**Top 25 Read
Articles - March 2011**
- AH&LA,
HTNG and HFTP Issue a Joint Statement On Credit Card Security Urging
Hotel Managers to Take Immediate Action
- After
More Than 45 Years, the Kona Village Resort in Hawaii Will be Closing,
its Future Uncertain, as a Result of Damage from Tsunami
- Opened
in 1952, the 1,720-room Sahara Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas No Longer
Economically Viable and Will Close May 16
- Group
of Women Suing Monte Carlo Hotel in Las Vegas for $750,000 Over Alleged
Bed Bug Bites
- Social
Networking or Social Notworking? Social Media as a Sales Tool for
Hotels / Daniel Edward Craig
- Hotel
Management Agreements – They wrote the book! And it is FREE
- Want
to Run a Hotel? Take Calculus / Lori Weisberg
- New
Boutique Hotels in New York are a Draw Just to Say You've Stayed There
- Marriott's
Ed Fuller Shares Leadership Expertise in His Book, "You Can't Lead With
Your Feet on the Desk”
- Choice
Hotels International Terminates Eleven Franchise Licenses with Summit
Hotel Properties; Separate From the Terminations, Summit Discloses
Intent to Purchase Two InterContinental Hotels Group Properties for $17
million
- Ashford
Hospitality Joint Venture Acquires Highland Hospitality Portfolio for
$1.3 Billion
- Victorville,
California Hotel Owner Convicted of Defrauding Orbitz of Nearly $850,000
- A New
Independent Hotel Brand Enters the Market; Qube Hotels Welcomes
Founding Members
- Who
Is Your Competition? / Tim Coleman
- Battle
Over Former Hilton Pittsburgh Hotel About to End: Dr. Kiran Patel to
Retain Control, Flag to Remain Wyndham Grand and BlackRock to Receive a
$10 million Settlement Fee
- Embassy
Suites Hotels Recognizes 20 of its 209 Properties as its Top Performers
for 2010 and Gives Special Recognition with a "Connie" Award to its Top
Three Properties
- The
Radisson Hotel & Water Park in Albuquerque, New Mexico at Risk of
Closure Without New Financing; The Properties Water Park Opened One
Year Ago at a Cost of $18.3 million
- Nobody
Asked me, But… No. 74: The Triumph of Public Relations; Helpful Hotels;
Court Rules Holiday Inn Commits “Reprehensible Fraud”; Quote of the
Month / Stanley Turkel
- Sheraton
New York Hotel and Towers to Undergo $150 Million Renovation; Includes
Plans to Expand the Size of its 1,780 Rooms and Create a New Club Lounge
- Service
in the Bedroom: Making Experiences Memorable / Roberta Nedry
- What
If? / R. Mark Woodworth
- Japan's
Disaster Creates a Negative Impact on Hawaii's Tourism
- Thayer
Lodging Group Acquires 304-room Hotel Palomar Atlanta-Midtown in
Atlanta, Georgia and Plans to Rebrand Property as The Renaissance
Atlanta Midtown Hotel
- Customer
Problem Resolution: The 100% Principle / Dr. Bryan K. Williams
- Morgans
Hotel Group Expands In-room iPad Program featuring Intelity ICE
Technology; Mondrian Soho New York Debuts with Virtual Access to Guest
Services
March 30, 2011
- Summit
Hotel Properties Terminates Eleven Franchise Licenses with Choice
Hotels International; Separate From the Terminations, Summit Discloses
Intent to Purchase Two InterContinental Hotels Group Properties for $17
million
- Pan
Pacific Kuala Lumpur International Airport Selects Tiare Technology as
Wireless Ordering Provider; Leading International Hotel Launches the
VIPSeat™ Restaurant System by Tiare Technology Using Apple iPad Tablets
- Swiftrank
Bolsters Executive Team With Seasoned Travel Technology Executives; New
CEO and SVP boost world's largest network of international travel
websites, help prepare for further growth
- Sunstone
Hotel Investors Reports Preliminary First Quarter 2011 Results; RevPAR
Expected to Increase by 5.4% Over Q1 2010; Acquiring Controlling
Interest in the 1,190-room Hilton San Diego Bayfront and Will Sell the
Royal Palm Miami Beach for $130.0 million
- Hotel
Price Index Reports Prices and Occupancy Levels on the Rise in Top
Cities and at Higher Rated Hotels Due to Resurgence of Business Travel;
Asian Cities Such as Singapore, Shanghai and Beijing Winning Favor with
Business Travelers in Comparison to U.S. and European Cities
- Sofitel
Luxury Hotels Shares Secrets to Social Media Success with Top Five
Facebook and Twitter Tips For Hoteliers
- Hawaii
Visitor Arrivals Up 12% in February Until Japan Tragedy Took a Bite
- IHG's
Priority Club® Rewards Launches New Look and Indentifies Top
Frequent Traveler Trends after Conducting Research Tracking Global
Travel Loyalty Industry
- Developer,
Brothers Property Management, Proposes an Upscale, 92-room Hotel Next
to the Charleston Harbor Resort and Marina at Patriots Point in
Charleston, South Carolina
- Marriott
Opens 134-suite Residence Inn Hotel in Cincinnati, Ohio Owned by
Western & Southern Financial Group and Managed by Winegardner and
Hammons
- IHG
Opens 92-room Holiday Inn Express Tampa North - Telecom Park in Tampa,
Florida Following Rebranding and Upgrading
- Nikki
Beach Las Vegas, the Ultimate International Beach Club, To Open at
Tropicana Las Vegas Hotel Resort & Casino
- Thai
Hotels Association Reports Occupancy Rate for Hotels Nationwide at
Three Year High; Current Averages are 75-80%, up from 65-70% Over Same
Period Last Year
- Current
Events Pose New Challenges for Hospitality Industry in Amman, Jordan
- Arabian
Hotel Investment Conference Speakers Indicate the Hospitality Industry
will Continue to Lead Recovery in United Arab Emirates in 2011
- Pegasus
Solutions Names Marcie Hyder CFO and Executive Vice President; Kevin
Housh Also Promoted to Vice President and Controller
- INNCOM
International Contributing to Pan Pacific Hotels' Sustainability
- Defero3
Inc. Partners with Percipia Networks To Offer its Hosted PBX System and
Software Integration
- The
International Association of Conference Centers (IACC) Presents Joan
Eisenstodt with The Mel Hosansky Award for Distinguished Service at
their 30th Annual Conference
- Waterford
Hotel Group Names Michael Costelli of the Connecticut Convention Center
General Manager of the Year
- Mayport
Properties LLC, Owners of the Best Western Mayport Inn & Suites in
Jacksonville, Florida, Files Chapter 11
- Renovation
at 400-room Hilton SFO in Burlingame, California Incorporates Flexible
High-Tech Lighting and Wireless Technology to Streamline Events
- The
Registry Collection® Program, Wyndham Worldwide's Luxury Exchange
Program, Grows Network to Span Over 180 Properties in 35 Countries
Across Six Continents
- Choice
Hotels Appoints Michael Murphy to Senior Vice President of Cambria
Suites
March 29,2011
- SEO
Expertise Means Maximum Revenue for Hotels and Resorts; Renowned Link
Building Authority, Eric Ward, Gives Personal Instruction to
VIZERGY® Team
- Knowland
Expands Washington DC Facilities with Move to Vibrant Chinatown
Neighborhood; Company Increases Office Space in the Washington Metro
Area by More Than 500% to Keep Pace with Growth
- Who
is Your Competition? / Tim Coleman
- A
New PBS Reality Travel Series, "Getting Away Together" Highlights
"Togethering"; the Real Experiences of Travelers Sharing Vacations with
Friends and Family Across America
- Owners
of the Sawgrass Marriott Golf Resort & Spa in Ponte Vedra, Florida
Denied Motion to Reduce Value of Property but Win Extension on Filing
Chapter 11 Reorganization Plan
- The
Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong Opens as World's Highest Hotel with 312 Guest
Rooms at the Top of the International Commerce Centre
- Sofitel
Luxury Hotels Opens 147-room Essaouira Mogador Golf & Spa in
Mogador, Morocco
- Marriott
International to Open 107-room Residence Inn Edinburgh in Scotland; the
First Residence Inn in the United Kingdom
- Aroma
Hotels LLC, Owners of the Holiday Inn Bordeaux, One of the Oldest and
Best Known in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Plan on Name and Brand
Change of Property
- Mansions
on Fifth in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Makes Lodging Debut; Soon to be
Listed on the National Registry of Historic Landmarks
- Richfield
Hospitality and Shelbourne Falcon Investors Acquire the Sheraton Chapel
Hill Hotel in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- Boston
and Cambridge, Massachusetts, Hotel Tax Hikes Urged for Proposed $2
Billion Expansion of the South Boston Convention Center
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Have Updated 110 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with
Changes in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership
- InnLink
launches Next Generation Mobile Booking Engine, La Bellasera activates
on their site
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Add/Update 189 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel
Construction Projects Database
- HFTP's
2011 Club and Hotel Controllers Conference Discusses the Latest
Financial Trends and More
- Hospitality
Internship Programs - From the Chalkboard to the Front Line™: Shining a
Light On Vienna / Kathleen Hogan
- "National
Mom and Pop Business Owners Day": An unusual holiday that recognizes
hospitality and all family businesses / Dr. John Hogan
- DiMarco
Group Outlines Plans for Rustic 48-room Hotel and Conference Center at
Joseph Davis State Park, Niagra Falls, New York
- Smith
County, Texas to Sell Former Tyler Carlton Hotel Building to Local
Architect, Ron Mabry, with Plans for Renovation and Area Development
- Marshall
Hotels & Resorts to Manage the Crowne Plaza Hartford in Hartford,
Connecticut, the Ramada Plaza Hagerstown, in Maryland, and the Best
Western Deltona Inn, in Florida; Appointed as Receiver for the Comfort
Inn Hotel in Hunt Valley, Maryland
- Hotel
Equities Appointed Receiver of 80-room Fairfield Inn & Suites at
Savannah Airport in Savannah, Georgia
- RCI,
a Divison of Wyndham Exchange & Rentals, to Launch RCI Week's
PlatinumSM Membership, an Expansion of its Premium Tier of Membership
- The
Rocco Forte Collection Appoints Stefan Wolf as Group Director of
Revenue Management and Distribution
- Pinnacle
Entertainment Appoints Carlos Ruisanchez as Chief Financial Officer
March 28, 2011
- Simplexity
- Where the simplest answer is usually the best / Michael Schubach
- Marriott
CFO, Carl Berquist, Says International Markets Strong but North
American Demand Below Expectations
- Over-Supply
of Las Vegas Hotel Rooms Evident as 2,950-room Las Vegas Hilton and
2,075-room Riviera Las Vegas Post Quarterly Losses
- Marriott
Resorts Hawaii Marketing Road Show Targeting Key Mainland Markets
Realizes 11% Increase in Room Nights and 40% Rise in Revenue
- New
Boutique Hotels in New York are a Draw Just to Say You've Stayed There
- Japan
Disaster Shows Hawaii's Travel Industry Need to Diversify Isle Visitor
Base; New Marketing Programs are Aimed at Offsetting Japanese
Cancellations
- South
Carolina State Legislature-Enacted Changes to Employee Unemployment
Benefits Puts Pressure on Tourism Industry Prompting Some to Hire Fewer
Workers
- Report
by Vantage Strategy Indicates Tourism Spending in New Jersey is Down by
9 Percent
- World
Travel Awards to Host its Africa and Indian Ocean Ceremony in Sharm el
Sheikh, Egypt, in September 2011, Placing Faith in Swift Egyptian
Tourism Recovery
- The
St. Joseph, Missouri Convention & Visitors Bureau Sees Need for
More Hotel Rooms
- 256-room
Charleston House Hotel in Charleston, West Virginia Picks up Ramada
Brand; Now Identified as Ramada Inn Charleston
- Gecko
Hospitality Reveals "Well-Kept Secret"; Recruiting Firm Announces
Official Entry into Hotel Management Recruitment Sector
- Smartstay
Hotel Apps for London's Cheval Residences Now Available In Apple App
Store & Android Market
- AC
Hotels by Marriott in Spain Selects MICROS OPERA Solution and MICROS
Simphony POS for Entire Estate; Integrated solution will be centrally
hosted in the MICROS Frankfurt Datacenter
- Lessons
From the Field™: Communications 101 - How to effectively use the
telephone / Dr. John Hogan
- Saudi
Commission for Tourism and Antiquities Indicates that Tourism Will
Generate 2.23 Million Jobs in Saudi Arabia by 2020
- Survey
by Travelocity on Behalf of Great Wolf Resorts Reveals Kids Think
Parents Need Spring Break
- Expedia
Releases New Data Showing Rising Demand for Travel Into Mexico;
Bookings Have Risen Nearly 25% in Past Twelve Months
- 300-room
Sands Casino Hotel in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on Target for May Opening
- Vision
Hospitality Nears Completion of 134-room Hampton Inn & Suites in
Chattanooga, Tennessee
March 25, 2011
- Video:
PKF's Mark Woodworth and Jack Corgel Discuss the Current State of the
U.S. Lodging Industry in Hotel Horizons Update
- Rev
Up your RevPAR In 4 Different Ways / Jean Francois Mourier
- Design
Unveiled for 800-room Omni Nashville Hotel to be Integrated with the
Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum to Create Music City Center,
Nashville, Tennessee's New Convention Center
- As
Japan Struggles to Recover from Natural Disaster, U.S. Travel Industry
Bracing for Decline in Japanese Tourists and the Affect on U.S. Tourism
- Hilton
Hotels & Resorts Names Brand Awards Of Excellence Winners in Asia
Pacific; the Connie Award is Given to Hilton Lake Taupo in New Zealand
- Lightstone
Group Acquires the 366-room Crowne Plaza Hotel and CoCo Key Water
Resort in Danvers, Massachusetts at Auction with Bid of $10.1 million
- Great
Wolf Resorts Sells Sheboygan, Wisconsin's Blue Harbor Resort for $4.2
million to Claremont New Frontier Resort LLC
- Graham
Downes Architecture Designs Swimwear Store At The Cosmopolitan, Las
Vegas
- Unite
Here Local 54 Suing the New Jersey Economic Development Authority to
Block $261 million in Revel Casino Tax Reimbursements
- The
Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority's Annual Tourism Report
Indicates Visitors Length of Stay and Spending Up but Visitor Gambling
Down Compared to a Year Earlier
- VisitPittsburgh
Reports that Convention Bookings in Region Rose Nearly 9% in 2010
Compared to 2009
- With
Occupancy Levels Falling Below 10% at Some Bahrain Hotels Due to
Political Unrest, it Could Take Five Years to Recover Says National
Hotels Company Chief Executive Officer, A. Rahman Morshed
- Bali's
Tourism Industry Takes Action to Ensure Safety of Island Against Triple
Threat; Re-emergence of the H5N1 Virus, Bomb Hoaxes, and Potential of
Radiation-tainted Imported Goods
- Accor's
McGallery Adds Two Resorts in Thailand; 69-room Veranda High Resort
Chiang Mai and 118-room Veranda Resort & Spa Hau Hin-Cha Am
- Wilson
Hotel Management Co, Inc. and Park Place Hotel Associates, LLC Open
92-room Holiday Inn Express & Suites Park Place in Jackson,
Tennessee
- Young
Hoteliers Summit 2011 Held in Lausanne, Switzerland, Attended by 45
Delegates from 13 International Hospitality Schools Comes to a Close
After Exceeding All Expectations
March 24, 2011
- IDeaS
Expands Market Reach with RateGain Product Integration; Certified
integration between IDeaS RMS and RateGain ChannelGain and PriceGain
Hotel now complete
- Top
5 Reasons Why Knowland Customer Service Rocks! Knowland's client care
services leave competitors in the dust
- AAA
Parking Lands Caribe Royale Contract; Massive Orlando all-suite hotel
is just blocks from Walt Disney World gates
- Fabric
Innovations Joins AH&LA Delegation in Storming Capitol Hill During
the 2011 Legislative Action Summit; Deborah Herman, along with a
passionate group of travel industry executives from around the country,
aim to educate Congress on key issues facing the U.S. hotel industry
- "Undercover"
Gig Helps MGM Grand President and Chief Operating Officer, Scott
Sibella, Boost Morale of Workforce
- India's
Hotel Industry, with an Improved Economic Outlook and Large Demand for
More Hotel Rooms, Expected to Experience a Compounded Growth Rate of
17% Through 2013
- Trade
Show News Network Reports Las Vegas Retains Number One Spot as Trade
Show Destination
- Trump
Marina Hotel Casino in Atlantic City Warns Employees They May Lose
Jobs; Memo Characterized as a Mere Formality as a Result of Pending
Ownership Change
- Hyatt
Hotels Affiliates Sign Management Agreements for Nine New Hyatt Branded
Hotels Throughout India Bringing Total to 38 Properties Under
Development; Additionally the 329-room Hyatt Regency Chennai and the
314-room Grand Hyatt Goa Will Open This Year
- Sheraton
Hotels Will Drive Starwood's Portfolio Growth in 2011 and Widen Lead in
China by Opening 25 New Properties in 2011
- Sol
Meliá to Open Two Flagship Paradisus Resorts in Playa Del
Carmen, Mexico; the 394-room Adults-only Paradisus La Perla and the
512-room Paradisus La Esmeralda
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Announces $25 Million Hotel Adjacent to
Brooklyn's Historic Downtown; Introducing "Hotel 718"
- Global
Hotel Rates Climb in February; Business Travel Rates Rise +7% in
February as Leisure Travel Increases Nearly +4% According to Data from
"The Pegasus View"
- ResortCom
International Names Alex Marxer As New President
- LodgeNet
Adds Velocity To Certified Solutions Program; Agreement Expands Range
of LodgeNet Broadband Offerings for Hoteliers Wanting to Enhance
On-Property Bandwidth
- Principles
of Success: Fine Tuning Your Hospitality Business Strategies for A
Measurable Competitive Advantage - Part 2 / Dr. John Hogan
- Through
the eyes of the Hotel Butler: Recovering increased guest satisfaction
with the least sacrifice of the Hotel / Osvaldo Torres Cruz
- PT
Peninsula Bali Resort and Marriott International Open the 250-room
Courtyard Bali Nusa Dua, the Brand's 900th Hotel, in Bali, Indonesia
- Best
Western International Opens its First BEST WESTERN PREMIER in Canada
with the 97-room BEST WESTERN PREMIER Freeport Inn & Suites in
Calgary, Alberta
- Omni
Hotels & Resorts Unveils Newly Renovated 453-room Omni Los Angeles
Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles, California
- 70
Year-old Shelborne Beach Resort in Miami Beach Undergoing $15 million
Renovation
- Choice
Hotels Annual Supplier Diversity Award to Promote Minority and
Woman-Owned Business Awarded to the Choice Hotels Corporate
Communications Department
- Lodging
Hospitality Management Appoints Harry Lunt as General Manager for St.
Louis' Cheshire Inn - an English Tudor-Style Inn
- New
Castle Hotels & Resorts Appoints Meredith Brinkley as General
Manager of the 122-suite Homewood Suites by Hilton in Virginia Beach ,
Virginia
- Zachary
Sennett Appointed as Director of Operations at The Lodge & Spa at
Brush Creek Ranch in Saratoga, Wyoming
- Waterford
Hotel Group Appoints Kristen Pikula as Director of Sales for the
145-room Courtyard by Marriott in Cromwell, Connecticut
March 23, 2011
- Softscribe®
Inc. Signs Joint Venture with Owlish Communications™/ Adds Depth in
LinkedIn Profile Writing and Monetization Strategies to Drives Sales
for Technology Public Relations Clients
- Flyte
Systems Expands Airline Information Services to International Hotels;
Hotels in Caribbean and South America Select Flyte Systems for Guest
Airline Flight Information
- Social
Networking or Social Notworking? Social Media as a Sales Tool for
Hotels / Daniel Edward Craig
- Elevated
Water Resorts Proposing an $18 million, Six-story, Above Water, 50-unit
Resort in the Gulf of Mexico
- San
Francisco Travel Association Releases Economic Impact Figures for 2010
and Results of Year-long Visitor Profile Research; Visitors Up 3.1% and
Visitor Spending Up 6.2% from 2009
- Seattle's
Tourism Improves with Increases of 9.3% in Occupancy 9.2% in Spending,
but Global Events Threaten Rebound
- Four
Friends Development, Owner of the RiverStone Inn in Wysox,
Pennsylvania, Erecting a 40-room Hotel Addition Made of Prefabricated
Modular Units; Belief is that Method Will be Superior to Conventional
Construction
- Some
Competing Hoteliers See an Unfair Competitive Edge for the City Owned
and Operated Las Cruces Convention Center
- Growing
Fort Bragg Creates Hotel Building Boom in Fayetteville, North Carolina;
Hotel Demand is Outpacing States Other Large Metropolitan Areas
- Shift4
Integrates With CVPS - Bringing Simplicity to Frontline Staff and
Management Alike
- Caesar's
Palace Dealers Resoundingly Reject Wynn-style Tips Policy Whereby 15%
of Tip Pool would be Shared with Other Caesar's Employees
- Hospitality
Ventures Opens Newly Rebranded 138-room DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel
Pittsburgh - Meadow Lands in Washington, Pennsylvania
- Warwick
International Hotels Completes $10 Million Renovation of 405-room
Rembrandt Hotel & Towers Bangkok in Thailand
- Club
Med Reports Success of its Re-Launch of Sandpiper Bay Resort in Port
St. Lucie, Florida which has Exceeded Performance Expectations for
Winter 2011
- Carlson
Continues Expansion of Country Inns & Suites by Carlson with the
Opening of the Country Inn & Suites by Carlson in Georgetown,
Kentucky, the 13th Property in the State
- Peachtree
Hotel Group Set to Open the 85-room Fairfield Inn & Suites by
Marriott in Columbus, Mississippi; Cristina Tapia-Bastow Opening
General Manager
- Brayford
Hotels and Hilton Worldwide Offer First Look at New Build 115-room
Doubletree by Hilton in Lincoln, United Kingdom
- Marriott
International Appoints Paul Adan as Vice President of Development
Responsible for Hotel Development in Latin America
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Names Danna Holck General Manager for Turtle
Bay Resort, Oahu
- Omni
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Nils Stolzlechner as General Manager of
the 1000-room Omni Dallas Hotel and Completes Management Team with Four
Other Leadership Appointments
- RockResorts
Appoints Joe Kelly as General Manager of 122-suite The Landings St.
Lucia in the West Indies and Pedro Sanchez as General Manager of
86-suite Balcones del Atlántico in the Dominican Republic
- Elite
Island Resorts Appoints Mark Grebby as General Manager of LaSource,
their Resort on Pink Gin Beach in Grenada
- Rosewood
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Daniel Scott as Resort Manager of
71-suite Las Ventanas al Paraíso Resort in Los Cabos, Mexico
- Waterford
Hotel Group Appoints Wendy Russell as Regional Task Force Sales Manager
- Waterford
Hotel Group Appoints Jake Ogley as Director of Sales for the 120-room
Courtyard by Marriott in Stuart, Florida
- Bahia
Husband Appointed Director Of Group Sales and Barb Hildebrandt Named
Senior Sales Manager of the 175-room Westin St. John Resort &
Villas in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands
March 22, 2011
- Mac
Pulitzer, Great-grandson of Pulitzer Prize Founder Joseph Pulitzer, to
Open Nations's First Pulitzer Hotel in Fairhope, Alabama Featuring the
Pulitzer Library in its Lobby
- Ascenture
Hotel Group's Evolution Marked by Dynamic Growth; Meticulous 'Managing
by the Numbers' Spurs Profitability, Investor Satisfaction
- 2010's
Lower-Tier Sales Price Per Room Plummet 62.4% While Upper-Tier Prices
Soar by 81.8%: An Analysis Of 431 Recent U.S. Hotel Sales / Laurel A.
Keller
- Orient-Express
Hotels Enters Agreement with an Affiliate of Tribeca Associates, LLC
and Starwood Capital Group Global, LLC to Assign its Purchase and
Development Plans Made with the New York Public Library Regarding
Development of Hotel at Site of the Donnell Branch in New York
City
- Last
Days to Register: Social Selling - Social Media and the Leisure Market
- Webinar March 24, 2011 / Carol Verret
- Hotel
Room Discounting Appears to be Coming to an End, Particularly for Upper
End Hotels / Lori Weisberg
- Orlando,
Florida Hotels Improve Across the Board in February with Occupancy at
73.2%, a 12.3 Increase Over Same Period One Year Ago and a Rise of 7.7%
in ADR
- Trying
to Capture the Panache of South Beach, Tropicana Las Vegas Nearing
Completion of Phase I of the $180 Million Transformation
- State
Aid for Proposed $200 million Subsidy for New Convention Hotel Next to
the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center Very Risky Strategy
- Greenville,
Texas Zoning Commission Wants No More Limited Service Hotels, Seeking
to Create Rules to Prevent Them and Encourage Only Full-Service
Properties
- Marriott
International to Open 153-room JW Marriott Hotel in Cusco, Peru to be
Managed by Inversiones La Rioja, S.A
- Marriott
International Signs Management Agreement with Real Estate Group, LLC
for 315-room Abu Dhabi Marriott Hotel and the 64-unit Marriott
Executive Apartments Abu Dhabi City Center; Both Part of Bloom Central,
a Development in Abu Dhabi's Central Business District
- Principles
of Success: Fine tuning Your Hospitality Business Strategies for A
Measurable Competitive Advantage - Part 1 / Dr. John Hogan
- ResorTime.com’s
Bonus Time Network™ Takes Off
- Heritage
Hotels and Resorts Switches to Pegasus Solutions; US Hotel Collection
Chooses Pegasus Solutions for Comprehensive Suite of Solutions,
Including Award-winning RezView® NG, Net Booker® NG, Commission
Processing and Voice Services
- Red
Lion Hotels Revolutionizes Time & Attendance
- runtriz™
Opens Global Operations in Tel Aviv; Alan Goldschneider to Lead EMEA
Growth
- Scott
Klososky to Discuss Technology Infused Leadership at HITEC 2011
- Hotel
Industry Partnership for Pets Encouraging Hoteliers to Donate Used
Linens and Towels to Local Animal Shelters as Part of Green Initiatives
- Starwood
Hotels & Resorts Officially Opens 267-room Westin Houston Memorial
City in Houston, Texas in Time to Welcome NCAA Basketball Fans to THE
FINAL FOUR
- Hilton
Ponce Golf & Casino Resort in Ponce, Puerto Rico, has Launched a
Multimillion Dollar Renovation Project to Include all 225 Guest Rooms
and all Public Areas
- Ashford
Hospitality Selects Remington Lodging to Manage Newly Acquired
Renaissance Hotel and Waterfront Conference Center in Portsmouth,
Virginia
- Bradenton,
Florida Downtown Development Authority Remains Committed to
Redevelopment of the Manatee River Hotel or the "Pink Palace" Into a
Hampton Inn
- Hong
Kong Polytechnic University's School of Hotel and Tourism Management
and Banyan Tree Hotels & Resorts to Collaborate on Executive
Education And Internship Programs
- Friends
of the James Beard Foundation Partner with the One Ocean Resort Hotel
& Spa in Atlantic Beach, Florida, and Prominent Florida Chefs to
Host a Benefit Dinner with Proceeds Contributing to a Local Scholarship
for Culinary Education and Friends of the James Beard
Foundation
- Kenneth
Nason Appointed as Vice President of Sales for 193-room One Ocean
Resort Hotel & Spa in Atlantic Beach, Florida
- Buffalo
Lodging Associates Appoints Felix Ramos as General Manager at the
139-room Courtyard by Marriott Buffalo-Airport Hotel
- Scott
Koster Appointed as General Manager at 185-room Gramercy Park Hotel in
New York City
March 21, 2011
- IDeaS
Clients Poised to Benefit from Revenue Solutions, Gain Competitive Edge
in Economic Recovery; Revenue growth of 12 percent in 2010 positions
IDeaS for success in 2011
- Park
Hyatt Aviara Resort Maximizes GoConcierge's Potential with
Property-wide Rollout; Multiple Departments Deploy Web-based Software
to Elevate Guest Experience
- Hyatt
International Terminates Management Agreement with Grand Hyatt Cairo;
Unresolved Contractual Disputes with Owner, Saudi Egyptian Touristic
Development Company, Force Hyatt Exit
- The
March 2011 Hotel Price Index™ Reporting a 2% Global Increase in Average
Hotel Room Rates Paid in 2010; Business Capitals Such as New York,
Paris, London, and Singapore Found Higher Occupancy Levels with the
Return of Business Travel
- After
More Than 45 Years, the Kona Village Resort in Hawaii Will be Closing,
its Future Uncertain, as a Result of Damage from Tsunami; More Than 200
to Lose Jobs
- The
City of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Searching for Hotel Branding and Management
Services for its Convention Center Hotel as Part of Complete Renovation
of Convention Center Complex and Hotel
- Chairman
James Hurlock and Founder James Sherwood to Retire From Orient-Express
Board Of Directors; Director Bob Lovejoy Expected to Become Chairman
- Morgans
Hotel Group Announces Board of Directors and Senior Management Changes;
Ron Burkle and Jason Taubman Kalisman to Join Board; Michael Gross
Elected CEO; David Hamamoto Becomes Executive Chairman; Daniel Flannery
Named COO; Yoav Gery Named Chief Development Officer
- Hotel
Management Agreements - They wrote the book! And it is FREE
- Celebrated
Restaurateur Drew Nieporent to be Recognized with Cornell's 2011
Hospitality Innovator Award
- Apple
REIT Ten Inks $13.5 million Contract for Purchase of New Build Hotel in
North Charleston, South Carolina
- International
Association of Conference Centers Conducts Customer Roundtables to
Gather Feedback, Quantifiable Data, and Usable Market Intelligence to
Share with Member Properties
- Trust
International Raises Standard for CRS Stability, Reliability with New
Data Center, Data Recovery Solution
- NCL/National
Content Liquidators, Inc. Launches New Website
- John
Blake Joins Blueprint RF as Chief Engineering Officer and General
Manager
- HREC
Investment Advisors Arranges Sale of the Hilton Hotel in Knoxville,
Tennessee
- Sofitel
to Open First 5 Star Hotel in Cambodia in a Decade, the Sofitel Phnom
Penh Phokeethra; Didier Lamoot Opening General Manager
- Marriott
International Opens 507-room Renaissance Sanya Resort & Spa in China
- Marriott
International to Open 155-suite SpringHill Suites Alexandria Tech
Center in Alexandria, Virginia Owned by Apple REIT
- Available
Downtown Portland, Maine Hotel Rooms Set to Grow with Addition of the
122-room Hampton Inn
- 99-key
Ben Lomond Suites Historic Hotel in Ogden, Utah, Joins Ascend
Collection from Choice Hotels
- The
Wilderman Group Appoints Karl Anthony Swainey (Tony) as Vice President
and General Manager of the Gastonia Conference Center in Gastonia,
North Carolina
- Accor
Appoints its First Fiji-born Hotel Manager, Jack Work, as Hotel Manager
of the Mercure Nadi in Fiji
- Denihan
Hospitality Group Appoints Four General Managers at Affinia Hotels and
the Eastgate Tower in New York City
- Alex
Garcia Appointed as Director of Leisure Sales at the 392-room Fairmont
Turnberry Isle in Aventura, Florida
- Warwick
International Hotels Appoints Richard Oh as Director of Sales for the
Warwick Seattle Hotel in Seattle, Washington
- Waterford
Hotel Group Appoints Jake Ogley as Director of Sales for the 120-room
Courtyard by Marriott in Stuart, Florida
March 18, 2011
- Travelclick
Acquires Rubicon Creating Global Hotel Industry Leader in Business
Intelligence; Tim Hart, Rubicon CEO, to Lead Business Intelligence
Division at Travelclick
- Marriott
Properties using VFM Leonardo's VBrochure System to Make the Most of
their Rich Media Investments
- The
Radisson Hotel & Water Park in Albuquerque, New Mexico at Risk of
Closure Without New Financing; The Properties Water Park Opened One
Year Ago at a Cost of $18.3 million
- What
If? / R. Mark Woodworth
- Amman's
Hospitality Industry Paying the Price for Regional Unrest with a 30%
Drop in February's Hotel Reservations - Worse, No New Reservations Are
Coming
- Japan's
Disaster Creates a Negative Impact on Hawaii's Tourism
- Two
Hotels Remian Closed from the Tsunami Damage in Hawaii; the Four
Seasons Resort Hualalai and the Kona Village Resort, Both in Kailua-Kona
- Four
Seasons Resort Hualalai on Hawai'i to Re-Open April 30, 2011 Following
a Six-Week Closure Due to Tsunami Damage
- Train
Your Sales Agents To Execute Your Hotel's Rate Strategies / Doug Kennedy
- Hotel
Association Calls for Rejection of Proposed Greenburgh Hotel Room Tax;
3% Levy On Top of County and State Taxes Will Undercut Hotels, Motels
and Inns in the Town and Its Villages
- Hong
Kong Based Regal Hotels and Guangzhou MetroReal Estate Development
Company to Open 220-room Regal Hotel Foshan in GuangDong, China
- LaSalle
Hotel Properties Acquires the 162-room Viceroy Santa Monica in Santa
Monica, California
- Your
Social Media Success May Be in the Hands of Your Employees! / William
Orilio
- 2010
Radisson Employee of the Year Award Presented to Albina Valentim,
Housekeeper at the Radisson Hotel Calgary Airport
- Benchmark
Hospitality International's Founder, Chairman & CEO, Burt
Cabañas, Reflects on 30 Years in the Hospitality and Meeting
Industries; From Exile to Hotelier to Entrepreneur heading a Leading
US-Based Independent Hospitality Management Company
- Graves
Hospitality Unveils an Exciting Transformation of Space and Menus at
Solera; Dramatically Renovated Restaurant Showcases An Elevated Menu
Focused On The Authentic And Well-Rounded Cuisine Of Spain
- Defero3
Announces EscapeWire Solutions as their newest Dealer Partner for their
Hosted Hospitality PBX solution
- BridgeStreet
Launches iPhone App; Guests Can View Itinerary, Get Directions and Make
Reservations
- Marriott
International and InterMountain Management to Open the 91-room
Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott in Carlsbad, New Mexico Owned by
Forrest Properties, Inc.
- The
$130 million Casino del Sol Resort, Spa and Conference Center in
Tucson, Arizona on Track For November Opening
- Chrisbro
LLC's Plan for New Build 113-room Hilton Garden Inn in Cedar Falls,
Iowa One Step Closer to Reality
- Noble
House Hotels & Resorts Appoints Eric Gavin as Vice President of
Marketing
- Warwick
International Hotels Appoints Cole Mansfield as General Manager of the
219-room Warwick Denver Hotel in Denver, Colorado
- The
Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Limited Appoints Paul Tchen and P.T. Wong
as Corporate General Managers and David Batchelor, Joseph Chong,
Jonathan Crook and Sonja Vodusek as Hotel General Managers
- Fairmont
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Karina Davies as Director, Sales &
Marketing of Fairmont Yangcheng Lake in Kunshan, China
- Rosewood
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Ned Bell as Head Chef at 155-room
Rosewood Hotel Georgia
- ESSEC
MBA in Hospitality Management Ranked First in Hotel and Tourism
Postgraduate Degree Programs in France by Educational Consulting Group,
SMBG
March 16, 2011
- Hooters
Casino Hotel Creative Online Promotion Generates Impressive Response
Rate and Profitability; Boosts Reservations, Upsell and Lowers Costs;
Maestro PMS' ResWave Booking Engine, Email and Landing Pages Drive 75%
to Book Rooms and Upgrades For Last Minute Special Offer Flash Sale
- Swiss-Belhotel
International to Implement EZYield's Channel Management Solution at 20
New Properties in Asia Pacific and the Middle East; Prestigious hotel
management company signs agreement to implement industry leading
solution within its growing global portfolio
- Customer
Problem Resolution: The 100% Principle / Dr. Bryan K. Williams, DM
- AH&LA,
HTNG and HFTP Issue a Joint Statement On Credit Card Security Urging
Hotel Managers to Take Immediate Action
- IHG's
Andrew Cosslett to Step Down as Chief Executive; to be Succeeded by
Richard Solomons, Currently Chief Financial Officer and Head of
Commercial Development
- Nobody
Asked me, But... No. 74: The Triumph of Public Relations; Helpful
Hotels; Court Rules Holiday Inn Commits "Reprehensible Fraud"; Quote of
the Month / Stanley Turkel
- Hotel
Management Agreements - They wrote the book! And it is FREE
- Sheraton
New York Hotel and Towers to Undergo $150 Million Renovation; Includes
Plans to Expand the Size of its 1,780 Rooms and Create a New Club Lounge
- Wyndham
Hotel Group Continues Asia Pacific Expansion with 200-key Wyndham Khao
Lak Resort in Thailand and 304-room Wyndham Sanya Resort in China
- Marine
Corps Heritage Foundation Planning Expansion of the National Museum of
the Marine Corps to Include a Hotel and Conference Center
- Lodging
Interactive Launches Turn-Key Mobile SMS Text Messaging Services
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Add/Update 142 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel
Construction Projects Database
- Hotel
Managers – Would you rather be Lucky or Good? The Orgwide Problem
Solving Process beats a 4 leafed clover every time! / Jim Hartigan
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Have Updated 104 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with
Changes in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership
- Club
Intrawest "Lexicon" Shapes Members' "Best Vacations of Their Lives";
Private Vacation Club's Award Winning "Storybook" Tells the Story
- Florence's
Luxury Hotel Villa Olmi Resort Switches to Utell® for International
Sales, Marketing and Distribution Services; Utell Welcomes its First
Luxury Hotel in Florence Further Enriching a 200-plus Italian Hotel
Portfolio
- Intelity
ICE Touch on iPad Awarded "Most Innovative" Hospitality Technology for
2010; Hoteliers Vote ICE Touch on iPad the Best in Guest Services
Technology
- Public
May Have to Foot Nearly 50% of the Proposed $110 million for Convention
Center Hotel in Virginia Beach, Virginia
- American
Hotel & Lodging Association Presents 2011 John Whitaker Award to
David Goldstone and State Leadership Awards to Members of Each Partner
State Association in Recognition of Their Assistance with AH&LA
Programs
- Downtown
Portland Landmark, Once a Notorious Den of Iniquity, Becomes the
Crystal Hotel, a 51-room Boutique Hotel
- Best
Western Shelter Cove Lodge and Shore Cliff Lodge in Pismo Beach,
California Recognized as "Best Western Plus" Properties
- Howard
Johnson Canada Opens 95-room Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel Windsor in
Windsor, Ontario
- Hilton
Worldwide Celebrates Grand Opening of its First Home2 Suites By
Hilton® and Kicks off a Local Charitable Community Relations
Program at the Fayetteville, North Carolina Property
- IDM
Group, LLC Chosen to Manage 154-room Hotel Mead & Conference Center
in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin Now Owned by Balmoral Realty, LLC
- Starwood
Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Appoints Brian Povinelli as Global Brand
Leader for Westin Hotels & Resorts
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Names Tom Shaver General Manager for The Inn
at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center
- Sherry
Walker Appointed as Director of Sales for 218-room Bourbon Orleans
Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana
March 15, 2011
- Hotel
Wi-Fi: Guest Expectations Take Off; Now is the time to ensure that your
hotel's wireless network meets the new guest standard of always on,
available everywhere - with reliable high performance
- Ariane
Systems' Allegro Check-in/out Solution Ranked Third "Most Innovative
Hospitality Technology" by HTNG; Revolutionary online/mobile/kiosk
self-service technology awarded Second Runner-Up in HTNG's 2010 "Most
Innovative Hospitality Technology" Award competition
- MTech
/ INNCOM Integration Streamlining Room Turns at Bardessono
- Social
Search, Video, and Nimble Marketing: Tips for Hotels from Google's UK
Travel Industry Manager / Daniel Edward Craig
- Hotels
Were More Interesting than Selling Insurance: An Unexpected Career; A
Professional and Personal Tribute to Neil Salerno, CHME CHA / Dr.
John Hogan and Howard Feiertag
- PKF
Hospitality Research Amends U.S. Hotel RevPAR Recovery Upward to 7.1%
compared to Previous 5.6% Forecast
- Name-Droppers:
Atlanta Hoteliers Trying Fresh Monikers in Hopes Brands will Perform
Better
- Fairwood
Capital Completes Purchase of the 317-room Hilton Knoxville; Davidson
Hotels Selected as Management Firm
- Want
to Run a Hotel? Take Calculus / Lori Weisberg
- Social
Selling - Social Media and the Leisure Market - Webinar March 24, 2011
/ Carol Verret
- Wyndham
Hotel Group to Open 246-room Wyndham Grand Regency Doha in the Qatari
Capital in the Middle East
- Farzam
Family to Open 164-room Silver-LEED Standard Shore Hotel in Santa
Monica, California
- FairBridge
Hotel International announces selection of InnLink Central Reservation
Services as partner to grow the brand
- RateTiger's
Channel Management Technology has been selected by Accor; Global hotel
chain installs RTConnect to enhance distribution across sales channels
- Hotel
Napoléon Paris deploys iBAHN to deliver Broadband Services and
Digital Entertainment
- Hotel
Site Selection Company Blazes a New Trail; In a highly competitive
market, Conference Planning Resources, Ltd. makes a departure from
traditional resource models in the hotel site selection industry
- Young
Hoteliers Summit 2011 to be Held in Lausanne, Switzerland, March 21
& 22, 2011 to be Attended by Representatives from 13 International
Hospitality Schools and 10 Prestigious Companies
- Best
Western International Opens the 174-room BEST WESTERN PREMIER The
Central Hotel & Conference Center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
- Carlson
Continues Expansion of Country Inns & Suites by Carlson(SM) with
Opening of 10th Hotel in New York and 12th Hotel in Indiana
- Marriott
Adds Second LEED Pre-Certified Brand with Groundbreaking for TownePlace
Suites Frederick
- Red
Hospitality LLC Nears Completion of New-Build HotelRed in Madison,
Wisconsin to be Managed by Inn Development and Management Group
- California
Coastal Resorts Seeking Approval for New Build, 111-room Hyatt Place
Hotel in Santa Cruz, California
- Charles
Harris Appointed Vice President of Marketing for Luxe Hotels
- Leon
Baum Appointed General Manager of The Stafford London by Kempinski in
London, England
- Buffalo
Lodging Associates Appoints Penni Valette-Sheedy as General Manager for
the Country Inn & Suites Columbus Airport-East in Columbus, Ohio
- Chesapeake
Hospitality Appoints Bill Stock as General Manager of 199-room Holiday
Inn Palm Beach Airport Conference Center in West Palm Beach, Florida
- Spiridon
Sarantopoulos is Appointed Director of the Steigenberger Grandhotel
Petersberg Near Bonn, Germany
- Armin
Schroecker is Appointed Director of the Steigenberger Frankfurter Hof
in Frankfurt, Germany
March 14, 2011
- Hampton
Inn Tropicana Increases Sales and Efficiency with Online Sales
Solution; Largest Property in the Brand Frees Salespeople from
Spreadsheets, Helps Close Deals during Client Visits with Real-Time,
Web-Based Reports from hotel SystemsPro
- IDeaS
Appoints RMC Consultores as Distribution Partner in Chile
- International
Hotel and Restaurant Association Offer Their Condolences and Support to
Japan Hotels Association and Japanese People
- Ashford
Hospitality Joint Venture Acquires Highland Hospitality Portfolio for
$1.3 Billion
- Ocean
Properties, Ltd. Hotels and Resorts Purchases BALSAMS Grand Resort in
Dixville Notch, New Hampshire from Tillotson Corporation
- The
Fusion of Mobile: Transforming the Delivery of Today's Hospitality
Experience / Lisa Miniter & Brenda Fields
- Illegal
Immigration: Today’s Challenges and a Way Forward for Hospitality
Employers / Charles A. Conine
- InterContinental
Hotels Group Planning Atlanta Metro Area Expansion; Wish List Includes
Hotel Indigo, Crowne Plaza and a Holiday Inn
- Under
Proposed Bankruptcy Settlement of Former Pittsburgh Hilton, Chain May
Get a Fraction of the $4.7 million it Claims it is Owed
- Las
Vegas Strip's Room Price War Not a Drag on Cosmopolitan's Rates;
Property Continues to Buck Trends
- Editorial:
Tourism - Jacksonville, Florida is Leaking Money. Hundreds of Millions
of it Because Conventiongoers Went Elsewhere
- Investigation
Under Way Into Collapse of Seven-storey Hotel Under Construction in
Wadi Musa, Jordan, Killing Two
- Thai
Tourism Likely to Face a Three to Six Month Dip as a Result of
Earthquake in Japan
- Leading
Hotel App Goes Global With Multilingual Functionality And More -
Introducing SmartstaySM 2
- Hilton
Worldwide Opens 137-room London Syon Park, A Waldorf Astoria Hotel, in
West London
- Atlantic
City's Resorts and Trump Marina Hope to Build Future Based on Their Past
- Sahara
Guests and Employees Fondly Remember "The Last of the Oldies"
- Hidden
Pond in Kennebunkport, Maine Opens the Season with 20 New Luxury
Bungalow Cottages, a Tree House Spa and Chef Ken Oringer's New
Restaurant, Earth
- Hotel
Association of Canada Hall of Fame Awards Presented to Steve Gupta for
Humanitarianism, Carol Lumb for Human Resources and the Parkside
Victoria Resort for the Energy & Environment Category
- Carnival
Student Center Opens at Florida International University's School of
Hospitality and Tourism Management Endowed by Carnival Corporation and
Carnival Cruise Lines
- David
Sharkey Appointed General Manager of Princeton Marriott Hotel at
Forrestal
March 11, 2011
- JMBM’s
Global Hospitality Group® announces publication of The HMA
Handbook, a FREE practical guide for negotiating Hotel Management
Agreements for Hotel Owners, Developers, Investors and Lenders
- Opened
in 1952, the 1,720-room Sahara Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas No Longer
Economically Viable and Will Close May 16
- Station
Casinos LLC Reaches Agreement to Purchase Green Valley Ranch
Hotel-Casino in Henderson, Nevada for $500 million
- 2011
European Hotel Group Rankings: Accor Leads with 246,665 rooms; Carlson
Growth Leader
- Pricing
Beyond the Comp Set: And other new pricing strategies that really work
/ Jean Francois Mourier
- Don
Glassie, 76, Founder of Atlantic Stars Hospitality, Has Passed Away
- Fairmont
Hotels & Resorts to Add New Property in China, the 371-room
Fairmont Nanjing as Part of the Jin Ao Plaza Development in a 56-story
Building in the Jiangsu Province
- Blue
Diamond and RG Hotels Enter Partnership for Branding and Management of
the 240-room Royalton Playa Blanca Panama, Formerly the Nikki Beach
Playa Blanca
- Colombia
Boutique Hotel Chooses Security Systems from VingCard Elsafe; New
Property Selects Leading Hospitality Solutions Signature by VingCard
and SENTINEL II by Elsafe for Elite Combination of Security and Design
- Principles
of Success: Evaluate Your Hospitality Business Strategies to Create a
Real and Measurable Competitive Advantage / Dr. John Hogan
- Jekyll
Oceanfront Clarion Resort Sells for $4.7 million in Online Auction; $7
million Less than Appraisal in June 2010
- The
Sleep Inn Brand by Choice Hotels Opens its Chattanooga, Tennessee
Property, the First in a Brandwide Campaign of Renovation and Refreshed
New Design
- Western
States Lodging and Management Opens 107-room Home2 Suites by
Hilton® in Layton, Utah, owned by Summit Lodging, ESP
- Provenance
Hotels to Manage Inn At Red Hills and Farm to Fork Restaurant in
Oregon's Wine Country Owned by Harvest Inn, LLC
- Noble
House Hotels & Resorts Assumes Management of the River Terrace Inn
and Restaurant Cuvee in Napa Valley, California
- 341-room
Charleston Marriott in Charleston, South Carolina Opens 15,000 Square
Foot Crystal Ballroom Bringing Total Event Space for Property to 50,000
Square Feet
- Buffalo
Lodging Associates Appoints Mary Abigail (Abby) Gerken as Director of
Sales for 125-suite Homewood Suites by Hilton® Cleveland/Beachwood
in Beachwood, Ohio
- 183-room
Crowne Plaza New Delhi Rohini Appoints Shuvendu Banerjee as Director of
Sales and Marketing and Avinash Kumar Verma as Director of Human
Resources and Talent Development
- Sherrie
Huebner Appointed as Spa Director for the Spa at The Ritz-Carlton
Lodge, Reynolds Plantation on Georgia's Lake Oconee
March 10, 2011
- Hotel
Wi-Fi: Guest Expectations Take Off; Now is the time to ensure that your
hotel's wireless network meets the new guest standard of always on,
available everywhere - with reliable high performance
- Langham
Hospitality Group Expands Implementation of EZYield's Channel
Management Solution Across Global Luxury Hotel Portfolio; Leading Hong
Kong-based luxury hotelier extends agreement to implement EZYield at
additional properties worldwide
- Whiteboard
Labs Offers Hotels a Powerful Combination: QR Codes and Video
- Thanks
for the Memories! / Harry Nobles
- Service
in the Bedroom: Making Experiences Memorable / Roberta Nedry
- Lodging
Econometrics Reports Asia Pacific Continues to Drive Global Pipeline
Growth - 33% of World's Total Pipeline Rooms are in China & India
- Vail
Resorts Reports Net Income of $54.6 million for 2nd Qrt. 2011, an
Increase of $13.9 million Compared to Same Period the Prior Year;
Excluding New Properties, Skier Visits Up 8.7%
- Hyatt
Hotels and Cobbo Bay Developers Plan New Build, 201-room Hyatt Regency
Cap Cana; First Hyatt-branded Hotel in the Dominican Republic to
Include Villas and Residences
- Moevenpick
Hotels & Resorts to Open 124-room Moevenpick Dharamshala Resort
& Spa in Northern India, a Remote Himalayan Property Designed to
Set New Benchmarks in Sustainability
- Banyan
Tree Hotels and Resorts to Open All Suite Urban Resort, Banyan Tree
Macau, in CotaiCity
- Intelity's
ICE Touch On iPads Product Wins HTNG's "Most Innovative Hospitality
Technology" Award for 2010; Corning MobileAccess and Ariane Systems
Products Claim Runner-Up Titles
- LodgeNet
Launches Whitepaper Series to Help Hotel Owners and Operators Plan for
Guests' Escalating Broadband Usage; Initial Installment Recaps 2010
Growth in Traveler Demand and Recommends When Capacity Increases Are
Warranted
- Rainmaker
Taps Top Talent to Help Guide Accelerated Growth of Company
- Hospitality
Ventures Opens Newly Rebranded 282-room DoubleTree by Hilton DFW
Airport North in Irving, Texas Completing a $19 Million Renovation
- Starwood
Hotels & Resorts Opens the 242-room The Westin Phoenix Downtown in
the 26-story Freeport McMoRan Center
- The
Wilderman Group Chosen by the City Council of Gastonia, North Carolina
to Manage the Gastonia Conference Center, a Cornerstone of the City's
Revitalization Project
- Hyatt
Hotels Appoints Sal Mendoza to Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Names Jeff Henschel Director of Information
Technology
- Denihan
Hospitality Group Appoints Don Fraser as General Manager of the
407-room Royal Palm in Miami Beach, Florida
- Pilar
M. Abaya Ellis Appointed as Director Of Sales for 160-room Luxe Sunset
Boulevard Hotel, Bel Air in Los Angeles, California
March 9, 2011
- Pegasus
Solutions Launches MetaSearch Services to Facilitate Direct Bookings
from Online Search; Hotels Realize 5:1 Return on Investment in Beta
Testing with Several Major Hotel Chains
- Valley
View Casino & Hotel Selects Visual One™ Suite by Agilysys; Property
Implements PMS, Comp Accounting, Sales and Catering Solutions
- What
Every Hotel Marketer Should Know About Video; Webinar for Hotel Chain
Marketers on Wednesday, March 16th at 11:00am EST
- Swiftrank
Migrates to Amazon Web Services Cloud, Maximizing Speed and Reliability
for 12,000-Site Global Hotel Network; World's largest network of
leading international travel websites scales dynamically with AWS
infrastructure web services platform to support exponential growth
- The
Future is Now: The Emergence of The Customer Engagement Channel in
Hospitality / Max Starkov and Mariana Mechoso Safer
- Embassy
Suites Hotels Recognizes 20 of its 209 Properties as its Top Performers
for 2010 and Gives Special Recognition with a "Connie" Award to its Top
Three Properties
- Wyndham
Hotel Group and Colliers International Sign Agreement for Development
of 10 Super 8 Properties in Poland Over the Next Five Years
- Hilton
Worldwide to Rebrand the 133-room Hacienda La Boticaria in Alcala de
Guadaira, Spain as the Waldorf Astoria Sevilla at La Boticaria
- IHG
Signs Agreement for New-Build 140-room InterContinental Punta Piqueros
Near Viña del Mar, Chile
- Starwood
Hotels & Resorts Completes its $70 Million Renovation of 528-room
The Royal Hawaiian, a Luxury Collection Resort, on Waikiki Beach
- 302-room
Frenchman's Reef & Morning Star Marriott Beach Resort in St.
Thomas, US Virgin Islands to Undergo $45 Million Renovation
- Thayer
Lodging Group Acquires 304-room Hotel Palomar Atlanta-Midtown in
Atlanta, Georgia and Plans to Rebrand Property as The Renaissance
Atlanta Midtown Hotel
- Hotel
Capitalization Rates Fall Further, According to USRC Hotel Investor
Survey / Jeffrey H Walker
- Historic,
Century-old Glen Cove Mansion Hotel and Conference Center Introduces
21st Century Mobile Website
- Rotana
the First Middle East and Africa Hotel Management Company to Sign
Google Agreement with Trust International; Contract to display real
time rates and availability of Rotana Hotels on Google Maps and Google
Places signed during ITB Berlin
- American
Hotel & Lodging Association Quizzes Hoteliers on Mandatory
Americans with Disabilities Act 2010 Regulations; Deadline to Comply
with ADA is March 15, 2011
- Two
New Hotel Projects Approved for Downtown and South Side of Pittsburgh;
a 107-room Hotel on Fort Pitt Boulevard and a Six-story Hyatt
Summerfield Suites
- JBG
Companies and Marriott International Open the 300-room Renaissance
Arlington Capital View Hotel and the 325 all-suite Residence Inn
Arlington Capital View in Arlington, Virginia
- Sonesta
Collection Opens 126-room Sonesta Hotel Bogota in Bogota, Colombia,
South America, Managed by GHL Hoteles
- Choice
Hotels International Opens 16 New Hotels in February in 11 States and 3
Additional Countries
- Charles
Woo Named Managing Director at Sheraton Hong Kong Hotel & Towers
and Area Managing Director for Hong Kong and Macau
- Kierie
Heim Appointed as Director of Sales and Marketing for the 498-room
Hyatt Regency Boston
March 8, 2011
- Hotel
Wi-Fi: Guest Expectations Take Off; Now is the time to ensure that your
hotel's wireless network meets the new guest standard of always on,
available everywhere - with reliable high performance
- Luxury
brand Regent Hotels & Resorts selects Sabre Hospitality Solutions
for its expertise in marketing and distribution
- Quality
Track International Opens European Offices
- EZYield
enhances connectivity for High Tech Hoteles through new RezDelivery
Integrated Solutions; Spanish hospitality group integrates automated
reservation delivery solution into existing channel management platform
across growing hotel portfolio
- HVS
London Reports Improving Investor Sentiment as Hotel Transactions
Double Throughout Europe
- Hilton
and Chicago Union Workers Agree on 4-year Contract Ending 18 Months
of Negotiations
- Hilton
Hawaiian Village & Unite Here Workers Reach Tentative Agreement
- Starwood
Hotels & Resorts to Open 50 Hotels in Europe, Africa and the Middle
East Over the Next Three to Five Years, with 12 Hotels Expected to Open
in the Region this Year
- STR
Global Research Shows Hilton Worldwide Has Largest Number of Rooms In
Europe with 15,411 Rooms and 8,643 More Rooms Under Construction in
More than 90 Hotels Under Development
- Hilton
Worldwide to Open Third Property in South Africa, the 137-room Hilton
Cape Town, Scheduled for April 2011
- Quays
Hotels Limited and Wyndham Hotel Group to Develop New 200-room Ramada
Encore Newcastle/Gateshead, in Gateshead Quays, United Kingdom
- Sales
Blitzes: A Look At the Benefits of Team Efforts / Dr. John Hogan
- Five
South Texas Hotels to Pay Fines for Price Gouging During Hurricane
Dolly in 2008
- Lodging
Capital Partners, LLC Purchases 447-room Hilton Rye Town in Westchester
County, New York; Property will Undergo Renovation of Public Areas and
Continue to be Operated by Hilton Worldwide
- Pegasus
Solutions Starts 2011 Setting Industry Record; As Hotel Transactions
Reach New Highs, Pegasus Maintains More than a Two Decade History of
Technological Innovation and Proven Success
- CARINO
Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Announces Kansas City's Hotel Phillips
Adopts GDS Chain Code; Historic Boutique Property Selects New Code "UN"
as part of Luxury Collection
- Pegasus
Solutions Further Expands Marketing Capabilities with Travelport; New
Referral Relationship Increases Opportunities for Utell Member Hotels
Globally to Reach Agents Booking More than 20 Million Room Nights
Annually
- RateTiger
Publishes Latest Hotel Channel Management Data - 2011; Over 51 million
online rate updates, up 88% on 2010
- Trust
International to Debut Google Application, Corporate IBE Service and
CRS Upgrades at ITB Berlin
- Homewood
Suites by Hilton Names Homewood Suites by Hilton Mobile-East
Bay/Daphne, Alabama as its Top Performing Hotel for 2010; Recognizes
More than 300 Other Properties as Top Performers
- Carlson
Hotels Launches Partnership with Club Med®; Carlson's Loyalty
Program Points Now Redeemable at All 80 All-Inclusive Club Med Resorts
Worldwide and a Dual Destination Offer in Florida is Created for
Travelers
- Cornell
Study Finds That Well-Designed Hotel Energy Saving Treatments Do Not
Diminish the Guest Experience
- Vdara
Market at CityCenter Caters to Guests' Evolving Appetites - Its Not the
Corner Bodega
- Oasis
Hotels & Resorts Returns to Cancun with the Opening of the
All-Inclusive Resorts, Grand Oasis Cancun and the Oasis Cancun
- Noble
Investment Group Completes Renovation and Re-Branding to Open the
176-room Courtyard by Marriott Charleston Historic District in
Charleston, South Carolina
- Starwood
Hotels & Resorts Opens 124-room Four Points by Sheraton Memphis
East in Memphis, Tennessee
- 8Hotels
Opens Luxury Private Villas, Chandra Villas, in Seminyak, Bali
- Aimbridge
Hospitality Completes $2 Million Renovation of 243-suite Embassy Suites
Tampa-Airport/Westshore Hotel in Tampa, Florida
- Elite
Island Resorts Appoints Rajah Pillay as Executive Chef at The Verandah
Resort & Spa in Antigua
March 7, 2011
- Battle
Over Former Hilton Pittsburgh Hotel About to End: Dr. Kiran Patel to
Retain Control, Flag to Remain Wyndham Grand and BlackRock to Receive a
$10 million Settlement Fee
- "It
Won’t Be In This Year's Model but Maybe in Four Years You'll Get that
Cup Holder You Want"; Top 5 Customer Service Complaints about Hotel
Meetings Management and Sales & Catering Software
- AC
Hotels & Marriott International Enter Joint Venture to Open Four
New Autograph Collection Hotels in Spain; Joint Venture Includes Launch
of New Brand, AC Hotels by Marriott, 86 Hotels to be Rebranded in
Spain, Italy and Portugal
- Caesars
Palace and Nobu Hospitality Plan to Open 180-room Nobu-branded Hotel
Through a Multi-Million Dollar Renovation of the Centurion Tower at
Caesars Palace; Property Will Integrate Exclusive Hotel Tower with Nobu
Restaurant and Lounge
- Hotel
Occupancy in Bahrain Reduced by Half Amid Protests
- The
Wild West – Consumers and Hoteliers Try to Cope in the Era of Social
Media / Rob Rush
- Hyatt
Regency Indianapolis Petitions for National Labor Relations Board-led
Workers Vote in Attempt to End Two Years of Dissention Between
Management and Labor
- Hawaii
Hotels Gain in Key Areas with Occupancy Rising 8.1% and ADR 6.8%
Pushing RevPAR up 19.9% in January
- Lodging
Econometrics Reports 2012 Forecast for New Openings for EMEA; Pipeline
Totals Continue to Fall, with Further Declines Expected as European
Economies Soften and Political Turmoil Intensifies in the Middle East
- DoubleTree
by Hilton Opens 214-room DoubleTree by Hilton London-West End Operated
by Southhampton Row Hotel LLP and Managed by Crimson Hotel Group
- Starwood
Hotels and Degennaro Group, in Collaboration with SEA - Airports of
Milan, Open the New Sheraton Milan Malpensa Airport Hotel &
Conference Centre
- Homewood
Suites by Hilton Opens 122-suite Homewood Suites by Hilton
Charlotte/Aryrsley in Charlotte, North Carolina; Owned by Ayrsley Hotel
Associates II, LLC and Managed by Griffin Stafford, LLC
- Rezidor
Hotel Group Opens 169-room Hotel Missoni Kuwait in the Shopping
District of Kuwait City
- Industry
Experts Join SoftBrands in A Meeting of the Minds to Discuss Hotel
Technology Trends
- AAA
Parking To Serve Dream Guests; Chic South Beach hotel is third Miami
property to choose AAA Parking in 2011
- Yellow
Dog Software Provides Walkers Bluff with Retail Inventory Management
- Central
24/7 by Chef Michel Richard to Open at Caesars Palace Las Vegas;
24-hour Café Reinvents the Traditional Hotel Coffee Shop
- Marriott
International to Open 89-suite Extended Stay TownePlace Suites by
Marriott in Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Wyndham
Orange County in California Purchased by The Wincome Group and
Undergoing $14 Million Renovation
- Travellers
Shun The Xitai Capsule Hotel in Japan Since Launch in January; Not a
Single Guest Has Stayed at Capsule
- Arabian
Hotel Investment Conference (AHIC 2011) to Feature Hotel Industry
Leaders Discussions on Impact of Ongoing Political Change in the MENA
Region
- Kinseth
Hospitality Companies Names Steve Peters, Jeff Cue & Sal Martinez
as General Managers of the Year; Sales Director of the Year Awarded to
Jamie DeRudder
- Alliance
Hospitality Management Names Barry Shatoff of Hilton Garden Inn New
York General Manager of the Year and Stacey McGee of Hilton Garden Inn
Atlanta North/Alpharetta Director of Sales of the Year
- GrandStay®
Hospitality Names Philip Johnson General Manager of the Year and Awards
Jana Lung the Sales and Marketing Award for 2010
- Best
Western International Elects James Cosgrove to Serve on Board of
Directors Representing Owners in the Northeastern United States and
Eastern Canada
- IHG
Appoints Chris Moloney As Chief Operating Officer, South West Asia
- Playa
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Omar Palacios as Executive Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer
- Crescent
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Adam Greene as Senior Vice President of
Development & Investments
- Innisfree
Hotels Appoints Joshua Butler as Director of Sales for the 181-room
Hampton Inn Pensacola Beach Gulf Front on Pensacola Beach, Florida
- Joie
de Vivre Hospitality Appoints Roger Dryden as the Director of Leisure
Sales for Shorebreak Hotel in Huntington Beach and Pacific Edge Hotel
in Laguna Beach, California
- Kokua
Hospitality Names Slavyana Kolesnikova Senior Catering Manager for
500-room Doubletree Hotel Chicago Magnificent Mile
- Leela
Palaces, Hotel and Resorts Appoints Chef Deepak Bhatia as Executive
Chef for Leela Kempinski Mumbai in Mumbai, India
March 4, 2011
- Marriott's
Ed Fuller Shares Leadership Expertise in His Book, "You Can't Lead With
Your Feet on the Desk"
- A
New Independent Hotel Brand Enters the Market; Qube Hotels Welcomes
Founding Members
- Red
Lion Hotels Reports 4th Qtr 2010 Net Loss of $7.2 million Compared with
Net Loss of $8.2 million Same Period 2009; Revenue for Qtr Up 2.5%;
RevPAR Grows 11.4%, 5.4% Full Year
- Hotel
Buys in San Diego County Increase by 150% in 2010 with Average Per Room
Price Gaining 11%
- 2010
a Record Year for Tourism in Miami-Dade Despite Economy, Oil Spill and
Volcanoes
- Group
of Women Suing Monte Carlo Hotel in Las Vegas for $750,000 Over Alleged
Bed Bug Bites
- Surge
of 26% Increase in Bookings at East Valley, Arizona Hotels Hints at
Economic Rebound
- In
Memoriam: Jeff Palmer, Chief Marketing Officer of Motel 6 (1947-2011)
- Wyndham
Worldwide Hotels Becomes First Chain to Join StarCite Accreditation
Program for Suppliers; New StarCite Program Helps Hotels Highlight
Their Focus on Group Business
- ZaZa
Databases Get a Facelift; Hotel ZaZa Selects ZDirect’s eCRM Solution
for Improved Customer Relations
- Destination
Hotels & Resorts Launches Kids Healthy Recipe Contest in Support of
National Nutrition Month in March; Program Supports Company’s
Commitment to Healthy Eating Through Kids Café Menus
- Grand
Velas Riviera Nayarit Named in Conde Nast Traveler’s 2011 Exclusive
Gold List; “Beyond All Inclusive, Beyond All Compare” Resort Selected
in Best Rooms Category In Luxury Travel Magazine’s Readers’ Choice
Survey
- Guest-tek™
and Nomadix Settle Internet Gateway Patent Litigation
- Former
Hard Rock Technology Executive Joins SkyWire Media, Inc.
- BridgeStreet®
Wins Coveted Company of the Year Award
- Hilton
Worldwide Launches Waldorf Astoria in the UAE; Signs Management
Agreement with the Al Hamra Group for the 349-room New-Build Waldorf
Astoria Ras Al Khaimah, 40 Minutes from Dubai Airport
- IHG
Signs Agreement with Shakir Investment Group for New-Build 122-room
Staybridge Suites Panama City in Panama, Central America
- EVENT
Hotels Purchases the 255-room ibis Malmö in Malmö, Sweden
- Oriens'
Hotel PURE Portfolio Expands with Five New Properties Added to the
Brand in the Last 30 Days
- Banyan
Tree Holdings Plans Major Expansion with Several Hotel Developments and
Refurbishments of Banyan Tree and Angsana Branded Resorts Around the
World
- Real
Builders and Dora Hospitality Start Construction on 89-room Extended
Stay Souris Valley Suites Hotel in Minot, North Dakota
- Prestige
Hospitality Group Chosen to Manage 120-room Clarion Hotel in Bristol,
Connecticut
- Hong
Kong Polytechnic University Opens its Samsung Digital Lab for
Hospitality Technology and New Premises for its School of Hotel and
Tourism Management
March 2, 2011
- hotel
SystemsPro Promotes Natalie Roberts to Director of Hotel
Performance/Customer Satisfaction; Roberts to Maximize Client
Profitability; will Oversee User Education and Productivity
- Guest/Staff
Communication Made Easy with GoConcierge Text Messaging; An Efficient
Way to Confirm Appointments, Room Readiness
- Morgans
Hotel Group 4th Qtr 2010 Net Loss $6.7 million compared to a loss of
$51.3 million in the 4th Qtr 2009; System Wide RevPar up 5.2% / Hotel
Operating Statistics
- Morgans
Hotel Group Reaches Settlement Agreement with Lenders on Joint Venture
with Hard Rock; Equity Interests in the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in
Las Vegas Have Been Transferred and Management Agreement has Been
Terminated
- Morgan
Stanley Unloads Ownership Stake in Revel Casino Project, Suffering a
$1.2 billion Loss
- Victorville,
California Hotel Owner Convicted of Defrauding Orbitz of Nearly $850,000
- HVS
Report Indicates European Hotel Values Experience Healthy Growth of
1.5% for 2010 Following Two Years of Decline; Paris and London Retain
the Lead
- Starwood's
Planned Latin American Expansion to Include Six New Hotels in 2011;
Westin Brand to Open in Three New Countries Along with its First
All-Inclusive Resort in Latin America, The Westin Playa Conchal Resort
& Spa in Lima, Peru
- Wyndham
Hotel Group Signs Agreements for Three New-Build Days Inn®
Properties in India;48-room Days Hotel Neemrana, Jaipur Highway,
102-room Days Hotel Neemrana, Sahil Square, and 80-room Days Hotel
Asansol
- Connecticut
Lawmakers Seek to Create Law to Warn Potenital Buyers and Tenants of
Hotels, Apartment & Condominiums of Previous Bed-bug Problems
- Omni
Hotels and Global Hotel Alliance Launch Guest Loyalty Program, GHA
Discovery, Designed to Offer Rewards Across 12 Brands and Nearly 300
Hotels Globally; Rewards to Focus on Local Experiences in Unique
Locations
- Meetings
Industry Rebounding Strongly; Results from Meetings Focus' 2011
Meetings Market Trends Survey demonstrate increases in key areas
- Ameristar
Casinos Optimizes Workforce with UniFocus' LMS
- Roomlinx
Introduces the SmartRoom®; Properties control the business model
- BridgeStreet®
Appoints Sabina Giese to Expand its European Presence
- Morgans
Hotel Group Expands In-room iPad Program featuring Intelity ICE
Technology; Mondrian Soho New York Debuts with Virtual Access to Guest
Services
- Australand
Appoints Accor to Re-Launch 227-room The Crest as the Mercure Sydney
Potts Point in Sydney, Australia Following a $30 Million Refurbishment
- Unlimited
Vacation Club By AMResorts Joins RCI Adding 22 Resorts in Mexico and
the Caribbean to RCI's Network of Affiliated Resorts
- Canadian
Niagara Hotels Reflags Former Crowne Plaza in Niagra Falls as Sheraton
at the Falls
- Roberts
Hotel Group Re-opens Former Radisson as Clarion Hotel in Spartanburg,
South Carolina Following Renovations
- Prestige
Hotels of the World by Keytel Strengthens its Presence in the U.S.
Market Through a Partnership Agreement with Prestige Resorts &
Destinations
- Waterford
Hotel Group Honors Norma Brown, a Room Attendant from the Residence Inn
by Marriott in Hartford, Connecticut, as Associate of the Year
- The
International Hotel Investment Forum Chooses Amy Carter-James as the
2011 Young Leader Award Recipient
- Meeting
Professionals International Nominates Candidates for 2011-2012
International Board of Directors; Chairman Elect Kevin Hinton,
Executive Vice President, Associated Luxury Hotels International
- Mandarin
Oriental, Las Vegas Appoints Joel Bloom As Director Of Finance
- Lionel
P. Houliat Appointed General Manager of 143-room Hôtel Le Germain
Calgary in Alberta, Canada
- Chef
Aaron Burns Appointed as Executive Chef at the 406-room Riviera Palm
Springs in Palm Springs, California
March 1, 2011
- Hotel
Wi-Fi: Guest Expectations Take Off; Now is the time to ensure that your
hotel's wireless network meets the new guest standard of always on,
available everywhere—with reliable high performance
- Washington
Duke Inn & Golf Club Increases Revenue and Satisfaction by Creating
Personal Relationships with Guests before they Arrive with Cendyn's
eConciergeTM; Cendyn Concierge Platform Builds Loyalty and Reduces
Cancellations
- DiamondRock,
Owner of 23 Hotels, Reports 4th Qtr 2010 Net Income of $1.9 million
Compared to Prior Year Loss of $9 million; Revpar Increase of 8.3% /
Hotel Operating Statistics
- Buying
a Hotel? Don't Buy an ADA Lawsuit or DOJ Investigation / Jim Butler
- 1,360-room
San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina Re-branded as San Diego Marriott
Marquis & Marina as Part of $200 Million Renovation
- W
Hotels Worldwide Unveils 158-key W Retreat & Spa Bali - Seminyak in
Bali, Indonesia
- Fairmont
Hotels & Resorts Signs Agreement with Business Gate to Manage
287-room Fairmont Riyadh, Business Gate in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- $640
million Miami Beach Convention Center Expansion Project to Become
Reality, City Commissioners Give Green Light
- Fairmont
Kea Lani Hotel on Maui to Pay $500,000 to Settle Lawsuit Over Division
of Gratuities
- Paris
Hotels and Social Media: Some Lagging Behind, Others at the Forefront
- Principles
for Success: No Nonsense Benchmarking for Hotels and Hospitality
Businesses / Dr. John Hogan
- Tourism
Officials of Drive-to Destinations Become Worried as Gas Prices
Continue to Climb
- Newmarket
International Receives 2011 Markettools Achievement In Customer
Excellence (ACE) Award
- Dynamique
Hôtels Management Becomes First Customer to Implement the Full
Amadeus Hotel Platform
- RateTiger
Fully Automates Hotel Room Distribution and Pricing; Inventory &
rate management take a leap forward
- When
it Comes to Franchise Negotiations Are the Odds in Your Favor? / Steven
J. Belmonte
- New
Educational Institute Program Teaches Employees, Properties to Deliver
Guest Service Gold
- SkyWire
Media, Inc. Appoints New Marketing Director
- Inland
American Lodging Planning $8 million Renovation of Newly Acquired
Marriott Town Center in Charleston, West Virginia
- Restaurant
Association of Maryland and Consumer Advocates in Baltimore Area at
Odds Over Corkage Law Claiming High-end Restaurant Owners Want the
Option
- Sauna
and Spas at the Airport? How to Spend a Pleasant Few Hours as a Traveler
- International
Association of Conference Centers Establishes European Chapter and
Creates Representative Board of Directors; the Chapter Adds Four New
Member Properties
- The
National Conference Center Introduces QR-Coded Green Tour of the
917-room Conference Center; 12-stop Tour Features Quick Response Codes
Providing Relevant Information
- HSMAI's
Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex Chapter Attends 2011 HSMAI Leadership
Conference
- Barry
Wabler Appointed as Chief Financial Officer for Hotel Equities
- Hunter
Realty Receives Four Top Broker Honors from Hotel Brokers International
**Top 25 Read Articles -
February 2011**
- Intercontinental
Intends to Sell its Prized Barclay New York Hotel
- Ten
Tips to Help You Become the Type of Manager That Everyone Wants to Work
With / Roberta Chinsky Matuson
- CNL-AB
LLC, a Newly Formed Joint Venture, Acquires Portfolio of Eight U.S.
Properties Currently Known as MS Resorts through a Foreclosure
Proceeding
- United
States Bankruptcy Court Orders Sale of JFK Plaza Hotel; Optimum Hotel
Brokerage Retained as Exclusive Broker
- World’s
First Gay Wedding Certification Course Available
- Interstate
Hotels & Resorts Assumes Management of Summit Hotel Properties’
65-hotel Portfolio
- 2011
Social Media Trends; TIG Global Experts Look at the Trends that will
Impact Hotel Marketers Most in the Year Ahead
- Stars,
Diamonds and Other Hotel Ratings Complicate and Confuse Traveler
Decisions
- “I
Can Never Get Anyone on the Phone and They Charge Me for the Air I’m
Breathing” - Top 5 Customer Service Complaints about Hotel Meetings
Management and Sales & Catering Software
- Manchester
Grand Hyatt San Diego to be Sold to Host Hotels & Resorts Inc. for
$570 million
- Las
Vegas Sands New Policy to Cuts Comps Angers Some; CEO Sheldon Adelson
States "No more comped rooms. No food and beverage. No showroom
credits. We're selling rooms."
- A
Round-up of Social Media and Reputation Monitoring Tools for Hotels /
Daniel Edward Craig
- The
WOW Factor - The Power Selling Partnership of GMs and Sales / Carol
Verret
- World's
Largest JW Marriott, the JW Marriott® Indianapolis Downtown, Opens
Completing the $450 million Marriott Place Development Project
- What
Do Hotel Leaders Really Do? / Bob Taylor
- Social
Media and Storytelling for Hotels / Daniel Edward Craig
- Your
Hotel May be Old, But The Way You Deliver Service Should Not Be....Just
Ask Mickey Mouse / Terence Ronson
- Strategic
Hotels & Resorts to Acquire Four Seasons Jackson Hole and Four
Seasons Silicon Valley from the Woodbridge Company Through a Stock
Exhange Valued at Approximately $95 million or $300,000 per-room
- Miami
Poised to Become Hot Spot for Hotel Investors; Jones Lang LaSalle
Predicts Deals could Reach $750 million, an Increase of 250% over 2010
- Hotel
Lawyer: 5 Key Elements for Good Hotel Management Agreement Budget
Provisions / Jim Butler
- Construction
Begins on Baha Mar Resort, a 1,000-acre, $3.4 Billion Resort, Gaming
and Entertainment Complex in Nassau, The Bmaahas
- HSMAI's
54th Adrian Awards Honors Top Companies and Individuals in Hospitality
Advertising, Public Relations and Digital Marketing
- MGM
Resorts Aims to Boost Flagging Fortunes of CityCenter by Reducing its
Largest Expense, Labor
- Can
Luxurious Mandarin Oriental Hotel Make it in Las Vegas? Nearly all of
CityCenter is Making Money on its Anniversary - Except One
- Strategic
Hotels and Resorts Completes Recapitalization of the Hotel Del
Coronado; Establishes New Joint Venture with Blackstone Real Estate
Advisors and KSL Resorts
February 28, 2011
- MSI
Commemorates 20 Years of Hospitality Milestones; Two decades strong,
hallmark property-management leader delivers
- Las
Vegas Sands New Policy to Cuts Comps Angers Some; CEO Sheldon Adelson
States "No more comped rooms. No food and beverage. No showroom
credits. We're selling rooms."
- Can
Luxurious Mandarin Oriental Hotel Make it in Las Vegas? Nearly all of
CityCenter is Making Money on its Anniversary - Except One
- Caesars'
Atlantic City Casinos Reports 4th Qtr Revenues Down 11% to $417.8
milion Compared to $467.4 million Same Period 2009; Gross Profit Down
51% to $32.9 million
- RockResorts
Chosen to Manage 350-unit Bimini Bay Resort and Marina on Bimini in The
Bahamas; Plans to Develop Hotel and Spa and Re-Brand as a RockResort
- InterContinental
Hotels Chosen by Elite Villa Company, LTD, to Manage 79-room Baan
Taling Ngam Resort & Spa in Thailand; after $15 Million
Refurbishment will Re-Open as InterContinental Samui Baan Taling Ngam
Resort
- 262-Suite
Embassy Suites Houston-Downtown Opens Doors with Registration for
City's First LEED Certified Hotel
- Hilton
Hotels & Resorts Opens New-Build 204-room Hilton Chennai in
Chennai, India
- Ascend
Collection by Choice Hotels Continues Growth with Addition of Eleven
Properties in Final Months of 2010 Bringing Total to 70 Open or Under
Development
- Hotel
Revenue and Reservations Continue Growth; January 2011 Global Data from
“The Pegasus View” Forecasts Growth in Business and Leisure Markets
through Mid-year
- HREC
Investment Advisors Arranges Sale of The Sheraton Hotel Denver Tech
Center - Greenwood Village, Colorado
- SkyWire
Media Builds Management Team with Appointment of New Chief Financial
Officer
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Have Updated 138 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with
Changes in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Add/Update 164 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel
Construction Projects Database
- Boomers
Set to Be Future of Tourism; Hospitality Market Should Prepare as Aging
Population Plans Spending of Retirement Funds
- Judge
Urges Owners of Barton Hill Hotel in Lewiston, New York to File for
Bankruptcy
- Bankrupt
B.B. King's Blues Club and Mirage in Dispute Over "Stewarding" Services
- Arizona's
Wigwam Returns to its Original Name, The Wigwam; Completes $7 Million
in Renovations and New Amenities
- The
School of Hospitality Business at Michigan State University Establishes
a Real Estate Development Institute to Focus on Hospitality Business
Real Estate Development and Ownership
- Roger
Dow, President & CEO of the US Travel Association, Awarded the
Spirit of Hospitality Award by Destination & Travel Foundation
- Hyatt
Regency Newport Hotel & Spa in Newport, Rhode Island Appoints Anant
Joshi as Director of Sales & Marketing and William Clarke as
Regional Director of Sales for Davidson Hotel Company, the Property
Operator
- JW
Marriott® Starr Pass Resort & Spa in Tucson, Arizona Appoints
Carla Rine as Director of Human Resources and Gary Lueck as Front
Office Manager
February 25, 2011
- Hotel
Lawyer on Hotel Management Agreements: Exculpation Clauses for
Protecting the Owner's Assets / Jim Butler
- Miami
Poised to Become Hot Spot for Hotel Investors; Jones Lang LaSalle
Predicts Deals could Reach $750 million, an Increase of 250% over 2010
- Ashford
Hospitality Completes Sale of JW Marriott San Francisco for $96.0
Million to an Affiliate of Thayer Lodging Group
- Orient-Express
Hotels Reports 4th Qtr 2010 Revenue up 13% to $126.6 million, Up by
$14.5 million from 4th Qtr 2009; RevPAR Up 10% in US Dollars
- Gaming
Regulators Aprrove Complex Structure for Continued Operations for Las
Vegas Hard Rock Hotel; Warner Gaming LLC to Assume Operations, Lender
Brookfield Asset Management Listed as Registered Licensee
- Caesars
Entertainment Seeking $400 million in Funding to Complete the $1
billion, 660-room Octavius Tower and New Entertainment Plaza
- Interstate
Hotels & Resorts Acquires 262-room Sheraton Denver Tech Center in a
Joint Venture with Waramaug Hospitality; Will Begin $5.75 Million
Renovation
- Schooled
By Wall Street; Using stock market principles for optimum hotel revenue
management / Jean Francois Mourier
- Why
Do Your Staff Quit Their Jobs? / Caroline Cooper
- Principles
for Success: What we have here is a FAILURE to COMMUNICATE! / Dr. John
Hogan
- Karen
Pedersen, General Manager for Country Inn & Suites by Carlson at
Ontario Mills, Earns Title of General Manager of the Year out of 500
Worldwide Country Inn & Suites
- New
Moody's Investors Report Cites Las Vegas Strip Recovery will Accelerate
in 2012; Companies with Strong Asian Operations and Liquidity in Best
Shape to Manage Slow Recovery
- HSMAI
University's Spring Webinar Line-up to Focus on Geolocation Marketing,
Online Review Channels and Outlook for 2011
- Great
Wolf Resorts Reaches Conditional Agreement to Sell Blue Harbor Resort
& Conference Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin
- Hilton
Worldwide Signs Two Management Agreements with China's Zhejiang
Jiacheng Holding Group for Conversion Project 137-room Hilton Garden
Inn Shaoxing and New-Build 296-room DoubleTree by Hilton, Shaoxing
County
- Marriott
International Continues European Growth with 139-room Courtyard in
Germany, a 124-room Courtyard in France and 225-room Renaissance in
Poland
- Hilton
Worldwide Signs Franchise Agreement with Tehelne Pole a.s. for
New-Build 120-room DoubleTree by Hilton Bratislava in Slovakia's
Capital City, Bratislava
- Evergreen
Marriott Conference Resort in Stone Mountain, Georgia Undergoing
Eco-Friendly $10 Million Renovation
- Manhattan
Hospitality Advisors Appoint Daniel N. Barr as General Manager and John
Egelhoff as Director of Sales & Marketing at Hotel Madeline and the
Inn at Lost Creek in Telluride, Colorado
- White
Lodging Appoints Jess Johnson as Director of Sales and Marketing at the
201-room Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University
February 24, 2011
- World’s
First Gay Wedding Certification Course Available
- Award-winning
Hospitality Firm Boyd Tamney Cross Announces Partnership with Park
Hyatt Aviara Resort, a Stunning San Diego Property
- What
Do Hotel Leaders Really Do? / Bob Taylor
- FelCor
Lodging Trust Posts 4th Qtr 2010 Loss of $103.1 million Compared to a
Loss of $60.4 million in the Prior Year Period; Total Revenues Increase
to $232 million, compared to $219 million in the Year-ago Period /
Hotel Operating Statistics
- Strategic
Hotels & Resorts 4th Qtr 2010 Net Loss Increases to $134,835
million Compared to $72.19 million Last Year; Significant Balance Sheet
Restructuring Continues; Company Enters Agreement to Sell Paris
Marriott Champs Elysees
- Nominations
Sought for Hospitality Technology Hall of Fame Inductee to be
Recognized at HITEC 2011, June 20-23, 2011 at the Austin Convention
Center in Austin, Texas
- Think
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do? Guests Don’t! 10 Ways to Keep Your Facebook
News Feed Alive / Amanda Dennis
- Prank
Calls are a Danger to Tourists, the Hotel Industry and Police
- Gansevoort
Hotel Group Unveils the 249-room Gansevoort Park Avenue NYC Hotel In
Manhattan
- InterContinental
Hotel Group's Hotel Indigo Expansion Continues with 135-key New-Build
Hotel Indigo Phuket Naithon Beach Resort in Phuket, Thailand
- Pika
Hotel Group and Versatile Hotels Prepare to Open The Holiday Inn &
Suites Westchase in Houston, Texas
- Concord
Hospitality Enterprises Breaks Ground on LEED-Designed 124-suite
Courtyard by Marriott Washington Meadow Hotel in Pittsburg Suburb,
Washington, Pennsylvania
- Bavaria
Hotels International Expands in the Middle East and North Africa with
2,500 New Rooms
- Choice
Hotels Promotes Patrick Pacious to Executive Vice President, Global
Strategy, Distribution and Technology
- Carlson
Hotels Appoints Three General Managers for Radisson and Park Plaza
Hotels in Asia Pacific; Marco Seiler, Martin Fabiano and Veronique
Sirault
- Myra
deGersdorff Appointed as General Manager of 218-room Enchantment Resort
in Sedona, Arizona
- Alexander
Schreiter Appointed General Manager of 372-room InterContinental Prague
February 23, 2011
- hotel
ServicePro Delivers iPad and Handheld Mobile Functionality to Improve
Asset Management, Guest Service Scores; Create Brand-Standard Check
Lists, Track Maintenance Schedules, and Optimize Safety Standards with
Apple’s New Must-Have Management Productivity Tool
- SKY
Hospitality and Widewaters Hotels LLC Select Aptech’s Hospitality
Performance Management Solutions; Ease of Use, Flexibility, Customer
Support Make Profitvue and Execuvue Top Choice
- Upselling
Works Best Upclose and Personal / David Brudney
- On
Revenue Growth of 13.7% to $64 million, Great Wolf Resorts Records a
Net Loss for 4th Qtr 2010 of $29.2 million Compared with a Loss of
$10.2 million a Year Ago / Brand Operating Statistics
- Hard
Rock International Seeking Formal Proposals for Atlantic City's First
Boutique-style Casino Hotel
- Online
Travel Companies and Hoteliers Face Greater Divide Over The Internet
Travel Tax Fairness Act Proposal
- Las
Vegas Tropicana Cites Temporary Room Closures and Economy for 2010
Earnings Slump; 2010 Net Revenue of $54.2 million Down From $77.5
million in 2009
- Investing
in Sustainable Tourism will Stimulate the Green Economy and Job
Creation, According to New United Nations Green Economy Report
- Wynn
Resorts Keeps Eye on Luxury Market Through Restructuring
- Warner
Gaming LLC's Possible Takeover of Hard Rock Las Vegas Operations on
Agenda with Nevada Gaming Regulators
- Luxury
Casino for Block E in Minneapolis? Developer Bob Lux Making Rounds for
Possible Las Vegas Magic in Ailing Complex
- HSMAI
Awards Greater New York Chapter its 2010 "Chapter of the Year" Award at
its Annual Leadership Conference
- Choice
Hotels Canada Honours its Top Performing Hotels; 9 Properties Receive
Platinum Awards with an Additional 19 Earning Gold
- UniFocus
LMS Dashboard Puts You in the Driver’s Seat!
- Upscale
Hotels Deliver Best Value; Sandals Resorts Rated #1 In Guest
Satisfaction For 2010: Market Metrix Announces Annual 2010 Hospitality
Index Results
- 23rd
Hunter Hotel Investment Conference Logs Near-record Pre-registrations,
Reflecting Rapidly Rising Confidence in Hotel Industry’s Outlook;
Larger than Expected Number of Lenders Registered
- IHG
Appointed to Manage a New-Build 191-room Holiday Inn Hotel in
Bogotá, Colombia
- Hawaii's
Tourism Industry Split Over Civil Unions' Bill Passge and Maximizing
Potential Financial Gains to State of the $84 billion Gay Travel
Industry
- Le
Méridien Bora Bora Reopens Following $12 Million Renovation
Joining Recently Redesigned Sister Resort Le Méridien Tahiti
- 103-room
Courtyard by Marriott to Open In York, Pennsylvania Managed by Keystone
Hotel Management
- South
Beach Wine & Food Festival Raises the Culinary Profile of South
Florida with 52,000 Foodies Converging
- White
Lodging Restructuring into Two Divisions; Full Service to be Lead by
Current COO, Jon Peck, and Select Service to be Lead by New Hire Bryan
Hayes
- Inland
American Lodging Advisor Names Jack Elkins Senior Vice President of
Project Management; Promotes Craig Lambert to Executive Vice President
and Philip Wade to Senior Vice President
- Four
Seasons Hotel Austin Appoints Rob Hagelberg as General Manager and
Michael Pedder as Hotel Manager
- Tom
Segesta Appointed as General Manager of The Ritz-Carlton Chicago, a
Four Seasons Hotel
February 22, 2011
- Sabre
Hospitality Solutions completes its first full year by leading the
industry with its innovation, expertise and investments in the future;
Over USD $12.25 billion generated in hotel room revenue for its
customers and momentum continues into 2011
- VFM
Leonardo Releases Consumer Data That Reveals Most Popular Web Sites for
Viewing Hotel Visuals; 5 Reasons Why Travel Shoppers Want to See Hotel
Visuals
- Omni
Hotels & Resorts Achieves Record RevPAR with Micro-Focused
Rate-Setting Strategies; Luxury Hotel Brand Keeps Occupancy High
Throughout the Week with Optimized Segment Pricing
- Choice
Hotels Posts 4th Qtr Net Income of $24.1 million Compared to $23.6
million a Year Earlier; RevPAR Increased 2.8%, For the full year, Net
Income was $107,441 million
- Wilmington
Convention Center's Lack of Nearby Hotel Keeping Convention Attendees
Away; 22 Organizations Turned Down Area for a Combined Need of Over
19,000 Rooms
- Winstar
Yang, a Senior Concierge at the Radisson Blu Hotel Pudong Century Park
in Shanghai, China, Named as Carlson Hotels 2010 Global Employee of the
Year
- FairBridge
Hotels International Launches FairBridge Inn Express, a New Limited
Service Flex Concept Brand, with Flagship Re-branding of Downtown
Spokane, Washington Hotel
- Kingdom
Holding Company to Develop Second Four Seasons Hotel in Riyadh, the
Four Seasons Hotel Riyadh at Kingdom Oasis
- Choice
Hotels International Opens 15 New Hotels in January
- Waiting
Game Continues for Replacement of the Razed Buccaneer Beach Resort on
Jekyll Island Until General Economic Conditions Improve
- XETA
Technologies Launches Hospitality Business Unit; Company builds upon
its acquisition of Lorica Solutions
- AAA
Parking Adds Two South Beach Resorts; Hotel Breakwater & Hotel
Ocean are luxurious gems in the heart of SoBe
- Florida
International University School of Hospitality Students Team up with
Renowned Chefs at 2011 Food Network South Beach Wine & Food
Festival; Students Lead by Chef Michael Moran and Chef Roger Probst in
30,000+ Hours Hands-on Learning
- Langham
Hospitality Group Appoints Lo Young as Regional Vice President, China
- Prism
Hotels and Resorts Appoints Jeffrey V. Farina as Senior Vice President
of Business Development
- Rosewood
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Dwight Sanford as Hotel Manager of
155-room Rosewood Hotel Georgia in Vancouver, Canada
- Aqua
Hotels & Resorts Appoints June Nozoe as Director of Sales &
Marketing for Asia and Janice Ishihara as Director of Sales for the
350-room Kaua'i Beach Resort
- Dagan
Lynn Appointed as Executive Chef at Starwood Hotels & Resorts
Westin Houston Memorial City in Houston, Texas
February 21, 2011
- Savvy
Hoteliers Still Make Voice Channels A Priority / Doug Kennedy
- New
Charter Air Carrier to Partner with Las Vegas Hotel Casinos on New York
Flights, Filling Hotel Rooms with Northeastern Guests by Using a
Straight Line
- San
Diego Mayor, Jerry Sanders, Expects Much of Financial Burden for
Convention Center Expansion to Rest with the City's Hoteliers
- Grand
Hyatt Atlanta's Ruth Benjamin Awarded Hyatt's General Manager of the
Year Award
- Construction
Begins on Baha Mar Resort, a 1,000-acre, $3.4 Billion Resort, Gaming
and Entertainment Complex in Nassau, The Bahamas
- Las
Vegas Gaming Executive, Dan Lee, Wins Final Louisiana Casino License;
Moving Forward with Plans for $400 million Mojito Pointe Casino Resort
Project
- Savannah's
Trade Center Authority Terminates Contract with Hospitality Real Estate
Counselors; Firm Assisted in Exploring Potential Development of
500-room Convention Center Hotel on Hutchinson Island
- Hawaii
Enjoys a 26.5% Increase in Visitor Arrivals From Down Under; Numbers
Expected to Climb in 2011
- Month
of Changes Fosters Optimism for Turnaround of Atlantic City
- Economic
Woes Hit Rodeo Drive; Beverly Hills Visitors Bureau Lays Off its
Official Ambassador, a Former Hotel Concierge; Book About Experiences
at Risk as Bureau Witholds Severance Package for Signed Nondisclosure
Agreement
- B.B.
King's Blues Club at Mirage in Las Vegas Files for Bankruptcy
- World-Class
Service 102: Be memorable / Dr. Bryan K. Williams, DM
- Stan
Van Roij, Hotel & Revenue Management Veteran, Hired as New Managing
Director at EasyRMS
- Hotel
AG Brokers Sale of Ormond Beach Aqua Terrace Hotel
- 93-room
Hotel Indigo Baton Rouge Downtown Riverfront Opens in Downtown Baton
Rouge, Louisiana Following $25 Million Renovation
- Red
Lion Hotels Opens 189-room Red Lion Hotel Oakland International Airport
in Oakland, California
- 183-room
Crowne Plaza New Delhi Rohini to open in North West Delhi, India; Nalin
Madiratta Appointed as General Manager
- Concord
Hospitality Enterprises Breaks Ground on LEED-Designed 136-suite
SpringHill Suites by Marriott in Columbus, Ohio in a Joint Venture with
Continental Real Estate Companies
- Superior,
Colorado May Soon Get its First Hotel; Resolute Investments Planning a
Four-story, 122-room Hotel Near ConocoPhillips Campus
- Newport
Hotel Group Proposes New 105-room Hotel at Hyannis Harbor in Hyannis,
Massachusetts
- Trigild
Appoints John B. Beazley as Managing Director, Hospitality
February 18, 2011
- Revel
Entertainment Secures $1.15 billion Financing Deal to Revive Stalled
Atlantic City Revel Project, A Collective Sigh of Relief Heard as
Workers Return to Site
- Sunstone
Hotel Investors Reports Fourth Quarter 2010 Revenue Increased by 8.4%
to $184.3 million; Acquires 494-room JW Marriott New Orleans Through a
joint Venture Led by Clearview Hotel Capital for $93.8 million; John V.
Arabia to Join as CFO
- IHG
Posts a 22% Rise in Net Income for 2010 to $444 million Compared with
$363 million for the Same Period a Year Earlie; Global RevPAR Up 6.2%
Overall; Asia Pacific Reporting RevPAR Growth of Nearly 11%
- Hyatt
Hotels Reports a 4th Quarter 2010 Net Income of $6 million Compared to
Loss of $12 million Last Year; Revenue Up to $918 million from $889
million
- Pebblebrook
Hotel Trust Acquires the 252-room Argonaut Hotel, San Francisco for $84
million
- Tavistock
Group Acquires the 151-room St. Regis Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia;
Starwood Hotels & Resorts will Retain Management
- Pacifica
Host Hotels Acquires the 135-room Aloft Ontario-Rancho Cucamonga for
Roughly $8 million, Property was the Debut of Aloft for Starwood / Lori
Weisberg
- A
Safari Themed Hotel Could Become a Reality at the Columbus Zoo and
Aquarium in Ohio, a First in the U.S.
- Shangri-La
Hotels Debuts New Brand, Kerry Hotels, with the Opening of the 574-room
Kerry Hotel Pudong, Shanghai
- Sol
Meliá and Jin Jiang International Hotel Company Form Alliance to
Foster Growth in China and Europe
- Middle
East & North Africa Hotel Markets End 2010 with Great Disparity,
Uneasy Hotel Growth is Forecast
- TripAdvisor's
2011 Accommodation Owners Survey Shows Majority of U.S. Hotels Don't
Foresee Room Rate Increases in 2011; More than Half of Owners Planning
Property Renovations this Year Along with Increased Use of Online
Engagement, as 99% Plan to Respond to Online Guest Reviews
- World's
Largest JW Marriott Opens with Intelity's ICE Software Available in
Every Room; JW Marriott Indianapolis Downtown guests can interactively
order hotel amenities with ease
- Q4
2010 Growth of 50 Percent Caps Cvent's Strongest Year Yet; Company Adds
Over 3,000 New Customers in 2010; Grows Annual Revenue 41 Percent
- Festiva
Gets 90% Satisfaction Scores with UniFocus
- Travel
Tripper appoints Yauric Mercier as VP of Business Development for Europe
- Larry
Birnbaum Joins Guest-tek™ Sales Team
- Kyriad
Rabatau Selects Signature RFID by VingCard For Security and Comfort;
Marseille Property Chooses Leading Hospitality Security Provider for
the Ultimate in Security and NFC Compatibility
- NH
Hoteles Upgrades Its Commercial Distribution And Sales Platform Aimed
At E-commerce; In order to handle the growing Internet demand, the
hotel chain has entered into an alliance with RateTiger and has set up
a fully integrated multi management channel for managing bookings
- Choice
Hotels Begins Overseas Roll Out of Proprietary Web-based Property
Management System, choiceADVANTAGE, for its International Franchisees
- Morgans
Hotel Group Appointed to Manage the New Build 265-key Mondrian Hotel in
Doha, Qatar
- Senior
Management Team Appointed for Interstate China, an Interstate Hotels
& Resorts Joint Venture with Shanghai Jin Jiang International Hotels
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Names Ken Jesina Conference Center Manager at
World of Whirlpool
- Harold
Rapoza Named General Manager of 1,606-room Hilton Anatole Hotel in
Dallas, Texas
- Craig
Reaume Appointed as General Manager of The Fairmont Vancouver Airport
in Vancouver, British Columbia
- New
York's The Michelangelo Appoints Glenda Simmons as General Manager
- Naples
Grande Beach Resort, a 474-room Waldorf Astoria Resort, Appoints Rudy
Gonnella as National Account Manager, Southeast
- Warwick
International Appoints Richard Hoe as Global Accounts Sales Manager, a
New Post Based in Australia
February 16, 2011
- Maestro
Profiles in Success: Global Leader Benchmark Hospitality International
Virtual System Strategy and Technology Expertise Focuses on Greater
Owner ROI; Benchmark Hospitality's Cutting Edge Hosted Applications,
Led by Maestro PMS, Put Technology in Service to Profitability, Staff
Productivity, and Guest Service
- EZYield
Experiences Unprecedented Global Growth; Industry's original channel
management technology provider continues worldwide expansion with
enhanced product portfolio
- Hilton
Properties using VFM Leonardo’s VBrochure Online Merchandising System
increased 160% in 2010
- Strategic
Hotels & Resorts to Acquire Four Seasons Jackson Hole and Four
Seasons Silicon Valley Through a Stock Exhange Valued at Approximately
$95 million or $300,000 per-room
- ADA
Defense Lawyer: How to handle an ADA lawsuit....and How not to do it /
Jim Butler
- Manchester
Grand Hyatt San Diego to be Sold to Host Hotels & Resorts Inc. for
$570 million
- B&B
or Big-Box? Social Media Stirs the Sleeping Micro-Giant of the Lodging
Industry / Daniel Edward Craig
- Hilton
Worldwide Appointed by TCC Land Group to Manage Two Properties in
Bangkok, Thailand; a New Build 287-room Hilton Hotels & Resorts
Hotel and a Conversion/Rebrand as a 182-room DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel
- The
Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company Opens the New 267-room Ritz-Carlton, Toronto
- New
Health Care Laws Have You Feeling Woozy? Hospitality Solutions
Insurance Services is Prescribing FREE Consultative Audits to Assess
Benefits Plans
- Ken
Thon Leads Project Management for Blueprint RF
- Golf
Resort Business Moving Out of the Rough; 62% of Resorts Surveyed by
Knowland Have Seen a Recent Increase in Golf Bookings
- Meeting
Professionals International Foundation (MPIF) Partners with Destination
Marketing Association International on Research Initiative; Goal is to
Provide Best Practices for DMOs and CVB's while Working with Meeting
Planners
- 178-room
Mount Meru Hotel Reopens in Arusha, Tanzania in the Heart of Tanzania's
Tourist Region
- DARA
Group Appoints Reikartz Hotels & Resorts to Manage 66-room Hotel
Aurora, Kryvyi Rih , Ukraine; will be Re-Flagged as Reikartz Aurora
Kryvyi Rih
- 2011
Canadian Travel Intentions Survey Indicates Canadians Drive to the
States For Less Expensive Airline Tickets
- Kristin
D. Kurie Appointed as President of The Wilderman Group
- HEI
Hotels & Resorts Names General Managers to Lead Four California
Hotels
February 15, 2011
- The
Brown Hotel’s Partnership with VIZERGY® Leads to Immediate Revenue
Increase; Upscale Property Realizes Nearly 20:1 ROI on Internet
Marketing, Despite Struggling Industry
- Peabody
Hotels Selects Cendyn to Manage Online Presence and Mobile Strategy;
Optimized Peabody Websites Reach Guests and Meeting Planners Where They
Shop Online
- KABA
Enters 3-Year Vendor Contract with Starwood; Agreement Offers Latest
Lock Technology to Starwood Brands
- Marriott
Net Income for the 4th Qtr 2010 was $173 million Compared to $106
million in the Prior Year Quarter; Worldwide Systemwide Comparable
REVPAR Rose 8.1%; Marriott to Spin Off Timeshare Operations into
Separate Entity
- Interstate
Hotels & Resorts Assumes Management of Summit Hotel Properties'
65-hotel Portfolio
- Three
Steps of Effective Asset Management: Assessment, Implementation and
Measurement / Mark Lynn
- Hang
Up The Phone And Hold The Starch, But Please Park The Car / Robert
Mandelbaum
- Your
Hotel May be Old, But The Way You Deliver Service Should Not Be....Just
Ask Mickey Mouse / Terence Ronson
- Banyan
Tree Appointed to Re-brand and Manage the Sheraton Grande Laguna Phuket
as Angsana Laguna Phuket
- Hilton
Hotels & Resorts Enters Manhattan's Fashion District with the
Reflagging of 280-room Fashion 26 as Hilton New York Fashion District
- MMI
Hospitality Chooses ZDirect’s eCRM Platform for it’s crown jewel, The
King and Prince Beach & Golf Resort
- AAA
Parking Renews Shore Club Agreement; Swanky Hotel At The Forefront Of
South Beach Social Scene
- Dan
Jerusalem Joins Utell® Hotels & Resorts; Luxury 505-room Hotel
in Heart of Jerusalem Becomes 12th Dan Hotel Represented by Utell
- DoubleTree
by Hilton Opens its First Hotel in Istanbul, Turkey with the 171-room
Hilton Istanbul-Old Town
- Jumeirah
Group and Dubai Duty Free Appointed to Manage New 293-room Dubai Hotel
at The Aviation Club near the Airport
- IHG
Appointed to Rebrand and Manage the 203-room Heritage Hotel Rotorua in
New Zealand as Holiday Inn Rotorua
- Nikki
Beach Hotels & Resorts Drops Hotel Project In Playa Blanca, Panama
Due To Non-Compliance With Brand Standards
- PolyU
Hosted Executive Development Programme in Hospitality for Senior
Hospitality Managers, 2011 Hong Kong PolyU Winter School®
- Carlson
Hotels Launches a New Guest Loyalty Program - Club Carlson
- Removing
Interim Status, Red Lion Hotels Names Jon Eliassen President and Chief
Executive Officer
- Philip
Lane Appointed as General Manager of The Delafield Hotel in Delafield,
Milwaukee
February 14, 2011
- TRAVELCLICK®
Hosts Webinar on Fourth Quarter 2010 Global Hotel Performance; 2011
Hotel Industry Trends and Best Practices, New Methods to Create
Sustaining Competitive Advantage
- Global
Head for Hilton Garden Inn Says Future for Hilton is Overseas; Domestic
Growth to Cool as Concentration Shifts to Raising Rates
- Landry's
Restaurants, Owners of Golden Nugget Casino Hotel in Nevada, to
Purchase Trump Marina Hotel Casino in Atlantic City for $38 million
- Battle
Over the Former Hilton Pittsburgh May Soon End; Dr. Patel &
BlackRock Reach "Oral Settlement"
- MGM
Resorts International Reports Q4 Net Loss of $139 million Compared to
$434 million Q4 2009
- Hawaii
Hotels End 2010 with Higher Rates & Occupancy; 8.7% Year-Over-Year
Gain Still Well Below Peak in 2006
- Work
is Under Way on Downtown Chattanooga's Mixed-Use, $80 million Cameron
Harbor; Phase One Includes a Spring Hill Suites by Marriott
- Carlson
Signed 87 Hotels and Achieved 12 Percent Increase in Sales in 2010
- Last
Days to Register - Social Media Selling for SMERFE – Put the Social
into Social Groups! Webinar February 21, 2011 / Carol Verret
- VingCard’s
VISIONLINE Wireless RF-online Solution Powers Smart Check-In Program at
New Aloft Harlem; Technology is key at Harlem’s first new hotel in a
century, allowing guests to skip the front desk and go directly to
their rooms
- Hotel
AG Brokers Sale of Hilton Garden Inn West Palm Beach Airport
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Add/Update 149 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel
Construction Projects Database
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Have Updated 156 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with
Changes in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership
- Wingate
Airport South LLC, Owner of an Unfinished Wingate by Wyndham Hotel in
Las Vegas, Files for Bankruptcy
- Atlantic
City Hilton Casino Resort Officially for Sale While Foreclosure
Proceedings are Put on Hold
- Legal
Battle Heats up Between Las Vegas Sands and Terminated Macau CEO Amidst
Allegations of Stolen Company Information
- Georgia's
Hospitality Leaders Urge State Legislators to Exercise Caution in
Budget Cuts Related to Tourism
- Sunstone
Hotel Investors Appoints John Arabia as Chief Financial Officer and
Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy
- New
Castle Hotels & Resorts Appoints William Welch and Michelle
Kosztala to Regional Sales Positions in the Shelton, Connecticut Area
February 11, 2011
- Social
Media and Storytelling for Hotels / Daniel Edward Craig
- Hotel
Management – What’s Love got to do with it? / Jim Hartigan
- Nobody
Asked Me, But… No. 73: Impertinent Question Still Seeking a Pertinent
Answer; The Fountain of Old Age; Quote of the Month / Stanley Turkel
- Wynn
Resorts Ltd. Reports Q4 Profit of $114.2 million, Compared to a Loss of
$5.2 million, in Q4 2009; Net revenue for Wynn Las Vegas and Encore
Came in at $325.1 million, up 8%
- Ritz-Carlton
Hotel's to Operate New Build 124-Villa Ritz-Carlton Reserve in Los
Cabos, Mexico Through a Joint Venture with Grupo Questro and Trinity
Investments L.L.C.
- Hospitality
Investors Group and Ospinas Form Joint Venture to Plan, Finance,
Develop and Operate Hotel Projects in Colombia, South America
- Owner
and Lenders of Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas Reach "Standstill"
Agreement to Allow for Time to Deal with Debt Totaling $1.4 billion
- Hyatt
Hotels to Open First Andaz Hotel in Asia, the 307-room Andaz Shanghai;
Property Being Developed by Metro Land Corporation
- Swire
Hotels Debuts Their New British Hotel Brand, Chapter Hotels; The
Montpellier Chapter, Formerly the Kandinsky Hotel, is the First to Open
in Cheltenham, England
- Ravella
at Lake Las Vegas, the Former Ritz-Carlton, Banking on Lake Las Vegas
Bouncing Back
- Landmark
Fifth Annual Benchmark Survey on Hotel Internet Marketing Announced
Today
- Graves
Hospitality Corporation Announces the Opening of St. Cloud’s First
Independent, Luxury-Focused Boutique Hotel Named “Le St-Germain Suite
Hotel”; The Locally Owned and Managed Hotel Has Been Accepted Into
Worldhotels, The World’s 11th- Largest Hotel Group
- Courtyard
by Marriott Opens 170-room Courtyard Paris Arcueil in a Paris Suburb
- Houston
Marriott West Loop by the Galleria Hotel Completes Phase One of an $18
Million Renovation; Improvements made to 301 Guest Rooms, Concierge
Lounge and Fitness Center
- IHG
Reopens Holiday Inn Resort Daytona Beach Oceanfront Following a $5
Million Renovation
- Facebook
Director of Market Development, Randi Zuckerberg, to Open HITEC 2011
- Morgans
Hotel Group Appointed to Manage the 114-key Delano in Cabo San Lucas,
Mexico, the 200-key Delano in Turkey and a 175-key New York City Hotel
Currently Under Development
- Gulph
Creek Hotels to Manage Two Pennsylvania Hotels; the 60-room Best
Western Philadelphia Airport South in Chester and the 60-unit Comfort
Suites in Lewisburg
- Regent
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Brice Borin General Manager for the
Recently Rebranded Regent Phuket, Thailand
- White
Lodging Appoints Robert Morse as Senior Director of Revenue Management
for its 26 Hotel Full-Service Division
- Pam
Smith Appointed as the Director Of Leisure Sales at Park Hyatt Beaver
Creek Resort and Spa in Beaver Creek, Colorado
- Christopher
McLean Appointed as Executive Chef at Bishop's Lodge Ranch Resort &
Spa in Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Redstone
Companies Hospitality Names Jeff Axline as the Executive Chef for
Lakeway Resort and Spa on Lake Travis in Austin, Texas
February 10, 2011
- “I
Can Never Get Anyone on the Phone and They Charge Me for the Air I’m
Breathing”; Top 5 Customer Service Complaints about Hotel Meetings
Management and Sales & Catering Software
- Sugar
Factory in Las Vegas Selects Solution Suite by Agilysys; Upscale
Confectioner Implements Point-of-Sale, Inventory and Procurement
Solutions
- High
Hotels Celebrates 10 Years of Strong Sales Performance; As Clients
Evolve, So Does High’s On-the-Go Sales Teams and Their Technology Tools
- Stalled
Fontainebleau Project on Las Vegas Strip to Remain Stalled Until Market
Conditions Improve
- Swissôtel
Hotels & Resorts Enters Management Agreement with Interpoint
Development to Operate the 333-room Swissôtel Odessa in the
Ukraine
- Hilton
Worldwide Signs Management Agreement With Bin Otaiba Investment Group
for the 259-Room Hilton Sharjah, a Conversion Property in the UAE,
Scheduled To Open Q4 2011
- With
Design at the Forefront, W Hotels Worldwide Prepares to Open Six New
Distinctively Designed Hotels in 2011; First up - W Taipei & W
London
- Carlson
Opens First Park Inn Hotel in Mexico with 111-room Park Inn Saltillo
- Glenmont
Capital Management, LLC and PHG Daytona, LLC Acquire 96-room Holiday
Inn Daytona Beach LPGA Boulevard in Daytona Beach, Florida
- Social
Media Selling for SMERFE – Put the Social into Social Groups! Webinar
February 21, 2011 / Carol Verret
- Domain
Properties - New York Hotels For Sale - Provides OFF Market Discreet
Acquisition/Disposition Services for NYC Hotels
- City
Express Hoteles and LRA Worldwide Partner on Brand Assurance Program;
Evaluation Program Serves as the Foundation for Aggressive Growth and
Service Enhancement Plan
- Travel
Tripper Grows Transient Business at Historic Glen Cove Mansion Hotel
and Conference Center
- The
Prestigious TRUMP HOTEL COLLECTION™ Selects MICROS OPERA; New members
of Preferred Hotel Group™ select MICROS to provide comprehensive hotel
property management system and enterprise software solution
- AH&LA
Now Accepting Seminar Proposals for 2011 International Hotel, Motel
& Restaurant Show
- BTW
Hotel Holdings, LLC Selects Interstate Hotels & Resorts to Manage
the Comfort Inn Manhattan Bridge in New York City
- Eric
O. Long, New York City's Waldorf=Astoria’s General Manager, Awarded the
Lifetime Excellence Award by FTA Hospitality Awards for Excellence
- Carlson
Hotels Appoints Sean Shannon Vice President Of Development for Canada
- James
Kareka Named Director Of Sales At The Kahala Hotel & Resort in
Honolulu, Hawaii
- Carter
Earle Appointed as Group Sales Manager at The Westin Westminster in
Westminster, Colorado
- Chris
Cofelice Named Senior Sales Manager at Park Hyatt Beaver Creek Resort
and Spa in Beaver Creek, Colorado
- Aston
Hotels & Resorts Names Three Key Appointments for The Whaler on
Kaanapali Beach, Hawaii
February 9, 2011
- Top
Speakers and Issues on the Agenda for Hotel Technology Next
Generation's 7th Annual North American Members' Meeting; Topics Include
IT-Free Hotels and the Changing Face of Credit Card Breaches
- Tiare
Technology Launches Wireless WineList™ System at Flagstaff House
Restaurant; Wine Spectator Grand Award Winning Restaurant Introduces
Tiare Technology Innovation for Ordering Over 2,500 Wines
- Will
You Be at the 2011 Executive Vendor Summit by Hospitality Upgrade
Magazine? The Must Attend Event for Hospitality Technology Vendor
Executives - Watch and Learn Why!
- Wyndham's
Net Income for 2010 Reported at $379 million Compared to a Year Earlier
of $293 million
- Trump
Entertainment Resorts in Negotiations to Sell Trump Marina Hotel Casino
to Landry's Restaurants, Owners of Golden Nugget Casino Hotel in Nevada
- Ritz-Carlton
Hotels and Maritz, Wolff & Co., Owner of the St. Louis
Ritz-Carlton, Resolve Lawsuit Over Payment of Fees
- Gaylord
Entertainment to Spend $12 million to Raise Levee at Opryland Hotel; Q4
Loss Widened to $32.8 million Versus $600,000 a Year Ago
- Las
Vegas Occupancy Rates Climb 1.1% for December 2010, but Annual Rate
Down 1.1%
- Bringing
Your Message to the Trade Show Floor and Maximizing Your Results /
Michael McMahon
- eRevMax
Acquires Lunar Logic Polska for Digital Development Growth; Web
application development expertise added to hospitality technology
portfolio
- Trust
International and Lanyon Sign Interface Agreement Between yourVoyager
CRS and Lanyon Content Control Center; Consortia and Corporate Rates
Now Available Within Seconds
- Hotels
Can Score a Touchdown with Super Bowl Business; Knowland survey finds
that 80% of hotels did not host Super Bowl parties this year
- CanCan
Development's, $450 million, 18-acre CanCan Casino Resort and French
Village in D'Iberville, Mississippi Projected to Create 2,000 Jobs
- New
Owners of the Tierra Verde Resort Near St. Petersburg, Florida, Tierra
Verde Marina Resort LLC, Planning to Revamp Property; Plans Include a
100-room Hotel
- Chatham
County, Georgia Commissioners to Delay Action on Proposed 500-room
Convention Hotel on Hutchinson Island
- Manhattan
Hospitality Advisors Appointed to Manage the Hotel Madeline
and the Inn at Lost Creek In Telluride, Colorado; Daniel Barr Named
General Manger for Both Properties
- The
Hotel Group Opens New Office in Franklin, Tennessee Centralizing its
Regional Operations Team
- Hilton
Worldwide Appoints Lee Chipman as Managing Director of the 351-room
Hilton Panama and the 220-room The Panamera in Panama City, Panama
- Mark
Mahoney Named Vice President of Sales for Extended Stay Hotels
Northeast Region
- Richfield
Hospitality Appoints Thomas Clearwater as Senior Vice President of Sales
February 8, 2011
February 7, 2011
- United
States Bankruptcy Court Orders Sale of JFK Plaza Hotel; Optimum Hotel
Brokerage Retained as Exclusive Broker
- Strategic
Hotels and Resorts Completes Recapitalization of the Hotel Del
Coronado; Establishes New Joint Venture with Blackstone Real Estate
Advisors and KSL Resorts
- Hotel
Lawyer: 5 Key Elements for Good Hotel Management Agreement Budget
Provisions / Jim Butler
- The
WOW Factor – The Power Selling Partnership of GMs and Sales / Carol
Verret
- Hilton
Hotels & Resorts Honors Hilton Orlando and Hilton Phoenix Chandler
with Annual Connie Award for Brand Awards Of Excellence in The Americas
- Faik
Celik Holding and Starwood Hotels & Resorts to Open Two New Hotels
in Bursa, Turkey; The 171-room Sheraton Bursa and the 133-room Aloft
Bursa
- OTA's
Such as Expedia and Orbitz at Center of Tax Fight Between Florida's
Hotels and Theme Parks
- Hilton
Sandestin Beach Golf Resort & Spa Undergoing $6.5 million
Renovation After Damage from Fire Last Fall
- Tacoma,
Washington's Hotel Inventory About to Grow with Seven Hotels in
Planning or Development Stages
- Take
your service to the next level: Only BIG WOW’s…No bow-wow’s / Dr. Bryan
K. Williams, DM
- Spain’s
Porta Fira Hotel Selects VingCard Elsafe for Its Cutting-Edge
Technology and Sleek Design; Barcelona’s Newest Hotel Installs
Signature by VingCard and SENTINEL II by Elsafe for Reliable, Elegant
Security
- Hotel
AG Brokers Sale of 110-Room Ormond Beach, Florida Hotel
- Trust
International Joins Google Program to Display Real Time Rates and
Availability
- Roaring
Back From the Brink: New Hampshires's Wentworth by the Sea, Once
Shuttered, Now a World-class Hotel
- Through
the eyes of a Hotel Butler: Yes, Mr. Butler: I let you get into my
hippocampus / Osvaldo Torres Cruz
- RW
Partners, LLC Appoints MJS Hotels to Manage The Nautical Beachfront
Resort in Lake Havusu City, Arizona
- Chesapeake
Hospitality Signs Agreement to Manage Holiday Inn Palm Beach Airport
- Downtown
Delray Beach, Florida Thriving: New Hotel & B&B Planned
- Hotel
Métropole Monte-Carlo, Monaco Appoints Pauline Bergé as
Director of Sales and Marketing
February 4, 2011
- The
Peabody Orlando Implements KABA Saflok RFID Locks in 1,641 Rooms; KABA
RFID Locking System Increases Guest Satisfaction at Orlando’s Premier
Group Business Hotel
- KeyLime
Cove Indoor Waterpark Resort Named 2010 eMarketer of the Year;
TRAVELCLICK® hotel customers take home six Adrian Awards for
excellence in eMarketing
- Lodging
Econometrics Reports U.S. Hotel Openings to Remain at Cyclical Low in
2011 and 2012
- Las
Vegas Sands Swings to Profit in Q4 2010 on Cost-cutting Initiatives,
Earning $273 million, Compared to Net Loss of $113.9 million in Q4 of
2009
- World's
Largest JW Marriott, the JW Marriott® Indianapolis Downtown, Opens
Completing the $450 million Marriott Place Development Project
- LBA
Properties & Hilton Worldwide Open First Home2 Suites in
Fayetteville, North Carolina with an Additonal 56 Locations Planned and
Another 30 in Development
- Lender
for Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel Asserts it has Navegante Group Lined up
as Operator if Hotel Enters Foreclosure
- System
Underload; Inefficiencies in RMS Systems are Costing the Industry
Dearly / Jean Francois Mourier
- The
HeBS Perspective: Lessons from the TripAdvisor vs. Google Controversy /
Lauren DeGeorge
- Introducing
The Hotelier's Guide To Online Reputation Management (e-Book) / Daniel
Edward Craig
- Intelity
ICE Technology Enhances Guest Experience at New York’s Plaza Hotel; The
Iconic New York Hotel Launches Virtual Concierge Featuring iPads with
Intelity Technology
- Ian
F. Mcphee Named Hotel Manager At The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua in Maui,
Hawaii
- Biloxi
Planning Commission Unanimously Votes in Favor of Jimmy Buffett's
Margaritaville Casino and Restaurant; Hotel is Not a Part of Initial
Construction
- Buffalo
Lodging Associates Appoints Kellie Williams as Director of Sales for
Hampton Inn & Suites Columbus-Polaris, in Columbus, Ohio
- Destination
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Jack Schmidt as the Director of Sales and
Marketing at The Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- The
Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel Appoints Steven Szenasi as Director of
Catering Sales
- The
Woodstock Inn and Resort in Woodstock, Vermont Names Kevin Dott
Director of Food & Beverage and Justin Watson as Executive Chef
- Signature
Worldwide Promotes Jeff Scholes to Senior Vice President of Corporate
Development
- Worldhotels
Appoints Kunal Bharti as Director of Sales for United Kingdom and
Ireland
February 2, 2011
- CuraFlo®
Revitalizes Plumbing Infrastructure at Radisson Hotel Grand Rapids
Riverfront
- Holiday
Inn in the WALT DISNEY WORLD® Resort Realizes Great Success with
VIZERGY® Marketing; Exceptional Website Design and Traffic Lead to
Successful 2010
- For
First Time in Three Years, Hotel Executives Optimistic About Asset
Values Increasing According to DLA Piper's New 2011 Hospitality Outlook
Survey
- MGM
Hospitality, a Division of MGM Resorts International, Enters Agreement
to Operate the MGM Grand and Skylofts New Dehli, the Company's First in
India, in Partnership with Silver Resort Hotel India Private Limited
- CNL-AB
LLC, a Newly Formed Joint Venture, Acquires Portfolio of Eight U.S.
Properties Currently Known as MS Resorts through a Foreclosure
Proceeding; Properties Include Grand Wailea Resort, Arizona Biltmore,
La Quinta Resort, Doral Golf Resort, Claremont Resort, Ritz Carlton
Grande Lakes, JW Marriott Grande Lakes, and JW Marriott Desert Ridge
- Hard
Rock Hotel in Las Vegas Files Lawsuit Over Lender's Foreclosure Plans;
Claims Lender is Attempting to Gain Tactical Advantage
- Charlotte,
North Carolina Hotels Flooded with Booking Calls for the 2012
Democratic National Convention
- RLJ
Development Acquires the 198-room Wyndham in Pittsburgh for $20.75
million
- Ten
Tips to Help You Become the Type of Manager That Everyone Wants to Work
With / Roberta Chinsky Matuson
- Marriott
and Capstone Partners Open Courtyard by Marriott in Downtown Atlanta
- Associated
Hotels Completes Conversion of Former Holiday Inn, Minneapolis to the
Crowne Plaza Hotel & Suites Minneapolis Airport
- ONETECH
Integrates RateTiger to Expand Channel Offering to Customers; Vagabond
Inn gains instant access to rate and reservation data for 700 sales
channels
- Glen
Cove Mansion Hotel and Conference Center Enters 2011 With Nearly
Perfect Customer Service Scores In Third-party Survey
- PAR
Springer-Miller Welcomes Khaled Abed; Hotel Professional to Lead EMEA
Expansion
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Adds Sorrel River Ranch Resort & Spa to
Management Portfolio
- Richfield
Hospitality Adds Six Hotels to Portfolio in 2010, Opens 2011 with Three
More
- Hospitality
Management Corporation Chosen to Manage The Crowne Plaza Hotel Omaha -
Old Mill in West Omaha, Nebraska
- Afton
Hospitality Management Chosen to Manage Colonial Inn Motel in Nags
Head, North Carolina
- The
Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia Names Jeff Kmiec as
President and Managing Director, Terry Miller as CFO and Bruce McGinnis
as COO
- Destination
Hotels and Resorts Appoints Heinrich von Puschendorf as Director of
Operations at Stowe Mountain Lodge in Stowe, Vermont
- Hospitality
Management Corporation Appoints Terri Porter as General Manager of the
Crowne Plaza Omaha - Old Mill in Omaha, Nebraska
- HEI
Hotels & Resorts Promotes Four to General Manager Positions at East
Coast Hotels
February 1, 2011
** Top 25 Read
Articles - January 2011 **
- Grand
Resort Hotel & Convention Center in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee Earns
the Tarnished Title of America’s Dirtiest Hotel; TripAdvisor Identifies
the 10 Grimiest U.S. Hotels for 2011
- HSMAI
Names the Top 25 Minds in Hospitality and Travel Sales and Marketing
- Hotel
ADA Defense Lawyer: How a recent ADA case affects all hotels but
particularly conference centers and meeting hotels / Jim Butler
- Dramatic
Decline in Hotel Capitalization Rates Reflects Shift in Market
Sentiment / Suzanne R. Mellen
- Las
Vegas May Become Yesterday's News Unless it Can Figure out a Way to
Reinvent Itself
- Hotelier’s
2011 Top Ten Internet Marketing Resolutions / Max Starkov and Mariana
Mechoso Safer
- So,
You Think You Want to Buy a Hotel? For savvy investors, the time could
be right / Jim Butler
- Meeting
Planners Optimism Rising / Robert Mandelbaum
- HEI
Hotels & Resorts Issues Statement in Response to Inaccurate Reports
in the Media Regarding an Investor in HEI Hotels & Resorts
- Despite
Taking Significant Steps to Correct Problem, Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel
Hit with $500,000 Fine Over Drugs
- Technology-fueled
Generation Y Meeting Planners Say Technology Won't Upend Convention
Business; While They Embrace Technology, Nothing Replaces Face-to-Face
Meetings
- Some
Super Bowl Fans Willing to Pay $699 per Night for a Super 8 Motel Super
Bowl Means Super Prices
- The
Alarming Tidal Wave of Hotel Mortgage Loan Defaults/Workouts / Michael
T. Sullivan
- Net
ADR Yield: A New Tool For The Thoughtful Revenue Manager's Channel
Evaluation Tool Box / Dr. David Hayes and Allisha Miller
- Wyndham
Hotel Group & Chatwal Hotels & Resorts Enter Exclusive
Agreement to Franchise and Manage its Dream® and Night®
Boutique Hotel Brands Globally
- Revenue
Management: Back to Basics: The Importance of Revenue Management
Principles / Jean Francois Mourier
- Social
Media: The Hotel Sales Tools that NO Property Can Ignore / Carol Verret
- Host
Hotels & Resorts, Inc. to Acquire the 775-room New York Helmsley
Hotel for $313.5 million; Will Rebrand as a Westin Following Property
Improvements
- Adapting
to Change: Hotel Sales Professionals New Year’s Checklist / David M.
Brudney
- LaSalle
Hotel Properties Sells the 564-room Sheraton Bloomington Hotel for $20
million
- The
Hotel Industry Recovery: Where We Are, the Black Swans, and Current
Strategies for Owners and Buyers / Irvin W. Sandman and Russell C.
Savrann
- Nobody
Asked Me, But… No. 72: Impertinent Question In Search of a Pertinent
Answer; Does The Industry Really Need Another Brand?; Hilton’s Hands
Get Slapped in Starwood Settlement; China- Based Developers Buy U.S.
Hotels; Quote of the Month / Stanley Turkel
- Strategic
Hotels and Resorts Granted Extension to Retire More than $600 million
of Debt on San Diego's Hotel del Coronado / Lori Weisberg
- New
Ernst & Young Report Indicates 2011 will see Reawakening of
Hospitality Sector; Emerging markets set to propel global hospitality
growth
- Benchmark
Hospitality International’s 2011 Top Ten Meeting Trends
January 31, 2011
January 28, 2011
- Dramatic
Decline in Hotel Capitalization Rates Reflects Shift in Market
Sentiment / Suzanne R. Mellen
- Ask
the Hotel Lawyer: 2011 is starting as the year of "Great Expectations"
for the hotel industry! / Jim Butler
- Butler
Service Today; Five Leading Hotels Share their Secrets / Steven Ferry
- Nevada
Gaming Commission Approves $650,000 Settlement Against Operators of the
Hard Rock Hotel for Violating Regulations Related to Illegal Drug Use
- Hawaii
Tourism Authority Expects State's Tourism Industry to Take at Least
Three Years to Make Up Losses from 2008 & 2009
- Five
Reasons Why Nothing Has Changed in Your Organization / Roberta Chinsky
Matuson
- Union
Trying to Organize Workers at the Holiday Inn Express in Latham, New
York Lose Battle For Labor Charges Filed Against Hotel
- The
95% Complete Best Western in Orange, Virginia May be on Road to
Foreclosure
- Owned
by Chase Enterprises, the Former Howard Johnson Plaza in Deerfield
Beach, Florida Joins Wyndham as the Wyndham Deerfield Beach Resort
- Al
Maabar & Starwood Hotels & Resorts to Debut the First St. Regis
Hotel in Amman, Jordan
- Starwood
Hotels & Resorts to Debut in Sharjah with the New 343-room Sheraton
Sharjah Hotel & Resort, North of the Emirate on Al Muntazah Beach
- Rezidor
Hotel Group to Build Their 10th Hotel in West Africa: The Radisson Blu
Hotel, Accra in Ghana
- Worldhotels
Adds 73 New Hotels in 2010, 19 of which are in The Americas
- The
Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa at Beaver Creek Honored with
Starwood's Sales Team of the Year Award
- New
Build Hyatt Place East End in Riverhead, New York to be Managed by
American Resort Management
- Tarsadia
Hotels Restructures Company; Creates New Entities
- ”Battlefields
to Businesses” Program Helps Businesses Apply Lessons from the Past to
Solve Present-day Challenges
- Choice
Hotels Names Olivier Dupont as Vice President, European Development
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Promotes Greg Parsons to Senior Vice
President of Operations
- White
Lodging Names John O'Connor as Regional VP for Properties in Northwest
Indiana, Central Indiana and Memphis, Tennessee
- Inn
On Fifth in Naples, Florida Appoints Patricia Cotte as Group Sales
Manager
- Delaware
North Companies Appoints Steven Sterritt as Executive Chef for Wuksachi
Lodge, Sequoia National Park, California
January 27, 2011
January 26, 2011
- Grand
Resort Hotel & Convention Center in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee Earns
the Tarnished Title of America’s Dirtiest Hotel; TripAdvisor Identifies
the 10 Grimiest U.S. Hotels for 2011
- Less
is More! Motorola Launches WiNG 5 - the Less Complicated, Less
Expensive Method for More Capacity and Agility of Your Hotel's Wireless
Network
- Utell®
Hotels & Resorts Member Hotels Thrive in 2010; The World’s Most
Experienced Representation Service Helped Deliver More than Four
Million Room Nights
- Revel
Entertainment Turns to Wall Street for Financing to Complete the $2.5
billion Half-Built Megaresort in Atlantic City
- Best
Western Opens the BEST WESTERN PREMIER Miami International Airport
Hotel and Suites, Florida's First
- 10
Tips to Better Pricing for the Travel Industry; Start Generating New
Profits and Growth Tomorrow Morning / Rafi Mohammed, Ph.D.
- True
Hotel Sales Superstars Love “Clueless” Callers! / Doug Kennedy
- Following
Two Years of Deep Discounting, U.S. Hotel Outlook Improving / Lori
Weisberg
- South
Florida Hotels Enjoyed Higher Occupancy Rates in 2010 - But with a
Price of Heavy Discounts
- The
Hilton Family Named Recipient of the Cornell School of Hotel
Administration 2011 Icon of the Industry Award
- First
Two Cambria Suites Planned for New York City; Extell Development and
Robert Chun of We Care Trading Co. Enter Separate Agreements with
Choice Hotels for Development of New Properties
- Innovative
Travel Marketing’s Jody Merl Named to HSMAI’s “Top 25 Extraordinary
Minds” List
- The
Knowland Group Puts an End to the Dead End; This is the first in a
five-part series: The Knowland Employee Development Pipeline
- Uniguest™
Appoints Director of Technical Support
- HITEC
2011 to Use New Method to Improve Exhibit Hall Experience; Vendors
Encouraged to Book Exhibit Hall Space Before Rate Goes Up February 1
- From
the Chalkboard to the Front Line; Leading Hotel Schools of the World
Provide International Exposure / Kathleen Hogan
- RIU
Hotels & Resorts to Open the All Inclusive 785-room Riu Touareg,
its Fifth in Cape Verde and Third on the Island of Boa Vista in 2011
- The
Roosevelt Hotel, New York City, to Renovate and Modernize its 1,015
Guestrooms
- Generating
Increased Travel To The United States Should Be Critical Component Of
Obama's Competitiveness Initiative
- Jim
Turner Named General Manger for Denver's Hotel Teatro
- HRI
Properties Appoints Andrea Richey Director of Sales for the Chateau
Bourbon New Orleans, a Wyndham Hotel
January 25, 2011
January 24, 2011
- Hotel
ADA Defense Lawyer: How a recent ADA case affects all hotels but
particularly conference centers and meeting hotels / Jim Butler
- The
Rainmaker Group Brings Revenue Management Discipline to Hoteliers at
Agilysys 2011 Users Conference; Rainmaker, Silver Sponsor of Insight
2011, Focuses Hoteliers on Total Customer Value Rate Setting
- The
Pegasus View December 2010: Year Ends with Leisure Hotel Revenue Up
Nearly +10%; Leisure and Corporate Travel Hold Strong Despite
Widespread Weather Disruption as 2011 Business on the Books Points to
Growth in Both Channels Globally
- New
Ernst & Young Report Indicates 2011 will see Reawakening of
Hospitality Sector; Emerging markets set to propel global hospitality
growth
- After
rising 7.7% in 2010, Lodging Demand Expected to Increase a Further 3.2%
in 2011 According to PricewaterhouseCoopers US Lodging Industry Forecast
- Dodd
Mitchell & Sonesta International Hotels Form Collaborative
Parnership for Launch of New Brand, KEPT Hotels & Resorts
- Cherry
Valley Lodge in Newark, Ohio to be Sold at Auction Along with Nine
Other Hotels Managed by Sage Hospitality; All but One Include Water
Parks
- CN
Hotels, Inc. is Searching for Individuals to Join Their Sales Team
- Attention
Hoteliers - Beware Of Virus Worms Spreading Through Free URL Shortening
Services
- Fairmont
Pittsburgh Implements UniFocus’ Watson, R.M.™
- HFTP
Development Conference Focuses on Development of New Skill Sets
- Choice
Hotels International Opens 73 New Hotels in December
- DEIL
Associates, a GF Managment Affiliate, Selected as Property Manger for
the Embassy Suites Chicago-North Shore in Deerfield, Illinois
January 20, 2011
- Have
Mobile Employees? Motorola Launches an Innovative & Robust Handheld
Device with Desktop-Like Performance Streamlining Hotel Efficiencies
- The
Hotel Industry Recovery: Where We Are, the Black Swans, and Current
Strategies for Owners and Buyers / Irvin W. Sandman and Russell C.
Savrann
- Impertinent
Question In Search of a Pertinent Answer; Does The Industry Really Need
Another Brand?; Hilton’s Hands Get Slapped in Starwood Settlement;
China- Based Developers Buy U.S. Hotels; Quote of the Month
- Wyndham
Hotel Group & Chatwal Hotels & Resorts Enter Exclusive
Agreement to Franchise and Manage its Dream® and Night®
Boutique Hotel Brands Globally
- Marriott
and the Spanish Hotel Group AC Hotels Formalize Plans to Manage and
Franchise a New Lodging Co-brand Across Europe and Latin America -- AC
Hotels by Marriott
- Washington
State Travel Impacts Report Reveals Visitor Spending Rose in 2010 7.4%
over 2009; Travelers Spent $15.2 billion, of which $6.5 billion was in
Lodging
- Cornell
Report Outlines Six Step Process on How to Develop a Destination Brand;
Student Team Created Plan for Marketing and Branding Zambia as a
Tourism Destination
- Through
a Joint Venture Janko Group, Bricton Group and Heitman Acquire Former
Holiday Inn Naperville, Illinois: To be Re-branded as a Full-Service
Marriott Following $30 million Renovation
- Chartres
Lodging to Rebrand the 425-room Ocean Resort Waikiki as Hyatt Place
Waikiki; Kokua Hospitality to Manage Property and Oversee its Renovation
- Nuevos
Hoteles de Panama S.A and Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Under a
Franchise Agreement, to Debut a 132-room Aloft in Panama City, Panama
- Michael
Rosenfeld Purchases the Hotel Californian in Santa Barbara, California
for an Undisclosed Amount; Plans to Redevelop Property as a 114-room
Luxury Hotel
- Honolulu
Hotel Prices Experience a 20% Bump Over January 2010 According to
Hotwires's Top Destination List
- PAR
Springer-Miller Launches New Version 3.0 of the SMS|World XA™ Online
Booking Engine; Hotels Drive Web Reservations with Enhanced Integrated
Module
- Blueprint
RF Brings Smart IT to Hospitality - Convergence of Innovation
- 23rd
Hunter Hotel Investment Conference to Examine How to Take Full
Advantage of Rebounding Hotel Economy; March 6-8, 2011 in Atlanta,
Georgia
- Hotel
AG Closes 12 Hotel Transactions in the Past Nine Weeks
- Charlestowne
Hotels, Inc., to Manage 30 Acre Oceanfront Springmaid Beach Resort in
Myrtle Beach
- Urgo
Hotels Acquires Ocean Point Hotel in Pompano Beach, Florida; Plans
Include Major Renovation and Conversion to Premium Brand
- One
Day After Foreclosure Sale Rim Hospitality Assumes Management of the
Scotts Valley Hilton
- Three
Canadian Properties Join Choice Hotels Ascend Collection; The
Château Moncton and Château Saint John, New Brunswick, and
Hotel Royal William, Québec
- Corporate
Apartments Raise The Bar; Top Ten Reasons Temporary Furnished Corporate
Apartments Are Winning New Customers with Service, Style, Space and a
Sense of Home
- David
Dodwell, Owner of The Reefs Hotel in Bermuda and Nisbet Plantation on
Nevis, Named 2010 Caribbean Hotelier Of The Year by the CHTA
- MHI
Hospitality Corporation Appoints David Folsom as President; Will Also
Remain Chief Operating Officer
- Mike
Brunkow Named General Manager of the Northland Inn Hotel and Conference
Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Royal
Sonesta Hotel Boston Names Michael Medeiros General Manager
- White
Lodging Promotes Angie Summar to General Manager for the Fairfield Inn
& Suites in Valparaiso, Indiana
- InterContinental
Dallas Names Aref Sayegh as Assistant General Manager and Jack Murray
as Director of Sales and Marketing
- Montage
Hotels & Resorts Names Charles L. Black III to Director of Sales
& Marketing for Montage Beverly Hills
January 19, 2011
January 18, 2011
- Have
Mobile Employees? Motorola Launches an Innovative & Robust Handheld
Device with Desktop-Like Performance Streamlining Hotel Efficiencies
- IHG
Hotels using VFM Leonardo’s VBrochure Online Merchandising System
increased 200% in 2010
- Leading
Industry Executive Roger Crellin Joins iBAHN as President, Americas;
Brings Global Hospitality Industry Experience and Success to a Key
iBAHN Region
- Dubbed
as the Coral World Park, Asia's First Underwater Resort Hotel to be
Built off Philippine Island of Palawan
- Pennsylvania's
visitPA.com Campaign Results in More Hotel Rooms Being Sold in 2010
Than Ever Before for a Record 27.5 million Rooms Generating $2.8
billion in Room Revenue
- Langham
Hospitality Group to Open Four New Hotels in India; the First, Under
the Eaton Smart Brand, Scheduled for Q1 2011
- Shangri-La
Hotels and Resorts Re-Brands Singapore's Only Beachfront Resort, the
Rasa Sentosa Resort, as Shangri-La's Rasa Sentosa Resort Following $80
million Renovation
- Travel
Tripper Selects InnLink as Reservations Solutions Partner
- Knowland
Gives Hoteliers New Insight into Business Development; The New and
Improved Leads Database Includes Detailed Contact Research, Exporting
Options, New Advanced Search Capabilities, Insight Alerts, and More
- Hotel
AG Brokers Sale of 194-room Mount Moriah Plaza Hotel
- GBCblue
Creates Guest-Service Upsell Opportunity for Increased Revenues via
Secure Online Amenity Ordering Service
- Guesthouse
Inn & Suites Nashville - Music City Now Managed by THG
- South
Beach's Art Deco Hotel District Undergoes Facelift in Anticipation of
Travelers Return
- Hospitality
Ventures Names Mary Beth Cutshall as Vice President, Acquisitions &
Business Development
- Pinnacle
Entertainment Appoints Mickey Parenton as Vice President and
General Manager for New Baton Rouge Casino and Hotel
- White
Lodging Promotes Leah Goebel to General Manager for the 112-room
Residence Inn Louisville NE
- White
Lodging Names Andrew Lawrence General Manager for Holiday Inn Express
& Suites in Merrillville, Indiana
January 14, 2011
- Sunstone
Hotel Investors Preliminary Q4 Results Expected to Show a 5.7% RevPAR
Increase Over Q4 2009: Reaches Definitive Agreement to Acquire 100%
Interest in the 460-room Doubletree Guest Suites Times Square, New York
- Knowland
Receives Customer Interaction Solutions Magazine’s 2010 Product of the
Year Award; Target Net Honored for Exceptional Innovation in
Hospitality Business Development Software
- Adapting
to Change: Hotel Sales Professionals New Year’s Checklist / David
Brudney
- Loews
Hotels' New Brand Website by Hospitality eBusiness Strategies Wins
Major Awards and Increases Revenue by Twenty Percent
- Revenue
Management: Back to Basics: The Importance of Revenue Management
Principles / Jean Francois Mourier
- Carlson
Plans Opening of 19 Hotels in India by End of 2011 Across the
Radisson®, Country Inns & Suites By CarlsonSM, Park Inn®
and Park Plaza® Brands
- Making
New Year's Hospitality Resolutions Real and Practical; A “Fresh Air-
New Ideas” Perspective / Dr. John Hogan
- Rim
Hospitality and ABA Development Breakground on New Build 150-room Hyatt
Place Hotel in Vista, California
- Developer,
Jackson Street Management, Wins Zoning Appeal Putting Construction of
$50 million Downtown Milwaukee Marriott One Step Closer to Reality
- Remai
Group & Choice Hotels International Open Brands First Extended Stay
Property in Canada, the 119-room MainStay Suites in Alberta
- Gaylord
Entertainment Plans $7 million Upgrade to its 303-room Radisson Hotel
at Opryland, Nashville, Tennessee
- Millennium
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Daniel “Danny” Dolce as Vice President of
Sales for the US Region
- Carlson
Appoints Pierre-Louis Giacotto as General Manager & Fred Khoury as
Director of Sales and Marketing for New Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel,
Chicago, Illinois; The First Radisson Blu in the U.S.
- Redstone
Companies Hospitality Names Troy Mathews General Manager for Lakeway
Resort and Spa Near Austin, Texas
- Buffalo
Lodging Associates Names Eric Krakowski General Manager For Comfort
Suites Universal Studios Area, Orlando, Florida
January 13, 2011
- Lodging
Insights: a Video Overview of Investment Conditions for the U.S.
Lodging Industry and What's Ahead for 2011
- Horizon
Hospitality Implements Aptech’s Profitvue Enterprise Accounting;
Management Firm Selects Aptech for its Extensive Hospitality Industry
Experience
- Strategic
Hotels and Resorts Granted Extension to Retire More than $600 million
of Debt on San Diego's Hotel del Coronado
- Technology-fueled
Generation Y Meeting Planners Say Technology Won't Upend Convention
Business; While They Embrace Technology, Nothing Replaces Face-to-Face
Meetings
- Tirupati
Buildings & Offices Pvt. Ltd. & Wyndham Hotel Group Enter into
Franchise Agreement to Open First Wyndham Property in India, the
394-room Wyndham New Delhi Dwarka Hotel
- Inland
American Lodging Advisor & IHG Open the Crowne Plaza Charleston
Airport Convention Center in Charleston, South Carolina, Following $13
million Renovation and Conversion from a Quality Inn & Suites;
Property Managed by Interstate Hotels & Resorts
- Charleston
Marriott Town Center in West Virginia Could be Sold; Forest City
Enterprises Enters Preliminary Agreement with Inland American Lodging
Group
- LaSalle
Hotel Properties Sells the 564-room Sheraton Bloomington Hotel for $20
million
- Ritz-Carlton
Opens its Second Hotel in Dubai, the 341-room Ritz-Carlton, Dubai
International Financial Centre (DIFC) Featuring a 10-storey Waterfall
- White
Oaks Conference Resort & Spa and The Club at White Oaks selects
Cenium ERP; Integrated, centralized access for every area of business,
Cenium ERP
- Elite
Meetings International to Welcome Independent Planners at its First
Elite Meetings Alliance (EMA) for the Gold Collection, January 23-25,
2011; EMA at Paradise Point Resort & Spa, San Diego, Will Also
Feature One-on-One Business Building Sessions and a Line Up of
Compelling Industry Speakers
- Lodgings
in Broward, Central Florida Lead State in 2010 Bedbug Violations
- Hotelera
Pinares, S. A., a Subsidiary of Strategic Hospitality Investments,
Signed to Manage New Hyatt Place San Jose Pinares, a Hyatt Place Hotel
in San Jose, Costa Rica
- GF
Management Affiliate, DOPA Associates, Selected to Manage the 253-room
Doubletree Guest Suites Philadelphia West in Plymouth Meeting,
Pennslyvania
- The
Las Vegas Stratosphere Reimaging with $20 million Renovation to Better
Position Itself With its Posh Neighbors to the South
- Royal
Sonesta Hotel Boston Undergoing $6 million Renovation with a Nod Toward
the Hotel's 1960's Origins
- 108-year-old
The Inn at Pocono Manor to Undergo $4 million Renovation to its
Historic Main Lodge
- Expotel
Hospitality Services. L.L.C. Names Matt Markopoulos as General Manger
of the South Beach Biloxi Hotel
January 12, 2011
- The
Breakers Palm Beach Partners with Cendyn to Enrich Social Media
Engagement for Weddings and Special Celebrations; Cendyn Helps Luxury
Resort Create Compelling Social Media Community for The Breakers to
Capture the Imaginations of Brides-to-Be
- Nordic
Choice Hotels Implements Ariane Systems’ Fully Automated Check-in/out
Solution at Comfort Xpress Hotel; Forward thinking new hotel brand
takes self-service and convenience to the next level with integrated
technology solutions from Ariane, OpenWays and Saflok
- Chaminade
Resort & Spa Implements d2o’s Performance Management Intelligence
to Increase Profitability; System Enables Department Heads to Make
Profitable Decisions Based on Real-Time Labor, Food Cost, Revenue, and
Budget Information
- Bill
Shaw, Marriott's Vice Chairman, to Retire
- Hotel
Lawyer: So,You Think You Want to Buy a Hotel? For savvy investors, the
time could be right / Jim Butler
- Doubt
Escalates on Future Development of $70 million Escondido Marriott as
Developer Gets Sued over $950,000 in Unpaid Business Loans
- HEI
Hotels & Resorts Enters Joint Venture with Carpenter & Company
for Ownership Interest in the 300-room Liberty Hotel in Boston,
Massachusetts; Now Affiliated as Starwood's The Luxury Collection®
- Wyndham
Hotel Group Signs Management Agreement with Chongqing Bei Cheng Real
Estate Development Co. to Open the 48-story, 350-room Wyndham Chongqing
North Hotel in the Yubei District
- Movenpick
Hotels & Resorts Enters Management Agreement with Lembaga Tabung
Haji to Operate the Moevenpick Hotel & Convention Centre KLIA,
Kulal Lumpur, Malaysia
- Paradigm
Hotels Group & Best Western Open the BEST WESTERN PREMIER Ivy Hotel
Napa, California's First
- Hilton
Worldwide Opens First Hilton Garden Inn in Krakow, Poland
- Coaching
Hotel Team Members the OSKAR Way - Not like training a dog! / Jim
Hartigan
- Accelerating
Into 2011, Hoteliers Beware Those Speed Bumps And Traps / John Hendrie
- Lighthouse
Properties Raphael Hotel in Kansas City, Joins Marriott's Autograph
Collection
- Reviews
and User Generated Content – Sales and Team Building Tools Webinar
January 20th / Carol Verret
- Sonnenblick-Eichner
Company Arranges $48 Million of First Mortgage Financing for the TVG
Marriott Hotel Portfolio, New Orleans, Louisiana
- Cenium
Selects Las Vegas for North American Corporate Offices; Office space
opened in Summerlin area of Las Vegas, Nevada
- Benchmark
Hospitality International’s Villas of Grand Cypress, Orlando, Achieves
Travel + Leisure’s Top 500 Hotels in the World List; Sister Property on
Oahu, Turtle Bay Resort, Is A Top 25 Resort in HI
- INNCOM
EMS Boosts Bottom Line of Bay Area’s Newest Destination Property;
INNCOM’s state-of-the-art energy management system delivers guest
satisfaction and significant cost-savings to InterContinental San
Francisco
- Warmbrodt
Hotel Investments Offering the Value Place Nellis Air Force Base, Las
Vegas, Nevada at a Reduced Price
- PNK
Group Set to Open BLVD Hotel + Spa in Studio City, California
- SMG
Selected to Market and Manage the New Montego Bay Convention Centre in
Jamaica
- Andy
Dolce, Founder and Chairman of Dolce Hotels and Resorts, Appointed to
Lloyd D. Levenson Institute’s Advisory Board at Stockton College
- Carlson
Hotels Promotes Fiona Godfrey to Vice President Sales, Asia Pacific;
Rosie Hollis Joins as Executive Vice President, Human Resources
- Redstone
Companies Hospitality Names Eric Terry to Vice President of
Development, Sales & Marketing
- Davidson
Hotel Company Names Joel C. Darr, General Manager, and Adam S. Leon,
Director of Sales For B Ocean Fort Lauderdale in Florida
- White
Lodging Promotes Mary Pat Hartman to General Manager for SpringHill
Suites/Fairfield Inn & Suites Louisville Downtown
- White
Lodging Names Kathleen Howell as Director of Sales for the Hilton
Garden Inn Austin North
January 11, 2011
January 10, 2011
- IDeaS
Releases Enhanced V5i 5.2, Emphasizes Business Intelligence and Driving
Better Revenue for Hotels
- Is
Money Spent on Indoor Environmental Quality Worthwhile for Hoteliers?
Dr. Diana Weighs In / Diana Driscoll
- Al
Maabar Abdoun Real Estate Development Company & Starwood Hotels
& Resorts to Debut First St. Regis Hotel in Amman, Jordan in the
Abdoun District
- China's
Home Inns & Hotels Management Inc. Accelerates Growth with Plans to
Open 260 to 280 Hotels in 2011
- MGM
Resorts International Launches M Life Loyalty Program, Focusing on
Experiential Rewards
- A
Few Key Learnings from 2010 / Brenda Fields
- The
Americas Lodging Investment Summit Awards Finalists Named Including
Most Noteworthy Hospitality Investment Deals and Executives
- Meeting
Professionals International Presents Future Watch 2011: The Latest
Research on Meeting Trends for Hoteliers in 2011
- Atlanta
Underground, LLC, Excel Hotel Group & S&A Industries Open Newly
Renovated University Place at Underground in Downtown Atlanta - the
First-ever Adaptive Re-use Project for the Comfort Suites Brand
- Ukraine's
Capital Kyiv Shows World's Largest Decline in Hotel Room Prices; Down
23% According to New Report
- HVS
Update Indicates London's Hotel Market Looking Rosy with Bookings &
Openings Trending Upwards
- Touring
& Tasting Magazine Creates Comprehensive Hotel/Resort Wine and
Culinary Events Calendar
- CoMMingle
by Lodging Interactive Introduces Its Social Media Connector Toolbar
for Hotels
- CapStone
Investments Arranges Recapitalization of Hotel La Jolla
- Hotel
AG Closes 11 Hotel Transactions In The Past Eight Weeks
- Amstar
Sells 496-Room, Full-Service Hilton Near Washington DC For $121
Million; Hilton Alexandria Mark Center trades for $244,000 per room
- Benchmark
Hospitality Home Office Contributes Military Care Packages to Armed
Forces Personnel in Afghanistan
- LodgeNet,
DOCOMO interTouch and Nomadix Enter Strategic Alliance to Serve
Hospitality Broadband Needs Throughout North America
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Add/Update 96 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel
Construction Projects Database
- Hotel-Online
and BuildCentral Have Updated Existing Hotels in the Last Two Weeks
with Changes in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership
- Reports
Indicating Maloofs Struggling to Keep Control of Palms Casino
Resort
- The
International Society of Hospitality Consultants Names New Board for
2011: Matt Arrants of Pinnacle Advisory Group, Chairman
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Promotes Ted A. Davis to Senior Vice
President Sales & Marketing
- Windsor
Management Services Names Ben Kulak General Manger for the Embassy
Suites Lompoc-Central Coast, Lompoc, California
- Hotel
Equities Names Angela Raub the Director of Business Development
January 7, 2011
- KABA
Saflok Messenger Locking Systems Turn Safety into Convenience at
Wyndham Vacation Ownership; Secure, Trouble-free Locks Create a
Pleasant Stay Experience
- HSMAI
Names the Top 25 Minds in Hospitality and Travel Sales and Marketing;
Winners to be Honored at Reception and Adrian Awards Gala January 31
- Airlines
vs. the World - An Analysis of Future GDS & OTA Trends / Douglas
Quinby
- 11
Reasons 2011 Will Be the Year of Vacation Rental Travel
- Growing
Your Hospitality Career Up - Part 2 of 2 / Kathleen Hogan
- Bankrupt
5th Avenue Partners LLC, Owners of the Sè San Diego Hotel Along
with Adjacent Building Housing the House of Blues, Could be Put up for
Sale; Estimates Claim Could go for $50 million, Significantly Less than
the $150 million Development Cost
- New
Cornell Study Examines the Effects of Health Insurance on Four
Characteristics of Employees' Performance: Job Anxiety, Tardiness,
Absenteeism, and Overall Task Performance; Workers with Insurance Were
Significantly More Effective
- Puerto
Rico Tourism Company Corrects Distortions in Recent eTurbo News Article
Relating to Island's Well-being
- HEI
Hotels & Resorts Issues Statement in Response to Inaccurate
Reports in the Media Regarding an Investor in HEI Hotels & Resorts
- Former
Ritz-Carlson at Lake Las Vegas Re-branded Ravella at Lake Las Vegas, a
Dolce Hotel & Resort, Scheduled to Open February 11, 2011
- The
Hotel Group Acquires Holiday Inn Santa Fe
- The
Spring 2011 Platinum Elite Meetings Alliance (EMA) Hits the Las Vegas
Strip - Substance and Sizzle Will Come Together at Elite Meetings’ EMA,
May 1-3, 2011, PCMA’s Deborah Sexton to Deliver Keynote Address
- SkyWire
Media, Inc. Acquires Intellectual Property Assets of Intermagine
- Sheraton
Universal Hotel Sale Facilitated by JMBM's Global Hospitality
Group® / Jim Butler
- Hospitality
Leaders Plan 2011 HFTP Conference Education
- Regency
Group and Wyndham Hotel Group Open the Region's First Ramada Encore,
the 111-room Ramada Encore Doha in the Capital of Qatar
- New
Mid-range Hotel Brand for Ski Resorts and Alpine Towns, Launches as
Snotels - a Niche Brand for Alpine Enthusiasts
- Marriott
CIO Carl Wilson to Retire, Succeeded by Bruce Hoffmeister
- Bunkhouse
Management Names Lisa Reile General Manager of Hotel Saint Cecilia,
Austin, Texas
January 5, 2011
- IDeaS
Revenue Solutions Appoints New Vice President of Global Sales and
Marketing
- Net
ADR Yield: A New Tool For The Thoughtful Revenue Manager's Channel
Evaluation Tool Box / Dr. David Hayes & Allisha Miller
- Hotelier’s
2011 Top Ten Internet Marketing Resolutions / Max Starkov and Mariana
Mechoso Safer
- Labor-Management
Battles Once Fought on Picket Lines Now Hit Cyberspace - Hyatt Takes
Labor Contract Negotiations to YouTube
- Hard
Rock International Responds to the Complaint Filed by the Nevada State
Gaming Control Board
- San
Diego County Hotels Looking to a Healthier New Year as RevPAR Rose by
4.2% and Occupancy 5.4% in 2010, Gains Expected to Continue
- The
Behaviour of Hotel Guests: Honesty is the Most Important Factor for the
Hotelier According to Survery Conducted on European Hoteliers
- Australian's
Now Rank Number One as Overseas Tourists to Los Angeles in 2010
Surpassing Britain and Japan
- Roomlinx
Integrates and Bundles Unlimited HD Movie package with WiFi
- AAA
Parking Kicks Off 2011 In New Market; Hyatt Escala Lodge is company’s
first Utah property
- HFTP-U
Kicks Off With Free SharePoint Seminars Across the U.S.
- Platinum
Investments, Ltd Completes Makeover of the 136-room Courtyard Edmonton
West in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Former
Courtyard by Marriott Beijing, Rebranded as pentahotel Beijing; Managed
by New World Hospitality
- St.
Regis Bangkok, the First St. Regis in Thailand, Names Key Appointments
to Executive Team to Spearhead Opening Scheduled for Early 2011;
Andreas Oberoi, General Manager
- Bruce
A. Riggins Appointed Chief Financial Officer for LaSalle Hotel
Properties
- China
Lodging Group, Limited Appoints Chang Su as Chief Operating Officer
- GF
Management Promotes Andrew Taymans to Vice President, Asset &
Revenue Management
January 4, 2011
- Data
Security: Part 2 Lessons Learned / Jeremy Rock
- Langham
Hotels and Oxford Capital Group Relaunch Development of New Hotel Along
Chicago's Riverfront, The Langham Chicago Hotel; The 52-story Mixed Use
Building to House 330-guestrooms and Open in 2012
- Shangri-La
Hotels and Resorts Acquires Land For Development of New Multi-use
Complex Including a 500-key Luxury Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka to Open
in Early 2014
- AREA
Property Partners and Winston Harton Holdings Purchase the 489-key
Sheraton Safari Hotel and Suites, Orlando, Florida; $25 million
Redevelopment of Property to Begin Immediately
- Boomerang
Hotels Reintroducing Shoney’s Inn® Brand Following Conclusion of
Lengthy Lawsuit
- Bedbug
Reports Worry Travelers, Vex Hoteliers Stating Publicity May Cause
Guests Needless Paranoia
- A
Contrarian Decision Aimed at Avoiding Irritating Guests, Las Vegas
Cosmopolitan Elects to Not Charge Resort Fees
- Las
Vegas May Become Yesterday's News Unless it Can Figure out a Way to
Reinvent Itself
- Downtown
Los Angeles Hotels Upgrading to Remain Competitive with JW
Marriott-Ritz-Carlton
- Despite
Taking Significant Steps to Correct Problem, Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel
Hit with $500,000 Fine Over Drugs
- Hoteles
Boutique, S.A. & Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Open Wyndham Garden
Hotel Panama City
- How
Reliable are Hotel Ratings? / Harry Nobles
- Social
Media - The Hotel Sales Tools that NO Property Can Ignore / Carol
Verret
- RevPAR
Envy?
- CoMMingle
by Lodging Interactive Rolls Out Facebook Social Media Marketing
Applications for Hotels
- INNCOM
Unveils its ‘Cleantech’ Energy Strategy for China at Beijing Event
- California's
187-room Scotts Valley Hilton Scheduled for Foreclosure Sale
- Spottswood
Hotels Turns Over Mangement of Four Key West, Florida Hotels to
Hostmark Hospitality, Retains Ownership
- Jumeirah
Group Signs Management Agreement with Liuhe Group to Operate the
Jumeirah Thousand Islands Lake Resort in Qiandaohu, China
- Sahara
India Parivar Completes Acquisition of London's Grosvenor House
- Hospitality
Management Corporation Selected to Manage the 296-room Radisson Hotel
& Suites Love Field Near the Dallas/Ft. Worth International Airport
- Aston
Hotels & Resorts Takes Management of Waikiki Beachside Hotel Back
Into the Aston Portfolio
- Luis
Maroto Becomes Amadeus President & CEO
- Jumeirah
Group Appoints Stephan Huemer as General Manager and Alexandre Hulen as
Director of Sales & Marketing as Pre-Opening Team for Jumeirah
Dhevanafushi and Jumeirah Vittaveli in the Maldives
- Destination
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Amanda Acosta as Director of Sales for
The Hotel Telluride
- The
Doubletree Hotel Atlanta NE/Northlake Names Camille Johnson as Catering
Manager
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