Top 25 Read Articles - June 2009
- Top
Ten Historic Hotels According to AAA's 65 Full-time Inspectors
- Which
Hotel Markets are Worst and Which Will be the Best?; Recap
Steve Rushmore NYU Presentation / Jim Butler
- User-generated
Reviews Are Exploding! It Used to Be That an Unhappy
Hotel Guest Would Tell 3 Others, Now They
Tell 3 million (With Less Effort) / Jonathan Barsky,
Lenny Nash
- Dana
Point's St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort Set for Auction on July
7, 2009; Owner Makallon Resorts LLC Stopped Making Mortgage Payments
Earlier
this Year
- The
"W" Hotel Is the Talk du Jour / Bob Rauch
- Sunstone
to Forfeit the 258-room W Hotel San Diego to Lenders, May
Pursue Similar Options with Other Mortgaged Hotels
- The
New 'Tipping Points' in the Planners Decision Process - You May
be Surprised! / Carol Verret
- In
California, 175 Hotels are in Default / Report from Atlas
Hospitality Group
- Seattle
Judge Orders Expedia to Pay Consumers $184 Million for
Repeatedly Breaching its Contractual Obligations to Consumers by
Charging Service Fees Under False
Pretenses
- Fontainebleau
in Las Vegas Files for Bankruptcy $2.9 billion Resort
Project Shut Down, Victim of Cost Overruns, Depressed Condominium
Market,
Skittish Lenders
- U.S.
Lodging Turning Point Arrives But Growth Remains on Distant
Horizon; New Expectation Is for RevPAR to Decline 17.5% in 2009,
Followed by
Another 3.5% Decline in 2010 / PKF
- Russian
Billionaire Telman Ismailov, Launches $1.65 billion Turkish
Resort; Mardan Palace Hotel
- $490
million Hydropolis Undersea Resort and Hotel Soon to Open in
Dubai; $5500 per Night Offers Missile Defense System as Security
- Beating
Negative Hotel Reviews: An Action Plan for Proactive
Reputation Management / Josiah Mackenzie
- 5
Creative Steps Hotels Are Taking To Beat The Recession / Neil
Salerno
- Four
Season's Tiff with Broadreach Capital Underscores Luxury
Hotels' Predicaments in a Dismal Economy
- Fairmont
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Four to General Manager
Posts
- Sound
Bites from NYU International Hospitality Industry Investment
Conference / Jim Butler
- Susan
Thronson, Senior Vice President of Global Marketing at
Marriott International Named as New HSMAI Foundation Chair
- Ten
Reasons to Use Social Media for Launching a Hotel / Susan
Deluzain Barry
- Yellowstone
Club Founder Tim Blixseth Speaks Out; Alleges that His
Ex-wife Hosted Lavish Parties and Flew Her Housekeeper on Private Jets While Stiffing Creditors
- What's
Happening on the Hotel Job Front? / Frank Speranza
- What
Happened to Rate Parity? Rate Integrity?
- Destination
Hotels & Resorts Opens the $480 million Oceanfront
Terranea Resort, Rancho Palos Verdes, California; Possibly the Last
Hotel to Be
Built Right on the Pacific Ocean
- A
Hotel Sales and Marketing Action Plan that Will Yield Immediate
Results - Fishing where the fish are / Rick Welch
June 30, 2009
- Targeting
Global Travelers: A Guide for International Website Optimization
- CetraRuddy
Hospitality Group to Oversee Development of CassaNY, a 50 Story
Hotel-Condominium Project Set to Rise on West 45th Street, New York City
- Meeting
Planners Pressured by Management, Customers and Members / David M.
Brudney
- Keep
it Cheap: With Economy Sagging, Las Vegas Hotels and Casinos Offer
Bargains Despite Claims that "The Worst is Behind Us"
- Unified
Resorts, Ltd. and Sagewood Investments, LLC Planning a 140 room St.
Regis Hotel in Downtown Hamilton, Bermuda
- Amenities
at the Touch of a Screen: theWit Hotel Opens with Cutting-Edge
Self-Service Technology from NEC; Upscale boutique hotel in Chicago
utilizes NEC's integrated communications solutions to create a unique
guest experience
- ONE
Hospitality System Seeking Hotels, Resorts and Conference Centers with
an Offer of Free Software to All Candidates Who Install ONE PMS and ONE
CATERING Within the Next 6 Months
- For
sale - classic Tahoe lakeview lodge. The Cedar Glen Lodge sits on 1.9
acres, has 31 units and includes a swimming pool and 5-bedroom
lake view home. Price reduced from a previous escrow price of
$3.4 million to $1.87 million
- Warmbrodt
Hotel Investments Advises in the Sale of America's Best Inn - Des
Moines, Iowa
- South
Fork Lodge Keeps Guests Flying High; UniFocus' GUESTScope™ Shows What
Hooks Customers, World-Class Fly-Fishing Lodge Selects GUESTScope to up
"Wow" Factor
- Cvent
Announces Strategic Partnership with Starwood Hotels; Hotels Leverage
Online Advertising to Capture Meeting Planner Audience
- Chicago's
theWit Hotel Taps MTech, DOCOMO for High-tech Solutions
- The
Generation Companies Awarded Management Contract for New Suburban
Extended Stay Hotel in Jacksonville, North Carolina
- In
Singapore the Construction of the Marina Bay Sands Three Hotel Towers
Reaches the 55th Floor
- Penta
Hospitality LLC, Owners of Rebranded Clarion Hotel and Conference
Center in Greeley, Colorado Optimistic Despite Hotels Previous Struggles
- Burt
Cabañas Leads the Construction of Habitat for Humanity NWHC
House for the Romero Family in Houston
- Southwest
Florida Area Hotels Urge Guest Participation in Water CHAMP:
Conservation Aids in Ease of Drought and Saves Hoteliers Money
- InterContinental
Hotels Group Restructures and Streamlines its Asia Pacific Region
- Intrawest
Appoints Scott Russell to Vice President of Sales and Marketing at
Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort in Destin, Florida
- The
Hotel & Lodging Association of Greater Houston Elects Jim Mills, GM
of The Houstonian Hotel as its 2009-2010 Board of Directors Chair
- Wendy
Zapach Appointed Director of Sales and Marketing of Tucker's Point
Hotel & Spa, Tucker's Point Club, Bermuda
- McKibbon
Hotel Management Selects Cara Hardin & Emily Johnson-Truitt as
Management Team for New Aloft Tallahassee Downtown Hotel
- International
Hotel & Restaurant Association to Support "dotHOTEL"; Top-Level
Domain (.hotel) for the Hotel Industry Seeking ICANN Registration
June 29, 2009
- IDeaS
Revenue Optimization Brings Accuracy and Consistency to Forecasting and
Reporting with IDeaS V5i Forecasting Solution
- Building
a Team of "Living It" Employees / Bryan K. Williams
- In
California, 175 Hotels are in Default / Report from Atlas Hospitality
Group
- Five
Things That Players in the Hotel Industry Can do Until the Recovery /
Ken MacKenzie
- John
Merkin, IHG's SVP Holiday Inn Brands, Discusses the Major Upgrade
Campaign Currently Underway for the 57-year-old Holiday Inn Hotel Chain
- Curtis
O. Baney Dies at 84; Longtime Bend, Oregon Hotelier, Founded Oxford Inn
& Suites
- Premier
Resorts of Utah Provides Financial Statement: Deer Valley Lodging had
only $700K in Assets to Pay Back $12.5 million, Question Remains:
"Where Did the Money Go?"
- International
Hotel & Restaurant Association to Support "dotHOTEL"; Top-Level
Domain (.hotel) for the Hotel Industry Seeking ICANN Registration
- Perseverance
In the Face Of Adversity. Timely Lessons / John Davies
- HITEC
2009 Addressed Difficult Hospitality Technology Issues; Attendance Down
28%
- Highly
Regarded Hotel Asset Management Firms Converge to form Strategic
Alliance
- Trust
International Partners with Agilysys for Richer PMS Interface
- Greg
Bryan, GM of the Best Western Grand Canyon Squire Inn in Tusayan,
Arizona, Receives the 2009 AH&LA Lawson A. Odde Award
- Stay
Now, Pay Later; Arizona Resort Possibly First in U.S. to Offer Monthly
Installment Billing
- Debate
Continues Over Plans to Increase Hotel Space by 2000 Rooms in North San
Jose, California
- One
Person Drowns in Pool at International Plaza Resort & Spa, Orlando,
Florida
- Benchmark
Hospitality Establishes the Bob Zappatelli Culinary Arts Scholarship In
Partnership with The James Beard Foundation
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Add/Update 61 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel
Construction Projects Database
- The
Wort Hotel in Jackson Hole, Wyoming Named by AAA as a Top 10 Historic
Hotel in United States
June 25, 2009
June 24, 2009
- EasyRMS
Partners with EZYield.com to Provide Direct Distribution of Optimized
Pricing to Online Channels
- Win
the Ultimate (Technology) Make-Over!; Vendors call on hoteliers to
share their greatest needs
- The
Westin St. Francis, San Francisco, Completes $40 million Restoration,
its Largest Transformation in More Than a Century
- Consolidated
Resorts, Owners of the Time share Tahiti Village Resort in Las Vegas,
Files for Bankruptcy Protection
- David
Kloeppel Replacing the Departing John Caparella as Gaylord
Entertainment's Chief Operating Officer
- Developer
Cleveland Dilbert Opens the Alexander Hotel on Cayman Brac in the
Cayman Islands Archipelago
- The
City of Eugene, Oregon Provides a Five-year $500,000 Business
Development Loan for Developer Brian Obie's Proposed $10 million Hotel
in Downtown Eugene
- Fort
Lauderdale and the Florida Keys Hotel Markets See Some Recovery in May,
2009; In the Miami Area Rates and Occupancy Drop by Double Digits
- Hotels
Across Utah Filled 54.9% of Their Rooms During May, 2009, Down from
62.2% a Year Earlier
- SKIGEE
for guest SMS - now available online! SKIGEE - the first practical SMS
application for hotels
- Hilton
Selects Cvent Supplier Network as New Lead Channel For Group Business
- With
the Help of TimeLox,Four Seasons Hotel Washington, D.C. Has the Lock on
Creating Efficiency; Luxury Property Maximizes Productivity through Use
of the Leading Wireless RF Online System
- Trust
International Signs Deal With Rate Tiger To Connect Hotel Brands with
400+ Travel Channels Worldwide
- SoftBrands
Introduces New Products, and Customer and Business Partner Initiatives
at HITEC 2009
- Luxury
Link Announces World MasterCard® Partnership
- Pegasus
Solutions and VFM Leonardo Form Strategic Partnership; Pegasus Chooses
VFM Leonardo's VScape® Digital Asset Management System to Power All
Visual Content for ODD and Content Hub
- Innisfree
Hotels, Inc. and Affiliates Sign Franchise Agreement for a 127 room
Hyatt Place® at the Pensacola Gulf Coast Regional Airport
- Sholeh
Kia Appointed General Manager at Downtown Orlando's Grand Bohemian
Hotel
- Matthew
W. Schuyler Joins Hilton Hotels Corp as Executive Vice President and
Chief Human Resources Officer
June 23, 2009
- Pegasus
Solutions Teams with Rubicon to Launch New MarketVision Competitive
Intelligence Reporting: Visit HITEC Booth #1054 or
twitter.com/pegexec, Hotel Users Switch to MarketVision to Take
Advantage of Pre-eminent Market Intelligence
- MSI
Increases Mobility for Hoteliers and Guests through iPhone &
iTouch; Shaping Technology through forward thinking leadership
- EZYield.com
Expands Technology Offering and Global Presence with Acquisition of
HotelProphets; Strategic acquisition deepens scope of proven channel
management platform, creating a two way hotel distribution product
- Cheeca
Lodge & Spa Selects Software Suite from Agilysys; Resort to
Implement Property Management, Point-of-Sale, Guest Marketing Solutions
- What
Happened to Rate Parity? Rate Integrity?
- A
Hotel Sales and Marketing Action Plan that Will Yield Immediate Results
/ Rick Welch
- Top
Ten Historic Hotels According to AAA's 65 Full-time Inspectors
- PATA
Official Urges Hawaii Tourism to Begin a Focus on China Market
- Hilton
Vancouver Washington, Vancouver's City-owned Downtown Hotel, Struggles
with Profits 36% Below Projections for First 5 months of 2009
- More
than 2,000 Applicants Show Up for Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel's 200 New
Housekeeping Jobs
- Activision
TV, Inc., Introduces Patented Interactive, All in One, In-Room System;
Fusion of the Computer, Internet and TV Initially; Targeted To Hotel,
Restaurant and Related Industries
- Peabody
Praises Libra OnDemand as 'Best' System to Manage Guest Data; 'Software
as a Service' sits on the salesforce.com platform, offers the
four-star, five-diamond convention center hotel the finest
business-analytics tools
- Roomlinx
made a Part of IBM's "Hotel-in-a-Box' solution; Roomlinx is an approved
Supplier of Interactive TV to Intercontinental Hotels Group
- ZDirect,
Inc. Awarded Patent Covering Widely Used Online Email Marketing
Technology
- Hotel
Chateau Chamonix Selects MICROS Hosted Operetta and MICROS's Web Suite
to Manage Its Hotel Operations
- Datavision
Business Intelligence Offered in an Affordable Software-as-a-Service
Model
- Hyatt
Customer Satisfaction Scores Reach All-time High; Newmarket
International technology changes culture and improves servicing of
groups, meetings and events
- Utell®
Hotels & Resorts Signs Up Hundreds of New Members in 2009: Visit
HITEC Booth #1054 or twitter.com/pegexec, Around the Globe, 471 Hotels
from 65 Countries Have Selected Utell Since the Beginning of the Year
- Libra
OnDemand adds MSI to its Growing List of CRM Channel Partners; New
Software as a Service sits on the salesforce.com platform, offering the
finest business-analytics tools for Guest Profiling, Loyalty &
Rewards, and Sales & Catering
- Datavision
Announces Business Intelligence System Built on the latest Microsoft
Technologies; Datavision's best-of-breed Business; Intelligence System
now utilizes Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Office SharePoint Server 2007
and Silverlight
- Guest-Tek
and MGM Sign Multi-year Agreement
- Last
Days to Register - Opportunities in Hotel Revenue Management - The
Uncertain Summer of 2009 - Web Cast June 26
- MICROS
Debuts Its Latest Point-of-Service Technologies at HITEC
- Vern
Bienfang, Server at the The Northland Inn in Minneapolis, Recipient of
the Benchmark Hospitality International Chairman's Award of Excellence
- Simon
Lee Appointed Food & Beverage Manager at the Prince Hotel, Hong Kong
- Randall
King Promoted to Vice President of Marketing & Revenue Development
for Dow Hotel Company
June 22, 2009
- EasyRMS Continues
to Grow Strongly During Difficult Economic Times…
- MSI
Innovates Hotel Guest Service; MSI Showcases Hospitality Technology
Applications on Microsoft Surface Technology at HITEC 2009
- The
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas Selects Rainmaker Group Revenue
Management; Morgans Hotel Group taps Rainmaker for Total Customer Value
profit optimization at its Las Vegas casino hotel
- Denihan
Hospitality Group and Cendyn Empower Guests to Create Their Ultimate
Stay Experience; Powered by Cendyn's eConcierge™ System, My Affinia
Guests Plan and Customize Their Stay In Advance of Arrival
- Beating
Negative Hotel Reviews: An Action Plan for Proactive Reputation
Management
- What
Hotels, If Any, Will be Able to Improve Their Profits in 2009? / Robert
Mandelbaum
- Warmbrodt
Hotel Investments - WHI Places $16.5 Million First Mortgage Debt
Facility and Negotiates Discounted Payoff of Existing Loan
- Focus
on Eating Local and Fresh Produce Creating Budding Partnerships Between
Local Farmers, Hotels and Restaurants in South Florida
- Faded
Northern Hotel in Downtown Billings, Montana Starting to Shine with New
Ownership; Resuscitation Involves Blending its Western History with
High-tech
- InnLink
Central Reservation Services launches Windsurfer CRS platform; InnLink
launches Windsurfer CRS, a Central Reservation System, built for today
and the future on Microsoft .Net
- Management
of the Hilton Sandestin Beach Golf Resort in Destin, Florida Pumped
About the Resort's 25th Anniversary
- InnLink
Launches New Brand, InnVite
- New
York City's Hotel Wales Multi-million Dollar Renovation to be Completed
by August 2009
- Hilton
Waikoloa Village Adds New Marketing Executives; Frank Menchen Appointed
Director of Sales and Marketing
- Luís
Fernandes Appointed CEO of the VILA VITA Parc Resort in Porches, Faro,
Portugal
- Josef
Forstmayr, Managing Director at Round Hill Hotel & Villas in
Jamaica, Named President - elect for the Caribbean Hotel &
Tourism Association
- Jennifer
Collins Appointed Senior Vice President at Lodging Capital Partners
June 19, 2009
- Gold
Key Solutions Launches Web-based Concierge Assistant; CA Web enables
brands to boost guest service across multiple properties, gather
preference information to drive more effective marketing
- Cendyn
and Arcaneo Partner to Create Next-Generation Meeting Venue Sourcing
Solution for the Hospitality Industry
- Planting
Seeds of Sustainability; Pineapple Hospitality pledges to donate $1 for
every attendee at upcoming AH&LA events, helping fund the Nature
Conservancy's tree-planting initiatives in the Amazon
- TravelCLICK
Helps Hotels Harness the Power of Social Networks; New Social Marketing
Optimization service builds community and creates customer connections
- Sunstone
Hotel Investors Sell the 292 room Marriott Riverside, California for
Gross Proceeds of $19.3 Million
- Considering
Options for Dealing with Troubled Hotel Assets; The Operative Word for
the Hotel Industry Today Is "Reset"
- Phelps
Portman Nashville, LLC Chosen to Develop, Design and Construct a
1,000-room Hotel in Downtown Nashville; Represents a Major Step in
Moving the Convention Center Complex Forward
- Oceanside,
California City Council Approves Developer S. D. Malkin's $209 million
Beach Resort
- AH&LA
Seeks to Ease Hotel Credit Card Compliance Burdens; Letter to Payment
Card Industry Security Standards Council Outlines Important Changes to
Help Safeguard Guest Data and Reduce Compliance Costs
- China
Huaming Signs Shangri-La Hotels to Operate a 400 room Hotel in the Park
Huaming Business Center in Moscow
- Mankoff
Development Gains Approval for Planned 112 Room Hotel in Hamden,
Connecticut
- Luxury
Link Joins Saks Fifth Avenue for Special Event; Event Provides Maximum
Exposure for Luxury Link and Enhances Visibility for its Client Partners
- Uniguest™
to Showcase HP TouchSmart PCs at HITEC® 2009; Announcing a complete
line of Self-Service Boards™ utilizing the HP TouchSmart platform
- SoftBrands
Strengthens Relationship With Westmont Hospitality Group
- Guest-Tek
Installs Converged Networks at Hyatt Vacation Club
- The
Ramada Plaza Hotel in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin Sold to Fine Hospitality
Group
- Support
Growing for Developer Steven Beemsterboer's Vision of Eco-Hotel Atop
Mt. Washington in Pennsylvania
- Clearwater
Beach, Florida's Development Board Approves Plan for Developer Uday
Lele's 88-room Hotel on Clearwater Beach
- EMCVenues
To Host MEET USA-MidAtlantic 2009; Accredited Washington, DC-area
Educational Conference Free to Meeting & Event Planners, Press
- Lexington
Downtown Hotel & Conference Center Continues with $13 million
Renovation of its 367 Guest Rooms; Concept to Include Kentucky's
Equestrian Heritage
- Waterford
Hotel Group Appoints Gregory Smith as Chief Financial Officer and Vice
President, Finance
June 18, 2009
June 17, 2009
- Shanty
Creek Resorts Increase Website Bookings, Boost ADR with Maestro
Multi-Property, Multi-Module PMS with Integrated 'Web Connection'
Real-Time Guest Self-Serve Tools
- Flyte
Systems Unveils Enhancements to FlyteTouch Airport Information Product
Line at HITEC 2009 Enhanced FlyteTouch gives travelers real-time
airport flight status, boarding passes, local weather, traffic and
safety information for total traveler service
- Milestone
Internet Marketing, Inc. Launches eBuzz Connect; Online Social Media
Management for the Hospitality and Travel Market
- Four
Fundamental Practices to Help Hotel Companies Weather the Current
Downturn / Gerald P. Chase, President of New Castle Hotels & Resorts
- Extended
Stay America's Chapter 11 One of the Largest Commercial Real Estate
Industry Defaults in Years
- The
Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort and Casino Near Ruidoso, New Mexico
Defaults on $200M Bond Issue, Operations to Continue Uninterrupted
- $490
million Hydropolis Undersea Resort and Hotel Soon to Open in Dubai;
$5500 per Night Offers Missile Defense System as Security
- Zagat
Survey Reports Sobering NYC Nightlife - Still The Big Apple Is a Great
Place to Party
- City
of Owensboro Begins Liquidation of Former Executive Inn Hotel on June
18 To Make Way for Impending Demolition; Sale of Entire Hotel Inventory
Will Be Open to the Public
- Libra
OnDemand Intros 'Customer Portal' CRM Tool for Pre-, Post-Stay
Interaction; Leader in Customer Relationship Management empowers guests
to personally control their hotel experience and update their contact
info, preferences, loyalty points
- EZYield.com
and Cendyn Agree To Technology Partnership
- Mohonk
Mountain House Taps UniFocus for Time & Attendance "Smart Clock"
Technology; New Web-based Technology Provides True Daily Punch Control
- Connecting
Hoteliers and Travelers through Social Networking; HotelLounger.com
launches the first ever Social Network for the Hotel and Travel Industry
- Eco-friendly
Initiatives at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown: Growing Chilies, Okra,
Mint, Peppers and Herbs On its Rooftop Garden, Replacing 24,500 Light
Bulbs Using CFL or LED Technology
- The
JW Marriott Hotel Miami Receives 'Hotel of the Year' Award From
Marriott International
- Hotel
Construction in Central and Eastern Europe: Plenty of Room for
Development
- The
International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show® Solidifies
Marketing Partnership with Bed and Breakfasts, Inns and Guesthouses
International
- InterContinental
San Juan, Puerto Rico Unveils its Environmental Education Program on
World Sea Turtle Day
- Holiday
Inn Gateway Hotel & Suites, Williamsburg, Virginia Honored with
Regional Awards by InterContinental Hotels Group
- Michele
Reing Joins Interstate Hotels & Resorts as Senior Vice President,
Corporate Controller
- Kerrington
L. Hing Appointed General Manager at The Ritz-Carlton Club, Aspen
Highlands
June 16, 2009
- SNAP
To It: A New Program Launched by Carlson Hotels Breaks the Property
System Paradigm / Paula Winkler
- Business
Intelligence: "Essential for Today's Hospitality Environment"; Top
companies rely on BI systems to spot unnecessary costs, solve problems
quickly
- Charles
Town Races & Slots Selects Procurement Solution from Agilysys;
Property Implements Stratton Warren System by Agilysys to Manage
Inventory, Control Costs
- Columbus
Wins Expedia Lawsuit: Georgia Supreme Court Rules Online Travel Service
Should Pay Lodging Taxes
- Global
Hotel Brand Ranking 2009: Best Western, Holiday Inn and Comfort Inns
& Comfort Suites Make Up the Top Three
- Which
Hotel Markets are Worst and Which Will be the Best?; Recap Steve
Rushmore NYU Presentation / Jim Butler
- 5
Creative Steps Hotels Are Taking To Beat The Recession / Neil Salerno
- South
Florida Hotels get Creative to Keep Travelers Coming: Niche Features to
Lure Specific Market Groups
- Developer
Ron Jury's Proposal for Kansas City Convention Hotel Project has
Interesting Story
- A
Young Crew of German Friends, All New to the Hotel World, Developing
the 119 room Michelberger Hotel in Berlin; A Cosmopolitan, Street-savvy
Hangout Handcrafted for the Social City Traveller
- MGM
MIRAGE and New Giza for Real Estate Development Company Announce
Agreement to Include 550-room MGM Grand Resort at Development Outside
Cairo Near Egypt's Famous Pyramids
- Personal
Stories of Delivering Hospitality and Pride / John Hogan
- Quorum
Hotels & Resorts to Assume Management of Sheraton Pleasanton,
Pleasanton, California
- Dallas
City Council Committee Recommends $514 million Bond Plan for Hotel
- InnPoints
Worldwide and EZYield.com Complete Interface; Seamless interface
enhances hotel channel management capabilities
- "It's
Time to Dump that Dinosaur!" UniFocus' Time & Attendance Makes
Quantum Leap; Web-based Technology for True Daily Punch Control;
Integrated Smart Clock, Payroll Processing and Dynamic Reporting
- ZDirect's
eCRM platform launched by Orient Express - North America
- RateTiger
Retains Integration Leadership With 400 Actual Connections; RateTiger
leads with largest number of website integrations
- Uniguest
to Touch the Future Now
- Pennsylvania
Moves Closer to New Casino Legislation; Table Games on Menu
- The
Roosevelt New Orleans Being Reborn as Waldorf Astoria Collection
Property
- Lancaster
County Convention Center & Lancaster Marriott at Penn Square to
Open at Long Last in Pennsylvania
- ASAP
Hospitality Opens Country Inn & Suites, East Manatee, Florida
- Jeffrey
McIver Appointed General Manager at The BALSAMS Grand Resort Hotel, New
Hampshire
- Benchmark
Hospitality Appoints Cheryl Ferguson, CMP, Director of Sales and
Marketing at Hotel Contessa in San Antonio, Texas
June 15, 2009
- hotelSystemsPro
Announces hotelWebSpace to Drive Traffic to Websites Via Internet
Prospecting; hotelSalesPro Sales System Goes Wireless - Easy Access
from Popular Mobile Devices
- Dangerous
Hotel Search Engine Optimization Myths Exposed /Josiah Mackenzie
- Ace
Hotel & Guest-Tek Create Custom Video-on-Demand System
- Yellowstone
Club Founder Tim Blixseth Speaks Out; Alleges that His Ex-wife Hosted
Lavish Parties and Flew Her Housekeeper on Private Jets While Stiffing
Creditors
- Stuart
Dean Asks: ‘Have You Tested the Metal of Your Hotel?’; Leading
restoration and maintenance company suggests scheduled maintenance for
removing scratches, eliminating wear and tear damage and restoring
architectural metal to its original luster
- Which
Training Plan is Right for You? / Harry Nobles
- Starwood
Capital Acquiring Golden Tulip Hospitality; the Golden Tulip Brands to
be Integrated with Starwood Capital's Budget Hotel Division - Louvre
Hotels
- Marriott's
Highest Honor, the Partnership Circle Award, Presented to Eleven
Select-service and Extended-stay Franchise Owner Groups
- Radisson
Fort McDowell Resort & Casino, Scottsdale, Arizona Honored With
Radisson Hotel's, "Hotel of the Year Award"
- New
Certified Hotel Administrator (CHA) Resources Fit Needs of 21st Century
Hoteliers
- Uniguest™
Acquires Dynamic Digital Designs™
- Warmbrodt
Hotel Investments - WHI Selected to Advise in the Sale of the Red Roof
Inn Memphis East
- New
Council Formation, Hospitality Technology Strategic Initiatives Council
(HTSIC) Focuses on Future of Hospitality Technology
- Personality
Hotels Unveils Hotel Frank and Hotel Vertigo, San Francisco, California
Following $15 million Renovation
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Add/Update 64 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel
Construction Projects Database
- Eight
Hotels Australia Unveils Diamant Hotel Sydney's Luxury Penthouse Suite
- Adam
Goldstein of Royal Caribbean, the Late Stevan Porter of
Intercontinental Hotel Group and Andrew Taylor of Enterprise Rent-A-
Car to be Inducted into U.S. Travel Hall of Leaders
- Lodgian
Names Daniel E. Ellis President and Chief Executive Officer; Peter T.
Cyrus Resigns as Interim President
- Daniel
Hostettler Named Managing Director of the Ocean House in Watch Hill,
Rhode Island
- Jay
Heidenreich Appointed Director of Sales & Marketing at The
Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay, California
- Penny
Herring Announced as Director of Sales & Marketing for Holiday Inn
Northwest/Sea World Area, San Antonio, Texas
June 11, 2009
- Rainmaker
Revenue Management Installed by William F. Harrah College of Hotel
Administration at University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Nation's top gaming
hotel school to incorporate Rainmaker revenue management in class
instruction
- Dana
Point's St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort Set for Auction on July 7, 2009;
Owner Makallon Resorts LLC Stopped Making Mortgage Payments Earlier
this Year
- U.S.
Lodging Turning Point Arrives But Growth Remains on Distant Horizon;
New Expectation Is for RevPAR to Decline 17.5% in 2009, Followed by
Another 3.5% Decline in 2010
- Fontainebleau
Owner Jeffrey Soffer Working to Restart Las Vegas Project Before
Problems Spill into South Florida
- Dallas
City Council Prepares to Allow Staff to Sell Revenue Bonds to Fund
Planned Dallas Convention Center Hotel
- Malaysia-based
Genting Company Buys 3.2 percent of MGM Mirage
- A
Look at California Law Governing a Hotel's Use of Security Guards
- Save
Costs, Increase Internet Uptime and Bandwidth with WAN Optimization and
Redundancy - A Guide for the Hospitality Industry / Marc Goodman
- Destination
Hotels & Resorts Opens the $480 million Oceanfront Terranea Resort,
Rancho Palos Verdes, California; Possibly the Last Hotel to Be Built
Right on the Pacific Ocean
- ACE
DuraFlo®, ePIPE® team nominated for National Medal of
Technology and Innovation
- HMP
Properties Chooses Knowland Group's READERS™, Dynamic hotel group finds
cutting edge service helps increase group sales!
- At
HITEC, VSi Introduces Guest Technologies that Increase Service, Reduce
Labor costs; Vertical Systems Inc. unveils advances in touch-screen and
self-service technology to put guests in control of information and
improved service
- San
Marcos, California City Council Poised to Buy Back Stalled Marriott
Hotel, then Lease it to Palmetto Hospitality
- The
Menu at Xanterra's Lake Yellowstone Hotel Stresses Sustainable Fshing,
Farming and Ranching Practices
- Alphy
Johnson Named as Chief Operating Officer at Candela Hotels
- Hay
Creek Hospitality Names Bernie English General Manager of the Orchards
Hotel, Williamstown MA
- Jenn
Schram Named Director of Revenue Management at Lancaster County
Convention Center and Lancaster Marriott at Penn Square
June 10, 2009
- 10,000
Hotels Now Benefitting from SynXis' Distribution Solutions
- Aptech
Computer Systems Launches Enhanced Innvue for Data Consolidation across
Diverse Multi-Property Systems; Next-generation solution provides
centralized web-based data capture, eliminates manual spreadsheet
processes
- Fontainebleau
in Las Vegas Files for Bankruptcy; $2.9 billion Resort Project Shut
Down, Victim of Cost Overruns, Depressed Condominium Market, Skittish
Lenders
- The
Fontainebleau Las Vegas Bankruptcy Filing a Big Setback for Florida
Developer Jeffrey Soffer
- It
Used to Be That an Unhappy Hotel Guest Would Tell 3 Others, Now They
Tell 3 million (With Less Effort); User-generated Reviews Are
Exploding! / Jonathan Barsky, Lenny Nash
- Total
Revenue for the 35,000-plus Hotel Rooms in Downtown Chicago Plunged 25%
During First Four Months of 2009 Compared with the Same Period Last Year
- Hotels
Keep Customers Happy Despite Cuts in Staff and Service -- Market Metrix
Announces First Quarter 2009 Hospitality Index Results
- Highgate
Holdings Completes $30 Million Renovation at Parc 55 Hotel, San
Francisco
- Clear
Sky Software Provides Interface to Major Food Distributor
- Travelscream
Partners With AOL Travel to Provide Targeted Travel Deals, Destination
and Lifestyle-targeted Offers Provide Easy Booking For Consumers
- KoolConnect
Technologies To Exhibit With Alcatel-Lucent At HITEC 2009 Industry
Leaders Bring Converged Network and State-of-the-Art Triple &
"Quadruple" Play Solutions to Hospitality
- Wrinkled
Clothing No Longer a Worry - Omni Hotels' Loyalty Program Adds
Complimentary Pressing
- Hospitality
Management Holdings (HMH) Coral Hotels & Resorts Sign New
Partnership with Trust International; HMH Consolidates Distribution,
Reservations, Channel Management, CRM with Trust International's
integrated CRS/CRM solution
- Sage
Hospitality Resources Expects the Courtyard Marriott - Portland City
Center to Be One of Marriott's Most Unique and Creative Properties
- Owner
of Randzz Restaurant & Pub in Suffolk, Virginia Might Choose
Closing Rather than Pay ASCAP $14,000
- Concord
Hospitality Opens Three Texas Properties, Four More Scheduled By Year's
End
- Michelle
Ford and Cyrille Stegmann Appointed to Pre-opening Management Team at
the Life Resort Danang, Viet Nam
- The
Hotel at Auburn University Names Arif Kor as Executive Assistant
Manager of Food and Beverage
June 9, 2009
- PM
Hospitality Strategies Increases Customer Satisfaction with Web-based
Technology; Direct relationship between guest problem resolution and
repeat business
- Ten
Reasons to Use Social Media for Launching a Hotel / Susan Deluzain Barry
- Grappling
with China’s Social Media Puzzle
- Sunstone
Hotel Investors Attribute Size of Mortgage, Recession and Competition
As Reasons to Walk Away from Ownership of W San Diego
- The
"W" Hotel Is the Talk du Jour / Bob Rauch
- Opportunities
in Hotel Revenue Management - The Uncertain Summer of 2009 / Carol
Verret Web Cast on June 26, 2009
- East
Hartford, Connecticut Hotel Developer, First Merchants Group, Eyes
Lucrative Niche Market
- West
Virginia's Tri-State Racetrack and Gaming Center's Hotel Plans
Move Forward, Will Face Annual Penalty of $2.5 million if Not Complete
by August 2010
- Hospitality
eBusiness Strategies (HeBS) and ZDirect Announce Strategic Partnership
in eCRM Technology and Solutions
- Roomlinx
Seeks Qualified Hotels to Install Interactive TV & VOD at no Cost
- What
is your definition of leadership? / Dr. John Hogan
- LodgeNet's
New Hospitality Business Model Gaining Momentum With Hoteliers, Over
5,000 Rooms Contracted Under Hotel Investment Model in First 5 Months
of 2009
- New
$9 million Holiday Inn Express and Suites Opens in Mountain Iron,
Minnesota; The 79-Room Hotel is First Structure to be Built as part of
Planned 47-acre Development
- Asia
Pacific Hotel Construction Pipeline / Q1 2009
- Bahrain
and Gulf Coast Hospitality Industry Could Create 1.5 million Jobs Over
Next Four Years
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Promotes Tom Cross to Resort Manager For
Turtle Bay Resort on Oahu's North Shore
- Milestone
Internet Marketing seeking a Regional Business Development Manager for
the Mid Atlantic, Washington DC area. Responsible for selling Milestone
products and services to hotels, brands, management companies and
ownership groups. Requires proven sales skills with current
relationships in the lodging industry a strong plus
June 8, 2009
- Choice
Hotels Selects hotelSystemsPro as Qualified Vendor; hotelSalesPro sales
and catering, and hotelServicePro property maintenance and guest
service, implemented by Cambria Suites properties
- Sunstone
to Forfeit the 258-room W Hotel San Diego to Lenders, May Pursue
Similar Options with Other Mortgaged Hotels
- St.
Louis Hotels: Riding out the Economic Storm / Daniel McCoy
- Four
Season's Tiff with Broadreach Capital Underscores Luxury Hotels'
Predicaments in a Dismal Economy
- The
Mandarin Oriental Dellis Cay in the Turks & Caicos Islands
Completes First Year of Construction, Expects to Open Mid 2010
- The
Greenbrier's New Casino to go Underground; Second Bunker to be Built
- Las
Vegas Numbers for April, 2009 Compared to Previous Year: Convention
Attendance Down 23%, Number of Trade Shows and Meetings Down 29.7% and
the Average Room Rate Falls 31% to $94.08
- City
Council Support Declining for $67 million Downtown Escondido,
California Marriott Hotel Project
- The
Lane Group Announces New Marketing Analysis Tool!; Don't let your
marketing investments go to waste. Get a second opinion on your
marketing investment
- FDIC
Dissolving Bank that Was Financing the Stalled Landmark Hotel,
Charlottesville, Virginia
- 14th
Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Investment Conference Set for May 4-6,
2010 in San Juan, Puerto Rico
- UNLV's
Hotel College Graduates First 41 Students at its Singapore Campus
- Agenda
and Keynote Speakers Set for CHART Hospitality Training Conference -
Cleveland, Ohio, July 25-28, 2009
- IHG
Signs Agreements for Five New Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express
Hotels Throughout Brazil
- Hotel
Altstadt Vienna Signs Affiliation Agreement with Warwick International
Hotels
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Appoints Greg Champion Chief Operating Officer
- Marshall
Hotels Names Four to Regional Director Positions: Jeff Day, Carol
Bullock-Walter, Scott Becque & Pennie Oliver
- Davidson
Hotel Company Promotes Steven A. Margol to Chief Investment Officer
- David
Ragland Appointed General Manager for the 158 room Hilton Garden Inn
BWI Airport, Maryland
June 5, 2009
- Sound
Bites from NYU International Hospitality Industry Investment Conference
/ Jim Butler
- Five
Questions for Eva Zeigler, W's Global Brand Leader
- DYL
Development Group Opens the 517 room W Fort Lauderdale; Hotel Features
Interiors by Clodagh, F&B Outlets by Stephen Starr and Rande Gerber
- Lack
of Financing Puts Brakes on a $40 million Full-service Resort and
Conference Center next to the Center Valley Golf Club near Allentown,
Pennsylvania
- RevPAR
Takes Dive in Boston and Cambridge, Sinks 28.5% to $136 from $191 in
April 2008
- Developer
of High End Motorcoach Resort in Red Lodge, Montana Files for Chapter
11 Bankruptcy; Robert Trent Jones Owed $655,000 for Golf Course Design
- Vida
Group N.V. Expects 350 room Hyatt Regency Curacao and Pete Dye Golf
Course to Open in Early 2010
- Meeting
and Event Planners Turn to Social Networks that Build Upon Personal
Relationships
- Holland
& Knight and HVS Host Nationwide Roundtables on Hospitality
Industry Workouts
- Outrigger
Appointed Manager for Laguna Phuket Resort and Villas in Phuket,
Thailand
- Kempinski
Hotel Aqaba, Red Sea Jordan Opens; Alejandro Bernabe the Opening GM
- Guest-Tek
Partners with White Lodging as Preferred HSIA Vendor to Upgrade 27
Properties to its OneView Internet Platform
- Marriott
Opens the 400 room Courtyard by Marriott Waikiki Beach, Formerly Known
as the Wyland Waikiki
- Fairmont
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Four to General Manager Posts
- HVS
Hotel Management seeking one or more Asset Managers (VP, SVP or EVP,
depending on experience). Responsible for helping grow the Asset
Managment business and developing portfolio/asset business plans
including financial planning, CapEx, rebranding, expansion, operations
and disposition strategies. Requires a minimum 10-15 years of hotel
industry experience with expertise in real estate, finance, budgeting,
and operations.
June 4, 2009
- Franchisors,
Owners, Operators: Questions You Always Wanted to Ask About Social
Media / Julie Keyser-Squires, APR
- United
Auto Workers Union Claims Atlantic City Casinos are Stalling
Negotiations, Launch Media Blitz
- Stock
Island Properties Proposed 300 Room Hotel in Safe Harbour, Florida Deal
Nixed Over Land Use Clash with U.S. Navy
- S.D.
Malkin Properties Poised to Build Oceanside, California's Long Proposed
$209 million Beachfront Resort
- Atlanta's
Georgia World Congress Center Convention Base Strong, Nashville Plans
$635 million Convention Center to Compete
- What's
Happening on the Hotel Job Front? / Frank Speranza
- Is
Hospitality For Hotels Only? / Harry Nobles
- Hotel
Real Estate Owners Face a Brave New World / Rick Swig
- Build
a new Salt Palace? Earl Holding, Owner of Grand America and Little
Americas Hotels, Salt Lake City, Utah Offers Land
- Long
Island Hotels Report 10 to 15% Vacancy Rate for U.S. Open Due to Lack
of Corporate Sponsorships
- Historic
Hotel Theresa: the Waldorf of Harlem; Make Mandatory Arbitration
Illegal / Stanley Turkel
- Graves
601 Hotel Empowers Consumers with First in Industry "Place a Bid!" Room
Rate Opportunity
- CARINO
Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Announces Beechwood Hotel to Adopt New GDS
Chain Code; Worcester, MA Boutique Hotel to Take New Code "UN" as part
of Luxury Hotel Group's Effort to Track Sources of All Reservations,
Provide Maximum Exposure for Properties
- Luxury
Marketing Partners International Named as Agency for Scrub Island
Resort, The Inn at English Harbour; Public Relations & Marketing
Firm Specializing in Luxury Hotels and Resorts Welcomes Two New Clients
to Roster
- Milestone
Internet Marketing, Inc. Enhances Its Google Certifications
- Cam
Troutman Named Vice President and Officer of Aptech Computer Systems;
Extends to the next generation Aptech's commitment to service and
long-term partnership with hospitality industry clients
- New
Owners, Armenco Holdings to Spend More than $100 million on Tropicana
Transformation
- In
Memoriam: A Tribute to Bob Zappatelli, Benchmark's Vice President of
Food and Beverage, 1959 - 2009
- Colorado
Hotel Owner Andria Lewis Honored as "Woman of the Year" by Choice
Hotels for Achievements and Leadership
- Louis
DeNaples' Casino License Reinstated After Perjury Charges Dropped by
Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board
- Hotel
Brands on the Increase in Greece; Findings of the 2009 Greek Hotel
Branding Report / Dr Dimitris Koutoulas
- Embassy
Suites Social Media Web Site Adds Expert Bloggers, Switches from Flash
to HTML
- Metropolitan
Hotels S.A Under License Agreement to Open 163 Room Hilton Garden Inn
Panama City, Panama
June 3, 2009
- Maestro
Client Resort At Port Ludlow Named to Prestigious Condé Nast
'Gold List Top; Guest-centric Maestro Property Management System
empowers luxury boutique Resort's award-winning personal service;
real-time ResEze booking engine to fuel its booming website
reservations success
- Discover
the Secrets to Differentiating Your Hotel in the Online Marketplace
- Developer
Larry McNair Jr. of Greenville, South Carolina Proposes $80 million
Green Diamond Project, Site to Include Golf Course and Hotel
- Proposed
Sheraton Hotel and Convention Center in Arlington, Texas Gets $8
million Tax Boost
- Let's
Be Honest, Does Your Hotel's Website Suck? / Neil Salerno
- Pow
Wow Wows Miami Visitors
- Choice
Hotels Awards Eight Elite Franchisees with Top Honors; Champ Patel,
Champion Hotels, Named Top Developer of the Year
- Connecticut
Avenue Partners LLC, Owners of Days Hotel in New Bern, North Carolina
File Bankruptcy Forcing Hotel Closure
- Empire
Properties and Raleigh, North Carolina City Council Part Ways on
Lafayette Project
- Mercury
Hotels International Creates a Membership Model, Rather than a
Franchisee/franchisor Model for its Four Hotel Brands; Cloud 9 Inn,
Mercury Inn & Suites, Mercury Grand, and Mercury Hotels &
Resorts
- Maxim
Hotel Brokerage Closes Four Hotel Transactions in May
- Examining
"Why Do We Really Do What We Do?" / John Hogan
- Resorts
World at Sentosa - Singapore's Only Island Integrated Resort, Selects
MICROS OPERA Enterprise Solution for its Seamless Online Reservation
System
- MMI
Hotel Group Completes Renovations at Cabot Lodge Jackson North in
Ridgeland, Mississippi
- The
Irvine Company Completes Two Year Renovation of the Island Hotel
Newport Beach, the Former Four Seasons Hotel, in Newport Beach,
California
- Through
the Eyes of a Hotel Butler: Achieving Guest Satisfaction /
Osvaldo Torres Cruz
- Crissa
Group Announces Launch of First New Hotel in New Kingston, Jamaica in
Nearly 40 Years: The Spanish Court Hotel
- Shaun
Ng Opens Holiday Inn Express Properties in Regina and Prince Albert,
Saskatchewan
- Scott
Grigelevich Promoted to Director of Sales at The Lenox Hotel, Boston
- Arlene
M. O'Malley Appointed Director of Sales and Marketing for The Magnolia
Hotel Houston
- Luca
Depalo Appointed Chef at Starwood's Cervo Hotel in Porto Cervo, Italy
June 2, 2009
June 1, 2009
- How
to Stand Out, Inspire and Motivate the Online Travel Shopper
- Uniguest's
SecuredAdvantage™ Now Offered in Nashville Airport Marriott on HP
TouchSmart PCs
- The
Role of a Dedicated Conference Center in the Post Global Economic
Crisis Climate / Eric Terry
- Hotel
Transactions: Investors are Feeling the Heat at the Prospect of a
Lodging Economy Turnaround / Bryan E. Younge -
- Terminating
Hotel Management Agreements When Things Don't Work - Not Easy, but Not
Impossible Either / Jim Butler -
- Front
Desk Training Is The Key To Capturing More Walk-In Business / Doug
Kennedy
- Arbitration
Hearing Between Owners of Aviara Resort and Four Seasons Hotels
Conflict Delayed Until Mid-June
- Fort
Wayne, Indiana City Officials Probe White Lodging Services use of Local
Contractors on 250 Room Courtyard by Marriott
- Wyndham
Hotels and Resorts Develops New Interior Prototypes for the Hawthorn
Suites and Wingate Brands; Hawthorn Suites Logo Updated
- Three
General Managers Provide Sage Advice for Wannabe Hoteliers
- Belmonte's
Hospitality Solutions LLC Settles 500th Franchise Negotiation; Amidst a
down economy, more and more franchisees are turning to the 35-year
hospitality industry veteran to achieve harmony with franchisors and
keep their flags flying high
- Jed
Heller, President of The Providence Group, Invited to Participate as a
Panelist for the IMN U.S. Real Estate Opportunity & Private Fund
Investing Forum
- eRevMax
Group Acquires Simple Distribution from Rate Reports; Channel
management specialist further expands portfolio to help small
hoteliers sell rooms online
- Hotel
AG Puts Multiple Hotels Under Contract and Lists Full Service Hotel in
New Jersey
- Next
Version of GUESTROOM 20X Debuts at HITEC 2010
- Is
Your Hotel Pool Safe? Responsibility for Safety Lies with Pool
Operators; Orange County, Florida Health Department on Track for
Inspections
- Russian
Billionaire Telman Ismailov, Launches $1.65 billion Turkish Resort;
Mardan Palace Hotel
- New
Trend? IFA Hotels & Resorts and Nakheel Hand Over Keys to
Residential Buyers of the Golden Mile, Palm Jumeirah
- Hotel
Equities Recieves Marriott's Partnership Circle Award for Second Time
- Hotel
Equities Celebrates Grand Re-Opening of the Hampton Inn, Dalton, Georgia
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Add/Update 41 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel
Construction Projects Database
- Hay
Creek Hospitality Announces Dean P. Andrews; Former Senior Executive of
Orient Express Hotels, Ltd, as a New Principal Partner
- The
Langham, Huntington Hotel & Spa in Pasadena, CA Appoints Jorgen
Christensen, Director of Sales & Marketing & Jim O'Connell,
Director of Sales
- Tabitha
Lesh and Reece Jahn Awarded the Outstanding Student and Leader Award
for 2009 Spring Graduates of the School of Hospitality Business at
Michigan State University
- Susan
Thronson, Senior Vice President of Global Marketing at Marriott
International Named as New HSMAI Foundation Chair
Top Read Articles - May 2009
- Battle
Lines Drawn at the Four Seasons
Aviara Resort; Four Seasons Erects Barricades and Checkpoints to Thwart
the
Hotel Owner's Move to Install Dolce as New Management
- Owners
of the Carlsbad,
California Four Seasons Resort Aviara Move to Oust Four Seasons as
Management
Company
- West
Virginians Now Learning Who Jim Justice, the Buyer of the
Greenbrier Resort, Is
- The
Greenbrier Sold for $20.1 million?
- The
Top Ten Hotel Groups in the World, IHG Retains Top Spot Surpassing
the 600,000 Room Mark
- Owners
Broadreach Capital Partners and Maritz, Wolff & Co. Name
Dolce as the New Management Company of the Former Four Seasons Resort
Aviara
- When
Does the Hotel Industry Recover?
- The
Greenbrier's New Owner Does Not Want Confrontation with Marriott
- Four
Seasons Responds to False and Defamatory Statements
- Is
It Time to Buy Hotels?
- Chef
Salaries Drop for the First Time in Four Years
- Motorcycle
Rally Anger Boils Over in Myrtle
Beach, SC;
Hotels
Lost Millions
- 28%
of Group Sales Inquiries Are Lost, Ignored or Abandoned
- Walt Disney
Co. Buys Land
for Future
Resort Hotel at National
Harbor
near Washington, DC
- Former
Doorman of Indianapolis Westin Hotel Meets with President Obama to
Discuss Hotel Unionization
- Global
Update: Who’s Where and Doing What Heads Above the Rest® April 2009
- 2009's
Top 10 Hotel Investment Trends and Challenges Released by The
Lodging Industry Investment Council (LLIC)
- The
2009 James Beard Foundation Awards - the Complete List of Winners
- The
Jim Justice - CSX Greenbrier Deal; All the Details
- The
New Normal
– What Does the New Normal Look Like for Hotel Sales and Revenue
Management
- Marriott
International Withdraws Opposition to the Sale of
Greenbrier, Agrees to Market the Resort; Marriott Expects the Justice
Family to
be Great Owners for The Greenbrier
- Rancho Palos Verdes,
CA City Council Holds Key to $480 million Terranea Resort's Future
- Condo
Buyers of Trump International Hotel & Tower, Fort Lauderdale File
Suit Against Donald Trump & Developer for Alleged Misrepresentation
- Sunstone
Hotel Investors Selling the 274-room Marriott in Napa, California
for $36.0 million
- Innkeepers'
Legal Duties in Dealing with Infectious Diseases
May 28, 2009
May 27, 2009
- Will
Mobile Change the Way Your Customers Search for, Buy and Enjoy Your
Hotel Product?
- Focus
on Labor: Hoteliers Use Business Intelligence to Spot Unnecessary
Expenses; Operators integrate data from time/attendance systems,
PMSes to control their largest variable expense
- Aloft
Hotel in Downtown Dallas Banks on Convention Center Business
- What
Kinds of Public-Private Hotel Projects Are Underway Now and What Kinds
of Public Financing Are Available Now to Build Hotels / Catherine Holmes
- Developer
Nick Massad Commences Construction on $55 million 262 unit Embassy
Suites Near Houston, TX Convention Center
- Environmentalists
and a Doppler Radar Tower May Block Controversial 10 Story 350 room
Hotel on Edge of Florida Everglades
- Historical
Memorial Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico to Begin Transformation
into Parq Central; a 74 Room Boutique Hotel
- Cindy
Estis Green to be Inducted into HFTP's International Hospitality
Technology Hall of Fame
- Silver
Lining in Tough Times: Travelers Say Economy, More Than Environment, is
Making Them Waste-Conscious But "Green Habits" Slip on the Road,
Says New Survey
- 400
Registrants Participate in the "Virtual" 9th Annual Resort Conference;
The PGA National Resort to Host Conference in 2010
- Tourism
Slump May be Easing for South Florida Hotels: April was a Rough Month
but Better than March, Adding to Hopes that Slump has Hit Bottom
- Roomlinx
Selected as the U.S. Finalist in Global Business Planning Competition:
Denver Company to Compete in Wales, U.K.; Earns Free Business-Class
Trip to Wales for Week of Strategic Counsel, Networking
- HeBS
Awarded "Best in Class" Interactive Media Award for Outrigger Lodging's
Grafton on Sunset Hotel Website
- Warmbrodt
Hotel Investments - WHI Selected to Advise in the Sale of the Red Roof
Inn Westport, St. Louis
- Eight
Benchmark Hospitality Properties Receive Top Level Sustainability
Recognition from International Association of Conference Centers;
Benchmark's Wingspread, Frank Lloyd Wright's Masterpiece, Achieves Sole
Platinum
- Bakersfield,
California's Landmark Padre Hotel Owners Seek $1.8 million Federal Loan
- Delivering
Hospitality and Pride / Dr. John Hogan
- The
Integration of Pan Pacific Hotels and Resorts and Parkroyal Hotels
& Resorts Concludes with Renaming Hotel Plaza Limited as Pan
Pacific Hotels Group Limited
- South
Central Gaming Partners Third Company to Win Sumner County, Kansas
Endorsement for Mulvane Casino
- Kevin
Croke, Director of Sales and Marketing at The Roosevelt Hotel NYC,
Named Sales and Marketing Executive of The Year by HSMAI
- Eldorado
Hotel & Spa Appoints Wendy McGowan as Nidah Spa Director
May 26, 2009
- Eye
on Innovation: Flow-Through Business Analysis
- Discover
the Secrets to Differentiating Your Hotel in the Online Marketplace
- The
Top 10 Hotel Groups in the World; IHG Retains Top Spot Surpassing the
600,000 Room Mark
- Pennsylvania's
Hotel Hershey Unveils $70 million "Grand Expansion"
- Rancho
Palos Verdes, CA City Council Holds Key to $480 million Terranea
Resort's Future
- New
Greenbrier Owner, Jim Justice to open $20 million 'Monte Carlo-Style'
Casino
- What
is My Hotel Worth Today? / H. Keith Thompson
- North
Carolina's Pinehurst Resort Completes $15 million Renovation
- Foreclosure
Stops a Planned $10 million Renovation of the Former Delavan House
Hotel in Delavan, Wisconsin
- Deer
Valley, Utah: The Next Big Project: Snow Park Village
- Las
Vegas Sands Corporation Sued Over Gaming License Acquisition in Macau
- Hotel
Explosion Along U.S. 19 Corridor in Port Richey, Florida Welcomed
- Pacific
Grove, CA Luxury Hotel Plans Back on Track; Developer Nader Agha
Revisits Proposal for Historic Holman Building
- Crescent
Hotels & Resorts Selects ProfitSword's Web-based ProfitSage
Business Intelligence Software for Operations & Reporting
- Spectrum
Ventures and Gateway Hospitality's Iredell County, North Carolina Hotel
Projects Surviving Downturn
- Utah's
Premier Resorts Bankruptcy Remains Unresolved
- Club
and Hotel Controllers Conference Searches for Solutions to Hospitality
Industry Issues
- Joseph
A. McInerney Recieves Illinois Hotel and Lodging Association's 2009 J.
Patrick Leahy Lifetime Achievement Award
- Jim
Morrissey Named General Manager of Sheraton Music City Hotel,
Nashville, TN
- Swissôtel
Merchant Court, Singapore Appoints Andy Yeo as Executive Chef
- Four
Students of the School of Hotel and Tourism Management at The Hong Kong
Polytechnic University Gain Participation at the First World Tourism
Forum in Lucerne, Switzerland For Their Papers Relating to Tourism and
Mobility
May 22, 2009
- 2009
Private Meetings Summit Proves Meeting Business is Still Out There
- The
Jim Justice - CSX Greenbrier Deal; All the Details
- Is
It Time to Buy Hotels? / Jim Butler
- A.L.
(Tom) Giannopoulos to be Inducted into HFTP's International Hospitality
Technology Hall of Fame
- Kansas
City, Missouri City Council Hears Proposal for 1,000 Room Downtown
Hotel; Estimated Project cost of $300 million
- The
Arlington (Texas) Convention & Visitors Bureau Unveils a New Brand:
"and the crowd goes wild"
- Choice
Hotels Recognizes 14 Franchised Properties as 2009's Inn of the Year
- Willaimsburg,
VA Tourism Committee in Dispute Over How Web Site Promotes Hotel
Bookings
- Microtel
Sale Proves Lodging Transaction Market Still Active
- Some
Mexican Resorts Offer 'Flu Free Guarantee"
- Station
Casinos SEC Filing Shows Sharp Decline in Value of Maloofs' Palms
Casino Resort, Las Vegas
- Taj
Hotels Opens the The Vivanta by Taj in Panaji, Goa, India; The Name
Vivanta is Drawn from Vivacity, Vividness & 'Bon Vivant'
- Alrov
Properties, Tel Aviv Israel, reports a 48% Jump in First Quarter
Revenue; on Schedule for June opening of Jerusalem's Mamilla Hotel
- Stan
Brown Resigning as President of RockResorts and Vail Resorts Lodging
Company
- Noble
House Hotels & Resorts Names Karl Kruger Vice-President, Managing
Director of Riviera Resort & Spa, Palm Springs, CA
- Sheldon
Suga Named Managing Director of Hawks Cay, Duck Key, Florida
May 21, 2009
- Hoteliers
Most Concerned with Return on Investment on Precious Marketing Spend;
SynXis Revenue and Distribution Summits focus on best practices during
a down economy
- How
to Stand Out, Inspire and Motivate the Online Travel Shopper
- When
Does the Hotel Industry Recover? / Jim Butler
- Developer
Nick Cazana $78 million Knoxville Plaza Concept, Including a 200 Room
Hotel, Subject to Design Review Board and... Financing
- Motorcycle
Rally Anger Boils Over in Myrtle Beach, SC; Hotels Lost Millions
- Marriott
Awards Eight Employees with Company's Highest Honor; Kauai Marriott
Resort Recognized for Community Service
- American
Colony to Build Jerusalem Hotel on Historic Site in Jerusalem's German
Colony Neighborhood
- Oceanfront,
Virginia Hampton Inn to Open - Guest-Free?
- The
Fairmont Washington, D.C. is Abuzz With 105,000 Permanent Guests;
Hotel's Rooftop Beehives Enhance Culinary Program and Help the
Environment
- Act
As if You Are Number Two / Dr John Hogan
- Incentive
Available to Hotels Interested in Recycling Outdated Two-way Radios;
Two-Way Radio Communications Company Offering Reusable, Affordable
Technology
- Carino
Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Announces Launch of New website,
www.CarinoHotels.com <http://www.CarinoHotels.com>; Luxury Hotel
Group's New Site Showcases Member Hotels with Streamlined Design,
Consumer Booking Capability and Unique Marketing & Advertising
Opportunities
- Warmbrodt
Hotel Investments - WHI Advises in Sale of the Holiday Inn - Salina,
Kansas
- The
End of the Hotel Bathtub? Also, New York's Essex House / Stanley Turkel
- E
United Group Appoints InterContinental Hotels Group to Manage the 650
room Crowne Plaza Kaohsiung E-Da World in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- B.
F. Saul Company - Hotel Division Wins Marriott International's 'Spirit
to Preserve' Award for Environmental Initiatives
- Towneplace
Suites by Marriott Tampa Westshore/Airport Presented with Marriott's
Select Service Opening Hotel of the Year Award
- Destination
Beach Resort & Spa Co. Optimistic for Future of its Koh Samui,
Thailand Hotel
- Marriott
International Honors Waterford Hotel Group with Spirit to Serve Award
for Community Service
- Jean
Pierre Chaumard Named General Manager of Royal Mansour Marrakech; New
Moroccan Property to Open November 2009
- Warren
"Waddy" Francis Appointed General Manager at Ladera Resort, St. Lucia,
West Indies
- Vietnam's
Nam Hai Resort Appoints Ashish Deva Executive Chef
- Linda
J. Snell, CHA, Named Regional Director of Sales for Hospitality Ventures
- RGH
Hospitality Appoints Linda Pavlik Director of Sales for the Hilton
Garden Inn, Poughkeepsie/Fishkill, NY
May 20, 2009
- Bluebuzzard's
ProposalPath Launches Next Gen of Sales Tools Complete with Hoover's
Business Insight: Sales Directors Buzzing about Unique Tool that's
Producing Powerful Stand-out Proposals
- Shuttered
Tamarack Resort, Boise Idaho May Have "Ray of Hope"; Resort's Developer
has Potential Buyer Pending Outcome of Mediation
- Embassy
Suites Shrinking its Standard Two-room Guest Suites into One-room
Units; For New Construction Up to 20% of the Guestrooms May be One-room
Allowing Lower Construction Costs
- The
World Health Organization Pandemic Alert is Currently at Phase 5 - with
Level 6 Officially Representing a Pandemic; WHO Terminology and its
Classification System Under Review to Avoid Unnecessary Alarm
- Football
Legend Sam Huff Hopes to Play a Marketing Role at The Greenbrier;
Resort's New Owner, Jim Justice, Hasn't Returned His Calls
- Post
Show Review: Hospitality Technology Forum @ HOFEX 2009
- Analyzing
the Tax Implications of the Stimulus Legislation; Tax Breaks Not Large,
Few Will Benefit Hospitality Industry
- Crescent
Hotels & Resorts Adds the 428 room Adolphus Hotel in Dallas to its
Portfolio
- Destination
Hotels & Resorts to Manage Wigwam Golf Resort & Spa, Phoenix,
AZ: Receiver Douglas Wilson Companies Will Continue to Oversee Resort
- Is
Leverage Dead or Just Deadly -- a Controversial New Investment Reality
Nay be Taking Hold
- Sunstone
Hotel Investors Selling the 274-room Marriott in Napa, California for
$36.0 million
- Le
Germain Calgary Chooses VISIONLINE and Signature RFID by VingCard®;
Leading Hospitality Security Provider to Equip New Mixed-Use
Development With Cutting-Edge Contactless RFID Locks and Wireless
RF-online System
- SKIGEE
- the first practical SMS solution for hotels - SKIGEE empowers hotels
to reach 4 billion mobile users worldwide
- Get
More with 'Wire Less!' VISIONLINE by VingCard: Wireless RF-online
Standalone Electronic Locks with RF-online Elsafe In-room Safes Under
Same Platform
- The
ProHost® Housekeeping System Selected for the 517 room W Fort
Lauderdale
- W
Hotels to Unveil the New W Barcelona Showcasing Soaring Architecture
and Iconic Design by World-Renowned Architect Ricardo Bofill
- Key
Hotel and Property Management Seeks Approval for 110 Room Hampton Inn
& Suites in Toledo, Ohio; 2nd Hotel yet to be Named
- Butte
Hotel Group Looks to Develop a Multi-million Dollar Upscale Hotel and
Conference Facility in Butte, Montana
- How
is Utah's tourism doing? Internet Key to Success
- MGM
Mirage Agrees to Manage Three Hotels in Dubai for Developer Pearl Dubai
- Yuma,
Arizona Voters Support Hospitality Tax by Nearly 2 to 1 Margin; Tax
Levied on Hotels, Restaurants and Bars, is Expected to Raise $4.5
million this Year
- Paul
Kirwin Named President and Chief Operating Officer by Northcott
Hospitality, Veteran Hotel Industry Executive Joins AmericInn
Management Team as CEO Angeloni Confirms Intent to Retire in 2010
- Chef
Gray Kunz to Open Café Gray Deluxe at Hong Kong's The Upper House
- Crestline
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Robin Krawczyk as General Manager for the
Courtyard by Marriott Jacksonville Butler Boulevard
- Benchmark
Hospitality Appoints Denise Benoit Marketing Director for Lansdowne
Resort
May 19, 2009
- TravelCLICK
Hosts Webinar on First Quarter 2009 Global Hotel Performance: Creating
Opportunity in Uncertain Economic Times
- Marriott
International Withdraws Opposition to the Sale of Greenbrier, Agrees to
Market the Resort; Marriott Expects the Justice Family to be Great
Owners for The Greenbrier
- Walt
Disney Co. Buys Land for Future Resort Hotel at National Harbor near
Washington, DC
- Former
Doorman of Indianapolis Westin Hotel Meets with President Obama to
Discuss Hotel Unionization
- Getting
Back to the Basics Part II: Case Studies & Best Practices from the
'Hotel Internet Marketing Trenches' / Max Starkov and Mariana Mechoso
- Pow
Wow in Miami: U.S. Sellers Meeting with 1,500 Travel Buyers from 70
Countries, Hoping to Book $4 billion in Business
- The
297 room Ramada Plaza in Downtown Macon, Georgia to be Sold Under
Foreclosure; Hotel Built in 1970 as the Macon Hilton
- South
Central Gaming Partners Offers to Build 180 Room Hotel Along with $225
million Casino in Wichita, Kansas, Plans to Pay for Project with Cash
- All
the Hotel's a Stage / Jitendra Jain
- EZYield.com
Adds Marketing Reach To High Tech Hoteles' Expansion; Spanish
hospitality group grows two-brands with one technology -
- Strategic
Alliance Between Concord Eastridge and PKF Consulting Target Hotels
Caught in Downturn
- TTI
Technologies Int'l is Looking Good! New Web site is icing on top of the
guest-services company's rebranding; Corporate growth, new marketing
directive has industry clicking to learn more
- CHA
Hotels Chooses Knowland Group Services; Dynamic hotel corporation sees
value in cutting edge sales solutions!
- Accor's
Mercure Adds Renowned Treetops Resort & Spa to Hotel Network,
Rebranding as Mercure Port Douglas Treetops Resort takes Accor past
20,000 Room Mark in Australia
- Minor
International Plans Purchase of Properties on Koh Samui, Thailand
- Cape
Cod, Massachusetts Board Approves Proposed 132 Room Hilton Garden Inn
- International
Association of Conference Center Members Commit to Code of
Sustainability
- A
Baker's Dozen of Fundamentals for Retaining Quality Staff / Dr John
Hogan
- Benchmark
Hospitality Adds Mary Watson-DeLauder as Chief Wine Officer for the
Global Company
- Corinne
Whittington Named National Sales Manager for The Westin Beach Resort,
Fort Lauderdale and the Sheraton Yankee Clipper Hotel
- Montage
Hotels & Resorts Names Craig Strong Executive Chef of Studio at
Montage Laguna Beach, CA
May 18, 2009
- More
detailed data on the behaviour of North American online travel consumer
now available; Making fact based online marketing decisions is vital in
hard times, when every marketing dollar counts the more you know about
your customer the more likely you are to survive and thrive
- J.W.
"Bill" Marriott Tells Wake Forest University's Business Graduates
"Don't be Afraid to Get Your Hands Dirty," and "Learn the Business from
the Bottom Up"
- Condo
Buyers of Trump International Hotel & Tower, Fort Lauderdale are
Told Hotel May Not Open: Future of Project Depends on Them Closing on
Unit Sales; Pending Lawsuits Provide Little Incentive
- Are
You Hoping Guests Won't Notice the Jack-hammering in the Lobby? A Case
Study for Hotels / Daniel Edward Craig
- Navy
Helicopter Pilot, Paula Coughlin-Puopolo, Owns a Piece of Las Vegas
History; It was 18 Years Ago the Las Vegas Hilton Hosted the Tailhook
Convention
- MGM
Mirage's Sale of 143 Million Shares of Stock Provides Time to Address
Leverage and Liquidity Issues
- Las
Vegas Sands Corporation to Eliminate up to 4,000 Macau jobs on Cotai
Strip in an Effort to Right-size the Operations
- American
Hotel & Lodging Association Members Highlight Business Travel
Challenges at Senate Committee Hearing; Senate Examines 'Tourism in
Troubled Times'
- INNCOM
and Enseo Debut Interactive Guestroom Control Systems Via TV; Joint
solution unveiled at HD Expo in Las Vegas enables guests to change room
temperature, light settings and more
- Hotel
AG Is Set to Close Transaction on Hampton Inn & Suites in
Rochester, MN
- Built
on Steel, Betting on Casinos: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Prepares for
Image Shift with Opening of $743 Million Sands Casino Resort
- Station
Casinos Expects Extension from Lenders to Negotiate Bankruptcy
- Through
the Eyes of a Hotel Butler: Mastering Guests' Information / Osvaldo
Torres Cruz
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Add/Update 62 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel
Construction Projects Database
- Shangri-La
Hotels and Resorts Set to Open the 142 room Shangri-La Villingili
Resort and Spa on Villingili Island in the Republic of Maldives;
Property Includes 16 Ttree House Villas
- South
Florida's Boca Raton Resort & Club Joins the Waldorf Astoria
Collection
- Delaware
North Companies Acquires the 123 room Holiday Inn West Yellowstone
- Hans
Mulders, a 35-Year Lodging Veteran Named as General Manger to Dolce's
Seaview Resort Near Atlantic City, NJ
May 15, 2009
- What's
Hot: Total Profit Optimization. What's Not: Room Rate Optimization;
Experienced gaming and hospitality companies use the Total Customer
Value approach to maximize profitability for the enterprise, not just
the rooms division
- Condo
Buyers of Trump International Hotel & Tower, Fort Lauderdale File
Suit Against Donald Trump & Developer for Alleged Misrepresentation
- Not
Just any Hotel Will Do - Owensboro, Kentucky EDC Seeks Developer for
$80 million Redevelopment Plan Geared Toward Conventions
- Some
Question If Judge Will Dismiss Greenbrier's Bankruptcy Case; The Key is
What Do the Creditor's Want
- Sheldon
Adelson Looks Ahead to Opening of $743 million Casino in Bethlehem, PA
With No Regrets Despite a New Worth Loss of $22 Billion
- Proposed
$270 million Sale of Trump Marina Hotel & Casino, Atlantic City to
Coastal Development Near Death
- Carino
Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Announces The Stoneleigh Hotel & Spa
to Adopt New GDS Chain Code; Dallas Hotel to Take New Code "UN" as part
of Luxury Hotel Group's Effort to Track Sources of All Reservations,
Provide Maximum Exposure for Properties
- Swire
Hotels Set to Open Second Hong Kong Hotel; EAST a 345 Room Lifestyle
Business Hotel
- $4
million Conversion Marks Crowne Plaza's Fifth Hotel in Philadelphia
Market; The Former Holiday Inn Select in Bucks County Is Owned and
Managed by Hermani Hotels LLC
- Toni
Knorr, General Manager of The St. Regis San Francisco Honored with The
Peter Goldman Award of Excellence
- Stephen
Bello, a 22-Year Lodging Veteran to Manage Dolce's Lakeway Resort in
Austin, Texas
- Desires
Hotels Appoints David Moth to Director of Operations
- Benchmark
Hospitality Appoints Shane Bruns Director of Food and Beverage for
Hotel Contessa in San Antonio, Texas
- John
and Lindy Rydman Donating $250,000 to the University of Houston Hilton
School of Hotel and Restaurant Managment
May 14, 2009
- Publish
Once, Distribute to Many; Customers of E-Site Marketing and SynXis
benefit from a content management tool that goes beyond Website into
social media
- Even
in Tough Economy, Guest Satisfaction Remains Rock Solid at
InterContinental San Juan Resort & Casino; Web-based GoConcierge
Helps Keep Operations Efficient, Consistent
- Four
Seasons Hotels and Resorts Refutes the False and
Inflammatory Rhetoric Being Disseminated by Lawyers for the Owners of
Four
Seasons Resort Aviara
- The
First Best Western Atrea Hotel, an Upper Midscale Prototype, Opens in
San Antonio; Atrea Hotels Can Be Built at a Cost of $85,000 to $90,000
per Key
- Summer
Leisure Travel Outlook Remarkably Stable in Down Economy; Research
Shows Americans' Travel Intentions, Spending Expectations Same or
Better than Last Year
- PKF
Hospitality Research Reports Good News, Bad Numbers for 2008; Expects
Fixed Costs to be a Problem in 2009
- Ceebraid-Signal,
Developer of Omphoy Ocean Resort, formerly the Palm Beach Hilton,
Defies Tight Spending Trend Investing $724,000 for each of the 134
Rooms Inn & Spa
- Florida
East Coast Realty Poised for June 2009 Construction of Sonesta Mikado
Hotel Miami, a 40 Story Mixed Use Hotel
- Konoba
and Boutique Hotels, in Istria, Croatia: Different Styles, Same Aims /
Barry Napier
- NEW
Infinity II by Elsafe Resets Standards for Peak In-Room Safe Design and
Functionality; Elsafe's Exclusive Anti-tamper and Anti-cloning
Technology, UL Certification, Design, Optional Gold-Finish, Ergonomics,
Functionality, and RFID/NFC and RF-Online Compatibility Set It Apart
from the Competition
- Vacant
Rooms? It's Time for Timex! Affordable, dependable alarm clock radios
from Hotel Technologies are making a difference to travelers and bottom
lines
- Updating
a Classic: VingCard Introduces RFID Compatibility for its Classic Lock;
The Industry's Leading Provider of RFID Locking Solutions, Including
Signature RFID Locks, Now Offers Thousands of Properties Worldwide the
Benefits of Contactless RFID Technology
- Development
of Internet Initiatives Aimed at Tourism Professionals Helps Raise
Optimism for Rhode Island's $6.8 billion Tourism Industry
- Noble
Prepares the 220- room Marriott City Center Hotel in Macon, Georgia for
Fall 2009 Opening; David Rosenberg Named General Manager and Pat Horan
Named Director of Sales
- Hospitality
Ventures Chooses Knowland Group's Reader Board & Sales Platform
Services
- HFTP
Asia Conference Searched for Solutions to Asia Marketplace Challenges
- Destination
Hotels & Resorts Names Brett Schoenfield General Manager of the
Vail Cascade Resort & Spa, Vail, Colorado
- Aimbridge
Hospitality Appoints Faisal Kamal General Manager and Tom Martone DOS
for Embassy Suites Houston-Energy Corridor
- Betty
Lim Appointed Director of Sales & Marketing at Hard Rock Hotel
Penang, Malaysia
- Savannah
Area Tourism Leadership Council Honors Cindy Johnson of Savannah
Marriott Riverfront & Bill Wade of Courtyard by Marriott Historic
District for Exemplary Service in Hospitality Industry
May 13, 2009
- Maestro
PMS 'Web Connection' Suite Adds Powerful New eMarketing Tool to Drive
More Hotel Website Bookings, Increase Online Reservations and Reduce
Costs
- Online
Shoppers Influenced by Website User Experience: TravelCLICK Again
Honored by Web Marketing Association for Best Web Interactive
Application, Hotel and Lodging Industry
- West
Virginians Now Learning Who Jim Justice, the Buyer of the Greenbrier
Resort, Is
- Bipartisan
Legislation Introduced to Jump-Start U.S. Economy, Attract Millions
More International Visitors Travel Promotion Act Estimated to Create $4
Billion in Economic Stimulus; No Money Required from American Taxpayers
- Marriott
International's Global Headquarters Building and 30 of its Hotels in
Development Expected to Achieve LEED(R)Certification
- Accor
Focusing On the Battle for Revenue in Hotels - Launching Major Super
Sale Promotions at Cut-rate Discounts
- $174.4
million Lancaster, Pennsylvania Convention Center & Hotel Opening
Delayed Once Again, 10 Year Wait Drags On
- Developer
Shantu Patel Planning a Hyatt Place Hotel in Oceanside, California
- "With
Love, Philadelphia XOXO" is Part of a $2.5 million Drive this Summer as
New Tourism Push
- O'Rourke
Hospitality Shapes The Green Team, Inc.'s Identity and Web Presence To
Reach Hotel Decision Makers
- Travel
Tripper to Showcase Tools that Attract, Convert and Enable Web Bookings
at 'Travel Distribution Summit Europe 2009'
- Destination
Hotels & Resorts Launches Mobile Web Sites; Information on More
than 30 Properties in the Collection Now Available on Smart Phones
- Warwick
International Completes Renovations at the Warwick Melrose Dallas, No
Two Guest Rooms Are Exactly Alike
- Sheraton
South Padre Island Beach Hotel and Condominiums Reopens 10 Months After
Hurricane Dolly
- Cambria
Suites Green Bay Awarded Hotel of the Year at Choice Hotels Annual
Convention
- Kjell
Olsson to be Honored as 2009 CHTP of the Year at HITEC
- Marshall
Hotels Promotes Three Executives including Ben Seidel to Chief
Operating Officer
- Sage
Hospitality Names Ed Baklor to Divisional Vice President Over the CoCo
Key Brand
- Edward
A. Mady Appointed General Manager for The New York Palace
- Andrew
Hendrian Joins The Leela Palace Kempinski Bangalore as General Manager
- Danna
Holck Appointed General Manager of the 600-room Rio Mar Beach Resort
& Spa, a Wyndham Grand Resort in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico
- Brett
Boreing & Linda Poole Named to Lead the Sales, Marketing &
Catering Efforts at Austin's Historic Driskill Hotel
May 12, 2009
- Eye
on Innovation: Amenity Audits Boost Incremental Revenue in Multifamily
Housing
- 28%
of Group Sales Inquiries are Lost, Ignored or Abandoned
- EPEAT-Certified
"Green" Public Computer Kiosks Made Easy by Uniguest ™; Environmental
Ratings Program Helps Hoteliers Choose Green
- Battle
Lines Drawn at the Four Seasons Aviara Resort; Four Seasons Erects
Barricades and Checkpoints to Thwart the Hotel Owner's Move to Install
Dolce as New Management
- The
Greenbrier Sold for $20.1 million??
- The
Greenbrier's New Owner Does Not Want Confrontation with Marriott;
Promises to Hire Back Furloughed Workers, Plans to Build a $20 million
Casino
- The
New Normal - What is It and How It Impacts Hotel Sales and Revenue
Managers - Web Cast May 15
- San
Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau Reports Visitor Spending Up
3.3% for 2008
- Kansas
Officials Endorse $240M Casino Proposals After Groups Add Hotels
- Expotel
Hospitality Secures Management Contract for the 128 room Maison St.
Charles Hotel & Suites, New Orleans
- KoolConnect
Offers High End Guest Self-Service at Jumeirah Essex House on HotSOS
Platform; System allows guests to order popular amenities and services
from guestroom TV
- INNCOM
to Showcase Green Solutions for Energy, Cost Savings at HD Expo;
INNCOM's Glass Series room controls converge energy management,
guestroom automation and customized guest interfaces into elegant
designs / Visit Booth #4957
- ZDirect's
Dynamic Survey Engine drives Golf Insider's social networking platform
- Real
Estate Veteran Richard Bosworth Joins Canyon Capital Realty Advisors as
Senior Director
- A
First Person's Perspective of their Experience at a Hotel that Has a
Properly Integrated Dynamic Digital Signage; Hotel Lobbies, Meeting and
Guest Rooms - How They Can Work for You / Andrew Hoffman
- Sheraton
Tucson Hotel Staff Adopt Fort Lowell Elementary School, Tucson, AZ
Volunteering Time and Money Creating Community Partnerships
- Navy
Exchange Service Command Recognizes Navy Lodges, Managers For
Outstanding Guest Service; Navy Lodge Hawaii Named 2008 Carlson Award
Winner in the Large Lodging Category
- Loews
Miami Beach Hotel Takes Two Key Awards at Loews Hotels National
Meeting, "Hotel of the Year" & Debbie Castillo "Marketer of the
Year"
- New
York City's GEM Hotel Collection Appoints Javier Egipciaco & Ashley
Grogg as General Managers for Chelsea & Midtown West Properties
- Outrigger
Enterprises Group Names Roy Cordeiro - Director of Sales &
Marketing for Courtyard by Marriot Waikiki Beach and Patsy Narimatsu -
Director of Sales & Marketing for Outrigger Beachfront Properties
- Crestline
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Jeremy Allen General Manager for the
Hilton Garden Inn Blacksburg, VA
May 11, 2009
- Customer
Acquisition Should be Focused as Close to the Point of Purchase as
Possible: Interview with Wyndham Hotel Group on Adjusting Their
Marketing Strategy
- Elite
Meetings Alliance Brings Together Top Meeting and Hotel Professionals:
Despite Challenging Times, Strong Interest in Meetings Reported
- Owners
of the Carlsbad, California Four Seasons Resort Aviara Move to Oust
Four Seasons as Management Company; Claims Four Seasons Has
Demonstrated Complete Lack of Concern for the Owner, Wasting Many
Millions of Dollars Each Year
- Owners
Broadreach Capital Partners and Maritz, Wolff & Co. Name Dolce as
the New Management Company of the Former Four Seasons Resort Aviara;
Four Seasons Refuses to Acknowledge Termination - or Relinquish Control
of the San Diego Resort
- A
Publicly Owned $500 million Dallas Convention Center Hotel Now Primed
for Construction; Dallas Voters Reject Initiative Designed to Block the
Hotel
- $500
million Dallas Convention Hotel Victory Still Facing Obstacles:
Unfavorable Municipal Bond Markets
- Jim
Justice, Head of the Justice Family Group, Puts Cash Down on the
Greenbrier Resort; Marriott Maintains its Deal with CSX is Still on the
Table
- The
26th Annual National Travel and Tourism Week to Focus on Establishing
Travel as a Solution to America's Economic Challenges: This Year's
Theme - "Travel Matters"
- Got
Revenue? Want more business? Find Out Why You May Be Losing
Business to Your Competition
- Hotel
AG Negotiates Contract for Baton Rouge SpringHill Suites
- The
$240 million 525-room Sheraton in Downtown Tucson Poised for Spring
2010 Construction Start
- The
Broadmoor's $18.5M "Cottage" Expansion Caps Hotel's $300M Evolution
- HEI
Hotels & Resorts Completes $7 million Renovation of the Le Meridien
Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Soneva
Fushi Resort by Six Senses and Rocco Forte Hotels / Editorial by Murray
Bailey
- Park
Plaza Hotels Launch New Website for Lifestyle Brand, art'otel Original
Art, Unique Hotels, artotels.com
- HITEC
2009 Offers Solutions to Combat Rough Times
- The
Third International Forum on China Hotel Brand Development, Co-hosted
by Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Hotel and Tourism
Management, Draws 500 Participants from Around the World
- Pennsylvania
Tourism & Lodging Association Names Craig Poole, GM of Holiday Inn
Pittsburgh Airport, the 2009 General Manger of the Year
- Hotel
Equities Appoints Jeff Shockley as Director of Financial Analysis and
Owner Relations
- HFTP
Appoints Lisa Funk, CPA, CHAE as Global Secretary
May 8, 2009
- 2009's
Top 10 Hotel Investment Trends and Challenges Released by The Lodging
Industry Investment Council (LLIC)
- Despite
Lower Rates, Major Global Hotel Brands Have No Plans to Compromise
Service or Scale Back Amenities
- Three
Hyatt Regency Long Beach Employees Suing the Hotel Alleging Violations
in Pay for Hours Worked, Not Allowing Meal Breaks and Minimum Wage
- J.W.
"Bill" Marriott, Jr., Named First Recipient of the Cornell Icon of the
Industry Award; the Annual Icon of the Industry Awards Dinner Set for
June 2, 2009 Expected to Be the Biggest Event on the Hotel School's
Calendar
- AH&LA
Sets Agenda for Summer Summit June 23 - 24, 2009 in Chicago;
Hospitality Leaders to Develop Economic Recovery Strategies, Future
AH&LA Initiatives, and Recognize Outstanding Hotel Properties and
Employees
- How
Important is Service? Very! / Harry Nobles
- Aimbridge
Hospitality and The Wiens Group Open Aloft Broomfield Denver Hotel;
Lifestyle hotel deviates from traditional Aloft prototype; Facility
offers meeting facilities, main street retail and Kevin Taylor
restaurant
- The
Greater New York Chapter of the HSMAI Recognizes Eight Individuals for
Excellence; Takis Anoussis, GM, Helmsley Park Lane Named Hotel General
Manager of the Year
- Carl
A. Boger Jr the First Recipient of the Clinton L. Rappole Endowed Chair
at University of Houston's Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and
Restaurant Management; The Chair Position Enhances His Ability to
Conduct Research in Spa and Wellness Management
- Grand
Bohemian Hotel Asheville Installs SpaSoft® at its Luxurious
Poseidon Spa Spa Management Software Powers Newest Kessler Collection
Boutique Hotel
- MSI
and MeetingMatrix International Inc. Sign Alliance Agreement; WinSAM
plus MeetingMatrix, a complete solution for your meeting and event needs
- Middle
Tennessee Hospitality Championship Planned for November; The Green
Team, Inc. Continues To Hold Title Sponsorship
- Ascott
Awarded Contract to Manage New Premier Serviced Residence in Shanghai
near Xintiandi; Ascott expands presence with 282-unit Ascott Shanghai,
bringing its portfolio
- 3CX
Checks in with Hotels Worldwide to Halve Phone Bills; New 3CX VoIP
Phone System for Hotels slashes phone bills using VoIP and eliminates
PBX maintenance and expansion costs
- Trust
International Forms Strategic Partnership with TIG Global for Web
Services and Online Marketing
- Dolce
Appoints Three Senior Executives; Peter Strebel - Chief Revenue
Officer, Richard Maxfield - Chief Operating Officer and Sarah Woodfin
Wynn - General Counsel
- Hilton
Hotels Promotes Carsten Schieck to Regional General Manager Maldives
- Choice
Hotels International Opens 52 New Hotels in April
- New
Castle Hotels & Resorts to Manage Holiday Inn, Albany, New York
- Global
Hyatt Awards Carlos Morales 2008 Director of Food & Beverage of the
Year
- Paul
J. Gusst Appointed Executive Chef for the Lancaster County Convention
Center and Lancaster Marriott at Penn Square
- The
School of Hotel and Tourism Management of The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University Staging The Sixth China Tourism Forum in Chengdu, Sichuan
Province, China
May 6, 2009
- Harrah's
Cherokee Casino Hotel: A Winner with Total Customer Value; Property
leverages revenue management software to strengthen marketing
promotions, maintains leadership in Harrah's portfolio
- Mintek
Mobile Data Solutions Unveils New Website, Introduces Transcendent;
Focus is On Enhanced Preventive Maintenance, Asset Management Software
- Interstate
Hotels & Resorts Reports a Net Loss of $12.5 million for First
Quarter 2009; RevPAR Drops 19.1% Compared to Same Prior Year Period
- Aqua
Mountain Resort Suspends Plans for $50 million Water Park Hotel in
Garrett County, Maryland
- The
2009 James Beard Foundation Awards - the Complete List of Winners
- Kansas
Officials Ponder the Lack of a Hotel in Three Proposals for a
"Destination Casino"
- Tourism
to Atlantic City Bucks National Trend: Showed Growth In 2008 with Rail
Travel and Hotel Bookings Up Some Sectors as Much as 21% in First
Quarter 2009
- Miami-Dade
County's March, 2009 Hotel Tax Receipts Down 22.2% from Prior Year; Has
the Bottom Been Reached?
- Cayman
Islands Air Arrivals for the 1st Qtr 2009 Down 14% Over the Same Period
in 2008; Cruise Arrivals Down 15.9%
- The
New Normal - What is It and How It Impacts Hotel Sales and Revenue
Managers Web Cast May 15, 2009
- Developer
LodgeWorks Details Plan for Six Story Boutique Hotel in Downtown Chapel
Hill, North Carolina
- Roomlinx'
Interactive TV is Free to Guests at Kessler's Grand Bohemian Asheville,
NC; Roomlinx completes Interactive TV installation in all rooms
- Terre
Haute, Indiana's New $1.8 million Convention & Visitors Bureau Set
to Open June 1, 2009
- Wilmington,
North Carolina City Council Agrees to $5 million Convention Facility
Expansion
- The
Eastover Resort and Conference Center, Lenox, Massachusetts to Close
- GUESTROOM
20X Educates Hospitality Professionals in Hong Kong
- HSMAI'S
Affordable Meetings® West Offers Educational Sessions on Service,
Value
- Jonathan
Brashier Recognized by Marriott International as the 2008 SpringHill
Suites Opening Hotel General Manager of the Year
- Kurt
Zuger Appointed Executive Chef for the Westin Westminster in Colorado
- The
Dow Hotel Company Names Joseph G. Coursolle General Manager of the
Hilton San Antonio Hill Country Hotel and Spa
- Profile:
Ron Fineron, Executive Chef at the Doubletree Hotel in Downtown El
Paso, Texas
May 5, 2009
- Expansion
in 2009: Hotel Equities' Strategy for 100% Growth by 2010; Web-based
System Unifies Sales Management for Properties and Flags
- Rivers
Casino Selects Stratton Warren System from Agilysys; New Property to
Implement Industry-Leading Inventory and Procurement Solution
- White
Lodging Reduces Maintenance Labor Costs by 25% via PMWorks Intelligent
Scheduling Algorithm; MTech's flexible preventive-maintenance solution
adjusts staff schedules at the corporate level to match reductions in
occupancy at the property level
- Quarantined
Hotel Guest, Leslie Carr, Blogs from His Hotel Room at the Metropark
Hotel Wanchai Hongkong
- To
Get More Bookings - Work With - Not Against Your Central Reservations
Providers / Doug Kennedy
- MGM
Mirage Reports 2009 1st Qtr Revenue Down 19.3% and Earnings Off 12.5%
Compared with Prior Year; Results Include $190 million Pre-tax Gain on
the Treasure Island Sale
- Morgans
Hotel Group Records Net loss of $10.6 million in the 1st Qtr of 2009
Compared to a Net Loss of $7.5 million in the Year Earlier; RevPAR
Tumbles 36 percent / Hotel Operating Statistics
- Great
Wolf Resorts Reports 2009 First Quarter Net Loss of $5.6 million, More
than Double Compared to the Same Period a Year Earlier; Occupancy Drops
from 65.2% to 61.5% / Hotel Operating Statistics
- Mexico
City Restaurants Allowed to Reopen on May 6; Restaurant Owners Still
Irked
- San
Antonio Hoteliers Implement Proactive Measures to Counter Media Hype
Concerning Flu Viruses
- 10
Year Wait Continues for $174.4 million Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Convention Center & Hotel Opening
- Customer
Relationship Management Requires a Blending of High Tech and High Touch
for Optimal Results / Dr. John Hogan
- Denver
Based Magnolia Hotels Choice of ZDirect Pays Dividends!
- Real
Hotels & Resorts Partners with UniFocus for SERVICEScope®
Mystery Evaluations; Evaluations Target Changing Perceptions in Today's
Economy; Ensures Service Standards Reflect Highest Perceived Value
- INNCOM
Leads New Florida Resort to Coveted LEED Certification; INNCOM EMS
plays key role in Sandpearl Resort's successful effort to become one of
the first resorts to attain 'green' designation
- Audiovisual
Capabilities Light Up Clients; Denver Hotel Boardroom Creates 'Wow
Factor' With Latest Technology
- Ballantyne
Hotel, Charlotte, North Carolina is a 'Resort' No More: Maintains
Luxury Amenities, Adjusts Name to Cope with Stigma of Corporate
Lavishness
- Crescent
Hotels & Resorts Adds Eight Management Contracts, Including the
430-room Sheraton Fort Worth Hotel
- Fairmont
Hotels & Resorts to Manage Emaar Residences at the Fairmont Makkah,
Saudi Arabia
- Tulip
Inn Hawar Beach Resort, Manama, Bahrain to Undergo $3 million Renovation
- Staybridge
Suites and Holiday Inn and Suites, a $15 million Waterfront Development
in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Set to Open Despite Economic Climate
- Ameristar
Casinos, Las Vegas, Nevada Reverses First-quarter Loss, Reinstates
Dividend
- Hilton
Signs Management Agreement with Mohamed Ahmed Ali Hassan Ruqait for a
Doubletree Branded Hotel in Ras Al Khaimah U.A.E.
- Langham
Hotels Opens First Boutique Hotel - The Langham, Yangtze Boutique, in
Shanghai; Stefan Heintze the Opening General Manager
- Rocco
Forte Collection Assumes Operations of The Augustine, Prague, Czech
Republic
- Crestline
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Linda Cahue as Director of Sales &
Marketing for the Wyndham Palm Springs Hotel
- Choice
Hotels Names Michael Murphy Senior Vice President of Global Sales
May 4, 2009
- Chef
Salaries Drop for the First Time in Four Years
- Innkeepers'
Legal Duties in Dealing with Infectious Diseases / James Abrams -
go
to
- Great
Wolf Resorts Sells Interest in Wisconsin and Ohio Properties, Both
Resorts
Will Continue to Operate as Great Wolf Lodges Under a License and
Management
Agreement - go to
- Deer
Valley Resort Enters the Property-Management Business: The Park City,
Utah
Resort Sees it as Best Solution to Difficult Times - go to
- The
Dutch Hotel Group citizenM Opens 2nd Hotel, the 215 room citizenM
Amsterdam
City, the Netherlands - go to
- The
Hotel Group Celebrates Opening of Doubletree Cleveland
Downtown/Lakeside
After $15 million Renovation - go to
- Federal
Regulators Close Doors on Atlanta Based Silverton Bank, Stalling the
Unfinished
$23.7 million Landmark Hotel, Charlottesville Virginia - go to
- Hotel
AG Announces Sale of an Approved Candlewood Suites Development - go
to
- MTech
and Ascom (US), Inc. Partner to Provide Two-way Integration with HotSOS
- go to
- Torgerson
Properties Opens Hampton Inn Fairmont, Minnesota - go to
- Ramada
Brand Continues Middle East Expansion with Two New Hotels Ramada Plaza
Kuwait City and Ramada Hotel and Suites Amman, Jordan - go to
- Proposed
$27 Million Convention Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico set for
Annexation
Vote by City Council - go to
May 1, 2009
Top
Read Articles - April 2009
- Starwood
Sues Hilton and Two Former Starwood Executives for Corporate Espionage,
Theft of Trade Secrets, Unfair Competition; Lawsuit Alleges 100,000
Files
Looted From Starwood Computers by Ross Klein and Amar Lalvani
- In
Today's Economy Is the Hotel Industry Being Too Polite? Survival Tips
for
the Bold & Shameless Hotelier / Daniel Edward Craig
- Nine
Reasons Why Some Hotels Are Getting More Bookings From The Internet /
Neil
Salerno
- An
Iconic Story About a "Bedbug Letter"; An Instructive on the Importance
of Treating People with Respect and Dignity / Jim Butler
- The
Hottest New Hotels, Restaurants, Spas, and Night Clubs in the U.S. as
Determined
by Condé Nast Traveler
- Hilton
Subpoenaed Over Starwood Trade Secrets; Temporarily Suspends
Development
of the Denizen Hotels Brand
- Marriott
to Discontinue Automatic Morning Deliver of Newspapers to Full-service
Hotel Guestrooms; Newspaper Distribution will be Reduced by About
50,000
Papers Daily, Guests Must Now Request a Free Morning Paper
- The
New Hotel Sales and Revenue Management Metrics - This Could save Your
Job!
/ Carol Verret
- The
World's Top 10 Eco-friendly Hotels as Determined by TripAdvisor Editors
and Travelers
- Solid
Sales and Marketing Fundamentals Can Improve Hotel Performance in Tough
Times / John Davies
- The
Wilshire Grand Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles to Be Knocked Down; Korean
Air and Thomas Properties Group Plan a Billion Dollar Redevelopment of
Site with 700 room Luxury Hotel, Office and Condominiums
- Travel
is Changing … What Will Hotels Do to Keep-Up? / Neil Salerno
- Now
Guests Can Party Like Rock Stars, with Less Mess: When You've Got $40
million
to Renovate a Party Hotel, what Do You Spend it On? Not reading lamps.
Clevelander Hotel Guests in Miami, FL Tend to Break Those
- From
Record Highs to Historic Lows - Las Vegas Room Rates Droping Fast
- The
Greenbrier's 9 Unions Representing 909 Employees Must Strike a Deal
with
Marriott - or Face an Uncertain Future
- Terminating
Hotel Management Agreements Without Liability / Jim Butler
- Comment
Cards – Why They Are Not Much Better Than Nothing – Here, Please Take
the
Sleeves Off My Vest! / Ragsdale Hendrie
- The
Role of Hotel Brands in the War of Survival / Bryan E. Younge
- Rosewood
Hotels and Stanford University Opening the 123 room Rosewood Sand Hill
in Menlo Park, California
- Kessler’s
Newest Boutique Hotel, The Grand Bohemian Hotel Asheville, Opens;
Executive
Team Lead by John Luckett
- The
Greenbrier Resort Files U.S. Bankruptcy Court Papers Detailing Assets
Totaling
$141.7 million, Liabilities of $107.4 million
- They're
Still Expensive, But New York City Hotels Are Cutting Prices Well Below
2008's Average of $310
- The
Vegas Fontainebleau Sues Bank of America, JPMorganChase for Reneging on
Construction Loans to Finish the $3 billion 3,800 Casino/Hotel; Suit
Claims
the Banks Were Recipients of Bailout Money Making the Withheld Money
More
Egregious
- Auction
of Cal Neva Resort on Lake Tahoe Has No Bidders
- U.S.
Hotel Construction Pipeline Decelerating Rapidly; LE First Quarter 2009
Results
April 30, 2009
- Hotels
Are Using Business Intelligence To Do More Than Survive the Recession;
Marriott Signs Agreement with TravelCLICK for its Hotelligence®
Solution
to Focus on Market Growth Opportunities
- Jancik
Arts International Breaks Glass Ceiling with New Collection of
Hand-Designed
Faux-Casted Offerings at HD 2009 Expo, Vegas - Booth # 6353;
Contemporary
Glass Art Technique, More Affordable, Sustainable & Safer
- Starwood
Hotels Reports Sharp Drop in 1st Qtr 2009 Net Income - $6 million vs
$32
million in 1st Qtr Last Year; Worldwide RevPAR Down 23.5% / Hotel
Operating
Statistics
- New
Jersey Casino Commission Approves Tropicana Casino Resort Sale With
$200
million Credit Bid
- A
Proposed 10-story 350 room Hotel in Sunrise, Florida Gains the Ire of
Environmentalists
- Tradition
at Chalfonte Hotel in Cape May, New Jersey Has a Waiting List - of
Volunteers
- Update:
World Health Organization Advises No Restriction of Regular Travel or
Closure
of Borders
- Istraturist
Expansion Right on Target in Umag, a Coastal City in Istria, Croatia
- EZYield.com
And Genares Form Technology Partnership
- World-Renowned
Arizona Resort Chooses INNCOM EMS as Key Piece in Renovation; Hyatt
Regency
Scottsdale Resort and Spa at Gainey Ranch installs INNCOM's e4™ Smart
Digital
Thermostats with EMS option, reaps rebate from local utility company
- The
ProHost® Housekeeping System Has Been Selected for W Hoboken's 225
room 40 Condominium Property
- Guest-Tek
to Provide High Speed Internet Service and Support for 68 Hotel
Properties
- Distinguished®
International Hotels, Residences and Resorts Welcomes Glasson Hotel and
Golf Club in Ireland
- HITEC
2009 Online Buyer's Guide Provides Easy Access to Trade Show
- Carlson
Hotels Worldwide Signs 23 New Properties in the First Quarter of 2009
- EM
Properties Ltd and Intermountain Management Open the 89 room Fairfield
Inn & Suites in East Peoria, Illinois
- Joel
Heberlein Named "Hotelier of the Year" by The Michigan Lodging and
Tourism
Association
- Meryl
Kirschenberg Appointed Director of Sales & Marketing for The Westin
St. Francis, San Francisco and Area Director for Starwood Hotels &
Resorts, Northern California
- HMC
Appoints Marshall Tullos General Manager for the Holiday Inn
Northwest/Sea
World Area in San Antonio, Texas
April 29, 2009
- Improving
the Lifetime Value of a Customer: Interview With Ted Schweitzer, VP
eCommerce,
La Quinta
- Guest
Check Continuing into Third Season Offering Inspection Services for
Nantucket
Island Resorts, Nantucket's Premiere Hotel Collection
- For
1st Qtr 2009 Wyndham Reports 11% Drop in Revenue But Registers a Net
Income
of $45 million, Up from $42 million a Year Earlier / Hotel Operating
Statistics
- Hotel
57 in Manhattan Receives $40 million Makeover and Joins Marriott's
Renaissance
Brand; Originally Opened in 1923 as the Allerton Hotel for Women
- Five
Caribbean Nations (Anguilla, Antigua, St Lucia, Montserrat, and The
Cayman
Islands) Experiencing Double-digit Tourism Declines
- Andy
Dolce Presented with International Association of Conference Centers
First
Global Distinguished Service Award
- Quality
Inn and Suites Green Tree Hotel, Victorville, California Facing
Foreclosure
- On
Tuesday, April 28 Officials in Mexico City Order that City's
Restaurants
to Suspend Sit-down Service
- Tourism
Taking a Hit in Mexico
- ZMail
Messaging Now Available for Mobile Devices, by ZDirect, Inc.
- Scott
Ingwers Named Managing Director of Trump International Hotel &
Tower
Waikiki Beach Walk; Formerly Hotel Manager of The Fairmont Kea Lani,
Maui
- Kor
Appoints Michael Lorenz and Michael Doneff to Vice President of Sales
and
Vice President of Marketing Respectively
- RGH
Hospitality Appoints Brenda Edwards General Manager for the Hilton
Garden
Inn, Manchester, New Hampshire
- Benchmark
Appoints Elizabeth Oliver Controller at Naples Bay Resort, Naples,
Florida
April 28, 2009
- Maestro
Users Cavallo Point and Stoneleigh Hotel & Spa Honoured By
Condé
Nast Traveler ‘Hot List’ Ultimate Insiders Guide to the Newest &
Hottest
Hotels; Guest-centric luxury hotels use Integrated Maestro Property
Management
System to automate award-winning operations, boost web bookings and
maximize
profits across all channels
- Mandarin
Oriental New York Receives the 2,000,000th Quality Track Mystery Call
- Owners
of the Fairmont Turnberry Isle Resort & Club in Miami Suing
Fairmont
Hotels Claiming Mismanagement of the Property Following a $133 million
Renovation
- U.S.
Hotel Construction Pipeline Decelerating Rapidly; LE First Quarter 2009
Results
- The
Role of Hotel Brands in the War of Survival / Bryan E Younge
- Website
Content Management For Hotels…Boon or Boondoggle? / Neil Salerno
- Sol
Melia´ Prepares its Hotels in Mexico for Swine Flu; Prevention
Protocol
is Put Into Action
- Riverside
County California Report Shows 14% Drop in Hotel Stays Freeze on
Business
Travel Cited
- TTI
Expands Global Reach by Partnering with CMS to Resell Scanners in
India;
As TTI’s international partner in India, CMS will help hotel operators
save time and money securing and sending guest information to proper
authorities
- Carino
Hotels & Resorts Announces Sorrento Hotel First Member to Take New
UN GDS Chain Code; Seattle Hotel First to Take New Code “UN” as part of
Luxury Hotel Group’s Effort to Track Sources of All Reservations,
Provide
Maximum Exposure for Properties
- The
Beach House in the Maldives, Asia Pacific to Join the Waldorf Astoria
Collection
- "The
White House" Hotel in Old Windsor, England, Opens Following Principal
Hayley's
£8.1 million Renovation in Beaumont Estate
- LaSalle
Hotel Properties Selects Dolce and Troon to Manage the 297 room Seaview
Hotel and Golf Resort in Galloway, New Jersey
- Thomas
Pauly Appointed General Manager of the Kahala Hotel & Resort,
Honolulu,
Hawaii
- HSMAI’s
Revenue Management & Internet Marketing Strategy Conference Set for
June 25, 2009 in Anaheim, California, Co-Located with Annual HITEC
Exposition
- High
School Hospitality Students from North Conway, New Hampshire Take the
Title
in the Sixth Annual AH&L Educational Institute National Lodging
Management
Program
April 27, 2009
- The
Rainmaker Group Announces revolution 1.6 Revenue Management; #1 Leader
in Total Customer Value Revenue Management Implements Promoted Demand
and
Multiple Forecasting Models
- Advocates
and Opponents of a Dallas Convention Center Hotel in Final Stretch of
Debate
- Now
Guests Can Party Like Rock Stars, with Less Mess: When You've Got $40
million
to Renovate a Party Hotel, what Do You Spend it On? Not reading lamps.
Clevelander Hotel Guests in Miami, FL Tend to Break Those
- Developer
Tom Becnel Negotiating with Intrawest to Acquire the Sandestin Golf and
Beach Resort in Destin, Florida
- American
Hotel & Lodging Association Sends Letter to President Obama
Opposing
Government Business Travel Cutbacks, Reductions Hurt Administration's
Goals
of Saving Jobs and Revitalizing the Nation's Economy
- Dominican
Republic Minister of Tourism, Francisco Javier Garcia, Presents
Eco-tourism
and Infrastructure Developments at the 2009 Dominican Annual Tourism
Exchange
- The
Artmore Hotel: A New Incarnation of the Former Granada Suites Hotel in
Midtown Atlanta
- Sales
and Marketing Become Keys to Success for Fairfield County, CT Hotels as
They Experience Decline in Corporate Business
- A
Hospitality Butler With a Political Statment to Make (At Least Until
Butler
Programs are Re-instated/Beefed Up Again) / Steven Ferry
- Renovations/Site
Evaluations: How to Plan, Budget and Complete a Renovation in a Cost
and
Time Efficient Manner / Bernie Otis
- Annual
"White Apron Competition" at Ritz-Carlton Lodge, Reynolds Plantation in
Greensboro,GA Announces Winners: Surprise Ingredient - Bananas
- Hotel
AG Advises LNR Property Corporation in Sale of Independent Hotel in
Fairborn,
Ohio
- In
the U.S. 18 Hotels Have Earned LEED Certification, of Those Six Are in
California
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Add/Update 54 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel
Construction
Projects Database
- HFTP's
Growing East-Asia Network Continues Its High Value Education Standards
in Singapore
- Annual
"White Apron Competition" at Ritz-Carlton Lodge, Reynolds Plantation in
Greensboro,GA Announces Winners: Surprise Ingredient - Bananas
- Werner
H. Graef Named President and General Manager of The Woodstock Inn &
Resort in Vermont
- Intrawest
Appoints Andy Wirth, Rob Perlman and Jesse True to Key Leadership
Positions
at its Colorado Mountain Resorts: Steamboat, Winter Park and Copper
Mountain
Resorts
- Christopher
Newbery Rejoins Luxury Indian Hotel Group as General Manager at the
Leela
Kempinski Mumbai, India
- Catherine
Walker to Act as Interim President and CEO for Seneca Gaming
Corporation
During Continued Shakeup of Seneca Nation Casino Operations in Buffalo
NY
April 24, 2009
- AboutAnywhere.com
Launches Pay Per Click Advertising for its Hotel Partners; Will
Supercharge
Efforts to Connect Hotel Partners with Consumers
- The
Vegas Fontainebleau Sues Bank of America, JPMorganChase for Reneging on
Construction Loans to Finish the $3 billion 3,800 Casino/Hotel; Suit
Claims
the Banks Were Recipients of Bailout Money Making the Withheld Money
More
Egregious
- Hoteliers
Challenged to Use AH&LA Guidelines to Ttrack and Improve their
Green
Business Operations
- Marriott
Reports 2009 1st Qtr Loss of $23 from Continuing Operations, Compared
to
Prior Year Income of $122 million; RevPAR Decline Almost 20% Worldwide
- Host
Hotels & Resorts Posts 2009 First Quarter Net Loss $60 million
Compared
to Profit of $63 million Prior Year; Total Revenue Drops 16.2% / Hotel
Operating Statistics
- Ironstate
Holdings Opens the 225 room W Hoboken and The Residences at W Hoboken;
The EMM Group to Operate the The Chandelier Room, a Destination
Hotel-Lounge
- Six
Hotels In the Works in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania Area
- Developers
Dream to Spend $80 million to Overhaul Buffalo's Statler Tower to a Mix
Used Hotel, Office Ends in Bankruptcy
- EZYield.com
And SynXis® Announce Technology Partnership Program
- Can
U-Tube It Better?-EI Contest Seeks Video Spoofs to Promote New
Line-Level
Training Program
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Recognizes Top Sales Executives for the Year
- Opened
in 1972, the 947 room Hyatt Regency Houston Completes $40 million
Transformation
- Summit
Development Acquires the Sombrero Resort and Marina and the Mangrove
Marina
in the Florida Keys; Plans Major Renovations
- The
Prototype Guestroom for Home2 Suites by Hilton Utilizes a 70%
Recycled
Modular Carpet Tile Flooring
- HSMAI
Honors Chapter Excellence at Annual Leadership Conference, South
Florida
Chapter Awarded 2008 Chapter of the Year Honors
- Peter
Simoncelli, General Manager of the Westin River North Hotel, Named
Chairman
of the Board of the Greater North Michigan Avenue Association
- Scot
Toon Appointed General Manager at Paresa Resort, Kamala Beach, Phuket,
Thailand
- Elizabeth
Dexter Named National Sales Manager of the Regent Bal Harbour
- The
Dorchester, London, Appoints Four to Executive Positions
- Stephane
Becht Appointed Executive Chef at The Pierre, New York City; Hotel to
Re-Open
June 2009 Following a $100 million Renovation
April 22, 2009
- Softscribe
Achieves Record 10th Year; Fiscal Year 2008 Sales Up 33%, Revenue 41%
- Hilton
Subpoenaed Over Starwood Trade Secrets; Temporarily Suspends
Development
of the Denizen Hotels Brand
- Repeated
Roadblocks Stymie Developer Bob Thurston Efforts to Build a 100 room
Hotel
in Downtown, Tacoma, Washington
- Utah
Office of Tourism Allocates $250,000 to the Salt Lake City CVB to
Assist
in Hosting the Influential Meeting Professionals International
Convention
Scheduled for July 11-14, 2009
- A
Planned $34.5 million Embassy Suites Near Houston's Convention Center
Could
be First Project Eligible for 7-year Giveback of Hotel Occupancy Tax;
Public
Incentive Designed to Increase Hotel Construction Within 5 Blocks of
Convention
Center
- Green
Groups Don't Have To Sleep on Dirty Sheets - Even on Earth Day;
Knowland
finds planners can't enforce acceptance of environmentally friendly
practices
- Martel
Resorts Planned $300 million Destination Resort in Northeast
Mississippi
in Early Approval Stages for Obtaining a Liquor License in the Dry
County
of Tishomingo
- Hotel
Bankruptcy Issues -- Special Purpose Entities Getting Approval to File
Bankruptcy
- Leona
M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Endows $2 million to
Scholarship
Program at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration
- Recession
Prompts Nemacolin Woodlands Resort to Reconsider Bid for Casino License
from Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board
- Orbitz
Claims it Is Only Major Online Travel Company to Show Base Hotel Rate,
Taxes & Fees and Total Room Price per Night Upfront on the Initial
Search Results Page
- Historic
Pierpont Inn in Ventura, California Acquired by Investment Group Headed
by Grace S. Ahn
- Olympia
Development Prepares to Open 102 room Hampton Inn in Nashua, New
Hampshire;
Kevin Walker the Opening GM
- Crestline
Appoints Kevin F. Catrambone to General Manager, Hampton Inn
Parsippany,
New Jersey
- The
Connecticut Lodging Association Selects Ginny Kozlowski as the
Executive
Director
April 21, 2009
- Softscribe
Inks Joint Venture with LEAP Integrated Marketing Solutions in
Singapore;
Expands Internet Public Relations and Marketing Services to Asian
Markets
to Support Clients' International Growth
- They're
Still Expensive, But New York City Hotels Are Cutting Prices Well Below
2008's Average of $310
- A
Turf War Could be Brewing Over Whether there's Room for Two New Hotels
in South Norwalk, Connecticut
- Travel
is Changing . . . What Will Hotels Do to Keep-Up?
- Staff
Who Become Legends, Celebrating the Art of Fine Hospitality Within
Dorchester
Collection
- Starwood's
Element the First Hotel Brand to Mandate All its Hotels Pursue the U.S.
Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
(LEED) Certification
- During
March, 2009 Hotel Occupancy at Utah's Mountain Resorts Was 59.6%,
Off
of 71.5% Pace a Year Earlier
- ZDirect's
Client Base Surpasses 1700 Hotels with Dayton House
- TripAdvisor
Takes On Burgeoning Chinese Travel Market with Beijing Based
www.daodao.com
- Last
Days to Register "Hotel Sales Basics: The Basics Have Changed" Web Cast
April 24
- Seattle's
Fairmont Olympic Hotel Applauds ACE DuraFlo® ePIPE® for
Efficient
and Timely Restoration
- Do
You Know Where Your Customer Is? Or Knowing Where Your Business
Originates
/ Dr John Hogan
- Noble
Investment Group Makes Upgrades, Adds 'Regency' Designation for the
Hyatt
Regency Valencia and Santa Clarita Conference Center in Valencia,
California
- The
Sheraton Columbia Town Center Hotel in Columbia, Maryland is Reinvented
Following an Extensive $12 Million Transformation
- Solare
Hotels & Resorts Will Open the Budget Branded Chisun Hotel Within
the
Loisir Hotel & Spa Tower in Naha, Okinawa
- Jan
Pfeiffer Appointed Executive Chef for the Wyndham Rio Mar in Puerto Rico
- SoftBrands
Appoints Erik Munoz Vice President of Sales, Asia Pacific
April 20, 2009
April 17, 2009
- In
the Economic Downturn Destination Websites Become Even More Important
-Interview
with Shelli Johnson, Chief Strategist, Yellowstone International and
NationalParktrips.com
- Starwood
Sues Hilton and Two Former Starwood Executives for Corporate Espionage,
Theft of Trade Secrets, Unfair Competition; Lawsuit Alleges 100,000
Files
Looted From Starwood Computers By Ross Klein and Amar Lalvani
- Hearing-Impaired
Cook at Bethesda Marriott Suites Rises Above his Handicap to Serve up
Signature
Marriott Quality
- Since
Filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy In Early 2009 Trump Entertainment
Resorts
Inc. Continues Operating its Three Casinos in Atlantic City; Company
Had
Total Debts of About $1.74 billion on Dec. 31, 2008
- Utah
Hotel & Lodging Association Names 26 Year Old Michael Johnson as
Executive
Director; An Early Task - Establishing a Twitter Account for the
Organization
- Exhibitors,
Planners Optimistic at HSMAI'S Affordable Meetings® Mid-America
- HITEC
2009 Exhibit Hall Offers Solutions to Bottom Line
- Montage
Beverly Hills Awarded Gold LEED Certification for Environmental
Excellence,
an Achievement Earned by Only 18 Hotels Worldwide
- Understanding
What We Measure and Making it Count! Strategies for Hotel Controllers
- Accor
Plans Additional Cost Savings As 1st Qtr Revenue Falls 9.6% from a Year
Earlier; Room Occupancy and RevPAR Down Across All Brands
- It's
No Mystery that Hotelier Daniel Edward Craig Draws from Real Life in
His
Fiction Mystery Book - Murder at Graverly Manor
- Kimpton's
Hotel Vintage Plaza in Portland Completes $4 million Renovation; New
Design
Theme Visually Illustrates Hotel's Commitment to Oregon's Wine Industry
- Prime
Holding Opens the 100 room Hotel Indigo in San Jose, Costa Rica
- The
Reefs Club, Bermuda's Newest Residence Club, scheduled to open July
2009,
Nagma Walker Appointed General Manager
April 16, 2009
- Best
Western Atrea Hotel and Suites in Lackland, TX selects MSI's PMS &
POS; West Hospitality Limited and MSI: Uncompromising choice for guests
and technology
- In
Orange County, California, the Flash Point for the AIG Effect, Hotels
Bear
Brunt of Meetings Drop; Convention Attendance Steadier / Sandi Cain
- Hotel
Borrower Dilemma: the Note Is in Default or Coming Due; Helping
Borrowers
Create Value with Distressed Hotels / Jim Butler
- Waterfront
Place Hotel Taps UniFocus for MEETINGScope™ and GUESTScope™; Happier
Guests
and Meeting Planners Draw Money to the Bottom-Line: UniFocus' Advanced
Survey Analytics ups Wow-Factor
- The
Town of Taos, New Mexico Sues Best Western Kachina Lodge for Unpaid
Lodging
Taxes: Suit Claims City Attorney Violated Law by Negotiating Nearly
$300,000
Down to $11,250
- Memphis
Hoteliers Ponder the Loss of a 50,000 Attendee Religious Convention to
St. Louis
- Destin,
Florida Gives Preliminary Approval for 313-unit Crystal Beach Resort
Development
-- Sort of. Maybe. Perhaps.
- The
Greenbrier's 9 Unions Representing 909 Employees Must Strike a Deal
with
Marriott - or Face an Uncertain Future
- The
Hottest New Hotels, Restaurants, Spas, and Night Clubs in the U.S. as
Determined
by Conde Nast Traveler
- Kor
Hotel Management Appoints Rob Henderson as Director of Sales and
Marketing
for Viceroy Snowmass
April 15, 2009
April 14, 2009
April 13, 2009
- Online
Seminar: The Secrets to Extracting More Value from Your Hotel's
Listings
on OTAs and Third-Party Travel Sites. Learn How to Better Merchandise
Your
Hotel Online - April 14th, 2009
- Marriott
to Discontinue Automatic Morning Deliver of Newspapers to Full-service
Hotel Guestrooms; Newspaper Distribution will be Reduced by About
50,000
Papers Daily, Guests Must Now Request a Free Morning Paper
- An
Iconic Story about a "Bedbug Letter"; An Instructive on the Importance
of Treating People with Respect and Dignity / Robert Braun
- When
the Boom Goes Bust, South Beach Hotelier Louis Taic Adapts
- Greek
Isles Hotel & Casino, the Former Debbie Reynolds Hotel, Enters
Chapter
11; Defaults on a $56 million Loan
- Marriott
Increases Group Business on Cvent Supplier Network; New Partnership to
Promote Marriott Hotels with Meeting Planners
- Prokapital,
the Holding of Domina Vacanze and Domina Hotel Group, Opens the $27.8
million
Domina Inn Milano-Fiera near Milan, Italy
- A
$10 million Project Will See the President, a Former Mississippi River
Cruise Ship, Morphed into a Floating Hotel and Conference Center on a
Lake
in St Elmo, Illinois
- If
You Use the Internet to Promote Travel to Canada, Enter the 2009
Canadian
e-Tourism Awards
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Add/Update 60 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel
Construction
Projects Database
- Austrian
Guido Schwengersbauer Finds Success with the 16 room Casa Romantica La
Parenzana, a Most Unusual Hotel in Istria, Croatia
- Carlson's
Country Inns & Suites Reognizes the Washington Dulles International
Airport Property as the 2008 Hotel of the Year; Diane D'Amico, GM of
the
Country Inn & Suites in Pineville, Louisiana Honored as
General
Manager of the Year
- Ocean
Properties, Ltd. Opens the 100 unit Residence Inn by Marriott in
Auburn,
Maine
- HFTP
Asian Conference Addresses Important Asian Marketplace Issues
- Hospitality
Management Corporation Names the Sheraton Harrisburg Hershey in
Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania as the Property of the Year
April 10, 2009
- Solid
Sales and Marketing Fundamentals Can Improve Hotel Performance in Tough
Times / John Davies
- Tourism
Safety & Security 2009 Set for May 7th in Anaheim, California;
Conference
will address hospitality health, safety, and other timely topics
- Understanding
ADA Implications When Renovating or Repositioning your Hotel / David
Sudeck
and Marty Orlick
- Attention
All Hotel Owners in the Mid-Atlantic or South East experiencing
financial
difficulties!! Is it time for an equity partner? If yes,
please
call in confidence Richard Squier 305-371-2900
- April
Fool's Hotelicopter Takes Off as New Web Site Allowing Users to Find
Hotels
at the Best Available Rate
- Northern
California's Konocti Harbor Resort Has Liquor License Suspended for 32
Days
- Auction
of Cal Neva Resort on Lake Tahoe Has No Bidders
- Sheldon
G. Adelson, Chairman and CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Corp., Tells the
Texas
Legislature He is Willing to Invest More than $2 billion in a
Destination
Casino Resort in Texas
- Third-party
Management Company StepStone Hospitality Formed; Company is a Sister
Organization
to hotelAVE
- Leela
Hotels, Palaces & Resorts Investing $300 million in Three New
Indian
Hotel Properties; Opens the 322 room Leela Kempinski Gurgaon, Delhi
N.C.R,
India
- A
Long-term View Underpins Marriott's Confidence in the Future of its
Business
in Saudi Arabia; Nine New Marriott Properties Scheduled for the Kingdom
- The
Siegel Group Nevada Selects MICROS OPERA Lite for Two Newly Acquired
Casinos
- John
Q. Hammons Opens the 263-suite Embassy Suites in Loveland, Colorado;
Tom
Dwyer the Opening GM
- Various
Travel Deals Available for Those Traveling to 2009 HITEC in Anaheim,
California
- Andy
Dolce, Founder and Chairman of Dolce Hotels and Resorts, to Share
Entrepreneurial
Vision With Cornell Hotel Students
April 8, 2009
- Milestone
Internet Marketing, Inc. Wins Best Hotel and Lodging Website Award
- Online
Seminar: The Secrets to Extracting More Value from Your Hotel's
Listings
on OTAs and Third-Party Travel Sites. Learn How to Better Merchandise
Your
Hotel Online - April 14th, 2009
- Nine
Reasons Why Some Hotels Are Getting More Bookings From The Internet
- Chapel
Hill, North Carolina Hotel Shelved - Not for Issues of Financing Rather
Neighborhood Opposition
- Second
Professional Property Management Company, David Holland's Resort
Lodging
in the Park City and Deer Valley Utah Area, Fails to Make On-time
Payments
to Condominium Owners
- Leisure
Hotels Expands Receivership Services for Distressed Hotel Assets; A
One-Stop
Resource with a 20-Year Track Record of Stabilizing and Operating
Troubled
Assets
- Ascott
Celebrates 25 Successful Years at The Top; Unprecedented grand prize
rewards
one lucky customer with free stays for the next 25 years; customers
also
enjoy 25% off rates in over 25 cities and more
- Cameron
Holdings Hotel Management Transforming a Property in Shanghai's
Historic
Shiliupu District into a Boutique Hotel, The WaterHouse at South Bund
- Maistra
Ltd. Opens the Euro 27 million Hotel Monte Mulini on the Adriatic Coast
in Rovinj, Croatia
- Strong
Line-up of Industry Exhibitors Anticipated for HOFEX 2009, Hong Kong
May
6-9, 2009; Agenda Set for The Hospitality Technology Forum on 7th May
2009
- Teague
Hunter Named One of "Ten to Watch" at HotelWorld Global Hospitality
&
Design Awards Ceremony
- Jay
Green, Phoenix Convention Center Director, Retiring
April 7, 2009
- Lodgian
Increases Deal Closing Effectiveness with Multi-Property Sales System;
Web-Based Sales & Catering Software Automates 39 Properties
- Hermani
LLC Implements Aptech's Profitvue Back Office Accounting System for
Multiple
Properties; Effortless installation, ease of use enables more efficient
accounting processes
- A
Proposal for a 1,000-room Hotel Overlooking the Salt Palace in Downtown
Salt Lake City Raises Hope, Eyebrows
- The
New Hotel Sales and Revenue Management Metrics - This Could save Your
Job!
/ Carol Verret
- Some
Say an Increased Hotel Room Tax to 17% Would Not Hurt Indianapolis's
Reputation
as a Low Cost Host for Conventions and Meetings
- Spas
& Hotels: Compatible, Marketable & Profitable / Judith L Singer
- Hainan
Baolian City Company Ltd. Building a 1000 room Ramada Hotel and Suites
in Bo'ao, Hainan, China
- Alliance
Announces a Margin War Against the Large OTAs
- Niagara
County Community College's New $15 million Hospitality and Tourism
School
in Downtown Niagara Falls Could Be Up and Running in Four Months
- Nordic
Hotels, Stockholm Selects ZDirect to Drive its eCRM Initiatives
- Jed
Heller, President of The Providence Group, Invited to Participate as a
Panelist for the Information Management Network (IMN) Distressed Hotel
Symposium
- Konoba-style
Hotels and Agri-tourism Important Component of National Tourist Plan
for
Istria, Croatia; A Visit with Ipsa Olive Oil
- Hay
Creek Hospitality Completes a Restaurant Transformation at the Orchards
Hotel in Williamstown, Massachusetts; Appoints Chris Bonnivier to
Executive
Chef
- Benchmark
Execs Alex Cabañas, Ellen Sinclair and Dave Vogt Elected to IACC
Board of Directors
- Dow
Appoints Donna Rios to General Manager of the 353-room Hilton Bellevue
in Washington
April 6, 2009
- SynXis
to Provide REDX Distribution Management System for Mandarin Oriental
Hotel
Group
- Webinar:
How to Better Merchandise Your Hotel Online; Learn the Secrets to
Extracting
More Value from Your Hotel's Listings on OTAs and Third-Party Travel
Sites,
April 14th, 2009
- The
World's Top 10 Eco-friendly Hotels as Determined by TripAdvisor Editors
and Travelers
- Terminating
Hotel Management Agreements Without Liability / Jim Butler
- Comment
Cards - Why They Are Not Much Better Than Nothing - Here, Please Take
the
Sleeves Off My Vest / Ragsdale Hendrie
- The
Greenbrier Resort Files U.S. Bankruptcy Court Papers Detailing Assets
Totaling
$141.7 million, Liabilities of $107.4 million
- Detroit's
Greektown Casino Has Been Days Late and Millions of Dollars Short; Owes
Creditors and Lenders $777 million
- Hotel
Construction Booms in Mesa / Chandler, Arizona; Many Projects Received
Financing Commitments Before Lending Dried Up
- Scrapping
the $77 million Westin Hotel at Sacramento International Airport's New
Terminal Ripples Through Economy
- Landmark
Clearwater, Florida Resort, The Belleview Biltmore, Awaits 3-Year $100
million Restoration
- Look
Who's Talking! Meet the Money® 2009, May 5-7, 2009 at the Sheraton
Gateway LAX
- It
is a Delightful Time to be a Traveler Looking for Lodging; Bad Business
Climate Means Good Hotel Rates
- High-end
Motor Coach Resort Developer, Jeanne Rizzotto, Sued for $200K
April 3, 2009
April 2, 2009
- Five
Diamond Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas Romances Guests with
High Tech Concierge System; The Concierge Assistant Streamlines Stellar
Customer Service for Ultra Luxury Resort
- The
Ninth Annual Resort Conference Decides to Go Virtual, Cancels On-site
Conference
in 2009 but Offers A Webinar Series to be Offered Free to the First 100
Qualified Resort Professionals
- Home2
Suites by Hilton Outlines More Design and Sustainability Details for
Future
Developers
- Golden
Tulip Hospitality Group, with 780 hotels Around the World, Forced to
Seek
Protection from its Creditors
- From
Record Highs to Historic Lows - Las Vegas Room Rates Droping Fast
- Platinum
Ridge Properties Puts Five Hotels, All with Ground Leases with the
Columbus
(Ohio) Regional Airport Authority, Up for Sale: Comfort Suites, Baymont
Inn & Suites, Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton Inn and Concourse Hotel
&
Conference Center
- The
179 room City Center Hotel - Oshkosh, Wisconsin (Formerly Park Plaza
Hotel)
Scheduled for Auction May 14, 2009
- 1958
MSU Hotel School Alumnus, William Clithero, the First and Original
Sparty
- the Mascot of Michigan State University
- Rezidor
Hotel Group Develops Career Development Programme for Supervisors; In
2008
Rezido Appointed 100 General Managers of Which 23 Were Promoted from
the
Mentor-Mentee Programme
- Hyatt
Hotels Opens the 296-room Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Russia's Fourth
Largest
City; The Hotel is the Second Hyatt Branded Property in Russia
- Oxford
Capital Group and Partners Bricton Group and Gettys Open the $50
million-plus
225 room Hotel Felix Chicago
- IHG,
Currently With 11 Hotels in India, Has 31 Management Contracts in the
India's
Pipeline
- Asaad
Farag Appointed General Manager of the Corinthia Hotel St Petersburg,
Russia
- Luis
Bruno Appointed Director of Culinary Development at the Hilton Jackson,
Mississippi; Formerly the Executive Chef at the Mississippi Governor's
Mansion
- Cindy
Lew Named Director of Marketing at the Don CeSar Beach Resort, A Loews
Hotel, in St. Pete Beach, Florida
April 1, 2009
- World's
Busiest Airport: Hotel Guests Staying near Atlanta's ATL Value Flyte
Systems
Live Airline Information; NextGen travelers insist on airline flight
displays
and boarding pass printing
- Aliante
Station in North Las Vegas Selects Software Suite from Agilysys; New
Hotel
Casino Implements Property Management, Point-of-Sale, Guest Marketing
Solutions
- Rosewood
Hotels and Stanford University Opening the 123 room Rosewood Sand Hill
in Menlo Park, California
- Desires
Hotels and Owner Joe Edwards Open the Stylish 125 room Moonrise Hotel
in
St. Louis, Missouri
- Personality
Hotels Completes $2 million Restoration of the Kensington Park Hotel,
San
Francisco
- Pinnacle
Advisory Group Updates 2009 Projections for Boston and Massachusetts
- The
American Hotel & Lodging Association Recognizes Matthew Schwarz As
an Outstanding Hotel Supplier
- Educational
Institute, FreemanGroup Collaboration Results in New "Train, Retain,
Assess,
and Certify" (TRAC) Program for Line-Level Skills Training
- A
Different Appraisal of Our Biggest Challenges in 2009 / Dr John Hogan
- Kessler's
Newest Boutique Hotel, The Grand Bohemian Hotel Asheville, Opens;
Executive
Team Lead by John Luckett
- Restaurateur
Mark Croce in Design Stage for 65 room Luxury Hotel in Downtown,
Buffalo,
New York
- Sage
Hospitality Appoints Robert Cartwright General Manager at The
Blackstone-
A Renaissance Hotel, Chicago
- The
Boulders Resort in Carefree, Arizona Joins the Waldorf Astoria
Collection
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