**Top 25
Read
Articles - December 2012**
- The
Ten Essential Traits of a Great General Manager / Larry Mogelonsky,
MBA, P. Eng.
- From
Making Beds to Making Money: Marriott Offers Unprecedented Access to
CNBC
- Hyatt
Statement Regarding Hyatt Regency Curacao Golf Resort, Spa and Marina
- The
"TripAdvisor" Effect and the New Normal in Hospitality / Marc Shuster,
Esq. and James Gassenheimer, Esq.
- Mitt
Romney Rejoins Marriott International Board
- The
Fallacy and Failure of Fade Rates / David K. Hayes Ph.D., Allisha A.
Miller, Joshua D. Hayes MA, Peggy A. Hayes & Gene M. Monteagudo MS
- Santa
Barbara Hospitality, N.V. Terminates Management Agreement with Hyatt
Hotels for Hyatt Curacao, N.V., Renames Property Santa Barbara Beach
& Golf Resort, Curacao
- LaSalle
Hotel Properties Acquires the 120-room L’Auberge Del Mar in California
for $76.9 million
- An
Event Manager Who Helped Save a Life, a Taxi Call-taker Who Tracked
Down a Forgotten Bag and a Shuttle Driver Who Used His Own Car to Make
Sure a Visitor Could Buy Medicine Among Award Winners for Broward
County, Florida Hospitality Employees
- Two
Turnberry West Realty Employees, a Subsidiary of Turnberry Associates
LLC, Developers of the Failed Fontainebleau Las Vegas, Accused of
Embezzling Nearly $6 million
- Ian
Schrager's Latest Project, the Miami Beach Edition in Florida, to
Include a Bowling Alley and Ice Skating Rink; The 250-room Hotel Under
Development at the Site of the Seville Beach Hotel in Partnership with
Marriott International is Set to Open Early in 2014
- TODAY
Show Segment Highlights Hotel Room Lock Vulnerabilities
- 2013
Lodging Forecast - Time for Recovery! / Robert A. Rauch, CHA
- Foreclosure
Auction of the 468-room Sheraton Norfolk Waterside Hotel in Virginia
Canceled with No Reason Given; The Hotel is Owned by Phf li Norfolk LLC
and Managed by Pyramid Hotel Group
- Uncertainty
Clouds Lodging for 2013, Clear Skies for 2014 and Beyond
- Castle
Hotel & Spa in Tarrytown, New York Breaks Ground for Luxury $9
Million THANN Sanctuary Spa
- Host
Hotels & Resorts' European Joint Venture Acquires Five Hotels from
Whitehall Comprising 1,733 Rooms
- Buying
a Hotel? Financing a Hotel? 10 Things Every Borrower Should Know. (Part
1) / Jim Butler
- Ringing
in the New Year in New York City an Expensive Proposition: Hotels Raise
Rates Up to 788% for New Year's Eve
- National
Restaurant Association's 'What's Hot in 2013' Culinary Forecast
Predicts Top Food and Drink Menu Trends with Children's Nutrition and
Local Sourcing Remaining the Hottest Trends
- GoConcierge.net
Acquires Gold Key Solutions; Client Base Expands to More Than 1,000
Hotels Worldwide
- Nearly
1,500 New Hotel Rooms, a 43.6% Increase, Planned for Downtown
Charleston, South Carolina
- Walt
Disney World Opens New $425 million Fantasyland in Orlando, Florida
with More on the Way
- The
New Hospitality Reality in 2013 / Robert A. Rauch, CHA
- Loews
Hotels & Resorts to Purchase the 356-room Madison Hotel in
Washington, D.C. from Jamestown Properties
December 28, 2012
December 27, 2012
- Ringing
in the New Year in New York City an Expensive Proposition: Hotels Raise
Rates Up to 788% for New Year's Eve
- Curacao
Court Denies Hyatt Corporation's Bid to Resume Control of the Former
Hyatt Regency Curacao Golf Resort, Spa and Marina
- Two
Turnberry West Realty Employees, a Subsidiary of Turnberry Associates
LLC, Developers of the Failed Fontainebleau Las Vegas, Accused of
Embezzling Nearly $6 million
- Miami's
Landmark Raleigh Hotel Sold by Brilla Group to Joint Venture Between
David Edelstein, Owner of Miami Beach's W Hotel and Sam Nazarian, Owner
of sbe for $55 Million
- David
Edelstein and Sam Nazarian's Acquisition of Miami's Raleigh Hotel to
Serve as Launching Pad for New Raleigh Brand
- New
Ownership, Property Manager and General Manager for 128-Room AmericInn
Hotel & Suites Omaha; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Have Updated
202 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with Changes in Personnel, Property
Management or Ownership
- Laurus
Corporation Acquires the 347-room Hilton Kansas City Airport Hotel in
Kansas City, Missouri
- Acquisition
of the 384-room Hilton San Antonio Airport Hotel in San Antonio, Texas
Completed by Laurus Corporation
- HR -
Wherefore Art Thou? (What every CEO needs to know) / John Hendrie
- The
School of Hotel and Tourism Management (SHTM) of The Hong Kong
Polytechnic University (PolyU) Launches Global Competition in an Effort
to Shape Tomorrow's Guestrooms
- Hotel
Boom in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Area Expected to Continue; Despite
Increased Hotel Building Since 2004, Demand of Rooms Remains High,
Local Developers Plan More Properties
- Slew
of Renovation Projects is Changing the Local Hotel Scene in Luzerne
County, Pennsylvania
- Metro
Atlanta, Georgia Convention Centers Investing Millions to Keep up with
Technology; Updating Wi-Fi and Access to the Internet
- Pinnacle
Entertainment to Acquire Rival Ameristar Casinos in $869 million Deal
- Indian
Hotels Company Marches West: Where will Mistry Take it?; Cyrus Mistry
Becomes Chairman of Tata Group as Ratan Tata Retires
- Jones
Lang LaSalle Hotels Latest European Hotel Investor Sentiment Survey
Indicates 40% of Respondents Intend to Buy Over Next Six Months
- IT
for Hospitality Sector - Pertlink and MDIS Collaborate to Form New
Training Program / Terence Ronson
- The
379-room PGA National Resort & Spa in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Completes Comprehensive $100 Million Renovation
- Liberty
Group and Starwood to Open the 130-room Aloft Tampa Downtown in Florida
in Early 2014; Owned and Managed by the Liberty Group in a
Joint-Venture Partnership with Convergent Capital Partners
- DoubleTree
Debuts in Spain with the Opening of the 87-room DoubleTree by Hilton
Hotel & Spa Emporda in the Province Girona on the Costa Brava
- Sun
International Zambia Appoints Guillaume Durand as Hotel Manager of The
Royal Livingstone, its 173-room Property on the Edge of Victoria Falls
in Zambia
December 21, 2012
- Will
the Grinch Steal Our Positive Lodging Outlook for 2013? Tune in to
Watch PKF Hospitality's Mark Woodworth and Cornell's Jack Corgel
Discuss Current Conditions and Forecasts
- The
New Hospitality Reality in 2013 / Robert Rauch, CHA
- Expedia
Enters Agreement to Acquire Majority of trivago, Europe's Leading
Metasearch Company, for Approximately $632 Million
- MCR
Development Acquires Ten Marriott and Hilton Hotels in Maryland from
Skye Hospitality; The Portfolio Totaling 1,294 Guest Rooms will be
Managed by MCR Property
- IHG
and PT Metropolitan Kentjana Tbk to Develop the 480-key
InterContinental Jakarta Pondok Indah Hotel & Residences in
Indonesia; Scheduled to Open in 2015
- Construction
on Track for an August 2013 Opening of the 168-room Salamander Resort
& Spa Under Development in Middleburg, Virginia
- Construction
Begins on a 223-room Residence Inn by Marriott Hotel in Portland, Oregon
- The
$20 Million 150-room Hampton Inn & Suites Hotel in Owensboro,
Kentucky Celebrates Topping Out
- Wyndham
Hotel Group Opens the Newly Constructed 210-room Wyndham Istanbul
Kalamis Marina in Turkey
- Best
Western International Opens the 152-key BEST WESTERN PLUS Casino
Royale, the Only Chain Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip; The Hotel is Owned
by Thomas Elardi
- The
Dual Branded 177-room Hilton Garden Inn and 114-suite Homewood Suites
by Hilton Opens Doors in Shreveport/Bossier City, Louisiana; Owned and
Operated by RT Bossier Hotel Partners, LLC
- Midas
Hospitality Selected to Operate the 212-room Holiday Inn Hotel &
Suites - Eastgate, Cincinnati in Ohio
- The
237-room Inn at Pocono Manor in Pennsylvania Completes Major Renovation
of Historic Circa 1902 Lodge
- Foreclosure
Auction of the 468-room Sheraton Norfolk Waterside Hotel in Virginia
Canceled with No Reason Given; The Hotel is Owned by Phf li Norfolk LLC
and Managed by Pyramid Hotel Group
- Heritage
Inn of Dayton Inc. Sells the Comfort Inn in Dayton to Virtoej Gill LLC
for $1.85 Million
- Statement
of the American Hotel & Lodging Association in Honor of Senator
Daniel Inouye (Hawaii); September 7, 1924 - December 17, 2012
- Nominations
Being Accepted for AH&LA's Stars of the Industry Awards Competition
- Hospitality
Industry 'Finance, Revenue Management and IT Professionals of the Year'
Named at Annual HOSPA Christmas Awards 2012; Inaugural HOSPA Revenue
Management Education Programme Student Awards Presented
- Sherona
Shng Appointed as Hotel Manager for The 495-room Langham, Hong Kong
- St.
Lucia Resort, The BodyHoliday, Welcomes Stephen Husbands as General
Manager
December 20, 2012
- Investment
and Development in the Caribbean; Region Rich with Potential,
Particularly in the Areas of Tourism and Manufacturing
- Santa
Ana Star Casino Installs InvoTech Uniform System to Eliminate Losses,
Reduce Purchases; InvoTech System Tracks Movement of 9,000 Uniforms for
Staff of 500 with Greater Efficiency
- The
"TripAdvisor" Effect and the New Normal in Hospitality / Marc Shuster,
Esq. and James Gassenheimer, Esq.
- Driftwood
Hospitality Management Acquires the 521-room Hyatt Regency Tampa in
Florida with Plans to Re-flag the Property as a Hilton
- Sage
Hospitality to Acquire the 149-room Hotel Commonwealth in Boston,
Massachusetts from Boston University
- North
Capital Group, Owner of the 'Purple Hotel' in Lincolnwood, Illinois
Gets More Time for Redevelopment; Hoping to Avoid Demolition, NCG Works
Toward Plan for Renovating the Building and Creating a Boutique Hotel
- Revamped
Plans Unveiled for Waterfront Hotel in Duluth, Minnesota; Project to
Include a 140-room Upscale Resort/Hotel with a Restaurant, Bar and a
250-person Banquet Facility
- The
Chinese American Service League's Chef Training Program in Chicago's
Chinatown Often Leads to Jobs - 70% of Graduates Employed with Six
Months; Ivan Yuen, Head Chef at the Peninsula Hotel, Credits the Course
for his Career
- Orlando
Hotels Battle Headwinds in November; Unable to Hold the Line on Room
Rate, Market Sees a 2% Decline Over Last Year
- Newmarket
International Announces the General Availability of HRM Winter '13;
Innovative technology solution provides the power of the Cloud for
hospitality organizations
- Ireland's
Adare Manor Hotel & Golf Resort Named "World's Leading Boutique
Golf Resort" In the 2012 World Travel Awards
- The
K Club Resort, Kildare, Ireland, Celebrates the Return Home of the
Irish Diaspora with "The Gathering Golf Classic"
- Customers
Using RateTiger Give Thumbs Up to eRevMax; Annual Customer Satisfaction
Survey reveals four out of five users recommend RateTiger
- MXPRESS
Microsites for Smartphones and Tablets Help Hotels Capture Mobile
Customers; Cloud-based web solution serves up convenience and enhances
guests' experience with hotels
- ZENO
Controls Celebrating Banner Year; With its recent acquisition of Verve
Living Systems in 2012, a proven ROI of two years, and new product
offerings planned for 2013, the energy-management and in-room controls
innovator is positioned for significant growth and success
- Recap:
HEDNA's Winter Conference Explored Electronic Distribution Trends and
Strategy
- Central
Florida Hotel & Lodging Association (CFHLA) Names Annual Award
Winners; Lodging Member of the Year Award Presented to Paul Tang of the
Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress in Orlando
- Digicel
Group and Marriott International Break Ground on the $45 Million
175-room Marriott Hotel Port-au-Prince in Haiti with an Early 2015
Opening Planned
- Starwood
Hotels & Resorts Partners with GJP Hotéis & Resorts for
the Sheraton da Bahia Hotel to Open in Salvador, Brazil in Q1 2013; The
Conversion of the 284-room Historic Hotel da Bahia is Currently
Underway with Extensive Renovations
- IHG
and L.C. Development Ltd (LC Dev) Group to Open the 240-key
InterContinental Phuket Rawai Beach Resort in Thailand in 2014; The
Resort will be a Redevelopment of the Former Evason Phuket and Bon
Island
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Adds Santa Barbara Beach & Golf Resort,
Curacao to Luxury Portfolio
- Denihan
Hospitality Group Signs Management Agreement with Ark Partners for the
177-room Shoreham Hotel in Midtown Manhattan; A Conversion to an
Affinia Hotel is Planned for the Summer of 2013
- Auberge
Resorts Completes Extensive Renovation and Re-Opens the 93-room Hotel
Jerome in Aspen, Colorado
- White
Lodging Services and RLJ Lodging Trust Complete Full Property
Renovation of the 200-room Chicago Marriott Midway in Illinois
- Accor
Opens the 178-room Novotel Sofia in Bulgaria's Capital City
- Best
Western Names 2013 Board of Directors; Julie Montmaneix Elected as
Chair of the Board
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Names Patrick Snodgrass as Controller for
Chaminade Resort & Spa in Santa Cruz, California
- Robert
Baldassari Appointed as Director of Sales & Marketing for the
237-room Inn at Pocono Manor in Pennsylvania
December 19, 2012
- Pegasus
Reports Holiday Leisure Reservations Expected to Outpace 2011 Season;
Bookings Rise Over Prior Year Again in November, Climbing +5.7% Globally
- Travel
Tripper Publishes 2012 A Year in Review - An Infographic
- Yo!
GCommerce Scores TKO at HSMAI's Adrian Awards; Emarketing Firm to be
Honored with Three Awards at Upcoming 56th Annual Adrian Awards
- Hotel-Retail
Mixed-Use: Hospitality Industry Trend for 2013 / Jim Butler
- Felix
Rappaport, President and CEO, of Mirage Resigns
- Rezidor
Appoints Olivier Harnisch as Executive Vice President & Chief
Operating Officer
- Hoppi's
Hydawhey, LLC Reveals $160 Million Development Plan for the 200-key
Arroyo Grande Resort and Spa Project in Los Cabos, Mexico; A 2014
Opening is Planned for Hotel, Spa, Golf Course and Casino Project
- Home2
Suites by Hilton to Debut in Mexico with a 100-suite Home2 Suites to be
Built in Querétaro with a 2015 Opening Planned
- RIU
Hotels & Resorts Begins Construction on the 238-room Riu Palace
Jamaica with a December 2013 Opening Planned
- HeBS
Digital Remains the Industry Leader with Groundbreaking Advances and
Prestigious Awards in 2012
- RateGain's
RG Bridge to Offer Unified Platform for Seamless Electronic Distribution
- Hilton
Worldwide Opens the New-Build 102-room Hilton Garden Inn Hotel in
Queretaro, Mexico
- The
Moment, a New 39-room Boutique Hotel on Hollywood, California's Sunset
Boulevard is Set to Open February 1, 2013; The Hotel is Owned by the
Hollywood Investment Group and Managed by broughtonHOTELS
- Master
of Wine Jeannie Cho Lee Appointed Professor of Practice (Wine) by The
Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
- The
Wilderman Group Names William Owen as General Manager of the Gastonia
Conference Center in Gastonia, North Carolina
- Julie
Korountchev Welcomed as the New Director of Sales & Marketing for
the International Palms Resort and Conference Center Cocoa Beach in
Florida
- New
Castle Hotels and Resorts Names Missy Rogalia as Director of Sales and
Marketing for the Inns at Armory Square; The 78-room Residence Inn and
102-room Courtyard by Marriott Combination Hotel in Syracuse, New York
are being Developed by a Joint Venture between RHS Holdings and New
Castle with a Spring 2013 Opening Planned
- The
Waldorf Astoria Chicago Names Leonardo Lorenzo as Director of Catering
and Christine Lo as Senior Catering Manager
- The
St. Regis Aspen Resort in Colorado Appoints Tobias Rimkus as Director
of Catering & Conference Services and Wendy Fisher as Catering
Manager
- The
375-key Sheraton Framingham Hotel & Conference Adds to its Catering
Management Team; Blake Alleyn Becomes Director of Catering
December 18, 2012
- Inspiring
our World, a Stage Production Teaching Diversity by MGM Resorts
Employees for MGM Resorts Employees, Gratifies and Moves CEO, Jim
Murren; Logistics of Reaching 50,000 People Incredible
- VFM
Leonardo Technology Adopted by Best Western International to Enhance
Visual Experience on Newly Redesigned BestWestern.com
- Presentations,
Service Charges, and Booze; Recent Trends in Hotel Food & Beverage
/ Robert Mandelbaum
- Kennedy
Wilson and Partners Acquire The 170-room Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe and
The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Lake Tahoe in Truckee, California
- Holiday
Travel in California is Expected to Break Records
- DoubleTree
by Hilton Tulsa Downtown Selected as Beta Site for World's First
Made-Market; All-Day Eatery Concept Blends Gourmet Market with Brick
Oven Gastropub
- The
National Conference Center Offers Three "Building Blocks" to a More
Engaged Workforce; Based on Strong Trends in Training & Development
- Cornell
Study's Paint a Mixed Picture for Restaurant Daily Deals and
Sustainability in Hospitality Making Slow but Steady Progress
- TravLynx
Strengthens Senior Management Team with Experience of Industry
Veterans, New Positions
- Cobblestone
Hotels Breaks Ground on the 29-room Cobblestone Inn and Suites in
Hartington, Nebraska
- San
Antonio Landmark The Emily Morgan Hotel, Owned by Alamo Hotels and
Managed by Westmont Hospitality Group, Joins DoubleTree by Hilton
Following $4.5 Million Renovation
- The
Lihe Group and Hilton Worldwide Open the New Build 459-room Hilton
Zhongshan Downtown in China's Pearl River Delta
- St
Giles Group Unveils the 124-room, The Tuscany, in New York's Murray
Hill District
- Shangri-La
Hotels and Resorts Opens the 369-room Shangri-La Hotel, Yangzhou in
Jiangsu Province, China
- Hilton
Worldwide Opens the New-Build 207-room Hilton Lima Miraflores in Peru
- The
231-room DoubleTree by Hilton Istanbul - Avcilar Opens in Turkey
- OTO
Development and Hyatt Hotels Open the 143-room Hyatt Place Los
Angeles/LAX/El Segundo in California
- Owned
and Operated by Gary Sheth, the 95-room Hampton Inn Limerick Opens in
Pennsylvania
- Red
Lion Hotels Completes Conversion and Opens the 97-room Red Lion Inn
& Suites in Cathedral City, California
- Carlson
Dynasty Transferred to Family's Third Generation; Diana Nelson to
Assume Role of Board Chairwoman
- John
Q. Hammons Hotels & Resorts Appoints Tony Moody as Regional Vice
President Overseeing Operations of 16 Hotels in Six States in the
Midwest and South
- Rezidor
Appoints Elie Younes as Senior Vice President, Head of Group Development
- Davidson
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Barry Wabler, Chief Financial Officer and
Jay Rosen, Vice President - Business Development
- Fairmont
Hotels & Resorts Makes Personnel Appointments Around the Globe
- Florida's
Aloft Orlando Downtown Names Craig Leicester as General Manager and
Ricardo Echeverri as Director of Sales and Marketing; The 118-room
Hotel is Owned by GDC Properties
- Robert
(Bob) Fett Appointed as Director of Sales & Marketing for The
53-key Somerset on Grace Bay on Turks & Caicos
- The
Alexander, A Dolce Hotel in Indianapolis, Indiana Names Jeremy
Martindale Executive Chef
December 17, 2012
- Santa
Barbara Hospitality, N.V. Terminates Management Agreement with Hyatt
Hotels for Hyatt Curacao, N.V., Renames Property Santa Barbara Beach
& Golf Resort, Curacao
- Hyatt
Statement Regarding Hyatt Regency Curacao Golf Resort, Spa and Marina
- Best
Western Golden Sails Hotel in Long Beach, California Lays Off All
Employees Citing Poor Economic Conditions While Union Activists Claim
Decision is Reaction to Approved Ballot Measure Increasing Minimum Wage
for Hotel Workers
- 2013
Lodging Forecast - Time for Recovery! / Robert Rauch, CHA
- Hotel
Planned for Multi-Million Dollar de Laet's Landing Project in
Rensselaer, New York; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 163
Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database
- University
of New Hampshire Lodging Index Shows U.S. Lodging Executives Continue
to be Less Optimistic Regarding Current Business Conditions; Index
Slipped from 56.3% in October 2012 to 50.1% in November 2012
- Buying
a Hotel? Financing a Hotel? 10 Things Every Borrower Should Know. (Part
2) / Jim Butler
- Hawaii's
Hotel Revenues Continue Upward Climb with an 11.6% Increase Due to Rise
in Room Rates
- Kimpton
Hotels & Restaurants Acquires the 74-room Hotel Wilshire in Los
Angeles through a Joint Venture with OSM Investment Company
- Urban
Commons and Brighton Management Purchase the 101-room Le Rivage Hotel
in Sacramento, California
- Ohio
State Park Lodges Offer 12 Tips for Planning Small-Group Strategic
Meetings
- HVS
Annual Survey of German Banks Shows Lenders Have Healthy Appetite for
Investment in Germany's Hotel Sector
- Duetto
Research Announces $10M Series A Funding Round; Duetto gains traction
with its cloud-based service, employing Big Data technology to optimize
hotel demand pricing strategies
- More
Reviews = More Revenue; Best Practices for Increasing Reviews
- Finally,
It's a Go! The 55-year-old Miami Beach Convention Center to Get an
Overhaul
- Tampa's
Former Federal Courthouse Could Soon Metamorphosis into an Elegant Le
Meridien Hotel; Renovations Could Run Over $22 million
- The
International Tourism Partnership Reflects on 20 Years of
Sustainability Leadership / Stephen Farrant
- AH&LA
Releases 2013 Schedule of Events Including Investment Conferences,
Fundraisers, and Industry Tradeshows
- Revenue
Management: Culture or Philosophy? / Jean Francois Mourier
- IHG
Signs Franchise Agreement with Arcadia Hotel Hotelbetriebs GmbH
Stuttgart to Develop Five Holiday Inn Express Hotels in Germany and
Austria
- Hyatt
Hotels Corporation and Societe d'Aménagement et de Promotion de
la Station de Taghazout (SAPST) to Open the 150-room Hyatt Place
Taghazout in Morocco; Owned and Developed by SAPST, the Hotel will Open
Late in 2014
- Fairmont
Hotels & Resorts to Open the 290-room Fairmont Amman in Jordan;
Under Development by Isam Khatib and Partners with a 2014 Opening
Planned
- Mori
Building Co., Ltd. and Hyatt Hotels Corporation to Open Andaz Tokyo in
Japan in Summer 2014
- Scheduled
to Open in Thailand in 2017 the 220-room Hyatt Place Bangkok, Sukhumvit
is Under Development through a Management Agreement with Pioneer
Property Company Limited (PPC)
- Wyndham
Hotel Group Opens the 230-key Wyndham San José Herradura Hotel
& Conference Center in San José, Costa Rica
- U.S.
Travel Association Appoints John Edman, Barbara Steinfeld and Marilyn
Hannes as Chairs of State Tourism Directors, Destinations and
Attractions Councils
- Craig
S. Smith Named as Marriott's First Regional President for the Caribbean
and Latin America
- Scot
Hamilton Appointed Vice President of Marketing For Noble House Hotels
& Resorts
- Rui
Domingues Appointed as General Manager of the 288-room British Colonial
Hilton Nassau Hotel in the Bahamas
- Westport
Hospitality Names Hans van Wees as General Manager of the 125-room
Hotel Vermont in Burlington, Vermont; The New Hotel is Scheduled to
Open in Spring 2013
- Selina
Chan Named as Director of Sales & Marketing for the Outrigger
Phuket Beach Resort; The Resort is Scheduled to Open in March 2013
Following a Major Renovation of the Property
- David
Campbell Appointed as Director of Sales and Marketing for the 279-room
Rosewood Beijing Scheduled to Open in China in Summer 2013
December 14, 2012
- The
Fallacy and Failure of Fade Rates / David K. Hayes Ph.D., Allisha A.
Miller, Joshua D. Hayes MA, Peggy A. Hayes & Gene M. Monteagudo MS
- Uncertainty
Clouds Lodging for 2013, Clear Skies for 2014 and Beyond
- Time
To Move On From 1990's Era Reservations Scripting / Doug Kennedy
- International
Tourism Hits One Billion for 2012; UNWTO Reports the Actions Tourists
Can Take to Ensure their Trips Benefit the People and Places they Visit
- Wynn
Resorts Takes Actions to Streamline Board of Directors and Increase
Independent Representation as Company Pursues Growth Strategy; Will Ask
Shareholders to Remove Okada from Board to Enable Entry into New
Jurisdictions
- International
Casino Tycoon, Steve Wynn Sued in the Philippines; Charged with Libel
for His Alleged Defamatory Statement against Japanese Billionaire Kazuo
Okada and his Companies
- Changes
Ahead for Pinnacle Advisory Group's Florida Office
- Registration
is now open for NICC 2013, Newmarket International Customer Conference
- It's Your Story!
- The
265-room Seven Corners Holiday Inn Minneapolis, Minnesota Sold to
Heartland Realty Investments for $12.75 Million; New Owners Plan $10
Million Renovation and Re-branding
- AIMCAP
and Ascend Group Acquire Atlantic Hotel and Spa in Fort Lauderdale,
Florida
- Fairmont
Hotels & Resorts to Develop the 170-room Fairmont Bali, Indonesia
Slated to Open 2016
- The
Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company to Open the 353-room Ritz-Carlton, Chengdu,
in Sichuan Province, China in Summer 2013
- Hyatt
Hotels Corporation and Chartered Hampi Hotels Private Limited Open of
the 115-room Hyatt Place Hampi in Karnataka, India
- Haiti's
128-room Royal Oasis Hotel Opens Nearly Three Years After Being
Hammered by Disaster and with a Project Cost Growing from $19 Million
to $35 Million; The Hotel is Managed by Occidental Hotels & Resorts
- Westin
Brand Debuts in Southwest Florida with the 263-room Westin Cape Coral
Resort at Marina Village in Tarpon Point; Completing the Conversion of
the Former Resort at Marina Village
- Midas
Hospitality Breaks Ground for the 90-room Fairfield Inn & Suites -
Wentzville in Missouri
- Vision
Hospitality Group Begins Construction of the 126-room Fairfield Inn
& Suites, Nashville Downtown @ the Gulch in Tennessee
- Roger
J. Dow and Howard Feiertag Named as HSMAI 2012 Lifetime Achievement
Award Recipients; To be Honored at HSMAI Adrian Awards Gala in January
2013
- Norbert
Mede, of San Francisco's Hotel Griffon, Named the Luxe Worldwide Hotels
2012 General Manager of the Year
- Television
Series 'The Amazing Race' to be Honored With ALIS Innovation Award at
the Americas Lodging Investment Summit, January 22-24, 2013, in Los
Angeles
- Robert
Miller, Timeshare Company's Founder, to Retire from Marriott Vacations
Worldwide
- IHG
Positions Senior Leadership in Asia; Vice President of Global Brand
Marketing for the InterContinental Brand, Simon Scoot, is Relocated to
Bangkok and Phil Broad is Appointed as Vice President, Food &
Beverage, Asia, Middle East and Africa also Based in Bangkok
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Names Randall Obrecht as General Manager for
the Sorrento Hotel in Seattle, Washington
December 12, 2012
- Bahrain's
Hotels Could Stop Hiring Women if Forced to Implement New Labor Law;
Clause Provides Up to Six Months Unpaid Leave for Every Child a Woman
Has Under Six Years Old
- GoConcierge.net
Acquires Gold Key Solutions; Client Base Expands to More Than 1,000
Hotels Worldwide
- Conservation
and Advocacy Group, Oceana, Conduct Probe and Discover Seafood Fraud
Widespread in New York, Miami, Boston and Los Angeles Markets and
Restaurants
- National
Restaurant Association Predicts Sales in 2013 to Exceed $660 billion;
but Challenges Loom Including Health Coverage Costs Related to
'Obamacare', Turnover and Rising Food Costs
- Broward
County, Florida to Pay $1.6 million 'Success Fee' on Failed Convention
Center Hotel Deal
- Dual-Brand
Hotel Project Planned for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Developing a W
Hotel and an Element by Westin Hotel at the Former One Meridian Plaza
Location
- Loews
Hotels & Resorts and MetLife Form Joint Venture in the Ownership of
the 632-room Loews Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles, California
- The
3 Most Dreaded 'Seasonal' Words: Some Assembly Required. / Bob Taylor
- Sheraton
Norfolk Waterside Hotel in Norfolk, Virginia Scheduled for Auction
After Owners, Phf li Norfolk LLC, Failed to Pay its Debt
- Indianapolis
Hotel Workers Settle in Union-Backed Wage-and-Hour Lawsuit
- Newmarket
International Announces Key Appointments
- Sheila
C. Bair, Former Chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(FDIC), to be Featured Speaker at the Americas Lodging Investment
Summit (ALIS), January 22-24, 2013, in Los Angeles
- Korean
Conglomerates Rush to Enter Business Hotel Fray, Particularly in Seoul
- $35
Million Expansion and Renovation Under Way at the Hyatt Regency Hill
Country Resort and Spa in San Antonio, Texas; Project to Double
Function Space, Upgrade Guestrooms and Expand Water Park
- Kalahari
Resorts in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin and Sandusky, Ohio Launching
Multi-Million Dollar Renovations and Development of Various Onsite
Amenities
- Starwood
Hotels & Resorts to Enter the Philippines with the 600-room Westin
Manila Bayshore and 350-room Sheraton Manila Hotel; Set to Open in
Mid-2016 and Early 2017 as Part of Two Separate Resorts World
Integrated Entertainment Complexes in Manila
- Hotel
Indigo Brand Expands in London and New Orleans Passing the 50th
Property Milestone; 14 Hotels Added to Global Portfolio in 2012
- IHG
to Open the 261-room Holiday Inn Madrid Calle Alcala in Spain in April
2013; A Conversion from a Velada hotel, the Hotel will Operate under a
Franchise Agreement with Rentas Hoteleras Socimi S.A
- The
Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company Opens the 115-key Dorado Beach, A
Ritz-Carlton Reserve in Puerto Rico
- Noble
Investment Group Opens the 232-room Memphis Marriott East in Tennessee;
Completing a $19 Million Redevelopment and Rebranding
- The
Hotel Group (THG) Assumes Management of the 92-room Courtyard by
Marriott in Missoula, Montana; New Owner, Mercury Investment, to Launch
Property Upgrades
- Cobblestone
Hotels Completes Conversion of the Boarders Inn and Suites by
Cobblestone in Evansville, Wisconsin
- Florida
State University's Dedman School of Hospitality Meets Funding Goals;
Becomes an Independent, Industry-Specific School within FSU's College
of Business Operating with its Own Funding and Admission and Graduation
Requirements
- PolyU
Study Finds Music Tempo Key to Tourism Commercial Effectiveness
- Benchmark
Hospitality Names James E. Morrissey Controller for the 124-room ONE
Bal Harbour Resort & Spa in Miami Beach, Florida
December 11, 2012
- MSI
CloudConnect Delivers Business Continuity with Exclusive CloudSync™
Technology; Answers "What happens if my Internet goes down in the
cloud?"
- Sabre
Hospitality Solutions Helps Hotels Target Growing Chinese Market with
Dragon Trail Digital Marketing Agreement
- From
Making Beds to Making Money: Marriott Offers Unprecedented Access to
CNBC; "Hotel: Behind Closed Doors" Premieres Wednesday, December 12, at
9 p.m. ET/PT
- Buying
a Hotel? Financing a Hotel? 10 Things Every Borrower Should Know. (Part
1) / Jim Butler
- New
Program Offers $1 Million Reward for Bringing Convention to Atlantic
City; Incentives Launched by the Atlantic City Alliance as Part of
Effort to Restore Business in the Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy
- Activity
in the Miami Beach, Florida Hotel Market Remains Busy with the 54-room
Lords South Beach (Formerly Hotel Nash) for Sale and 2 New Properties
Opening in 2013
- Naman
Hotels Proposed Staybridge Suites and Holiday Inn Express Hotels
Approved by Aiken, South Carolina City Council
- Digital
Brand Overhaul for Millennium & Copthorne Hotels & Resorts
- Lodging
Interactive More Than Doubles its Growth and Service Offering in 2012
- Pinnacle
Advisory Group Announces Opening of NYC Office
- Skyline
Hotels & Resorts Selects EzRMS Revenue Management Solutions for All
Properties in Canada; Infor EzRMS Revenue Management Solutions will
increase operational efficiency and enhance forecasting capabilities
for Skyline Hotels & Resorts
- ID
TECH Integrates with Merchant Link's Gateway, Tokenization and
Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) Solutions; Partnership adds more
devices to Merchant Link's growing portfolio of P2PE integrations
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Launches New Global Revenue Support Center
- Hunter
Hotel Conference to Emphasize Finance at 25th Anniversary Conference;
National Hotel Investment Conference Scheduled for March 20 - 22 in
Atlanta
- New
Owners, Marshfield Hospitality, and IDM Group to Reopen the Former
Clearwaters Hotel in Marshfield, Wisconsin; A Renovation and
Re-branding with a Spring 2013 Opening is Planned for the 103-room Hotel
- The
Renovated Historic Ain Al Faida Resort in Abu Dhabi's Oasis City of Al
Ain to Open New Year's Eve; Closed for Five Years, Resort will Reopen
as 83-key Boutique Hotel
- Fujita
Kanko Inc. to Begin New Year with the Opening of Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo
in Japan; Completing the Rebranding of the Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at
Chinzan-so
- Shangri-La
Hotels and Resorts Development Pipeline Includes 2013 Openings in
London, Istanbul, Shanghai, Mumbai, Doha and More
- Sonesta
International Hotels Corporation Names Scott Weiler as Corporate Vice
President Marketing & Communications
- Jennifer
Myers Appointed as Global Account Director for Sonesta International
Hotels Corporation
- Jeffrey
R. Perkins Named Director of Operations for Turtle Bay Resort on Oahu,
Hawaii
- All
Inclusive Collection Welcomes Kari Dehn as Director of Sales, Meetings
& Incentives - Midwest
- Pegah
Ghoushbeigui Named Director of Sales and Marketing for the 49-room
Capella Washington D.C., Georgetown Opening Early 2013
December 10, 2012
- Nearly
1,500 New Hotel Rooms, a 43.6% Increase, Planned for Downtown
Charleston, South Carolina; Developers Motivated by the Influx of
Visitors Resulting from Recent Accolades for the Area and Increased
Low-Cost Air Travel to the City
- VFM
Leonardo Hotel Marketing Webinar - New Year, New Plan: Planning
Your Hotel's Digital Marketing for 2013; 45 Minute Webinar for Hotel
Marketers on December 12th Will Discuss Current Travel Trends,
Predictions for the New Year and Recommended Best Practices for 2013
- Jump
Start Your Group Business for 2013 / Brenda Fields
- Carey
Watermark Investors (CWI) Acquires the 317-room Courtyard San Diego
Mission Valley/Hotel Circle in California; Total Investment in the
Property is Approximately $90 Million
- Laurus
Corporation Completes Acquisition of the 281-room Sofitel Miami in
Florida
- New
Property Manager and General Manager for 130-Room Candlewood Suites
Rogers/Bentonville, Arkansas; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Have
Updated 212 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with Changes in Personnel,
Property Management or Ownership
- Travel
Industry Adds Jobs for Twelfth Consecutive Month in November; Industry
Employment Growing 17% Faster than Rest of Economy
- StillPoint
Capital Announces Addition of Leading Travel and Hospitality M&A
Practice Leader; John S. Rovani joins specialty M&A travel and
hospitality advisory practice with StillPoint Capital to leverage
recent success and lay foundation for growth
- Two
Red Roof Inns - Cincinnati-Sharonville, OH & Cincinnati-Blue Ash,
OH - SOLD by Warmbrodt Hotel Investments, Inc.
- Gabriel
Ayub, General Manager of the Hampton Inn & Suites El Paso-Airport
in Texas, Named the 2012 Hotel General Manager of the Year by the El
Paso Hotel/Motel Association
- Ron
Caimano, Jack Hardy and Bob Stoltz Honored as Industry Legends at the
Inaugural Central Florida Hotel & Lodging Association Legends Dinner
- Natchez,
Mississippi Bed and Breakfast Owners Join to Compete more Effectively
with Larger Hotels Creating the Natchez Bed and Breakfast Association
- Hilton
Worldwide Signs Agreement with Travellers International Hotel Group to
Manage the 350-room Hilton Manila in Newport City in Manila, the
Philippines; A Debut for the Hilton Hotels & Resorts Brand in
Manila, the Hotel will Open in 2014
- Two
Marriott Brands to Debut in Brazil with the Development Three New
Properties in Partnership with Aldemir Dadalt; Work will Begin on the
165-room Fairfield Inn by Marriott in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul,
and the 160-room Fairfield Inn by Marriott and 158-room Courtyard by
Marriott, both in Curitiba, Parana
- GHM
to Open The Aayu Mumbai in India; The 42-suite Hotel will Open in
December 2013
- Sheraton
Hotels & Resorts Opens the 203-key Sheraton Bali Kuta Resort on
Kuta Beach in Indonesia; Owned by PT. Indonesian Paradise Island
- The
Dual-Branded 136-key Hilton Garden Inn and 92-key Homewood Suites by
Hilton Atlanta Midtown Opens in Georgia; The Hotel is Owned and Managed
by North Point Hospitality Group
- The
224-room Crowne Plaza Costa Mesa Orange County Opens in California
Completing the Conversion of the Former Hotel Hanford; The Hotel is
Owned by Westport Capital Partners and Urban Common LLC and Operated by
Brighton Management
- The
Grand Canyon Railway in Williams, Ariz. Completes Renovations to the
Grand Canyon Railway Hotel
December 7, 2012
- An
Event Manager Who Helped Save a Life, a Taxi Call-taker Who Tracked
Down a Forgotten Bag and a Shuttle Driver Who Used His Own Car to Make
Sure a Visitor Could Buy Medicine Among Award Winners for Broward
County, Florida Hospitality Employees
- TODAY
Show Segment Highlights Hotel Room Lock Vulnerabilities; A Message from
AH&LA
- LaSalle
Hotel Properties Acquires the 120-room L’Auberge Del Mar in California
for $76.9 million
- Driftwood
Hospitality Management and Apollo Global Real Estate, Through a Joint
Venture, Acquire the 194-room DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Hotel
Columbus Downtown in Columbus, Ohio
- Google,
Kayak and Priceline: What does it mean for hotel digital marketing? /
Pedro Colaco
- Strike
in Spain as Historic Luxury Hotel Chain, Paradores de Turismo, Cuts
Jobs; Seven of the Chain's 93 Hotels will Close, while 27 will Remain
Open for Only Seven Months a Year Resulting in the Loss of 640 Jobs and
Decreased Wages for the Remaining 3,470 Employees
- Accor
to Begin 2013 with a New Brand-Based Organization of its Operations in
Europe; Appointing Four New Brand COOs and Creating a New Business
Model for Each of the Brands: Pullman, MGallery, Mercure, Novotel,
Suite Novotel, ibis, ibis Styles and ibis budget
- Whitbread
Regains its 2009 Position as the Top Performing Hotel Board of
Directors in Europe in Annual HVS European Board Study / Chris Mumford
& Thomas Mielke
- Santa's
Secrets to Overcoming an Economic Beating...Oh, yeah...(Happy)
Holidays! / Jim Hartigan
- Five
Ways to Increase Direct Bookings / Jean Francois Mourier
- Thailand's
Centara Hotels & Resorts to Launch an Economy Segment, the Cosi
Hotels Brand; Plans for at Least 30 Cosi Hotels, Each with 150-200
Rooms, in Thailand, China, Australia, and in Asean Countries
- Four
Seasons Hotels and Resorts to Open the 146-key Four Seasons Resort
Cesme on the Coast of Turkey's Izmir Province; To Be Developed in
Partnership with Dilek Gayrimenkul Yat?r?m ve Turizm A.S. with a
Planned Opening in 2016
- Cambria
Suites Enters New York with Construction Beginning on Three New Hotels
in Times Square, Chelsea and White Plains; Choice Hotels International,
Concord Hospitality, We Care Trading Co. and Meyer Jabara Hotels
Celebrate Ground Breaking for Properties Slated to Open 2013-2014
- Winegardner
& Hammons Opens New 125-room Courtyard Pittsburgh North/Cranberry
Woods in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania Featuring New Courtyard by
Marriott Lobby and Room Design
- The
101-room Hampton Inn & Suites Ocala Opens in Florida; Owned by Neil
Luton and Operated by Summit Management
- Operated
by Lotus Hotel, Inc., the 155-room BEST WESTERN PLUS Austin City Hotel
Opens in Texas
- Solaya
Hotel & Resorts Set to Open Eden Roc at Cap Cana in the Dominican
Republic
- Caribbean
Hotel & Tourism Association (CHTA) Shares the Numbers Behind the
Caribbean's Largest Tourism Marketing Event: Caribbean Travel
Marketplace Set for Jan. 20 - 22, 2013 at Atlantis, Paradise Island,
Bahamas
- Wyndham
Hotel Group Appoints Luis Mirabelli as Vice President of Development
for Latin America
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Appoints Les Utley General Manager for Hotel
Contessa in San Antonio, Texas
- Cornelia
Samara Appointed General Manager for Andaz 5th Avenue in New York City,
New York
- CWT
Meetings & Events Names Steven Smith as Senior Director, CWT
Meetings & Events, Asia-Pacific
- Scott
Murray Appointed as General Manager for the 209-room Hayman, a Private
Island Destination in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
- China's
306-key New World Guiyang Hotel Names Leslie Lowe as General Manager,
Tim Xue as Director of Sales and Marketing and Louis Young as Director
of Finance; The Hotel is Scheduled to Open in Summer 2013
- Peppers
Beach Club in Port Douglas, North Queensland, Australia Welcomes New
General Manager, Jeremy Nordkamp, and New Executive Chef, Ralph Campbell
- Beth
Muehlethaler Joins The Lodge & Spa at Brush Creek Ranch in
Saratoga, Wyoming as Sales Manager
- Greater
Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau Promotes Sonia Fong to Associate
Vice President of Convention Sales
December 6, 2012
- The
Ten Essential Traits of a Great General Manager / Larry Mogelonsky
- Innkeepers
Increase Market Share with Specialized Sales Automation; Powerful,
Cost-Effective System Lets Innkeepers Respond to Group RFPs Quickly,
Standardize Events and Menus, and Forecast Accurately for Greater
Profitability
- Flyte
Systems Expands Globally: TravelMax USA in Peru Selects FlyteBoard for
Real-Time Flight Information; TravelMax is First Latin America Travel
Agency to Offer the Confidence of Accurate Airport Flight Information
to Clients and Staff
- Nobody
Asked Me, But...No. 96; Superstorm Sandy Storms Into the Northeast;
Disaster Economics; Hotel History: The Hotel Jerome; Litigation Support
Services; Quote of the Month / Stanley Turkel
- Atlantic
City Casinos Showing Signs of Quicker-Than-Expected Post-Sandy Recovery
- Clearer
Picture of Development and Financing Plans Emerge for the Proposed
600-room Grand Hyatt Convention Center Hotel in Portland, Oregon
- Aloft
Brand Gains Momentum in Latin America with New Hotels Coming Soon to
Panama, Mexico, Paraguay and Uruguay; The Aloft Panama City, Aloft
Merida, Aloft Montevideo and Aloft Asuncion to Open in the Next Two
Years
- IHG,
in Partnership with OK Center Development Co. Ltd, to Open the 202-room
Holiday Inn Incheon Songdo in South Korea; A Mid-2014 Opening is Planned
- Walt
Disney World Opens New $425 million Fantasyland in Orlando, Florida
with More on the Way
- Less
than One Week Left! Complimentary Service Excellence Webinar - Register
Today! / Bryan K. Williams
- Hyatt
Regency Reston, Virginia Picks Xeros to Put the Green in Its Whites;
Host Hotels & Resorts Property Signs On To Become an Affirmation
Participant
- Santa
Fe's Historic Bishop's Lodge Ranch Resort and Spa Listed for Sale
- VingCard
Elsafe Promotes Bill Oliver to President - North America; Renowned
industry veteran to oversee operations for VingCard Elsafe in United
States and Canada
- Infor
Helps Hospitality Companies Measure Social Sentiment; Infor HMS
Provides Deeper Insight into Guest Sentiment through Strategic
Collaboration with TrustYou
- Access
Hotels & Resorts Announces Addition of Two South Beach Properties -
The Penguin and The President Hotels
- Castle
Hotel & Spa in Tarrytown, New York Breaks Ground for Luxury $9
Million THANN Sanctuary Spa
- Dolce
Hotels and Resorts Retained by Newage Lake Las Vegas LLC, the New Owner
of Ravella at Lake Las Vegas, to Continue Managing the 349-room Resort
in Las Vegas, Nevada
- Owned
and Operated by Jefferson Hospitality, the 112-room Best Western Denver
Southwest in Colorado Launches Resort Remodel; To Focus on Regional
Identity by Celebrating the Unique Paleontological History of the
Dinosaur Ridge Area
- Shaner
Hotels Expands University Hotel Operations with Rowan University
Courtyard by Marriott in Glassboro, New Jersey; The 129-room Hotel and
Conference Center is Scheduled to Open in Fall 2013
- Part
of the $337 Million Development Four Years in the Making, the 56-room
Alpina Gstaad Opens in Switzerland; The First 5 Star Hotel to be Built
in Gstaad in 100 Years
- The
156-key Café Royal Opens on Regent Street in London, England;
Completing the Four Year Restoration of the Circa 1865 Building
- The
Luxury Collection Hotels & Resorts Opens the 171-room Twelve at
Hengshan, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Shanghai in China
- The
InterContinental Sanctuary Cove Resort Opens as IHG Signs First
InterContinental Resort in Australia; Owner, Mulpha Sanctuary Cove
(Developments) Pty Ltd, Selects IHG to Manage the Former Hyatt Regency
Sanctuary Cove
- The
93-room Hampton Inn Iowa City/University Area Opens in Iowa
- Ultima
Hospitality Opens the 100-room Holiday Inn Express Mill Valley San
Francisco Area Hotel in California; Converting the Former Tam Woods
Hotel and Nearing Completion of Renovation Project
- The
70-room Country Inns & Suites By Carlson, Savannah Gateway Opens in
Georgia
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Appoints Karen DiFulgo as Vice President
Human Resources
- Small
Luxury Hotels of the World (SLH) Appoints Tim Davis as Global Marketing
Director and Joyce Polsenberg as Area & Development Director,
Americas
- Chintan
Dadhich Named as the Director of Operations for the 740-key Arizona
Biltmore in Arizona
- Red
Lion Hotels Appoints Four New Board Members Expanding Board to Nine
Directors and Names Melvin L. Keating as Interim Chairman
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Names David Dart Director of Human Resources
for the 316-key Cheyenne Mountain Resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Oahu,
Hawaii's Outrigger Reef on the Beach Hotel Welcomes Guido Ulmann as
Executive Chef at the Kani Ka Pila Grille
December 5, 2012
- National
Restaurant Association's 'What's Hot in 2013' Culinary Forecast
Predicts Top Food and Drink Menu Trends with Children's Nutrition and
Local Sourcing Remaining the Hottest Trends
- Mandarin
Oriental, Boston Selects InvoTech UHF-RFID Uniform System; InvoTech
Systems Tapped to Reduce Uniform Losses for Staff of 300
- Litigation
Over the Flawed Harmon Hotel Tower at CityCenter in Las Vegas Will be
Tied Up in Court Well Into 2014
- Pricing
Is the Strongest Driver of Satisfaction with Independent Travel
Websites According to J.D. Power and Associates 2012 Independent Travel
Website Satisfaction Report
- Vail
Resorts Reports Fiscal 2013 First Quarter Net Loss of $60.6 million
Compared to a Net Loss of $55.7 in the Year Ago Quarter; Season Pass
Sales Up 5% and Lodging RevPAR Up 7.8%
- First
of its Kind, the 2012 India Hotel Payroll Cost Study© Presented by
HVS Executive Search, India Provides Critical Data on Payroll Trends in
the Hospitality Business in India
- Despite
Unrest is Some Parts of the Middle East and North Africa Region, Dubai
Remains a Hub for Luxury Hospitality in MENA; Additionally, the
Development Pipeline for the Middle East Reflects 84,000 New Hotel
Rooms within Five Years
- Hotels
in Miami up to 258% More Expensive for Art Basel, According to Survey
by MiamiHotels.org
- Accor's
Sofitel Paris La Défense Under a $28.7 million Sale &
Management-Back Agreement; Hotel will Continue to be Operated by Accor
Under a Long Term Management Contract
- Appetite
for Quality Hotel Assets in Stockholm Continues into 2013 According to
Jones Lang LaSalle's Hotel Intelligence Report Sweden
- Roomlinx
to Utilize HP Technology to Provide Interactive TV (iTV) and Internet
Solutions to the Hospitality Industry; Roomlinx's Expanding List of
Tier-1 In-Room Advertisers Now Includes HP
- Indian
Vacation Ownership Leader increases occupancy with RateTiger; 23 Club
Mahindra properties generate more bookings with improved sales
visibility while reducing the administration process
- HeBS
Digital Recognized for Excellence in Hotel Digital Marketing with Five
Adrian Awards
- Digital
Alchemy's iNeed Mobile Concierge App Boosts Revenue Opportunities at
The Modern Honolulu; User-friendly app instantly pushes guest requests
to central dashboard interface for prompt, efficient attention by hotel
staff
- Study
Shows Travel Jobs Offer Better Career Progression and Benefits;
According to Data Collected by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
(BLS) and Analyzed by Oxford Economics and the U.S. Travel Association
- Using
Tourism as an Incentive Marketing Tool / Dr. Peter Tarlow
- DPG
Partners to Develop a 98-room TownePlace Suites by Marriott in Port
Arthur, Texas; Construction to Begin in April 2013 with an April 2014
Completion Planned
- The
Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center in Colorado to Begin $5 Million Hotel
Renovation
- The
Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company Partners with Owner Capital Partners to
Develop The Ritz-Carlton, Almaty in Kazakhstan; A Late 2013 Opening is
Planned for the 145-room Hotel
- St.
Regis Hotels & Resorts Debuts in Africa with the Opening of the
172-key St. Regis Mauritius Resort
- The
Mansions on Fifth Hotel Celebrates Grand Opening in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania; Completing Six Years of Restorations of Historic Mansions
Creating the 22-suite Boutique Hotel
- RB
Capital Appoints Park Hotel Group to Manage 300-room Hotel at Farrer
Park in Singapore; The Park Hotel Farrer Park, Part of RB Capital's
$450 Million Mixed-Use Project, is Slated to Open by Q2 2015
- MGM
Resorts International Names Bill Hornbuckle President & Chief
Marketing Officer
- Marriott
International Names Kevin Schwab Market Vice President for Mexico
- Kathryn
Beiser Joins Hilton Worldwide as Executive Vice President of Corporate
Communications
- Denihan
Hospitality Group Integrates Brand Management, Customer Insight and
Revenue Management Functions, Creating New Positions; Appoints Thomas
P. Botts as Executive Vice President, Chief Customer Officer and Lisa
Zandee as Senior Vice President, Brand Management
- Hilton
Worldwide Appoints Philippe Kronberg as General Manager at the 302-room
Hilton Pattaya in Thailand
- Turtle
Bay Resort on Oahu, Hawaii Appoints Michael Fields as Director of
Finance
- Alex
Obertop Named as General Manager for the 49-room Capella Washington
D.C., Opening Early 2013
- Gregory
Farrell Promoted to Executive Chef for the 142-room Woodstock Inn and
Resort in Woodstock, Vermont
December 4, 2012
- Serent
Capital Invests in Knowland, Provides Deep Access to Capital; Leading
Silicon Valley growth equity fund takes significant minority stake in
cloud based SaaS hospitality data and technology firm
- NORTHWIND
Announces 2013 Users' Conference - 'Unleash the Power of Maestro PMS'
to Maximize Productivity, Online Revenue and Profitability;
Invitation-Only Hospitality Event will Bring Owners, Executives and
Management-Level Maestro Users Together to Learn What is New in
Maestro, Build Alliances, Shape Future Development and Share
Business-Oriented Best Practices with Industry Peers
- Hyatt
Regency Philadelphia & Boyd Tamney Cross Win Prestigious HSMAI
Award; Direct mail provides group leads and impressive ROI for luxury
city hotel
- Bill
McBeath, President and Chief Operating Officer at CityCenter in Las
Vegas, Resigns
- Ian
Schrager's Latest Project, the Miami Beach Edition in Florida, to
Include a Bowling Alley and Ice Skating Rink; The 250-room Hotel Under
Development at the Site of the Seville Beach Hotel in Partnership with
Marriott International is Set to Open Early in 2014
- The
Luxury Collection Hotels & Resorts Investing $200 Million to
Restore Iconic Heritage Hotels in Europe; Hotel Alfonso XIII in
Seville, Hotel Maria Cristina in San Sebastian, The Gritti Palace in
Venice, and Prince de Galles in Paris, Brought Back to Original
Splendour
- Mitt
Romney Rejoins Marriott International Board
- Caesars
Entertainment Completes $185 Million Financing to Convert Bill's
Gamblin' Hall & Saloon in Las Vegas to a Boutique Lifestyle Hotel
and Club
- The
Veranda Resort & Residences in Turks and Caicos to be Sold to
Sandals Resorts International; Grace Bay Resorts to Transition
Management of The Veranda to Sandals Resorts
- California
Businesswomen, Grace Hu and Jenny Zhu, Acquire the 196-room Governors
Inn & Suites in Memphis, Tennessee for $1.25 Million; Plan to
Reinvigorate Property through Management of On-Site Owners and $1
Million Renovation
- MICROS
Systems, Inc. Announces CEO Succession Plan; Peter Altabef to Become
Chief Executive Officer; A.L. "Tom" Giannopoulos to Serve as Executive
Chairman
- Pegasus
Solutions Names Ariel Herr Vice President, Communications and Marketing
Services
- Technology
Integration Between SAI / INNCOM Has Hoteliers Seeing 'Green'; When
combined, SynergyMMS from System Associates Inc. and INNcontrol3 from
INNCOM are improving guestroom automation, operational efficiency,
guest comfort and more...
- Absence
of a Guest Review System Could Land Your Hotel on the NAUGHTY List;
Lodging Interactive's web-based Guest Review System is the gift that
keeps on giving by keeping hotels accountable for service and
delivering a healthier bottom line to owners
- Lawsuit
that Threatened Sale of Kiawah Island, South Carolina Resort Developer
is Settled; Positive Resolution Bodes Well for Kiawah Partners' Current
Projects
- Foreign
Visitors Spend Record $13.9 Billion in U.S. in September, a 4% Increase
for the Month, According to the U.S. Commerce Department Data
- Gold
Key|PHR Hotels and Resorts Breaks Ground on $50 Million 167-room Hilton
Garden Inn Virginia Beach in Virginia
- Tribe
Wins Yuba Casino OK; The Enterprise Rancheria of Maidu Indians to
Develop a Casino with a 170-room Hotel and Convention Center in Yuba
County, California
- Hilton
Hotels & Resorts to Open the 158-room Hilton Alexandria Corniche in
Alexandria, Egypt; The Conversion Property is Expected to Open as a
Hilton Branded Hotel in 2013
- Following
a Rebrand and an Extensive Upgrade, the 77-key Four Seasons Safari
Lodge Serengeti Opens in Tanzania
- The
171-room DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Baltimore North - Pikesville Opens
in Maryland; Completing the Renovation for the Former Hilton Owned and
Operated by Pikesville Hotel Limited Partnership a Division of the
Mangione Family Enterprise
- MIG
Real Estate Completes Renovations and Opens the 120-room Hampton Inn
Phoenix-Biltmore Hotel in Arizona, Converting the Former Hotel Highland
- A
Member of Design Hotels, the 49-key 11 Mirrors Hotel Opens in Kiev in
the Ukraine
- Tom
Haines Appointed as General Manager for Tampa, Florida's 137-room
Epicurean Hotel; Slated to Open November 2013 as Part of Marriott's
Autograph Collection
- Strand
Development Company Appoints Allan Brunner as Corporate Director of
Sales and Marketing
- Turtle
Bay Resort on Oahu, Hawaii Names Conrad Aquino Executive Chef
December 3, 2012
- Host
Hotels & Resorts' European Joint Venture Acquires Five Hotels from
Whitehall Comprising 1,733 Rooms
- Digital
Travel Marketing Leader Vizergy® Wins Stockpile of Awards to Cap
off 2012; Clients' Success Fuels Various Awards, Including HSMAI's
Adrians
- RLJ
Lodging Trust Enters Agreement to Acquire the 231-room Hilton Cabana
Miami Beach for $71.6 Million, or Approximately $310,000 per key
- Loews
Hotels & Resorts to Purchase the 356-room Madison Hotel in
Washington, D.C. from Jamestown Properties; The Acquisition Closes in
January 2013
- 176-Room
Hilton Garden Inn Project in Palo Alto, California Accepting Bids;
Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 127 Hotel Projects to the New
Hotel Construction Projects Database
- Modus
Hotels Acquires the 97-suite Brookshire Suites in Baltimore, Maryland;
Plans to Invest Several Million Dollars to Renovate and Re-concept the
Property
- Boise,
Idaho's Owyhee Plaza Hotel Sold to Ownership Group, Owyhee Place LLC;
The Group is Led by Owner of Old Boise 6th and Main Development
- Jumeirah
Group Launches Expansion Project for the Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai;
Adding to the Existing Three Hotels at the Resort, this Phase with
Include a 420-room Hotel, Villa Complex, Restaurants and Commercial
Centre with a Late 2015 Completion Planned
- Sun
International Hotels & Resorts to Open The 140-room Boardwalk Hotel
and Spa in Port Elizabeth, South Africa this Month
- The
186-room DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel & Conference Center La Mola to
Open in Spain; An Early 2013 Opening is Planned Upon the Completion of
the Renovation and Re-branding of the La Mola Hotel & Conference
Center
- Rezidor
Hotel Group to Open the 508-room Radisson Blu Resort Beach Resort &
Spa in Sochi, Russia in Q4 2013
- Meetings
Focus Reconfigures Print Brands and Coverage; Meeting planning trade
magazine, formerly separated by regional sub-brands, unifies and
redesigns
- TourWrist,
a Thayer Ventures Portfolio Company, Sweeps the Awards at The Travel
Innovation Summit @ The PhoCusWright Conference; Thayer's Investment in
TourWrist and the Launch of an Industry Advisory Board of Top Leaders,
Cap a Busy Quarter for the Venture Capital Firm
- Sceptre
Releases MotionNotes for Hospitality; Offers Ability to Send Rich Media
Messages with Ease
- The
Liquidation Sale of the Days Inn Scottsdale Fashion Square Hotel Opens
Thursday, December 6th at 9:00 a.m. Sale Conducted by NCL/
National Content Liquidators, Inc.; Building Coming Down and Everything
Must Go!
- Luxurious
One Room Hotel in Prague's Tallest Building Outfitted with VingCard
Elsafe Technology; 6-star suite located 66 meters high secured with
RFID amenities from world-leading hospitality security vendor
- Krog
Corp. in Partnership with Hart Hotels to Develop $26 Million 104-room
Clayton Harbor Hotel in Clayton, New York; Construction to Begin in
Mid-2013
- Shangri-La
Hotels and Resorts Opens the 337-room Shangri-La Hotel, Haikou on
Hainan Island in China
- The
32-suite Raffles and the 280-room Fairmont Hotels Open in Makati in the
Philippines
- Trump
Ocean Club International Hotel & Tower Panama Selects Sun
International as Casino Operator
- Rosemount,
Minnesota Approves Plans for a 70-room Country Inn and Suites
- Cedar
Fair LP to Invest $60 Million to Restore Historic Hotels and Beach
Properties at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio; Company Hopes to Attract
Visitors for Multi-day Stays
- ZMC
Hotels to Re-brand the 64-room Edgwater Express in Duluth, Minnesota as
the Days Inn Lakewalk Duluth
- Mark
Jacob Appointed as Managing Director of the Dolder Grand in
Zurich, Switzerland
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Names Colleen Pace as Director of Sales &
Marketing for the 316-key Cheyenne Mountain Resort in Colorado Springs,
Colorado
- Kimberly
Nicolas Joins the 125-room Courtyard by Marriott in Coatesville,
Pennsylvania as Director of Sales; The Hotel which Opened Earlier this
Year, is Managed by Waterford Hotel Group
**Top 25
Read
Articles - November 2012**
- Top
10 Hospitality Industry Trends for 2013 / Robert Rauch
- New
Jersey Files Additional Lawsuits Against Seven Hotels on Claims of
Price Gouging Following Hurricane Sandy; Collectively, Over 1,000
Instances Reported; One Operator Allegedly Raised Rates by 151%
- Hotel
Lawyer Alert: U.S. Hotel Owners could lose $2.1 billion in hotel value
with new Expedia program / Jim Butler
- Confirming
What Has Long Been Suspected - Social Media Reviews Drive Hotel
Reservations; Cornell Center for Hospitality Research Reports a 1 Point
Increase for Reviews Allows for an 11.2% Rate Increase
- The
World's Tallest Hotel at 1,164 feet, the 804-key JW Marriott Marquis
Dubai, Opens
- Independent
Study Conducted by PhoCusWright® on Behalf of TripAdvisor Reveals
Users Will Not Book a Hotel that Has No Reviews Online; Traveler
Reviews and Reputation Management are Crucial for Hotel Bookings
- What
Revenue Managers Can Learn From Movie Theater Owners: Lessons in
Arbitrage / David K. Hayes Ph.D., Allisha A. Miller, Joshua D. Hayes
MA, Peggy A. Hayes & Gene M. Monteagudo MS
- 2013
Top Hotel Internet Marketing Strategies
- Security
Breach Affecting 4 Million Hotel Room Locks: NEW ATTACKS REPORTED;
Updated Version of the 'LOCKFIX White Paper' Now Available
- U.S.
Renews Travel Warning for Mexico Due to Drug Related Violence and
Kidnappings
- Hyatt
Regency in Tampa Files Notice Indicating Potential Lay Off of 222 Staff
Members
- Tap
into the Power of Thanks: Six Effective (and Affordable) Ways to
Improve Your Organization's Morale, Motivation, and the Bottom Line
- Exceeding
Your Customer's Expectations? Why Bother? / Bryan K. Williams, D.M.
- Missing
Letter May Spare Miami, Florida's 93-room Sagamore Hotel from
Foreclosure; Bankruptcy Judge Rules Against Lender
- Hasu
Shah, Founder of the Hersha Hospitality Trust, Files Federal Lawsuit
Trying to Void $22 Million Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Hilton Sale
- Hard
Rock International Ranks No. 1 in Market Metrix Hospitality Index; Hard
Rock Hotels & Casinos Awarded For Top Performance in the Americas
- Handling
Customer Complaints Means Taking the H.E.A.T.! / Jim Hartigan
- In
Remembrance of Today's 32nd Anniversary of the MGM Grand Fire and the
Men Who Fought It: 'They Were Absolutely Heroes'
- Strategic
Hotels & Resorts, Inc. President and CEO, Laurence Geller, Steps
Down; Chairman of the Board Raymond "Rip" Gellein, Jr. appointed CEO
- Gogobot's
Community of In-the-Know Travelers Reveal Its List of the Best Hotels
and Best Destinations of 2012; San Francisco Earned Ranking of Best
Destination & Las Vegas' Cosmopolitan Named as Best Hotel
- Hyatt
Hotels and Unite Here Union Reach Agreement that Clears Way for Talks
on Proposed Hotel at the Oregon Convention Center
- How
the Upcoming Election Could Impact Hotel Investment in 2013 / Geoff
Davis
- Service
Excellence: Four Lessons ALL Businesses can Learn from a Five-Star
Resort / Bryan K. Williams, D.M.
- Conference
Center Recovery Is Challenged / Dave Arnold
- The
Perils of Using WordPress as a Hotel Website Content Management System
(CMS)/ Max Starkov and Jaan Paljasma
November 29, 2012
- New
Jersey Files Additional Lawsuits Against Seven Hotels on Claims of
Price Gouging Following Hurricane Sandy; Collectively, Over 1,000
Instances Reported; One Operator Allegedly Raised Rates by 151%
- Advantage
Reserve Doubles Voice Reservation Service Capacity; Pay-for-Performance
Business Model Helps Drive Company's Growth
- Colorado
Hotel/Restaurant Inspection Company Chosen to Provide "Scouting"
Services for Travel Channel's Second Season of "Hotel Impossible"
- Gogobot's
Community of In-the-Know Travelers Reveal Its List of the Best Hotels
and Best Destinations of 2012; San Francisco Earned Ranking of Best
Destination & Las Vegas' Cosmopolitan Named as Best Hotel
- Casino
Titan James Packer of Crown Ltd., Still Smarting from its Loss of $279
million on Fontainebleau Las Vegas, Claims Recent Las Vegas Court
Ruling So Egregious it Could Scare Away Foreign Investors
- Graves
Hospitality Sells Le St. Germain Hotel in St. Cloud, Minnesota for $6.2
Million; The Property will become a Courtyard Suites by Marriott
- Learning
From the Recent Past in Developing the Future Vision for Dubai; With a
Recent Growth Rate, the Fastest Since Early 2008, Indications are
Lessons Learned From the Real Estate Crisis will Temper Development
- Stay
at Magnolia Hotels This Holiday Season and Give Back to Ronald McDonald
Charities
- Where
is Your Technology Supplier When the Lights Go Out?
- Occidental
Vacation Club Receives RCI Gold Crown Ratings
- Quality
Inn - Lee's Summit, Missouri - SOLD by Warmbrodt Hotel Investments, Inc.
- Newmarket
International Chosen By Colwen Hotels For Enterprise HRM Solution;
Neighbors in hospitality come together to provide highest level of
products and services, staying on the cutting-edge of cloud technologies
- Gateway
Canyons Awarded AAA Four Diamond Rating
- Hotel
Promotions in a Multi-Channel Marketing World
- New
Oxford, Alabama Hotel is Seen as Sign of Strong Hospitality Industry;
The 81-room Home2 Suites by Hilton, Scheduled to Open Early in 2013 in
an Already Well-Served Market, Signals the Area's Economic Health
- Landry's
Golden Nugget Buys Isle of Capri Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi;
Extensive Renovation and Expansion Planned with Work Beginning in
January 2013
- Gary
Sain Honored with Charles Andrews Memorial Hospitality Award for
Community Leadership by the Central Florida Hotel & Lodging
Association
- IACC-The
Americas Invites Hospitality Students to Apply for 2013 IACC Conference
Center Industry Award; Includes $5,000 Scholarship to Provide Academic
Assistance Toward a Career in the Conference Center Industry
- Two
North Queensland, Australia Sea Temple Resorts Re-brand as Pullman
Hotels; The 126-key Pullman Palm Cove Sea Temple Resort & Spa and
the 194-key Pullman Port Douglas Sea Temple Resort & Spa Bring
Pullman's Australian Portfolio to Ten
- Louisiana's
97-room W New Orleans - French Quarter Completes Multi-Million Dollar
Renovation
- Wyndham
Hotel Group, Along with Owners Rocca Portafolio Comercial and Operators
Desarrollos Hoteleros, Open the 111-room Wyndham Garden San
Joséú Escazin Costa Rica
- Carlson
Rezidor Hotel Group Promotes Suzanne Riesterer to Chief Commercial
Officer
- Kevin
O'Connor Appointed as Executive Vice President and Chief Information
Officer (CIO) for Carlson Wagonlit Travel
- The
408-room Turnberry Isle Miami in Florida Appoints Michael Perez as Spa
Director and Monti Felaya as Food & Beverage Director
- Destination
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Todd Sicolo as Executive Chef for the
119-key Royal Palms Resort and Spa in Phoenix, Arizona
November 28, 2012
- Top
10 Hospitality Industry Trends for 2013 / Robert Rauch, CHA
- Confirming
What Has Long Been Suspected - Social Media Reviews Drive Hotel
Reservations; Cornell Center for Hospitality Research Reports a 1 Point
Increase for Reviews Allows for an 11.2% Rate Increase
- Measuring
Business Interruption After Catastrophic Events / Adam Maclennan
- Atlantic
City's Ailing Revel Casino Asks its Lenders, for the Second Time in
Three Months, for More Money
- Complimentary
Service Excellence Webinar - Register Today! / Bryan K. Williams
- Hyatt
Regency McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois to Begin Phase Two of
Multi-Million Expansion and Renovation Project; Owner, Metropolitan
Pier and Exposition Authority (MPEA), is Investing Nearly $110 Million
in the Project which Includes a New 460-room Tower on Track for Spring
2013 Completion
- New
Owner, Crow Holdings Capital Partners, of Maryland's 225-room Westin
Annapolis Plans More Meeting Space, Renovations; Set to Convert Failed
Restaurant Space into Meeting Space and Renovate Guest Rooms with an
April 2013 Completion Planned
- Report
Predicts Airfares and Hotel Prices in the Asia-Pacific Region to Rise
Next Year; Hotel Accommodations Could Jump by as Much as 7% in Some
Countries
- Hard
Rock International Ranks No. 1 in Market Metrix Hospitality Index; Hard
Rock Hotels & Casinos Awarded For Top Performance in the Americas
- Managing
Food and Beverage Operations for New South Carolina Customer Simplified
and Streamlined with Clear Sky Software's F&B Inventory Control
System
- Global
Leisure Bookings Jump More Than +9% in October; Leisure Room Rates
Increase by +2.9% Worldwide and +4.0% in North America
- Second
Annual Hotel Equity & Lender Perspectives (HELP) Conference Set For
April 8-9, 2013 at Boston's Seaport Waterfront Hotel; Two-Day Event to
Feature Top Experts in Hotel Finance/Acquisition/Development
- Jay
H. Shah and Neil H. Shah of Hersha Hospitality Trust Honored as
Hospitality Leaders of the Year by The School of Hospitality Business
Alumni at Michigan State University; The Shahs Create an Endowment for
a Scholarship for Student Internships in NYC
- Sun
International to Open The Maslow Hotel in Sandton, South Africa in
January 2013; Completing the $28 Million Refurbishment of the Hotel
Formally Known as The Grayston
- RIU
Hotels & Resorts Set to Reopen the 434-room Riu Palace Mexico
Following $20 million Renovation
- The
188-room Hampton by Hilton London Luton Airport Opens in the U.K.
- Dr.
Lalia Rach to Join University of Wisconsin-Stout as Associate Dean of
the College of Management and Director of the School of Hospitality
Leadership
- Capella
Hotel Group Appoints Ed Linsley as General Manager for AYANA Resort and
Spa Bali
- KOP
Hospitality Appoints Aloysius Michael as General Manager of the 88-key
Montigo Resorts Nongsa, Located on Batam Island, Indonesia
- BridgeStreet
Residences, Serviced Apartments and Suites Appoints Beth Searls as Vice
President of its Northeast U.S. Region
- Waterford
Hotel Group Names Paul Dubuque as Executive Chef and Cody Webber as
Food & Beverage Manager at the Historic Andover Inn in Andover,
Massachusetts
- Al
Smyth Named as Director of Events for the Hotel Vitale in San
Francisco, California
November 27, 2012
- Cendyn's
MeetingLouisville.com Sells Louisville, KY for Meetings/Conventions,
Increasing Revenue for Participating Venues and Hotels; Recently
Launched Website Gives Meeting Planners Option to Book Multiple
Properties
- Sahara
India Pariwar Acquires 75% Interest in the Iconic Plaza Hotel New York
from El Ad US Holdings; Co-owner Kingdom Holding Co. Retains its 25%
Stake while Fairmont Hotels & Resorts will Continue to Operate the
Hotel
- Hawaii's
Turtle Bay Resort Eyes Expansion in 2014; Environmental Impact Report
Complete for the Development Plan Adding Two Hotels to the Area
- Hurricane
Sandy Victims to Receive Hotel Furniture from the Residence Inn
Harrisburg Carlisle in Pennsylvania; The Obsolete Items Resulting From
the Hotel's Renovation Going to those in Need Rather than the Landfill
or Liquidation
- Wynn
Resorts May Take Gamble on Everett, Massachusetts Site; Recent
Heightened Interest in Everett Raises Prospect of a Bidding War for the
Location as well as the Eastern Massachusetts Gaming License
- Delta
Hotels and Resorts to Open the 195-key Delta Waterloo Hotel in Ontario,
Canada; The Property, Owned and Being Developed by Auburn Developments,
is Reflective of the Extensive Brand Repositioning Underway for the
Delta Network of Hotels
- The
$27 Million Hyatt Hotel Project Moves Forward on Bloomington City,
Indiana Council Vote; REI Investments and White Lodging Plan to Develop
the 168-room Hyatt with Hopes to Begin Construction in Spring 2013 with
a Q2 2014 Completion
- Jumeirah
Group Expands into India with Signing of Management Agreement for Major
New Development in Lower Parel District of Mumbai; Luxury 470-room
hotel expected to open in 2017
- Conrad
Hotels & Resorts Launches Conrad Concierge, New Level of
Personalized Service for Today's Luxury Traveler; For the first time,
guests can customize their hotel experience before arrival with Conrad
Concierge
- ResortCom
International's LaTour Hotel and Resorts Division Selected to Provide
Management Services to Grand Regina Los Cabos
- Hotel
Assets Group Closes its 71st Hotel of the 2012 Year
- Host
Users Group Presents 23rd Annual Conference at The American Club
Resort; Hospitality Technology's Only User Group Led by the Users
- Marriott
CEO Arne Sorenson to be Keynote Speaker for 25th Annual Hunter Hotel
Conference Occurring March 20-22, 2013
- Two
Hampton Inns in Tuscaloosa, Alabama Achieve Certified Guest Service
Property Status
- The
172-room Hilton Garden Inn Houston NW - America Plaza Opens in Texas
- Wyndham
Hotels and Resorts Adds the 106-room Wyndham Garden Chinatown in New
York City to its Portfolio; The Newly Constructed Hotel is Owned by 93
Bowery Holdings
- Starwood
Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Joins Urban Land Institute Greenprint
Center for Building Performance
- sbe
Names Sam Bakhshandehpour Company President; Bakhshandehpour to Lead
Top-Level Management of All Company Business alongside sbe Founder,
Chairman and CEO Sam Nazarian
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Names Ted A. Davis Chief Sales &
Marketing Officer
- Chris
Wallace Joins Choice Hotels as Assistant General Counsel, Franchising
- White
Lodging Appoints Carrie Rosencrans as Regional Vice President of
Operations for the Denver, Colorado Region
- Darryl
Jett Named as General Manager for W Dallas - Victory Hotel in Texas
- The
Newly Redesigned Inn on Fifth in Naples, Florida Makes Enhancements to
its Sales and Marketing Team
November 26, 2012
- Conference
Center Recovery Is Challenged / Dave Arnold
- When
Deployed Correctly, Courtesy Holds Can Help Upscale Hotels &
Resorts Close More Inquiries / Doug Kennedy
- Despite
Last Ski Season's Epic Wipeout, Lake Tahoe Ski Resorts are Splurging on
Upgrades and Expansions
- Neurohospitality:
A Superior Link in the Development of the Hospitality Industry? /
Osvaldo Torres Cruz
- PolyU
Study Finds Shopping Attracts Female Chinese Tourists to Hong Kong
- New
Ownership and General Manager for 123-Room Hampton Inn & Suites
Waco South; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Have Updated 293 Hotels in
the Last Two Weeks with Changes in Personnel, Property Management or
Ownership
- Travel
Outlook Premium Hotel Call Center Contracts with Scottsdale Camelback
Resort, Scottsdale, Arizona for Improved Conversions and Superior
Customer Service
- HeBS
Digital Recognized for Creative Achievement with Five Davey Awards in
Website Design, Online Advertising and Social Media Categories
- The
Hilltop House Hotel in Los Alamos, California Faces Foreclosure
- Renaissance
Edmonton Airport Hotel to Open in Alberta, Canada in Summer 2013; The
New-Build 213-room Hotel will be Owned and Operated by Platinum
Investments
- Red
Lion Hotels Signs Franchise Agreement for the 60-room Future Red Lion
Inn & Suites Kent in Kent, Washington; Owners, Kent South
Hospitality, Plan Extensive Renovations to Guest Rooms, Public Space,
and the Hotel's Exterior
- The
124-room Hampton Inn & Suites Columbia/South Opens in Maryland;
Owned by OTO Rock, LLC and Operated by OTO Development, LLC
- Driftwood
Hospitality Management Appointed to Manage the 224-room Quality Suites
Royale Parc Suites in Orlando - Kissimmee, Florida
- The
Westin Hilton Head Island Resort & Spa Opens Renovated Guestrooms
as Part of the Third Phase of its $30 Million Renovation
- New
Castle Hotels and Resorts Appoints Nik Pereira as Director of Sales for
the Westin Portland Harborview Hotel in Maine; The Historic Hotel,
Undergoing Renovation and Re-Flagging, is Scheduled to Open in Spring
2014
- Thailand's
Plaza Athénée Bangkok, a Royal Méridien Hotel,
Names Carl Volschenk as Director of Sales and Marketing
November 21, 2012
November 20, 2012
- Security
Breach Affecting 4 Million Hotel Room Locks: NEW ATTACKS REPORTED;
Updated Version of the 'LOCKFIX White Paper' Now Available
- Nick
Massad Honored by the Hotel & Lodging Association of Greater
Houston with its Lifetime Achievement Award; Eight Additional Awards
Presented Recognizing Contributions in Hospitality
- Beyond
Awesome Hats - The Pilgrim's ultimate contribution...Job Knowledge
Testing / Jim Hartigan
- How
to Generate More Reviews, Followers and Engagement on the Social Web /
Daniel Edward Craig
- Jekyll
Island Authority Adopts Financing Plan Allowing Development of the
200-room Westin and the 120-room Hyatt Place Hotels to Move Forward
- Sheraton
Hotels & Resorts Invests $230 Million to Renovate Four Hawaiian
Properties; Multi-Million Dollar Upgrades Made to the Sheraton Waikiki,
Sheraton Maui Resort & Spa, Sheraton Kauai Resort and Sheraton Kona
Resort & Spa at Keauhou Bay
- San
Diego's Marriott Marquis Gains Approval for $100 million Expansion,
Adding A Massive New Ballroom and Exhibit Hall While the Public Will
Get a New Walkway to the Bay / Lori Weisberg
- Travellers
in Southeast Asia Named Littering and Spitting the Worst Beach and Pool
Misdemeanour with Teenagers and Young Adults the Key Culprits According
to TripAdvisor Study
- ICE
Proves Hot Feature at Fairmont Pacific Rim
- B4Checkin
Earns Editors' Choice Award for Best New Technology at IHMRS 2012;
Panel of industry experts recognize proprietary new technology that
maximizes convenience for mobile-friendly guests and increases
operational efficiency
- Infor
Wins Technology Innovation Award at Equip' Hotel Show; Cloud and Mobile
Among Capabilities Contributing to Prestigious Recognition for Infor HMS
- Are
You Using Yesterday's Technology? / Jean Francois Mourier
- Hawaii's
Hoteliers Give Thanks for Filled Rooms and Higher Revenue; Through
September, Occupany is Up 4.1% and ADR Up 7.8% Over Same Period Last
Year
- Colorado
Springs, Colorado Hotels Bouncing Back After Waldo Canyon Fires;
Occupancy Rose 4.5% and ADR Nearly 3% in October Compared to Same
Period in 2011
- Rezidor
Hotel Group to Open the 478-room Park Inn by Radisson in Amsterdam, the
Netherlands in Q4 2014
- The
148-room Courtyard by Marriott to Open Next Week in Killeen, Texas,
Managed by MH Partners
- Brady
Hotel System LLC Putting Final Touches on $10.5 million, 104-room
Fairfield Inn & Suites, the First Hotel in the Brady District of
Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Plamondon
Hospitality Partners Open the $13 million TownPlace Suites by Marriott
in Frederick, Maryland
- The
152-room DoubleTree by Hilton Zagreb Opens in Croatia
- Rezidor
Hotel Group Opens the 508-room Radisson Blu Resort & Congress
Centre, Sochi in Russia and the 142-room Radisson Blu Hotel, Nantes in
France
- Starwood
Opens the 254-room Westin Snowmass Resort in Colorado Completing its
Multi-Million Dollar Renovation and Re-Flagging of the Former
Silvertree Hotel & Conference Center
- Elite
Island Resorts Completes Multi-Million Dollar Renovation and Rebrands
Newly Acquired Resort in St. Lucia, Opening the 310-key St. James's
Club, Morgan Bay, St. Lucia
- Anguilla's
93-room CuisinArt Golf Resort & Spa Reopens for Season, Completing
an Extensive $15 Million Renovation
- Navy
Lodge Little Creek - Fort Story in Virginia Breaks Ground on 26-room
Expansion
- BayStar
Hotel Group Completes $3.5 Million Renovation of the 277-key Embassy
Suites Orlando - North in Altamonte Springs, Florida
- Atlantic
City Business and Civic Organization Honors Former Resorts CEO, Dennis
Gomes, with Community Spirit Award
- Chef
Davide Pugliese Named as Executive Chef for Scrub Island Resort, Spa
& Marina in the British Virgin Islands
November 19, 2012
- Hotel
Lawyer with the New "Guide" for International Hotel Transactions --
Doing Business Abroad or With Foreigners / Jim Butler and Bob Braun
- Rainmaker's
GroupREV Group Forecasting And Pricing System Now Live at 95 Percent of
Omni Hotels & Resorts Locations
- Hospitality
Leading Technologist Joins KoolConnect; Industry Leader Matthew
Sandvold to Lead Sales and Product Roadmap
- Aloft
Brand to Debut in Germany with the 2015 Openings of the 184-room Aloft
Munich and the 165-room Aloft Stuttgart
- The
250-room DoubleTree Resort by Hilton - Surin Beach Opens in Phuket; The
Thailand Debut for the DoubleTree Brand is a Re-branding of the Former
Courtyard by Marriott
- Marriott
Courtyard Darden Hotel and Retail Development to Begin Work in 2013;
Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 186 Hotel Projects to the New
Hotel Construction Projects Database
- Local
Leaders and Omni Hotels & Resorts Celebrate the Topping Out of the
21-story, 800-room Omni Nashville Hotel in Tennessee
- Iskalo
Development Plans a 137-room Hyatt Place Hotel in Amherst, New York;
Hopes to Begin Construction in Spring with a Summer 2014 Opening
Projected
- Awesome
4 & 5 Star Hotel Room Furniture Must Go; Gently Used - Very Good
Condition - Rock Bottom Prices, Exclusively offered by Upgraded Rooms
Hotel Liquidation; Limited time first come first served offer
- Swift
Hospitality Breaks Ground for New Hotels in Illinois and South
Dakota; Leading Management Firm's Positive Forward Growth Continues
- Lodging
Interactive Introduces HD Video Service: 'HotelWebShows'; Hospitality's
interactive and social media marketing agency is making video
production simple, affordable and hassle free for hoteliers; FREE White
Paper available
- Six
Hotel Projects Underway in Downtown Buffalo, New York will Add 500
Rooms to the Market
- Developer,
Local Hotel Adventures, to Build a 100-room Boutique Hotel Named The
Andell Inn Near Kiawah and Seabrook Islands in South Carolina
- Torgerson
Properties Plans Nearly $10 Million Restaurant, Hotel Remodel and
Refranchise Project for Willmar, Minnesota; The "Willmar Legacy
Repositioning" Project will Overhaul the Existing Holiday Inn, Comfort
Inn and Conference Center
- South
Carolina's Top-Rated Inn at Palmetto Bluff Eyes First Expansion;
Considering the Addition of 150 Guest Rooms and Upgrades to Public
Spaces
- Hilton
Marco Island Beach Resort and Spa Completes $9 Million Guest Room
Renovation Project
- The
Inn on Fifth in Naples, Florida Completes $1.7 Million Renovation of
the 87-room Inn; New Look Provides Preview of the Property's $16
Million Expansion Project Set for a December Completion
- PolyU
Designated by the Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals
(HFTP) as its Headquarters for the Asia-Pacific Region
- The
Williamsburg, Virginia Hotel-Motel Association Selects Ron Kirkland as
Executive Director
- Omni
Hotels & Resorts Names Stephen Hilliard as Managing Director of the
Omni Mount Washington Resort in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire
- Troy
Longwith Appointed as General Manager for the 150-room Heathman Hotel
in Kirkland, Washington
November 16, 2012
- Tap
into the Power of Thanks: Six Effective (and Affordable) Ways to
Improve Your Organization's Morale, Motivation, and the Bottom Line
- The
Power of Advice: A Film with Steven R. Goldman, Chief Executive Officer
of Groupe du Louvre; What one piece of advice does Goldman return to
even today?
- With
the Most to Lose, Ailing Revel Casino Will Find it Hard to Recover from
Hurricane Sandy's Blow
- Latest
University of New Hampshire Lodging Index Shows Negative Shift in
Executives Optimism Regarding Current Business Conditions
- Blackstone
Group Acquires the 415-room Sofitel Chicago; Accor to Retain Management
of Property
- RLJ
Lodging Trust Acquires the 275-room Embassy Suites Boston/Waltham for
$64.5 million, or approximately $235,000 per key
- Jekyll
Island Plans to Jump-Start Stalled Hotel Projects for Newly Opened $50
million Convention Center by Aiding in Financing
- Penn
National Gaming Submits Proposal for $480 million Hollywood Casino
Philadelphia to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board; Master Plan
Includes a Possible Phase II Development Expansion with a 500-room Hotel
- Survey
Comparing Thirty U.S. and Canadian Destinations and Comprised of Only
3-Star Hotels Reveals Hotels in Miami Beach Earned Worst Ratings
- Adare
Manor Hotel & Golf Resort Designated a Fodor's Choice Resort
- Infor
Listed as Champion, Trend Setter and Best Overall Value in 2012
Info-Tech Vendor Landscape Report; Cloud, Mobile and Social Monitoring
Capabilities Contribute to Frontrunner Status
- Hotel
Equities Assumes Management of the 107-room Wingate by Wyndham Hotel in
Aberdeen, Maryland
- Approval
for Three Hotel Project in Garden Grove, California Granted; Estimated
to Cost Between $150 million and $180 million, Proposed Project Still
has a Long Way to Go
- Fairmont
Hotels & Resorts to Debut in the Philippines with Next Month's
Opening of the 280-room Fairmont Makati
- Hilton
Worldwide to Open the Dual-Branded 154-room Hilton Garden Inn and
96-room Hampton by Hilton Val d'Europe in France Near Disneyland Paris;
A 2015 Completion is Planned for the Project being Developed in
Conjunction with Euro Disney Associés S.C.A.
- Wyndham
Hotel Group Signs Development Agreement with Riyada International
Hotels and Resorts to Launch Ten New Days Inn Hotels in Saudi Arabia
Over the Next Seven Years
- Rezidor
Hotel Group to Rebrand Two Existing Properties in Dortmund and Bremen,
Germany to Radisson Blu Brand; The 190-room Radisson Blu Hotel Dortmund
in January 2013 and the 235-room Radisson Blu Hotel Bremen in June 2013
- Hilton
Worldwide Opens the Conrad Pezula Resort & Spa in Knysna, South
Africa Completing the Re-branding of the 86-room Resort
- Owned
and Operated by Stewart Hotel Associates, the 74-room Hampton Inn
Oxford/Miami-University Area Opens in Ohio
- Owned
by HBC Corona and Managed by Urgo Hotels, the 173-suite SpringHill
Suites by Marriott in Corona, New York Set to Open
- Holiday
Inn Resort Krabi Ao Nang Beach Opens Following Rebranding of the Former
Sala Talay Resort in Thailand
- The
Hyatt Regency Cincinnati in Ohio to Undergo $20 Million Renovation;
Guest Room Overhaul will Include an Increase in Room Total from 486 to
491
- Connecticut's
325-key Trumbull Marriott Merritt Parkway ("Trumbull Marriott")
Completes Two-Year Renovation of Guestrooms and Public Spaces
- Mark
Gervais, General Manager of the Hotel Viking in Newport, Rhode Island,
Named 2012 Man of the Year by the Rhode Island Hospitality Association
- Hershey
Entertainment & Resorts Names William F. Simpson Jr. as CEO,
Succeeding Soon to Retire Ted Kleisner
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Names Eric Gavin Regional Vice President of
Sales & Marketing
- Dalip
Singh Appointed as Senior Vice President and Head of KOP Hospitality,
the Hospitality Division for KOP Properties
- Martin
Rothchild, General Manager of the Hilton Lexington/Downtown Hotel,
Appointed to the Board of Directors of the Convention and Visitors
Bureau for Lexington, Kentucky
- Wendy
Valdez Appointed as Executive Meetings Manager for the 598-room Hilton
Sandestin Beach Golf Resort & Spa in Destin, Florida
- Bertrand
Bouquin Named as Executive Chef at The 744-key Broadmoor in Colorado
Springs, Colorado
November 14, 2012
- Exceeding
Your Customer's Expectations? Why Bother? / Bryan K. Williams, D.M.
- Independent
Study Conducted by PhoCusWright® on Behalf of TripAdvisor Reveals
Users Will Not Book a Hotel that Has No Reviews Online; Traveler
Reviews and Reputation Management are Crucial for Hotel Bookings
- Labor
Union Publicizing Hyatt Regency Baltimore's Alleged Unfair Labor
Practices While Attempting to Unionize Workers
- The
300-room Hyatt Regency Bangkok, Sukhumvit to Open in Thailand in 2017;
Hyatt Hotels Enters Management Agreement with Grande Asset Hotels and
Property Public Company Limited to Develop the Property
- 8Hotels
to Open the 90-Room 1888 Hotel in Sydney, Australia; The $30 Million
Redevelopment of a Circa 1888 Building is Set to Open in March 2013
- Griffin
Gate Marriott Resort & Spa in Lexington, Kentucky to Begin
Expansive Three Year Renovation Project; Phase One, the $5 Million
Upgrade to Guestrooms and Corridors, to be Complete in April 2013
- As
Part of Worldwide Program, Zagat Honors Next Generation of Culinary
Leaders with its First-Ever Boston "30 Under 30" Awards
- Cannery
Casino Resorts Reveals Proposal for $250 million Casino and Hotel in
Country Club Hills Area of Chicago; Securing Gaming License is First
Hurdle
- Sierra
Management, Owners of the Former Center Valley Club Golf Course in
Center Valley, Pennsylvania Hoping to Build Hotel and Put to Rest
Rumors of Sands Casino's Interest in Property, of Which There is None
- Vista
Capital Company Arranges $17.3 Million of Financing for the Historic
Crowne Plaza Union Station in Indianapolis, Indiana
- Salvatore's
Grand Hotel in Buffalo, New York is First to Launch the ZENO/Verve Mesh
Network for Energy Savings and Improved Room Controls; Boutique hotel
in Buffalo is first to benefit from joint technology integration
enabling guests and the front desk to control in-room power
distribution and electronics
- Marina
Hotels Builds Vantage Point on Rate Intelligence and Online Reputation
with RateGain
- Grand
Slam of a Different Sort? Venus Williams Unveils Her Design Work at the
Newly Renovated Intercontinental Miami Hotel
- Viejas
Band of Kumeyaay Indians Celebrate Topping Off of San Diego County's
$38 million Viejas Hotel Located Next to Viejas Casino
- Owned
and Managed by 3H Group Hotels, the 87-suite TownePlace Suites by
Marriott in Chattanooga, Tennessee is Set to Open Next Week
- The
152-room Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Opens in Long Island
City, New York; The Hotel is Owned and Managed by Chase Hotel Group
- DoubleTree
by Hilton Opens the Newly Renovated 155-suite The Strathallan- a
DoubleTree by Hilton in Rochester, New York; Completing the $10 Million
Upgrade and Re-naming for the Hotel, Owned and Operated by 550 East Ave
- Former
Fairfield Inn in Merrimack, New Hampshire to Reopen as Holiday Inn
Express Following Renovation by Roedel Cos.
- Working
with an Ownership Group Led by Lodging Capital Partners, HHM Adds the
238-room Sheraton Detroit Novi to its Management Portfolio
- Australia's
Radisson Resort Gold Coast to be Re-branded to Mercure Gold Coast
Resort as GC Hotel Management Choses Accor to Take Over Management
- True
North Hotel Group Adds Three VPs - Dave Mashburn, Jerry Culkin and Joe
Novak - to its Leadership Team
- Interstate
China Hotels & Resorts Appoints Timur Senturk as Managing Director
of J Hotel at Shanghai Tower in China; A Q4 2015 Opening is Planned for
the 200-room Hotel Currently Under Construction
- All
Inclusive Collection Names Kathy Botero Frantz, CMP as Regional
Director of Meeting and Incentive Sales Covering the Southeast
- Jaime
Huttrer-Herick Named as Director of Sales and Marketing for The
Ritz-Carlton, Bachelor Gulch in Beaver Creek, Colorado
- Paul
McCabe Appointed as Executive Chef for the 112-key La Valencia Hotel in
La Jolla, California
November 13, 2012
- Missing
letter May Spare Miami, Florida's 93-room Sagamore Hotel from
Foreclosure; Bankruptcy Judge Rules against Lender
- 2013
Top Hotel Internet Marketing Strategies
- OpenWays
Announcing: MOBILE KEY TRIO with Triple Play Reader Including CAC™,
Pure NFC™ and RFID technologies for Upgrading Existing
Electronic Locks
- AH&LA
Partners With STR to Launch Food & Beverage STAR Benchmark Report;
Goal to Develop a Standard Language or Metric that Quantifies Hotel
F&B Revenues
- Thomas
J. Pritzker Named the Recipient of the 2013 Cornell Icon of the
Industry Award
- Brooke
Denihan Barrett, co-CEO of Denihan Hospitality Group, Honored as Female
Executive of the Year at the 2012 Stevie Awards for Women in Business
- The
Hilton Columbus Downtown Opens in Ohio as Hotel Occupancy Rate Rises in
the Area; But will Recent Rate Increases be Sustained with the Influx
of the Hotel's 532 Guestrooms?
- The
Perils of Using WordPress as a Hotel Website Content Management System
(CMS) / Max Starkov and Jaan Paljasma
- Handling
Customer Complaints Means Taking the H.E.A.T.! / Jim Hartigan
- Caesars
Entertainment and Enjoy S.A. Form Strategic Relationship in Latin
America; Enjoy to Acquire 45% of Baluma S.A., the Caesars Subsidiary
which Owns and Operates the Conrad Punta Del Este Resort and Casino in
Punta Del Este, Uruguay while Caesars will Become a Shareholder in Enjoy
- DiamondRock
Hospitality Acquires the 94-room Hotel Rex in San Francisco, California
for $29.5 Million; The Hotel is Managed by Joie de Vivre Hospitality
- Massachusetts
Convention Center Authority Request for Proposals for Development and
Operation of Mid-Priced Hotels Adjacent to the Boston Convention &
Exhibition Center
- AEI
Communications and Percipia Networks Create a Premier Partnership
within the Hospitality Market
- Are
Web Crawlers Creeping Around Your Site? Find Out Via a FREE Website
Structure Audit from Lodging Interactive
- Sonnenblick-Eichner
Company Arranges $112,000,000 of Financing for the Cooper Hotel
Portfolio
- The
International Hotel, Motel + Restaurant Show® (IHMRS) Names Winners
of the 32nd Annual Gold Key Awards for Excellence in Hospitality
Design; Pierre-Yves Rochon Honored as Designer of the Year
- Davidson
Hotels & Resorts to Manage the 362-room Hilton Boston
Downtown/Financial District; The Massachusetts Hotel is Owned by
DiamondRock Hospitality Company
- South
Carolina's 143-room Holiday Inn Express Charleston Downtown Nears
Opening as Multi-Million Dollar Renovations of the Former Best Western
Nears Completion; The Hotel, Owned by Charleston OPCO LLC, will be
Managed by Charlestowne Hotels
- Hyatt
Place Brand Debuts Outside the U.S. with the Opening of the 120-room
Hyatt Place San Jose/Pinares in Costa Rica; Hyatt-Branded Expansion to
Continue in Latin America
- Hilton
Garden Inn Opens its First Hotel in Switzerland with the 146-room
Hilton Garden Inn Davos
- IHG
Appoints Philippe Bijaoui as Vice President Development for Europe
- Gansevoort
Hotel Group Appoints Adam Shindler as Vice President, Acquisitions and
Development
- Benchmark
Hospitality Names Jim Mauer as General Manager of the 500-key
Bonaventure Resort & Spa in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- Tina
Moodie Appointed as Assistant General Manager for the Hotel Monaco
Denver, a Kimpton Hotel in Colorado
November 12, 2012
- You
Are Cordially Invited...More Hotels are Changing to Kaba's Locks, Come
to IHM&RS Booth #2403 to See Why
- Hotel
1000 in Seattle Selects Agilysys for Point-of-Sale Solution; Upscale
Boutique Property Implements Agilysys InfoGenesis POS System
- Atlantic
City Alliance Working to Get Word Out - The World-Famous Boardwalk is
Fully Intact along the Oceanfront, and the City's Tourism District is
Open for Business
- Hasu
Shah, Founder of the Hersha Hospitality Trust, Files Federal Lawsuit
Trying to Void $22 Million Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Hilton Sale
- Ten
Exhibitors Receive Editors' Choice Awards During Opening Ceremonies of
the 97th Annual International Hotel, Motel + Restaurant Show (IHMRS)
and 3rd Annual Boutique Design New York (BDNY); Kenneth F. Hine Awarded
"Best of Show"
- The
Hotel Purchase and Sale Agreement -- What is the Value of the Seller's
Representations and Warranties to a Hotel Buyer? / Jim Butler
& David Sudeck
- New
Property Manager and General Manager for 126-Room Hilton Garden Inn
Fort Myers; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Have Updated 298 Hotels in
the Last Two Weeks with Changes in Personnel, Property Management or
Ownership
- Near-term
Economic Uncertainty, Weaker Q3 Lodging Performance and the Impact of
Superstorm Sandy Result in Lodging Outlook Setback According to Updated
Forecast by PwC U.S.
- Finances
for the 2,966-room Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas Improve Despite Decline in
Casino Revenue
- The
Liquidation Sale of the Willow Valley Inn and Suites Opens Thursday,
November 15th at 10:00 a.m. Sale Conducted by NCL/ National
Content Liquidators, Inc.; Building Coming Down and Everything Must Go!
- Destination
DC Selects Miles to Create New Suite of Marketing Products Targeting
Leisure Travelers and Meeting Planners
- The
Olympia Companies Break Ground on the 128-room Hilton Garden Inn
University/Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina; The Project,
Resulting from a Partnership with SMART Hotels Group, is Scheduled to
Open in September 2013
- Rezidor
Hotel Group to Open the 236-room Park Inn by Radisson Zalakaros,
Hungary in Q1 2015
- The
World's Tallest Hotel at 1,164 feet, the 804-key JW Marriott Marquis
Dubai, Opens
- Highgate
Hotels to Take Over Managment of Pacific Beach Hotel in Honolulu,
Hawaii; Hotel Union Energized with Hopes to End Decade Long Strained
Relations
- Hotelier
T.R. Reddy Plans to Begin Construction Transforming the Augusta,
Georgia's Vacant Regency Inn into a Holiday Inn Express and Suites;
Renovation to Begin Early in 2013
- Ronald
Vlasic, CHA, Regional Vice President of Hotels, Kimpton Hotels &
Restaurants, Inducted as 2013 AH&LA Chair
- Jim
Abrahamson Elected as Incoming AH&LA Secretary/Treasurer; Hotelier
to be Association Chair in 2015
- BridgeStreet
Residences, Serviced Apartments and Suites Appoints Walter "J.R."
Dembiec, Jr., as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Human
Resources
- New
Castle Hotels and Resort Promotes John Fields to Area Manager of the
Connecticut Region; Terry Rawstern Appointed as General Manager of the
Hilton Garden Inn in Norwalk, Connecticut
- Terranea
Resort in Palos Verdes, California Expands Executive Team Introducing
Six New Leadership Roles; Shawn Jervis Named to Newly Created General
Manager Position
November 9, 2012
- What
Revenue Managers Can Learn From Movie Theater Owners: Lessons in
Arbitrage / David K. Hayes Ph.D., Allisha A. Miller, Joshua D. Hayes
MA, Peggy A. Hayes & Gene M. Monteagudo MS
- Orient-Express
Names John M. Scott III President and Chief Executive Officer; Further,
Board Unanimously Rejects Unsolicited Acquisition Proposal from Indian
Hotels
- Indian
Hotels Company Ltd and Charme II Fund Acknowledge Announcement by
Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. and are Considering Options with Respect to
Acquisition Offer
- Discover
and Leverage the Gems in Your Data
- Priceline.com
Agrees to Acquire KAYAK Software Corporation
- M1T
Partners and Adoba Eco Hotel® Finalize Funding For National
Expansion of LEED Certified Independent Hotel Brand; $75 Million Round
of Capital Financing is First Step of a Five-Year, $1 Billion Plan
- Pennsylvania's
Mount Airy Casino Resort Reveals Plans for its $5 million Luxury
Indoor/Outdoor Pool Project
- Steve
Wynn Proposes Riverfront Casino and Hotel in the Fishtown Neighborhood
of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Travel
Outlook Premium Hotel Call Center Contracts with Sugar Bay Resort and
Spa, U.S. Virgin Islands for Improved Conversions and Superior Customer
Service
- CONPEHT
Guest Service Gold Training Far Exceeds Expectations
- Fairmont
Hotels & Resorts in Partnership with Hunan Taskin Investment Co. to
Develop the 350-room Fairmont Changsha in China; A 2016 Opening is
Planned for the Hotel in Changsha, the Capital of Hunan Province
- The
Kessler Collection and Daniel-Evson to Partner in Developing a 100-room
Grand Bohemian Hotel at Lane Parke in Birmingham, Alabama
- Hilton
Worldwide Enters Agreement with S+B Gruppe AG to Open the 350-room
Hampton by Hilton Warsaw in Poland; An Early 2014 Opening is Planned
- Best
Western International Debuts in the Kingdom of Bahrain with the Opening
of the 250-room BEST WESTERN PLUS The Olive
- Hilton
Worldwide Opens the 434-room Conrad Seoul in South Korea
- Embassy
Suites Hotels and Sierra Land Group Celebrate Opening of the 300-suite
Embassy Suites Orlando - Lake Buena Vista South in Florida
- HHC
Atlantic, LCC, in Delray Beach, Florida, Owners of The Seagate Hotel
and Spa and the Seagate Beach Club, Complete the $11 Million Purchase
of the Seagate Country Club
- New
Owners, ERGS WI Orlando REO, Choose Pyramid Hotel Group to Remain as
Management Company for the 315-room Westin Imagine Hotel in Orlando,
Florida
- MGM
Resorts Extends Contract with CEO James Murren Through the End of 2016
- Commune
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Niki Leondakis as New CEO
- Francis
Killory Named as Vice President, Development - Asia Pacific for SH
Group, Starwood Capital Group's Hotel Brand Management Company
- Benchmark
Hospitality Names Vince Mennella as Vice President of Finance
- Kempinski
Hotels Names Rohit Tokhi as the Executive Chef for its Soon to Open
480-room Kempinski Ambience Delhi in East Delhi, India
November 8, 2012
- Kaba's
Saflok RFID Locks Installed in The Peninsula Hotels; The Peninsula
Hotels in Hong Kong, Tokyo and North America Install Saflok RFID Door
Locking System Access and Online Controls
- Cancellations
Explode as Bookings Drop In Wake of Hurricane Sandy; As Pegasus
Solutions Reports a Positive Close to the Third Quarter, Data Shows
Hurricane Sandy’s Impact on Hotel Performance in New York and New Jersey
- Agilysys
Promotes Robert R. Ellis to Chief Operating Officer
- Creo
Hospitality Opens Third Office in the U.S., Offering Full-Service
FF&E Coast to Coast
- Compassion
and Generosity Abounds; Wildwood, New Jersey Resort Motels and Hotels,
Normally Closed, Housing Coastal Residents Who Lost Homes in Storm
- Easily
Revamp Your Hotel Spa to Maximize Profits / Kim Stevens
- Strategic
Hotels & Resorts Reports 3rd Qtr 2012 Net Loss of $8.6 million
Compared to Net Loss of $11.9 million Same Period 2011; U.S. RevPAR Up
5.8%
- Summit
Hotel Properties Reports 3rd Quarter 2012 Results; RevPAR Increased
11.6% / Hotel Statistics
- New
Mexico's Pueblo of Isleta Casino Cuts Hard Rock Ties; The Hard Rock
Hotel and Casino Albuquerque will Return to Isleta Casino & Resort
Brand
- Hyatt
Hotels and Bosphorus Otelcilik ve Yatirim Ltd Sign Agreement for New
310-room Hyatt Regency in Istanbul; The Hyatt Regency Istanbul
Ataköy is Expected to Open January 2014
- RateGain
Bolsters European Presence with Appointment of Tim Weeks, a Seasoned
Hospitality Industry Executive; Tim Weeks joins RateGain as Vice
President, Business Development - Europe, Hospitality Solutions
- Warmbrodt
Hotel Investments, Inc. Selected to Advise in the Sale of the Holiday
Inn Express St. Louis Airport-Riverport
- Peninsula
and Intelity Announce an Evolution of Interactivity; Partnership
Fundamentally Expands Hotel Guestroom Service Technology
- Managing
Ground Transport and Complex Itineraries: A Guide for Hotels / Mike
Fogarty
- Denihan
Properties Convert to Eleven's Mac Guest Computers; Eleven Wireless
gives Denihan properties the flexibility to provide complimentary and
premium services
- PSAV
Proudly Serving the World's 'Who's Who' at High Profile Global Events;
When world leaders from 70 nations gather, event planners and
convention facilities count on PSAV® Presentation Services to
provide unfaltering technologies and support
- buuteeq
Adds Customizable Design, User Friendly Hotel Reservation Tools and
Optimized Mobile Interfacing to its Cloud Digital Marketing System for
Hotels; buuteeq's Cloud DMS Now Provides Several Product and Service
Enhancements that Revolutionize the Way Hotel Websites Look, Feel and
Perform
- Sea
Island Co. Plans New Hotel on St. Simons Island, Georgia; To Convert
Former Headquarters into the 86-room Inn at Sea Island
- KAJ
Management to Begin Construction of a 97-room Holiday Inn Express in
Northeast Wichita, Kansas
- Tourism
Companies Join Forces to Protect Children from Sex Tourism; Pilot
Project in Thailand Implements a Voluntary Code of Conduct - The Code
of Conduct for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation in
Travel and Tourism
- HSMAI
Adds Certified Hospitality Digital Marketer (CHDM) Program to Lineup of
Certification Offerings
- CCRA
Travel Solutions Forecasts Fall & Winter Travel Trends &
Reports Year over Year Increase in Leisure & Corporate Hotel
Bookings; Predicts Top Winter Vacation Destinations Based on Travel
Agent Hotel Bookings
- Sun
Development Selects American Resort Management to Manage the Maui Sands
Hotel & Waterpark in Sandusky, Ohio; The 300-room Hawaiian Themed
Property is Undergoing Renovations with an Early 2013 Completion Planned
- The
303-room DoubleTree by Hilton Houston Hobby Airport Opens in Texas;
Renovation has Begun for the Former Hilton Hotel Owned and Operated by
1859 Historic Hotels
- Four
Seasons Hotels Opens the 313-room Four Seasons Hotel Beijing in China
- Sarah
Vining, IACC Board Associate, Receives Young Professional Pacesetter
Award from Convention Industry Council
- The
Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels Appoints Nicolas Beliard as General
Manager of The Peninsula Paris and Katja Henke as General Manager of
The Peninsula Bangkok
- Darlene
Monzo Joins Atlantic City, New Jersey's Revel Casino Resort as Senior
Vice President, Marketing
- Benchmark
Hospitality Names Timothy L. Metarko as Controller for the 349-key Snow
King Resort in Jackson Hole, Wyoming
- The
Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa at Beaver Creek Mountain in Colorado
Hires Stacey Romer as Director and Beth Olson as Manager for Catering
& Conference Services
November 7, 2012
- The
Ultimate Voting Experience? Brentwood Hotel in Los Angeles Serves Up a
Posh Polling Place
- Profile
in Success: How Margaritaville Beach Hotel Leverages Online Marketing
and Social Media to Keep Guests Coming Back, Referring Friends - and
Booking Rooms; Popular Beach Resort uses Maestro PMS and ResWave
Booking Engine to drive Direct Web Bookings and Personal Service that
Leverages 25K+ Facebook Fans for Higher Revenue, Lower Cost
- Chatham
Lodging Trust Posts 3rd Quarter 2012 Net Income of $1.5 million
Compared to Net Loss of $1 million Same Period 2011; RevPAR Increased
5.8%
- Third
Quarter Revenues Decline but Quarterly Net Loss Narrowed From $10.8
million Last Year to $9.7 million This Year for Tropicana Las Vegas
- Hyatt
Affiliate Acquires the 319-room Hyatt Regency Birmingham Hotel in the
United Kingdom for Approximately $43 Million
- Hotel
Equities and IRE Capital Form Joint Venture Firm, Hotel Development
Partners, and Close First Deal with Acquisition of the 102-room
Fairfield Inn & Suites Charleston Airport in South Carolina
- Hilton
Worldwide Enters Agreement with Urbano Rural Hotelara SL to Open the
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel & Spa Emporda Near Girona, Spain; A
Debut for the Brand in Spain, the 87-room Hotel will Open by Year End
through a Conversion
- Penn
National Gaming Submits Two Proposals to the Iowa Racing & Gaming
Commission (IRGC) for a Gaming and Entertainment Destination in
Woodbury County; Both Projects, a $160 Million Downtown Hollywood
Casino Sioux City or a $167 Million Hollywood Casino Siouxland to be
Built South of Sioux City, Would Include a 150-room Hotel
- Industry
Pulse Poll Analysis: Hoteliers Focus on the Property Website in 2013 /
Asher Fusco
- Not
Using Verifi Bed Bug Detectors Yet? Five Tips to Get You Started
- RateGain
Announces Opening of New London Office at World Travel Market 2012;
RateGain demonstrates commitment to growing European market with a new
office at Stockley Park in London
- Island
Hospitality Partners with M3 Accounting to Overhaul Accounting,
Analytics, and Reporting Processes; The leader in hotel accounting
software, M3 continues adding to its wide and diverse client base
- HeBS
Digital Helps Hotel Clients Get Ready for a Record-Breaking 2013 with
Desktop, Mobile and Tablet Website Design Package Promotion
- MICROS
OPERA and MICROS Simphony Support New Apple iPad Mini
- Kristin
Intress, President/CEO of TravLynx, Named as Finalist in 9th Annual
Stevie® Awards for Women in Business
- Drive
Intent to Recommend with New UniFocus Training Class
- Speakers
Finalized for AHTEC 2.0@FHC China 2012 / Terence Ronson
- Hyatt
and Bonifacio Landmark Realty and Development to Develop the Grand
Hyatt Manila and Residences in the Philippines; A 2015 Opening is
Planned for the 438-room Hotel
- Four
Points by Sheraton Berlin Airport to Open at the New Berlin Brandenburg
International Airport; A 2014 Opening is Planned for the 253-room Hotel
Owned by Proprietas s.r.o
- Jin
Jiang International Hotel Management Company Enters Agreement with
Taizhou Changming Xinyi Investment & Development Co. for a 300-room
Hotel in Taizhou city, Jiangsu province, China; A February 2016 Opening
is Planned
- Marriott's
Autograph Collection Debuts in Asia Pacific with the Opening of The
Stones Legian, Bali; The New-Build 330-key Hotel is Located on Legian
Beach on the Resort Island of Bali
- Hilton
Worldwide Opens the DoubleTree by Hilton in Merida, Mexico's Yucatan
Capital; The 100-room Hotel is Built Around an Historic 20th Century
Mansion
- The
113-room Hilton Garden Inn Cedar Falls Opens in Iowa Operated and
Managed by Chrisbro III
- IHG
Opens Three Holiday Inn Express Conversions in the UK; The Hotels in
Braintree, Shrewsbury and Birmingham will be Managed by Kew Green
- Delta
Hotels and Resorts Completes Multi-Million Dollar Renovation of the
410-room Delta Ottawa City Centre in Ontario, Canada
- New
Hampshire's 34-room Omni Bretton Arms Inn Completes Renovation; The
Redesign is Part of the Omni Mount Washington Resort's Multiphase $70
Million Resort Wide Upgrade
- Completing
a $30 Million Property-Wide Transformation, the 49-suite Rancho
Valencia Resort & Spa in Rancho Santa Fe, California Re-Opens
- The
Historic Hanover Inn at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire Completes
$40+ Million Renovation and Modernization
- Midas
Hospitality Names Michael Herr as Director of Revenue Management
November 6, 2012
- Cornerstone
Hospitality, LLC Selects IDeaS Pricing System for the Craddock Terry
Hotel; New revenue management solution will help Historic Hotels of
America property easily manage pricing and forecasting
- How
to Hand-Build Customer Messages for Sales Growth / Julie Squires
- Marriott
Honors Five Top Franchisees for 2012; Prestigious Partnership Circle
Award Given to E.J. Del Monte Corporation, JHM Hotels, PCH Hotels &
Resorts, White Lodging Services and Winegardner & Hammons, Inc
- Ryman
Hospitality Properties, Formerly Gaylord Entertainment, Reports Third
Quarter 2012 Net Loss of $26.7 million Compared to a Loss of $1.7
million in the Year-ago Quarter; Total RevPAR Remained Flat / Hotel
Operating Statistics
- IHG
Reports Third Quarter 2012 Operating Profits of $167 million, up from
$153 million in the Year-Ago Quarter; Global RevPAR Up 3.9%
- Hospitality
Properties Trust Reports 3rd Qtr. 2012 Net Income of $29.5 million
Compared to $40.1 million the Year-Ago Qtr.; RevPAR Increases .2%
- Seller
Representations and Warranties in a Hotel Purchase Agreement -- What
are the big issues today? / Jim Butler & David Sudeck
- Hyatt
Regency in Tampa Files Notice Indicating Potential Lay Off of 222 Staff
Members
- Through
EB-5 Program, Foreign Investors Could Kick Start Planned Embassy Suites
Hotel Project Near McAllen Convention Center in McAllen, Texas
- Hotel
Pere Marquette's $32.5 million Renovation Hits the Home Stretch After
Fixing a Not-so-Sanitary Discovery
- Responding
to Clients Needs, Sceptre Hospitality Resources Makes Enhancements to
WindsurferCRS; Five Key Areas of Central Reservation System Technology
Upgraded
- The
Keauhou Beach Resort, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii to be Liquidated by Public
Sale STARTING THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8TH AT 9:00 A.M.
- eRevMax
Launches Hotel & Channel Eco-System; Hotel Distribution Technology
Specialist Advances Connection Environment for Online Channels and
Hotel Brands
- SAI
Develops Software for Vision Impaired to Aid Call Center Operators
Supporting SynergyMMS; System Associates Inc., a hospitality provider
of building automation systems and maintenance management software, has
re-engineered SynergyMMS to make data entry fast, simple and accurate
- Largest
Entertainment Complex in Canada Relies on PSAV for Event Technologies;
The 20-acre Falls Avenue Resort complex, owned by Canadian Niagara
Hotels, turns to PSAV® Presentation Services
- Wason
Associates Negotiates the Sale of Comfort Inn in Lincoln and Holiday
Inn Express in Keene, New Hampshire
- HOSPA
Founder Howard Field Honored by HFTP with Top US '2012 Paragon Award';
Recognized for Significant Contribution to HFTP and Hospitality
Industry Worldwide
- European
Hospitality Awards 2012 Winners Named; The Lifetime Achievement Award
Presented to Kurt Ritter, CEO Rezidor Hotel Group
- The
National Conference Center Compiles "78 Reasons to Host a Meeting";
Supporting the Importance of Face-to-Face Meetings
- The
156-key Outrigger Phi Phi Island Resort and Spa Opens on Phi Phi
Island, Thailand; Completing Extensive Renovations and the Addition of
44 Bungalows to the Former Phi Phi Island Village Beach Resort and Spa
- Florida's
Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort and Spa Completes $14.5 Million Room
Renovation of its 454 Guestrooms and Suites
- Renovations
Complete for the IACC Meeting Facility of the 325-room Emory Conference
Center Hotel on the Emory University Campus in Atlanta, Georgia
- Loews
Hotels & Resorts Promotes David Wiener to Senior Vice President,
Sales
- Jesse
Luis Appointed as Vice President of Development for North America for
Dolce Hotels and Resorts
- Dow
Hotel Company Names Michael McGuigan as General Manager of the 369-room
DoubleTree by Hilton O'Hare Rosemont in Illinois
- Hawaii's
Kauai Beach Resort Appoints Tracy Ford as Resort Manager and Makes
Several Key Appointments; The 350-room Resort is Managed by Aqua
Hotels & Resorts
- Jon
McFarland Named as Executive Assistant Manager for the 1,240-room
Hilton Waikoloa Village in Hawaii
- New
Team Members Named for the 412-room Westin Hilton Head Island Resort
& Spa in South Carolina; Lauren House and Stephen Legg Appointed as
Sales Managers and Edward Connors Named as Executive Chef
- Waterford
Hotel Group Appoints Michelle Duquette as Director of Sales for the
120-room Courtyard by Marriott in Stuart, Florida
- Noble
House Hotels & Resorts Appoints Erik Dombroski as Director of Sales
and Marketing for Gateway Canyons Resort in Gateway, Colorado
- The
150-room Heathman Hotel in Kirkland, Washington Appoints Rachel Reber
as Sales Manager
- Florida's
249-room Omni Amelia Island Plantation Welcomes Daven Wardynski as
Executive Chef
November 5, 2012
- Hyatt
Hotels and Unite Here Union Reach Agreement that Clears Way for Talks
on Proposed Hotel at the Oregon Convention Center
- Strategic
Hotels & Resorts, Inc. President and CEO, Laurence Geller, Steps
Down; Chairman of the Board Raymond 'Rip' Gellein, Jr. appointed CEO
- Nochi
Dankner and Yitzhak Tshuva May Give up on Plaza Las Vegas Project After
Failing to Reach Debt Settlement Agreements with Lender Banks
- Nobody
Asked Me, But...No. 95; Strong Growth in NYC Demand, ADP and RevPAR;
Dear Waldorf, Mummy Stole Your Teapot Back in 1935; Quote of the Month
/ Stanley Turkel
- Bids
for 43-Room Candlewood Suites in Fort Huachuca, Arizona Due
Mid-November; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 168 Hotel
Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database
- Tourism
Security as a Marketing Tool / Dr. Peter Tarlow
- Penn
National Gaming Completes $610 Million Acquisition of Harrah's St.
Louis, Missouri Gaming and Lodging Facility from Caesars Entertainment
- Wisconsin
Hotel & Lodging Association (WH&LA) Honors Lola Roeh of The
Osthoff Resort, Elkhart Lake, with its 2012 Innkeeper of the Year
Award; Jenny Craig of Standard Textile Named as Associate of the Year
and 2013 Officers and Board of Directors Elected
- RateGain
Launches the Next Generation Channel Manager, RezGain at World Travel
Market 2012; RateGain continues to innovate and launches the next
generation channel manager, RezGain offering hoteliers faster promotion
management, smarter reservation dashboard and easier inventory
management
- B4Checkin
to Introduce Industry's First Integrated Mobile Online Check-in
Solution at IHMRS 2012; Proprietary new technology maximizes
convenience for mobile-friendly guests and increases operational
efficiency for hoteliers
- Merchant
Link Signs with Phoenix Managed Networks for a Merchant Level PCI
Firewall Service and Breach Insurance
- Milestone
Internet Marketing Seeking Regional Business Development Manager
(Central US) Based in Santa Clara, California
- Milestone
Internet Marketing Seeking Senior e-Strategist/e-Commerce Manager in
Santa Clara, California
- Was
Your Hotel Prepared for Hurricane Sandy? / Jean Francois Mourier
- U.S.
Travel Industry to Add Nearly 100,000 Jobs by 2013 According to U.S.
Travel Association Projections; Domestic Leisure Travel to Increase to
Record High for 2013
- Cornell
Hospitality Quarterly Study Documents Hotels' Recovery after Terrorist
and Economic Crises; U.S. Hotels Made Unexpectedly Rapid Recovery
- Accor
Continues to Invest and Strengthen its Hotel Network in South Asia with
Commitment of $250 million in Expansion and Development Plans
- German
Hotels Continue to Show Strong Recovery Although Rate Boost Needed in
Luxury Sector Says New Report from HVS London
- Hilton
Worldwide Signs a Management Agreement with El Hotel Pilar, S.A. for a
170-room Hilton Hotel in Pilar, Argentina - Part of Greater Buenos
Aires; A March 2015 Opening is Planned
- Jin
Jiang International Hotel Management Company Enters Agreement with
Yangzhou Xinyi Investment & Development Co. for a 389-room Hotel in
Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, China; The Hotel is Scheduled to Open
by October 2013
- The
122-suite Home2 Suites by Hilton Opens in Frisco, Texas; Owned by
Shinn-Stonebriar Hospitality and Managed by Magnolia Lodging
- Aqua
Hotels & Resorts Opens the New 110-room Aqua Skyline at Island
Colony; Completing a $6 Million Renovation and Upgrade to the Hotel
within the 740-room Property in Waikiki, Hawaii's Tallest Building
- Reflagging
Complete for the 220-room DoubleTree by Hilton Deerfield Beach- Boca
Raton, Formerly a Hilton, by Owners Continental Properties and
Management Group Ocean Properties
- Hilton
Worldwide Signs Agreement with BDL Select Operations Limited to Open
DoubleTree by Hilton Dundee in Scotland; The Former 95-room Landmark
Hotel will be Converted to the DoubleTree Brand with a Spring 2013
Opening Planned
- Hyatt
Affiliate to Manage the 300-room Hyatt Regency at Tysons Corner Center
in McLean, Virginia; Currently Under Development by Woodbine
Development and Co-Owners, Macerich and the Alaska Permanent Fund
Corporation
- Colombia's
341-room Hilton Cartagena Completes Multimillion Dollar Renovation of
288 Main Tower Guest Rooms and its Pool Complex
- Grand
Hyatt San Francisco in California Nears Completion of its $70 Million
Multi-Phased Property Upgrade; Launches OneUP Restaurant & Lounge
Slated to Open November 14, 2012
- Hilton
Sandestin Beach Golf Resort & Spa Updating Facilites with $5
million Renovation Over Winter Season
- Destination
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Chris Miller to Vice President
Hospitality Investments
- HFTP
2012-2013 Global Board Officially Begins Term; Raman P. Rama Leads as
HFTP Global President
- New
Castle Hotels and Resorts Names Jim Wefers as General Manager of the
Inns at Armory Square in Syracuse, New York; The 78-room Residence Inn
and 102-room Courtyard by Marriott Combination Hotel Property is Under
Development by a Joint Venture between RHS Holdings and New Castle with
a Spring 2013 Opening Planned
November 2, 2012
- Hawaiian
Hotels and Resorts moves the Lahaina Inn to the Cloud with ATRIO Guest
Experience Management System
- Viejas
Casino Selects GuestREV Profit Optimization System; Addition of 128
Hotel Rooms Combined With Rainmaker’s Unique Total Guest Value Approach
Designed to Grow Business, Drive Additional Gaming Revenue
- Hotel
Lawyer Alert: U.S. Hotel Owners could lose $2.1 billion in hotel value
with new Expedia program / Jim Butler
- How
the Upcoming Election Could Impact Hotel Investment in 2013 / Geoff
Davis
- New
Jersey Hotels and Gas Stations Among Businesses Accused of Price
Gouging Following Sandy; State Division of Consumer Affairs
Investigating and Will Impose Fines on Those Found Guilty
- Special
Administrator for Victim of Legionnaire's Disease Sues Marriott
International; Wrongful-death Suit Claims Chicago's JW Marriott Hotel
Responsible for Tourist Contracting Disease which was Found in
Decorative Fountain
- Moving
the Hospitality Industry Forward: A Recap of the Cornell Hospitality
Research Summit 2012
- Service
Excellence: Four Lessons ALL Businesses can Learn from a Five-Star
Resort / Bryan K. Williams, D.M.
- Sonesta
ES Suites Gets the Duetto Edge; All 17 Hotels in the Sonesta ES Suites
Brand Can Now Optimize Demand, Maximize Revenues and Minimize Expenses,
With Duetto's New RMS
- Flip.to
Lands Hospitality Dealmaker, Debi Moses, as Senior Director of Sales,
Americas; Seasoned hospitality sales executive to lead Americas sales
effort for hotel brand advocate platform
- SpringHill
Suites by Marriott in Richardson Conserving Energy with Verve Living
Systems; Lowen Hospitality Management planning to add Verve®
Keycard Switch to all new construction projects
- Foodservice
Pioneering Concepts to Debut at the International Hotel, Motel +
Restaurant Show® (IHMRS) 2012; 800-square-foot space merges
foodservice technology and design
- Caesars
Entertainment Corporation Reports 3rd Quarter 2012 Loss of $505.5
million, Compared to a Loss of $164 million, a 208.2% Increase, from
the Year Ago Quarter
- Sunstone
Reports 3rd Qtr 2012 Income of $30.9 million Compared to Loss of $24
million Same Period Prior Year; RevPAR Increases 5.1%
- Morgans
Hotel Group Reports 3rd Qtr 2012 Net Loss of $15.7 million Compared to
a Loss of $24.8 million Same Year Ago Qtr; System Wide RevPAR up 8% /
Hotel Operating Statistics
- Chesapeake
Lodging Trust Posts Net Income of $7 million in Q3 2012 Compared to
$5.7 million in the Same Quarter 2011; ProForma RevPAR Increases 8.9%
- Hersha
Hospitality Reports 3rd Quarter 2012 Net Income of $2.7 million
Compared to a Net Loss of $25 million in the Year-Ago Quarter; RevPAR
up 2.1%
- FelCor
Lodging Trust Posts 3rd Qtr 2012 Net Loss of $19.6 million Compared to
Net Loss of $23.4 million in the Year-ago Quarter; RevPAR for its 66
Hotels Increased 6.2% for the Quarter / Hotel Operating Statistics
- Orient-Express
Hotels Reports 3rd Qtr 2012 Adjusted Net Earnings of $14.5 million
Compared to $20.5 million Same Period 2011; Same Store RevPAR Up 5%
- Las
Vegas Sands Corporation Reports 3rd Qtr. 2012 Net Income of $349.8
million Compared to $353.6 million Same Period 2011
- Michigan
State University's School of Hospitality Business to Host CAREER EXPO
XXXIV November 6 and 7; Keynote Speaker to be 1977 Graduate Chris
Hackem, ARAMARK's COO for Education
- New
Kessler Hotels Headed for South Carolina and Alabama; Plans Underway
for a 50-room Hotel in Charleston, S.C. and 100-room Mountain Brook,
Alabama Property
- Summit
Hotel Properties Completes Acquisition of the 98-room Hilton Garden Inn
in Fort Worth, Texas for $7.2 million
**Top 25
Read
Articles - October 2012**
- Crime
Alert for Hotels - Please Read / Todd Seiders
- The
Saga to Only Get Worse - After Failed Attempt to Oust, Marriott Sues
Miami's Eden Roc Hotel Owner
- Hotel
Lock Security Breach Affecting Four Millions Rooms: White Paper Now
Available; Latest security threat is a device hidden inside a dry erase
marker pen; News of hotel door locks being breached by hackers has gone
viral; Hotels vulnerable to potential attacks are invited to register
to receive a White Paper detailing an independently audited cure
- Tucson,
Arizona's Oldest and Most Luxurious Resort, the Hilton Tucson El
Conquistador Golf & Tennis Resort, in Default and Heading to
Auction Block
- Wynn
Resorts CEO, Steve Wynn, Would Like to Build Another Megaresort in Las
Vegas but is Afraid to Because of What He Calls President Obama's
Anti-Business Attitude
- CEO
Pay and Turnover Increase Along with Hotel Fundamentals; HVS'
Pay-For-Performance Index Honors Monty J. Bennett at Ashford
Hospitality as the best performing CEO in the hotel industry for 2011 /
Keith Kefgen
- Conde
Nast Traveler Reveals Results of its 25th Annual Readers Choice Awards
- Worlds Top 100 Hotels & Resorts; The Number One Hotel in the
World is Qualia on Hamilton Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia Top
U.S. Property is The Waldorf Astoria, Chicago
- Urgent
Memo To Hotel Sales Directors: It’s Time To Return To Relationship
Selling / Doug Kennedy
- Eden
Roc Management Company Assumes Management of the Historic 631-room Eden
Roc Hotel in Miami, Florida; Completes Rebranding of the Former Eden
Roc Renaissance Hotel as the Eden Roc Beach Resort & Spa
- Hotelier,
Atul Bisaria, and Contractor, Steve Lewis Indicted for Alleged Fraud
for Purportedly Bilking Two Illinois Banks of Over $19 million for
Renovation and Redevlopment of Two Hotels
- Marriott
Completes Acquisition of Gaylord Hotels Brand and Hotel Management
Company for $210 Million
- How
Turnover Affects the Hospitality Industry - an Infographic
- Omni
Hotels & Resorts Agrees to Buy The Westin Providence Hotel from the
Procaccianti Group; The 564-room Hotel is Attached to the Rhode Island
Convention Center
- Once
a Pioneer in Miami's Food Culture, Top Chef Jonathan Eismann's Bitter
Fall
- Seventeen
Hot Food & Beverage Trends in Restaurants & Hotels for 2013;
Annual Hospitality Predictions from Baum+Whiteman International Food
and Restaurant Consultants
- Five
Common Hotel Public Relations Myths...Busted! / Jennifer Nagy
- Service
Excellence: Three Tips to Drive Repeat Business / Bryan K. Williams,
D.M.
- Strategic
Hotels & Resorts Puts its Four Seasons Resort Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Property Up for Sale
- Hotel
Liability for Guest Information - What you need to know and how to
avoid liability / Jim Butler
- Inland
American Real Estate Trust, Inc. to Purchase Three Autograph Collection
Hotels from Richard Kessler’s Collection
- Customer
Service Week - WOW Stories to Inspire Your Team
- How
Did You Get Here? Odd Beginnings to Careers in Hopsitality
- Starwood
Hotels & Resorts Completes Sale of the 665-room Manhattan at Times
Square in New York City; Acquired by Affiliates of Rockpoint Group,
Goldman Sachs’ Real Estate Principal Investment Area, and Highgate
Holdings for $275 Million in Cash
- Celebrating
Mediocracy! / Fritz Kummer
- Three
Lessons that Hotels Should Learn from the Airlines / Jean Francois
Mourier
October 31, 2012
- Curious
About Meetings Trends for 2013? Destination Hotels & Resorts
Releases its 'State of the Meetings Industry' Survey Results; Location,
Location, Location Tops the List
- MGM
Resorts International Reports Q3 2012 Net Loss of $181.2 million
Compared to Loss of $123.8 million in the Year Ago Quarter; RevPAR
Decreased 3% Primarily Due to 2% Decrease at Las Vegas Strip Resorts
- Hyatt
Hotels Reports 3rd Qrt. 2012 Net Income of $23 million Compared to $14
million Same Period Last Year ; RevPAR Increased 4.6%
- Gary
and Jeffrey Saunders Along with Partner Jordan Warshaw Unveil Plans for
$225 million, 33-story Hotel and Condo Tower to Replace Boston Common
Hotel & Conference Center
- DiamondRock
Hospitality Reaches Settlement on the Bankruptcy and Litigation
Surrounding the Allerton Hotel in Chicago
- Chesapeake
Lodging Trust Acquires the 222-room The Hotel Minneapolis, a Marriott
Autograph Collection Hotel, for $46 million, or approximately $207,000
per key, from HEI Hotels & Resorts
- Some
5 1/2 Years Later, the Addition to the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh
Downtown Hotel, the Former Hilton, Nearing Completion Putting an End to
the Odyssey
- Travel
Outlook Central Reservations Service Hires Kennedy Training Network to
Enhance its Reservations Process; Superior Customer Service to Benefit
Hoteliers and Maximize Revenue
- Alliance
Hospitality Beats Industry Benchmarks with Impressive Q3 Financial
Results; The portfolio of Alliance Hospitality managed hotels
significantly exceeded both the U.S. market average and local
competitors in annual revenue growth for the period.
- Richard
Ehmer/The Ehmer Group Joins Hotel Brokers International
- Hyatt
Affiliate Acquires a Select Service Downtown Minneapolis Hotel with
Plans to Rebrand as Hyatt Place Minneapolis Downtown Following $20
million in Capital Improvements
- Semiahmoo
Resort Co. to Shut Down Semiahmoo Hotel in Blaine, Washington Putting
an End to 200 Jobs; City Manager Likens Closure to a Nuclear Bomb for
the City
- Palm
Beach County Approves Controversial Taxpayer-Subsidized West Palm Beach
Convention Center Hotel Deal
- Felcor,
as Part of its Repositioning Strategy, Completes Sale of Two Hotels,
the 370-room Embassy Suites, New Orleans-Convention Center and the
296-room Embassy Suites, Nashville-Airport for $70 million
- Hawaii's
Visitor Arrivals up 6.1% in September and Spending up 15.6%
- Eight
Lodges Managed by Xanterra Parks & Resorts from Five National Parks
Partner with Historic Hotels of America
- Hilton
Worldwide and IC Bomonti Uluslararasi Kongre Turizm Yatirimlari Ticaret
A.S, Enter Agreement to Open the 829-room Hilton Istanbul Bomonti Hotel
& Conference Center; Located in the Sisli District of Istanbul,
Property will be Largest Hotel and Conference Center in Turkey
- Dwight
Hofauf Named General Manager for the Historic Hotel Julien Dubuque in
Downtown Dubuque, Iowa
- Susan
Renner Appointed National Sales Manager for the Skamania Lodge in
Stevenson, Washington
October 30, 2012
- DOCOMO
interTouch Addressing Hotel Lock Security Breach Affecting Four
Million+ Rooms with LOCKFIX; Hotels vulnerable to attacks are invited
to view an educational video and register to receive a White Paper
detailing an independently audited cure
- The
Rainmaker Group Secures $33.8 Million from Norwest Venture Partners to
Accelerate Growth; Leader in Revenue Management and Profit Optimization
Solutions Pursues Significant Growth Opportunities in Analytics and Big
Data Across Key Verticals
- Storm
Hits Wide Swath of Economy; Economic Damages Could Reach as High as $20
billion; Separately, Potential Damage to Residential Property Alone
Could Amount to $88 billion
- Travelers
Across U.S. Feel Sandy's Effects; Thousands of Flights Grounded
Stranding Passengers from the East Coast to Los Angeles
- Neon
Museum Illuminates Old-School Las Vegas with Remnants that Once Towered
Over the Strip, All with a Story to Tell
- Taking
Ownership of Reputation / Daniel Edward Craig
- Four
Years of Dogged Determination Pay off as Robert Dunn, Developer of the
$98 million Edgewater Hotel Rebirth in Wisconsin, Meets Building Permit
Requirements, Sets Reconstruction Timeline
- Hyatt
Hotels and IHHR Hospitality Private Limited (IHHR), Under a Management
Agreement, to Rebrand Five Ista Hotels in India to Hyatt Properties;
Hotels Will be Known as Hyatt Bangalore, Hyatt Pune, Hyatt Hyderabad,
Hyatt Ahmedabad and Hyatt Amritsar
- eRevMax
Unveils RTSuite 3 for the Best in Channel Management; Redesigned
interface with additional control and automation for rate and inventory
distribution
- Attendees
Describe Electrifying Experience at Inaugural Boutique & Lifestyle
International Leadership Symposium; First-ever gathering of industry
leaders was well-planned, spectacular success
- Hyatt
Hotels and Island Hospitality Partners Break Ground on New Build
126-suite Hyatt House San Juan, Puerto Rico, Expected to Open Fall of
2014
- Super
Tell Hospitality Launches Renovation and Re-branding for the Harlan
Holiday Inn Express in Kentucky, Changing the Hotel to Comfort Suites
- West
Palm Beach, Florida Officials Under Pressure to to Lift Hotel Height
Limit for Proposed Old City Hall Site
- Canyon
Ranch Partners with The Homestead to Create Virginia SpaClub
- White
Lodging Appoints Giorgi Di Lemis as Vice President of Food and
Beverage; Brings More than 35 Years Experience to the Position
- Kimpton's
Vero Beach Hotel & Spa Names 20-Year Hospitality Veteran Duncan
Clements as New General Manager
- J.
Brian Lee Appointed Regional Sales Manager for Hilton Sandestin Beach
Golf Resort & Spa
October 29, 2012
- Hurricane
Sandy Likely to Severely Impact Business Travel - Global Business
Travel Association Predicts Business Travel Could See Losses of up to
500,000 Trips and $600 million
- As
Miami-Dade, Florida Hotel Market Booms, More Players Want In
- Chinese
Travelers Visiting the U.S. is Expected to Grow Nearly 120% by 2016;
Strategies U.S. Hoteliers Plan to Use to Capture Market Share, an
Infographic
- Will
Donald Trump Develop a Hotel in Costa Rica?
- Big
Changes Over the Last Month to the 127-room Holiday Inn Express
Clearwater East - ICOT Center; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Have
Updated 305 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with Changes in Personnel,
Property Management or Ownership
- Is
Hotel SEO Dead? Not by a Long Shot - More Than Half of Your Website's
Revenue Depends on It / Max Starkov and Sue Wiker
- Gables
Residential and Hotel ZaZa to Development a 24-story Tower in Austin,
Texas to Include a 160-room Hotel ZaZa and 215 Luxury Apartments under
the Same Roof; Construction Start Planned for Mid to Late 2013 with a
Mid-2015 Opening
- Hunter
Hotels Completes Sale of Comfort Suites in Suburban D.C.
- Wason
Associates Negotiates the Sale of Comfort Inn in Lincoln and Holiday
Inn Express in Keene, New Hampshire
- At
Long Last, Final Approval for Long Delayed 400-room Downtown West Palm
Beach Convention Center Hotel Expected
- HFTP
to Open Office in India to Provide Services in Local Time to its
Growing Asian Membership
- Latest
University of New Hampshire Lodging Index Shows Executives Positive
about Business Conditions; Lodging Executives Sentiment Index Shifts
Upward in September 2012
- HTNG
Releases New Technical Standards; New Guestroom Technology and
Point-of-Sale Interfaces Available, as well as Expanded Customer
Profile and Distribution Specs
- The
New York Marketplace to Highlight IHMRS Experience for Foodservice
Professionals; New Products, Tastings, Book Signings and Seminars on
Tap for November 11-13, 2012 Event
- Forum
on Tourism Trends and Outlook Presented by PolyU with UNWTO and PATA;
Annual Event Provides Pan-Asia-Pacific Platform with this Year's
Theme - "Collaboration and Partnership: Sharing for Better Practices"
- Tampa,
Florida Business Leaders Hope to Rewrite City Code Allowing B&B's;
Belief is End Result Would Boost Tourism
- Hyatt
Hotels Debuts in the Netherlands with the Opening of the 122-key Andaz
Amsterdam Prinsengracht
- Dow
Hotel Company Names Howard Gottlieb as General Manager of the 248-suite
Chicago Marriott Suites Deerfield in Illinois
- Aqua
Hotels & Resorts Names Matthew Pickett, Hilmy Dole and Greg Peros
to Key Hotel Positions on Oahu, Kauai and Maui
- The
Resort at Port Ludlow Near Seattle, Washington Makes Key Staff
Appointments; Names James Robinson, Susan Windle and Danielle Karrmann
to New Roles
October 26, 2012
- Nevada
Court Sides with Contractors Rather than Banks on the $100 million
Payout Dispute from the Fontainebleau Las Vegas Bankruptcy Case
- PKF
Hospitality's Mark Woodworth and Cornell's Jack Corgel Discuss Cap
Rates and Hospitality Investment Conditions
- Pebblebrook
Hotel Trust Reports Q3 2012 Net Income of $7.5 million Compared to $2.8
million Same Year Ago Quarter; Increase in RevPAR of 6.3%; Hotel
Statistical Data
- Pebblebrook
Hotel Trust Acquires the 196-room Hotel Palomar San Francisco for $58.0
million; Property will Continue to be Managed by Kimpton Hotels &
Restaurants
- Hilton
Worldwide and Silverbirch Enter Partnership to Expand Presence in
Canada with Three-Hotel Deal; Agreement Includes First Home2 Suites by
Hilton Outside of the U.S. and Two DoubleTree by Hilton Hotels in
Edmonton and Regina
- New
Tropicana Las Vegas and DoubleTree by Hilton Form Strategic Franchise
Agreement; Property Will Become the Tropicana Las Vegas - a DoubleTree
by Hilton in January 2013
- Red
Roof Inn - Chicago-Lansing, IL - SOLD by Warmbrodt Hotel Investments,
Inc.
- CityCenter
Appeals Order That Could Delay Demolition of the Defective 26-story
Harmon Tower in Las Vegas
- Top
Hotel Technology Issues on Tap in Vienna; HTNG Releases Preliminary
Agenda for 7th Annual European Conference to Occur December 4-6, 2012
in Vienna, Austria
- Jack
Deboer, Founder of The Value Place Extended-Stay Chain, Inducted into
the University of Houston's Hospitality Hall Of Honor
- Owned
and Managed by Kana Hotel Group, the 140-suite Embassy Suites Knoxville
West Celebrates Topping Out; The Tennessee Hotel Appoints Management
Team for Scheduled Mid-2013 Opening with Andy Hodges as General Manager
- The
300-room Holiday Inn Express Hong Kong Kowloon East Opens; With the
Adjoining Crowne Plaza Hong Kong Kowloon East Becomes the First Twin
Brand Hotels Project in Hong Kong
- Managed
by Windsor Management Services the 184-suite Embassy Suites El Paso in
Texas to Re-Brand as the El Paso Suites Hotel
- Hampton
Hotels Opens the 70-room Hampton Inn Beeville in Texas; Owned and
Operated by Ram Beeville Investments
- The
120-room Courtyard London Opens in Ontario, Canada; Owned and Managed
by Manga Hotels
- The
International Hotel, Motel + Restaurant Show® (IHMRS) Returns Next
Month with New Innovations Spanning the Entire Spectrum of Hospitality
Products
- PolyU's
School of Hotel and Tourism Management and Hotel ICON Present A Star of
Renaissance
- HRI
Lodging Names Alan Baer as Senior Vice President of Finance
- Jeff
Briner Named General Manager at the Radisson Hotel Duluth-Harborview in
Duluth, Minnesota
- Florida's
Palm Beach Gardens Marriott Appoints Deborah Carr as General Manager
and Jeri Ann Hart as Director of Sales & Marketing
- Carmen
Cruz Named as Assistant General Manager of The 336-room Curtis - a
Doubletree by Hilton in Denver, Colorado
- Mansion
on Forsyth Park in Savannah, Georgia, a Kessler Collection, Names Geir
Kilen as Executive Chef
- Hyatt
Regency Aruba Resort Casino & Spa Appoints Chef Vincent Pellegrini
as Executive Chef
- The
Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina Names New Leadership for it
Food & Beverage Team; Appointing David Edwards as F&B Director,
Duane Fernandes as Chef de Cuisine of Horizons Dining Room, and Robert
Alger as Executive Pastry Chef
October 25, 2012
- Bart
Blatstein of Tower Investments Unveils Plans for French Themed $700
million Casino Hotel in the Former Philadelphia Inquirer Building, to
be Named The Provence; Hard Rock Hotels Selected to Manage
- Starwood
Reports Net Income 3rd Qtr 2012 of $170 million Compared to $163
million Same Period 2011; Worldwide System-wide RevPAR Up 4.7% /
Systemwide Hotel Statistics
- Choice
Hotels Posts 3rd Qtr 2012 Net Income of $44.4 million Compared to $42.3
million Same Year Ago Period; Domestic RevPAR Increases 5.6%; Executed
89 New Domestic Hotel Franchises for Q3 2012, a 13% Increase Over 2011
/ Hotel Operating Statistics
- Wynn
Resorts Reports 3rd Quarter 2012 Net Income of $112 million Compared to
$127.1 million Same Quarter 2011; Revenues for 3rd Quarter Increased by
$.2 million
- Where
Oscar Wilde Hallucinated and David Bowie Partied, a Hotel is Born;
Opened in 1865, London's Cafe Royal, to Re-Open Following a Four Year
Closure as a 159-room Luxury Hotel
- Trends
in Technology - Struck by Lightning / Terence Ronson
- Red
Lion Hotels Completes Sale of the 190-room Red Lion Hotel Denver
Southeast in Colorado for $13 Million; Signs Franchise Agreement with
New Owner, Pandey Hotel Denver LLC
- Rezidor
Hotel Group to Exit from Seven Hotel Leases in France by the End of
2012; The Secondary Market Properties are Mostly Under the Park Inn by
Radisson Brand and Total Nearly 700 Rooms
- New
Technology in The Hotel in Brussels; Intelity's guest room service
management technology and a mobile-based, front desk bypass system from
OpenWays are now installed at The Hotel in Brussels
- Hotel
Nikko San Francisco Consolidating In-Room Devices with Bittel UNO
- Benchmark
Hospitality's Hotel 1000 Named to Condé Nast Traveler's Top
Hotels in the World List; "Best In The World" Readers Choice Awards
Honor Seven Benchmark Properties
- Crunching
the Numbers: Detailed Consumer Research to Help You Get Ahead
- Aparium
Hotel Group Partners with the Salyers Group and the City of Covington,
Kentucky to Develop and Manage The Hotel Covington; The 102-year-old
Historically Designated Former Coppin's Department Store Building will
be Transformed into the 107-room Hotel
- Byblos
Hospitality Group, Developer Roger Trettel and Dr. Fadi Dagher Partner
to Win Auction of Grand Island Holiday Inn for $4.4 million; Plans are
to Reinvent Property Into an Upscale Destination Resort
- The
185-room Leonardo Inn Hotel Jerusalem Becomes The Jerusalem Gardens
Hotel And Spa; Kedem Hotel Group Transitions Management from Fattal
Hotels with Plans for Expansion and Guy Goldman Remaining as General
Manager
- Starwood,
Trinity Investments, and Terra Investments S.R.L.C.V. Open the 160-room
Le Méridien Mexico City
- Hampton
Hotels Opens the 109-room Hampton Inn & Suites Greensboro/Coliseum
Area in North Carolina Owned and Operated by CN Hotels, Inc
- IHG
Plans Further Investment to Augment Recent Growth in the Caribbean;
Launches Renovation Projects in the Region After Adding Four New Hotels
to its Caribbean Pipeline in the Past 12 Months
- InterContinental
Hotels Group Launches Online Guest Reviews and Ratings for its Seven
Hotel Brands Worldwide
- Prism
Hotels & Resorts 12th Annual Fishing For Solutions Distressed
Assets Conference Takeaways; Hotel Lending and Loan Servicing Industry
Leaders Discussed the Future of the Extend and Pretend Approach
- The
International Association of Conference Centers-Americas Names New
Officers of the Board of Directors; T.J. Fimmano, Leslie Vanderzwet,
Sean Anderson, Eric Whitson and Alex Cabañas will Serve a
Two-Year Term
- Bob
Lepore Returns to DePalma Hotel Corporation as Senior Vice President,
Development
- Gerald
Glennon Appointed as Managing Director for The Modern Honolulu, a
353-room Boutique Hotel in Waikiki, Hawaii
October 24, 2012
- Urgent
Memo To Hotel Sales Directors: It's Time To Return To Relationship
Selling / Doug Kennedy
- Aptech
Financial Solutions Selected by Eight Hotel Companies with 120+
Properties; Execuvue® Business Intelligence, Profitvue®
Enterprise Accounting, and Targetvue® Budgeting and Forecasting to
Optimize Profitability for Growing Number of Hotel Companies and
Operators
- Ameristar
Casinos Unveils Plans for $910 million Springfield, Massachusetts
Casino Resort Spa to Include a 500-room Luxury Hotel
- Prestige
Travel of Las Vegas Files for Bankruptcy, a Move that Could Shutter Las
Vegas Strip Shows; Future of TripRes.com, its subsidiary that books
hotels, flights and show tickets, unknown
- Wyndham
Worldwide Reports 3rd Qtr 2012 Net Income of $159 million Compared to
$175 million for Same Period 2011; Domestic RevPAR Grew 5% While System
Wide RevPAR Increased 2% / Brand Operating Stats
- IHG
Signs Agreement with Ownership Group CWC to Debut the EVEN Brand in New
York City; The 230-room Hotel to be Developed in Midtown Manhattan will
Open in Late 2014
- InterContinental
Hotels Group PLC Reports Third Quarter Americas RevPAR Growth of 4.6%
at Annual Conference for Hotel Owners
- Hersha
Hospitality Trust Enters Agreement to Acquire the 205-room Hilton
Garden Inn in Midtown Manhattan; The $74 Million (Approximately
$361,000 per key) Deal will Close Shortly After Completion of the
Hotel's Construction in Q4 2013
- Las
Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority Reports they are Flush with
Cash, Signaling a Healthier Tourism Industry; Key Factor is Occupancy
Rates of 84.9% at Midyear
- How
Meliá Hotels International Uses Review Analytics to Make Better
Revenue Management Decisions / Daniel Edward Craig
- Hotel
Investment in Miami Remains Hot: Statistics Illustrate Fort Lauderdale,
Florida Keys and West Palm Beach Have Strong Performance Indicators
- Future
of Jekyll Island's Proposed $40 million Westin Hotel Up in Air; New
Lodging is Vital to Revitalization Project and Success of New
Convention Center; Already, Lost Group Bookings Have Cost Authority
$3.8 million
- Growth
in U.S. Travel and Tourism Output Slows in Q2 2012 while Still
Outpacing the 1.3% Increase for GDP; Tourism Output Increased at an
Annual Rate of 2.1% for Q2 while the Q1 Increase was 4.9%
- Local
Business Leaders to Review Four Proposals for Hotel Development at West
Palm Beach, Florida's Old City Hall Site
- Solar
Energy Comes to the Rescue of Hoteliers in India, Saving One Company
Over 75% on Electricity Bills
- The
121-room DoubleTree by Hilton London - Marble Arch Opens in England;
The Re-branding of the Former Best Western Premier Mostyn Hotel
- W
Hotels Launches Asian Expansion in Bangkok, Thailand; W Bangkok to Open
in December 2012 with Plans for at Least 10 More Properties in the
Region
- Mark
Becker Appointed as General Manager for the 533-room Hyatt Regency
Minneapolis in Minnesota
- Benchmark
Hospitality Names Michael Chagnon as Director of Sales and Marketing
for the 146-key Villas of Grand Cypress Golf Resort in Orlando, Florida
- Erin
Kavanaugh Named as Business and Leisure Sales Manager for the 350-room
Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort & Spa, Located on the Pueblo of Santa
Ana in New Mexico
October 23, 2012
- First
of its Kind Hotel Web Management Platform Receives Rave Reviews; Hotel
Management Companies Discover the Power of Complete, Integrated Platform
- IDeaS
Awards Six Hospitality Professionals with Fall 2012 IDeaS Cornell
Revenue Management Scholarship; Biannual scholarship program drives
excellence in revenue management
- CEO
Pay and Turnover Increase Along with Hotel Fundamentals; HVS'
Pay-For-Performance Index Honors Monty J. Bennett at Ashford
Hospitality as the best performing CEO in the hotel industry for 2011 /
Keith Kefgen
- Starwood
Capital Group Enters Agreement to Purchase InTown Suites Portfolio of
138 Extended Stay Properties for $735 million
- Orlando's
Hotel Industry Suffers Slow September; Occupancy Dropped to 55.2% and
ADR Fell 1.4% Over September 2011 Levels
- Meet
This League of Extraordinary Gentlemen; Eight ecopreneurs making a
difference in global tourism
- Hyatt
Affiliate Enters Management Agreement with China Resources Land Limited
for a Park Hyatt Hotel in Qingdao, China; A 2016 Opening is Planned for
the 247-room Hotel
- March
20-22, 2013 Set for 25th Annual Hunter Hotel Conference; Silver
Anniversary Event Theme, "Moving Forward with Confidence," Reflects
Continued Strengthening of Hotel Industry
- Carlson
Rezidor Celebrates its Top Performers at Annual Asia Pacific General
Managers Conference; Peter Schuler of the Park Plaza Beijing West
Receives the President's Award
- Towne
Park Arrives in the Tampa Bay Area with Four Star Loews Don CeSar in
St. Petersburg Beach
- Clear
Sky Software Helps Washington DC-Area Hotel Manage Their Beverage
Inventory With Ease While Lowering Beverage Costs
- Digital
Alchemy Introduces Mobile Life - an Integrated Mobile Suite Providing
Mobile CRM, eMarketing, and Guest Service Solutions; Comprehensive
Cloud-based mobile concierge, conference guide, survey, and web
solutions offer convenience and ROI opportunities for savvy hotels
- PAR
Springer-Miller Introduces NexHos as Exclusive Solution Distributor in
Italy
- Flip.to
Launches Multi-Language Capability For Its Hotel Brand Advocate Solution
- Hawaii
State Judge Rules Online Firms Freed of Hotel Taxes; Order Will
Eliminate Nearly $700 million to the State for Tax Years 1999 to 2011
- Two
New Studies from the Cornell Center for Hospitality Focus on Service
Improvement; How to Make the Most of Service Scripts and Human
Resources Marketing
- New
Jersey's Long Beach Island Region Tourism Generated $1.2 Billion in
2011; $459 Million Spent on Lodging
- Officials
Break Ground on the 119-room LaFont Hilton Garden Inn in Pascagoula,
Mississippi; Developer Gentry Williams Plans a 2014 Opening for the
Hotel to be Managed by Innisfree Hotels
- Hotel
Managers Group and Western Hotel Partners Team Up to Develop and
Operate Select Service Hotels in the Western United States
- Wendy
Ferrill Promoted to Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Best Western
International
- White
Lodging Names Rocky Wruck as Regional Director of Operations for Region
5 - Leading Eight Florida Hotels
- Mike
Ehmann Appointed as General Manager of the 1,000-room Sheraton Phoenix
Downtown Hotel in Arizona
- John
Branciforte Named as Director of Sales and Marketing for the 400-key
Wyndham Grand Orlando Resort Bonnet Creek in Florida
- Scotland's
Doubletree by Hilton Dunblane Hydro Welcomes David Jamieson as Head Chef
- Kiawah
Island Golf Resort in Charleston, South Carolina Appoints Brendon
Bashford as Executive Chef
October 22, 2012
- Described
as the 'Heart of the Hotel', Breakfast Attendant, Whitney Pierce, Goes
Above and Beyond; Her Dream Job at the GrandStay Residential Suites in
La Crosse, Wisconsin is a Perfect Fit
- Hotel's
Size and Location Provide Both Challenge and Opportunity for General
Manager Alex Francis; Recently Appointed by Driftwood Hospitality
as GM for the 500-room Crowne Plaza in Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Once
a Pioneer in Miami's Food Culture, Top Chef Jonathan Eismann's Bitter
Fall
- Hotel
Companies and REITs Increasingly the Best Partnership Combining Helpful
Capital and Management Expertise
- Plans
for Hotel Near Chicago's McCormick Place Resurface After Years of
Delay; Olde Prairie Block Owners LLC, Led by Developers Pam Gleichman,
Karl Norberg and Gunnar Falk, Submit Plans to Bankruptcy Court for
Development of a Convention Hotel, a Small Boutique Hotel and a Data
Center
- Groundbreaking
for The Mayton Inn in Cary, North Carolina Scheduled for April 2013;
Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 187 Hotel Projects to the New
Hotel Construction Projects Database
- American
Express' "Global Business Travel Forecast 2013" Finds Travel Costs to
Increase Modestly Next Year Overall; Regional Spikes will Vary with
Growing Economies Such as South America
- Atlantic
City's Revel $2.4 Billion Megaresort Casino Falling Short of
Expectations
- Guest
Trends of Active, Casual Lifestyles Prompts Hilton Hawaiian Village,
Hawaii's Largest Single Hotel Property, to Replace High End Room
Service with Grab n' Go Options
- Hotel
Assets Group Announces the Firm Has Closed 68 Hotel Transactions in 2012
- Adare
Manor Hotel & Golf Resort Achieves Condé Nast Traveler's
"Best in the World" list for 2012; Voted "One of Europe's Top Resorts"
- Infor
Opens Headquarters in New York City, Unveils New Branding; New HQ
Showcases Beautiful Applications, In-house Creative Agency
- Winegardner
& Hammons Names General Manager, Sales Account Manager of Courtyard
Pittsburgh North/Cranberry Woods; New Courtyard is scheduled to open in
December 2012
- Lodging
Interactive Offering FREE Social Media Analytics Reporting Tool for
First 100 Hotels
- Miami
Beach Convention Center Needs Upgrades and a Convention Center Hotel to
Remain Competitive According to One Leading Meeting Planner
- Menna
Development & Management Breaks Ground on the 120-room Staybridge
Suites Near Bayfront Medical Center and Tropicana Field in St.
Petersburg, Florida
- The
117-room Grand Caymanian Resort to Re-Brand as the Holiday Inn Resort
Grand Cayman
- Swiss-Belhotel
International Signs Agreement with Titan Property for the Swiss-Belinn
Karawaci, Tangerang Under Development in West Java, Indonesia
- Owned
and Managed by Woodbury Corporation the 155-room Courtyard Lincoln
Downtown to Open Next Month in Nebraska
- Hilton
Hotels & Resorts Opens the 532-room Hilton Columbus Downtown in Ohio
- Roots
Corp. Opens its First Ginger Branded Hotel in Mumbai with Plans for 80
Hotels in India by 2016
- Chesapeake
Lodging Trust Completes 35-room Expansion of the W Chicago - City
Center in Illinois; The $5.1 Million (Approximately $146,000 per key)
Expansion Brings the Room Count to 403
- White
Lodging Promotes Chris O'Donnell as Regional Director of Operations for
Seven Indiana and Ohio Hotels
- Waterford
Hotel Group Adds Regional Directors; Names Tina Fleming as Regional
Hotel Director and Wendy Russell as Regional Director of Sales
October 19, 2012
- MGM
Resorts International Subsidiary, MGM China Holdings, Receives Approval
To Develop a $2.5 billion, 1,600- room, Five-Star Luxury Gaming Resort
In Cotai, Macau
- VFM
Leonardo Hotel Marketing Webinar - Engage at Every Stage: What Hotel
Marketers Can Learn From Successful Online Retailers; 45 Minute Webinar
for Hotel Marketers on October 24th Will Explore Successful Online
Retailing Tactics That Hoteliers Can Incorporate Into Their Marketing
Strategies
- Shares
of Tata-group Owned Indian Hotels Co Fall as Investors Question its
Takeover Bid for Orient-Express Hotels for Nearly 2 Billion Dollars
- David
Loeb Shares the Robert W. Baird Industry Analysis on C-Corps and REIT's
/ Jim Butler
- LaSalle
Hotel Properties Posts 3rd Qtr 2012 Net Income of $26.5 million
Compared to $14.9 million in the Prior Year Quarter: RevPAR Grew to
$178.43, an Increase of 5.1%
- How
Big is the Impact for Hoteliers in a City Hosting the Super Bowl? In
New Orleans, Bookings Already Up 220% Over Last Year; A Few Tips for
Your Playbook
- Las
Vegas Hospitality Association Event Panelists Discuss Methods to Keep
Visitors Happy; Note the Successes of a Broadening Use of Technology to
be Proactive in Reaching Out to Customers
- Sinolanka
Hotels and Spa Private Limited and Hyatt Affiliate Enter Management
Agreement for New Build 475-room Hyatt Regency Colombo in Sri Lanka
- Affiliate
of Ocean Properties Signs Agreement to Acquire Longboat Key Club &
Resort in Florida from Key Club Associates
- Valencia
Group Sees 65% Increase in BAR Bookings with Pegasus Solutions;
Houston-based Group of Upscale Boutique and Independent Hotels Sources
More GDS Bookings through Pegasus Connect+
- Cendyn™
to Share Social Media Expertise with Digital Marketing Professionals at
Explore Conference on October 19; Cendyn's Director of Social Media to
Speak at Conference
- Timing
is Right for DKN Hotels to Select UniFocus' Time and Attendance
- HFTP
Debut's GOLF 20X Featuring Leading-edge Golf Technologies
- Ensemble
Hotel Partners Breaks Ground on the $34 million Courtyard by Marriott,
the First Hotel at The Navy Yard
- Cap
Juluca Resort on Anguilla, British West Indies Set to Re-Open Under
Ownership of the Hickox Family; Full-Property Refurbishment Planned
Over Next Several Years
- A
Collaboration between Shangri-La International Hotel Management Ltd.
and Qiaoyu Group, the 350-room Shangri-La Hotel, Changzhou Opens in
China
- Owned
and Managed by Bhojani Development Group, the 107-suite Residence Inn
by Marriott Opens in Woodbridge, New Jersey
- 120-suite
TownePlace Suites by Marriott Frederick to Open this Month in Maryland;
Owned by Westview Hospitality Associates, LLC and Managed by Plamondon
Hospitality Partners
- Newly
Converted 300-room Embassy Suites Baltimore Downtown in Maryland to
Open in May 2013; Currently Known as the Tremont Suites Hotel &
Grand Historic Venue the Conversion is a Joint Venture Project between
Garrison Investment Group and The Chartres Lodging Group, and Managed
by Kokua Hospitality, LLC
- Starwood
Hotels & Resorts Launches New Design Lab and Brand Immersion Center
in Stamford, Connecticut; The Starwood Experience Showcases Lifestyle
Brands, Design-Led Approach and Global Footprint
- Arizona's
649-room Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Begins Final Phase of its
Five-Year $60 Million Renovation Plan; A Spring 2013 Completion is
Planned for the Property Owned by a Joint Venture between Strategic
Hotels & Resorts and Walton Street Capital
- Davidson
Hotels & Resorts Completes Renovation of Sheraton Agoura Hills
Hotel in Agoura Hills, California
- Dow
Hotel Company Completes $16 Million Renovation of the 304-room Hilton
Long Island Huntington in Melville, New York
- Langham
Hospitality Group Names Teresa Poon as the Regional Quality Manager
(International)
- Tim
Michaud Named as General Manager of the 500-room International Palms
Resort and Conference Center Cocoa Beach in Florida
- Waterford
Hotel Group Appoints Steve Matiatos as General Manager of the 145-room
Courtyard by Marriott in Cromwell, Connecticut
- Memphis
Marriott Downtown Welcomes Samantha Barnett as New Director of Hotel
Sales
- Cathy
R. Ennis Appointed as Director of Sales for South Seas Island Resort on
Capitva Island, Florida
October 17, 2012
- The
Saga to Only Get Worse - After Failed Attempt to Oust, Marriott Sues
Miami's Eden Roc Hotel Owner
- Luxury
Ski, Spa, Golf and Yachting Resorts Select Maestro to Take them Beyond
PMS to More Profitable Operations and High-Touch Guest Service
- Hotel
Lawyer with PKF's "U.S. Lodging Market Outlook" - What if we hit the
Fiscal Cliff? What if we postpone it? Recession in 2013? / Jim Butler
- The
$430 million Acquisition of the Times Square Gateway Center Development
Site by Maefield Development, Infinity Urban Century, The Witkoff Group
and New Valley Clears Way for Construction of an $800 million,
36-story, Multi-Use Property to Include a 500-room Hotel Tower in Times
Square, New York
- Marriott,
Through a Temporary Restraining Order, Maintains Management of the Eden
Roc (Renaissance) Hotel in Miami, Florida; Hearing to Occur in
Mid-November to Determine Future Hotel Management
- Prism
Hotels & Resorts Given Go-Ahead on Opportunity to Acquire the
Bankrupt Sheraton Hotel & Spa in Downtown Fort Worth, Texas
- Oxford
Capital Group with Cube Capital Unveils Plans for The 221-room Godfrey
Hotel in Chicago's River North Neighborhood; A 2013 Opening is Planned
- How
Did You Get Here? Odd Beginnings to Careers in Hopsitality
- Montana
Earns the Title for the Most Expensive Luxury Hotel in the U.S for
Summer 2012; Coming in at $2,279 Per Night, The Ranch at Rock Creek,
Near the Historic Mining Town of Philipsburg, Montana Scores Top Spot
- Sonnenblick-Eichner
Company Arranges $17,150,000 of First Mortgage Financing for Aloft
Austin, Austin, Texas
- Roomlinx
Inc., Enters into Hotel Marketing and Promotional Agreement with Starz
Entertainment
- The
K Club Ranked a "Top Ten Golf Resort in the World" by CNN
- Serving
Up Success: Waiting Tables Taught Me Customer Service? / Stephanie
Hartigan
- Leisure
Hospitality Management Inc Plans January 2013 Start for Construction of
an 89-room Holiday Inn Express in Glenpool, Oklahoma
- The
146-key Villas of Grand Cypress Golf Resort in Orlando, Florida to
Begin a Four-Month $14 Million Renovation; A Mid-February 2013
Completion is Planned for the Personal Luxury Resorts & Hotels
Property of Benchmark Hospitality International
- Having
Waited for Forty Years, Shiprock, New Mexico to Get its First Hotel
- University
of New Hampshire Releases New Economic Index for Lodging Industry Aimed
to Assist in Conducting Short and Long Range Economic Planning
- Visitor
Industry, Businesses and Residents Work Together to Formulate 20-Year
Plan for Waikiki, Hawaii, the State's Tourism Hub
- JW
Marriott Austin in Texas Celebrates Groundbreaking; An Early 2015
Opening is Planned for the 1,000-room Hotel to be Managed by White
Lodging
- Rezidor
Hotel Group to Open the 248-room Park Inn by Radisson Astana in
Kazakhstan in Q1 2013
- Hyatt
Offers Real Time Tracking for Meeting Planners with the Launch of Group
Bill; A Billing and Tracking System Developed as a Time Saving Tool for
Meeting Planners
- Feeding
America and The Global FoodBanking Network Welcome Hilton Worldwide in
Effort to Minimize Food Waste and Alleviate Hunger; Surplus Food from
Conferences and Daily Food and Beverage Operations to be Donated to
Those in Need
- InterContinental
Hotels Group to Introduce Managed Service Centre for All Properties in
the Group's Pipeline in Russia and the CIS
- Michelle
Wadell, of The Shores Resort and Spa in Daytona Beach Shores, Named
Employee of the Year by the Hotel and Lodging Association of Volusia
County, Florida
- Tim
Black Appointed as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
for Great Wolf Resorts
- Barth
Leins Named Vice President of Revenue Management & Distribution for
Sonesta International Hotels Corporation
- Kerzner
International Appoints Helen Mccabe-Young as Executive Vice President,
Sales & Marketing for One&Only Resorts and Kerzner Global
Corporate Communications
- The
Hotel Group Names Amanda Anderson as General Manager of the 100-room
Holiday Inn Express - Lewiston in Idaho
October 16, 2012
- Sabre
Hospitality Solutions Sweeps 2012 Website Award Competitions; Sabre
awarded for outstanding achievement in web development from the Website
Marketing Association and International Academy of the Visual Arts
- hotel
SystemsPro Names Phil Beilke Vice President of Product Strategy;
Multi-Brand Experience with Hilton, Marriott, and Choice will Serve
Beilke as He Guides Product Development and Chain Implementation for
hotel SystemsPro
- Milestone
Internet Marketing, Inc. Named Among Business Journal's List of "Top
Fastest Growing Silicon Valley Private Companies"
- Conde
Nast Traveler Reveals Results of its 25th Annual Readers Choice Awards;
Worlds Top 100 Hotels & Resorts; The Number One Hotel in the World
is Qualia on Hamilton Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia, Top U.S.
Property is The Waldorf Astoria, Chicago
- Seventeen
Hot Food & Beverage Trends in Restaurants & Hotels for 2013;
Annual Hospitality Predictions from Baum+Whiteman International Food
and Restaurant Consultants
- Online
Agency Practices, The Cup is Full; Join the Petition of Hoteliers
Against OTA Practices / Georges Panayotis
- Judge
Thwarts Move by Creditors to Convert Chapter 11 Reorganization of
Halsey Minor's Landmark Hotel Into a Chapter 7 Asset Liquidation
- Eden
Roc LLLP, the Owner of the Eden Roc Hotel in Miami, Florida Issues
Statement Concerning Property Management
- The
Bank-Owned 315-room Westin Imagine in Orlando, Florida Sold for $29.3
Million; Acquired by an Affiliate of Archon Group LP of Irving, Texas
Known as ERGS WI Orlando REO
- Orbitz
2012 "Best In Stay" Awards Recognize Highest Customer-Reviewed Hotels
- Pegasus
Solutions Names Rainer Gruber Senior Vice President of Client Services;
Company and Industry Veteran Brings 20+ Years to New Position Driving
Guest Room Sales
- Girne
American University Becomes Educational Institute Global Academic
Partner (GAP) School
- SAI
Introduces SynergyMMS Enterprise Voice; New enhancement to SynergyMMS
is offering hotels a simple and comfortable means for entering accurate
and timely work requests from any phone onsite
- Grand
Velas Riviera Maya Named #1 Best All-Inclusive by Caribbean Travel +
Life; Huge Suite, Personal Hot Tub on the Balcony, Welcome Tequila, and
Butler Service Make Resort Both a Romantic Getaway for Adults and a
Family Vacation for All
- Three
Lessons that Hotels Should Learn from the Airlines / Jean Francois
Mourier
- Cornell
Hospitality Research Summit Focused on Rapid Changes in Hospitality
Industry
- PolyU
Study Finds Cultural Values Influence Service Provision
- The
UK's Oxford School of Hospitality Management and InterContinental
Hotels Group Collaborate on Strategic Risk Management Course
- Wyndham
Hotel Group Signs Management Agreement with Cooperation Investment
House SPC for the 260-room Wyndham Grand Manama; Currently Under
Development in Bahrain with an Opening Planned by Q4 2013
- Hyatt
Affiliate Enters Agreement with Ginekar Limited Liability Company for
the 96-room Hyatt Place Yerevan, in Armenia's Capital City; A Spring
2013 Opening is Planned
- Hilton
Worldwide Opens the 103-room Hilton Garden Inn Tucuman, the Brand's
First Hotel in Argentina; Agustin Maddocks Named as General Manager
- Hampton
Hotels Continues Domestic and International Development with the
Opening of 18 Properties in Q3 2012
- Hay
Creek Hotels Enters Joint Venture Agreement with the Owners of Zero
George Street, the New 18-suite Boutique Hotel, in Charleston, South
Carolina
- Stephan
Amesoeder Named as General Manager of the Historic 30-room Andover Inn
in Andover, Massachusetts; The Recently Renovated Inn on the Campus of
Phillips Academy is Managed by Waterford Hotel Group
- Tony
Nichols Appointed as U.S. National Group and Golf Sales Manager for
Casa de Campo in the Dominican Republic
- Mariam
Karim Appointed as Director of Catering & Conference Services at
the 151-room St. Regis Atlanta in Georgia
October 15, 2012
- Hotel
Lock Security Breach Affecting Four+ Million Rooms: Educational Video
and Updated White Paper Now Available; As a result of the overwhelming
requests by management companies and hotel owners around the world to
see how LOCKFIX cures the security breach, OpenWays is releasing an
educational video; An updated White Paper is also available taking into
consideration the "Crime Alert" published October 12th – links follow
- Hotelier,
Atul Bisaria, and Contractor, Steve Lewis Indicted for Alleged Fraud
for Purportedly Bilking Two Illinois Banks of Over $19 million for
Renovation and Redevlopment of Two Hotels
- Radisson
Works to Rebuild Top Hotels - and its Reputation; Is at the Halfway
Point of Planned $1 Billion-Plus Chain-wide Refurbishing, Remodeling
and Rebranding Effort
- How
to Buy a Hotel - What you don't know about undocumented workers could
really hurt you! / Jim Butler & Guy Maisnik
- With
Casual Dining on the Rise, Hilton Worldwide to Roll Out New Dining
Options at Full Service Hotels; To Debut in 2013, Plans are to Open 800
Restaurants Over Three Years with Three New Concepts - Herb n' Kitchen,
Made Market and Brickstones Grill
- Case
Study: Is TripAdvisor's "Show Prices" CPC Program a Viable Direct
Online Distribution Channel in Hospitality? / Sue Wiker and Tara Dyer
- Temple
University Study Suggests Atlantic City Casinos Rely Too Much on Comps
to Draw Customers
- New
Owner and Property Manager for The Westin Atlanta Perimeter North;
Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Have Updated 160 Hotels in the Last Two
Weeks with Changes in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership
- The
Ultimate Customer Experience: Four Key Trends in the Evolving Online
Space
- ICE
Comes Early at The Arrabelle at Vail Square; Intelity's ICE in-room
software arrives at the AAA Four Diamond Award winning resort, The
Arrabelle in Vail, Colorado
- Blue
Sea Hotels & Resorts Reaches a Wider Customer Base Through
RateGain's Channel Management Solution
- The
Pestana Group Selects MICROS OPERA for its Brazilian Properties
- Give
Your Hotel an Advertising Edge - Smartphone Coasters Easily Promote
Your Message; From small companies to large corporations like The
Ritz-Carlton, Smartphone Coasters have quickly grown into the ultimate
promotional product for businesses
- Hilton
Worldwide Signs Management Agreement with Orix Real Estate Corporation
for the 346-room Hilton Okinawa Chatan to Open in 2014; Marks Re-Entry
of Hilton Hotels & Resorts Brand in Okinawa, Japan
- Eden
Roc Management Company Assumes Management of the Historic 631-room Eden
Roc Hotel in Miami, Florida; Completes Rebranding of the Former Eden
Roc Renaissance Hotel as the Eden Roc Beach Resort & Spa
- Grand
Hyatt Tampa Bay in Florida Completes $16 Million Renovation of its 442
Guest Rooms
- Starwood
Hotels & Resorts Appoints Mary Casey as Senior Vice President of
Sales - North America
- Glen
Winsor Appointed as Hotel Manager for the 1,000-room Hilton Orlando
Bonnet Creek in Florida
- Langham
Hospitality Group Names Bob Schofield Managing Director of The Langham,
Chicago; The 316-room Hotel is Scheduled to Open in Mid-2013
- Jumeirah
Group Names New Directors of Sales and Marketing at Four Properties;
Appointing Christian Hellot, Loredana Brescia, Stéphane de
Robien and Steve Thorne in Dubai, Rome, Kuwait and London
- Scott
Jernstrom Named Director of Sales and Marketing for the New Orleans
Marriott in Louisiana
- The
Alexander, A Dolce Hotel in Indianapolis, Indiana Hires Gary Faehr as
Director of Finance and Maxie (Lieberman) Haber as Catering Manager
October 12, 2012
- **Crime
Alert for Hotels** - Please Read
- DiamondRock
Hospitality Reports 3rd Qtr 2012 Net Loss of $44.8 million Compared to
Net Loss of $1 million for Comparable 2011 Period; RevPAR Increased
3.4%; Completed Sale of 372-room Westin Atlanta Perimeter North / Hotel
Operating Statistics
- Financial
Outlook Improves for MGM Resorts International as Anaylsts Shift Debt
Rating Outlook to Positive
- Perini
Building Corp. Asks Nevada Supreme Court to Intervene in Dispute Over
CityCenter's Public Relations Activities for the Flawed Harmon Tower in
Las Vegas
- 'Ladies
First....the Concierge Profession's First ladies share their unique
service platforms' / Roberta Nedry
- Can
You Really Overhaul a Nation's Customer Service Culture?
- Host
Hotels Celebrate Opening of the 774-room The Westin New York Grand
Central, the Former New York Helmsley, Following $75 million Renovation
- The
393-room James Royal Palm to Open Next Week in South Beach in Florida;
The Completion of $42 Million Renovation Project of the Former Royal
Palm Hotel
- Missouri's
Historic St. Louis Union Station Hotel Reflags as a DoubleTree by
Hilton; Formerly a Marriott, the 539-room St. Louis Union Station - a
DoubleTree by Hilton is Owned by Lodging Hospitality Management
- Intelity
Fills Brand New Vice President Position with Longtime Hilton Executive
Jeff Fox
- Inaugural
Boutique & Lifestyle Symposium Agenda Set Featuring CEO's From
Boutique, Lifestyle, & Luxury Hotel Brands; Industry Experts to
Highlight Methods for Independent Hoteliers to Help Drive Bookings
- Management
Over Easy - The Talent Fix For Casual Dining / David Mansbach
- Former
Walt Disney World Employee Accused of Falsifying Over $120,000 in
Insurance Liability Claims
- Tourism
and the Law / Dr. Peter Tarlow
- Agreements
Pave Way for 102-room Hotel Near Three Rivers Convention Center in
Kennewick, Washington; A-1 Hospitality Hopes to Break Ground for
the SpringHill Suites this Winter with a Q1 2014 Opening Planned
- Could
Hotels be Next Amenity for Regional Shopping Malls? Developer Michael
Hoffman Planning 115-room Staybridge Suites at Albany, New York's
Colonie Center
- Shuttered
South Jacksonville, Illinois Hotel to Reopen as a Baymont Inn and
Suites; New Owner, Southwest Hotels LLC, has Begun Renovations of the
Former 62-room Econolodge with a December 1, 2012 Opening Planned
- With
Direct Views of Independence Hall, the 268-room Hotel Monaco Opens in
the Center City District of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Renovation
and Redesign Underway for the 375 Guest Rooms of the Ritz-Carlton,
South Beach in Miami Beach, Florida
- $65
Million Transformation Complete for the 1,260-room Hyatt Regency
Atlanta in Georgia
- The
524-room Outrigger Waikiki on the Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii Completes
$18 Million Makeover
- Tom
Ballance Named President And COO of Atlantic City's Borgata Hotel
Casino & Spa
- A
New Culinary Team Named for the Kitchen at Jumby Bay, A Rosewood Resort
in Antiqua, West Indies; Claudio Melis Appointed as Executive Chef
- Marc
Suennemann Appointed as Executive Chef for the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel
in Georgia
- Kamala
Nayeli Named as Director of SpaHalekulani at the 453-room Halekulani in
Waikiki, Hawaii
October 11, 2012
- Wynn
Resorts CEO, Steve Wynn, Would Like to Build Another Megaresort in Las
Vegas but is Afraid to Because of What He Calls President Obama's
Anti-Business Attitude
- Rainmaker
Receives 2012 G&L Business Partner Special Recognition Award;
Market Leader in Profit Optimization Honored For Helping Customers
Increase Their Revenue
- Insignia
Hospitality Group Rides the Oil Boom with Kaba's RFID Locks; Insignia
Drives Ambitious Hotel Opening Schedule with Kaba's Reliable, Secure
ILCO RFID Locks and Quality Service
- Penn
National Gaming Proposes $807 Million Springfield, Massachusetts
Development Including Hollywood-Branded Destination Casino Resort
- 3
Nuggets of Information from Vail Brown of STR on Hotel Industry
Prospects for 2013 and Beyond / Jim Butler
- Reviving
Work Ethic: How Employee Initiative Makes One High Rise Hotel Rise a
Little Higher / Eric Chester
- Suffolk
Lodging Partners LLC Agrees to Pay $675K to a Maid Who was Assaulted by
a Co-Worker Hired by Prior Management Company
- Lodging
Econometrics Reports a Booming Brazil Fueling Development in Latin
America with Construction Pipeline Year-over-Year Growth of 10% and 12%
- Asia
Pacific Pipeline Stands at 2,317 Projects with 1,646 Under Construction
Accounting for 44% of All Rooms in the Global Pipeline Reports Lodging
Econometrics
- The
K Club Takes Top Place for Ireland at the annual World Travel Awards;
Eighth Consecutive Year the Resort has Received the Top Award
- Identify
Revenue Opportunities with Innovative Reporting Dashboard from UniFocus
- JMBM's
Hotel Lawyers Post 500th Blog; HotelLawyer.com and Hotel Law Blog are
resources for hotel owners and lenders / Jim Butler
- Hotel
& Lodging Association of Palm Beach County, Florida Recognizes Top
Hotel and Employees; The Colony Hotel Palm Beach and General Manager
Roger Everingham Awarded Hotel of the Year while Michael Strickland and
Frederick Sivelsaint were Named Employees of the Year
- Atlantic
City, New Jersey Casinos See Room Occupancy Rise by 11% for Summer 2012
- Mexico
Predicts Record Tourist Visits for 2012 Thanks to Non-U.S. Visitors;
While Tourists From U.S. Still Represent the Largest Share, Recent
Efforts to Attract Others Paying Off
- Driftwood
Hospitality Management Acquires the 420-room Sheraton North Houston at
George Bush Intercontinental; Expanding Portfolio Now Totals Eight
Hotels Averaging 430+ Guestrooms
- Swissôtel
Hotels & Resorts to Expand in China with the 400-key
Swissôtel Changsha; Under Development in Partnership with Enough
Sunshine Real Estate Investment with a 2014 Opening Planned
- Langham
Hospitality Group Enters Qingdao, China with Two Properties Totaling
700 Guestrooms; The Langham Place and Eaton Luxe, Rio Carnival, Qingdao
will Sit in the Twin Towers Opening in 2013
- Wyndham
Hotel Group to Add 16 Hotels in India and Indonesia; To Debut the
Hawthorn Suites by Wyndham Brand in India
- The
199-room BEST WESTERN PLUS Schaumburg Opens in Illinois; Owned by Komal
Patel
- Former
Fitzgeralds Casino & Hotel in Downtown Las Vegas Completes its
Transformation, Becomes the D Las Vegas
- Pennsylvania's
Gettysburg Hotel, Established in 1797, Launches Extensive Renovation
Project; The Hotel is Owned by Gettysburg College and Managed by
Waterford Hotel Group
- Caesars
Entertainment Appoints Lily Ng as President of Caesars Global Living
Asian Operations, the Company's Non-Gaming Luxury Hotel Management
Division
- Kevin
Speidel Named as Area Managing Director for Hilton Worldwide Hotels
& Resorts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- Laura
Jung Appointed as Director of Group Sales for the 1,499-room San
Francisco Marriott Marquis in California
- Ricardo
Verdan Returns to the 375-key Sheraton Framingham Hotel &
Conference Center in Massachusetts as the Director of Food &
Beverage
October 10, 2012
October 9, 2012
- Great
Eagle Group, Parent Company of Langham Hospitality, Enters Purchase
Agreement for Acquisition of New York's The Setai Fifth Avenue;
Property to be Rebranded as Langham Place
- Travel
Tripper Expands Multichannel Connectivity to Include GDS Distribution
- Hotel
Liability for Guest Information - What you need to know and how to
avoid liability. / Jim Butler & Robert Braun
- Nobody
Asked Me, But...No. 94; Are You Better Off Now Than Four Years Ago; The
Beat Goes On; Hotel History: Shattuck Plaza; Quote of the Month /
Stanley Turkel
- Summit
Hotel Properties Completes Acquisition of an Eight Hyatt Hotels
Portfolio for $87.4 million; Select Hotels Group, L.L.C., an Affiliate
of Hyatt, to Operate Each hotel
- Reviewing
the 2012 HVS Regional Hotel Summit Series: Perspectives on Hotel
Lending, Values, Performance and Supply / Jennifer Pope
- The
Arden Group Inc., Eightfold Real Estate Capital and Hostmark
Hospitality Group Form Joint Venture to Acquire Lake Eve Resort in
Orlando, Florida
- BA
Hotel LLC Acquires the 271-room Hawthorn Suites by Wyndham Hotel in
Sacramento, California for $5.6 Million
- Fairfield
Inn & Suites Celebrates 25th Anniversary Brand-wide with New Design
and Décor
- Knowland
Field Researchers Track Over 6,000 Events in One Day; More events were
tracked at hotels across the globe than ever before
- Adare
Manor Hotel & Golf Resort Takes Top Honors at the annual World
Travel Awards; "Oscars of the travel industry"
- Milestone
Internet Marketing Seeking Senior e-Strategist/e-Commerce Manager in
Santa Clara, California
- SAI
Taps DAPage to Bridge Communication Between SynergyMMS and Two-Way
Radios
- Historic
Weekapaug Inn in Weekapaug, Rhode Island, Closed Since 2007, Re-opens
Completing its $20 Million Transformation; Ocean House Management has
Assumed Management of the Circa 1899 Hotel which Re-Opens as a Sister
Hotel to the Ocean House Inn in Watch Hill, Rhode Island
- The
428-key Hilton Tucson El Conquistador Golf & Tennis Resort in
Arizona Completes $6 Million Enhancement Project
- Residence
Inn Debuts in the Middle East with the Opening of the 80-key Residence
Inn by Marriott Manama Juffair in Bahrain; Owned by International
Trading and Investment Co.
- Sydney,
Australia's 59-room Harbour Rocks Hotel, with Origins Dating Back to
the 1880s, Joins Accor's MGallery Collection
- Red
Lion Hotels Adds New Franchise with the 306-room Red Lion Hotel
Woodlake Conference Center in Sacramento, California
- Ultima
Hospitality Assumes Management of the Holiday Inn Chicago SW
Countryside Conference Center and William Tell Restaurant &
Banquets in Countryside, Illinois; The 172-key Hotel, Owned by Stazde
Enterprises, Recently Completed a $5 Million Renovation
- William
"Bill" V. Friedrich, Jr. Named General Manager of Embassy Suites
International Drive South Convention Center, in Orlando, Florida
- Kempinski
Hotels Names Manish Nambiar as Hotel Manager for its Soon to Open
480-room Kempinski Ambience Delhi in East Delhi, India; Aditya Singh
Appointed as Director of Sales & Marketing
- Rick
Bethea Named as Sales Manager for the 340-room Sonesta Resort Hilton
Head Island in South Carolina
- Carlson
Rezidor Hotel Group Appoints Gwenn Feliciano as Director of Sales and
Marketing for the 252-room Radisson Blu Resort, Marina & Spa on St.
Martin
- Culinary
Team for the 453-key JW Marriott Camelback Inn Resort & Spa in
Scottsdale, Arizona Adds Two New Members; Appoints Paul Millist as
Executive Chef and Paul Rossi as Director of Food & Beverage
October 8, 2012
- Hotels
Expected to Spend $5 billion in 2012, a 33% Increase Over 2011, on New
and Upgraded Amenities
- Five
Common Hotel Public Relations Myths...Busted! / Jennifer Nagy
- An
HVS Interview with Jim Abrahamson, Chief Executive Officer, Interstate
Hotels & Resorts: Does the Glass Ceiling Really Exist for Women in
the Hospitality Industry?
- How
Turnover Affects the Hospitality Industry - an Infographic
- Construction
Approved for 188-room Hyatt Place Hotel in Athens, Georgia;
Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 241 Hotel Projects to the New
Hotel Construction Projects Database
- HVS'
2012 US Hotel Valuation Index (HVI): "Plenty of Upside Potential in
Hotel Value Growth through 2016"
- Joint
Venture Partners, Carey Watermark Investors Incorporated, The Arden
Group, Inc. and Marcus Hotels & Resorts, Acquire the 372-room
Westin Atlanta Perimeter North in Georgia
- Concord
Hospitality Enterprises Forms Joint Venture with Select Hotel Group to
Acquire the 169-room Four Points by Sheraton Hotel in Kingston,
Ontario, Canada; Concord to Assume Management with Multi-Million Dollar
Renovation Planned
- Karisma
Hotels & Resorts Acquires Majority and Controlling Interest of the
128-room Sandy Bay Beach Resort in Negril, Jamaica; To Operate Under
New Name, Seashore Bay Beach Resort, with Plans for a Multi-Million
Renovation and Re-branding as an Azul Hotel
- Why
Gaming Companies Such as MGM, Wynn and Cosmopolitan Regularly Share
Executives
- Towne
Park to Manage Valet Parking at the Iconic Fontainebleau Miami Beach
- Lee
County Visitor & Convention Bureau Seeks to Become First Certified
Guest Service Destination
- UniFocus
Survey Enhancements Increase Response Rates by Making Mobile Survey
Taking More User Friendly
- EasyRMS,
an Infor company was chosen as Preferred Revenue Management Partner for
Park Inn by Radisson Berlin Alexanderplatz; The hotel turns to EzRMS to
increase revenue and improve forecasting accuracy
- Lodging
Interactive Fall Podcast IDs Top 4 Must-Have Digital Marketing Tools
for 2013; Hotelcast 2.0 offers the latest digital marketing tips PLUS
an update on the impact online Guest Reviews and QR Codes are making on
the travel landscape
- The
Rainmaker Group Appoints New Chief Financial Officer; Tom Barham Brings
Over 25 Years of Financial and Business Expertise to Role
- The
Liquidation Sale of the Hagerstown Hotel and Convention Center Opens
Thursday, October 11th at 10:00 a.m. Sale Conducted by NCL/
National Content Liquidators, Inc. - Everything Must Go!
- Digital
Alchemy Assembles Advisory Board to Guide Future Development of CRM and
e-Marketing Solutions; Consortium of hospitality industry operation and
revenue professionals will oversee advancements in guest communication
offerings
- The
Boutique & Lifestyle Lodging Association to Present the 2012 Person
of the Year Award to Joe McInerney, AHLA Chairman; To Be Awarded During
the Leadership Symposium Occurring October 22-24 in Los Angeles
- Hawaii's
Hotels Set Revenue Record in August with a 4% Rise in Occupancy to
81.3%; Three-Month Summer Season Revenue at an All-time High of $880.5
Million
- Hilton
Worldwide Enters Agreement with Upper Eastside Hotel (Pty) Ltd for the
183-room DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa; To Open
in Late 2012 through Updating and Re-branding of the Current Upper
Eastside Hotel
- Menin
Hotels to Open the 87-room Gale and Regent South Beach in Miami Beach,
Florida in December 2012; Completing its $35 Million Restoration of the
Circa 1941 Historic Property
- Rezidor
to Open the 110-key Radisson Blu Hotel & Residence, Riyadh
Diplomatic Quarter in Saudi Arabia in Q2 2015
- An
80-room Holiday Inn Express & Suites Hotel is Planned for Colorado
Springs, Colorado; The Jarosz Family Limited Partnership to Begin Work
Next Week Transforming the Recently Acquired Downtown Office Building
- Desai
Hotel Group's New Holiday Inn Express in Natchez, Mississippi Overcomes
Roadblocks, Expects to Open in April of 2013
- The
96-room DoubleTree by Hilton Mexico City Airport Opens in Mexico; Owned
and Operated by Operadora de Hoteles y Restaurantes ITER, S.A. de C.V
- The
90-room Buenos Aires Grand Opens in Argentina
- Owner,
Dudhima Inc., Selects American Resort Management to Manage the 103-room
Hyatt Place Corpus Christi, Texas; Currently Under Construction with a
December 2012 Opening Planned
- Eden
Roc Renaissance in Miami Beach, Florida Completes Four-year $230
Million Renovation and Expansion Project
- Strategic
Hotels & Resorts Completes $30 Million Renovation of the
InterContinental Miami in Florida
- Noble House
Hotels & Resorts Names Thomas McCann as General Manager of the
River Terrace Inn in Napa, California
- Andy
So Appointed as General Manager for the 695-room pentahotel Hong Kong,
Kowloon; Scheduled to Open in Summer 2013
October 4, 2012
- Sabre
Hospitality Solutions Boosts Global Client Portfolio with Significant
New Business
- Marriott
Reports 3rd Quarter 2012 Net Income of $143 million Compared to a Net
Loss of $179 million in the Year-Ago Quarter Which Included Pretax
Impairment Costs; REVPAR Climbs 7%, Worldwide Hotel Pipeline Totals
Over 120,000 Rooms Excluding 8,100 rooms from Gaylord Acquisition
- Starwood
Hotels & Resorts Completes Sale of the 665-room Manhattan at Times
Square in New York City to Affiliates of Rockpoint Group, Goldman
Sachs' Real Estate Principal Investment Area, and Highgate Holdings for
$275 Million in Cash
- Hilton
Worldwide Signs Management Agreement with Premier Hotels & Resorts
for Hotel Development and Introduction of Hilton Brand in Bangladesh;
The 250-room Hilton Dhaka is Scheduled to Open in 2015
- Cambria
Suites Brand to Expand to New Markets; Enters Development Agreements
for Hotels in West Orange, New Jersey; West Palm Beach, Florida; and
Williamsport, Pennsylvania
- Sleep
Inn by Choice Hotels International Brand's Designed to Dream Program
Now 88 Strong Inks 16 New Construction Agreements
- A
150- to 200-room Boutique Hotel is Part of Proposed New Entertainment
Zone for Schaumburg, Illinois; Village Aiming to Make their $240
Million Convention Center More Competitive and Attractive to Visitors
- Morgans
Hotel Group Opens the 71-room Delano Marrakech in Morocco in
Partnership with Hivernage Collection and Marbella Club (MC) Hotel Group
- Intelity
Releases Results of Two-year Study of iPad Use in Hotels; Guest user
data collected from hotels reveals that service via tablets is becoming
a preferred method of accessing and ordering guest services.
- eRevMax
Restructures Customer Service To Deliver Product Consultancy; New 24/7
Support Call Centre and Service Account Management Implemented for
RateTiger Customers
- The
202-room Shangri-La Hotel, Toronto Opens in Ontario, Canada
- Four
Points by Sheraton Debuts in the Dominican Republic with the 124-room
Four Points by Sheraton Puntacana Village; Developed through
Partnership with Grupo PUNTACANA
- Choice
Hotels Brand-wide Refresh of Comfort Inn and Comfort Suites Gains
Momentum; Five New Hotels Break Ground with the New Comfort Prototype
- Owned
by Point 128 LLC and Managed by Real Hospitality Group, the 114-room
Hotel de Point Opens in Queens, New York; Joins the Ascend Hotel
Collection
- Evolution
Hospitality Assumes Management Two of Clearview Hotel Capital's
Properties in San Diego, California; Overseeing Operations for the
176-room Courtyard and the 123-room Fairfield Inn & Suites, Both in
the Old Town District
- Choice
Hotels' Ascend Hotel Collection Grows in Gateway Cities in US and
Canada; Recent Additions Bring Portfolio to Eight Hotels in Canada and
More than 75 Worldwide
- Innovative
Cornell Hospitality Research Summit Opens Monday, October 8, 2012 -
Only a Few Slots Remaining for Registration
- HSMAI
Foundation Awards 2012 Scholarships to Hospitality Students, Shouma Ian
Moniz and Matthew Stone
- Mark
Eberwein Appointed as Director of Operations for the 400-room W San
Francisco in California
October 3, 2012
- The
Similarities Between Marketing and Training - Start, Stop, and Continue
/ Jim Hartigan
- Benchmark
Powers Expansion with Centralized Accounting Platform; Management by
the Numbers: Benchmark Integrates New Properties into Company
Management Processes Quickly with 'Private-Cloud' Back Office System
- Pegasus
Connect Global Revenue Solution to Drive Guest Room Sales for Hotels;
Pegasus Solutions Evolves Utell to Deliver Demand and Simplified
Distribution Solutions for Hotels
- Las
Vegas Sands, Caesars Singing Different Tunes at Global Gaming Expo
(G2E); Profitable Sands Looks for Options for Excess Cash while Caesars
Hopes to Turn Around Losses
- Noble
Investment Group Acquires the 216-suite Embassy Suites
Cleveland/Beachwood in Ohio; Hotel to Undergo an $8.6 Million Renovation
- North
Carolina's 353-room Sheraton Raleigh Hotel Sold to an Investment Group
Including Oaktree Capital Management and Affiliates of the Northview
Hotel Group for $20.2 Million
- ZENO
Controls Acquires Verve Living Systems; Acquisition makes ZENO the only
hospitality energy-management system and in-room controls provider to
operate on both ZigBee and EnOcean technology platforms offering
superior flexibility and control of all guest touch-points in the room
- Warmbrodt
Hotel Investments, Inc. Selected to Advise in the Sale of Commercial
Development Lots in Boonville, MO
- Hyatt
Affiliate Enters Management Agreement with Dilony S.A. for the 167-room
Hyatt Montevideo to Open in Uruguay in 2015
- B
Hotels & Resorts Celebrates Two Successful Years in Business with
Three New Properties Set to Open in 2013
- Owner
Roger Masters and Partner Prime Hospitality Group Get Final Approval to
Build the 95-room Courtyard by Marriott Hotel in Marathon, Florida
- Rim
Hospitality Assumes Management of the 309-room Crowne Plaza San
Francisco Airport Hotel in Burlingame, California; New Owner, Upsky
Enterprises, Plans Extensive Renovation
- California's
San Diego Marriott Del Mar Completes $3.3 Million Renovation of Public
Spaces and its 284 Guest Rooms
- The
Boutique & Lifestyle Lodging Association to Select Person of the
Year 2012 at Inaugural Symposium; Conference to Occur October 22-24 in
Los Angeles
- Florida
Keys Community College in Marathon, Florida Explores Partnership with
Florida International University for a Hospitality Program -
- Victoria
Isley Appointed Executive Director of the Destination & Travel
Foundation
- THG's
Lara Latture Promoted to Chief Operating Officer
October 2, 2012
- The
Security Breach Affecting Millions of Hotel Rooms Finally Addressed
Thanks to the Power of Smartphones; A freeware license is made
available to all hotels affected worldwide.
- Agilysys
Announces Latest Version of Lodging Management System®; LMS v7.2
Includes Key Enhancements, New Guest-Oriented Functionality
- Strategic
Hotels & Resorts Puts its Four Seasons Resort Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Property Up for Sale
- Customer
Service Week - WOW Stories to Inspire Your Team / Bryan K. Williams, D.M.
- Business
Meetings Hit Their Mark With Adventure Sports; The Inn at Pocono
Manor's New Adventure Program Combines Meetings with Outdoor Sports to
Create "Amazing Race" Teambuilding
- Massachusetts
Convention Center Authority Completes $33 Million Land Acquisition Near
the South Boston Exhibit Hall for a Hotel Development; Site Will
Support Two Mid-Priced Hotels with 400 to 500 Rooms
- The
259-room Hilton Puerto Vallarta Resort Opens in Mexico; Owned and
Managed by Grupo Hotelero Santa Fe
- The
364-room DoubleTree by Hilton Boston-North Shore Opens in Danvers,
Massachusetts Owned by The Lightstone Group and Operated by Sage
Hospitality; Completing the Renovation and Reflagging of the CoCo Key
Hotel & Water Resort
- Alliance
Hospitality Completes Renovation and Opens the 171-room Holiday Inn
Indianapolis North - Carmel in Indiana; Re-flagging the former Four
Points by Sheraton Indianapolis - Carmel
- The
86-room JHouse Greenwich Hotel Opens in Greenwich, Connecticut with
John Sheedy as General Manager
- City
of Owensboro, Kentucky Selling Downtown Lots for Hotel, Condos; LinGate
Company to Begin Construction of Holiday Inn with Up to 120 Rooms for a
Mid-2014 Opening
- Liberty
Sites to Break Ground on the 260-room Costa Hollywood Hotel & Condo
at Hollywood Beach Village in Florida
- KAJ
Management to Begin Construction of the 97-room Holiday Inn Express
Hotel & Suites in Wichita, Kansas
- South
Carolina's Marriott Columbia Hotel to Undergo a $10 Million Renovation;
New Owner, Aimbridge Hospitality, Appoints Joel Darr as General Manager
and Nancy Wagner as Director of Sales
- Rob
Cote Rejoins Alliance Hospitality as Vice President of Operations
- Red
Lion Hotels Hires Steve Krebs as Director of Lodging Development
- John
Price Named as Director of Independent Hotel Operations for Lane
Hospitality
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Appoints Dan McDermott as General Manager for
the 160-key Marenas Resort in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida
- Grace
Mora Named Vice President and General Counsel at the 1,504-room
Fontainebleau Miami Beach in Florida
October 1, 2012
- Celebrating
Mediocracy! / Fritz Kummer
- Tucson,
Arizona's Oldest and Most Luxurious Resort, the Hilton Tucson El
Conquistador Golf & Tennis Resort, in Default and Heading to
Auction Block
- Inland
American Real Estate Trust, Inc. to Purchase Three Autograph Collection
Hotels from Richard Kessler's Collection
- Marriott
Completes Acquisition of Gaylord Hotels Brand and Hotel Management
Company for $210 Million
- Service
Excellence: Three Tips to Drive Repeat Business / Bryan K. Williams,
D.M.
- Clearwater
Hotel Sold; New Property Manager Looking for GM ; Hotel-Online and
BuildCentral Have Updated 304 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with Changes
in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership
- Family
Feud Could Put Historic Cavalier Hotel in Virginia Beach, Virginia in
Jeopardy
- Two
Hotels and a Conference Center Planned at Union Centre in West Chester,
Ohio; Summer 2014 Opening Planned for the 128-room Holiday Inn and
Conference Center with Plans Underway for a 125-room Hilton Garden Inn
- UniFocus'
International Reach Surpasses 100 Countries Worldwide
- Introducing...Duetto
Edge; Duetto Research Unveils Cutting-Edge Demand Optimization
Solution, and Launches www.DuettoResearch.com
- Digital
Alchemy Integration With Stash Hotel Rewards Makes Loyalty Management A
Breeze For Boutiques; Leading hospitality CRM system partners with the
premier independent loyalty program, enhancing guest profile databases
and hotels' marketing potential.
- Colwen
Hotel Management Acquires the Holiday Inn Express in Keene, New
Hampshire Bringing its Management Portfolio in Keene to Three Properties
- Jonathan
M. Tisch, Chairman of Loews Hotels & Resorts, Calls on Policy
Leaders to "Rise to the Challenge" and Build World-Class U.S.
Infrastructure
- The
Birth of the Community Manager: the New Social Media Profession in
Hospitality / Max Starkov
- What
Not to Do in Revenue Management - Part Two / Jean Francois Mourier
- Palms
Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada Completes First Phase of its $50
Million Renovation; The 428 Re-designed Rooms in the Palms Tower Now
Available for Guest Booking
- Urgo
Hotels Reopens the Fully Restored 70-room Winter Haven Hotel in Miami
Beach, Florida as Part of Marriott International's Autograph Collection
- The
201-room Park Hyatt Chennai Opens in Southern India
- Benchmark
Hospitality International Appoints Todd Allison as Executive Chef for
The Inn at Rancho Santa Fe in California
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