Hotel.Online Hospitality News
May 16, 2013

• Starwood's Vieira says he will retire (The Honolulu Star-Advertiser)
• Delhi's Aerocity hotels eye lower tariffs to drive business (Mint, New Delhi)
• Camelback seeks tax benefits for $145M water park and hotel (Pocono Record, Stroudsburg, Pa.)
• BRIEF: Grandstay Hospitality LLC moves offices to Brooklyn Park (St. Cloud Times, Minn.)
• Privatization of Army lodging begins at Meade (Soundoff! Laurel, Md.)
• Thailand tops hotel investment poll (The Nation, Bangkok, Thailand / Asia News Network)
• Rundberg-area motels take first step toward united front against crime (Austin American-Statesman)
• Cuomo raises possibility that Seneca casinos could close in 3 years (The Buffalo News, N.Y.)
• April hotel occupancy slipped in Charleston County because of more rooms (The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.)
• Hotel builders find funding (Enid News & Eagle, Okla.)
• From red to black: How CityCenter pulled out of the economic morass and started making money (Las Vegas Sun)
• Old Lady Luck on track to reopen this fall as Downtown Grand (Las Vegas Sun)
• EDITORIAL: Whitefish hotel plan good for city (Daily Inter Lake, Kalispell, Mont.)
• La Crosse tourism group reports 2012 growth (La Crosse Tribune, Wis.)
• McAllen enters talks to have hotel built near Convention Center (The Monitor, McAllen, Texas)
• North Carolina developer takes on Norwich hotel effort (The Day, New London, Conn.)
• Tourism awards announced (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Iowa)
• BRIEF: Hospitality job fair to be held at Orange County Convention Center (Orlando Sentinel)
• BRIEF: BUSINESS MOVES: Hotel names new manager (The News Herald, Panama City, Fla.)
• Google executive chairman talks future possibilities (Chicago Tribune)
• Trump: 87-year-old woman 'is trying to rip me off' (Chicago Tribune)
• Hotel making pitch to nursing mothers (Chicago Tribune)
• Pritzker reveals finances, board resignation plans (Chicago Tribune)
• Floridians' travel plans good news for tourism (Tampa Tribune, Fla.)
• PAC formed to oppose Sonoma hotel initiative (The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, Calif.)
• Starwood Hotels to open customer center in Wichita, hire 200 by end of year (The Wichita Eagle)