1. Global Update: Who�s Where and Doing What / September 2007
2. The Top 10 Quirkiest Hotels from Around the World
3. A New Jersey Hotel Guest Details His Experience Concerning the Loss of a Laptop from His Hotel Room
4. The Mail Rooms of Three Hotels in Palm Beach, The Breakers, Ritz-Carlton and the Four Seasons, Used as Shipping Drop Locations in Marijuana Trafficking Scheme
5. Benchmark Hospitality's Top Five Dining Trends for 2007 
6. Top Five Most Bizarre Meeting Planner Complaints about Group Events; Drifters and Vagrants Crash Event, Eat Banker�s Buffet
7. A Gameplan for Dealing with Front Desk Clerks More Focused on Their Computer than Welcoming Guests / Doug Kennedy
8. New Forecast Report from PKF Hospitality Research No Sunset on the Horizon
9. National Customer Service Week is Coming Soon
10. Ed Scheetz, President and Chief Executive Officer of Morgans Hotel Group Resigns; Fred J. Kleisner Named Interim President and CEO
11. Habits of Highly Successful Hotel Sales People � A Seismic Shift in 2008! / Carol Verret
12. So You're 45 Years Old. You Just Sold Your Hotel Empire in a Deal Worth $834 million. What next? If you're Robert W. Winston III, You Try to Do it Again
13. Heirs to Wal-Mart's Walton Family Fortune and Investment Banking Giant Goldman Sachs Together Investing $1 billion in Global Hyatt Corp
14. This Year�s Critical Issues Will Escalate If the Hotel Industry Doesn�t Address Them Now / Rick Swig
15. Following the Steps of a  AAA Diamond Ratings Evaluator at the Mirage, Las Vegas
16. Regent Hotels Pulls Out Nine Months after Opening the Regent South Beach; Hotel Owner Names Vincci Hotels, a Chain Based in Spain, to Operate the 80 room Boutique Condo-hotel
17. A Hotel Guest at the Embassy Suites - St. Paul Facing Up to 2 Years Prison Time for Killing a Duck in the Hotel's Ornamental Pond
18. Accor Sells Red Roof Inn Brand (341 hotels) to Citi's Global Special Situations Group and Westbridge Hospitality Fund, L.P. for US 1.313 billion
19. Being Green is Getting Easier; Practices that Hotels and Restaurants Can Implement Immediately / Lee Simon
20. Hyatt�s New Lodging Brand Andaz(TM) to Open in Austin, Texas; The 210 room Hotel Will Include 150 Condo Units
21. Starwood Maintains Consumer-Brand Focus, Names Frits van Paasschen, Former CEO of Coors Brewing Company, Chief Executive Officer
22. GMs � How User Generated Review Sites Can Make you a Better Manager! / Carol Verret
23. Is Print Marketing Dead? / Carol Hart
24. Hotel Review Site that Marries Social Networking, Hotel Reviews and Meta-searches Launched by Two Recent College Graduates
25. Why Hospitality Employers Are Poor at Replying to Job Applications / Jeff N Ross

• Coined the World's Best Hotel School, the Cornell School of Hotel Administration Celebrates 85 Years; The School's Five Living Deans Attend NYC Event
• Hilton Hotels Corporation Recognizes Development Champions; William J. Yung, III, Columbia Sussex Corporation, Named the Hilton Brand Developer of the Year
• LRA Worldwide Senior Consultant Gary Tan to Serve as Panelist at HSMAI's ASIA Connect 2007 Forum in Singapore; Hospitality Expert to discuss "Guest Experience" and Hotel Standards in Asia Pacific Region
• Jim Butler, Hotel Lawyer, at Phoenix Lodging Conference: State of the Lodging Industry - Is the party over? Or is this just the intermission?
• Arlington Convention Center Development Corporation Seeks Proposals for Expansion of the Convention Center and Full-Service Hotel
• Why Hospitality Employers Are Poor at Replying to Job Applications / Jeff N Ross
• Developer Clement Chen Signs Licensing Agreement with IHG; Will Flag $70 million Project on Monterey, California's Cannery Row - The InterContinental The Clement Monterey
• Prior to The Savoy's £100 million Restoration, An Auction Will Showcase Historic Items from the PastThe ProHost® Housekeeping System has been selected for the 234 room Sands Macau Hotel
• IHG To Open a Crowne Plaza Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam in 2010; Tran Hong Quan Trading Selects the Crowne Plaza Brand to be Part of a US$65 million Mixed-development Complex
• Tramline Development Signs Letter of Intent with Aspen Skiing Company to License the The Little Nell in Jackson Hole, Wyoming
• Philip B. Mertens Appointed by Mövenpick Hotels to Senior Vice President Development & Facility Management

• Leadership and Sustainability: Gettys Blazes a Trail In Green Hospitality Design
• NYLO Hotels Chooses SynXis to Launch the Brand; Properties will use RedX® to manage all distribution channels
• Signature Worldwide Introduces Industry's First Comprehensive Customer Experience Program; Customer Experience Edge� Earns Impressive Returns for Program's First Participants
• Hyatt's New Lodging Brand Andaz(TM) to Open in Austin, Texas; The 210 room Hotel Will Include 150 Condo Units
• Budgeting Labor Costs in '08; Our Guests are Paying the Prices We Ask on Virtually Every Item We Offer - a Room, a Cocktail, a Food Item or a Gaming Experience - Overbudget So You Don't Have To Fudge It! / William "Billy-O" Orilio
• Rim Hospitality Enters a Joint Venture with Tepic Management Group; Forms Rim Hospitality Canada to Manage 9 Properties in British Columbia and Alberta
• Chef Chat: Michael Rhoades, Executive Chef of the Newly Renovated Holiday Inn and CoCo Key Water Resort, Omaha, Nebraska
• The 3,000 room Las Vegas Hilton Quietly Undergoes $100 million of Renovations, Runs 90% Occupancy During the Week and Slightly Higher on Weekends
• LRA Worldwide CEO Rob Rush to Speak at the 2006 ESOMAR Leisure World Research Conference in Rome
• R.D. Olson Development Opens the $23 million Residence Inn by Marriott in Oceanside, California
• Kirchert Pakonen Development Signs Chef Michael Mina to Create the five-star Dining at La Punta Papagayo, Costa Rica
• HEDNA Conference in Singapore, October 18, 2007, Will Focus Electronic Distribution in The Asia-Pacifice Travel Market
• The Asian American Hotel Owners Association Rallys its 8,000 Members to Call on Congress to Extend the H-2B Visa Program
• Golden Tulip Hospitality Alters Strategy in the UK & Ireland, Following the Sale of its Master Franchisee Golden Tulip(UK) to Whitbread PLC
• NYLO Hotels Appoints Four Key Executives To Management Team
• Hotel Equities Names Andrew Pace as Director of Acquisitions and Construction
• John Johnstone Named the Director of Food & Beverage at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia
• Mark Riddell Named Director of Marketing for Lansdowne Resort Near Washington DC

September 26, 2007

• TIG Global Collects International WebAwards for Superior Website Design; Grand Hotel Esplanade Berlin and LXR Luxury Resorts and Hotels Receive Web Design Honors
• Gettys Awarded Luxury Resort Project in Costa Rica; Completes Hurricane Recovery Renovation
• Softbrands Broadens Mosaik Product Line to Include CRM Solutions Tailored to Hotels
• Web 2.0 vs. Search Engines: Are Search Engines Becoming Obsolete in the Web 2.0 Frenzy? / Max Starkov and Jason Price
• Constellation Hospitality Group Will Use Cash From Condo Sales to Finance the Lumina Branded 220 room Hotel with  245 Condominiums in Tempe, Arizona
• The 300 room Hyatt Regency Wichita Getting Makeover; Owned by the City of Wichita, All of its Share of Profits Must Go to Hotel Maintenance and Renovations
• From Attracting, Retaining and Training Staff to Employer Branding and Incentive Building, HR in Hospitality� Conference Tackles Tough Issues
• It's Not Just About Winning - Improved Customer Service Pays off for Casinos; Market Metrix Introduces Customer Metrix 3.0 for Casinos - Web-Based Customer Feedback for Global Gaming Industry
• Novel Marketing Channel Now Available for Hoteliers Direct to Travel Agents
• MGM Grand at Foxwoods Signs Chef Tom Colicchio to Open a Craftsteak
• The 2009 Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition and Conference (HITEC®) Will be Held June 22-29, 2009 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California
• The Most Famous Hotels in the World - The Strand Yangon; Myanmar's oldest hotel, is the only hotel in Yangon left over from the colonial era
• Travel industry Leaders Gathering in Washington, DC to Urge Action on Travel-related Issues, Including the Creation of an International Travel Promotion Program to Encourage Overseas Travel to the U.S.
• First South American Investments Selects Starwood's St. Regis to Manage a 160 room Hotel and Residence Complex in Buenos Aires
• With Plans to be the Most Luxurious Hotel in Spain, Jumeirah Signs Lease to Manage the Jumeirah Port Soller, Mallorca - go to
• South Florida Hotels Posted Gains in August 2007, As Hurricanes Stayed Away
• Michael Morton Named Corporate Vice President of Operations for BMC, formerly Boykin Management Company
• Gregory M. Smith Joins Denihan Hospitality Group as Executive Vice President, Human Resources
• Elyes Ben Brahim Named Director of Operations for the Hard Rock Hotel in Pattaya, Thailand
• Jeff Erwin Appointed Managing Director Colcord Hotel, Oklahoma City
• Benchmark Hospitality Appoints Steve Ludwig Director of Sales & Marketing for Stonewall Resort
• Michael J. Dwyer Named Assistant General Manager at the Thayer Hotel, West Point, New York

• Focus on Dynamic Packages is Shifting Towards Augmenting RevPar; EFT's Revenue Management in Travel USA 2007
• Gettys: Renowned Design Firm Goes Global
• Mintek Mobile Data Solutions Named Top Hospitality Company by VSR Magazine; Florida Firm Recognized for Industry-Leading Maintenance Automation System
• Phelps Development (Marriott Brand) and FaulknerUSA (Hilton Brand) Pitched in Battle for Rights to Build 1,000 room Hotel Adjacent to Fort Lauderdale - Broward County Convention Center
• Texas Attorney General Settles Price Gouging Complaint of Customers at San Antonio's St. Anthony Hotel; Hotel Will Pay $190,000 in Consumer Restitution
• So You're 45 Years Old. You Just Sold Your Hotel Empire in a Deal Worth $834 million. What next? If you're Robert W. Winston III, You Try to Do it Again
• A Hotel Guest at the Embassy Suites - St. Paul Facing Up to 2 Years Prison Time for Killing a Duck in the Hotels Ornamental Pond
• Habits of Highly Successful Hotel Sales People - A Seismic Shift in 2008! / Carol Verret
• Luxe Worldwide Hotels Adds the Chic and Upscale Bulfinch Hotel
• Johnson Capital 100% on track supporting all of the major Hospitality Conferences including Phoenix, Rome, ALIS, JMBM, RealShare and NYU; The firm is sponsoring and speaking at all of the major hospitality events for the balance of 2007 and 2008
• Hotel and Lodging Merchant Account: Accept Credit Cards with Some Reservation
• American Liberty Hospitality Seeking a Tax Abatement for a Proposed $50 million 250 room Embassy Suites in Downtown Houston
• The Travel Industry Association Selects Ten Travel Industry Organizations to Receive 2007 Odyssey Awards
• Savannah, Long Beach, Napa and North Houston Set for Lodgework's AVIA Branded Boutique Hotels
• Tony Potter, CEO of Malta-based Corinthia Hotels International, Sets Up Separate Luxury Collection of Hotels, Re-organizes Marketing Department
• Matthew Bailey Named Managing Director of the 780-room Grand Wailea Resort Hotel & Spa in Maui, Hawaii
• Mike Motichek Appointed Southeast Regional Director of Franchise Sales and Development for Settle Inn and Guesthouse

• NxTV Selected by Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago for Next Generation HD IP Video on Demand Entertainment Services; Guests to receive NxTV ultra-crisp 100% digital HD VOD content delivery
• 'Increasing Revenue' is Focus of Rainmaker Group Client Steering Committee Meeting; Multi-family executives assemble to shape future revenue optimization innovations
• National Customer Service Week is Coming Soon: October 1-5, 2007
• LodgeWorks Hotel Company Launching Two New Brands - Hotel Sierra and Avia
• Two New Food and Beverage Programs You Won't Find Anywhere Else: iTASTE and The Virtual Menu at the Grand Hyatt DFW
• Palm Beach County's Convention Center Continues to Lose about $1 million a Year; Four Year Old $84 million Convention Center Lacks Adjacent Hotel
• After an Updated Market Study, Developers Now Planning a $40 million 150-room Hotel with a Spa and Resort Quality Facilities at Oklahoma's Lake Murray State Park
• Red Lion Hotels Acquiring the Leasehold Interest in the 314 room Radisson Hotel Maingate- Anaheim; Will Spend $10 million on Extensive Renovation
• Revenue Management Pricing Conference Delivers NextGen Strategies to Boost the Bottom Line; Leading execs from GM, Delta, UPS and other top companies share revenue generating practices
• Johnson Capital Welcomes Bryan K. Williams, CQA, Chief Service Officer and Baldrige Examiner, of B. Williams Enterprise, LLC, to their Global Hospitality Industry Advisory Board
• Mark Sanders Named Regional Vice President of Millennium Hotels' New York Properties and General Manager of the Millennium Broadway Hotel
• Randall K. Villareal Named Vice President of Hotel Operations MotorCity Casino Hotel, Detroit, Michigan
• Duncan MacArthur and Jeffrey Boland Named Managing Director and Director of Operations, Respectively, for the Seven Stars Resort on Providenciales in the Turks & Caicos Islands, BWI
• The Tokyu Group Names Hisashi Konno President of the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel & Bungalows, Kohala Coast, Hawaii
• Jackie Nguyen Appointed Director, Sales & Marketing  at the Marriott Calgary

• Knowland Unleashes INSIGHT on the World of Hospitality and Asks Hoteliers to Imagine�Imagine a breakthrough tool that provides access to over $3 billon In group bookings
• Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation Negotiates with Great Wolf Resorts to Develop an Indoor Waterpark Resort on Tribal Lands in Southeastern Connecticut
• Vail Resorts Outlines Specific 'Green' Measures for $1 Billion Resort Development at the Base of Vail Mountain; Using Reclaimed Water from Snowmelt in the Toilets
• Inland American Real Estate Trust Inc. Paying $920 million for an Affiliate of the RLJ Development LLC
• Business is Slow, and Debt Dogs Rocky Gap Lodge & Golf Resort in Flintstone, Maryland; The 10 year Old State Supported Resort Struggels with Operating Losses
• Joie de Vivre's Multi-million Dollar Renovation of Miyako Hotel Boosts Revitalization of San Francisco's Japantown
• The Seneca Nation of Indians is Weighing an Expanded Buffalo Seneca Creek Casino that Would Include a Luxury Hotel -- Boosting Cost of Permanent Gambling Complex to $275 million
• Building a Presence in the Marketplace: Destination "Demand Generators"
• Providing the Tools to Be a Great General Manager: Triple Mentoring a  Key Component of Hotel Equities Management Training Program
• Boyne USA Resorts Acquiring Ski Resorts in Maine and Washington State
• Tech-focused Seminars Will Complement Nearly 200 Tech Exhibitors at International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show, November 10-13, 2007, New York City
• Johnson Capital Welcomes David M. Brudney, ISHC. Principal, David Brudney &  Associates, of Carlsbad, CA to their Global Hospitality Industry Advisory Board
• Paradise Found: The Cove Atlantis on Paradise Island Harbors a Romantic Bahamian Escape / Bernard Burt
• Now Hotel Guests Can Plug into Hotel Entertainment Systems via the TeleAdapt MediaHub
• Developer Yogesh Manocha and Choice Hotels Break Ground for a 103-room Cambria Suites in Morrisville, North Carolina
• Jason McLeod Appointed Executive Chef for The Grand Del Mar, Manchester Grand Resorts' 249 room Resort in Del Mar, California Opening in October 2007
• Peter Evenhuis Named Director of Sales and Marketing for Dinah's Garden Hotel, Palo Alto, California
• The Beverly Hills Residence Inn seeking a Director of Sales and Marketing for the 186 room/all suite property. Candidates should have previous hotel sales experience in the Los Angeles market

• Bruce Dalen, Hotelwaterparks.com CEO, discusses how hotel owners should consider adding waterparks or a slide to existing pools to increase occupancy & ADR in an exclusive Hotel Online One-on-One Interview
• The Providence Group Helps Spearhead Upscale Project
• Ed Scheetz, President and Chief Executive Officer of Morgans Hotel Group Resigns; Fred J. Kleisner Named Interim President and CEO
• Many Chefs, Restaurants Working More Diligently to Trademark, Copyright and Patent to Protect the Fruits of their Creative Labor and Innovations
• TripAdvisor Surveys Reveals Marriott Favorite Hotel Chain for Business Travelers for Second Straight Year; Seventy-eight percent of Business Travelers are Members of a Hotel Points Program
• Hempel Properties and Morrissey Hospitality Co. Keep Hotel Plans, Drop Condos, On the Makeover of the the Midland Bank Building in Downtown Minneapolis; The Hotel Minneapolis Will Carry the Doubletree Brand
• Hotel Rates Rose by 0.8% Year-on-year on a Global Level in the Second Quarter of 2007; Europe Year-on-year Hotel Prices Rose 5.2% While the U.S. Fell
• Disney Expanding Grand Californian Hotel; Adding a Wing with 200 Hotel rooms and 50 Timeshare Condominiums
• The Procaccianti Group Acquires the Tudor Hotel at the United Nations and the Holiday Inn SoHo; Appoints Louis Llach as Manhattan Area Manager
• Prism Hotels Selected to Manage the 707-room Crowne Plaza Hotel Astor -- New Orleans; The Hotel Recently Acquired by RREEF and Loeb Partners Realty LLC
• The Scotia Group Opens the Embassy Suites Tucson-Paloma Village in Tucson, Arizona; The 119-suite Hotel Managed by Grace Hospitality
• Industry Veterans Richard Reyer and Dick Wheeler Introducing 'New Ring in Hospitality; Bittel USA taps the talents of hospitality telecom experts to spark awareness of its guestroom telephone solutions
• Utell Hotels & Resorts Expands in Latin America with Enjoy Resort & Casino Agreement; Two Chilean Properties Tap Utell® Representation Services for Global Branding
• Meeting Alliance Recognized as the Fastest-Growing Company in the Meeting Industry
• Global Events Partners and Krisam Group join with Germany-based destex for European Sales, establishing a Global Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions (MICE) Gateway for Austria, Germany and Switzerland
• Langham Hotels International Wins Management Contract for its Second Hotel in Beijing - Langham Place Beijing Capital Airport Hotel
• Institute of Hospitality Charters New Branch in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Hotel and Tourism Management
• Vikki Wrede, Chef Concierge at the Clearwater Beach Marriott Suites Awarded Membership in Les Clefs d'Or Association
• Crestline Hotels & Resorts Appoints David Brian Catalon as Director of Sales & Marketing for the Sheraton Reston and the Westin Reston Heights Hotels in Virginia

• Lodge of the Ozarks Drives Higher Profitability with Maestro at The Largest Convention Center in Branson; Maestro optimizes all hotel and conference center operations on one database for greater staff productivity, stronger financial management and better guest tracking
• Group Business, Education and Networking Highlight the Fall 2007 Elite Meetings Alliance; Powerful Combination Delivers Successful Outcome
• Orient-Express Spurns Indian Hotels' Overtures;  The Indian Hotels Company Acquires 10% Stake in Orient-Express Hotels for US$ 211 million Seeking Proposed Alliance
• Sluggish Condominium Sales Has Developers of St. Paul's Penfield Project Studying Adding a 200 room Hyatt Place Hotel to the 33 Story Tower
• Interstate Hotels Forms Joint Venture with Investcorp Real Estate Group; Will Acquire for $118 million from Afiliates of The Blackstone Group the 321-room Hilton Seelbach, Louisville in Kentucky; the 226-room Crowne Plaza Madison in Wisconsin; and the 288-room Sheraton Columbia in Maryland
• Rockingham Asset Management Begins Construction on Liberty Cove, a $50 billion Destination Resort Located on Sea of Cortez in Sonora, Mexico
• Klaus Tenter, Former GM of the Four Seasons Toronto, Opens the 77 room Hazelton Hotel, Toronto
• TTI Brings 'Concierge on Demand' Services to Hotels as Guest-Service, Revenue Tool; Portland Square Hotel in NYC is first to use the self-service entertainment ticketing system - Ideal for independent hotels with fewer than 200 guestrooms
• Hospitality eBusiness Strategies Wins Five WebAwards
• Real Estate Veteran Establishes Atlanta Based Hotel Assets Group, LLC; Company set to focus in Hotel Brokerage, Hotel Ownership and Hotel Investment Banking services
• The Hotel Group Will Manage Three Hotels Being Developed by A&A Construction in Anchorage, Fairbanks and Seward Alaska
• Claret Capital, a Dublin, Ireland private investment firm, Acquires 90% Interest in the St. Regis Hotel, Washington D.C.
• Howard C. Karawan Named Chief Operating Officer, Fontainebleau Resorts, LLC; Will Oversee Fontainebleau Las Vegas and Fontainebleau Miami Beach
• Novare Group Holdings, LLC Opens Second Atlanta Hotel/Condo Property - TWELVE Hotels & Residences Centennial Park with 102 Hotel Suites and  517 Condominium Residences
• Denihan Hospitality Group Appoints Andrew Labetti General Manager of The Benjamin, New York City
• Sage Hospitality Names Peter Psihas Director of Sales and Marketing for THE BLACKSTONE, a Renaissance Hotel, Chicago

• Senior Travel Executives Convene in Las Vegas to Discuss the Latest Trends in Online Marketing, Distribution and Technology - Attendee List Now Available to View
• TravelCLICK Wins Nine International WebAwards for Outstanding Achievement in Website Development; Winning Websites Position TravelCLICK as a Leading Internet Marketer for the Hotel Industry
• Top Five Most Bizarre Meeting Planner Complaints about Group Events; Drifters and Vagrants Crash Event, Eat Banker's Buffet
• GMs - How User Generated Review Sites Can Make You a Better Manager! / Carol Verret
• American Property Management's Plan to Renovate the 15-story Wyndham Hotel at Albuquerque International Sunport At a Dead Stop Because of Differences with the City of Albuquerque
• Rhode Island Improves Franchise Rules, What's Up With Canada? Conversion of a Jail Into a Hotel / Stanley Turkel
• Destination Hotels & Resorts' Ken McKenzie Recently Inducted into Arizona Hotel & Lodging Association Hall of Fame
• Cap Cana Joins Forces With Ritz-Carlton To Develop 220-room Resort and Residential Project In Dominican Republic
• Robert Patasnick Recipient of HFTP's 2007 Paragon Award; Honored for Significant Contributions to HFTP and the Hospitality Industry
• National Customer Service Week is Coming Soon - October 1-5, 2007
• Pet Friendly San Francisco Hotels Join BringYourPet.com
• IHG's Candlewood Suites Diverts 3,200 Mattresses and Box Springs and 4,000 Linen Sets from Landfills to 4,300 Families Across the U.S.
• Dallas' Hilton Anatole Undergoes Second Phase of Multi-Year $100 million Renovation; The Renovation Design Inspired by the Anatole's Asian Art Collection - the Largest Private Assembly for any U.S. Hotel
• Nathan Boyd Appointed Director of Sales & Marketing for the Hotel Jerome in Aspen, Colorado

• SmartCube Replaces AutoClassic as #1 Automated Minibar in the Hotel Market 
• A Gameplan for Dealing with Front Desk Clerks More Focused on Their Computer than Welcoming Guests; Transform Your Guest Contact Staff Into "Hostmasters" / Doug Kennedy
• Regent Hotels Pulls Out Nine Months after Opening the Regent South Beach; Hotel Owner Names Vincci Hotels, a Chain Based in Spain, to Operate the 80 room Boutique Condo-hotel
• The $100-million, 24-story JW Marriott Hotel Grand Rapids Opens; City  Hopes to Compete Better with Cities Such as Detroit and Chicago for the Smaller Meetings Market
• Unity Village Hotel and Conference Center, Near Kansas City, Missouri Claims to be the Fourth Hotel to be Certified Green by the U.S. Green Building Council
• Manga LLC Planning a $15 million 149 room aloft Hotel Near Buffalo Niagara International Airport
• Five Years after Spokane's Davenport Hotel Reopening, Caretakers Recall the Dark Days
• A 414-room Loews Hotel to be Centerpiece of 12th & Midtown, New Mixed-use Development on Atlanta's Midtown Mile
• Rockford Area Convention & Visitors Bureau: Destination Segmentation / Cohorts Analyzes and Segments Databases to Increase Tourism
• The ProHost® Housekeeping System Has Been Selected for The Liberty Hotel Boston
• Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. Realigns Management Structure
• Christian Clerc Named General Manager of The Ritz-Carlton Chicago (A Four Seasons Hotel)
• The Ritz-Carlton, Westchester Appoints James R. Dangler as Executive Chef
• Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 98 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database
• Rene Teuscher Appointed General Manager of the Orchard Hotel Singapore

• Knowland Offers Holiday Party Lead Lists to Over 70 Markets Across North America; Holiday Party and Catering Reports now available for your market
• Concord Hospitality Enterprises Sells 19-hotel Portfolio of Marriott-branded Properties to Moody National Cos. for $440 million; Plans to Build New Hotels with Proceeds
• Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts Developing Strategy to Enhance Corporate Social Responsibility Activities in Five Key Areas: the Environment; Employees and the Community; Health and Safety; Supply Chain Management; and Stakeholder Relations
• Is Print Marketing Dead? / Carol Hart
• HEDNA's December 2007 Conference Looks at Shaping the Future of Digital Travel; Keynote speakers are Henry H. Harteveldt of Forrester Research and Daniel Levine of Avant-Guide
• Three American Indian Tribes Make History in California, Open the First off-reservation Hotel in California - the 235 suite Residence Inn by Marriott Sacramento at Capitol Park
• Joanne Yoo Joins The University of Houston Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management as Assistant Professor; Will Research Two Current Tourism Trends - Gaming and Medical Tourism
• Playa Hotels & Resorts, S.L. Acquires the Ocean Bavaro Spa and Beach Resort in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic; Resort to be re-branded as the Barcelo Dominican Beach Resort
• Marilyn Carlson Nelson, chair and CEO of Carlson, Inducted into the American Society of Travel Agents Hall of Fame
• Hiring properly documented legal aliens, plays a vital role in the growth of the U.S. tourism industry. If you are looking for reliable english speaking seasonal labor then we can help you
• A New Jersey Hotel Guest Details His Experience Concerning the Loss of a Laptop from His Hotel Room
• Web-Based Time & Attendance Solution Now Available Through UniFocus; Web-based solution performs rich management reporting, advanced administrative functions and job costing capabilities to streamline payroll operations
• The ProHost® Housekeeping System Has Been Selected for The Liberty Hotel Boston
• Mainsail Management Group Selects SoftBrands' Epitome Property Management System
• Great Wolf Resorts Selects the MICROS OPERA and MICROS 9700 HMS for Enterprise Deployment
• Choice Hotels Australasia Acknowledges Top Performing Individuals and Hotels
• Famed New York Eatery - Junior's - to Open at MGM Grand at Foxwoods in 2008
• Francois Malric Named Operations Manager of Rihiveli Beach Resort in the Maldives
• Pan Pacific Hotels and Resorts Appoints Alexander A. Pangelinan to Regional Director of Sales, Americas
• Benchmark Hospitality Appoints Brian Schack Executive Chef for French Lick Resort Casino
• Adam Votaw Appointed Executive Chef of LaPlaya Beach & Golf Resort, Naples, Florida
• Michael Russell Named Executive Chef of Chicago's McCormick Place
• Hard Rock Hotel San Diego Hires Jeff Walter as Executive Chef
• Noelia Nava Named Director of Housekeeping for The Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort, Phoenix, Arizona

• New Forecast Report from PKF Hospitality Research: No Sunset on the Horizon
• Engage Me . .  the Voice of Your Customer / www.engagemenow.com
• The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels (Peninsula Hotels) Finds Demand for Quality Accommodation Remains Strong in 2007; The Peninsula New York Achieves Average Daily Room Rate of $732 at a 74% Occupancy for the Six Months Ending June, 2007 
• Texas Rangers Owner Tom Hicks Envisions 2-3 Hotels for $1 billion Glorypark Town Center Development Located Between the Rangers' Ballpark and the New Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington
• City of Mesa, Arizona Offers $20 million in Incentives to Developer of Proposed Massive Waterpark and Resort
• Qbic Hotels, With its Low Cost Design Hotels Concept, Opens First Hotel in Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Key Element a Cube-shaped Guest Room, Appropriately Called Cubi
• Brett Melzer Opens the Malikha Lodge; Designed by Jean Michel Gathy, the Lodge is Located Myanmar's  Himalaya Rainforest Near the Border of Tibet and Northern India, Will Help Support Hill Tribes and Sustainable Tourism
• Report on Social Media: Not Just an Online Network for 15-year-olds; It Can Be Used by Hotels to Deepen the Brand and Expand the Relationship with the Customer
• Only 2 Days Left to Register - Web 2.0 and the Hotel Group Sales Process
• Caribbean Hotel Association Sponsoring 2nd Annual HFTP Conference on December 10-11, 2007 in Montego Bay, Jamaica
• Austin's Historic Driskill Hotel Joins Associated Luxury Hotels International
• Sonnenblick-Eichner Company Arranges $33,000,000 of First Mortgage Financing for Hilton Fort Lee at the George Washington Bridge, Fort Lee, New Jersey
• Raffles Hotels Signs Agreement with PT Asia Pasifik Property to Manage Raffles Amarthain in Bali, Indonesia
• Global Events Partners (GEP) and Krisam Group Open Office in the  Raleigh-Durham Research Triangle - GEP's Rachel Elliott Leads Sales and Service in Burgeoning Market for Meetings and Event Business; Tracey Lankford Manages Krisam Office
• The Hotel Group Acquires 388-room Radisson Hotel and Suites in Downtown Kansas City; Planning $12 million in Renovations to the Rebranded Crowne Plaza
• UNITE HERE files Initiative to Control Condo Development Near Ritz Carlton Huntington Hotel and Spa; Union Seeks to Protect Hotel Workers Jobs
• Kimpton Hotels Appoints Sholeh Katherina Kia as General Manager and Vicki Walker as Director of Sales and Marketing for the Hotel Palomar in Arlington, Virginia
• Edgar Lozoya Named General Manager for the Hilton Sedona Resort & Spa, Sedona, Arizona
• The San Jose Convention & Visitors Bureau Names Anita Pagin National Sales Manager
• Carlson Hotels Worldwide Names Karen deKanter Director of National Sales
• Emmanuel Robert Named Executive Chef for Sofitel San Francisco Bay

• Discover How to Get Your Revenue Management and Sales Departments on the Same Page
• Following the Steps of a AAA Diamond Ratings Evaluator at the Mirage, Las Vegas
• Widow of Hollywood Director-Producer Moustapha Akkad Sues Global Hyatt Corporation for Wrongful Death; Akkad Was Killed in a 2005 Suicide Bombing at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Amman, Jordan
• MGM MIRAGE, Kerzner International and Istithmar Finalize Definitive Agreements to Develop Multi-Billion Dollar Las Vegas Resort
• Harrah's Foundation Gifts $30 million to UNLV's William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration; Designates $25 million toward Construction of New Hotel Administration Academic Building and $5 million for Related Research and Education Initiatives
• ESuites Hotels Planning a $35 million Tech-heavy 224 suite Hotel Near Raleigh-Durham International Airport
• Top 10 Group Events: North America and Selected Markets / Aug 01, 2007 - Aug 31, 2007 / Knowland Group Inc
• The Caribbean Continues to Show Tremendous Investment Potential for Spanish Hotel Companies; Caribbean Hotel Association Sets Meeting with 30 of Spain's Most Powerful Hotel Investors
• The Wirth Companies Transitions the 403-room Grand Lodge Hotel in Bloomington, Minnesota to Radisson Hotel Bloomington By Mall of America®
• Tom Giannopoulos Named 2007 Hospitality Executive of the Year by Penn State Hotel and Restaurant Society
• Benchmark Hospitality's Cheyenne Mountain Resort Honored as Best "Good Neighbor" In Colorado by National Restaurant Association; Receives 'Restaurant Neighbor Award' for the State
• ICE Portal Introduces New Multilingual Digital Brochures; Now Hotels Will Have Auto Translations for Eight Different Languages
• Pegasus Expands Distribution Channels through New Agreement with StarCite; Pegasus to Provide StarCite with UltraDirect® Distribution Technology
• First Hilton Garden Inn Franchise Agreement in Costa Rica has Been Signed with Hoteles Aeropuerto H.A.L., S.R.L.
• Vietnam Investment & Project Development Group Contracts with Life Resorts and Blue Ocean Company Ltd to Develop a 110 unit, Resort in the Mountainous Region of Sa Pa, Vietnam
• Alexander Pichel and Mirco Zanini Named to GM Posts with Rocco Forte Hotels
• Pamela Line Appointed Assistant Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Coakley & Williams Hotel Management Company
• Kirk DeLong Named Executive Chef at Fess Parker's Doubletree Resort, Santa Barbara, California

September 10, 2007

• Accor Sells Red Roof Inn Brand (341 hotels) to Citi's Global Special Situations Group and Westbridge Hospitality Fund, L.P. for US 1.313 billion
• Social Media Scrutiny - Managing a Hotel's Online Reputation / Neil Salerno
• Hotel Review Web Site that Marries Social Networking, Hotel Reviews and Meta-searches Launched by Two Recent College Graduates
• Industrial, Flexible and Demountable (IFD) Building System at the Core of a New Dutch Hotel Group - citizenM Hotels
• Songy Partners and Omni Hotels Preparing to Spend $100 million to Turn the Long Shuttered 28-story Sheraton-Lincoln Plaza in Downtown Houston into an Omni Luxury Hotel
• The Mail Rooms of Three Hotels in Palm Beach, The Breakers, Ritz-Carlton and the Four Seasons Used as Shipping Drop Locations in Marijuana Trafficking Scheme
• All Four of the Main Convention Center Hotel Operators -- Marriott, Hyatt, Hilton and Sheraton Are Part of the Four Proposals Submitted to the City of Tucson
• Best Western Positioning Itself as a Four Star Chain in Asia While Most North American Hotels are Considered to Be in the Mid-market Segment
• Crescent Hotels & Resorts Acquiring the 293-room Sheraton Tampa Riverwalk Hotel; Crescent Will Assume Management and Invest $6 million to Upgrade
• The Keauhou Beach Resort, Managed by Outrigger Enterprise Group, Giving 310 rooms a Complete Makeover
• James Rowe Named Director of Acquisitions and Development for Thayer Lodging Group
• The Saunders Hotel Group, LLC Names Colin O'Donnell Area Director of Revenue Management for Boston Properties
• Diane Riche Appointed Director of Sales and Marketing at Loews New Orleans

September 7, 2007

• Washington D.C. Hotel Owners Reach a Tentative Three-year Labor Agreement with Local 25 of Unite Here; Hotels Will Continue to Pay 100% of Employees Health Care Premiums and Must Reduce Housekeepers' Workloads
• Sage Hospitality Resources Finding Success Adding Coco Key Water Parks to Hotels; Have Four Open with Five More Planned 
• LQ Management L.L.C. Breaks Ground on a 241 room La Quinta Inns & Suites in Downtown Chicago
• The Iconic, Bright Red "New Yorker" Sign on the New Yorker Hotel Will Remain a Fixture of the Historic Hotel
• Environmentally-friendly Products Making Debut in Guestroom 2010 at the 2007 IH/M&RS
• Recap HSMAI Hotel Sales Strategy Conference: Meeting and Event Professionals Tell Hotel Sales & Marketing Directors That Budgets Were Not Going Up and They Better Get Online for Both RFPs and Bookings
• Embassy Suites Challenges Guests to Design the Brand's New "Do Not Disturb" Sign: Such As:  "There's a Good Reason for You NOT to Knock Right Now"
• The Courtyard by Marriott Hotel in Downtown Milwaukee Sold for $26.1 million; Third Sale of a Downtown Hotel in the Past Four Months
• Critiquing a Retro Grillhouse, the Daily Grill at  the Sheraton Seattle
• Optimum Hotel Brokerage Sells Holiday Inn Express in Plainfield, Connecticut; Connecticut Casino Region Hotel Sold to New York-Based Operator
• The Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Now Owned by Omni Hotels Following the Acquisition of the Hotel Component of the Austin Centre Complex
• PAR Springer-Miller Selected by Scotland's Gleneagles® Hotel to Install Completely Integrated Property Management System; Famed Destination Resort Chooses Guest Centric SMS|Host Hospitality Management System
• Portfolio Hotels & Resorts Managing the 470-room Hyatt Regency Woodfield in Schaumburg, IL  on Behalf of Owner The Harp Group
• Lánchíd 19, Named after Budapest's "Chain Bridge" Opens, Hungary's First Member of Design hotels�
• Dania Duke Appointed General Manager of Hyatt at Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco
• Donna Turner Named 2007 Certified Hospitality Accountant Executive (CHAE) of the Year

• Global Update: Who's Where and Doing What / September 2007
• Flyte Systems Installs Airline Flight Information Displays at Berger Hotels; Updated airline departure-arrival screens keep guests and revenue on property
• This Year's Critical Issues Will Escalate If the Hotel Industry Doesn't Address Them Now / Rick Swig
• Halsey Minor, Founder of CNET,  Building a 9 story Hotel in Downtown Charlottesville, Virginia
• Developers Reach Agreement with Environmentalists Over Plans for Massive Resort in the Catskill Mountains; Scaled-down Belleayre Resort at Catskill Park Will Have Two Hilltop Hotels and One World-class Golf Course
• Building Permit Issued for Resort Hotel in Dove Mountain, North of Tucson; Some Speculate a Ritz Carlton Branded Resort Will Be Part of the Golf Resort Community
• Web 2.0 and the Hotel Group Sales Process - Managing User Generated Content to Increase Sales! Web Cast  / September 14, 2007
• The Regent Bal Harbour: A New Standard of Elegance Comes to South Florida January 2, 2008
• Margarita Güitron Named Director of Sales of Grand Velas All Suites & Spa Resort
• Armand Notó Named General Manager of the Newly Refashioned Casanova Hotel in Barcelona Spain
• Neptune Hospitality Advisors Arranges $16.73 Million Acquisition Financing for Two Hampton Inns
• Pet Friendly New Mexico Hotels Join BringYourPet.com
• UniFocus to Unveil Mystery Shopping Evaluation Tool - SERVICEScope®; Susan Perrin to head new on-site service evaluation process providing actionable information with links to Guest and Employee Satisfaction
• Grapevine, Texas Approves Economic Incentives for Expansion to the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center, Adding 200,000 Sq Ft of Meeting Space and 500 Rooms
• Ardent Hotel Advisors Signs Agreement to Manage the Sheraton Atlantic Beach Oceanfront Hotel in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina; Names Tim Peters General Manager
• Ron C. Ray Appointed Shilo Inns' South Region Director of Operations
• Martin J. Joyce Appointed Director of Sales and Marketing for The Regent Boston at Battery Wharf

• Luxury Link: Creating Unique Value for Luxury Hotel Partners
• The Top 10 Quirkiest Hotels from Around the World
• A Legend Among CVB Executives, Robert Imperata Reflects on 39 Years with the Greater Pittsburgh Convention & Visitors Bureau
• Report Predicts Dramatic Changes in Hotel Marketing Discipline as Result of Consumers' Use of Social Media; The Cost to Use these Tools is Low and the Impact is High
• The ProHost® Housekeeping System Has Been Selected for The Westin Lombard
• Vista Capital Company Arranges $17,000,000 of First Mortgage Financing for the Best Western Sterling Inn Located in Sterling Heights, Michigan
• Meeting Alliance Expands; Leading Meeting Planning Organization Announces Management Additions and Promotion, to Complement and Further Accelerate the Company's Rapid Growth
• The Providence Group Manages The Microtel Inn & Suites in Seneca Falls, New York
• Radisson Edwardian Hotels Opens 169 room Hotel at New Providence Wharf Overlooking River Thames, London
• UNITE HERE and Affiliates Claim a $80 million Strike Fund Available to Support a Potential Strike of More than 13,000 Casino and Laundry Workers in Las Vegas and Reno
• Noble Investment Group Acquires the 483-room Hyatt Regency Milwaukee; Will Provide $18 million Renovation
• Mark Andrew Appointed Regional Vice President, Pacific Northwest, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts and General Manager, The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver
• Andres Araya Named Chief Operating Officer of Logan International Mexico; Will Oversee Development of Cabo San Cristobal Resort, Los Cabos
• Frank Heller Appointed General Manager of Rocco Forte's The Charles Hotel in Munich

• Technology's Role in Handling Individual Transactional Uniqueness; EFT's CRM Technology for Travel 2007 Special
• Starwood Maintains Consumer-Brand Focus, Names Frits van Paasschen, Former CEO of Coors Brewing Company, Chief Executive Officer
• Being Green is Getting Easier; Practices that Hotels and Restaurants Can Implement Immediately / Lee Simon
• "A View from the West" - HIS Reports for July 2007 show Ups & Downs of Meetings Business in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Phoenix/Scottsdale.  Ten "Most Active" Hotels compete for market share
• The Magic of the Internet - Why Some Hoteliers Excel and Others Don't / Neil Salerno
• Apollo Real Estate Investment Fund V, L.P.,  Aimbridge Hospitality, L.P. and JF Capital Advisors, LLC Complete Merger with Eagle Hospitality Properties Trust, Inc.
• NCL/National Content Liquidators, Inc. Selected to Liquidate the contents of the Elegant Watergate Hotel, Washington, DC 
• MTech Celebrates Milestone Installation of PMWorks Preventive-Maintenance Solution; Interstate-managed Hilton Garden Inn El Paso becomes 1,100th property to feature MTech's innovative, cost-saving maintenance-management software program
• Al Areen Holding Company Opens the Middle East's First Fully-themed Water Park, the US$ 50 Million Lost Paradise of Dilmun Water Park
• Benchmark Completes Extensive Renovations for The Chattanoogan, Chattanooga, Tennessee
• Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 93 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database
• Sage Hospitality Names Fletcher C. Mayes General Manager for The Blackstone, a Renaissance Hotel; $112 million Renovation of Chicago's Legendary Hotel Set for Completion Late in 2007
• François Thomas Named General Manager at the Regent Boston at Battery Wharf 
• Chris Miller Appointed to Regional Director of Sales and Marketing at the Hotel ICON, Managed by Destination Hotels & Resorts

1. Top Ten Hospitality Trends for Summer and Fall 2007
2. Global Update: Who�s Where and Doing What / August 2007
3. Blackstone�s Acquisition of Hilton, The Art of Groveling, The Origin of Franchising, Key Facts about Franchising, Quote of the Month / Stanley Turkel
4. Former Front-desk Staffer at the Park Lane Hotel on Central Park South Sets the Record Straight on Leona Helmsley
5. Five Things Hoteliers Can Do, Today, to Improve Sales / Neil Salerno
6. Spectacular Four Winds Casino Resort Opens in New Buffalo, Michigan; May Give Detroit Casinos a Run for the Money
7. A Frequent Hotel Guest Responds to Starwood's 'Eco-Etiquette'' Secrets
8. Tom Bodett, the Voice Behind Motel 6, Humorously Lists All the Amenities He Does Not Need When Staying at a Hotel... Including Sewing Kits, Shoe Mits, Elevator Music and Jordan Almonds on Your Pillow
9. Luxury Travel & Lifestyle Trends - Design: It's What Consumer Crave / Karen Weiner Escalera
10. Corporate Director, Rooms at Starwood Hotels& Resorts Reveals ''Eco-Etiquette'' Secrets
11. Buyers Who Paid Millions in Down Payments for Condos at Bahama Island Resort, North Myrtle Beach, SC, Perplexed Where Funds Are; Escrow Agent Bank of America Does Not Have the Funds  
12. Why Do Hotels Fail Online?  A �How - To� List for Avoiding Common Pitfalls
13. Green Leaders - EcoRooms & EcoSuites new Board of Advisors hopes to raise the environmental standards of the hospitality industry, educate consumers and differentiate green from �greenwashing�
14. California Developer Claims Permission Received from Mexican Government to Build a $900 million Resort and Casino in Baja California on the Sea of Cortez
15. Customer Engagement: Where do we begin? / Byran K Williams
16. Hotels Worldwide Are Asked to Destroy Tubes of Gilchrist & Soames, 0.65-ounce Toothpaste - Provided by Gilchrist & Soames
17. To Engage�Listen to the Voice of Your Customer / Bryan K. Williams
18. The Lodging Ledger - Still a Dealmaker�s Paradise / The Upper-Upscale Sector Elbows Its Way to the Front
19. Collapse of Subprime Home Mortgages and Falling Home Values Could Eventually Affect Hotel Financing
20. Revolution LLC, Created by AOL Co-founder Steve Case, Building a One&Only Resort and  Tom Doak 18-hole golf course at Cacique on the Northwest Coast of Guanacaste, Costa Rica
21. Cosmopolitan Resort & Casino to Integrate Celebrity Chef Wolfgang Puck Cuisine and Service to Banquets, Room Service, Hotel Room Mini Bars, the Employee Dining Room - and Not in Hotel Restaurants
22. After 14 Years of Battles Developer Fess Parker Likely to Get the Green Light to Build 150-room Luxury Hotel on the Santa Barbara Waterfront
23. Westin Hotel Brand Creating a SuperFoodsRx Focused Menu; Adding More Brain Food - Blueberries, Wild salmon, Avocados and Spinach
24. Benchmark Hospitality's Top Five Dining Trends for 2007
25. Las Vegas Night Club Owner Sean Christie Describes His Newest Club - Blush in Wynn Las Vegas; What the Customer Gets for $400 Dollar Bottle Service

• Heirs to Wal-Mart's Walton Family Fortune and Investment Banking Giant Goldman Sachs Together Investing $1 billion in Global Hyatt Corp.; Cash Expected to be Used to Help Settle Dispute Among its Owners, the Pritzker Family
• Benchmark Hospitality's Top Five Dining Trends for 2007
• Busboy or Busser: What Is the Officially Preferred Term for the Person who Clears Restaurant Tables?
• Ali Kasikci Accepts Managing Director Position at Montage Beverly Hills / Jim Butler
• A Plan to Build a $125 million Hilton Hotel and Convention Center in Norfolk, Virginia May be Falling Apart
• New Study, Collaborated with UNITE HERE, Reports Certain Hotel Workers Are Injured at Different Rates; 35 Union Hotels in the Full Servie Sector Studied
• The University of Houston Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management Provides Students with Intership Opportunities All Over the World; Gives Students Advantage When it Comes to Competing for Industry Jobs
• Crowne Plaza Oceanfront, Singer Island Recently Liquidated by NCL/National Content Liquidators, Inc.
• The Pritzkers Selling $1 billion Stake in Global Hyatt Corporation
• BMC, Formerly Boykin Management Company, to Manage the 127 room Ellis Hotel in Downtown Atlanta
• Gammon India Ltd. to Develop at Least 38 Wyndham Branded Super 8® and Days Inn® Hotels Throughout India by 2011
• PT Dua Cahaya Anugrah Building a 232 room W Retreat & Spa in the Seminyak Area on the Isle of Bali
• Don Weintraub Appointed Director of Sales & Marketing at the Enchantment Resort in Sedona, Arizona
• The Villa Group Names David Kuhn Corporate Director E-Commerce Sales & Marketing
• Sunil Sharma Named General Manager of the Courtyard by Marriott in Westborough, MA

• SynXis Appoints 20-Year Industry Veteran as Vice President of Accounts and Revenue Management; Trevor Stuart-Hill, a former Destination Hotels & Resorts VP, brings expertise to SynXis's rapidly expanding customer base
• Suppliers Are Winning the Battle for Online Revenues
• Las Vegas Night Club Owner Sean Christie Describes His Newest Club - Blush at Wynn Las Vegas; What the Customer Gets for $400 Dollar Bottle Service
• The Peninsula Tokyo Enters Tokyo's International High-end Hotel Market: Competition Stiff for Talented Staff, Faithful Patrons 
• Wyndham Vacation Resorts in Pompano Beach, Florida Named in Negligence Lawsuit Following Death of Guest in Parasail Accident
• Resort Owner Jim Confalone Reveals Big Plans for Big Squaw Mountain Resort; Wants to Turn the Underutilized Maine Ski Slope into a Year Round Destination by Adding 18 hole Golf Course, Two Hotels and Conference Center
• HEI Hotels & Resorts to Acquire Site for Planned 378-Room Hotel in Bellevue, Washington
• Quanah Hospitality Partners, LP Plans Major Expansion of Value Place Branded Properties; Secures $100 million in Capital from NorthStar Realty Finance Corp.
• The 402-room Reef Club Cozumel Beach and Dive Resort Signs Agreement to be Wyndham® Branded
• NCL/National Content Liquidators, Inc. Completes Another Major Florida Hotel Liquidation
• Real Hotels & Resorts Selects Newmarket International's Delphi® to Power Its Group Business Strategy; Leading Central American hospitality management company will leverage Delphi to connect its InterContinental properties
• ICE Portal Now Features a "Supersize" Option for their Virtual Tours and Videos
• AKA, a division of Korman Communities, Opens its Largest Extended-stay Property - AKA Dulles Station in Herndon, Virginia
• Sava Holding Breaks Ground on a 123 room  Element Branded Hotel in Irving, Texas
• Israel's Tourism Industry Emerges from the Shadow of the 2006 Lebanon War; Hotel Occupancy Rates Now Similar to Those in the Summer of 2005
• Windsor Hospitality Group Appoints David McCartney to General Manager at the Asheville Renaissance Hotel
• Jesse Suglia Joins Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants as the Director of Hotel Sales
• Luis Rodríguez Named General Manager of Casa Velas Hotel Boutique, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

• Financing Your Indoor Waterpark Resort / David J. Sangree
• Cosmopolitan Resort & Casino to Integrate Celebrity Chef Wolfgang Puck Cuisine and Service to Banquets, Room Service, Hotel Room Mini Bars, the Employee Dining Room - and Not in Hotel Restaurants
• 16 of 17 Harlingen Hotels Continue to Boycott the Harlingen Convention and Visitors Bureau; Lists 9 Demands
• The 3,000 suite Venetian Macao Opens as the First Fully Integrated Resort in Macao; The US$2.4 billion Mega Resort the Largest Single Structure Hotel in Asia
• 2nd Annual HR in Hospitality� Conference Predicted Another Winner at Wynn Las Vegas; Produced in association with Human Resource Executive® Magazine, Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, and Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
• Market Metrix Unleashes Employee Metrix� 2.0 -  Web-Based Product Line for Hospitality Industry; Employees are central to delivering a superior customer experience
• Investment Firm Aetos Capital, LP Commits $50 million to Tian Rui Hotel Corporation to Accelerate Super 8 Hotel Growth in China
• Resorts & Great Hotels Wish Book of Vacation Experiences Relaunches with Greater Frequency and Editorial Content; New Publisher Responding to Industry Need for More Luxury Lifestyle Content
• Manchester Grand Resorts Prepares to Open the 249 room Grand Del Mar in Del Mar, California
• IKEA Building a 140 room Tulip Inn Adjacent to the IKEA Concept Center in Delft, The Netherlands; Hotel Will be Furnished with IKEA Furniture
• Warmbrodt Hotel Investments Advises in the Sale of the Baymont Inn and Suites, Omaha, NE and the Hampton Inn Hays, KS
• Wyndham Hotels Assumes Management of the 364-room Lakeside Princeton Conference Center & Hotel in Plainsboro, New Jersey; Renamed The Wyndham® Princeton Forrestal Hotel & Conference Center
• The Landmark Green Oaks Hotel in Fort Worth has Date with Wrecking Ball
• Opened in 1972 as the Alameda Plaza, The 336 room InterContinental Kansas City Receiving $15 million Restoration
• Fairmont Extends Relationship with Pegasus
• SDC Solutions and MTech Join Development Forces to Improve Guest Service; IntelliDESK® Integrates with HotSOS to Streamline Guest Service Workflows
• David Martin Appointed Senior Vice President of Operations, Wyndham Hotels and Resorts
• Daniel M. Wade Named Chief Operating Officer of the New Plaza Las Vegas
• Rocco Forte Opening the New Build $US 47 million Charles Hotel in Munich, Germany

• Dawnay Shore Hotels PLC, the Owner of the Paramount Hotel Chain, Selects Barcelo Hotels & Resorts to Manage 20 Hotels Throughout the United Kingdom
• NxTV Tapped for Inc. 500 List of America's Fastest Growing  Private Companies; Los Angeles-based NxTV, first and largest provider of IP VOD, joins the list with three-year sales growth of 736%
• Washington, DC Convention & Tourism Corp. Rebranding the City with a New Logo
• Fort Lauderdale Tourism Leaders Confront the City's Mayor Jim Naugle
• Speakers Selected for the Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series at Cornell Hotel School
• The Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians Planning an $800 million Resort Casino Just East of San Diego, California
• Davidson Hotel Company Will Manage the Recently Opened 225-room Westin Annapolis, Maryland
• South Florida Hotels Find Going Green Helps Bottom Line and the Planet
• Completed in March 2007, the $62.2 million McAllen (Texas) Convention Center Likely to Have a 154 room Embassy Suites Built Adjacent
• A Hotel Gem in Peoria: the Hotel Pere Marquette
• The Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly Will Change its Name to Cornell Hospitality Quarterly; First Published in 1960
• The Lam Group, Lam Generation Sign Marshall Management to Facilitate Accelerated Development in New York City
• Aquilini Group Properties LP Opens 210-suite Embassy Suites by Hilton® in Downtown Montréal

• Songy Partners LLC Acquiring the Fabled Chicago Athletic Association Clubhouse on Michigan Avenue; Investing $100 million to Convert to a 300-room Omni Hotel with Ballroom and Athletic Facility
• Tom Bodett, the Voice Behind Motel 6, Humorously Lists All the Amenities He Does Not Need When Staying at a Hotel... Including Sewing Kits, Shoe Mits, Elevator Music and Jordan Almonds on Your Pillow
• Hotel Investor Survey Mid Year 2007 - Hotel Capitalization Rates Hold for Now, But Capital Market Concerns Emerge
• Mayor of Toledo, Ohio Audits City Hotels and Issues Report Card to the Public. Is the Destination Sullied?
• Kimpton Selected as Hotel Operator for Hotel Palomar, a 199 room Hotel Being Built within Nashville's 70 story Signature Tower
• Lodgian Temporarily Suspends Discussions with Interested Suitors; Implements Share Repurchase Program, Continues With Plan for the Sale of Certain Hotels
• Recap: Memphis Lodging Industry Summit
• Presidian Joint Ventures with Local Owners to Renovate and Reopen Downtown Tulsa's Historic Mayo Hotel
• You are invited to fill out an online survey about Web-based Marketing Strategies in the Lodging Industry and win a prize. The survey, conducted by the Rosen College of Hospitality Management, University of Central Florida, specifically focuses on lodging property's Web-based marketing practices
• JTC Inc. Building a 100 room Country Inn and Suites by Carlson in Grand Forks, North Dakota
• Houston Based Benchmark Hospitality Helps Build Seawall Protecting Sheffield Island in Long Island Sound

• Award-Winning Hotel du Pont Selects TravelCLICK for Total Property Merchandising Solution; Historic Luxury Hotel Implements iHotelier CRS, Market Intelligence, Internet Marketing Services
• A Frequent Hotel Guest Responds to Starwood's 'Eco-Etiquette'' Secrets
• Hospitality Leaders Take Note: The Bill Walsh Legacy / David Brudney
• The University of Florida Providing 5 Years of Funding for a New On-campus Institute - the Crisis Recovery Tourism Research Institute; Names Elaine McLaughlin Director of Strategic Operations
• Harrah's Entertainment and AEG Agree to Develop a Privately Funded 20,000 seat Arena Just Off the Las Vegas Strip; Will Be Capable of Hosting an NHL or NBA Franchise
• Stoneleigh Hotel & Spa in Dallas Undergoes $30 Million Dollar Renovation; Restoration Will Maintain Historical Integrity and 1930's-era Art Deco
• Equity Inns, Inc. Acquiring Eight Marriott Branded Hotels from InterMountain Management, LLC for Approximately $90.5 million, or $122,000 per Key
• Competition Between Grapevine and Arlington for Conventioneers and Tourists Continues to Intensify
• A Coalition Public Event Promoters in Monterey, California Launch Web Site Featuring Hotels Designated as Preferred Providers; Seeks to Stop Price Gauging During Periods of High Demand
• South Carolina Visitors Use BringYourPet.com to Find Hotels that Accept Pets
• Exclusive Tarsadia Hotel Group to Let Knowland Take the Lead; Tarsadia Hotels Signs on with Knowland Group's INSIGHT to Track Group Sales Leads
• Stay Jay Hotels, LLC and Pride Hospitality Begin Construction on a a 73 room Holiday Inn Express & Suites in Portland, Indiana

• Increasing Online Revenue is Focus of NORTHWIND Maestro's 2008 Users' Conference; Maestro "Guest Connections" Conference presents workshops, expert training to support operators' 360-degree view of guests, drive  profitability, service
• ADR and Occupancy Soar at IP Casino Resort Spa with Post-Katrina Upgrade and Revenue Management Technology; IP earns Four-Diamond status, optimizes rates and availability for upscale clientele
• Nobody Asked Me, But� No. 31 - Blackstone's Acquisition of Hilton, The Art of Groveling, The Origin of Franchising
• Five Things Hoteliers Can Do, Today, to Improve Sales / Neil Salerno
• Key Preliminary Findings of the ISPA 2007 Spa Industry Study
• Corporate Director, Rooms at Starwood Hotels & Resorts Reveals ''Eco-Etiquette'' Secrets
• Short-term Contracts, Low, Flat Fees, and No Liquidated Damages Provides Americas Best Value Inn Plenty of Growth
• Does a Hotel Have a Legal Obligation to Pay Costs for an Employee Arrested for Serving Beer to an Underage Patron?
• Orlando Hotelier Harris Rosen Conducting a One-man Crusade Against Three Orlando Venues - a New Arena, Performing-arts Center and Refurbished Citrus  Bowl
• Travel Agency Sales Up as They Continue to Reinvent Themselves - with New Markets, New Travel Options
• PolyU Invites Industry Participation in Shaping Future Hotel Rooms
• Starwood Hotels Building First Wholly-Owned ALOFT and ELEMENT Branded Properties in Lexington, Massachusetts
• Owned by The Village of Lombard, Illinois, The 500 room Westin Lombard Yorktown Center Opens; Brent Menzel the Opening GM
• Ten State Tourism Offices Recognized for Excellence and Creative Accomplishment in Travel Marketing
• Robert J. Lowe, Jr. Named President and Chief Operating Officer of Lowe Hospitality Group

• Will Your Next CEO be a Revenue Manager?
• Customer Engagement: Where do we begin? / Bryan K Williams
• What Hot Internet Marketing Topics are on the Minds of Hoteliers? A Mid-Year 2007 Review as Hoteliers Enter into Budget Planning Season / Max Starkov and Jason Price
• Airlines and Luxury Hotels Disappoint: Customers Want More Comfort and Pampering; Market Metrix Announces Second Quarter 2007 Hospitality Index Results
• Hotel Queen Leona Helmsley Dies at 87
• Former Front-desk Staffer at the Park Lane Hotel on Central Park South Sets the Record Straight on Leona Helmsley
• Hotel Owners Sue Illinois Sheriff Claiming a Five-time Felon Duped Police Into an Errant Credit Card Probe, Resulting in Arrest of Four Hotel Owners
• The Meetings and Convention Industry is Booming in Orange County (Anaheim Area) as Competition from Los Angeles and San Diego Intensifies / Sandi Cain
• After 14 Years of Battles Developer Fess Parker Likely to Get the Green Light to Build 150-room Luxury Hotel on the Santa Barbara Waterfront
• Neptune Hospitality Advisors Arranges $21.6 Acquistion Financing of Hilton Downtown Saint Louis
• Outrigger Enterprises Group Teams with PROS to Optimize Revenue
• TIG Global Receives Top International Honors for Website Design; Nickelodeon, LXR Luxury Resorts and American Express Web Campaigns Receive Summit Creative Awards
• Singapore based firm seeking a senior Project Director for its $80m hotel development in Western Australia. Requires degree in Construction or Architecture, preferably an MBA, and 15+ years experience in hospitality-based Design and Construction project management

• The Gaylord Texan and Other Hotels Making Grapevine, Texas a Top Texas Market
• Arizona Resorts Quickly Recognizing the Economic Necessity of Green Initiatives
• Web 2.0 and Hotel Sales Strategies for '08; What Are Your Clients Saying About You? / Carol Verret
• The Start of Columbia Sussex's $2.5 billion Makeover of the Ageing Tropicana Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Delayed Because of a Volatile Debt Market and Rising Construction Costs
• Best Western Plans to Grow Presence in Thailand from 11 to 25 Hotels by End of 2008; One-third of the Hotels will be Managed by Best Western
• Newmarket International Launches New Version of its Daylight Sales and Catering Application; New capabilities include powerful integration with market leaders Passkey and Cendyn
• For Many the Job's Too Much; Sound Familiar to You, Mr. /Ms. Hotel Owner/Manager? / Joseph M. Gravish
• Who Are the New Spagoers? / Bernard Burt
• Aztec Group, Inc. Arranges the $12.25 Million Sale of Ramada Inn Airport North/Days Inn Westland Mall in Hialeah, Florida
• CVB's from Indianapolis, Las Vegas and Lee County (Florida) Recognized with 2007 Destiny Awards for Marketing Programs and Special Projects
• Interstate Hotels Selected to Launch the EuroSuites Brand - Will Manage the First Property - the 368-suite EuroSuites in the Doral Area of Miami, Florida
• Barcelona's Casanova Hotel is Reborn with New Urban Chic Decor, Set to Debut October 2007
• Windsor Capital Group, Inc. and Windsor Management Services Open the 130 room Homewood Suites La Quinta, California
• Columbia Sussex, Inc. Completes $16 million dollar Renovation and Rebranding of the Former Wyndham in Burlington, Vermont to the Hilton Burlington

• Strong Gains in Hotel Revenues Overcome Expense Growth / Robert Mandelbaum
• Marriott International Plans to Increase Spending Among Diverse Suppliers to 15% by 2009; Sets New Diversity Goals
• Landry's Restaurants Falls into Technical Default; Additional Plans for the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas Put on Hold
• Marriott International Acquires 10.6 acres Across from the Las Vegas Convention Center; May Be Site for High Rise Marriott Marquis Hotel
• Positives Top 2007 Texas Trends Hotel Industry Report
• Hotel Developer Richard C. Kessler Opens Development Office in Vienna, Austria; Kurt Dohnal Appointed VP and COO For The Kessler Collection Europe
• Seneca Nation of Indians Planning a Second Hotel Tower at Seneca Allegany Casino & Hotel in Salamanca, NY; First Tower of 212 rooms Exceeding 90%  Occupancy
• American Property Management Corporation Completes $11 Million Hotel Transformation; Former Radisson San Diego Harbor View Rebranded The Doubletree Hotel San Diego Downtown
• InterContinental Hotels Group Adds Two Crowne Plaza Branded Properties in Southern California; In San Diego, the Former Red Lion Hanalei Rebranded Crowne Plaza San Diego
• Sahara India Club Royale Corporation Limited and Carlson Hotels Building a Radisson Hotel in Lucknow, India
• Kate Neu Appointed As Marketing Manager at the Newly Renovated Stoneleigh Hotel & Spa, Dallas, Texas

• HTNG Forms Workgroup to Focus on Payment Systems and Data Security for the Hotel Industry
• Hotel Developers Threaten Fort Lauderdale with $59 million Lawsuit Following City's Denial to Proceed with Hotel-Marina Complex
• Howard Schultz, Chairman of Starbucks Coffee Company, and Gary Loveman, Chairman & CEO of Harrah's Entertainment, to be Inducted into the 2007 Hospitality Hall of Honor at the Univeristy of Houston
• Shoney's Inn Brand to be Relaunched; First Shoney's Inn Opened in 1976 in Hinesville, Georgia
• Benchmark Hospitality's Burt Cabañas One of the Top 25 Most Influential People in the Meetings Industry, According to Meeting News
• Courtyard by Marriott Washington Embassy Row Adds Barista on Demand to Their Menu
• Global Hyatt Appoints Two to Hyatt Regency GM Posts - Keith Butz in Calgary and Tom Wolf in Bethesda, Maryland
• Michael Tiplady Appointed Senior Vice President of GR8 Leisure Concept Ltd in Hong Kong
• PolyU Assists Guilin Institute of Tourism Develop its Diploma Programme

August 15

• Four Major Multi-Family Housing Operators Select The Rainmaker Group for Revenue Management Pilot Launch; Revenue Management specialist, Rainmaker, tapped for lease/rent rate lift programs by REITs and independents
• Hotels Worldwide Are Asked to Destroy Tubes of Gilchrist & Soames, 0.65-ounce Toothpaste - Provided by Gilchrist & Soames
• Owners of the Plaza Hotel & Casino in Downtown Las Vegas File Lawsuit to Block Elad Group from Using the Plaza Name in Las Vegas
• Westin Hotel Brand Creating a SuperFoodsRx Focused Menu; Adding More Brain Food - Blueberries, Wild salmon, Avocados and Spinach
• Colorado Springs' Second Largest Hotel, the 500-room Sheraton Colorado Springs Rebranded to Crowne Plaza; Began as the Four Seasons Motor Inn in 1974
• Collapse of Subprime Home Mortgages and Falling Home Values Could Eventually Affect Hotel Financing
• Grand Rapids Hotel Employee, Ollie Marions, Winds Down 54 Year Career
• TTI Taps Talents of Oumou Bah to Drive Customer Relations, Quality Control; As Hotel Relations Manager, Bah to serve as liaison between TTI and hotels to streamline communications and assess need for new guest-service technologies
• MagiNet Distributes MTech's HotSOS, Expanding HotSOS Support in Asia, Middle East and Africa Global technology integrator will bring MTech's Software as a Service (SaaS) guest incident tracking and workflow automation tools to its customer base of more than 600 hotels in 40 countries
• Tim Estes Appointed Vice President of Beaver Creek/Aspen Hospitality for Vail Resorts
• Leo Chandler Appointed Area General Manager at the 601-room St. Louis Airport Marriott
• Noble House Appoints Jim Lopez to Director of Sales and Marketing at the 404-room Palm Springs Riviera Resort & Spa

• Hilton, Wyndham, Sol Melia, Expedia and Travelocity Reveal How to Manage and Measure Customer Data to Build Loyalty and Maximize Sales
• California Developer Claims Permission Received from Mexican Government to Build a $900 million Resort and Casino in Baja California on the Sea of Cortez
• Owners of the New Yorker Hotel Recognize its Past History -  the 860 room Art Deco Hotel Built in 1930 Receiving $65 million Restoration
• Nostalgic Tourists Fueling a Renaissance of Interest in the Storied 2,400-mile Route 66, But Most Route 66 Motels Beyond Any Hope of Renovation
• Some Question Columbia-Sussex' Management of the Tropicana Casino & Resort, Atlantic City
• After 21 years at the Mansion on Turtle Creek, Chef Dean Fearing Prepares to Open His Own $6 million Restaurant at the Ritz-Carlton Dallas
• Portland Continues 20 Year Debate Over Building a Publicly Owned Large Hotel Next to the Oregon Convention Center 
• Supertel Acquires 20 Hotels During 2nd Qtr 2007 for $79.6 million; Net Income Available to Shareholders Up 65.9% to $2.2 million / Hotel Operating Statistics
• University of Illinois Research Park's Hotel and Conference Has Name Selected; the "I" Hotel and Conference Center 
• The Dow Hotel Company Acquires Radisson Hill Country Resort & Spa in San Antonio, Texas
• Nicholas DiMeglio Named General Manager of the The Ritz-Carlton Club, Aspen Highlands
• Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group Appoints Valerie Thompson as Vice President of Finance, The Americas
• Don Fraser Named Corporate Director of Operations for Denihan Hospitality Group

• Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Chooses EZ Yield V3 as their Channel Management Solution
• Engage Me�the Voice of Your Customer 
• Groups and Meetings - the Next Frontier in Online Booking / John Burns
• Achieving Greater Revenue Generation from Your Food and Beverage Operation; 10 Things an Operator Can Do / Bernie Otis
• Noble Investment Group Plans to Acquire the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee; Built in 1980, the 484 room Hotel Will Receive $15-20 million Renovation
• Offering Immigrant Workers Free English Classes Provides the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center With Above Average Employee Rentention
• Strategic Hotels & Resorts May Spend Upwards of $230 million to Overhaul and Expand the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Resort; Michael Mina Restaurant and Randy Gerber Bar to Be Added
• Why Do Hotels Fail Online?  A "How - To" List for Avoiding Common Pitfalls
• Charlotte, North Carolina Hotel Occupancy at Record Levels -- But $83 ADR Lags Behind U.S. Average of $103
• Finalists for the 2007 Gold Key Awards for Excellence in Hospitality Design Named; HBA/Hirsch Bedner Associates Named 'Designer of the Year'
• Two Omaha Hotels Set to Open Massive Water Parks
• Prof Kaye Chon of PolyU Recipient of the Howard H. Meek Award
• Ellen D. Adelman Named Vice President of Sales and Marketing of The Resort at Pelican Hill, Newport Coast, California
• Wyndham Hotel Group Names Fernando Salazar as Vice President of Food and Beverage
• Michael Pace Named General Manager of W San Francisco, Replacing Toni Knorr Who Moves to St. Regis Hotel, San Francisco
• Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints Linda Cerra General Manager of Montauk Yacht Club

• Green Leaders: EcoRooms & EcoSuites new Board of Advisors hopes to raise the environmental standards of the hospitality industry, educate consumers and differentiate green from 'greenwashing'
• Elite Meetings International Welcomes Susan Campbell to Top Editorial Post
• Besides Training: Maximizing Hotel Reservations Sales Success / Doug Kennedy
• Some Feel Adding 3,000 Hotel Rooms in Downtown Indianapolis Is Too Much, Too Fast, Creating a Glut of Rooms
• Groupe Pacific is Back with Plans for a $110 million Hotel and Office Project for Downtown Fort Lauderdale; Earlier Plan Was a Condo/Hotel
• Cay Clubs, With Eight Hotels and Marinas Between Key Largo and Marathon, Scrambles to Right Finances Following Condo Downturn
• 2007 Pet Travel Statistics Reported by BringYourPet.com
• Last Chance to Register 'I Hate Cold Calls' Web Cast August 10, 2007
• Essential Guide for Travel Suppliers �ICE's Henry Woodman Publishes "How to Sell Travel on the Internet"
• Best Western Listel Whistler Hotel Selects SoftBrands' Medallion Property Management System; Technology Includes Two-Way Interface for Managing Availability, Rates and Inventory
• Martin Rinck Appointed President and Managing Director of Carlson Hotels Worldwide Asia Pacific
• Ian T. Rogers Named Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer fro eSuites Hotels
• Beth Truax Appointed Director of Sales and Marketing for Hotel Cass Mag Mile Chicago

• Kor Hotel Group Selects SynXis and the RedX® Distribution Management System;  Acclaimed Hotel Collection to be marketed to all channels via RedX and under the YX Chain code
• Uniguest � and PC Guardian ® Introduce USB Security Protection Device for Hotel Industry to Combat Data Leakage; Anti-theft USB Port Security system now available to prevent illegally obtained user data from PC Workstations among hotels
• Mayor of Toledo, Ohio Hires Secret Shopper to Visit Six Hotels; Intent Is to Improve Customer Service, City Image
• Buyers Who Paid Millions in Down Payments for Condos at Bahama Island Resort, North Myrtle Beach, SC, Perplexed Where Funds Are; Escrow Agent Bank of America Does Not Have the Funds
• "Pedal to Metal vs. Plugging Along" - HIS Reports for June 2007 show Ups & Downs of Meetings Business in Portland, OR, Indianapolis, and Orange County, CA.  Ten "Most Active" Hotels compete for market share
• Interstate Hotels & Resorts Partners with Premier Properties USA to Build Three Hotels: a Hyatt Place and two aloft Hotels
• Crescent Hotels & Resorts Expands into Hotel Development Arena with The Clarkson Group; Joint Venture Plans to Own/Operate
• The Long Vacant Clarion Hotel in Hartford, Connecticut Could Benefit From A Redevelopment Plan
• Hard Rock Hotel - Las Vegas Ahead of Target in Many Key Financial Areas for New Owner Morgans Hotel Group
• BringYourPet.com Announces Newest Pet Friendly Property Additions
• Christy Pettit Named Director of Revenue Management for Providence Hospitality Partners

• Worldwide Electronic Hotel Revenue Up 16.8 Percent In Q1 2007, According to TravelCLICK; Quarterly eMonitor Reports Annual Growth for Room Nights at 5.7 Percent
• Global Update: Who�s Where and Doing What / August 2007
• Revolution LLC, Created by AOL Co-founder Steve Case, Building a One&Only Resort and Tom Doak 18-hole golf course at Cacique on the Northwest Coast of Guanacaste, Costa Rica
• The Mayflower Inn, Connecticut's Most Prominent High-end Resort, Acquired by American Property Management Corp.
• McCormick Place Seeks to Add a New 1,500 room Hotel in Addition to the Planned 600 room Expansion of the 800 room Hyatt Regency McCormick Place
• Developer Dan Clothier Planning $38 million Hotel and Garage in Kansas City's Central Business District
• B. Williams Enterprise, LLC Launches Engage Me�the Voice of Your Customer
• JMBM Hotel Lawyers Announce First Green Hotel Development Conference
• Sunstone Hotel Investors Completes $27 million Renovation of the 778 room Renaissance Orlando Resort at SeaWorld
• Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 67 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database
• Hilton Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort Names Opal Gibson as Director of Sales and Marketing

• From The Desk of Karen Weiner Escalera� What's Next: Luxury Travel & Lifestyle Trends
• Novac Noury, a Fixture of Manhattan's 1970 Disco Scene, Now Aiming to Develop a Hotel in NYC's Meat Market District
• The Buccini/Pollin Group Breaks Ground on first of its Kind "Two in One" Hotel Near Baltimore;  The 11-story building will house both a Homewood Suites by Hilton and a Hilton Garden Inn
• To Engage�Listen to the Voice of Your Customer / Bryan K. Williams
• Interstate Hotels Invests $5.7 million in a Three-property Portfolio of Tesoro Resorts in Mexico;  Interstate Will Manage the Three Former Grupo Situr Properties in Los Cabos, Manzanillo and Ixtapa
• Neptune Hospitality Advisors Orchestrates Sale of Hilton Garden Inn of Nashville
• Marquis Los Cabos Ranked Among the Top 25 Hotels in Mexico and Central and South America by Travel + Leisure Readers
• Chris Kandziora Named Director of Sales and Marketing of the Miramonte Resort & Spa, Indian Wells, California

• Major Hotel Chains Report 6.9 Percent Increase In Electronic Bookings for Q1 2007; TravelCLICK's eTRAK Reports Double-Digit Internet Increases, Steady GDS Bookings
• Top Ten Hospitality Trends for Summer and Fall 2007 / North Pacific Management, Inc.
• Still a Dealmaker's Paradise;  The Upper-Upscale Sector Elbows Its Way to the Front / The Lodging Ledger
• Ramada Inn in Ligonier, Pennsylvania Subject of Wrongful Death Suit; 17 Year Old Employee Died in Auto Accident After Working 16 Hour Shift with Access to Alcoholic Beverages
• Owners Brad M. Reiss and John Yoon Complete Restoration of the 126 room Mansfield Hotel Located in Midtown Manhattan
• Judge Orders Full Reinstatement for 18 Former Rochester, Minnesota Holiday Inn Express Employees; New Hotel Owner Claimed He Bought Just the Hotel, Not the Hotel Employees
• The 493 room OHANA Waikiki Beachcomber Begins Extensive $12.1 million Refurbishment; New Interior Decor Inspired by Old Waikiki
• The Dow Hotel Company Purchases the Doubletree Hotel Chicago-O'Hare Rosemont from an Affiliate of Lowe Enterprises
• Columbus, Ohio Hotel Converts to Doubletree Following a $10 million Makeover
• The Briad Group Opens 108 unit Residence Inn in Mount Laurel, NJ
• Spirit Dance Hospitality to Manage the 80 room Teton Springs Lodge in Victor, Idaho
• Andrew Stegen Named General Manager of Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa
• Tyler McDonald Named Director of Sales and Marketing for the 1,606 Hilton Anatole Hotel, Dallas, Texas and James Keaveny Named Director of Sales
• Appointments Made for Outrigger's Japan Sales Division; Danny Ojiri Named Vice President of Japan Sales
• Benchmark Hospitality Appoints Greg Leeper Regional Director of Sales for French Lick Resort Casino

• Mid-America Apartment Communities Installs Rainmaker revolution LRO SM Revenue Management Throughout 140 Properties; revolution LRO delivers a 3% rate increase to Mid-America in pilot test
• Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau Identifies Six Key Strategies and Actions for Long-term Continued Growth
• Wyndham Worldwide Reports 2nd Qtr Profit Up 28% Year-over-Year; Experiencing Phenomenal Performance in the  Vacation Ownership Business / Hotel Operating Statistics by Brand
• Lodgian, Waterford Hotel Group and Depalma Hotel Corp Among the Applicants to Operate New Convention Center with Two Hotels in Albany, New York
• The 120 Year Old Cambridge Hotel in Cambridge, New York Receives New Future with New Investors; Supposedly Where Pie a la Mode First Concocted
• The Quapaw Tribe Breaks Ground on $200 million Casino and 219 room Hotel Near Miami, Oklahoma
• Spectacular Four Winds Casino Resort Opens in New Buffalo, Michigan; May Give Detroit Casinos a Run for the Money
• It's Time for the Hotel Industry to Heal Itself / Joseph M. Gravish
• Neptune Hospitality Advisors Arranges $24.7 million Acquisition Financing of Orlando Sheraton
• FelCor Completes Dispositions - Renovated Hotels Exceeding Targets; Plans to Spend $30 million to Renovate and Reposition the Crowne Plaza Union Square San Francisco to a Marriott Brand
• $18 Million Renovation and ReBranding to Doubletree Scheduled for the 184 room Pierre Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Candlewood Suites Completes Comforts of Home Bedding Collection Rollout; 11,000 New Mattress at 100 hotels
• Hilton Hotels Corporation Announces Development Plans with Tenedora Augusta; Plans Call for Development of Six Hampton® Hotels in Mexico During the Next Three Years
• Westmont Hospitality Group Spending $10 million to Transition the Travelodge Hotel Main Gate East to Holiday Inn Main Gate East - Kissimmee, Florida
• Shangri-La Hotel, Beijing Completes US$50-million Expansion, Includes Additional 142 rooms

Top 25 Viewed Articles / July 2007

1. Biggest Hotel Deal in History - Blackstone Buys Hilton for $26 billion / Jim Butler
2. Going Green - the Number 1 Trend in the Hotel Industry
3. Drury Inn, Embassy Suites, Hilton Garden Inn, Homewood Suites,  Microtel Inns and The Ritz-Carlton Top J.D. Power and Associates 2007 North America Hotel Guest Satisfaction Study
4. Major League Baseball's Official Hotel is Holiday Inn, So How Many Teams Stay at Holiday Inns When They're On Official Baseball Business?
5. Hotel Policy (Living too Close to the Hotel) Leaves Customer Seething
6. Condominium Hotels May Go Down As One of the Briefest Fads Ever to Sweep the Real-estate Industry; Orlando Seen as the Achilles' Heel of the Condo-hotel Market
7. Hilton Hotels Corporation to Be Acquired by Blackstone Investment Funds; No Significant Divestitures Envisaged As a Result of Transaction
8. Global Update: Who�s Where and Doing What / July 2007
9. Hotel Waterpark Resort Industry Report 2007;  48 Hotel Waterparks Opening, 97 Under Construction / Jeff Coy and Bill Haralson
10. Powerful Hotel Brands Team Up with Another to Create a Whole Greater than the Sum of its Parts / Ken MacKenzie
11. Ali Kasikci, "Hotelier of the World," Leaving Peninsula Beverly Hills Hotel for New Challenges / Jim Butler
12. Recently Foreclosed Embassy Suites La Quinta for Sale
13. Did the Cruise Experience but Thanks, I�ll Take My Luxury Resort Any Day / David M. Brudney
14. Former Las Vegas Bellmen Build a Better Doorstop
15. No Doorman to Greet You!  How Reputations Fade / John R. Hendrie
16. To Engage the Guest, You Must Engage Those Who Directly Serve the Guest / Bryan K. Williams
17. Potential Buyers of Radisson Hotel LAX Should Be Aware of Hotel�s Troubled Recent History, Says Letter Issued by UNITE HERE
18. Barry Sternlicht's Starwood Capital Group Conceives Third Hotel Brand;  Baccarat Hotels and Resorts Joins Crillon and 1 Hotels & Resorts
19. Canadian Lodging REIT Legacy Hotels, with a Portfolio of 25 Fairmont and Delta Hotels, to be Acquired for about C$2.5 billion, Including Debt
20. Estimated 30 New Hotel Brands Announced in the Last 30 Months; Fancifully Named Such as aloft and Cambria Preparing to Go Mano a Mano with Such Old-guards as Holiday Inn and Ramada
21. Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center Claims One-millionth Room Sold 10 months Prior to Opening; No other Resort in the History of Hotels Has Sold this Many Rooms So Far Out from Opening
22. Hotel Brands Weren�t Always Thinking Outside the Box / David M. Brudney
23. Landmark San Diego Hotel Hyatt Regency Islandia Gets New Name and $65 Million Coastal Chic Makeover
24. Sheila C. Johnson's Salamander Hospitality Signs Purchase Agreement to Buy Innisbrook Golf Resort for Approximately $35 million
25. The Irvine Company Making Progress on the The Resort at Pelican Hill on Newport Coast. The First Component, Pelican Hill Golf Club,  Will Re-Open in Fall 2007

• TravelCLICK Selected by Voyages Hotels & Resorts For Reservations and Internet Distribution Solutions; Australian Hotel Company Implements iHotelier CRS, ChannelDirect at Select Properties
• Elite Meetings International Announces High-Profile Keynote and Education Speakers for Upcoming Alliance
• Indoor Waterparks: Making a Bigger Splash in North America in '07 / David Sangree
• Donna Duffer, Former Controller for Palm Beach CVB, Gets 10 Years for $1.6 million Theft
• Ocean Properties Selects ICE Portal to Produce and Deliver Internet Content
• PLC Partners Signs Franchise Agreement for 300 room Cambria Suites to Be Built Near the Brooklyn Bridge in Brooklyn, New York
• The "I Hate Cold Calls" Web Cast / August 10, 2007 / Carol Verret
• www.SpaClique.com Launched As the Spa Community's First Social and Professional Networking Web Site
• Sonnenblick-Eichner Company Arranges $212,500,000 Construction Financing for St. Regis Resort & Residences Deer Crest, Deer Valley, Utah
• Robert Mercure Appointed General Manager, Fairmont Le Château Frontenac, Quebec City, Quebec
• Nikolay Hotze Promoted to Managing Director at Caneel Bay, St. John, USVI
• Michael P. Zels Named General Manager for the Hotel Cass Mag Mile Chicago, A Holiday Inn Express
• The Westin Seattle Appoints Theresa Segal Director of Human Resources

• Powerful Hotel Brands Teams Up with Another to Create a Whole Greater than the Sum of its Parts / Ken MacKenzie
• Hotel Brands Weren't Always Thinking Outside the Box / David Brudney
• Condominium Hotels May Go Down As One of the Briefest Fads Ever to Sweep the Real-estate Industry; Orlando Seen as the Achilles' Heel of the Condo-hotel Market
• City of Biloxi Approves Plans for Harrah's and Singer Jimmy Buffett's $700 million Margaritaville Casino/Resort
• The 370 room Decatur Conference Center and Hotel Goes to Auction; Central Illinois Bank Hopes to Recover $12 million Owed on Mortgage
• Embassy Suites La Quinta Foreclosure Sale
• Omni Hotels Planning Two New Developments, a Resort in Pontoque, Mexico and an All-suite Hotel in Downtown Houston
• Rosewood and Martiz, Wolff & Co. Complete Enhancement of the 57 room Inn of the Anasazi, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• President Solitaire in Bangkok, Thailand Joins Prestige Hotels of the World
• Coastal Hotel Group Intends to Bid on the Salish Lodge & Spa; Has Managed the One of a Kind Resort for Seven Years
• Rocco Forte Hotels Rebrands as The Rocco Forte Collection

July 27

• Even You Can Accelerate Time-to-Hire and Improve Candidate Quality; Listen to informative One on One interview with PeopleFilter President and Chief Operating Officer, Kevin Harrison
• Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago Expected to Open December 2007; The Hotel, Comprising Floors 14-27 of a 92-story Residential Tower,  Features 339 Guestrooms
• Fairmont Undertakes a Multitude of Sustainable Energy Initiatives
• Green Lodging: We Have to Do It, But How? / Elizabeth Scharbaum
• InterContinental Hotels Group Building a New 135-room Hotel Indigo in the East Liberty Area of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Tourism Cities: Long Beach and Anaheim - Both Have Significant Selling Points / Sandi Cain
• Italian Hotel Company G&W Hotels Srl. Signs Franchise Agreement with Hilton for a New Build 240 room Doubletree Hotel in Milan
• The Regent Boston at Battery Wharf Tops Off; French Chef Guy Martin Will Operate First North American Restuarant Within Hotel
• Hospitality Properties Trust Sells 18 Homestead Hotels For $205.35 Million
• Istrian Golf Course Development Targeted by Environmentalists; Ten Year Plan Allowed for 23 Golf Courses May Not Reach Goal
• Molinaro Koger  Promotes Samantha Fisher to Vice President, Los Angeles
• The Plasencia Group Advises on Sale of Hilton Garden Inn Cupertino (CA)
• St. Regis Opening Three New Properties in Tianjin, China, Osaka, Japan and Bangkok, Thailand
• Kingdom Hotel Investments Acquires the Four Seasons Hotel Jakarta, Indonesia for US$48 million
• Outrigger Signs Management Agreement for the $300 million Viridian Resort & Spa Bordering Noosa National Park, Queensland, Australia; Leighton Properties and Macquarie Bank Jointly Developing the 192-unit Resort
• Capital Hotel Company Completes $1.3 million Renovation of The Grappone Conference Center and Adjacent Courtyard by Marriott in Concord, New Hampshire
• Orient-Express Hotels Appoints Paul White President and Chief Executive Officer, Replacing Simon Sherwood
• Torgerson Properties Appoints Lisa Giaimo as Vice President of Sales and Marketing and Bob Smith Vice President of Facilities  Maintenance
• Peter H. Mason Promoted to Executive Vice President of Konover Hotel Corporation
• Benchmark Hospitality Appoints Scott D. Mumma Director of National Sales

• Luxury Resort Centralizes High-Touch Operation on Maestro PMS Suite Single-Image Database for 360-degree Guest View; Maestro integrates resort automation at every touch point, and supports Hecla Oasis in leveraging the Web to up-sell at time of booking
• Top 10 Challenging Questions to Ask Your Internet Marketing Vendor; Important considerations before hiring an Internet marketing company in hospitality / Jason Price and Max Starkov
• Former Las Vegas Bellmen Build a Better Doorstop
• The Cecil B. Day School of Hospitality at Georgia State University Offering a Masters of Business Administration in Hotel Real Estate; First Such MBA Specialization in the Nation
• Escondido, California Hoteliers Divided Over Whether to Welcome Four New Hotels Expected to Open in the Coming Years
• In Wichita, Three Casino/Hotel  Developers Wait to See Whether to Scrap Plans or Promote Them
• HSMAI's Travel-related Marketing Competition, The Adrian Awards, Now Accepting 2007 Entries
• HFTP Accepting Nominations for the Paragon Award - Honors Individuals Who Have Made a Significant Contribution to Both HFTP and the Hospitality Industry
• Hemisphere, the Greenbrier Resort's New Dining Concept Opens Under the Direction of Chef de Cuisine Michael Voltaggio
• Dometic® Becomes Sole AutoClassic Distributor
• Minor International PCL. Signs Starwood to Manage the St. Regis Hotel & Residences, Bangkok Opening in 2010
• The Hay-Adams is Ranked Among the Top 100 Hotels in the Continental United States and Canada; Recognized for Excellence by Travel + Leisure Magazine, it is the Only Washington, D.C. Hotel to Earn the Distinction
• Innisfree Hotels Converts the Hilton Garden Inn Pensacola Beach to Full-Service Hilton
• Crowne Plaza Cincinnati Blue Ash Opens, the Former Clarion Is Owned and Managed by Trivedi & Sons 
• Ralph Grippo Named Managing Director of The Resort at Pelican Hill and President of The Irvine Company Resort Properties
• Morgans Hotel Group Appoints Scott Williams as Chief Marketing Officer; Starwood Veteran to Lead Marketing and Branding at MHG
• Anita Heathcote to Lead European Sales for Krisam Group and Global Events Partners
• InterContinental Hotels Group Appoints Dexter Chia to Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Greater China
• InterContinental Tampa Appoints Executive Team; Charles Naberhaus Named Managing Director
• New Generation Hotel Management Appoints Scott Parisi as Vice President, Operations

• Drury Inn, Embassy Suites, Hilton Garden Inn, Homewood Suites, Microtel Inns and The Ritz-Carlton Top J.D. Power and Associates 2007 North America Hotel Guest Satisfaction Study
• Elite Meetings International Opens Latin America & Caribbean Offices; Mauricio Aceves, Caroline Musy, and Renata Villa appointed to management team
• The Dollars & Sense of Hotel Internet Marketing / Neil Salerno
• How Quantum Physics Opens the Door to Limitless Higher Levels of Guest Experience / Peter McAlpine
• Associate Retention: More Than Just Showing Them The Money / by Josh Davies, Director of Training and Development, Sage Hospitality
• Northern Quest Casino, Near Spokane, Washington Undergoing $275 million Expansion Including a 350 room Hotel
• Vail Cascade Resort & Spa Announces $30 Million Renovation; Resort Master Plan to Reposition Creekside Property
• LaSalle Investment Management Appoints Accor to Manage the Majestic Hotel,Hong Kong;  Hotel Will Undergo US$24 million Renovation and Rebranding to Novotel
• Langham Hotels Signs Management Contract for 350 room Hotel in Changchun, the Capital and Largest City of Jilin Province; Hotel Will Be Managed Under the "Langham Place" Brand
• $20 million in Upgrades Creates New Hotel for the 25 Year Old Hyatt Regency Miami
• John Q. Hammons Building a 263-suite Embassy Suites® Hotel with a 75,000-square-foot Convention Center in Loveland, Colorado
• Five Marriott Brands in the U.S. and Canada Numbering 1,500 Hotels Now Offer Free WiFi 
• Trianon Palace & Spa, A Westin Hotel in Versailles, France Undergoing Complete Redesign and Refurbishment

• Ali Kasikci, "Hotelier of the World," Leaving Peninsula Beverly Hills Hotel for New Challenges
• The Department of Justice Reaches Settlement Agreement with the 946 room Kansas City Marriott for Improved Facilities Accessible to Individuals With Disabilities
• How Do You Serve Food to Someone Who Can't See? Sheraton Overland Park Hotel Staff Gets Lessons to Properly Serve Blind Guests
• As Competition from Pennsylvania and New York Intensifies, Atlantic City Adds Hotel Rooms and Nongambling Attractions to Help Secure Future
• JudgeThrows Out Orlando's (Orange County) Lawsuit Aimed at Forcing Online Travel Companies to Pay Higher Hotel Taxes
• UK's Travelodge Removes Adult TV From its 20,000 In Room Television Sets
• Educational Institute Introduces Four New Professional Certification Designations
• Sage Hospitality Details Efforts to Earn High Marks for its Eco Friendly Restoration for Portland's Meier & Frank Department Store into The Nines, a 331 room Hotel
• Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 87 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database 
• Dominic Provenzano Appointed Assistant General Manager at the Renaissance Tampa Hotel International Plaza

July 20

• Major League Baseball's Official Hotel is Holiday Inn, So How Many Teams Stay at Holiday Inns When They're On Official Baseball Business?
• Bad Debt and the Use of Credit Cards in U.S. Hotels - Provision for Doubtfull Accounts Falls as Credit Card Commission Expense Rises/ Robert Mandelbaum and Alvin Minsk
• The Accor North America Seeks to Improve Diversity in the Hospitality Industry by Providing Opportunities and Tools for Minorities to Succeed
• Potential Buyers of Radisson Hotel LAX Should Be Aware of Hotel's Troubled Recent History, Says Letter Issued by UNITE HERE
• Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa to Open the 800 room $400 MillionThe Water Club, in Early 2008;  Second Hotel Will Complete Borgata's Atlantic City Master Plan Development
• Hospitality Relationships: Building Your Brand Starts with your Guests
• LE's Initial Forecast for 2009 Predicts that 1,354 Hotels with 159,368 Rooms Will Open in the U.S.; Private Equity Makes a Big Splash in the Lodging Industry
• The Canadian Tourism Commission Sets Canadian e-Tourism Strategy Conference in Vancouver, November 7-9, 2007; Expecting 300 Travel Industry Leaders to Study Impact the Internet and other Emerging Technologies Are Making on Canada's Ability to Compete Globally
• Bobbie Patterson Now in 25th Year as Executive Director of the Boise Convention & Visitors Bureau
• The AH&LA Information Center, Housed at the University of Houston Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management, Celebrating Five-year Anniversary
• UNLV Creates One Hour Webinars for the Busy Professional!
• Thierry Debailleul Appointed Executive Chef at Foxwoods Resort Casino; Formerly Executive Chef of the Pointe South Mountain Resort in Phoenix, Arizona
• Joshua Nowak Named Director of Sales and Marketing of the Lancaster County Convention Center and the 300 room Marriott Lancaster at Penn Square, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
• Johnny Caruso Named Director of Rooms for The Heldrich, New Brunswick, New Jersey
• Qualified buyer seeking a 100-130 key Hampton Inn, Hampton Inn & Suites, Holiday Express or similar in Orlando,  Miami or Key West area

• Elite Meetings International Announces Capital Investment from Jones Equity Partners; Company receives initial $2 million investment, backed by $5 million in revolving credit
• Principals of Broadreach Capital Partners and Maritz, Wolff & Co. Acquire 85% of Dolce International; Intends to Rapidly Expand the Dolce Brand Within the Conference Center Industry
• The JBG Companies Undertaking a Massive $100 million Renovation and Repositioning of the 1,304 room Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC's Largest Hotel
• Golf Trust's Decision to Sell the Struggling Innisbrook Resort Sharply Criticized by Shareholders; Likened to a Fire Sale
• Broward County Seeking Interested Developers to Construct and Operate a 1,000-room Hotel Adjacent to the Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center
• Amidee Capital Group Acquires the 193 room Ramada Niagara Hotel at Auction for $4.6 million
• LaSalle Hotel Properties Reports 2nd Qtr 2007 Net Earnings of $25 million, Up from $24.7 million from Year-ago Period; Expecting RevPAR to grow between 5.5% and 6.5% for the Year / Hotel Operating Data
• The Irvine Company Making Progress on the The Resort at Pelican Hill on Newport Coast. The First Component, Pelican Hill Golf Club,  Will Re-Open in Fall 2007
• Carey International Launches the Carey Alliance Network; Carey revolutionizes chauffeured transportation reservation processes by fully disclosing service provider information
• Hart Hotels, Inc. Opens the Hotel Indigo Buffalo-Amherst Following a $6 million Renovation and Rebranding of a Former Hampton Inn
• Owned by JBG Companies and Managed by Kimpton the 154 room Hotel Palomar Arlington at Waterview Set to Open
• Global Hyatt Corporation Appoints Robb Webb Chief Human Resources Officer
• For sale 10 bedroom Bed and Breakfast in McCall, Idaho next to Payette Lake. Large great room and dining area, commercial fire alarm system plus central air

• NxTV Earns HTNG Certification for Guest Itinerary Display on Hotel Televisions; Leading IP provider, NxTV is only in-room entertainment vendor to win certification
• Hotel Industry Executives Chart Future of Demand Forecasting at JDA Leadership Dinner; Hospitality Chain Stakeholders Discuss Innovations to Boost Revenue Optimization
• Robert Falor, the Embattled Condo-hotel Developer, Faces a New Lawsuit Over His Ownership Interest in Islamorada's Cheeca Lodge
• To Engage the Guest, You Must Engage Those Who Directly Serve the Guest / Bryan K. Williams
• Rolled Out by the Former Promus Cos. in 1989, Hilton's Homewood Suites Brand Reaches 200th Hotel
• InvestWestFinancial/Pacifica Hotel Company, Hawaiian Investors Purchase King Kamehameha's Kona Beach Hotel - Planning $25 million Renovation
• Host Hotels & Resorts Reports 2nd Qtr 2007 Profit Falls to $149 million from $330 million in Previous Year / Hotel Operating Data
• Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center Claims One-millionth Room Sold 10 months Prior to Opening; No other Resort in the History of Hotels Has Sold this Many Rooms So Far Out from Opening
• New Edition of Hospitality Today Textbook Now Available
• LodgeNet Selected by Venetian Casino Resorts to Deliver Interactive Television Installation to World's Largest Resort Complex; Creating Customized High-Definition Media Solution With Broad Array of Interactive Services To Connect, Inform and Entertain Resort Guests
• Hispanic Hotel Owners Association's Second Hotel Investment Seminar for High Net-worth Latinos Attracts Twice the Expected Attendance; Event's Success Prompts Brands to Increase Funding for Future Events
• Accor's First-Half 2007 Revenue Up A Solid 8.8%
• Honolulu Airport Hotel Completes $6 million In Upgrades, re-flagged OHANA Honolulu Airport Hotel
• Fairmont Names Shane Krige to General Manager of the The Plaza Hotel in New York City; Formerly the Managing Director of The Mansion on Turtle Creek, Dallas
• Judson Hawk Selected as the General Manager of Hotel Jerome in Aspen, Colorado
• Robert Van Eerde Named Managing Director of the 334-room Gansevoort South Hotel in Miami's South Beach
• The Light Group Hires Kelley Jones as President of the Company's Expanding Food & Beverage Division

July 17

• Growth Properties Hospitality Management Continues to Grow Internally; New members of the Growth Properties Management Team added to facilitate rapid portfolio growth
• Guaranteed Non Smoking = Guaranteed Success; FreshStay® Version 2.0 a Huge Hit With Guests & Hoteliers
• Estimated 30 New Hotel Brands Announced in the Last 30 Months; Fancifully Named Such as aloft and Cambria Preparing to Go Mano a Mano with Such Old-guards as Holiday Inn and Ramada
• The Marketing of Vietnam -  The Developing, Positioning and Branding of Vietnam's Tourist Assets / Dietmar Kielnhofer Ph.D
• Sheila C. Johnson's Salamander Hospitality Signs Purchase Agreement to Buy Innisbrook Golf Resort for Approximately $35 million
• Impertinent Questions In Search of Pertinent Answers: Carbon monoxide detectors, exterior-corridor properties / Stanley Turkel
• Lowe Enterprises Developing and Building a $450 million Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, California; Destination Hotels & Resorts to Manage the 582 room Resort Set to Open in 2009
• Talisker Acquiring the The Canyons Resort Located Near Park City, Utah for Approximately $100.0 million in Cash; Includes 17 Ski Lifts, the Grand Summit Hotel, Sundial Lodge and 18 Hole Championship Golf Course
• America's Best Franchising Forms Innovative Company To Provide Hospitality Services For Independent Properties and Emerging Brands
• icableholder Provides Hoteliers a Sleek, Innovative Way to Display Guest Broadband Connection Points; Modern as Tomorrow - Available Today!
• Lane Hospitality Acquires of Two Hotels, Adds Two Management Contracts During the First Half of 2007
• Kansas City's Recently Renovated Downtown Hotels Proving to be Too Small to Help the Refurbished Bartle Hall Attract Big Conventions
• Agenda Set for HFTP's Hotel Assistant Controllers Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, Aug 19-20, 2007
• Microtel Inns & Suites Reports 15 Openings and 10 Ground Breaks During the First Half of 2007
• Peter Palacios and Gene Belmares Named Respectively General Manager and Director of Sales & Marketing at La Posada Hotel in Laredo, Texas

July 16

• Asian Hospitality Leaders at HSMAI Rountable Call for Standardization of Ratings System for Asian Hotels; "Who Decides What is Five Star?"
• Over $11.5 billion in Luxury Lodging Facilities Changed Hands in the First Half of 2007; Maui Prince Makena Tops the List of  Transactions at a Price of $575 million
• Napa Restaurateur Donna Scala to Develop Signature Casual Dining Restaurant Concepts for Hilton's Full Service Hotel Brands; Scala's First Project Will be the Urban Tavern at the Landmark Hilton San Francisco
• Retaining Hospitality Graduates: Employer, Graduate and Recruitment Perspectives / Jeff Ross
• Upset with CVB Managment - The Harlingen (TX) Lodging Association Seeking the $462,836 Contract Currently Awarded to the Harlingen Convention and Visitors Bureau
• Clovis, California - 137 Hotel Rooms that Service a Population of 100,000 - About to Change
• Located In a Des Moines Iowa Suburb, the Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino Seems a Good Fit
• How Reliable Is Your Brand / J Radsdale Hendrie
• Benchmark Reopens Historic Bedford Springs Resort; Classic Springs Resort Has Hosted Presidents, Heads of State & Society Elite
• Asaad Farag Named Vice President of Hotel Operations for MotorCity Casino Hotel; Hotel Rooms Expected to Bring New Level of Hospitality to Detroit Business and Leisure Travelers
• The Newly Renovated Renaissance M Street Hotel Debuts Renaissance's Imaginative New Look and Feel - Part of $2 Billion Global Brand Investment
• Johnson Capital Welcomes Melinda Bush, CHA, President and Chief Executive Officer of HRW Holdings, LLC, to their Global Hospitality Industry Advisory Board
• Raymond Management Company Opens 186 room Hampton Inn & Suites in Downtown Boise, Idaho
• Oasis Hotels & Resorts Acquires Four Resorts in the Dominican Republic; Adds Third Brand - "Sens"
• Nicole Lapointe Named Director, Sales & Marketing at Fairmont Le Château Frontenac in Quebec City, Quebec
• Elaine Gamer Named Director of Sales and Marketing for NYLO Hotel in Plano, Texas
• Arhlene Honda Promoted to Vice President-Sales for Outrigger Enterprises Group

• Marriott 2nd Qtr 2007 Profit Climbs 11% on Higher Rates for Hotel Rooms / Hotel Operating Statistics
• Canadian Lodging REIT Legacy Hotels, with a Portfolio of 25 Fairmont and Delta Hotels, to be Acquired for about C$2.5 billion, Including Debt
• After 51 years in Business, the Sheraton Bal Harbour Drawing Big Crowds to Liquidation; Stiff Competition for Beds, China, Lamps, Wine Glasses
• The United Auto Workers Union Files Allegations of Unfair Labor Practices Against Foxwoods Resort Casino; UAW Seeks to Unionize a Third of Foxwoods' Workforce
• After Disappoing Winter Season South Lake Tahoe Resort Operators Facing More Economic Fallout From Devastating Forest Fire
• Donald Trump Turns to Caesar's Casino Veteran Mark Juliano, As Interim CEO; Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc. Shares at a New 52-week Low
• Hyatt Hotels Corporation Expands Partnership with LRA Worldwide; Philadelphia-Based Consulting Company to Design Quality Assurance Program for Hyatt Select Group
• A NYLO Hotel Breaks Ground in Warwick, Rhode Island; Will Be Anchor Tenant in Multi-use Redevelopment of the Historic Pontiac Mills
• First Ritz-Carlton Hotel Opening in the United States in Four Years - The 218 room Ritz-Carlton, Dallas Includes Fearing's Restaurant Operated by Celebrity Chef Dean Fearing
• Auberge Resorts Opens First of its New Brand - the 89 room Solage Calistoga in Napa Valley, California
• OZone Strategic Marketing Drives Profitability and Confidence for the SLH's Kristiania Lech, Austria; Tools for Financial Success
• Starwood Opens 390 room Sheraton Dameisha Resort Near Shenzhen, China; Philip Kang the General Manager
• Destination Hotels & Resorts Welcomes Gail Campagna, Director of Human Resources, to Executive Committee for Stowe Mountain Lodge, Opening Fall 2007
• Barbara Bejan Named Vice President, International Brand Performance Support for Hilton Garden Inn
• Douglas Wood, General Manager of the Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach Hotel, Recipient of the Charles 'Russ' Stark Leadership Award
• Entries for Unique Products or Services that are New to the Market Within the Current Year Now Being Accepted for The IH/M&RS 2007 Editor's Choice Awards; Deadline to Enter is October 26, 2007

• Do You Know if You Are Spending Too Much on Technology?
• Are the Best Days Behind Us�or Just Ahead? Hoteliers Need to Take Full Advantage of New Technology / Neil Salerno
• Trilogy Properties Acquires Hotel Godin in Montreal; Will Pair with OPUS Hotel in Vancouver to Become New Canadian Chain of Boutique Hotels Under the OPUS Banner
• A Throwback to the Past - the Traditional Travel Agent Making a Comeback
• Eco-friendly Lifestyle Hotel Mixed Use Project in Hollywood, California Closes Financing
• The Peabody Orlando's Long-delayed, 750-room Expansion Expected to Break Ground Fall 2007
• LakeWatch Spa and Resort Development in the Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia Area Voted Down by Planning Commissioners 
• Thai Hotel Chain, Dusit, Partners with Le Cordon Bleu to Operate Culinary School Adjacent to The Dusit Thani, Bangkok
• John Q. Hammons Building a 225 room Full-service Courtyard® by Marriott® Hotel in Allen, Texas, Located Across the Street from the Previously Announced  280-suite Embassy Suites Hotel
• Hotel Equities Assigned the Management Contract for the 170-room Simpsonwood Conference and Retreat Center in Northeast Atlanta; Richard Welch Named General Manager
• PeopleFilter Webcast Participants Left Questioning Current Hiring Processes; PeopleFilter's Hospitality Industry Hiring Event Leads Attendees to Consider Examining Recruiting Processes and Technology
• China's First Heavenly Spa by Westin Creates Oasis in Beijing Wall Street
• The Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center Seeking Memorabilia for Display for 125th Anniversary
• Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 99 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database
• Thomas B. Meier Named Vice President, Operations for Raffles Hotels & Resorts
• Andrew Hamilton Appointed General Manager of the Marmara Manhattan Hotel, Located on New York's Upper East Side
• Mark Neppl Appointed Director of Online Distribution Development for the Vantage Hospitality Group

July 10

• The Right Technology and Effective Data Management is Key to Increased Travel Sales and Enhanced Customer Loyalty
• Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay Golf Resort, Spa and Marina Embraces GoConcierge; Web-based System Implemented Across All Departments of 400-Room Property
• Squirrel Systems Transitions to New Leadership
• Global Update: Who's Where and Doing What / July 2007
• The Issue of Union Protections after a Hotel Sale Becoming a Top Priority of the Unite Here Labor Union 
• Stephen F. Bollenbach of Hilton Hotels Corporation to Receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at HICAP
• Five Things About the Grand Hotel, the Mackinac Island Landmark
• Bill Yung Completes $11 million Renovation of the Former Ramada Express; The 1,500 room Laughlin Casino Renamed Tropicana Express, John Maskovich Appointed GM
• InterContinental Hotels Appoints Peter Gowers Chief Executive, Asia Pacific and Kirk Kinsell to President, Europe, Middle East & Africa
• Aruba Hotel and Tourism Association President Jorge Pesquera Top Choice to Lead the Palm Beach County Convention and Visitors Bureau
• For the Guest - It Really is Healthier When Staying in a Green Hotel Room
• Marshall Management Signs Three New Management Contracts; Co-invests in the Quality Inn Naval Base, Norfolk, Virginia
• Agilysys Signs Four Additional Properties with Rosen Hotels & Resorts
• Wyndham Worldwide Appoints Christopher Feeney as Senior Vice President and Treasurer
• Kim Westhoff Appointed to Director of Luxury Accounts for Hilton Hotels Corporation's Waldorf=Astoria Collection and Conrad Hotels
• The Hong Kong Polytechnic University's School of Hotel & Tourism Management Hosts Forum on China Hotel Brand Development
• Mark Kerwin Appointed Director of Sales and Marketing of the Las Ventanas al Paraíso, A Rosewood Resort
• The Dow Hotel Company Names Alex Petrollini General Manager of Crowne Plaza Lake Oswego in Suburban Portland
• Dani Stern Named General Manager of the JW Marriott Denver at Cherry Creek
• Alessandro Cabella Named Vice President and Resort Manager of One&Only Ocean Club in the Bahamas

July 9

• Going Green - the Number 1 Trend in the Hotel Industry
• Screen Pilot Launches GoTrip.mobi - Direct To Consumer Mobile Marketing Tool for Hotels
• Sylvania, the Lighting Products Company, Files Lawsuit Against Boca Raton Resort & Club; Claims Hotel Trying to Bump Sylvania's Annual Sales Meeting for Another Group Providing More Room Nights, Higher Rate
• Atlantic City Casinos Take Aim at Affluent Night Owls with Openings of New York-style Nightclubs - Bottle Service, Dancers, 6AM Closings
• Tog Hotels Acquires the 309 room Hampton Inn in Downtown Dallas; Will Invest $15 million on Renovations and Rebrand as Crowne Plaza
• Lake Quinault Lodge in Olympic National Park Gets Good Marks Even with No Telphones in Guest Rooms
• Pre-Show Report - IH/M&RS, November 10-13, 2007 in New York City - Over 1,250 Exhibitors, Over 40 Seminars
• HSMAI Affordable Meetings West Recap: Meeting Planner Attendance Tops Prior Year, Educational Component Delivers
• Johnson Capital Creates Strategic Alliance with Hospitium; Firm to Provide Hospitality Research and Consulting for High-End Resorts and Mixed-Use Hospitality Projects
• Guest-Tek Announces the Landmark Release of OneViewTM Media High Definition Services to Hotel 1000 in Seattle
• John Bowen, Dean of the UH Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management, to Speak at the International Conference on Casino Development and Strategy
• After 35 Years of  Service with Hilton Hotels Corporation, Vladimir Sanda, Vice President - Architecture & Design Retires
• Erol Miftahittin Appointed General Manager of the Okinawa Marriott Resort & Spa, Nago, Okinawa
• Elaine Russell Named Spa Director at Four Seasons Resort Nevis

• Steve Wynn Introduced the Modern Spa to the Las Vegas Strip with the Opening of The Mirage in 1989
• The Knowland Group Opens 100 Seat Call Center in Salisbury MD; Market Intelligence Firm Continues Expansion, Opens Combined Call, Operations Center on Maryland's Eastern Shore 
• Hotel Policy (Living too Close to the Hotel) Leaves Customer Seething
• Consumer Behavior, Customer Centric Data Focus of HSMAI Revenue Management Strategy Conference
• Overcoming - "Now Is Just Not A Good Time For Training�" / Doug Kennedy
• Cuba Strives to Regain Momentum in its Stumbling Tourism Industry; the Communist Nation is Looking to Build 50 Boutique Hotels in Historic Areas
• Landmark San Diego Hotel Hyatt Regency Islandia Gets New Name and $65 Million Coastal Chic Makeover
• Hersha Hospitality Trust Acquires the 70-room Hotel 373 in Midtown Manhattan for $28.0 million
• Avasara Consulting Helps Wynn Resorts Macau to Deliver the Ultimate in Service for Guests; Sophisticated hotel and gaming system drives profitability
• Guest-Tek and Magnolia Pictures Sign Multi-year License Deal to Offer Sneak-Peek or Day and Date Movies to Hotel Guests
• Neptune Hospitality Advisors Orchestrates $40 million Financing of Downtown San Antonio Sheraton
• Delaware North Companies and Saratoga Gaming and Raceway Win Bid to Operate the Gideon Putnam Resort and Spa in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
• Hospitality Management Corporation Signs Contract  to Manage the Radisson Hotel Austin North, Austin, Texas; Robert Hodona Named General Manager
• The Spa Industry Quietly Embracing Sustainable Business Practices and Green Technologies
• William "Billy-O" Orilio Named Outstanding Instructor of the Year for the Hospitality Program at the San Diego State University CES 
• Bernie Bercuson, a Miami Beach Hotelier for Seven Decades, Dies at 91
• Hans Altenhoff Appointed General Manager of the  694-room Sheraton Cable Beach Resort in Nassau, The Bahamas

• Biggest Hotel Deal in History - Blackstone Buys Hilton for $26 billion / Jim Butler
• Hilton Hotels Corporation to Be Acquired by Blackstone Investment Funds; No Significant Divestitures Envisaged As a Result of Transaction
• Hilton Hotels Corp., With a Long History in Chicago, Purchased by the Blackstone Group LP in a Deal Valued at About $26 billion
• UOL Group Limited Acquires the Pan Pacific Hotel Brand from Tokyu Corporation
• Barry Sternlicht's Starwood Capital Group Conceives Third Hotel Brand; Baccarat Hotels and Resorts Joins Crillon and 1 Hotels & Resorts
• Foodservice Design With a Global Perspective / Lee Simon
• The Inn at Valley Forge, Formerly the Hilton Valley Forge, Receiving a $17 million Makeover and a New Name; Owner Capital Hospitality Group Appoints Dolce International to Manage the Dolce Valley Forge, in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania
• Judge Orders New Owner of the Holiday Inn Express in Rochester, Minnesota to Reinstate Nineteen Former Employees Who Had Lost Their Jobs When Hotel Changed Ownership
• Hotel Plus Celebrates HITEC Success; Companies were delighted to discover that our whole business strategy revolves around methods of increasing a hotel's cash flow
• Ian Coughlan Named President of Wynn Macau
• Shannon Bryant Awarded AH&LA's Outstanding Lodging Employee of the Year Award in the Small Property Category, the Administrative Assistant at Regency Suites Hotel, Atlanta
• Guest-Tek and EchoStar Sign Multi-year Strategic Agreement for Hotels Nationwide
• Wyndham Vacation Ownership Acquires Maui-based Activities-4-Less
• PKF Consulting Supports Planning Efforts at Fort Bragg, North Carolina; $1.1 Million Contract Awarded to Develop Comprehensive Regional Growth Plan
• Pegasus Solutions, Inc. Introduces the Next Generation of its Hospitality Technology Platform, RezView® NG
• The Hilton San Francisco Financial District seeking a highly qualified food and beverage director, responsible for the supervision of all departments in the food and beverage division for the hotel. Requires extensive operational leadership

July 3
 

• Hotel Waterpark Resort Industry Report 2007; 48 Hotel Waterparks Opening, 97 Under Construction / Jeff Coy and Bill Haralson
• Top 10 Group Events - June 2007; North America and Selected Market - Chicago
• Trump's Bid to Unload Trio of Atlantic City Casinos Falters; Question Now Is Who's In Charge
• Vista Capital Company Arranges First Mortgage Financing for the Best Western Ocala Park Centre in Ocala, Florida
• The Landings St Lucia, One of the Largest Resort Projects in the History of St. Lucia, Selects RockResorts to Operate the 231 Suite Development
• Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. Sells Six Slower Growth Hotel Assets Located in Secondary Markets to DLJ Real Estate Partners for $150.5 Million
• The Northwest Georgia Trade and Convention Center Signs Letter of Understanding with John Q. Hammons to Develop $50 million 220-240 room Embassy Suites Hotel

July 2

• Did the Cruise Experience but Thanks, I'll Take My Luxury Resort Any Day / David Brudney
• 10 Ways Preventive Maintenance Can Help Minimize Your Legal Exposure - Compliments of Mintek Mobile Data Solutions
• Two Minneapolis Hotels Spend Months Preparing for 1,500 Members of the American Council of the Blind and 300 Guide Dogs
• The French Quarter Group Betting $100 million to Turn Ailing Del Lago Resort on Lake Conroe, Texas Into a Destination Hotel and Conference Center
• Recap HITEC 2007 in Orlando; Draws 5,736 Attendees, 2nd Largest in History
• City of Tucson Drops Gaylord Hotels from Candidate List to Build Downtown Convention Hotel; Adds Condition Requiring the Future Hotel Workers Be Unionized
• No Doorman to Greet You! How Reputations Fade / John R. Hendrie
• ARAMARK Harrison Lodging's Hosted Executive Education Facilities Place High on Financial Times Executive Education Lists; Six AHL hosted facilities included on Financial Times Executive Education 2007 Top 65 Custom Program Providers Lists
• Warmbrodt Hotel Investments Selected to Advise Owner of the Santa Fe Sage Inn
• Dolce International's New Mission to Create a Memorable Experience for Hotel Guests and Employees Alike
• Senate Commerce Committee Passes the Travel Promotion Act of 2007; Addresses America's Growing Travel Crisis, Deteriorating Image Abroad
• Joe Uhl Appointed General Manager of the 521 room Renaissance Waverly Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia
• Yvette Colbert and Bob Kaley Named to Executive Positions with America's Best Franchising, Inc.
• Chef Michael Schlow Planning a 2nd Alta Strada at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods
• Jonathan Wright Appointed Executive Chef for The Setai, South Beach, Miami