**Top 25
Read
Articles -
September 2011**
- Social
Media Coercion: How far should hotels go to please and appease guests?
/ Daniel Edward Craig
- Hyatt
Unveils Hyatt House, an Evolution of its Extended-Stay Brand; 38 Hyatt
Summerfield Suites and 16 Recently Acquired LodgeWorks Hotels to Be
Rebranded
- Hotel
Lawyers in Phoenix: "It's not just me. The market has changed in just
the last 60 days!" / Jim Butler
- Hilton
Anatole in Dallas, Texas Facing Civil Suit After Spa Worker Videotaped
Female Guest
- UNITE
HERE: Workers at Hyatt Hotels Launching Week Long Strike in Four Cities
- Bedbugs
in Hotels: New Data Behind the Growing Epidemic Shows a 660% Increase
of Reported Incidences from January 1, 2011 through September 1, 2011
Compared to 2010 Totals; Number of Individual Hotels with Reported
Incidences has Increased 250%
- PKF
U.S. Hotel Forecast: Optimism Among Pessimism; Forecast for Lodging
Growth Despite Economic Volatility Headwinds
- Want
Loyalty? - Get Your Guests Positively Emotional!!!! / Roberta Nedry
- Shame
on Us in Hospitality. We Have Plenty of Jobs, but Everyone Keeps on
Leaving. / John R. Hendrie
- Marriott
Takes Back Operation of Waikiki EDITION After New York Courts Order
Control be Returned
- InterMountain
Management LLC Acquires Pillar Hotels and Resorts; Combined Company
will Manage 308 Hotels, More than 30,000 Rooms
- Social
Media Ambush: When Hotel Guests Go on the Attack / Daniel Edward Craig
- Four
Seasons Hotels and Resorts Enters Joint Venture with Silverstein
Properties and Dune Real Estate Partners for $360 Million Development
of a 444-room Resort at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida
- Marriott
Says Waikiki Owner Bankruptcy Self-Defeating and Will Ultimately
Destroy Value of Asset; Marriott Will Vigorously Pursue Tens of
Millions of Dollars in Damages
- First
Impressions Count: Five Things to Set the Scene for Your Guests’ Stay,
Make their Arrival More Enjoyable, and Build Loyalty via Convenience
and Choice / Andrew Sanders
- M
Waikiki LLC Files for Bankruptcy Protection Following New York Court
Order to Return Operational Control to Marriott International; Owners
Intend to Continue Operating Hotel as The MODERN Honolulu Under
Reorganization Plan
- 10
Ways to Win More Group Business
- How
to Test Hotel Feasibility / Steve Rushmore
- What
Went Wrong with the $102 million Downtown Marriott Hotel Project in
Peoria, Illinois?
- Auction
Scheduled for 966-room Riverfront Hotel
- Hyatt
Hotels Completes Acquisition of Pared Down LodgeWorks’ Portfolio for
Approximately $660 million; Included are the Management or Franchise
Right for an Additional Four Hotels
- Trump
International Hotel & Tower in Chicago a Symbol of Post 9/11
Attack Architecture Revival
- Accor
Launches New Operational Strategy with Major Changes Focused on Brands
- U.S.
Hotel Groups Still Dominate at Home with Hilton Leading the Pack; With
Market Saturation Nearing, Groups Looking Abroad to Promote Products
and Concepts
- STOP,
LOOK, LISTEN - Where We Are and Where We Are Headed with Hotel
Technology / Terence Ronson
September 30, 2011
- Hotel
Industry Alert: Some things to feel (very) good about! / Jim Butler
- Crowne
Plaza Ventura Beach Wins "Like to Win" Facebook contest from VFM
Leonardo; Like to Win Facebook Contest Winner Receives VPowered
Multi-Media Player Makeover Using Online Merchandising Best Practices
- Key
Items Owners and Managers Must Address During the Continued Economic
Downturn / Steven Belmonte
- Hilton
Worldwide Files Lawsuit Against Majestic Resorts Inc. Aimed at
Recovering $1.1 Million from Failed Las Vegas Development Deal
- Shangri-La
Asia to Open 400-room New-Build Shangri-La Hotel, Jinan in Eastern China
- Wyndham
Hotel Group to Open the 306-room Wyndham Petek Istanbul in Turkey
- China's
Home Inns & Hotels Management Inc. Closes Motel 168 Acquisition;
Pre-Closing Home Inns Portfolio Surpasses 1,000 Hotels Separate from
the Acquisition
- German
Hotel Sector Sees One of the Fastest Recoveries in Europe with
Convention Market Putting Munich Out in Front
- Top
Ten Tips for Generating Repeat Business / Richard Shapiro
- Innovation
in Travel: Meet Six New Companies Who Are Reinventing The Travel Space
/ Rosie Akenhead
- Best
Deal Guarantee and Parity Should Not Apply in Flash Sales in a Standard
Way: An Interview with Gregory Linn, Director, Hotel and Travel Europe,
Groupon / Ritesh Gupta
- BYD,
Sustainable Lighting Pioneer, Joins The Hospitality Sustainable
Purchasing Consortium (HSPC); BYD, a global leader in LED lights and
energy-related materials, will collaborate with other visionary
organizations to build an industry-wide sustainability performance index
- Nickelodeon
Suites Resort Honored as First Certified Guest Service Property
- HFTP's
PCI (Payment Card Industry) Compliance Task Force Launches 12
Initiatives Relating to Credit Card and Data Security in the
Hospitality Industry
- HSMAI
Foundation Names its Annual Scholarship Recipients; Five Students
Recognized for Collegiate Achievements and Promising Futures in
Hospitality
- Hyatt
Hotels Opens 343-room Hyatt Regency Jinan in Shandong Province, China
- Richfield
Hospitality on Track to Reach Initial Expansion Goals Ahead of
Schedule; 14th Property Added Since Launching New Growth Strategy in
2010
- Radisson
Aruba Resort, Casino & Spa Nears Completion of $26 Million
Renovation
- Part
of Global Rebranding Initiative, Newly Renamed DoubleTree by Hilton
Charlotte in North Carolina Introduces Newly Renovated Guest Rooms
- HRI
Lodging Names Larry Daniels General Manager of the Chateau Bourbon New
Orleans Hotel; Property to Undergo $18 Million Renovation and be
Reflagged as the Hyatt French Quarter Hotel
- David
Lopez Named as General Manager of THE OUT NYC, the 105-room Boutique
Hotel Scheduled to Open in Early 2012 in New York City
- David
Garcelon Named Director of Culinary for The Waldorf=Astoria Hotel in
New York City
September 28, 2011
- Marriott's
Ed Fuller who Led International Growth for the Company to Retire in
March 2012
- Hilton
Garden Inn Embarks On Brand-Wide Lobby Revitalization; Secures Strong
International Pipeline with Nearly 50 Projects Planned in Emerging
Markets
- Carlson
Launches Radisson Blu Hotels and Resorts Brand Across Asia Pacific
- In
Defense of OTAs - Why the OTAs and Online Distribution Platforms are
Critical for Hotels, Especially Independent and Boutique Hotels / Carol
Verret
- TripAdvisor
Launches New Widget Centre Simplifying the Use of TripAdvisor Content
for Hospitality Industry Business Sites; Offers Free Online
Marketing Tools
- Impact
of Oil Boom on Hotels: Williston, North Dakota Market Overview / Nuresh
Maredia
- Engineering
101...Getting the Most from Your Engineering Department / Richard
Manzolina
- Bay
Point Marriott in Panama City Beach, Florida to be Rebranded as the
Wyndham Bay Point Resort
- CBP3
Inc., Carolina Beach, North Carolina's Non-Profit Group, to Accept
Proposals for Management of Two Hotel Properties
- Major
Hotel Groups Joining Forces to Improve Security of Credit Card Data
Processing
- Maritz
Travel Company Taps Cvent for Meeting and Event Management Technology;
Maritz To Use the Cvent Supplier Network to Find and Book Hotels for
Events; Leverage Cvent's Event Management Software to Help Clients Meet
Event Goals
- Governor's
House Hotel Switches to Knowland's Target Net; Montgomery hotel and
conference center chooses sales & catering platform for mobility
and reporting capabilities
- Proposed
$102 million Marriott Hotel Project in Peoria, Illinois Still Breathes
Life
- Hong
Kong Polytechnic University Celebrates Opening of Hotel ICON, its
Teaching and Research Hotel, with Design Conference and Gala Dinner
- The
Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, Virginia Unveils The Windsor Club,
A Collection of 26 Newly Renovated Guestrooms Assigned Exclusive
Concierge Service and Other Special Features
- Choice
Hotels Launches Enhanced Mobile Website and New Android Application
- The
140-room New-build Holiday Inn Cartagena Morros Opens in Colombia
- Matthew
Sparks Joins Hilton Worldwide to Lead the North American Luxury and
Corporate Development Team
- Catherine
Racsko Named as General Manager for the 284-room Sheraton Nha Trang in
Vietnam
- Raffles
Hotels & Resorts Makes Management Appointments for Cambodia
Properties; Christian Sack as General Manager of Raffles Grand Hotel
d'Angkor in Siem Reap and Gareth Walters as Director of Sales
& Marketing for both Raffles Grand Hotel d'Angkor and Raffles Hotel
Le Royal, Phnom Penh
- Chef
Jason Weaver Named as the Executive Chef for the Omni Dallas Hotel in
Texas
September 27, 2011
- Sugar
Bay Resort and Spa's New Website Produces Instant Revenue Boost; Custom
VIZERGY® Design and Marketing Finds, Engages and Converts Travel
Shoppers
- $60
Million 375-key Hilton Home2 Suites Hotel to be Built Near the
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Convention Center
- How
to Test Hotel Feasibility / Steve Rushmore
- The
Lodging Conference - Escape From Reality / Joel Ross
- Tropicana
Las Vegas, Inc. Terminates Management Agreement with Nikki Beach Las
Vegas and Penrod Maagement Group Citing Failure to Comply with
Contractual Obligations
- Business
Travel Grows in August at Rate Nearly Double That Seen in July; Global
Travel Recovery Powers through US and European Debt and Credit Crises
- Expedia
Offers Hoteliers Tips on Tapping Into the Expansive Growth of
International Travelers to the U.S.; Spending in June 2011 was $1
billion Higher than Same Period One Year Ago
- Resorts
Casino Hotel Attempting to Block Gloria Allred from Representing Former
Cocktail Servers in Discrimination Lawsuit
- Kimpton
Relaunches the Former Se Hotel as the 183-room Hotel Palomar San Diego
in California
- Versace
in Talks with International Hotel Operators About Plans to Build a
Hotel in London
- Buyer
for Artisan Hotel in Downtown El Paso, Texas? Atlantic Hotels Waiting
on News of National Branding; With No Brand - No Deal and City will
Foreclose
- A
Baker's Dozen of Reality Checks in Hospitality - Myth or Fact? / Dr.
John Hogan
- Revenue
Management Now Aims to Influence Demand to Materialize in a Profitable
Way / Ritesh Gupta
- KoolConnect
Names New Chief Technology Officer; Richard Berthold, Accomplished Web
and Video Technology Leader, Joins Company
- Percipia
Networks Announces Las Vegas Office Opening and New Global Director of
Sales
- InterContinental
Hotels Group Partners With TravelShark to Drive Direct Bookings
Worldwide; World's largest hotel group signs agreement listing more
than 100 major-market properties on destination-specific global travel
sites
- Madison,
Wisconsin Finance Committee Deals Yet Another Blow to the $98 Million
EdgeWater Hotel Project Endorsing $3.3 Million Rather than $16 Million
Previously Approved; Further Consideration and Final Decisions on
Capital Budget to Occur in November
- East
Peoria, Illinois Redevelopment Agreement for $102 Million Marriott
Hotel Project First Approved 1,016 Days Ago is Up for Yet Another Vote
- Latino
Hotel Association to Hold Battle of the Brands To Raise Funds for
Education; Representatives from Eight Hospitality Companies to Face Off
at the LHA Conference in November 2011
- Crowne
Plaza® Hotels & Resorts Opens 535-room Crown Plaza Danang in
Vietnam
- The
114-room Holiday Inn Red Deer South to Open in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
- Evolution
Hospitality Selected to Manage the Queen Mary Located in Long Beach,
California
- DoubleTree
by Hilton Chicago-Magnificent Mile to Introduce PURE Allergy-Friendly
Rooms
- The
191-room Clarion Inn in Pueblo, Colorado, Owned by New Vision LLC,
Reaches a Refinancing Deal with Lender
- Curtin
Bluff on Antigua, West Indies Completes Resort-wide Renovations and
Appoints Christopher Eastmond as General Manager
- The
Kessler Collection Appoints Bruce Ruggs as Ranch Manager of 23,000-acre
Guest Ranch, Kessler Canyon, in Debeque, Colorado
- Jack
G. Bickart Appointed as Director of Sales and Marketing at the 174-room
Lakeway Resort and Spa on Lake Travis Near Austin, Texas
September 26, 2011
- Hotel
Lawyers in Phoenix: "It's not just me. The market has changed in just
the last 60 days!" / Jim Butler
- Social
Media Coercion: How far should hotels go to please and appease guests?
/ Daniel Edward Craig
- Direct
Sales: The Lost Art / Brenda Fields
- BizWords,
a New iPhone/iPad App from Hilton Garden Inn Connects Business
Travelers; Tracks Business Jargon in Tongue-in-cheek Approach to Social
Networking
- Auction
Scheduled for 966-room Riverfront Hotel
- Vail
Resorts Reports Net Income of $34.5 million for Fiscal 2011
Compared to Net Income of $30.4 millioin the Prior Year; Season Pass
Sales Up 9% and Lodging Revenue Up 9.9%
- London's
Boutique Hotels to Turn to Destination Restaurants to Help Stand Out
From the Crowd
- Hilton
Signs Management Agreement with B.P Pluto d.o.o. for the Newly Built
152-rooom DoubleTree by Hilton Zagreb in Croatia
- Starwood
Capital Group and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Enter Management
Agreements for the Silvertree Hotel and the Wildwood Lodge in Snowmass
Village, Colorado; Extensive Renovations Planned for both Properties
- Wyndham
Hotel Group to Manage the 401-room Wyndham Grand Foshan Gaoming
Currently Under Construction in China
- In
a Lawsuit Now Eleven Months Old, Steven Jacobs, Fired CEO of Sands
China, Attempting to Pry Extensive Information and Documents from Las
Vegas Sands and Sands China
- Pinnacle
Realty Investments Advises in the Sale of the Sheraton Hotel &
Conference Center, Framingham, Massachusetts
- Hotel
AG Brokers Sale of of Full-Service Hotel in Jackson, Tennessee
- VingCard
Elsafe's VISION Locking System Installed At University of Limerick
Student Housing; Modern Accommodations at Ireland Institution Boasts
Electronic Security Technology With Flexible Access Management
- FCS
Unveils Expanded Social Media Channels to Enhance Global Client
Communications; Provider of cutting-edge hospitality technology
solutions launches newly redesigned networking sites on Facebook and
Twitter
- City
of Owensboro, Kentucky Seeking Operator for $47 Million Convention
Center with Construction Scheduled to Begin in February 2012
- Gem
in the rough: City Officials Pushing Owners of the Nearly 100-year-old,
357-room Camino Real Hotel in El Paso, Texas for Major Upgrades
- 2010
Visitor Spending in Augusta, Georgia Up 8.1 % Over 2009 with Figures on
Track for Similar Results for 2011
- Development
Plans for Jekyll Island, Georgia Scaling Back on Original Plan for
200-room Full-Service Hotel to Allow More Open Space and a Smaller Hotel
- Melia
Hotels International, Opens its Second U.S. Property with 240-key Melia
Orlando Hotel in Florida, Formerly the Mona Lisa Suite Hotel
- The
210-room Hilton Garden Inn Istanbul Golden Horn Opens in Turkey
- Kana
Hotel Group Adds Seven Management Contracts YTD 2011; Poised for
Further Growth with 4 New Builds in their Pipeline and More to Come
- Hay
Creek Hotels Acquires the 46-room Exeter Inn in Exeter, New Hampshire
- College
of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois Debuts $25 Million Culinary and
Hospitality Center Including a 6-room Boutique Hotel and 2 Restaurants
Giving Students Hands-on Experience
- Harry
Ren Zhang, Chief Operating Officer of 7 Days Group Holdings Limited in
China Resigns, Company to Eliminate Role Following Departure
- Raffles
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Peter French as Regional Vice President -
Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Hoon
Namgoong Appointed as Director of Food and Beverage for the Fairmont
Yangcheng Lake in Kunshan, China
September 23, 2011
- InterMountain
Management LLC Acquires Pillar Hotels and Resorts; Combined Company
will Manage 308 Hotels, More than 30,000 Rooms
- Caesars
Entertainment Breaks Ground on Caesars Palace Longmu Bay in Hainan,
China
- Downtown
Fort Collins, Colorado Hotel Hopes Still High; Economic Concerns Loom
as Council and Downtown Development Authority Try to Find Common Ground
/ Pat Ferrier
- HBI
Hosts Webcast Featuring Jeff Higley/STR Trends, Stats & Projections
- Luxe
Hotels to Expand Portfolio with the Addition of 6 Branded U.S.
Properties by 2013
- International
Association of Conference Centers Releases Series of Industry Related
Videos Based on Creating Compelling Meeting Experiences
- Carlson's
Radisson Blu Debuts in the U.S. with the Opening of the 334-room
Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel in Chicago, Illinois
- Choice
Hotels to Develop 130-room Cambria Suites in White Plains, New York in
a Joint Venture with Meyer Jabara Hotels who will Manage the Property
- Choice
Hotels to Develop 182-room Cambria Suites in Washington, D.C. in a
Joint Venture with Concord Hospitality and Roadside Development; Choice
Hotels and Concord Hospitality also to Develop a Cambria Suites in
Houston, Texas
- Aulani,
a New Disney Resort & Spa, Opens in Ko Olina, Hawaii
- Best
Western Introduces BEST WESTERN PLUS Hotels Worldwide
- The
Registry Collection, Part of the Wyndham Worldwide Family of Brands,
Adds 14 New Affiliates to its Luxury Exchange Network
- Regal
Hotels Group Signs Agreement with Wolong Holding Group to Open a
300-room Regal Hotel in Wuhan, Hubei, China
- Marriott
and Host Hotels & Resorts Unveil $39 Million Renovation of the
1,946-room New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square
- Thompson
Hotels Adds Hotel Victor in Miami Beach, Florida to its Portfolio; To
Launch Multi-Million Dollar Renovation and Rebrand Property as the
Thompson Ocean Drive
- Enchantment
Resort in Sedona, Arizona Deputs Phase Two of Property-wide Renovation
with $11 Million Guest Room Refurbishment
- A
Hotel is Expected for the $100 Million One Place Development in
Downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma; Phase Two of Project Breaks Ground
- Raffles
Hotels & Resorts Renovates Two Cambodia Properties, Raffles Hotel
Le Royal Phnom Penh and Raffles Grand Hotel d'Angkor in Siem Reap
- Robert
Cook, CEO of Malmaison and Hotel du Vin, Elected President of HOSPA
(Hospitality Professionals Association for Finance, Revenue Management
and IT) - formerly BAHA
September 22, 2011
- Stout
Street Hospitality renews multi-year distribution agreement with Sabre
Hospitality Solutions
- Grecotel
Group Implements EZYield's Fuzionlink for Best of Breed Hotel
Distribution Connectivity Solution; Flawless Integration Seals First
Deal for EZYield's New Regional Distribution Partner Sysco
- Hotel
Management Fees Miss the Mark / Miguel Rivera
- Revenue
Estimate at $1.8 Billion a Year for New Fees Charged by Hotels
Representing an 80% Increase in Hotel Service Fees in the Last Decade
- Hilton
Worldwide Confirms Strong Latin American Expansion Plans; Recent
Openings and Growing Pipeline Will Increase Current 45 Property
Portfolio to Over 60
- Great
Britain's Best Western Changes Structure, Launches Three Hotel Tiers
Throughout the U.K. as Part of Brand Enhancement Strategy / September
2011
- Cambria
Suites Entering Key Markets Across the Country
- Business
Trip = Guilt Trip…Not Anymore. Family-Friendly Meetings Are Becoming
More Commonplace; 5 Tips to Help You Compete / Amanda Dennis
- Hospitality
Lawyers in Phoenix for the 2011 Lodging Conference. What's Happening to
the Hospitality Industry? / Jim Butler
- Lodging
Econometrics Report for Europe, Middle East and Africa Shows Economic
and Financing Concerns Impede Pipeline Project Migration; Saudi Arabia
Emerging as a Development Hotspot
- Leisure
Real Estate Advisors, LLC Continues Growth with a New Brokerage
Appointment
- Park
Hyatt Dubai selects iBAHN for IPTV services
- The
Knowland Group Partners with Bluebuzzard; Collaboration allows for
seamless integration between Knowland's Target Net and Bluebuzzard's
ProposalPath
- Trust's
yourVoyager Streamlines Selecting, Managing and Tracking Hotel Booking
Channels; Integrated channel management system seamlessly aids
hoteliers in sorting out channel mix
- Utell®
Hotels & Resorts Launches New Groups & Events Service; New
Offering Streamlines Requests for Multiple Bookings for Member Hotels
- Hotel
Development Act Passed by the Full Senate Will Help to Restart Several
Stalled U.S. Virgin Island Hotel Developments
- Survey
of 1,000 Frequent Business Travelers Captures Attitudes and Behaviors
Focused on Hotel Selection and Productivity Needs
- RIDA
Development Corporation Begins $15 Million Renovation and Reflagging of
Recently Acquired Pittsburgh Radisson Hotel to Become the 465-room
DoubleTree by Hilton Pittsburgh-Green Tree in Pennsylvania to be
Managed by CAM Hospitality Management
- The
221-room Bricknell Hampton Inn to Open in Miami, Florida
- Flagstone
Development Group Plans to Restart Stalled Watson Island Development of
Retail, Hotel, and Mega-Yacht Facility Following Approval from Miami,
Florida City Commissioners
- Paul
Pusateri Named as Chief Operating Officer for the Hard Rock Hotel &
Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada
- Katerina
Esakova Appointed Director of Sales for the The Stafford London by
Kempinski in London, England
- Executive
Chef Dan Moore Appointed as Director of Operations/Catering at the
DoubleTree Hotel Biltmore in Asheville, North Carolina
September 21, 2011
- NORTHWIND
Maestro PMS Selected by Seven Independent Resorts and Multi-Property
Companies to Centralize Operations, Boost Productivity and Increase
Revenue; Luxury Independent Boutiques, Resorts, and Hotel Groups Choose
Maestro's Integrated System on a Single Database for Multi-Property,
Spa Sales & Catering, and Owner Management for
Condo-Timeshare-Vacation Club
- Royal
Lahaina Resort in Maui Selects Software Suite by Agilysys; Property
Implements Inventory and Procurement, Point-of-Sale Solutions
- Cendyn
Implements eSurvey at All Bowlmor Lanes Locations; Luxury, Nationwide
Entertainment and Bowling Alley Venue Ensures Repeat Business with
eSurvey Focused on Event Planners
- PKF
U.S. Hotel Forecast: Optimism Among Pessimism; Forecast for Lodging
Growth Despite Economic Volatility Headwinds
- U.S.
Hotel Utility Costs Under Control Adding to the Bottom Line / Robert
Mandelbaum
- Hotel
Labor and Employment Lawyer Update: Controversial Union Rights Notice
Subject to Legal Challenge - Employers Should Not Rush To Post It / Jim
Butler & Scott Brink
- $25
Million Pension Liability May Block Atlantic City Hilton Casino Resort
Sale
- Tourism
Growth for Chattanooga, Tennessee Double that of Competitive Cities;
Hotel Tax Revenue up by 18.6% in 2011
- Hotel
Training is Like Learning a Second Language / Tommy Taylor
- Mike
Gaudiosi Named VP of Operations of The Service Companies, Heading up
Vacation Ownership Properties & East Coast
- Deloitte
University Executive Training Center Implements Ariane Systems Kiosks
To Streamline Check-In/Out; Hospitality self-service software selected
as key technology component of cutting-edge hotel serving leading
consultancy Deloitte
- First
Impressions Count: Five Things to Set the Scene for Your Guests' Stay,
Make their Arrival More Enjoyable, and Build Loyalty via Convenience
and Choice / Andrew Sanders
- Purple
Sage Ranch Conference Center & Retreat Streamlines the Entire
Booking Process with Knowland's Target Net
- Leisure
Real Estate Advisors, LLC Continues Growth with a New Brokerage
Appointment
- Pegasus
Solutions Named to InformationWeek 500
- HFTP
Partners European Hospitality Technology Educational Conference (EHTEC)
with the Hospitality Professionals Association Conference &
Exposition (HOSPACE); EHTEC@HOSPACE to be Held in London November 25,
2011
- Going
Green: Hoping to Earn LEED Gold Certification: How One Hotelier,
Charter House Innovations, Renovated the CityFlats Hotel in Grand
Rapids, Michigan
- Red
Lion Hotels Signs Franchise Agreements with Owner, Positive
Investments, for Two Hotels in New Mexico
- Driftwood
Hospitality Management Continues Growth with the Addition of Four New
Properties
- Pride
Hospitality to Manage Two New Hotels in Kentucky; The Days Inn in
Elizabethtown and The Ramada in Lexington
- Trust
Hospitality's Desires Hotels Collection Adds The Acanto Boutique Hotel
in Playa del Carmen, Mexico
- Park
Hyatt Sydney in Australia to Reopen Late 2011 Following a Complete
Redesign
- Claremore,
Oklahoma City Council Approves Additional $100K Incentive and
Groundbreaking Scheduled for New Hampton Inn and Suites
September 20, 2011
September 19, 2011
September 16, 2011
- The
Genting Group Buys Remaining Debt on Omni Center in Miami, Florida with
Plans to Include Property in $3 Billion Planned Resorts World Miami
- Las
Vegas Sands Accuses Former Macau CEO, Steven Jacobs, of Stealing
Information
- STOP,
LOOK, LISTEN: Where We Are and Where We Are Headed with Hotel
Technology / Terence Ronson
- Nobody
Asked me, But... No. 80; Impertinent Questions Still in Search of
Pertinent Answers; Questions for 32,500 Franchised Hotel Owners; Quote
of the Month / Stanley Turkel
- Shafer
Commercial Seating Joins The Hospitality Sustainable Purchasing
Consortium (HSPC); Family-owned leader in furniture manufacturing for
the hospitality industry, collaborates with other leading organizations
to build an industry-wide Hospitality Sustainability Performance Index
- $100
Millon Casino del Sol Resort on Track for November 2011 Opening in
Tucson, Arizona
- Lender
to the 2,950-room Las Vegas Hilton Files Foreclosure Notice
- SBE
Entertainment, Owners of the Sahara Hotel-Casino on the Las Vegas Strip
Move Forward with Plans for Redevelopment and Re-Opening
- Intelity's
ICE Adds Service and Style to Ian Schrager's PUBLIC; Continuing rapid
expansion, Intelity welcomes Chicago's PUBLIC to worldwide client
portfolio
- Adare
Manor Hotel & Golf Resort Voted "Ireland's Leading Hotel"; The
Kildare Hotel, Spa & Country Club (The K Club) Voted "Ireland's
Leading Golf Resort" By World Travel Awards
- FCS
Expands EMEA Headquarters in the United Kingdom
- Shift4
Puts the Zen Back Into Online Payments; Leading Payment Gateway
Announces Integration to Zen Cart e-Commerce Solution
- Cornell
Research Surveys Restaurant Takeout Operators Regarding Online Ordering
and Introduces a Spreadsheet-based Tool Assisting Hotel Managers in
Making Strategic Comparisons Among Competitors
- The
167-room Hilton Garden Inn Tuxtla Gutierrez Opens in Chiapas, Mexico
- Ascend
Collection from Choice Hotels Debuts in Washington, D.C. Market with
the 261-suite Virginian Suites Arlington Owned by Virginian Associates,
LLC and Operated by Modus Hotels, LLC
- Carlson
Opens 25th Hotel in Virginia with the 63-room Country Inn & Suites
by Carlson in Hanover, Virginia Owned by SANE Hotels LLC
- New
Castle Hotels & Resorts Opens the Hampton Inn in Shelton,
Connecticut Following a Renovation and Reflagging
- Kimpton
Hotels Breaks Ground on $87 Million Adaptive-reuse Conversion Project
to Build 268-room Hotel Monaco Overlooking Independence Mall in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Allied
Hospitality Purchases Caribbean Cove Hotel and Water Park in
Indianapolis, Indiana with Plans for Renovation
- Moonlight
Basin Resort in Big Sky, Montana Acquires Sagebrush Property Management
- Swissôtel
Hotels & Resorts to Manage Russian Mountain Resort, Gorky-Gorod in
Sochi Currently Under Construction to be Completed for the 2014 Winter
Olympics
- The
Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company Launches a New Brand Platform Showcasing
Core Service Philosophy
- Hotel
Diva, a Personality Hotel in San Francisco, California, Undergoing a $2
Million Makeover
- The
Windsor Court Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana Completes Restoration of
its Club Level Rooms, Suites and Lounge
- DoubleTree
Hotel Biltmore in Asheville, North Carolina Becomes DoubleTree by
Hilton Asheville-Biltmore as Part of Hilton Worldwide Rebranding
Initiative
- Despite
Ohio's Ailing Economy, Tourism Increased by 7% in 2010 with a Similar
Increase Expected for 2011 Figures
- Angel
Wales, Employee at Springwood Hospitality's Homewood Suites in York,
Pennsylvania, Receives Hilton's Spirit of Homewood Award
- JW
Marriott Denver Cherry Creek in Colorado Appoints Zak Kimble as
Director of Sales & Marketing and Nicholas Welker as Director of
Operations
- Buffalo
Lodging Associates Names Taylor Rossi as Director of Sales for the
119-suite Residence Inn by Marriott Wayne in New Jersey
- Sharon
Telesca Appointed as Director of Marketing of 239-key The Peninsula New
York in New York City
September 14, 2011
- Ariane
Systems Introduces Compact KeyStation to Complement Web-based Self
Check-in Initiatives; New space-and time-saving keycard dispenser
allows pre-checked-in guests to quickly and conveniently retrieve
magstripe and RFID guestroom keys
- The
Lindner Hotel Group selects EZYield's Fuzionlink for Online Channel
Management; Proven Performance and Best in Class Service Drive Partner
Selection
- MTech
Surpasses 2,000 Hotel Milestone; As the leading provider of
guest-response, asset protection and workflow automation solutions
nearly all the top names in hospitality trust MTech to help them
improve guest experiences
- Paramount
Hotel Group Plans to Add 8-12 Hotels to Managed Portfolio Over Next
12-18 Months; Steve Wilson Hired as Vice President of Development to
Lead this Initiative
- Beirut,
Lebanon Hotels Devastated by Poor Tourist Season; Revenues Plummet by
38% in 2011
- Aloft
Turns to Conversions to Meet Global Demand with Plans for Renovation
and Reflagging of Former Clarion to Open as the 253-room Aloft San
Francisco Airport
- Habits
of Hotel Sales Superstars – Laser Focus on Prospecting; Webinar
September 22, 2011 / Carol Verret
- Smart
Hotelier's Guide to 2012 Digital Marketing Budget Planning / Max
Starkov and Mariana Mechoso Safer
- Hotel
Training Budget Reflects Belief Systems / Doug Kennedy
- Hotel
Debt Trader© - New Hotel Loan Sale Advisory Platform; A Joint
Venture of: HREC Investment Advisors, Rochdale Capital Advisors and
Real Capital Market
- Rainmaker
VP Bonnie Spalding to Moderate Profit & Loyalty Maximization Panel
at EyeforTravel's Distribution Summit; RM Execs Will Highlight Latest
Trends in Using Customer Revenue Data to Optimize Profit
- Hospitality
Softnet, Inc. Adds Sales Selling to the Eastern Wedding Market theCampus
- The
Long Awaited Deadwood Mountain Grand Opens with MICROS as its
Technology Partner; Historic gold mining camp set in the Black Hills is
transformed into new luxury resort and selects MICROS to provide an
innovative and comprehensive technology solution
- Hotel
Capitalization Rates Continue to Strengthen, According to USRC Hotel
Investor Survey / Jeffrey H Walker
- Marriott
Integrates Internal Inventory System Exclusively with the Cvent
Supplier Network; Integration Will Enable Marriott to Provide Faster,
More Comprehensive Responses to Meeting and Event Planner Request for
Proposals
- The
Roosevelt Hotel New York Upgrades to Pegasus' RezView NG; During
multi-million dollar makeover, historic Utell hotel enhances technology
with Pegasus' award-winning RezView® NG CRS
- Make
More Money - Don't Ask the Guest What Can You Do: Just Tell the Guest
What You Will Do! / Lisa Miller
- Marriott
Vacations Worldwide Corporation Files to Become a Publicly Traded
Company Independent of Marriott International and Selects Future Board
of Directors
- InterContinental
Launches InterContinental Kitchen Cookbook iPad App; Provides Guests
with Downloadable IHG Kitchen Recipes
- Hilton
Hotels & Resorts Opens the Hilton Surfers Paradise on Queensland's
Gold Coast in Australia
- The
120-room Courtyard by Marriott Milwaukee Airport to Open in Wisconsin
Owned by GMF Hotel LLC and Managed by Hospitality Specialists Inc
- The
94-room Holiday Inn Express & Suites Saint-Hyacinthe in Quebec
Becomes First Canadian LEED-Certified Hotel
- Rezidor
Hotel Group to Renovate and Re-Brand the Hotel Riu Park El Kebir in
Tunisia to Re-Open as the Park Inn Hammamet in Q2 2012
- 117-room
Boutique Hotel Plan Approved for Downtown Wichita, Kansas
- Marriott
Names Neal Jones Vice President Global Sales Intermediaries and Europe
- HEI
Hotels & Resorts Promotes Six, Sets Stage for Additional Growth
- The
Kessler Collection Names David Friederich as General Manager of the
Grand Bohemian Hotel Orlando in Florida
- Magdalena
Grand Beach Resort on Tobago Appoints Executive Team; Plans for
November Opening with 250 New Hires
September 13, 2011
- Strand
Development Chooses Knowland's Target Net to Drive Revenue and Propel
Sales; Knowland's ground-breaking sales & catering tool will be
used at 23 properties
- Millennium
& Copthorne Hotels Mark Five Years of Revenue Success with IDeaS
Revenue Solutions; IDeaS extends its partnership with Millennium &
Copthorne Hotels in five US hotels
- Four
Seasons Hotels and Resorts Enters Joint Venture with Silverstein
Properties and Dune Real Estate Partners for $360 Million Development
of a 444-room Resort at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida
- Accor
Launches New Operational Strategy with Major Changes Focused on Brands
- Hotel
Franchise Lawyer: Hotel Franchise Agreements and the 5 Biggest Mistakes
a Hotel Owner Can Make / Jim Butler & Robert Braun
- Biannual
Hotel Price Index (HPI) from hotels.com Shows a 3 Percent Global Price
Increase and Gradual Recovery Despite Natural Catastrophes and World
Events
- New
Buying Audience Emerges as REITs Pull Back on the Throttle for Hotel
Assets; Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels says sellers' window is still open as
growth in hotel room rates are expected to outpace inflation
- Bahia
Mar in Florida Begins Renovation and Rebranding to Become the Bahia Mar
Fort Lauderdale Beach - a DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel
- Hooters
Casino Resort in Las Vegas Presses for Right to Reorganize Disputing
Claim that Foreclosure is Inevitable
- Hotel
Labor and Employment Lawyer Alert: The NLRB is making it harder to stay
union free / Jim Butler & Scott Brink
- New
Booking Site Helps Hotels Increase Online Bookings by Targeting
Travelers With Reservations
- Dreamforce
2011: Great News for Hospitality CRM / Gregg Hopkins
- Cedar
Point Amusement Park Selects MICROS Simphony and MICROS OPERA; World
acclaimed amusement park selects MICROS's fully integrated enterprise
solutions for point of sale and property management
- HFTP
2011 Annual Convention & Tradeshow to Update Attendees on Latest
Changes in the Hospitality Industry
- Downtown
Wichita Hotel a Model Project?
- Pennsylvania's
$100 million, 486-room Valley Forge Casino Resort Set to Debut in
Spring of 2012
- Thailand
Targeting Lucrative Chinese MICE Visitors; An Expected 53,000 Travelers
Will Visit in 2011, an 18% Increase Over 2010 Generating US$110.22
million in
Revenue
- IHG
and the Playa Poniente Group Open the 224-room New Build Holiday Inn
Resort Acapulco in Mexico Managed by Optima Hotels
- Sage
Hospitality to Manage the 200-room Holiday Inn Missoula Downtown in
Montana Owned by J. Herzog & Sons
- Hotel
Equities to Manage the 71-room Hampton Inn and the 64-room Sleep Inn in
Stony Creek, Virginia
- Hilton
Americas-Houston in Texas Near Completion of $11 Million Dollar
Renovation of Meeting Spaces and its 1,200 Guest Rooms
- RCI,
Part of the Wyndham Worldwide Family of Brands, Expands Asian Network
with New Affiliations in Vietnam and Thailand
- Accor
Makes Several Management Appointments as Part of New Operational
Strategy
- Outrigger
Appoints Jim Heather as General Manager for the 309-room Keauhou Beach
Resort on the Big Island, Hawaii
- Noble
House Hotels & Resorts Names Ken Stone as General Manager of
Gateway Canyons Resort & Spa in Gateway, Colorado
- Noble
House Hotels & Resorts Names Sean Mullen as Chief Sales and
Marketing Officer
September 12, 2011
- IDeaS
and SiteMinder Integration Helps Hotels Maximize Operational Efficiency
and Revenue; Integration between the IDeaS RMS and SiteMinder's Channel
Manager provides easy exposure to major local and international booking
sites
- Knowland
Field Research Unaffected by Natural Disasters; Clients receive
high-quality data in the midst of Hurricane Irene and other severe
weather events
- InterContinental
Hotels Group to Expand in Russia and the Commonweath of Independent
States (CIS) with Plans for 100 Hotels by 2020
- Caesars
Entertainment to Complete the $1 Billion Octavius Tower at Caesars
Palace in Las Vegas Now Scheduled to Open Early in 2012
- Pinnacle
Entertainment Plans $82 Million Expansion at River City Casino in St.
Louis, Missouri to Include 200-room Hotel
- Tips
from Hotel Franchise and Management Lawyers: Beware the Trap of
"Changing Brand Standards" / Jim Butler & Robert Braun
- When
"Because I Said So" Doesn’t Work Any Longer...Cross the CREEK to More
Effective Persuasion this Budget Season! / Jim Hartigan
- Creating
a Virtuous Cycle: Integrating Online Reputation Management into
Operations and Culture / Daniel Edward Craig
- 223-Room
Suburban Hotel Sold to Local Co.; Seeks New GM: Hotel-Online and
BuildCentral Have Updated 133 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with Changes
in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership
- How
Do Hotels and Guests Cope with Widespread Power Outages? With Aplomb
and in Some Cases Plenty of Alcohol / Lori Weisberg
- RFQ
Review Period Under Way for 150-Room JFK Hotel; Hotel-Online and
BuildCentral Add/Update 171 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel
Construction Projects Database
- Work
has Begun on Charleston, South Carolina Developments Stalled Since 2008
to Include 550 Hotel Rooms
- Foundation
for New Build Kent State University Hotel Elects to go Independent;
Believes it Cheaper to be a Unique Boutique
- Hotel
AG Brokers Sale of Hilton Garden Inn Cincinnati/Mason
- Lodging
Interactive Releases HotelCast2.0 Podcast Archives
- Orient-Express
Selects MICROS OPERA and MICROS POS for its Hotels Worldwide
- A-1
Textiles Adds Ami Patel as National Account Manager
- The
Sheraton Atlantic Beach Hotel in North Carolina Will Remain Closed for
the Remainder of 2011 Due to Hurricane Irene Storm Damage
- Challenges
Remain to Book Guests in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties in
California While Occcupancy Rates Do Show Steady Improvement Since 2008
- Recreation
One Stop (R1S), a Federal Government Program Focusing on Online
Reservations and Vacation Planning for Public Lands, to Host
Hospitality Outreach; The Event Featuring their Online Portal
Recreation.gov Will Occur October 17-19, 2011 in Bethesda, Maryland
- Tara
Capital Partners Set to Break Ground for 120-room Holiday Inn on
Charleston, South Carolina's Peninsula, the First New Build
Full-Service Hotel in About a Decade
- The
221-room Westin Guadalajara Opens in Mexico Owned by Heldan Hotels
& Resorts
- White
Lodging Enters Agreement with Apple Real Estate Investment Trust to
Manage the 178-room Hilton Garden Inn Downtown Omaha/Old Market in
Nebraska
- Berryfield
Hotel Group to Manage the 62-room Quality Inn St. Augustine in Florida
- Holiday
Inn Houston South Loop Near Reliant Park in Houston, Texas Wrapping Up
$2 million Renovation; Changes Name to Holiday Inn Houston Reliant Park
Area
- White
Lodging Appoints Roxanna Castillo as General Manager at the Residence
Inn by Marriott Houston Galleria in Texas
- Waterford
Hotel Group Appoints Kara Spinnato as Director of Sales for Two
Connecticut Properties, the Courtyard by Marriott in Norwich and the
Springhill Suites by Marriott in Waterford
September 9, 2011
- Trump
International Hotel & Tower in Chicago a Symbol of Post 9/11 Attack
Architecture Revival
- Google
Gobbles Up Zagat Guide; Acquisition Part of Google's Strategy to Become
the Go-To-Guide for Consumers Who Research the Web
- Genting
Group Vying for Control of Miami's Financially Troubled Omni Center
Which Includes a 525-room Hilton Hotel; Their Vision is Big and They
Are Here to Stay and Build
- Fine-Dining
Steakhouses Thriving in Chicago with an 18% Jump, Nationally Locations
Up 9% from a Year Ago; Growth Driven by Independent Restaurants
- Hyatt
Hotels States it's Business as Usual Despite Work Stoppage Efforts;
Expresses Gratitude for Employees and Desire to End Drawn Out
Negotiations
- AH&LA
Surveys Industry in Aftermath of Hurricane Irene; Hoteliers Share
Lessons Learned and Stories Exemplifying Hospitality
- Agreement
Reached by Three Parties Involved Should Get Sawgrass Marriott Golf
Resort & Spa in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida Out of Bankruptcy;
Property Would Remain a Marriott
- The
322-room Wyndham Jacksonville Riverwalk Hotel in Florida is Headed
Toward Auction
- OJSC
Nash Dom-Primorye and Hyatt Hotels to Open Two New Russian Properties;
the Hyatt Regency Vladivostok, Golden Horn and Hyatt Vladivostok, Burny
Prior to APEC Summit in 2012
- Aloft,
Starwood’s Tech-savvy Brand, Surpasses the 50th Hotel Milestone with 52
Properties in Operation; an Additional Six International Hotels are
Slated to Open by End of 2011
- Taj
Hotels Resorts and Palaces Launch the 327- room Vivanta by Taj -
Yeshwantpur, Bangalore, its Third in Bangalore
- Delivering
All the Comforts of Home, Away From Home; Sunbeam Hospitality Debuts
New Line of Resort and Extended Stay Products
- Lawsuit
Challenging Zoning Puts a Hold on Proposed 76-room Hampton Inn for Red
Bank, New Jersey
- Randell
Smith Named 2011 Hospitality Executive of the Year by the Penn State
Hotel and Restaurant Society
- U.S.
Travel Association Issues Statement on President Obama's Jobs Speech
- Reminder
- One Week Remains - Department of Commerce Seeking Applications for
Membership on the U.S. Travel and Tourism Advisory Board; Application
Window Closes on Friday, September 16, 2011
- Farm
to Table Programs: Overcoming Challenges in Serving 2,000 Meals a Day
Using Local Farm Products
- The
246-room New-build Holiday Inn Resort Phuket Mai Khao Beach Opens in
Thailand
- Hampton
Hotels Opens 14 New Properties in Second Quarter of 2011 Totaling 1,311
New Rooms
- Design
Hotels Hotel J in Stockholm, Sweden Opens 113 New Rooms and New Public
Spaces
- Sage
Hospitality Grows Premier & Lifestyle Division with Addition of
Hotel Ivy in Minneapolis, Minnesota and il Lugano in Ft. Lauderdale,
Florida
- Pyramid
Resort Group Selected to Manage The Wigwam, a 331-room Phoenix Area
Resort in Arizona
- Africa
Israel USA Selects Richfield Hospitality to Manage the 56-room Tempo
Miami Located in the Cultural District of Downtown Miami, Florida
- Honolulu's
Pacific Beach Hotel Completes Renovations of its 300 Guest Rooms
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Appoints Warren Breaux Corporate Director of
National Sales
- Pyramid
Resort Group Names George K. McGann as Vice President, Managing
Director & General Manager of The Wigwam in Litchfield Park, Arizona
- Douglas
Hustad Named Managing Director of 392-room Turnberry Isle Miami in
Aventura, Florida
- Paul
Pelican Named Director of Sales at the 369-room Westin Westminster in
Westminster, Colorado
- Enchantment
Group Names Kevin Maguire as Director of Food & Beverage and Kevin
Siegrist as Director of Catering and Conference Services at the
218-room Enchantment Resort in Sedona, Arizona
September 8, 2011
- Latest
IDeaS Software Improves Business Intelligence, Helps Hotels Drive
Better Revenue; The IDeaS RMS version 6.0 helps bridge gap between
marketing and revenue management for smarter, better forecasts
- Atlantic
Resort and Spa Installs Flyte Systems Airline Information Services for
Guest Convenience; Flyte Systems Provides Real-Time Airline Information
for Three Airports Plus Boarding Pass Printing
- RockResorts,
a Subsidiary of Vail Resorts, and Owners of the Tempo Miami Hotel
Mutually Agree to Terminate Management Agreement for Property
- UNITE
HERE: Workers at Hyatt Hotels Launching Week Long Strike in Four Cities
- Nitsba
Holdings Ltd. to Build 800-room Hotel in Tel Aviv, Israel
- Hobbs
and Curry to Close Two Bentonville, Arkansas Hotel Properties, the
Clarion Hotel and the Sleep Inn
- As
Foreign Investors Show Interest in Thailand's Improving Hospitality
Climate, Major Hotel Operators Put Properties on the Market
- Pan
Pacific Hotels Group Launches Refreshed Pan Pacific and PARKROYAL Brands
- The
Roosevelt Hotel, New York City, Accelerates Progress on Multi-Million
Dollar Renovation of its 1,015 Guestrooms
- Want
Loyalty? - Get Your Guests Positively Emotional!!!! / Roberta Nedry
- Remember
and Reflect - A Tribute; American Lives: The Stories Of The Men And
Women Lost On September 11
- buuteeq
Names Brad Becker Chief Experience Officer and Rob Frerichs VP of Sales
North America; Provider of Hotel Digital Marketing System Continues
Expansion with Addition of Key Executives
- Vienna
International Hotelmanagement AG Select MICROS as its Preferred Vendor
- Shift4
to Host Tokenization Webinar for Retail Professionals
- Central
Plaza Hotel (Centel), One of Thailand's Largest Hospitality Operators,
to Manage the New Hotel and Convention Complex at the Government Centre
at Chaeng Watthana
- The
95-room DoubleTree by Hilton Sheffield Park Opens in the Reburbished
Former Sheffield Park Hotel in Sheffield, England
- SoulSpace
Sanctuary Set to Open on Maui, Hawaii Featuring 28 Guest Rooms, Suites
and Bungalows
- Wyndham
Hotel Group to Open the 120-room New-build Days Inn, the Days Hotel
Phuket Town, in Thailand Owned by Winpro The Hotel Co., Ltd.
- The
204-room Renaissance Tlemcen Hotel Opens in Tlemcen, Algeria
- The
158-room Four Points by Sheraton Downtown Seattle Center Opens in
Washington
- DLR
Group and LodgeWorks Open the 164-room Hotel Sierra San Jose in
California
- IHG
Opens the 135-room Staybridge Suites Orlando Airport in Florida
Following $1.3 Million Renovation and Conversion from a Hawthorne
Suites by Wyndham
- RCI,
Part of the Wyndham Worldwide Family of brands, Welcomes More Than 50
New Properties to its Network of Affiliated Resorts
- Bob
Milne Appointed President of Wyndham Vacation Rentals North America
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Names Todd M. Felsen as General Manager for
the 316-room Cheyenne Mountain Resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Mark
Lyttleton-Frances Named as General Manager for The BodyHoliday, a
154-room All-inclusive Wellness Resort on St. Lucia
- Buffalo
Lodging Associates Names Lindsey Brodeur as General Manager for the
124-room Hampton Inn & Suites Hartford/Farmington Hotel in
Connecticut
September 7, 2011
- TravelClick®
and Travelport Sign Strategic Reseller Agreement; TravelClick to sell
Travelport Headlines on Galileo and Worldspan
- Select
Service Hotels Investment Opportunity in Coastal Resort Location
- MTech
Partners with SuiteLinq to Respond More Quickly to Guests' Service
Requests; Seamless integration of MTech's Hotel Service Optimization
System to the SuiteLinq marketing platform delivers the ultimate
experience for guests and new revenue streams for owners
- Developers
for the Planned 3,815-room Fontainebleau Las Vegas Resort Fight Lawsuit
Denying Responsibility for the Failure of the $2.9 Billion Project
- Chinese
Investors and U.S. Hotels: A Rising Tide of Opportunity / Li Chen
- 5
Reasons You Don't Want to Miss The Lodging Conference 2011
- London
Hotels Have Worst Reputation in Europe According to Online Reputation
Ranking Completed by Hotel Price Comparison Website, trivago
- Expedia
Shares Perspective on Upcoming Hotel Channel Distribution Study
Addressing the Potential Benefits for the Hotel Industry
- Going
Green: Investment in Solar Paying Off for Owners of New Jersey's Ramada
Vineland; Efforts Have Helped Reduce Electricity Bill from $15,000 Per
Month to $5,000
- EM
Properties, Developer for Proposed Downtown Marriott Hotel in
Peoria, Illinois, Rebuts City's Intent to Cancel its Obligations for
the $102 million Project
- Increased
Border Security Since 9/11 has Curbed Canadian Tourism; The
Detroit-Windsor Tunnel Traffic has Decreased from 5.9 Million Vehicles
in 2001 to 3.6 in 2010 with Effects Felt throughout Canada
- The
Claremont Group and Hilton Worldwide to Open New-build 200-key
DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Erbil in Iraq
- Verdict
is in - Victoria, Texas Needs a More Upscale Hotel and Conference Center
- Digonex
and OpenBook Bring Dynamic Pricing to Hospitality Industry at the
Perfect Time; Partnership Gives Hotel Operators and Travelers More
Control Over Prices
- CMX
Delivers Data to East Coast Despite Natural Disasters
- Fitzpatrick
Hotel Group Expands Relationship with Infor Hospitality; HMS Selected
to improve guest service
- Morgans
Hotel Group Continues to Revolutionize Hospitality with the Addition of
Intelity's ICE to Delano and Hudson; The innovative virtual concierge
technology continues to set the trend in two additional Morgans
properties
- With
12,000 New Rooms Planned for 2013-2014, Thailand's Capital, Bangkok,
Faces Future Hotel Room Glut
- The
Howard Johnson and the Travelodge in Tupelo, Mississippi Close Their
Doors; Howard Johnson Owner Proceeding with Plans for Two New Hotels on
the Site
- HFTP
Greater New Orleans Chapter to Host an Educational Seminar; September
23, 2011 at the New Orleans Convention Center
- Hotel
Association of Canada Seeks Entries for their 2011 Hall of Fame Awards
for Excellence
- Louvre
Hotels Group Strengthens its Presence in France and Internationally
with the Opening of 42 New Hotels in 2011
- Moevenpick
Hotels & Resorts Opens 182-room Moevenpick Hotel & Spa
Bangalore in India
- Marriott
Opens the 175-suite SpringHill Suites Toronto Vaughan in Vaughan,
Ontario Owned by Applewood Hotel Holdings and Managed by Easton's Group
of Hotels
- Hilton
Hotels & Resorts Global Spa Concept, eforea: spa at Hilton, to
Debut in Western U.S. at Hilton Sedona Resort & Spa in Sedona,
Arizona
- Pyramid
Resort Group Selected to Manage the 343-room Westin Casuarina Resort
& Spa in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
- Pyramid
Resort Group Names John Wagner Area Managing Director and General
Manager for the 343-room Westin Casuarina Resort & Spa in Grand
Cayman, Cayman Islands
- Waterford
Hotel Group Appoints Rosemary Vieira as General Manager of the 122-room
Holiday Inn Express in Southington, Connecticut
- American
Hotel & Lodging Educational Foundation Awards $39,000 in
Scholarships to 24 Hospitality Students and Industry Professionals;
Funded by American Express, Ecolab and PepsiCo
September 6, 2011
- Hotel
Bel-Air Selects InvoTech's GIMS Uniform System and SAMS Security
System; InvoTech Selected for Efficient Uniform Department Operations
with UHF-RFID Technology and High-Tech Security with 'Green' Paperless
Processes at Luxury Hotel
- Unprecedented
Growth in Greater China Launches Partnership between EZYield and
Compass Edge to Deliver Automated Distribution Management Solutions;
Deal brings the first Chinese-supported channel management solution to
the region with Fuzionlink
- Shame
on Us in Hospitality. We Have Plenty of Jobs, but Everyone Keeps
on Leaving. / John Hendrie
- U.S.
Hotel Groups Still Dominate at Home with Hilton Leading the Pack; With
Market Saturation Nearing, Groups Looking Abroad to Promote Products
and Concepts
- Bedbugs
in Hotels: New Data Behind the Growing Epidemic Shows a 660% Increase
of Reported Incidences from January 1, 2011 through September 1, 2011
Compared to 2010 Totals; Number of Individual Hotels with Reported
Incidences has Increased 250%
- New
Kid on the Block / 45 Park Lane / Terence Ronson
- What
Went Wrong with the $102 million Downtown Marriott Hotel Project in
Peoria, Illinois?
- Resorts
Casino CEO, Dennis Gomes, Helps Capture Would-be Thief Inside Casino
- Lender
Files Suit Against Developer for 128-room Hilton Garden Inn in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin Creating an Obstacle for Start of Project
- Tailors
Lodging Corp. Purchases Alcoa, Tennessee Hotel, Family Inns of America,
Once Owned by Ken Seaton, for $1.3 Million
- Livingstone
Brothers Buy Cliveden for Hotel Business and Named Preferred Bidder to
Take on the Royal Crescent Hotel in Bath, England
- Milestone
Internet Marketing Seeking Senior e-Strategist
- eRevMax
- RateTiger Marks Its 10th Anniversary; A decade of excellence,
technology leadership and business success
- VingCard's
VISIONLINE Wireless RF-online Solution, Orion Energy Management
Solution Power New Aloft Brooklyn; Modern tech-forward hotel lets
guests bypass front desk check-in while benefitting from green-friendly
guestroom solution.
- New
York Mega Resort Undergoing Renovations - NCL/ National Content
Liquidators, Inc. Selected to Liquidate the Furnishings
- The
Magical Powers of a Hotel Guest / Osvaldo Torres Cruz
- Grupo
Hotelero Santa Fe Signs Franchise Agreement with Hilton Worldwide for
New Build 259-room Hilton Puerto Vallarta Resort in Mexico
- The
Newly Renovated Sheraton Cerritos Hotel in Cerritos, California
Incorporates PURE Allergy Friendly Rooms as Part of Guest Room Update
- Wyndham
Hotels & Resorts Re-opens the 134-room Wyndham Garden Dayton South
Hotel in Miamisburg, Ohio Following Completion of Multi-Million Dollar
Renovation
- Siam
Hotels & Resorts to Refurbish Existing Properties and Complete 2
New Projects within the Next Nine Months Taking Advantage of the New
Optimism in the Thai Tourism Industry
- 8Hotels
Enters Management Agreement to Operate the 65-apartment Hotel, Aarons
All Suites in Perth, Australia to be Rebranded as All Suites Perth
- Crestline
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Joseph Hemerka, CHA, as General Manager
for the 150-room Holiday Inn Virginia Beach Oceanside Hotel in Virginia
- Sven
Cepon Appointed as Executive Chef for the Sheraton Maldives Full Moon
Resort & Spa
September 2, 2011
- In
Your Face, Irene – A Reservation with a Hurricane / Geneva Rinehart
- Marriott
Says Waikiki Owner Bankruptcy Self-Defeating and Will Ultimately
Destroy Value of Asset; Marriott Will Vigorously Pursue Tens of
Millions of Dollars in Damages
- Labor
and Employment Alert: New Law Requires Employers to Post Employee
Rights Notice by November 14, 2011; NLRB Publishes Final Rule for
Notification of Employee Rights / Scott Brink, JMBM
- Tourism
Tidbits - Protecting the Female Traveler / Dr. Peter Tarlow
- Five
Tips for Engaging Guests on Twitter: Why hoteliers should treat
Facebook and Twitter differently / Pedro Colaco
- The
Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C. Signs Agreements with The Shanghai
Greenland Group for Two Ritz-Carlton Hotels in Wuhan and Dalian, China
- Jackson
Street Management Completes Purchase of Buildings for Development of
Planned 200-room Downtown Marriott Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Canpartners
Realty Holding, Main Creditor for Bankrupt Hooters Las Vegas Casino,
Believes Brand has Failed in Las Vegas and its Time to Give Up on
Seeking a White Knight
- Key
Hotel Performance Indicators for the Middle East and North Africa
Region (MENA) are Split Down the Middle
- Randy
and Carolyn Smith, Co-Founders of STR, and Ratan N. Tata, Chairman of
Tata Sons, to be Inducted into the Hospitality Hall of Honor at the
Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management at the
University of Houston
- Alrov
Selects MICROS Technology Exclusively for All of Its Luxury Hotels; All
MICROS technology will be hosted in the MICROS Data Center located in
Frankfurt, Germany
- Driftwood
Hospitality Unfurled Sheraton Flag at Former Hyatt on Capitol Square in
Columbus, Ohio; Property to Undergo a $10 million Renovation
- As
Construction Slumps in Kansas, Hotel Projects are Providing Relief for
Some
- The
Conversation in the Experiential Hospitality / Osvaldo Torres Cruz
- SuperClubs'
Breezes Bahamas To Close For Repairs From Hurricane Irene; Anticipates
November 1, 2011 for Return of Guest Arrivals
- Buffalo
Lodging Associates Opens the 139-room Courtyard by Marriott
Buffalo-Airport Hotel in Cheektowaga, New York
- Pennsylvania's
East Mountain Inn Undergoing $3 million Renovation; Will Earn Best
Western's Plus Designation
- Pyramid
Hotel Group Selected To Manage Hawaii's Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort
& Spa
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Partners With USAA Real Estate; Expands Owner
Advisory Group
- Steven
Lindburg Appointed Area Managing Director and General Manager of the
Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort & Spa in Hawaii
- Buffalo
Lodging Associates Names Jessica Rose Director of Sales for Hilton
Garden Inn Orlando - Internatioanl Drive North
- New
Orleans Marriott Appoints Joan Esneault as Director of Sales &
Marketing
- Buffalo
Lodging Associates Names Megan Weber as Director of Sales for Hampton
Inn Buffalo-Airport in Cheektowaga, New York
September 1, 2011
- Marriott
Takes Back Operation of Waikiki EDITION After New York Courts Order
Control be Returned
- InnPoints
Worldwide and Carino Hotels and Resorts Merge, Forming Centric
Hospitality Group; Group offers multi-tiered brands and advanced
technology platform to independent hotels
- M
Waikiki LLC Files for Bankruptcy Protection Following New York Court
Order to Return Operational Control to Marriott International; Owners
Intend to Continue Operating Hotel as The MODERN Honolulu Under
Reorganization Plan
- Hyatt
Hotels Completes Acquisition of Pared Down LodgeWorks' Portfolio for
Approximately $660 million, Included are the Management or Franchise
Right for an Additional Four Hotels
- Hotel
Lending Lawyer: What every hotel lender needs to know about hotel due
diligence / Jim Butler & Guy Maisnik
- General
Manager, Axel Grasser, of Hotel Breakwater in South Beach, Florida
Turns Nervousness Into Sales in a Flash
- Hilton
Anatole in Dallas, Texas Facing Civil Suit After Spa Worker Videotaped
Female Guest
- Seminole
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Details Plans for $75 million Casino
Expansion
- Travel
Industry Continues Upward Climb Despite US Credit Downgrade; Leisure
and Business Travel Realize Respectable Revenue Gains over July 2010
- guestLINK
Connectivity Technology Part of Hilton Dallas Amenities
- Plaza
Hotel & Casino in Downtown Las Vegas Ready to Reopen Following $45
million Renovation
- IHMRS
Reveals 31st Annual Gold Key Award Finalists; BAMO Selected as
2011 Designer of the Year
- American
Hotel & Lodging Educational Foundation to Award 265 Scholarships
Totaling Almost $400,000, of which Nearly 42% will go to Minority
Hospitality Students
- Hilton
Hotels & Resorts Opens Second Hotel At Heathrow Airport, the
350-room Hilton London Heathrow Airport Terminal 5
- Hilton
Worldwide Opens New 80-Villa Conrad Hotels & Resorts Property in
Koh Samui, Thailand
- Hospitality
Management Corporation Selected to Manage the Sheraton Omaha Hotel, the
Former Crowne Plaza Omaha-Old Mill in Omaha, Nebraska; $4 million
Renovation Slated to Begin
- Red
Lion Hotels Names Julie Shiflett as Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer
- White
Lodging Promotes Cory Chambers to Corporate Director of Sales and
Marketing-Full Service Division
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Names Cindy Gagle Director of Sales &
Marketing for Turtle Bay Resort, Oahu
**Top 25 Read
Articles -
August 2011**
- The
Cloud is Fast Approaching - What This Means to You - The Hotelier /
Terence Ronson
- Hotel
Lawyers on Terminating Hotel Operators: M Edition Lawsuit Against
Marriott Has a New Twist Marriott is Replaced Overnight / Jim Butler
- Dr.
Doom: Effects of the Downgrade on the Hotel Industry / Joel Ross,
HotelNewsNow Columnist
- Ten
Things You Should be Doing on Your Website but Probably Aren't
- Owner
of Three Connecticut Hotels to Pay Fine For Alleged Price Fixing
- M
Waikiki's Edition Lawsuit Against Marriott International and Ian
Schrager - an Owner's HMA Dispute with Marriott and What it All Means /
Jim Butler
- Turnberry
Hotel Group Takes Back Mangement of the Turnberry Isle Hotel &
Resort in Aventura, Florida, Drops Fairmont Flag
- Benchmark
Hospitality International's Top Five Dining Trends for 2011
- Hotel
Lawyer with More on M Waikiki Edition Lawsuit Against Marriott; What
Marriott's General Counsel Says / Jim Butler
- Hersha
Hospitality Trust to Sell Portfolio of 18 Non-Core Properties to
Starwood Capital Group for $155 million; Agreement Represents the
Largest Sale in Hersha's History
- Marriott
Responds to Takeover of Waikiki EDITION by Owner Stating Action is
Illegal and a Blatant Violation of Contractual Agreement; Will
Aggressively Oppose Move; Remains Deeply Committed to the EDITION Brand
- ReviewAnalyst
and TrustYou Form Partnership; Strategic Alliance will Offer Hotels
Unrivaled Global Social Media Reputation Management
- A
Proposal Isn't Just Paperwork. Six Tips to Create Effective Sales
Proposals / Amanda Dennis
- The
Three Ingredients of Engaging Service: Humility, Reverence &
Professionalism / Dr. Bryan K. Williams, DM
- Genting
Group is Betting on Miami as Future for Development of a $3 billion
Resort Destination with Purchase of Miami Herald Property
- Stop
Treating Your Staff like Children and Start Training them like Adults!
/ Jim Hartigan
- Triple
Threat: The Importance of Hotel Facebook Page Design; Lowering Your
Commission Payments to OTA's and Top 5 Reasons for Hotel Mobile Websites
- Guest
Files Lawsuit and Seeks Class Action Status Against a Virginia Beach
Hotel Alleging Privacy Law was Violated with Restricted Information
Printed on Receipt
- How
to Convert Business on Your WEBSITE / Sally Richards
- Caesars
Gains Approval to Break Ground on $500 Million Strip Project in Las
Vegas, Nevada; Project to Employ 3,000 Construction Workers and Create
1,500 New Jobs
- Las
Vegas Hilton Reports Another Quarterly Loss of $8.9 million and Skips
Interest Payments on Loan; Hilton Hotels has Notified Owners, Colony
Resorts LVH Acquisitions, that Renewal for Use of Hilton Name Will Not
Occur
- Tired
of Waiting Around, Marriott International Enters Bankruptcy Fight Over
Sawgrass Marriott Resort Filing its Own Reorganization Plan to Push the
Case Forward and Give Creditors a Meaningful Choice
- MGM
Resorts Seeking Approval to Implode CityCenter's Harmon Hotel; Perini
Building Sure to Oppose Request as Legal Wrangling Continues
- Claiming
They Acquired Legionnaire's Disease, Six Former Aria Guests File Suit
Seeking $1.5 million for Each of the 225 Counts in the Complaint
- If
Boyd Gaming Owes $20 million to the State of Nevada for Comped Meals,
Imagine the Potential Industry Total Owed
August 31, 2011
- Video:
PKF's Mark Woodworth and Jack Corgel Discuss Impact on the U.S. Lodging
Industry From Recent Economic Turmoil
- Five
Mile Capital Partners and Westmont Hospitality Group, Through a Joint
Venture, Acquire 143 Red Roof Inns; Committment of $70 million Made for
Renovations and Upgrades to Portfolio
- The
Boss Takes a Pay Cut - Partially; HVS Executive Search's Annual CEO
Survey Shows a Decline in Base Pay
- Hyatt
Hotels and Extell Development to Build New 54-story, 487-room Hyatt
Times Square in New York City
- Choice
Hotels International and Foulger-Pratt Companies Break Ground for New
Choice Hotels Corporate Headquarters in Rockville, Maryland
- Barry
Brown, Regional Director of Sales and Marketing at Del Coronado and La
Costa Resort & Spa, Recognized as HSMAI's 2011 Resort Marketer of
the Year
- EasyRMS
Secures New Deal with Growing Hotel Group in China; TANGLA Hotel
Beijing and HNA Business Hotel Downtown Haikou are first properties in
group to implement EzRMS
- Market
Metrix Announces Second Quarter 2011 Hospitality Index Results;
Jumeirah Hotels & Resorts Rated #1 in Guest Satisfaction for Q2
2011; More Guests Joining and Using Hotel Loyalty Programs, Especially
'Elite' Levels
- The
Rainmaker Group Ranked on Inc. 500|5000 List of Fastest-Growing Private
Companies in America; Accelerated Multi-Industry Adoption of Rainmaker
Revenue Management Solutions Drives Rapid Growth
- From
Guestrooms to Meeting Rooms, PSAV Providing Broadband Service and
Support at Hyatt Regency Sacramento; Supplying both audiovisual
services and High Speed Internet Access support, PSAV serves as a
single on-site technology source for the AAA Four Diamond California
hotel
- Wanda
Group and Hilton Hotels & Resorts Open the 313-room Hilton
Guangzhou Baiyun, in Guangzhou, China
- Brand
First in Romania, the DoubleTree By Hilton Bucharest-Unirii Square Opens
- Frank
Holtslag Named General Manager at Mansion on Forsyth Park in Savannah,
Georgia - a Kessler Collection Property
- Shannon
Gilbert Appointed Director of Sales for the 396-room Ritz-Carlton,
Laguna Niguel in Dana Point, California
- Langham
Hospitality Names Robert Touzel and Jack Lim as Regional Directors of
Sales and Marketing
- Buffalo
Lodging Associates Names Caroline Langhorn as Director of Sales for
Hampton Inn South Plainfield/Piscataway in New Jersey
August 30, 2011
- Marriott
Responds to Takeover of Waikiki EDITION by Owner Stating Action is
Illegal and a Blatant Violation of Contractual Agreement; Will
Aggressively Oppose Move; Remains Deeply Committed to the EDITION Brand
- Innkeepers
USA Trust Files Suit Against Cerberus and Chatham Lodging For Breach of
Commitment to Acquire Innkeepers Hotels for $1.12 Billion; Innkeepers
States Business Remains Strong with Performance Unchanged
- Hotel
Lending Lawyer: What every hotel lender needs to know about Cash
Controls / Jim Butler & Guy Maisnik
- Why
Can't We All Just Get Along? (It turns out, we're not supposed to!) /
Bob Taylor
- Cape
Sierra Hotel Company Enters Management Agreement with Hilton Hotels
& Resorts for New Build 200-room Hilton Freetown Cape Sierra in
Sierra Leone, Africa
- Walt
Disney Company Opens First Phase of Hawaiian Hotel & Time-share
Resort, Aulani; Time-share Sales Remain on Hold While Company Ensures
$850 million Project is Financially Sound
- In-Room
Technology Made Easier - Comprehensive Services Now Available With A
Single Call; KoolConnect's New "1Connect" Model Offers TV's, FTG-TV,
VOD, HSIA, iPads, Mobile Apps, Single Remote Integration, EPGs, PVR,
Network Services and More.
- Oklahoma
Hotel & Conference Center Streamlines the Entire Booking Process
with Knowland's Target Net; National Center for Educational Development
Conference Center & Hotel simplifies their group booking process
with cutting edge sales & catering tool
- Going
Green - A Case Study for Hoteliers: Historic Natural Disaster Drives
Viana Hotel & Spa Owners Toward Energy Efficiency
- Alliance
Hospitality Chosen to Manage the 142-room Hilton Garden Inn Shreveport
in Louisiana
- Joseph
(Joe) Kelly Named Regional Vice President by John Q. Hammons Hotels
& Resorts
- Host
Hotels & Resorts Promotes Tim Marvin to Managing Director, Americas
and Appoints Rogerio Miranda de Souza as Senior Vice President,
Acquisitions Brazil
- Aimbridge
Hospitality Promotes Jay Anderson to Vice President of Finance
- Hilton
Worldwide Names Nils-Arne Schroeder as General Manager for Soon to Open
Conrad Seoul in Korea
- Sage
Hospitality Appoints Michael Hatzfeld as General Manager of Il Lugano
in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
- Crestline
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Damon Strickland as General Manager for
the Staybridge Suites, Chesapeake, Virginia
- Corporation
for Travel Promotion Names Chris Perkins as Chief Marketing Officer
August 29, 2011
- TravelClick
Hosts Webinar - 2011 Second Quarter Global Hotel Industry Update;
Complimentary Webinar Taking Place August 30 & 31, 2011
- Hotel
Lawyers on Terminating Hotel Operators: M Edition Lawsuit Against
Marriott Has a New Twist -- Marriott is Replaced Overnight / Jim Butler
- Turnberry
Hotel Group Takes Back Management of the Turnberry Isle Hotel &
Resort in Aventura, Florida, Drops Fairmont Flag
- Hotel
Lawyers on Terminating Hotel Operators: Turnberry Resort Drops Fairmont
Flag / Jim Butler
- San
Diego County Racks Up a Record $1.5 billion in Hotel Sales for first
Half of 2011, Second Only to New York in Dollar Volume / Lori Weisberg
- Coral
Gables, Florida City Attorney Indicates Plan for Resolution on Biltmore
Hotel Dispute in the Works; Arrears for Rent to City Currently Stands
at $5.6 million
- Le
Parc Suites Hotel to Renovate in Q4 2011; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral
Add/Update 171 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects
Database
- Inland
American Lodging Group Inc. Acquires the 275-room Napa Valley Marriott
Hotel and Spa for $72 million, or Approximately $261,000/key
- VingCard
Elsafe's NFC Locking Solution Wins Prestigious Gaming Industry
Technology Award; Next-Generation Hospitality Access System Honored By
Casino Enterprise Management's HOT Awards.
- Management
Change at 383-Room Water Park Resort Hotel: Hotel-Online and
BuildCentral Have Updated 156 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with Changes
in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership
- Rezidor
Hotel Group to Re-Brand the Jan III Sobieski Hotel, Warsaw; the
439-room Property will be Known as The Radisson Blu Sobieski Hotel,
their 9th Hotel in Poland
- BayStar
Hotel Group Selected to Manage the Embassy Suites Orlando - North and
will Oversee its 3.5 million Renovation
- Outrigger
Appoints Chris Gampon as General Manager of Outrigger Kiahuna
Plantation on Kauai
- Mari
Breen Palace Appointed Director of Sales and Marketing for the Hilton
Burlington Hotel in Vermont
- Dolce
Hotels & Resorts Names Michael Smith as Regional Director of Sales
and Marketing
- Be
Live Hotels Names Nodalia Arias Sales and Promotion Manager
August 26, 2011
- GSA
Releases FY2012 Per Diem Rates for Federal Travel; Standard
reimbursement rate for lodging remains at $77
- For
Only the Third Time in History, Atlantic City's Casino Hotels Expected
to Close Today as Hurricane Irene Barrels Up the Coast and Evacuations
Begin
- In
What Could be a 100-year Event, Hurricane Irene Closes in on Eastern
Seaboard; North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York,
Delaware and Connecticut Declared States of Emergency
- Hotel
Lending Lawyer: What every hotel lender needs to know about SNDA's /
Jim Butler & Guy Maisnik
- Getting
Approval to Implode CityCenter's Harmon Tower Will be Monumental Task;
Unusual Obstacles at Play, Including Ongoing Litigation Between MGM
Resorts and Perini Building
- Chesapeake
Lodging Trust Enters Agreement to Acquire the 613-room Denver Marriott
City Center in Denver, Colorado for $119 million, or Approximately
$194,000 Per Key
- IHG's
Innovation Hotel Version 2.0 for Sustainable Hotel Design Website
Launches Providing Users Greater Interaction and Real-Life Hotel Case
Studies
- Legoland
California Now Moving Forward with Plans to Build the Delayed 250-room
Legoland Hotel
- Hotels,
Restaurants and Retailers Fuel Growth of Seattle, Washington's Job
Openings; More than 60,000 New Jobs in State, Up 55% from a Year Ago
- NCH
Rocky Point LLC, Owner of Hotel Penasco del Sol in Rocky Point, Arizona
Files Bankruptcy Papers for the Property
- New
Bern, North Carolina Hotels Filling Up with Coastal Evacuees Due to
Hurricane Irene
- Tropicana
Las Vegas Dragged into Lawsuits Among Investors and Creditors of the
Las Vegas Mob Experience Attraction at the Resort; Attraction Claims
Tropicana Failed in Marketing Obligations
- Manhattan's
Luxurious Pierre Hotel Increases Profitability With Bartech's Automatic
Minibars; Improved staff efficiency, higher revenue among benefits of
Bartech's technologically advanced amenities.
- MSI
Goes Back to School at Northern Arizona University; Instructional
levels soar with PMS and Point of Sale deployment
- U.S.
Travel Association Discusses Impact of 9/11 on Travel Industry;
Releases Principles for Building a More Secure and Efficient U.S.
Travel System
- New
Vision Ventures Breaks Ground on Home2 Suites by Hilton in Jackson,
Mississippi to be Owned by New Vision Ridgeland Hotel, LCC and Managed
by New Vision Hotel Management, LCC
- Recognizing
the Property's Potential, Liberty Group Purchases and Reopens Doors of
Holiday Inn Express in Manatee Florida
- Leonardo
Hotels Opens its First Hotel in Budapest with the 182-room Leonardo
Hotel Budapest
- The
300-room Renaissance Zurich Tower Hotel Opens in Switzerland Under a
Franchise Agreement with SV Group
- Rezidor
Hotel Group to Open the 369-room Park Inn Trysil Mountain Resort in
Norway
- IHG
and Alliance Hospitality Open the New 104-room Holiday Inn Express in
Columbus, Ohio
- Four
Seasons Hotel Baltimore to Open this Fall in Maryland
- Dolce
Hotels Introduces Inclusive Government Meeting Rates Approved by the
U.S. General Services Administration Becoming the First Hotel Brand
Awarded a GSA Schedule Contract
- Richard
Stockton College Hospitality and Tourism Management Studies Program
Teams with Cornell University at Seaview Resort in Galloway, New Jersey
- Masters
Hotels Group Acquires a 'Green' Comfort Inn & Suites in Augusta,
Georgia for $3.7 million
- Developer,
Escape Lodging, Seeking to Revive Plans for New 93-room Waterfront
Boutique Hotel in Richland, Washington
- Rezoning
in Lake Placid, New York, Sets Course for Possible New 100-room Hotel
- New
Castle Hotels & Resorts Chosen to Manage the 366-room Hilton
Lexington/Downtown in Kentucky
- Hotel
Equities Names Gary Faehr as General Manager for the 118-room Hampton
Inn Jacksonville Downtown I-95 in Florida
- McKibbon
Hotel Management Appoints John Mesaros as General Manager of the
134-room Courtyard by Marriott Fort Myers in Florida
- Kirk
Wilson Appointed as General Manager of the 135-room Bowery Hotel in New
York City
- Tania
McCorkle Appointed as Spa Director at Lakeway Resort and Spa on Lake
Travis Near Austin, Texas
August 24, 2011
- VIZERGY®
Makes Prestigious Inc. 500|5000 Fastest Growing Company List; Hotel and
Resort Successes Lead to Honor for Hotel Internet Marketing Company
- Copper
Mountain Resort Selects Agilysys Visual One Suite; Comprehensive
Software System Manages Activities, Condo Rentals, Spa and More
- Claiming
They Acquired Legionnaire's Disease, Six Former Aria Guests File Suit
Seeking $1.5 million for Each of the 225 Counts in the Complaint
- The
Lodging Conference 2011 - Come Join Your Colleagues
- Measuring
the Effects of Interactive Media Marketing / Bill Carroll, PhD
- In
an Industry First Financing Alliance, Choice Hotels Partners with
Access Point Financial to Provide Financing for Franchisees; Program
will Focus on Aiding Sleep Inn Brand Implement the Designed to Dream
Renovation Program
- Guest
Files Lawsuit and Seeks Class Action Status Against a Virginia Beach
Hotel Alleging Privacy Law was Violated with Restricted Information
Printed on Receipt
- North
Carolina State University Selects Bell View Partners and The Bernstein
Cos. to Build 125-room Hotel, Replacing a Raleigh Landmark
- Disney
World Getting Out of the Golf Business; Will Turn its Five Golf Courses
Over to Arnold Palmer Management Group
- Visitation
in Atlanta, Georgia Reaches 37 Million, Last Reached in 2007; An
Important Milestone for Metro Atlanta, with the 4th Largest Share of
Hotel Rooms in the Nation
- Marriott
Launches Hotel Stay Planning App for iPhone®, BlackBerry® and
Android Devices
- Green
Lodging News Turns Five, Launches Renewable Energy All Stars Section;
Publication Now Reaches Almost 20,000 Each Month
- Affordably
Hip Palm Springs Travelodge Recognized with A Rating by Wyndham Hotels
& Resorts for Outstanding Quality; Recent Renovations Provide a Mid
Century Modern Feel
- Hotels
Capture Valuable Sales Insight with StarCite Business Intelligence
Suite; Market Share Analysis, RFP Response Speeds and Competitive
Comparisons Give Hotels a Leg Up in a Tightly Contested Meetings
Environment
- New
Sustainability Book Highlights Best Practices in Hotel Development and
Operations
- Boutique
& Lifestyle Lodging Association (BLLA) Adds Jean-Michel Cousteau as
Speaker During the BLLA Awards at the Hospitality Design Boutique
Tradeshow; Mr. Cousteau will Launch his Eco-Friendly Guest Amenity Line
at the Tradeshow
- City
of Peoria, Illinois Seeks Clear Substantiation from Developer that
Marriott Project will Begin Soon
- Fairmont
Hotels & Resorts of California Pledges 1,000 Volunteers for the
27th Annual California Coastal Clean-Up Day, September 17, 2011
- Approval
for Concord Hospitality's 145-room Hotel Project at the McPherson
Hospital Site in Durham, North Carolina Called Victory by Preservation
Durham Director
- Hilton
Hotels & Resorts Opens the 311-room Hilton Xi'an in Northwest China
- The
200-room Magdalena Grand Beach Resort to Open in Tobago in November 2011
- Aimbridge
Hospitality Chosen to Manage the 151-room Sheraton Midwest City Hotel
at the Reed Conference Center in Midwest City, Oklahoma
- The
Golden Tulip Warsaw in Poland Undergoing Renovation of Public Spaces to
be Completed in September 2011
- Rob
Evans Named as General Manager for Fort Wayne, Indiana's Downtown
Courtyard by Marriott
- The
Fairfax at Embassy Row in Washington, D.C. Names Stephen Johnston as
General Manager and Alexandra Byrne as Director of Sales and Marketing
- Dolce
Hotels and Resorts Appoints Joseph DeMille Sr. as Senior Director of
Business Development
- Americas
Best Value Inn Expands its Development Department with 4 New Membership
Development Directors Including a Husband and Wife Team
August 23, 2011
- Fallsview
Casino Resort Selects InvoTech GIMS™ Ultra-High Frequency RFID Uniform
Tracking System; 24x7Automated Uniform Tracking and Distribution Will
Increase Efficiency, Save Staff Time
- Palace
Resorts Enjoys 200% Growth in Direct Bookings After Launching Regatta
Booking Engine
- InnValue
Hospitality, a Strategic Hotel Supply Group, Debuts New Showroom Center
in Hayward, California; International and Domestic Client Growth Fueled
Demand for New Facility
- Hotel
Development Lawyers: 10 Things You Can Do to Win the "Race" for EB-5
Capital for Your Hotel Development Project / Jim Butler
- Treat
Me Like a Kid and I'll Act Like One Too. Train Me Like an Adult and
I'll Show You What I Can Do! / Jim Hartigan
- Impact
of Media Reports on Earthquake and the Soaring Yen Create Challenges
for Restoring Foreign Tourism to Japan
- Crowne
Plaza® Hotels & Resorts Promotion Celebrates 11.11.11,
Occurring Once Every One Hundred Years, Considered to be One of the
Luckiest Days of the Century
- Hotel
43, a 112-room Downtown Boise Boutique Hotel Brand Focusing on Idaho's
Independent Spirit, the Outdoors and the Arts
- Draw,
Partner! New SwankDraw iPad App Is Loaded With Exciting Meeting Room
Design Capabilities
- Yellow
Dog Software Provides Nooksack Northwood Casino with Inventory
Management
- FCS
Universal Billing and Interface System Awarded HTNG Certifications; FCS
UBIS earns certification by Hotel Technology Next Generation for
compliance with web services and 2-way interface standards
- AAA
Celebrates 75 Years of Hotel and Restaurant Inspections
- American
Hotel & Lodging Educational Foundation Awards Three Students
Scholarships Via its Arthur J. Packard Memorial Scholarship Program,
the Foundation's Most Prominent and Oldest Scholarship Award
- Cornell
Center for Real Estate and Finance Presents HVS Hotel Valuation
Software Tool Free of Charge
- Jones
Lang LaSalle Hotels Study, Lodging Industry in Numbers - Brazil 2011,
Reveals Double-Digit Performance Growth for Brazilian Hotels for Second
Consecutive Year
- Marriott
and Buffalo Lodging to Open the 139-room Courtyard Buffalo Airport in
Cheektowaga, New York
- Pristine
Bay Resort in Roatan, Honduras Nears Completion of Phase I
Construction; Soft Opening Scheduled to Start in 2012
- Noble
House Hotels & Resorts Assumes Management the University Hotel
Minneapolis, formerly Radisson University Hotel - Minneapolis in
Minnesota
- Hyatt
Regency New Orleans to Debut Two 25,000-Square-Foot Ballrooms, The
Empire Ballroom and The Celestin Ballroom, as Part of its $275 Million
Transformation
- Multi-Million
Dollar Renovation Completed at the 185-room Courtyard by Marriott Los
Angeles LAX/Century Boulevard in California Operated by Interstate
Hotels
- Thomas
Brosig and Karen Sock Fill Top Jobs for Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville
Casino and Restaurant to Open Spring 2012 in Biloxi, Mississippi
- W
Hotels Appoints Jenné Lombardo as its New Global Fashion Director
- Patrick
T. Smith Appointed as Senior Director of Group Sales in North America
for The Leading Hotels of the World, Ltd.
- Megan
McDonald Uram Appointed as Director of Sales and Marketing for The
Windsor Court Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana
August 22, 2011
- Chatham
Lodging Trust and Cerberus Capital Management Jointly Terminate
Agreement for Acquisition of Innkeepers USA Trust's 64 Hotels
- Hotel
Lawyer with More on M Waikiki Edition Lawsuit Against Marriott - What
Marriott's General Counsel Says / Jim Butler
- How
Alex Epstein, the 26-year-old Executive Manager of the 70-year-old El
Cortez Became an Advocate for Downtown Las Vegas and Made a Difference
- Pacifica
Hotels Acquires the 48-room Pelican Inn & Suites in Cambria,
California from Moonstone Hotels
- North
Point Hospitality Group Breaks Ground on Dual Branded Hilton Garden Inn
and Homewood Suites by Hilton in Atlanta, Georgia
- Marilyn
Carlson Nelson to Receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the
Americas Lodging Investment Summit
- July
Busiest Since 1998 for Colorado Springs, Colorado Area Hotels; 89.8%
Occupancy Rate Represents a 7.1% Increase from July 2010 While Average
Room Rate is Up 9%
- Utell®
Hotels & Resorts Further Expands Portfolio in 2011; 10,000+ Rooms
Added in June Highlighted by Five-star and Major Destination Properties
- Peppermill
Resort Spa Casino Chooses Knowland Professional Business Development
Services for Second Straight Year; Satisfied Reno meeting facility
renews services to drive revenue and crush sales goals
- Utell®
Hotels & Resorts Member Hotels See Up to 30% Revenue Increase with
Utell Preferred TMC Business; Revenue boost due to Utell’s business
drive with major international TMCs and consortia
- StarCite
Launches Mobile App for Hotels' National/Global Sales Teams; Supplier
Sales Forces Can Act Instantly on New Meetings Business Using StarCite
Mobile NSO
- Downtown
Wyndham Hotel in Greensboro, North Carolina Still on Drawing Board
- Hilton
Hotels & Resorts Opens the 504-room Hilton Guangzhou Tianhe in
Guangzhou, China Owned by a Subsidiary of Talent Property Group Limited
- The
95-suite TownePlace Suites by Marriott Opens in Gonzales, Louisiana,
Managed by Avalon Hotel Group
- Hard
Sell Ahead on Green Jobs Plan for Massalina Investments to Qualify for
$25.3 million in Loan Guarantees for Development of Embassy Suites
Hotel in Panama City, Florida
- Primm
Valley Casino Resorts in Primm, Nevada Completes $8.5 Million Hotel and
Casino Renovations
- IHG
Makes Development Team Changes in the Americas Region
- White
Lodging Appoints Michael Galligan as General Manager of the Fairfield
Inn & Suites by Marriott in Austin, Texas
- Waterford
Hotel Group Appoints Tina Fleming as General Manager of the 145-room
Courtyard by Marriott in Cromwell, Connecticut
August 19, 2011
- Why
Caesars Entertainment is Shooting for 30-Something Customers for the
$500 million Linq Attraction in Las Vegas
- VFM
Leonardo's VNetwork Experiences Significant Growth in Travel Consumer
Reach and Engagement; The Travel Industry's Largest Online Media
Syndication Network Saw an Increase of 134% in Views of Media Displayed
in VPowered Multi-Media Player since February of this Year.
- Hotel
Lending Lawyer: What every hotel lender needs to know about HMAs and
hotel franchise agreements / Jim Butler & Guy Maisnik
- Paid
Search Producing Positive Results for Hoteliers / David Brudney
- Bulgari
Hotels Chooses Papagayo EcoDevelopment in Costa Rica for First Latin
American Property; Will Build $100 Million Hotel with Possible Room
Rates of $4,000 a Night
- Cure
for Exodus of Companies from Downtown Tampa Proposed; $350 million,
20-story Hotel and Office Tower Planned that Could Encompass Four City
Blocks
- Bankrupt
696-room Hooters Casino Resort in Las Vegas Exploring Alternatives to
Forced Foreclosure Including Raising Capital, a Merger or Sale of
Property
- Hilton
Garden Inn and Pivot Point Conference Center in Yuma, Arizona Purchased
by S2 Acquisition at Trustee Sale for Their Opening Bid of $10 Million
- Design
Complete but No Decision Yet on Flag for $100 Million 500-room Hotel
Envisioned for the Coast Convention Center in Biloxi, Mississippi
- Virtuoso®
& VIRTUOSO LIFE Magazine Honor Recipients of the 2011 Best of the
Best Hotel Awards Including Hotelier of the Year, Offer Nissenbaum, The
Peninsula Beverly Hills, California and Hotel of the Year, Hotel
Cipriani & Palazzo Vendramin, Venice, Italy
- Invitation
to Participate in Cornell Center for Hospitality Research Project on
Use of Flash Sales and Private Sales Sites
- Conversion
to Begin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin of Pabst Buildings to 90-room Extended
Stay Hotel
- Conrad
Hotels & Resorts to Use Highly Styled Photographs as Part of New
Brand Campaign - The Luxury of Being Yourself
- IHG
and the Real Estate Group RICSHER, S.A. de C.V. Open the 136-room
Crowne Plaza Tuxpan, Mexico
- Vantage
Hospitality Group Re-Brands the La Quinta in Billings, Montana as the
87-room Lexington Inn & Suites
- Prestige
Hospitality to Manage the CoCo Key Water Resort Hotel & Convention
Center in Waterbury, Connecticut
- International
Association of Venue Managers (IAVM) Selects Richard "Dick" Shaff as
the 2011 Recipient of the International Convention Center Conference
(ICCC) Lifetime Achievement Award
- Bill
Reynolds Joins The Marcus Corporation as Senior Managing Director of
MHR Capital
- Glenmont
Capital Management Appoints Stan Kozlowski as Vice President, Hotel
Acquisitions
August 18, 2011
- Hersha
Hospitality Trust to Sell Portfolio of 18 Non-Core Properties to
Starwood Capital Group for $155 million; Agreement Represents the
Largest Sale in Hersha's History
- Video:
PKF's Robert Mandelbaum Highlights Findings of the 2011 Trends® in
the Hotel Industry; Good News for Hotel Profits
- California's
Hotel Industry Recovering as Occupancy Levels Rise
- PKF
Hospitality Research Issues Preliminary U.S. Lodging Forecast; Demand
Growth and ADR Have Exceeded Expectations, Moody's Outlook for
Nations's Economy in Second Half of 2011 is Further Deterioration
- MGM
Resorts Stock Slumps on Economic News and Kirk Kerkorian's Tracinda
Corporation Sale of 20 million shares, Reducing His Stake to 22.8%
- A
Case Study on Utilizing a Sophisticated SEM Technology to Increase
Conversions, Boost Revenues and Optimize Search Engine Marketing ROIs
- Do
Your Hotel Guests Suffer From Buyers' Remorse? / Caroline Cooper
- JAL
Hotels to Open the 436-room Hotel Nikko Xiamen in China
- IHG
Signs Agreement with Owner, Inter-Oceanica Hotelaria e Turismo Ltda,
for the 110-room New-Build Holiday Inn Express in Rio Branco, Brazil
- Be
Live Hotels - Mega Blitz: Be Yourself. Live the World.
- InnLink
Receives Pegasus ADS Best Practices Recognition
- Blueprint
RF Launches Hotel Technology Dashboard; Central System Health and
Performance Information Aggregator
- Hilton
Worldwide and Eros Group Open the Newly Built 196-room DoubleTree by
Hilton New Delhi-Mayur Vihar in India
- The
Hotel Group Opens Newly Built 149-room Hilton Garden Inn
Eugene/Springfield in Oregon
- The
105-room Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Opens in Kearney,
Nebraska, Owned and Managed by Younes Hospitality
- MetWest
Realty Advisors Acquires Topnotch Resort and Spa in Stowe, Vermont;
MetWest Terra Hospitality will Continue as Property Manager
- Chatham
Lodging Trust Completes Financing on 124-room Residence Inn in New
Rochelle, NY, Closing on a $15.8 Million Loan
- Construction
has Begun on the 120-suite Hilton Homewood Suites in Egg Harbor
Township, New Jersey
- AME
Management Group Has Begun Construction of 113-room Hampton Inn in
Bangor, Maine
- Great
Hotels of the World Complete Renovation of 40-room Stoke Place - an
English Country House in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England
- Dorchester
Collection Unveils More Plans for 2011 with News from Several
Properties; Highlights include the Opening of 45 Park Lane in London
and the Newly Renovated Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles
- HFTP
to Honor Ed Kingsmore as the 2011 CHAE (Certified Hospitality
Accountant Executive) of the Year at the Upcoming Annual Convention
& Tradeshow
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Appoints Alex Cabañas to the
Newly-created Position of President, Business Development and Finance
- John
Lee Appointed as General Manager of 793-room Hyatt Regency Jing Jin
City Resort and Spa in Baodi, Tianjin, China
- White
Lodging Appoints Jason Smith as General Manager for the Hilton Garden
Inn in Lake Forest, Illinois
- Abby
Morgan Appointed as Director of Sales and Marketing at The Joule,
Dallas in Texas
August 17, 2011
- Savvy
Multi-Property Operator Lodging Hospitality Management Integrates
Maestro PMS Loyalty and Social Media to Increase Direct Bookings and
Repeat Business; Luxury Boutique Independents Outshine Flags with
Creative Marketing and Personalized Rewards Strategies using Maestro
Integrated CRM, Loyalty, Booking Engine and Mobile
- Sabre
Hospitality Solutions wins prestigious "People’s Choice Innovation
Award"; Business Travelers vote the Sabre Hotel RFP tool best in class
- Visionary
Hotel Groups Continue to Select The PLC for Targeted International
Sales & Marketing Services to Generate Global Business from Key
Feeder Markets
- Price
Begets Profits / Robert Mandelbaum
- Hotel
Lawyer on the Importance of Brands - Intellectual Property Rights and
What They Mean: Family Suites Resorts v. Viacom International d/b/a MTV
Networks - a Suit Over Branding / Jim Butler
- Lodging
Econometrics Reports Latin America Pipeline Increases 14%, the 6th
Consecutive Quarter of Increases; Development Continues to Rebound in
South & Central America
- Inspiring.
Professional. Gracious. Visionary. Approachable. Humble. All Words Used
to Describe Terry Lanni, Former MGM Resorts CEO, as he was Remembered
for his Friendship and Business Acumen
- The
Tropicana Las Vegas Resort and Carl Icahn's Gaming Company Settle
Trademark Dispute Over Use of Tropicana Name
- Conde
Nast Traveler Honors Travel Industry Winners of the 2011 World Savers
Awards for their Leadership Efforts in Social Responsibility; Accor,
Banyan Tree, and Grand Hyatt Sao Paulo Among those Recognized
- Rezidor
Hotel Group to Open The 435-room Radisson Blu Sobieski Hotel in the
Re-Branded Jan III Sobieski Hotel in Warsaw, Poland
- Starwood
Hotels Signs Agreement with Serka Turizm A.S. to Open a New-Build
Sheraton Hotel in Adana, Turkey
- Britannia
Pacific Properties Granted Right to Build a Geothermally Heated Hotel
Project in Mammoth Lakes, California
- New
Hotel Soon to Rise on West 37th Street in the Garment Center;
Buccini/Polin and the Albanese Organization Acquire 312-318 West 37th
Street for $20.8 Million; Eastern Consolidated Sells Sliver of Land on
Behalf of Two Families Who Have Owned the Site for Nearly 100 Years
- Hospitality
Softnet, Inc. Adds Sales Leadership Course for General Managers to
theCampus
- AHLEI
and Azerbaijan Tourism Association Sign Agreement
- Nashville
Holiday Inn Express Chooses Knowland's Target Net for Meetings
Management; Target Net's ground-breaking platform streamlines the
booking process, allowing the Holiday Inn Express to quickly and
efficiently drive sales
- Entries
for The Boutique & Lifestyle 2011 Hospitality Awards Extended Until
Monday, August 22, 2011
- GBTA
Foundation and Egencia Release Findings of 2nd Annual Corporate Travel
Policy Benchmarking & Insight Study; Study Shows That Only 21% of
Travel Managers are Currently Tracking Ancillary Fees, Forty-one
percent of those that do not track these fees, plan to in the next 12
months
- International
Exposure Expands the Potential of Success in Hospitality Businesses and
Academics / Dr. John Hogan
- Hilton
Huanying, a Tailored Experience for Chinese Travelers, Launches Today
in 51 Hotels in 13 Countries with Unveiling in San Francisco
- Two
Accor Hotels in Australia, The Mercure Sydney and The Menzies,
Introduce Optimum Service Standards for Indian Guests
- The
48-suite HotelRED in Madison, Wisconsin Opens Catering to Camp Randall
Stadium Visitors
- La
Residence Hue Hotel and Spa in Vietnam Joins Accor's MGallery
Collection of Unique Hotels
- Harmony
Hospitality Gets Nod for Potential Development of a 194-room Sheraton
Convention Center Hotel in Wilmington, North Carolina
- The
School of Hospitality Business Alumni Association at Michigan State
University Honors Two Alumni with Lifetime Achievement Awards;
Hospitality Educators Dr. H.A. "Andy" Divine (BA '60) and Professor
George Alley (BA '59) Recognized
- Bellagio
in Las Vegas Unveils Newly Redesigned Guest Rooms; $70 Million Remodel
Began in June with Plans to Complete all 2,568 Resort Rooms in the Main
Tower by Mid-December
- The
261-room Crowne Plaza Albuquerque in New Mexico to Open After a $14
Million Renovation and Brand Change from the Former Hilton
- Pan
Pacific Hotels Group Appoints Jacqui Cuthbertson as General Manager of
the 148-room Pan Pacific Serviced Suites Bangkok in Thailand
- John
Q. Hammons' Chateau on the Lake Resort, Spa & Convention Center in
Branson Names Simeon Ebedes as Director of Sales
- Adrian
Carpenter Appointed as Executive Chef at Brasada Ranch near Bend, Oregon
- Edan
Ballantine Appointed as Director of Food and Beverage at the Grand
Hyatt New York
August 16, 2011
- MICROS
eCommerce Services|TIG Global Expands Relationship with Delta Hotels;
New Strategic Partnership Poised to Enhance Booking Experience and Web
Visibility
- MGM
Resorts Seeking Approval to Implode CityCenter's Harmon Hotel; Perini
Building Sure to Oppose Request as Legal Wrangling Continues
- Hotel
Lawyer on the Fiduciary, Contractual and Agency Duties of Hotel Brokers
- Host Hotels & Resorts LP v. Molinaro Koger Litigation / Jim Butler
- Chinese
Tourism: A Potential Bounty for U.S. Hotels / Li Chen
- I'm
Not a Kid Anymore - So, Stop Training Me Like One! / Jim Hartigan
- Summit
Hotel Properties Reports 2nd Quarter Revenue of $38.6 million, Up 7.6%
Over Same Period Last Year; RevPAR Increased 6.4% for Initial
Portfolio; Acquisition of Four Hotels Completed
- China
Lodging Group, Limited Reports 2nd Quarter 2011 Net Income of U.S. $6.2
Million; Key Metrics Down Due to Effect of the Shanghai Expo
- Hotel
Voice Reservations: The Forgotten Channel / Doug Kennedy
- Last
Days to Register: Trends for an Uncertain Economy – Impact on the
Revenue Management Plan: Webinar August 18 / Carol Verret
- Pulitzer
Hotel, Library Project Hog Tied by Bankers
- Travelodge
to Target Britain's National Park Visitors; Searching for 37 Suitable
Hotel Sites Near 15 National Parks
- Tulsa,
Oklahoma City Hall $25 Million Conversion to 190-room Aloft Hotel Has
Begun
- Lynn
Griffith Joins Hospitality Talent Scouts as Vice President Recruitment;
Rebounding Economy Creates Paradox: More Jobs, But Top Talent in Low
Supply
- Pegasus
Solutions Wins Two International Stevie® Awards in Eighth Annual
International Business Awards
- New
AHLEI Textbook Guides Food and Beverage Services on Effective Greening
- Tourism
in Manatee County, Florida Increased by More Than 8% from July 2010 to
July 2011; Economic Impact Year to Date Up 5.5%
- Chatham,
Georgia County Commission Accepts Agreement for Proposed Convention
Center Hotel on Hutchinson Island
- Vikram
Chatwal Brings Dream Hotel to South Beach in Florida; The 108-room
Hotel Opens in the Former Palmer House and Tudor Hotel Connected by a
Central Courtyard
- The
$25 million Luxury, Five-Story and Floating Fisherman's Paradise Resort
to Open off Clearwater, Florida
- The
137-room Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Opens in Buena Park,
California, Owned and Managed by Dominion International, Inc.
- The
73-room Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott to Open in Alamogordo,
New Mexico Managed by Rim Hospitality
- Department
of Commerce Seeking Applications for Membership on the U.S. Travel and
Tourism Advisory Board; Application Deadline September 16, 2011
- Highlights
Posted for the Upcoming International Hotel, Motel + Restaurant Show
Scheduled for November 12-15, 2011 in New York City
- RCI
Renews Affiliation Agreement with El Cid Resorts of Mexico
- Waterford
Hotel Group Names Chuck Moran as Regional Hotel Director
- WorldHotels
Appoints Paulo Salvador as Vice President of Global Marketing &
Sales and Vice President for EMEA Hotels
- Melissa
Darpino Appointed As Hotel Director for the 16-room Peacock Inn in
Princeton, New Jersey
- Keith
Butz Appointed as General Manager of the 789-room Hyatt Regency San
Francisco Airport - Burlingame in California
- Michael
Snapkoski Named Director of Sales and Marketing at Benchmark's
Lansdowne Resort in Leesburg, Virginia
- White
Lodging Appoints Justin Budyak as Director of Sales and Marketing at
the Marriott Hotel in Boulder, Colorado
- Eduardo
Frausto Appointed as Executive Chef at the 243-room Westin Resort &
Spa, Los Cabos in Mexico
August 15, 2011
- ReviewAnalyst
and TrustYou Form Partnership; Strategic Alliance will Offer Hotels
Unrivaled Global Social Media Reputation Management
- Insurance
Claims for Data Theft Jumped 56% Last Year; Data Thieves Targeting
Hotels and Resorts Accounting for 38% of Total Cyber Attacks
- If
Boyd Gaming Owes $20 million to the State of Nevada for Comped Meals,
Imagine the Potential Industry Total Owed
- Bill
Aimed at Protecting Hotel Housekeepers by Requiring Fitted Sheets has
Revived Debate that California has Become a Hyper-Regulated Nanny State
- Cosmopolitan
Narrows 2nd Quarter Loss to $54.3 million on Net Revenue of $126.1
million, Intensifying Efforts to Boost Casino Revenue
- La
Bahia Hotel Project in Santa Cruz, California Still on Hold, Blocked by
State Coastal Commission Voting Contrary to Staff Report Recommending
Approval
- Financing
Needed for 178-Room Harbourside Westin; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral
Add/Update 164 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects
Database
- PURE
Allergy Friendly Rooms to be Featured in Six Cleveland, Ohio Area
Residence Inn by Marriott Properties Managed by Interstate Hotels &
Resorts
- New
Property Manager and GM for Clearwater Hotel: Hotel-Online and
BuildCentral Have Updated 166 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with Changes
in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership
- FairBridge
Hotels International Launches Two New Brands - Loyalty Inn and Dumont
Inn
- Potomac
Hospitality Services Creates Modus Hotels Brand and Appoints Kevin
Sawatsky as Vice President Business Development
- Milestone
Internet Marketing Seeking Senior e-Strategist
- The
Liquidation Sale of the Clarion Hotel San Francisco Airport Opens
Thursday, August 18th at 10:00 a.m. Sale will be Conducted by NCL/
National Content Liquidators, Inc.; Three Weeks Only! Everything Goes!
- Hotel
AG Arranges Sale of Lake Oconee Lodge
- Hotel
Technology (HTNG) Elects 15 Members for its First Vendor Advisory
Council
- Working
to Overcome Obstacles for Proposed Hotel and Marina, Panama City,
Florida Officials Plan Meeting with State Housing and Urban Development
Representatives
- Hyatt
Signs Agreement with ASB Tanzania Ltd. to Manage the 180-room Hyatt
Regency Dar Es Salaam, The Kilimanjaro in Tanzania
- Noble
House Hotels & Resorts Assumes Management of Gateway Canyons Resort
in Gateway, Colorado, Partnering with Hendricks Investment Holdings LLC
- The
160-room Northern Hotel in Billings, Montana Looking to be Born Again
- Richfield
Hospitality to Oversee Renovation and Conversion of 475-room Best
Western Lakeside Hotel in Kissimmee, Florida to the Independent
Maingate Lakeside Resort
- Ferguson
Hotel Development to Build 73-room Fairfield Inn and Suites by Marriott
in Moscow, Idaho
- Winston
Hospitality Completes Renovation of 169-room Courtyard by Marriott in
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- Outrigger
Names Dr. Charles R. Kelley Board Chair; Dr. Richard R. Kelley Named
Chairman Emeritus; David Carey Continues as President and CEO
- Waterford
Hotel Group Names Farouk Rajab as General Manager of the 285-room
Mystic Marriott Hotel & Spa in Groton, Connecticut
- Crestline
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Patrick McManus as General Manager for
the 205-room Courtyard by Marriott Baltimore Inner Harbor in Maryland
August 12, 2011
- Five-Star
Luxury Hotel Fitzwilliam Dublin Selects IDeaS to Gain Greater Business
Intelligence and Control; Early recovery signs for the Dublin market
encourage Fitzwilliam to implement world-class Revenue Management System
- The
Lodging Conference 2011 - Look Who's Coming - Are You?
- Tired
of Waiting Around, Marriott International Enters Bankruptcy Fight Over
Sawgrass Marriott Resort Filing its Own Reorganization Plan to Push the
Case Forward and Give Creditors a Meaningful Choice
- With
no Buyers Emerging, Atlantic City Hilton Casino Resort Could Soon
Close; Sale of Property has been Complicated by the Recent Decision by
Hilton Hotels & Resorts to Sever Ties with the Casino
- The
67-room Scrub Island Resort, Spa & Marina in the British Virgin
Islands to Join Marriott's Autograph Collection
- Noble
Investment Group Acquires Residence Inn Midtown Atlanta; Plans to
Renovate the 160-room hotel located on Peachtree Road and 17th Street
- Las
Vegas Hotels Warming Up to Pets as Guests as it Becomes a Matter of
Necessity, Not a Chance for More Revenue
- City
of Cedar Rapids, Owners of the Former Crowne Plaza Five Seasons Hotel,
Can't Spiff Up the Interior Until the Exterior Gets a Face-Lift;
Council Seeking Bids for the $3.7 million Project
- Owner
of Three Connecticut Hotels to Pay Fine For Alleged Price Fixing
- The
No Hidden Fee Guarantee: The Knowland Group doesn't hassle clients with
surprise costs; instead offers complete SaaS solutions to hoteliers
- Integrating
e-commerce into a hotel's overall business strategy; Interview with
Gareth Gaston, Senior Vice President, Global eCommerce, Wyndham Hotel
Group / Ritesh Gupta
- Amadeus
to Showcase the Evolution of Corporate Travel Innovation for Amadeus
One and More at 2011 GBTA Conference; Line-up includes educational
sessions, sponsored activities and demos focused on the Amadeus One
solutions suite, IT consulting services and future-focused technologies
- Keys
To Success - Answers and Practical Solutions from Readers on The Value
of Hoteliers Helping Hoteliers / Dr. John Hogan
- Clock
is Ticking on the Wilmington, North Carolina City Council to Pick a
Convention Center Hotel
- Portrait
of American Travelers Survey Reveals New Resourcefullness of Leisure
Travelers; Determined to Obtain the Most Value Though that Definition
is no Longer Based on Price Alone
- Fort
Collins, Colorado Officials Grapple with City's Financial Role in
Development of a Downtown Hotel
- Owners,
The Advantage Raheja, and Marriott International Open the 179-room
Courtyard by Marriott Pune City Centre, in Pune, India; Harinder J.
Singh Opening General Manager
- New
221-room Hampton Inn & Suites Miami Brickell-Downtown to Open in
Florida this Fall Unveiling a Sweeping Sustainability Initiative; Aims
To Become Miami's First LEED-Certified Hotel
- Wave
Crest Hotels & Resorts Opens the 215-room Hilton Carlsbad
Oceanfront Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California
- 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
- The
136-suite SpringHill Suites by Marriott to Open in Columbus, Ohio
Managed by Concord Hospitality
- Meritage
Resort and Spa in Napa Valley, California Set to Complete $40 Million
Expansion Project to Open in Spring 2012
- Sheila
Gerbig-Hussey Appointed as General Manager for the Outrigger Aina Nalu
in Lahaina on Maui
- Buffalo
Lodging Appoints Kara Hejmowski as Director of Sales for the 80-room
Hampton Inn Buffalo/Williamsville in New York
- Jorge
Collazo Appointed as Director of Sales at The Setai South Beach in
Florida
- Robert
Clarke Named Director of Food & Beverage for The Omni Mount
Washington Resort in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire
- Katrina
Mazcyk Named as Catering Sales Manager for the 183-room Wyndham
Virginia Crossings Hotel & Conference Center in Glen Allen, Virginia
August 10, 2011
- Video:
HITEC 2011 Recap from InvoTech - Busiest Show in Five Years; HITEC 2011
Attendees Shopped Systems that Save Time and Money; Ultra High
Frequency RFID Solutions Tapped for Efficiency
- Anantara
Hotels, Resorts & Spas to Capitalise on Growth in Retail Travel
Market with IDeaS Pricing and Forecasting Support; All Anantara
properties to use IDeaS technology to boost performance in competitive
environment
- Las
Vegas Hilton Reports Quarterly Loss of $8.9 million and Skips Interest
Payments on Loan; Hilton Hotels has Notified Owners, Colony Resorts LVH
Acquisitions, that Renewal for Use of Hilton Name Will Not Occur
- Stop
Treating Your Staff like Children and Start Training them like Adults!
/ Jim Hartigan
- Marriott
International and Granite Broadway Development to Develop New York
City's Tallest Hotel; The 68-story Property will House 378-room
Courtyard and 261-room Residence Inn Hotels to be Managed by Interstate
Hotels & Resorts
- Hilton
Worldwide and Salim Group to Open 195-room Hilton N'Djamena, the First
Hilton Property in the Republic of Chad
- Bali
Desperate to Curb Establishment of New Hotels as Natural Resources
Diminish and Room Availability Exceeds Demand
- Dive
In: Five Unique Las Vegas Resort Pools
- The
Hotel Group Acquires the South Bend Marriott Hotel in Indiana to be
Rebranded as a DoubleTree by Hilton; A Multi-million Renovation is
Planned to Begin in 2012
- Small
Brothers Charlotte, LLC Sign Franchise Agreement for New Build 172-room
Hyatt Place Charlotte-Uptown in Charlotte, North Carolina
- Virtual
Concierge Arrives in Asia with the Introduction of Intelity’s ICE to
The L Resort Krabi; The Luxury Lifestyle Resort Will Be the First in
Asia to Launch Virtual Concierge Via iPads
- Out
of the Box Thinking on Hotel Vanity Websites
- Westin
Stonebriar Wowing Guests with High Speed Broadband Services from PSAV
- Knowland
Links Florida Golf Resort with Target Net; GreenLinks Golf Villas at
Lely Resort is part of Target Net's growing client list
- Orbitz
and Starcite Launch Orbitz for Business Meetings; Orbitz for Business
Customers Can Now Source and Book Meetings at Competitive Rates Through
the StarCite Online Marketplace
- Runtriz
Personalizes Mobile Guest Services for The Umstead Hotel and Spa;
Award-winning AAA Five Diamond, Forbes Five Star property in Cary,
North Carolina, puts luxury hotel and spa services at guests'
fingertips via customized 'Umstead Connect' app
- Millennium
& Copthorne Hotels (M&C) Plans for Expansion in China, India
and the Middle East
- EIH
and Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) to Jointly Build Hotels and Luxury
Homes Starting with Projects in Goa and Bangalore in India; Partnership
is Open to Pursuing Further Projects Both Within and Outside of India
- The
331-room Hilton Concord in the East Bay of San Francisco, California
Owned and Operated by Interstate Hotels Begins Multi-Million Dollar
Renovation Project
- Landry's
Restaurants, Headed by Tilman Fertitta and Owners of the Golden Nugget,
Steps in to Take Over Eva Longoria's Beso Restaurant Located in Las
Vegas' CityCenter; Fertiitta Stated the Problem There Was Management,
Not Revenue
- Wichita
City Council Approves Letter of Intent to Support Proposed $21.6
million Downtown Boutique Hotel Project with City Incentives
- Hyatt
Opens the 327-room Hyatt Regency Chennai in South India
- Jumeirah
Group Opens the 218-room Jumeirah Frankfurt Hotel in Germany
- New
Boutique Hotel, the 228-room Hotel Hanford, Opens in the Former Holiday
Inn in Costa Mesa, California
- IHG
to Open Newly Renovated 87-room Holiday Inn Express Medical District in
Springfield, Missouri Owned by JKD, Inc. and Managed by Rolling Oaks
Hospitality; Property will Showcase Features of the Brand's Worldwide
Relaunch Program
- Coast
Hospitality Appoints Leslie Caldwell as Director of Sales &
Marketing for the 287-room Benson Hotel, a Coast Hotel - Portland in
Oregon
- White
Lodging Appoints Deann Patena as the Director of Sales and Marketing at
the Radisson Hotel at Star Plaza in Merrillville, Indiana
August 9, 2011
- Dr.
Doom: Effects of the Downgrade on the Hotel Industry / Joel Ross
- Jamaica
Hospitality Industry to Launch an OTA with Glamour DMC and Regatta
Travel Solutions
- M
Waikiki's Edition Lawsuit Against Marriott International and Ian
Schrager - an Owner's HMA Dispute with Marriott and What it All Means /
Jim Butler
- IHG
Posts a 21% Rise in Operating Profit Through Q2 2011 to $269 million
Compared with $219 million in the Same Period a Year Earlier; Global
RevPAR Up 6.7% Overall; Greater China Reporting RevPAR Growth of 12.7%
- MGM
Resorts International Reports Q2 2011 Net Revenue of $1.8 billion, up
17% Over Prior Year; RevPAR Increased 9%; Completes MGM China IPO and
Increases Stake to 51%; Transaction Results in $3.5 billion Gain
- MGM's
Chairman and CEO Jim Murren States Wall Street Turmoil so Far has had
No Effect on Business; Describes Zero Impact on Call Center and no
Change in Cancellation Activity in Recent Days
- Caesars
Entertainment Narrows Loss in Second Quarter 2011 from $274 million to
$155.5 million
- Chatham
Lodging Trust Posts Second Quarter 2011 Net Loss of $1.9 million
Compared to Net Loss of $.6 million Same Period 2010;
RevPAR Increased 3.3% / Completed First of Two Innkeepers Acquisitions
- Legal
Skirmish Over Flawed CityCenter Harmon Tower Hotel May Never Reveal
Blame for Overwhelming Constructions Flaws
- Google
is going Places - is your business ready for the ride? / Daniel Edward
Craig
- Trends
for an Uncertain Economy – Impact on the Revenue Management Plan:
Webinar August 18 / Carol Verret
- Spa
Trends - Purer Products and Protocols - a Q & A with Brenda Ramen,
Global Spa Director for GHM Hotels
- Charlestowne
Hotels Reports Revenues Up 18%; Year over Year Results Outpace National
Forecasts
- Optimum
Hotel Brokerage Sells First Mortgage Note on Skyview Plaza Hotel;
Philadelphia Full Service Hotel Note Sold for Regional Bank
- Alliance
Hospitality Announces Strong Financial Results for Second Quarter 2011;
Portfolio of managed hotels surpasses results of competitors and total
U.S. market with 28.2 percent higher growth in revenue per available
room compared to same time last year.
- RateTiger
Introduces Price Transparency with Intelligent Rate Data; RTSnapShot
helps corporate buyers better understand hotel rates
- Well
Known Marketing/Food, Beverage & Laundry Consultant, Bernie Otis,
Joins F & B Equipment of the Year Dealer
- Developer
Jason Townsend Revamps Stalled Redevelopment Proposals in Kansas City
and Omaha Choosing Hotel Projects Over the Original Condo Plans; Aiming
at a 306-room Embassy Suites in Kansas City, Missouri and a 400-room
Hotel in Omaha, Nebraska
- Lowen
Hospitality Management Converting Former United Fidelity Life Insurance
Building in Dallas, Texas, Vacant for More than a Decade, into a
Homewood Suites by Hilton Hotel
- Las
Vegas Tourists Spending More, Boosting MGM Resorts
- The
970-room BEST WESTERN Vega Hotel & Convention Centre Opens in
Moscow; Becomes the Largest Best Western Hotel in the World and the
First in Russia
- The
83-room Fairfield Inn & Suites Harrisburg West/New Cumberland to
Open in Pennsylvania, Owned by Ava Realty LLC and Managed by Keystone
Hotel Management
- Hotel
Equities to Manage the 118-room Hampton Inn Jacksonville-I-95 Central
Hotel in Jacksonville, Florida; Extensive Renovation is Planned for the
Property
- Caesars
Atlantic City in New Jersey Completes $9 Million Renovation of 24
High-Roller Suites in the Ocean Tower; To Follow Up with $7.5 Million
Remodel of 120 Guest Rooms in the Tower
- Opening
Delayed Again for the Madison Beach Hotel in Madison, Connecticut
Originally Planned for June Now Pushed to October
- IHG
Appoints Tracy Robbins as Executive Vice President Global Human
Resources and Group Operations Support, and to the Board as an
Executive Director
- Andrew
Davidson Appointed as General Manager of the 216-room Park Hyatt
Washington in the District of Columbia
- JHM
Hotels Names Craig Eick as Vice President of Design and Construction
- The
TradeWinds Island Resorts in St. Pete Beach, Florida Appoints Travis
Johnson to Vice President of Marketing and Tim Johnson to General
Manager of the TradeWinds Sandpiper Suites
- Thais
Magri Named Senior Sales Manager for the U.S. Market for The St. Regis
Punta Mita Resort, Mexico
- Buffalo
Lodging Appoints Zachary Schwarting as Director of Sales for the
110-room Hampton Inn Hartford-Airport in Connecticut
August 8, 2011
- Bringing
Value / Dan Phillips
- Sunstone
Reports 2nd Qtr 2011 Net Income of $31.1 million Compared with a Loss
of $4.9 million Same Period Prior Year; RevPAR Grows 7.2%
- The
Three Ingredients of Engaging Service: Humility, Reverence &
Professionalism / Dr. Bryan K. Williams, DM
- Hotel
Investment: Why Asian investors are targeting U.S. hotels for purchase
and investment, and what could it mean for you? / Jim Butler
- IHG
Signs Franchise Agreement with Sands China to Open 1,224 room Holiday
Inn Macao Cotai Strip in Macao; Will be the World's Largest Holiday Inn
When Open in Early 2012
- Coral
Hospitality Partners with Margaritaville and The Lojeta Group on the
Development and Management of Florida's Margaritaville Hollywood Beach
Resort; Planned Opening in Early 2014
- ST
Laurn Hotels and Resorts Based in Pune, India Plans to Open 15 New
Hotels Throughout India by 2015
- Seneca
Gaming Corporation to Build New Hotel Tower at Seneca Allegany Casino
& Hotel Adding 200 Rooms to the 212-room Resort in Salamanca, New
York
- Essential
Tools for the New Executive / Emmett Murphy
- Annual
Occupancy Rate in Beirut, Lebanon Hotels Declines 65% in the First Six
Months of 2011
- The
Value Of Hotel Guest Reviews By Lodging Interactive
- Hotel
AG Brokers Sale of Hampton Inn & Suites Davenport, Iowa
- Analysis
of Labor Department Report Shows that the Travel Industry Accounts for
More than 1 in 10 Jobs Created in 2011; Travel Jobs Continue to
Increase for Eighth Consecutive Month
- Buffalo
Lodging Opens 122-room Hampton Inn Portland/Downtown-Waterfront Hotel
in Maine, Owned by Mark Woglom and Greg Kirsch
- Coral
Hospitality Chosen by Allied Partners, NY to Manage the 75-suite Savoy
Hotel on Miami, Florida's South Beach; A Multi-Million Dollar
Refurbishment will Begin
- Richfield
Hospitality Partners with Predisio Companies to Operate the 75-room
Hyatt Place UC Davis in Davis, California
- AHLEI
Welcomes Shelly Siceloff-Weir as New Senior Director, State Relations
& Educational Programs
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Names Michael O'Neil Director of Corporate
Accounting
- Malcolm
Zancanaro Named as General Manager of the 825-room Grand Hyatt Beijing
in China
- Erin
Ennis Appointed as Director of National Accounts, Handling the
Southeast Region, for Grand Wailea, A Waldorf Astoria Resort on Maui,
Hawaii
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Names Cinda Culton as Director of Sales and
Marketing for the 55-room Sorrel River Ranch Resort & Spa in Moab,
Utah
- Michael
Islava Appointed as Director of Sales and Marketing at the Riviera Palm
Springs in California
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Names Melissa Georges as Sales Manager for
the 147-room Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center in
Blacksburg, Virginia
August 5, 2011
- Ten
Things You Should be Doing on Your Website but Probably Aren’t: Top Ten
Tips for Hotel Websites Presented by evolution
- Triple
Threat: The Importance of Hotel Facebook Page Design; Lowering Your
Commission Payments to OTA's and Top 5 Reasons for Hotel Mobile
Websites / Pedro Colaco
- Red
Lion Hotels Reports 2nd Qtr 2011 Net Income of $18.6 million Compared
with Net Loss of $.1 million Same Period 2010; Revenue for Qtr
Increases Slightly to $39.3 million from $38.6 million; RevPAR Grows
6.3%
- In
a New Court Filing Expedia Makes Third Effort to Change Jurisdiction in
Hotel Tax Lawsuit Against the City of Columbus, Georgia to Federal
Court, Seeking a Potential Game-Changer in this Legal Battle
- Sands
China Signs Franchise Agreements with Hilton Worldwide and IHG for
Additions of the Conrad and Holiday Inn Brands to Sands' Cotai Central
Strip Development in Macao; The 600-room Conrad Macao and the
1,200-room Holiday InnMacao to Open Early in 2012
- Oberoi
Realty Abandons Planned Goa, India Hotel Project and Sells the 15-acre
Site with a Non-Operational Hotel to a Private Hotelier
- Entertainment
Properties Trust and Empire Resorts Select Master Planner for
Revitalization of Former Concord Resort Site in Sullivan County, New
York; Mixed-use Development to Include Casino, Hotel and Specialty
Lodging
- Northwood
Investors Completes Acquisition of the 214-room Cheeca Lodge & Spa
in Islamorada in the Florida Keys
- The
Valdosta, Georgia Hotel Once Featuring Roger Miller Concerts Including
his Hit "King of the Road" Has Become 137-room TravelodgeR Valdosta,
Managed by Afton Hospitality Affiliate, Hospitality Receiver LLC
- Cornell
Center for Hospitality Research Study Finds Customers Give More
Credibility to the Green Activities of Large Restaurant Companies When
Small Competitors Launch Green Initiatives; Consumers are Skeptical
When Large Chains Promote Initiatives in the Absence of These Small
Competitors
- Supporters
for Construction of 125-room La Bahia Hotel in Santa Cruz, California
Concerned by State Planners Recommendation to Require Low-Cost Lodging
as Condition for Go Ahead
- Lodging
Hospitality Management Re-opens Cheshire Lodge as The Cheshire in St.
Louis, Missouri Following $8 million Renovation
- RCI
and Orange Lake Resorts, Home to Holiday Inn Club Vacations, Renew
Long-Standing Affiliation Agreement
- Mamaison
Hotels & Residences Joins the WorldHotels Collection
- White
Lodging Appoints Grant D'Entremont as General Manager for the 88-room
Residence Inn by Marriott in North Austin in Texas
August 4, 2011
- Waterpark
Resorts Supply and Demand 2011 Update / David J. Sangree
- Three
Hotel Companies Select Aptech's Profitvue ASP Back Office Accounting;
Hilton Garden Inn, Two Independent Resorts use Internet-Based Profitvue
Back Office System to Manage Property Financial Success
- Caesars
Gains Approval to Break Ground on $500 Million Strip Project in Las
Vegas, Nevada; Project to Employ 3,000 Construction Workers and Create
1,500 New Jobs
- Strategic
Hotels & Resorts Reports 2nd Qtr 2011 Net Income of $39.5 million
Compared to Net Loss of $47.4 million Same Qrt. 2010; U.S. Same Store
RevPAR increases 12.6%; Completes comprehensive balance sheet
restructuring strategy
- Baha
Mar Signs Management Agreements with Hyatt Hotels, Morgans Hotel Group
and Rosewood Hotels and Resorts to Build Next Generation Destination
Resort; The 1,000-acre, $3.4 Billion Resort, Gaming and Entertainment
Complex is Projected to Create 12,000 New Jobs and Contribute Nearly $1
Billion to the Economy in Nassau, The Bahamas
- San
Diego Hotels Feeling Less Financial Distress; Only Two Received Notices
of Default in 2nd Qtr. 2011 Compared to Eight Last Year / Lori Weisberg
- Pinnacle
Advisory Group Projects RevPAR for the Boston/Cambridge Lodging Market
in 2012 to Grow by 10.4% and 9.2% for Suburban Boston Market
- Chip
Conley, Founder and Executive Chairman of Joie de Vivre, will Receive
the 2012 International Society of Hospitality Consultants (ISHC)
Pioneer Award
- Mosaic
Development Partners and Orens Brothers Real Estate to Renovate and
Turn the Legendary Blue Horizon Boxing Venue in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania into a Hotel
- FOR
SALE: Vista Clara Ranch Spa Resort Near Santa Fe, New Mexico;
Opportunity to Acquire and Expand with Valuable Development and Water
Rights Secured; Marketed by Colliers International Hotels
- The
Palmer House Hilton Introduces Virtual Concierge to Guests of Historic
Hotel; Hotel partners with Intelity ICE to offer guests hospitality
services via their mobile device
- Safemark
Signs Global Supplier Agreement with Starwood Hotels & Resorts
Worldwide, Inc.
- eRevMax
Expands its Global Footprint in Asia, America & Africa; RateTiger
& SimpleDistribution establish a presence in South America,
Australia, South Africa and China
- Knights
Inn Hotel Brand Opens its 350th Property with the 40-room Knights Inn
Lenoir City in Lenoir, Tennessee
- Residents
of Fish Camp, California are Relieved by Delay in Construction of the
SilverTip Resort Village Planned for Their Town Near Yosemite National
Park; Developer has Filed for Bankruptcy and the Lender has Scheduled
an Auction of the Project Site
- Hyatt
Signs Agreement with SIGNA Holding Group to Manage 143-room Park Hyatt
Vienna in Austria
- Marriott
International Signs Agreement with SHRL-Benin SA to Manage 200-Room
Cotonou Marriott Hotel in Cotonou, Benin
- Hyatt
Hotels Appoints Jeff Semenchuk as its First Chief Innovation Officer
- Shawn
Leavitt Appointed Vice President, Global Compensation and Benefits for
Carlson
- Cory
Carlson Appointed as Director of Sales and Marketing for 156-key Four
Seasons Resort Jackson Hole in Wyoming
- Alejandro
Rojas Appointed as Executive Chef at the 128-suite Rosewood
Mayakobá in the Riviera Maya, Mexico
August 3, 2011
- Benchmark
Hospitality International's Top Five Dining Trends for 2011
- New
Guest Rewards Program For Independents: StayCredits Creates
Customizable, Integrated Rewards Program for Independent Hotels, Groups
and Chains
- Loews
Hotels Migrating to MTech's HotSOS; The luxury hotel brand is now
upgrading to MTech's Hotel Service Optimization System to heighten its
already superior service delivery
- Morgans
Hotel Group 2nd Qtr 2011 Net Loss at $11.4 million Compared to a Loss
of $21.1 million in the 2nd Qtr 2010; System Wide RevPar up 16.1% /
Hotel Operating Statistics
- Gaylord
Entertainment Reports a Net Income for the 2nd Qtr 2011 of $8.6 million
Compared to Net Loss of $22.7 million in the Year-ago Quarter; RevPAR
Decreased 0.5% / Hotel Operating Statistics
- Orient-Express
Hotels Reports 2nd Qtr 2011 Revenue up 23% to $177.4 million, up $33.3
million from the 2nd Qtr of 2010; RevPAR Up 20% in US Dollars
- Lodging
Econometrics Reports its Forecast for New Hotel Openings for 2013 at
409 Hotels/39,162 Rooms - Expects Net Supply Growth of Just 0.6%-0.8%
for Each of the Next Three Years
- Inland
American Lodging Group Inc. Buys Fairmont Dallas for $69 million
- Who
Are My "True" Competitors? / Trevor Stuart-Hill
- Motivators:
Understanding Conditions that Affect Human Behavior - Tools for
Personnel Management / William P. Fisher. Ph.D.
- Teach
the Front Line Staff to Generate Revenue - Extending hospitality and
generating revenue in each guest engagement go hand in hand. / Lisa
Miller
- Businessman
Files Lawsuit Seeking Class Action Status Against a Hilton Over .75
Newspaper Charge
- Coveted
Hotel Awards in Las Vegas - How About the Best Public Restroom?
- The
Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia Adding
59-unit Condominium Complex that will Mirror the Hotel Inside and Out
- Joie
De Vivre Hotels to Open its First Hotel in Chicago with the February
2012 Planned Opening of the 184-room Hotel Lincoln
- Leisure
Hospitality Gets Approval from the Claremore City Council in Oklahoma
to Build $10 Million 80-room Hampton Inn and Suites at the Former
Oklahoma Plaza Site
- Global
Business Travel Association and The Wall Street Journal Name Business
Traveler Innovation Award Winners: Recipients Include Hertz,
ExpertFlyer, GateGuru, Intelity, Sabre Hospitality Solutions and
Lufthansa
- The
Liquidation Sale of the NASCAR Cafe, Located inside the Sahara Hotel
and Casino, Opens Thursday, August 4th at 10:00 a.m. Sale Will Be
Conducted by NCL/ National Content Liquidators, Inc.
- Embassy
Suites Denver Downtown Offering Broadband Based on Customers' Need via
PSAV; With 100 megabytes of bandwidth at the Convention Center
property, meeting planners are only charged for the amount of bandwidth
needed, thereby increasing customer satisfaction while also heightening
profitability, sales and repeat business
- Marshall
Hotels & Resorts Signs First Contracts in the Caribbean; To Operate
the Windward Passage Hotel in St. Thomas and the Wyndham Garden at
Palmas del Mar in Puerto Rico
- Morgans
Hotel Group to Keep the Delano Hotel in South Beach, Florida in
Portfolio: Planning $5 million in Upgrades to Property
- Choice
Hotels International Opens 28 New Hotels in July 2011
- 8Hotels
Launches 84-room Diamant Hotel Brisbane in Australia
- The
122-room BEST WESTERN PREMIER Prestige Oceanfront Resort Opens in
Sooke, British Columbia
- The
82-room BEST WESTERN PREMIER KC Speedway Inn & Suites Opens in
Kansas City, Kansas
- Indian
Hotel Companies Seeking Greater Number of Expat Professionals to
Compete Against International Hotels
- Inaugural
Hotel Investment Conference in Africa (HICA) Organized Recognizing
Current Hotel Development Focus on Africa; Recent Pipelines Indicate
190 Hotel Projects Resulting in 37,000 New Keys Planned
- AH&LA
Lodging Industry Profile (LIP) Charts Profits, Sales and International
Arrivals for 2010 Which Indicate Slight Uptick in Profitability
- Thailand's
Tourism Arrivals Up 66% in May Compared to May 2010
- InterContinental
Singapore Reopens after Completing $7.2 Million Refurbishment of its
Unique Shophouse Rooms and Suites
- The
108-room Courtyard Fayetteville in North Carolina Completes $3.5
Million Renovation
- GHM
(General Hotel Management Ltd.) Embarks on a Spa-by-Spa Makeover,
Replacing Chemically Enhanced Formulations with the Greenest Product
Lines Available
- Outrigger
Laguna Phuket Resort and Villas in Thailand Adds 19 New Suites with
Pool, Gym and Restaurant in the Same Complex
- Rosewood
Hotels & Resorts Names Radha Arora, President; Current President
and CEO John Scott Stepping Down
- Archipelago
Hotels and Resorts Appoints Anthony A. Sebastian as General Manager for
The Datai Langkawi, Malaysia and Pat Phanekham as Hotel Manager for The
Club Saujana Resort, Kuala Lumpur
August 2, 2011
- Harrah's
Cherokee Casino & Hotel Leverages Accurate Forecasting into a
Profitable Success Story; Native American Property Among Nation's
Largest Casino Construction Projects; Revenue, Occupancy, ADR Grow with
Expansion
- The
Desmond Hotel and Conference Center Installs Flyte Systems Guest Air
Travel Solutions; Guests at Busy Albany, NY, Business Property Get
Travel Confidence from Real-Time Airport Departure and Arrival
Information
- Sherwood
"Woody" Weiser, Hotel Developer and Civic Leader, Dies at 80; An
Industry Icon and Original Class Act, His Legacy - Family, Community
and Miami's First 5-Star Hotel
- Hyatt
Hotels Reports 2nd Qrt. 2011 Net Income of $37 million Compared to $25
million Last Year
- Choice
Hotels Posts 2nd Qtr 2011 Net Income of $27.6 million; Domestic RevPAR
Increases 6.6% and Worldwide Unit Growth of .7%
- FelCor
Lodging Trust Posts 2nd Qtr 2011 Net Loss of $42.3 million Compared to
to Net Income of $21.6 million in the Year-ago Quarter; RevPAR for its
67 Hotels Increased 6.2% for the Quarter / Hotel Operating Statistics
- Great
Wolf Resorts Reports 2nd Quarter Loss of $6.8 million Compared to Loss
of $12.8 million in Same Period 2010
- A
Proposal Isn't Just Paperwork. Six Tips to Create Effective Sales
Proposals / Amanda Dennis
- Prince
Alwaleed Signs $1.2 Billion Contract for World's Tallest Tower;
Construction to Begin on 1,000 Meter Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, Saudi
Arabia Featuring a Four Seasons Hotel
- Hoteliers
Hot on Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Ghaziabad, Faridabad; Room Capacity Could
Double in Five Years with Addition of 20,000 rooms in 75 New Properties
- Las
Vegas Hooters Resort Files Chapter 11 to Block Threat of Foreclosure
- Influx
of New Restaurants and Events Helping Atlantic City Grow as Top
Culinary Destination
- Trust
International First Independent CRS to Participate in Google Program
Hotel Finder
Trial
- University
of Wisconsin-Stout Seeking School of Hospitality Leadership Director
(New Position)
- PAR
Springer-Miller Prepares for Expansion in Las Vegas; Las Vegas Office
to Serve as Development Hub for Next Generation Product
- New
Edition of Food and Beverage Operations Textbook Focuses on Memorable
Dining Experiences
- JN+A
and HVS Design Release 2011 Hotel Cost Estimating Guide; Available as
Free Download for Limited Time
- Morgans
Hotel Group to Operate 310-room Mondrian at Baha Mar Resort, the
1,000-acre, $3.4 Billion Resort, Gaming and Entertainment Complex in
Nassau, The Bahamas
- Clarion
Hotel In Bristol, Connecticut Undergoing $12 Million Expansion; Will be
Rebranded as DoubleTree by Hilton
- Luxe
Worldwide Hotels Adds Eight New Member Properties in Six International
Cities
- RCI,
Wyndham's Vacation Exchange Business, Affiliates with Shining Star
Vacation Club, Xing Yao Shui Xiang Resort Expanding its Network in China
- 314-room
Grand Hyatt Goa Opens on India's West Coast
- Boomerang
Hotels Opens the 50-room GuestHouse International Inn in Yakima,
Washington Owned and Operated by Gurpaul (Paul) S. Sandhu of Emerald
Holdings, LLC
- 105-room
Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott to Open in Linthicum Heights,
Maryland, Owned by BWI Hospitality, LLC and Managed by Baywood Hotels
- Pfeffer
& Marin Holdings, LLC Opens Comfort Suites Miami Airport North in
Florida
- The
1,408-room Philadelphia Marriott Downtown Completes $17 Million
Renovation to its Meeting Space
- Joie
De Vivre Hotels Unveils Re-Imagined Custom Hotel at LAX in California
with Retro-Chic Details and Unique Services
- Hilton
Worldwide Names Edmond Ip as Chairman, Greater China
- IHG
Appoints Yehuda J. Brener as Director of Sales, Latin America &
Caribbean
- Philip
Dailey Named as General Manager of Andaz West Hollywood in California
- Dan
Hepler Named Senior Sales Manager at the InterContinental Tampa in
Florida
- Ferdinand
"Freddie" Billena Named Executive Chef for Kani Ka Pila Grille at
Outrigger Reef on the Beach in Waikiki, Hawaii
August 1, 2011
- How
to Convert Business on Your Website / Sally Richards
- Genting
Group is Betting on Miami as Future $3 billion Resort Destination with
Purchase of Miami Herald Property
- The
Cloud is Fast Approaching - What This Means to You - The Hotelier /
Terence Ronson
- Nobody
Asked me, But… No. 79; Relevant Brand Management?; Save the Belleview
Biltmore Hotel; The Magical Americana of New York; Quote of the Month /
Stanley Turkel
- Funeral
for Terry Lanni, Former MGM CEO, a Glimpse of All the Lives He Touched
- Pebblebrook
Hotel Trust and Denihan Hospitality Group Complete Joint Venture for
Six Manhattan Hotels Valued at $910 Million
- Denihan
Hospitality Group to Utilize Capital from Closing of Joint Venture with
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust to Fuel U.S. Expansion
- 177-Room
Denver Marriott Sold: Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Have Updated 169
Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with Changes in Personnel, Property
Management or Ownership
- New
World Hospitality Completes Purchase of Rosewood Hotels & Resorts
for $229.5 Million
- Robust
Pipeline of More than 30 Projects for Embassy Suites Hotels Indicates a
Strong 2011 for the Brand
- Approval
Pending for Casino Hotel Near Outlet Mall; Hotel-Online and
BuildCentral Add/Update 191 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel
Construction Projects Database
- Faro
Blanco Marine Resort in Marathon, Florida Poised to Make a Return in
2012; Approval Given for 100-unit Hotel
- Hotel
Occupancy and Room Rates on the Rise in Las Cruces, New Mexico
- Mexico
Striving to Revive Tourism Amidst Drug Lord Wars Killing Bystanders
- At
least $165,000 Later, Coral Gables Commissioners and Biltmore Hotel
Owners Rent Dispute Remains Unresolved
- Dirty
Once, Dirty Twice: Rodeway Inn Hotel in Lancaster, New York Trying to
Deal with Ratings Damage from Being Dubbed One of the Nation's
Filthiest Establishments
- www.Hotels.bz
Offers Hoteliers an Affordable Option for Listing Their Property
- Classic
British Hotels Has Bespoke Global CRS Built by Trust International
- Hotel
AG Brokers Sale of Nashville Area Limited-Service Hotel
- Atlanta's
Artmore Hotel Joins Utell® Hotels & Resorts; Boutique Hotel
Enlists Utell to Attract Global Travelers and Travel Buyers
- For
Roger Everingham, General Manager for Palm Beach, Florida's Colony
Hotel, Life is a Cabaret
- Speakers
and Agenda Set for the 9th Annual Southern Lodging @ Memphis
Conference, August 23 & 24, 2011 in Memphis, Tennessee
- Meeting
Professionals International Selects San Francisco for 2015 World
Education Congress Bringing 3,200 Convention and Meeting Planners to
the City in July 2015
- Keys
To Success - "A Bakers Dozen" of Strategies for Effective Team Work /
Dr. John Hogan
- Hilton
Worldwide Opens 370-room Hilton Marsa Alam Nubian Resort in Egypt
- Carlson
Opens 296-room Park Inn by Radisson Dallas-Love Field, Texas Managed by
Hospitality Management Corporation
- Predisio
Companies Choses Richfield Hospitality to Manage 431-room Sheraton Fort
Worth Hotel & Spa in Texas; Property Recently Completed $48 Million
Renovation
- Concord
Hospitality Selected by Richmond Hotel Partners to Manage the 230-room
DoubleTree by Hilton Richmond Downtown in Virginia
- Macdonald
Hotels Appoints Jeremy Hopkins as General Manager of the 85-room
Macdonald Townhouse Hotel in Manchester, England
- Buffalo
Lodging Appoints Michael Celio as Regional Revenue Manager
- Dellisart
LLC Appoints Michael Hutchins as Vice President of Sales Development
- Buffalo
Lodging Appoints Mary Kirk as Regional Director of Sales and Marketing
- Buffalo
Lodging Appoints Sean Clancey as Director of eCommerce
**Top 25 Read
Articles - July 2011**
- Hyatt
Apologizes for Heat Lamps Being Turned on Strikers at Park Hyatt
Chicago During One Day Strike; A Move Clearly Not in Line with Hyatt's
Values or Corporate Policies
- Pool
Party Trend Paying Off Big for Las Vegas Resorts
- For
the First Time in its 50-Year History, John Q. Hammons Hotels &
Resorts, Walking Away From Stalled Hotel Project
- 2011
Construction Report North America: 23 Hotel Waterparks Expect to Open
in 2011; 10 Coco Key Waterparks Bought at Auction for Bargain Prices /
Jeff Coy & Amanda McDaniel
- Driftwood
Hospitality Management Forms $400MM Joint Venture with Apollo Global
Real Estate; Partnership Focused on Acquiring and Repositioning Hotels
Across U.S.
- Downtown
Disney® Resort Area Hotels to Offer Their Lowest Rates of the Year
to Hospitality Workers; A Special Salute to those Who Work to Make
Vacation Wishes Come True
- Developers
of Yellowstone Club in Montana and Tamarack Resort in Idaho Sue Credit
Suisse For Up To $7.5 Billion Claiming Fraud and RICO Conspiracy
Charges; Judge States "Naked Greed" Shocked the Conscience of the Court
- Hyatt
Agrees to Purchase LodgeWorks' Portfolio Including 24 Hotels for $802
Million
- One
Night Stands Are Expensive / Robert Mandelbaum
- Service
Excellence: The MOST Important Thing To Create a Service Culture! / Dr.
Bryan K. Williams
- Report
Details the American Cities Where Hotel Rates Have Decreased or
Increased the Most: Leisure Destinations Getting Cheaper While Some Big
Cities Continue to Raise Rates; Hotwire Hotel Rate Report for July 2011
- ARIA
Issues Message to Guests Regarding Reported Instances of Legionella
Bacteria
- White
Lodging to Build a 1,003-room Marriott Marquis in Austin, Texas; To be
the Largest Hotel in Austin
- Today's
Revenue Management - Is There an App for That? / Tim Wiersma
- The
Kansas City Hyatt Disaster: 30 Years Later, a Reminder to Never Forget
- CityCenter
Developers Given Deadline to Devise a Strategy to Either Repair or
Demolish the Unfinished Harmon Tower / Howard Stutz
- Living
the Suite Life: 10 of Las Vegas' Most Extravagant Hotel Rooms; A Night
in Some of the Priciest Hotel Suites in Las Vegas Can Cost up to $40,000
- Former
MGM CEO, Terry Lanni, Dies at 68
- HEI
Hotels & Resorts Acquires 360-room San Diego Marriott La Jolla in
La Jolla, California
- Put
Room 77 to Work / Susan Deluzain Barry
- $2
billion Proposal Outlined for Saving the Century Plaza Hotel in Los
Angeles; Plans Include Two 46-story Mixed Use Towers Along with Hotel
and Condos
- Paul
White Resigns as CEO of Orient-Express Hotels; Chairman Bob Lovejoy
Named Interim CEO
- Nobody
Asked Me, But… No. 78: AAHOA Chairman Hits a Home Run; Universal
Franchisee Bill of Rights; HomeSpun; Quote of the Month / Stanley Turkel
- Lewis
Trust Group, Owner of Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach, Sues The Ritz-Carlton
Hotel Co., Marriott International Inc. and Avendra Inc. Claiming
Entities are Siphoning Profits Through Fees and Kickbacks
- The
Changing Face of Guest Feedback / Chris Larsen
July 29, 2011
- Video:
PKF's Mark Woodworth Discusses the Current State of the U.S. Lodging
Industry in Hotel Horizons Update
- RateGain
Assures Hotel Industry that its Leading Rate Intelligence Solution is
Here to Stay; RateGain is providing hotels with the choice of
continuing with their preferred solution by continuing to offer its
popular PriceGain-Hotels rate intelligence service.
- Starwood
Reports Net Income in 2nd Qtr 2011 of $131 million Compared to $114
million Same Period a Year Earlier; Worldwide System-wide RevPAR Up
11.8% / Systemwide Hotel Statistics
- Chicago
Hyatt and Unite Here Each File Complaint Following "Heat Lamp" Incident
- What
Started 40 Years Ago as an Office of Eight Employees Supporting 20
Hotels has Grown to 1,300 Employees Supporting over 3,500 Properties;
Marriott International's Omaha Global Reservation Sales & Customer
Care Center Handles Over 7 Million Calls a Year and Generates $1.3
billion in Annual Property Level Revenue
- It's
Time to Revisit the Art of "Check-Building" and "Add-Ons" / David
Brudney
- Miami
Beach, Florida Hotelier Fred Atlas Dies
- Eighteen
Years Later, the Actual Execution of Order to Close Hotels Located in
Costa Rica's Gandoca-Manzanillo National Wildlife Refuge, Sparks
Violence
- The
Crowne Plaza Hotel in Albany, New York in Danger of Losing its
Franchise Unless $10 Million in Upgrades are Completed; Owners Seeking
$14.3 Million in Tax Breaks While Pledging to Invest $10 Million Back
into the Property
- Kintetsu
Hotel Systems Partners with Marriott International to Open the 376-room
Osaka Marriott Miyako Hotel in the Tallest Building in Japan
- Vail
Resorts Enters Franchise Agreement Bringing the DoubleTree by Hilton to
Breckenridge, Colorado; Currently the Great Divide Lodge, Property to
Undergo Conversion and will Rebrand as DoubleTree by Hilton Breckenridge
- Interstate
Hotels & Resorts in a Joint Venture with JHM Hotels to Operate Two
New Hotels in India, the 63-room Rajasthali Resort & Spa in Jaipur
and the 145-room Ramada Amritsar in Amritsar
- Athens
Based Grace Hotels Enters Asian Market with Aquisition of Yi House
Hotel in Beijing, China's 798 Art District; Will Re-Launch as Grace
Beijing
- Corporate
Travel Volume Hints at +15% Growth through August; Business travel
market benefits from returning corporate travel budgets
- HeBS
Digital to Present at EyeforTravel's Travel Distribution Summit North
America 2011
- EasyRMS
Gains a Firmer Foothold in China with Signing of Six Properties in New
Century Hotels & Resorts Group; EzRMS has been implemented at Gehua
New Century Hotel Beijing, with five more properties in the group
deploying the Revenue Management System in next few months
- Intelity
Wins Top Honors from The Wall Street Journal and The Global Business
Travel Association
- Knowland
Uses the Force to Train Jedi Sales Masters; This is the second in a
five-part series: The Knowland Employee Development Pipeline
- Novexsys
Integrates with Shift4 to Bring Added Security and Simplicity to Their
Merchants
- Tourism
Spending in Fort Worth, Texas Rose by 7.5 Percent in 2010 and
Projections are Higher for 2011 According to the Fort Worth Convention
and Visitors Bureau
- U.S.
Department of Commerce Sponsored China Travel Trade Barometer Survey
Reports Increase in Bookings from China to the U.S. in Second Quarter
of 2011 and Projects Bookings to Remain Strong Through the Fourth
Quarter
- The
Edgewater Group Moves Forward with Plans for 88-room DoubleTree Hotel
in Bemidji, Minnesota
- Bristol
Hotel, LLC Breaks Ground on Renovation and Expansion of Current
120-room Hotel in Bristol, Connecticut to be Rebranded as a Doubletree
by Hilton
- Wheelock
Street Capital Completes Acquisition and Conversion of the Former
Renaissance Agoura Hills into the Sheraton Agoura Hills Hotel in Agoura
Hills, California; Davidson Hotels & Resorts will Continue to
Manage the 280-room Property
- Hyatt
Enters Agreement with Snegiri Development to Manage the New-Build
200-room Hyatt Regency Sochi on the Black Sea in Russia
- Romantik
Hotels & Restaurants Adds New Hotel in Luxembourg with the Romantik
Hotel Chateau de Schengen
- Best
Western International Opens the 258-room BEST WESTERN Hotel Causeway
Bay in Hong Kong
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Names Brad Hayden as Chief Financial Officer
- The
Villa Group Resort Collection Appoints Paul Moreno as Vice President of
Hotel Operations and Victor Gomez as General Manager of Villa del
Palmar Beach Resort & Spa at the Islands of Loreto in Mexico
- Luis
Eduardo Pinheiro Appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Rani Resorts
- Kerzner
International Appoints Audrey Oswell as Chief Gaming Officer of
Atlantis, Paradise Island Resort in The Bahamas
- Rocco
Forte Hotels Appoints Franck Arnold as General Manager of The Balmoral
in Edinburgh, Scotland
- Buffalo
Lodging Appoints Macaire Matchett as the Director of Sales for the
98-suite Homewood Suites by Hilton Boston/Canton Hotel in Massachusetts
July 27, 2011
- The
New York Helmsley, a Starwood Hotel, Provides Real-time Flight
Information for Hotel Guests
- Downtown
Disney® Resort Area Hotels to Offer Their Lowest Rates of the Year
to Hospitality Workers; A Special Salute to those Who Work to Make
Vacation Wishes Come True
- Wyndham
Reports 2nd Qtr 2011 Adjusted Net Income of $108 million, Up from $95
million for Same Period 2010; RevPAR Increased 9.7%
- Las
Vegas Sands Reports a Swing to Profit Along with Record Revenues; 2011
2nd Qrt. Net Income of $367.6 million Compared to Loss of $4.7 million
Same Period 2010
- Marriott,
Hyatt, Starwood and Oberoi See Room for Growth Along New Delhi, India's
Noida Expressway; Analysts Predict Addition of 2,500 Rooms
- It's
Time For Today's Technology-Focused Hotel Salespeople To "Go Old
School" / Doug Kennedy
- Hotel
Developers: Why a "regional center" may be the key to financing your
next hotel development or expansion. And what you need to know... / Jim
Butler
- How
to Make Compelling Video Content for Hotels / Daniel Edward Craig
- Paper
Anniversary for the Hartigan Files / Jim Hartigan
- August
2011 Cornell Hospitality Quarterly Features Study of Hotel Guests'
Preferences Regarding Sustainability in Hotels
- 1800's
Style, 58-room Boutique Hotel, and Micro Brewery Envisioned Along Shore
of Minnesota's Lake Minnetonka
- Political
Lobbyist and Innkeeper Darius Anderson Planning a $30 million 50-room
Boutique Hotel in Sonoma, California
- Hawaii
Tourist Arrivals Down 2.9% in June, but Spending Increased Sharply at
Near Record Pace
- Starwood
to Expand Sheraton and Westin Portfolio of Hotel Spas Across Asia and
the Middle East; Sheraton to Add 10 and Westin to Add 6 New Spas by the
End of 2011
- Danvers,
Massachusetts Hotel, Known Currently as CoCo Key, Once Again Seeking
New Identity
- Key
Construction Starts Three New Kansas City Hotels in July
- HFTP
Launches Online Practice Exam for the Certified Hospitality Accountant
Executive (CHAE)
- 154-room
Hotel Mead in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin Sold at Sheriff's Sale to
February 2011 Court Appointed Receiver, Balmoral Realty, for $2 Million
- Keys
To Success - The Value of Hoteliers Helping Hoteliers / Dr. John Hogan
- Thomas
Properties Mississippi LLC and Thomas Builders Inc. Break Ground on
100-suite Home2 Suites by Hilton D'Iberville in Mississippi
- Hilton
Worldwide Opens 349-room Hilton Hangzhou Qiandao Lake Resort in
Hangzhou Province, China
- McKibbon
Hotel Group Opens the 105-room Hampton Inn & Suites
Knoxville-Turkey Creek/Farragut in Tennessee in a Joint Venture with
Turkey Creek Land Partners, LLC
- RIU
Hotels & Resorts Opens the RIU Playacar Convention Center in Playa
del Carmen (Riviera Maya), Mexico
- AmericInn®
Begins Construction on Contemporary New Prototype of AmericInn Hotels
in Fairfield, Iowa; Scheduled to Open in March of 2012 and Managed by
Three Rivers Hospitality
- The
243-room Akron City Centre Hotel in Akron, Ohio Rebranded as Ramada
Plaza; Renovations are Planned
- Langham
Hospitality Chosen by Shenzhen Warmsun Real Estate Development to Open
and Manage the 220-key Eaton Luxe, Shajing, Shenzhen in China
- Archipelago
Hotels and Resorts Chosen to Manage 54-room Resort, The Datai Langkawi,
in Malaysia
- Boston
& Cambridge Recognized by ICCA as Top Destination in USA for
International Association Meetings
- IHG
Appoints Tom Singer to the Board and Executive Committee as Chief
Financial Officer
- MODO
Hotels Appoints Danny Lee as Vice President of Finance and Development
- SuperClubs
Resorts Appoints Jag Mehta as General Manager of Breezes Runaway Bay in
Jamaica
July 26, 2011
- Best
Western Names VIZERGY® Endorsed Supplier for Internet Marketing;
VIZERGY Promises Best Western Hoteliers Excellent Solution to Boost
Online Revenue
- Casino
MonteLago Selects Point-of-Sale System by Agilysys; Newly Opened
Property in Lake Las Vegas Implements InfoGenesis POS Solution
- The
Knowland Group Hires 150th Employee; Knowland staff grows nearly 50% in
the first half of 2011 to keep up with client demand
- It's
Time for a Mid-Year Course Correction: The Results of the Annual Survey
on Digital Marketing Are In / Max Starkov & Mariana Mechoso Safer
- DiamondRock,
Owner of 26 Hotels, Reports 2nd Qtr 2011 Net Loss of $.6 million
Compared to Net Income of $.8 million for Comparable 2010 Period;
Revpar Increased 6.4% / Hotel Operating Statistics
- Lenders
Foreclose on Ritz-Carlton at Northstar-at-Tahoe Following Default of
$165 million Mortgage by East West Resort Development; Property Will
Continue to Operate as a Ritz-Carlton Under a 25-year Management
Agreement
- IHG
Revises Existing Agreements for 130 Hotels with Hospitality Properties
Trust into One New 25 Year Management Contract
- The
Business Traveler of Today: New GBTA and Concur Study Profiles
Corporate Travelers; 79% Use Technology to Travel Smarter and Adapt to
Life on the Road
- The
La Jolla Marriott, Selling for $71 million, Bucks Recent Trend of
Downtown San Diego Hotel Buys / Lori Weisberg
- The
Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill, North Carolina Shares Top 10 Wedding
Trends for 2011
- Hilton's
"Stay Hilton, Go Everywhere" Campaign Includes New iAd Taking iPhone,
iPad and iPod Touch Users on Virtual Vacations
- TRYP
by Wyndham Hotel Brand Integrates Multi-Lingual Website as Part of
Global Marketing
- Japan
Remains a Popular Destination for Global Travellers According to Survey
of Over 500 Travellers from 17 Countries
- Japan
National Tourism Organization Increases Efforts to Draw Visitors this
Summer Including Posting Radiation Levels for Tokyo Online
- Focused
International Marketing Pays off for Atlanta and Georgia as 2010
Numbers Show a 19 Percent Increase in International Travelers to the
State and a 25 Percent Increase to Atlanta
- Optimum
Hotel Brokerage Sells Holiday Inn Columbia; Washington/Baltimore Market
Full Service Hotel Sold to Local Operator
- Cost
to Expand and Renovate Riverside, California's 40-year-old Convention
Center Increases to $36 million, up from $25 million in January of 2011
- The
Macon-Bibb County Urban Development Authority in Georgia OKs 18-Month
Option Agreement for Renaissance Development
- The
International Hotel Investment Forum Opens Nominations for the "The
IHIF Awards"; New Awards Comprising Investor and Advisor Award
Categories
- Hotusa
Hotels Adds 213 New Partner Hotels in 27 Different Countries in the
First Half of 2011
- IHG
Opens New-Build 191-room Holiday Inn Bogota-Airport in Bogota, Colombia
to be Operated by METRO Hotels on Behalf of Owner, Alianza Fiduciaria
S.A.
- Midas
Hospitality, LLC Selected to Operate the 83-room Candlewood Suites -
Aurora / Naperville, Illinois
- Stephen
H. Marcus, Chairman of The Marcus Corporation, Receives Lodging
Hospitality Magazine's First Annual Game Changer Award
- Francisco
Silva Named General Manager of the 611-room Westin Playa Bonita
Panamá in the Republic of Panamá
- Joni
Dooley Barkley, Director Of Sales at Hawks Cay Resort in Duck Key,
Florida Appointed to VISIT FLORIDA Sales Committee
- Lauren
Sells Walker Named as the Director of Catering at the 331-room Hotel
Roanoke & Conference Center, a Doubletree by Hilton Hotel, in
Roanoke, Virginia
- Acqualina
Resort & Spa in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida Appoints Cassandra Sessa
as the Spa Director of Acqualina Spa by ESPA
July 25, 2011
- Developers
of Yellowstone Club in Montana and Tamarack Resort in Idaho Sue Credit
Suisse For Up To $7.5 Billion Claiming Fraud and RICO Conspiracy
Charges; Judge States "Naked Greed" Shocked the Conscience of the Court
- MGM
Resorts International, Apart From Harmon Hotel Tower, Receives Clean
Bill of Health for Structual Soundness of CityCenter
- HEI
Hotels & Resorts Acquires 360-room San Diego Marriott La Jolla in
La Jolla, California
- Alan
and Warren Kanders Assume Ownership of the Mayflower Inn & Spa in
Washington, Connecticut
- Kingsmill
Resort in Williamsburg, Virginia Operated by Xanterra Parks &
Resorts to Add 210-room Hotel, Family Swimming Complex, Conference
Space and More
- $24
million Renovation of West Virginia's Canaan Valley Lodge Underway;
With 160-rooms Being Built, Once Complete Will Look and Function More
Like a Traditonal Hotel
- Last
Days to Register: Social Selling for Hotels - LinkedIn, Twitter &
Blogs* Webinar July 28; It's not Your Father's Sales Process Anymore /
Carol Verret
- Eli
Papouchado's Park Plaza Hotels in a Joint Venture with Kitaria Holdings
to Develop Complex in Thailand Including a 100-room Hotel on Site Owned
by Bali Hai Co. Ltd.
- Drury
Hotels to Begin Converting Former St. Vincent Hospital in Santa Fe, New
Mexico into a 181-room Hotel and the Adjoining Marian Hall into a
30-room Inn
- MGM
Resorts International Seeks More Time to Sell its Interests in Atlantic
City's Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa
- Magnolia
Hotels Plans for Conversion of Durham, North Carolina's SunTrust
Building into Boutique Hotel and Spa Moving Along
- Working
on a Rate Offering that Captures "Demand" to Maximise the Overall
Revenue: Interview with Frederic Deschamps, Carlson Hotels / Ritesh
Gupta
- Social
Media Firm Specializing in Hospitality Opens in Atlanta
- Hotel
AG Closes Three Hotel Transactions in Past Two Weeks
- Yellow
Dog Software Provides The Blue Harbor Resort and Conference Center with
Retail Inventory Management
- Trust
International Enriches Direct Connectivity for Hotels Via DerbySoft
- Advance
Discount Registration is Now Open for the International Hotel, Motel
& Restaurant Show and Boutique Design New York 2011
- Recommended
Reading From HospitalityEducators.Com; Swim with the Sharks: Without
Being Eaten Alive; Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate and Outnegotiate
Your Competition by Harvey MacKay / Dr. John Hogan
- Puerto
Rico to Host 16th and 17th Annual Caribbean Hotel & Tourism
Investment Conferences
- Southern
Management Group Begins $3 million in Renovations for the Marriott at
Renaissance Park in Spartanburg, South Carolina
- Wyndham
Hotel Group Opens 344-room Ramada Beijing North in China Owned by
Beijing Changxin Huilongyuan Villas Ltd. Loong Palace Hotel & Resort
- Rejuvenated
Lake Lawn Resort in Delavan, Wisconsin Reopens with New Owners
- 248-room
Hotel Lone, Design Hotels Opens in the Mediterranean Town of Rovinj in
Croatia
- Dora
Hospitality Opens 89-room Extended Stay Souris Valley Suites Hotel in
Minot, North Dakota Owned by Bakken Hospitality
- Davidson
Hotels & Resorts to Manage 347-room Hyatt Regency Princeton in New
Jersey Owned by Clarion Partners
- Concord
Hospitality Selected by Nazarian Enterprises to Manage the 395-room
Sheraton Oklahoma City Hotel in Oklahoma
- Wingate
by Wyndham Adds 148-room Wingate by Wyndham Los Angeles International
Airport in California to its Portfolio
- Shumaes
Rasheed Appointed as Marketing Communications Manager for the Sheraton
Maldives
July 22, 2011
- Hyatt
Apologizes for Heat Lamps Being Turned on Strikers at Park Hyatt
Chicago During One Day Strike; A Move Clearly Not in Line with Hyatt's
Values or Corporate Policies
- For
the First Time in its 50-Year History, John Q. Hammons Hotels &
Resorts, Walking Away From Stalled Hotel Project
- Rio
Nuevo Board Cancels Contract with Developer Garfield Traub for Downtown
Convention Hotel Following a Forensic Audit Questioning Legitimacy of
Bills
- $2
billion Proposal Outlined for Saving the Century Plaza Hotel in Los
Angeles; Plans Include Two 46-story Mixed Use Towers Along with Hotel
and Condos
- Bill
Davies, Owner of the Old Chicago Post Office, Unveils Grandiose
Redevelopment Plan of Transforming Area Into an Urban Mecca of Five
Residential, Office and Hotel Towers
- Protecting
Guest Data: What to Do about Malware / Lynn Goodendorf
- Performing
Bed-Making Skits, Unite Here Local 5 Holds Protest in Front of Hyatt
Regency Waikiki Beach Resort
- Las
Vegas Evolving with Specialized Mini-casinos and Party Pits within
Casinos
- Visit
Baltimore Reports Hotel Bookings for Future City Conventions Down 8% in
Past Fiscal Year
- M
Resort's Owners, Penn National Gaming, Post Strong Second Quarter
Financials with $43 million in Revenue and $6 million in Earnings, a 3%
and 24% Year-Over-Year Increase
- Study
Reveals Best, Worst Travel Taxes in U.S. Destinations; Chicago and New
York Continue to Impose the Highest Total Taxes on Travelers /
Discriminatory Travel Taxes Impose an Average of 56% Increased Cost
Over General Sales Tax to Visitors
- How
will the European Economic Debt Crisis Affect Tourism? - David Goodger,
Director of Tourism Economics, Europe to Share Current Analysis at the
Hotel Investment Conference Europe
- Canadian
Niagara Hotels to Purchase The Rosseau, A JW Marriott Resort & Spa,
Minett, Ontario from Court Appointed Receiver, Alvarez & Marsal
- Software
Management, Inc. (SMI) and Cendyn Join Forces; Companies Provide
Powerful Electronic Proposal Tools to the Destination Marketing Industry
- Shift4
and Digital Dining Announce New Integration That Completely Removes
Cardholder Data From POS
- American
Hotel & Lodging Association Quizzes Hoteliers on Upcoming ADA
Changes (Part 2); Test Your Knowledge on New Employee Regulations
- Hampton
Hotels to Open New 120-room Hampton Inn by Hilton Ciudad del Carmen in
Campeche, Mexico Featuring the Brand's Latin America Prototype
- Chesapeake
Hospitality to Manage 175-room Holiday Inn Columbia in Columbia Maryland
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Names Jim Treadway Vice Chairman of
Benchmark's Advisory Board; Will Continue as General Manager of
Bardessono
- Shirley
Talbert Earns Destination Marketing's Highest Industry Certification;
Certified Destination Management Executive by the Destination Marketing
Association International
- Eduardo
Chapoval Named General Manager and Lourdes Beach Named Director of
Sales for New 221-room Hampton Inn & Suites Miami Brickell-Downtown
in Florida
- Oliver
Geyer Appointed as Executive Assistant Manager of the 372-room
InterContinental Prague in the Czech Republic
- Theresa
Zupon Named Director of Human Resources for the Longboat Key Club &
Resort on Longboat Key, Florida
- Sage
Hospitality Appoints Sora Chan as Director of Sales for the 155-room
Baronette Renaissance Detroit-Novi in Michigan
- B
Ocean Fort Lauderdale Names Veronica Miranda as "B Experience Manager"
as Part of Employee Empowerment and Guest Engagement Initiatives
Launched at the 240-room Property
July 21, 2011
- Tinseltown
Delivering Big Bucks to San Diego for Comic-Con Convention; A Virtual
Cash Cow for Hotels and Restaurants with $68 million in Direct Spending
from Attendees
- Restaurant
Wine Programs Earn Mixed Reviews in Consumer Study by Sommelier
Journal; Survey Finds Pricing, By-the-Glass Programs, and Staff Advice
Received Nearly 50% Bad or Poor Ratings; While Wine List Quality,
Sommelier Performance, Service, and Restaurant Wine in General Rated
Much Better
- LaSalle
Hotel Properties Posts 2nd Qtr Net Income of $16.7 million Compared to
$8 million in the Prior Year Quarter; RevPAR Grew to $168.97, an
Increase of 6.3% / Hotel Operating Statistics
- Following
Global Recession, Nikki Beach Branded Hotels Preparing to Open Nine
Overseas Locations with Over $400 million in Projects Lined Up
- Fears
Appear to be Easing for Chicago on Retention of The National Restaurant
Association Show, a Cornerstone of the City's Convention Business
- Marshall
Hotels & Resorts Adds Four Properties to Management Portfolio
- Publicly
Financed $140 million 532-room Hilton Columbus Downtown in Ohio Running
18% Behind its Goal for Bookings with Planned September 2012 Opening;
Optimistic for Improvement with Newly Strengthened Sales Team
- Building
on Curiosity, HotelRED Keeping on Wraps as Opening Nears in Madison,
Wisconsin
- Survey
Finds Radisson Guest Satisfaction Has Dropped from the Prior Year;
Carlson Focus on Reviving Brand Will Take Time
- Leisure
Estate Advisors Announces the Sale of Two Bank Owned Hotels
- Why
Social Media and Mobile are of Paramount Significance for Travel Brands
at this Juncture / Ritesh Gupta
- Construction
Begins on 164-room Holiday Inn Express and Suites in Tacoma, Washington
After Three Year Delay
- Resorts
Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey Refurbishing all 480 Rooms in
its Ocean Tower
- 84-room
Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott to Open in Capitola, California
Owned by Aspromonte Inns and Managed by Aspromonte Hospitality
- The
Guest's Habits in the Experiential Hospitality / Osvaldo Torres Cruz
- Miami
Beach, Florida Hotel Breakwater Reopens Following Multi-Million Dollar
Renovation
- Interstate
Hotels & Resorts Completes Multi-Million Dollar Renovation of the
390-room Houston Marriott North in Texas
- San
Juan Marriott Resort & Stellaris Casino in Puerto Rico Launches
$2.2 Million Lobby Renovation
- Coastal
South Completes $4 million Renovation of the 97-room Tidewater Inn in
Easton, Maryland
- Crestline
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Elizabeth Delens as General Manager for
the 183-room Hilton Garden Inn and the Adjoining 165-suite Homewood
Suites in Baltimore, Maryland
- Aaron
Wright Named Director of Operations of the 272-key Bethesda Marriott
Suites in Maryland
- Fritz
Doss Named Executive Chef at the 1,840-room Sheraton Dallas Hotel in
Texas
- Milana
Knowles Appointed as Director of The Spa at the 248-room Mandarin
Oriental, New York
July 20, 2011
- Maestro
PMS Announces Enhanced Online, Mobile-Ready Guest Loyalty System for
High-Touch Independent Operators to Recognize, Reward, and Retain
Guests; Maestro Loyalty Offers Independents Same Benefits as Major
Chain Programs, Drives Revenue through Direct Bookings, Referrals, and
Member-Only Targeted Marketing
- HSMAI
Needs Your Input to Establish Web Analytics Report Card; "Understanding
How Hoteliers Use and Benefit from Website Analytics" Survey
Establishes Benchmarks
- Hotel
Guest Satisfaction With Costs and Fees Improves From 2010, Despite a
Decline in Overall Satisfaction; The Ritz-Carlton, Embassy Suites
Hotels, Hotel Indigo, Holiday Inn, Drury Inn & Suites, Microtel
Inns & Suites and Homewood Suites Rank Highest in Customer
Satisfaction / J.D. Power and Associates
- One
Night Stands Are Expensive / Robert Mandelbaum
- Host
Hotels Reports Net Income of $64 million for 2nd Quarter 2011 Compared
to $20 million for Same Period of 2010; RevPAR Up 6.7% / Hotel
Operating Statistics
- Sheraton
to Replace Hyatt as Crown Center Hotel Operator in Kansas City, Missouri
- Chicago's
McCormick Place Moving Ahead with Long Stalled 460-room Hyatt Regency
Hotel Expansion
- Studies
Indicate that the NFL Stadium and Convention Center Project for Los
Angeles Would Dramatically Increase Convention Bookings Projecting a
Jump from 24 Conventions in 2012 to 38 for 2016
- Booming
Atlantic City, New Jersey Convention Business Drives up Room Nights and
Revenue
- Carlson
Hotels Signs New Agreement with Pegasus Solutions for Global Commission
Processing Services; More than 1,000 properties to benefit from newly
implemented Pegasus Rules Engine
- Alrov
Properties to Pay Hilton Hotels $20 million After Arbitration Settles
David Citadel Hotel Dispute Which Lasted Seven Years
- Private
Developer to Build New $10 million Courtyard by Marriott in Phenix
City, Alabama
- White
Paper Released by The National Conference Center in Leesburg, Virginia
Examines Training and Generational Differences in the Workplace
- Environmental
Sustainability Report for Xanterra Parks & Resorts Shows Strong
Progress Toward 2015 Environmental Goals and Cites 10 Significant
Projects and Improvements
- 366-room
Hyatt Regency Guiyang Opens in the Capital City of Guizhou Province,
Marking the First Hyatt Hotel in Southwest China
- Magnolia
Lodging Development and Shinn Stonebriar Hospitality Break Ground on
122-suite Home2 Suites by Hilton in Frisco, Texas
- Centerstone
Hotel Brand Breaks Ground on 76-room Centerstone Hotel - Warner Theatre
in West Chester, Pennsylvania Owned by McFadden Hotel Group
- Hotel
Mar Monte in Santa Barbara, California Becomes 171-room Hyatt Santa
Barbara and Undergoes $9 Million Renovation
- Hilton
Worldwide Signs Agreement with Nehru Place Hotels Ltd, an Eros Group
Company, to Manage 218-room Landmark Property in South Delhi, India to
be Rebranded as Eros Hotel
- Boughton
Hotels Chosen to Manage 49-room Acqua Hotel in Mill Valley, California
- Loan
for Ramada Plaza Richmond West in Virginia Scheduled to be Sold at
Auction
- Hard
Rock International Appoints Greg Naylor as Director of Sales for Hard
Rock Hotels & Casinos
- Waterford
Hotel Group Names Monica Morgan as General Manager of the 94-suite
Residence Inn by Marriott in Southington, Connecticut
- Ned
Bell Appointed as Executive Chef at the Four Season Hotel Vancouver in
Canada
- Jody
Roberts Appointed as Director of Food & Beverage for 151-room
Holiday Isle Beach Resort & Marina in Islamorada, Florida
July 19, 2011
- Questions
Surround How One of World's Richest Men, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
Alsaud, Won Approval for $26M Loan to Build a 5-Star Hotel in Ghana,
West Africa
- Puerto
Rico Launches PuertoRicoHotelAssociation.com
- Wynn
Resorts Sees Boost in Second Quarter Profit to $200.8 million Compared
to $64.9 million Same Quarter Last Year; Numbers Driven by Revenue
Increases in Both Macau and Las Vegas
- Sheldon
Adelson to be Inducted Into Gaming Hall of Fame
- Six
Boscolo Hotels in Italy, Czech Republic and Hungary Join Marriott's
Autograph Collection Increasing the Brand to 26 Properties Globally
- Today's
Revenue Management - Is There an App for That? / Tim Wiersma
- Social
Selling for Hotels - LinkedIn, Twitter & Blogs* Webinar July 28;
It's not Your Father's Sales Process Anymore / Carol Verret
- Mexico's
Growing Need for Business-Oriented Branded Hotels / Jane L. Rogers
- Financial
Pundits Predict Increase In Audits of Hotel Training Programs?!? / Jim
Hartigan
- New
Ideas Taking Shape for Building a Downtown Kansas City Convention Hotel
- Some
Savannah Hotel Owners Fear Unfair Competition from Proposed Hutchinson
Hotel
- BridgeStreet,
the Leading Provider of Serviced Apartments, Partners with Urban Lux
Chicago; Strategic Partnership with Chicago's Luxury Housing Provider
combines local knowledge with global reach
- ResortCom
International Adds Mark Sessions To Its New Line Up; Newly Created
Position of Vice President/Platform Services Concentrates on "Getting
Stuff Done"
- ResortCom
International Names Odilia Orozco Vice President/Client Services
- Cornell
Study Proposes Uniform Sustainability Reporting Framework for the
Hospitality Industry
- Are
you prepared to be a "Top Ten" Player in Your Hospitality Marketplace
or are you going to continue to be one of the "other" statistics? / Dr.
John Hogan
- Hilton
Worldwide To Develop 350-room Hilton Yuxi Fuxian Lake Resort in Yuxi,
Yunnan, China, in a Management Agreement with Yunnan Chengjiang Great
Eagle Resort Co
- Wyndham
Worldwide Measures Investment in Sustainability Programs with Release
of Two Reports Reviewing its Global Reporting Initiative and its Carbon
Disclosure Project
- Book
Advising Food Service Businesses on Going Green Released at the
National Restaurant Association Expo Includes Case Study of The
National Conference Center in Leesburg, Virginia; Greening Food and
Beverage Services A Green Seal Guide to Transforming the Industry
- J&H
Hospitality Purchases Former Radisson Hotel in New London, Connecticut,
Will Re-brand as Holiday Inn Chain
- Starwood
Hotels Signs Agreement with Amrey Hotels S.L. to Operate the 154-room
Four Points by Sheraton Barcelona Diagonal in Spain
- Wyndham
Hotel Group Enters New Zealand with the 34-suite Ramada Suites Paihia
and the 152-room Ramada Suites Nautilus Orewa, Both Owned by Marsden
Asset Management Ltd
- Carlson
Opens 126-room Country Inn & Suites By Carlson, San Antonio Airport
in Texas Owned by Summit Hotel Properties
- Arnold
Palmer and Concord Hospitality Break Ground for the 109-suite
SpringHill Suites by Marriott Hotel in Palmer's Hometown, Latrobe,
Pennsylvania
- 170-room
Hotel New Orleans to be Renovated and Reflagged as Hyatt Place New
Orleans Convention Center by New Owner, a Joint Venture Between HRI
Properties and Interwest Capital Corporation
- Aqua
Hotels & Resorts Chosen to Manage the 51-room Lotus at Diamond Head
in Hawaii to be Renovated and Renamed Aqua Lotus Honolulu
- Northwood
Hospitality Names David Chase as General Manager of the 899-room New
York Palace in Manhattan, New York
- Pyramid
Hotel Group Appoints Jonathan Crellin as Managing Director and General
Manager of the Boston Harbor Hotel in Massachusetts
- Coast
Hotels & Resorts Appoints New Food & Beverage Team for the
Benson Hotel in Portland, Oregon
July 18, 2011
- 9
Ways to Avoid the Next Data Breach / Aaron Titus
- VFM
Leonardo Launches "Like" to Win Facebook Contest for Hotels; Hotels
Invited to Enter Facebook Contest for Chances to Win New Facebook App
and Online Merchandising Best Practices Services from VFM Leonardo
- Former
MGM CEO, Terry Lanni, Dies at 68
- The
Kansas City Hyatt Disaster: 30 Years Later, a Reminder to Never Forget
- Dolce
Group of Los Angeles Files Suit Against Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel Over
Closure of Rare 120 Steakhouse
- The
Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company to Launch the First Reserve Property in the
Americas with the 115-key Dorado Beach, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve in
Puerto Rico
- New
Property Manager for Hilton Hotel Seeks GM: Hotel-Online and
BuildCentral Have Updated 132 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with Changes
in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership
- Hilton
Worldwide Set to Triple Presence in Saudi Arabia and Hire 9,000 Team
Members to Support Growth; Company Signs Six New Hotels as Part of the
Jabal Omar Development in Makkah
- Philadelphia's
Hotel Room Rates Remain Feather Soft; Regions Recovery Not Expected
Until 2013
- Hotel
Problems Solved Once and For All (Part 3 of 3) Plan your work. Then
work your plan. / Jim Hartigan
- Hoteliers
Becoming More Creative in Enticements for Booking Visitors Without
Invoking the "D" Word / Lori Weisberg
- Foreclosure
Sale Set for Augusta Georgia's Partridge Inn, Owned by Walton Way Hotel
LLC
- Auction
Set for Sale of Norfolk, Virginia's Freemason Inn B&B
- R.D.
Olson Construction Breaks Ground on First Kahului Airport Hotel, the
138-room Courtyard by Marriott Maui in Hawaii
- Grand
Hyatt Tampa Bay Will Renovate in 2012; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral
Add/Update 197 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects
Database
- Hotel
AG Brokers Sale of 364-room Wyndham Hotel in Princeton, New Jersey
- Trust
International and Web In Travel Launch "Sugoi Japan" Campaign to Rally
Tourism in Japan and Raise Funds for Orphans of the Tsunami
- Hospitality
Careers Academy Provides Teens Crash Course on Realities of Hospitality
Industry
- Aldar
Properties Selects Viceroy Hotel Group as Operator of the 499-room Yas
Hotel in Abu Dhabi
- Island
Hospitality Management, Inc. Completes $1 Million Renovation to the
80-suite Residence Inn by Marriott Richmond West End in Virginia
- The
Tides Riviera Maya in Mexico Launches Renovation and Expansion; With
the Completion of 11 New Villas, Resort will Total 41 Villas -
- IHG
Appoints a Head for its New European Division and Implements a Regional
Management Realignment Combining the Middle East and Africa with Asia
Australasia
- Interstate
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Emily Boling Lynn as Vice President,
Global Sales and Strategic Accounts
- Crestline
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Charles Perrell as General Manager of the
120-room Courtyard by Marriott and the Adjoining 78-room Residence Inn
Hotel in Aberdeen, Maryland
July 15, 2011
- ARIA
Issues Message to Guests Regarding Reported Instances of Legionella
Bacteria
- CityCenter
Developers Given Deadline to Devise a Strategy to Either Repair or
Demolish the Unfinished Harmon Tower
- Hyatt
Agrees to Purchase LodgeWorks' Portfolio Including 24 Hotels for $802
Million
- Chatham
Completes Acquisition of Five Innkeepers Hotels Comprising 764 Total
Rooms for $195 Million or Approximately $255,000 per Room
- Interstate
Hotels & Resorts Executes Agreements with NBB-Development to Manage
Six Hotels in Sochi, Russia, Site of 2014 Winter Olympics
- Marriott
Net Income for 2nd Qtr 2011 Totaled $135 million, a 13% Increase Over
Same Quarter 2010; Worldwide Comparable Systemwide REVPAR Rose 7.7%
- Marriott
International Opens its First JW Marriott Hotel in North India with the
165-room JW Marriott Chandigarh
- Hotel
Problems Solved Once and For All (Part 2 of 3) Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?
- The Route to Root Cause / Jim Hartigan
- The
Unfinished Best Western in Fredericksburg, Virginia Heading to
Foreclosure Auction
- $30
Million 117-room Boutique Hotel, The Ambassador Wichita, to be Built in
the Historic Dockum Drug Building in Wichita, Kansas
- Marina
Owner Gets Approval to Start $22 Million Development of 90-room Park
Pointe Inn at Lakehead Boat Basin in Duluth, Minnesota to be Operated
by Morrissey Hospitality
- Monarch
Robe & Towel Company Acquires Top Competitor, Cypress Luxury Bath
& Bed; Two leaders in the hotel bathrobe and linen industry are
merging to form powerhouse company
- StarCite
and Experient Launch MeetingComplete to Provide Strategic Meetings
Management Services and Technology to Small and Mid-sized Corporations
- What
Will be the 'Next Big Thing' in Mobile for the Travel Industry?
An Interview with Robert Dawson, VP, Internet Marketing & Web
Development Services, Sabre Hospitality Solutions / Ritesh Gupta
- Roomlinx
Signs Exclusive Memorandum of Understanding with ViaMedia to Distribute
its iTV Product in Africa and Middle East
- Integrated
Revenue Management Solutions, LLC Thanks Those Who Have Contributed to
Their Dynamic Growth
- HSMAI's
2011 Adrian Awards Call for Entries- Looking for Those Who Have Made
Their Mark; Annual Competition Honoring Excellence in Travel Marketing
Opens July 15
- Atlantic
City Resorts Casino Hotel's Current Owner, DGMB Casino LLC, and
Previous Owner, Resorts International Hotel Inc. Reach a Settlement of
Their Lawsuits Over Millions of Dollars in Cash and Gaming Credits
- Hagg
Development Group, Swift Hospitality Group, Consolidated Construction
and Choice Hotels Break Ground on First Cambria Suites Hotel in South
Dakota, a 111-suite Hotel in Rapid City
- 128-suite
Affordable Suites Deluxe Hotel Opens in Columbia, South Carolina
- Surf
& Sand Resort in Laguna Beach, California Completes $3 Million
Renovation of its 167 Guest Rooms and Suites
- Northview
Hotel Group Completes $3 million Renovation At Oregon's Brasada Ranch
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Names James Simkins Chief Operating Officer
for new Personal Luxury Resorts & Hotels
- Joie
de Vivre Hospitality Appoints Chan Jin as General Manager, Alina Wade
as Director of Sales and Katsuo Nagasawa as Executive Chef for Newly
Renovated Custom Hotel Near LAX
- Charles-Henri
Chevet Named General Manager of 201-room Sofitel Phnom Penh Phokeethra
in Cambodia
- Thomas
Mueller Appointed as General Manager of Lifestyle Holidays Vacation
Resort in Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic
- Red
Hospitality Names Jason Ilstrup as General Manager and Heather Stetzer
as Director of Sales for the 48-suite HotelRED in Madison, Wisconsin
- Boumédiène
Ouadjed Appointed as Assistant General Manager of 99-key Le
Méridien Bora Bora
- Alliance
Hospitality Names Steve Huey as Director of Sales at the Doubletree by
Hilton Dallas Market Center in Texas
July 13, 2011
- Knowland
Partners with Sofitel Luxury Hotels; Knowland's Professional Business
Development services to be used at luxury hotel brand's properties
- Sparring
Between MGM Resorts International and Perini Building Co., Contractor
for CityCenter's Harmon Hotel, Heats Up
- Jones
Lang LaSalle Hotels Forecasts Global Hotel Investment Volumes to Reach
$34.8 billion in 2011; The Americas Registered a 187% Year-on-Year
Upsurge with Transactions Totalling $7.4 billion
- Report
Details the American Cities Where Hotel Rates Have Decreased or
Increased the Most - Leisure Destinations Getting Cheaper While Some
Big Cities Continue to Raise Rates
- NBC
Grants Fitness Ridge Worldwide the Exclusive Domestic Rights to Own and
Operate the Biggest Loser Resorts
- Choice
Hotels Executes Lease for New Corporate Headquarters in Rockville,
Maryland
- Colombia,
South America Sees Rise in Hotel Openings and Developments with More
Than 1,600 New Rooms Between 2009 and 2011
- Fit
for Kids (and dogs), Trump Las Vegas Caters to Family Niche
- Jackson
Street Management LLC, Developer of Proposed Downtown Milwaukee
Marriott, Selects White Lodging to Oversee Operations; Signed Franchise
Agreement with Marriott in Place; Construction to Start Later this Year
- Platinum
Equity and Richfield Hospitality Reflag Former 564-room Sheraton
Bloomington in Minnesota to the DoubleTree by Hilton Bloomington; $12.5
Million Renovation to be Launched
- Lessons
from the Field: Lessons in Leadership / Dr. John Hogan
- LINQ
360 Innovation Center Selects The Rainmaker Group as Official Revenue
Management Partner; Leading vendors join together under Microsoft,
develop system integrations that benefit the hotel and gaming industries
- Kolter
Group, LLC and Hyatt Hotels & Resorts Break Ground on the 134-room
Hyatt Place® Delray Beach/Downtown At Pineapple Grove Arts District
in Florida
- Hotel
Equities Opens the 78-room Fairfield Inn & Suites Holiday Tarpon
Springs in Holiday, Florida
- 99-room
Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott to Open in San Antonio, Texas;
Owned and Managed by HGP Corporation
- 118-suite
SpringHill Suites San Antonio Downtown/Alamo Plaza to Open in Texas;
Owned and Managed by HGP Corporation
- Bedian
International Forms Joint Venture With Tailored Hospitality
International for Development of Boutique, Luxury Hotel Properties
- Chicago
Marriott O'Hare Completing $40 Million Renovation Including a Full
Redesign of 470 Guest Rooms and Suites
- American
Hotel & Lodging Association Names Anne-Wesley Teague Manager of
Governmental Affairs - HotelPAC and Grassroots
- Sage
Hospitality Appoints Harris White as Chief Financial Officer
- Waterford
Hotel Group Names Howard Esquirol as Vice President, Accounting
- The
Dow Hotel Company Appoints Rob Adams as General Manager of the 371-room
Marriott Suites Anaheim in California
- Kimberley
Hatherall Named General Manager of 132-room Holiday Inn Express
Cheltenham Town Centre in Cheltenham, England
- Buffalo
Lodging Appoints Alisha Koby as General Manager for the 139-room
Hampton Inn & Suites Cleveland/Beachwood in Beachwood, Ohio
- Kevin
Anawati Appointed Director of Sales for the Hotel Hanford, Costa Mesa,
California
- The
Peabody Hotel Little Rock in Arkansas Appoints Alain Piraux as Director
of Food and Beverage and Bruce Skidmore as Director of Sales and
Marketing
- Filius
Laurent Joins the 501-room Hyatt Regency Bonaventure Conference Center
and Spa in Weston, Florida as the Director of Food and Beverage
July 12, 2011
- VingCard
Elsafe Appoints Bill Oliver as Vice President and General Manager,
North America; Industry veteran to lead sales and customer operations
for VingCard Elsafe in the U.S. and Canada
- Preferred
Hotel Group Selects RateGain to power Rate Intelligence Solution for
its Member Hotels; Preferred Hotel Group's iRate Program provides
advanced competitive rate intelligence for its member hotels worldwide
- Engineering
Company Finds Harmon Tower Construction Defects in Las Vegas'
CityCenter 'Pervasive' and Unrepairable
- Lewis
Trust Group, Owner of Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach, Sues The Ritz-Carlton
Hotel Co., Marriott International Inc. and Avendra Inc. Claiming
Entities are Siphoning Profits Through Fees and Kickbacks
- Driftwood
Hospitality Management Forms $400MM Joint Venture with Apollo Global
Real Estate; Partnership Focused on Acquiring and Repositioning Hotels
Across U.S.
- Noble
Investment Group and Hyatt Hotels Form Joint Venture to Invest $80
Million to Develop Hyatt Place and Hyatt Summerfield Suites Hotels
- How
to Use Social Media to Tap Into the Burgeoning Market of Chinese
Travelers; An interview with Jens Thraenhart of Dragon Trail / Daniel
Edward Craig
- How
to use the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Visa Program for financing / Jim
Butler
- Ritz-Carlton
Lake Tahoe Foreclosure Sale Delayed a Second Time
- Over
Three-Fourths of Downtown Seattle Hoteliers Support a $2-a-night Tax
for Tourism Campaigns on Top of the $15.6% Tax Currently in Place
- 5
Things You Need to Know About How Your Customers Make Buying Decisions
- This May Change Your Social Strategy! Webinar July 21 / Carol Verret
- 100-room
Hotel Amarano in Burbank, California Breaks Ground on 32-room Expansion
Project to Include a Pool and Other Upgrades
- Aiken,
South Carolina City Council Approves Plan for 100-room Extended Stay
Suites Hotel Project
- Hospitality
Softnet, Inc. Launches New Online Learning System - theCampus
- Leisure
Estate Advisors Announces the Sale of the Staybridge Suites in West Des
Moines, Iowa
- Former
Grand Bay Hotel in Coconut Grove, Florida Sold to Terra Grove
Communities for $24 million
- Jordanian
Landmark Hotels Company Expands in Palestine with Agreement to Manage
the 143-room St. George Hotel in East Jerusalem
- Starwood
Opens New Sheraton Flagship with the Newly Renovated 379-room Sheraton
Stamford Hotel Owned by a RockBridge Partners and Davidson Hotels Joint
Venture
- 129-suite
Homewood Suites by Hilton Lafayette-Airport Opens in Louisiana, Managed
by Dimension Development Company and Owned by KS Hotel Associates, LLC
- The
55-room Nolitan Hotel to Open in the Nolita Neighborhood of New York
City
- 81-suite
TownePlace Suites by Marriott Opens in Williamsport, Pennsylvania,
Owned by George Tsunis - Chartwell Church Street and Operated by
Chartwell Hotels, LLC.
- Ascend
Collection from Choice Hotels Debuts in Arizona with the 431-room Xona
Resort Suites in North Scottsdale Owned by Sunstone US Hotel and
Operated by O'Neill Hotels & Resorts
- Luckey's
Management, Inc and IHG Complete Renovation and Re-Launch Project for
the New 77-suite Holiday Inn Express Fort Lauderdale Airport-West,
formerly the Comfort Suites, in Davie, Florida
- U.S.
Department Of Commerce Posts Request For Proposals From Vendors for the
Administration of the Survey of International Air Travelers
Program; RFP Packages Due August 8, 2011
- The
International Hotel, Motel + Restaurant Show (IHMRS) Welcomes the
Return of U.S. Air Force Inns
- Destination
Hotels & Resorts Names Steve Sackman Regional Vice President of
Sales and Marketing
- Rocco
Forte Hotels Makes Two Appointments: Ivan Artolli Named Operations
Director for Properties in the United Kingdom, Belgium and Eastern
Europe and Ken Dittrich Named General Manager of the Augustine Hotel in
Prague
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Names Brian Dunne Director of Sales &
Marketing for Hotel 718, Brooklyn, New York
- Richard
Preston Appointed as Executive Chef at 250-suite Hyatt Regency
Clearwater Beach Resort in Florida
July 11, 2011
- Hilton
Hotels & Resorts Launches Hilton Huanying, a Tailored Experience
for Chinese Travelers
- Starwood
Personalized Travel Program Launches in Global Gateway Cities Catering
to the Tastes and Preferences of the Outbound Chinese Traveler
- Chesapeake
Lodging Trust Acquires the 171-room Hotel Adagio in San Francisco for
$42.25 million; Management of Property to Remain with Joie de Vivre
Hospitality
- What
Was Your Takeaway From HITEC 2011? / Terence Ronson
- Service
Excellence: The MOST Important Thing To Create a Service Culture! / Dr.
Bryan K. Williams, DM
- JMBM
Announces Formation of the Chinese Investment Group™ - Hotels, Real
Estate, EB-5 Immigrant Investor Visas
- Marriott
Hotels & Resorts to Manage 200-room Erbil Marriott and 75-unit
Marriott Executive Apartments Erbil to Open in Erbil, Iraq in 2014
- In
a Franchise Agreement with Casamar Development, S.A. and
Corporación Turística del Pacífico, S.A. Marriott
to Open 180-room Casamar Marriott Panama Resort on Panama's Pacific
Coast in 2013
- In
a Franchise Agreement with Cairn Hotel Group Hilton Worldwide to Open
179-room DoubleTree by Hilton Newcastle International Airport in
Newcastle, United Kingdom
- MGM
Resorts International Installs First Personal Electric Vehicle Charging
Station on the Las Vegas Strip Located at the Shoppes at Mandalay Place
- It's
the Height of the Tourism Season at the Jersey Shore but Buyers Remain
Scarce for the Many Hotels and Motels on the Market
- Hotel
AG Brokers Sale of Metro Atlanta Suburban Extended Stay
- Mini-Indulgence
Themed Weekend Yields Maximum Social Media Results at Marquis Los Cabos
Resort's #TNI Travel Tweetup
- Paramount
Lodging Advisors Sells Country Inn & Suites in Tempe/ASU, Arizona
- Multiple
Auctions Scheduled for Sale of Hotels Owned by Magnate Ken Seaton in
Knoxville and Pigeon Forge Tennessee
- Choice
Hotels International Opens 27 New Hotels in June 2011
- Compass
Hospitality Opens 125-key Citrus Hotel Johor Bahru in Malaysia
- Lessons
from the Field: If I Only Knew Then.... / Dr. John Hogan
- Quorum
Hotels Chosen to Manage 146-key Holiday Inn Express SFO
South/Burlingame in California
- Buffalo
Lodging Names William (Bill) Hines as General Manager for the New
98-suite Homewood Suites Boston/Canton to Open this Summer in Canton,
Massachusetts
- Mafraq
Hotel in Abu Dhabi Appoints Kevin T. McIntyre as Executive Chef and
Olga Hoyal as Marketing Manager
July 8, 2011
- Professor
at the William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration at UNLV Using
Software to Get Hospitality Down to a Science; Students to Use Software
to Set Room Rates Based on Customer Spending in Simulated Hotels
- Paul
White Resigns as CEO of Orient-Express Hotels; Chairman Bob Lovejoy
Named Interim CEO
- Accor
to Sell the Pullman Paris Bercy Under a Sale and Management-Back
Agreement to Host Hotels & Resorts European Joint Venture with APG
and an Affiliate of GIC
- InterContinental
Hotels Group and Solitarie Hotels Open the InterContinental
Porto-Palacio das Cardosas, in Porto, Portugal
- Wyndham
Hotels & Resorts Opens 107-room Wyndham Garden at Palmas del Mar in
Humacao, Puerto Rico
- Shifting
From Manual to Automatic in Revenue Management / Jean Francois Mourier
- Understanding
Your Role in the Revenue Generating Process / Bernard Otis
- Call
for Entries for The Boutique & Lifestyle 2011 Hospitality Awards
- Boutique
Design New York on Track to Grow 50% in 2011: Event to be Held in
Conjunction with IHM&RS, Javits Center, New York, November 13 - 14,
2011
- Rezidor
Hotel Group to Manage the 471-room Radisson Royal Hotel, Dubai and the
257-room Radisson Blu Resort, Fujairah Dibba in the United Arab
Emirates; Both Hotels Owned by ACICO Industries
- New
Owner, Imara Holdings Inc., Choses Twenty4Seven Hotels to Manage the
168-room Residence Inn by Marriott Phoenix in Arizona
- The
295-room Hotel Bordeaux & Conference Center in Fayetteville, North
Carolina will Return to its Former Holiday Inn Brand After a $2 Million
Makeover
- After
7 Months and $2 Million of Renovation Roxy Hotel in Watertown, New York
Ready to Reopen
- Inspections
Prompted by Fatal Fire at a Bed-and-Breakfast Inn in New Ulm, Find St.
Cloud, Minnesota's Remaining B&B Establishments Up to Code and Well
Run
July 7, 2011
- KABA
ILCO Locks Selected by La Quinta Inns & Suites for 140 Hotels;
Benefits for La Quinta Include Enhanced Guest Security and Professional
Excellence
- Living
the Suite Life: 10 of Las Vegas' Most Extravagant Hotel Rooms; A Night
in Some of the Priciest Hotel Suites in Las Vegas Can Cost up to $40,000
- Is
Change Stressing Out Your Workforce? / Erica Arnold & Douglas Rosen
- The
Changing Face of Guest Feedback / Chris Larsen
- Put
Room 77 to Work / Susan Deluzain Barry
- U.S.
Travel Association Releases Comprehensive Analysis Proving Tourism
Promotion Campaigns Increase Visitation Resulting in More Jobs, State
and Local Tax Revenue
- Hospitality
and Real Estate CEO's Optimistic About Economic Recovery with Nearly
Half Focused on Either Raising or Investing Capital According to Survey
Released by Ernst & Young
- ACH
is New Name for Former Atlantic City Hilton Casino Resulting From the
Termination of Hilton Franchise Agreement
- Construction
Resumes on 88-room Candlewood Suites in Fredericksburg, Virginia
- Owner
of Former 180-room Clarion Hotel in Montgomery, Alabama Sees Its
Potential to Fill Need for Rooms in Downtown Area
- Downtown
Columbus, Ohio Hotels Spiff Up and Hope Opening of Hilton Convention
Hotel Will Result in Surge of Business for All
- Dinapoli
Capital Partners to Rebrand Crowne Plaza San Jose Downtown in
California to Hyatt Place; 239-Room Hotel to Undergo $7 Million
Renovation and Reopen as Hyatt Place San Jose Downtown in January 2012
- Warmbrodt
Hotel Investments Advises in the Sale of the Historic Elms Hotel &
Resort in Excelsior Springs, Missouri
- InterContinental
Hotels Group Opens the 149-room InterContinental Nordelta Tigre -
Buenos Aires Hotel, Residences & Spa in Argentina; Owned by
Complejo Bahia, S.A and Developed by Innvest Developments S.A.
- Marriott
International Opens 413-room JW Marriott Hotel Ankara in Turkey Managed
by Ozkar Insaat A.S.
- Pullman
Continues to Expand, Moving into Six New Countries, and Opens its First
Brazilian Hotel: the 350-room Pullman São Paulo Ibirapuera
- American
Resort Management and Hyatt Hotels Open the 100-room Hyatt Place Long
Island/East End in Riverhead, New York
- Pride
Hospitality to Manage the 48-key Treasure Bayou Hotel & Suites in
Baldwin, Louisiana
- Hilton
Waikoloa Village Completes $1 Million Renovation to the Naupaka and
Nai'a Suites
- Boutique
Design New York Seeking Entries for 'Trend Walk', a Showcase of Five
Future Hospitality Design Trends; To Take Center Stage at BDNY 2011,
November 12-14 in New York City
- Hotel
& Lodging Association of Greater Houston Elects 2011-2012 Board
with Tom A. Mathews as Chair
- One
of New York's Leading Hoteliers, John Fitzpatrick, Receives an Honorary
Doctorate from Queen's University
- Reflections
/ Dr. John Hogan
- John
Giattino Recognized for 25 Years of Professional Certification by the
American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute
- Hilton
Worldwide Appoints Jon Muñoz as Senior Director of Global
Diversity and Inclusion
- Interstate
Hotels & Resorts Names Julie Pangelinan Chief Financial Officer
- IHG
Appoints Paul Snyder, Vice President, Corporate Responsibility, the
Americas Region
- Marcus®
Hotels & Resorts Makes Five Management Appointments
- Todd
Scholl Named Director of Sales and Marketing for Hyatt Regency Tulsa
July 6, 2011
- 2011
Construction Report North America: 23 Hotel Waterparks Expect to Open
in 2011; 10 Coco Key Waterparks Bought at Auction for Bargain Prices /
Jeff Coy & Amanda McDaniel
- Barbados
Tourism Authority Adds Regatta to VisitBarbados.org
- U.S.
Hotel Demand Powers Ahead with Forecasted Increase of 4.9%; Room Rates
Continue To Lag
- Design,
Material Choices Might Have Led to Glass Falling From the $300 million
W Austin Hotel, Which Remains Closed / Jeremy Schwartz
- Bay
County Florida Commission Considering a Role in Financing the $39
Million 168-room Embassy Suites Hotel and Marina Project Proposed for
Panama City
- After
Months of Delay Developer Patrick Donegan States that the 132-room
Hilton Garden Inn in Watertown, New York will Open Soon
- Understanding
and Managing Risks Associated with Social Media / Natahn Egan
- Discovering
How Social Media Fits Into Your Company and Proving its Worth / Ritesh
Gupta
- Small
Independent and Boutique Hotels - Online Marketing and Strategic
Revenue Management Levels the Playing Field! / Carol Verret
- You've
Got Mail.....From AAA / Lisa Miller
- Survey
Reveals Distinctive B&B Ambiance Appeals to Growing Number of
Travelers
- Marriott
International Opens 365-room Jaipur Marriott Hotel in India's State of
Rajasthan
- Pinnacle
Realty Investments Advises in the Sale of the Point Lookout Resort
& Conference Center, Northport, Maine
- EasyRMS
Soars Further into Europe with Iconic Concorde Hotels & Resorts; In
a two-phase agreement, the EzRMS SaaS Revenue Management suite is now
deployed at nine properties in this high-end collection of hotels, with
an additional four implementing the solution later in 2011
- Warmbrodt
Hotel Investments Selected to Advise in the Sale of the Residence Inn
By Marriott-Union Hill, Located in Kansas City, Missouri
- Newcomer
- RateTiger nominated for Business Traveler Innovation Awards; RTCorp
recognized for intelligent rate shopping technology
- State
Eases Licensing Requirements for Gaming Companies Eyeing Nevada for
Growth
- Midas
Hospitality, LLC Selected to Operate the Courtyard by Marriott in
Fitchburg, Massachusetts
- Dorchester
Collection's Culinary Partners, Chefs, Restaurateurs and Food &
Beverage Management Teams Plan for the Future of Hospitality Business
at Recent Conference
- John
O'Neill Appointed as Director of Penn State's School of Hospitality
Management
- Caribbean
Hotel & Tourism (CHTA) Elects Richard J. Doumeng as President-elect
for 2012-2014
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Names Lisa Maria Stice Vice President of
Global Online Marketing
- Juan
Pablo Laginia Appointed as Director of Operations at the 564-key
InterContinental San Francisco
- Taj
Hotels Resorts and Palaces Appoints Julian Alden as Director of Sales
for The Pierre, A Taj Hotel in New York City
- Rosewood
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Nancy Newberry Williams as Sales Manager
of 45-room CordeValle in San Martín, California
- Buffalo
Lodging Associates Appoints Rita Abney as Director of Sales for the
Residence Inn St. Louis-Westport in St. Louis, Missouri
- Lesly
Connolly Named Senior Sales Manager based in Washington, D.C. for the
216-room Omni Bedford Springs Resort & Spa in the Allegheny
Mountains of Pennsylvania
- W
Hotels Appoints Virgil Napier as Director of Sales & Marketing for
the 157-room W Retreat & Spa-Vieques Island Located off the Coast
of Puerto Rico
- Michael
Collins Named Executive Chef at the Meritage Resort and Spa in Napa
Valley, California
- Alexander
Reyes Named Executive Chef at the InterContinental Tampa in Florida
July 5, 2011
- Pool
Party Trend Paying Off Big for Las Vegas Resorts
- Mesa,
Arizona City Officials Believe Gaylord Entertainment's $800 million
Colorado Project Could Compete with Proposed Mesa Resort -
- When
Opened, the Green Leaf Inn in Rural Delavan, Wisconsin Will be Nation's
Only Hotel to Generate as Much Energy as it Uses
- Mr.
B and the Broadmoor Hotel: As Steve Bartolin Marks 20-years and Over
$300 million in Upgrades at the Colorado Springs Resort He Prefers to
Shine the Spotlight on Others
- Leading
Economy Hotel Chain in China, 7 Days Group Holdings Limited, to Expand
Operations in 12 Chinese Cities as it Enters into a Definitive
Agreement to Acquire Huatian Star Hotel Group for Approximately $21
Million
- White
Lodging to Build a 1,003-room Marriott Marquis in Austin, Texas; To be
the Largest Hotel in Austin
- Conceptual
Plans Completed for Desert Cove Resort & Spa; Hotel-Online and
BuildCentral Add/Update 172 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel
Construction Projects Database
- Four
Winds Casino Resort in New Buffalo, Michigan, to Begin Expansion
Project Adding 250 Rooms to its 165-room Hotel and a New Multi-Use
Event Center
- New
GM For Upscale Orange County Hotel: Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Have
Updated 164 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with Changes in Personnel,
Property Management or Ownership
- Marriott
Names Scott McCoy as General Manager of the Year for the Americas
Western Region
- Caribbean
Hotel & Tourism (CHTA) Honors Rodney Howell and Lino van der Biezen
with Carribbean Employee & Supervisor of the Year Awards
- El
Paso's Hotel Construction Boom has Slowed but Not Stopped; Occupancy
Rates Exceeding State Average by Nearly 10% Spurring Interest in Future
Developments
- The
Liquidation Sale of the Former Crowne Plaza Five Seasons Opens
Thursday, July 7th at 10:00 a.m. Sale will be conducted by NCL/
National Content Liquidators, Inc.
- Hotel
AG Brokers Sale of the Islander Resort Hotel in Daytona Beach
- Pocono
Manor Stables' Horse Trainer Competes in National Reality Television
Show; The Inn at Pocono Manor
- Hawaiian
Islands Optimistic for Tourism Recovery as the Hawaii Tourism Authority
Forecasts Best Year-end Finish for Visitor Arrivals and Spending in
Four Years
- "Employees
are our Lifeblood, Happy Employees Go a Long Way to Help Keep a
Business Profitable"; IHG Honors Staff Worldwide with Celebrate Service
- Travaasa
Destinations Opens 70-key Travaasa Hana in Maui, Hawaii in the former
Hotel Hana-Maui
- The
Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company Assumes Management of Al Bustan Palace in
Muscat, Oman
- Rosewood
Hotels & Resorts Completes Restoration of 155-room Rosewood Hotel
Georgia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Crestline
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Jean-Pierre Lamarre as General Manager of
the Courtyard by Marriott Washington Capitol Hill/Navy Yard
- White
Lodging Appoints Glynn Knight as General Manager at the Marriott Hotel
in Richmond, Virginia
- Amy
Esnault Appointed as Director of Sales, Leisure and Business Travel at
the 396-room Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel in Dana Point, California
- Benchmark
Hospitality Names Max Kiebach as Director of Food and Beverage for the
147-room Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center in
Blacksburg, Virginia
July 1, 2011
- Nobody
Asked me, But… No. 78; AAHOA Chairman Hits a Home Run; Universal
Franchisee Bill of Rights; HomeSpun; Quote of the Month / Stanley Turkel
- Hotel
Lawyer: How do you know when you should set up a captive insurance
company for your hotel? Take our "litmus test". / Jim Butler &
Gordon Schaller
- Hersha
Hospitality Trust to Acquire the 175-Room Hyatt Hotel in Union Square,
New York City for $104.1 Million or About $595,000 per key
- Urgo
Hotels Secures Controlling Interest of Joint Venture and Long-term
Management Contract for the Two Hotel (Courtyard & Residence Inn by
Marriott) Complex at Montreal International Airport in Canada
- Reorganization
Plan for Hotel REIT Innkeepers USA Trust Wins Court Approval
- Chatham's
Acquisitions to Deliver Stellar Growth; REIT to Acquire Interests in 69
Premium-Branded Hotels, Doubling Its Investment Portfolio
- Chesapeake
Lodging Trust Acquires 204-room Courtyard Washington Capitol Hill/Navy
Yard in Washington, DC for $68 Million or About $333,000 per Key
- Crestline
Hotels & Resorts to Manage the 204-room Courtyard by Marriott
Washington Capitol Hill/Navy Yard
- Sofitel's
177-room The Grand Completes Renovations and Becomes Sofitel Legend The
Grand Amsterdam, the Brand's First Legend Property in Europe
- Sofitel
Luxury Hotels Opens 493-room Sofitel Guangzhou Sunrich in Guangzhou,
China
- Rocco
Forte Hotels extends iBAHN partnership with renewed contract and
additional hotels
- Atlantic
City Hilton Casino Resort in New Jersey Loses the Right to Use Hilton
Name as Hilton Ends their Licensing Agreement
- Falkensteiner
Hotel & Spa Iadera Opens on the Punta Skala Peninsula in Croatia;
Additional Openings Scheduled for 2012
- Vikram
Chatwal Hotels Completes $270 million-dollar Renovation of 1960s Albert
C. Ledner Building and Opens 316-room Dream Downtown in Manhattan, New
York
- 52-room
Inn at Brunswick Station Opens in Brunswick, Maine, Managed by Olympia
Hotel Management
- Swissôtel
Hotels & Resorts Deputs Swissôtel Living, its Extended Stay
Suite Concept, at the 63-suite Swissôtel The Bosphorus in Istanbul
- The
Dorchester Collection Selected to Manage 109-room Le Richemond in
Geneva, Switzerland with the Group's First Third-Party Management
Agreement
- O'Reilly
Hospitality Management to Manage 201-room Holiday Inn City Center in
Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Developer,
Jack Matthews, Gets Funding to Start Work on 76-room Boutique Hotel in
Dallas, Texas to be Operated by Nylo Hotels
- The
Sensorial in the Experiential Hospitality / Osvaldo Torres Cruz
- Dorchester
Collection Appoints Edward A. Mady General Manager of The Beverly Hills
Hotel and West Coast Regional Director, USA; Current GM of The New York
Palace to Oversee West Coast Operations of the Luxury Hotel Collection
- Mandarin
Oriental, Las Vegas Appoints Cynthia Boyett as Director of Business
Development
- Rosewood
Hotels and Resorts Appoints Mohamed Karara as Director of Sales and
Marketing at Rosewood Corniche Jeddah in Saudia Arabia
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