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Top 25 Read Articles - September 2009 Hilton Changes Corporate Name and Logo Skyrocketing Hotel Default Rates - More Storm than Tsunami / Karen Johnson Hotel Marketing in 2010: Perception Trumps Positioning / John Davies Editorial: Hyatt Treated 100 Housekeepers Shabbily When it Fired Them -- But the Response from the Governor of Massachusetts Is Way Over the Top Does "End of the Recession" Mean "Recovery"? Not for Luxury Hotels! / Jim Butler Hyatt Recognizes and Regrets that They Did Not Handle All Parts of the Boston Housekeeper Layoffs In a Way that Reflects the Organization's Values; All Affected Housekeepers At the Three Hyatt Hotels Will be Offered New Full-time Positions in the Boston Market New Hotel Owner Riles Hispanics; Owner of Whitten Inn in Taos, New Mexico (the former Paragon Inn) Tells Workers to Change Names, Speak English Only The Year-old Nikki Beach Resort in the Turks and Caicos Islands Shuttered; Leeward Resort Ltd., Owner of the Property, Enters Receivership A 26-page Manual,"H1N1 Influenza Management in Hotels," Provided by AH&LA Managing Revenue by Market Segment - The Recovery Challenge for Sales and Revenue Managers / Carol Verret Patricia Jenkins Named as Director for Greenbrier in Quest to Restore Resorts Five Star Status Affiliate of Barclays Capital Quietly Repossess the Fairmont Orchid Resort on Hawaii's Big Island; Westbrook Partners LLC Paid $250 million for the 540-room resort in 2005 Las Vegas' CityCenter Begins to Fill 12,000 Permanent Positions; Represents Nation's Single Largest Employment Opportunity The Hotel Owner's and Hotel Lender's Dilemma: Sell Now or Sell Later? How Long Does it Take to Market a Hotel Today? / Jim Butler New York Hotelier Andre Balazs Prepares to Sell South Beach, Florida's Raleigh Hotel; Intends to Focus on Expansion of Standard Chain Prince Resorts Hawaii to Terminate Management of the Maui Prince Hotel; Lender Wells Fargo Seeking a Receiver LEADERSHIP: The Basis for Management / William P. Fisher PhD. The Securities and Exchange Commission Files Fraud Lawsuit Against Chicago Hotel/Condo Developer Robert Falor, Alleging He Stole $4.6 million from Investors in Three Hotel Projects Hotel Common Sense - A Hotelier's Self - Assessment Quiz / Dr John Hogan Condominium Owners in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Receive Letter from Premier Resorts International Advising Unable to Pay Rental Pool Proceeds for July and August Rentals Orlando-area hotels Have Worst August in at Least 22 Years - 58% Occupancy Sunstone Hotel Investors Hands Back to Lenders Another Hotel, the 299-room Marriott Ontario Airport; Stops Making Payments on the $26 million Mortgage Bedbug Infestations Continue to be Source of Irritaion for Hoteliers; Any Hotel Can Be a Victim, From Five Star to No Star Hotel Common Sense - A Message to General Managers on Creating Successful Sales Management for 2010 / Dr John Hogan You Need to Reset Your Exit Strategy / Jim Burr September 30, 2009 WNW Hospitality Experiences Success with Aggressive Online Marketing; WNW generates significant increase in group leads in first few months Opening the Door to Green; Pineapple helps the hospitality industry unlock sustainability with Green Earth Green-Key cards, key packets and key sleeves SpeedRFP™ is Introduced at the 2009 Motivation Show; Representatives of Elite Meetings International, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, APEX and the Meeting Planning Community Unveil a New, Commission-Free, Portable Online RFP System What Happened at the Phoenix lodging Conference? Can We Find a Black Swan? / Jim Butler Nikko Hotels Provides Business Etiquette Tips for the International Traveler; Unraveling Cultures with Unfamiliar Social Etiquette Recap of 2009 HFTP Annual Convention & Tradeshow The U.S. Virgin Islands Tourism Department Spending $6 million on a CNN / CNN Headline News TV Advertising Campaign Hotel Technologies® Reports No Recession on Guests' Expectations; Designer, developer of iHome and state-of-the-art intelligent electronic products and patented technologies for hotels and resorts helps hoteliers stay in tune with guests' demands in preparation for recovery Three Oaks Hospitality Hospitality Bucks the Trend by Adding New Golf Club Management Arm; Golf Operations veteran Greg French will head up new division Protect-A-Bed® Sponsors Bed Bug Educational Session; Seminar teaches hotel owners and operators importance of bed bug management EZYield.com Gains Followers in The Holy City and Beyond; Charlestowne Hotels uses channel management technology to reach the masses Book More Reservations with a Powerful Brand Optimization Strategy Aztec Group, Inc. Negotiates a Joint Venture for the Ownership of the Ocean Sands Resort & Spa in Pompano Beach, Florida Roomlinx Launches Interactive TV in Mexico at Luxury Resort; Roomlinx Completes Installation at Casa Dorada Resort & Spa Titan Hospitality Group Completes $10 million Transformation and Rebranding of the Former Radisson Plaza Hotel in Rochester, Minnesota to Doubletree Hotel Rochester/Downtown Pravin Patel Completes $5 million Renovation on a Shuttered 40 Year-old Hotel; Will Re-open as the 100-room Best Western Portage Hotel and Suites in Portage, Indiana Tallahassee Area Convention & Visitors Bureau Has New Moniker and New Director: "Visit Tallahassee" Headed by Lee Daniel Miami's Landmark Raleigh Hotel Acquired by Brilla Group and AJ Capital Partners Maui's Newest Resort, Honua Kai Resort & Spa is Serious about Sustainability; Environmental Programs Appeal to Ecologically-Minded Guests Visiting Honua Kai Starwood Hotels & Resorts Names Ted Jacobs Vice President Brand Design Erik Mrdak Named Director of Food & Beverage for Oasis Hotel Near Montgomery, Alabama The Curtis Hotel in Denver Appoints Bruce Mangual as Director of Catering and Rick Oberdahlhoff as Director of Sales and Marketing September 29, 2009 Become a Fan, MSI Launches its Fan Page on Facebook; If you haven't seen MSI lately, you haven't seen MSI SynXis' Distribution Marketing Solutions Help Westcord Hotels Launch New Brand Homeowners Near the Shuttered Tamarack Resort in Idaho Take Legal Steps in Hopes of Opening the Ski Area and Lodge Lenders for the Stalled Fontainebleau Las Vegas Want to Oust Developer Jeffrey Soffer from the Bankrupt Project and Have the Court Sell the Unfinished $3 billion Venture Don't be Invisible Online - Learn which Websites Travelers Use to find Hotels and be Seen! Resort Operator Six Senses Set to Manage a Resort Built on an Islet on the Northwest Coast of Sri Lanka; Six Senses Hideaway at Dutch Bay Being Developed by Joint Venture Between Six Senses and Swarna Dweep, an Investment Vehicle 5-Star Employees - Part 3 / Bryan K. Williams Thayer Lodging Completes a $70 million Renovation to the Marriott Miami Airport Campus; The Three Marriott Properties are the Miami Airport Marriott, the Courtyard Miami Airport South, and the Residence Inn Miami Airport South Taiwan Voters' Reject Gambling Bill Killing Navegante Group's Plans for 600-room Hotel and 130,000-square-foot Casino in Penghu, Taiwan Hotel Common Sense - The Most Important Words for the Workplace / Dr John Hogan New on VTV Channel: eBusiness for Hoteliers - How to Motivate the Content Sensitive Traveler NHH Hotels & Resorts Announces Completion of $8 Million Renovation at Embassy Suites Pittsburgh-International Certified Food & Beverage Executive (CFBE) Program Features New Format, New Content Trust and HotelREZ Launch "Dream" CRS: CentralREZ Real Estate Developer Tai Hung Fai Enterprise Co. Ltd, Building a 150-room Hotel Indigo in Hong Kong Hilton Akron/Fairlawn Makes History - the Only Hilton Franchise to Reach 40 years in Business Under the Same Continuous Ownership The Hotel Group (THG) Opens the 165-room Crowne Plaza Anchorage-Midtown Kinseth Hospitality Opens Two New Hotels in Lincoln, Nebraska; The Hampton Inn & Suites Northeast I-80 and Residence Inn South Pan Pacific Hotels Group Names David Wong as Vice President, Technical Services Choice Hotels Names Todd Davis as Chief Technology Officer Hospitality Management Corporation Names Management Team For New Candlewood Encino Commons in San Antonio, Texas Penn National Gaming Names John Osborne General Manager of Hollywood Slots Hotel & Raceway in Bangor, Maine Rex Warren Joins the Faculty of The Hospitality College at Johnson & Wales University Providence Campus September 28, 2009 Move to TravelCLICK Yields High Returns for Joie de Vivre Hotels' Internet Marketing; Advertising Campaign Delivers Up to a 20-to-1 ROI Softscribe Inc. Signs Ilan Lael Foundation; James Hubbell and family pioneer "beauty as a door to change," green construction through straw bale techniques Hyatt Recognizes and Regrets that They Did Not Handle All Parts of the Boston Housekeeper Layoffs In a Way that Reflects the Organization's Values; All Affected Housekeepers At the Three Hyatt Hotels Will be Offered New Full-time Positions in the Boston Market Massachussetts Governor Reviewing Hyatt's Offer to Laid Off Housekeepers; Wants to Ensure the Workers Feel the Proposal is Fair Bob Stupak 1942-2009: Las Vegas Icon Defied the Odds: Colorful Gaming Entrepreneur's Exploits Made Headlines Over and Over Again The Widewaters Group Selects Access Hotels & Resorts to Operate the Woodcliff Hotel & Spa in Fairport, NY and the Brookwood Inn in Pittsford, NY; Graham Asher to Manage the Two Hotels Choice Hotels Offers Perspectives on Boutique and Lifestyle Trends, Extended Stay Lodging and Efficient Property-Level Operations The Bankrupt Daufuskie Island Resort & Breathe Spa Has at Least One Qualified Potential Buyer Hilton Worldwide Prepares to Open Waldorf=Astoria Orlando: Many Threads Woven into the Bonnet Creek Hotel that Tie it Undeniably to its New York Namesake Blackstone Group a Suitor for Sea World Parks in Orlando, San Antonio and San Diego Hostmark's Holiday Inn Mart Plaza is the Largest LEED® Gold Certified Hotel in the World Royal Caribbean Boosts Haiti's Tourism Comeback Efforts with $55 million Private Investment, the Largest Investment in Haiti Tourism in Decades Undisclosed Renovations Under Investigation at Paris Las Vegas: Whistle-blower Prompts 20 Notices of Violation Desert Rock Enterprises Raises Ownership of Golden Gate, Las Vegas to 60%, Derek Stevens Approved to Become Chief Operating Officer Madison Capital Management & New Castle Hotels & Resorts Name Cynthia Stanley as General Manager of Holiday Inn Albany Robert Dmuchowski Appointed Director of Sales and Marketing for Dolce Valley Forge, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania Sachiko Takahashi-Soong Named Associate Director of Sales for Rosewood Little Dix Bay, BVI and Jumby Bay, a Rosewood Resort in Antigua September 25, 2009 A Wake Up Call, The Shadow of 9/11: Terrorism and Premises Liability for Hotels / Carroll Dubuc Financing Your Indoor Waterpark Resort in 2009 / David J. Sangree 200 Protesters Arrested Outside Park Hyatt Chicago; Union Members Showing Support for Labor Negotiations and for 98 Housekeepers Fired at Three Boston Hyatt Hotels Editorial: Hyatt Treated 100 Housekeepers Shabbily When it Fired Them -- But the Response from the Governor of Massachusetts is Way Over the Top Hyatt Statements Regarding the Decision to Outsource the Housekeeping Function at Three Boston Hotels Fired Boston Housekeeper Appeals to Penny Pritzker; Housekeeper Delegation Calls on Hyatt Director to Rehire Rerminated Workers California Hotel & Lodging Association Launches Google Analytics Seminar Series - Presented by Vikram Singh of Evision Worldwide Gaylord's Plans for $1 billion Resort and Conference Center in Mesa, Arizona May Get a Big Boost From the Company's Plan to Raise $380 million Through Stock and Bond Sales Pegasus Solutions' August 2009 The Pegasus View Shows Largest 2009 Single Month Increase in Leisure Bookings Distinguished® International Hotels Appoints Alberto Zampi to Head Development in Italy Inexpress Dominicana, S.A. Opens First Holiday Inn® in the Dominican Republic Steigenberger Hotels New Majority Shareholder, Travco Group, Focusing on the Expansion of the Brands Steigenberger Hotels and Resorts and InterCityHotel Bern Hotels & Resorts Panama Opens Le Méridien Panama, Le Méridien's First Hotel in Central America Commonwealth Hotels Opens New 101-Room Hampton Inn & Suites Tucson East, Tucson, Arizona Lucy Kay Leaving Breckenridge Resorts, Patricia Campbell to Assume Role of Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer September 24, 2009 MSI's WinPM Functionality and Best Western - Growing Together; Delivering Solutions Based on Client's Request hotel SystemsPro Announces New Vice President to Champion Company Growth; Industry veteran Kathy Bannasch named vice president sales and marketing Sage Hospitality Selected by Metropolitan State College of Denver to Develop and Operate a 190-room Campus Hotel and Learning Center for the School's Hospitality Program Developers of Port St George on Long Island, Bahamas Select Langham Hotels to Operate 224-room Resort Scheduled to Open in 2013 Los Angeles Dining Habits Change in Weak Economy, Consumer Spending Declines While Dining Deals Increase; Urasawa Takes Top Food and Service Macau Heats Up: Las Vegas Sands Corporation and MGM Mirage Planning IPO's on Hong Kong Stock Exchange Hotels in Columbus, Georgia have Been Delisted by Expedia.com and Hotels.com Since the City Filed a Lawsuit Over Occupancy Taxes; Local Hotelier Presents a Study to the City Council Assessing Losses "Great American Hoteliers: Pioneers of the Hotel Industry"; The Stanley Hotel; Will Hotel Franchisees Remember? Vail Resorts Posts a 4th Qtr Net Loss of $38.7 million Compared with a Loss of $11.1 million a Year Ago; Skier Visits Declined 5.3% for the 2008/2009 Ski Season Deer Valley Resort Lodging and Reservations to Assume Management of The Lodges at Deer Valley and Silver Baron Lodge; Newly Renovated Garden Inn Becomes Part of Best Western Chain Travelscream Expands Media Network and Distribution Platform: Travelscream's Travel Deals Network grows to include six new channels to now reach an online audience over 38 million monthly VFM Leonardo Selected by White Lodging to Better Merchandise Hotels Online Trust International Introduces Voyager\|CRS Complete Rate Program to Automate Rate Maintenance for Hotels; Leading Hotels of the World Properties Streamlining Rate Adjustments With Voyager\|CRS Complete Rate Hilton Garden Inn Set to Open 60 Hotels in 2009 Representing Second Highest Total in Brand's History Starwood Opens 40 Hotels and Signs 25 New Deals in North America San Francisco Bay Area Diners Cutting Back on Spending, But Being Treated Better; Restaurant Gary Danko Is Big Winner First Data Validates Efficacy of "Emerging" Payment Security Technology Available Since 2005 McKibbon Hotel Management Promotes Randy Hassen and Bruce Baerwalde to Senior Vice President of Operations Fadhel Tahar Named Director of Operations for Sofitel San Francisco Bay September 23, 2009 Smoky Mountain Resorts Selects Maestro Multi-Property PMS & ResWave Booking Engine for 7 Flagged and Independent Hotels to Maximize RevPar & Cross Selling Online; Hosted ASP PMS, ResWave Online Booking, Condo-Timeshare on one database at all properties to ensure optimized rates, accurate inventories, and management controls Japan's Largest Global Hotel Chain, JAL Hotels, Switches to SynXis for Complete Distribution Services Hilton Changes Corporate Name and Logo Ongoing Dispute with Owners of 234 Condos Over Maintenance Costs Causes The Colony Beach & Tennis Resort, Longboat Key, FL, to Suspend Hotel Operations What Can a Blog do for my Hotel? The General Manager from Hawthorne Hotel Shares Insight! A Message to General Managers on Creating Successful Sales Management for 2010 Senate Passes Travel Industry Promotion Bill / Christopher T. Cardinale Foreclosure Filed on Premier Resorts in South Carolina; Premier Resorts Owes $6.75 million, Cancelled as Property Managers at Barefoot Resort Hotel Indigo Downtown Baton Rouge Riverfront Construction Begins; Renovation of Former Hotel King to be Completed Fall 2010 INNCOM Bolsters Sales Force with Addition of Three Executives; Leader in energy-management systems and products looks to the future by ramping up sales effort to meet hotel-industry demand for cost savings MTech, runtriz Partner to Speed Guest Service, Response Via iPhone, Blackberry and more; Equipped with their favorite touch-screen device, guests/staff use mobile technology to request/deliver services from virtually anywhere HSMAI'S 20th Annual Affordable Meetings® National Event Caps Successful Year of Making Connections Sage Hospitality Selected to Manage 110-room Glenn Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia Kinseth Hospitality Companies Completes Multi-Million Dollar Renovation for Brand Relaunch of Holiday Inn Bloomington Airport, Minneapolis According to Industry Experts, Shift4's 4Go(TM) Significantly Reduces PCI Burden While Increasing Ease of Compliance The Westin Resort, Aruba Names Richard Roy General Manager Benchmark Hospitality Names Wesley A. Rosati Executive Chef of Lansdowne Resort in Lansdowne, Virginia September 22, 2009 VIZERGY® Enhances its Long-standing Google Qualified Company Status; Company's Entire Search Marketing Team now Google Qualified Treasure Island Selects Comprehensive Software Suite from Agilysys; Hotel to Implement Property Management, Inventory and Procurement, Guest Marketing, Document Management Solutions Milestone Internet Marketing Hotel Websites Continue To Win Awards Meeting Professionals, Elite Hotels Unite at the Fall 2009 Elite Meetings Alliance (EMA) - As the Travel Industry Comes Back, Hospitality Execs Rally Support, Book Meetings and Demonstrate the Value of Sustainable Business, Conducted in Real Time Hotel Owners - Now Is the Time to Review and Reset Your Exit Strategy / Jim Burr Orlando-area hotels Have Worst August in at Least 22 Years - 58% Occupancy Plans for Convention Center Hotel -- a Project Eyed by Portland Politicians for 20 Years -- Are Officially Dead Hotel Management Strategies For Tough Times A Proposal to Build a 254-room, Lego-themed Hotel at the Legoland California Amusement Park Wins Early Support from Carlsbad Planning Commission San Diego's Handlery Hotel and Resort Closing for Three Months to Undertake a $4 million Renovation, its First Complete Makeover in More than 50 Years Penn National Gaming Reportedly in Talks to Acquire Bankrupt Las Vegas Fontainebleau Project Hotel San Carlos Enhances Security, Guest Loyalty Program with TTI's Scan2PMS; System imports text and images from passports and driver's licenses directly to the hotel's property-management system to instantly ID guests, stop charge-back claims and capture missing data from third-party reservations Hostmark Hospitality Group Adds Four Points by Sheraton and Holiday Inn Express in Saginaw, Michigan to Management Roster 301 Room Traders Hotel in Abu Dhabi Implements an Effective Cost Savings Strategy Last Days to Register -- Habits of Highly Successful Revenue Managers -- The Game has Changed - Web Cast September 25th, 2009 Trust International Helps Hotels to Maximize Yield with IDeaS Best Available Rate Recommendations; WORLDHOTELS affiliate hotel Grand Elysee Hamburg among the first to use enhancement A Three-fold Strategy; Croatia-based Laguna-Novigrad d.d. Operates Two Hotels and Campsites Starwood's Fifth Element Hotel Opens - Element Denver Park Meadows; 123-room Hotel Owned by Medical Hospitality Group and Managed by InterMountain Management, LLC Accor Concludes Sale of 158 hotelF1 Properties in Budget Segment in France for EUR272 million (US$402 Million) Hard Rock International Opens Hard Rock Hotel and Cafe in Penang, Malaysia Hilton Pittsburgh Work to Resume After G-20 Summit, Funds Secured for Completion Meisel Capital Partners Selects Small Luxury Hotels of the World Brand for the Santa Maria Suites Resort, Key West, Florida Ramirez Organization Opens a $12 million 152-room Holiday Inn Express in Guadalajara, Mexico Hilton Hotels Names John Vanderslice as Global Head of Luxury and Lifestyle Brands Crestline Hotels & Resorts Appoints Sherri Griffin Wright as Director of Sales for the Courtyard by Marriott & Residence Inn Hotels in Aberdeen, Maryland Elio Arrabito Named Director of International Sales for The Roosevelt Hotel, New York City September 21, 2009 TravelCLICK Wins "Best Hotel and Lodging Website" in 2009 International WebAwards; Record 20 Awards underscores TravelCLICK's position as the premier digital agency for the hotel industry New Hotel Owner Riles Hispanics; Owner of Whitten Inn in Taos, New Mexico(the former Paragon Inn) Tells Workers to Change Names, Speak English Only Las Vegas' CityCenter Begins to Fill 12,000 Permanent Positions; Represents Nation's Single Largest Employment Opportunity Sunstone Hotel Investors Hands Back to Lenders Another Hotel, the 299-room Marriott Ontario Airport; Stops Making Payments on the $26 million Mortgage Ten Years After Completion, the Economic Projections for The Hawai'i Convention Center Fall Significantly Short The Connell Company Selects Davidson Hotel Company to Manage the Planned 244-room Westin Berkeley Heights in Eastern New Jersey Hyatt Place in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Prepares to Open; A Scaled-back Version that Literally Was Shaped by the Credit Crunch Service Blunders and Fixes - Exclusive Webinar: How to avoid some of the most common customer service mistakes to boost revenue Introducing: CoMMingle Social Media Marketing Agency for Hospitality New VTV Episode: The Traveler's Road to Decision The Delta Queen, the Last Overnight Passenger Steamboat in the Country, is the Newest Hotel in Chattanooga, Tennessee Eight More Individuals Charged with "False Shuffle" Cheating Scheme at Casinos; To Date, 31 Defendants Have Pleaded Guilty Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 86 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database Interstate Hotels & Resorts/JHM Hotels' JV Management Company to Open Four Points(R) by Sheraton in Jaipur, India; First Duet India Hotels' Investment Property in India, JHM Interstate Hotels India to Manage Caesar's Dealers and Harrah's Entertainment Still Without Union Contract After Nearly 2-Years; Dealers Take to Streets in Protest September 18, 2009 The Securities and Exchange Commission Files Fraud Lawsuit Against Chicago Hotel/Condo Developer Robert Falor, Alleging He Stole $4.6 million from Investors in Three Hotel Projects Insights on the New CMBS Rules - Dawning of a New Era, or Error of a New Dawning? Implications for Troubled Hotel Loans / Jeff Steiner and Jim Butler Prince Resorts Ends 23-year Relationship As the Operator of the Maui Prince Hotel and Makena Golf Course; Incoming Benchmark Hospitality Renames Property the Makena Beach and Golf Resort Research Comminssioned by the U.S. Travel Association Proves Business Travel Drives Revenue, Profit Growth; 50 Page Report Available for FREE Understanding the Facts for Effective Hotel Sales Management / Dr John Hogan Law Suit Attacks State of North Carolina's Aid to Johnson & Wales Culinary School in Charlotte; Claims $10 million Grant Does No Qualify as an Economic Incentive Eight Locations Under Consideration For a Publicly Financed 1,000-room Hotel in Downtown Kansas City Understanding Online Travel Shoppers: How Smart Hoteliers are Engaging Today's Travelers and Driving More Bookings Optimus Seeks Hotel Investments HREC Arranges Sale of Park Ridge Hotel -King of Prussia, PA Trust International's Customer Care and Consultation Delivers Bottom Line Results for Customers 125-room Park Hyatt Included in US $860 million Cockleshell Bay Development in St. Kitts Gaming Board Official Offers 'Preventive' Tips in Response to Problems that led to Planet Hollywood Resort's $500,00 Fine for not Exercising Proper Oversight of the Prive Nightclub Travelport GDS and VFM Leonardo Extend their Relationship to Include Worldspan; New exclusive agreement will enable Worldspan users to access the same visual hotel content as Galileo users Hampton Hotels Heads to Mayberry to Fix Up The Andy Griffith Show's Old City Jail Developer Stuart Bornstein Seeks Approval to Build a 132-room Hilton Garden Inn in Hyannis, Massachusetts 1,600 Union Workers at Pittsburgh's Major Hotels Caught in a Dispute Between Two Rival Unions After Decade Long Decline, Detroit's Convention Business Expected to Fully Recover by Next Year Hilton Ontario Airport Hotel, Ontario, California Completes Multi-Million Dollar Renovation SoCal Hospitality, LLC Opening a $22 million Holiday Inn in Lake Forest, California Unite Here Rejoins AFL-CIO After Four-Year Absence Benchmark Hospitality International Assumes Management of Resort in Makena, Maui Hostmark Hospitality Group Adds Four Points by Sheraton and Holiday Inn Express in Saginaw, Michigan to Management Roster Shaner Hotels and Prime Group Open New 126-Room Hampton Inn & Suites in Homestead, Florida The InterContinental San Juan to Begin Renovation of Casino Enhancing Guest Experience Robin Korman Named to Lead Wyndham Rewards Loyalty Program Pan Pacific Hotels Group Appoints Lloyd Daser as Area Vice President, Malaysia and General Manager of Parkroyal Kuala Lumpur William J. Sander III Named General Manager of The Seagate Hotel & Spa in Delray Beach, Florida InterContinental San Francisco Appoints Thane Kuhlman as Director of Food & Beverage Bruce Jones Named as Executive Chef for Hyatt Regency Tamaya, New Mexico September 16, 2009 Hoteliers Respond Loud and Clear to the "Ultimate Hotel Technology Make-Over Contest"; Don't be Left Out - Get Your Entry in Before October 20, 2009 Aptech Profitvue Back Office Selected by Three Hotel Companies; Profitvue will deliver back office accounting for operators of single and multi-property hotel groups Affiliate of Barclays Capital Quietly Repossess the Fairmont Orchid Resort on Hawaii's Big Island; Westbrook Partners LLC Paid $250 million for the 540-room resort in 2005 The Electronic Guestroom; New Technology Playing Dramatic Role in Improving Hotel Operations and Transforming the Guest Experience / Jules A. Sieburgh Tricore Group LLC Suspends Construction of the P Hotel and Spa in State College, Pennsylvania Starwood Hotels and Interlink Group Prepare to Open the 503-Room Sheraton Puerto Rico Convention Center Hotel & Casino; San Juan's First New Full-Service Hotel and Casino in More than 10 Years Closed One-year Ago the Princeville Resort on the North Shore of Kaua'i Prepares to Re-open as the St. Regis Princeville Resort Condominium Owners in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Receive Letter from Premier Resorts International Advising Unable to Pay Rental Pool Proceeds for July and August Rentals Trustee for Deer Valley Lodging/Premier Resorts of Utah Bankruptcy Tracing Missing $10 million of Condo Owners Share of Rental Profits Garfield Traub Opens the 303-room Overton Hotel and Conference Center in Lubbock, Texas; The $66 million Project a Case Study of Public/Private Partnership REVPAR International Sees Increased Advisory Work as Leading Indicator that Lender Waiting Game is Abating; Reports Surprising Level of Due Diligence Requests for New Hotel Projects Payment Industry Adopts Card Information Replacement Technology(SM) City of Dallas Breaks Ground on the Omni Dallas Convention Center Hotel; Will Connect 1,000 rooms via Skybridge to the Dallas Convention Center Stuart Bornstein's Controversial Plans for Hyannis, Massachusetts 132-Room Hilton Garden Inn to go Before Town Council Cayman Tourism Officials State Cayman Islands Still Safest in Caribbean Despite Recent Surge in Crime Metropolitan Hotel Group Rebrands its Orlando Resort to the Radisson Hotel Orlando - International Drive Roomlinx Converts $1.87 Million in Debt to Common Stock; Conversion Eliminates all of the Company's Convertible Debentures Dubai's Hotel Industry Saw Average Price of a Hotel Room Drop 26% in the First Half of 2009; An Additional 10,984 New Rooms Forecasted to Enter the Market in 2010 Pan Pacific Hotels Group Names Laurence Courtinat-Vernon as Vice-President, Brands and Frances Koh as Director, Brands Choice Hotels Names Edward J. Valle Chief Marketing Strategist Swissotels Appoints Bart Westerhout and Harold Kluit Appointed to General Manager Posts Hope Lake Lodge & Indoor Waterpark in New York's Finger Lakes Region Appoints Christopher Ryan to GM and Jeffrey Kryger to Director of Hotel Sales and Marketing September 15, 2009 TIG Global Releases Second Report in Destination eMarketing Best Practices Series; 'Social Media and the DMO Marketer- Part II', Now Available to the Public Revenue Management Leader Rainmaker Group Signs Teaming Agreement with QL2; Agreement formalizes 4-year relationship with QL2 to provide gaming industry competitive data for Rainmaker profit optimization clients Harrah's Buying Some of Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino's $860 million Debt: A Strong Signal for Possible Takeover 3 Hotel Internet Marketing Tactics From Outside the Box Hotel Liability -- Have You Checked Your Parental Release Forms Lately? Florida Supreme Court Invalidates Parental Release Forms U.S. Flagship for Taj Hotels, The Pierre On New York's Central Park, Re-Opens Following $100 Million Renovations Program; 189 Redesigned Residential-style Guest Rooms Closed Nearly 30 Years, Historic Mayo Hotel in Downtown Tulsa Prepares to Reopen Following a $40 million Renovation The Final $10 million Piece of Financing for the $232 million W Hotel Boston Preventing Sawyer Enterprises from Completing the Hotel/condo Development i-Meet Announces Social Media Supplier Listings; Online Community Moves Forward With Web 2.0 Tools for Suppliers Service Blunders and Fixes - Exclusive Webinar: How to avoid some of the most common customer service mistakes to boost revenue Hotel Branding and Product Specialization / Dr. Gabor Forgacs Say Goodbye to Dying Media with an Effective Online Marketing Campaign EMCVenues To Host MEET USA-East Coast 2009; Accredited Educational Conference is Free to Meeting & Event Planners, Media NHH Hotels & Resorts Announces Completion of Multi-Million Renovation at Doubletree Hotel Atlanta/Roswell-Alpharetta New Company Creates Groundbreaking Niche for Top Hotels; Luxury Guest Services improves upon the guest experience and creates new revenue stream with custom in-room services tailored to match your hotel's brand Habits of Highly Successful Revenue Managers - The Game has Changed! Web Cast September 25th, 2009 Finca Cortesín, Member of Distinguished® Hotels Named to Condé Nast Traveler's 2009 Hot List AboutAnywhere.com Announces a Next Generation OTA Business Model and Improved Website for Booking Hotels Online MTech Turns Control4 Platform into Hotel Profits; Guest self-service improves service levels and saves labor dollars New VTV Episode: The New Luxury - Merchandise, Don't Sell Lodge at Primland Opens; Headed by GM Brooks Bradbury, the 26-room Lodge Is the Centerpiece of the Primland Resort Located in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains A Resort City, "China Vegas", Envisioned for Inner Mongolia in the People's Republic of China THG Named 'Developer of the Year' by Hilton Hotels Corp. for Doubletree; Recognized for the multi-million dollar renovations and reflagging of Doubletree Hotel Cleveland Downtown/Lakeside and Doubletree Arctic Club Seattle Colin Gold Named General Manager of The Trump International Beach Resort, Sunny Isles Beach, Florida Preferred Hotel Group Names Peter M. Kressaty as Regional Director, Florida Timothy Rutland Appointed Executive Director of Sales & Marketing at The Balboa Bay Club & Resort, Newport Beach, California September 14, 2009 The Year-old Nikki Beach Resort in the Turks and Caicos Islands Shuttered; Leeward Resort Ltd., Owner of the Property, Enters Receivership Luxury Link Partners with Orient-Express; Two venerable luxury brands unite to bring unique travel experiences to the discerning traveler How to Edit, Export, & Upload Your Hotel Videos - Easy Technical Tips Resorts Casino Hotel, Atlantic City's First, Can't Make Payments on its $360 million Mortgage; Lender Wells Fargo Bank Expected to Gain Control of the Resort The Late Billionaire Didier Primat's Family Completes the Rugged and Ritzy 26-room Lodge at Primland in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains; The Quest Is On for Diamond Status Despite Historic Visitor Declines, Some 15,600 Hotel Rooms Are Under Construction in Las Vegas Florida's Orange County Convention Center puts Faith in New 1,400-room Hilton Orlando as Catalyst for Growth CityCenter's Aria and Vdara First Las Vegas Hotels to Achieve LEED(R) Gold Certification; ARIA Resort Now World's Largest LEED(R) Gold Certified Building Tony Potter, CEO of Corinthia Hotels, Recaps the Group's Growth Pattern, New Positioning and Objectives Smart Meetings Magazine Celebrates Successful Signature Events with Launch of New Series The InterContinental Hotels Group Signs Deal with Thai Conglomerate, Thai Chareon Corporation, to Convert and Rebrand Four of its Hotels; Includes Conversion of the 367-room Hyatt Adelaide to the InterContinental Adelaide Tog Hotels Finishing a $14 million Renovation and Conversion of the Former Hampton Inn in Downtown Dallas to a 300-room Crowne Plaza Developer Reviving Plans for a Resort near South Point in the Ka'u District of the Big Island; 10 Year Project Envisions 36 Hole Golf Course, 950 Hotel/Condominium Units The Summit Group Completes $6 million Renovation of Former AmeriSuites; Rebranded as Springhill Suites by Marriott, Flagstaff, Arizona Singapore Sees Double-digit Growth in Tourist Arrivals from Middle East HFTP Honors Agnes DeFranco and Stephen LeBruto with the Paragon Award The Ritz-Carlton Destination Club, Introduced in 1999 as a Fractional Second Home Alternative, Evolves into a Home Club Membership Program and a Deeded, Points-based Portfolio Membership Program Siena Research Poll Shows Strong Opposition for Convention Center in Albany, New York Melissa Stiltz of Marriott Gaslamp Quarter, San Diego Receives Roger J. Dow Sales Excellence Award Vail Resorts Names Paul G. Toner Senior Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of RockResorts and Vail Resorts Hospitality Matthew Sparks Appointed Senior Vice President of Development for the Wyndham Hotels and Resorts® Brand LaSalle Hotel Properties Names Michael D. Barnello Chief Executive Officer, Replacing the Retiring Jon E. Bortz Phillip Yates named Executive Head Chef for Grand America Hotel, Salt Lake City, Utah September 11, 2009 Hotel Marketing in 2010: Perception Trumps Positioning / John Davies WWA's Waterpark Resort Development & Expansion Workshop; Early-Bird Registration Ends September 20th LEADERSHIP: The Basis for Management / William P. Fisher PhD. Hotels Ramp up Hi Tech Gadgets to Meet Guest Expectations Three of Five Bids Rejected to Build Convention Center Hotel in West Palm Beach, Florida; Financial Information of the Entity Guaranteeing the Project Not Passing Muster Marriott International Signs 21 Management Contracts for Hotels in the Asia-Pacific Region; Marriott's First Hotel in Asia-Pacific Opened 20 Years ago - the JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong St. Petersburg/Clearwater, Florida Tourism Ticks Upward 1.1 % in July Commonwealth Hotels Opens New 123-Room Hyatt Place Salt Lake City Airport Warmbrodt Hotel Investments - "WHI" Selected to Advise in the Sale of the Cambridge Suites located in Wichita, Kansas Top Ten Group Events During August 2009; Covering Hotels in 59 Cities across 39 States and Provinces / The Knowland Group Meet with JMBM's Hotel Lawyers at The Lodging Conference Benchmark Hospitality International Announces Partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Launching a Nationwide Family Vacation Initiative InterContinental San Juan Partners with Puerto Rico Affiliate Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month Choice Hotels Promotes Patrick Cimerola to Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Administration September 10, 2209 Is the GDS Still a Good Investment for Hotels?TravelCLICK Webinar Will Answer This Question and Provide Insight on the Evolving Role of the Travel Agent Channel and Effectiveness of GDS Promotion Elite Meetings International Achieves Unprecedented Growth - In Less Than a Year, EMI Doubles the Size of its Advisory Board, Quadruples Website Traffic and Cements New Corporate Relationships; Hyatt, Starwood Execs Are Added to the EMI Advisory Board Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels Ltd. Closing Hotel Operations at the 97-room Quail Lodge in Carmel Valley, California; Company Has No Plans to Sell or Redevelop the Hotel A Hotelier's Self-Assessment Quiz 360 Hotel Group Planning a TownePlace Suites with 83-rooms and SpringHill Suites with 121-rooms in One Building; Bellingham, Washington Property Would be First to Put These Two Marriott Brands in One Building Hawaii Hotels Report July Occupancy 70.3%; Kaua'i Saw the Largest Drop in Occupancy of 8.7% to 66% Begun in 2008, the Holiday Inn "Refresh" Will be Completed by Late 2010; Cost of Remake Averaging $100,000 to $200,000 per Hotel Harrah's Entertainment Plan to Issue $720 million in Secured Notes to Decrease Debt Load has Analysts Split Libra OnDemand Partnership Brings 'Sulcus OnDemand' CRM to Spain; Based in Barcelona, Sulcus Hospitality Group becomes Libra OnDemand's newest channel partner; Sulcus calls deal win-win for companies, clients and guests alike Roomlinx Success Making Headlines; Hoteliers' positive results with Roomlinx leads to increased media coverage LMP International Named As Agency for Lighthouse Bay Resort, Hotel Carl Gustaf; Public Relations & Marketing Firm Specializing in Luxury Hotels and Resorts Welcomes Two New Clients to Roster U.S. Senate Passes Travel Promotion Act; The Act Creates a Public-private Campaign to Promote the United States as a Destination at No Cost to U.S. Taxpayers The Eldon Luxury Suites Opens in Washington, DC; The 50-suite Property Operated by Key Management Group, LLC A Brand Devalued Struggles to Regain Its Prestige / Ragsdale Hendrie Rialto Property Partners Opens Hotel Indigo Athens; The First LEED Gold Property in Athens, Georgia Choice Hotels International Opens 38 New Hotels in August Fifth Annual Iron Range Housekeeping Olympics to Be Held at AmericInn Lodge & Suites in Virginia, Minnesota IHG Merges Its Latin American, Caribbean Region under the Leadership of Alvaro Diago Europe's Rocco Forte Collection Names New Senior Management at Hotel de Russie, Hotel Savoy, and Brown's Hotel Las Vegas Sands Executive Jeff Burge Hired by Cosmopolitan as Chief Financial Officer September 9, 2009 Award Winning Luxury Taboo Resort & Spa Supercharges Online Revenue: Guests Book Rooms, Upsell & Personalize Their Stay Direct on Hotel Website / Resort leverages Maestro PMS integrated booking engine, dynamic packaging, real-time yield management - forecasting a 30% revenue increase with website guest and group self up-sell and lower cost per reservation direct bookings VIZERGY® Webinar - Free Advice from Hotel Internet Marketing Leaders; Social Media - How do I know where to start? Pricing To Profit / Rick Swig New York Hotelier Andre Balazs Prepares to Sell South Beach, Florida's Raleigh Hotel; Intends to Focus on Expansion of Standard Chain Bedbug Infestations Continue to be Source of Irritation for Hoteliers; Any Hotel Can Be a Victim, From Five Star to No Star Benchmark Hospitality International Appointed to Operate Maui Prince Hotel Crescent Hotels & Resorts Takes Over Management of Two Hotels in St. Paul, Including the 470-room Crowne Plaza St. Paul-Riverfront First Bank Appoints GF Management to Reopen and Operate the Lexington Plaza Waterfront Hotel in Stockton, California Content: The Key to Hotel Bookings - Complimentary Webinar September 10th; Learn about the Five Pillars of Effective Travel eBusiness and how hotel content plays a significant role in driving bookings The New Peninsula Shanghai Has Selected McLaren International's Pre-eminent Guest Incident Tracking and Workflow Automation Solution HotSOS d2o® consulting adds Benchmark Hospitality to Client Portfolio for New Performance Management Intelligence "PMI"; Dramatically Integrates Rooms, F&B and Other Revenue Forecasting of Daily Labor Productivity, Food Cost Control TTI Centralizes Business Center, Concierge Services by Opening Internet Cafe; Hotels that can't afford Concierge or Business Center services can now send guests to a convenient Upper Westside/Manhattan locale Whiteboard Labs Taps TurnHere to Power MotionNotes with Video New VTV Episode: VIDEO - Visual Content Decisions - What? How Much? Why? Poor People Skills & The Wealthy / Steven Ferry Slump in Tourism Industry Forces at Least 22 Bangkok, Thailand Hotels Up For Sale Another Local Government Joins Tax Movement Against Online Hotel Booking Agencies Dial Realty and Kinseth Hospitality Open 82-Unit Hampton Inn and Suites, Lincoln, Nebraska Sir Michael Kadoorie, Chairman, The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Hotel Investment Conference Asia Pacific Carol Bullock-Walter Appointed Vice President of Field Sales for Dolce Hotels and Resorts September 8, 2009 EnterprisePM Finds Paradise at Maho Bay Camps & Resort Verve Hospitality Group Selects Solution Suite from Agilysys; Three New Restaurants Implement Point-of-Sale, Inventory and Procurement Systems Is Your Hotel or Resort's E-mail Inbox An Untapped Distribution Channel? / Doug Kennedy Florida's Orange County Convention Center Facing $18 million Deficit Due to Double Digit Plunge in Convention-Goers Valencia Group Prepares the Italian-inspired 244-room Hotel Sorella in West Houston's CityCentre for Opening Coalition Led by Unite Here Sues City of Long Beach, California over Lodgwork's Proposed Hotel Sierra Project Noble Investment Group Opens the 220-room Marriott Macon City Center Hotel, Noble Also Assumes Control of the Wilson Convention Center, the City Auditorium and the Macon Coliseum Hotel Developer BPJ Group Selects Alliance Hospitality to Manage Four Holiday Inns in Central Wisconsin A 26-page Manual, "H1N1 Influenza Management in Hotels," Provided by the AH&LA 357-room JW Marriott Miami Marquis Hotel Being Developed by MDM Hotel Group, LTD in Downtown, Miami; Will Include Daniel Boulud's DB Bistro Moderne EliteMeetings.com Wins Gold in the 2009 Travel Weekly Magellan Awards Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 77 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database Hospitality Management Corporation Takes Over Management of the 218-room Crowne Plaza Hotel Oklahoma City Key Management Group Names Albert Laclé Chief Executive Officer Greg Gooding Named General Manager of International Plaza Resort & Spa, Orlando, Florida Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints Senior-level Revenue Management Executives Glen Cove Mansion Hotel and Conference Center Names Alfred Leuthold Director of Sales & Marketing September 3, 2009 Consumers Now More Likely to Conclude Their Bookings with OTAs: Forrester Research and Citigroup Investment on Changes in the Travel Industry Sonesta Plans to Sell its Key Biscayne Hotel Site After a Failed Attempt to Build a Luxury Condo-hotel There The Hotel Owner's and Hotel Lender's Dilemma: Sell Now or Sell Later? How Long Does it Take to Market a Hotel Today? The Greenbrier Hires Patricia Jenkins to Lead the Resort's Effort to Regain Forbes/Mobil Travel Guide Five-star Status Portland, Oregon Hotels Facing a Slow Winter, Following a Robust July at 85% Occupancy Obadon Hotel Group Opens the Omphoy Ocean Resort at the Site of the Former Palm Beach Hilton What Does the Future Hold? New Forecasting Book Helps Hospitality Professionals Anticipate Business and Economic Trends EasyRMS & Trust International Enhance Revenue Management Interface with EzRMS To Maximise Yield; Chester Grosvenor and Spa in UK is First Customer Content: The Key to Hotel Bookings? / John McAuliffe - VFM Leonardo Uniguest™ Named to the INC. 500/5000 List of the Fastest Growing Private Companies; Uniguest received a final ranking of 500x based on growth of 782% for the three-year period 2005-2008 The 'Greenest' Convention Center in the World? The Melbourne, Australia Exhibition Centre Claims it Has Defied All Earlier Definitions of Green Wyndham Hotel Group and Wuhan Hongjing Real-Estate Development Co. to Open 337-Room Wyndham Wuhan East Lake in Wuhan, China Hotel Equities and Kite Properties, LLC Open 85-Room Hampton Inn in Okeechobee, Florida September 2, 2009 Uncompromising Standards Make the Return that Much Sweeter; Best Western Carib Beach and MSI together again Skyrocketing Hotel Default Rates - More Storm than Tsunami / Karen Johnson Managing Revenue by Market Segment - The Recovery Challenge for Sales and Revenue Managers / Carol Verret Home2 Suites Reveals Details Behind Iconic "Working Wall" In Suites; Includes a Full Kitchenette Hotel Common Sense - "A Baker's Dozen" of Strategies for Hotel Human Resource Managers & Directors / Dr. John Hogan How Hotels Can Build Links by Leveraging their USP, PR, and Organic Growth; an O’Rourke Video Interview Northridge Capital Appoints Destination Hotels & Resorts to Manage The Hotel Telluride in Telluride, Colorado Foxwoods' MGM Grand Hotel Gets Rare Four Diamond Award From AAA Benicia, California Proposed Ordinance May Require No-Tell Hotels to Tell-All Luxury Link and ideeli Partnership Creates an Ideal Shopping and Travel Experience; Luxury Link brings special luxury travel packages to members of the ideeli online shopping community Meyer Jabara Hotels to Open 124-Room Hyatt Place in Downtown Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Greenbrier's October Plans for Gambling Operations on Tight Deadline Waterfront Redevelopment Plan for More Hotels in Charleston, South Carolina Facing Criticism Through the Eyes of a Hotel Butler: Transforming Displeased Guests into Satisfied Ones / Osvaldo Torres Cruz Knowland Signs 2,000th Client; Innovative firm's products help hoteliers find and book more meetings and events September 1, 2009 How Can Independent Hotels Combat Budget and Resource Restraints? Interview John Enright, Executive Director - Revenue Account Management, Preferred Hotel Group Home of 'The Best Job in the World', Hamilton Island Switches to SynXis and Sees Immediate Results; SynXis goes 'Down Under' - enters the Australian market Prince Resorts Hawaii to Terminate Management of the Maui Prince Hotel; Lender Wells Fargo Seeking a Receiver Former Pontchartrain Hotel in Detroit is Shuttered Again; Lender Foreclosed on Owner Shubh Hotels WCI Communities Has Deal to Sell the Resort at Singer Island to Urgo Hotels Does "End of the Recession" Mean "Recovery"? Not for Luxury Hotels! / Jim Butler eMax Makes Internet Marketing Affordable Open Hospitality and InnLink Join in a New Partnership to Address Complete Internet Solutions for Hotels Classic British Hotels Implements RTSuite To Manage Online Sales; Hotelier chooses RateTiger for online distribution Study Determines 2008 Republican National Convention Generated a total Direct and Indirect Economic Impact of more than $168 million for the Minneapolis Saint Paul Area; 12,000 Hotel Rooms Were Booked in 100 Hotels Educational Institute Hosts Celebration of Excellence Breakfast to Honor Hospitality Industry Leaders; Peter Greenberg, "America's Travel Expert," Slated to Give Keynote The Light Group Announces Line-Up of Food and Beverage Venues at ARIA Resort & Casino at CityCenter, Las Vegas Hilton Orlando Adds Three Chefs to Serve Under Executive Chef Thierry Meissonnier; Louis Martorano, Mike Broderick and Thomas Richard Huebner Sage Hospitality Appoints Robert Cartwright General Manager, Ryan Buck Director of Sales and Matt Balcik Hotel Manager at The Blackstone Hotel, Chicago David Martin Appointed General Manager for the Faculty House of Columbia University, New York City Top 25 Read Articles - August 2009 Hotel Selling: Grab the Low Hanging Fruit / John Davies Family Caught with 63 Towels from Sheraton Moriah Eilat Hotel: "We didn't steal - we just took the towels like everyone else." TWITTER or Not to TWITTER; Time waster or lead generator? / Cindy Estis Green Fired at 67, The Former Director of Sales at a Columbia Sussex Owned Hotel Wins Age-discrimination Suit; Jury Awards $420,000 in Damages An Incident Involving a Prankster, a Guest and an Employee Occurred at the Homewood Suites by Hilton Lexington, Kentucky; Might be Connected to International Prank-Calling Ring The Coeur d'Alene Resort Site of Two Deadly Falls from the 12th Floor So You Want to Work in Hotels ... / Daniel Edward Craig Want a $10 Buck Room, How About One-cent Room? Some Orlando Hotels Slashing Rates PKF Hospitality Research Predicts Nine Consecutive Quarters of Declining Lodging Demand Will End in the Second Quarter of 2010; More Guests in 2010 - But with a Catch Hotel Common Sense - A Sales Self-evaluation Test for General Managers / Dr. John Hogan Hotel with the "est" Factor - A List of Record-Breaking Hotels Pritzker Family Politics Likely Driving Hyatt's IPO The Hotel Door Peephole vs the Reverse Peephole Viewer Lenders, Here's Why Mothballing a Hotel Can be a Very Bad Idea / Jim Butler Opened a Year Ago, the $180 million InterContinental Chicago O'Hare Files Chapter 11 Jim Justice, The Greenbrier's New Owner, Hardheaded Enough to Believe He Can Turn the 635-room Resort Around Corus Bank Initiates Foreclosure Proceedings Against the Just Opened $480 million Terranea Resort, Rancho Palos Verdes, California Former General Manager, Patrick Holley of Days Inn, Daytona Beach Shores, Florida Charged with Embezzlement of $640,000 Ten Years After Introducing the Heavenly Bed, Westin Takes Another Look at Travelers' Sleep Habits The Greenbrier and Marriott Fail to Reach a Marketing Agreement; New Owner Jim Justice Pays Agreed Upon $7.5 million Break Up Fee Attorneys Representing the Stamford Marriott Hotel & Spa Withdraw Claim of Rape Victim's Negligence Mobil Travel Guide Brand Will Become the Forbes Travel Guide; Mobil's Four- and Five-star Awards for Hotels, Restaurants and Spas will Become Forbes Awards Marriott Resorts Launch Twitter, Facebook and YouTube Campaign for 25 Free Trips to Hawaii Sandals Resorts International Purchases the Recently Shuttered Four Seasons In Great Exuma, Bahamas; Following a Refurbishment Will Be Called Sandals Emerald Bay,Great Exuma, Bahamas 5 Ways Hotels can Improve and Track Return on Investment from Twitter - Oh wait, there is no investment! August 31, 2009 The Hotel Door Peephole vs the Reverse Peephole Viewer Fired at 67, The Former Director of Sales at a Columbia Sussex Owned Hotel Wins Age-discrimination Suit; Jury Awards $420,000 in Damages Florida Hotel Inspectors Lack Teeth in Punishing Dirty, Sloppy Hotels The State of Florida Is Changing its Bedbug Inspection Procedures New York's Aqueduct Casino Bids Becoming Fierce and Furious; Stakes are High Amongst Gamings Biggest Players '70s-style Poconos Honeymoon Resorts are Kitschy, Romantic -- and Endangered Accor Rebranding the Former Grand Mercure La Veranda Resort and Spa to La Veranda Resort and Spa Phu Quoc, a Member of MGallery Collection of Hotels Bosideng Holdings Limited Appoints Regal Hotels International to Manage a Five Star Hotel in Dezhou, Shandong Province, China - Regal Kangbo Hotel MAVERICK Asset Management: Answering Hotel Owners'/Lenders' "Questions of Pain" New VTV Episode: How to Know Where the Fish Are Shaun Ng Opens New 103-Room Holiday Inn Express® in Swift Current, Saskatchewan RDA Hotel Management Co. Committing $800,000 to Convert the Four Points Sheraton in Fairlawn, Ohio to a Doubletree Hotel Chlorine-free Pool? Check. Organic On-site Pantry? Check. Starwood's Element Brand Promotes a Balanced Lifestyle with a Number of Programs Supertel Hospitality Names Connie Scarpello as Chief Financial Officer and Steve Gilbert as Chief Operating Officer August 28, 2009 Corus Bank Initiates Foreclosure Proceedings Against the Just Opened $480 million Terranea Resort, Rancho Palos Verdes, California Lowe Enterprises and its Partners Examining How to Restructure Terranea Resort's $320 in Loans Dallas Area Hotels Showing Big Drops in Every Crucial Measure: Demand, Occupancy, ADR and RevPAR The $60 million Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Normal, Illinois Delays Opening Hamilton Properties Opening a 193-room, $35 million Aloft Hotel in Downtown Dallas The Hotel Group Completes a $13-million Renovation and Rebranding of the 385-room Crowne Plaza Kansas City Downtown HEI Hotels & Resorts Acquires 353-Room Hanover Marriott in Whippany, New Jersey TTI Offers 'At Home' Experience with Entire Windows-System on Business Center PCs; Users quickly recognize the desktop for browsing convenience; Virtual multi-lingual keyboard solves language issues A Proposed $109 million Redevelopment of the Edgewater Hotel in Madison, Wisconsin May Receive $16 million in Tax Incremental Financing Tony Kopp Recipient of the 2009 Certified Hospitality Accountant Executive (CHAE) of the Year Award International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show Name Finalists for 29th Annual Gold Key Awards Alexandra Champalimaud Named 'Designer of the Year' Gordon McKinnon Named Executive Vice President and Chief Branding Officer for Carlson Hotels Worldwide Hilton Names Paul Ades Senior Vice President of Labor Relations Vail Resorts, Inc. Promotes Heidi Kercher-Pratt to Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Larkspur Hotels & Restaurants Promotes Ed Skapinok to Newly Created Vice President of National Sales Position Janice Yee Joins Outrigger Enterprises as Corporate Director of Human Resource Services Swissôtel Hotels Appoints Torsten Pinter and Jackson Wong to General Manager Posts August 27, 2009 Softscribe Inc.'s Operations Director Debbie Reale Earns Advanced SEO Certification; 'Search is the new homepage;' Softscribe's Reale optimizes clients' online presence for more business leads Will Google Caffeine Affect my Hotel SEO? To Create Momentum When Opening a New Hotel, Tell a Good Story The Fontainebleau Miami Beach Has Nearly $65 million in Unpaid Contractor Bills a Year after the Resorts Grand Opening Foxwoods Resort and Mohegan Sun Agree To Pay State of Connecticut $25 Million to Settle Lawsuit Over Free Slot Play Developer Patrick Conley Says "Enough"; Plans to Abandon Vision of Hotel and Marina On Providence Waterfront Due to Bureaucratic Red Tape Delaware North Cos. Expected to Take Over Operations of the Queen Mary Hotel, Docked in Long Beach, California The 120-room Former Rodeway Inn and Suites in Petersburg, VA Auctioned for $600,000, that's $5,000 per Room The Ahwanhee Hotel in Yosemite National Park Evacuated As Falling Rocks Endanger Hotel Hotel Abrego Becomes Newest Portfolio Hotels & Resorts Property to Adopt EZYield.com Channel Management Solution; After extensive renovation and expansion, boutique hotel's management implements proven EZYield.com technology to help drive online reservations Preferred Hotel Group Selects VFM Leonardo as Exclusive Provider of Visual Content Distribution Services; Member properties of Preferred Hotel Group's brands to use VFM Leonardo's VScape® and VBrochure™ products exclusively to distribute photos and rich media The Tides Inn is seeking a Director of Sales for its remote office in Washington DC. Requires 5+ years of group sales experience at high end properties and familiarity with the Washington DC and Virginia markets American Hotel & Lodging Association Fall Conference Offers Educational Programming, Networking Events, Specialized Committee Meetings Hispanic Hotel Owners Association Re-concepts its Annual Convention into a series of Regional Events; First Meeting to Be Held September 21 in Phoenix, Prior to Lodging Conference AAA Projecting Late Labor Day to Affect Travel and Hospitality Industries by 13% Decline Summit Hotels & Resorts to Debut Verdanza Hotel, Formerly Holiday Inn, San Juan Delays in Government Formation Damaging Lebanon's Hospitality Industry: Construction of a Grand Hyatt, a Four Seasons Hotel and a Kempinski Hotel and Resort Have Questionable Opening Dates Tom Lettero Named President and CFO for Cannery Casino Resorts Jennifer Williams Named as Director of Sales and Marketing for Watercolor Inn and Resort, Santa Rosa Beach, Florida August 26, 2009 Three New Ways for Hotels to Drive Demand and Increase Occupancy through Multi-Channel Growth; TravelCLICK Announces Strategic Initiatives with Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Expedia, and Hickory Travel Systems Mastering The Art of Hotel Revenue Management; The Mission / Neil Salerno The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels 2009 Half Year Operating Results; Peninsula Hotels Record a 22% Drop in Revenue as Compared to the First Six Months of Last Year / Key Statistics for the 9 Hotels A Baker's Dozen of Strategies in Maximizing Leads and Attendee Sales Potential at your Hospitality Trade Show Booth / Dr John Hogan Team Led by R. Donahue Peebles Commits to "Community First" in Hiring for Proposed Half Billion Dollar MGM Grand at Aqueduct Located in the Borough of Queens, New York City Homewood Suites by Hilton Enters 20th Year with Nearly 300 Properties; Opened its First Hotel in Omaha, Nebraska on August 23, 1989 A Foreclosure Complaint Filed Against Makena Hotel LLC, the Owner of the Maui Prince Hotel Red Roof Opens First NextGen Property; Beaumont, Texas Hotel is the First to Feature Red Roof's NextGen Exterior Design and Technologically Advanced Interiors Hotel Investor Survey Mid Year 2009 - Hotel Capitalization Rates Show Further Weakness, But Change in Parameters Slows Somewhat / Jeffrey H. Walker StarCite Partners With VFM Leonardo to Enhance Online Meetings Marketplace With Rich Hotel Visual Content; VFM Leonardo to be Exclusive Provider of Rich Content Showcasing Hotel Properties to Corporate Buyers Within StarCite's Online Marketplace Developer Ash Israni of Pacifica Cos. Indefinitely Postpones Plans to Build a Luxury Resort in Imperial Beach, California $3.8 million Judgment Awarded Against Former King's Inn, Montgomery, Alabama for 2007 Pool Drowning Foxwoods Development and Lakes Entertainment Gain Approval From Kansas Lottery Commission for Mulvane Casino The Steven Kent Inn Joins Rodeway Inn on Foreclosure Auction Block, Petersburg, Virginia Tampa, Florida Hotel Rates 21% Lower than a Year Ago; Four-star Hotels Priced as Low as $64 Concord Hospitality in a Joint Venture with Aztec Group and Mercury Investments Adds 88-Room, All-Suite Ocean Sands Resort & Spa, Pompano Beach Florida to Portfolio Agnelo Fernandes Named as President for Jade Resort Residences & Beach Club, Costa Rica, Launching Lifestyle Development Brand and First Property in Costa Rica Bellstar Hotels & Resorts to Manage Mountain Spirit Resort and Spa, Kimberley, British Columbia Kelly Fogarty Named Director of Sales and Marketing for The Beverly Garland Holiday Inn, North Hollywood, California August 25, 2009 FY2010 Federal Per Diems Reflect Weak Economy; The Standard Continental U.S. (CONUS) Per Diem Rate for Lodging Remains the Same as Last Year at $70 per Night. Wet 'n' Wild Phoenix Selects Point-of-Sale Solution by Agilysys; Water Park Implements InfoGenesis™ POS by Agilysys to Enhance Efficiency and Guest Service Jim Justice, The Greenbrier's New Owner, Hardheaded Enough to Believe He Can Turn the 635-room Resort Around Mobil Travel Guide Brand Will Become the Forbes Travel Guide; Mobil's Four- and Five-star Awards for Hotels, Restaurants and Spas will Become Forbes Awards Orlando-Area Hotel Occupancy Slips Below 70% to Lowest Rate on Record for Month of July Developer Earl Barrs' Seeking to Build a Pair of Hotels with 300 rooms near the Wilson Convention Center in Macon, Georgia Stanford Hotels Rebrands the Sheraton Gateway San Francisco Airport to the Hilton San Francisco Airport New VTV Episode: Online vs. Offline Marketing GBCblue Selects SolutionIP™ Software for its Business Center Computing Systems and New Hospitality Portal The ProHost® Housekeeping System Has Been Selected for the 433 Room Bay Lake Tower at Disney's Contemporary Resort The 20% Solution -- Managing the Sales Effort for Recovery in 2010 Web Cast Hospitality eBusiness Strategies to Present at EyeforTravel's Mobile Strategies for Travel USA Conference EZYield.com Solves Hotel Rate Parity Challenges with Advanced Markup Engine Technology and Companion Reporting Tool; Proprietary distribution technology simplifies the execution of multi-channel online revenue management strategies for global hotel clientele VFM Leonardo Chosen as Exclusive Provider of Hotel Visual Content for Concur's Corporate Travel Booking Solutions; Largest distributor of visual content for hotels worldwide expands relationship with Concur making their photos, virtual tours and video available to thousands of corporate customers The Mayo Selects PAR Springer-Miller's SMS\|Host® Hospitality Management System; Landmark Property to Implement PAR's Fully-Integrated Hospitality Solution American Express Reports Q2 Business Travel Monitor Results for North America; Hotel Rates Show Modest Decrease in Q2 2009 Seagate Hospitality Group Set to Open the 162-room Seagate Hotel & Spa in Downtown Delray Beach, Florida Florida's Annual Tourism Conference Cheered the Hope That Things Aren't Getting Worse; Steep Hotel Discounts Giving Way to Stability Savera Hospitality LLC Opens 112-Room Candlewood Suites in LeRay, New York Long Beach Island, New Jersey Targets Younger Crowd for Tourism with Use of Social Networks Craig Sacco Named General Manager of The Ritz-Carlton Club and Residences, Lake Tahoe Carla Dunn Named Vice President, Global Sales for Wyndham Hotel Group Sharon Adam Appointed Director, Sales and Marketing at Hotel Wales, New York City August 24, 2009 Want a $10 Buck Room, How About One-cent Room? Some Orlando Hotels Slashing Rates Don't Hide From Trip Advisor Reviews! Man Suing Milford, Connecticut Hotel for $15,000 Over Bed Bug Bites Baltimore City Officials Less Certain the City-owned 757-room Hilton Baltimore Convention Center Hotel Will Turn a Profit in the Time Frame Originally Projected Caribbean Tourism Hit Hard By Recession; On Grand Bahama Island the Port Lucaya Resort & Yacht Club Ceasing Operations HEI Hotels & Resorts Acquires the 353-room Hanover Marriott in Whippany, N.J., from Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. for $27 million; Hotel to Undergo $20 Million Renovation Hotel Common Sense - Increasing Traffic at your Hospitality Trade Show Booth Randy Smith, Founder of the STAR Program, to Receive ALIS Lifetime Achievement Award Owned by Affiliates of Colony Capital, the Atlantic City Hilton Casino Resort Defaults on its Mortgage Station Casinos Patriarch Frank Fertitta Jr. Dies at Age 70 How to Make Sense and Dollars from Social Media. Online Seminar Molinaro Koger Sells Four Hotels for Host Hotels & Resorts EZYield.com Growing as U.S. West Coast Hotels Add Channel Management Technology; Hospitality travel executive Karen Martin appointed to West Coast sales team Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 53 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database Developers Lee Hindin and Reza Fakhrieh Set Out to Emphasize Luxury at the Dakota Mountain Lodge, A Waldorf Astoria Branded Resort in Park City, Utah Study Released by American Journal of Public Health Suggests Separate Casino Smoking Sections Ineffective Noble Investment Group Completes $9 million Renovation of Marriott Kansas City Country Club Plaza Hotel May I See Your Wine List? Oenophile Event Planners Offer Advice in Knowland Survey Despite the Economy, Hotel Construction Not Slowing Down in Odessa, Texas Ronald Taylor Named Regional Director of Sales for Windsor Hospitality Group August 21, 2009 Mobile Marketing & Distribution Strategy in Hospitality: the Future is Already Here / Max Starkov Sandals Resorts International Purchases the Recently Shuttered Four Seasons In Great Exuma, Bahamas; Following a Refurbishment Will Be Called Sandals Emerald Bay, Great Exuma, Bahamas 2008 - Good News, Bad Numbers; Fixed Costs A Problem In 2009 / Robert Mandelbaum The Yellowstone Club Proving to Be One of the Largest and Most Complex Bankruptcies in Montana History Hawaii Hotels Suffer 5th Straight Month of Record Low Occupancy: Grim Data 'Completely Unprecedented' The Hotel Tax Collection Battle Between Municipalities and Online Booking Companies Wages On Across the Country in Both State and Federal Courts General Manager Michael McMahon Preparing the 250-room Dove Mountain Ritz-Carlton Near Tucson for Opening Egypt's Tourist Conglomerate, Travco Group, Acquires Germany's Family Owned Hotel Group, Steigenberger Error Updating Rates Online Can Cause Significant Loses in Revenue; A human Error at a Venice, Italy Hotel an Eye Opener Warmbrodt Hotel Investments - WHI Selected to Advise in the Sale of the Value Place - Nellis Air Force Base located in Las Vegas, Nevada PSAV, HEI Enter Long-term Event Technology Agreement Key West Inns, Inc. Renews Contract with InnLink, LLC, Extending a 16-year Successful Relationship WORLDHOTELS Selects VFM Leonardo as Exclusive Solution to Manage and Distribute Hotel Visual Content PSAV Underscores Flexibility at 2009 Solheim Cup; Company's unique structure allows it to provide excellent presentation at high-profile event for a highly competitive cost Exterior-Corridor Hotel Properties; Blackstone Denies Hilton Breakup / Stanley Turkel Canyon Capital Realty Advisors Completes Foreclosure on the Greek Isles Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas; Intends to Keep the Property Open While Assessing its Future Real Estate Developer Territoria Group Opens the 196 room W Santiago; W Hotels First South American Property Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts Opens the 563-room Shangri-La Hotel, Ningbo Hotel Equities and Kite Properties, LLC Open 83-Room SpringHill Suites in Vero Beach, Florida HVS Hotel Management Appoints Terry Bickhardt as Co-President US Hotels Appoints Paul Hanley Chief Executive Officer; Will Oversee its Portfolio of Seven Hotels and New Development Beyond The Seattle Hotel Association Appoints New Board of Directors; Julia Schroeder Elected President John A. Girard Named General Manager of Regal Kowloon Hotel, Hong Kong Mark Kitchen Appointed General Manager at the Pink Sands Resort, Harbour Island, Bahamas Pan Pacific Hotels Group Names Danny Lingham as General Manager of Pan Pacific Serviced Suites Bangkok Hilton Orlando Appoints Thierry Meissonnier as Executive Chef Konstantin Elser Appointed Executive Chef at the Mövenpick Hotel Saigon Felix Mulero Named Food & Beverage Director at the InterContinental San Juan Resort & Casino, Puerto Rico Hilton Kuala Lumpur Appoints Chandra Mohan Arunasalam Chef de Cuisine for Studio, its Dining Centre that Houses Five Restaurants August 19, 2009 New Distribution Management Tool Connects Directly to Expedia; VIZERGY® offers new tool linking hoteliers to over 70 Expedia affiliated sites IDeaS Revenue Management System Further Expands in Resort Segment with Addition of Grove Park Inn Dallas Secures Commitments From Investors to Buy $479.8 million in Bonds for the Convention Center Hotel; $300 million of the Bonds Obtained from the Federal Stimulus Package Opened a Year Ago, the $180 million InterContinental Chicago O'Hare Files Chapter 11; From the Outset the 556 room Hotel Unable to Meet the Debt Service on $158 million 5-Star Employees - Part 2 / Bryan K. Williams Hooters Casino Hotel Rolls Snake Eyes, Future Remains in Doubt The 51-room Lotus at Diamond Head, Formerly Known as the W Honolulu-Diamond Head, Sold at Auction to Unity House, a Nonprofit Labor Welfare Organization, for $8.5 million Marriott Resorts Launch Twitter, Facebook and YouTube Campaign for 25 Free Trips to Hawaii; Expects the Social Media Campaign to Take on a Life of its Own Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau Reports 25% Decrease in Single Quarter Tax Revenue as Convention Attendance Remains Down Mechanic's Lien Filed Against the Just Opened $65 million, 202-room Hotel Monaco in Baltimore VFM Leonardo to Power Visual Content Management and Distribution for Rosewood Hotels & Resorts; Rosewood Hotels & Resorts adopts VScape® Digital Asset Management System to efficiently manage and deliver hotel visual content to online channels Intelity Partners With MTech to Improve Guest Services for Customers; Hoteliers, guests get better services from interfaced ICE, HotSOS tools 20 Reasons to Attend Affordable Meetings® National; Second Keynote announced on "Dominating Through Technology" VFM Leonardo Selected to Exclusively Manage and Distribute Visual Content for La Quinta Inns & Suites; VFM Leonardo's VScape® Digital Asset Management System adopted by limited service hotel chain to manage visual content and seamlessly distribute to electronic distribution channels Emaar Hospitality Group Adding Two Dubai Hotels to its Address Hotels + Resorts Portfolio Helmuth Heise, Founder and Developer of Western Maryland's Wisp Ski and Golf Resorts, Dies at 81 BBL Hospitality Opens 127-Room Hilton Garden Inn Troy, New York; Setting Sights as Tourist Destination Holiday Inn Malé, Maldives Appoints Brett Wilson as General Manager and Nabeel Abdulla as Director of Sales and Marketing August 18, 2009 Concierge Assistant Meets the Ultimate Guest Service Challenges of The World; Five-Star luxury 'Hotel on Water:' residents of The World receive personal attention in hundreds of global ports Flyte Systems Adds Cleveland Airport Hotel Property to Growing Customer Base; Holiday Inn Express Brookpark Installs Flight Information and Boarding Pass Printing as "Key Differentiators" TravelCLICK Hosts Webinar on Second Quarter 2009 Global Hotel Performance: Preparing Hotels for the Long Road Back Attorneys Representing the Stamford Marriott Hotel & Spa Withdraw Claim of Rape Victim's Negligence Ten Years After Introducing the Heavenly Bed, Westin Takes Another Look at Travelers' Sleep Habits Selling Hotel Rooms: Is the Process Really that Unique? / David Brudney Lender, Gramercy Investments, Set to Auction the 341 room Sheraton Hotel in Downtown Orlando Six Months Before Miami Hosts the Super Bowl, the NFL is Canceling Some Hotel Reservations, Corporations Scale Back Lavish Plans Destination Hotels & Resorts and Odyssey Teams Announce Partnership to Offer Conference Clientele Innovative, Life Changing Team Building Experiences This Week on VFM Leonardo's VTV: "The New Luxury - Experience, Not Status" with Bonnie Knutson, Professor at the Michigan State University School of Hospitality Business Taj Opens First Resort Hotel Under New Brand, the Vivanta by Taj - Coral Reef, Maldives Frasers Hospitality Pte Ltd to Manage 90 unit Fraser Suites Serviced Residences in New Delhi, India Property to be Developed by IFCI Infrastructure Development Limited (IIDL) Dirk De Cuyper Appointed General Manager of Waldorf Astoria Shanghai on the Bund Design Hotels Promotes Bernd Neff, Sascha Wolff and Arno Schwalie to Executive Positions August 17, 2009 Knowland is 2nd Fastest Growing Company in the Travel Industry According to Inc. Magazine; Innovative company is ranked 222nd overall fastest growing company in the U.S. Geoff Freeman of the U.S. Travel Association Will Deliver the Keynote Address at the Fall EMA, September 13-15; Elite Meeting Alliance (EMA) to Feature Leading Industry Speakers - Focus on Building Business in the Current Economic Climate So You Want to Work in Hotels / Daniel Edward Craig Former General Manager of Days Inn, Daytona Beach Shores, Florida Charged with Embezzlement of $640,000 Online Reviews - Getting Real Travel Experiences in Real Time from Real People At 72, Stu Blumberg, President of the Greater Miami & The Beaches Hotel Association, Makes No Apologies for Speaking Up, Stirring the Pot Debt Hangs Over Group of Profit Reports: Black Gaming, Planet Hollywood Resort and Hooters Hotel Attempting to Restructure Debt Sundance Institute Gets into the Lodging Business: New Service to Link Festival Attendees to Hotel Vacancies City of Tucson, Arizona Forced to use Taxpayer Funds to Pay for Convention Center Hotel Design; $80 million from December Bond Sale Gone Sink or Swim for the UK Hotel Industry?; 2010 Set to Be Even Tougher AboutAnywhere.com Introduces a Fresh Concept in Online Hotel Bookings, Featuring Free Listings for Hotel Partners CNL Lifestyle Properties Appoints Omni Hotels to Manage the Mount Washington Resort located in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire Regency Hotel Management Appointed Receiver for the 136 room Hotel Ivy, One of the Toniest Hotels in Minneapolis S'mores for Kids! On Short Notice The Summit Hotel at the Big Sky Resort Hosts the Presidential Family One Hotel is Under Construction While another Enters Receivership in Downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana Latin America Construction Pipeline for the 2nd Qtr 2009; Latin America in the Midst of a New Hotel Openings Surge that Began in 2008 Pre-Show Report: International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show, November 7-10, 2009, Jacob K. Javits Convention Center HSMAI University Fall Webinar Line-up to Focus on Business Development and Current Economic Climate Kolkata, India Hotels Swing into Action to Contain Swine Flu Fred Hazzan Named Controller for The Hamister Group's Portfolio of Ten Hotels August 14, 2009 PKF Hospitality Research Predicts Nine Consecutive Quarters of Declining Lodging Demand Will End in the Second Quarter of 2010 5 Ways Hotels can Improve and Track Return on Investment from Twitter - Oh wait, there is no investment! Hotels with the 'est' Factor -- A List of Record-Breaking Hotels Law Enforcement Authorities in New York Have Created Website to Help Solve Slaying of Fontainebleau Hotel Heir Ben Novack, Jr. Number One Food Show on TV, Bravo's "Top Chef", Selects The M Resort Spa Casino in Las Vegas as the Production's On Site Studio Indianapolis Hotel Tax Will be one of Nation's Highest at 10% City of Escondido, California Rejects $2.7 million Loan Request from Hotel Developer for a Springhill Suites Marriott Hotelier Tran Group, LLC is Turning Empty Downtown Baltimore Buildings into Price-Conscious Destinations with Investment of $39 million for Three Business Class Hotels Merani Hospitality Receives Unusual Tax Break for Development of Two Buffalo, New York Hotels California-based LA Koreana Inc to Purchase Queen Kapi'olani Hotel and Mililani Golf Club in Honolulu Cayman Brac's Divi Hotel Not for Sale; Owner Divi Tiara Corporation Plans to Redevelop The AH&LA 2009 Stars of the Industry Award for Special Events-Ongoing for a Large Property Awarded to The Ritz-Carlton Lodge, Reynolds Plantation, Georgia Fianna Oklahoma, LLC and Wyndham Hotels and Resorts Open 244-room Wyndham Garden Hotel Oklahoma City Airport Tanayong Plc Plans to Invest $2.3 billion Baht in Five Hotels to be Managed by Absolute Hotel Services in Thailand Fayez Iskander's Former Holiday Inn in Tarboro, North Carolina Becomes Best Western The Ritz-Carlton, Philadelphia Appoints Iman P. Butler as Director of Sales and Marketing August 13, 2009 Helen E. Wallace Joins TravelCLICK as Chief Financial Officer; Company expands leadership as it positions for next level of growth A Sales Self-evaluation test for General Managers Public Weighs in on Point Molate $1.2 billion Casino Proposal in Richmond, California Stamford Marriott Claims Woman Was Negligent in Her Own Rape; Hotel Being Sued by Woman Raped in its Parking Garage Developer Marlon Phoenix Seeking Memphis City Approval for 298-room Hotel Across from FedExForum AH&LA Recognizes Jim Durbin, GM of the San Diego Marriott Gaslamp Quarter, with the 2009 Outstanding General Manager of the Year, Large Property Award Ghost Sightings Still Going Strong! Strange and Annoying Occurrences Part of the Historic Appeal at Punderson Manor Resort & Conference Center in Ohio Hospitality Upgrade Magazine Reports Record-Breaking Attendance for Annual Meeting of Hospitality Industry's Top Technology Leaders; The eighth annual CIO Summit will be held September 9-11, 2009 at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts Two Hotel Transactions Close in One Week for Busy HREC Team IHG Selects Newmarket International's Hospitality Solutions to Drive Revenue Growth, Customer Satisfaction at Properties Worldwide; Newmarket International's MeetingBroker Lead Management Solution and Delphi.Net Sales and Catering Applications to help maximize sales performance across the global IHG enterprise innRoad and InnLink CRS Join Forces to Centralize Global Distribution, Web Bookings and Hotel Operations; Unique single platform enables independent hoteliers to compete more cost-effectively for customers Slump Hurts LakeTahoe Tourism Industry; Reno-Tahoe International Airport Passenger Count Down 19.4% Through June Hotel Tax Revenue for Monterey County Declines 11.6%; Pebble Beach, Carmel Valley and Big Sur Hotels Provide the Biggest Hit Rivers Casino Nets $1.29 million in Eighteen Hours, Third Highest Opening Day in Pennsylvania History Magnolia Hotels Secures Management Contract on Historic LaSalle Hotel in Bryan/College Station, Texas Pan Pacific Hotels Group Appoints Mark Losi and Ian Ekers to General Manager Posts Bill Dowling Named Director of Sales & Conference Services for Soon-to-Open Oasis Hotel Near Montgomery, Alabama August 12, 2009 Award Winning 4-Diamond Luxury Stephanie Inn Implements Integrated Maestro PMS to Centralize and Automate High-Touch Service; Stephanie Inn marries personalized guest service with high-tech Maestro system to enhance guest history tracking, boost profits and reduce cost with increased efficiencies Four Points by Sheraton Columbus Ohio Airport Among First to Open with High-Definition Satellite TV; Broadband Hospitality Provides Complete TV, Internet Package Hospitality Industry Hall of Honor to Induct Best Western Founder, M.K. Guertin and Houston Restaurant Family, the Pappas Brothers PMWorks Adds Efficiency, Capital Savings for Hotels; Preventive maintenance solution from MTech is helping to keep property service and product levels high while saving on equipment repair and replacement costs Trump Jr. Throws Party for Buyers at Trump Tower in Waikiki Despite Ongoing Legal Battles Between Buyers and Developer Irongate Capital The Mindset of the 2010 Business Plan - Survival Mode or Recovery Mode? / Carol Verret Increasing Your Hotel's Website Position on Google Does not Have to Break the Bank Mastering The Art of Online Sales Through Hotel Website Content The Fairmont San Francisco Restoring its 6,000 sq ft Penthouse Suite; Spanning the Entire 8th Floor of the Main Building the Nightly Room Rate Will be $15,000 Uday Lele's Clearwater, Florida Condo Tower/Hotel Projects Facing Foreclosure; Claims Being Duped by Lehman Brothers Las Vegas Visitor Volume Falls for 13th Month in a Row Prepping Future Chefs: Four Postsecondary Culinary Schools in Las Vegas Offer their Own Little Niches It Is All About the Culture -- the Service Culture / William Orili Augusta, Georgia Could Lose $25 million Planned Hyatt if City Commissioners Don't End Stalemate Over Events Center C.W. Clark's Planned 196-room Marriott Hotel in Escondido, California Could be Resurrected Sporting Events Continue to Help Hotels Through Tough Times in Kentucky Following in the Footsteps of Several other U.S. Presidents, President Obama and his Family will Visit Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Canyon The ProHost® Housekeeping System Has Been Selected for the 408 room W South Beach Developer David Masse Continues Renovation Program at the Holiday Inn Select Boston/Woburn The Hilton Asheville Details Steps of its Claim Toward Eco-Stewardship; Atop the Hotel is One of North Carolina's First Hotel Solar Water Heating Systems From Wags to Riches; Former Shelter Dog Lands Top Spot as Director of Pet Relations at Kimpton's Oceanfront Vero Beach Hotel & Spa Magnolia Hotels Gains Approval to Manage LaSalle Hotel & Cafe, Bryan, Texas Jesta Group, Groupe Canvar and Wyndham Hotels and Resorts Open 486-room Wyndham Montréal Aéroport Alliance Hospitality and Armada Hoffler Joint Venture Open the 137-room Hilton Garden Inn Blacksburg, Virginia Hilton Hotels Names Aaron Radelet Vice President, Global Communications and Public Relations David Taylor Appointed Director of Sales and Marketing The Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park Wyndham Hotel Group's Tracy Plumstead Appointed to Chair Educational Institute's Certification Commission August 11, 2009 Twitter or Not to Twitter; Time Waster or Lead Generator? / Cindy Estis Green Resorts World at Sentosa Selects Software Suite from Agilysys; Singapore Mega-Resort Implements Point-of-Sale, Materials Management Solutions Victor Vesnaver Joins Senior Management at PAR Springer-Miller Systems Practical Alternatives to Hotel Closings - Intense, Pro-active Asset Management The Spring and Summer Not Kind to the Delano Hotel, a Miami Market Leader, as Occupancy Drops 20 Points Pro Golfers In the Twin Cities for the PGA Championship Pass Up Hotels in Favor of Private Homes Family Caught with 63 Towels from Sheraton Moriah Eilat Hotel: "We didn't steal - we just took the towels like everyone else." Despite New Casino Openings, Atlantic City Casino Revenue Down 12.7 % in July Morgans Hotel Group Reports a 2nd Qtr 2009 Net Loss Attributable to Common Stockholders of $10.1 million; RevPAR Decreased 39.5% Compared to the 2nd Qtr 2008, Occupancy Drops by 12.5% / Hotel Operating Statistics Kemper Development Company Completes $185 Million Expansion of the Hyatt Regency Bellevue; Adds 351 Room Tower and 60,000 square feet of Event Space InterContinental Hotels Reports a 2nd Qtr 2009 Net Loss of $56 million Compared with a Net Income of $101 million in the Year-earlier Period; Total Revenue Off 27.2%, Global RevPAR Declined 18.6% Hotels: How to Make Social Media Make You Money Boston Harbor Hotel Puts Best Foot Forward with Stone and Brass Restoration from Stuart Dean; Hospitality's leading restoration and maintenance company suggests scheduled preventive maintenance for hard-surface stone and restoring finishes on precious metals Leverage Blended Search and Boost your Hotel's Search Ranking Position This Week on VFM Leonardo's VTV: Experiential Marketing - What It Is and Isn't; Educational video blog featuring weekly interviews with hotel and travel industry experts launches new episode Zhejiang Huafon Real Estate Development Co. Ltd Signs Hilton to Manage a 300 room Hotel within the Dicara Golden Tower in Qianjiang New City of Hangzhou Halim Group Advancing Plans for a $260 Redevelopment Proposal for Melbourne's Hotel Windsor, Australia's Only 19th Century Grand Hotel Four Seasons Resort Hualalai Completes $40-million Enhancement, New Suites, Expanded Spa and Beachfront Dining Riviera Holdings Continues Talks with Creditors as $13.5 million Loss Reported Marin County, California Traffic Impacts Studied for Proposed Redevelopment of 85 Acre Richmond Hotels/Casino Distinguished International® Hotels: Packages to Europe Starting at $170 Douglas Dreher Appointed CEO of The Hotel Group Thirty-Five-Year Hospitality Professional, Clyde Guinn Named President of Days Inn by Wyndham Hotel Group Michelle Santiago Fuller Named Director of Sales and Marketing for Hilton Bellevue in Washington by The Dow Hotel Company Martin Armistead to Lead EMEA Development for Wyndham Hotel Group August 10, 2009 Bank Files a $51.9 million Foreclosure Action on the 284-room Lake Lawn Resort in Delavan, Wisconsin The Coeur d'Alene Resort Site of Two Deadly Falls from the 12th Floor Three Hotels Defy Economy, Open in Downtown Long Beach, California Mexico Hit Hard in Terms of Tourism Demand Over the Past Three Months But a Sharp Rebound in Tourism Activity Likely Over the Next Two Years Caribbean Hotel Profits Hit Hard by Economic Recession Web Site Lets Home Owners Turn Homes into Hotels The Owner of the Historic Prince Charles Hotel in Downtown Fayetteville, North Carolina Faulted for Hotel's Decline 500 Rutgers Students To Live for a Semester in 250-rooms at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Somerset, New Jersey Hotel Common Sense -Effective Sales Management: Short and Long-term Planning, Forecasting, and Expense Budgeting / part 2 of 2 / Dr John Hogan / August 2009 Greenwood Hospitality Group Launches Investment and Management Firm Ariane Systems Group Awarded Government Funding to Develop Mobile Self-service Platform for Hospitality Industry CARINO Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Announces Hotel Berlin, Berlin to Adopt New GDS Chain Code; Four-Star Property to Take New Code "UN" as part of Luxury Hotel Group's Effort to Track Sources of All Reservations, Provide Maximum Exposure for Properties Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 115 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database Through the Eyes of a Hotel Butler: Creating Points of Remembrance for the Hotel Guest / Osvaldo Torres Cruz After a Fifteen-Year Run, Ruth's Chris on Flamingo in Las Vegas Closing; Loss of 400 Conventions and a 48% Decline in Business to Blame Trump Entertainment, Which Lost Out on a Bid for a Philadelphia Casino License in 2006, Slams Proposed Change to Casino Law in Pennsylvania Two Hoteliers in Bar Harbor, Maine Pull A Lot of Clout with the City's Lodging Business Trinity Hotel Investors Selects Sage Hospitality to Manage Three Branded Seattle Hotels Marshall Hotels & Resorts, Inc. to Manage The Inn at Pocono Manor in Pennsylvania Ron Lamers Appointed General Manager of The St. Regis, Houston John Johnston Appointed President, Raffles Hotels & Resorts, also, Nicholas Emery Named General Manager of Raffles L'Ermitage Beverly Hills Crestline Hotels & Resorts Appoints Richard T. Kolinsky as General Manager for the Hilton Garden Inn & Homewood Suites Hotels Baltimore, Maryland Matt Brody of JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort & Spa Begins Third Term on MPI Board of Directors August 7, 2009 Pritzker Family Politics Likely Driving Hyatt's IPO; Hyatt Has Sterling Balance Sheet, No Need to Raise Cash An Incident Involving a Prankster, a Guest and an Employee Occurred at the Homewood Suites by Hilton Lexington, Kentucky; Might be Connected to International Prank-Calling Ring Former Amfac Exec Robert Svoboda Dies at 83; Had Vital Role in Creation of First Hotel Timeshare, the Hilton Hale Kaanapali in the Mid 1960s Sheraton Kansas City Sports Complex Hotel Evicts 48 Chaperones and Members of a Youth Dance Team Over Noise Complaints; Director of the All Black Team Plans to Sue for Discrimination Owners of the to be Auctioned Hawthorn Suites Hotel in Chelmsford, Massachusetts File an $8 million Lawsuit Against UMass Lowell for Allegedly Reneging on Deal to Lease Hotel for Student Housing Retired Vice President of Walt Disney World Resort Lee Cockerell Speaks on Leadership and Management Competency Foxwoods Resort Casino Settles Personal Injury Suit Over a Valet-parking Accident for $2.9 million High End Downtown Minneapolis Restaurants Suffer from Economy and Location; Four Closed in Two Months; Two Others File for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Designed by Architect Cesar Pelli, the 189 room St. Regis Mexico City Opens Dakota Mountain Lodge & Golden Door Spa Opens in Park City, Utah; First Ski Property for The Waldorf Astoria Collection Travel Technology Group and Ambassadors Merge to Form the Most Experienced Partner in Event Housing Management; Two Industry Power Houses Come Together to Redefine Event Housing Management 300-room Oasis Hotel at Victoryland, Near Montgomery, Alabama to Open November 1, 2009; Rusti Price Named General Manger HFTP Announces New Schedule for 2010 Annual Convention & Tradeshow Jean-Georges Vongerichten Opening a Market by Jean-Georges at the W Boston Hotel Ridge Road Group LLC Opens Doors of Staybridge Suites, Buffalo, New York A Joint Venture by Junior Patel, Hammond Patel and Neil Patel Open the 61-room Comfort Suites, Sybene, Ohio While Ameristar Casinos Strengthened its Balance Sheet, Profits Still Fall 16 Percent Jeffrey Poirot & Jenna Arin Named General Managers for AKA Central Park and AKA Times Square, a Division of Korman Communities Global Spectrum Names David Hicks as General Manager for Las Cruces, New Mexico Convention Center Benchmark Hospitality Names Jill Hare-Lewandowski Director of Sales for Eaglewood Resort & Spa, Itasca, Illinois Marco Capocci Appointed Hotel Manager at the Baglioni Hotel London Juan Carlos Gonzalez Appointed Director of Travel Industry Sales for the Regent Palms in Turks and Caicos Cathy Hsu, Associate Director and Professor of the School of Hotel and Tourism Management at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Recipient of the John Wiley & Sons Lifetime Research Achievement Award August 6, 2009 VIZERGY® Webinar - Free Expert Advice from the Leaders in Search Marketing / Internet Marketing: How to Drive Website Traffic Hyatt Hotels Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering How to Optimize Your Hotel Website for Natural Search The Developers of Nail Bay Resort and Mooney Bay Estates Sign Deal with Taj Hotels to Develop a Taj Exotica Resort on Virgin Gorda in The British Virgin Islands Historic Roanoke Hotel, the Patrick Henry, Auctioned for $2 million; Winning Bidder, and Only Bidder, Was the Lender FelCor Reports a Net loss Applicable to Common Stockholders of $20.9 million for 2009 2nd Qtr Compared to Net Income of $13.6 million in the Year-ago Quarter; RevPAR Decreased 20.6% on Portfolio of 85 Hotels / Hotel Operating Statistics by Brand Strategic Hotels & Resorts Reports 2nd Qtr Net Loss Attributable to Common Shareholders of $86.0 million Compared with Net Income $10.6 million for the Prior Year Same Period; North American RevPAR Decreased 28.7% Red Lion Reports Net income of $1.8 million for 2nd Qtr 2009, Compared to Net Income of $2.3 million for the Prior-year Period; RevPAR Down 12.6% / Hotel Statistics U.S. Virgin Island Tourism Officials Optimistic Despite 14.4% YTD Decline in Visitors; Hotel Occupancy Rates Averaged 59.6% in April 2009 South Dakota Tourism Numbers Holding Steady: YTD Hotel Occupancy Rates Off Less than 1% From Previous Year Seeking Companies / Restaurants to Complete a Request for Information to Operate the Café and Catering Services at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum and Library in Springfield, Illinois Pacifica Capital & Brokerage, Inc. Gets Their Clients $GREEN$ via SBA's New Financing Initiative VFM Leonardo Expands VNetwork™ to Include Travel Deals & Sales Consumer Site Voyij.com; VFM Leonardo enables hoteliers to better merchandise their properties to travel shoppers on Voyij.com (recently launched by the creators of SideStep.com) by providing the site with hotel photos, virtual tours and videos Offering Interactivity and Personalized Info for Mobile Trip Planning; In-Depth: Making the most of mobile phones' intrinsic features Uniguest Named a 2009 Nashville Area Chamber Future 50 Winner; Award identifies and recognizes 50 fastest-growing, privately held companies in Middle Tennessee India'a Tourism Ministry Mandates All Hotels Classified Between One and Five Stars to Facilitate Basic Access and Stay for Disabled People Choice Hotels Opens 62 Franchised Properties During June 2009 in 26 States and 5 Countries The Beverly Hills Hotel Appoints 3 Executives Including Alex Chen to Executive Chef Dan Bayne and Ann Ikuta Join Aqua Hotels & Resorts Sales Team August 5, 2009 Baltimore, Maryland's Building Boom Ends for New Hotels: BWI Aloft is County's 18th Hotel Since 2002 and Could be the Last One for Years The Only Differentiator Left in the Guest Experience Is Service The Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles to Close September 30, 2009, Will Undergo a Major Refurbishment Maximize Your 2010 Marketing Budget with an Online Marketing Strategy; Your Internet Presence is Responsible for 30 to 50 Percent of your Property's Revenue A 91% Decline in Wynn Resorts Profits are no Cause for Concern: Still Produce a Profit and Company Shares Surge After Report Top 10 Group Events for North America and the Selected Market - Philadelphia for Month of June 2009 / Knowland Group Peoria's $102 million Public/private Marriott Hotel Project Remains in Financing Limbo Interstate Hotels & Resorts Moves to a 2nd Qtr Loss of $6.7 million from a Profit of $100,000 in the Year-earlier Period; RevPAR Falls 21.4% to $81.81 at Managed hotels During the 2nd Qtr / Hotel Operating Statistics CARINO Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Announces Amalfi Hotel Chicago to Adopt New GDS Chain Code; Chicago 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 Cap Juluca Selects UniFocus' GUESTScope™; Top-Ranked Caribbean Resort Treats Guests like Royalty: UniFocus' Advanced Survey Analytics Relate Satisfaction to Bottom-Line Forestdale Hotels Installs RateTiger to maintain rate parity and reservations on Expedia Distinguished International® Hotel Members Offer Array of Promotions & Packages Lawsuit Settlement of $42.5 million Plays Factor in Las Vegas Sands Net Loss HSMAI and Dragon Trail Organize First Travel and Tourism Social Media Boot Camp in China - Set for August 17, 2009 in Beijing Salamander Resort & Spa, Opening in March 2011, Continually Looking for Innovative Ways to Enhance Guest Experience, While Maintaining Sensitivity to the Environment Realstar Hospitality Opens 90-Room Days Inn Hotel in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada John Q. Hammons Appoints Executive Team for the 230-room Marriott Bloomington - Normal Hotel & Conference Center; Jeff Pritts Named General Manager Chuck Sullivan Joins Hilton as Senior Vice President Global Online Services; Joins Hilton from Chrysler Group LLC., Where He Was Head of Marketing - Delivery Best Western Promotes Mike Durazo to Director, Online Client Solutions, Hires Lawrence Cuculic as Vice President, General Counsel Paul Owens Appointed Executive Chef at the Spice Island Beach Resort, Grenada August 4, 2009 Lenders, Here's Why Mothballing a Hotel Can be a Very Bad Idea / Jim Butler Dismissal of Bankruptcy for Upscale Vineyards Resort, Yakima, Washington Would Mean Foreclosure; Creditor Stark Onshore Master Holding Seeks to Collect $12.9 million Delinquency CityCenter Debut Draws More Interest than MGM's $212.6 million Quarterly Loss City of Owensboro, Kentucky Receives Five Proposals for $20-$30 million Downtown Hotel Venture Driftwood Hospitality Management Appointed by Receiver to Manage Guest Suites of Boca Raton and Radisson Hotel & Suites - Dallas Love Field Airport Aimbridge Hospitality Expands Portfolio with Two New Management Contracts; Aimbridge continues aggressive growth despite troubled economy Last Days to Register - Social Networks as a Hotel Sales Tool - Web Cast August 7, 2009 Distressed? Looking to Maximize Revenue? Champ Hospitality LP is Leading the Way; Led by veteran hoteliers Joe Champ and Charlie Maas, the hotel development services and consulting group unveils a "Revenue Maximization Plan" for Special Servicers, Owners and Lenders Tristar Hotel Group Offering Revenue Management and Online tools for Struggling Hotels; Ownership and management company develops online 'RM3' revenue management service and 'HMOnline.com' training and resources for any hotel looking to increase revenues, improve operational efficiencies, and enhance guest satisfaction PSAV Partners to Launch 'Tradeshow on Demand'; Leading event-technology company partners with creative production company to allow the broadcasting of expos and conventions worldwide in order to expand the reach and increase exhibitor and attendee value Roomlinx Completes Seven Hotel installations in Eight Weeks With Interactive TV; Rapidly Expands in Chicago, including theWit and Second Kessler Property Travelscream Names Former Google Sales Leader Carrie Fabris as Vice President, Sales VFM Leonardo Expands VNetwork™ to Include Gekko.com; The largest distributor of visual content for hotels worldwide expands distribution network to enable hotels to display their photos in front of more prospective guests online on unique hotel recommendation website, Gekko.com Hotel Common Sense - Effective Sales Management: Short and Long-term Planning, Forecasting, and Expense Budgeting / Dr John Hogan Canyon Capital Realty Advisors to Put Cal Neva Resort, in Lake Tahoe, Once Owned by Frank Sinatra, Up for Sale Integrated Capital LLC Completes $20 million Renovation for Marriott in Overland Park, Missouri Accor Asia Pacific Expansion Continues with Five New Pullman Hotels in China, Thailand and Vietnam Langham Hotels International Signs Management Contract with Bangkok Mass Transit System to Manage Two New Properties; The Langham and Langham Place to be Introduced Simultaneously in Thailand Sunstone Hospitality Management Contracts with Pinnacle Hotels to Manage Doubletree Hotel Austin - University Area Great Wolf Resorts Reports 2nd Qtr 2009 Net loss of $5.7 million Compared to a Net Loss of $4.1 million for the Same Period a Year Earlier / Hotel Operating Statistics Hotel Equities Celebrates Grand Opening of the Courtyard by Marriott-Buford, Georgia Delhi Based Business Parks and Town Planners to Build 500-Room Hotel for Hyatt India Consultancy in Noida, India The Crowne Plaza Changi Airport Singapore Completes Year-Long 'Earthcheck' Assessment Provided by the Non-profit Organisation, EC3 Chris Hettinger Named Executive Chef at Tarrytown House Estate and Conference Center, Tarrytown, New York August 3, 2009 VIZERGY® - One of the 50 Fastest Growing Private Companies in NE Florida; Hotel Internet Marketing Company Honored for Rapid Growth Chip Conley, Founder of Joie de Vivre Hotels, Has Built Empire by Working to Make People Happy Hotel Selling: Grab the Low Hanging Fruit / John Davies The Greenbrier and Marriott Fail to Reach a Marketing Agreement; New Owner Jim Justice Pays Agreed Upon $7.5 million Break Up Fee The Extended Stay Hotel Brand, Staybridge Suites, Taps Students at the Savannah College of Art and Design to Create a New Look for its Rooms Conde Nast Publications Sues the Turks and Caicos Tourist Board Seeking to Recover Over $1 million dollars in Unpaid Advertising The Bank Foreclosing on Downtown Stockton's Lexington Plaza Waterfront Hotel Putting the Hotel Up for Public Auction; The Former Sheraton, Built in 2007, Cost $62 million The Superstition Mountain Golf and Country Club Near Phoenix Set For Auction August 11; Hosted the LPGA Safeway International Tournament for Five Years Computer Illustrations of Dallas' New 1,000 room Convention Hotel Do Not Dazzle Some Architecture Critics Pacifica Capital & Brokerage, Inc. Arranges Purchase Financing for Ramada Plaza Hotel Seeking position as a Front Office Manager: Previous experience with Kempinski and Starwood hotel chains. Speak fluent Russian and German. Bachelor degree in Hospitality Management VFM Leonardo Launches VTV The $15 million Sale Transferring Ownership of the 252-room Doubletree Hotel from the Procaccianti Group to the UMass Building Authority Completed; UMass Lowell Plans to House up to 350 Students in th Renovated Hotel UniFocus Now on Twitter; Follow Us Today! Twitter Presence Grows Awareness of How Hoteliers are Building Value TG Renovations Surpasses $700 million in Hospitality Work; Industry Experts Forecast Increased Demand for Hotel Renovation Services IDM Group Takes on Expanded Day-to-day Management of The Delafield Hotel in Delafield, Wisconsin True North Hotel Group Opens Four Marriott-branded Hotels; All Financed Before the Recent Financing Fiasco Duane Schroder Appointed Director of Operations for the Mystic Marriott Hotel & Spa in Groton, Connecticut François Sigrist as General Manager of Parkroyal Penang in Malaysia Benchmark Hospitality Appoints Stephen Weber Director of Sales at the Downtown Conference Center in Manhattan Top 25 Read Articles - July 2009 Former Marriott Director of Finance, Shannon Harp, Charged with Wire Fraud Involving $2 million Theft A Response to the News about Starwood's Discounting Strategy: Filling Rooms at Any Cost Is Not The Answer To Our Problems Ben Novack Jr., C.E.O. of Convention Concepts Unlimited, Found Dead in His Hilton Hotel Room in Rye Brook, New York Prank Call Convinces Hotel Guest to Do $5K in Damage; Similar Pranks Reported Across the Country Social Media: Marketing Magic or Madness / John Davies Five Alternatives to Discounting Prices New Wedding Trends for 2009 Impact the Way Couples Plan Their Big Day; Hilton Family of Hotels Launches Wedding Resource Warrant Reveals New Details in Mysterious Slaying of Convention Planner Ben Novack Jr. Global Update: Who's Where and Doing What / July 2009 When the Recovery Comes, What Will it Look Like for the Hotel Industry? / Jim Butler Front Desk Hotel Training Can Generate Future Business / Doug Kennedy Social Media for the Savvy Hotel Sales Manager / Susan Deluzain Barry In Many U.S. Markets Hotel Room Prices for Groups versus TransientTravelers Are Upside Down, a Phenomenon that's Unsustainable $500 million W Hotel Set to Open in South Beach, Florida, For $12,000 a Night You Too Can be "Wowed" But What Keeps Them Coming Back? One Couple Dines at the Democracy Grille in the Bethesda Marriott Suites Seven Days a Week for Four years - or 1,460 Meals Value Place - A Hotel / Apartment Fusion The Value Place Franchise Model is Carving a Distinctive Niche in the Extended-stay Hotel Market Founders of Hotels.com Launch New Hotel Booking Site; Getaroom.com Provides Benefits of Opaque Pricing without Keeping Travelers in the Dark Marketing & Revenue Management Plan 2010 -- The Most Difficult Plan You Will Ever Do Orlando-Area Hotels Reel From Year of Bad News, Recovery From Worst Downturn for US Hoteliers in Decades Nowhere in Sight Placing the TripAdvisor Review Widget on Your Hotel Website: a Good or Bad Move? / Max Starkov 5-Star Employees / Bryan Williams St. Regis Monarch Beach Taken Over by Citigroup; Resort Where AIG Held Sales Junket Is Foreclosed, Will Continue Operations Under St. Regis' Management Despite Deep Discounts on Room Rates, Hawai'i Hotel Occupancy During May 2009 the Worst Since at Least 1987 Las Vegas Nightclubs Suddenly Find that Benign Neglect of their Customer's Behavior May Affects their Bottom Lines A Perfect Sellout for a Hotel Is Similar to a Perfect Game in Baseball; Perfection Requires Entire Team Effort / Gregg Marzano July 30, 2009 JDA Software and QL2 Announce Teaming Agreement to Provide Solutions that Combine Revenue Optimization and Real-Time Market Reference Data; Highly Competitive Retail, Hospitality, Rental Car, Passenger Rail and Airlines Industries to Benefit from Alliance Six Reasons Your Revenue Management System Isn't Working / Jean Francois Mourier Hotels Show Renewed Interest in Life Science Industry Meetings / David M. Brudney Old Fashioned Face-to-face Contact During the Greenbelt Marriott's Lobby Tradition Hour Helps Keep Rooms Full To Make Hotel Training Work, Make It Fun! / Doug Kennedy Coastal Marina L.L.C. Files Suit in Attempt to Recover $17 million Deposit for Trump's Atlantic City Casinos Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Continues Fight Against "Destination Discrimination" Jakarta Bombings Fail to Discourage Tourists from the UAE Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants $65 million, 202-Room Luxury Hotel Monaco Baltimore Opens in Baltimore, Maryland Nakheel Hotels Opens the W Washington D.C.; W's Edgy Design Style Super-imposed on the the Former Hotel Washington Building, Jean-Georges Vongerichten Opens the J&G Steakhouse Owners Andre Surreys and Ron Sutherland Appoint Grace Bay Resorts to Manage the $80 million Veranda Resort & Residences in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Building a New Era in Hospitality Education: Kirkwood Community College's Lee Belfield Embraces Host of Opportunities and Challenges as New $24 million Teaching Hotel Emerges in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Choice Hotels Reports Second Quarter 2009 Net Income of $25.5 million Just Slightly Lower than $27 million Earned in the Same Quarter Last Year, Total Revenue Fell 14% to $143.3 million / Brand Operating Statistics Hospitality eBusiness Strategies (HeBS) Announces Hotel Indigo New York City-Chelsea Website Launch Warmbrodt Hotel Investments - WHI Selected to Advise in the Sale of the American Inn and the American Motel Located in Greater Kansas City The ProHost® Housekeeping System Has Been Selected for the 298 room Westin Fort Lauderdale TeleAdapt Becomes Associate Member of Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG); Membership Opens Doors for More Wireless Multi-Media Technology in the Hotel Room Benchmark Says The Northland Inn Will Remain Open for Business Baltimore, Maryland's Hotel Projects Look Bright for Future One of Australia's Most Iconic Properties, Cradle Mountain Lodge, Joins Accor's MGallery Collection Noble Investment Group Completes Comprehensive Upgrade of the Hilton Birmingham Perimeter Park in Alabama, $7 Million Enhancement Includes the Addition of Steele's Restaurant Unsightly and Unfinished Pittsburg Hilton May be Cloaked for G-20 Summit in September Pittsburg Hilton Hotel Owners Shubh Hotels LLC Apologize for Delay in Finishing Addition Lexington, Kentucky Hotels Expand and Renovate for World Equestrian Games Value Place Opens First of Five Planned Properties in Knoxville, Tennessee Dr. Michael Olsen and Professor John Drysdale to Receive Lifetime Academic Achievement Awards From The School of Hospitality Business Alumni Association at Michigan State University Caribbean Alliance for Sustainable Tourism (CAST) Re-Elects Sir Royston O. Hopkin as Chairman for Fourth Consecutive Term Committed to the Environment, Naya, the InterContinental San Juan's Adopted Sea Turtle, Swims for a Cause July 29, 2009 AboutAnywhere.com's Hotel Partners Now Tweet Complete Rankings for Customer Satisfaction Across Six Hotel Segments; Despite Industry Downturn, Satisfaction With Hotels Increases According to J.D. Power and Associates Warrant Reveals New Details in Mysterious Slaying of Convention Planner Ben Novack Jr. Parent Company of Station Casinos Files Chapter 11; Owners Colony Capital and the Fertitta Family Seek to Restructure $5.7 billion in Debt When the Recovery Comes, What Will it Look Like for the Hotel Industry? / Jim Butler Northland Inn, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota Moves Closer to Foreclosure; Benchmark Hospitality Appointed Receiver Carlson CEO Hubert Joly Takes Over Leadership of Carlson Hotels Worldwide, Replacing Jay Witzel; Thorsten Kirschke Named Chief Operating Officer of Carlson Hotels - Americas Wyndham Worldwide Reports a 28% Drop in 2nd Qtr 2009 Net Income - $71 million down from $98 million a Year Earlier; RevPAR Falls 14.7% Systemwide / Hotel Brand Operating Statistics Interstate Hotels & Resorts Along With Owners, Amana Hospitality, LLC, Open Re-Branded and Newly Renovated Crowne Plaza Milwaukee Airport Frasers Hospitality Pte Ltd Sets Pace with First Vietnam Property, 170-Unit Fraser Suites Hanoi; Lakeside Property Sets New Standards in Serviced Apartment/Extended Stay Sophistication Davidson Hotel Company to Re-Open and Manage Oxford Development Company's Renovated Doubletree Pittsburgh/Monroeville Convention Center Hotel in Pennsylvania Hotel Common Sense -Recognizing There is More than One Approach to Ongoing Success in Building Revenues McLaren International Distributes Libra OnDemand in Asia Pacific; "Best of breed" technology provider McLaren International will bring leading Customer Relationship Management tools to hotels across the Asia Pacific region Dan Graveline, Executive Director of Georgia World Congress Center to Retire Some Worry that "Hotel Mania" in Madison, Wisconsin Could Have Downside Dayton (Ohio) Convention Center Feeling Economic Pinch as Groups Cut Back on Convention and Conference Spending Provost Groups Purchase Agreement Boosts Hopes for Convention Center Hotel in Kennewick, Washington Pinnacle Entertainments Sale of Rival Stock Ameristar Generates a Profit Report of $4.7 million for Second Quarter West Broad Village Aloft Hotel Owners Win Round in Court Against Site Developer For Hotels in Sarasota Springs, New York, Race Season Could be Winner: Rooms Hard to Find as Occupancy Rates Rise Along with Prices John Campbell Named Food and Beverage Director for Dorchester Collection's New Country House Estate and Spa, Coworth Park, UK July 28, 2009 "OTA's Should Earn Their Commissions Just Like a Traditional Travel Agent Does" AboutAnywhere.com on the Hotel-OTA Relationship Executive Summary of the 2nd Qtr U.S. Hotel Construction Pipeline; Cancellations and Postponements at Record High of 507 Hotels/76,726 Rooms Owners of the Soon to Open Aloft Hotel in Richmond, Virginia Take to Court the Site Developer for Not Completing Access Roads and Parking Garage "Times are Tough - We're Tougher"; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Tourism Officials Plan for Tough Fight with New Campaign Report Prince Hotels Ordered to Pay $290 million yen (US $3.067 million) for Refusing Teachers Union Annual Meeting at the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa Opened in 1964, the Honolulu's Legendary Kahala Hotel Completes $52 million Renovation Carlson Hotels Adds 33 New Properties Spanning 13 Countries in the Second Quarter of 2009 Social Networks as a Hotel Sales Tool - Web Cast Travel Tripper Helps San Francisco's Parc 55 Drive Revenues Amidst Tough Economy; RezTrip™ Booking Engine leverages downtown hotel's own website to drive production by more than 46%, revenues by more than 33% PSAV Partners With X20 Media to Bring True End-to-End Digital Signage Solution to Hospitality Industry McLaren International Distributes Libra OnDemand in Asia Pacific; "Best of breed" technology provider McLaren International will bring leading Customer Relationship Management tools to hotels across the Asia Pacific region Eldorado and Silver Legacy Hotel Casinos Use NEC's Hospitality Solutions to Enhance Employee and Guest Experiences; Nevada resorts create a positive environment for guests and staff through seamless communications integration Interstate Hotels & Resorts Successfully Appeals NYSE Ruling, Scheduled to Resume Trading on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Meetings & Events Industry Leader Joins PSAV; Darren Temple to serve as Executive Vice President of Global Sales Michael Gallegos and Raul Leal Elected to Hispanic Hotel Owners Association Board of Directors 20 Reasons to Exhibit at HSMAI'S Affordable Meetings® National and Event Technology Expo™ Recession Slows Seaside, California's Hotel and Commercial Development to a Trickle North County Development, LLC to Present Plans for 376 Acre Casino/Hotel Complex in St. Louis, Missouri Overton Hotel & Conference Center Staff in Lubbock, Texas Prepare for "Soft Launch" as Center Nears Completion McKibbon Hotel Management Set to Open the Aloft Tallahassee Downtown; Cara Hardiman the Opening GM Yasmeen Sarwar Named Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Grace Bay Resorts, Turks and Caicos July 27, 2009 hotel SystemsPro Announces Account Saturation Tool to Increase Revenue and Focus Sales Activity on Top Accounts; hotel SalesPro's New Web-Based Sales Tool Automates the 80/20 Rule for Streamlined Account Qualification and Management A Perfect Sellout for a Hotel Is Similar to a Perfect Game in Baseball; Perfection Requires Entire Team Effort / Gregg Marzano Hotel Loyalty Programs: Persistence Pays Off When Denied an Automatic Upgrade Regent Out at Bal Harbour, Florida Condo-hotel, the 124 room Hotel Renamed One Bal Harbour Resort & Spa Unfinished Microtel Inn & Suites Owner, Jim Sayed, Learns What Happens When the His Bank Lender Fails National Association of Black Hotel Owners, Operators and Developers are Urged to "Buy Now" Although Financing May be Difficult to Obtain 490-Room Paradise Tower Opens at Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas: Yale Rowe, General Manager States Hotel Near Capacity for Summer Home2 Suites by Hilton Identifies the Locations of the First 50 Signed Franchise Applications iStar Financial Appoints Aqua Hotels & Resorts to Manage the 350 room Hilton Kauai Beach Resort How Highly-Effective Hotel Managers Communicate With An Exptected Completed Value of $160 million, Royal Reef Resort at Sandy Point, North Caicos Reportedly for Sale for $37 million 6 Years Later, Pickets Stand Firm: About Half of the Congress Plaza Hotel Workers in Chicago, Illinois Refuse to Give Up Fight Stalled Landmark Hotel Developer, Halsey Minor, Charlottesville, Virginia Speaks Out Against Bank Subsidiary, Specialty Finance Group Hotels Hope Pranks Don't Fool Guests in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Structural Construction Inspectors for Harmon Hotel at CityCenter in Las Vegas Hit With Suspensions; Botched Inspections Result in 20 Floors of Hotel to Not be Built Summit City Holdings Outlines Preliminary Plans for $163 million Hotel, Waterpark and a Possible Casino in Downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana In Madison, Wisconsin Four Hotel Projects Are Postponed or Scrapped While Three Hotels Overcome Obstacles and Open Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 40 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database Recession, Identity and the Art of War / Jitendra Jain Knowland Begins Service in Dubai; Fast-growing Firm Expands Service to Middle East World Wide Fund for Nature Lends Financial Support to "Green" Thai Hotels in Effort to Aid Tourism Slump Shangri-La's Villingili Resort and Spa in the Maldives Opens; Jens Moesker the General Manager Justin D. Shelton Appointed President of Springwood Hospitality LLC July 24, 2009 Clean Up Your (Server) Room! And find some immediate cost saving hiding in plain sight / Lyle Worthington Pittsburgh Officials Pull Troubled Hilton Hotel's Building Permit Alleged Fraudster Allen Stanford's Stake in Luxury 245-Room Hotel Sorella in Houston, Texas Likely to Be Sold; Unable to Make Capital Call for Continued Construction The Outlook For Hotel Investments / Scott Smith Observations: Atlas Hospitality Group 2009 Mid-Year California Hotel Sales Survey / Jim Butler Mount Holly Partners LLC, the Promoter Developing Utah's Elk Meadows Ski Area Into an Exclusive Resort, Filed for Chapter 11; Had Business Plan Similar to that of the Yellowstone Club in Montana and Estimated to Cost over 3.5 billion dollars Prive' Nightclub at Vegas's Planet Hollywood Resort Being Forced to Close for Failure to Abide by the Duties of a Liquor Licensee; County's License Denial Came Hours After the Resort Paid a $500,000 Fine to State Gaming Regulators for Failing to Maintain Sufficient Control Over the Nightclub and Lounge Bank of America Prepares to Open the 146 room Ritz-Carlton, Charlotte; Bank Expects Half of the Rooms to Be Occupied by Employees, Vendors Richard Kessler Opens The Bohemian Hotel Savannah Riverfront, its the 2nd Kessler Hotel in His Hometown Benchmark Hospitality International a "Top 100 Privately Held Company in Houston"; In the Top 50, according to the Houston Chronicle EZYield.com Taps Apical Resource Group LLC for Recruiting Services; Apical's ability to provide executive level qualified candidates continues for hospitality technology leader SDI and TeleAdapt Sign New Distribution Agreement; TeleAdapt is now a distributor of iHome for the EMEA hospitality market American Hotel & Lodging Association Releases New Card Check Educational Video for Industry Employees Ocean Hospitalities Appointed Receiver for the Day's Inn in Watertown, New York Howard Dudley's $5 million Restoration of Liberty Hotel is Elegant Reminder of Cleburne, Texas' Past and Family's Hope for Future Baltimore, Maryland Hotels Appealing to Eco-Conscious Travelers Interstate Hotels & Resorts to Operate Joshi Hotel Group's Just Opened TownePlace Suites Bethlehem/Easton, Pennyslvania South San Francisco Voters to Decide on Proposed Hotel-Tax Hike Sanford, North Carolina Welcomes Dipak Patel's New Comfort Suites Hotel Caroline Czirr Named Corporate Director of Sales for Magnolia Hotels July 23,2009 New Technology Enhances Advertising to Travel Agents Who Book $8 Billion in Hotel Revenue; Tools by TravelCLICK and DoubleClick/Google enable dynamic rate update and measure the true reach of online ads targeted to travel agents TIG Global Launches New Series of Reports on Destination eMarketing Best Practices; First Report, 'Social Media and the DMO Marketer', Now Available to the Public Orlando-Area Hotels Reel From Year of Bad News, Recovery From Worst Downturn for US Hoteliers in Decades Nowhere in Sight Indian Hotels, Owners of Taj Brand Raise Top Brass Salaries by 20 to 30 Percent, Aim to Retain Talent Weighing-in On Hotel's Use of The TripAdvisor Tools / Neil Salerno Starwood Posts 2nd Qtr 2009 Net Income of $134 million, Includes a One Time $120 million Tax Benefit, Compared with $105 million a Year Earlier; REVPar Fell 25% in North America and 30% Internationally / Hotel Statistics Alaska's First Crowne Plaza Opens as First Full-Service Hotel Owned by Anchorage Hospitality, LLC, and Sixth Anchorage Property Managed by The Hotel Group Hotel Common Sense - A New Look at Awards and Recognition / Dr John Hogan LaSalle Hotel PropertiesNet Income for 2nd Qtr 2009 Drops 60% to $8.2 million from $20.5 million in the year-ago Period; RevPAR was $134.15, a Decrease of 22.6% While Occupancy Fell 7.9% to 74.7% Glenwood South Hospitality Seeks Rezoning for Proposed 157-Room Hampton Inn in Raleigh, North Carolina Opinion: Let it Go, City of Paducah, Kentucky Should Refocus, Recruit New Hotel Towne Park Acquries Avascend Healthcare Hospitality Based in Overland Park, Kansas Trust International Implements Trust\|Connect PMS Interface with protel for New Customer Classical Hotels Carlsbad, California City Council Approves 215-Room Hilton Hotel Project, the First in Beachfront Region Wood River, Illinois City Council Approves Funding for Aventurs Development, LLC's Proposed Development of 100-Room Holiday Inn Express ZMC Hotels Restructures Management Team for Duluth, Minnesota Based Operator of 30 Hotel Properties Hilton Americas-Houston Becomes First Green Seal Certified Property in Texas Hilton Hotel & Suites Niagara Falls Fallsview Opens its Doors on Major Expansion Changing Niagara Falls' Skyline Kinseth Hospitality Companies Assumes Management of Three Hotels, Including Kings Pointe Waterpark Resort in Storm Lake, Iowa Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints Bob Boyle Regional Director of Operations Steven Peterson Joins Hilton Hotels Corporation as Corporate Chef - Americas July 22, 2009 "We Look at Falling Prices as an Opportunity to Promote Great Prices" Orbitz Worldwide on Price Assurance and Pricing SynXis Expands Interface for its Hotel Customers to Connect Directly with Expedia Marketing to the Cell Phone Generation / Bill Geoghegan Omaha, Nebraska Hotels' Tax Valuations Rise as Occupancy Falls; 29 Hotels File Protests with the County The New Owners of the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas Forced to Go to Court to Use the Name "Tropicana" Without Paying Millions In Licensing Fee to Former Owner Successful Hotels Hire Successful Employees / Rick Welch Independents and Limited-Service Properties Growing In Consumer Popularity According to National Survey Famous Japanese Capsule Hotel; Remember Magic Fingers? / Stanley Turkel Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc., Owner of 113 Hotels, Reports a 2nd Qtr 2009 Net Loss of $69 million Compared to Net Income of $193 million for the Prior Year 2nd Qtr; Total Revenue Decreased $324 million, or 23.3% Rezidor 2nd Qtr 2009 Revenue Decreased by -21.9%; Focusing on Cash Protection and Growing Fee-based Managed and Franchised Rooms Ilikai Hotel Set to Reopen Following Agreement with UNITE HERE Local 5 for the Rehiring of 50 Employees; Hotel to be Managed by Hotel Management Services, LLC Unpaid Architect for the Hilton Pittsburgh Renovation Wants the City to Return Design Plans, a Move That Could Revoke Building Permit Houston's Hotel Sorella to be First in the US to Offer In-Room HD Stereo Bluetooth® Functionality Through New TeleAdapt MediaHub HD™; Wireless Audio Streaming Technology a First for In-Room Entertainment Penn State Hospitality Services Forms Strategic Alliance with UniFocus; MEETINGScope™ Survey Analytics Help Enhance Service Experience Ramada Brand Continues Growth in China Under Franchise Agreement with Chongqing Huadi Wangchao Hotel Co., Ltd. for Development of Two New Hotels in the Chongqing Municipality Las Vegas Style Casinos Put on Fall Ballot for Ohioans; Toledo Could Get $250 million Investment Madison, Wisconsin Mayor Dave Cieslewicz Marvels at City's Bevy of Hotels Projects; All Represent a Big Opportunity for Madison Pennsylvania Tourism & Lodging Association to Provide Hot Topic Webinars to Educate Hospitality Professionals Cosmopolitan Hotel Hong Kong as Hong Kong 2009 East Asian Games Athletes' Hotel David Casey Named New Director of Sales and Marketing at Hyatt Regency Bonaventure Conference Center & Spa July 21, 2009 Softscribe Inc.'s First Users Group Reveals Keen Tech Vendor Appetite for Social Media; Meetup of 30 people during HITEC represented 100% client attendance St. Regis Monarch Beach Taken Over by Citigroup; Resort Where AIG Held Sales Junket Is Foreclosed, Will Continue Operations Under St. Regis' Management Apex Enterprises Proposes a $100 million Mixed Use Project to Include 300-room Hotel on Lake Monona in Madison, Wisconsin Mortgage Holder, Shorebank Pacific, Receives No Bids at Forecloser Auction of the Columbia Gorge Hotel; Bank Now Considering a Managment Company to Reopen Historic Hotel in Hood River, Oregon The Murder Investigation of Convention Planner Ben Novack Jr. Looks at a Strange Home Invasion Reported to Police in 2002 Development Team Assembled to Build a Resort on a Secluded Island in Panama, the Resort at Isla Palenque 90% of United Auto Workers Dealers From Bally's and Caesars in Atlantic City, New Jersey Authorize Strike Marriott International Signs Management Agreement with Binh Minh Import Export Production and Trade Company, Ltd. to Open Its First Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam; 450-room JW Marriott Hotel Hanoi to Open in 2012 A Smaller Downtown Sacramento Hotel Plan May Compete for City Tax Breaks with Luxury Hotel Proposal Marshall Hotels & Resorts, Inc. Adds Five Management Contracts Including the 244-room Four Points by Sheraton Midtown-Times Square Expotel Hospitality Signs Management Contract with CLP Development Company to Operate the Future 142-room Crowne Plaza in Downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee With Sagging Finances Continuing Due to Poor Economy, Yet Another City Ponders Hotel-Tax Increase Xotels chooses ZDIRECT as eCRM Solution for its European Hotels Think Your Hotel Building Construction Means You Can't Offer Your Guests Wireless? Seven Multifamily Housing Operators Tap Rainmaker LRO TM Revenue Optimization System; The economy may be down, but interest in lease-rent revenue optimization system is up Days Inn Brand Now Present in all 50 States with Opening of Days Inn Maui Oceanfront The Soon to Open $56 million Marriott Hotel and Conference Center Previewed by Normal City, Illinois Council Members Mohegan Sun Places Bet on Table Games: Casino at Pocono Downs Will Expand Beyond Slot Machines Once Legislation Passes HSMAI Aims to Establish Sydney Chapter David Overton, Founder & CEO of The Cheesecake Factory, Named as 2009 Recipient of Council of Hotel and Restaurant Trainers' (CHART) Commitment to People Award Robert Webb Joins Hilton Hotels Corporation as Chief Information Officer Adriano Vences Named New Resident Manager for Marco Polo Hong Kong Hotel July 20, 2009 Legendary Luxury Hotel Leverages the Power of TravelCLICK's New Service to Build Communities on Facebook and Other Popular Sites; The Ritz London Selects TravelCLICK to Optimize Social Marketing A Response to the News about Starwood's Discounting Strategy: Filling Rooms at Any Cost Is Not The Answer To Our Problems / Jean Francois Mourier/Bruno Perez In Many U.S. Markets Hotel Room Prices for Groups versus Transient Travelers Are Upside Down, a Phenomenon that's Unsustainable White House Letter Should Put to Rest Notion that Government Workers Should Avoid Las Vegas Las Vegas Nightclubs Suddenly find that Benign Neglect of their Customer's Behavior May Affects their Bottom Lines But What Keeps Them Coming Back? One Couple Dines at the Democracy Grille in the Bethesda Marriott Suites Seven Days a Week for Four years-or 1,460 Meals 5-Star Employees - Part 1 / Bryan K. Williams Expanding The Convention Center in Philadelphia to 1,000,000 Sq Ft on Budget at $786 million; Group Bookings in 2011, 2012 and 2013 Looking Good $275 million Indianapolis Convention Center Expansion Progresses on Schedule; Will be Nations 16th Largest Convention Center Complex The 462-room Trump International Hotel Waikiki Beach Walk Opening Late Fall 2009; Includes Laurent Tourondel's BLT Steak Interstate Hotels & Resorts Signs Agreement with BIA Acquisitions to Manage 203-Room Holiday Inn Laredo Civic Center in Laredo, Texas The Historic Green Park Inn in Blowing Rock, North Carolina Set for Public Auction on July 30, 2009; Once a Summer Getaway in the Blue Ridge Mountains for Anyone who Could Afford It Some Criticize Escondido, California's City Council for Withdrawal of Support for $60 million Marriott Hotel Project City Officials in McAllen, Texas Pursue Low-Interest Loans to Assist Two Developers to Build Embassy Suites and a La Quinta Inn Hotel at McAllen Convention Center Site Concord Hospitality Secures $10.8 million Loan to Build a 124-room Courtyard by Marriott in Washington, Pennsylvania CLP Development Plans $24 million Crowne Plaza Hotel for Downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee Rafiki Hotels Plans to Reopen 156-Room Howard Johnson Inn in Burlington, Iowa Sanguine Hospitality and Hotel MK Sign Doubletree by Hilton Franchise Agreements in the UK Cities, Bristol and Milton Keynes Kempinski Hotel Adriatic Set to Open with Michael Sorgenfrey as the General Manager July 17, 2009 Five Alternatives to Discounting Prices Global Update: Who's Where and Doing What The Public Financing Component Approved for a $537 million 1,167- room Marriott Marquis at the Washington D.C. Convention Center Biloxi, Mississippi Coast Casinos Foresaw Economic Crisis, Made Adjustments Marriott Statement Concerning the Bombings at the Ritz-Carlton and the JW Marriott in Jakarta as of 6:30 AM Eastern time, July 17 2009 Construction Begins On The Brando, a 47-room Resort on Marlon Brando's Private Island, the French Polynesian Atoll of Tetiaroa Hilton Hotels Corporation Recognizes Top Developers for Full-service Hilton, Doubletree and Embassy Suites Hotels Hyatt Regency Crown Center Hotel's Skywalk Disaster Memorial Fund Gains $25,000 Financial Boost Meeting Planners International Praises Salt Lake City, Utah Following World Education Congress Convention: Success Tied to Hospitality and Creativity GKF Group Aligns with Wyndham for Two Grand Cayman Properties; The Grand Caymanian Resort Branded a Ramada While Plans Progress to Build a Wyndham Branded Resort at Crystal Harbor Ruptured Pipe Floods Mezzanine at New Omni Fort Worth in Downtown Fort Worth, Texas Wyndham Hotel Group Names Marc Greenberg General Manager of the Year for its Hawthorn Suites Brand; Awa Njie Named Count on Me! Service Representative of the Year Greenbrier Resort to Offer Limited Gambling in September Prior to New $25 million Underground Casino Opening in April 2010 Destination Kohler Installs New Two-Way Interface Between PAR Springer-Miller's SMS\|Host® and TravelCLICK's iHotelierSM; Kohler Augments Onward Distribution with New Interface Accor: First-Half 2009 Revenue Down 8.1% Like-for-Like First Hospitality Group Assumes Management of the 232-room Chicago South Loop Hotel Ilikai Hotel Union Workers Overwhelmingly Ratify Wage and Benefit Agreement; No Word on When Hotel Will Reopen Tata Group Restructuring Budget Hotel Brand Ginger in India Kevin Thorstenson Named as VP of Hotel Operations for Thunder Valley Casino, the 400-Room Hotel Scheduled to Open Summer of 2010 near Sacramento Michele Pajot Named General Manager for Newly Renovated Gaithersburg Marriott Washingtonian Center, Gaithersburg, Maryland HFTP's Annual Convention & Tradeshow "New to Industry Education Scholarship" Deadline is August 1, 2009 Bill Caraway of The Hamister Group Elected to Serve on Pennsylvania Tourism & Lodging Association Board July 16, 2009 AboutAnywhere.com CEO to Participate with Expedia, Orbitz and Starwood in Major Industry Event in September 2009 Getting "Face Time" at Trade Shows Just Became Easier Elite Meetings International Set to Partner with Top Meeting Industry Partners to Roll Out its FaceTime™ Appointment Scheduler at High-Traffic Shows Marriott Reports 2nd Qtr Profit of $37 million, Down 76% from a Year Earlier; Revpar Falls 23.6% in 2nd Qtr / Hotel Operating Statistics Social Media: Marketing Magic or Madness / John Davies Hotel Common Sense - Using Business Social Networks Productively Guests Often Violate Some Form of Pool or Beach Etiquette; Number 1 Annoyance - Hogging Poolside or Beachside Chairs Mold Hazard Forces Court Appointed Receiver to Close the Financially Troubled 130-room Eagle Creek Resort in Findlay, Illinois Water Crisis in Mumbai, India Prompts Supply to 5-Star Hotel Pools and Bottled Water Plants Be Cut La Quinta Inns & Suites Has Strong First Half of 2009; Adds 21 Properties, Executes 36 Contracts A Hyatt-Woodbine Development Corp. Partnership Building a 214-room Hyatt Place in Sugar Land, Texas Luxury Link Presents the "Uncompromising Vacation Getaway"; One lucky contest winner will receive a 4-night luxury trip for two at a Destination Hotels & Resorts property Spectrum Gaming Group Study Sheds Light on Connecticut Gambling: Casinos Created Wealth, but State has Done Poor Job in Managing Industry The 162 Room Reef Resort in Cayman Islands Takes PRIDE in its Customer Service Training Program The 79 Room Siena Hotel in Chapel Hill, North Carolina Sold to Annika Hotels; $3 million in Upgrades Planned Vick Patel Breaks Ground on New Cave City, Kentucky Hotel: Sleep Inn & Suites to Replace Comfort Inn that Burned Down Motel Enterprises Set to Open Oconee County, Georgia's First Hotel; a 99-Room Springhill Suites by Marriott The Founder of Leela Hotels, Captain C.P. Krishnan Nair, to Receive the Hall of Fame Award at Annual Hotel Investment Forum India (HIFI) Langham Hotels International Signs Management Contract with Gurich Company in Koh Samui, Thailand to Open Designer Boutique Resort in November 2009 Swire Hotels Appoints Executive Management for The Upper House, in Pacific Place, Hong Kong; Dean Winter Named General Manager Chef Romuald Feger Joins The St. Regis San Francisco As Executive Chef Overseeing Culinary Operations for the 260-Room Hotel and Vitrine Restaurant July 15, 2009 NORTHWIND Expands Presence in the West; 25 Luxury Properties Go With Guest-Centric Maestro Integrated Property Management System to centralize management controls, provide personalized guest experiences and maximize online revenue with guest self-serve Concierges Bid Farewell to Log Books at The Dorchester; GoConcierge Makes It Easier to Provide Efficient, Personalized Luxury Service TravelCLICK to Share Keys for Boosting Electronic Revenue at HEDNA's Annual ASPAC Meeting; Paul Southey, TravelCLICK's Vice President of Asia Pacific, will present strategies hotels have used to outperform the market by 34% in the region Former Marriott Director of Finance, Shannon Harp, Charged with Wire Fraud Involving $2 million Theft Prank Call Convinces Hotel Guest to Do $5K in Damage; Similar Pranks Reported Across the Country Integrated Capital LLC Completes $20 million Modernization of the Marriott Overland Park, Kansas Including the Three Zone MI Greatroom Online Travel Agencies (OTAs): Will They Survive the Removal of Airline Ticket Booking Fees? / Max Starkov Developers/Proprietors TriStar Capital and RFR Realty Open the 408-room W South Beach, Miami Beach; Hotel Expected to Serve as the Flagship for the W Brand Brown Hotel Group, Inc. - BHG Selected to Facilitate the Sale of Best Western Laguna Brisas Spa Hotel, Laguna Beach, California EMCVenues Partners with Cvent to Relaunch VenueFinder; Significantly Enhancing Sourcing for Meetings Warmbrodt Hotel Investments - WHI Selected to Advise in the Sale of the American Inn and the Interstate Inn in Denver (Wheat Ridge), Colorado Hersha Hospitality Trust Sells Three Hotels - Mainstay Suites and a Comfort Inn in Frederick, Maryland and a Four Points in Revere, Massachusetts Two Franchise License Agreements Signed in Tanzania for Doubletree by Hilton Hotels in Dar Es Salaam and Zanzibar, Africa with Opulent Hotel Group Online Merchandising: What is it and How Can You Use it to Your Advantage? Six simple ways hotels can use online merchandising to their advantage / Paolo Boni Cotton Center Hospitality and Henderson Hospitality Open 125-Suite Homewood Suites by Hilton® in Phoenix, Arizona Jon Simons Appointed to American Hotel & Lodging Association's Manager of Government Affairs Sebastian Goldmann Appointed Food & Beverage Manager at the Hilton Chongqing, China July 14, 2009 How Will Fast Growing Mobile Browsing Affect Your Travel Sales; US Mobile web browsing is experiencing phenomenal growth with an increase of almost 62% during 2008 Clevelander Hotel, Essex House Select Solutions by Agilysys; South Miami Beach Hotels Implement Property Management, Point-of-Sale Systems The Hyatt Regency Grand Cayman Remains Shuttered and in Ruins Nearly Five Years after Hurricane Ivan; Insurance Dispute Continues, Government Tells Owners to Re-open by Year End Irongate Capital, the Developer of Trump International Hotel & Tower Waikiki, Hit by Two Lawsuits by Buyers Wanting to Get Out of their Purchases Ben Novack Jr., C.E.O. of Convention Concepts Unlimited, Found Dead in His Hilton Hotel Room in Rye Brook, New York; Son of Ben Novack, Who Built the Fontainebleau Create a Profitable Spa by Capitalizing on Concepts / Mindy Terry Blooming Business: Columbus, Ohio's Largest Convention May Leave Unless More Hotel Rooms Sprout Nearby Bisono Enterprises Signs Rockresorts to Manage Resort Operations at the Balcones Del Atlantico in the Dominican Republic Long Beach, California Redevelopment Agency Looking for Developers to Revive 104-Year-Old Downtown American Hotel priZem Hospitality Solutions Increases Financial Reporting Power by Partnering with Jet Reports Intelity's ICE is Welcomed into Boutique Hotels Throughout the U.S. Holiday Inn Laguna Hills Sold Last Days to Register - Marketing & Revenue Management Plan 2010 -- The Most Difficult Plan You Will Ever Do Webinar: Online Experiential Marketing - Learn how to make online experiential marketing work for your hotel with helpful tips from the experts in a one hour webinar on July 15th 2009 at 1:00 PM EDT Roomlinx Proprietary Ad Platform Generates Additional Revenue for Hotels Nationwide; Roomlinx Leverages In-Room Entertainment for Value-Added Offerings Conditions for Hotel Industry "RESET" May be Coming into Alignment / Jim Butler The Holder of Two Mortgages Totaling $940,000, Boulder Dam Credit Union Just Starting to Deal with the Boulder Dam Hotel Closure, Boulder City, Nevada Ramsfield Hospitality Finance Completes $5 million Refurbishment of the Former Honolulu Prince; the 135 room Hotel Rebranded Aqua Waikiki Pearl a Member of the Aqua Boutique Brand HSMAI'S Affordable Meetings® National Celebrates 20 Years; Welcomes Jonathan Tisch as Keynote Speaker; Annual Conference and Exposition Features Second Annual Event Technology Expo, 42 In-Depth Educational Sessions and New Electronic Matchmaking Service "networkNow!" HFTP Seeking Nominations for Paragon Award Tim Tindle Appointed General Manager, Pan Pacific Vancouver Dorene Miller Appointed Director of Catering and Convention Services for InterContinental San Juan, Puerto Rico Grand Pacific Resort Services Appoints Patrick Fernane as Director of Inventory Management and Owner Services July 13, 2009 iStar Financial Plans to Re-open the Ilikai Hotel as Soon as Possible Under a New Management Team and a New Contract with UNITE HERE Local 5 Time-share Owners Wait on Sidelines of Aviara Dispute with Effects Expected to be Minimal; Four Seasons and Hotel Owner Remain Quiet Placing the TripAdvisor Review Widget on Your Hotel Website: a Good or Bad Move? According to Fitch Ratings CMBS Delinquency Index Results 13 Hotel Loans Totaling $596 million Defaulted Including $190 million Pointe South Mountain Resort in Phoenix, AZ, $117 million Loews Lake Las Vegas in Las Vegas, NV, and $100 million Dream Hotel in New York, NY. Mandarin Oriental Adds Swank to Strip: Nongaming Hotel at CityCenter Las Vegas Touts Top Amenities & Service Attention Hoteliers! Beat the Recession with Top Hotel Reservation & Marketing Tools! The Wait is Over: TeleAdapt Announces MediaHub HD™ is Now Shipping; New MediaHub HD Features a Single HDMI Cable Connection to the TV and Bluetooth® for Wireless Audio Streaming, a First in In-Room Entertainment In Hot and Dry Death Valley, The Furnace Creek Inn & Ranch Resort Learns How to Reduce Water Usage and Generate Electricity A $107 million Grand Plan for the Edgewater Hotel in Madison, Wisconsin San Diego's 210 Room Hotel Indigo Looks to Growth Despite Economic Uncertainty Parkcrest Development and USA Hospitality Urge City to Move Quickly or Risk Losing $91 million Hotel Financing Deal, Sacramento California Complimentary tele-seminars with Bryan K. Williams in July! ConferenceDirect Selects Cvent Supplier Network as Hotel RFP Platform Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 51 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database Entire Contents of 112 Year Old Belleview Biltmore Resort Hotel to be Sold in Clearwater, Florida Historic Boulder Dam Hotel Forced to Close Doors in Boulder City, Nevada Escondido, California City Councilman Sam Abed says Redevelopment Windfall Could Revive Downtown Marriott Hotel Dover, New Hampshire's Microtel Inn and Suites Auction Sale Tops Original Purchase Price Starwood Hotels Demonstrates Four Points by Sheraton's Redesigned and Contemporary New Look at the Just Opened Four Points by Sheraton San Antonio Northwest Owned by Galo Properties and Managed by DePalma Hotel Corp. Sensorial Experiences Are Aimed at Enhancing Guest Satisfaction at the InterContinental San Juan, Puerto Rico Barb Ward Appointed Director of Sales and Marketing at the Renaissance Hotel and the Residence Inn at The Depot, Minneapolis Kerry Mitruska Named Senior Sales Manager for Naples Bay Resort, Naples, Florida July 10, 2009 Internet Marketing Seminars Help UK Hoteliers Navigate a Complex Environment; TravelCLICK educates hoteliers on how to attract and convert online shoppers in today's economy Pros and Cons: Purchasing Hotel Branded Keyword Terms in Paid Search Marketing On the Main Search Engines Google, Yahoo / Max Starkov and Evan Rosenblum Value Place - A Hotel / Apartment Fusion; The Value Place Franchise Model is Carving a Distinctive Niche in the Extended-stay Hotel Market / Laurel A Keller Social Media for the Savvy Hotel Sales Manager / Susan Deluzain Barry The Crowne Plaza Hotel in Buffalo, New York in Receivership: Owner NS Partners Failed to Pay Over $2 million in Taxes and Debt Capella Pedregal, a Dramatic, 66-room Cliffside and Beachside Resort and Spa, Prepares to Open in Cabo San Lucas HFTP's 2009 Annual Convention & Tradeshow September 16-19 at Green Valley Ranch and Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada Roberts Hotel Group Opens the Hotel Indigo St. Louis Central West End Following a $10 million Renovation of the Historic Bel Air West Motel Convention Attendance Plummets in May by 33% in Las Vegas Embassy Suites Opens for Business in $85 million Avant Project in Buffalo, New York The Fontainebleau Las Vegas Has Spent about $7 million on Bankruptcy Lawyers and $5 million on Art Thai Hotels Association Seeks to Repeal Alcoholic Beverage Ban Imposed During Long Holidays Wyo Gaming Seeking a License to Run a 12,000 Sq Ft Gambling Floor Inside the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Reading, Pennsylvania Artisan Downtown Hotel's Opening Scheduled at Opportune Time for City of El Paso, Texas America's Best Franchising and InnPoints Worldwide Continue Reservation Relationship The Historic Belleview Biltmore Resort in Clearwater, Florida Undergoing a Multi-million dollar Restoration; Liquidation Sale to be Conducted by NCL/National Content Liquidators, Inc. Lessons on Brands and Discounting / John Hogan Canadian Hotel Investment Market Expected to Recover in 2010; Six in ten respondents expect a clear sign of recovery by 2010 Alliance Hospitality Management Chosen to Open and Operate New Courtyard by Marriott, Clarksville, Tennessee HEI Hotels & Resorts Names Jennifer Richards General Manager of the Hilton Indianapolis North Tom J. Krooswijk Joins Hotel de l'Europe in Amsterdam as General Manager Rudy Rodas Appointed General Manager of the New Pan Pacific Xiamen, China Luz Chatman Appointed Director of Sales and Marketing for the Sofitel San Francisco Bay July 8, 2009 TravelCLICK Ranks 35 on Crain's Fast Fifty: 14,000 customers worldwide leverage award winning solutions; hotels get major ROI lift when combining strategies Lifestyle Hotels: Gotta Have Soul / Daniel Edward Craig iStar Financial Confirms Closing of Ilikai Hotel Operations in Waikiki, Hawaii; Condos & Time Shares Not to be Affected Founders of Hotels.com Launch New Hotel Booking Site; Getaroom.com Provides Benefits of Opaque Pricing without Keeping Travelers in the Dark Starwood Signs an Agreement to Sell the W San Francisco for $90 Million; Retains a Long-term Management Contract Rival Casinos, Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun, Band Together to Launch Campaign to Lure Gamblers: Betting on Teamwork Chesapeake, Virginia Developer Dilip Patel Ordered to Tear Out Chinese Made Drywall From Near Complete Comfort Inn & Suites City of Pompano Beach Employees' Retirement System Files Suit Against Synovus Financial Corporation, Claims Firm Did Not Disclose Losses Connected to Sea Island Company, Owners of The Cloister & The Lodge at Sea Island, St. Simon, Georgia Unless Radar Facility is Moved, FAA Will Block Development of Oceanfront Convention Center Hotel, Virginia Beach, Virginia Biloxi, Mississippi's Palace Casino Plans Expansion To Restore Resort to Four-Star Status Prior to Hurricane Katrina San Bernadino County Leads California in Hotel Foreclosures, States Numbers Have Spiked 184% in Past 60 Days Reports Atlas Hospitality Group Bonds Sale May be Used to Help Fund Bridget Chisholm's Proposed 300 Room Hotel in Greensboro, North Carolina LRA Worldwide Launches the Guest Experience "Emotional Audit" ™; Tool Allows Luxury, Upscale Hotel Brands to Measure Emotional Connection to the Guest Northstar Travel Media Teams with Travelscream for New Agent Deals Distribution Platform; In a groundbreaking content redistribution model, hotels deliver "Travel Deals" to agents via Northstar's websites New Castle Hotels & Resorts Expands Partnership with UniFocus for Employee Engagement; Leading Hotel Manager/Developer Selects UniFocus' STAFFScope™ Rees Jones Designs First Golf Course for Waldorf Astoria Brand; The Waldorf Astoria Golf Club Will Serve as an Amenity for the 497-room Waldorf=Astoria Orlando and the 1,000-room Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek Following a Multi-million dollar Renovation the Iconic Sheraton Yankee Clipper Hotel in Fort Lauderdale Will Reopen as The Sheraton Fort Lauderdale Beach Hotel in January 2010 $6.5 million Accista Spa Opens at Hyatt Regency Monterey as Part of $60 million Renovation of Monterey, California Hotel Tel Aviv's Oldest and First Hotel to Reopen as a 42 Room Boutique Hotel; Architect Meira Mor States "The Hotel Will be One of Tel Aviv's Most Prestigious Hotels." Hilton Names Andrew Flack as VP of Global Brand Marketing Massimiliano Perversi Appointed General Manager of the Carlton Hotel Baglioni, Milan Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints Monica Smiley Director of Sales & Marketing for Costa d'Este Beach Resort in Vero Beach, Florida HSMAI Announces 2009 Adrian Awards "Call for Entries", Entry Submission Opens July 15 in Competition Honoring Travel Marketing Excellence July 7, 2009 Internet Marketing Seminars Help UK Hoteliers Navigate a Complex Environment; TravelCLICK educates hoteliers on how to attract and convert online shoppers in today's economy Gaylord Opryland Expects $220K in Annual Housekeeping Savings, Better Guest Service Via MTech's REX; Operating on the Apple iPhone/iPod touch platform, MTech's new Room Expeditor tool helps turn Opryland's 2,881 rooms faster and provide room customization Indoor Waterpark Resorts Supply and Demand Mid-Year 2009 Update / David J Sangree The Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain On Track for Fall 2009 Opening; GM Michael McMahon Aims to Achieve AAA's Five Diamond Rating for the 250 room Tucson Resort The Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association Reports Future Year Group Bookings Are Up, But 2009 Hotel Occupancy Falls to 55.7% through May Ron Scott of Spartanburg Hospitality Management Sets Sights on Spicing Up Old 224 Room Country Hearth Inn in Spartanburg, South Carolina South Korea Based Consus Asset Management Pledges More Than $91 million to Build 409 Room Downtown Sacramento, California Hotel As Recession Drags on, Hotels Like Value Place Become Homes for Families Struggling to Survive Historic Green Park Inn in Blowing Rock, North Carolina on Auction Block New Owners Plan to Invest $100 million to Renovate the 1,876-room Tropicana Las Vegas with a South Beach Miami Theme Marketing & Revenue Management Plan 2010 -- The Most Difficult Plan You Will Ever Do Guest Complaints Are Just Feedback / Kevin Stirtz 10 State Lodging Associations Honored by American Hotel & Lodging Association for Outstanding Leadership and Growth Rivers Casino Debuts in Pittsburgh with MICROS's 9700 Hospitality Management Suite Aimbridge Hospitality Appoints Richard Sprecher to Vice President, Business Development Three Oaks Hospitality Names Brian Friederichs as New Sales Manager HITEC Advisory Council Begins Planning HITEC 2010 in Orlando, Florida Dr. Marc Faber to Provide Keynote Address at the 20th Annual Hotel Investment Conference Asia Pacific (HICAP) July 6, 2009 Despite Deep Discounts on Room Rates, Hawai'i Hotel Occupancy During May 2009 the Worst Since at Least 1987 Front Desk Hotel Training Can Generate Future Business / Doug Kennedy End of an Era: The Bizarre Membership Requirement for Getting a Drink in Utah Repealed Global Hyatt Corporation Changes Name to Hyatt Hotels Corporation Hutchison Whampoa Parts Ways with Starwood; Rebrands Westin Our Lucaya Resort on Grand Bahama Island to Radisson at Our Lucaya Beach & Golf Resort New Survey Claims the Added Value Provided by Hotel Brand Loyalty Programs Remains a More Critical Factor in Hotel Selection than Price of the Room The Center for Hospitality Research at Cornell University Releases Study Showing Price Cutting Not Advantageous HEDNA's Annual Asia Pacific Meeting to Focus on Strategies to Help Hoteliers Boost Revenue Via Electronic Distribution / July 23, 2009 in Singapore Recap: HSMAI's Revenue Management & Internet Marketing Strategy Conference; Mark Robertson Named HSMAI Revenue Management Professional of the Year Marriott Resorts in Hawai'i Planning a Sales Blitz in Japan with a Seven-day Bus Campaign IACC Global Convenes to Navigate the Perfect Storm of Meetings Industry; 2nd annual European conference to "explore the role of conference centers in turbulent times" Thayer Lodging Group Opens 163 Suite Residence Inn as Part of Marriott Miami Airport Hotel Campus Terranea Resort Hotel Tax to Appear on November Ballot in Rancho Palos Verdes, California Marriott Hotel's Renovations Exemplify Salt Lake City's 'Downtown Rising' Amid Challenging Times Hotel Operators in Omaha, Nebraska Protest Cuts From Tourism Promotion Budget Starwood Capital Group Signs Binding Agreement to Purchase Golden Tulip Hospitality BV City of Amsterdam Signs Agreement with Park Plaza Hotels to Develop an art'otel in the City's Iconic Former Kadaster Office Hilton Hotels Opens the Doubletree by Hilton Qingdao/Chengyang in the Shandong Province of China IFA Hotels & Resorts Acquires Additional Stake in Boschendal, South Africa Blue City Company 1, Developers of Al Madina A'zarqa, Oman Jordan Signs Agreement to Develop Five Star Beachfront Property with Intercontinental Hotels Group Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints Brian West Executive Chef at Hotel Contessa, San Antonio, Texas HomeAway Hires Former Opodo France Chairman of the Board, Petra Freidman as President of HomeAway Europe July 2, 2009 IDeaS Revenue Optimization and Multi-Systems Inc. Complete Certified System Integration Financing a Hotel is a Tough Job, "Not for the Squeamish" says Bridget Chisholm of Urban Hotel Group Lodgian, Inc. Obtains Extensions on $71.6 million of its Mortgage Debt; Ceases Mortgage Payments on the Holiday Inn Phoenix West with Hopes to Return the Property to the Lender on a Consensual Basis $500 million W Hotel Set to Open in South Beach, Florida, For $12,000 a Night You Too Can be "Wowed" Los Angelians Are Going Out Less, Ordering Fewer Drinks, Watching Prices More / Hotel Bel-Air Wins for Top Appeal / Zagat Nightlife Survey Beachtree Properties Select Aqua Hotels & Resorts to Rebrand the 53-room Hotel Molokai Orchid Resorts & Escapes Now Featured on LuxuryLink.com; Luxury Link and Orchid Resorts & Escapes Team Up to Bring More Exceptional Properties to the Sophisticated Traveler Pinnacle Realty Investments Represented Owners of Sheraton Newton Hotel, Newton, Massachusetts, Hotel to be Rebranded as Crowne Plaza Board of Directors Elected for Pennsylvania Tourism & Lodging Association; James Purdum, Penn State Hospitality Services, Named Chairman "It's Not Just a Renovation! It's a New Hotel"; Hotel Abrego Opens in Monterey, California Starwood Hotels Plans Entry into Bermuda With St. Regis Bermuda Former Radisson Hotel, High Point, North Carolina Officially Becomes Best Western July 1, 2009 Glenn Fogel from Priceline, SVP of Lodging for Expedia and CMO from Orbitz to Speak at the Travel Distribution Summit, Sept, Chicago $75 million Hotel Proposal by Urban Hotel Group Gaining Momentum with Greensboro, North Carolina Offcials Developer Hollander Investments Unveils Plans for Two Hotels on Tacoma, Washington Waterfront New Wedding Trends for 2009 Impact the Way Couples Plan Their Big Day; Online wedding planning is a growing trend Through the Eyes of a Hotel Butler: Small Details - Big Degree of Difference / Osvaldo Torres Cruz Hawaii Tourism Responds Swiftly to Challenges; Hawaii Tourism Authority Approves $3.4 million for Marketing in Japan, North America, Australia and New Zealand Hotel Indigo Opens in Central West End, St. Louis, Missouri Despite Delays and Disputes Following $17 million Renovation Drury Hotels Wins Grudging Approval from Santa Fe's Historic Design Review Board of its Plans for Redevelopment of the St. Vincent Hospital Property to a Hotel A Common Sense Review Process for Capital Investments / Dr. John Hogan Roomlinx Wins Global Business Planning Competition in Wales, U.K.; Denver-based hospitality company wins one year of free office space and support package to expand into Europe Engaging Service: 22 Ways to Become a Service Superstar / Bryan K. Williams EZYield.com and SoftBrands Commence Offering of Integrated Software Suite Through New Global Technology Partnership Travel Intelligence Group Partners With RateTiger to Enhance Competitive Positioning; Online travel provider benchmarks rate parity priZem & Aprinda Join Forces to Stimulate Hotel Revenues and Accurately Create Financial Awareness! Double JJ Ranch, Waterpark and Golf Resort, Western Michigan’s Four Season Destination Resort, Under New Ownership and Management Discounted Rates Fuel a Very Busy Fourth of July Weekend for Miami, Fort Lauderdale Hotels Clayton, New Mexico Community Implement Efforts to Save Landmark Eklund Hotel After Closing Due to Foreclosure Travel Systems Expert Flo Lugli Named as Executive Vice President of Marketing for Wyndham Hotel Group Tamir Kobrin Appointed General Manager at the Leela Palace Kempinski Udaipur in Rajasthan, India

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