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Top 25 Read Articles - June 2012 Agilysys Announces Availability of New Mobile Point-of-Sale Solution; Agilysys InfoGenesis Mobile POS System Introduced at HITEC 2012 Infor Introduces New Mobile Application for the Hospitality Industry; Infor10 HMS Hotel Check-In Enables Hotels to Improve Front and Back of House Processes Infor Solidifies Leadership Position in Hospitality Technology; Combination of Infor, SoftBrands, EasyRMS Finalized, Creating a Single Provider of Integrated Property Management and Extended Business Applications for the Hospitality Industry How Hotel Owners and GMs can Change 'The Top 10 Reasons Why Hotels Underperform' - Part 2 / Tom Costello How To Convince Callers Who Are Looking Online To Book Directly / Doug Kennedy Arne Sorenson, Marriott International President and Chief Executive Officer, Discusses Plans to Acquire Gaylord Hotels on CNBC's Squawk Box How Hotel Owners and GMs can Change 'The Top 10 Reasons Why Hotels Underperform' - Part 1 / Tom Costello FelCor Lodging Trust Closes on Sale of Six Hotels, a Portfolio of 1,527 rooms, for $103 Million Gaylord Opryland Gets Rocked with an Explosion; No One Injured and Normal Operations Resumed 'Cyber Accessibility' is the New Frontier for ADA Lawsuits. Your Next DOJ Investigation or ADA Class Action Could be Just a Mouse Click Away! / Jim Butler Trump Organization Closes on and Assumes Management of South Florida's Doral Golf Resort & Spa; $200 million to be Invested Renovating Hotel and Golf Courses 2011 Construction Report North America; 26 Hotel Waterpark Resorts Opened in 2011 in USA / Jeff Coy Three Reasons Your Business Needs Direct Mail and Pay Per Click Marketing / Joy Gendusa Gaylord Entertainment Agrees to Sell the Gaylord Hotels Brand and Manangement Company to Marriott International for $210 million Cash; Gaylord to Maintain Ownership of its Properties and will Reorganize as the Only Lodging REIT Focused on Group-Oriented Destination Markets Sage Hospitality Gears Up for Growth with Three New Development & Acquisitions Team Hires; Looking for Acquisition and Repositioning Opportunities with Plans to Invest $1.2 Billion over the Next 24 Months The Cost Of Guest Loyalty / Robert Mandelbaum Sunstone Hotel Investors Enters Into Agreement to Sell the 284-Room Marriott Del Mar for $66 Million; Completes Acquisition and Re-Branding of the 417-room Hyatt Chicago Magnificent Mile Mesa, Arizona's Hopes Dim for Long-Delayed $800 million Gaylord Resort Following Sale of Brand to Marriott MGM Resorts International Expected to be Named as Operator of Proposed Luxury Casino at Baltimore, Maryland's National Harbor Loews Hotels & Resorts to Acquire the 632-room Renaissance Hotel & Spa in Hollywood, California from CIM Group; To Rebrand as the Loews Hollywood Hotel and Begin $26 Million Renovation in Late 2012 with Completion in Summer 2013 Is Your Revenue Management System Up To 21st Century Data Demands? What You Need To Know About Next Generation Revenue Management To Stay Competitive / Don Wilson Google Places Goes SoLoMo - What Does it Mean for Hoteliers? / Daniel Morosi Karolin Troubetzkoy, Owner, Anse Chastanet & Jade Mountain Resort in St. Lucia, Named Caribbean Hotelier of the Year Driftwood Hospitality Management Embarking on Extensive Renovation of Three Properties Recently Acquired Through Apollo Joint Venture From New York City to New Orleans, Seattle to San Diego, W Hotels Unveils Significant Renovation Plans for North American Portfolio June 29, 2012 Wynn Resorts Board Members to be Questioned in Litigation with Japanese Billionaire Gaming Figure Kazuo Okada; Judge Rejects Okada Request to Block Wynn Resorts Deposition Report on Russia's Tourism Industry from Hilton Worldwide Indicates Incoming Tourist Expenditure Could Double to $15.3 Billion by 2016 Provided Planned Infrastructure Changes are Implemented; Hilton's Pipeline for the Country Includes 28 Hotels AH & LA Urges GSA to Keep Current Methodology for Calculating Per Diem Rates for Government Travel; Requesting that Members Contact Congress to Prevent Possible Per Diem Rate Reduction Wounded Warriors Honored With A Day Of Fishing, Sailing, & Boating / Bob McNally Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts to Increase Presence in Australia with Acquisition and Management of the 191-room Traders Hotel, Brisbane citizenM Hotels to Debut in London, England with the July 4th, 2012 Opening of the 192-room citizenM hotel in the Bankside District Tampa, Florida Partnership Between Bern's Steak House and Mainsail Lodging and Development to Break Ground on $32.5 Million Boutique Hotel in Fall 2012; The 145-room Hotel, Named the Epicurean, will be Part of Marriott's Autograph Collection Hawkeye Hotels to Build 112-room Residence Inn by Marriott in Champaign, Illinois; May 2013 Opening Planned The 450-room Westin Gaslamp Quarter in San Diego, California Completes $25 Million Property-Wide Renovation CSM Corporation Appoints Bill Upshaw as New President of Lodging and Residential David Rebich Rejoins Waterford Hotel Group as Chief Financial Officer Waterford Hotel Names Joanne Minas as General Manager of the 120-room Courtyard by Marriott in Norwich, Connecticut June 28, 2012 Kaba Lodging Congratulates Honeywell and INNCOM; New business Agreement Powers Online Technology For The Hospitality Industry Revel in Atlantic City Selects Comprehensive Agilysys Software Suite; Destination Resort Implements Systems for Property Management, POS, Self-Service As Overhaul of Chicago's McCormick Place Nears Completion, the Owning State-City Agency Must Become Financially Self-Sufficient by Mid-2014 for Success Hilton Worldwide and Inveravante Sign Agreement to Open Two Hotels in Tangier, Morocco; Openings Planned for the 182-room Hilton Tanger City Center Hotel & Residences in Spring 2015 and the 323-room Hilton Garden Inn Tanger City Center in December 2014 Rezidor to Open the 122-room Park Inn by Radisson Odintsovo Greater Moscow in Russia in Q3 2012 Suburban Collection Showplace, the Novi, Michigan Exhibition and Conference Center, to Open an On-Site 126-room Hyatt Place in Spring 2013 The 197-room InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort Opens in Vietnam Intelity and Evolve Guest Controls Announce Strategic Partnership Educational Institute Welcomes New Global Academic Partner in Estonia Sonnenblick-Eichner Company Arranges $42,000,000 of First Mortgage Financing for The Doubletree by Hilton Hotel New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana Digital Alchemy and GCommerce Solutions announce the Hospitality Marketing Exchange: a digital marketing conference in partnership with Google and the Hotel at Arundel Preserve. Smith Micro and Guest-tek Deliver Seamless Mobile Video Experience to Hotel Guests UniFocus Survey Solutions the Perfect Fit for Ojai Valley Inn & Spa AHTEC @ FHC China 2012 - China's Premiere Hospitality Technology Education Conference is Confirmed for November 2012 Rezidor Opens the 170-room Radisson Blu Resort & Spa, Ajaccio Bay in Corsica Plains Management Group to Break Ground on Two 121-suite Extended Stay Hotels in Kansas; Openings Slated for Q4 2013 for the Dodge City and Garden City Properties The 186-room Four Points by Sheraton Opens in New Orleans' French Quarter; Multi-Million Dollar Renovation and Re-branding Complete for the Former Ramada Property Known as The Inn On Bourbon Managed by Pinnacle Hotels USA, the 220-room Four Points by Sheraton San Diego Downtown Opens in California Following Hotel Conversion Hostmark Hospitality Group to Take Over Management of Appleton, Wisconsin's Radisson Paper Valley Hotel as Part of Transition Plan for the Property Currently in Default HSMAI Names Melissa Graves as Revenue Management Professional of the Year and Agnelo A. Fernandes as Resort Marketer of the Year Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints Phillip Starling as General Manager of Naples Bay Resort in Naples, Florida June 27, 2012 Modern Independent Hotel Websites Drive Results… and Awards; VIZERGY Websites Recognized by Interactive Media Awards AMResorts, one of the largest luxury leisure resort companies in North America selects EzRMS full product suite for all 30 properties; New partnership sees all 30 luxurious properties implementing EzRMS Revenue Management Solution Hotel Rates Paid for Vacations in May Exceed 2011 for All Global Regions; Report from Pegasus Solutions Suggests More Rate Growth Ahead for Summer Sabre Hospitality Solutions First CRS to Go Live with Room Key; Sabre SynXis CRS hotel partners receive additional exposure and reach through new hotel search engine Open Sales Positions: Can You Afford Them? / Bill Scanlon The Federal Trade Commission Sues Wyndham Worldwide Over Data Breaches Hilton Worldwide to Launch Conrad Hotel Brand in South Africa with the Conversion of the 78-suite Pezula Resort & Spa Owned by Alderney Establishment; Conrad Pezula Resort & Spa to Complete Rebranding in November 2012 Marriott International Debuts in Azerbaijan, the 243-room JW Marriott Absheron Baku; Opened Under a Management Agreement with Yeni Absheron Oteli LLC Newmarket International Announces a Customizable Facebook App for Hospitality Businesses Infor Introduces New Mobile Application for the Hospitality Industry; Infor10 HMS Hotel Check-In Enables Hotels to Improve Front and Back of House Processes The Life and Times of a Guest Request with Intelity's ICE Technology; Take a walk through the process of fulfilling a guest request with the award-winning ICE Technology Destination Hotels & Resorts Leverages Newmarket International Hospitality Relationship Management Platform to Manage Its Portfolio of Properties InnLink CRS Expands, Launches TravLynx as Parent Brand; Celebrates 20 Years of Leading Hospitality Solutions, Expands Technology, Partnership Programs for the Hospitality Industry TravLynx Joins Shift4 as a 4Res Launch Partner; First Solution and CRS to Offer Tokenized Reservation Data to the Market to Simplify PCI Compliance for Hotels Smith Micro Helps Allin Interactive Launch VIDIO Multi-Platform Streaming for the Hospitality Industry; Mobile video technology developed for the Cruise Ship industry now available onshore Fighting for Your Property's Stars / Jean Francois Mourier Transparency in Global Real Estate Markets Increases, Aiding Investors and Occupiers, According to Jones Lang LaSalle Sonesta International Hotels to Manage the 106-room Sonesta ES Suites Charlotte in North Carolina Developer Rick Caruso Wins Montecito, California Hotel Tax Break; Could be Worth $15 Million Toward the Demolition of the Miramar Hotel and Resort Development on the Site Major Expansion Launched for San Francisco, California's Moscone Convention Center; 25-Year Master Plan Developed to Boost Tourism, Attract Conventions, Events to City South Shore Bemidji, Minnesota Plans Advance for the 121-room Country Inn & Suites; Construction Plans to Begin Next Month with Expected Opening in April 2013 Charles Snyder Appointed to the Acquisitions and Development Team for New Castle Hotels & Resorts Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints Steven DeFelice as Director of Sales & Marketing for Hotel Contessa in San Antonio, Texas Frederic Calvez Named as Executive Assistant Manager and Food & Beverage Director for the Hyatt at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, California June 26, 2012 Infor Solidifies Leadership Position in Hospitality Technology; Combination of Infor, SoftBrands, EasyRMS Finalized, Creating a Single Provider of Integrated Property Management and Extended Business Applications for the Hospitality Industry Agilysys Announces Availability of New Mobile Point-of-Sale Solution; Agilysys InfoGenesis™ Mobile POS System Introduced at HITEC 2012 Pegasus Solutions Introduces Pegasus Connect; New Solution Suite Allows Hotels to Pick and Choose Services to Fit Any Online Marketing or Distribution Need VingCard Elsafe Introduces 'Essence by VingCard', the World's First Invisible Door Lock; World leader in hotel locking solutions once again revolutionizes the hotel industry with debut of the ultimate in minimalistic locking solutions. Join the Revolution with Knowland at HITEC; Innovative software company will be showcasing Knowland data, SaaS, Target Net at booth #2456 Cendyn's CRM eInsight Continues to Evolve with Cutting-Edge Enhancements Adapting to Hotels' Needs; Visit Cendyn and Learn More at HITEC 2012 - Booth 413 How Hotel Owners and GMs can Change 'The Top 10 Reasons Why Hotels Underperform' - Part 2 / Tom Costello New Survey Reveals that Eight Out of Ten American Companies are Present on Facebook but High Usage Does Not Imply True Integration The National Conference Center Releases White Paper on Meeting Planners and the Service Experience; Survey Reveals Conference Planning Managers as one of the Most Valued Services a Venue can Provide Top Destination Leaders Gather for Inaugural Destination CEO Roundtable Hosted by the U.S. Travel Association Aimbridge Hospitality Retained to Manage Six Platinum Equity Hotels Totaling 1,527 Rooms Host Hotels & Resorts to Develop Three New Hotels; Enters Agreement for a Novotel and an ibis Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Through a Joint Venture with White Lodging will Develop the Hyatt Place Nashville/Downtown in Tennessee Intelity and Newmarket International Forge Partnership for Meeting & Event Focused Hotels; First of its kind solution delivers unprecedented service options to meeting planners and attendees plus hotel staff Intelity Announces Partnership with Swisscom Hospitality; Award-winning ICE technology will now be integrated with Swisscom Hospitality in-room televisions worldwide Great Wolf Resorts Chooses Blueprint RF's Advanced Network Solution Occidental Vacation Club Wins TripAdvisor Awards of Excellence; Six Occidental Properties Win Prestigious Recognition From the World's Largest Travel Website PAR Springer-Miller Systems Names Pegasus Solutions As Preferred Central Reservations Provider Towne Park Builds On Record Growth, Adds 30 New Clients to Portfolio Since January Aston Hotels & Resorts to Deploy MICROS OPERA Enterprise Solution at 27 Properties; Hawaii-based hotel and resort group selects technology partner with integrated solution for managing properties and condo ownerships Crestron Showcases Complete Integrated Hospitality Solution at HITEC 2012; Crestron Delivers an Unparalleled Guest Experience Managed by the Help Desk HAMA Chooses Educational Institute as Certification Partner Shift4 Announces the Ultimate Solution for Hospitality Payment Security The 138-key Courtyard Maui Kahului Airport Opens in Maui, Hawaii; Owned by R.D. Olson Development Holiday Inn Express Maceio Ponta Verde Opens in Brazil; The New-Build, 160-room Hotel is Owned and Managed by MC3 Imóveis Ltda. Hilton Worldwide and Ramtron Australia Pty Ltd to Open Australia's First DoubleTree Property with the 164-room DoubleTree by Hilton, Karratha Scheduled to Open in Mid-2014 Solís Hotels & Resorts and Owner Jiachuang Investment Group to Develop the 260-key Solís Guangzhou in China Sonesta International Hotels to Manage the 106-room Sonesta ES Suites St. Louis in Missouri Work Begins on the 53-room Boutique Hotel Florence Seen as Linchpin for Revitalization of Florence, South Carolina HHM, Hersha Hospitality Management, Completes Renovation of Three HYATT House Properties in Maryland, New Jersey and California Stefan Schaer Appointed as Director of Sales and Marketing for The Alpina Gstaad in Switzerland; Part of a $337 Million Development, the 56-key Hotel is Slated to Open in December 2012 Lesly Connolly Hired as Director, National Associations for The 483-room Homestead in Hot Springs, Virginia Dorchester Collection Appoints Brian Hughson as Executive Chef for Coworth Park in Ascot, England Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints Richard Potts as Executive Chef for the 55-room Sorrell River Ranch Resort & Spa in Moab, Utah June 25, 2012 EasyRMS Launches Latest Innovation Ez-LITE, Making Revenue Management Easier Than Ever! Ez-LITE is a revolutionary Cluster Revenue Management System specially designed for limited service Hotel Chains Top 2012 PMS Trends: NORTHWIND Showcases Guest Loyalty for Independents, Maestro Cloud and Mobile, Direct Web and Social Media Booking at HITEC; Maestro PMS Innovations Build on Reliable, Fully-Integrated Single-Image Database Platform to Drive Revenue, Create Cost Savings and Optimize Productivity VingCard Elsafe and Lutron Collaborate to Offer the Hotel Industry a Fully Integrated Light Control and Energy Management Solution; Industry leaders collaborate to help hoteliers maximize energy efficiency, ensure guest comfort and enhance the guest experience through complete room control solution You Are Cordially Invited... At HITEC Come to the Kaba booth #2013 and Shake Hands with Live Mobile Guest Key Technology OpenWays Launches NFC Integration with Mobile Key DUAL - 100% Operating with Any Mobile Phone Deployable TODAY Guestware Launches Next-Generation Guest Experience Management Software at HITEC; already implemented at 40 properties worldwide How Hotel Owners and GMs can Change 'The Top 10 Reasons Why Hotels Underperform' - Part 1 / Tom Costello Hyatt Affiliate Enters Management Agreement with Bienes y Comercio, S.A. for a 297-room Grand Hyatt Hotel in Bogota, Colombia; Owned and Developed by Organización Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo, it is Slated for an Early 2015 Opening Property Management Change at 303-Room Columbia, South Carolina Hotel; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Have Updated 309 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with Changes in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership Developers Break Ground on the 115-key Residence Inn by Marriott at Chicopee Crossing in Massachusetts; The Hotel, Owned by BK Investments and Managed by Waterford Hotel Group, is Set to Open by Early Fall 2013 HOMI, a Leading Mini Bar Management Firm, Seeking Experienced Sales Account Managers Hotel AG Closes 3 Transactions Last Week - Totaling 31 for the Year Allin Interactive Introduces Integrated DigiHD ITV and DigiMobile Platform at HITEC 2012 Newmarket International Announces that Starwood Hotels & Resorts has Selected HIS PremiumView as Preferred Market Intelligence Solution Guarded Systems Named HSIA Partner for National Purchasing Network Eleven Wireless to Provide iMac Guest Computer Solutions in Many Hyatt Hotels; Eleven's market-leading software powers Hyatt's adoption of in-lobby Apple computers Eleven Wireless Launches New ElevenOS Software; ElevenOS, hospitality's only guest Internet platform, adds groundbreaking functionality Eleven Wireless Appoints New Director; Leading Internet guest services supplier appoints industry leader Don Semmler to Board of Directors guestLINK Rebrands to G-LINK with Sleek Style and Powerful Connections; Newly Redesigned Connectivity Panels Selected for GUESTROOM 20X® and TechTours at HITEC® 2012 in Baltimore, Md MICROS Continues to Prove Its Innovative Leadership with a Suite of Cloud-based Products and Unparalleled Mobility; MICROS will demonstrate the portfolio of offerings at HITEC, June 25 - 28, 2012 in Baltimore, MD FCS' Solutions Integrate with Swisscom Hospitality to Deliver a Seamless Guest Experience RedRock Software Expands to Asia Pacific as RedRock Global Supply, Ltd in Macau and Hong Kong PAR Springer-Miller Releases Newest Update of ATRIO Guest Experience Management System; Purpose-built for the Cloud System Increases Feature Velocity INNCOM to Unveil EVORA at HITEC; A New Guest Automation Experience Bartech To Introduce Eco-Friendly Automatic Minibar Technology At HITEC; Low-consumption compressor key to new hospitality amenity that generates revenue while reducing hotel expenses Greg Berman Appointed COO of RateTiger, eRevMax International RateTiger recruits former COO & CTO of HBSi Chip Conley Featured at Kendall College's Global Hospitality Spotlight Series; Author and Joie de Vivre Founder Spoke at June 15th Event Discussing "The Powerful Intersection of Psychology & Business" Kirk Kinsell, IHG's President of the Americas, Discusses Hotel Growth in Booming Areas Wave Crest Hotels and Resorts Opens the 215-room Hilton Carlsbad Oceanfront Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California RockBridge and Musselman Hotels Open the 252-room Marriott Louisville East in Kentucky After Investing $30 million to Transform the Former Park Inn Hotel The 100-room Courtyard Miami Homestead to Open this Week in Homestead, Florida, Owned by Prime Group and Managed by Shaner Hotels & Investments Driftwood Hospitality Management Portofolio Grows with the Addition of Three New Management Contracts for a Total of 800 Rooms The Eagle Has Landed! Landmark Liberty Golden Eagle Soars At Wyndham Virginia Crossings Hotel & Conference Center; Return of the 2500-pound Sculpture Caps $3 Million Renovation; Ceremonies Honor Armed Forces Magnolia Lodging Names Jay Lee as General Manager and Sue Groffie-Gregg as Sales Manager for the 122-suite Home2 Suites by Hilton Set to Open in Frisco, Texas in Fall 2012 Timothy H. Wolfe Hired as General Manager for the Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa at Beaver Creek Mountain in Colorado June 21, 2012 TripCraft Collaborates with Newmarket International to Deliver Industry Leading Event & Guest Service Mobile Solutions for Hotels VingCard Elsafe Solutions To Be Showcased In Futuristic GUESTROOM 20X at HITEC; NFC Mobile Keys, Infinity II safes selected for inclusion in model guestroom of the future at 2012 hospitality technology show Sabre Hospitality Solutions Newest Booking Engine Delivers Real Results; Hotels report increased conversion rates and revenue Cendyn Redesigns its Dynamic eBrochure to be Even More User-Friendly and Effective for Hotel Sales Staffs; Visit Cendyn and Learn More at HITEC 2012 - Booth 413 MIWA Unveils its Hotel Locks Integrated with Mobile Key by OpenWays; Leading global electronic lock provider partners with OpenWays to bring Mobile Key front desk bypass solution to leading hotel chains around the world HSMAI ROC Attendees to Gain Fresh Insight Into Optimizing Group Business For 'A Better Way' To Forecast and Price Rooms For Groups Hilton Brisbane Continues Upgrade Theme with HotSOS Technology 'Refurb' Legendary Service Ethic Inspires HotSOS Solution at the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi Cenium to Showcase BI, Mountain Operations and Service Management Modules at HITEC 2012; Flexible and Integrated Applications for Every Level of Your Enterprise HotelMarketData Launches Free Quote System to Connect Hotel Operators with over 1,500 Construction, FF&E, Business and Technology Suppliers; Hotel operators can connect to hotel suppliers for a fast, free quote on a wide range of hotel products and services DO's and DON'Ts of Hotel Technology v4 / Terence Ronson Hersha Hospitality Acquires the 228-room Holiday Inn Express in Midtown Manhattan; Purchases Remaining Interest from Joint Venture Partner for $10 Million, a Total Acquisition of $87.5 Million or $383,772 per key PKF Lodging Forecast for U.S. Remains Strong Despite Lingering Levels of Uncertainty Hallandale Beach, Florida City Officials Give Go Ahead for a $90 Million 31-story Hotel/Condo Development EB-5 Lawyer Alert #3: Update on California TEA designation procedure. What's the problem in California! / Jim Butler, Catherine DeBono Holmes and Victor T. Shum Salamander Hotels & Resorts Plans August 2013 Opening for the 168-room Salamander Resort & Spa Under Development in Middleburg, Virginia Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts Expands Portfolio in Turkey with Two New Hotels to Open in Bodrum in 2013 and 2014; Owned and Being Developed by Cagdas Holding Hyatt Hotels Breaks Ground for the 159-room Hyatt Place Omaha Downtown/Old Market in Nebraska ZDirect Now Helps Guests Check in Faster with OpenWays Mobile Technology Shift4 Announces New Point-to-Point Encryption Capability Customer is Key to Continuous Improvement in Hotel Accounting, Business Intelligence and Productivity Tools; M3 Hotel Accounting hosts 2012 Partners' Meeting to provide feedback and share best practices UniFocus' GUESTScope Delivers Superior Corporate Level Intelligence With Innovative Dashboard Clear Sky Software Helps Houston Hotel Control Beverage Inventory and Lower Beverage Costs SuiteLinq Engaging Guests, Driving Revenues with Q \| Mobile Bittel Americas Raising the Bar for In-Room Connectivity with Debut of MediaFi2 at HITEC; Bittel's next generation connectivity panel is streamlined, HD compatible and feature optional Bluetooth; LaQuinta Inn San Jose Airport is one of many customers raving about Bittel solutions Drowning in a Sea of Social Media Mayhem? 'CoMMingle Social+' Comes to the Rescue; Lodging Interactive and its subsidiary CoMMingle are unveiling a new service called 'CoMMingle Social+' that extends a hotel's social presence to all channels outside of the norm, working in collaboration with the hotel to ensure complete coverage Enrich Your HITEC Experience by Visiting NHK WORLD TV; Research shows that when it comes to IT spending in 2012, guestroom technology is topping the charts Greater Philadelphia Tourism 2012 Report Reveals a Record 38 million Domestic Visitors to the Region in 2011; Themed "The Art of Collaboration," the Annual Report Emphasizes the Importance of Partnerships for Success in Philadelphia's Tourism Industry HKHotels Changes Name to Library Hotel Collection and Debuts New Websites for NYC Properties; Brand Repositioning Completed in Anticipation of Two New Properties to Open Within the Next Three Years Wyndham Hotels and Resorts Opens the 152-room Wyndham Garden Fallsview Niagara Falls in Ontario Owned by Canop Investments Centerstone Hotels Opens the 59-room Centerstone Inn in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the Former Comfort Inn; Brand Growth Planned with Agreements Underway in Illinois, Ohio, Florida and California Arnold Palmer's Palmer Hospitality Opens its First Hotel with the 109-room SpringHill Suites by Marriott Latrobe in Pennsylvania Chesapeake Hospitality Adds Crowne Plaza Oklahoma City in Oklahoma to its Management Portfolio Sonesta International Hotels to Manage the 112-room Sonesta ES Suites Schaumburg in Illinois Dorchester Collection Launches Enhancement Projects for Several of its Properties; Upgrades in the Works for Hotels in London, Paris, Switzerland and Beverly Hills, California Omni Hotels & Resorts Completes Multi-Million Dollar Renovation of Five Floors of Suites at the Omni Austin Hotel in Texas; Total Number of Suites Increased to 392 HEI Hotels Promotes CFO/General Counsel Anthony Rutledge to Chief Executive Officer Kerzner International Appoints Peter Bowling as Managing Director of One&Only Palmilla in Los Cabos, Mexico Michael Gordon Named as General Manager for the Barnsley Gardens Resort in Adairsville, Georgia Audrey Laurent Named as Director of Sales of The 135-room Bowery Hotel in New York City June 20, 2012 Maestro PMS Enterprise Business Intelligence Drives More Profitable Decisions; Empowers Multi-Property Groups to Manage Their Business at Higher Level, with Precision Aptech Takes Business Intelligence to Next Level with Versatile Cloud-Based System that Adapts to all Mobile Platforms; Leading Hospitality Companies Implement Mobile Strategy; Install Advanced Execuvue BI with Aptech Hosting Heritage Hotels & Resorts Realizes 23% Increase in GDS Revenue Year-to-date with Pegasus Solutions – See how at HITEC booth #1213 IDeaS Revenue Solutions Showcases Affordable Pricing System at HSMAI and HITEC Conferences; New system enables busy general managers at limited-service hotels to effectively manage pricing in just a few clicks per day Gaylord Opryland Gets Rocked with an Explosion; No One Injured and Normal Operations Resumed Request for Proposal - Indiana University of Pennsylvania's Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex Seeks Adjacent Select-Service Hotel Development Caribbean Governments Killing The Hotel Sector 'Golden Goose' / Robert MacLellan Sunstone Hotel Investors to Acquire the 357-room Hilton Garden Inn Chicago Downtown/Magnificent Mile for $91.75 million or Approximately $257,000 per key Four Seasons and Bright Start to Develop the 237-room Four Seasons Resort Dubai at Jumeirah Beach in the United Arab Emirates; H&H Investment and Development Appointed as the Development Manager Gwinnett County, Georgia Commissioner's Financial Interests and Former Commissioner's Bribery Conviction Could Nix $57 million Proposed Hotel Deal Village Board in Arlington Heights, Illinois Approves $250 Million Redevelopment Project; Work to Begin in Summer 2013 on the Five Year Project which Includes Two New Hotels Totaling 350 Rooms Hotel Mobile Marketing & Distribution Do's and Don'ts / Max Starkov Sheraton New Orleans Hotel in Louisiana Launches $45 Million Renovation, Slated for 2013 Completion Warmbrodt Hotel Investments Advises in the Sale of 5 Red Roof Inn Hotels: Chicago-Hoffman Estates , Chicago-Northbrook, Detroit-Troy, Detroit- Madison Heights and Detroit-Farmington Heights Hotel Concepts–Brilliant Adopts Hotelier-Friendly Subscription-Based Pricing Model for iTesso Optimum Hotel Brokerage Sells First Mortgage Notes on Two New Jersey Hotels; Limited Service Hotel Notes Sold for Regional Bank Roomlinx Featured in Recent Lodging Cover Story on Hyatt's In-room Technology Transformation City Lines Up New Trade Shows for Chicago's McCormick Place as Work Rules Ease Further; Latest Changes Improve Outlook for Future Bookings Karolin Troubetzkoy, Owner, Anse Chastanet & Jade Mountain Resort in St. Lucia, Named Caribbean Hotelier of the Year Gary Sain, Formerly the President and CEO of Visit Orlando, to Receive Posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Travel Marketing Executives CHTA Honors Stars of the Caribbean Hospitality Industry; Kendra Daniel Named Caribbean Tourism Employee of the Year New 150-room Hotel and Golf Cottages Proposed for Kiawah Island Golf Resort Near Charleston, South Carolina IHG partners with Grupo Presidente to Open the 111-room Presidente InterContinental Santa Fe in Mexico City, Mexico Rezidor to Open the 170-key Park Inn by Radisson Riyadh Al Sahafa in Saudi Arabia in 2014 Luxe Hotels Welcomes the 170-room Luxe Stoneleigh Hotel & Spa in Dallas, Texas Through a Re-Branding of the Landmark Property Managed by CAM Hospitality Management The Liaison Capitol Hill, an Affinia Hotel, in Washington, D.C. Completes $6 Million Renovation of its 343 Guestrooms Zie Zie Senzaki Hired as Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Provenance Hotels Refinery Hotel to Crown the Millinery District in New York City; Randy Taormina Named as Opening General Manager with Fall 2012 Opening Planned Magnolia Lodging Names Gayle Wilkinson as General Manager and Julie Vogel as Director of Sales for the 117-suite Homewood Suites by Hilton Dallas/Frisco in Texas Alexander Bakanov Appointed General Director of the 144-room AZIMUT Moscow Tulskaya Hotel in Russia Michael Mustafa Named as Director of Sales & Marketing for the 1,572-room Hilton Anaheim in California Samuel G. Gacos Appointed Director of Sales and Marketing at Saigon's Caravelle Hotel Eaton Smart, Hong Kong Names Kitty Tang Director of Food and Beverage June 19, 2012 Cendyn Wins Four Prestigious 2012 Interactive Media Awards For Website Design and Development; Visit Cendyn at HITEC 2012 – Booth 413 InvoTech Launches Handheld Wireless UHF-RFID Linen and Uniform Reading at HITEC; Wireless GIMS Reader Provides 'Instant Inventory' Capability; Cuts Labor and Cost for Bulk Linen and Uniform Processing Kaba Inks Chain-wide Deal with Sun Suites for ILCO RFID Electronic Locks; Exceptional Support, Reliable Technology are Deciding Factors for ILCO Decision Is Your Hotel Facing Death by Data? Evision Worldwide CEO Vikram Singh addresses analytics at HSMAI Revenue Optimization Conference in Baltimore Morgans Hotel Group Forms Partnership with Hivernage Collection to Expand into North Africa; Will Unveil Two Properties in Marrakech, Morocco - The 73-room Delano to Open in September 2012, and a Mondrian-Branded Property to Open Late in 2013 Hard Rock International Enters Agreement with Aabar Properties for the Development and Management of the 378-room Hard Rock Hotel Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates Starwood Capital Group and Toll Brothers to Develop a 200-room 1 Hotel and Residential Complex at Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York Request for Proposal - Indiana University of Pennsylvania's Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex Seeks Adjacent Select-Service Hotel Development Developer John Dewberry Wins Auction Bid of Landmark Hotel in Charlottesville, Virginia for $6.5 million; Hints at European Subtlety in its Future Design Rosewood Hotels & Resorts to Debut in China with the 279-room Rosewood Beijing to Open in Summer 2013; Marc C. Brugger Appointed as Managing Director for the Hotel Ryan LaRoche, Executive Chef of NoMI, at Hyatt's Flagship Chicago Park Hyatt Hotel Rises from Dishwasher to Elite Michelin Guide Chef Five Star Adare Manor Announces New Lifetime International Golf Club Membership; Acclaimed Robert Trent Jones, Sr. Course ContactPoint, Maker of LogMyCalls, Announces Partnership with Kennedy Training Network; KTN to offer call auditing, assessment, and coaching to its client base through LogMyCalls Rick Reilly Named Vice President, Account Strategy for LRA Worldwide, Inc. Delta Hotels and Resorts Pilots OPERA 9 MICROS's Next Generation Cloud Technology; Longtime customer implements OPERA 9 Room Reservation Services module LINQ360 Partners Showcasing Technology Collaboration at HITEC SuiteLinq Forms Global Alliance with Swisscom Hospitality Services; Swisscom Hospitality to sell, service and maintain SuiteLinq's dynamic, enterprise-wide digital guest amenities platform across EMEA and Asia-Pacific, plus support SuiteLinq in the Americas New Research Finds Rate Parity is still the Biggest Dilemma for Hoteliers; Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne reveals an ongoing struggle to maintain rate parity forcing hotels to rethink their distribution mix It's Time to Make History with DigiValet, the Next Digital Benchmark for In-Room Convenience Urbana, Illinois City Council Gives Final Approval on Lincoln Hotel Deal Hyatt Sees Strong Growth in Korea's Inbound Tourism and Responds with New Park Hyatt in Busan Overlooking the Gwangan Bridge; Potential for Other Hyatt Brands Being Considered Guangzhou Grandview Enterprise Co. and Marriott International Open the 319-room Guangzhou Marriott Hotel Tianhe in China The Rezidor Hotel Group to Open the 163-room Radisson Blu Hotel, Kyiv Podil in Ukraine in Q4 2012 Holiday Inn Express Debuts in South East Asia with the Holiday Inn Express Bangkok Siam in Thailand The Best Western Plus Denver International Airport Inn & Suites Hotel Opens in Colorado; Completes the $1.5 Million Renovation and Rebranding of the Former Ramada Inn Denver International Airport THG Celebrates Grand Opening of DoubleTree by Hilton Santa Fe Sonesta International Hotels to Manage the 93-room Sonesta ES Suites Houston in Texas; Rebranding of the Current Staybridege Suites Houston Galleria to Occur on August 13, 2012 Naples Hotel Group to Manage the New Hampton Inn and Suites Under Development in Orlando, Florida The 467-room Radisson Blu Sobieski Hotel, Warsaw in Poland Launches Extensive Renovations The 1,908-room Hilton San Francisco Union Square Completes $53 Million Redevelopment Project Transforming 550 Guest Rooms and Function Space Choice Hotels International Names Louise Slark as Vice President, Compensation and Benefits Veteran Disney Executive, George Aguel, Moves to New Role; to Focus Exclusively on Corporate Sponsorships and Third-party Operators for Disney's Theme Parks Worldwide June 18, 2012 Is Your Revenue Management System Up To 21st Century Data Demands? What You Need To Know About Next Generation Revenue Management To Stay Competitive / Don Wilson hotel SystemsPro Launches Group Revenue Optimization Tools at HITEC; Sales Teams Increase Revenue with Cloud-Based hotel SalesPro's Optimized Group Price-Setting Module In-Room Technology is Changing Hotel Landscape / Terence Ronson The Cost Of Guest Loyalty / Robert Mandelbaum Request for Proposal - Indiana University of Pennsylvania's Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex Seeks Adjacent Select-Service Hotel Development Peterson Companies and MGM Resorts International Enter Agreement to Develop a $600 million Resort Casino at National Harbor in Prince George's County, Maryland Even with a Letter of Intent in Place for National Harbor Casino, Unless Maryland Lowers Egregiously High Tax Rate on Gambling Revenue, MGM will not Participate Extended-Stay Irvine Hotel in Design Phase; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 145 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database Colony Palms Hotel in Palm Springs, California with Historic Past Linked to Mobsters and Movie Stars Acquired by Woodridge Capital Partners Through Joint Venture with Affiliate of Oaktree Capital Management for $15 million 'Right Amount of Wrong' Ads Prove to be Highly Effective for the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas VingCard Elsafe To Make Hotel Security and Design Issues 'Vanish' With New Electronic Lock To Be Unveiled at HITEC 2012; Revolutionary new lock redefines the essence of hotel security, minimizing design, installation and maintenance challenges Welk Resorts Earns 2012 ACE Employer of the Year Award from The American Resort Development Association Azerbaijan Tourism Association Recognizes Certified Hospitality Trainers Roomlinx Transforms In-Room Entertainment Experience at Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center; Innovative interactive TV replaces traditional Video on Demand TRUMP HOTEL COLLECTION Utilizes MICROS OPERA and MICROS POS at its Newly Acquired Property, Doral Golf Resort & Spa; Luxury resort operator expands partnership with hospitality technology provider for word class solutions, operational consistency, and global support network Josepf F. Forstmayr, President of CHTA, Opens the CHTA Caribbean Tourism Summit Reinforcing the Need for Crucial Air Access and Affordability for the Region TMI Hospitality Acquires the Cambria Suites Hotel in Maple Grove, Minnesota Big Horn Resort in Billings, Montana Plans Expansion of its Convention Facilities by 57 Percent Courtyard By Marriott Debuts in Saudi Arabia with the Opening of the 286-room Courtyard Riyadh Diplomatic Quarter Swiss-Belhotel International Opens the 93-room Swiss-Belinn Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia Rezidor to Debut in Ivory Coast with the Opening of The 252-room Radisson Blu Hotel Abidjan Airport Scheduled for Q3 2014 Spike Ehrhardt and Sons Open New Candlewood Suites in St. Joseph, Missouri; Matt Murray Opening General Manager IHG Appoints Douglas Martell as Vice President, Operations for South West Asia to Head the Region Following the Retirement of Chris Moloney Rik Blyth Appointed as General Manager of the Renaissance Chicago North Shore Hotel in Illinois The 126-key Maritime Hotel in New York City's West Chelsea Neighborhood Names Matt Moore as General Manager and Callan Polmer as Director of Sales and Public Relations Michael Wilding Appointed as General Manager of the 317-room DoubleTree by Hilton Alana Waikiki in Hawaii Katie Verbano Hired as Sales Manager for The 917-room National Conference Center in Leesburg, Virginia Linda Vaskovsky Named as Sales Manager for the 1,014-room Buena Vista Palace Hotel & Spa in Orlando, Florida David Enkaoua Named Food & Beverage Director for Le Meridien Bora Bora in French Polynesia June 15, 2012 MGM Resorts International Expected to be Named as Operator of Proposed Luxury Casino at Baltimore, Maryland's National Harbor 'Key' Questions to Consider When Shopping for Future-Proof Locking Solutions with Mobile Phone-Based Front Desk Bypass in Mind Yelp Begins Featuring Content on Bing Local Search Pages U.S. Judge Rejects Request to Stop Asian American Entertainment's Lawsuit Against Las Vegas Sands Request for Proposal - Indiana University of Pennsylvania's Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex Seeks Adjacent Select-Service Hotel Development Legal Dispute Between Kazuo Okada and Wynn Resorts Heats Up; Okada Asks Court to Restore His Status as Largest Wynn Shareholder The Beverly Hills Hotel to Undergo Centennial-year Property Wide Restoration in Phased Stages with Completion Slated by 2015 $10 Million Renovation and Reflagging of the CoCo Key Hotel & Water Resort to the 366-room DoubleTree by Hilton Boston-North Shore in Danvers, Massachusetts Kicks Off Leisure Real Estate Advisors LLC, Announces the Sale of the Best Western Holiday Manor Hotel - McPherson, Kansas Shift4 Announces Sponsorship of PGA Tour Player Scott Piercy Recap: HEDNA's Spring Conference Explored E-Distribution Strategies, Social Media and Innovation; Hot Topics Included Keeping Your Business Focused on People, not the Channel and Why Every Hotel Needs a Mobile Booking Strategy Three Bidders Emerge for Virginia's Stalled Landmark Hotel Auction Richard Doumeng, Managing Director of Bolongo Bay Beach Resort and Incoming President of the Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association (CHTA) Plans to Reinvigorate and Reinvent the Association Hilton Worldwide Prepares to Open Hilton Hotel Wembley Directly Opposite Wembley Stadium in London; Jack Nicholas Opening General Manager Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group Enters Management Agreements for Three New Radisson Blu Properties in China; All Expected to Open in 2014 Garrison Investment Group Selects Aimbridge Hospitality to Manage the Columbia Marriott in Columbia, South Carolina Sonesta International Hotels to Manage the 118-room Sonesta ES Suites Columbia; Rebranding of the Current Staybridge Suites Columbia, Maryland to Occur on August 9, 2012 Northern Hospitality, LLC to Develop and Manage New GuestHouse International Inn & Suites in Glendive, Montana Swift Hospitality Group and Choice Hotels International Open the 111-room Cambria Suites Hotel in Rapid City, South Dakota RCI, Wyndham's Exchange & Rentals Division, Adds More than 40 Affiliated Properties to Exchnage Network in First Quarter of 2012 Hyatt Regency Minneapolis Completes $25 million Renovation Holly Waterbor-Breuche Named General Manager of New Boutique Hotel, The Quin, Set to Open this Winter in New York City Windsor Management Services Names New General Managers and Sales Leadership Staff at Multiple Properties Anne Frye Named as Director of Sales & Marketing for the 150-room SpringHill Suites by Marriott Denver Downtown; Scheduled to Open August 2012, Managed by Sage Hospitality Resources June 14, 2012 PAR Springer-Miller Partners with Clubessential To Expand Online Owner and Member Presence Prologic First® Debuts Comprehensive Integrated Hospitality Suite to North American Market at HITEC 2012; Visibility of Data Across the Enterprise Empowers Seamless Guest Experience and Unparalleled Management Efficiency in over 700 Hotels Labor Leaders Cry Foul on Hoteliers' Complaints of Labor Issues Making Bookings at Pennsylvania Convention Center Difficult Los Angeles City Council Approves $67.3 million Subsidy for New Downtown Marriott Hotel Amid Criticism from Nearby Competitors For Hotels, Winning at the Reputation Management Game Means Taking a Team Approach / Daniel Edward Craig Is the Gaming Product and Value Becoming Diluted? How to Keep Ahead of the Curve / John Hendrie Request for Proposal - Indiana University of Pennsylvania's Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex Seeks Adjacent Select-Service Hotel Development Downstream Casino Resort, West of Joplin, Missouri, to Build $50 million, 152- room Hotel Enseo And Intelity Announce ICEbox, an In-Room Entertainment and Customized Guest Services Experience; Intelity's ICE Enabled on Enseo Platform, Expands Market Reach for Both Companies Educational Institute Honors 2012 Leaders in Hospitality Training and Education Industry Rebound Reflected Through Increased Interest in M3's Hotel Accounting, Business Intelligence and Productivity Tools; M3 Hotel Accounting provides users with a performance edge in hotel accounting and analytics Green Initiative at Coast Chilliwack Hotel's Prestons Restaurant Supported by UniFocus' GUESTScope Survey Solution Warmbrodt Hotel Investments Advises in the Sale of Ramada-Stevens Point, Wisconsin Hospitality Grapevine Adds Ho'olei at Grand Wailea to Roster of Exclusive Hospitality Employee Travel Deals B4Checkin Adds Montreal's Prestigious Le Crystal Hotel & Spa to Growing International Client Roster; Custom booking engine improves guest experience and makes online reservations easy and profitable for the five-star Montreal property SuiteLinq Showcasing Hospitality's Most Complete On-Site + Mobile Content, Connectivity & Commerce Tools at HITEC; Visit SuiteLinq in Booth #1835 NXTV Quadriga Supports Networking Capabilities with New Specialist 'QNetworks' Team; See NXTV Quadriga at HITEC Booth 2428 Foie Gras Ban in California Has Gourmet Chefs Up in Arms With New Hotels Still Being Added, Recovery Slow for Wichita Hoteliers Craig Road Suites LLC to Open New SpringHill Suites by Marriott in North Las Vegas; Managed by Sunway Hotel Group Aimbridge Hospitality Selected to Rebrand and Manage Breezes Runaway Bay Beach and Golf Resort in Runaway Bay, Jamaica Darden Restaurants Inc. to Cut Ties to Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association What Chefs Think of Your Food Shots at Their Restuarants Benchmark Hospitality International Names Tom Purcell Controller at Costa d’Este Beach Resort, Vero Beach, Florida Jeffrey Rudder Appointed Director of Sales & Marketing for the Omni Bedford Springs Resort & Spa in Bedford, Pennsylvania June 13, 2012 Real Estate Professional Provides Advice to Market in Ailing Economy; Anwar Elgonemy suggests ways for the real estate market to achieve long-term success in bestselling new book, 'Skin in the Game: The Past, Present, and Future of Real Estate Investments in America' Flyte Systems Launches EventBoard at HITEC; EventBoard Merges Property Information with Weather, News, and Real-Time Airline Flight Schedules in One Flat Panel Display TripCraft Launches New Mobile Spa Application Infor Expands Hospitality Offering with Acquisition of Easy RMS; Leading Cloud-based Revenue Management System Helps Hotels Maximize Guest Revenue and Profit Orient-Express Hotels Enters Agreement to Sell The Observatory Hotel in Sydney, Australia Las Vegas Sands President and Chief Operating Officer, Michael Leven, to Remain at the Helm Under New Contract Through 2014 The LOVE Business / Bryan K. Williams Joe Martin, Owner and Operator of Stillwater Hospitality, Honored with AH&LA Lawson Odde Award Alexandria Resort in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands Placed in Receivership, Remains Open for Business Newmarket International, Inc. Acquires MeetingMatrix Rosen Hotels & Resorts Selects Percipia Networks for Additional Properties Crestron Finds Suite Spot in the LINQ360 Innovation Center in Las Vegas, Powered by Microsoft; Hotel Industry Providers Partner to Create Technology Think Tank Lodging Interactive Giving Hoteliers Control Over Hotel Website Content Bartech Automatic Minibar to be Featured in HFTP's GUESTROOM 20X at HITEC 2012; Revenue-generating guest amenity selected for inclusion in model guestroom of the future at upcoming hospitality technology show Hotel Concepts-Brilliant's iTesso Offers Hospitality Operators A True End-To-End Cloud-Based Management Solution VingCard Elsafe Unveils Top-Opening Drawer Safe Line, Zenith by Elsafe; Designed for guest convenience, attractive new safes are big enough for notebook computers and can be installed in desks PSAV Praised by Video Production Peers with Nine Telly Awards Pegasus Solutions Names Chris Wichers Chief Sales Officer; Open Hospitality Executive Vice President Brings Rich Depth of Hotel Experience to New Role NHK WORLD TV Offering Important Business Intelligence to HITEC Goers Accor's Mercure Brand Debuts in Russia with the Opening of the 109-room Mercure Arbat Moscow; Owned by ARD and Operated by Accor The 94-suite SpringHill Suites Las Vegas North Speedway to Open this Month in Nevada; Owned by Craig Road Suites and Managed by Sunway Hotel Group Owner, Pebblebrook Hotel Trust, Selects Davidson Hotels & Resorts to Operate the 270-room DoubleTree by Hilton Bethesda-Washington D.C. Bernard Lackner Appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Fisher Island Club off the Coast of Miami, Florida Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints Ed Riley as General Manager for Costa d'Este Beach Resort in Vero Beach, Florida Catherine McKenna, CMP, CMM, Appointed as Director of Sales, North America, for Two of Ireland's Hotel & Golf Resorts, Adare Manor and The K Club Courtney Van Amburgh Hired as the Marketing and Social Media Specialist for the 448-room Westin Galleria Dallas in Texas Derek Damon Named as Food & Beverage Director at the 156-room Rosewood Hotel Georgia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada June 12, 2012 Kaba Lodging and Loews Hotels & Resorts Sign Exclusive 3-Year Preferred Vendor Agreement The Peabody Orlando Hotel Expands with Cloud-Based Performance Management Solution From d2o; Nation's #1 Meeting Hotel to Find Hidden Profit by Streamlining Business Processes Webinar - Time to Learn: How You Can Use Facebook Timeline to Tell Your Hotel's Story; Take 45 Minutes to Learn How to Leverage Facebook Timeline's New Features to Maximize the Impact of Your Facebook Page Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority's $45 million Pennsylvania Hotel and Convention Center Project Could Break Ground this Year; Mohegan Sun to Secure Financing, Build, Own and Operate the Facility Amid Downtown Los Angeles Revival, Williams/Dame & Associates, Builder of Proposed 23-story Marriott, Seeks Tax Subsidy of up to $67.3 million RLJ Lodging Trust Acquires the 278-room Hilton Garden Inn San Francisco Oakland/Bay Bridge in California; Purchase Price of $36.2 Million or About $130,000 per key Morgans Hotel Group to Expand its Hudson Brand Globally with Opening of London, U. K. Property; Enters Management Agreement for a 200-room Boutique Property, the Hudson London, Scheduled to Open Early in 2015 Noble House Hotels & Resorts Gains Significant Ownership Stake and Plans Multi-Million Dollar Update of the Riviera Palm Springs Resort in California Village of Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin to Begin Foreclosure Proceedings Against Radisson Hotel Owners, Lodging Investors of Menomonee Falls LLC Indiana University of Pennsylvania's Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex Seeks Adjacent Select-Service Hotel Development FCS Unicorn Solution Now Rated "Avaya Compliant" Santika Indonesia Hotels & Resorts Maximizes the Billboard Effect Through RateGain ProfitSword Rebrands to Emphasize Position as Leader in Hospitality Business Intelligence Applications Enter the New Age of Two-Way Communication with DigiValet, Hospitality's Coolest Way to Get to Know Your Guests Pegasus Solutions Names Steve Lapekas CIO; Lapekas Reassumes Leadership of Information Technology Initiatives After Two Years as Executive Vice President of Corporate Business Development GuestWare Seeking Sales Account Managers HFTP and HCAA Hong Kong Form Strategic Alliance to Increase Educational Opportunities for Hospitality Professionals Worldwide PolyU Offers Ph.D. Scholarship and Executive-in-Residence Programme to Officials of UNWTO Member States Eastland Park Hotel in Portland, Maine Sued for Allegedly 'Skimming' Tips; Banquet Servers File Class Action Suit Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) Report Predicts Recovery in North Europe and Continued Trouble in the South During 2012, but Higher Levels of Business Travel Spend Across all Europe in 2013 IHG Opens the Holiday Inn London Stratford City and the Staybridge Suites London Stratford City Occupying a Single Building in London, England; The Hotels are Owned by a Joint Venture between Cycas Hotel Partners and Patron Capital and Operated by Cycas Hospitality HHM, Hersha Hospitality Management, Completes Renaming and First Phase of a $3.7 Million Renovation for the 152-suite Capitol Hill Hotel in Washington, D.C.; Renovations Scheduled for Completion in Early 2013 for the Former Capitol Hill Suites Owned and Managed by Ehrhardt Hospitality, the 108-suite Residence Inn by Marriott Springfield South to Open this Month in Illinois The 147-room Courtyard by Marriott Bucharest to Open in Romania in Early 2014, Under a Management Agreement with Gica Popescu Hotels SRL Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group, in Partnership with Bestech Hospitalities, Opens the 214-room Radisson Blu Hotel Nagpur in India Sonesta International Hotels to Manage the 120-room Sonesta ES Suites Malvern in Pennsylvania; Rebranding of the Current Staybridge Suites Malvern to Occur on August 6, 2012 Michael Everett Joins Sage Hospitality as Chief Investment Officer Kevin Abramowicz Appointed General Manager of The Legian Bali on Seminyak Beach, Indonesia June 11, 2012 2011 Construction Report North America; 26 Hotel Waterpark Resorts Opened in 2011 in USA / Jeff Coy Travel Tripper's RezTrip Now Interfaces with Maestro Property Management System Philadelphia Hotel Operators Criticize Slow Pennsylvania Convention Center Bookings; One Group Cites Labor Issues as Reason for Cancellations; Significant Changes in the Work Rules and Attitude of the Labor Force Need to Occur Trump Organization Closes on and Assumes Management of South Florida's Doral Golf Resort & Spa; $200 million to be Invested Renovating Hotel and Golf Courses 130-Room Boutique Hotel in Atlanta Hires a New General Manager; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Have Updated 164 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with Changes in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership Having Fun with Summer Cocktails to Float Your Boat; Stripping Away the Seriousness with an Anything Goes Approach Nobu Hotel Caesars Palace Reveals Hotel Design for the 181-room Hotel Set to Open in Las Vegas Late in 2012 2012 W Hotels Designers of the Future Awards Reveal Innovative Works at Design Miami/ Basel Erie, Pennsylvania Hotel Market Poised for More Growth with Several Projects Currently in Planning Stages With no New Hotel Openings Since 2009, Gates are now Open as Boston Readies for Many New Hotels VingCard Elsafe To Unveil the Essence of Minimalistic Lock Design at HITEC 2012; How minimalistic can an electronic lock be? World leader in hotel locking solutions will unveil the answer and once again set the trend in minimalistic hotel security design with new electronic locking concept Construction is Underway for Two Extended-stay Hotels in Bowling Green, Kentucky; The 127-site Staybridge Suites Will Open in November 2012 while the 101-suite Marriott TownePlace Suites will be Complete in mid-2013 Grover Beach, California Moving Forward with Plans for 150-room Grover Beach Lodge and Conference Center Guy Harvey Outpost Hotel Brand Launches its First Florida Resort this Summer with the 211-room Trade Winds Sandpiper Hotel and Suites on St. Pete Beach Fueled by Recent Luxury Travel Trends, The Luxury Collection Hotels & Resorts Continues Global Growth; Opening Ten Hotels & Resorts in Asia Pacific within Twelve Months, On Track to Surpass 90 Hotels by 2016 Owning Company, Troyer Corp., and Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group Open the 75-room Country Inns & Suites By Carlson in Dover, Ohio Late June Opening Scheduled for the 100-suite TownePlace Suites by Marriott in Midland, Texas, Owned and Managed by Texas Western Hospitality Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts to Manage the 65-casita Encantado Resort in Santa Fe, New Mexico RCI, Expands Relationship with AMResorts, Adding Eight New Unlimited Vacation Club (UVC) Properties in Mexico and the Dominican Republic to its Network of Affiliated Resorts Tracy Walker Named as General Manager of the 2,860-room Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort in Hawaii Hotel Matilda in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico Enters Partnership with Chef Enrique Olvera for the Operation of the Hotel Restaurant and Lounge; Revamped Dining Experience to Launch June 21, 2012 William Stringfellow Appointed as Executive Chef for the 393-room St. Kitts Marriott Resort & Royal Beach Casino on the Caribbean Island of St. Kitts Peter Dickinson Appointed as Director of Food and Beverage for the 151-room National Hotel Miami Beach in Florida June 8, 2012 Employers Can Win National Labor Relations Board 'Tug of War' / Charles A. Conine Google Places Goes SoLoMo - What Does it Mean for Hoteliers? / Daniel Morosi With Boston Out as a Possible Expansion Site, Las Vegas Sands Looking to New York City Hallandale Beach, Florida Residents Rooting for Proposed $90 million, 31-story Hotel/Condo Project; City Commissioners Agree to Allow Developer Related Group to Design Project Principal Owner, James Heyden, of Financially Troubled Radisson Hotel in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin Temporarily Barred by a Judge from Being on Hotel Property and Using Any Assets Pledged to Obtain Loan for Project Positive Outlook for Hotel Performance in Latin America, According to Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels' Latin America Hotel Investor Sentiment Survey; Markets in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Chile Rank Most Optimistic for Investment Outlook Hospitality Union UNITE HERE Pushing for Laws in Atlantic City to Protect Casino Workers; Claims Efforts Prompted by Hiring Practices at the Revel Casino Hotel ZMC Hotels Drops Plan for New Hotel in Duluth, Minnesota Amid Opposition to Zoning Changes; City's Chief Administrative Officer Stated this Experience Reinforces Negative Impressions that Duluth is not a Welcoming Place for Developers Three Reasons Your Business Needs Direct Mail and Pay Per Click Marketing / Joy Gendusa Joining Forces Initiative Teams with Omni Hotels & Resorts for Military Employment; Three-Year Plan Transitions Veterans from Military Service to Service Sector The Opening of the 140-room SLS Hotel South Beach in Miami, Florida Marks the Debut of sbe Hotels on the East Coast; The Former Ritz Plaza Hotel, an Historic Art Deco Building, has been Transformed, Including a New Addition of 10 Villas A Brand Debut in Mississippi and 10th U.S. Property, the 100-suite Home2 Suites Biloxi North/D'Iberville Opens; Owned by Thomas Properties Mississippi and Managed by Global Management and Investment Disney's New Art of Animation Resort Hotel Immerses Guests in Details of Disney Films Marriott International and Grupo Diestra Open the 221-room JW Marriott Mexico City Santa Fe in Mexico Redondo Beach, California's Portofino Hotel & Yacht Club Launches New Name; Now Known as The 161-room Portofino Hotel & Marina, it Remains the Only True Waterfront Hotel in Los Angeles Amy Simchak, CHA, Elected to Wisconsin Hotel & Lodging Association Board Benchmark Hospitality Promotes Danna Holck to Vice President and General Manager for Turtle Bay Resort on Oahu, Hawaii JoAnn Elston Promoted to General Manager of The Curtis - a Doubletree by Hilton in Denver, Colorado; The 336-room Hotel is Managed by Sage Hospitality Dorchester Collection Appoints Rachel Angell as Performance Improvement Manager; New Role Created to Analyze Guest Data to Identify Opportunities for Service Improvement for Each Hotel The St. Regis New York Appoints Trine Ackelman as Director of Sales & Marketing Eduardo Vuolo Named as Executive Chef for the 55-room Hotel Caesar Augustus on the Isle of Capri, Italy June 7, 2012 Pegasus Solutions Names David Millili Chief Executive Officer; Chief Web Officer and Chief Executive Officer of Open Hospitality Division Assumes Lead Role InvoTech Appoints International Hospitality Industry Veteran Oswald Lares Director of Sales; Company Poised for Leap in US and Global Growth on Strength of UHF-RFID Linen/Uniform Tracking Solution YOTEL and The John Buck Company Form Partnership Targeting $250 Million North American Equity Fund; Goal Set to Acquire and Develop Over $650 Million Worth of YOTEL Hotels in North America within Five Years U.S. Hotel Transaction Volume Reaches $5.1 Billion Thus Far in 2012; According to Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels' Database Average Price Per Key for Single-Asset Transactions Rises 5% on Full-Year 2011 Levels Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs Casino in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Closer to Building Hotel; Expecting to Break Ground Later this Year on the $40 Million, 238-room Hotel Homewood Suites Signs Agreements for Three New Hotels in Canada; Brand to Open First Property in Manitoba and Two More in Ontario No Opening Publicized but Job Postings Hint that Floridan Hotel is About to Open in Tampa, Florida after Years of Renovation Bringing an L.A. Vibe, New 140-room SLS Hotel Opens on South Beach in Miami Beach, Florida English Lakes Hotels Resorts & Venues is Enhancing their Guest Communication Program by Using ZDirect's eCRM Platform LRA University Graduates 400th Consultant; Quality Assurance Industry Leading Training Program Concludes International Sessions in EMEA and AP Leisure Real Estate Advisors LLC, Announces the Sale of Two More Bank Owned Hotels Does Your Mobile Presence Measure Up to Guest Expectations? Five Top Tips to Fill the Mobile Gap by Driving Loyalty, Increasing Direct Revenues and Reducing Costs; Use these Top Tips as a guide and visit OpenWays in Booth #2315 at HITEC / Andrew Sanders Jennifer Wheaton, Marketing Manager for the California Hotel & Lodging Association, Honored with Emerging Leader Award by California Travel Association What the Butler Saw and Heard / Osvaldo Torres Cruz Family Holidays Poised for Strong Growth in Asia Pacific According to Family Travel Survey Conducted by Turner Media Solutions and Holiday Inn Hotels & Resorts Interstate Hotels & Resorts and TVHG Budget Group Beheer BV Open Third Netherlands Hotel, the 80-room Holiday Inn Express Amsterdam-South, as Part of a Nine Hotel Portfolio Currently Under Development Owned and Managed by Chase Hotel Group, the 152-room Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott to Open in Long Island City, New York in August 2012 The 102-suite SpringHill Suites Scranton Wilkes-Barre to Open this Weekend in Moosic, Pennsylvania; Owned by Keystone Hotel Partners and Managed by Keystone Hotel Management Davidson Hotels & Resorts Assumes Management of the Re-branded 417-room Hyatt Chicago Magnificent Mile; Owned by Sunstone Hotel Investors, Hotel to Undergo a $25 million Renovation Hotel Equities Chosen to Manage the Country Inn & Suites Hotel in Tucker, Georgia June 6, 2012 Crisp Messaging Speeds Sales of InvoTech Inventory Control Systems; Global Leader in Linen and Uniform Tracking Systems Wins New Contracts, Doubles Inquiries driven by Integrated PR and Branding Multiple Properties, Multiple Flags: Texas Western Uses Cloud BI to Automate Data Gathering, Analysis and Reporting for 53 Hotels; Central Data Hub Reduces Accounting Staff, Eliminates Technology Responsibility Arne Sorenson, Marriott International President and Chief Executive Officer, Discusses Plans to Acquire Gaylord Hotels on CNBC's Squawk Box Nevada Supreme Court to Weigh in on Who Should Receive the $100 million Remaining from the $156 million Bankruptcy Auction of the Stalled $2.9 billion Fontainebleau Las Vegas Resort Boston's Suffolk Downs, in Partnership with Caesars Entertainment, Unveils Plans for $1 billion Entertainment Mecca Consisting of a Casino, 300-room Hotel and Ten Restaurants Suffolk Downs' $1 billion Resort Plans Being Met with Strong Opposition Sunstone Hotel Investors Enters Into Agreement to Sell the 284-Room Marriott Del Mar for $66 Million; Completes Acquisition and Re-Branding of the 417-room Hyatt Chicago Magnificent Mile How to Finance Hotel Development in 2012....Alternate financing for new hotel construction in a brave new world / Jim Butler How To Convince Callers Who Are Looking Online To Book Directly / Doug Kennedy Survey Discussing Future of Meetings Highlights Key Themes of Technology and Social Media; HSMAI Foundation Partnered with Maritz Research to Release Findings Vail Resorts Reports Fiscal 2012 Third Quarter Net Income of $79.6 million, a 3.5% Increase Over the Prior Year; Despite a Decrease in Snowfall Lift Ticket Revenue Increased 0.7% Developers Team Up on 23-story Hotel Project Near Seattle, Washington Stadiums; Plan to Break Ground in Summer 2013 on Second Phase of Stadium Place, a Complex Estimated to Cost More than $300 Million After More than a Decade of Attempts for $138 Million Planned Resort Complex, Sheriff's Sale Closes Book on Failed River Buff Resorts in Clayton County, Iowa Oak Creek, Wisconsin may Rescind Financial Support for the 107-room Sheraton Four Points Hotel Project in Town as Developer, Greg Trapani, is Named in Foreclosure Suit UniFocus' GUESTScope Survey Solution Selected By Black Bear Casino Resort Crestron Announces First LCD Display Featuring Crestron Connected™ Cloud-Based Control System Connectivity; Mitsubishi Electric Visual Solutions America Launches Energy-Saving LDT462V 46-Inch Digital Signage Display Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada to Begin $50 Million Renovation Project; Public Spaces and the 428 Rooms in the Palms Tower to be Remodeled Bartell Hotels Begins $13 Million Expansion of Holiday Inn San Diego Bayside in California; New 44,000 Sq. Ft. Building Opens Summer 2013 Bringing the Guest Room Total to 291 U.S. Travel and Tourism Report Highlights 2011 Increased Spending of International Visitors to the U.S. by 14% when Compared to 2010; Previous Spending Record Set in 2008 Broken by $11.6 Billion Hawaii's Economic Engine of Tourism Encouraging, However Isle Tourism Should be Nurtured Carefully Orbitz's Annual Insider Index Survey Reveals Americans will Spend More on Travel this Year with Las Vegas Topping the List of Destinations Owner of the 221-suite Blair House Suites Hotel Near the Las Vegas Convention Center Files for Bankruptcy Work on Colorado Springs, Colorado's 300-room Renaissance Hotel Project, Stalled Since 2009, will Not Resume Until New Owner Found; Contractor, Flintco Inc, Hopes to have Property Sold by Year's End Starwood's Le Meridien Brand Debuts in Algeria with the Opening of the 296-key Le Meridien Oran Hotel & Convention Centre Owned by Sonatrach Wyndham Vacation Resorts Asia Pacific Adds Ramada Resort Phillip Island to its Portfolio of South Pacific Resorts; A Rebranding of the Former All Seasons Phillip Island Resort Sonesta International Hotels to Manage the 140-room Sonesta ES Suites Somerset in New Jersey; Rebranding for the Current Staybridge Suites Somerset will Occur on August 1, 2012 The Current 124-room Staybridge Suites Princeton in New Jersey to Become the Sonesta ES Suites Princeton on August 3, 2012 Kura Hulanda Resorts Enlists Sandton Hotels to Manage its Two Willemstad, Curaçao Properties Which Will Rebrand as the Sandton Kura Hulanda Hotel & Spa and the Sandton Kura Hulanda Lodge & Beach Club Bradenton, Florida's 'Pink Palace' Hotel to Be Restored to 1920s Era Feel; Good-bye to Pink - The New 119-room Hampton Inn & Suites will Replicate the 1925 Structure with Off-White Exterior Apple Tree Group Names Axel de Boynes as Operations Manager for Laos Operations Sage Hospitality Names Kim Corrigan as General Manager for the 332-room Renaissance Blackstone Chicago Hotel in Illinois June 5, 2012 Cendyn Announces Launch of a New Web Presence for La Posada de Santa Fe Resort & Spa; La Posada de Santa Fe's New Website Features the Latest Hotel Digital Marketing Initiatives and Trends hotel SystemsPro Launches Advanced Mobile Sales System Platform at HITEC; For Sales Teams On the Go – hotel SalesPro Mobile Puts Entire Sales Office in the Palm of Your Hand for More Confident Deal Making, Shorter Sales Cycles Cognitive Ability - A Needlessly Elusive Asset / Jim Houran Orlando, Florida Becomes First Destination to Top an Annual Total of 55 Million Visitors; Record-Breaking 2011 Visitation Numbers Show an Increase of 7.2% Over 2010 Driftwood Hospitality Management Embarking on Extensive Renovation of Three Properties Recently Acquired Through Apollo Joint Venture Eagle Four Partners and Pacific Hospitality Group Acquire International Bay Clubs, Inc., the Parent Company of The Balboa Bay Club & Resort and The Newport Beach Country Club in California Owner of Appleton, Wisconsin Hotels, the Radisson Paper Valley Hotel and the Holiday Inn Neenah Riverwalk, Defaults on $27 Million Balloon Mortgage Payment; City Planners Concerned about Possible Implications on Nearby Proposed Exhibition Center Yet Business Continues as Usual During Receivership Process JSK Investments Receives Approval to Construct a Country Inn & Suites and a Staybridge Suites in Schererville, Indiana Video Case Study: Hotel Diva Moves to the Cloud with the ATRIO Guest Experience Management Platform The Greater Miami & The Beaches Hotel Association Promotes Sustainability Practices to Hotel Members and Suppliers; Hotelier and Sustainable Hospitality Advocate Hervé Houdré Headlines the Association's Sustainable Hospitality Council Luncheon on June 21st at the InterContinental Miami Do You Have Interest in Pinterest? Sandals Resorts Relies on Guarded Systems for Wired/Wireless HSIA, Billing and Control Top 5 Reasons Why Hotels Need to Add NHK World TV to the In-Room Entertainment Line Up Educational Institute and Rosen College of Hospitality Management Launch Global Hospitality Leadership Academy for International Hotel Executives The International Hotel, Motel + Restaurant Show (IHMRS) is Now Accepting Entries for the 2012 Gold Key Awards for Excellence in Hospitality Design; Entry Deadline is July 1, 2012 The 175-room Courtyard Charlotte/Billy Graham Parkway to Open this Month in Charlotte, North Carolina; Formerly a Holiday Inn and the Registry, it is Owned and Managed by SREE Hotels, LLC Starwood Hotels Opens the 180-room Sheraton Madrid Mirasierra Hotel & Spa in Spain, Owned by Comercial Mirasierra Group 8Hotels Chosen to Manage the 81-room Albany Hotel in the Melbourne, Australia Suburb of South Yarra Daniel Pirrallo Named as General Manager for the 188-room Sheraton Steamboat Resort in Steamboat Springs, Colorado St Giles Hotel New York Appoints Cesar Avery as General Manager Overseeing it's Two Side-by-Side New York City Hotels - The 120-key Tuscany and The 199-key Court Sean Olmstead Named as Hotel Manager for the 792-room InterContinental Chicago Magnificent Mile in Illinois Evolution Hospitality Hires David Martinez and Promotes Matt Raine, Both to the Role of Executive Vice President, Investments and Business Development Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints Kini Parente as Director of Sales & Marketing for the 62-room Bardessono in Yountville, Napa Valley, California Dorchester Collection Appoints Janice Snowden as Area Director of Sales and Marketing for The Beverly Hills Hotel and Hotel Bel-Air in California Angela Cava Appointed as Director of Sales & Marketing at the 100-key Hotel Madeline and the 32-suite Inn at Lost Creek in Telluride, Colorado Sean Lynch Named as the Director of Sales and Marketing for the 188-room Waldorf Astoria Chicago in Illinois Provenance Hotels Hires Angela Mose as Director of Sales for the 163-room Hotel Max in Seattle, Washington Erica H. Perry Promoted to Group Sales Manager for the 315-room Westin Imagine Orlando Gregory Grohowski Named as Executive Chef for the 806-room Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa in Lahaina, Hawaii June 4, 2012 Loews Hotels Chairman Jonathan M. Tisch Urges Travel Industry to Tackle Infrastructure Challenge; Argues that innovative solutions and creative partnerships can capture global travel's immense potential Mesa, Arizona's Hopes Dim for Long-Delayed $800 million Gaylord Resort Following Sale of Brand to Marriott Continued Recovery in Hotel Room Demand Supports Expected Gains in U.S. RevPAR in 2012 & 2013, According to PwC U.S. Report Hotel Rates for Business Travelers in North America Near Pre-recession Levels Surging 9.3% in April Nobody Asked me, But...No. 90; Governor Cuomo's March of Folly; Origin of Memorial Day; Hotel History: Fisher Island Hotel & Resort; Quote of the Month / Stanley Turkel FelCor Lodging Trust Closes on Sale of Six Hotels, a Portfolio of 1,527 rooms, for $103 Million MCR Development Acquires Three Marriott and Hilton Hotels in Florida and New Jersey for Approximately $40 Million From New York City to New Orleans, Seattle to San Diego, W Hotels Unveils Significant Renovation Plans for North American Portfolio Labor Union and Travel Industry Leaders Unite to Oppose Proposed San Mateo, California County Travel Taxes; Warn that Tax Hikes will Negatively Impact Local Economy Planning Underway for Renovation of the 1,886 room Orleans Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 126 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database HVS Executive Search Presents Annual Top-Performing CEO Award to Monty J. Bennett Of Ashford Hospitality Trust; Top-Performing Board Awarded to Sunstone Hotel Investors Hotel AG Closes Nine Hotel Transactions Last Week Travel Tripper Moves Web Services to the Cloud Ciena Hotels and Intelity Forge a Partnership; Intelity's ICE Will Serve Guests at all Ciena Hotels and Suites Trust International, Hoteliers See Q1 Growth Momentum Continue in Q2 2012; Google and Ideal Interface Define Social Business as a Driving Force for Increasing Conversions, Revenue for Hoteliers at Trust Customer Conference ProfitSword Surpasses 1,000 Hotels, Touting Innovation, Execution, Visionary Clients and Exemplary Service and Support as Keys to Success Hotel Transaction Market Heating Up; As the industry gathers in New York for the 34th annual NYU International Hospitality Industry Investment Conference, The Plasencia Group's transaction portfolio is proof that the hospitality real estate market has turned around. Tourism Tidbits - Developing a Tourism Continuity Plan / Dr. Peter Tarlow North Point Hospitality Group Celebrates the Topping Out of the Dual Branded Hilton Garden Inn and Homewood Suites by Hilton Atlanta Midtown in Georgia; Final Beam Laid Completing the Highest Exterior Structure with Opening Planned for Q1 2013 B Hotels & Resorts to Open New B Hotel in Downtown Disney Resort Area, Currently Operating as the 394-room Royal Plaza; First b2 Hotel to Debut in Downtown Miami at the Site of the Former Continental Bayside Hotel; Both Properties to Undergo Renovation and Repositioning Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort in Atlantic City, the Scene of Two Fatal Carjackings, to Invest $5 million to Improve Security in Parking Garage and Casinos Owner, SCH Partners, and Starwood Hotels to Open The 171-room Westin San Jose in California Next Month Hilton Worldwide and Daiman Landmark Hotel Sdn Bhd Sign Management Agreement to Open the 365-room DoubleTree by Hilton, Johor Bahru in Malaysia in Mid-2014 Sonesta International Hotels to Manage the 150-room Sonesta ES Suites Parsippany in New Jersey; Currently Known as the Staybridge Suites Parsippany Starwood Hotels Opens the 90-room Four Points by Sheraton Colonia Roma in Mexico City, Mexico; Owned and Managed by Sora Group The 119-suite Home2 Suites by Hilton Nashville/Vanderbilt Opens in Tennessee; Developed by North Point Hospitality Group, Owned by Apple REIT Nine and Managed by Vista Host The Rezidor Hotel Group Opens the 189-room Radisson Blu Resort, Gran Canaria on the Spanish Island of Gran Canaria The DoubleTree by Hilton, New Bern, North Carolina Completes Full-Scale Renovation Following Damage Sustained During Hurricane Irene in August 2011 A Multi-Million-Dollar, Hotel-Wide Renovation is Complete for the 148-room DoubleTree by Hilton Cocoa Beach in Florida Sage Hospitality Gears Up for Growth with Three New Development & Acquisitions Team Hires; Looking for Acquisition and Repositioning Opportunities with Plans to Invest $1.2 Billion over the Next 24 Months Vito Romeo Named as General Manager of the Shangri-La Hotel, Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada Pyramid Hotel Group Appoints Paul Sacco as Senior Vice President of the Business Development Team HFF Hires Scott Hall as Managing Director in its San Diego, California Office June 1, 2012 Gaylord Entertainment Agrees to Sell the Gaylord Hotels Brand and Management Company to Marriott International for $210 million Cash; Gaylord to Maintain Ownership of its Properties and will Reorganize as the Only Lodging REIT Focused on Group-Oriented Destination Markets VFM Leonardo Announces Timeline Enhanced VBrochure Facebook Apps Suite; Suite of Facebook Applications Redesigned to Maximize Impact of New Facebook Timeline 'Cyber Accessibility' is the New Frontier for ADA Lawsuits. Your Next DOJ Investigation or ADA Class Action Could be Just a Mouse Click Away! / Jim Butler Thayer Lodging Group and Quest Hospitality Ventures Form New Venture Capital Group, Thayer Ventures, to Raise Funds to Finance Hospitality Technology Startups; Firm plans to invest in emerging technology companies focused on transforming the $10 trillion global hospitality industry Bob Nelson, General Manager at Wyndham Virginia Crossings Hotel & Conference Center in Richmond, Virginia Named 'General Manager of the Year' by Wyndham Hotels & Resorts North American Corporate Hotel Rates Set New Year-over-year Growth Record; Global and North American Leisure Rates Also Increase by Near-record Margins over 2011 Technology Meets In-Room Cleaning - Best Western Launches Advanced Cleaning Initiative; All North American Best Western Hotels to Begin Using Hospital Cleaning Technologies such as UV Wands, Black Lights and Clean Remotes HVS and New York University Present The 2012 Manhattan Hotel Market Overview; Despite the Largest Increase in Room Count in 24 Years, Manhattan Remains Under-Supplied Hotel Investment Sentiment Strengthens in Europe Despite Uncertainty; According to Survey Conducted by Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels 46% of Cities Tracked Expected to Show Trading Performance Growth in next Six Months Six Questions Hoteliers Should Ask to Evaluate Sustainable Technologies / Kevin Goldstein West Hartford, Connecticut Seeking Proposals for Development of a 120-room Hotel on a 4-acre Parcel Occidental Vacation Club Reporting Membership is on the Upswing 8 Reasons Why a Mobile Key Front Desk Bypass Solution Aids Travelers' Psychological Health; An article in Psych Central titled '8 Reasons Why Waiting in Line Drives us Crazy' identifies key factors that make waits seem longer; Mobile Key by OpenWays eliminates those eight factors and more / Pascal Metivier Swiss Belhotel International Hotels & Resorts Selects RateGain's Competitive Rate Intelligence and Parity Audit Solutions Shift4 Obtains EMV Certification from Global Payments Canada Presented Once Every Five Years, HFTP to Honor Three Hospitality Technology Pioneers with the 2012 Hospitality Technology Award of Merit GUESTROOM 20X, the Futuristic Guestroom Featuring the Hospitality Industry's Innovative Technologies, Exhibit to Debut at HITEC 2012 with Cisco as Patron Sponsor Students Eager for Global Career Opportunities, with Many Interested in China's Booming Hospitality Industry According to Survey Conducted by Hilton Worldwide and Les Roches Jin Jiang International Hotel Management College Revealing Insights on Generation Y China Lodging Group, Limited Completes Investment in Starway Hotels to Own Majority Stake Loews Hotels & Resorts to Acquire the 632-room Renaissance Hotel & Spa in Hollywood, California from CIM Group; To Rebrand as the Loews Hollywood Hotel and Begin $26 Million Renovation in Late 2012 with Completion in Summer 2013 RLJ Lodging Trust Acquires the 226-room Courtyard New York Manhattan/Upper East Side and the 187-room Residence Inn by Marriott Bethesda Hotel Downtown in Maryland for a Combined Total of $146.5 Million GF Management Affiliate, UPHIC Associates, LLC, Acquires the 174-room Holiday Inn Charlotte University in Charlotte, North Carolina; To Maintain the Holiday Inn Flag and Remain Open During a Scheduled $5 Million Renovation Finard Coventry Hotel Management Closes on $16 million Purchase of the 292-room Providence Biltmore in Rhode Island; The Circa 1922 Hotel will Remain Open During a $10 Million Renovation The 207-room Crowne Plaza Houston Galleria Area Opens in Texas; Owned by Galleria Crowne Hospitality and Operated by Houston Hospitality Services The Luxury Collection Hotels & Resorts Reopens the 151-key Hotel Alfonso XIII in Seville, Spain Following a $25 Million Restoration; The First of Four Luxury Collection Hotels in Europe to be Restored & Reopened in the Next 12 Months Owned and Managed by InterMountain Management, the 91-suite TownePlace Suites by Marriott to Open in Albuquerque, New Mexico in Late June 2012 HHM, Hersha Hospitality Management, Updates Brand Identity Coinciding with the Introduction of its Full Service Division; Transformation Includes New Logo and Redesigned Website Top 25 Read Articles - May 2012 Train Your Hotel Team To Use The Language Of Hospitality: Part Two / Doug Kennedy The Top 10 Hotel Groups in the World: 2012 Shows Few Changes; 2012’s Ranking of Worldwide Hotel Groups and Brands; IHG Retains Top Spot in Groups With Nearly 660,000 Rooms, Best Western Retains Top Spot in Brands The Cost of Luxury Leadership: General Manager Pay in North America / Andrew R. Hazelton Wi-Fi is the New Four-Letter Word for Hoteliers / Terence Ronson Knowland Database Exceeds 170,000 Contacts; Massive database of groups includes contact information for thousands of event planners When a Negative Experience Occurs, Fix it Before Check-Out; Issue Resolution and Current Room Amenities Most Important to Hotel Guests, According to Latest "Experience Radar" Report Released by PwC for the Hospitality Industry How Can Hoteliers Take Full Advantage of Pinterest? / Erica Garza The 2012 Lodging Industry Investment Council Top Ten: Annual Survey of Lodging Investment Trends and Challenges; "Hotel Investors Sluggishly Move Ahead, Despite Worries and Uncertainty about US Economy" Do You Hate the OTAs? / Jean Francois Mourier Dress Code for Las Vegas Pool Clubs More Strict than Fine Dining Restaurants? Ladies - Wear Your Heels and Do Your Hair - Gents - No Sneakers or Sports Jerseys Allowed Hyatt Realigns its Corporate and Regional Operations; Senior Management Changes Include Harmit J. Singh, Current EVP & CFO Remaining with Company Until End of 2012, Gebhard F. Rainer Will Assume Role of EVP, CFO Effective August 15, 2012; New Global Operations Center to be Established Overseeing Three Operating Regions Owners of Four Upscale Hotels on Three of the Hawaiian Islands Consider Selling Properties with Estimated Value Between $500 Million to $1 Billion; Local Analyst Sites Many Interested Investors for Island Properties Thought Dead, Travel Agents Rebounding in the $100 billion Travel Industry Business as they Adapt to Tech-Savvy Generation Google's Hotel Finder has Made Everyone Pay Attention Mixologists Take Note: Cranberry is not Vodka's Best Friend; A Clear Trend Taking Shape in Southern California's Craft Cocktails Scene AH&LA Secures Extension for Existing Pool and Spa Lift ADA Compliance Date to January 31, 2013 Hospitality Graduate Survey Results for 2012; Part Three - The Employer Perspective / Jeff Ross Greenbrier's Jim Justice Enters Merger Agreement for Acquisition of the Nearby Wintergreen Resort At 70-Years Young, White-Gloved Hotel Doorman Leroy Mickens II, Serves as an Ambassador to His City; His Kind Words to Passersby Offers a Reason to Smile Accor Drops to 6th Place in the World Ranking Following the Sale of Motel 6 to Blackstone; Blackstone Becomes the Largest Hotel Owner in the World with Direct Control of 850,000 Rooms Hard Rock International to Open the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Aruba; The Government of Aruba Selects Southwest Horeca Development to Build the 310-room Beachfront Hotel An Open Letter to the Industry on Funding for the Canadian Tourism Commission Anthony P. Pollard, President, Hotel Association of Canada; Canada’s tourism industry is in crisis; plain and simple Marriott Awards Eight Employees With Company’s Highest Honor, the J. Willard Marriott Award of Excellence Consumer Reports Hotel Survey Ranks Ritz-Carlton Tops Once Again While Econo Lodge and Americas Best Value Inn are Among Lowest-Rated Hotels; Microtel Inn & Suites by Wyndham is Top-rated Budget Hotel With Rooftop Bars Being the Latest Trend, Menin Hotels to Open Drumbar Atop the Raffaello Hotel in Chicago, Illinois May 30, 2012 Mobile Marketing & Mobile Distribution Channels: Debunking the Myths Around Mobile Apps for Hotels; Hotel-Online 3Qs Series on Best Practices in Hotel Marketing and Operations Profiles in Success: Resorts for All Seasons: How Independent Operators Overcome Seasonal Lull, Drive Business, Attract New Market Segments and Bring in Big Profits Year Round Webinar on Monday June 4th - Out with the Old, in with the New! getplanning Revolutionizes the Event Planning Process Simply and Effectively! Learn how to streamline the event planning process ADA Compliance and Defense Lawyer: ADA Experts Discuss Hottest Issues Facing the Hotel Industry Today / Jim Butler How Quickly Can Your Hotel Staff React to a Guest Medical Emergency? Tampa's Embassy Suites Marissa Mack's Quick Action Prevents Guest's Death Fairmont Hotels & Resorts and Manchester Texas Financial Group Enter Agreement for New $350 million, 50-story Fairmont Austin Conference Center Hotel in Austin, Texas Slated to Open 2015 New Hotel Group Sets Sights on Upscale Resort Development in China Launching the Ahn Luh Brand; The Joint Venture Partnership Between the Beijing Tourism Group and GHM with Investor, the Great Ocean Group, Plan to Open First Property by 2015 Final Arguments End Over Financially Troubled 429-room Sheraton Fort Worth Hotel; No Matter the Judges Decision Property will Likely go to the Auction Block Accurately and Automatically Update Your Food Product Costs with Clear Sky Software's New Sysco Interface Merchant Link Names Geoffrey Krieg Vice President of Product Management; Former Director of Service Delivery Turns Attention to Expanding Security Features and Payment Methods Educational Institute Welcomes New Global Academic Partner in Russia Douglas Rice, Executive Vice President and CEO of HTNG, to be Inducted into HFTP's International Hospitality Technology Hall of Fame; Induction to Occur June 26, 2012 During HITEC 2012 The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado Begins $60 Million Two Year Renovation Project Supertel Hospitality Completes Acquisition of 100-room Hilton Garden Inn, Solomons Island, Maryland for $11.5 million as Part of Strategic Portfolio Revamp The Marti Group to Open the 270-room Marti Istanbul Hotel in Turkey in July 2012 Boomerang Hotels and TMG Group, LLC Break Ground on the 32-room Settle Inn & Suites in Elkader, Iowa Pyramid Hotel Group Adds Two New Resorts to their Growing Portfolio; To Manage the 493-room Westin Lake Las Vegas Resort & Spa in Henderson, Nevada and the 506-room Sawgrass Marriott Golf Resort & Spa in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida Sonesta International Hotels to Manage the 133-room Sonesta ES Suites Andover in Massachusetts Through a Rebranding of the Staybridge Suites Boston-Andover The 384-room Embassy Suites Washington D.C. Convention Center Completes $7.5 Million Renovation; The hotel is Owned by the International Union of Painters & Allied Trades Pension Fund and Managed by Hilton Worldwide Marriott Hotels & Resorts Completes Renovation of the 150-key Mallorca Marriott Son Antem Golf Resort and Spa in Spain Marcus Hotels & Resorts Completes Renovation of the 240 Guestrooms and Public Spaces of the Hilton Madison Monona Terrace in Madison, Wisconsin Hanover Inn at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire Re-Opens on June 1, 2012, Completing First Phase of Extensive Renovation Project with Joseph Mellia as General Manager and Erin Bragdon as Director of Sales & Marketing Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints Dean Saltz as Controller for the 219-room Eldorado Hotel & Spa in Santa Fe, New Mexico Paul Ruffino Appointed as General Manager of the 76-room Hotel BPM Brooklyn in New York Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts Names Jan Chovanec as General Manager of Swissôtel Beijing Hong Kong Macau Center in Beijing, China May 29, 2012 Metro Hotels Sees Robust Results After Switch to Sabre Hospitality Solutions' Comprehensive Distribution Solutions; Hotel group bookings jump 70 percent Kokua Hospitality Selects VIZERGY as Digital Marketing Partner; Hotel Management Company to Enhance Clients' Online Visibility and Revenue Riviera CEO Andy Choy Takes a Gamble with "Classic" Casino as Others on the Strip Publicly State they are Moving Away from Gambling Meet the Marine Biologist Who Makes Seafood a Science at Wynn Las Vegas; One of the Few in the World with a Job Like This Shrubs - They're Not Just for Hiding In! What's Shaking in the Cocktail Scene? Greenbrier's Jim Justice Enters Merger Agreement for Acquisition of the Nearby Wintergreen Resort 300-room Hilton Manhattan East Hires a New General Manager; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Have Updated 315 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with Changes in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership InterContinental Hotels Group Leaves Uzbekistan Hotel Market Days Inn Hotel Brand Launches First Prototype in its 42-Year History; Providing Franchisees with a Consistent Roadmap for Construction Revenue Management and Customer Relationship Management - Use of Predictive Analytics Can Lead to a More Dynamic Customer Experience and Maximize Revenue / Dr. Gabor Forgacs Percipia Networks and Datanamics, Inc. Join Forces to Create Strategic Alliance Within the Hospitality Sector RateTiger Restructures Sales and Support To Meet Greater Customer Service Expectations Roomlinx SmartEvent Provides Hosts a Better Way to Communicate with Attendees During Events; Exclusive technology differentiates hotel venue, drives revenue HeBS Digital Wins 'Best of Show' Mobile Website for Loews Hotels in the MobileWebAwards HotelLawyer.com Launches; Portal to Knowledge for the Hospitality Industry; JMBM's Global Hospitality Group of Hotel Lawyers Provide Comprehensive Hospitality Resource Summit Hotel Properties Completes Acquisition of Two Properties, a Hilton Garden Inn and a Courtyard by Marriott; Also Completes Sale of Three Properties in Twin Falls, Idado Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company Opens the 97-room Ritz-Carlton, Okinawa in Japan Owner, San Tan Center, LLC, Opens the 121-room DoubleTree by Hilton Phoenix-Gilbert in Arizona 21-Story Hotel Tower Included in Expansion Plans for Harrah's Rincon Resort & Casino in San Diego County, California Funding for a Proposed Five-Star Hotel in Grenada is Far from Being Reality At Their Best, Toledo, Ohio Hotels Make You Feel at Home but Recent Review Shows they Fall Far Short of Making You Feel Better than at Home Denihan Hospitality Group Names Thomas Mathes as Regional Vice President Operations, New York Shane Weaver Joins Island Hospitality Management as Regional Director of Operations Destination Hotels & Resorts Appoints Frank Leone as General Manager of the Newly-Branded MileNorth, a Chicago Hotel May 25, 2012 Dress Code for Las Vegas Pool Clubs More Strict than Fine Dining Restaurants? Ladies - Wear Your Heels and Do Your Hair - Gents - No Sneakers or Sports Jerseys Allowed The Impact of State Incentivized Tourism Development / Eric B. Hansen IHG Chairman, David Webster, to Retire at Year-end, to be Replaced by Patrick Cescau on January 1, 2013 Owners of Four Upscale Hotels on Three of the Hawaiian Islands Consider Selling Properties with Estimated Value Between $500 Million to $1 Billion; Local Analyst Sites Many Interested Investors for Island Properties Update on California's EB-5 Policy Regarding Designation of Targeted Employment Areas or TEAs / Jim Butler Orlando's I-Drive Econo Lodge to be Gutted, Renovated, Renamed Avanti Resort; Paramount Hospitality Management Chosen as Operator Operators for Balitmore's City Owned Hilton Defend its Financial Position General Manager, Victor Popp, and Staff of La Quinta Inn & Suites Paso Robles in California Create their Own Boutique Wine; Handcrafted Wine, From Harvest to Bottling, Launches in June 2012 ProfitSword Expands Solutions Offerings to Include 'ProfitPace' Sales Pace Reporting - The Hotel Industry's First Multi-Brand, Multi-Hotel Pacing Tool Dallas, Texas Courtyard by Marriott Becomes the Final Roberts Company Hotel to Seek Bankruptcy Protection Boutique Hotel in Stone Harbor, New Jersey Breaks Ground at Site of Historic Shelter Haven Hotel; The 37-room Reeds at Shelter Haven is Set to Open Early in Summer 2013 Thailand Hoteliers Invest Over $260 Million in Myanmar Hotel Market, Offering 1,896 Rooms in 11 Hotel Brands After a Three Month Closure and a $2.5 Million Renovation of its First Floor Public Spaces, the 424-room W Seattle in Washington Unveils Dramatic New Spaces Xanterra South Rim Completes Extensive Renovations of the Thunderbird and Kachina Lodges Located on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona Dolce Hotels and Resorts Names Michael Moros as General Manager and Gary Tarpinian as Director of Sales & Marketing of The Alexander Hotel in Indianapolis, Indiana; To Oversee the Late 2012 Opening of the New 209-room Property Buffalo Lodging Associates Hires Daniella Reategui as Area Sales Manager for Hilton Garden Inn Orlando and Holiday Inn Express & Suites Nearest Universal in Orlando, Florida Benchmark Hospitality Appoints Suya Davenport as Director of Sales & Marketing for the 124-room ONE Bal Harbour Resort & Spa in Miami Beach, Florida May 24, 2012 Hotel Okura Switches to Sabre Hospitality Solutions for Distribution Services and Global Reservation Center Support; New agreement also includes renewal for recently acquired JAL Hotels Fujitsu Frontech North America Selects InvoTech's Cloud-based RFID System for its Solutions Center Grand Opening; Fujitsu Showcases Wireless GIMS UHF-RFID Uniform, Linen, and Laundry System to exhibit its Washable RFID tags When a Negative Experience Occurs, Fix it Before Check-Out; Issue Resolution and Current Room Amenities Most Important to Hotel Guests, According to Latest "Experience Radar" Report Released by PwC for the Hospitality Industry Consumer Reports Hotel Survey Ranks Ritz-Carlton Tops Once Again While Econo Lodge and Americas Best Value Inn are Among Lowest-Rated Hotels; Microtel Inn & Suites by Wyndham is Top-rated Budget Hotel Google's Hotel Finder has Made Everyone Pay Attention Successful Joint Ventures for Hotel Development, Acquisition and Financing / Jim Butler Beset with Financial Troubles, Two High Profile Albany, New York Hotels Going Up for Auction - 74 State and the Historic Cambridge Hotel What May Seem Like a Small Piece of a Regions Economic Puzzle, Tourism is the Little Engine that Could A Whimsical Interview with Andrew Morrison, Executive Chef of the Fairmont Pittsburgh, Downtown Expotel Hospitality Ahead of the Curve - Embraces Fiber Optic Technology for Hotel Portfolio Mintek Mobile Data Solutions Announces New Hotel Enhancements and Improvements; EAM CMMS Hotel Enhancements 2nd Quarter 2012 Magnolia Hotel Houston Achieves AAA Four-Diamond Rating for Three Years in a Row New Educational Institute Online Program Teaches Revenue Management Concepts PSAV Bringing Power to Presentations at The Westin Harbour Castle Hotel Toronto; As a preferred partner with Starwood Hotels & Resorts, PSAV is forging strong relationships at the property level and adding to bottom line revenues Construction has Begun for the $50 million Renovation of the 1,120-room Hyatt Regency Dallas in Texas; Project Managed by Woodbine Development Corporation, the Original Developer and Asset Manager of the Property With Rooftop Bars Being the Latest Trend, Menin Hotels to Open Drumbar Atop the Raffaello Hotel in Chicago, Illinois New Study Reveals How Travelers Consume and Seek Out News; Travelers look for all-in-one resource to stay connected Hospitality Companies Target India's Super Luxury Segment; Tapping the Country's Growing Number of High Net Worth Individuals and Companies Willing to Pay for Luxury Interstate Hotels & Resorts to Manage The 187-room Marker Hotel in Dublin, Ireland; Owned by Brehon Capital Partners and Midwest Holdings, the Hotel Will Open Early in 2013 as Part of the Leading Hotels of the World Family The 129-key Ritz-Carlton, Montreal in Quebec, Canada to Reopen Following Extensive $200 Million Restoration Hilton Worldwide Opens the 227-room DoubleTree by Hilton, Naha in Okinawa, Japan A July 2012 Opening is Planned for the 92-suite Residence Inn by Marriott in Bismarck, North Dakota Owned and Managed by TMI Hospitality Green Turtle Club in the Abaco, Bahamas' Green Turtle Cay Becomes Member of the Expedition Properties Portfolio by Guy Harvey Outpost Resorts Hotel Equities Names Kevin Butler as General Manager for the 108-room SpringHill Suites by Marriott in Lake Charles, Louisiana Anish Patney Appointed as General Manager of the 237-room Sheraton Hartford Hotel at Bradley Airport in Windsor Locks, Connecticut; Managed by Waterford Hotel Group Keith Hill Named General Manager for the Oceanfront 50-room Timber Cove Inn in Sonoma County, California John Metz, Executive Chairman of Metz Culinary Management, Named as the Walter J. Conti Professor of Hospitality Management in the Penn State College of Health and Human Development May 23, 2012 Accor Drops to 6th Place in the World Ranking Following the Sale of Motel 6 to Blackstone; Blackstone Becomes the Largest Hotel Owner in the World with Direct Control of 850,000 Rooms Beverly Hills Hotel Turns 100-years-old and Retains its Status as a Celebrity Discreet Retreat The 'Dial High Club': 86% of Travellers Surveyed Say 'No' to Mobile Phone Use on Planes Reveals Skyscanner Northview Hotel Group and Five Mile Capital Partners Purchase The Sanderling Resort & Spa in Duck, North Carolina City-owned Hilton Baltimore Lost $11.5 million Last Year and Dipped into Reserves to Pay its Debt Service Is Your Hotel Protected if Disaster Strikes? Issues that May Arise in Claims for Loss of Business Income / Stephen N. Goldberg and Jeremy M. King From Hospital to Hotel: Drury's Renovation of Old St. Vincent Hospital in Santa Fe, New Mexico into a 182-room Hotel Underway Failed Jekyll Island, Georgia Oceanfront Clarion Hotel Raises Concerns with the Jekyll Island Authority; As Bank Offers Foreclosed Property For Sale, Officials Want Assurances that New Owners Would Match Island's Revitalization Vision Nexus Companies and Evolution Hospitality Break Ground on the 159-room Courtyard by Marriott Long Beach Airport in California Originally Planned as a Franchise Agreement, Hilton Worldwide and J.G.J. Proyectistas S.A.C. Enter Management Contract for New Build 207-room Hilton Lima Miraflores, Hilton's First Managed Property in Peru HeBS Digital Releases a Next-Generation Solution to Manage the Hotel's Digital Content; HeBS Digital Announces its New CMS Premium (Content Management System) to Manage the Desktop, Mobile and Tablet Website Guestware Partners with Shiji Networks to Expand in China Is Your Hotel Website Ready for Summer? Lodging Interactive offers web design, hosting, maintenance, SEO, performance analytics, content management and guest reviews with no upfront cost, just a low monthly fee Nigel Lobo Joins Prestigious Line-Up of Speakers at ACLUVAQ; Grand Pacific Resort Management Vice President to Speak at Regional Timeshare/Vacation Club Association of Quintana Roo Milestone Internet Marketing Seeking SEO/SEM Specialist/ e-Strategist GOPPAR, RevPAR, ADR, now NRevPAR? How about just making money?! / Jean Francois Mourier Owned by SP Hotels LLC, the 251-room DoubleTree by Hilton St. Paul Downtown Opens in Minneapolis; A Redesign and Rebranding of the Former Hilton Garden Inn St. Paul City Center Hotel The City's First Waterfront Hotel, the 116-room SpringHill Suites by Marriott Opens This Week in Chattanooga, Tennessee Anantara Hotels, Resorts & Spas to Open the 222-room Eastern Mangroves Hotel & Spa in Abu Dhabi, UAE Hampton by Hilton Signs Agreement with METRO Hotels for Two New Hotels in Colombia; Construction has Begun on the 125-room Hampton by Hilton Barranquilla and the 132-room Hampton by Hilton Cartagena Scheduled to Open in Early 2013 The June 18th Opening of Dorset Square Hotel, Design Hotels New Member Hotel in London, Marks Owners' Return to Past; Tim and Kit Kemp Recently Reacquired the 38-room Property, their 1985 First Boutique Hotel Venture The 39-room Boutique Hotel Aqua Opening in Fort Lauderdale, Florida's North Beach Village Through a Makeover of the Former Angela's Beach Resort Hilton Chicago Completes Phase One of a Four Phase $150 Million Renovation Project Auberge Resorts to Manage the 48-suite Pronghorn Golf Club & Resort in Bend, Oregon Recently Purchased by The Resort Group Guenter H. Richter, VP and Managing Director of The Setai, Miami Beach, Honored with the 2012 Outstanding Industry Professional Award; Presented by the New York City College of Technology of the City University of New York, Department of Hospitality Management Great Hotels of the World Expanding to the Americas, Opens New York Office and Appoints Former Leading Hotels Executive Team to Lead the Way; Marshall Calder Appointed as Managing Director, The Americas Carlson Wagonlit Travel Appoints Floyd Widener as Senior Vice President Global CWT Meetings & Events to Lead a Newly Created Global Organization Helping Companies Better Manage their Worldwide Meetings Chad Sorensen Named Principal of Warnick + Company's New office in Minneapolis, Minnesota Crestline Hotels & Resorts Appoints Chris Tanner as General Manager for the 92-room Courtyard by Marriott Suffolk Chesapeake and the 72-suite TownePlace Suites Suffolk Chesapeake in Virginia BayStar Hotel Group Appoints Ron Dye as Director of Sales for the 76-room Hotel Indigo - St. Petersburg Historic Downtown District in Florida Norbert Roesch Named Executive Chef for the 350-room Hyatt Regency Curacao Golf Resort, Spa and Marina on the Island of Curacao May 22, 2012 MICROS eCommerce Launches New Interactive Website for Global Hotel Alliance's Loyalty Program, GHA Discovery Sands Bethlehem Event Center Selects Agilysys Point-of-Sale Solution; World-Class Entertainment Venue Implements Agilysys InfoGenesis POS System Webinar Tomorrow: Take Your Hotel Marketing Mobile; Take 45 Minutes to Learn How to Market Your Hotel to Mobile Travelers from Two Expert Hotel Marketers. Accor Enters Agreement to Sell its United States Economy Hotels Division, Motel 6 and Studio 6, to Blackstone Real Estate Partners for $1.9 billion Hospitality Properties Trust and Wyndham Hotel Group Enter Agreement for the Branding and Management of 20 Hotels; HPT to Provide up to $75 Million for Refurbishment and Rebranding of the Hotels BC LYND Hospitality Acquires the 103-year-old St. Anthony Hotel in San Antonio, Texas with Plans for a $24 Million Renovation Strategic Prospecting and Strategic Account Optimization / Carol Verret Hotel Lawyer: Clarification on the DOJ's Amendment to the Pool Lift Extension / Jim Butler Headline Grabbing Stories - Five Memorable Las Vegas Casino Heists The 200-room Quin Hotel to Open in New York City in the Redesigned Historic Former Buckingham Hotel; Opening Planned for Winter 2012 Operated by Highgate Hotels B Hotels & Resorts Introduces b2 hotel Brand, a Value Oriented Full-Service Hotel Concept What's New in Food and Service Trends this Summer? Three Distinguished Chef's Share Their Perspectives UniFocus Unveils Innovative Mobile Applications KniTec Brings Hotel Concierge into the Guest Room; Enhancing Guest Experience, Generating Revenue for Hoteliers Knowland Database Exceeds 170,000 Contacts; Massive database of groups includes contact information for thousands of event planners HSMAI Greater New York Chapter Presents 2012 Annual Hospitality Awards of Excellence; NYC & Company Recognized for Significant Impact on Tourism with the Frank W. Berkman Tourism Achievement Award PolyU's 11th Asia Pacific Forum for Graduate Students Research in Tourism and International Convention & Expo Summit 2012 Opens Today with More than 250 Delegates Attending U.S. Virgin Islands Reports 2011 Visitor Numbers Climb 5.4% While Hotel Occupancy Rates Declined to 52.1%, Down from 57% in 2010 Higher Occupancy Rates Help Orlando, Florida Hotels Offset Occupancy Dip 2011 Overseas Visitation to U.S. States & Cities Estimates Released; Subtle Shifts in Key Traveler Characteristics Noted Sonesta International Hotels to Manage the 485-room Royal Sonesta Hotel Houston in Texas Through a Re-branding of the Current Intercontinental Hotel Houston Hilton Worldwide Opens the Dual Branded 187-room Hilton Bursa Convention Centre & Spa and 107-room Hampton by Hilton Bursa in Turkey The Luxury Collection Hotels & Resorts Opens the 140-room Keraton at The Plaza, a Luxury Collection Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia; The 80th Luxury Collection Hotel Worldwide, it is the First of Four to Open in Asia Pacific in the Next Six Months IHG Signs First Hotel Indigo in Wales with the 92-room Hotel Indigo Queen Street Cardiff to be Managed by Sanguine Hospitality Ltd Souris Valley Suites Hotel in Minot, North Dakota Completes Expansion Adding 47 Suites for a New Total of 136 Suites Castille Paris in France, Part of Starhotels Collezione, Completes Extensive $25.5 Million Renovation Project; Launched in 2005, this Final Phase Redesigned 40 Rooms in the Opera Wing David Kirken Named General Manager of Arizona Biltmore, A Waldorf Astoria Resort Christian Kuhn Named Vice President, Marketing for Homewood Suites and Home2 Suites by Hilton Crowne Plaza Milwaukee West in Wisconsin Promotes Patrick Palmer to General Manager and Welcomes Kris Mosier as Director of Sales Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints Tim Sofield Director of Group Sales for The Heldrich Hotel in New Brunswick, New Jersey The Wilderman Group Names Emily McGeorge Conference Planning Manager for the Gastonia Conference Center in Gastonia, North Carolina May 21, 2012 Thought Dead, Travel Agents Rebounding in the $100 billion Travel Industry Business as they Adapt to Tech-Savvy Generation VIZERGY® Wins Awards for Hotel Website Creativity; Hospitality Digital Marketing Company Wins Summit Creative Awards in not so Ordinary Categories Taxes and the Deficit; Recent Federal Government Legislation and the Implications for the Lodging Industry / Kevin F. Reilly Temple University Presents Results of Cape May Tourism Study; One Key to Growth - Retain Loyal Customers and Court Their Kids Upgrades Abound for the Austin, Texas Hospitality Industry; With Several New Hotel Projects in the Works, Many Existing Properties Step up their Games, Launching Renovation Projects Millennium UN Plaza Hotel New York Launches Major Upgrade Initiative for Both of its Towers; The First $30-million Phase will Debut a Transformed 154-room West Tower in September 2012 Judge Dismisses Two Shareholder Lawsuits Over Decline in MGM Resorts Stock Price With a Positive Outlook for the Hospitality Industry in the Middle East, Movenpick Hotels & Resorts Plans to Launch 10 New Hotels in the Region by 2015 Hotel Gold-Rush Starts in Seoul, Korea; Investor Interest Peeks as Demand for Hotel Rooms is on the Rise with an Expected Need of 43,000 Rooms in 2012 with Only 28,900 Currently Available 186-room Miramar Hotel Project in Montecito, California Moving Forward; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 120 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database Hyatt Affiliate Completes Acquisition and Rebranding of Former Hotel Nikko Mexico to Hyatt Regency Mexico City; Hyatt Also Reveals Plans for Eight New Hyatt-branded Hotels in Latin America Gaylord Entertainment Awarded Tax Incentive Deal by the Colorado State Economic Development Commission; the $800 million Gaylord Aurora Resort Project Expected to Open mid 2016 San Diego Architectural Design Firm Pulls Together Team for "Hotel Impossible" Hotel AG Closes Five Hotel Transactions Last Week Educational Institute Delivers Guest Service Gold Training to Orlando CVB Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association (CHTA) to Hold Caribbean Travel Marketplace 2013 at Atlantis, Paradise Island, The Bahamas, January 20-22, 2013 Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance Offers New Report Series; To Provide Hotel Real Estate Indices and an Analysis of Gateway Cities The San Antonio, Texas Vintage Hilton Palacio del Rio Gets a Thoroughly Modern Makeover Complete with the Latest Smart Elevator Technology Tucson Suites, LLC Opens the 204-room DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Tucson Airport in Arizona; The Former Radisson Hotel has Undergone a Complete Renovation and Rebranding The 75th Anniversary of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge Plays Role in the Recently Completed Multi-Million Dollar Renovations at the 355-room Radisson Hotel Fisherman's Wharf; Photographic Mural of the Golden Gate Included in each Guestroom Originally Opened in 1938, Silver City, New Mexico's Murray Hotel Set to Re-open Following 7-year Renovation The 122-room Candlewood Suites Plano in Texas Completes Multi-Million Dollar Renovation The Generation of Emotional Values Through the Experiential Hospitality Services / Osvaldo Torres Cruz David Casey Joins The Setai, Miami Beach in Florida as Director of Sales and Marketing Holly Anderson-Bender Named Director of Sales for the 145-room Courtyard by Marriott in Cromwell, Connecticut, Managed by Waterford Hotel Group Kelly Cox Appointed as Revenue Manager of the 201-room St Julien Hotel & Spa in Boulder, Colorado Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints David Cortijo as Director of Rooms for 159-key Marenas Resort in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida FairBridge Hotels International Appoints Skyler Reep as Relationship Revenue Manager May 18, 2012 AH&LA Secures Extension for Existing Pool and Spa Lift ADA Compliance Date to January 31, 2013 2012 Annual Trends Survey Results; A Video Overview with PKF's Robert Mandelbaum Hotel Comp Set Analysis - Untapped Opportunity #1: Market Dynamics Good Times Ahead or More Headwinds? An Open Letter to the Industry on Funding for the Canadian Tourism Commission; Anthony P. Pollard, President, Hotel Association of Canada; Canada’s tourism industry is in crisis; plain and simple Mixologists Take Note: Cranberry is not Vodka's Best Friend; A Clear Trend Taking Shape in Southern California's Craft Cocktails Scene Choice Hotels International Recognizes its Top Franchise Hotels & Owners at 2012 Convention; "Woman of the Year" Awarded to Kitty Friere, Top Hotels Awarded "Hotel of the Year," "Premier Alliance" and "Developer of the Year" Recognitions Silver Legacy Resort Casino in Reno, Nevada, Half Owned by MGM Resorts International, Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Reorganization The National Conference Center Voices Concern Over Recent Vote by Congress to Freeze Travel Spending in Reaction to GSA Scandal Mexico's Visa Policy Generates 500,000 New Arrivals in Two Years - Can The Caribbean Do The Same?; Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association to Discuss Negative Effects of Over-Regulation of the Travel Industry at Upcoming Summit Choice Hotels Introduces Dual-Branded Combination Hotel Prototype for its Sleep Inn and MainStay Suites Brands Cambria Suites Launches New Food and Beverage Program; To Roll Out to 18 Properties by Fall 2012 Featuring American Comfort Cuisine Embracing Food Trends Across the Country with Local Cuisine Included Congressional Hearing Highlights U.S. Travel Industry as Key to Future Economic Growth TRUMP HOTEL COLLECTION™ Installs EzRMS™ at its Two Most Recent Property Openings; EzRMS™ is now deployed in all seven of TRUMP HOTEL COLLECTION's luxury properties London Meets Nashville at the James Beard House, NYC; Chef Hus Vedat of London's Caxton Grill joins Chef Charles Phillips of Nashville's Award-Winning 1808 Grille, in a Celebration of International Culinary Diversity in America's Most Distinguished Kitchen Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG) Releases Interface Specifications; Sets Sights on Point-of-Sale Integration with PMS Comfort Inn and Comfort Suites Brands to Debut New Design Package, Comfort Truly Yours, with the Upcoming Opening of the Recently Converted Spokane Valley Comfort Inn & Suites in Washington Marriott International and Ethiopian Developer, Sunshine Construction, Enter Agreement for Mangement of Two Properties Currently Under Construction; Both Located in Addis Ababa Desarrollos RDC, S.A. and Hilton Worldwide Sign Management Agreement for New Build Embassy Suites by Hilton in Santo Domigo, Dominican Republic Owned and Managed by 3H Group Hotels, the 116-suite SpringHill Suites by Marriott to Open in Chattanooga, Tennessee Ascend Collection Launches New Marketing Message and Continues Growth with the Signing of 13 New Portfolio Members Cornell's Center for Hospitality Research Hospitality Tools Series Posts New Items; A New Restaurant Table Tool, a Roundtable Discussion on International Challenges and Opportunities, and a Profile of Schneider Electric's Energy University The Meritage Resort and Spa in Napa Valley, California Opens $40 million Expansion; Introduces 165 New Rooms, Dining and Entertainment Options and New Event Facilities The Best Western Plus Antioch Hotel & Suites of Lake County, Illinois Completes Re-Branding and Renovation Outrigger Hotels and Resorts Names Hans S. Weger as Chief Financial Officer; Following the December 2011 Retirement of Melvyn Wilinsky Andrew Neubauer III Appointed as Director of Sales and Marketing at The 251-room Ritz-Carlton Lodge, Reynolds Plantation in Georgia Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints Mary Crisman-Portobanco Director of Human Resources for Hotel Contessa, San Antonio, Texas May 16, 2012 At 70-Years Young, White-Gloved Hotel Doorman Leroy Mickens II, Serves as an Ambassador to His City; His Kind Words to Passersby Offers a Reason to Smile Sandals Resorts International Optimizes Profitably with Big Data; World Famous Luxury Resort Chain Puts KPIs for 22 Entities Under a Microscope Daily Summit Hotel Properties Reports 1st Quarter 2012 Net Loss of $3.9 million Compared to a Net Loss of Approximately $7.8 million Same Period Last Year; RevPAR Increased 6.1% Supertel Hospitality Reports 2012 First Quarter Net Loss of $4 million Compared to Net Loss of $3.7 million in the Same Quarter 2011 / Operating Statistics for 97 Hotels in 23 States Tom Sherwood, Atlantic City's Diving Horse Developer, Hoping to Build $123 million, 183-room Hotel and Indoor Waterpark in Marina District Online Advertising: It's not the tool but what you do with it that counts / Ritesh Gupta One Year After it Closed, Can Sahara Site Become a Symbol of Las Vegas' Rebound? Marriott International Signs its 250th Hotel in Asia with the Renaissance Bo'ao Resort & Spa to Open in China in 2015; Robust Growth for Marriott to Continue in Asia with China as the Strongest Driver Regal Hotels International Signs Agreement with Xi'an Xianyang International Airport Co., Ltd. to Develop the Regal Airport Hotel in Xi'an, China; The 300-room Hotel will Open in Q2 2014 Does Guest Review Management Really Pay Off? Digital Alchemy CRM Lets Madison Concourse Hotel Connect With Guests Quickly, Personally; Comprehensive cloud-based CRM module turns guest communications into hospitality gold for upscale Wisconsin hotel. Roger Smith Hotel Drives Mobile and Facebook Bookings with Pegasus Solutions; Midtown Manhattan Boutique Leverages Open Hospitality's OpenFlex and OpenView Stalled Georgetown, Texas 200-room Hotel and Conference Center Project Back on Track Sacramento Area Hotels Surpass 70% Occupancy Threshold for March Coming in at 72.1% Improvement? Yes. Contentment? Not Quite. Boise, Idaho Placing its Focus on Tourism To Entice and Enlighten Guests Sheraton Hotels Partners with Wine Spectator Magazine to Launch Sheraton Social Hour, A Premium Wine Program Featuring Curated Wine Menus and Wine Tasting Events Rolls-Out to More than 240 Hotels around the World Hyatt Foundation and Beijing Municipal People's Government to Co-Host 2012 Beijing Architecture Forum; Coinciding with the "Pritzker Architecture Prize" will Include Debates on Contemporary Architectural Issues by Leading Architects and Pritzker Prize Laureates Summer Travel Outlook Brightens - New Survey Reveals Record Gains in Leisure Travel Intentions; 64% of 2,200 U.S. Adults Surveyed Plan Leisure Travel During the Next Six Months Spending by International Visitors to the U.S. Surges by $1.5 Billion in March, a 13% Increase Over March 2011 Hersha Hospitality Management Diversifies Portfolio with 21 New Management Contracts in the Past 18 Months; Includes Strategic Expansion into Florida and West Coast Huntington Hospitality Management Chosen to Manage the Residence Inn Airport Miami West/Doral Area in Florida New Orleans Hotel Collection Reopens the Audubon Cottages in New Orleans, Louisiana after Completing Multi-million Dollar Renovation Philip Mengel Named Interim CEO of Orient-Express Hotels while Search Continues for Permanent CEO; Bob Lovejoy to Remain Chairman of the Board Keoni Boyer, Chef Concierge at the 186-room Gansevoort Meatpacking NYC, Accepted into Les Chefs D'or Organization WNW Hospitality Appoints Judith Kalfon as General Manager of The 163-room Heritage Hotel in Southbury, Connecticut White Lodging Names Denise Milroy as General Manager for the 94-room Fairfield Inn & Suites in Hammond, Indiana Juan J. Garcia Appointed as Area Director, Sales and Marketing for Hiltons of Washington, D.C., Representing the Capital Hilton and the Washington Hilton Debra Blake Joins Mckibbon Hotel Management as Director of Sales for the Hyatt Place Atlanta/Duluth/Johns Creek in Duluth, Georgia The Chase Park Plaza in St. Louis, Missouri Hires Kyle S. Lipetzky as Executive Chef May 15, 2012 Cendyn Wins Four Esteemed Awards for Superior Website Design and Social Media Marketing; Cendyn Earns Coveted Communicator Awards for Creative Achievement with the National Hotel, Trump Hotel Las Vegas, Crescent Hotels & Resorts Canada and Hay Creek Hotels Maestro Launches the New Face of Hotel Operations; Mobilizes Staff with Xpress iPad Check-In to Extend a Great Customer Experience; Enables Staff to Get Out From Behind the Desk and in Front of Guests for the Ultimate in Personalized Service and Upsell Capability Omni Hotels & Resorts to Pilot Rainmaker's New GroupREV Group Forecasting and Pricing Product; Adding More Science to Group Forecasting and Pricing Will Benefit Luxury Hotel, Meeting Planners and Consumers Alike Nobody Asked me, But...No. 89; The Beat Goes On; Good News: U.S. Hotel Profit Recovery; Surprise: Nearly Half of NYC Hotel Developments are Outside Manhattan; Hotel History: The Mission Inn, Riverside, CA; Quote of the Month / Stanley Turkel Indianapolis City Leaders Submit Amendment Proposing an End to Contracts Between Hotels and Temporary Staffing Agencies Noble Investment Group Acquires the 148-room Hilton Garden Inn Boston Waltham in Waltham, Massachusetts Al Faisal Holding's ARTIC Subsidiary Enters Strategic Partnership with Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group and Magellan Development Group to Acquire the Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel in Chicago, Illinois Marriott Awards Eight Employees With Company's Highest Honor, the J. Willard Marriott Award of Excellence Sale of Great Wolf Resorts to Apollo Global Complete for Nearly $800 million Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas Facing Wage & Overtime Lawsuit; Former Employee Seeking Class Action Status Ameranth Signs a New Patent License with Skywire Media Inc. for its Patented 21st Century Communications Web/Wireless Synchronization Inventions Hospitality Softnet, Inc. Adds its 10th Course Installment to theCampus with the Addition of a Double Lesson, Prospecting Skills. More Courses on the Way. Blueprint RF Appoints Kevin Bennett as Chief Financial Officer Does Your In-Room Programming Speak to International Travelers? If your hotel strives to provide the in-room entertainment services your guests want, then it's time to add NHK World TV -- an HD and SD English-language broadcasting service -- to your TV Channel lineup G1 Group plc Prepares for Further Expansion with MICROS; Scotland's leading independent leisure operator selects market-leading MICROS technologies for its growing portfolio of restaurants, bars, clubs, cinemas and hotels HITEC 2012 Agenda to Tackle Gaming Industry Technology Issues; Gaming Sessions to Occur the First Day of the June 25-28 Conference in Baltimore, Maryland Agenda Set for the Caribbean Tourism Summit June 15-16 in Jamaica; To Focus on Crucial Air Access for Region, Culminates with CHTA 50th Anniversary Golden Jubilee Gala RiverView Terrace, the New Outdoor Waterfront Event Venue at Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center Near Washington, D.C. Opens The Rezidor Hotel Group to Open the 100-room Radisson Blu Resort, Tsinandali in Georgia in 2014 The 254-room Hyatt French Quarter Opens in New Orleans, Louisiana Following an $18M Renovation to the Historic Hotel Property Fairmont Raffles Hotels International Appoints Gao Zhi Xiong as Vice President, Development, China; Responsible for Portfolio Growth in China Across all Three FRHI Leading Brands Aqua Hotels & Resorts Makes Key Appointments within their Operations Group Lloyd Williams Named General Manager of the 310-key Lansdowne Resort in Leesburg, Virginia; Resort is Owned by LaSalle Hotel Properties and Managed by Destination Hotels & Resorts Denver, Colorado Boutique, the 109-room Hotel Teatro, Names Matthew Hamann as Director of Revenue May 14, 2012 How Can Hoteliers Take Full Advantage of Pinterest? / Erica Garza The Golden Touch: hotel SystemsPro Congratulates 4 Award-Winning Directors of Sales; Top Sales Professionals Demonstrate Community Involvement, Association Leadership Deadline Looms for Hotel Owners to Comply with Pool Accessibility Rules Polish Hotel 2011 Market One of the Best Performing in Europe; Warsaw Hotels Posting 8.3% Appreciation in Room Yield Over 2010 According to Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels Poland Hotel Intelligence Report Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas Reports Loss of $4 million During Q1 2012 Compared to a Profit of $82.8 million in the Year-ago Quarter; Property to Undergo $20 to $30 million Renovation Chattanooga's New $40 Million Embassy Suites Could be Hamilton County, Tennessee's Swankiest Hotel; Who Else Can Boast Room Service by Ruth's Chris Steakhouse? New Property Manager & General Manager for Chicago-area Holiday Inn Express; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Have Updated 200 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with Changes in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership New South Florida Hotels Range from Earthy to Ultra-luxe; Providing Something for Everyone in a Market that Continues to Thrive Hilton Worldwide Signs Management Agreement with Hoan Kiem Tourism & Trading Company Limited for the 86-room Hilton Garden Inn Hanoi in Vietnam; To Open Late in 2012, Marking the Debut of Hilton Garden Inn in Southeast Asia Do You Hate the OTA's - Part Deux? / Jean Francois Mourier Louvre Hotels Group Expands Distribution Reach with Pegasus Solutions; Global Chain's Three-year Renewal Adds Mobile App, MetaSearch Services and TravelSky Connection to Expand Booking Opportunities for More Than 1,100 Properties MindClick SGM Announces the Addition of Leading Hospitality Lighting Supplier Van Teal to the HSP Index; With the addition of Van Teal Hospitality, the HSP Index now includes participation from 15 supplier categories Orient-Express Implements MICROS OPERA Sales & Catering Module for Its Hotels Worldwide Yellow Dog Software Announces Jay Livingood as New President; Experienced Executive Well-Positioned to Drive Product and Company Growth Accor Eyes 22 New Hotels in the Middle East and Africa Region; Plans to Add 5,598 Rooms in the Market by 2014 Historic Preservation Highlighted in Soon to Open Downtown Milwaukee 127-room Hilton Garden Inn Hotel Spanish Hotel Chain, IBEROSTAR Hotels & Resorts, Unveils New Hotel Segmentation; Now Offers Four Property Segments Across its Resorts Worldwide Sonesta International Hotels to Manage the 146-room Sonesta ES Suites Orlando in Florida through a Rebranding of the Current Staybridge Suites Orlando Jumeirah Group Makes Four Appointments to its Worldwide Sales Team Mark Schoenberg Appointed as Director of Food & Beverage of the 105-suite il Lugano in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida May 11, 2012 Hotel Lawyer from Meet the Money® - Lodging Industry Investment Council (LIIC) Announces its Top 10 Challenges for Hotel Industry in 2012 / Jim Butler Goulston & Storrs Continues DC Office Expansion: Firm continues to hire from AmLaw200 Hospitality Graduate Survey Results for 2012: Part Three - The Employer Perspective / Jeff Ross White House's National Tourism and Travel Strategy is Blueprint to Expand Travel to and within the United States; Improvements in Visa Processing with Goal to Attract 100 Million International Visitors Annually by 2021 Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts to Debut in the Middle East with the July 2012 Opening of the 1487-room Swissôtel Makkah in Saudi Arabia Driftwood Hospitality Management Selected to Manage the 91-room Hampton Inn Naples I-75 in Florida The 408-room Turnberry Isle Miami in Florida Joins Marriott's Autograph Collection Israel's Dan Hotels Completes Redesign of the Circa 1963 Dan Carmel in Haifa, Israel Tucson, Arizona's 80-room Flamingo Hotel May Get New Owner as its $1.9 Million Debt Goes Up for Auction The International Association of Conference Centers-The Americas Releases White Paper from the 2012 Thought Leader Summit: Designing Meeting Experiences for Tomorrow Centennial Beverage Group Chooses Shift4 Cornell Center for Hospitality Research to Present 2012 Hospitality Research & Analytics Award; Honor Recognizing Hospitality Industry Best Practices Driven by Research and Analytics will be Awarded During the Cornell Hospitality Research Summit in October 2012 Rising Star Award Presented at the Caribbean Hotel & Resort Investment Summit to Maxence Bonnamain, Director of Las Casitas Villages at the El Conquistador Resort in Fajardo, Puerto Rico Turnberry Hotel Group Names Tina Kilner as Area Director of Revenue Management and Leslie Weil as General Manager at the Hampton Inn Hallandale Beach in Florida Charles King Appointed as General Manager for the 170-room Stoneleigh Hotel & Spa in Dallas, Texas BD Hotels Names Scott Yo as General Manager of the 367-room Pod 39 Hotel in New York City Regina Wilson Named Director of Sales and Marketing at the Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel & Towers in Bangkok, Thailand Orient-Express Hotels Appoints Kristyn Brinker as National Sales Manager for the 435-room Charleston Place Hotel in South Carolina Tracey Sykes Hired as Sales Manager for the 92-room Holiday Inn Express & Suites Park Place in Jackson, Tennessee; Owned by Park Place Hotel Associates and Managed by Wilson Hotel Management Company The Hotel at Auburn University in Alabama Appoints Seán Carney as Executive Assistant Manager, Food and Beverage and Chef Marc Schulz as Executive Chef Michael Guy Appointed as Executive Chef for the 77-room Nita Lake Lodge in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada Radisson Blu Le Metropolitan in Paris Appoints New Chef, Stephane Pitre Eric Smith Appointed as Executive Chef of the 196-room Plantation on Crystal River in Crystal River, Florida May 10, 2012 IDeaS Expands Italian Footprint: Hotel Brunelleschi and Grand Hotel Minerva Implement Revenue Management System; Hotel Brunelleschi sees transient revenue uplift of 18.5% Webinar: Take Your Hotel Marketing Mobile; Take 45 Minutes to Learn How to Market Your Hotel to Mobile Travelers from Two Expert Hotel Marketers. Wi-Fi is the New Four-Letter Word for Hoteliers / Terence Ronson Hawai'i Tourism Authority to Issue RFI for Facilities Management and World-Wide Marketing of the Hawai'i Convention Center Santa Fe, New Mexico High-end Resorts Report Management Shake-ups; Cam Hospitality Advisors & Management Takes Over for Bishop's Lodge Ranch Resort & Spa and Benchmark Hospitality International Now Manages the Eldorado Hotel & Spa Technology Drives New Design Creation Platform for Hotel Owners by Hilton Hotels & Resorts Meet the Money® Conference Talks about Hotel Loans and Equity Investment, Creating Value with Hotel Value-add and Repositioning, Hotel Opportunistic Investment, Deal Making and Much More / Jim Butler Atlantic City's Revel Casino Reports $13.4 million in Earnings in First Month of Operations, Nowhere Near Borgata's $54 million; Kevin DeSanctis, Revels CEO, Confident Numbers will Improve Hiring Seasonal Employees - Look To Your Gut To Find the Right Fit! / Gary Hernbroth Clean the World's Shawn Seipler Reflects on IHG Deal, Nonprofit's Dramatic Growth Wyndham Hotel Group Enters Agreement with Hoteles Costa del Sol to Franchise Three New Ramada Hotels in Peru Destination Marketer Updates Brand to Reflect Company's Evolution Eleven Wireless Names New Chief Technology Officer; Leading online guest services supplier announces industry visionary Dan Lulich as new CTO to lead company on next generation technology solutions. Underscoring the Importance of the Hospitality Industry in the Middle East, Starwood Holds its Annual Leadership Conference in Dubai, Hosting its Top 100 Global Executives; Plans to Temporarily Relocate Global Headquarters to the Middle East in 2013 Uzbekistan Allocates $42 million for Construction of New $113 million Hyatt Regency Hotel in Tashkent Lodging Crisis in Mercer County, Virginia: What is the plan for off-road visitors? Two Additional Roberts Cos.' Hotels File for Bankruptcy Bringing the Total to Six Plans for Portland Maine's Eastland Park Hotel to Develop a Ballroom Stirs Controversy; Expansion Creating Convention Center Opportunity for Portland would Take Over Much of Public Park Sustainable Living and Working are Central to the Vision for CityWay, the New 14-acre Neighborhood Development in Indianapolis, Indiana that Includes the Alexander Hotel; LEED Certification is being Pursued for the 209-room Hotel Being Developed by Buckingham Companies and Dolce Hotels and Resorts An Open Letter to the Industry on the Preservation of Government Conferences / Roger Dow, President, U.S. Travel Association Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort in Destin, Florida to Open LeCiel, a Boutique Hotel Located on the Site of the Former Bayside Inn; Opening to Occur May 24, 2012 Alliance Hospitality Completes Conversion of 156-suite Downtown Atlanta Landmark, the Connally Building, into a Boutique Hotel, the Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Atlanta Downtown Ruchi Enterprises Opens TriBeCa Blu, a 70-room Boutique Hotel in New York, New York Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group Opens the 69-room Country Inn & Suites By Carlson, Minot, North Dakota; Owned by Conar LLC, General Manager is Chetan Patel Shawn Hauver Named Vice President of Operations for Loews Hotels & Resorts Gerd Knaust Appointed as General Manager of the Hilton Shanghai in China Two Management Team Members Named for San Diego, California's Hilton Garden Inn and Homewood Suites by Hilton in Del Mar; Lori Bolton Hired as Director of Sales, Bill Songer Promoted to Food & Beverage Manager May 9, 2012 Pegasus Solutions and TravelSky Partner to Open Door to Chinese Hotel Bookings for Starwood Hotels & Resorts; China's Global Distribution System Also Accesses Pegasus Inventory of Nearly 100,000 Global Hotels in Response to Rising Demand from China's Emerging Middle Class The 2012 Lodging Industry Investment Council Top Ten: Annual Survey of Lodging Investment Trends and Challenges; 'Hotel Investors Sluggishly Move Ahead, Despite Worries and Uncertainty about US Economy' House Considers Stripping ADA Pool Lift Amendment Protection this Evening; AH&LA Members Urged to Contact Congress Supporting Carter Amendment IHG Reports First Quarter 2012 Profits of $118 million, up 5% from $112 million in the Year-Ago Quarter; Global RevPAR Up 7% Proposed $220 Million Phenix City, Alabama Riverfront Project Would be One of the Major Developments in the Southeastern U.S.; The Project which Includes Two Hotels Promises to Create Thousands of Jobs and Turn the City into a National Destination Historic 591-room Fairmont San Francisco Hotel in California Purchased by Oaktree Capital Management and Woodridge Capital Partners for Nearly $200 Million from Maritz, Wolff & Co.; Kingdom Holding Company Retains its Interest, Fairmont to Continue to Manage the Iconic Hotel Miami Hotel Real Estate is Hot, Hot, Hot; Hotel Sales in Miami Jumped 154 percent in 2011 Development of the Year Award for 2011 Presented at the Caribbean Hotel & Resort Investment Summit; Secret Bay Dominica on the Caribbean Island of Dominica, Developed by Secret Bay Development Limited Company, Honored as the Winner Pedersen Development Group Proposes Two Hotels for Golden Buff Lodge and The Buff Restaurant Site in Boulder, Colorado; $80 Million Project Calls for a 212-room Full-Service Hotel and a 137-room Extended-Stay Hotel Haiti Intends to Rebrand Itself as Tourism Destination and Not Be Forgotten; Hotel Development in Caribbean on Growth Path with 8,000 Rooms in the Pipeline Building a Sustainability Index for Hospitality Purchasing / JoAnna Abrams GuestWare Seeking Sales Account Managers Educational Institute's ADA Service Video Wins Bronze Telly Award Warmbrodt Hotel Investments, Inc. Selected to Advise in the Sale of the Red Roof Inn - Blue Ash, Ohio Vista Capital Company Arranges $22 Million of Financing for Two Select-Service Beachfront Hotels in Ocean City, Maryland South Florida Tourism Industry Set Records in 2011 and is Growing Faster in 2012 than Expected, Poised for New Highs Hyatt Introduces "Food. Thoughtfully Sourced. Carefully Served."; A Global Effort to Provide Healthy, Sustainable and Responsible Food and Beverage Options for Guests and Associates Westin Hotels Launches Project Hive, a New Workspace Concept Re-inventing the Business Center Model to Accommodate Today's Mobile Workforce; Global Roll-Out Planned through 2013 for the Workspace Designed for Small Impromptu Meetings That Can be Booked by the Hour, at a Moment's Notice Boomerang Hotels Opens the 50-room GuestHouse International Inn & Suites in Williamstown, West Virginia; The Former Independent Hotel is Owned and Operated by M. A. (Mak) Kingson of 786 Hospitality Group Smugglers Cove Resort & Spa on the Island of St. Lucia Joins RCI Network of Affiliated Resorts Florida's Boca Raton Resort & Club, a Waldorf Astoria Resort, Completes Redesign of the 242 Guest Rooms and Suites in its 27-story Tower Amway Hotel Corporation Appoints Kurt Slinglend as Chief Information Officer Crestline Hotels & Resorts Appoints Amy Arbuckle to General Manager for the 285-room San Francisco Marriott Fisherman's Wharf in California New Sales and Catering Services Executives Named for The 353-room Modern Honolulu in Waikiki, Hawaii Dunton Hot Springs, the Former Mining Ghost Town Turned Luxury Resort in Colorado's San Juan Mountains, Appoints a New Culinary Team; Carrie Eagle Named Executive Chef, and Daniel Sopiwnik Named Sous Chef May 8, 2012 Softscribe Inc. Writing Shines with 2012 Communicator Award; 'Award of Distinction' Honors Behavioral Targeted Advertising Viewpoint Hotel Reviews: Introducing the Guest Review Rankings Report Larry Steinberg Joins Agilysys as Senior Vice President of Technology Royal Realties and Hyatt Hotels, Unable to Reach Mutual Agreement, Choose to Terminate Management Contract of Michigan's Hyatt Regency Dearborn Penn National Gaming to Acquire 500-room Harrah's St. Louis Gaming and Lodging Facility in Missouri from Caesars Entertainment for $610 Million ADA Compliance and Defense Lawyer Alert: Charles Schwab settles claim over website accessibility / Jim Butler Wynn Resorts Reports First Quarter 2012 Net Income of $140.6 million Compared to $173.8 million Same Quarter 2011; Revenues Increased by 9.8% in Macau Operations and Declined 8.1% in Las Vegas Operations Gaylord Entertainment Reports 1st Qtr 2012 Net Income of $6 million Compared to Loss of $2 million in the Year-ago Quarter; RevPAR Increased 3.8% / Hotel Operating Statistics Chatham Lodging Trust Posts 1st Quarter 2012 Net Loss of $1.7 million; RevPAR Increased 12.5%; Improved Adjusted FFO by 61.5% AWH Partners, LLC, the Joint Venture of Winston Harton Holdings, LLC and August Group Ventures, LLC, Acquires Mortgage on the 276-room Hilton Jackson in Mississippi; Hotel to Remain a Hilton Property and Continue to be Managed by AWH Partners Subsidiary Lane Hotels As Expected Roberts Hotels Tampa LLC Files for Bankruptcy for the Comfort Inn Hotel in Tampa, Florida which is Closed; This is the Fourth Hotel Bankruptcy Filing for The Roberts Cos. Since December 2011 FCS Taps Technology Industry Leader as New CEO; Steven Weeks to lead global growth for hotel technology provider Lodging Interactive Wins Multiple Awards for Hotel Website Design Host Hotels to Complete $7 Million Upgrade to Meeting Space at the 395-room Indianapolis at Keystone Crossing in Indiana Aimed at Booking More Corporate Hotel Clients Marriott International Expands in Thailand with the Opening of Three New Hotels Planned in 2012; The Rayong Marriott Resort & Spa, The Bangkok Marriott Hotel Sukhumvit and the Marriott Executive Apartments Bangkok - Sukhumvit Thonglor W Hotels Worldwide Signs Agreement with Al Sharq Investment LLC to Develop the 283-key W Dubai - The Palm; Set to Debut in Dubai on the The Palm Jumeirah in 2016 Americo Hospitality and IHG Open the New 83-room Holiday Inn Express in Lafayette, Indiana; Hire Shannon Lowry as General Manager and Marissa Troemel as Director of Sales Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group Opens the 64-room Country Inn & Suites By Carlson, Port Clinton in Ohio; Owned by Lodging Industry LLC Owned and Managed by Texas Western Hospitality, the 120-suite Residence Inn by Marriott Houston West/Barker Cypress to Open this Month in Texas The 341-room Atlanta Marriott Perimeter Center in Georgia Wraps up Multi-Million Redevelopment Project Revealing Redesigned Guestrooms and Public Spaces RLJ Lodging Trust and White Lodging Services Complete Upgrades at the 78-room Courtyard by Marriott South Bend/Mishawaka in Indiana Crestline Hotels & Resorts Appoints Paul R. Giovanini, CHA, as General Manager for the 150-room Phoenix Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. Sandy Pollard Appointed as General Manager for Cape Grace in Cape Town, South Africa May 7, 2012 MICROS Introduces New MICROS eCommerce Group; TIG Global is now MICROS eCommerce High-Tech Solutions Support Pedigree of Service at the InterContinental Singapore Hotel Pan Pacific Nirwana Bali Resort 'tees' up technology upgrade with McLaren Technologies EB-5 ALERT: California's New TEA Approach will Discourage EB-5 Investment in California / Jim Butler Historic Tampa, Florida Courthouse, Site of John F. Kennedy Campaign Speech, to be Reborn as Hotel; Development Services Group to Develop a 130-room La Meridien in the 106-Year-Old Building with Completion Planned for 2014 Provenance Hotels and Woodbine Development Form Partnership to Purchase Portland's Governor Hotel; Plans Call for Update/Renovation to Transition into the Provenance Hotels Collection Children of the Nations - Casa Bethesda and a Mission of Hospitality / Gregg Hopkins Hospitality Properties Trust Reports 1st Qtr. 2012 Net Income of $28.8 million Compared to $45.6 million the Year-Ago Qtr.; RevPAR Decreased .5% Solís Hotels & Resorts and Fantasia Holdings Group Co., Ltd, to Develop the 300-key Solís Lake Tai, Suzhou in China; Opening Planned for 2013 Travel Industry Continues as One of the Prime Drivers of U.S. Economic Recovery; Travel-Generated Employment Adds 48,700 Jobs in Q1 2012, Contributing 6.1% of all Non-Farm Jobs Added During the Same Period HeBS Digital to Present at EyeforTravel's Online Marketing Strategies for Travel 2012 HoneymoonWishes.com Offers Brand New Revenue Stream for Resorts, Hotels and Cruise Lines; With HoneymoonWishes.com's White Label Program, Hotel Properties and Cruise Lines Worldwide Can Have Their Own Gift Registry and Increase Wedding and Honeymoon Business Sonnenblick-Eichner Company Arranges $29,200,000 of First Mortgage Financing for a Portfolio of Four Hotels in California Warmbrodt Hotel Investments, Inc. Selected to Advise in the Sale of the Red Roof Inn - Sharonville, Ohio Waikiki, Hawaii Hotel, Newly Dubbed "Modern Honolulu" Calms Image Amid Bankruptcy; Owners, M Waikiki LLC, Create New Harmonious Atmosphere which Belies the Behind-the-Scenes Turmoil and Bankruptcy Proceedings that Owners Seem on Track to Emerge from in August 2012 Fairmont Hotels & Resorts Present Tips for Planners to Incorporate Spas on the Meeting Agenda Starwood Hotels & Resorts to Open 40 New Hotels in the Middle East and North Africa in the Next Five Years; Adding More than 13,000 Rooms by 2017 Representing 60% Portfolio Growth in MENA Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide and Silver Hotel Group Open the 131-room Aloft Vaughan Mills in Greater Toronto, Ontario, Canada The 125-room Courtyard Philadelphia Coatesville Opens in Pennsylvania Owned by Coatesville Inn Associates and Managed by Waterford Hotel Group eforea: spa at Hilton Continues Global Expansion, Debuts in Middle East with the New Spa at the 309-room Hilton Doha in Qatar 87% of Americans Surveyed Plan to Travel More This Summer with Value as Top Priority for Hotel Selection; Free Breakfast Tops the List of Recognized Good Value Items Cornell Center for Hospitality Research Names 2012 Industry Relevance Award Winners Recognizing Faculty who Have Created a Report or Tool that has had a Significant Impact on the Hospitality Industry Michele Mainelli Promoted to Vice President of Revenue Management for Island Hospitality Management Aqua Hotels & Resorts Makes Several Sales & Marketing Appointments to Support the Company's Growth The Wilderman Group Names Debi Harrill as Sales Manager at LeGrand Center, the New Multi-Use, 44,000 Square-Foot Conference Center in Shelby, North Carolina Hard Rock International Appoints Jess Jorge Chavez-Munoz as Casino General Manager at the 1,787-room Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic May 4, 2012 Hyatt Realigns its Corporate and Regional Operations; Senior Management Changes Include Harmit J. Singh, Current EVP & CFO Remaining with Company Until End of 2012, Gebhard F. Rainer Will Assume Role of EVP, CFO Effective August 15, 2012; New Global Operations Center to be Established Overseeing Three Operating Regions The Top 10 Hotel Groups in the World: 2012 Shows Few Changes; 2012’s Ranking of Worldwide Hotel Groups and Brands; IHG Retains Top Spot in Groups With Nearly 660,000 Rooms, Best Western Retains Top Spot in Brands VFM Leonardo Launches Two New Hotel Marketing Education Series on VTV Channel; More Series. More Experts. More Topics. Industry Leading Online Video Marketing Channel for Hotels adds eMarketing Minutes and Virtual Roundtable Discussions to Already Popular One-on-One Interviews Train Your Hotel Team To Use The Language Of Hospitality: Part Two / Doug Kennedy Collaborative Selling Necessary with Meeting Demand Returning / David Brudney DryDocks World and Big Invest Consult Ink Deal for Development of Underwater Hotels and Floating Cities in Dubai; Known as the Water Discus Hotel Project, Plans are to Develop Concept Worldwide Summer Pool Season Nearing as Pool Lift Battle Rages On: To Avoid Litigation, Some Hotel Owners May Close Pools Sunstone Reports 1st Qtr 2012 Loss of $21 million Compared to Income of $45.7 million Same Period Prior Year; RevPAR Grows 5.5%; Enters Agreement to Acquire Chicago's 417-room Wyndham Hotel for $88.4 million; Will be Rebranded the Hyatt Chicago Magnificent Mile; and The Blackstone Group, as Seller, to Attain Approximately 5% Ownership Position in Sunstone Hyatt Hotels Reports 1st Qrt. 2012 Net Income of $10 million Compared to $10 million Same Period Last Year; RevPAR Increased 8.3% MGM Resorts International Reports Q1 2012 Net Loss of $203.3 million Compared to Net Loss of $89.9 million Prior Year Quarter; Net Revenues Increased by 51% to $2.3 billion; Domestic RevPAR Increased 3% Orient-Express Hotels Reports 1st Qtr 2012 Net Loss of $16.2 million Compared to a Loss of $13.6 million Same Period 2011; Revenue up 10% to $107 million, Same Store RevPAR up 10% in US Dollars Red Lion Hotels Reports 1st Qtr 2012 Loss of $6.6 million Compared with Loss of $4.5 million Same Period 2011; RevPAR for Owned and Leased Hotels Increased 7.3% Lowe Enterprises Investors Acquires the 28-story, 213-room Affinia Chicago Hotel from Denihan Hospitality; Destination Hotels & Resorts to Assume Management and Implement Rebranding as MileNorth, a Chicago Hotel Hersha Hospitality to Acquire the Bulfinch Hotel, its Eighth Hotel in the Boston Market, for $18.2 million or $228,000 per key Boston's Waterfront District: Harboring Potential for Hotels / Preston K. Puleo and Brian F. Bisema Tourism Tidbits - How Can Your Guests Be Sure They Are Safe? / Dr. Peter Tarlow The April 2012 Elite Meetings Alliance (EMA) Draws 175 Industry Decision Makers to the Brand-New Omni Dallas; 'Elite Quality' Shines Through - in the Three-Day EMA Program, Technology Innovations and Business Conducted among Prequalified Attendees La Quinta Inns & Suites Named a 2012 Technology Visionary; La Quinta Wins Industrywide Award for Use of Cloud Technology to Improve Efficiency and Reduce Costs InnLink Establishes India Presence With New Distribution Partnership EasyRMS launches Ez+PLUS, A new Service adding value to Revenue Management; Ez+PLUS aims to help hotels achieve their goals in their Revenue Management strategies An Update: The Inn at Pocono Manor's Centennial Celebration of Historic East Course Do You Hate the OTAs? / Jean Francois Mourier Hospitality Graduate Survey Results for 2012: Part Two - The Hospitality Graduate and Student Perspective / Jeff Ross Las Vegas Again Tops the Charts as No. 1 Trade Show Destination; 2011 List Shows Las Vegas Hosted 55 of the Top 250 Trade Shows in the U.S. and Seven of the Top 10 Hard Rock Hotels Entrance into Mexico is Part of Larger Global Expansion Plans; Overseas Capital Currently More Abundant than in U.S. LinGate Hospitality and Crestpoint Companies Break Ground for the 100-unit Holiday Inn Express & Suites Easton in Columbus, Ohio Survey Shows Proposed San Mateo County, California Tax Hike will Discourage Travel to the San Francisco Bay Area, Severely Affecting Local Economy; Travel Industry Urges Local Residents to Vote No on Measures T, U and X The National Conference Center Reveals Five Secrets to Knock-Your-Socks-Off Events Pennsylvania Tourism & Lodging Association Names the Finalists and Recipients of the 2012 Spirit of Hospitality Awards Part of the Worldwide Brand Relaunch, the Newly Renovated 80-room Holiday Inn Express Harrisburg-Hershey to Open this Month in Pennsylvania The 136-suite Homewood Suites by Hilton University City Philadelphia Opens in Pennsylvania; Owned by Campus Realty Properties-V, LP and Managed by Hersha Hospitality Summerville Hotel Associates and Marriott to Open the 96-suite Residence Inn Charleston North in South Carolina on May 9, 2012 Carpenter & Company to Open the 204-room Hyatt Place Boston/Braintree in Massachusetts; The New Hotel, Managed by Interstate Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, will Open May 15, 2012 The Rezidor Hotel Group to Open the 252-room Radisson Blu Hotel, Riyadh North Ring Road in Saudi Arabia in Q1 2015; Owned and Being Developed by Mafaz International Development Company Kevin Kobishop Named Vice President of Operations for Wyndham Brand Denihan Hospitality Group Opens San Francisco Office and Appoints Julie Purnell as SVP, Acquisitions and Development to Lead Group's West Coast Expansion Efforts Four Seasons Hotel Chicago in Illinois Welcomes Michele Grosso as General Manager and Michael Pedder as Hotel Manager Dorchester Collection Appoints Klaus Kabelitz as General Manager of the 109-room Le Richemond in Geneva, Switzerland Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group Names Robert Lowe as General Manager and Kasia Bronisz as Director of Sales & Marketing for Newly Re-branded Mandarin Oriental Atlanta, Georgia Micah Carter Appointed as Regional Sales Manager for the 598-room Hilton Sandestin Beach Golf Resort & Spa in Destin, Florida Matthew Tobin Named Director of Sales and Groups and Patricia Pautynsky Named Sales Manager for the 203-room Conrad Miami in Florida Nikolaj Retpen Appointed as the Executive Chef of W Retreat & Spa - Maldives May 2, 2012 The Cost of Luxury Leadership: Luxury General Manager Pay in North America / Andrew R. Hazelton Highpointe Installs NextGen Business Intelligence; iPad-Ready BI Automates Data Gathering, Analysis, and Report Distribution; Remotely Hosted 'Big Data' BI Platform Safeguards Company Data, Frees Highpointe from System Responsibility Hotel Market Databook for New York Market Released by Hotel-Online and BuildCentral; Features detailed profiles of 159 hotels in development and 445 existing hotels Strategic Hotels & Resorts Reports 1st Qtr 2012 Net Loss of $31.5 million Compared to Net Loss of $35.4 million Same Period 2011; North American RevPAR increases 9.4% Morgans Hotel Group Reports 1st Qtr 2012 Net Loss of $14.3 million Compared to a Loss of $32 million Same Year Ago Qtr; System Wide RevPAR up 4% / Hotel Operating Statistics Chesapeake Lodging Trust Posts Net Loss of $.8 million in Q1 2012 Compared to a $1.7 million Loss in the Same Quarter 2011; RevPAR Increases 12.2% Hersha Hospitality Reports 1st Quarter 2012 Net Loss of $10.7 million Compared to a Net Loss of $14.6 million in the Year-Ago Quarter; RevPAR up 11.9% Caesars Entertainment Loss Widens to $280.6 million Compared to $147.5 million in the Year-ago Quarter as Cost of Interest on its $19.79 billion Debt Rises Tropicana Entertainment Loses $4.82 million in 1st Quarter 2012 Compared to a Loss of $1.46 million for Same Period in 2011 Vail Resorts Reports Certain Ski Season Metrics for the Season-to-Date Period Ended April 22, 2012; Despite a 50% Decrease in Snowfall, Skier Visits Declined Only 12.6%, Lift Ticket Revenue 0.3% First Things First - How to Start a Successful Mentoring Program / Bob Taylor Join us at Meet the Money® in Los Angeles May 7-9, 2012. Get the latest on debt and equity financing and what's up in the industry. / Jim Butler Hyatt Affiliate to Acquire the 756-room Hotel Nikko Mexico from Japan-Mexico Hotel Investment Co., Ltd. for Approximately $190 million; Property to be Re-branded as Hyatt Regency Mexico City and Undergo a $40 million Renovation Wynn Macau Receives Formal Approval for Development of the Single Most Important Project in the History of Wynn Resorts from Macau Government; Paves Way to Break Ground on the 51-acre Site that will Include 2,000 rooms W Hotel Planned for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Opening Estimated for Spring 2014 Construction to Begin this Year on a 140-room Boutique Hotel, The Epicurean, in Tampa, Florida; To Be Developed by Bern's Steak House Owner David Laxer Dallas/Fort Worth Airport in Texas Unveils Plans to Build a Hyatt Place Hotel; The $23 Million Hotel Project Would Begin the Southgate Plaza Mixed-Use Development Near DFW's South Entrance Helping Travelers Stay Connected with Convenience and Flexibility Hilton Worldwide and USA TODAY Create Multi-Year Print and Digital Alliance Offering Guests Exclusive Access to Online News with Additional Travel and Entertainment Content Trust Hospitality Expands in the Caribbean and Latin America with Seven New Hotels and a Regional Office in Brazil; Managing Director Egbert Bloemsma to Lead Office in Salvador, Brazil Starwood Opens the 336-room St. Regis Doha in Qatar; Owned by Resorts Development Company and Developed by Alfardan Group Kimpton's 242-room Hotel Palomar Phoenix at CityScape in Arizona to Open in June 2012 Developed by The Briad Group, the 120-suite Homewood Suites by Hilton Atlantic City West / Egg Harbor Twp. Opens in New Jersey KSL Resorts Officially Assumes Management of the 512-room Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa in Asheville, North Carolina; $25 million Renovation Planned for 2013 Just in Time for Summer the 171-room Hyatt Santa Barbara in California Completes Renovation The American Club Resort Hotel in Kohler, Wisconsin Completes Multi-Phase Renovation to Guest Rooms and Common Areas HSMAI Foundation to Award Scholarships to Students Pursuing Hospitality Industry Degrees; Applications Due by June 15, 2012 for the Scholarships which Have Been Awarded Annually Since 1983 Cheryl Martin Named as General Manager for Kimpton's 204-room FireSky Resort & Spa in Scottsdale, Arizona Nalin Mandiratta Appointed as General Manager of the 282-room Soaltee Crowne Plaza Kathmandu in Nepal Eduardo Fernandez Named General Manager for the B Ocean Fort Lauderdale in Florida Shaheryar Adil Named New General Manager at Hyatt Regency Greenwich in Tandem with Completion of $35 million Renovation Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints Matthias Layton as Director of Restaurants for the 219-room Eldorado Hotel & Spa in Santa Fe, New Mexico May 1, 2012 With $300 Million of New Funding in Place, sbe and Stockbridge Capital Group Set to Proceed with the $744 Million Redevelopment of the Closed Sahara Hotel & Casino into the SLS Las Vegas; sbe Names Hospitality and Gaming Industry Veteran Rob Oseland as President and Chief Operating Officer of SLS Las Vegas Advantage Reserve Certified by MICROS Systems for Two-Way Interface with OPERA PMS; Company is First Voice Reservations Services Provider to Interface with OPERA PMS FelCor Lodging Trust Posts 1st Qtr 2012 Net Loss of $28.9 million Compared to Net Loss of $31.7 million in the Year-ago Quarter; RevPAR for its 69 Hotels Increased 3.6% for the Quarter / Hotel Operating Statistics U.S. Hotel Profit Recovery Shared by Nearly All Hotels with an Average of 12.7% Profit Growth According to New PKF Trends® Survey Three Major Labor Unions Form Alliance to Pressure Revel Resort to Unionize Work Force; Warned of Large Scale Protests if Efforts Fail Revoked License for the Foxwoods Casino Project in South Philadelphia Could Soon be Up for Grabs; Pennsylvania Legislators Seeking Approval for Statewide Auction of the License with a Minimum Bid of $65 Million Top Hoteliers at the Arabian Hotel Investment Conference Optimistic on Growth of MEA Region; Between Four Groups Plans are to Boost Number of Rooms by 80K Pace of Branded Hotels' International Expansion to Reach New Focus and Intensity in 2012 According to Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels; While Brazil, Russia, India and China Remain a Key Focus, New Target Countries Include Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Turkey and Vietnam 180-Room Herald Square Hotel will Break Ground in Q2 2012; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 85 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database Hotel Social Media Manager: A Day in the Life of the 'New' Hotel Job Option The 250-room Legoland Hotel Taking Shape in California Offers Glimpse of Merlin Entertainments' Plans for Legoland Florida Hotel; The Lego Themed California Property Slated to Open in Summer 2013, Plans for Florida Hotel for 2014 or 2015 Opening Understanding Smartphone Users' Behavior as a Luxury Travel Company / Ritesh Gupta RateGain Awarded Qualified Vendor Status with Choice Hotels International La Quinta Inns & Suites Announces Thomas Busch As Director Of Development For The Midwest; Hospitality Development Executive Joins the Hotel Industry's Premier Franchise Sales Team to Lead La Quinta’s Expansion in the Heartland ARAMARK Conference Centers Chooses Knowland's Target Net; Management company signs over 20 properties up for ground-breaking sales & catering platform In Run-Up To Olympics, Tune Hotels Finds London Success With Social Media AAHOA Members Offered FREE Guest Review System from Lodging Interactive Shift4 Now Supports Google Wallet San Diego's Coronado Hotels Undergoing Makeovers to Better Compete for Group and Leisure Business / Lori Weisberg Atlantic City Casino Hotels Following Revel's Lead, Renovating to Take Advantage of Ocean Views Hard Rock International to Open the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Aruba; The Government of Aruba Selects Southwest Horeca Development to Build the 310-room Beachfront Hotel Hilton Worldwide Plans to Launch Eight Properties in the United Arab Emirates by 2014 with 40 Properties in its Pipeline for the Middle East and Africa Region Hilton Hotels & Resorts Debuts in Qatar with the Opening of the 309-room Hilton Doha Fairmont Hotels & Resorts to Open the 252-room Fairmont Ajman in the United Arab Emirates in Early 2013 Worldhotels to Open First Branded Hotel in the Philippines with the 401-key Worldhotel and Residences Makati; Opening Planned for Q4 2013 Choice Hotels International Opens 46 New Hotels in Q1 2012; A 14% Increase over Q1 2011 The 127-room Mandarin Oriental, Atlanta Celebrates its Opening in Georgia; Completing the Re-branding of the Former Mansion on Peachtree Crestline Hotels & Resorts Appointed by Host Hotels & Resorts to Manage the 285-room San Francisco Marriott Fisherman's Wharf in California Campbell Lodging Completes Renovation of the 112 room TownePlace Suites Rancho Cucamonga/Ontario in California; Suites Redesigned for Self-sufficient, Do-it-Yourself Travelers The Buzz on the Street - 32,000 Guests Check in to the Hyatt Regency Jersey City, New Jersey; Hotel Assists in State Pollination Initiative by Installing Two Honeybee Hives on the Rooftop Top 25 Read Articles - April 2012 Starwood Promoting Internal Talent and Making Significant Organizational Changes Following Planned Retirement of Key Leaders Matt Avril, Miguel Ko and Denise Coll Pinterest - The Value Of Pinterest to Hotel Sales & Marketing / Carol Verret Conde Nast Traveler Unveils 16th Annual Hot List: 2012 List Features 121 New Hotels and Resorts, 35 Spas, and 20 New Restaurants Ever Stay at a Poorly Run Hotel? Meet the 'Fixer', Anthony Melchiorri, of Hotel Impossible KSL Capital Partners Enters Into Agreement to Acquire the Historic 512-room Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa in Ashville, North Carolina From an Affiilate of Sammons Enterprises, Inc. FelCor Lodging Trust to Sell Six Non-Strategic Hotels as Part of Repositioning Strategy for $103.0 Million to an Undisclosed Buyer When Quality Just Does Not Matter: You Can't Sell What People Don't Value / David K. Hayes Ph.D., Allisha A. Miller, and Joshua D. Hayes, MA, Peggy A. Hayes DOCOMO interTouch Announcing 'FREEDOM CHECK IN' Powered by OpenWays Mobile Key to Add Front Desk Bypass Solution to its Offering Walt Disney World to Build Up the Less Glamorous 'Guts' of its 22,000 Hotel Rooms Fontainebleau Miami Beach Leaving Financial Woes Behind and Reaping Big Profits Making About $80 million in Profit Off of $296 million in Revenue During 12 Month Period Ending in March 2012 A Second Chance for an Historic Gilded Age Hotel - Plans Unveiled for Restoration of the Circa 1897 Belleview Biltmore Resort Near Clearwater, Florida Wyndham, Through the Use of Technology, Rolling out Initiatives to Help Hoteliers Reap Revenue Barry Sternlicht, Chairman and CEO of Starwood Capital Group, Launches Luxury Hotel Brand, Baccarat Hotels & Residences Claiming No Knowledge of Dissatisfaction with Performance, General Hotel Management (GHM) Provides Statement on The Setai South Beach Owner Takeover Hotel Revenue Management: What You Probably Don’t Know About Rate Changes IHG Works with Hospitality Experts to Identify Key Global Trends that will Impact the Travel Industry for 2012 and Beyond Starwood Hotels CEO, Frits van Paasschen, Talks About Global Opening Spree for its Nine Brands and Why Miami Remains an Appealing Market Facing the Real Possibility that Hotels will Close Pools and Spas Under the Current ADA Pool Lift Requirement, AH&LA Testifies in Support of Reasonable Pool Entry What Does the Prototypical Visitor to Las Vegas Look Like? New Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority Report Offers Snapshot Norfolk, Virginia Developer, George Hranowskyj, Indicted in $11 million Federal Tax Fraud Case Involving Historic Tax Credits Received for the James Madison Hotel and Other Properties Third Bankruptcy Action Filed for Roberts Brothers, Owners of 11 Hotels; Filing for the 207-room Holiday Inn in Houston, Texas Could Signal Additional Filings for Five Other Hotels in Atlanta, Dallas, Shreveport, LA, Spartanburg, SC, and Tampa, FL Boston Tops List of 30 Cities as Most Expensive for Lodging Costs 5 Steps to Manage Negative Guest Reviews Every Hotel Should Know Starwood Hotels Completes Sale of the 275-room Atlanta Perimeter Hotel & Suites to RockBridge Partners; Hotel to be Managed by Wischermann Partners and will Fly Le Méridien Flag after Extenstive Renovation Summit Hotel Properties Cultivates and Improves Portfolio through Two Acquisitions, Four Dispositions, and a Positive Resolution of Arbitration with Choice Hotels April 30, 2012 A Phased Approach to Investing in Hotel Environmental Performance / Kevin Goldstein Evision Worldwide CEO Vikram Singh Will Be Keynote Speaker at Arabian Travel Market in Dubai on May 2, 2012; Expert, actionable advice on how hotels can and should create a successful online revenue optimization strategy DiamondRock Hospitality Reports 1st Qtr 2012 Net Income of $2.6 million Compared to Net Loss of $11 million for Comparable 2011 Period; Revpar Increased 8.8%; Sale of Three Non-Core Hotels Completed / Hotel Operating Statistics Global Leisure Hotel Rates Set New Growth Record in March; Average Daily Rates Climb +9.2% Over 2011 while North America Realizes Gains of +8.5% Kerzner International Holdings Limited Completes Restructuring to Improve its Capital Structure and Position it for Growth as a Global Management Company; Brookfield Asset Management Fund Assumes Ownership of Bahamian Assets, Ownership Interest in Dubai's Atlantis The Palm Sold to Istithmar World, Kerzner to Continue Managing All of its Properties World-Wide Scheduled to Open in 2015, the 260-key Sheraton Erbil Hotel Marks Starwood's Return to Iraq; Hotel Under Development in Partnership with BCD Co. IHG and Muscat Golf Course Project LLC Sign Deal for 250-room InterContinental Muscat Hills Golf Resort in Oman; Opening of the Hotel and Club House Planned for 2015 Marriott International Focusing on Middle East and Africa with Planned Launch of 42 Properties Over Next Five Years The Next Level in Service Excellence: Give. Share. Teach. / Bryan K. Williams JMBM is One of 20 Hottest Law Firms in the U.S. Per the National Law Journal's Latest List Red, White AND Blue a Hit with Canadian Travelers; U.S. Cities Top Canadian Travelers' Lists with New York as the Number One Destination According to Hotels.com The Latest Trend Among Chefs: Food Tattoos - How About a Whimsical Onion, Celery & Carrot? Occupancy Rates at Atlantic City's Casino Hotels Remain Stable Despite 40% Drop in Gambling Revenue From 2006 Peak Dreaming of a Convention Center is Not Too Much to Hope For - It's Vital for Greater Miami's Future Bahrain's Tourism Industry Shows Strong Rebound with Occupancy Rates More than Doubling in March 2012 Along with a 14.6% Increase in ADR Saint Lucia Poised for Strong 2012 with a 20% Increase in Arrivals in Q1 2012; Tourist Board Describes Significant Island-Wide Travel Industry Development with Increased Air Service to Island Hilton Hawaiian Village Employee Accuses Unite Here Local 5 of Forcing Him to Pay Unfair Union Dues Winston-Salem, North Carolina Iconic Skyscraper, the Reynolds Building, May Find New Life as Hotel; Developer, Reynolds and Quaintance-Weaver Restaurants and Hotels, Enters Agreement to Study Feasibility of Project The Rezidor Hotel Group to Open the 91-room Park Inn by Radisson Glasgow City Centre in Scotland in Q1 2013 The 99-suite TownePlace Suites by Marriott Denver Airport/Fitzsimons to Open in Colorado Historic Weekapaug Inn in Weekapaug, Rhode Island to Re-open in October 2012 after a $20 Million Transformation; Ocean House Management has Assumed Management of the Circa 1899 Hotel which will Open as a Sister Hotel to the Ocean House Inn in Watch Hill, Rhode Island Hotel Equities Completes Renovation of the 118-room Hampton Inn Jacksonville-I-95 Central Hotel in Florida White Lodging Hires Joan Brady as the Director of Sales for the 172-room Hilton Garden Inn Salt Lake City Airport Hotel in Utah; Scheduled to Open in Q4 2012 April 27, 2012 Choice Hotels Posts 1st Qtr 2012 Net Income of $20 million Compared to $15.7 million Same Year Ago Period; Domestic RevPAR Increases 8.6% / Hotel Operating Statistics Cabo Villas Beach Resort & Spa Partners with Hospitality Digital Marketing Leader VIZERGY®; Luxury Five Star Resort Seeks New Website, Integrated Marketing and Increased Revenue Barry Sternlicht, Chairman and CEO of Starwood Capital Group, Launches Luxury Hotel Brand, Baccarat Hotels & Residences; The 114-room Baccarat Hotel & Residences New York to Open in 2014 with Properties Planned in China, Dubai, Marrakech and Elsewhere Archipelago Hotels and Resorts Launches New Luxury Brand, Datai Hotels & Resorts; Plans to Expand within Malaysia and Internationally Accepting the Hospitality Industry Leader of the Year Award from UNLV, Sheldon Adelson States, 'Las Vegas is a Core Asset. I'm Never Going to Sell it. If I Sell it, I'm Giving Away the Keys to My Kingdom.' Hospitality Graduate Survey Results for 2012: Part One - The Hotel School Perspective - What's Needed / Jeff Ross Hotel Revenue Management: What You Probably Don’t Know About Rate Changes Is the Social Concierge the Answer to Hotel Social Marketing? / Pedro Colaco Starwood Hotels & Resorts Signs Agreement with Al Habtoor Group to Manage Three New Hotels Under Development in Dubai; The Three Hotels, a St. Regis, a W Hotel and a Westin, will Add 1,675 rooms in Dubai, UAE Hyatt Affiliate and Mohammed A. Al Swailem Co to Develop the 257-room Hyatt Regency Riyadh in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; A Q3 2013 Opening is Planned Marriott and Grupo Velutini to Open 131-room JW Marriott Hotel in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 2014 Benchmark Hospitality’s Turtle Bay Resort Named A "Top Hawaii Golf Resort" for 2012 by Condé Nast Traveler EasyRMS appoints new Director of Sales UK & Ireland; A veteran in the hospitality industry, with experience from both the airline and hospitality industries, Mick will be responsible for the UK and Ireland market The Liquidation Sale of the Lexington Hotel in Phoenix Opens Thursday, May 3rd at 10:00 a.m. Sale will be Conducted by NCL/ National Content Liquidators, Inc.; Three Weeks Only! Everything Goes! Warmbrodt Hotel Investments Selected to Advise in the Sale of Three Value Place Extended Stay Properties Washington State University Reaches Agreement with Stonebridge Companies to Build and Operate an On-Campus, 127-room Marriott Residence Inn Which Should Suit Adjacent Golf Course to a Tee Pineville, Kentucky and Wasioto Hotel and Resort, LLC Work Toward Finalizing Deal for a $14.3 Million 102-room Resort Hotel Hawaii's Tourism Industry Anticipates a Healthy Summer Based on Recent Momentum; With an Average Hotel Occupancy Rate Above 80%, March was the 23rd Consecutive Month of Increased Spending and the Seventh Consecutive Month of Increased Arrivals Tourism Continues to Rebound in Tampa Area with a 5.5% Increase in Overnight Visitors for First Three Months of 2012 Marriott International Opens the 211-room Renaissance Barcelona Hotel in Spain Through a Renovation and Re-Flagging of The Diplomatic Hotel The Former Legado Hotel in Gilbert, Arizona Rebrands as the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Phoenix-Gilbert; August 2012 Expansion Project Planned Adding 129 Rooms to the Existing 121 The Singapore Marriott Hotel Completes Extensive $28 Million Renovation The Hotel Association of Canada (HAC) Applauds Canada's New Foreign Worker Rules; New Regulations Improve Response Time for Requests within the Temporary Foreign Worker Program Carlson Rezidor Names Thomas J. Monahan as Executive Vice President Development for Asia Pacific MGM Resorts Appoints Bill Scott to Strategic Development Leadership Post as the Senior Resident Executive for Greater China Owners Mark and Gwenn Snider Appoint James Holmes as General Manager of the 60-room Nantucket Hotel & Resort in Massachusetts April 26, 2012 Preferred Hotel Group Captures Mobile Audience with Sabre Hospitality Solutions' Mobile Guest Connect Booking Engine; New technology will enhance mobile booking experience for guests and provide a new marketing channel for hotels Les Hôtels JARO goes 'Contactless' with Kaba RFID Locks; Operators Applaud Kaba's Advanced Technology Locks and Exceptional Service as Les Hotels JARO adopts both RFID and Online Systems Rainmaker Principal, Tammy Farley, Appointed to Board of Directors of Make-A-Wish® Georgia and Alabama Starwood Reports Net Income 1st Qtr 2012 of $128 million Compared to $28 million Same Period 2011; Worldwide System-wide RevPAR Up 6.4% / Systemwide Hotel Statistics Las Vegas Sands Corporation Reports 1st Qtr. 2012 Net Income of $498.9 million Compared to $228.2 million Same Period 2011, an Increase of 118.7% Caribbean Resort Development - Optimistic Yet Realistic Outlook / Robert MacLellan White Lodging Services Corp. has Secured Financing to Develop its $275 Million 1,000-room JW Marriott Austin Convention Hotel in Austin, Texas; Work to Begin in Mid-June 2012 San Diego Hotels Achieve Highest RevPAR Gains in California's Top Markets During March 2012 Thanks to Spring Break / Lori Weisberg Treating Guests As Friends In The Extended-Stay Industry / Michelle Shumate Seeking Regional Business Development Manager (Central US) Key Ownership Principal of Rivers Casino, Ira Schulman, Has Dubbed it a "Terrible" Investment Claiming Loss in Equity of $200 million Since Opening in August of 2009 Nilhan Hospitality Proposes the Development of $57 Million Marriott Hotel at Gwinnett Center in Duluth, Georgia Galaxy Entertainment Group Begins Construction on Phase 2 of Galaxy Macau; Will Double the Size of the Integrated Resort in Macau with the Opening of The Ritz-Carlton and the JW Marriott Totaling 1,300 New Rooms Through an Agreement with Real Hotels and Resorts, S.A. and Grupo Poma, Marriott Hotels & Resorts to Open the 170-room Marriott Cali Hotel in Colombia in 2014 Construction to Begin Q4 2012 on a 155-room Hotel Designed within the Nine Story Office Tower that was Once the Cross County Hospital in Yonkers, New York; Friend Development Group is Developing Hotel as Part of an Extensive Renovation Project for the Circa 1954 Cross County Shopping Center Tourism Revenues for Greece Shrank by More than 35% in February Adding to the Already Troubled Economy S & S Management and Schippel Construction Break Ground on the 125-room Hilton Garden Inn at the Austin Landing Development in Dayton, Ohio; A Second Hotel is Planned for the Project Salt River Devco and Marriott International to Open the 158-room Courtyard Scottsdale Salt River in Arizona Jumeirah Group Debuts in Europe with the Opening of the 120-room Jumeirah Port Soller Hotel & Spa in Mallorca, Spain The 79-suite Homewood Suites by Hilton Binghamton/Vestal Opens in New York; Owned by Tom Bedosky and Managed by TJ LLC Hilton Worldwide Opens the 160-room Hilton Garden Inn Los Angeles/Hollywood in California; Owned by RLJ III - HGN Hollywood Lessee and Managed by Interstate Hotels & Resorts Former Holiday Inn Oceanfront in Hilton Head, South Carolina Re-opens as The Beach House Following Rebranding and Renovation by New Owners, Integrated Capital Navy Lodge Program Names its 2011 Award Winners Highlighting Outstanding Guest Service Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints Stacy Martin as General Manager for The 248-room Heldrich Hotel and Conference Center in New Brunswick, New Jersey Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group Appoints Harry Gorstayn as General Manager of the Radisson Blu Mall of America; Scheduled to Open in Bloomington, Minnesota in Spring 2013 April 25, 2012 MaximRMS Suite of Tools Support Multiple Facets of Hyatt’s Business hotel SystemsPro Enhances Its hotel WebSpace Online Marketing Solution; Analytics Track Page Views to Measure Landing Page Traffic; Enhanced Custom Banner Options and Certified User Program Contribute to Increased Online Bookings Wyndham Reports 1st Qtr 2012 Net Income of $32 million Compared to $72 million for Same Period 2011; System Wide RevPAR Increased 7% Host Hotels Reports Net Loss of $2 million for 1st Quarter 2012 Compared to Loss of $60 million for Same Period 2011; RevPAR Up 6.1% IHG Works with Hospitality Experts to Identify Key Global Trends that will Impact the Travel Industry for 2012 and Beyond Hotel Labor Lawyer: California Supreme Court Finally Gives Employers Some Good News in Brinker Restaurant Corporation v. Superior Court / Jim Butler & Travis Gemoets AWH Partners, LLC, a Joint Venture Between August Group Ventures and Winston Harton Holdings, Acquires Lane Hotels, Inc.; Acquisition Provides Growth Capital for Lane Hotels Presented for the First Time Since 2007, Rick Litchfield and Bev Davis, Innkeeper/Owners of the Captain Lord Mansion in Kennebunkport, Maine Recipients of Select Registry's Stafford Smith Award; The Award, Given Only as Warranted, is Now in its 13th Year with Only Three Prior Honorees Facing the Real Possibility that Hotels will Close Pools and Spas Under the Current ADA Pool Lift Requirement, AH&LA Testifies in Support of Reasonable Pool Entry Orgwide Services Selected as Winner in the 33rd Annual Telly Awards Japan's Broadcasting Giant Coming to HITEC; NHK World, Japan's sole public broadcaster, will debut its international news/lifestyle/entertainment services at the Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition & Conference June 25-28 Roomlinx Interactive Program Guide Delivers a 'Better than Home' Experience Call For Offers: Doubletree Suites by Hilton - Omaha, Nebraska Friday, May 11th , 2012 5:00 PM CST American Casino & Entertainment Wins Coveted Green Award Ensuring that What Happens in Vegas Doesn't Necessarily Stay in Vegas Dominican Republic Ministry of Tourism Celebrates 8.4% Upswing in Visits in Q1 2012; Developments, Initiatives and New Hotels Announced at 2012 Dominican Annual Tourism Exchange Judge Appoints Midas Hospitality as Receiver for the Comfort Inn in St. Louis, Missouri; One of Several of the Roberts Cos. Hotels Nationwide that are the Subject of Lawsuits After Months of Controversy, Developer, Building and Land Technology, Gains Approval to Build a 125-room Hotel Overlooking Stamford Harbor in Connecticut Hyatt Affiliate and Piccadily Hotels Private Limited to Open Two New Hyatt Regency Hotels in India; The 452-room Hyatt Regency Gurgaon and the 167-room Hyatt Regency Ludhiana are Both Expected to Open During 2012 Hilton Garden Inn Expands Presence in Rome, Italy with the Opening of the 93-room Hilton Garden Inn Rome Claridge through the Re-flagging of the Claridge Hotel Sage Hospitality Names Jan Lucas as General Manager for the 196-room JW Marriott Denver Cherry Creek in Colorado Kimpton's 242-room Hotel Palomar Phoenix at CityScape in Arizona Names Jim Hollister as General Manager and Marty Bertone as Director of Sales and Marketing Dominion Grand Hotel Group Appoints Bernd Bohl as General Manager of the Recently Acquired Huntingdon Hotel & Suites in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada The 412-key Westin Hilton Head Island Resort & Spa in South Carolina Makes Several Key Sales Team Appointments The 203-room Conrad Miami in Florida Appoints Matthew Tobin as Associate Director of Sales and Patricia Pautynsky as Group Sales Manager Kohler Co. Appoints Richard Boyer as Executive Chef of The American Club Resort in Kohler, Wisconsin April 24, 2012 Riviera Hotel & Casino Improves Online Customer Experience with Evision Worldwide Maine's Oxford Casino Selects Solution Suite from Agilysys; New Gaming Destination Implements Solutions for Procurement, Point-of-Sale Milestone Wins Prestigious Awards for Outstanding Website Design and Internet Marketing Strategies Walt Disney World to Build Up the Less Glamorous 'Guts' of its 22,000 Hotel Rooms Sonesta International Hotels to Open the 445-room Sonesta Hotel Philadelphia in Pennsylvania; The Rebranding of the Crowne Plaza Hotel Philadelphia Downtown will Occur in June 2012 Starwood Hotels to Open the 138-room Element Harrison in Greater Newark, New Jersey in Summer 2014; Owned and Developed by Harrison Hotel 1, an Entity of Ironstate Holdings, and Managed by Crescent Hotels & Resorts Noble Investment Group Acquires the 226-room Courtyard by Marriott Nashville Vanderbilt/West End Hotel in Tennessee Inland American Lodging Advisor, New Owner of the 492-room Renaissance Austin Hotel in Texas, Unveils "Pure Austin" Renovation Plans; Complete Property Renovation to Begin in October 2012 Reputation Management Software Tools: Are They Enough? Clear Sky Software Releases Interface to MICROS 9700 POS; New Interface Streamlines F&B Management of Inventory and Sales Tops in the Industry: Grand Pacific Resort Management Grabs Three Golds, 13 Silver and One ACE Award; Resort Timeshare Management's 'Best Kept Secret' Dominates American Resort Development Association Awards eRevMax Expands its India Presence with New Office in Bengaluru; Further invests into the Indian market to meet growing client demand in APAC region Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Marion, Illinois, to Open Doors with Mobile Key by OpenWays; New construction hotel is scheduled to open in early May with OpenWays' front-desk bypass option that enables travelers to unlock their room doors via mobile device City of Tucson Not Swayed to Offer Financial Assistance as HSL Properties, Owner of the Deteriorating Hotel Arizona, Closes its Doors Georgia's Jekyll Island Beach May End Up with a Third Hotel After All Florida Counties Lose Another Round in Effort to Collect Hotel Taxes from Online Travel Companies Hilton Worldwide Signs Two Management Agreements to Operate Hotels in the State of Queretaro, Mexico; The 102-room Hilton Garden Inn Queretaro to Open Q3 2012 and the 92-room Hampton Inn by Hilton San Juan del Rio to Open Q4 2012 Embassy Suites Hotels, MBM Hospitality and Five Points Hospitality Open the 165-suite Embassy Suites Fayetteville/Fort Bragg in North Carolina Boomerang Hotels Opens the 35-room GuestHouse International Inn & Suites in Bayou La Batre, Alabama Owned and Operated by Arun Mehta of J. A. Hospitality The 442-key Thon Hotel EU, a Member of Great Hotels of the World's Premium Collection, Opens in Brussels, Belgium Hotel Equities Completes Renovation and Celebrates Re-Opening of the 208-room Cabot Lodge Hotel in Gainesville, Florida OPUS Vancouver Reinforces Technology is a Lifestyle, Not a Luxury with Completion of Technolgy Renovation Burt Cabanas, Chairman & CEO of Benchmark Hospitality International, Receives Global Distinguished Service Award from the International Association of Conference Centers Guenter H. Richter, C.H.A., Appointed as Vice President and Managing Director for The Setai, Miami Beach in Florida Swissotel Hotels & Resorts Names Jack Breisacher as General Manager of Swissotel Chicago in Illinois James Gancos Becomes General Manager for the W Los Angeles - Westwood in California April 23, 2012 Hoteliers Maximize Demand with New Revenue Management Service from Southwind Hotels and Resorts; Tampa Bay hospitality management firm offers hotels complimentary 3-point analysis of demand health Vesta Hospitality Installs FlyteBoard Airline Information Displays at Two Properties; Vesta Upgrades Guest Experience at Properties by Providing 'Amazing' Travel Convenience Apollo Global Management Ups Bid to $7.85 a Share for Great Wolf Resorts, KSL Drops Out and Ends Bidding War Property Manager Selected for LaGuardia Fairfield Inn; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Have Updated 210 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with Changes in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership Westin Hotels to Debut in the Dominican Republic with the 204-room Westin PUNTACANA Resort; Starwood and Grupo Puntacana to Break Ground Summer 2012 with a Winter 2013 Opening Manila's Department of Finance Plans to Convert Historical Philippine Post Office Building into a 5-star Hotel; Working with the Developer who Converted the General Post Office Building in Singapore into the Fullerton Hotel Las Vegas Sands Asks U.S. Court to Block Former Partner Asian American Entertainment Corp.'s $375 million Suit in Macau Travel Tripper's RezTrip Now Offers Email Retargeting of Abandoned Bookings for its Hotel Partners Stop The Presses! ICE Saves Tens of Thousands For Earth Day; Intelity's ICE Replaces In-Room Printing. Yellow Dog Software Provides The Nederlander Organization with F&B Inventory Management Hotel AG Closes Eight Hotel Transactions in the Past 40 Days Elite Meetings International (EMI) Appoints Karen Cahill Chief Operating Officer AmericInn Designates Merchant Link Solution as Brand Standard for Payment and Data Security Cvent Reveals Top 100 Meeting Hotels in the United States Rome's Hotel Dei Mellini Upgrades Website with Open Hospitality; 80-room Property Also Leverages OpenView Booking Engine and Social Media Marketing H2O Ventures and World Hotels to Develop 401-room Hotel in Makati City in the Philippines Chefs to Square off in Las Vegas for Ultimate Food Fight at the Inaugural World Food Championships Planned for November 2012 PolyU to Host 11th Asia Pacific Forum for Graduate Students Research in Tourism and International Convention & Expo Summit 2012 American Hotel & Lodging Educational Foundation Funds New ADA Guide Pennsylvania Tourism Industry to Commemorate PA Tourism Day with a Rally at the PA State Capitol on April 30, 2012; Tourism Industry Leaders to Share Personal Stories Relating to the Event's Theme, "I Am Tourism" Agenda Set for the 17th Pan American Congress of Les Clefs d'Or Concierges which will Focus on the Use of Technology and Social Media to Enhance Guest Interactions; Jeff Arnold, Chairman of Forbes Travel Guide, will Headline the Event to Occur April 26-29, 2012 in Las Vegas IHG Partners with Clean the World to Recycle Hotel Soap and Amenities; Participating IHG Hotels in the United States and Canada to Assist Communities in Reducing Waste and Stopping the Spread of Preventable Diseases Guangzhou R&F Properties Development Co. and Marriott Open the 342-room Renaissance Huizhou Hotel in Huizhou City, Guangdong Province, China Extensive $5.8 Million Renovation Complete for the 393-room Hyatt Regency Louisville in Kentucky Outrigger Hotels and Resorts Names Loan Montgomery-Freitas as Assistant Resort Manager at the Wyndham Vacation Resorts Royal Garden at Waikiki in Hawaii Macdonald Hotels & Resorts Hires Debbie Milburn as Head of Marketing and Stephen Dodman as Revenue Director The 112-key La Valencia Hotel in La Jolla, California Hires Three New Team Members; Stephanie Howard as Director of Sales, Andrew Mosblech as Director of Food and Beverage and Tanya Schmidt as Beer Concierge April 20, 2012 Giving And Taking of Credit at U.S. Hotels / Robert Mandelbaum and Alvin Minsk KSL Capital Partners Ups Ante for Great Wolf Resorts to $7.25 a Share CityCenter Dubbed a Financial 'Black Hole' in Amended Class-Action Lawwsuit Filed Over Stock Losses Norfolk, Virginia Developer, George Hranowskyj, Indicted in $11 million Federal Tax Fraud Case Involving Historic Tax Credits Received for the James Madison Hotel and Other Properties Marriott Reports 1st Qtr 2012 Net Income of $104 million Compared to $101 million in the Year-Ago Quarter; REVPAR Climbs 6.8%, New Rooms in Pipeline Over 115,000 LaSalle Hotel Properties Posts 1st Qtr 2012 Net Loss of $16.1 million Compared to a Loss of $19.3 million in the Prior Year Quarter: RevPAR Grew to $127.06, an Increase of 6.2% / Hotel Operating Statistics La Quinta Inns & Suites Reports Unprecedented Franchise Growth in First Quarter; From Colombia to Canada, Coast-to-Coast in the U.S. La Quinta Executes Nine Agreements, Opens Seven New Locations and Has 169 Hotels in the Pipeline Sheraton Hotels and its Owners to Invest More Than $350 Million to Renovate Flagship Properties Across the Globe; To Include a $160 Million Project for the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers W Hotels Worldwide and Design Miami/ Basel Name the Winners of the 2012 W Hotels Designers of the Future Award Honoring Tom Foulsham, Markus Kayser, and Philippe Malouin Boston's Revolutionary Spirit Inspires the Opening of the 325-room Revere Hotel Boston Common in Massachusetts; Opened with a Vertical 24-story Catwalk Fashion Show on the Anniversary of Paul Revere's Infamous Ride Doing the Right Things Faster - Choosing how to deliver your training content / Jim Hartigan Jumeirah Group Appoints Nicholas Clayton as Chief Operating Officer Following Planned Retirement of Guy Crawford Roberts Hotels Spartanburg LLC Files for Bankruptcy on its Clarion South Carolina Hotel Marking the Second Filing in a Week of the Company's Portfolio of Eleven Hotels Boston Tops List of 30 Cities as Most Expensive for Lodging Costs 5 Steps to Manage Negative Guest Reviews Every Hotel Should Know Hotel Technologies Debuts Digital Alarm Clock Radio with Bluetooth® Speakerphone for iPod, iPhone and iPad Tim Tata Joins Marketing Company Incite Response as Managing Director Amadeus and Expedia Sign Multi-Year Agreement in North America; Partnership strengthens Amadeus' footprint in U.S. and Canada James Beard Foundation & Benchmark Hospitality Announce Applications Are Open for the 2012 Bob Zappatelli Culinary Arts Scholarship South Carolina Hospitality Association's Rachel Duncan Agrees to Plead Guilty to Tax Evasion and Fraud Following the Success of National and Mid-America Events, HSMAI to Debut HSMAI's MEET West in Anaheim, California, May 30-31, 2012 Hotel to be Included in the First Phase of The Galesi Group's Waterfront Development in Schenectady, New York Experienced in Turning Around Distressed Casinos, Rory Lee Bedore Granted License to Operate Struggling Westin Casuarina, Formerly Known as the Maxim Hotel in Las Vegas Sonesta International Hotels to Debut its Sonesta ES Suites Extended Stay Brand with the Opening of the 141-room Sonesta ES Suites Burlington in Massachusetts; Reflagging of the Current Staybridge Suites Burlington to Occur in June 2012 Best Western Opens its First PREMIER Hotel in Brazil with the 150-key BEST WESTERN PREMIER Majestic Ponta Negra Beach The 103-room Courtyard Lexington Keeneland/Airport to Open in Kentucky Owned and Managed by TMI Hospitality The Newly Constructed 120-room Four Points by Sheraton Kelowna Airport to Open in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada in Spring 2013; Owned by Argus Properties and Managed by Pacrim Hospitality Services Rezidor and Olayan Real Estate Company to Develop the 350-room Park Inn by Radisson Jeddah in Saudi Arabia; Opening Planned for Q4 2014 The Radisson Blu Hotel Cape Town in South Africa to Upgrade its 108 Rooms; To be Complete by August 2012 Outstanding Award for Outstanding Effort - Mercedes Benz Awarded by Richfield Hospitality to Jessica Craycraft and Meredith Harrell, Employees of The Joule in Dallas, Texas as they Receive the Company's Top Honor Faces in New Places at Fairmont Hotels & Resorts; Key Personnel Appointments Made Around the Globe Vision Hospitality Group Promotes Mike Ward to Corporate Director of eCommerce and Hires Patty Martinez as General Manager of the Hampton Inn & Suites Chattanooga/Downtown in Tennessee Marcus Mueller Joins Luxe Hotels as General Manager of the 86-room Luxe Rodeo Drive Hotel in Beverly Hills, California Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints Karl Chase Director of Sales & Marketing for The 248-room Heldrich Hotel and Conference Center in New Brunswick, New Jersey Stephane Lacroix Named as Director of Food and Beverage for the 103-room Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles, California Carlson Wagonlit Travel Makes Key Leadership Changes as it Streamlines Organization by Combining North America and Latin America in One Americas Region April 18, 2012 MaximRMS Announces Expanded Relationship with Hyatt Maestro PMS Selected by Two Multi-Property Hotel Groups and Five Independent Resorts and Luxury Destinations to Increase Revenue, Supercharge High-Touch Guest Service Pinterest - The Value Of Pinterest to Hotel Sales & Marketing / Carol Verret From Gang Member to Pastry Chef, Edward Martinez Found Sweet Salvation Parkway Corporation, the Wurzak Hotel Group and Home2 Suites By Hilton® Break Ground On Largest Hotel For The Brand To Date; New Property will be Adjacent to the Newly Expanded Pennsylvania Convention Center Embassy Suites Hotels, Chattanooga Hotel Property Investment and Legacy Property Group Break Ground on Embassy Suites Chattanooga - Hamilton Place in Tennessee; Opening Planned for Q2 2013 SuperClubs Sells the 266-room Breezes Runaway Bay in Jamaica to Sagicor Life Jamaica; Hotel to Remain Open During Transition Hemingway, Ltd., a Corportaion Owned by the Estate and Family of Ernest Hemingway, and Trust Hospitality Launch Hemingway Hotels & Resorts; a Brand Designed to Reflect the Distinctive Hemingway Lifestyle $25 Million Renovation for the 533-room Hyatt Regency Minneapolis in Minnesota to Include Environmentally Sustainable Initiatives; Goal to Reduce Ecological Footprint while Upgrading Property Image Hospitality Scores Big with Guests HeBS Digital Announces Loews Hotels Website Re-Launch Summit Hospitality Group Chosen to Develop 140 to 154-room Residence Inn by Marriott Near the Convention Center in Raleigh, North Carolina Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants Adds Washington, D.C.'s Donovan House to Portfolio Resort Developer Turns Red Tape into Green Housing/Lodging Business; Resort living energy free off the grid anywhere. How one commercial real estate developer turned obstacles into a new eco-friendly housing/lodging business. / Jeff Coy, ISHC The 253-room Clarion Hotel Opens in Columbus, Indiana; Owned and Operated by Michael Dora Rezidor's President & CEO Kurt Ritter Honored as New Member of the British Travel Industry Hall of Fame Choice Hotels Promotes Stephanie Lykins to Vice President, Talent Development Crestline Hotels & Resorts Appoints Steven M. Janoski as General Manager of the 122-room Fairfield Inn and Suites Wilmington/Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina Dietmar Salat Appointed as Director of Operations for the 555-room Waikoloa Beach Marriott Resort & Spa on Hawaii Island Daniel Egan Named Director of Sales and Marketing for the 792-room InterContinental Chicago Magnificent Mile in Illinois Gina Sinatro Joins the 193-room One Ocean Resort & Spa in Atlantic Beach, Florida as Catering Sales Manager Mark L. Ching Appointed as Executive Chef for the 440-room Loews Coronado Bay in San Diego, California April 17, 2012 Thompson Hotels & Resorts Selects the IDeaS Revenue Management System for Six of its Properties in the U.S.; Automated system increases operational efficiency; complements Thompson’s ambitious growth plans for 2012 and 2013 Virtual Roundtable on Social Media in Hotel Marketing - Your Guests Are Social. Are You? Pegasus Solutions Launches RezView® Intelligence; CRS-Integrated Tool Offers Hoteliers Clear View of Reservation Performance and Opportunities Marriott International to Sell ExecuStay Corporate Housing Brand to Oakwood Worldwide; Eight-year Reciprocal Preferred Provider Agreement Signed by Both Parties A Second Chance for an Historic Gilded Age Hotel - Plans Unveiled for Restoration of the Circa 1897 Belleview Biltmore Resort Near Clearwater, Florida; New Owners, Belleview Biltmore Partners, Plan to Revive the Biltmore's Exceptional Architecture and Design Features of a Century Ago Third Bankruptcy Action Filed for Roberts Brothers, Owners of 11 Hotels; Filing for the 207-room Holiday Inn in Houston, Texas Could Signal Additional Filings for Five Other Hotels in Atlanta, Dallas, Shreveport, LA, Spartanburg, SC, and Tampa, FL Hotel Website Analytics: Is There Such Thing as Free Lunch? A Comparative Analysis of Adobe SiteCatalyst and Google Analytics / Adam Hammock and Lindsay Denninger Making the Most of M-Commerce as a Hotel Marketer / Ritesh Gupta The Greater Miami and The Beaches Hotel Association Names Oberhausen Marketing & Public Relations As Its Agency of Record For Sale: 3 Acre, High Visibility Hotel Development Site in Broward County, Florida Bittel Americas' UNO Media 3 Combines Phone + Audio Player + Alarm Clock Radio Sheraton Toronto Centre Tapping PSAV for Power Distribution, Event Technology; As a preferred partner with Starwood Hotels & Resorts, PSAV is forging strong relationships at the property level and adding to bottom line revenues Access Hotels & Resorts Announces Addition of Hotel Sax Chicago New Tool from Cornell Center for Hospitality Research Helps Hotels Communicate Their Green Story; Additional Reports Analyze Corporate Strategies South Beach Group Purchases the Former Croyden Arms in Mid-Beach Miami, Florida for $6.75 Million with Plans for a $15 Million Renovation of the Circa 1937 Vacant Building Anchoring the Tokyo, Japan $1.2 Billion Mixed-use Development, the 290-room Palace Hotel Tokyo to Open May 17th, 2012 Dolce Hotels and Resorts to Open the 111-room Dolce Hotel Vittel in France Through the Renovation and Re-branding of the Hotel des Thermes with Planned Opening for Late Summer 2013 Kokua Hospitality and Hyatt Hotels Open the Diamond Head Tower at Hyatt Place Waikiki Beach in Hawaii; Joining the Pali Tower, the Diamond Head Tower Opening Marks the Completion of the 426-room Hotel Project Ellen Sinclair, Senior Vice President of Benchmark Hospitality International, Honored with Hosansky Award by the International Association of Conference Centers Vincent Piro Joins Sage Hospitality as Division Vice President of Operations for Premier & Lifestyle Portfolio April 16, 2012 VingCard Elsafe Collaborates in Mobile Hotel Booking Functionality for Automobiles; Technology allows drivers to reserve rooms while driving and open guestroom locks with car keys. Conde Nast Traveler Unveils 16th Annual Hot List: 2012 List Features 121 New Hotels and Resorts, 35 Spas, and 20 New Restaurants Universal Parks & Resorts Planning $2.8 billion Indoor Theme Park Dubbed Galactica Park in Moscow, Russia; Project to Include 1,100 rooms with Two Hotels Travel Channels Hotel Fixer, Anthony Melchiorri, of Hotel Impossible, Works His Magic at Miami's Penguin Hotel on South Beach and the New Yorker in the MiMo District Nobody Asked me, But...No. 88; California's Level Playing Field Act of 2012; Rooftop Urban Gardening; Belleview Biltmore Hotel Reprieve; Quote of the Month / Stanley Turkel Developer for 178-Room Temecula Hotel Seeking Financing; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 136 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database A True Family Affair - Hard Work, Commitment, and $6 Million Investment by Owners Bring Wildwood, New Jersey Boardwalk Motel Back to Life; The Circa-1960 Shore Plaza Motel, Lost to Fire in 2005, to Re-Open as the 57-unit Shore Plaza Beach Resort in May 2012 Need to Hear a Cuckoo or See Three Magpies on your Wedding Day? Irish Wedding Folklore Shared at Carlyle International's Resorts of The Dromoland Collection in Ireland Marriott International to Double Footprint in the Caribbean and Latin America by 2017; Plans to Add More Than 70 Hotels in the Region Hotel Owner, Jim Graves, Throwing Hat into Political Arena Taking on Michele Bachmann Technology 4 Hotels Appointed as Australian Channel Partner for Stark Service Solutions, LLC Merchant Link to Launch eCommerce Solution; Options to include hosted payment page and encryption American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute Partners with Pearson to Distribute Educational Content to Industry Marketplace; Exclusive Agreement Includes Higher Education and High School Materials Merchant Link and XPIENT Solutions Partner to Offer Advanced Payment Security Services to Restaurant Operators; Combined gateway, tokenization and point-to-point encryption solution to be integrated into another major point-of-sale system They're back: Core Gamblers are Helping Las Vegas Gaming Industry Recover; Slot Machine Win on the Strip Increased 10.3 percent in February 2012 -- the 10th Gain in the Past 12 Months The 340-room Renaissance Guiyang Hotel in Opens in Guiyang, Guizhou Province China Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group Opens the 195-room Radisson Blu Hotel Istanbul Asia in Turkey Hilton Worldwide Luxury Brands Appoints Stuart Foster as Vice President of Marketing for Conrad and Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts Noble House Hotels & Resorts Promotes Matthew Trahan to Vice President and Regional Managing Director John Panko Joins Richfield Hospitality as Vice President of Sales Vittal Calamur Appointed as General Manager of The 353-room Modern Honolulu in Waikiki, Hawaii HKR International Limited (HKRI) Appoints Anne Busfield as General Manager of the 325-room Auberge, Discovery Bay Hong Kong, Scheduled to Open in Late 2012 Orient-Express Hotels Appoints Stephanie Mehail as General Manager of The 78-room Inn at Perry Cabin in St. Michaels, Maryland The Dow Hotel Company Names Sean Klos as Food and Beverage Director for the Embassy Suites Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle, Washington April 13, 2012 Important Considerations when Purchasing Insurance to Protect Your Business Against Hurricane-related Loss / John E. Heintz and Kenneth Berline Trotter With a Huge Grin on His Face, Developer Gary Matthews Officially Purchases Hotel Pere Marquette Property in Peoria, Illinois; Construction to Begin on the $92.8 million Project May 1 with a Planned Hotel Opening March of 2013 Unable to Operate Newspapers, Bart Blatstein, Buyer of Philadelphia's Inquirer Building, Changes Course with a Vision for a $500 million Casino Hotel and Entertainment Complex on the Site Growing Hotel Market Bodes Well for HEI Hotels & Resorts Despite Loss of University Investors Lodging Development Group Releases 2012 Manhattan Lodging Report; Projected 2013 openings on pace to approach 2010 peak of 5,500 new guest rooms, 64 properties, comprising 13,693 guest rooms, are under construction, approved or in active permitting Like a Proud Papa, Rocco Termini Shows Off Successes of $43 million Restoration of Buffalo, New York's Hotel Lafayette EMEA Hotel Investment Market During Q1 2012 Shows Strong Activity in London and Paris; Overall EMEA Investment Volume 39 % Lower than Q1 2011 According to Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels Hyatt Names Winners for Innaugural Hyatt Thrive Leadership Awards in Environmental Sustainability and/or Community Engagement Nevada's Gaming Control Board Issues Warning about Crime at Las Vegas' Newest Hot Spots, Day Pool Parties Consumer Confidence Up and So is Tourism in Pinellas County, Florida with a 7.1% Increase in Visitors in First Months of 2012 El Conquistador Resort, A Waldorf Astoria Resort, in Puerto Rico Appoints New Food & Beverage, Spa, and Revenue Management Directors April 12, 2012 Starwood Promoting Internal Talent and Making Significant Organizational Changes Following Planned Retirement of Key Leaders Matt Avril, Miguel Ko and Denise Coll North American Resort Deploys Cenium's End-to-End ERP Solution: Case Study Reports That The Solution Increases Business by 30% in Two Short Years Hotels and Resorts Adapting to New Facebook Timeline Layout; VIZERGY® Offers New Timeline Products to Make Transition Easy Fourth Venue Added to HELP Dine Around JMI Realty in Partnership with Siguler Guff & Co. Acquire the Inn at Rancho Santa Fe; Property Last Changed Hands in the Late 1950's; Further Investment of $12 million for a First Phase Renovation Planned / Lori Weisberg Benchmark Hospitality Adds The 105-key Inn at Rancho Santa Fe to its Personal Luxury Resorts & Hotels Portfolio; New Owners of the Rancho Santa Fe, California Property, JMI Realty Fort Collins, Colorado Downtown Development Authority and City of Fort Collins Issue RFP for Development of Full Service Hotel and Conference Center for Downtown Fort Collins Philips Media Suite Hotel TV Wins HTNG's 'Most Innovative Hospitality Technology' Award for 2011; DirecTV and Fingi Claim Runner-Up Titles Sacramento, California Airport Receives Approval to Move Forward with Plan to Develop Two Midsize Hotels on Airport Property Lodging Interactive Offering Free Mobile Website to NEW Customers Signing Full Agency Services; Hoteliers who sign up for website design, SEO, social media marketing and online reputation management from the start of the AAHOA convention May 2 to the conclusion of the HITEC conference June 28 will receive the complementary service Fairfield Inn Syosset NY Achieving Increases in Guest Satisfaction and Energy Savings with INNCOM Warmbrodt Hotel Investments Selected to Advise in the Sale of the Quality Inn - Westport, St Louis, Missouri Pennsylvania School Wins Educational Institute's 2012 Lodging Management Program International Competition Plans to Renovate the Historic Silk Mill in Petaluma, California and Turn it into a 70-room Hotel have been Abandoned; Owners Have Listed Building for Sale Rezidor to Open the 234-key Park Inn by Radisson Sousse in Tunisia Through Renovation and Re-flagging of Existing Property Scheduled for Completion in Fall 2013 Hotel Indigo Opens Second San Diego, California Property with the 94-room Hotel Indigo San Diego Del Mar; Owned and Managed by Pacifica Host Hotels Great Hotels of the World Member Hotel Berlin, Berlin in Germany Completes Major Renovation Project The Experience Design and the Theater / Osvaldo Torres Cruz International Association of Conference Centre's 2012 Copper Skillet Award Goes to Sweden's Chef Johan Heibert of Villa Brevik Simon Manning Appointed as Vice President - Sales and Marketing for Langham Hospitality Group The 95-key Cypress Bend Resort & Conference Center in Many, Louisiana Names Management Team; Appoints Bradley Anderholm as Vice President and General Manager and Jeane Anderholm as Director of Sales & Marketing Lynn Swann Named as Director of Marketing and Communications for The 483-room Homestead in Hot Springs, Virginia April 11, 2012 Hyatt Expands Revenue Management Capability with MaximRMS Technology The PERRY South Beach Hotel, Resort and Spa Achieves Spectacular Online Performance Thanks to Evision Worldwide World's Largest Holiday Inn Debuts in Macao; IHG's 1,224 room Holiday Inn Macao Cotai Central as Part of Sands China Ltd.'s Integrated Resort on the Cotai Strip What Does the Prototypical Visitor to Las Vegas Look Like? New Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority Report Offers Snapshot Would More Hotels Help Indianapolis Get a Second Super Bowl? After a Record-breaking 2011, the Growth for U.S. Travel and Tourism Exports Continues into 2012; U.S. Department of Commerce Report Shows International Visitor Spending Increase of 7% in January 2012 Over 2011 Are You Ready To Rock? - Successful Group Projects in the Workplace / Tommy Taylor Leading Marketing Executives From Top Hotels, Airlines and Cruise Brands Set to Share Online Strategies in Miami this June World's Leading Hotel Real Estate Association Launches Industry's First Professional Certification For Hotel Asset Managers; Renowned Hotel Executives and Institutions Collaborate to Form Certified Hotel Asset Manager (CHAM) Designation Under the Sponsorship of the Hospitality Asset Managers Association (HAMA) Anantara Welcomes the Brand's First property in Vietnam with the Newly Transformed 89-key Anantara Mui Ne Resort & Spa The All Inclusive Collection to Re-flag Mexico's Cancun Palace and Vallarta Palace Resorts to Hard Rock Hotel Cancun and Hard Rock Hotel Vallarta; Hard Rock Flag to Fly Beginning August 1, 2012 Seattle Company, Hotel Concepts, Plans to Build a 130-key Hilton Garden Inn in Olympia, Washington and a Second Hotel Next Door; Completion for Hilton Garden Inn Project Targeted for Year-end 2013 with Construction Start of an Extended Stay Hotel Shortly Thereafter Plans Approved for Proposed Hotel at Harbor Cove Marina on Park Point by Duluth, Minnesota Planning Commission 125- to 145-Room Hotel Proposed for Chapel Hill, North Carolina SJB Companies and Marriott International Prepare to Open the 104-room Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott in Marietta, Ohio Owned by Doloma Investments and Operated by Global Vision Hotels the New Staybridge Suites in North Brunswick, New Jersey Opens; Rita Courville General Manager Minnesota General Managers, Melanie Tank and Keri Erickson, Recognized for Outstanding Performance by Blue Sky Hospitality Ascend Collection Creates Dedicated Membership Development Team with Industry Veterans Bill Balletto, Joe Dreiske, Dennis Wynn and Jose Salvador Icaza; Poised for Record Growth in 2012 Isabelle Birem Joins Accor as Senior Vice President Direct Sales Saun Lightbourne Appointed as Director of Sales and Marketing for the 179-room Mayfair Hotel & Spa in Coconut Grove, Florida Home2 Suites by Hilton Selects Mid-South Food Bank as Corporate Partner for its Your2Hands Charity Program; Brand Team Members Donate 10,000 Meals and Participate in Volunteer Activities Environmental Tourism Leader, EarthCheck, Issues a Sustainability Challenge to School Students; Interactive Educational Program Encourages Students, Teachers and Parents to Achieve Household Sustainability Book Chronicling Miami Beach, Florida - "South Beach: Stories Of A Renaissance" - Celebrates First Anniversary April 10, 2012 DOCOMO interTouch Announcing 'FREEDOM CHECK IN' Powered by OpenWays Mobile Key to Add Front Desk Bypass Solution to its Offering; DOCOMO InterTouch announces its strategic alliance with OpenWays Milestone Launches eBuzz Connect 3.0 - next generation solution provides easy compset performance index and more detailed analysis of reviews and sentiment associated with the reviews '10 Local and Mobile Marketing Strategies to Put Your Hotel on the Map'; New Local and Mobile Marketing Whitepaper from VIZERGY® EasyRMS Celebrates 1,000+ Clients!; EasyRMS now has ... been operating for over 13 years / ... almost 200,000 rooms being Yielded / ... more than 1,000 live hotels / offices and representatives in 12 countries ... clients and operations in 67 countries! Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Announce Availability of the Hotel Market Databook for Chicago and Los Angeles; Features detailed profiles of more than 1100 operating hotels and 110 hotels in development From Prison Cells to Coffins in Crypts - Berlin Has Many Quirky Hotels KSL Capital Partners Enters Into Agreement to Acquire the Historic 512-room Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa in Ashville, North Carolina From an Affiilate of Sammons Enterprises, Inc.; $25 million Renovation Planned for 2013 KSL Capital Partners Submits Offer to Acquire Great Wolf Resorts for $7.00 Per Share, Bidding War with Apollo Global Management Now Exists Pegasus Capital to Acquire Six Senses Resorts & Spas; Transaction Expected to Close within Three Months Summit Hotel Properties Cultivates and Improves Portfolio through Two Acquisitions, Four Dispositions, and a Positive Resolution of Arbitration with Choice Hotels How to Book Rooms Consistently and Stop Worrying about 'Slow' Seasons / Joy Gendusa Will the Hospitality Industry Tango with Tingo? / Max Starkov Leaving the Light On for Half a Century - Motel 6 Celebrates 50-Year Heritage; Hotel Chain Honors the Past with an Eye on the Future Hilton Worldwide Signs Agreement To Make Safemark Systems A Preferred Guest Room Safe Partner For International Portfolio Warmbrodt Hotel Investments Selected to Advise in the Sale of the Quality Inn, Lee's Summit, Missouri FCS Expands Presence in India with New Office in New Delhi; Hospitality technology firm relocates India operations to prestigious DLF Towers Don't Be Miss-Led, Technology 'Has Not' Changed the Way We Generate Revenue / Bernard Otis 2012 International Pow Wow Heading to Los Angeles; $10 million in Direct Spending Benefit and Over 1,500 Travel Business Operators Expected First National Building in Downtown Lexington, Kentucky to Become a 21c Museum Hotel The Residence at Grand Luxxe and Grand Luxxe Spa Tower under Development in Nuevo Vallarta, Nayarit, Mexico Join The Registry Collection Portfolio of Affiliated Resorts; Resorts to Open Q4 2013 MTR Gaming Group to Manage New Wyndham Hotel Group Property at Presque Isle Downs & Casino in Erie, Pennsylvania; June 2012 Ground Breaking Scheduled for the 100-room Baymont Inn and Suites with Opening Expected for Spring 2013 Lane Hospitality Completes Renovation and Rebranding of Crown Plaza Clark in New Jersey to New Holiday Inn Prototype; The 192-room Holiday Inn Clark will Feature the Brand's New Hub Cafe Concept Golden Nugget Atlantic City in New Jersey Nears Completion of its $150 Million Renovation Project Transforming the Former Trump Marina; Grand Opening Slated for April 26-29, 2012 Select Registry Distinguished Inns of North America Honors Peter Sharp, Owner of the Fairview Inn in Jackson, Mississippi, as Innkeeper of the Year for 2012 Frank Trampert Appointed as Managing Director of the Asia Pacific Region for Wyndham Hotel Group Chip Young Joins BC LYND Hospitality as Chief Operating Officer Scott Perry Named as General Manager for the 150-room SpringHill Suites by Marriott Denver Downtown at Metro State in Colorado; Scheduled to Open August 2012, Managed by Sage Hospitality Resources Midas Hospitality Appoints Amy French as Area Director of Sales - St. Louis, Missouri Benchmark Hospitality Names Myra Pasco as Director of Human Resources for the 316-room Cheyenne Mountain Resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado The Sheraton Hacienda del Mar Golf & Spa Resort in Los Cabos, Mexico Appoints Jose Salvador Campuzano as Executive Chef for its De Cortez Grill & Restaurant April 9, 2012 When Quality Just Does Not Matter: You Can't Sell What People Don't Value / David K. Hayes Ph.D., Allisha A. Miller, and Joshua D. Hayes, MA, Peggy A. Hayes Sahara India Pariwar Ltd. in Talks with Elad Properties Over Sale of 105-year-old Plaza Hotel in New York for $600 million; One Condition of Deal is Termination of Management Contract with Fairmont Hotels & Resorts Pebblebrook Hotel Trust Makes First Purchase of the Year with Acquisition of the 108-room Hotel Milano in San Francisco, California for $30 Million; To be Managed by Viceroy Hotel Group Starwood Hotels Completes Sale of the 275-room Atlanta Perimeter Hotel & Suites to RockBridge Partners; Hotel to be Managed by Wischermann Partners and will Fly Le Méridien Flag after Extenstive Renovation Miami Group, Belleview Biltmore Partners, Enter Sales Agreement to Purchase the Belleview Biltmore Hotel near Clearwater, Florida with Plans for Property Restoration and a 153-room Addition Learning From Hospitality - A First for the Automotive Industry, Lincoln Automobiles Partners with Hospitality Masters , Les Clefs d'Or, (The International Association of Hotel Concierges), to Transform the Customer Experience 196-room Denver Hotel Hires New General Manager; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Have Updated 196 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with Changes in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership Hot Hotel Debate: Sides Argue Impact of Planned Downtown Savannah Hotels on Proposed Convention Center Hotel Hyatt International to Build $113 Million 294-room Hotel in Tashkent, Uzbekistan; To be Complete by Year-end 2013 Mining Meets Modern as Downtown Colorado Springs Mining Exchange Building, Built in 1901, Prepares to Open as Areas First Boutique Hotel, The Mining Exchange, A Wyndham Grand Hotel Scott Blalock, General Manager of the JW Marriott Indianapolis, Named GM of the Year for the Americas by Marriott International and the Global GM of the Year for the JW Marriott Brand Las Vegas Gaming Industry Sees Profitability Making a Comeback Guest-tek Launches myAway App on March 30th, 2012 The Liquidation Sale of the Sheraton Four Points Tucson Hotel Opens Thursday, April 12th at 10:00 a.m. Sale Conducted by NCL/ National Content Liquidators, Inc.; Three Weeks Only! Everything Must Go! Roomlinx Names Frank Watervoort as Chief Information Officer Travelhorizons Report Offers New Insight on US Travel; While Recovery Continues for Business Travel Intentions, Americans Remain Tentative about Near-Term Leisure Travel Plans The Newly Constructed 184-room DoubleTree by Hilton Gurgaon-New Delhi NCR Opens in India; Owned by JMD Group and Managed by Hilton Worldwide Crowne Plaza Danbury in Connecticut Opens Following Renovation and Rebranding of the Former 242-room Danbury Plaza Hotel TMI Hospitality and Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group Open the 61-room Country Inn & Suites By Carlson, Temple, Texas $20 Million Renovation Completed for the Stratosphere in Las Vegas; Attracting Guests for More than Just the View The 317-room Sofitel Plaza Hanoi on West Lake in Hanoi, Vietnam Completes Extensive Renovation RLJ Lodging Trust and White Lodging Services Complete Renovation of Guest Rooms and Public Spaces for Two of their Properties; Transforming the 134-suite Residence Inn Indianapolis Downtown on the Canal in Indiana and the 114-room Courtyard by Marriott in Louisville, Kentucky Emmanuel Guillard, Top Executive of Swiss-Belhotel International, Awarded "Leader in Global Hotel Chain" in the Indonesia Travel Business Leader Awards 2012 Chris Cahill Joins Las Vegas Sands Corporation for Newly Created Position of Executive Vice President of Global Operations Crestline Hotels & Resorts Appoints Marianne Alberti as General Manager for the 175-suite Homewood Suites by Hilton in Washington, DC Benchmark Hospitality Names Alex Morrison as Director of Revenue Management for Turtle Bay Resort on Oahu, Hawaii April 5, 2012 McKibbon Hotel Management Relies on Business Ethics, Award-Winning Sales Team to Fill 65 Properties; Centralized Cloud-Based Sales System Conveys Best Practices, Coordinates Cross-Market Strategies, Keeps Sales Team Performing to Plan Revel to Install InvoTech's GIMS UHF-RFID Linen Tracking System; Revel's Opening Features High-Tech UHF-RFID Tracking for High-End Linens Silver Reef Hotel Casino Spa Selects Cenium's ERP Solutions; Richness of Product Suite and Industry Expertise Drive Decision to Cenium ERP Ever Stay at a Poorly Run Hotel? Meet the 'Fixer', Anthony Melchiorri, of Hotel Impossible FelCor Lodging Trust to Sell Six Non-Strategic Hotels as Part of Repositioning Strategy for $103.0 Million to an Undisclosed Buyer; Portfolio Comprised of 1,527 Rooms Best Western International (BWI) Plans Major Expansion in Indonesia; To Boost Inventory from 535 Rooms to More than 2,500 by Year-end 2013 Financing Details Outlined for Hotelier Sam Nazarian's Plan to Redevelop and Reopen the Closed Sahara Hotel-Casino as the SLS Las Vegas; If Financing Successful for the $744 Million Project, Plans to Open in Q2 2014 Opinions of More than 1,000 Frequent Travelers Shared in Burba Hotel Network's Hotel Insider Survey; A Surprising 87% Value Collecting Airline Miles Over Hotel Frequent Stay Points AH&LA Urges DOJ to Retract the Jan. 31, 2012 Pool Lift Requirements Document, Stating that the DOJ Did Not Follow Proper Procedures when Altering the Requirements; Over 1,200 Comments Filed in Favor of Delay and Portable Lifts 2011 a Banner Year for Miami Tourism with Visitor Counts Up 6.7% and Spending a Record $20.7 billion Trust International Connects with Room Key as CRS Direct Connect Generation Wins Consecutive Development Deal of the Year Award from Hilton Worldwide Educational Institute Adds New Risk Management Titles from Safety Source Technology + People = Reputation Management; Regardless the type of online reputation management technology a hotel is using, CoMMingle will provide the 'people' to respond to reviews Digital Signage Expo 2012 Confirmed as Largest, Best Show Ever Marketing Communications - The Way We Work Now / Anne Sweeney Auction of Dunedin, Florida's Historic Fenway Hotel Delayed by Bank; Date to be Re-set Once Property Value Assessment is Available and Bank Completes its Own Corporate Merger Expotel Hospitality Selected by Laurus Corporation to Manage the Ramada Inn and Suites New Orleans Airport in Louisiana; The 130-room Property to Reflag as a Holiday Inn Express and Suites by Q4 2012 RLJ Lodging Trust and White Lodging Services Complete Renovation of the SpringHill Suites Austin North in Austin, Texas IHG Appoints Larry Light as Global Chief Brands Officer Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco in California Welcomes Loga Nathan as Hotel Manager Crestline Hotels & Resorts Appoints Marc L. Fournier as General Manager for The 148-room Mason Inn Conference Center & Hotel in Fairfax, Virginia White Lodging Services Names Rob Kennehan as General Manager for the Embassy Suites Tampa/Brandon Hotel in Florida International Association of Conference Centers - Americas Presents Three Scholarships to Deserving Hospitality Students, Emmanuelle Willis, Serena Sun, and Shawna Haggerty April 4, 2012 Millennium Hotels and Resorts increases revenue and bookings using Sabre Hospitality Solutions distribution and marketing; Hotel company renews long-term agreement setting the stage for growth in 2012 Revel Resort Opens with SuiteLinq; The 20-Acre, $2.4 billion Lifestyle Resort on the Atlantic City Boardwalk is featuring the state-of-the-art SuiteLinq interactive guest-services and entertainment platform Hospitality Industry Veteran Tina Stehle Leaves Agilysys Fontainebleau Miami Beach Leaving Financial Woes Behind and Reaping Big Profits Making About $80 million in Profit Off of $296 million in Revenue During 12 Month Period Ending in March 2012 Poolside Kitchen Turned Farm Benefits Guests and Saves on Food Costs for Marriott Tampa Waterside Wine by the Glass is a Tricky Proposition for the Consumer and the Restaurateur; Ascribing to KISS Theory Can Benefit Both - Keep It Simple, Sommeliers Video: PKF's Hotel Horizons Market Update with Mark Woodworth Los Angeles City Council Considering Granting Incentives to Local Hotels to Encourage Modernization and Higher Pay for Workers Brazil's Thriving Lodging Market Leading to Uptick in Investor Interest Paramount Hospitality Management Gets Go Ahead for their Planned 112-room Hilton Garden Inn in Knoxville, Tennessee; $600,000 Incentives Approved for the Redevelopment of a Current Hotel Rocco Forte Hotels Group Holds Critical Talks with Key Lender in Hopes to Resolve Financial Woes New Owner of the Hotel Pontchartrain in Detroit, Michigan in Negotiations to Reopen the Closed Hotel as a Crowne Plaza; Adding the 413 Rooms to the Market could Lure Convention Business to the City Wyndham, Through the Use of Technology, Rolling out Initiatives to Help Hoteliers Reap Revenue Microtel Inn & Suites by Wyndham Unveils Rebranding Strategy Riviera Holdings, Which Emerged from Bankruptcy in April 2011, Sees Losses Widen to $15.9 million in 2011 Compared to a Loss of $13 million in 2010, Even Though Revenue Grew Hospitality Softnet Expands Teleprospecting Services Internationally to Europe and the Middle East Inn at Pocono Manor Announces Centennial of Historic East Course: Holes Designed By Legendary Donald Ross & William Flynn; Anniversary Celebration for Golf Journalists and the Public HFTP Offers a New Member Benefit - the HFTP Mobile App; Provides Easy Access to Association Information and Global Events Parke Hotel & Conference Center in Bloomington, Illinois Facing Foreclosure on Mortgages Totaling $5.6 Million With Debt Dwarfing Assets by More than a 2-to-1 Ratio, The Holiday Inn Express Hotel and Suites in Brooksville, Florida Files for Bankruptcy The 202-room Aliante Station Hotel-Casino in North Las Vegas Emerges Profitable from Bankruptcy Posting a $573,000 Profit During the Final Two Months of 2011 The 195-room Royal Sonesta Hotel Baltimore to Open in Maryland through a Rebranding of the Intercontinental Hotel Baltimore Starwood Hotels to Open Dual-Branded Ski Resort Complex in China; The 257-room Westin Changbaishan Resort and the 296-room Sheraton Changbaishan Resort to Welcome Guests in Summer 2012 Interstate Hotels & Resorts Expands India Hotel Portfolio to 13 with the Management Transition of The Turtle on the Beach and the Estuary Island Resort Starwood to Reposition Four Points Property in Tucson, Arizona as Aloft Hotel; The 150-room Aloft Tucson University will Open Early in 2013 Following the Property Renovation and Conversion Second New York City Pod Hotel, the 367-room Pod 39 to Open in June 2012 Launching a New Hotel Brand for Owner, BD Hotels TMI Hospitality and Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group Open the 64-room Country Inn & Suites By Carlson, Corpus Christi, Texas Hotel Equities Selected to Manage the 99-room Hampton Inn Fairburn Hotel in Metro Atlanta, Georgia Ektornet US, Inc. Assumes Management of the 157-key La Posada De Santa Fe in New Mexico A $20 Million Renovation is Underway at the 299-room Omni Mont-Royal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) Enters Strategic Partnership with Henkell & Co; Brings Henkell & Co Brands To Members' Wine Lists Felcor Lodging Trust Promotes Jeffrey D. Symes As Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer And Controller Extended Stay Hotels Appoints Thomas Seddon, Former Intercontinental Hotels Group CMO, as Chief Marketing Officer Dorchester Collection Names Arabella El Barkouki as Director of Sales and Marketing of the 109-room Le Richemond in Geneva, Switzerland Amy Colangelo Appointed as Spa & Recreation Director for The 212-room Shores Resort & Spa in Daytona Beach Shores, Florida April 3, 2012 Starwood Hotels CEO, Frits van Paasschen, Talks About Global Opening Spree for its Nine Brands and Why Miami Remains an Appealing Market The Aruba Marriott Resort and Stellaris Casino Installs Flyte Systems' FlytePass Airline Boarding Pass Printing; Aruba Marriott Provides Travel Convenience; Guests Confirm and Prepare for Flights in the Comfort of the Hotel with Greater Self-assurance Claiming no Knowledge of Dissatisfaction with Performance, General Hotel Management (GHM) Provides Statement on The Setai South Beach Owner Takeover Sheraton Hotels to Grow its Portfolio of Signature Hotel Spas Across Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe; Will Double its Number of Shine Spas with 23 Openings by 2015, 10 Slated for 2012 Elbit Imaging Sells Four Dutch Hotels to PPHE Hotel Group (Formerly Park Plaza Hotels); Transferring Ownership of the Park Plaza Victoria Amsterdam Hotel, the Park Plaza Utrecht Hotel, the art'otel Amsterdam, and the Park Plaza Airport Hotel Supertel Hospitality Enters Agreement to Acquire the 100-room Hilton Garden Inn in Solomons Island, Maryland for $11.5 million or $115K per key Premier Inn to Build 75 Hotels in India Over the Next Eight Years Budget and Mid-range Hotels to Boom in Bangkok, Thailand in Response to Oversupply of Luxury Hotel Rooms and Increased Client Demand for No-frills Accommodations Hyatt Hotels Honors Two Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, Los Angeles Executives with Top Honors; Lisa Arias Named 2011 Director of Sales of the Year and Chef Manfred Lassahn Awarded 2011 Chef of the Year Hotel General Managers in Watertown, New York Welcome Increasing Competition Even as Market Reaches Saturation Point Karen Kjergaard promoted to Vice President of Recruitment and Training for Hospitality Softnet, Inc. Shift4 to Provide Payment Gateway Services for Revel Four Winds Casino Resort in New Buffalo, Michigan, Set to Open New Nine-story, 250-room Hotel Tower in June 2012 Sunrise, Florida Hotel Completes Renovation and Re-flagging, Opening as the 250-room DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Sunrise - Sawgrass Mills; The Former Crowne Plaza is Owned by Long Wharf Real Estate Partners and Managed by StepStone Hospitality Sader Hospitality Worldwide Awarded the Management Contract for Two Bunch Palms Resort & Spa in Desert Hot Springs, California Kara Brady of Konover Hotel Corporation (KHC) Recognized as 2011 Ambassador of the Year by the Kansas City Kansas (KCK) Area Chamber of Commerce International Association of Conference Centers Presents Education Awards for Excellence; 2012 Award of Excellence Presented to Allen Morgan, the Pyramid Award Given to Kristin Kurie Michael Glennie Appointed President and Chief Operating Officer at Fairmont Raffles Hotels International Hersha Hospitality Management (HHM) Completes its Senior Leadership Team with the Addition of Industry Veterans Simon Little, Scott Dahl, and Joann Weber Sage Hospitality Names Mike Case as General Manager for the 369-room Westin Westminster in Colorado and Promotes Three Sales Team Members Aqua Hotels & Resorts Makes Management Promotions within their Operations Group Including Three New General Managers The 85-room Spruce Point Inn Resort & Spa in Boothbay Harbor, Maine Names Edward Howes as Food & Beverage Manager, Jillian Johnson as Sales & Catering Manager, and Mark Weinerth as Sous Chef Todd Gillespie Appointed as Director of Sales and Marketing for the Skamania Lodge in Stevenson, Washington; Managed by Destination Hotels & Resorts Ellen McGinnis Named Spa Director of Springs Eternal Spa at the 216-room Omni Bedford Springs Resort & Spa in Bedford, Pennsylvania The Wilderman Group Names Lauren Braxton as Sales Manager at Gastonia Conference Center in Gastonia, North Carolina April 2, 2012 Regatta Travel Solutions to Replace Expedia on VisitSeattle.org The Other March Madness; As hotels gear up for the 2012 spring/summer peak travel season the fundamentals of the hospitality industry remain strong / Derek S. White Nobody Asked me, But...No. 87; Expand the Javits Center Cost-Free; Is This the Science or Art of Brand Management? Hotel Histories; Quote of the Month / Stanley Turkel What is Behind the Gyrations of the World Economy and Where is It Going? / Steven Ferry Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group Enters Strategic Partnership with Bestech Hospitalities Pvt Ltd to Focus on the Hotel Development in India Driftwood Hospitality Management Acquires the 249-room Hilton Raleigh-Durham Airport at Research Triangle Park in North Carolina; Its Third Acquisition Under a Q3 2011 Joint Venture with Apollo Global Management New Castle Hotels & Resorts Purchases the Algonquin Hotel & Resort in St. Andrews-by-the-Sea, New Brunswick, Canada in a Joint Venture with Southwest Properties; Resort to Close in September 2012 for $20 Million Renovation and Rebranding to Marriott's Autograph Collection Reopening in June 2013 Last Days to Register: Revenue 360 - Sales, RM and Social Media Integrated Approach for Leisure; Webinar April 4 / Carol Verret General Contractor Selected for Escondido Boutique Hotel; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 163 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database Revel Opens with High Hopes - and $1.1 billion of Debt on its Atlantic City Casino; Credit Ratings Giant Warns of Vulnerability 2014 World Cup Fans will Flock to Brazil, Creating Concerns for the Inadequate Hotel Bed Numbers; Development Urged to Continue with Two Years to Prepare Knowland Hires Travel Industry Veteran as Chief of Client Services; Alicia Moran Brings 25 plus Years Improving Customer Experiences in the Group Segment of the Hospitality Technology Industry Trust International Extends Distribution Portfolio Via RateGain Partnership Pegasus Solutions Appoints Craig Cartwright Vice President, CRS Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts Signs Management Contract with the Litolier Group for a Flagship Project in India; The 300-room Swissôtel Grand Mumbai is Scheduled to Open in 2014 Al-Jazeera International Group (JIG) of Qatar Plans to Build Three Hotels in Saudi Arabia International Association of Conference Centers Releases Guide to Social Media for the Hospitality Industry; Provides Detailed Look at 23 Social Media Platforms San Francisco Travel Association Releases Economic Impact Figures for 2011; Visitors to San Francisco up 2.7%. Visitor spending up 9.8% from 2010 Hilton Head, South Carolina Beachfront Facelift Continues with Crowne Plaza Overhaul and Rebranding; To Become Sonesta Resort Hilton Head Island and Launch Renovation of its 340 Guest Rooms The Setai Resort & Residences in Miami, Florida is Under New Management; Setai Owners LLC Selects Trevi Luxury Hospitality Group to Operate the Property Marriott International Opens the 288-key Courtyard Mexico City Airport in Mexico RLJ Lodging Trust and White Lodging Services Complete Renovation of Guest Rooms and Public Spaces for Two of their Properties; Transforming the 78-suite Residence Inn Indianapolis-Fishers in Indiana and the 66-suite Residence Inn Austin South in Texas The Hotel Association of Canada (HAC) and the Alberta Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) Call on their Government to Address Labor Shortages; Supporting Changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program Palace Resorts Selects RCI, Part of the Wyndham Worldwide Family of Brands, to Manage and Operate Customer Care, Reservations and Collections for its Vacation Clubs Correction: Benchmark Hospitality Names Matt Hagerman as General Manager for the 84-room Willows Lodge in Woodinville Wine Country near Seattle, Washington Dorchester Collection Appoints Denise Flanders as General Manager of Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles, California Erich Steinbock Appointed as Regional Vice President for Rosewood Hotels in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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