS Vancouver Completes Renovation of its 96 Guest Rooms
- New
IACC-Australia Asia Pacific Chapter Formed, the Third Chapter for the
Association
- Starwood
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Michael Wale as New Leader of Europe,
Africa & Middle East Region as President Roeland Vos Steps Down
Effective June 1, 2013
- Carlson
Rezidor Hotel Group Appoints Susan Mason as Vice President, Franchise
Operations, Radisson
- John
Hackett Appointed as Vice President of Transient Sales for Loews Hotels
& Resorts
- Catherine
Johns Welcomed as Director of Catering and Convention Services for the
1,230-key Hyatt Regency Waikiki Beach Resort and Spa in Hawaii
- Sioux
Lees Named as Spa Director for the 343-room Westin Grand Cayman Seven
Mile Beach Resort & Spa
- The
Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina Names Todd Sicolo as
Executive Chef
April 5, 2013
- Musical
Chairs: A History Behind the LodgeNet Bankruptcy / Mark Haley
- Weddings
Increase Revenue and Decrease Effort So What Are You Waiting For? /
Susan Vladeck, Ph.D.
- Wizard
of the Vegas Strip, Sheldon Adelson, Makes Rare Public Appearance;
Armed with one-liners and verbal jabs, he testified about Sands' entry
into Macau in breach-of-contract suit
- Losing
Hundreds of Millions of Convention Dollars, Broward County, Florida
Looks to Upgrade Convention Center, Add Hotel and More Meeting Space;
After Three Failed Attempts, Business Leaders Rank Expansion Plan a Top
Priority
- Hilton
Worldwide Signs Management Agreement for a 260-room New-Build Hilton
Santa Fe Mexico City, Mexico; Currently Under Construction as Part of
Mixed-Use Complex, Samara, with a March 2014 Opening Planned
- Bloomberry
Resorts Corporation Opens Flagship Project, Solaire Resort & Casino
in Manila, Philippines; The 500-room $1.0 Billion Integrated
Destination Resort is the First to Open in the Government Sponsored
Economic Development Zone Known as Entertainment City
- Leela
Palaces, Hotel and Resorts Plans to Double its Portfolio in the Next
Four Years; Building on Momentum, Launches New Brand Identity
- Groundbreaking
Set for Two New Hotels in Redondo Beach, California; The $59 million
319-room Hotel Campus to Include Residence Inn by Marriott and Hilton
Garden Inn; Managed by Evolution Hospitality
- Marking
a New Era, Choice Hotels International Completing Move to New
Headquarters; Sustainable Certified Workplace Reflects Company Focus on
Future of Hospitality
- Starwood's
Month Long Headquarter Relocation to Dubai Concludes with Emphasis on
Brand Growth in the Middle East & Africa
- A
Blueprint to SEO Success: Creating Professional and Engaging Copy for
the Hotel Website / Erica Garza
- ElevenBC
for Mac Gives Hyatt Regency Baltimore Suites a Modern Touch; Hyatt
Regency Baltimore updates their luxury suites with iMacs and printers
from Eleven
- What
Does it Take to be a Good Revenue Manager? Complimentary Webinar -
Infor EzPLUS
- Critics
File Lawsuit Over University of California Los Angeles Hotel Plan; The
$162-Million Campus Hotel and Center on the Westwood Campus is Slated
to Start Construction this Summer and be Completed in 2016
- Construction
Contractor, Matrix Builder, Plans 100-room Marriott Residence Inn in
Harlingen, Texas
- Newly
Built 132-room Holiday Inn New York City - Lower East Side Opens as
Area's First Full-Service Hotel; Owned by the M & R Hotel Group,
and Managed by M & R Hospitality Management
- Owned
by Urban Commons/Brighton Management, the 100-room Westin Sacramento
Opens in California; Completing the $3.2 Million Renovation and
Re-Branding of the Former Le Rivage Hotel
- Hyatt
Hotels, Noble Investment Group and Interstate Hotels & Resorts Open
the HYATT house Atlanta/Cobb Galleria in Georgia; The 149-room Hotel is
Under the Leadership of General Manager Mark Luther and Director of
Sales Jamie Canvin
- Hilton
Garden Inn Brand Debuts in Southeast Asia with the Opening of the
86-room Hilton Garden Inn Hanoi in Vietnam
- The
New-Build 56-key TownePlace Suites is Set to Open in May 2013 in
Aberdeen, South Dakota
- Capella
Hotels and Resorts & Castleton Hotel Partners I, LLC Open the
49-room Capella Washington D.C.
- LodgeNet
Names Hotel Industry Veteran Thomas W. Storey As President Of
Hospitality; Former Fairmont Hotel Executive to Lead Renewed Focus on
LodgeNet Customer Engagement
- W
San Francisco Appoints Roger Huldi as New General Manager
- Mary
Jobb Appointed as Director of Sales for Waldorf Astoria Orlando and
Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek; The Two Resort Complex Totals Nearly 1500
Guest Rooms
- Philma
Gomes Named as Director of Sales & Marketing for Cape Grace in Cape
Town, South Africa
April 4, 2013
- Leadership....There's
Something Funny Going On Here / James Houran, Ph.D.
- PhoCusWright®
Founder Philip Wolf Joins TrustYou Board; Wolf Embraces Entrepreneurial
Spirit & Innovative Tech-Driven Roots of Global Hospitality-Focused
Online Reputation Management Company
- The
Music Man: Longtime Excalibur Porter and Employee of the Year,
77-year-old Henry Moore, Treats Guests to Old Vegas Tunes Whistling
While he Works
- Performance
Soars at Hotels Connected to Airport Terminals / Joseph Pierce
- Hotel
Asset Management for Colleges and Universities / Matt Arrants
- Lodging
Insights 2013: Tune in to Watch PKF Hospitality's Mark Woodworth and
Cornell's Jack Corgel Discuss the Alignment of Industry Fundamentals
Impacting Demand Levels
- IMH
Financial Corporation to Acquire the 87-key L'Auberge de Sedona and the
42-room Orchards Inn in Sedona, Arizona
- Developers
for Three New Hotels Totaling 370 Rooms in Portland, Maine Confident
the Market Can Fill More Hotel Rooms; The Additional 90 Room Project in
the Works Will Not Oversaturate the Market
- Starwood
Hotels and RFR Holdings to Build 125-room W Hotel and 38-key
Residential Complex in Jaffa, Israel; Construction to Begin in Spring
2015
- Pegasus
Connect+ Hotel Revenue Solution Builds Global Sales Momentum; Hotels
from 30 Countries Have Clamored for New Distribution and Booking
Package Offered by Pegasus Solutions in Recent Months
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Launches Mosaic; A Lifestyle Travel Journal
- Educational
Institute Expands Reach of Hospitality Training Programs with New
Country Manager and Operational Structure for China
- Hollywood,
Florida Margaritaville Project, Described as Turning Point for the
Beach, Receives Requested Deadline Extension
- Construction
Plan on Track for the 200-room Westin Jekyll Island in Georgia; An
April 15, 2013 Groundbreaking is Planned
- Aimbridge
Hospitality and DoubleTree Open the DoubleTree by Hilton Houston
Greenway Plaza in Houston, Texas; $15 Million Dollar Renovation of the
388-room Former Renaissance to Begin This Summer
- Joie
De Vivre Set to Open the 135-room Shoreline Hotel Waikiki this Month in
Hawaii; Completing Renovation and Re-Launch of the Former Seaside Hotel
Waikiki
- Thailand's
Outrigger Laguna Phuket Beach Resort Marks Official Opening; Following
the Completion of Major Renovations to the Former Laguna Beach Resort
- Finalizing
its $30 Million Renovation, the 340-room Sonesta Resort Hilton Head
Island Opens in South Carolina
- Centerstone
Hotels Opens the 41-room Centerstone Inn & Suites in Carlyle,
Illinois; Owned and Managed by Kamla Shivan & Manju Corp
- Red
Lion Hotels Corporation Sells and Franchises the 170-room Red Lion
Hotel Pendleton in Oregon
- Riviera
Palm Springs Resort in California Completes Multi-Million Dollar
Renovation; The Resort is Part of the Noble House Hotels & Resorts
Collection
- The
223-room Edgewater Hotel, a Noble House Hotel, on Seattle, Washington's
Elliott Bay Nears Completion of Renovation Project
- Interstate
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Deepak Sarin as Chief Operating Officer
of JHM Interstate India
- Noble
House Hotels & Resorts Increases National Sales Team; Names
Michelle Coombs, Jennifer Long and Karen Strgacich as Directors of
National Accounts
April 3, 2013
- 2013
World Rankings of The Top 10 Hotel Groups and Top 15 Brands; IHG
Retains Top Spot in Groups With Nearly 660,000 Rooms; Holiday Inn &
Holiday Inn Express Overtake Best Western for Top Spot in Brands
- AAA
Parking Awarded Contract for Bonaventure Resort & Spa
- Meritus
Hotels & Resorts Enters Agreement with Funtasy Island Development
for the Management of Hotel and Villas of Funtasy Island; Located on
Riau Islands, Indonesia and Slated to Open in 2014, the Resort Includes
a 200-room Condotel, a 230-suite Hotel, and 413-unit Villas
- Several
New Hotels on Tap for Florida's Southeast Coast; Including the 219-room
Fort Lauderdale Marriott Pompano Beach Oceanfront Scheduled to Open
July 1, 2013 and Opening this Month, the 97-room Boutique Pestana South
Beach Art Deco, the First Portuguese Hotel in the U.S.
- Port
of Bellingham, Washington Moves Ahead on Airport Holiday Inn; A Mid-May
2014 Construction Start is Planned for the 150 to 160-room Project
- Developers
of Proposed Holiday Inn Express in Hutchinson, Kansas Get Final
Approvals and Plan to Break Ground in May 2013 with a March 2014
Completion Expected
- Another
New Hotel Planned for Downtown Charleston, South Carolina; Tara
Investments Submits Plans for a 165-room Hotel Near the Newly Opened
120-room Holiday Inn Charleston Historic Downtown
- Tourism
Tidbits: Are Your Tourism Business and You Legally Vulnerable? / Dr.
Peter Tarlow
- Forbes
Travel Guide, Formerly Mobil Travel Guide, Announces Global Star Rating
Program to Help Luxury Hotels Worldwide Deliver Best-in-Class Guest
Service
- La
Quinta Announces the Opening of the La Quinta Inn & Suites
Springfield, MA; La Quinta Executives and Local Officials Welcome the
Newly Renovated, Award-Winning 182-Room Hotel during March 25th Ceremony
- Clear
Sky Software's Beverage Inventory System Helping The Aloft Charlotte
Ballantyne Hotel Manage All Beer, Liquor & Wine Inventory with
Greater Efficiency
- 5-Star
Luxury Thailand Hotel Company SALA Resorts & Spas Communicating
with Guests Effectively via ZDirect; In just three months, SALA says
revenues from direct channel sales and guest satisfaction is at an
all-time high
- HeBS
Digital's Latest Promotion Helps Clients Fight Back and Shift Share
from the OTAs
- Seoul,
Korea's Boutique Hotel La Casa Set to Expand
- Hotel
Equities Assumes Management of the 52-room Comfort Suites Hotel in
Lawrenceville, Georgia
- W
Hotels Worldwide Debuts in Mainland China with the Opening of the
317-key W Guangzhou; Developed and Owned by KWG Property Holdings
- The
84-room Fairfield Inn & Suites North Charleston/Ashley Phosphate is
Set to Open in South Carolina; Owned by Northside Hotel Associates and
Managed by Gateway Hospitality
- Accor
Names Three Senior Vice Presidents within Sales, Distribution and
Loyalty Division; Carlo Olejniczak, Cédric Gobilliard, Yves
Lacheret
- David
Craig Named as General Manager for the 38-key C Lazy U Guest Ranch in
Granby, Colorado
- Marti
Trieschmann as Director of Sales & Marketing for the 343-room
Westin Grand Cayman Seven Mile Beach Resort & Spa
- Joni
Barkley Named as Director of Sales and Catering for the Kessler
Collection's Casa Monica Hotel in St. Augustine, Florida
- The
119-key Royal Palms Resort and Spa in Phoenix, Arizona Appoints Michael
Petersen-Incorvaia as Director of Catering and Conference Services and
Christian Giles as General Manager of the Property's Restaurant, T.
Cook's
- Prestige
Hospitality Group Appoints Leo C. Bushey, III as Executive Chef at the
Clarion Hotel in Bristol, Connecticut; The Hotel is Currently
Undergoing Renovation and Expansion with a May 2013 Completion Planned
- Douglas
Paine Appointed as Chef De Cuisine for Hotel Vermont in Burlington,
Vermont; The 125-room Hotel will Open in May 2013
April 2, 2013
- Hotel
Owner-Operator Disputes: Marriott vs Eden Roc - - What it All Means for
Terminating Hotel Management Agreements / Jim Butler
- Noble
House Selects Aptech Financial Solutions for 17 Properties; Noble
Installs Profitvue® Enterprise Back Office Accounting; Will
Implement Execuvue® Business Intelligence and Targetvue
Planning/Forecasting by Mid-Year
- Five
Years Later, Having Had a Rocky Start, Las Vegas' $1.3 billion Trump
International Hotel - How's it Doing Now?
- Unions
Turn Focus to Organizing Efforts on Service Sector Workplaces
- Service
Excellence: Can you MAKE your team work like they own it? / Bryan K.
Williams
- Financing
Remains Elusive for Company Determined to Develop Saggio Hills, a $310
Million 130-room Resort Hotel and Luxury Home Development in
Healdsburg, California
- Embassy
Suites Hotels' Five-Year Retrospective Survey Reveals that While
Business Travel is Up, Eight in Ten Travelers Have Changed Trip
Behavior; With Stricter Budgets and More Fees, Value Becomes Greater
Priority
- 10th
Annual Lodging Management Program International Competition Showcases
Training Programs for High School Hospitality Students
- MICROS
Releases Next Generation Mobile Business Intelligence Tool - - MICROS
inMotion; Real-time, actionable information allows restaurant operators
to evaluate performance, measure success against forecast, and make
better, faster decisions!
- Flip.to
Wins Internet Advertising Competition (IAC) Award; Leading brand
advocate platform named 'Best Entertainment Interactive Application' in
Web Marketing Association’s 2013 IAC Award Competition
- Second
Annual Hospitality Marketing Exchange Summit to Provide Tools and
Resources to Help Hoteliers Maximize Online Presence; Special keynote
by Ocean Properties Ltd, and sessions sponsored by Digital Alchemy,
GCommerce, Nor1, Stash, Flip.to and more, to provide attendees with
tips and tricks to build and expand upon online marketing initiatives
- Milestone
Internet Marketing Seeking SEO/SEM Specialist/Account Manager Based in
Santa Clara, California
- HSMAI
Revenue Optimization Conference Marks 10 Years; The Tenth Annual ROC
Event, Co-Located with HITEC, will Focus on Leading Revenue Management
into the Future
- Jumeirah
Group to Add Nearly 600 Keys to its Portfolio in 2013 with the Jumeirah
Messilah Beach Hotel in Kuwait and Jumeirah Bilgah Beach Hotel in Baku,
Azerbaijan; Plans Further Expansion in the Middle East, Africa and
Asia-Pacific
- Decatur,
Alabama Holiday Inn Gets Multi-Million Dollar Renovation and New
Temporary Name, Becoming the Garden Plaza Hotel; Plans to Re-Brand Upon
Completion of Upgrades
- Peachtree
Hotel Group Adds Six Hotels to Portfolio During Q1 2013
- New
Castle Hotels and Resorts Assumes Management of the 117-room Westport
Inn in Westport, Connecticut
- Kempinski
Hotels Opens 152-room Palais Hansen Kempinski Vienna in Austria;
Completing Two and a Half Years of Restoration for the Property
Originally Designed as a Hotel for the 1873 World Exhibition
- Owned
and Managed by InterMountain Management, the 101-suite TownePlace
Suites by Marriott to Open This Month in Redding, California
- Starwood
Hotels Opens the 154-room Aloft Tucson University in Arizona,
Completing the Renovation and Rebranding of the Former Four Points by
Sheraton Property
- Hyatt
Hotels Corporation Debuts its Fifth Brand in India, Rebranding Five
Hotels as "Hyatt" in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, and Amritsar
- The
MainStay Suites PGA Village in Port St. Lucie, Florida Completes
Renovation and Adds Sleep Inn Brand, Now Operating as a Dual Branded
MainStay Suites / Sleep Inn; The 80-room Hotel is Owned and Managed by
The Generation Companies
- Anantara
to Begin Renovation of Anantara Bophut Resort & Spa Koh Samui in
Thailand; The Resort will be Closed for Seven Months During Upgrades
with a November 2013 Completion Planned
- The
487-room Westin La Paloma Resort and Spa in Tucson, Arizona Completes
Guest Room and Function Space Phase of its Extensive $30 Million
Renovation
- Alfredo
Gonzalez Joins Brand USA as Senior Vice President, Global Partnership
Development
- Brandon
Marshall Named as Director of Sales for Tampa, Florida's New 137-room
Epicurean Hotel Set to Open in December 2013
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Appoints Matthias Layton Director of Food and
Beverage at Eldorado Hotel & Spa in Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Destination
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Glorianna Wood as Spa Director at the
119-key Royal Palms Resort and Spa in Phoenix, Arizona
April 1, 2013
- When
Should You Choose a Brand for Your Hotel? And When Should the Brand
Manage Your Hotel? / Jim Butler
- Reputation,
Reviews & Revenue: TrustYou Launches Reputation Machine; Holistic
Approach to Online Reputation Management Outlined in New Webinar Series
- Homewood
Suites by Hilton Names its Top Performing Properties in 2012, Including
Connie Award Winner Homewood Suites by Hilton Dallas/Allen in Texas
- Currency
Exchange Rates Have Differential Impacts On U.S. Lodging Demand
- New
Owner for 202-Room Hilton Head Hotel; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral
Have Updated 197 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with Changes in
Personnel, Property Management or Ownership
- MetroRiverside
LLC, Developer of the Hyatt Place in Riverside, California, Sues City
Over Closure of Convention Center Two Months After Hotel Opened
Alleging Breach of Agreement and Ruined Profit Expectations
- IHG
Agrees to Sell the InterContinental London Park Lane to Constellation
Hotels for Approximately $457 Million
- Chesapeake
Lodging Trust Completes Acquisition of the The W New Orleans - French
Quarter from Starwood Hotels & Resorts for $25.5 million
- Morgans
Hotel Group and The Yucaipa Companies Enter Agreement for Debt
Reduction by $230 million with Transfer of Ownership in Delano South
Beach and The Light Group; Deal to Cancel Yucaipa Interests in
Convertible Notes & Stock
- Cosmopolitan
Posts 4th Quarter Net Loss of $30 million Compared to Net Income of
$72.6 million in the Year Ago Quarter but Claims Corporate Strategy is
on Right Trajectory
- Hotwire
Completes Two-Way XML Integration with RateTiger; Integrated channel
management specialist secures direct connection with leading discount
travel site
- Lodging
Interactive Sites Top 5 Reasons Why Responsive Web Design is Not a Best
Practice
- Pegasus
Solutions Reports February 2013 Hotel Bookings and Rates Rivaled or
Outperformed 2012 Without Leap Year Bump; Despite Shorter Month,
Year-to-Date Bookings Grew over Prior Year through Pre-downturn
- Warmbrodt
Hotel Investments, Inc. Selected to Advise in the Sale of the Holiday
Inn & Suites and Comfort Inn in Camden, Arkansas
- HFTP
Announces Strategic Alliance with NABHOOD and LHRA to Increase
Educational Opportunities for Hospitality Professionals Worldwide
- NewcrestImage
and InterContinental Hotels Partner for a New Build Holiday Inn Express
in the Bricktown Area of Oklahoma City; Opening Expected in Early 2014
- Ethika
Investments Allocates Capital for Acquisition and Rebranding of Hunt
Valley Inn in Baltimore, Maryland; $9.5 million Renovation to Commence
as Property Becomes a Part of Wyndham Grand Collection
- Chile-Based
Singular Hotels Begins Construction on Brand's Second Project; The
63-room $20 Million Singular Santiago is Set to Open in Santiago's
Lastarria District in Q1 2014
- Multi-Million
Capital Improvement Project is Launched for the 598-key Hilton
Sandestin Beach Golf Resort & Spa in Florida; Closely Follows the
Completion of Recent Renovation of Meeting Space and Restaurants
- A
May 2013 Completion Planned for the Extensive Renovation Project
Underway at the 375-key Sheraton Framingham Hotel & Conference
Center in Massachusetts
- Owned
by Frontier Development, the 156-room Fairfield Inn & Suites
Downtown Atlanta in Georgia Completes Multi-Million Dollar Renovation
- Aimbridge
Hospitality and Carabimmo SA Open the $15 Million 106-room Best Western
Premier Petion-Ville in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; The First Full-Service
US Brand Hotel to Open in Haiti
- The
239-room Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Midtown Manhattan/Penn
Station is Set to Open this Month in New York City; The Hotel is Owned
and Managed by OTO Development
- Owned
by Springwood FHP LP and Managed by Springwood Hospitality, the
108-room Fairfield Inn & Suites Hershey Chocolate Avenue to Open
this Week in Pennsylvania
- The
108-suite Home2 Suites by Hilton Baltimore/White Marsh Opens in
Maryland; Owned by White Marsh Hospitality I and Managed by Baywood
Hotels
- The
227-room Hotel MdR Marina del Rey - a DoubleTree by Hilton Opens in
California Completing a $7 Million Renovation and Rebranding; The
Former Courtyard Los Angeles Marina del Rey Was Recently Purchased by
Channel West Group and Arris Investments and is Operated by Evolution
Hospitality
- Choice's
Ascend Hotel Collection Debuts in Baltimore, Maryland with the Addition
of Three Properties, the Inn at Henderson's Wharf, Pier 5 and Admiral
Fell Inn
- Choice
Hotels International Launches New Division to Market Hotel Operating
Systems Industry-Wide
- Neil
Pompan Presented with IACC's Highest Honor, The Mel Hosansky Award for
Distinguished Service
- Akira
Segawa Appointed as President of Fujita Kanko, a Leading Japanese
Hospitality Company
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Appoints Deborah Berlingeri Spa Director for
Bonaventure Resort & Spa, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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