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September 30, 2010 After Months of Uncertainty The Grand Hotel in Downtown Minneapolis Has Sold for $33 million -- $3 million Less than What Was Originally Proposed Pebblebrook Hotel Trust Acquires The Grand Hotel Minneapolis for $33 million; Appoints Kimpton to Manage the 140-room Hotel Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Sells the 179-room St. Regis Aspen for $70 million; Starwood Will Maintain a 50 year Management Agreement Tishman Hotel & Realty Sells the Hilton Walt Disney World Resort for $127 million to Hilton's Owner, the Blackstone Group Grand Heritage Hotels Opens the CostaBaja Resort & Spa in La Paz, Mexico; a Gary Player Designed Golf Course Sits Next to the 115-room Hotel Not Clear About Lager, Ale and Stout? Beer Help is Here Hospitality eBusiness Strategies Wins One Gold and Two Silver Magellan Awards for Web 2.0 and Multichannel Marketing Initiatives Los Angeles Times Restaurant Critic Irene Virbila Reviews Tom Colicchio's Craft Los Angeles The Greentree Ramada Hotel and Conference Center in Pittsburgh, PA -- Now Renamed Clarion Hotel -- Sold to PI Hospitality LLC for $2.65 million Tourists to Singapore Up 18% Compared to August Last Year; 996,000 Arrivals Set a Record High for August, the Ninth Straight Month of Record Monthly Visitor Arrivals The Holiday Inn Express in Stillwater, Minnesota Has a New Name -- the Lexington Inn & Suites of Stillwater The Soon to Open Four Seasons Resort Vail Appoints 10 Execs to Management Team Kelly Nelson Appointed Director of Sales and Marketing for the Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco September 29, 2010 First to the Market Social Website Booking Engine Produces Double the Conversions; SECURE-RES® Booking Engine Mixes Simplicity, Mobile, and now, Social European Hotels Broaden Market Reach to Increase Revenue During Tough Times; TIG Global's E-marketing Strategies Drive Incremental Revenue to the Strand Palace Hotel and Tiara Hotels and Resorts Tips for Developing a Social Media Program as Authentic and Singular as Your Hotel / Daniel Edward Craig Responding to a Changing Economy Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau (PCVB) Unveils Annual Report & Business Plan: "Navigating the New Norm" Concord Hospitality Adds 18 Hotels to Portfolio Year-to-date ; Now Has Over 75 Properties in the U.S. and Canada Chattanooga Hotel Room Tax Revenue Up by Double-digit Increases -- as Much as 28% in July -- for Six of Eight Months So Far in 2010 Hotel Matilda, a 32-room Boutique Hotel, Opens in 500-year-old San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; Hotel Designed its Ambiance to Have the Feel and Look of an Art Gallery Powerful, Must See Webinar: How New Internet Requirements Will Impact Your Hotel Work Like You Own It! 2.0: Energize it. Recognize it. Celebrate it. / Bryan K. Williams, D.M. HFTP Announces PCI Compliance Task Force and Roundtable Castle Hill Inn Deploys UniFocus' GUESTScope™ RateTiger Adds GDS Shopping and Completes 600 Channel Integrations; Channel management specialist facilitates benchmarking across Global Distribution Systems The Dorchester Collection Opens the 70-room Coworth Park Located in Ascot, UK; Hotel Has Several Unique Eco-Initiatives Corporate Manners - Do Good Manners Matter Anymore? / Kathleen Hogan GHM Development of The Chedi Andermatt Begins in Swiss Alps Thorsten Kirschke Assumes Global COO Role for Carlson Hotels Trump Entertainment Resorts, Inc. Appoints Robert F. Griffin As Chief Executive Officer Replacing Mark Juliano Who is Leaving the Company Richard McLennan Named Managing Director of Stowe Mountain Lodge in Stowe, Vermont September 28, 2010 Mobile Advantage 2010: Change the Game Virtual Conference; Learn How Mobility Amplifies Performance and Competitiveness for Hospitality in this Complimentary Virtual Conference with Keynote Speaker Former NFL Head Coach Brian Billick Munchbar in Las Vegas Selects Solution Suite from Agilysys; New Restaurant Implements InfoGenesis™ POS System, TMx™ Time Management Solution Value of Face-to-Face Meetings Resonates Even More Today / David Brudney 10 Green Business Practices That Will Save Your Hotel $8,021 Per Employee Boycotts Launched at Hyatt Regency Properties for Sale in Long Beach and Indianapolis, Says UNITE HERE ANALYSIS: Are Hotels in Shanghai Ready for Post-Expo Operations? Atlanta Hoteliers Say Meeting Space Glut a Necessary Evil; The Westin Peachtree Plaza Upping its 80,000 sq ft By an Additional 60,000 sq ft Mortgage Holder, BlackRock, Challenging a Bid to Turn the Former Hilton Pittsburgh into a Wyndham Grand Distribution Solutions from EZYield.com Help Fuel Expansion For California Boutique Hotel Group; Finely tuned channel management and market intelligence systems grow ADR for Shade Hotel Manhattan Beach and lay foundation for second property - The Hotel Andaluz, the Restored Downtown Albuquerque Boutique Hotel, Recognized as the First Lifestyle Hotel of the Year; Award Presented by the Boutique & Lifestyle Lodging Association Expotel Hospitality Services. L.L.C. Secures Management Contract for Crowne Plaza Phoenix North Schooled By Wall Street: Using Stock Market Principles for Optimum Hotel Revenue Management The September 2010 Hotel Price Index™ Reporting a 2% Global Increase in Average Hotel Room Rates Paid in the First Half of this Year; Business Capitals Such as New York, London, and Singapore are Seeing Significant Price Rises Waterford Hotel Group Appoints Duane Schroder as General Manager of the 393-room Hilton Hartford Mark S. Wilson Joins the Bourbon Orleans Hotel as General Manager September 27, 2010 Opened in 1960, the Athens (GA) Holiday Inn Bears the Distinction of Being the Oldest Continuously Running Holiday Inn Franchise in North America Hawaii Hotel Occupancy Jumps to 79.5% Statewide in July, 2010; Best Month in Five Years Bankrupt Sea Island Faces Cash, Time Limits; Three Banks, Owed a Combined $566 million Expecting to Recover 30 Cents on the Dollar Questions Surround Why the City of San Diego Has Permitted the Swanky SE San Diego Hotel to Continue Operating Without a Valid Certificate of Occupancy An Audit of the Biltmore Hotel Offers Insights into Dealings with the City of Coral Gables, the Hotel's Landord Hollywood Heights Hotel Offered For Sale A Simple and Sometimes Overlooked Way to Improve Group and Convention Business: an Organized and Concise Fact Sheet / Dr John Hogan The Power of Referrals - Increasing Closing Ratios and Revenue; Free Webinar Presented by Carol Verret and uRefer September 30, 2010 Lodging Interactive Wins Design Honors at 2010 Travel Weekly Magellan Awards, Winning Multiple Design Awardso to Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 122 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Have Updated 47 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with Changes in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership Marshall Hotels & Resorts, Inc. Signs Five Management Contracts in Greater New York Metro Area Jerry Petitt and Tony Rothwell Start Up Creative Hotel Associates Management; Signs First Agreement for Inn at Aspen Execute Your Strategy with Purpose and Precision \| The Knowland Group Midas Hospitality Acquires the Unfinished 83-room Candlewood Suites Project in Champaign, Illinois; Main Street Builders Forced to Abandon the Project Before it Opened The Inn on Lake Superior in Duluth Uses Sustainable Philosophy Every Day Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints Shawna Poppell Area Director of Revenue Management for Orlando and Miami Resorts September 24, 2010 Reflections / Phil LaBelle Owners of the Hard Rock Cafe Restaurant Chain Suing Owners of the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas and Other Third Parties that they have Damaged the Company Name by Associating it with Drunken Debauchery, Acts of Vandalism, and Violence Virgin's Richard Branson Jumping into the Hotel Business; The Virgin Hotels Brand to be Lead by Anthony Marino, Raul Leal and Paul Whetsell Front Desk Drama: It is the D-A-S-H that makes the Difference! / Gay Lynn Williamson-Grigas Jim Butler with the Latest Pulse of the Hotel Industry from The Lodging Conference at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix Arixona Asia Pacific's Hotel Construction Pipeline is Up to 1,944 Projects at the End of Q2, 2010; China and India the Driving Force Behind this Resurgent Activity / LE Report for Asia Pacific Hilton Worldwide Recognizes Hilton Asheville Biltmore Park®, in Asheville North Carolina, with the Deal of Year Award Milestone Internet Marketing, a Leading Provider of Internet Marketing Solutions for the Lodging Industry, Seeking a Regional Business Development Manager (North East Territory) Los Angeles Hotels Attracting More Guests and More Investors! Owners of Venice's Luxurious San Clemente Palace Hotel Arrested for Suspected Euro 50 million Tax Scam Club Mediterranee: Summer Bookings up 9.7% over the Last Eight Weeks, Expects to Add Five Villages in China, Making China its 2nd Largest Market by 2015 CN Hotels, Inc. Breaks Ground On a 105-suite Home2 Suites by Hilton in Jacksonville, North Carolina The 193-room Avalon Hotel (formerly the Erie Hilton) Sells for $1.8 million Ted Kanatas Named General Manager for Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay Golf Resort, Spa and Marina on Maryland's Eastern Shore Hilton Worldwide Appoints Luis Perillo as General Manager of the 245-room Hilton Bogota Gina Rando Abernathy Appointed Director of Sales for the Ramada Metairie New Orleans Hotel September 23, 2010 Mobile Advantage 2010: Change the Game Virtual Conference; Learn How Mobility Amplifies Performance and Competitiveness for Hospitality in this Complimentary Virtual Conference with Keynote Speaker Former NFL Head Coach Brian Billick Hotel Profitability Lessons Learned Over the Past Two Years - Or a Lifetime Ezri Namvar, Owner of the Downtown Los Angeles Marriott Hotel and the Cal Neva Resort, Indicted on Wire Fraud Charges B Hotels & Resorts - A New Lifestyle Brand Alternative for the Conversion of Existing Flagged and Independent Hotels; First Property to Open in Fort Lauderdale Carlson Hotels Teams with Mortenson Development Inc. to Build a 501-room $130 million Radisson Blu at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota The $130 million Radisson Blu at Mall of America to Receive $40.3 million in Tax-free Bonds from the Economic Stimulus Bill Vail Resorts Reports Net Income of $30.4 million for Fiscal 2010 Compared to Net Income of $49.0 millioin the Prior Year; Skier Visits Up 2.5% but Lodging Revenue Down 4% Recap: More than 2,000 Meeting, Event and Hospitality Industry Professionals Attend HSMAI's Affordable Meetings® National Exhibition and Conference in Washington D.C. The Upper House Hotel in Hong Kong Places an iPod-touch® in All 117 Guestrooms Replacing the Printed Hotel Directories Designed by John Portman, Hyatt Regency Atlanta to Receive $60 million Transformation; Was the World's First Atrium Style Hotel OpenWays Mobile Application is Live at a Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express Hotel; The world's first mobile front desk bypass solution is up and running at two IHG properties GET SPA SMART - New One-stop Venue for Hospitality Professionals Looking for Tools to Better Understand Spa Ariane Systems Assembles Technical Advisory Board to Guide Development of Next Generation Check-in/Out Technologies; Industry leading hospitality supplier to receive input from five leading hotel groups in development of future check-in/out systems SM Hotels and Conventions Corp. Set to Open the 400-room Radisson Blu Hotel in Cebu, Philippines; Grant Gaskin the Opening General Manager A Different Look at MBWA - Does There Need to be a Manager's Time Out / Dr John Hogan Knowland Publishes White Paper Cataloging Oil Spill Fallout on the Gulf Coast's Hospitality Industry; Fallout from Future Disasters Could be Mitigated by Professional Business Development Sage Hospitality Awarded Management Contract for Denver Airport Marriott at Gateway Park; Company Now Manages 16 hotels in Colorado, 64 Nationwide September 22, 2010 Award Winning Jay Peak Resort Expands, Adds Properties, Activities, and Keeps Guests Returning Year Round at Four-Season Destination; Maestro PMS Multi-Property Suite Streamlines Hotel Operations, Condo-Ownership Management, and Drives Direct Website Bookings for Vermont Ski - Golf Resort ONLY 7 DAYS LEFT TO REGISTER for the Waterpark Resort Development & Expansion Workshop at the World Waterpark Association's 30th Anniversary Symposium and Trade Show. Too busy for the whole conference, come walk the WWA trade show for FREE! Aptech Selects Clarabridge to Add Guest Sentiment and Text Analytics to Execuvue® for Property Performance Measurement; Execuvue Business Intelligence Correlates Guest Sentiment Data with Property Performance for Global View of Hotel Operations So Far in 2010 the Dallas-Ft Worth Area Reports 94 Hotel Foreclosure Filings, Including the Crowne Plaza in Addison, the Radisson Hotel and Suites near Love Field and the Element Hotel on LBJ Freeway You Can Never Have Too Much Meeting Space! Orlando Hotels Adding More than a Half-million Square Feet of New Meeting Space in Last 12 Months Wyndham Worldwide Lays Out Strategic Plan for its 13 Brands; Also New Logos and Taglines Dolce Hotels and Resorts Selected to Rebrand and Manage Former Ritz-Carlton® Lake Las Vegas; New Resort Scheduled to Open Early 2011 2011 Zagat Los Angeles Restaurant Survey Reveals That Meal Costs Decline for First Time as Diners Cut Spending; 119 Openings with Noir Leading the Way Reflect Optimism for the Future HEI's Algonquin Hotel Admitted to Marriott's Autograph Collection; First New York City Hotel Inducted into Collection Omni Hotels Rebrands the Watermark Hotel & Spa in San Antonio to Mokara Hotel & Spa, the First of its New Boutique Collection Hotel del Coronado Sees Benefits from Watson, R.M.™ US General Services Administration Awards the First - and Only - GSA Schedule Contract for a Conference Center, Hotel or Resort to The National Conference Center in Leesburg, Virginia Last Days to Register - Habits of Successful Revenue Mangers Wyndham Hotel Group to Franchise Planet Hollywood Hotels and Planet Hollywood Restaurant Concepts The First Day of Fall Calls for a Look Back at Summer: InnPoints Worldwide Reviews its Summer 2010 Growth ISO 26000 - Guidance on Social Responsibility and its Impact on the Hotel Industry Wyndham Worldwide to Acquire ResortQuest, a Provider of Full-service Vacation Rentals in the U.S., for Approximately $56 million (USD) Joie de Vivre Hospitality Appoints Gary Beasley CEO; Founder Chip Conley Elevates to Executive Chairman Omni Names Three to General Manager Posts Visit Jacksonville Names Daniel O'Byrne President and CEO; Formerly the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau CEO John C. Rovie Named Director of Sales for The BROADMOOR in Colorado Springs Langham Hotels International Appoints Justine Lee to Director of Sales - China, Will Oversee Sales Offices in Beijing and Shanghai Linda Lynge Named Spa Director at The Omni Bedford Springs Resort September 21, 2010 Learn How Successful Hoteliers are Using Video to Engage Travel Shoppers and Increase Conversions Online; Don't Miss this Complimentary Webinar on Thursday September 23rd A Businessman Compared Airfares on Kayak, Booked a Flight on AirTran, Made a Rental Car Reservation, Studied Hotel Reviews on TripAdvisor and Picked a Place to Stay -- all Through His iPhone --- and While Driving! Ignoring Complaints from Suburban Hoteliers, the City of Durham, NC Approves a $4.2 million Incentive Package for a Downtown Luxury Hotel Florida Lawmakers Push to Extend Recovery Zone Facility Bonds to Save 400-room Convention Hotel Project Adjacent to the Palm Beach County Downtown Convention Center Bob Boyle Unexpectedly Passes Away, Was Regional VP for Benchmark Hospitality International and GM of Turtle Bay Resort Hotel Sales Training That Excites, But Changes Little / Neil Salerno Nip it in the Bud ~ Dealing with Poor Work Performance / Caroline Cooper Zagat 2011 San Francisco Bay Area Survey Reveals Diners Cutting Back; Gary Danko Sweeps for Food, Service and Popularity Chatter Guard Social Media Monitor Report - August 2010 - Is Released Update to Intercontinental Hotels Group's New High Speed Internet Brand Standards with No Capital Expenses VFM Leonardo Partners with Pegasus' Utell® Hotels & Resorts to Provide Online Hotel Merchandising System for Member Hotels; Utell to offer VFM Leonardo's VBrochure™ Online Merchandising System to 11,000 member hotels to merchandise their properties more effectively online and in the VNetwork™ Terra Resort Group and MetWest Ventures Form New Hospitality Company: MetWest Terra Hospitality Hilton Hotels & Resorts Enters Peru with Signing of New Build Lima Hotel MGM Resorts International Appoints George P. Corchis to President and COO of Regional Operations for MGM Resorts International and Steve Zanella to GM of MGM Grand Detroit Vista Host, Inc. Opens 115-suite Homewood Suites by Hilton in Round Rock, Texas; Jason Webb the Opening GM Jeffrey Baldasarre Appointed Director of Sales and Marketing for The Betsy Hotel, Miami Beach Hideki Myo Appointed Executive Chef of Hyatt at Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco The Ritz-Carlton, Westchester Names Misty Moore New Director of Group and Catering Sales The Penn State School of Hospitality Management Names Everette James as the Walter J. Conti Professor of Hospitality Management September 20, 2010 Hospitality Executives Now Have Their Own Private Club; International Hoteliers Club Announces Launch of Exclusive Alliance Knowland is Second Fastest Growing Company in the Travel Industry for Second Year in a Row; Innovative business development firm joins select few to make Inc. Magazine's Fast 500 list multiple times Four Winds Casino Resort Gains Increased Control, Maximizes Revenue with Use of IDeaS Revenue Optimization Is Holiday Inn's Billion Dollar Overhaul Paying Off? The Power of Referrals - Increasing the Call to Closing Ratio / Carol Verret Convention and Tourism Marketing Falls Short in Columbus, Ohio; For First 7 Months Columbus Hotels Ran 56% with RevPAR at $43.75 Colorado Association of Realtors Moving Annual Convention from The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs After 90 Years Copenhagen Boutique Hotel Turns to EasyRMS to Optimise Room & Other Ancillary Revenues… SaaS Revenue Management Suite Deployed at Bertrams Hotel Guldsmeden to Maximise Market Potential Sale of Amelia Island Plantation (FL) Complete Recap: China Travel Distribution Summit in Beijing - Understanding How to Distribute and Market Online to Chinese Consumers Bedbugs Biting in San Diego Bar Harbor Hotelier Continues Buying Spree with the Purchase of Two More Motel Properties in Bar Harbor's Downtown Village CITIC Pacific Set to Open First Phase of Hainan's Destination Resort, Shenzhou Peninsula, with the Tom Weiskopf Designed Dunes Golf Course and the Sheraton Hotel and the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel with a Total of 650-rooms HSMAI Adopts New Certified Hospitality Sales Executive Certification (CHSE); Demonstrates Highest Level of Performance and Expertise in the Field September 17, 2010 Welcome to the Video Economy - Complimentary Webinar on September 23rd; Learn How to Produce, Display and Syndicate Engaging Hotel Videos Online Hotel Joint Ventures: Four Keys to Success / Catherine Holmes Integrating RM and CRM in a Mutually Beneficial Relationship / Ritesh Gupta The Top 43 Hotel Brands Ranked by Number of Rooms - Best Western and Holiday Inn are 1 & 2 The Hitching Post Inn, a Cheyenne, Wyoming Landmark, Burns to the Ground; Was a Favorite Spot for State Lawmakers for Decades The Morgans Hotel Group Reinvents the Hotel Gift Shop Experience; The Semi-Automatic Is an Oversized Vending Machine that Includes Such Items as a Toothbrush, But also the Fancy and Unorthodox Items Hotel Common Sense - 7 Practical Steps on MBWA / Dr John Hogan Meetings Industry Leaders Launch Virtual Community; Meetings Focus Forum moderated by meetings industry thought-leader Joan Eisenstodt Percipia Networks Announces opening of New Chicago Headquarters and the purchase of the PARALLAX application from DOCOMO interTouch The 180-room InterContinental Mendoza Opens in Argentina's Wine Country First St. Regis Resort in China Opens in Tibet November 2010; Located on the "Roof of the World", The St. Regis Lhasa Resort Has One of the Most Mystical and Exotic Addresses Mövenpick Re-opens the 278-room Mövenpick Hotel Saigon in Ho Chi Minh City Following a $15 million Renovation Frasers Hospitality Pte Ltd’s Enters Agreement to Manage Modena Hanoi, Vietnam; the First of Modena Brand Outside of China HITEC Executive Vendor Advisory Council Formed Gamal Aziz Promoted to President and Chief Executive Officer of MGM Hospitality Christof Luedi Maintains Title of Regional Vice-President and Takes on Role of General Manager for The Fairmont Orchid, Hawaii Nicolas Gautier Appointed General Manager and Nicolas Orget Promoted to Executive Assistant Manager of Le Méridien Tahiti Dolce Hotels Appoints Lynn Pescherine to Lead its Global Sales Office in San Francisco Benchmark Hospitality Appoints Rhonda Lasee Director of Conference Services for Eaglewood Resort & Spa Located in Itasca, Illinois September 15, 2010 Mobile Advantage 2010: Change the Game Virtual Conference Featuring Former NFL Coach Brian Billick See How Other Hoteliers have Leveraged the Power of Online Video to Boost Bookings - Attend a Complimentary Webinar 10 Year Anniversary Clients Become Brand Ambassadors; VIZERGY®’s Superior Internet Marketing and Dedicated Staff Builds Client Relationships Pegasus Solutions Ranks in Top 50 on 2010 InformationWeek 500 Developers Win Tax Freeze Worth $15 million over 20 years for Proposed 11-story, 298-room Hilton Memphis Downtown John Q. Hammons Backs Out on Deal with City of Wilmington, North Carolina to Build a Hotel Next to the Wilmington Convention Center 19 Taj Hotels Migrate to a New Brand - Vivanta by Taj Hotels & Resorts; Rebranding Will Help Ensure Domestic Dominance Which Could Not Have Been with Just the Taj Brand San Diego City Council Votes in Favor of Labor Backed Proposal that Critics Fear Could Force Downtown Hotel Developers to Use Union Workers; Hoteliers Worry Action will Kill Future Projects "White Knight" Doctor Bids to Take Over Former Hilton Pittsburgh; New Brand with "Substantial Flag" to be Announced Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Offering to Take Over as the Franchise at the Former Hilton Pittsburgh Lowering Hotel Operating Costs - There is a Gold Mine Surrounding You / Dr. Diana Driscoll Interstate Hotels & Resorts - Seeking Area General Manager / Regional Director of Operations in Rochester, Minnesota Luxury Marketing Partners International Forms Yoga, Fitness Partnerships; Boutique companies join forces to host luxurious yoga, fitness retreats at acclaimed properties worldwide ProHost® Powered Carts Deliver Minibar Items with a Touch of a Button Study: Mystery Shop Drives 2% Uptick in Guest Satisfaction SkyWire Media® Partners with Hard Rock Hotel & Casino for SMS Text Marketing Initiative Recap: Fourth UNWTO/PATA Forum on Tourism Trends and Outlook Co-hosted by Hong Kong Polytechnic University's School of Hotel and Tourism Management Hotel Common Sense: Philosophy #2 Or, why the Open Door policy no longer works… / Dr John Hogan Stanley Selengut's Concordia Estates Offers a Luxurious Way to Rough It in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands Encore Hospitality Joint Ventures with Sage Hospitality to Acquire and Manage Premium Branded Hotel Assets Peachtree Hotel Group Takes Ownership of Three Hotels Located in San Antonio, Birmingham and the Suburbs of Philadelphia Tough Times Force Mohegan Sun to Slash Jobs - 355 Employees Now Unemployed Mohegan Sun Casino Workers Blindsided with Layoff News Having Believed Business was Improving Philippines Tourism Lagging Behind its Southeast Asian Counterparts - Hefty Taxes Imposed on Airlines to Blame Waterford Hotel Group Names Stacy Alfield as Revenue Analyst September 14, 2010 See How Successful Hoteliers are Producing, Displaying and Syndicating Video Online: Welcome to the Video Economy - Complimentary Webinar on September 23rd Shaw Conference Centre Selects Software Solution from Agilysys; Canadian Venue Implements Eatec® Solutions Inventory and Procurement System Developers Trying to Fast-track a $33 million Hotel Next to Port-au-Prince's International Airport; Plans Call for the Hotel to Have its Own On-site Power Plant, Water Treatment and Sewage System Former Assistant Corporate Controller Gets 40 months for Embezzling $1.4 million from GF Management Dallas' 1,001-room Convention Center Hotel, Others Take Omni Hotels & Resorts to the Next Level Pacifica Host Hotels Secures Option to Purchase and Assumes Management of Historic La Valencia Hotel in La Jolla, California Hotel Revenue Management is Now More Important than Ever / Neil Salerno City of Fayetteville, NC Approves $400,000 in Tax Incentives for Five Points Hospitality $30 million 167-room Embassy Suites Project Historic Dubuque, Iowa Hotel, the Julien, Reclaims its Past Glory Following $32 million Renovation / Melanie Radzicki McManus Casino Customers Attitudes and Behavior: Even Though They Might Lose, Treat Them Like a Winner / John R Hendrie Seminar Topics at the 2010 International Hotel, Motel + Restaurant Show® Will Address Key Influences in Today's Hospitality Industry. Featured Topics Will Include Marketing, Recruiting, Sustainability, Business Forecasting and Boutique Hotels Bed Bugs and Business Travel: Statistics Show Both are Increasing Hotel Occupancy for Leisure Travelers to Hawaii Improving But the Business Market Continues to Lag; Hawaii's Convention Traffic Dropped by 21.5% for the First Half of 2010 U.S. Travel Association Encouraging U.S. to Seek International Tourists - Chinese in Particular Have 50 million Travelers with Only a Fraction Heading to U.S. and Spending $7,200 Per Person Per Trip Habits of Highly Successful Revenue Managers for 2011 Webinar How to Prepare Your Hotel Online Marketing Budget for 2011 H10 Hotels Implements EZYield.com Channel Management Across Global Portfolio Aitor Agueda Joins OpenWays as VP of R&D; Twenty-five year hospitality and security systems veteran instrumental in designing the most installed and successful electronic-locking systems in North America joins OpenWays to lead R&D efforts; Maurizio Zama promoted to Chief Operating Officer InnLink Growth Plan on track and New CFO announced Macdonald Hotels & Resorts Opens 120-room Macdonald Windsor Hotel Near Windsor Castle, UK; Beverley Molmans Opening General Manager HEI Hotels & Resorts Will Spend $14 million to Renovate and Reposition the 275-room DoubleTree Guest Suites Boston/Waltham to the Embassy Suites Brand DiamondRock Hospitality Company Selects Alliance Hospitality Management to Operate the Hilton Garden Inn New York Chelsea; Barry Shatoff Continues as General Manager Impertinent Questions in Search of Pertinent Answers; BlueMauMau.org: The Best Franchise Website; Free Wi-Fi at Top of Amenity List / Stanley Turkel Peter Engel Named Chief Technology Officer for Marcus Hotels and Resorts Vincent Guerin Appointed Director of Sales and Marketing for Le Méridien Tahiti and Le Méridien Bora Bora CHI Hotels & Resorts Names Brian Pratt as its Senior Vice-president for Distribution, Loyalty Programmes, Partnerships and Management Information Systems Antonio Larino Named Director, Hotels for Rockwood Capital W Hollywood Appoints Hospitality Veteran Jeffrey G. Guillory As New Director of Sales and Marketing Lansdowne Resort Selects Troon Golf to Manage Golf Club; Ryan Wilson Appointed Director of Golf Club Operations for The Golf Club at Lansdowne September 13, 2010 d2o Continues Roll Out of Integrated PMI Software Solution to Benchmark Hospitality; System gives department heads tools to ‘Think like A CFO’ and control expenses proactively daily. Combines occupancy, revenue forecasting, labor productivity management, and food costing in one package Hotel-Online Subscribers Can Attend the World Waterpark Association’s 30th Anniversary Symposium and Trade Show AND the Waterpark Resort Development & Expansion Workshop for just $199! Leveraging Placement on Expedia to Boost Direct Hotel Revenue Upselling Strategies For Your Front Desk and Reservation Teams / Doug Kennedy The Lodging Market is Improving in Ohio's Big Cities; A Close Look at Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati / David J. Sangree and Joseph Pierce Caribbean Hotel Profits Retreated in 2009; Cost Controls Mitigate Decline Relative To U.S. Properties DiamondRock Hospitality Company Acquires the 169-room Hilton Garden Inn Chelsea New York City for $68.4 million (approximately $404,000 per room) Full House Resorts to Acquire Grand Victoria Casino & Resort in Rising Sun, Indiana for Approximately $43 million, Includes 201-room Hotel and 18-hole Scottish Links Golf Course Churchill Downs Incorporated to Acquire Harlow's Casino Resort & Hotel in Greenville, Mississippi for $138 million Connecticut Hotels Start Slow March Out of Stubborn Recession Uniguest™ Named to the Nashville Area Chamber's 2010 Future 50 Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 122 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database Utell® Hotels & Resorts Expands Presence on priceline.com; More than 2,500 Hotels In Top Destinations Can Now Market Through priceline.com Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Have Updated 57 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with Changes in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership Competition Comparison: Three methods for properly assessing the competition—no call-arounds needed! / Jean Francois Mourier U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke Names Board of Directors for Corporation for Travel Promotion (CTP); Non-profit will lead effort to promote travel to the U.S. Hampton Hotels Save-A-Landmark Program Celebrating 10th Anniversary with Actor Sam Waterston and Hampton Volunteers to Preserve President Lincoln's Cottage in Nation's Capital The Drury Inn Sues the City of St. Peters, Missouri Over Additional Tax Proposal Which Would Take the Occupancy Tax to 17.5% The Duprey Companies Appoints Waterford Hotel Group to Manage the 100-room Comfort Inn in Concord, New Hampshire Amanda Totaro Named Vice President of Marketing For Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood September 10, 2010 Successful Hoteliers Are Producing, Displaying and Syndicating Video Online – Learn How to Do the Same for Your Property in this Complimentary Webinar Bankruptcy Judge Refuses to Allow Starwood's Late Offer of $199 million Cash for Sea Island Co. Pebblebrook Hotel Trust Acquires the 183-room Monaco Washington DC Hotel for $74.0 million; Kimpton Continues as Manager Delaware North Companies Acquiring the Jumer's Casino & Hotel Located in Rock Island, Ill., for $180 million Trump International Hotel & Tower® New York Completes $30 Million Renovation The Old Medical Center Holiday Inn in Memphis, Closed Since the 1980s, Expecting a $33.8 million Facelift and Conversion to an Extended Stay Hotel Hawaii's Statewide Occupancy for Time-share Units Averaged 90.8% in 2009 as Compared to 66.5% at Hawaii Hotels; One of the Best Performing Time-share Markets in the U.S. Capital Region of New York Experienced Busiest June & July in Five Years - ADR up 25.9 % in Saratoga and 18.6 % in Lake George Knowland Looking to Hire Over 200 for Expanded Event Booking Center; Coverage in mid-Atlantic press including Washington Post intended to drive applications to expanded facility Shangri-La Breaks Ground for a New City Resort in Diqing, Shangri-La County, Yunnan Province; It is Said the Description of Shangri-la in James Hilton's Lost Horizon Was Based on Diqing Chatham Lodging Trust Names Dennis M. Craven Executive Vice President and CFO Nick Simmonds Named Managing Director of New GoldenEye Hotel & Resort, One of Chris Blackwell's Island Outpost Hotels in Jamaica The Langham Huntington, Pasadena Appoints David Féau as Chef de Cuisine of The Royce at The Langham September 9, 2010 Hotel Owners Poised to Get Back in the Game Webinar: Welcome to the Video Economy; How Successful Hoteliers Are Producing, Displaying and Syndicating Video Online True Concessions - Determining the Costs of Those Subversive Clauses in any Group Contract Such as Comp Room Allocations and F&B Discounts / Jil Larson The AIG Effect Waning as Hotels Across South Florida Report Increases in Group Business Ritz-Carlton Kapalua Foreclosure Could Work to Buyers' Advantage - Purchase Price Likely to be a Fraction of the $180 million Spent on Renovations Measure to Manage - The importance of KPIs ... and vampires / Jim Hartigan WHI Market Focus: Resilient Omaha Kathleen Taylor, President and CEO of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Will Receive the 2011 International Society of Hospitality Consultants Pioneer Award 2010 CHAE of the Year, Jason Hizer, to be Honored at HFTP's Annual Convention & Tradeshow Philadelphia's Center City Hotels Reporting a Fruitful Summer, Occupancy from Memorial Day through Much of the Summer 76%, Up from 72% in Summer 2009 Construction Firm Trying to Resolve $25 million Dispute with John Q. Hammons Over the Stalled 300-room Renaissance Hotel in Colorado Springs JER Partners Sells the 303-room Hilton College Station in College Station, Texas to an Affiliate of Encore Enterprises Whiteboard Labs Web Site Re-Design Of The Prestigious Lake Placid Lodge under the category 'Travel/Tourism', has won the IMA Best in Class Award Skyware Hospitality Solutions join forces with InnLink CRS to offer solutions that integrate Global Distribution and Web Bookings with Hotel Operations Libra OnDemand Powers Loyalty Website for Premier Hotels; Leading SaaS CRM solution provides tools to enhance guest relationships Joie de Vivre and LRA Worldwide Partner on Comprehensive Quality Assurance Program; QA Initiative Designed to Support Growth of California's Leading Boutique Hotel Collection Baywood Hotels Combining History and Moderism in New Home2 Suites by Hilton® in Historic San Antonio Property Near River Walk Hotel Concepts Begins Construction of the 218-room Hampton Inn & Suites in SeaTac, Washington - Scheduled to Open Early 2012 Gary Sims Appointed Managing Director at La Quinta Resort & Club Denihan Hospitality Group Appoints Becky Casey as Director of National Sales for North America Shaun Burchard Joins Marshall Hotels & Resorts, Inc. as Executive VP Dinah Marzullo Appointed Director of Marketing for Club Med North America Grand Hyatt New York Appoints Executive Chef Christian Ragano to Head Up the Hotel's New Restaurant, New York Central September 8, 2010 NORTHWIND-Maestro Enables Operators to Increase Revenue with Mobile Presence and Web 2.0 Capability; Mobile Room Bookings Forecasted to Reach $160 Million in 2010; Mobile-Ready Operators Benefit Hilton Worldwide Names UrbanAmerica its 2009 Developer of the Year; Recognized for Multimillion-Dollar Transformation and Renovation of the Doubletree Resort Orlando - International Drive The Spanish Hotel Company Sol Melia Planting its Flag within the U.S., Will Operate the Former Marriott Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown as the Melia Atlanta Without a Name - Does a Hotel Suffer an Identity Crisis? Singer Island Could be Puttin' on the Ritz - Owners of the Twin-Towers, Lionheart Capital LLC, in Talks to Convert Condos in to Ritz-Carlton Resort Residences Groupe Germain Set to Open the 167-room Hôtel Le Germain at Toronto's Maple Leaf Square Starwood Hotels Creates Spa Concept Designed Exclusively for Sheraton Hotels & Resorts; Shine for Sheraton Expected to be a Cornerstone of the Sheraton Brand Experience Newmarket® International, Inc. Acquires Hospitality Information Services, Inc. UniFocus Study: 93 Percent of Hoteliers Optimistic for 2012 History in a Box: Great-Grandson of John Plank, Builder of The Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Michigan, Donates Invaluable Records of Hotel's History The AH&LA 2010 Lodging Survey Identifies Key Trends in Amenities, Facilities, Programs Marriott Creates a Replica of the New Courtyard by Marriott Lobby at Grand Central Terminal; The Refreshing Business Lobby, a Space Where Travelers Congregate that is Contemporary, Sophisticated and Relevant Professional Development for You Means Lending a Hand to Someone Else Along the Way / Dr John Hogan Hotel Equities Completes Total Renovation 20 Year Old Hampton Inn in Stone Mountain, Georgia Woodward's Resort and the Inn of Lincoln, Both of Lincoln, New Hampshire, Have Merged Operations and Ownership Carlson Hotels Appoints Christer Larsson as Vice President of Food & Beverage September 7, 2010 Making Sense of Green Certifications in Lodging Facilities / Eric B. Hansen Labor Issues and the Cost of Exhibiting Heat up Again at the Philadelphia Convention Center Too Many Nonunion Hotels Make Philadelphia a Tough Sell to Labor Gatherings The Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association Changes Strategy, Gets Creative, to Fill the Expanded Indiana Convention Center New York City's Algonquin Hotel Recalls the 1930s Tucson Convention Center Hotel Developer Garfield Traub Proposing to Finance the $230 million Project with The Recovery Act's Build America Bonds Rising Out of Nowhere in the Northeastern Corner of Oklahoma, The Quapaw Tribe's Downstream Casino Resort Offers All the Excitement of Vegas The Singapore Landmark Fort Canning, Once Used as a Base for the British Far East Command during World War II, Sensitively Restored to the 86 room Hotel Fort Canning The citizenM Hotel Group Opens its Third Property - the 198-room citizenM Glasgow, Scotland Richard Gray Developing a 62-room Resort in Fort Lauderdale that Is Expected to be the Only Full-service Gay Hotel in North America The Redbury @ Hollywood and Vine is Rolling Out the Red Carpet with 'iPad' Apps and Mobile Hotel Services from runtriz™ Major Provider of Food, Beverage & Laundry Equipment Demonstrates what it takes to succeed in Bad Times Hotel AG Engaged to Sell Five Hotel Portfolios Best Practices in Revenue Management, Part 3; Automation, Channel Management and Decision Making / Jean Francois Mourier Win or Lose - Positive or Negative - Casinos Reshape Pennsylvania Regions Sonoma County Tourism Rebounding, but not Roaring Back - July Experienced 78% Occupancy Rates Black Rock Financial Seeking to Foreclose on and Take Ownership of Troubled Ex-Pittsburgh Hilton The Malcolm Bryant Corp. Completes $2 million Renovation on Owensboro, Kentucky Hampton Inn to Reflect Hilton's New Global Style Leading Technology Associations Team up to Integrate Customer Information From a Wide Range of Gaming and Hospitality Systems; MGM Resorts International to Host Initial Meeting of GSA and HTNG John J. DePaul Named Executive Vice President Development for Sonesta International Hotels Corporation Crestline Hotels & Resorts Appoints Charles Perrell General Manager for the Hilton Garden Inn & Homewood Suites Hotels Located in Baltimore's Inner Harbor September 3, 2010 Hilton Hotels Terminates Franchise License Agreement with Shubh, Owner of the 700-room Pittsburgh Hilton; Shubh Claims Constructive Conversations Underway to Win the Hilton Name Back San Diego's Manchester Grand Hyatt Deal with Sunstone Hotel Investors Goes Sour Wisconsin Law Bans Smoking in Every Hotel Guestroom; State Hotel & Lodging Association Issues Smoking Ban Guide For Wisconsin Lodging Properties Tourists Not Finding the Paradise they Expected as Workers at the Hyatt Regency Waikiki Beach Resort & Spa Stage One Day Strike Minor Family Hotels, the Controlling Entity Over the Long-stalled Landmark Hotel Project in Downtown Charlottesville, Virginia, Files for Bankruptcy Hotel Employee Screening: Conducting Reference Checks and Background Investigations of Job Applicants Crucial to Preventing Personnel-related Problems Kinseth Hospitality Selected as a Court Appointed Receiver to Operate Two Hotel Properties in Minnesota Maui Tourism Now Leading the Pack for Hawaii's Economic Recovery; Visitor Arrivals and Spending are up 7.8 Percent and 16.4 Percent Over Same Period Last Year Jordan's Tourism Rebounds as Visitor Numbers Rise 29 Percent to Date Following a Dismal 2009 Service and Hospitality in the Business World: The Value of Keeping Customers Viceroy Hotel Group Completes Renovations on 114-Room Chamberlain West Hollywood Five Vie for Missouri's Final Casino License; One Plan Proposes a $350 million Casino and Hotel Complex Monmouth Plantation, a Registered National Landmark in Natchez, Mississippi, Names Jerry Jacobson as its First Managing Director September 2, 2010 Technologies and Gadgets - the World of Travel Planning and Buying Continues to Evolve / Ritesh Gupta US Hotel Brands in the Caribbean - Under Represented or Under Delivering? Understanding Guest Satisfaction - A Discussion of Theories / Patrik Hellstrand Top Ten Revenue Management Tips for Independent Hoteliers In Three Separate Transactions LaSalle Hotel Properties Acquires the Hotel Monaco San Francisco for $68.5 million, the Westin Philadelphia for $145.0 million and the Embassy Suites Philadelphia -- Center City for $79.0 million Recap: Eighth Annual Southern Lodging Summit @ Memphis Hawaii's Tourism in July Hits 5-year High John C. Portman to Receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Americas Lodging Investment Summit Salamander Hospitality Retained to Manage South Carolina’s First Five Star and Five Diamond-rated Woodlands Inn; Johnny Linton and Family Buy Acclaimed Property from Sheila C. Johnson Owner and Developer Brack Capital Real Estate Opens The James New York, a 114-room Hotel in NYC's Soho Neighborhood Glen Cove Mansion Commemorates First 100 Years; The Manor House, Once One of the Best Twelve Country Houses in America, Became one of the Country's First Commercial Conference Centers in 1968 Dolce’s Seaview Resort Gains Education Connection with New Owner, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Gomes Gaming Inc. Now Partnering with JEMB Realty in Acquisition of Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City The Pegasus View July 2010 First Anniversary Edition: Recovery Continues as Leisure Travel ADR Shows Positive Growth For First Time Since Start of Economic Downturn; Pent-up Demand Also Leads to Lower Look-to-Books as Consumers Return to Booking Steve Cashman Joins iBAHN as Vice President, Americas HSMAI Foundation Awards Scholarships to Four Students Pursuing Careers in the Hospitality Industry Atlanta, Georgia to Host 2011 HFTP Annual Convention & Tradeshow Guoman Hotels Names Tim Cordon as General Manager of The Cumberland Hotel, London Benchmark Appoints Denise O'Laughlin Director of Human Resources at Chaminade Resort & Spa, Santa Cruz, California Hyatt Regency Dubai & Galleria Appoints Ann Kang as its Director of Sales Instant Gratification from Hearing "WOW, That's Good" and Giving Back are Reward Enough for Hermann Muller, Executive Chef for Florida's Ponte Vedra Inn & Club September 1, 2010 GSA Releases FY2011 Per Diem Rates for Federal Travel; Standard reimbursement rate increases 10 percent to $77 Virgin Island Hotels Take Different Tacks with Guests During Hurricane Earl Health Department Study Links Legionnaires' Cases to Epic Hotel in Miami Expect Hotels to Pare Back on Perks in 2011 While Implementing Modest Increases in Room Rates / David Brudney Hotel Minibar Security: Minibars Can Account for Additional Revenue of Up to $2.50 Per Occupied Room Per Day, However, if the Systems Are Not Secure they Can Lead to Significant Losses / Tom Arterburn The Lenox Hotel - Remembering One of Duluth's Lost Hotels The Education of International Students at U.S. Hotel Schools; A Conversation with Stephen Barth, Professor of Hospitality Law and Leadership at the Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management EasyRMS Enjoys Continued Expansion in Growing South American Market …… Leading Chilean gaming and entertainment company deploys EzRMS™ in all its five-star properties Hotel Development Site Available in Katy (Houston), Texas on I-10 Link2Brand Empowers Branded Hotels To Manage Their Own Marketing Campaigns - No Website Needed Guest-Tek Files Claims against Solution Inc. & Glen Lavigne In Massachusetts Federal Court In the US Customer Direct and Travel Tripper team up to offer best in class hotel call center services The Taj Cape Town: the Partnership of Taj Hotels and Developer Eurocape Spent Two Years and US$69 million Restoring the Original South African Reserve Bank and Temple Chambers Buildings Owned by Thornsett Group, Aloft Brussels Schuman Opens - First Aloft Hotel in Europe Coral Hospitality Appoints Roy Crane as Hotel Manager of Gansevoort Miami Beach Following Raul Leal's Departure, Desires Hotels Elevates Three to New Executive Positions Top 25 Read Articles - August 2010 Top 10 Strategies to Promote Hotels on Social Media Channels; IN-DEPTH: Interview with Anil Aggarwal, CEO of Milestone Internet Marketing Hilton Hotels & Resorts Brand Name and Logo Undergoes Alterations; Uses New Font Which Was Custom-designed for the Brand Two Men Accused of Befouling Renaissance Vinoy Hotel Pool in St. Petersburg, Florida Texas billionaire Pays $67.1 million for Amelia Island Plantation; Out Bids Starwood Capital Group and Noble Investment Group The Front Desk Is Dead. Long Live the [New] Front Desk / Terence Ronson The Top Ten Celebrity Chef-Owned Restaurants in the U.S. as Identified by TripAdvisor Editors and Travelers; Innovative Cuisine and Unparalleled Service Differentiate Culinary Heavyweights The Billion Dollar “Leakage” Continues to Drain the Hospitality Industry; Revenue Leaked from Hotels to the OTAs in the Form of Abnormally High Merchant Commissions May Reach $5.4 billion in 2010 / Max Starkov UNITE HERE Takes Stance with Potential Default of $1 billion in Loans Made by Bank of America to Columbia Sussex for the Acquisition of 14 Hotels: Save Our Jobs! Three Atlanta Hotels to Close, Change Course; Marriott's Renaissance Hotel, Wyndham Garden Hotel and Baymont Inn and Suites Making Major Changes to Survive Hyatt Attempts to Offload 3 Properties with Labor Disputes, Warns UNITE HERE Hilton Call Center Employees in Hemet, California Trained Overseas Workers Before Losing Jobs Benchmark Hospitality International’s Top Ten Beverage Trends for 2010 Omni Hotels Prevails at Auction for Amelia Island Plantation (FL) Park Hyatt Aviara Resort Owner, Broadreach Capital, Notifies Lender it is No Longer Able to Service $186.5 million Loan; Broadreach Recently Changed Management from Four Seasons to Hyatt Months to Find a New Hotel Guest; A Moment to Lose One / Gay Lynn Williamson-Grigas The Soon to Open JW Marriott Marquis Hotel Miami Taking Amenities to Another Level with a Virtual Bowling Room, Virtual Golf Facility and a 10,000-square-foot NBA-approved Basketball Court Florida Prison Inmate Orchestrates an Identity-theft Scheme that Tricked Hotel Employees and Guests into Giving Him Credit-card Numbers and Personal Information Keys to Success Hospitality Tip: There Should Be No Such Thing as "Limited Service" in Hotels or Hospitality / Dr. John Hogan Revenue Management or Urban Myth? The Fun Part of Hotel Revenue Management / Jil Larson Where Everybody Knows Your Name.... My Return Visit to the Ritz Carlton Pu Dong (Shanghai)/ Terence Ronson Former Owner of San Diego's W Hotel, Sunstone Hotel Investors, Wants to Acquire Manchester Grand Hyatt Obligations and Liabilities Relating to Providing Guestrooms to Minors in Connection with Prom Nights and Graduation Parties... California Answers the Question / Tom R. Arterburn A Ten-Step Program for Easing Your Hotel’s OTA Dependency / Daniel Edward Craig The Hotel Swimming Pool Has Come a Long Way: Four Hotel Pools Ideal for Sunbathing, Socializing and of course, Swimming! Miami Beach's Deauville Beach Resort in Danger of Being Shut Down Over a Slew of Code and Life-safety Issues August 31, 2010 Nobis Hotel Selects TRAVELCLICK® as Its Ecommerce Technology Partner; Newly renovated property in Stockholm will leverage TRAVELCLICK’s total solution to maximize distribution channels, leverage business intelligence, and drive web bookings through digital marketing Increased Online Conversion Rates Lead to Big Success for Aqua Hotels & Resorts after Switching to Sabre Hospitality Solutions Stonebridge Companies Hires VIZERGY® to Enhance Online Marketing; Two New Hotels Poised to Aggressively Compete Online, Gain Denver Market Share Rainmaker Launches TribalRev to Provide Revenue Optimization Services to Native American Casino Hotels; Small and Medium-Sized Properties on Indian Tribal Lands Will Benefit from Rainmaker’s Software and Revenue Management Services via New Subscription-Based Offering Challenges Have Only Just Begun For Hotel Owners and Operators / Rick Swig Lawsuit Filed by Shubh Against its Lender, BlackRock Inc., Offers a Rare Glimpse into the Extent of the Pittsburgh Hilton's Financial Woes; Prism Hotels and Resorts In and Crescent Hotels & Resorts Out as Manager of the 712-room Hotel Mall of America Owner Triple Five Corp. Divests itself of the Ramada Mall of America Airport Hotel, Once the Thunderbird Hotel, for $15.75 million Biloxi Using Economic Carrots to Attract Proposals to Build a 500-room Hotel Connected to the 400,000 Sq Ft Mississippi Coast Convention Center San Diego Hotels Climbing Out After Sinking Lows Hyatt Attempts to Offload 3 Properties with Labor Disputes, Warns UNITE HERE Plus Services Company Partners with UniFocus; Deploys Watson, R.M.™ Time & Attendance eRevMax Recertified for ISO/IEC 27001:2005; Hospitality Software Vendor maintains strict compliance to international security best practices Mövenpick Resort & Spa Tala Bay Aqaba selects SpaSoft® for New Spa and Wellness Complex; Powerful System to Manage second Zara Spa Libra OnDemand Announces Two Key Appointments; Leading hospitality CRM company continues growth with addition of Customer Success Manager, Account Executive New Resort Ownership Group Appoints The Landmark Hotels Group as the Management Company for Makena Beach & Golf Resort, Maui How Does Your Hotel Provide Memorable Customer Service? / Dr John Hogan Battle Lines Drawn Over a Proposed Casino Half-mile Outside the Boundaries of the Gettysburg National Military Park; $75 million Mason-Dixon Resort & Casino Would Rescue a Struggling, 35-year-old Conference Center Not Yet a Household Name in the United States, But in Japan, Toto Ltd. Has Been the King of Porcelain Toilets for Nearly a Century Chinese Tourists Flocking to Japan in Record Numbers Since Visa Restrictions Relaxed Thailand's Nova Group Plans Five New Hotel Projects in Pattaya and Bangkok Windsor Capital Group Appoints Jeffrey V. Farina Vice President of Development August 30, 2010 Online Marketing Tool Drives Room Sales for Chain Hotels and Independents; Operators Increase Bookings and Revenues with hotel WebSpace The Billion Dollar "Leakage" Continues to Drain the Hospitality Industry; Revenue Leaked from Hotels to the OTAs in the Form of Abnormally High Merchant Commissions May Reach $5.4 billion in 2010 / Max Starkov The Front Desk as We Knew and Once Loved, Has to Go! Long Live the [New] Front Desk - Terrence Ronson With Growing Demand and a Slowdown in Hotel Construction, PricewaterhouseCoopers Anticipates US Hotel Occupancy Will Increase 2.6 percentage points for 2010, Reaching 57.2% Occupancy Park Hyatt Aviara Resort Owner, Broadreach Capital, Notifies Lender it is No Longer Able to Service $186.5 million Loan; Broadreach Recently Changed Management from Four Seasons to Hyatt Prudential Insurance Co. Pushing to Foreclose on the W Boston Hotel and Residences Putting More than $10 million in City Loan Funds at Risk EIH Limited, the Flagship Company of The Oberoi Hotel Group, Reports Steady Growth with 10 New Projects Under Development Last Days to Register - Niches Selling - Locating Lucrative Business that Few Hotels Pursue Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Have Updated 77 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with Changes in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership Hotel AG Sells West Monroe Hilton Garden Inn Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 90 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database The Hilton Scranton and Conference Center Suing Getaway Weekend Vacations Inc., aka Adventure Unlimited, for Not Paying $34,423.09 in Lodging Charges Tara Hospitality Planning to Scale Back Hotel Project in Charleston, South Carolina from 180 to 115 rooms; Brand Name Yet Undecided Now that We've Built it, Will They Come? Focus Turns Toward Bringing Events to New Las Cruces Convention Center Trump International Hotel & Tower Toronto® Appoints Seasoned Management Team; Director of Sales & Marketing Mary Ann Gamboa , Director of Finance Sebastian Lightly, and Director of Human Resources Pete Kangalee August 27, 2010 A Ten-Step Program for Easing Your Hotel's OTA Dependency / Daniel Edward Craig Benchmark Hospitality International's Top Ten Beverage Trends for 2010 Foxwoods Resort & MGM Grand at Foxwoods Expand Their Human Resources and Procurement Policies to Protect the Rights of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexual and Transgendered People IACC Surveys 105 Meeting Planner to Determine the 10 Most Important Items for a Complete Meeting Package What's the Tone of Your Social Media Voice? / Holly Zoba CRM Technology for Travel: Leveraging the Power of the Internet / Gregg Hopkins Omni Hotels Developing Long-term Plans for the Amelia Island Plantation Resort; Intends to Pay the $67.1 million Winning Bid with Cash on Hand with No Borrowings Sage Hospitality Now Offers Guests at All 18 Hotels the Opt-in Choice to Decline Daily Housekeeping Service; Its Green Choice Program Reflects Growing Trend as Hotel Groups Seek Solutions to Save Money - and the Planet The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas Signs with Marriott's Autograph Collection; The Relationship Will Provide the 2,995-room Independent Hotel with Marriott's Global Reservations System and Affiliation with Marriott's Guest Loyalty Program 12th Century Castles Go Modern with a Mobile Technology Twist; Ireland's Blue Book & SmartStay App Team Up to Bring History Hunters the Best in Mobile Content Mintek Mobile Data Solutions Announces $20,000 EAM Contest Prize; Win a Free EAM Starting September 1, 2010 Despite All the Negatives Going On, Mexico's Air Travel, Hotel Infrastructure and Cruise Travel Are Booming Hartford's Crowne Plaza Owners, CHOA Vision LLC, (Christian Hotel Owners Association) Files for Bankruptcy The Hotel Niagara, a 12-story, 193-room Hotel in Downtown Niagara Falls, NY, Has Foreclosure Auction Scheduled for Sept. 24, 2010 Atlific Hotels Opens New Residence Inn by Marriott Kingston Water's Edge, Ontario; Michael Johnstone Opening General Manager Handlery Hotels Completes Multi-Million Dollar Renovations at its San Francisco and San Diego Hotels Pub / Restaurant Operator Urban & Country Leisure Ltd Plans to Expand into the Small Hotel Market Following the Opening of Its First Hotel - The Lazy Cow in Warwick, England Steve Doherty, CHAE, CHTP to Posthumously Receive the HFTP Paragon Award Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts Set to Open the Four Seasons Resort Vail Under the Leadership of General Manager Hans Willimann and the Executive Chef Jason Harrison Grand Geneva Resort & Spa Appoints Brett Sundstrom as Managing Director and Ed Svitak as Director of Sales and Marketing Morgans Hotel Group Appoints Fernando Cerna as Director of Global Sales August 25, 2010 Next-Generation RFID Lock System Implemented in 5,900 Rooms at CityCenter in Las Vegas; KABA RFID Installation Delivers Future-Focused Guest Service Benefits for Luxury Resort Chaos in the Lodging Ratings World and Defining "Boutique" - A Solution? / Harry Nobles Managing Dynamic Data to Enhance Guest Experiences / David Sterling Have it Your Way - Design of the Personal Guest Experience / John Hendrie Back to the Basics - Hotel Fundamentals / Caroline Cooper The City of Nashville and Omni Hotels Sign Pre-development Agreement to Build an 800-room Hotel in Downtown Nashville Market Metrix Announces Second Quarter 2010 Hospitality Index Results; Casino and luxury hotel guests find great value with recession rates: Palazzo Resort & Casino Rated #1 in Guest Satisfaction Niches Selling - Locating Lucrative Business that Few Hotels Pursue The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels 2010 Half Year Operating Results; Peninsula Hotels Record a 13% Increase in Revenue Compared with the First Half of 2009, Occupancies at all Peninsula Hotels Improved / Key Statistics for the 9 Hotels Ariane Systems Surpasses $5 Billion in Guest Transactions Completed Through Self-Service Kiosk Solution Worldwide; Leading hospitality industry kiosk supplier reaches major milestone in self-service guest transactions through electronic check-in/out solution Trust International Launches Japanese Language Central Reservation System for Hotels; First of Several Asian Language Versions of yourVoyager CRS Marks Increasing Investment in Asia Solare Hotels & Resorts is First Japanese Chain to Run Enterprise Hotel Centralized Reservation System; Trust International Becomes First Non-Japanese CRS to Integrate Domestic, International Reservations for Japanese Hotel Chain Hotel Internet Help Completes Integration with EZYield.com Channel Management Solution Warwick International Hotels Offers Mobile Booking Solution with Pegasus’ NetBooker® NG Raffles Hotels & Resorts to Open New 86 Villa Resort, Raffles Praslin, in First Quarter 2011 in the Seychelles Islands, Olivier Heuchenne Opening General Manager Access Hotel & Resorts Appointed to Manage the 402-room Lodge of Four Seasons in Four Season, Missouri Another Would-be Developer Bolts from Reviving the Shuttered Sugarloaf Mountain Resort in Northern Michigan Greenbrier Resort's Casino Nets $891K in Seven Weeks; The State of West Virginia Happy Too... Its Net is $564K Enchantment Group Spas & Resorts Appoints Marcos Casillas as Vice President Reginald Archambault Named General Manager of the Luxe Sunset Boulevard Hotel, Los Angeles, CA Stephen Strickland Named Executive Chef of the La Quinta Resort & Club, La Quinta, California; Will Oversee Seven Dining Outlets at the 796-room Property Kingsmill Resort in Williamsburg, Virginia Names Jovandra Cox as Marketing Manager Roedel Companies, a New Hampshire Hotel Development Firm, Appoints Keith Kelly as its Director of Finance Tonya Tarrant Appointed Chief Financial Officer at the Paragon Casino Resort Located in Marksville, Louisiana August 24, 2010 iBAHN’s Internet-on-TV Offering Helps Hotels to Capitalize on Growing Guest Content Expectations; iBAHN Officially Launches its iMEDIA Solution Holiday Inn San Diego Bayside Installs Flyte Systems Flight Information for Greater Guest Service; Award Winning Airport Property Provides Real-Time Flight Information and Boarding Pass Printing for More Confident Travel VFM Leonardo and Frommer's Travel Guides Make the Hotel Research Process Richer; Leading Travel Publisher adds Hotel Visual Content Powered by VFM Leonardo to Hotel Pages Colliers PKF Now Forecasting that the Average U.S. Hotel Will Achieve a 2.3% Increase in Net Operating Income During 2010; First Annual Uptick in Forecasted NOI Since 2007 Omni Hotels Prevails at Auction for Amelia Island Plantation (FL) Texas billionaire Pays $67.1 million for Amelia Island Plantation; Out Bids Starwood Capital Group and Noble Investment Group Longtime Atlantic City Casino Executive Dennis C. Gomes Agrees to Buy the 942-room Resorts Casino Hotel from its Lenders The Construction Sign Says "Opening This Fall" But Doesn't Say Which Fall! Eleven of 14 Hotel Projects in Baltimore Stalled or Scrapped Relief Arrives for Hospitality Industry; Sunbeam® Hospitality Team Launches Full Line of Money-Saving, Eco-Friendly Products for 2010 AHLEI Partners with Safety Source to Offer Training Videos; Now Availailable - Bed Bugs: Facts & Prevention and Sexual Harassment: What Managers Need to Know Excel Hotel Group Selects AnyRate for Competitive Rate Intelligence RateGain’s ChannelGain Becomes Most Preferred Channel Management Platform for Mid-Market Hotel Chains in India Advice to Hotel Security Professionals... from a Woman Traveler / Tom R. Arterburn Corinthia Hotels Building a Luxury Hotel in Central London, the 294-room Corinthia London, Which Will Overlooking Trafalgar Square Choice Hotels Offers Significant Incentives for Hotel Owners Interested in Converting an Existing Hotel to the Quality, Clarion or Econo Lodge Brand; Incentives Include Discounted Application Fees, No Royalty Fees and Cash Back Upon Opening Despite Oil Spill, Florida Tourism Up 3.4% Over Same Time Period Last Year Allied Hotels Sells the 307-room Chateau Lacombe Crowne Plaza in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada for $47,800,000 Predica, a Subsidiary of Crédit Agricole Assurances, Acquiring 48 Hotels from Accor; 31 Hotels in France, 10 in Belgium and 7 in Germany Affiliate of Duet India Hotels and JHM Interstate Hotels India Sign Agreement with Starwood Hotels for Two Mid-market Four Points by Sheraton in India; The New Build Hotels are Located in Pune and Visakhapatnam Planned CanCan Casino Resort and The French Village in D'Iberville, Mississippi Pass First Hurdle as Residents Applaud Project and the Prospect of More Than 2,000 New Jobs Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces Names Kathleen Shea as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the Americas Leela Palaces, Hotels & Resorts Names Roger Wright as General Manager of the 322-room Leela Kempinski Gurgaon, Located in the National Capital Region of Delhi, India Jose Mojica Appointed General Manager of the GEM Hotel Midtown West, New York City Steve Karoul Named Vice President of Casino Marketing at Foxwoods Resort Casino and the MGM Grand at Foxwoods Pan Pacific Hotels Group Appoints Angie Ho and Stanley Ng to Corporate Marketing Positions The Westin Resort & Spa, Los Cabos Welcomes Andy Venkatesan as Executive Chef August 23, 2010 Obligations and Liabilities Relating to Providing Guestrooms to Minors in Connection with Prom Nights and Graduation Parties... California Answers the Question / Tom R. Arterburn After Hiring French Native Hubert Joly, Carlson Embarks on a Major International Growth Strategy Florida Prison Inmate Orchestrates an Identity-theft Scheme that Tricked Hotel Employees and Guests into Giving Him Credit-card Numbers and Personal Information The Hotel Sofitel in Bloomington, Minnesota in Foreclosure After Defaulting on $18 million Loan from Eurohypo, Part of Germany's Commerzbank Group Hawaii Statewide Hotel Occupancy in June, 2010 Improved 9.6 percentage points to 71.4%; Still Far Below Market Peaks of Three Years Ago Skin Care Concierges Protect Hotel Sunbathers - The Newest in Amenities? Production Benchmarks for Your Hotel's Website / Neil Salerno Develop Your Strategy \| The Knowland Group / Part three in a five-part series - Business Development Defined The Hospitality Industry and Some of the Personnel Challenges it Faces! / Fritz Kummer For Everything There is a Season - Including Budgets / Jim Hartigan Guest Satisfaction - July 2010 Chatter Guard Benchmark Report Is Released Hotel AG Sells Hilton Garden Inn Lafayette, LaFayette, LA RateGain launches “rumbido”, an innovative social network referral platform for Hotels, OTAs and Airlines AAA Parking Operating New High-Tech Atlanta Airport Marriott Gateway HITEC Advisory Council Begins Planning HITEC 2011 in Austin, Texas Lodgings Target 'Green' as the Color of Success Following a $11 Million Renovation the 300-room Park Vista Gatlinburg Hotel Adds New Affiliation with Doubletree Hilton Worldwide Signs Management Agreement with F&F Properties to Operate The Panamera, A Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Panama City, Panama Taragon Capital Malaysia Contracts StayWell Hospitality Group to Brand and Operate a New 445-room Hotel in Kuala Lumpur - the Park Regis Kuala Lumpur The Albuquerque Convention and Visitors Bureau Seeking Broad Community Support for an Almost $400 million New Event Center and Hotel Complex Can the Baker Hotel be Reborn? Time Running out to Find $54 million to Pay for the Renovation of the Baker Hotel in Downtown Mineral Wells, Texas Ian Pullan Appointed General Manager of The Fairmont Waterfront, Vancouver, British Columbia Wyndham Hotel Group Appoints Dan Kornick as Chief Information Officer August 20, 2010 Months to Find a New Hotel Guest; A Moment to Lose One / Gay Lynn Williamson-Grigas Two Men Accused of Befouling Renaissance Vinoy Hotel Pool in St. Petersburg, Florida Houston Hotel Market Starting to Revive; Area Occupancy for 2010 Expected to Tick Up Slightly to 56.5% The Irish Hotels Federation Express Serious Concern at Withdrawal of Bank of Scotland (Ireland) from the Irish Market - its Withdrawal of Working Capital Facilities Expected to be Catastrophic for the Hotel Sector West Virginia Development Board Approves $26.6 million in Tax-free Bonds for Developers Planning a 110-room Hotel in Downtown Huntington, WV In July, Maine's Hotels Enjoyed a Occupancy Rate of 74% -- an Increase of 10.7 Percentage Points Over the Same Month Last Year Hersha Hospitality Trust Opens the 129-room Hyatt Place® Philadelphia/King of Prussia; Jeff Moore the Opening General Manager The First Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Budget Hotel Planned for Manila; The Asean Budget Hotel Will Address the Problems of Expensive Hotel Accommodation and Boost Tourism Gregor Wateler Appointed General Manager of Shangri-La Hotel, Ningbo, China Paulette Lombardi-Fries Named President of Costa Mesa Conference & Visitor Bureau Jim Croghan Named the Director of Spa and Recreation at The Grand Del Mar, San Diego August 19, 2010 ETVi, iBAHN's Integrated IPTV Platform for Hospitality, Shows Global Growth of 71%; iBAHN's ETVi Drives Technology Innovation While Creating Delighted Guests eMax Hotel Internet Marketing Unveils Innovative Mobile Hotel Website Platform Extended-stay Hotel Pioneer Jack DeBoer Succeeded by Listening to Customers, Not Experts A Muslim Woman Suing Disneyland for Discrimination, Claiming Her Employers at Disneyland's Grand Californian Hotel Would Not Allow Her to Work as a Hostess Because Her Hijab Does Not Comply with the Disney Look Highland Hospitality, with $868 million in Past Due Debt, Exploring Bankruptcy to Prevent Creditors from Foreclosing on any of its 27 Hotels Historic Waikiki Beach Could See its First New Beach Tower in Decades Under an Overhaul of Kyo-Ya Hotels & Resort's Moana Surfrider and Princess Kaiulani Properties Approved Unanimously by Honolulu City Council 25 Essentials to Controlling Food Costs / Caroline Cooper Chinese Investors Shopping for Hotels in Hawaii in Anticpation of Mainland Chinese Visitors that Will Be Flocking to Hawaii in the Near Future Cassidy Turley Hospitality Group Sells Nob Hill Hotel in San Francisco Excel Hotel Group Selects AnyRate for Competitive Rate Intelligence Warmbrodt Hotel Investments Selected to Advise in the Sale of Value Place Extended Stay Hotel - Murfreesboro, Tennessee A Team of U.S. Based Hotel Operators, Designers and Architects Providing Aid in the Rebuilding of the Hotel Villa St. Louis in Port-au-Prince Haiti Davidson Hotel Company Selected to Manage the 345-room Marriott at Glenpointe Hotel and Conference Center in Teaneck, N.J. Owned by Andy Patel, the 136-room Aloft's Bold Ultra-modern Look Is Unusual for Tulsa Hotels Howard Johnson Hotel Niagara Falls, Ontario Completes $1. 5 million Redevelopment Project Norval Nelson Named General Manager for the Walnut Creek Marriott, Walnut Creek, CA August 18, 2010 TRAVELCLICK® Hosts Webinar on Second Quarter 2010 Global Hotel Performance: Emerging Trends for 2011 Budget Planning The Soon to Open JW Marriott Marquis Hotel Miami Taking Amenities to Another Level with a Virtual Bowling Room, Virtual Golf Facility and a 10,000 sq ft NBA Basketball Court; Not to Mention Daniel Boulud's db Bistro Moderne and a Hotel within a Hotel, the Hotel Beaux Arts Miami There Should Be No Such Thing as "Limited Service" in Hotels or Hospitality / Dr John Hogan UNITE HERE Takes Stance with Potential Default of $1 billion in Loans Made by Bank of America to Columbia Sussex for the Acquisition of 14 Hotels: Save Our Jobs! Sam Nazarian Advances Commitment and Development Plans for the Ritz Plaza Hotel in South Miami Beach, Florida; Will Open as the 142-room SLS South Beach in Spring 2012 The State of the U.S. Hotel Real Estate Market: Trophies and Treasure / Scott Smith, MAI Developers Propose Formation of Financing Authority to Issue $142.5 million in Bonds to Help Fund Planned Ozean Hilton Hotel on Okaloosa Island, Florida The Moinian Group Opens the W New York - Downtown and The Residences at W New York; The 57-story Building Includes 217 Hotel Rooms, 223 W Branded Residences and from BLT the First Branded Restaurant - BLT Bar & Grill Four Hawaiian Bartenders Reach for Bottles of Gin when Concocting Summer Drink Recipes CARINO Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Announces Windsor Court Hotel Adopts GDS Chain Code; Four-Star Property Selected New Code "UN" as part of Luxury Collection Red Lion Hotels Implements UniFocus’ Watson, R.M.™ Time & Attendance Defero3 Inc. Announces a Signed Partner Agreement Which Appoints XETA Technologies as a Top Tier Dealer for Their Hosted Hospitality Voice Solution SMS\|Host Users Group Invites Users to 2010 HUG Conference Fairwood Capital Acquires the 159-room Embassy Suites St. Louis-Airport; Maximum Hospitality Assumes Management Arabian Construction Company to Build 50-floor, 425-room Rotana Hotel in Abdali; Will be Amman's Tallest Building Jeremiah Marcel, Owner of the Days Inn & Suites Bayou Land in Thibodaux, LA Awarded the 2009 Days Inn Chairman's Award American Hotel & Lodging Educational Foundation Awards Three Students Scholarships Via its Arthur J. Packard Memorial Scholarship Program, the Foundation's Most Prominent and Oldest Scholarship Award Simon Purvis Named Executive Chef of the Soon to Open Four Seasons Hotel Denver August 17, 2010 Hotel Owners Poised to Get Back in the Game GoConcierge Makes it Easy for Las Vegas' Palms Place Hotel and Spa to Deliver Memorable Guest Experiences; Web-based System Adds Efficiencies to Concierge Task Tracking Processes Ariane Systems Selects Plan A Public Relations & Marketing to Manage Global Communications Strategy; Leading hospitality industry kiosk supplier prepares for rapid growth as it brings revolutionary new check-in/check-out technologies to market The Hotel General Manager - The Complexity of Leadership in a 2.0 World / Carol Verret In Ireland, Thirty-six Insolvent Hotels, Now Owned by the Government's Bad-loans Bank, Still Open for Business and Charging Money-losing Room Rates - Dragging Down the Viable Hotels "Break-It" Hotel Marketing… A Mental Exercise / Neil Salerno Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. Acquires the 409-room Royal Palm Hotel - Miami Beach for Approximately $117.0 million or $286,000 per key CoMMingle Offers Free Social Media Engagement Report To Hotels Shangri-La Hotels & Resorts Open the 278-room China World Summit Wing, Beijing Atop the China World Tower EDITORIAL: Celebrating the Center of Tourism - All That's Missing is a Top Tier Hotel City of Paducah Begins Liquidation of Former Executive Inn Hotel on August 19 To Make Way for Impending Demolition; Sale of Entire Hotel Inventory Will Be Open to the Public The Ethan Allen Corporation Selects Hay Creek Hospitality as the Management Company for the Ethan Allen Hotel Located Adjacent to Ethan Allen International Headquarters in Danbury, Connecticut; A Restoration and Repositioning of the 195-room Hotel is Planned Destination Hotels & Resorts to Manage The Villas at Snowmass Club in Colorado Omaha Holiday Inn Convention Center Rebrands to CoCo Key Water Resort-Hotel & Convention Center, Omaha Doug Brooks and Joseph A. McInerney to be Inducted into the Hospitality Hall of Honor at the Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management at the University of Houston Riu Hotels & Resorts Opening the US$ 120 million 645-room Riu Panama Plaza; First Hotel in New Product Line - RIU PLAZA LinGate Hospitality Group Opens 109-room Courtyard by Marriott, Owensboro, KY Kees Kramer Appointed General Manager of InterContinental Prague Jeff Lehman Appointed General Manager of The Betsy, South Beach, Miami Joe Kramer Joins Hyatt Regency Bonaventure Conference Center and Spa as the Director of Sales and Marketing Benchmark Hospitality International Names Phillip Starling Director of Operations for Marenas Resort, Miami Hilton Pittsburgh Adds to Executive Team including New Food and Beverage Director - Uwe Roehricht August 16, 2010 Hilton Hotels & Resorts Brand Name and Logo Undergoes Alterations; Uses New Font Which Was Custom-designed for the Brand Stratus Properties Inc. Reports the W Austin Hotel & Residences Project in Downtown Austin, Texas, is On Schedule and Within Budgeted Cost of Approximately $300 million A Boys' Playground: Like Eloise at the Plaza, Buddy Creel Grew Up in the Daniel Boone Hotel, Charleston, West Virginia's Finest Hotel Five Potential Buyers Expressing a Serious Interest in the Bankrupt Daufuskie Island Resort; Auction May be Avoided Hotel Sales in San Diego Jump 68 Percent in First Half of 2010 Under New Ownership Led by Jerry Colangelo the Wigwam Golf Resort & Spa in Phoenix Starts Multi-million dollar Rejuvenation Project; New Pool, All new Restaurants Hilton Call Center Employees in Hemet, California Trained Overseas Workers Before Losing Jobs EZYield.com Channel Management Helps Hotelier Spend Less Time On Computer, More Time Serving Guests Benchmark Hospitality International's Hawaii Resorts Achieve Travel + Leisure's "2010 World's Best Awards" List as "Top 25 Resorts in Hawaii" Supertel Hospitality Reports 2010 Second Quarter Net Loss of $4.0 million Compared to Net Income $0.9 million in the 2009 Same Quarter Last Year; Operating Statistics for 111 Hotels in 23 States Hotel AG Brokers Sale of a 143-room Independent Hotel in Erlanger, Kentucky Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Have Updated 148 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with Changes in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership Knowland Revolutionizes Hotel Reader Board Service - Again; Redesigned Platform Weaves Client Experience with Industry Innovation Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 104 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database Developer of $70 million Escondido Marriott Feels Years of Delays Allowed Team to Significantly Improve Final Project Midas Hospitality Acquires 83-room Candlewood Suites - Champaign, Illinois Biloxi's Mississippi Coast Coliseum and Convention Center's $118 million Renovation Complete Chesapeake Hospitality Recognizes Five General Managers For Top Performance Aaron Black Appointed General Manager of Topnotch Resort and Spa in Stowe, Vermont Marlene Macaluso Named General Manager of Hilton Garden Inn French Quarter/CBD in New Orleans August 12, 2010 TRAVELCLICK® Wins Best In Class and Nine Outstanding Achievement Awards for Website Design Excellence at 2010 IMA Awards; Named Top Winner in the Hotel Category for the Second Year and Receives Interactive Application Award for the Fourth Year Global Survey Reveals Most Effective Online Conversion Tactics for 2010 Clearview Hotel Trust's Albatross? An Analysis of Clearview's Pending IPO / UNITE HERE Research Sea Island Agrees to Sell its Golf Courses, Hotels, Spa, and Beach Club for $197.5 million to Oaktree Capital Management and Affiliates; Resort Continues Operations with no Disruptions Sale of Sea Island Co. Ends 80 Years of Family Ownership; Bankruptcy Planned to Escape $600 million in Secured Debt The Top Ten Celebrity Chef-Owned Restaurants in the U.S. as Identified by TripAdvisor Editors and Travelers Marriott International Names Simon F. Cooper to Lead Operations in Asia Pacific and Edwin D. Fuller will Head Operations and Growth in the Middle East and Africa Ritz-Carlton, Marriott International, Inc.'s Luxury Brand, Names Herve Humler as President & Chief Operations Officer; Will Also Oversee Bulgari Hotels & Resorts Federal Stimulus Revives Mall of America Plans for a Luxury $130 million Hotel; Hotel Operator Not Yet Selected Traveler Preferences are Changing: Upscale San Diego Hoteliers are Increasingly Becoming Pet Friendly Offering Pet Amenities From Surfing Lessons to Pet Psychic Sessions BP Denies Compensating Florida Hotels on the Gulf of Mexico - If There's No Oil on the Beaches, Then No Claim Subsidizing Tourism: Florida Economist Believes BP Should Offset Tourists' Lodging Costs with Vouchers Instead of Paying for Tourism Marketing LaSalle Hotel Properties Selects Destination Hotels & Resorts to Manage Paradise Point Resort & Spa in San Diego What Will Make Your Hotel Stand Out Above All the Rest in Your Area / Caroline Cooper Outrigger Rebranding the OHANA Waikiki Beachcomber Hotel as the Holiday Inn Waikiki Beachcomber Resort Best Practices in Revenue Management, Part 2; Rate discipline, the leveraging of real-time information, and price prediction / Jean Francois Mourier Say What? Listen, Learn, and Act–Why Guess, When You Can Know Redux / Jim Hartigan One of the Most Comprehensive and Meaningful Guest Service Codes Ever Introduced in Hospitality / Dr John Hogan Seasonal Resort Staffing: H-2B or Not to Be, That Is the Question! / Allan Wich Occupancy at Charlotte Hotels on the Rise - Three Months in a Row Over 60% CHI Hotels & Resorts Signs 15-year Management Agreement for the Operation of the 254-room Ramada Plaza Naama Bay, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt Aimbridge Hospitality Set to Open The Jewel Dunn’s River Beach Resort & Spa in Jamaica Following Renovation of the Former Sandals Dunn's River Resort Full Spectrum of Complex Work Environment Discussed at HFTP 2010 Annual Convention & Tradeshow; Oct 11 – 14 in San Diego Kerzner International Renovating One&Only Ocean Club's Cresent Wing in Paradise Island, Bahama's Thomas Petrillo Named Vice President/Hotel Manager for Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center in Kissimmee, Florida InterContinental San Juan Resort & Casino Fernando Sa as the Director of Catering and Convention Services August 11, 2010 Booming Rodd Hotels & Resorts Hosts ‘Live with Regis and Kelly Show,’ Builds Success on Personal Service; Loyalty Club Grows to 18,000 Members; Expanding 9-Property Premier Resort Operator Centralizes Guest Preferences, Cross-sells Properties and Maximizes Revenue with Maestro PMS Complete Integrated Solution Merchant Link and MSI Team Up to Provide Cutting-Edge Payments Solution for Hospitality Sector; New Partnership to Provide Ultra Fast Payments Gateway, 'One-Call-Solves-All' Customer Service and Reporting for MSI's Property Management System Breakfast with Liam Lambert, President of Oberoi Hotels & Resorts / Andreas Augustin Miami Beach's Deauville Beach Resort in Danger of Being Shut Down Over a Slew of Code and Life-safety Issues The Guest Services Team Is Now Part Of The Hotel Marketing Department / Doug Kennedy Auctions of Two Downtown Baltimore Hotel Projects, Hotel Indigo and Staybridge Suites, Cancelled after the Developers Filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Developer Withdraws Plans to Demolish the Architecturally Significant Arc-shaped Hyatt Regency Century Plaza; New Plan Calls for Nearly Half of the Guest Rooms to Be Converted to Condos Xanterra Parks & Resorts Deploys UniFocus' MEETINGScope™ Albuquerque's Convention and Meetings Business Spiraling Downward with Booking Numbers Dropping Two Years in a Row Hawaii Could be Back to 7 million Visitors by the End of 2011; Governor Committed to Getting Direct Flights Between Honolulu and China h2hotel Sets New Benchmark for Stylish, Eco-friendly Design in California Wine Country Town of Healdsburg A Review of Budget/Economy Hotels Following a Three Week Pennsylvania Road Odyssey / Stanley Turkel AHLEI Introduces Time-Payment Option for Distance Learning Courses Andrés Sanhueza Named GM of Hotel Matilda in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico Lisa Palermo Appointed Executive Chef of the Carnegie House, a Boutique Hotel in State College, Pennsylvania August 10, 2010 The Average Selling Price per Hotel Room Jumps to $99,480, an Increase of 77% When Compared to the First Half of 2009 / LE's US Hotel Transaction Trends Report for First Half of 2010 hotel SystemsPro Takes Social Media Leadership Position at Southern Lodging Summit; hotel SystemsPro Senior Director of eMarketing and eSales to Provide Social Media Guidance to Operators During eCommerce Panel Finding the DNA of a New Brand... Sam Nazarian Teams with Celebrity Photographer Matthew Rolston to Create the Eclectic Interiors for the New Redbury in Hollywood; Seeks to Take the New Brand to Multiple Markets IHG Posts a $141 million Net Income for the Six Months Ended June 30 Compared with a Loss of $29 million in the Same Period a Year Earlier; Global RevPAR Up 3.9% Overall and 7.4% in the 2nd Qtr, Greater China Reporting RevPAR up 29.4% in the Half The Hotel Group Says Hotel Management Success Stems from Successful Hiring within the Hospitality Industry Hospitality Sales Professionals - How Many Referrals Have You Requested This Month? HSMAI Seeking Nominations for its Eighth Annual Top 25 Most Extraordinary Minds in Sales and Marketing EZYield.com Does Work Of Multiple Revenue Managers For Denihan Hospitality Group Alabama's VictoryLand Voluntarily Closes its Casino and New Hotel in Anticipation of State Task Force Raid EDITORIAL: Oklahoma State Needs to Get out of Lodging Business - Key Operational Needs of Facilities are not Met in Timely Fashion Portfolio Hotels & Resorts Adds the Hilton Greenville, SC to its Management Portfolio; Timothy Weaver Named General Manager DiamondRock Acquires the 166-room Renaissance Charleston Historic District Hotel for $39 million; Completes $200 Million Unsecured Credit Facility 2010 Workstyles Study from Homewood Suites by Hilton Reveals that Division Between Professional and Personal Lives of Business Travelers Continues to Erode; Hotel Amenities and Conveniences of Home Highly Valued FelCor Names Troy A. Pentecost as EVP and Chief Operating Officer Valencia Group Promotes Roy A. Kretschmer to Executive Vice President-Operations Professor Haiyan Song Recognized for Lifetime Contributions to Outstanding Scholarship and Research in Hospitality and Tourism Angie Thompson Named Director of Sales at the Holiday Inn Express-The Woodlands, Texas August 9, 2010 Where Everybody Knows Your Name.... My Return Visit to the Ritz Carlton Pu Dong (Shanghai) / Terence Ronson Orbitz New Strategy is Focusing on Hotels, not Airlines, as its Hotel-room Nights Sold Are a Distant Third to Expedia and Priceline Online Sites Make Settlement Offer to South Carolina Local Goverments in Hotel Tax Lawsuit Hurricane Season Allows Inland Florida Hotels the Rare Opportunity to Maximize Their Lack of Proximity to Beaches Gaming Industry's Second Quarter Earnings Reports Show Gloom for Las Vegas & Atlantic City and Boom for Macau with 70% Surge in July from a Year Ago Former Treasure Bay Casino Lead Hotel Clerk Facing Embezzlement Charges Over Missing $48,500 in Biloxi, Mississippi Warmbrodt Hotel Investments Selected to Advise in the Sale of Suburban Extended Stay Hotel - Located in Lenexa, Kansas EasyRMS Partner With Regal Hotels International For All Six Hong Kong Properties; EzRMS™ expected to bring annual incremental revenues of 5-8% to the group Hotel AG Sells Hilton Garden Inn Portfolio; Hilton Garden Inn LaFayette, LA and Hilton Garden Inn West Monroe, LA Keys to Success Hospitality Tip: Is there anything better than an angry customer? / Dr John Hogan Fresno, California's Hotel Boom Fuels Fear of Glut and Future Foreclosures Chatham Lodging Trust Acquires the Residence Inn by Marriott® - New Rochelle, N.Y. for $21 million, or Approximately $169,000 per key One Year After Opening, Pennsylvania's Rivers Casino Woefully Short of Revenue Projections of $427 million, Actual Revenue $217 million Ackruti Group's Proposed 77-story Five Star Hotel Set to Change Face of Prabhadevi in Mumbai Innisfree's $31 million Hampton Inn & Suites in Orange Beach, Alabama 40% Complete; Gabe DiCianni Appointed General Manager Grand Pacific Resort Management Awarded Contract to Manage the Mountain Retreat Resort in Arnold, California Peach State Hospitality to Open New 121-room Springhill Suites by Marriott in Macon, Georgia; Opening General Manager Donna Beall Minnesota's Lake Country Facing New Battle with Private Cabin Rentals; State's New Plan Would Require Private Owners to Comply with Same Rules Set for Hotels, Motels & Resorts Warwick International Appoints Sam Kapadia General Manager for the Warwick New York Hotel, Also, Barrymore Edwards Named Senior Sales Manager, Business Travel August 6, 2010 Moscow Has Most Expensive Hotel Rates in World at US$407; Geneva and Hong Kong the Second and Third Most Expensive Respectively / Hogg Robinson Group Survey The Hotel Okura Co. Acquiring 79.6% Ownership of JAL Hotels Co., Ltd; Objective is to Deliver Merit in Terms of Group Size, International Competitiveness and Increased Valuation of the Brand Overall Penn State Hotel and Restaurant Society Names U.S. Travel’s Roger Dow 2010 Hospitality Executive of the Year Morgans Hotel Group 2nd Qtr 2010 Net Loss Widens to $21.1 million from Prior Year 2nd Qtr Net Loss of $10.1 million; Its New York Hotels Ran at 94% Occupancy with RevPAR up 23.1% / Hotel Operating Statistics Sunstone Hotel Investors Reports a 2nd Qtr 2010 Net Loss Attributable to Common Stockholders of $4.9 million; RevPAR Increases 6.8% in Second Quarter 2010 vs. Second Quarter 2009 Miami Based Peebles Corp. Envisions Site Acquisiton to Eventually House the Las Palmas Resort & Casino, a Planned $2 billion Project in Las Vegas, Nevada Tampa's 1800Hotels.com Bankruptcy Draws Ire of Travelers Worldwide; Prepaid Reservations Cancelled by Suppliers with No Notification to Travelers Leaves Sour Taste Oil Spill's Economic Fallout for Florida Easing Up - New Estimates on Economic Impact Reduced by 80%; Down from $11 billion to $2 billion Morgans Hotel Group's South Beach Florida Properties Felt 4% to 9% Rate Decline in Second Quarter Despite Uptick in Occupancy With Investors in Agreement and Fertittas' Bid of $772 million Seen as Highest for Station Casinos, Bankruptcy Auction Holds Little Mystery Assessing the Comfort Level of Corporate Travel Professionals with Social Media; IN-DEPTH: Interview with Gregg Brockway, CEO, Tripit Whiteboard Labs Releases iPad Version of The Ultimate Booking Experience (TUBE) MGPA Asia Developments and Hilton Worldwide Complete Conversion of the Former Crown Princess to the 540-guest room, 34-storey Doubletree by Hilton, Kuala Lumpur A Brief History of Yellowstone National Park's Roosevelt Lodge as it Celebrates its 90th Anniversary Wigwam Golf Resort & Spa Joins Destination Hotels & Resorts Collection as Third Phoenix Property in its Portfolio GF Management Affiliate Awarded the Management Contract for the 186-room Arizona Golf Resort and Conference Center in Mesa, Arizona LaTour Hotels and Resorts Selected to Manage Los Veneros Resort and Residences on the Punta de Mita Peninsula, Nayarit, Mexico Keys to Success Hospitality Tip: Breakfast Best Practices on Engaging the "high-touch" side of our business #3 / Dr John Hogan Wyndham and Highgate Holdings Execs Cut the Ribbon for the Renamed Parc 55 Wyndham San Francisco-Union Square The Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli, Libya Renews Focus on the American Leisure Market Following the Easing of Visa Restrictions for Americans Travaglini Enterprises Completes $1 million Renovation on 110-room Quality Inn, Erie, Pennsylvania Nancy Carle, Joins Leading Hospitality Solutions Provider, TTI Technologies as Regional Sales Manager Belmonte Selects Industry Veteran Tim Pigsley to Head Franchise Negotiations Division The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels Appoints Doug Lui as General Manager, Audit & Risk Management August 5, 2010 Mexico Grand Hotels Select SMS\|Host® Hospitality Management System; Hotels Embrace Integrated Solution from PAR Springer-Miller Sandals Emerald Bay Selects Software Suite from Agilysys; Luxury Resort Implements Property Management, Document Management Systems NORTHWIND-Maestro Earns Microsoft Certified Partner Status with Leading Edge Property Management System; NORTHWIND Demonstrates High Degree of Proficiency, Proven Technical Expertise of its Employees and a Track Record of Delivering Hospitality Software Solutions Using Microsoft Technologies Revenue Management or Urban Myth?; The Fun Part of Hotel Revenue Management / Jil Larson Three Atlanta Hotels to Close, Change Course; Marriott's Renaissance Hotel, Wyndham Garden Hotel and Baymont Inn and Suites Making Major Changes to Survive Hyatt Hotels Posts Big 2nd Qtr Profit as Demand for its Rooms Increased, Especially Abroad / Net Income Was $25 million, Far Better than Last Year's Loss of $50 million; Comparable North American full-service RevPAR Up 6.8% and International RevPAR Up 21.4% Compared to Prior Year 2nd Qtr Study Reveals Best, Worst Travel Taxes in U.S. Destinations; Chicago and New York Impose the Highest Total Taxes on Travelers / High Discriminatory Travel Taxes Deter Meetings, Harm Local Economy Allison Inn & Spa - Vision, Commitment, Communication & Team-Work Lead to Success / Judy Singer & Carol Schaefer Trust International Partners with GestioneAlbergo for Channel Management Interface between LeoPortalsManager and yourVoyager CRS Purchasing for the Environment… 'GREEN' is on the Move. Impact Enterprises, Inc. contracts to manufacture eco-friendly menu covers for the world's leading international entertainment company ARE THERE ANY REAL HOTEL LENDERS OUT THERE? Seeking Financing for new construction and rehab projects Harrah's Entertainment Posts Loses of $274 million in Second Quarter: Revenue Declines Despite Increase of Las Vegas Properties Los Angeles Hoteliers Pushing Plan for New 1.5% Hotel Assessment Fee Designed to Promote City as a Worldwide Tourist Destination Sheraton® Hotels & Resorts Unveils New Online Experience for Guests Powered by Microsoft's Bing; Specially Designed, Branded Portal Allows Guests to Discover Their Destination with Just One Click JMI Realty, Owned in Part by John Moores the Owner of the San Diego Padres, Acquires the 311-room Aston Kauai Beach Hotel at Makaiwa Ragosta Hotels Collection Opens New Five-Star Boutique Hotel, La Plage Resort, in Taormina, Sicily, Italy Robert Herr, GM of InterContinental Prague, Moving to General Manager of the InterContinental Berlin Loews Miami Beach Hotel Appoints Craig Schoninger as Director of Sales and Marketing August 4, 2010 Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces Takes Business Intelligence to the Enterprise Level with TRAVELCLICK®'s Hotelligence360™; Iconic hotel group uses Enterprise Edition of Hotelligence360 to optimize performance throughout its portfolio eMax Hotel Internet Marketing Launches New Full-Featured Website to Showcase Core Products EZYield.com Completes Interface With PAR Springer-Miller Former Owner of San Diego's W Hotel, Sunstone Hotel Investors, Wants to Acquire Manchester Grand Hyatt CityCenter's Value Plummets: At a Cost of $8.5 billion to Build, MGM Resorts International Now Lists Equity Value at $2.65 billion Gaylord Posts Second-quarter Loss of $22.7 million Which Includes $81.3 million in Casualty Losses for Flooded Nashville Properties / Hotel Operating Statistics Developer Mark Croce's Financing Package for a Boutique Hotel in Downtown Buffalo Makes the List of 100 Stimulus Projects that Give Taxpayers the Blues West Virginia University Could Find Itself in the Hotel Business, the Waterfront Place Hotel Eyed as a Laboratory for the University's Hospitality Program FelCor Reports 2nd Qtr 2010 Net Income of $22.0 million Due to a $46.1 million Gain on Extinguishment of Debt; RevPAR for the 83 Hotel Portfolio Increased 5.6% for the Quarter Compared to Prior Year / Hotel Operating Statistics Grove Street Partners Opens the 403-room Atlanta Airport Marriott Gateway; Robert Woolridge the Opening General Manager Orient-Express Hotels Reports a Net Loss for the 2nd Qtr 2010 of $0.8 million Compared with a Net Loss of $24.3 million in the 2nd of 2009; RevPAR Up 13% in US Dollars Smart Meetings Magazine Launches Industry's Most Technologically Advanced Website; Smartmeetings.com provides planners with online tools and a level of interactivity previously unseen in the industry Hospitality eBusiness Strategies to Present during Mobile Technology & Travel Keynote Session at EyeforTravel's Travel Distribution Summit Marketing Plan 2011 - Must Have Strategies To Succeed In the Recovery Webinar August 11 Utell® Hotels & Resorts GREATRATE™ Mid-Season Sale Offers up to 60% Off at Destinations Worldwide; 2,000 Member Hotels Offer Discounted Rates through August Sheraton Hotels & Resorts in an Agreement with Rockwood Hotels & Resorts Ltd. Re-brand Rockwood Palace Resort & Spa as Sheraton Udaipur Palace Resort & Spa in the City of Lakes, Udaipur, India Chatham Lodging Trust Acquires the Residence Inn by Marriott® - Long Island Holtsville, N.Y. for $21.3 million, or Approximately $172,000 per key Lebanon's Tourism Industry Will not be Damaged by Military Clashes: Tourism Minister Urges Media to not Exaggerate the Incident Durango's Historic, The Strater Hotel, Established in 1887, Leading The Way In Green Energy Conservation with EPA’s Energy Star Rating Windsor Management Services Selected by Shubh Hotels Lincoln, LLC to Manage the Marriott Cornhusker Hotel, in Downtown Lincoln, Nebraska Boyd Gaming Second Quarter Profits Fall 73% 15 minutes With Mark Pawlowski, Executive Chef of the Yorktowne Hotel in York, Pennsylvania Capella Hotels Appoints Holly Waterbor-Breuche as the Director of Sales and Marketing for The Setai Fifth Avenue, New York City Ken Friesen has been named General Manager at the Hilton Garden Inn Houston Energy Corridor Anthony Freda Joins The Kapalua Villas as Resort Manager August 3, 2010 Trip Boulevard.com Declares Hospitality Independence Day Good News for Meetings-Driven Resorts: Site Inspections and Bigger Group Bookings are Back! / David Brudney Pebblebrook Extending its Due Diligence on the Grand Hotel Minneapolis an Additional 30 Days to Resolve Significant and Unanticipated Matters before Finalizing Acquisition of Hotel for $36 million Hotels Are Poised To Reboot & Refresh Their Rate Structures… Getting Back In The Game / Neil Salerno The Hotel Swimming Pool Has Come a Long Way: Four Hotel Pools Ideal for Sunbathing, Socializing and of course, Swimming! Lexington, KY Hotels Not Full for World Equestrian Games; Rates Too High, $225 for the Super 8 Great Wolf Resorts Reports 2010 Second Quarter Net Loss of $12.8 million Compared to a Net Loss $5.7 million for the Same Period a Year Earlier; 2nd Qtr Occupancy Falls to 59.7% from 62.5% Crafting High-Performing Promos for Email and Social Media Channels Why Guess When You Can Know - Maximizing the Effectiveness of Your Workplace Surveys / Jim Hartigan Reminiscent of Great Mountain Lodges, Alan Fuerstman's Montage Deer Valley Preparing for December 2010 Opening in Park City, Utah Keys to Success Hospitality Tip: Share Best Practices on Engaging the "high-touch" side of our business #2 / Dr John Hogan McKibbon Hotel Group Breaks Ground on 105-room Hampton Inn & Suites Located in the Turkey Creek Development in Knoxville, Tennessee Langham Hotels Opening the 357-room The Langham, Xintiandi in Shanghai, China The Re-Launched Holiday Inn Denver East-Stapleton Hotel Opens; Formerly the Radisson Stapleton, the 300-room Atrium Hotel Multi-million Renovation Completed Weeks After Rebranding as Country Hearth Inn & Suites, Midtown Memphis Hotel to Close Due to Pending Bankruptcy Issues Abu Dhabi Reports 29% Increase in Hotel Guests in First Half of 2010 Over Same Period Last Year MGM Resorts International Restructures $950 million in MGM Grand Macau Loans as Possible Prelude to IPO on Hong Kong Stock Exchange Baltimore's Promotion of Restaurant Week Adds to City's Reputation as a Growing Culinary Capital August 2, 2010 Top 10 Strategies to Promote Hotels on Social Media Channels; IN-DEPTH: Interview with Anil Aggarwal, CEO of Milestone Internet Marketing / Ritesh Gupta Knowland Opens Silicon Valley Location; Respected Business Development Software Company Expands Operations to Sunnyvale, CA Hoteliers - Lending Headaches? Changes in SBA Lending Deserve Your Attention Price Impact on Guest Satisfaction / Patrik Hellstrand FelCor Lodging Trust Incorporated Acquiring The Fairmont Copley Plaza hotel in Boston for $98.5 million or Approximately $257,000 per Key Brand Butler: Infusing the Butler Mindset into Hotel Brands / Steven Ferry Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach Resort and Spa Has Been a Hit with Vacationers, But Not So with the Condo-hotel Buyers; Seven Lawsuits Filed Against the Resort's Owner Seeking to Void Contracts Wynn Resorts Ltd. Posts Robust 2nd Qtr Net Income, It's Casinos in Macau Offset Las Vegas Losses; Will Spend $99 million to Remodel All 2,700 Rooms at the 5-year-old Wynn Las Vegas Hotel AG Sells Hilton Garden Inn Silver Spring, MD Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 107 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database Defero3 Announces Agreement with InterContinental Hotels Group for Hosted PBX Solutions Why Choosing to Create a Custom iPhone App is the Clear Choice Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Have Updated 196 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with Changes in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership Doug Browne, General Manager of The Peabody, Named Tennessee's Hotelier of the Year Francis Walters Joins Louisiana's Cypress Bend Resort as Director of Food & Beverage Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro LLP Changes its Name to Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP; Will Still be Known as JMBM Top 25 Read Articles - July 2010 Three Changes We Will See In Hotel Marketing In 2011 / Neil Salerno The Top 10 Hotel Groups in the World; IHG Retains Top Spot With Nearly 650,000 Rooms A 4-inch Water Pipe Burst at the 733-room Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Forces Evacuation of the Sold Out Hotel; Water Was Flooding Down the Escalators Like a Waterfall OTA Issues: Not All OTAs Are Created Equal, But One of Them Is Due for a Comeuppance by the Hotel Industry / Jil Larson Summary of California Distressed Hotels Survey: More than 1,000 Hotels Operating Under Some Form of Forbearance Agreement / Jim Butler It's a Tall Order Opening a New Hotel . . . The Ritz Carlton Pudong, Shanghai / Terence Ronson Largest JW Marriott in the World Selects Guest-tek and Intelity for Innovative Guest Room Technology ESPN Reporter, Erin Andrews, Files Suit Against Hotel Chains Over Secret Taping Starwood to Open Six New Hotels in New York City before Year End; One in Four New NYC Hotel Rooms in 2010 will Fly Starwood Flag Creative Financing Plan Unfolds for the $126 million Hollywood Margaritaville Resort: Foreign Investors Provide Funding in Exchange for a Green Card Is the Role of the Hotel Concierge Going Obsolete? / Daniel Edward Craig Miami Hotels and Restaurants Expected to Have Multi-million Dollar Impact from the The LeBron Effect Ian Schrager, Through a Partnership with Marriott, to Turn the Now Closed 12-story Seville Hotel in Miami Beach Into Marriott's Luxury Edition Brand Comic-Con Convention Becoming too Large for San Diego? Not Enough Downtown Hotels and Flawed Booking Process Leads to Disappointed Fans World-Class Service 101: Know the difference between meeting and exceeding expectations / Dr. Bryan K. Williams Will the Opening of the $3.9 billion, 2,995 room Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas be a Smash or Crash? Hotel Wars: Drama and Intrigue Behind the Starwood Lawsuit Filed Against Hilton San Diego's Downtown W Hotel Now Owned by Lender Hoteliers, How Are FaceBook & Twitter Working For Ya? / Neil Salerno Controversial American Arm of an International Islamic Group Has Conference Bounced from the Marriott in the Chicago Suburb of Oak Brook The Old Mining Exchange Building in Downtown Colorado Springs to Emerge as a Boutique Hotel Following $25 million Renovation; The Mining Exchange Hotel is a Passion Project for Perry Sanders Jr. Uncommon Common Sense: Transient Rate Strategies to Take to the Bank / Jil Larson AREA Property Partners, formerly Apollo Real Estate Advisors, and Hyatt Undertaking a Multimillion Redevelopment of the 1,193-room Hyatt Regency New Orleans, Shuttered Since Hurricane Katrina Some Food and Beverage Workers at the Langham Boston Take Exception to Doing Homework After Audit Finds their Department Lax in Meeting Service Standards The Evolution of Asset Management into a True Value-add to the Hotel Investment July 30, 2010 Jury Awards $34M to 20 Restaurant Workers Exposed to Carbon Monoxide while Working at Baltimore's Pier 5 Hotel Restaurant How to Increase Booking Ratios; Video Interview with Pegasus’ COO Ric Leutwyler on What Hoteliers can do to Increase Booking Ratios. Are Design Hotels More Attractive Real Estate Investments than Traditional Hotels? / Lukas Hochedlinger Tampa and St. Petersburg Hotels Filling More Rooms but Only by Slashing Prices; the Average Daily Room Rate Drops to $97.98 for First 6 months of 2010 -- Down 11% from a Year Ago West Virginia Governor Recognizes Jim Justice with Distinguished West Virginian Award; Honored for the Renaissance of The Greenbrier Resort Venture Capitalist Bruce Rauner to Chair the Board of the Chicago Convention & Tourism Bureau; Appointment a Key Element in Revamping the City's Convention Industry Leadership Pacifica Capital & Brokerage, Inc. Arranges Financing for San Diego Hotel EZYield.com Assists Nickelodeon Suites Resort With Increasing Revenue Potential Libra OnDemand Embeds Informatica Cloud Services To Offer First Hospitality CRM Application On Force.com; Cloud integration connects hotel systems for a single view of customer data TeleAdapt MediaHub Extender™ Used in Inception Movie Set; Connectivity Panel is seen as Must-Have Amenity for Contemporary Hotel Room Design Keys to Success Hospitality Tip: Focus on engaging the "high-touch" side of our business by instilling passion in our people #1 / John Hogan As The Plaza Hotel's Mischievous Mascot Since 1955, Eloise Once Again Rules The Plaza from the Hotel's 18th Floor Travel Industry Hails Senate Effort to Improve Visa Processing For Foreign Visitors; Goal to Increase Tourist Arrivals from Key Emerging Travel Markets - Brazil, China and India Hilton Beijing Capital Airport Hotel Opens as China’s First And Only Luxury Airport Hotel At World’s Second Busiest Airport THG's Holiday Inn Express & Suites Pullman Unveils $1.8 million Renovation during 'Sweet 16' Re-launch Celebration Starwood Hotels & Resorts Opens W New York - Downtown; Nearly 14,000 Applicants Vied for 200 Positions - Company Plans to Introduce 12,000 Jobs to Global Workforce in 2010 Real Hotels & Resorts and Grupo Poma Open the 264-room JW Marriott in Bogota, Columbia Boutique Lifestyle Lodging Association & HD Boutique Open Nominations for First Annual Boutique & Lifestyle Hospitality Awards Doug Lovell, John Buhler and Pete Sonntag Take New Senior Management Positions at Vail Resorts Roger Kacou Appointed Senior Vice President Africa of Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts Viceroy Hotel Group Appoints Jeff David General Manager of Viceroy Anguilla The Rocco Forte Collection Names Karim Naffah as the New Managing Director of the Company New World Hospitality Appoints Ivan Suardi as VP- Food and Beverage and Francis Ling as VP- Finance Robert Haislip Appointed Director of Operations at Benchmark's Lansdowne Resort in Virginia Hyatt Regency Bonaventure Names Scott Snipes as the New Hotel Manager July 28, 2010 StayHIP™ Named to Travel + Leisure's Top Travel Apps for 2010 List; World's leading travel magazine showcases the world's first bookable app for boutique hotels The Pegasus View June 2010: International GDS Bookings Deliver Highest Average Daily Rate Increase for 2010 at +7.5% over 2009; Hoteliers Harness Strategic Pricing to Bolster Revenues from Bookings Growth Sol Meliá Selects VFM Leonardo to Strengthen Visual Presentation of Hotels Online Why Company Team Meetings are Critical This Year / Carol Verret Chicago's Rosemont Hotel Rebranded as Hilton Rosemont/Chicago O'Hare Following $15 million Renovation Banquet Server at Cliff House Resort & Spa in Maine Files Lawsuit Over Alleged Tip Skimming Surviving Hard Times: Economic Indicator for Las Vegas Restaurateurs is Rise in Beverage Prices, in New York it's When Shoes Sell Future Funding Problems for the Fort Smith (Arkansas) Convention Center Creating Uncertainty and May Damage its Reputation Jiang International Hotels Group and Fairmont Hotels & Resorts Reopen the Legendary Peace Hotel Located on Shanghai's Riverfront Bund The Mansard Roof at the Top of Atlanta'a 26-story St. Regis Hotel and Residences Are Now Landmarks on the Buckhead Neighborhood Skyline Developers of Osaka, Japan Station North Yard Development Project Sign Agreement with IHG to Operate a Hotel and Residences Under the InterContinental Brand Nan Fung Group Signs Langham Hotels to Operate a 488-room Property Being Built Adjacent to the Guangzhou (China) International Convention and Exhibition Center Wyndham's Net Income for 2010's 2nd Qtr Up 34% from a Year Earlier to $95 million; Vacation-ownership Business Reports 13% Revenue Growth For the 2nd Qtr, Choice Hotels Posted Net Income of $27 million, Compared with $25.5 million Last Year; Domestic Systemwide RevPAR in the Quarter Rose 0.3% Ascent Hospitality Completes $2 million Renovation and Rebranding of the Former Days Inn to a La Quinta Inn & Suites in Downtown Indianapolis The Straight Truth about Vermouth: Not Just for Manhattans Sheldon G. Adelson, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp., Recipient of the 2010 HICAP Innovation Award Simeon Miranda Named General Manager of Two Outrigger-managed Properties, the OHANA Honolulu Airport Hotel and Best Western The Plaza Hotel Joel Pearlman Promoted to Controller for Outrigger's Condominium Division Tim Shelton Appointed Director of Sales & Marketing at The H Hotel, a Dolce Conference Hotel, Located in Midland, Michigan Michael Goralski Appointed Executive Chef at the Four Seasons Resort Jackson Hole Benchmark Appoints Sam Ackerman Director of Facilities at Lansdowne Resort, Leesburg, Virginia Brenda L. Vazquez Promoted to SVP of Marketing for the American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute July 27, 2010 As Industry Begins to Rebound from Downturn, Satisfaction with Hotels Increases; The Ritz-Carlton, Omni Hotels, Drury Inn & Suites, Hilton Garden Inn, Homewood Suites and Microtel Inns & Suites Rank Highest in Customer Satisfaction / J.D. Power and Associates Aptech's Profitvue Back Office Accounting Selected by Four Hotel Companies; Profitvue Picked for Its Comprehensive Hotel Accounting Functionality, Professional Support and Training Is the Role of the Hotel Concierge Going Obsolete? / Daniel Edward Craig A 4-inch Water Pipe Burst at the 733-room Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Forces Evacuation of the Sold Out Hotel; Water Was Flooding Down the Escalators Like a Waterfall Judge Orders Shubh Hotels to Reinstate Crescent Hotels & Resorts as Manager of Pittsburgh Hilton Hotel and to Drop Lawsuit; Also Orders BlackRock to Rescind Immediate Payoff Request of $49.6 million Loan Aimbridge Hospitality Launches Resort Division; Sagicor Pooled Investment Funds Selects Company to Manage The Jewel Beach Resort and Spa in Jamaica, Formerly the Sandals Dunn's River Resort La Quinta Inns & Suites Adds Three Hotels in Idaho; Agreement with AmeriTel Inns, Brings La Quinta Brand to Boise, Idaho Falls and Twin Falls Determine Your Universe of Potential Business \| The Knowland Group; Part two in a five-part series "Business Development Defined" Oxnard, a California Seaside City, Looking to Boost Tourism by Changing its Name to Oxnard Shores As Revenues and Profits Decline at Borgata in Atlantic City, it is Expected that Boyd Gaming Will Seek to Acquire MGM Resorts Share Virgin Island Tourism Department's Launch of Website to Encourage the Ten Points of the "USVI Customer Service Pledge" Met with Huge Success Cassidy Turley Hospitality Group Sells Holiday Inn / Silicon Valley Case Study: Top-Notch Housekeeping Consultant Transforms Waikiki Hotel eRevMax Expands Footprint in Asia Pacific; Channel management pioneer prepares for accelerated growth in emerging markets LodgeNet, Loews Partnering to "WOW" Travelers with Full-Property Technology Solution in Atlanta; 414 Guest Rooms Feature HD Interactive TV, HD Free-To-Guest TV And High-Speed Internet Access; Meeting Room Solutions and Public Space HDTV Complete an Integrated Package Of Media and Connectivity Offerings Utell® Hotels & Resorts Adds Two Scenic Monterey Peninsula Hotels; Monarch Resort and Magic Carpet Lodge Offer Value and Countless Attractions in Sought-after U.S. Destination and Golf Mecca AH&LA Lodging Industry Profile Charts Hotel Profits, Sales, International Arrivals; For 2009, the U.S. Lodging Industry Posted $127.2 billion in Sales - Down from $140.6 billion in 2008 A Joint Venture of Arnold Palmer and Concord Hospitality to Build a Springhill Suites Hotel Near Palmer's Latrobe Country Club in Latrobe, Pennsylvania JAL Hotels Opens the 382-room Hotel Nikko Shanghai Near Shanghai Mart & International Exhibition Centre Mantis' Ellenborough Park Hotel & Spa Near Cheltenham, England Scheduled to Open January 2011 Following Renovations C.A. Anderson Joins The Dow Hotel Company as President and COO Edward M. Tracy Appointed as President and COO and David R. Sisk Named EVP and Chief Casino Officer for Sands China Ltd; Will Manage all Operations at Sands Macao, The Venetian Macao and The Four Seasons Hotel Macao Alliance Hospitality Management Promotes Rob Cote to Regional Director of Operations July 26, 2010 Sabre Hospitality Solutions helps Mamaison Hotels and Residences increase online booking revenue by more than 100 percent Wanna Raise Your ADR? Audit Your Revenue Channels / Cindy Estis Green How to Get a Cover Story: A "Newsworthiness" Checklist / Michael G. Frenkel Hotel Brochure Touch-ups a Touchy Issue; Doctoring Photos an Act of Misrepresentation? Stalled Since 2008, Construction of Ritz-Carlton in Rancho Mirage, California Expected to Resume; Magna RE, Rancho California Investments LLC & Gencom Group, Through a Joint Venture, Purchased Property Out of Foreclosure For an Undisclosed Amount Seventeen Online Travel Companies Ordered to Start Paying Hotel Taxes to Atlanta Bottom Line Blues: Nine Of Ten Hotels Lost Profits In 2009 / Robert Mandelbaum Longboat Key Club and Resort Receives Approval for $400 Million Redevelopment Plan; the Condominium Resort Will Redesign Golf Course, Add a Hotel with 196 Rooms and 76 Private Residences Starwood to Open Six New Hotels in New York City before Year End Re-development of $98 million Edgewater Hotel, Madison, Wisconsin at Risk by Lawsuit that Developer, Hammes Co., Claims is Frivolous The Hilo Hawaiian Hotel Purchased for $17.3 million by a Group of Big Isle Investors Construction Remains Stalled on John Q. Hammons' 300-room Renaissance Hotel on Colorado Springs' North Side Bank Takes Mortgage Foreclosure Action Against the Stalled but Substantially Complete Hampton Inn Project in Norwich, Connecticut Hotel AG Sells Limited-Service Memphis Hotel - Hampton Inn, Collierville, Tennessee Spivak Promoted to VP at Competitive Marketing Exchange, Inc. EasyRMS Moves into New London Hotel from Portuguese Global Brand, Pestana Hotels & Resorts; The brand new Pestana Chelsea Bridge Hotel and Spa selects EzRMS™ Guy Harvey Outpost Resorts Reopens the 51-room Bimini Big Game Club; First of Several Planned Guy Harvey-branded Resorts Pennsylvania's Casino Taxes, at 55%, Earned More in 2009 from Nine Casinos than Nevada's 260 Gaming Venues by Nearly a Quarter-billion Israel Tourism Reaches All-time High for June and First Six Months of 2010; the United States Is Israel's Number-one Source of Visitors, with Russia, Germany and France the Runners-up Bestech Hospitalities Private Limited Opens the 201-room Radisson Hotel in Indore, India Mark Eble to Head Up Chicago Office for Colliers PKF Consulting Berryfield Hotels Appoints Kimberly Tomlinson to Area General Manager July 23, 2010 15 Hotel Waterpark Resorts Are Under Construction, Opening in 2010 Outside North America / Jeff Coy & Amanda McDaniel Construction Starts for U.S. Hotels Reach a Record Low of 80 Projects with 8,566 Rooms in the 2nd Qtr 2010 / LE Forecast Starwood Reports 2nd Qtr 2010 Net Income of $114 million Compared to Net Income of $134 million in the Prior Year 2nd Qtr; World Wide RevPAR up 13.1% / Hotel Operating Stats U.S. Travel Association Study Suggests BP Oil Spill Impact on Gulf Travel Could Last Three Years and Cost $22.7 billion Survey Reports on the Effects on the Local Hospitality Industry Following the Jimmy Buffett Gulf Coast, Alabama Concert Held July 1, 2010 Hilton Worldwide Presents the “2009 Developer of the Year” Award to UrbanAmerica Advisors, for its Doubletree Resort Orlando – International Drive MGM Grand Did Call 911 in Last Years Fatal Fall: Police Spokesman Explains How a Medical Emergency Call Might Not Leave a Record National Civil Disobedience Day Benefits Union Scheme, Not Employees Says American Hotel & Lodging Association Benchmark Hospitality International Announces $20 Million Renovation at Cheyenne Mountain Resort A Joint Venture Between Turnstone Property, Black Oak Realty Advisors, and a Subsidiary of Finard Properties Acquire Provincetown's Cape Inn, Renovation Planned The Courtyard Charleston/Summerville in South Carolina to be First New Hotel Build Using Marriott's Green Hotel Prototype Through a Joint Venture with Blanchard & Calhoun Commercial & MeadWestvaco New 300-room Royal Phoenix Hilton Hotel Planned for Memphis Could Lower Downtown Occupancy Rates for Three Years Financially Troubled Downtown St. Louis Renaissance Hotel Showing Signs of Improvement with Revenue up 7.6% from Last Year Keys to Success / Train the Trainer: Effectively Reaching Today's Adult Learners / Dr John Hogan Team Member Segmentation in the Workplace…or “If everyone brought potato salad to the picnic – it wouldn’t be much of a picnic!” / Jim Hartigan 5 Ways Travel Companies are Using Social Media to Add Value VJ Management Opens 119-room Four Points by Sheraton Saskatoon in Saskatchewan, Canada Naman Hotels Opens 113-room Hyatt Place North Charleston, North Charleston, South Carolina; Marsha Ellsworth Opening General Manager Harrah's Submits New Plans for Mulvane, Kansas Casino Including a 100-room Hotel The Resort Company, LLC Assumes Mangement of BlueSky Breckenridge, Breckenridge, Colorado; Keith Odza Named General Manager Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints Lisa Maria Stice Global Director of Online Marketing Ryan Davis Appointed Director of Revenue at Colorado's Westin Westminster Boston's Colonnade Hotel Names Ben Hasty as Chef de Cuisine July 22, 2010 Leading Interactive Agency Receives Worldwide Acclaim; 2010: A Banner Year for TIG Global Milestone Pockets Multiple Awards for Hotel Website Design and Internet Marketing Strategies Uncommon Common Sense: Transient Rate Strategies to Take to the Bank / Jil Larson Two Downtown Baltimore Hotel Developments Going to the Auction Block; The Unfinished Hotel Indigo and Staybridge Suites Unite Here's Organization of Indianapolis Hyatt Protest Intended to Result in Mass Arrests for Civil Disobedience Atlanta Hotel Competitors Join Forces to Attract Business Best Practices in Revenue Management, Part 1; General revenue management and strategic pricing / Jean Francois Mourier Libra OnDemand’s Cloud Platform Keeps Sales Bubbling At Miracle Springs Resort; Luxury California convention center resort credits Web-based scheduling application with saving time, closing deals. Best Western Opens Three Hotels in Ghana and Nigeria Including its First Best Western Premier in Africa Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. Acquires 266-room Le Meridien Piccadilly in London for $97 million (US) Including Assumption of Mortgage Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Opens 170-room Wyndham Garden® Hotel Baronne Plaza New Orleans Challenge Ahead for Coral Gables Biltmore Hotel, a National Historic Landmark: Profitability vs. Upkeep Pittsburgh Hilton Hotel Changes Mangement Firm Once Again; Windsor Capital Group to Run Operations Aimbridge Hospitality Selected to Manage Hilton Garden Inn in Dubuque, Iowa July 21, 2010 Trip Boulevard.com Declares Hospitality Independence Day From Traditional OTA's Palm Beach County CVB Partners with Cendyn for Online Campaigns That Fill Hotel Rooms, Attract Visitors to Area Businesses; Cendyn’s Multi-tiered Marketing Program Delivers Thousands of Web Visitors, Drives Hotel and Area Revenues Driving Demand in a Recovering Market: Video Interview with Richard Wiegmann on the State of the Travel Industry and What Hoteliers can do to Prepare for the Upturn. Hilton Worldwide Names Annual North American Hotel Development Award Winners; P.C. Amin of Shamin Hotels Receives Lifetime Achievement Award DO's and DON'Ts of Hotel Technology / Terence Ronson A Glimpse of What's Currently Trending in the Hospitality Interior Design and Décor-scape / Elaine Williamson Details of Fatal Fall at MGM Grand's Showroom Accident Last Year Emerging; Incident Reports Show Security Office Bypassed Calling 911 Wynn Resorts Reports its Two Las Vegas Casinos Lost $17.2 million in Second Quarter, More Than Double From the Same Quarter Last Year Mumbai's Heritage Conservation Committee Awaiting Decision to Demolish Shelley's Hotel at Colaba to Make Room for New Planet Hollywood Hotel Albuquerque's Renovated Hotel Andaluz Consuming Nearly 80% Less Water than the Former La Posada Hotels Take on New Names and Rebrand for Many Different Reasons The Hotel Group Prepares to Open the 128-room Hilton Garden Inn-Bothell with a 'Name the Boardroom' Contest Chesapeake Hospitality to Manage Gateway Project, LLC's New Build, the 230-room Crowne Plaza Madison Gateway in Madison, Wisconsin SJS Hospitality Planning a $11.4 million Fairfield Inn & Suites in Downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma New Jersey Eyes Creation of New State Authority to Takeover Gaming & Entertainment Industries in Atlantic City OpenWays Cell Phone Based Front Desk Bypass Solution is Adding to the Business Traveler Experience; HITEC attendees using OpenWays app to enter Guestroom 20X said the mobile room key solution, which gives travelers freedom to completely bypass the front desk by using their cell phone for guestroom access, is ideal for all guests who want to avoid lines at the front desk Power Selling Summer School -- Group Business by Market Segment Webinar Series / Presented by Carol Verret & Friends Dolce Selects SpeedRFP to Facilitate Meeting Requests for Proposals Oil Skips Most Florida Beaches, But So Have Many Tourists Southern California's Economic Outlook Gaining Strength; Tourism is Growing & Entertainment Industry is Thriving U.S. Travel and Tourism Satellite Accounts Reports First Quarter 2010; Growth of Travel and Tourism Spending Outpaced the Growth of U.S. Economy Red Lion Hotels Expands Board of Directors; Appoints Melvin L. Keating to Board Crestline Hotels & Resorts Appoints Patricia Scott as Director of Sales for the Courtyard by Marriott & Residence Inn Hotels in Aberdeen, Maryland David Lopez Named Director of Catering and Convention Services at InterContinental Stephen F. Austin, Austin, Texas July 20, 2010 HOTELSIGNS.COM Announces $25K Sweepstakes; Five to Win Free Product Orders for New Building or Renovation Vantage Hospitality Strengthens Online Visibility for Member Properties; Vantage Selects VIZERGY® Website Content Management Platform Marriott International Selects VFM Leonardo to Enhance the Visual Presentation of Marriott Properties Online Orlando, the Nation's Second-largest Hotel Market, Filled 66% of their Rooms in June, 2010, Up 4.2% from a Year Earlier, More Importantly, the ADR Rose 2.1% -- the First Year-over-year Improvement in Two Years July 2010 Hotwire Hotel Rate Report has Tulsa Topping the Nation in Falling Hotel Rates Hotel REIT Innkeepers USA Trust Files for Bankruptcy Protection; Pre-arranged Financial Restructuring in Place - Operations to Continue Without Interuption Ability Group & Hilton Worldwide to Open 137-room London Syon Park, a Waldorf Astoria Hotel by End of 2010 Colorado Gaming Revenue Surge Among Top in Nation, Driven by Increased Bet Limits from $5 to $100 and 24-hour Gaming Mastering Your Telephone Sales Mystery Shopping Program / Doug Kennedy NFL Running Back Jamal Lewis & Brownlee Reagan Buy Fort Rapids Indoor Waterpark Resort for $6 million in Columbus, Ohio The Liquidation Sale of the Former Holiday Inn Opens Thursday, July 22 at 10.00 A.M; Sale Will be Conducted by NCL/National Content Liquidators, Inc. / Building Coming Down ** Everything Goes Guest Satisfaction - June 2010 Chatter Guard Benchmark Report Is Released Boost Your Group Sales with Professional Business Development \| The Knowland Group Seaway Corp., the Operator of the Biltmore Hotel and Coral Gables Commissioners Agree to a Repayment Plan of the $3 million Owed in Back Rent for Historic Property Loews Hotels Appoints Debbie Castillo to Vice President of Hotel Sales Foxwoods Resort Casino and MGM Grand at Foxwoods Promotes Robert Victoria to Chief Marketing Officer Conrad Maldives Rangali Island Names Willy Ribbe Resort Manager Jennifer Belisario Named Sales and Marketing Manager at TPC Sawgrass, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida July 19, 2010 Data Security: So You've Been Breached, Now What? / Jeremy Rock President of the Hotel Association of New York City, Inc., Joseph E. Spinnato, Issues Statement in Support of State Legislation to Crack Down on Illegal Hotels in New York City Summary of California Distressed Hotels Survey: More than 1,000 Hotels Operating Under Some Form of Forbearance Agreement Three Changes We Will See In Hotel Marketing In 2011 / Neil Salerno Hotel Gift Shops Go Glam: Boutique and High-end Hotels Collaborate with Designers to Bring Exclusive Fashion Items to the Mix Must Every Hotel Have a Pool? The Pool as a Perk Analyst Maintains Cautious Outlook for Las Vegas Gaming Stabilization; Sings Praises for Singapore Stating it Could Become the Most Profitable Gaming Market in the World Helter Skelter is Rule of Day in Airline Pricing - Travel Mangers Want Rates Disclosed - And - What Exactly is a 'Boutique' Hotel? Your Guests are Working for You Online - The Fundamentals of Effective Online Reputation Management Revisited / Willem van Rossem The Old Mining Exchange Building in Downtown Colorado Springs to Emerge as a Boutique Hotel Following $25 million Renovation; The Mining Exchange Hotel is a Passion Project for Perry Sanders Jr. Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Have Updated 129 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with Changes in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership Hotel AG Structures Sale of the Rodeway Inn Hotel in Florence, Kentucky Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 111 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database LBA Hospitality Breaksground on 103-unit SpringHill Suites by Marriott in Lafayette, Louisiana Mark Butcher Appointed Director of Food and Beverage at the Sawgrass Marriott Golf Resort & Spa, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida Candlewood Suites Dallas/Plano Names Bobby Sparks as Director of Sales & Marketing Hayley Walls Named Director of Sales and Marketing for Life Wellness Resorts in Mui Ne and Quy Nhon, Vietnam Amanresorts Opens A 50 room Resort on the Island of Sveti Stefan off the Coastline of Montenegro The Phoenix Prototype for Accor's Motel 6 Brand Attains LEED® Certification; the First Hotel for Parent Company Accor to Gain the Distinction More than 280 Hospitality Executives Attending the Cornell-Nanyang Institute of Hospitality Management's General Managers Program and Professional Development Program With the Internet Accounting for 95% of Primary Traveller Information and $153 billion in Tourism Bookings in the US and Europe, the Middle East Needs to Get in the Digital Game; Less than 5% of Companies Utilize Digital Marketing July 16, 2010 The Top 10 Hotel Groups in the World; IHG Retains Top Spot With Nearly 650,000 Rooms Engaging the Hyper-Interactive Traveler Using Web 2.0 and Social Media: Hotelier's Best Practices Guide / Max Starkov and Mariana Mechoso Safer Not All OTAs Are Created Equal, But One of Them Is Due for a Comeuppance by the Hotel Industry / Jil Larson Cruise Ships Add Waterslides & Aqua Parks; Floating Hotel Waterpark Resorts Race to Compete for Families / Jeff Coy Auction Date Set in Amelia Island Plantation (FL) Chapter 11 Reorganization Ian Schrager, Through a Partnership with Marriott, to Turn the Now Closed 12-story Seville Hotel in Miami Beach Into Marriott's Luxury Edition Brand When is the Right Time to Worry About Your AAA or Forbes Rating? / Harry Nobles Jack DeBoer to Receive the Above and Beyond Award at the 16th Annual Lodging Conference in Phoenix ESPN Reporter, Erin Andrews, Files Suit Against Hotel Chains Over Secret Taping Meetings Stigma Results in Dramatic Fall Off in Performance for North American Conference Centers Bank Seeks Foreclosure on Fresno's Three Piccadilly Inn Hotels 1800Hotels.com Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy to Stop Room Suppliers From Canceling Customer Reservations Joie de Vivre Hotels Adds Newly Renovated 132-room Pacific Edge Hotel in Laguna Beach to its Collection Tallahassee's Hotel Duval Joins Marriott's Autograph Collection San Diego's Downtown W Hotel Now Owned by Lender Supertel Hospitality Sales Three Budget Hotels for a Combined Net Proceeds of $3.02 million or Approximately $14,700 per room Knowland Adds Harrah's Entertainment to Clientele; World-renown ownership and management company chooses Readers and Insight Hardage Group Management Deploys UniFocus' GUESTScope™ Tharaldson Communications selects Guest-tek™ for HSIA Offering Engage Guests Pre, During and Post Stay with an App Best Western's Commitment to Guest Satisfaction Continues with Addition of Front Desk e-Learning Course Hotel Concepts New Design for Historic Hotel in Tacoma's Brewery District Approved; Work on 160-room Holiday Inn Could Begin by End of Year Siegel Group's 150-room Rumor Welcomes First Guests: Former St. Tropez Will be Co-marketed with The Artisan Hotel Terra Jackson Hole, a LEED-Silver Certified Property, Now Utilizes 100% Renewable Energy Nigel Roberts Named Vice President, Area Operations, Oceania for Pan Pacific Hotels Group Wyndham Hotel Group Appoints Anne Cole VP of Content Strategy and Operations Benchmark Appoints Sherri Budz Director of Sales for the Eaglewood Resort & Spa, Itasca, Illinois July 14, 2010 Maestro’s All-in-One Solution, Diamond Plus Service Make it PMS of Choice for 16 Independent Hotels, Resorts and Conference Centers in 2Q-2010; High-Touch Independent Single and Multi-Property Operators Select Maestro Integrated PMS to Maximize Guest and Group Self-Serve Web Bookings, Centralize CRM and Enable Staff to Focus on Guest Experience Rebuilding Value: Hotel Investors and Operators are Shifting Attitudes from Value Preservation to Value Enhancement / Bryan E. Younge With a Huge Increase in Funding and Staffing the U.S. Department of Labor Expected to Ramp-up Compliance Audits Targeting the Hospitality Industry; Under Scrutiny: H-2B Labor Certifications, Minimum Wage, Overtime, and Family and Medical Leave / Jim Butler Social Media Touted as an Almost Magical Answer for Arizona's Wounded Tourism Industry - But It's Not Necessarily a Cheap One Arizona Resorts & Hotels Call Effects from Boycott of SB 1070 Hidden but Costly JBG Companies Names Davidson Hotel Company to Manage the 372-room L’Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington, D.C. Noble Investment Group Acquires the Holiday Inn Charleston Historic District and Plans to Convert Asset to a Courtyard by Marriott After a Decade of Discussion, the 532-room Hilton Columbus Downtown Breaks Ground; Hotel is Already Generating More Convention Business Hoteliers Explore Methods to Monetize Trends at Trust International Customer Advisory Board Meeting ‘World's Best’ Winners Lauded - Hammond’s Hotel, Resort and Cruise Line Clients Earn Top Honors for 2010 Cloud Based Computing: Can Hotels use Equipment Leasing to pay for this? / Jim Plautz Hoteliers: Get More out of TripAdvisor Bahrain's Gulf Hotels Group's Net Profit Tops $17.6 million; a 7% Increase in First Half of 2010 Prominent Colorado Artists Will Showcase Nearly 1,200 Pieces of Artwork Throughout the 45-story Four Seasons Hotel Denver; The Collection Will Create a Gallery-like Atmosphere Throughout the Hotel Shangri-La Hotels Bringing its Mid-market Traders Hotel Brand to Hong Kong - the 280-room Hotel Jen to be Rebranded Traders Hotel, Hong Kong Miraval Arizona Launches Unique Hybrid of a Destination Spa Resort and Wellness Center; The First Interactive and Integrative Wellness Program of its Kind July 13, 2010 Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts renews distribution agreement with Sabre Hospitality Solutions following significant revenue and booking growth Melco Crown Entertainment Selects Agilysys for Comprehensive Inventory and Procurement Solution; Stratton Warren System Implemented at Multiple Properties in Macau Outdoor Traveler Destinations Welcomes Its Newest Member; Program Gains Foothold In Ninth State It's a Tall Order Opening a New Hotel . . . The Ritz Carlton Pudong, Shanghai / Terence Ronson Gaylord Entertainment's Advance Group Bookings Up Significantly Year-over-year in Spite of the Temporary Closure of Gaylord Opryland in Nashville Official Rules a Controversial Tip Pooling Program Instituted by Wynn Resorts Four Years Ago Does Not Violate Nevada Law Busch Properties, Owner of the Kingsmill Resort & Spa in Williamsburg, Va., Reaches Agreement to sell the 422-room Resort to Xanterra Parks & Resorts, Inc. Tishman Hotel & Realty and IHG Management Open the 607-room InterContinental New York Times Square; The Hotel Will Showcase a New French Bistro-inspired Restaurant Concept, Ça Va from Chef Todd English The PLC and Voyage.tv Set the Stage for High-Definition Hotel Video Production, Marketing, and Distribution World-Class Service 101: Know the difference between meeting and exceeding expectations / Dr. Bryan K. Williams UniFocus’ Watson, R.M.™ Delivers End-to-End HRMS Luxury Marketing Partners International: Boutique PR Firm Launches New Website Southern California Hotel Portfolio Listed For Sale by PKF Capital/Colliers International Hotels CARINO Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Continues Membership Growth in 2010; Membership increases 23% January-June, 2010 The Homestead in Hot Springs, Virginia Completes Capital Improvements of $4 million Crescent Hotel Group Finalizes its Historic Renovation of the 100 year-old Crescent Hotel in San Francisco Recognizing Three Hotel Industry Experts Whose Accomplishments Are Unique - Bjorn Hanson, Peter Greenberg and Richard Warnick / Stanley Turkel Waldorf Astoria Shanghai on the Bund to Open The Waldorf Astoria Club, the First of its Two Buildings This Summer Coeur d'Alene Casino Resort's $85 million Hotel and Resort Expansion Under Budget and Ahead of Schedule; Set to Open Spring 2011 Crestline Hotels & Resorts Appoints Eddie Andre as General Manager for the Hilton Checkers Los Angeles Charles L. Morris Named General Manager of The Leela Palace Kempinski New Delhi Windsor Management Services Promotes Toby Simmons to General Manager of Embassy Suites Colorado Springs Benchmark Names John Hines Director of Sales & Marketing for The Heldrich Hotel and Conference Center, New Brunswick, New Jersey Dolce Hotels and Resorts Appoints Connie Hagston as Director of Sales & Marketing for Silverado Resort in Napa Valley, California Jerome Colson Joins AYANA Resort and Spa Bali as Food & Beverage Executive Assistant Manager July 12, 2010 Miami Hotels and Restaurants Expected to Have Multi-million Dollar Impact from the The LeBron Effect Controversial American Arm of an International Islamic Group Has Conference Bounced from the Marriott in the Chicago Suburb of Oak Brook Some Food and Beverage Workers at the Langham Boston Take Exception to Doing Homework After Audit Finds their Department Lax in Meeting Service Standards Super Bowl's Boost to Dallas-Fort Worth Area Hotels May Fade Fast Key Market Study for Tucson's Proposed Convention Hotel Criticized: Expert Cites Math Errors, Inconsistencies in its Analysis The Hotel Industry Is One of Modern India's Big Success Stories - The Oberoi Hotels, Taj Hotels, ITC Hotels and the Leela Group Are Uniquely Indian Hotel Leelaventure Ltd Bolstering Defenses Against Possible Takeover Bid by ITC Ltd. Indianapolis Hotels Spending Big to Spruce Up and Stay Competitive with the Arrival of the Marriott Place Project - 4 Hotels with 1,626 New Rooms Will the Opening of the $3.9 billion, 2,995 room Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas be a Smash or Crash? Japan's Great Gamble: All Forms of Gambling are Currently Illegal or Rigidly Controlled; Odds are Shortening for a Seismic Shift that Could See Huge, Las Vegas-style Casino Complexes Opening Across Japan Hotel AG Sells the Orlando Howard Johnson The Buzz at HITEC: Orion by VingCard Elsafe; Global Security Leader Introduces the First and Only Combined Solution of Locks and Energy Management Solution / Hoteliers Embrace the Advanced Technology Offered by Orion by VingCard Elsafe, Making it THE Choice for Hoteliersto Save on New and Retro Projects CoMMingle Offers Free Social Media Marketing Audit Harrah's in Talks to Become Partner in Foxwoods Casino Project: Being Owed $67.3 million for Land Adds Incentive for Bail Out Hotel Butler Service: To Have or Not to Have? / Osvaldo Torres Cruz Connecticut Convention Center Contract with Waterford Hotel Group Sparks Controversy; Leads to a Change to Prevent Unfair Competitive Advantage The School of Hospitality Business at Michigan State Honors Five of its Alumni, Including Alumnus of the Year Kenneth C. Weber (BA '77) Scottsdale's JW Marriott Camelback Inn Resort & Spa Appoints Jim Rose as General Manager and Shane Allor to Director of Sales & Marketing The Roosevelt New Orleans Hotel Names R. Brink Grush Director of Sales and Marketing MaLaura Lee Named General Manager of the Newly Opened 92-room Holiday Inn Express & Suites-Oklahoma City Northwest Benchmark Hospitality Appoints Eva Tyrawa Controller for Eaglewood Resort & Spa, Itasca, Illinois July 9, 2010 Comic-Con Convention Becoming too Large for San Diego? Not Enough Downtown Hotels and Flawed Booking Process Leads to Disappointed Fans AREA Property Partners, Formerly Apollo Real Estate Advisors, and Hyatt Undertaking a Multimillion Redevelopment of the 1,193-room Hyatt Regency New Orleans, Shuttered Since Hurricane Katrina New Leadership Team for Regent Hotels & Resorts Includes the Return of Original Founder Robert Burns and the Appointment of Ralf Ohletz to President The Tulsa Development Authority Selects Brickhugger LLC, Redevelopers of the Mayo Hotel, to Convert the Former City Hall Building Into Hotel with Mixed Retail Space Sam Chang Opens a 26-story 112-room Holiday Inn Express in New York City's Financial District Owner and General Manager, Dimplejit Singh, Together with Carlson Hotels Open Country Inns & Suites By Carlson(SM), Brands First Beachfront Hotel in Galveston, Texas Charlestowne Hotels Makes History in Deal with Historic Inn; Eight Contracts in 2010 Results in Doubling of Company's Size Over 18 Months as of June 30th Judge Orders Foreclosure Auction of the 462-room Crowne Plaza Hotel in Downtown Tulsa Developers Plan on Using $26 million in Federal Economic Recovery Zone Bonds to Build a $38 million 180-room Wyndham Branded Hotel in Downtown Greensboro Owners of the 303-room Hilton Hotel in Kingston, Jamaica Appoint Wyndham Group as Manager and Rebranding to the Wyndham Kingston Jamaica Western State Lodging Selected to Manage New Home 2 Suites by Hilton in Layton, Utah; Hotel Designed with Hill Air Force Base Personnel in Mind John Hogan and Kathleen Hogan Develop a Resource and Best Practices Web-site for the Hospitality Industry Toledo Plan Commission Approves Penn National's Riverfront Casino Plan: Work on $250 million Facility Could Start in 30 Days July 8, 2010 Creative Financing Plan Unfolds for the $126 million Hollywood Margaritaville Resort: Foreign Investors Provide Funding in Exchange for a Green Card Developer Chip Abele's Utilization of an International Visa Program to Fund a Hollywood, Florida Mixed-use Downtown Development that Includes The Circ, a 104-room Boutique Hotel by Desires Gaining Momemtum Pebblebrook Hotel Trust Buys InterContinental Buckhead in Atlanta for $105 million; Third Largest Single-asset Hotel Transaction in the Country This Year Capturing Guests’ True Opinions More Accurately / Patrik Hellstrand CALL FOR OFFERS - Ramada Stevens Point, Stevens Point, Wisconsin New Boutique Lodging Association Plans to Develop a Universal Standard and Criteria for Defining Boutique and Lifestyle Lodgings Hyatt Hotels & Resorts Starts Program Offering Meeting Planners Discounts if they Pledge to Take Ten Steps to GO GREEN During their Meeting Pro-Active Hospitality Requires Knowing Your Product / Doug Kennedy Hotel Sales and Marketing Represention Firm Provides its Top Ten Meeting and Incentive Tips and Trends for Hoteliers The Irresistibility of the Obvious; How a new trend in revenue management and metrics is missing the point / Jean Francois Mourier Outrigger Hotels and Resorts Signs Agreement with Developer ITC Spectrum, LLC, to Co-design and Manage a Luxury Resort to be Built On the Central Coast of Vietnam at Vinh Hoi Bay Hospitality eBusiness Strategies Wins "Best in Class" Interactive Media Award for the Silver Legacy Resort Casino Website Panel Suggests The Miami Downtown Development Authority Should Move Forward with Plans for New Convention Center Despite Poor Economy and Protests From Miami Beach Officials Las Villas Hotel & Spa Opens Within the Estrella del Mar, Mazatlán's Gated American Master-planned Golf and Beach Community Thai Square Group Transforms an Office Building into the 44-room Hotel Indigo Tower Hill London Briad Lodging Group Opens 108-suite Homewood Suites by Hilton in Allentown, Pennsylvania; Paul Gabriel the Opening GM Tahéima Wellness Resort & Spa Opens in Mexico's Riviera Nayarit Clubbed to Death - Only the Strong Survive: Las Vegas Nightclub Scene Taking a Hit Three Weeks to the Auction Block: General Manager of E.F. Lane Hotel in Keene, New Hampshire Says Foreclosure Won't Occur The Atlanta Westin Peachtree's Replacement of 6,350 Windows a High Wire Act for Workers - At 73 Floors up Silence is Eerie and Interupted Only by Birds and Helicopters CHI Hotels & Resorts Appoints Marco P. Nijhof as its Chief Operating Officer Hotel & Lodging Association of Greater Houston Elects 2010-2011 Executive Board; Tom Rosepink Elected as Chair of Board of Directors Austin Watkins Appointed Director of Marketing for Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills Braedan Quigley Appointed Director of Sales and Marketing at Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay Resort on Maryland's Eastern Shore July 7, 2010 Knowland Shatters Monthly Sales Numbers with Record June; Innovative business development firm practices what it preaches with proactive sales Hoteliers - Use Your Marketing Dollars Wisely; The Importance of Visual Imagery / Dr Diana Driscoll Toss That Script Aside: Tips for Generating Positive Hotel Reviews / Daniel Edward Craig Hoteliers, How Are FaceBook & Twitter Working For Ya? / Neil Salerno Looking at the Box . . . From Inside and Out / Bill Morrissey, CEO of Morrissey Hospitality Companies On a Mission: The School of Hospitality Business at MSU Accomplishments in 2009-2010 Power Selling Summer School - SMERFE & Weekend Groups Webinar / Carol Verret The Tulsa Development Authority Looking at Two Developer Proposals to Convert the Former City Hall Building into a Hotel with Mixed Retail Space ARC Properties Inc. Proposes Building Conversion at Fourth and Race Streets in Philadelphia into an $80 to $100 million Mixed-use Complex to Include a 140-room Hotel: Hotel Portion of Project Approved for $10 million in State Funding Amelia Island Plantation Expecting Additional Bids in Bankruptcy Proceedings: Currently Noble Investment Group has a $45.9 million Bid in Place Chesapeake Hospitality's Hotel General Managers Cautiously Optimistic Regarding Remainder of 2010; Survey at 19th Annual Chesapeake Hospitality Conference Offers Industry Outlook Chesapeake Lodging Trust Acquiring the 430-room Boston Marriott Newton for $72.25 million, or Approximately $180,000 Per Key Chatham Lodging Trust Acquires the 120-room Hampton Inn & Suites Houston - Medical Center for $16.5 million, $137,500 per key Brazil Hospitality Group Acquires Hotel Odara, Cuiaba, Brazil: Property to Receive the Golden Tulip Flag and be Renamed Golden Tulip Pantanal Will the Proposed $1.2 billion Point Molate Casino-Resort Really Create 17,000 Jobs? Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association Mounts Advocacy Campaign; Seeks to Offset Insufficient Awareness and Understanding of the Tourism Industry's Economic Contribution and How it Permeates the General Economy and Overall Fabric of Caribbean Society Meeting Professionals International and the School of Hotel and Tourism Management at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Offering the Global Certificate in Meetings and Business Events II Programme on the PolyU Campus August 9-13, 2010 The Embassy Suites Houston Downtown Names Ron Gwin as General Manager and Lisa Jones as Director of Sales and Marketing Sandals' Della Iochia Clara Jones, Atlantis' Kevin McKenzie Recognized with Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association's Employee and Supervisor of the Year Awards Millennium Hotels & Resorts Names Kathy Faulk as General Manager of the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles Shane McKirdy and Anthony Quin Appointed to General Manager Posts with Life Wellness Resorts in Mui Ne and Quy Nhon, Vietnam July 6, 2010 Miami Beach Considers Rules for Hotel Rooftop Pool Clubs; Proposed Legislation Would Force Some Clubs to Close by 8pm General Manager Ata Kashanian of the Glen Cove Mansion Hotel and Conference Center Explores What We've Learned from 40 Years of Meetings Halsey Minor Awarded $6.4 million in Landmark Hotel Arbitration Ruling; Separate Litigation Continues for Stalled Project How to Tell Compelling Stories that Attract and Convert Travel Shoppers; Video Interview with Daniel Edward Craig on How to Craft Stories that Make a Hotel Stand Out Online. Executive Team Set for Langham Place, Beijing Capital Airport; The 372-room Hotel Expected to Revolutionize the Way We See Airport Hotels Accor Plans to Double the Number of Hotels in Latin America to 300 Following Separation of the Hospitality and Service Units Chattanooga's Green Hospitality Program, Which Was Conceived and Developed by Tom Cupo, General Manager of The Chattanoogan, Honored by Tennessee Governor and Now Instituted Statewide Hospitality Conversations: Examining the Learning Options Available in the Hospitality Field / Dr John Hogan Greenbrier Resort Has a Star-Spangled Casino Club Opening Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Have Updated 196 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with Changes in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership The Liquidation sale of the Lakefront Hotel Opens Thursday July 8th at 10.00 AM; Sale Will be Conducted by NCL/National Content Liquidators, Inc. Hotel AG Represents Forsyth Inns, Inc. in the Sale of the Holiday Inn Express in Forsyth, Georgia EasyRMS Secures Mammoth Deal with Award-Winning Californian Ski Resort; Four new properties added to EasyRMS' prestigious list of North American Resort clientele Cetis and Defero3 Announce Master Distributor Agreement and Compatible IP Partnership Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 133 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database Bena Properties, Member of Cham Holding, Signs Agreement with Accor Group to Manage Two Hotels at Taj Halab Development in Syria Town of Swansboro, North Carolina Sees Construction Begin on New Hampton Inn & Suites, First Hotel Build in 100 Years Convention Dollars Generate Ripple Effect Throughout Savannah: Businesses Beyond Tourism Industry Reap Financial Rewards From Convention Attendees Dolce Hotels and Resorts Appoints John Evans to General Manager of Silverado Resort in Napa Valley, California, a Recent Addition to the Dolce Portfolio Jennifer Wasserman Joins The Joule, a Luxury Collection Hotel in Dallas, as Director of Sales and Marketing Pennsylvania Tourism & Lodging Association Names Leeann MacWilliams Interim Operating Officer July 2, 2010 Largest JW Marriott in the World Selects Guest-tek and Intelity for Innovative Guest Room Technology The Evolution of Asset Management into a True Value-add to the Hotel Investment / Joseph S Bello Recap: HEDNA's Spring Meeting - Narrowcast, Hyper-targeting, Finding ROI in Social Media and More Colliers' PKF Capital Arranges Sale of Iconic Silverado Resort in Napa; Seller's Team Uses Local Knowledge and Industry Depth To Overcome Market Challenges Sunstone Hotel Investors Regains Full Ownership of the 347-room Renaissance Westchester for $24.8 million or approximately $71,000 per key; Sunstone Now Owns 11 Unencumbered Hotels InterContinental Hotels Group Sells the 422 room InterContinental Buckhead Atlanta to Pebblebrook Hotel Trust for US$105 million; IHG Continues to Manage the Hotel Under a Long Term Management Contract CRM Technology for Travel: Cloud Technology - What It Is and What It Isn't / Gregg Hopkins Latest Knowland Survey Shows Silver Lining in Cleanup Crews; Hoteliers surveyed show increase in transient bookings, take wait and see attitude on $20 billion BP claims fund The DOJ's Latest Hotel ADA Sweeps Are a Wakeup Call; A Compelling Warning that Hotel and Restaurant Owners Should Commence a Comprehensive ADA Compliance Review / Jim Butler The Power of Effective Communication in the Workplace (and our Founding Fathers’ unrivaled Tweeting abilities) / Jim Hartigan National Tour Association and Edelman to Host Free Crisis and Media Relations Seminars for Gulf Coast Region - Seminars are Open to All Members of the Travel and Tourism Industry Bruce Rahmani to Reopen Greeley's Downtown Clarion Hotel as Clarion Hotel and Convention Center After Purchasing for $1.7 million; Less than Half of Last Sale Price Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa and Atlantic City Hotel Experts LLC Establish Direct Connect Interface! Indianapolis Area Hotels Facing Foreclosure; Hurt by Economic Downturn & Bad Reviews Financial Dispute Continues to Plague Stalled $20 million Renovation of Marriott Hotel at Union Station, St. Louis, Missouri Hyatt Opens the 184-room Andaz 5th Avenue, its 2nd Hotel in Manhattan Carlson Recognizes 12 Employees for Outstanding Career Achievement with 2009 Carlson Fellows Awards Pan Pacific Hotels Group Appoints Andy Tan Vice President, Sales Crestline Hotels & Resorts Appoints Elizabeth Delens to General Manager for the Sheraton Annapolis JoAnn Elston Appoint Director of Sales & Marketing at The Curtis - a Doubletree Hotel in Denver, Colorado Dunton Hot Springs, Dolores, Colorado Appoints Edoardo & Christina Rossi as General Manager and Director of Marketing, Sales & PR

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