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June 6, 2013 MGM Resorts and Hyatt Hotels Join Forces; Travelers to Gain Perks from MGM's M Life and Hyatt Gold Passport Loyalty Programs Simultaneously InvoTech Uniform System Selected by Trump National Doral® Miami to Track 3,000 Uniforms with Laborsaving Efficiency; The $250 Million Resort Transformation Includes Uniform Management Technology that Increases Profitability and Reduces Uniform Expenses GSA and Trump Organization Reach Deal on Lease for Old Post Office Building in Washington, D.C.; The $200 Million Deal to Preserve the Historic Landmark, Converting it into a Mixed-Use Development, Now Goes to Congress Meliá Hotels International has Begun Construction of the 252-room Gran Meliá Riyadh in Saudi Arabia; A 2015 Opening is Planned Jin Jiang International Hotel Management Company Secures Management Contract for Stone Forest Jin Jiang International Resort with Yunnan Jia Yi Real Estate Co; The 118-room Resort in China's Yunnan Province is Scheduled to Open in February 2014 Interwest Capital Acquires the 149-room Tutwiler Hotel, Birmingham, Alabama; HRI Lodging Selected as Property Manager Optimum Hotel Brokerage Sells Philadelphia Area Select Service Hotel; Best Western Quakertown Sold to Local Partnership Educational Institute Signs Agreement with LinguaTV to Market English Language Training Programs for Hospitality Employees Dusit Hotel Group selects RateGain's Rate Intelligence and Distribution Management Solutions to help drive Revenue Growth Owned by MAM-Charlotte Hotel and Managed by McGlashan Hospitality, the Crowne Plaza Charlotte Executive Park Hotel Opens in North Carolina; Formerly a Marriott Hotel, the 297-room Property will Undergo a Multi-Million Dollar Renovation The 266-room Four Seasons Hotel Shenzhen to Open on September 1, 2013 in China Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts Set to Open the 211-room Shangri-La Hotel, Qufu in China on August 1, 2013 Scheduled to Open in Early 2014 in Turkey, the 102-room Holiday Inn Express Manisa - West will Operate under a Franchise Agreement with Procons Turizm and be Managed by T&T Consulting The 120-suite TownePlace Suites Buffalo Airport is Set to Open in Buffalo, New York; Managed by Buffalo Lodging Associates Homewood Suites by Hilton Opens the 92-suite Homewood Suites Newport in Middletown, Rhode Island and the 112-suite Homewood Suites Fort Worth - Medical Center in Texas McKibbon Hotel Group to Open the 107-suite Residence Inn by Marriott in Little Rock, Arkansas Kenneth Widmaier Named Chief Operating Officer for Sage Hospitality Vision Hospitality Group Promotes Reggie Piercy to Vice President of Operations Crescent Hotels & Resorts Names Noel Daniel as General Manager for the 123-key Hotel Madeline Telluride in Colorado; Also Appointed are Todd Gehrke as Director of Sales & Marketing and Elizabeth Howe as Director Front of House Operations Shingi Rukuni Appointed as General Manager at Sonesta ES Suites Charlotte in North Carolina Chef Paul Piscopo Named as Executive Chef for The St. Regis San Francisco in California Benchmark Hospitality International Names Jordan Mackey Executive Chef for Hotel Contessa, San Antonio, Texas Bjorn van der Horst Appointed as Director of Food and Beverage at Rosewood London; Hotel to Open in England in October 2013 June 5, 2013 Task Force Operations...Filling the Void in Hospitality Leadership / Gary Brown Six Top PMS Trends to Make Independents More Productive and Profitable; NORTHWIND Showcases Enhanced Technology and Services at HITEC; Guest Engagement, Maestro Cloud, Big Data Dashboard, Loyalty, MyMaestro Knowledge Center, Mobile, Direct Web & Social Media Booking Milestone Internet Marketing Announces User Conference; A Marketing Forum Providing Insights into the latest trends and changes in Digital Marketing and its relevance to hospitality industry Possibility of Host Hotels Putting the 1,408-room Philadelphia Marriott Downtown Up for Sale Due to Lagging Convention Business Raising Eyebrows NewcrestImage to Acquire 25 Properties From La Quinta Adding 2,978 rooms to Portfolio Mid-Year U.S. Hotel Transaction Volume Up 50 % to $8.0 Billion in 2013 According to Jones Lang LaSalle; Five Secondary Cities Claim Top Spots for Hotel Investment Social Media and Reputation Management for Hotels: Eight Key Takeaways / Daniel Edward Craig PMC Property Group in Talks with Kimpton Hotels to Convert the James Reed Building in Downtown Pittsburgh to Upscale Hotel with up to 250-rooms Vista Capital Company Closes $14,700,000 of Acquisition Financing for a Beachfront Hotel in North Carolina’s Outer Banks Intelity Makes Changes to Meet Hotel Design Needs; The impact of evolving hotel technology has led to the need to rethink traditional guestroom design, and with the new ICE Sapphire, Intelity looks to inspire change SignUp4 and Newmarket Streamline the RFP Distribution Process via Certified Integration; The power of two leading technology providers strategically leveraged HotelTravel.com Connects to eRevMax Channel Ecosystem Hotels Looking to Heighten SEO and SMO Need to Engage with SoLoMo; Lodging Interactive is taking the stress and confusion out of managing and monitoring a hotel's search engine and social media optimization by working with marketers to 'CoMMingle' Social, Local and Mobile marketing strategies HTNG Appoints David Sjolander Chief Operating Officer Nevada Supreme Court Weighing Arguments on Flawed CityCenter Harmon Hotel Tower Before Case Goes to Trial Hyatt Regency McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois Completes its $110 Million Expansion and Renovation Project; Hotel Now Totals 1260 Rooms The 189-room DoubleTree by Hilton London - Ealing Opens in England; Ealing Hotel Transformed by Over $15 Million Conversion and Redesign RFR Holding and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Unveil the 125-room W Tel Aviv Site and Design in the Old City of Jaffa in Israel; The $50 Million Project Converting an Historic 19th Century Building is Slated for a 2015 Opening The 1,500-room Tropicana Las Vegas - a DoubleTree by Hilton Plans Significant Expansion of Meeting and Convention Facilities Ribbon Cutting Set for the Newly Built 117-room Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites - Troy, Michigan InterContinental Osaka Opens in Japan; The 215-room Hotel was Built as Part of Grand Front Osaka, a New Mixed-Use Development IHG Opens the 137-room Holiday Inn Baltimore - BWI Airport Area Hotel in Maryland Sage Hospitality Completes $12.5 Million Renovation of Eight Ohio Hotels The Lodge at Tiburon in California Completes Renovations of Guestrooms, Pool, Lobby and the New Tiburon Tavern Restaurant Philip Goldfarb, Fontainebleau Miami Beach President & COO, Honored with Excellence in Tourism Award; Presented by Miami Beach, Florida Chamber of Commerce Outrigger Appoints Mark Simmons as VP Sales and Marketing, Asia-Pacific Hotel Equities Promotes Carlos Melgar to Vice President of Finance Paul Scott Named as Complex General Manager of Two Hilton Worldwide Hotels in New Orleans, Louisiana; Responsible for the Operation of the 1,622-room Hilton New Orleans Riverside and the 367-room DoubleTree by Hilton New Orleans Charles Hill Appointed as General Manager of the 384-suite Embassy Suites Washington, D.C. - Convention Center Alliance Hospitality Appoints Muktar Dougisyeh as General Manager for the Fairfield Inn & Suites Atlanta Downtown Hotel in Georgia Ivan Casadevall Named as General Manager for the 278-room Pan Pacific Nirwana Bali Resort in Indonesia Hay Creek Hotels Welcomes Kathleen DeVitto as the New Director of Sales at the Eagle Mountain House in Jackson, New Hampshire June 4, 2013 North Central Group Implements hotel SystemsPro Multi-Property Sales and Catering, and hotel WebSpace Online Marketing to Increase Business for 31 Properties; Marriott and Hilton Operator Relies on Cloud-Based hotel SalesPro and hotel WebSpace to Centralize Sales Processes and Create Search-Optimized Property Web Landing Pages Aptech VUE: The Big Data Challenge – Multiple Properties with Multiple Flags Meet Big Challenges; Reap Big Rewards with Business Intelligence; Hotel Companies with Large Diverse Portfolios Make Better Decisions When Business Intelligence Overcomes Multi-System Data Gathering and Translation Challenges Adaco Continues to Grow with New and Existing Clients - Meet Adaco at HITEC 2013; The global provider of SaaS-based procurement solutions is pleased to announce that a number of new and existing clients have selected Adaco.Net in recent months Travel Tripper Announces Upcoming Booking Engine Launch Nobody Asked Me, But...No. 103; John Q. Hammons (1919-2013): Master Hotel Developer and Builder; On the Site of the Drake Hotel; The Origin of Memorial Day; Quote of the Month / Stanley Turkel Service Excellence: It's About Your Heart / Bryan K. Williams Wynn Resorts Facing Federal Probe Over $135 million Donation Made to the University of Macau, Which is Headed by a Chinese Official with Gaming Oversight AH&LA Commends White House on Patent Troll Reforms Swire Properties Elects to Develop its Own East Hotel Brand for Miami's Brickell CityCentre; The 236-room East, Miami will be the first East hotel in the United States Sandwiched Between Two Giant Hotel Developments, COMO Hotels Making First U.S. Push in Miami Beach with the 74-room Metropolitan by COMO iRiS Software Systems to Unveil Strategy with Suite of New Applications at HITEC 2013 Cendyn® Wins Six Coveted Industry Awards for Superior Website Design Educational Institute's India Vice President Retires After Nearly 20 Years South Street Partners Acquires Kiawah Partners, Developers of the Carolina's Kiawah Island; Charleston-based firm spent past 25 years as Kiawah Island's master developer Benderson Development to Include a 105-room Home2 Suites by Hilton at New Cabela Crossings Project in Cheektowaga, New York Starwood Hotels & Resorts Expansion in China Continues with Planned Openings of 20 Hotels in 2013; 70 Percent of Pipeline Planned for Tier Two and Three Cities The 267-room DoubleTree by Hilton Cedar Rapids Convention Complex at the U.S. Cellular Center Opens in Iowa Following Two-Year $144 Million Transformation of the Former Crowne Plaza Five Seasons IHG Opens the 290-room Holiday Inn Riyadh Meydan in Saudi Arabia Owned and Managed by Sunridge Hotel Group, the 71-suite TownePlace Suites by Marriott is Set to Open in Roswell, New Mexico Red Lion Hotels to Add the 300-room The Riverside Hotel in Boise, Idaho to its Leo Collection Aston Hotels & Resorts Expands its Collection of Waikiki, Hawaii Hotels, Adding the 72-room Hotel Renew by Aston StepStone Hospitality Selected to Manage Two Baton Rouge Properties; The Residence Inn by Marriott Siegen Lane and Courtyard by Marriott Siegen Lane Christian Hylander Named as Vice President Sales at Rezidor Hotel Group Rick Rogovin Joins The Dow Hotel Company as Vice President of Hotel Investments June 3, 2013 Leisure Reservations Surged Ahead in April as North American Corporate Bookings Struggled to Maintain Global Pace; Pegasus Solutions Reports on Region's Mixed Performance Concurrent to the 35th Annual NYU International Hospitality Industry Investment Conference SAI Now Offering Guestroom Controls with Acquisition of Scientific Control Systems; As a former distributor of SAI's CONTROLIQ energy management solution for public spaces, the purchase of SCS extends SAI's reach to guestrooms, delivering an integrated and comprehensive building management solution that is web-based, user friendly and affordable Las Vegas Culinary Union Creates Website to Warn Visitors of Potential Strikes and Disruption of Services PwC US Indicates U.S Lodging Sector Recovery Continues, Albeit Cautiously, with a Projected RevPAR Growth of 5.9% for 2013 General Contractor Awarded Bid for Faro Blanco Resort Hyatt Hotel in Marathon, Florida; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 123 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database Kennedy Training Network and LogMyCalls: 5 Lessons Learned from Recording, and Auditing Calls; Webinar will unveil industry research on marketing tactics and phone sales Prominent Industry Executive Joins Towne Park to Drive Strategic Growth; Steven M. Zaccagnini Named Executive Vice President of Corporate Development Host Hotels & Resorts Acquires the 426-room Hyatt Place Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii for $138.5 million from an Affiliate of Chartres Lodging and Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund VII Global AWH Partners Acquires a Premium-Branded Three Hotel Portfolio from Lane Hotels with Planned Renovations for Each; Properties Include the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Annapolis, Hilton Grand Rapids Airport and the Courtyard Durham Near Duke University/Downtown Chesapeake Lodging Trust Acquires the 313-room Hyatt Fisherman's Wharf for $103.5 million, or Approximately $331,000 per key; Evolution Hospitality Selected to Manage Driftwood Hospitality Management Enters Internaltional Joint Venture with Pacrim Hospitality Services; Initial Expansion Targeting Canadian Market Starwood Hotels Le Méridien Brand Ownership Groups to Invest an Additional $1 billion into the Global Portfolio Marriott International to Import its European AC Hotel Brand to the United States and the Americas Michael Evans Named Chief Executive Officer of MGM Hospitality; Will Oversee Operations for Bellagio, MGM Grand, Skylofts Top 25 Read Articles - May 2013 RoomKey.com: Hotel Brands’ Misguided Attempt to Become an OTA / Vikram Singh What the Hotel Industry Can Learn From "Heads in Beds" by Jacob Tomsky / Vikram Singh Hoteliers: Be Prepared for Penguin 2.0; Google Head of Web Spam Quoted as Saying "Updates will be Jarring and Jolting" / Brandon Dennis Marriott Awards Ten Employees with Company’s Highest Honor, the J. Willard Marriott Award of Excellence Hoteliers Beware! The Consequences of Overbooking - Reservation-Holders Booted Out on Jam-Packed Weekend Marriott Signs Official Agreement with iRiS Software Systems Starwood Targeting Young Millionaires from Generation X and Y Who Comprise 85% of Groups Luxury Guests In Memoriam: A Tribute to Jeff Henschel, Director of IT, Benchmark Hospitality - 1963 – 2013 Intelity Wants Hotels to Shine With All-New ICE Sapphire LBA Hospitality Increases Business for 72-Property Portfolio with Web Booking Pages and Corporate Sales System The 323-room JW Marriott Houston Downtown Hotel Set to Open in Texas in Spring 2014; The $80.8 Million Conversion of an Historic Building is Under Development by Pearl Hospitality Revenue Managers - Feeling on Edge? Here's a Way to Stop Costly Pricing Mistakes / Marco Benvenuti PKF's 2013 Annual Trends in The Hotel Industry Survey Results - A Video Recap A Restaurateur’s Guide to Successful Digital Marketing / Emily Ditman The Press Release: Reports of Its Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated / Anne Sweeney Legendary Developer John Q. Hammons Dies at Age 94; Missouri Native’s Legacy Lives on in U.S. Lodging Industry and Philanthropic Endeavors Without Warning, Sun Travel & Tours, Owners of Hilton Maldives Iru Fushi Resort, Terminate Hilton Contract; Guest Cancellations and Staff Resignations Reported; Hilton Praised for Peaceful Conduct Lake Las Vegas Hotel Getting New Name -- Again: The 349-room Ravella at Lake Las Vegas to Become the Hilton Lake Las Vegas Resort & Spa Emerging a Bit Battered and Bruised, MGM CEO, Jim Murren, Discusses MGM's Financial Turnaround, the Park on the Strip and the Rolling Stones Sam Nazarian, Larry Levy and Bob Heyat Partner to Launch The Redbury Hotel South Beach Hard Rock International, in Collaboration with Bayshore Capital, Plans Development of Hard Rock Hotel in Daytona Beach, Florida HVS Projects Hotel Values to Return to Pre-Recession Highs Last Seen in 2006 Hyatt Appoints Four to Brand and Marketing Leadership Positions Furthering Focus on Brand Development and Innovation Years After the Process Began, Foreclosure Finally Comes for South Shore Club in South Beach, Miami, Florida Summit Hotel Properties Closes Six Hotel Acquisitions Totaling 786 Guestrooms for $153 Million May 31, 2013 Thoughts from the Golf Industry Show: Part Two of Three / Darius Hatami NewcrestImage Finalizes Merger and Brings All Three Companies Under the Same Banner Slaying Oxymoronos Maximus, the Great Dragon of Cheap Imitation in the Luxury Market / Steven Ferry Hoteliers Score Business with Sports Groups / Eric B. Hansen Five Questions to Chef Nobu Matsuhisa, One of the World's Finest Chesapeake Lodging Trust to Debut Le Méridien New Orleans in 2014 Following a $29 Million Renovation; Currently Operating Under Starwood's W Brand Intelity Offers New ICE Sapphire As Native and HTML5 Web App The 320 Guest Ranch Awarded TripAdvisor's Certificate of Excellence for 2013 Midas Hospitality Acquires the 104-room Residence Inn by Marriott - Columbus / Worthington in Ohio Commune Hotels & Resorts Introduces Tommie, a Value-Conscious Brand; Two New York City Properties are Currently Under Development with Early 2015 Openings Planned Construction Begins for the 91-room "Generation 4" Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott in Leavenworth, Kansas to Open in Spring 2014 Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts Set to Open the 283-room Traders Hotel, Puteri Harbour, Johor, Malaysia MAZEX Holdings Selects Driftwood Hospitality Management to Manage the 148-Room Clarion Hotel and Conference Center in Deland, Florida Charlestowne Hotels Selected to Manage the New 43-room Sewanee Inn and Conference Center Currently Under Development by the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee Sawgrass Marriott Golf Resort & Spa in Ponte Vedra, Florida Begins Multi-Million Dollar Resort-Wide Refresh Project California's 56-room Calistoga Spa Hot Springs Completes its Major Renovation Survey Exploring Generational Buying Preferences in the Meetings Marketplace Released by IACC and DCI (Development Counsellors International) Tourism Growth in Hawaii Hit Brakes in April; Year-to-Date Numbers Show Visitor Arrivals 1% Below and Spending 6.4% Below Projected Targets Buck Drossart, 2013 Wisconsin Hotel & Lodging Association Chairman and General Manager of The Pointe Hotel & Suites and Conference Center, Minocqua, Receives a State Leadership Award from the AH&LA Larry Daniels, General Manager of HRI Lodging's Hyatt French Quarter Property, Promoted to Vice President/General Manager of HRI Lodging Lee Ann Benge Named as Vice President of Human Resources for HRI Lodging Matthew Boris Promoted to Hotel Manager for the 400-key Wyndham Grand Orlando Resort Bonnet Creek in Florida Florida's 408-key W South Beach Hotel & Residences Appoints Samantha Spurgeon as Director of Sales and Marketing Hyatt Key West Resort and Spa in Florida Appoints Dan Higgins as Chef de Cuisine, Jillian Pahren as Catering Manager and Miki Hirakawa as Spa Manager May 30, 2013 MSI Significantly Reduces PCI Burden for Hotel Operators; New Cloud-Enabled Payment Processing Solution, MSI CloudPay Debuts at HITEC 2013 Wet 'n' Wild Las Vegas Selects InfoGenesis POS by Agilysys; POS Solution Enhances Efficiency and Guest Service at Nevada's Largest Water Park Believed to be the Longest Hotel Strike in the World, the 10-Year Strike at Chicago's Congress Plaza Hotel is Over Stay Confident, and Don't Sell Out Too Soon / Marco Benvenuti A Change In Caribbean Hotel And Tourism Leadership / Robert MacLellan Summit Hotel Properties Closes Six Hotel Acquisitions Totaling 786 Guestrooms for $153 Million Sage Hospitality Completes Sale of Four Select Service Properties, Retains Management Contracts with New Owner, Blackstone Real Estate Partners Hersha Hospitality Trust Increases Presence in Southern California and Florida; Closes on the Purchase of the 245-room Courtyard San Diego Downtown for $71.1 Million and Signs Agreement to Acquire the 140-room Residence Inn Coconut Grove in Miami for $21.8 Million Carey Watermark Investors Acquires the 247-room Hutton Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee for a Total Investment of $77.3 Million; Amerimar Enterprises Will Continue to Manage the Property Outrigger Acquires Mauritius Beachfront Property, the 181-key Mövenpick Resort and Spa Mauritius; Following a Six-Month Renovation, the Property will Reopen as the Outrigger Mauritius Resort and Spa Deal to Buy and Reopen the 200-room Semiahmoo Hotel in Bellingham, Washington May be Near Completion Nor1 Expands Global Operations to Asia Pacific; Hires Allan Taylor as Vice President of Business Development for the Region Pegasus Solutions Names Diana Imber Vice President, Sales, Open Hospitality; Practiced Hospitality Professional Assumes Lead Sales Role for Web Services Division Hodges Ward Elliott and Hotel AG Advise Apple REIT 6 on Sale of 66-Property Portfolio Pineapple Hospitality Increasing Email Marketing Effectiveness, Customer Loyalty with ZMail from ZDirect Educational Institute Welcomes New Academic Partner in Shanghai, China UNWTO Calls for Nominations for the 2013 Awards for Excellence and Innovation in Tourism; All Submissions Should be Received by October 1, 2013 Margaritaville Gets Final Green Light in Hollywood, Florida; The $147 Million Project Including a 350-room Hotel will be Developed by Margaritaville Hollywood Beach Resort LP, a Partnership between Lojeta Millennium, Margaritaville of Hollywood and Starwood Capital Wyndham Hotel Group Launches Super 8 Hotel Brand in Turkey; Signs Development Agreement for 20 Super 8 Hotels in Turkey Over the Next 10 Years Hyatt Affiliate Enters Management Agreement with KY Development Co. for a Hyatt Place Hotel in Seoul, South Korea; Currently Under Development, the 204-room Hyatt Place Seoul will Open in 2016 Swire Hotels to Open The Temple House in Chengdu, China in Q4 2014; The 142-key Project is Being Jointly Developed by Sino-Ocean Land and Swire Properties within the Chengdu Daci Temple Cultural and Commercial Complex IHG's Holistic Wellness Hotel Brand, EVEN Hotels, Signs Second New York City Property; The New Build 150-room Property will Open in Mid-2015 The 333-room Renaissance Cairo Mirage City Hotel Opens in Egypt Hyatt Hotels and Interstate Hotels & Resorts Open the 130-key HYATT house Minot in North Dakota; Owned by North Hill Suites The 73-suite TownePlace Suites by Marriott is Set to Open in Saginaw, Michigan; Owned and Managed by DML Management Benchmark Hospitality International Names Gerald Lampaert Vice President of Information Technology Professor Stowe Shoemaker Named as New Dean of UNLV's Harrah College of Hotel Administration Marcus Hotels & Resorts Makes Two Executive Management Appointments; Promotes Scott Shoenberger to Senior Vice President - Operations and Acquisitions and Peggy Williams-Smith to Corporate Vice President of Food & Beverage Omni Hotels & Resorts Appoints Terry Green as General Manager of the Omni Severin Hotel in Indianapolis, Indiana Chef Krisztian Karkus Hired as Executive Chef for the 322-key Meritage Resort and Spa in Napa, California May 29, 2013 RoomKey.com: Hotel Brands' Misguided Attempt to Become an OTA / Vikram Singh The New York Palace Emerges from Renovation with Advanced UHF-RFID Uniform System to Streamline Uniform Operations for Staff of 1,000; Luxury New York Property Reduces Labor, Increases Profitability, Enhances Green Operations with Automated Uniform Tracking and Delivery to Employees Robinsons Land Corp. (RLC) and Okada-led Universal Entertainment Corp. Call Off Their $1 Billion Joint Casino Project in Pagcor Entertainment City in the Philippines Gateways to Citizenship and Hospitality: Hotel Financing through EB-5 / Li Chen Developer Bruce L. Thompson Signs Contract to Acquire The Cavalier Hotel in Virginia Beach, Virginia for $35.1 Million; Legal Hurdles Remain, Court Must Approve Sale La Quinta Inns & Suites Outpaces Growth Of Competitors Over Past Ten Years; Future Points to Continued Rapid Expansion in the U.S. and Around the World Innkeeper's Lodge Selects RateTiger to Optimise Price Strategy Beijing Hospitality Institute Becomes EI Global Academic Partner (GAP) School Alliance Hospitality Reports Strong First Quarter Growth; First Quarter Results Show Outstanding Accomplishments Across the Board Boomerang Hotels Brands Earn 2013 Tripadvisor Certificate of Excellence Harbans Singh Selected as the 2013 Inductee into HFTP's International Hospitality Technology Hall of Fame Patton Hospitality Management Selected to Operate Four Escapes Resort Properties; Expands Portfolio in Alabama, Arkansas and Missouri Guy Harvey Outpost Resorts Adds the 139-key Islander Resort in Islamorada in the Florida Keys to its Portfolio The 345-room Renaissance Johor Bahru Hotel Opens in Johor Bahru, Malaysia Owned by Kreesh Hospitality and Managed by KB Hotel Group, the New 87-room Hampton Inn is Set to Open in Middletown, Ohio Florida's Wyndham Orlando Resort Becomes Wyndham Orlando Resort International Drive; Part of its Multi-Million Dollar Re-Imagination with Anticipated October 2013 Completion New World Hospitality Changes Name to Rosewood Hotel Group Leslie A. Pchola Named Area Vice President Hilton Worldwide, Southeast Jim McSwigan Named General Manager of the 289-room Atlanta Marriott Century Center/Emory Area in Georgia Scott Ward Appointed as Director of Sales and Marketing for Scrub Island Resort, Spa & Marina in the British Virgin Islands May 28, 2013 Marriott Signs Official Agreement with iRiS Software Systems Adaco to Launch 'Procure-to-Pay' for Adaco.Net at HITEC 2013; The global provider of SaaS-based procurement solutions is unveiling a new hospitality product that provides hoteliers with electronic integration with vendors, supports automated Catalogue and invoice management, and integrates with the recently announced Adaco Analytics Solution TrustYou Continues to Expand Team in USA Headquarters; Ellis Connolly Appointed VP Sales Americas & Australia; Robust Client Service Talent On Board Hailing from Companies Such as Google Legendary Developer John Q. Hammons Dies at Age 94; Missouri Native's Legacy Lives on in U.S. Lodging Industry and Philanthropic Endeavors South Carolina Hospitality Association Bouncing Back with Positivity After Being Stung by Embezzlement Scandal Benchmarking Your Reservations Call Conversion Ratio / Doug Kennedy The Indivisible Image of France; With two consecutive quarters of 0.2% growth decline, France officially entered into recession / Georges Panayotis Tennessee's Memphis Peabody Hotel Celebrates 80 Years of Ducks Restaurant, Hotel Industry Bounces Back in Bay Area in California Hotel AG and Hodges Ward Elliott Advise Apple REIT 6 on Sale of 66-Property Portfolio Warmbrodt Hotel Investments Announces Sale of the Red Roof Inn, St. Louis, Missouri The Future of Hotel Revenue Management / Jean Francois Mourier Accor Unveils Global Repositioning Strategy for Pullman Hotels & Resorts Hilton Worldwide Signs Agreement for the 281-room Hilton Abu Dhabi Capital Grand in the United Arab Emirates; Currently Known as Abu Dhabi Al Maqta, the Hotel will Rebrand in Summer 2013 Historic Atlantic City Madison House Hotel Sells at Auction for $4 Million; Shuttered Since 2006, it May be Reopened Soon as a Hotel Fibra Inn, a Mexican REIT, Completes Acquisition of the 145-room Holiday Inn Express Playa del Carmen Hotel; Plans to Begin Construction on an Additional 51 Rooms in Q1 2014 Interstate Hotels & Resorts Opens Seven Hotels in the United Kingdom, Ireland, The Netherlands and Hungary IHG Opens the InterContinental Shanghai Ruijin, its 200th Hotel in China; The Rebranding of an Historic Landmark Hotel Owned by Shanghai Donghu Group Corporation Courtyard by Marriott Enters Saudi Arabia with Opening of the 286-room Courtyard Riyadh Diplomatic Quarter The 224-room Courtyard New York Manhattan/Times Square West Opens; Owned and Managed by Stonebridge Companies Renovations are Complete for the 80-room Half Moon Bay Lodge in California May 24, 2013 PKF's 2013 Annual Trends in The Hotel Industry Survey Results - A Video Recap Embassy Suites Hotels Honors Top Brand Performers of 2012: Embassy Suites Houston - Downtown Named 'Hotel of the Year' Buying and Selling Hotels In Today's Market; Timing, timing, timing. Seizing the day makes more and more sense / Jeff McKee Declines in Hotel Delinquencies Leads CMBS Rate Down Vacant Since February of 2011, Sangha Hospitality LLC, Plans Purchase of Macon, Georgia's 297-room Ramada Plaza, Converting to a Park Inn by Radisson Hyatt Hotels Completes Rebranding of Four Iconic French Properties; Hotel du Louvre, a Hyatt Hotel, will become an Andaz following a renovation Intelity Partner Infrability Introduces ICE at Kingdom Hotel Expansion Summit; Intelity and Infrability have formed a partnership to provide local sales, service and support to the rapidly growing Middle Eastern hotel market New HTNG Standards Will Help Hotels Increase Guest Satisfaction and Increase Efficiency of Payment Systems PolyU Study Finds Adjustments Needed to Hainan Tax-Rebate Policy to Enhance Benefits The 75-suite Candlewood Suites Atlanta West I-20 Hotel Opens in Georgia; Owned by HSNT Lithia Springs Lodging and Managed by Aysa Hospitality The 94-room BEST WESTERN PREMIER Herald Square Opens in Midtown Manhattan; Developed and Managed by LeTap Group Nebraska's DoubleTree by Hilton Omaha Downtown Hotel and Executive Meeting Center Completes its $20 Million Renovation Hyatt Appoints Four to Brand and Marketing Leadership Positions Furthering Focus on Brand Development and Innovation Perry Grice Appointed as Director of Sales for The 150-room Lodge and Spa at Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain, Georgia Louis Gonzalez and Jackie Payano Promoted to Assistant Directors of Group Sales for the 1,504-room Fontainebleau Miami Beach in Florida Valeria Benner Named Executive Chef of the Historic 306-room Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel Chicago in Illinois Hilton Dunkeld House in Perth, Scotland Welcomes Raymond Sterpaio as Head Chef May 22, 2013 LBA Hospitality Increases Business for 72-Property Portfolio with Web Booking Pages and Corporate Sales System; "Sales is All About Qualifying," LBA Combines Savvy Web Strategy and Centralized Account Management to Qualify and Close New Business Maestro Launches Big Data Mobile Business Intelligence and Performance Management Dashboards for Faster "Time to Information" Decisions; Maestro BI Gives Operators Real-Time On-The-Go Access to Comprehensive Performance Numbers for Single Hotels or Multi-Property Hotel Groups Real Hospitality Group Named Management Company for an Approximate Quarter Billion Dollar (Phase: I) Hotel Investment Fund Representing Only the First Phase of Hospitality Funding Ability. RHG to source deals and management for hotel investment fund in leisure destinations Hoteliers Beware! The Consequences of Overbooking - Reservation-Holders Booted Out on Jam-Packed Weekend Getting Your Tenured and Tired to Grow and Evolve / Gary Hernbroth Owners of Las Vegas' Golden Gate Hotel & Casino Hit Rock Bottom - Going Geothermal, Property Reduced Electrical Bills by 40% and Spends Zero on Hot Water Addressing the Social Side of Sustainability: Guidelines for the Hospitality Industry / Michael Estabrook Revel Emerges from Bankruptcy Under New Ownership; Shaves $1.5 billion in Debt Down to $272 million A Restaurateur's Guide to Successful Digital Marketing / Emily Ditman Company Headed by Texas Investor John Bushman Acquires the 500-room Crowne Plaza Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado for $14 Million; Plans to Reflag to Bushman's MCM Hotels Chain and Begin a Major Renovation University of Phoenix and American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute Announce Educational Partnership; EI's 60th Anniversary Drives Focus on Education and Talent Development for Hospitality Workforce Kempinski Hotels Begin Deployment of Nor1's Data-Driven Upsell Solutions Across Brand Portfolio; Strategic Agreement to Heighten Guest Experience for Europe's Most Luxurious Hotels Digital Alchemy Continues Expansion into Spa Market with Debut of eClub Opt-In Client Messaging System; Customizable email subscription solution allows day spas and hotel spas to build and maintain targeted customer databases and effective eMarketing programs Hotel Clarence and The Red Mill Inn Select Infor Hospitality; Infor HMS Overhauls Hotel Management System for Improved Service to Guests PAR Springer-Miller Systems, Inc. Awarded Gold and Bronze Distinctions for ATRIO® Guest Experience Management at 8th Annual 2013 "Hot Companies and Best Products" Awards Ceremony Hotel Pricing and Parity Analysis for the Week of May 13, 2013 in APAC Region Clear Sky Software's Beverage Inventory Management System Selected by Canadian Hotel Cityzenbooking Certified for eRevMax Channel Eco-System for Seamless Connectivity Early Easter Leaves Orlando Hotels with April Hangover as Occupancy Slides Downward 3% Circa 1898 Mansion at Judge's Hill in Austin, Texas, Once a Wedding Present, Gets a Makeover as Hotel Ella; Steve Shotsberger is Serving as General Manager for the Boutique Property Best Western International Enters Agreement to Take Over Management of the 189-key Green Hill Hotel in Myanmar's Largest City, Yangon; Best Western Becomes First U.S. Hotel Brand to Operate in Myanmar Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts Signs Management Contract with Shaanxi Puyu Industrial for the 350-room Swissôtel Xi'an; A 2016 Completion is Planned for the Hotel in Xi'an, the Capital of Shaanxi Province, China The 177-room Holiday Inn Express - New York Manhattan West Side Opens; Owned by GLSC 48 Special LLC and Managed by the Gemini Hospitality Group The 507-room Hotel Riu Yucatan, Mexico is to Reopen in July 2013 Following its $15 Million Renovation A June 2013 Opening is Planned for the 78-suite SpringHill Suites by Marriott in Deadwood, South Dakota; Owned by Optima and Managed by ISIS Hospitality A Member of Design Hotels, the 215-room Mainport Opens in Rotterdam, Netherlands MGallery Collection Hotel Opens 118-room Hotel on the Island of Murano in Venice, Italy Red Carnation Hotels Adds Ashford Castle in Ireland to its Portfolio Midas Hospitality Hires Michael Heater as General Manager for the 97-room Candlewood Suites - Greenville, South Carolina; The Hotel is Currently Under Development with an October 2013 Opening Planned Benchmark Resorts & Hotels Names Tiera Steele Director of Revenue Management for Eldorado Hotel & Spa in Santa Fe, New Mexico KSL Resorts Appoints Donna Smith as Director of Leisure and Travel Industry Sales and James Buck as Digital Marketing Manager for Two Properties; Responsible for The Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina and The Homestead in Hot Springs, Virginia May 21, 2013 Eurasia Resorts International & Global Financial Trust Plan New Las Vegas Mega Resort; Project Concept to be Finalized in Q1 2014 Adaco to Launch 'Analytics' for Adaco.Net at HITEC 2013; The global provider of SaaS-based procurement solutions is unveiling a new hospitality product that provides hoteliers with a three-dimensional view of their data and an unprecedented return on investment; Visit Adaco in Booth 309 Sam Nazarian, Larry Levy and Bob Heyat Partner to Launch The Redbury Hotel South Beach; Set to Open Early Fall 2013, Marks the Debut of One of Los Angeles Hottest Hotel Brands in Miami Albuquerque, New Mexico's Hyatt Regency Downtown to Soon to be Under New Ownership and Local Control Urban Commons and Brighton Management Purchase the Embassy Suites in Palm Desert and the Radisson Plaza in San Jose, Both in California California Hotels Corporation to Develop 17-acre Hotel Project in Troy, Michigan; Expansion and Renovation Project of the 200-room Met Troy Hotel will Begin in June 2013 with Completion Planned for April 2014 Fibra Inn, a Mexican REIT, Completes Acquisition of the 100-room Holiday Inn Express Guadalajara UAG Hotel with Plans to Add 99-Rooms; Group to Purchse Five Additional Hotel Properties Las Vegas Strip Culinary Union Preparing for Worst; With Contracts Expiring, Vote on Increasing Dues to Support Strike Funds Um, Could You Repeat That Please?; Listening Tips from a Once-Terrible Listener / Tommy Taylor Pegasus Solutions Reports that Global Corporate Bookings Set New Growth Record in April; +8.8% Increase Over April 2012 is Highest Year-over-year Increase Since August 2011 iRiS Software Systems Reports Record Sales in Q1 and Expands Team Across the Globe Vista Capital Company Raises $32 Million of Financing for a Portfolio of Five Hotels in Arizona and Utah Duetto Launches New Product - Duetto Insight - a Revenue Management Solution Catering to the Unique Needs of Small and Limited Service Hotels Eleven Appoints Industry Veteran Cyndi Shepley as Senior VP of Sales Sonnenblick-Eichner Company Arranges $59,500,000 of Financing for The St. Regis Deer Valley, Deer Valley, Utah New London Office and EMEA Sales Director Boosts Intelity's Regional Presence; The company behind the most advanced guest service enterprise platform in the world sets its sights on Europe, the Middle East and Asia with further expansion in regional sales and support Educational Institute Honors Navy Lodge Training Programs for Excellence HOSPA and HFTP in Initial Discussions to Expand Association's Showpiece 'HOSPACE' Hospitality Conference and Exhibition U.S. Travel Industry Poised for Strong Summer According to Travel Industry Leaders; Panelists Discuss Tourism's Impact on the U.S. Economy and Changing Vacation Demographics The $41 million 200-room Westin Jekyll Island in Georgia Breaks Ground with a September 2014 Opening Planned; Under Development by Jekyll Oceanfront Hotel, a Joint Venture Between Leon N. Weiner & Associates, New Castle Hotels & Resorts and Other Investors Kaminski Hotels Opens the 678-room Grand Kaminski Hotel Shanghai in Pudding, Shanghai; Reflagging the Former Gran Meliá Hotel Shanghai The 127-suite SpringHill Suites by Marriott Set to Open in Green Bay, Wisconsin in Early June 2013; Owned by Green Bay CS Hotel Group and Managed by HP Hotels Boston's Newest Boutique Hotel & Restaurant, The Boxer & Finch, Open; New Owner, Hersha Hospitality Trust, Completes Transformation of the 80-room Hotel, Formerly the Bulfinch Hotel The 61-room BEST WESTERN Pioneer Plaza Hotel Opens in Carbondale, Pennsylvania; Owned by Daniel Sinawa and Managed by Marshall Hotels & Resorts White Lodging Names Stan Iliev, Amy Davis, Kirsten Monsen, and Nicole Patterson as General Managers for Properties in Indiana, Nebraska, Colorado and Illinois Brent Truax Appointed as the General Manager of the 149-room Sierra Nevada Lodge in Mammoth Lakes, California Michael R. McMahon Named as Director of Sales and Marketing for the 740-key Arizona Biltmore, A Waldorf Astoria Resort, in Phoenix, Arizona Daniel Keyser and Nancy Wilkerson Appointed to Top Sales Leadership Positions for Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort in Destin, Florida New Castle Names Jasmin Kobajica as Executive Chef/Director of Food and Beverage for The Algonquin Resort in New Brunswick, Canada; Currently Undergoing a $30 Million Renovation, the Hotel will Reopen in Summer 2013 as Part of Marriott's Autograph Collection May 20, 2013 The 323-room JW Marriott Houston Downtown Hotel Set to Open in Texas in Spring 2014; The $80.8 Million Conversion of an Historic Building is Under Development by Pearl Hospitality IHG Signs Agreement with Dyafah Al Mutahida LLC to Open the 200-key Staybridge Suites Hira Street in Jeddah; The Debut for the Brand in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Wyndham Hotel Group Enters Singapore with the Opening of Two Properties; The 384-room Ramada and the 405-room Days Hotel Have Been Developed at Zhongshan Park, Singapore's Newest Development Area IRG Rubber City and Summit Development to Begin Development of a 136-room Hilton Garden Inn in East Akron, Ohio; A June 2014 Opening is Planned Architect Named for Palm Springs Hard Rock Hotel Rebrand; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 187 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database Supply of Hotel Rooms to Increase by 7.5% in Chattanooga, Tennessee with at Least 728 New Rooms Under Construction Are You Ready for The Affordable Care Act? Prepare with Labor Management Systems by UniFocus Pegasus Solutions Names John Kiszla Vice President, Demand Account Management; Sales Team Adds Yet Another Executive with Significant Hotel Leadership Experience Warmbrodt Hotel Investments Announces Sale of the DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Hotel Omaha, NE Cornell Studies Examine Global Hotel Industry Strategy and Restaurant Social Media Historic Resort, La Casa del Zorro, to Re-open this Summer in Borrego Springs, California; The Shuttered Property is being Revived and Managed by HMG Hotels Lausanne, Switzerland's Beau-Rivage Palace Completes First Phase of Major Renovation, Unveiling 37 Newly Renovated Rooms and Suites; The $28 Million Project Including 61 Additional Guestrooms will be Complete in April 2014 Operated and Managed by Affiliates of Widewaters Hotels, the 107-room Hilton Garden Inn Rochester/Pittsford Opens in Upstate New York PM Hospitality Strategies Selected to Operate the 132-key Homewood Suites by Hilton Oakland Waterfront in California Caesars Entertainment Names Tom Arasi President of Hospitality; Tom Jenkin and John Payne to Assume New Responsibilities as Global President of Destination Markets and President of Central Markets and Partnership Development Host Hotels & Resorts Names Gregory J. Larson as Chief Financial Officer Michael C. Coolidge Named as Senior Vice President, Real Estate & Lodging Development for CSM Lodging Boumediene Ouadjed Promoted to General Manager of the 99-key Le Méridien Bora Bora Fisher Island Club Names Samuel Garcia Hotel Manager of the Fisher Island Club Hotel Richard Ross Appointed as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the 598-key Hilton Sandestin Beach Golf Resort & Spa in Florida May 17, 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing A Lesson for the Hospitality, Travel and Tourism Industry: TERRORISM IS HERE TO STAY / James Braver and Dov Shiloh Launch of TrustYou Sabre Red App Delivers Tremendous Time Saving & Transparency to Travel Agents; Agents Can View Hotels' Overall Ranking Across All Guest-Review Platforms to Get a Comprehensive Look at How Properties Fare Without Spending Hours Online Nobody Asked Me, But...No. 102; A Hotel Consultant's Eclectic Opinions; Hotel History: The Hermitage Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee; Turning Gray Into Gold; Quote of the Month / Stanley Turkel Delaware North Companies and Boston Bruins Principal, Charlie Jacobs, Planning Massive Mixed-Use Development for Boston's TD Garden Years After the Process Began, Foreclosure Finally Comes for South Shore Club in South Beach, Miami, Florida; Online Sale Set for the 309-room Hotel Operated by Morgans Hotel Group with Majority Owner Philips International Resorts Group, Banyan Tree, May Spin off its Southeast Asia Hotels into a Real Estate Investment Trust Granite Properties Breaking Ground on 299-key Hilton Granite Park and Granite Park IV, a Flagship Master-Planned Development in Plano, Texas Engage Hospitality Personality Hotels Collection Joins Forces with innRoad; Burgeoning boutique hotel management company sees the value of integrated hospitality management practices in the cloud MICROS mTablet and mStation Revolutionizes the Hospitality and Retail Experience; Released in tandem, mTablet and mStation provide hospitality and retail industries a business solution lacking in consumer tablets Bernard Ellis Joins Infor as Vice President of Industry Strategy for Hospitality University of New Hampshire Lodging Executives Sentiment Index Remains Flat for April 2013 CNBC's Simon Hobbs to Emcee Cornell Hospitality Icon & Innovator Awards Gala; Tom Pritzker to Receive Icon of the Industry Award; Steve Ells to Receive the Innovator Award The Hotel Group Celebrates Grand Opening of its DoubleTree by Hilton in South Bend, Indiana; Multi-Million Project Transitions Former Marriott to DoubleTree by Hilton The 125-room Hotel Vermont Opens in Burlington, Vermont Sonesta to Manage 200-room Hotel in Bee Cave, Texas; Developer, Hill Country Texas Galleria, to Break Ground on the Hotel this Year with a 2015 Opening Planned Janice O'Neill-Cox, Director of Sales and Marketing for Hilton Americas-Houston in Texas, Receives Prestigious Circle of Excellence Award Rodolfo Fao Appointed General Manager of Hawaii's Newly Re-Opened Volcano House Hotel Highgate Hotels Appoints Deirdre Yack as Director of Sales and Marketing for the 723-room Lexington New York City Julian Haddon Appointed as Director of Sales & Marketing for Rosewood London; Core Management Team Members Named Ahead of the Property Opening in October 2013 Jackson Ferguson Named as Director of Sales & Marketing for the 74-room Warwick San Francisco in California JW Marriott Denver Cherry Creek in Colorado Hires Colin Bennett as Sales Manager May 16, 2013 At Ataway Exchange 2013, Cendyn® Shares Latest Research/Findings on How to Compete in a Data-Driven Marketplace, Moderates Panel Discussion; Cendyn Hosts Hospitality Digital Marketing Professionals During Private Lunch Session Titled 'Data is the New Currency of Hospitality Digital Marketing' Hyatt Place Pensacola Airport Installs FlyteBoard to Give Airport-Bound Guests More Free Time; Property Gives Guests the Confidence to Stay On Property Longer, Save Time During Flight Delays Aptech, MSI Implement Interface for Data Communication Between Properties and Execuvue® Business Intelligence; MSI – Execuvue Interface Enables Right-Time Property Performance Analysis for Companies with Multiple Properties, Flags, and Profit Centers In Memoriam, A Tribute to Jeff Henschel, Director of IT, Benchmark Hospitality; 1963 - 2013 Silverstein Properties to Develop $950 million, 82-Story Tower in New York City Housing the Cities Tallest Hotel & Residences; Project Includes a 185-room Four Seasons Hotel and is Slated to Open in 2016 From Red to Black: How Las Vegas' CityCenter Pulled out of the Economic Morass and Started Making Money Marriott Awards Ten Employees with Company's Highest Honor, the J. Willard Marriott Award of Excellence Value Place Honors Group of Franchisees, Properties and Property Managers for Outstanding Performance in 2012 Sheraton Myrtle Beach Convention Center Hotel's Suzanne Hinde Named General Manager of the Year by Interstate Hotels & Resorts Camelback Mountain Resort in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains Plans $145 Million Expansion; The Project Includes a 453-room Hotel Choice Hotels Enters Joint Venture with Fillmore Capital Partners to Develop Multiple Cambria Suites Hotel Properties Meetings Focus Live! Cleans the World!; Meetings Focus's Las Vegas hosted buyer program participants join with Geoteaming and CleantheWorld.org to donate sanitary supplies to the needy Hotel Assets Group Sees Strong YTD 2013 Closings Shaftesbury Hotels Collection Optimize Sales Distribution and Reservation Processes with RateTiger; Hotel group connects PMS to RateTiger to improve operations Intelity Releases Cenium Integrations; The POS and PMS integrations are already being installed at several hotel properties worldwide North Carolina Developer, Winston Hospitality, Takes on Norwich, Connecticut Hotel Effort; Completes Foreclosure Action on the Long Abandoned, Partially Constructed Hotel with Hopes to Complete Construction UNWTO and PolyU Co-Host China Tourism and China Hotel-Branding Forum 2013 Thailand Voted the Most Attractive Nation in Southeast Asia for Hospitality Industry Investment at the Asia Pacific Hotel Investment Conference Cambria Suites Enters Agreements for the 121-suite Cambria Suites McAllen Convention Center in McAllen, Texas and the 103-suite Cambria Suites West Fargo in North Dakota; Construction for Both Properties will Begin in 2013 The 173-suite SpringHill Suites New York Midtown Manhattan/Fifth Avenue Opens in New York City; Owned by Hidrock Realty and Robert Finvarb Companies and Managed by Marriott International Choice's Ascend Hotel Collection Opens its 100th Hotel with the 62-key Hotel Elan in Calgary, Canada Owned and Managed by Visions Hotels, the 79-room Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Opens in Elmira, New York White Lodging Executes Management Contracts with RLJ Lodging Trust for the Residence Inn and Courtyard at Houston's Downtown/Convention Center in Texas; Both properties will be Led by General Manager Ryan Frederick Love Hotel Management Company to Manage the 70-room Heritage House Resort in Mendocino, California Keith Vieira, Longtime Head of Starwood's Hawaii & French Polynesia Region, to Retire at Year's End Noble House Hotels & Resorts Welcomes Joe St. Laurent as General Manager and Jeff Gillick as Director of Sales and Marketing at Kona Kai Resort and Spa in San Diego, California Gary Johnson Named as General Manager for Bay Point Wyndham Resort in Panama City Beach, Florida May 15, 2013 The Press Release: Reports of Its Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated / Anne Sweeney Rainmaker Signs Agreement With Bloomberry Resorts Corporation and Global Gaming Asset Management To Implement GuestREV® At New Solaire Resort & Casino in Manila; Flagship Property Is First Integrated Resort To Open At Entertainment City Mega-Project Industry Recovery and Data Driven Results Propel Hotels & Resorts to Success; Vizergy Clients Experience Record Quarter What the Hotel Industry Can Learn From "Heads in Beds" by Jacob Tomsky / Vikram Singh FelCor Lodging Trust Agrees to Sell the 160-room Holiday Inn-Santa Barbara/Goleta in California for $24 Million Laurus Corporation Acquires the 392-room Hunt Valley Inn Hotel in Maryland; Concord Hospitality Enterprises to Operate Hotel, Oversee $10 Million-Plus Renovation and Relaunch as Wyndham Grand Hotel JMBM's Meet the Money® in the Wall Street Journal; Conference panelists discuss financing new hotel construction / Jim Butler Preparing for Google Penguin 2.0: How To Protect Your Hotel Website / Asher Fusco Can Gift Certificates be a Hotel Digital Marketing Technique? / Pedro Colaco First Textbook on Butlering and Lifestyle Management to be Published; Being Developed by Experts from The Savoy Hotel and the School of Hospitality and Tourism at the University of West London with Proceeds Going to The Prince's Trust and Hospitality Action The Palais Hansen Kempinski Vienna Becomes the First Hotel Property to Install Quadriga's Award-Winning PMN™ Solution Hunter Hotel Advisors Announces Sale of Hilton Garden Inn in Greenville, South Carolina Luxury Link Social Experience Debuts with Unforgettable Weekend at Travaasa Austin; Leading Luxury Travel Website Unveils Its Likeable, Tweetable Familiarization Trip Concept Bittel is Recharging Hotels' Mobile Services Offering with the Debut of UNO Media 4 at HITEC Lodging Interactive Awarded for Exceptional Website Design Bloomberry Resorts and Hotels Selects MICROS Technology for its Solaire Manila Resort & Casino Canyons Resort Expands Insights into Customer Experience with UniFocus Mystery Shop The Value of Fresh Eyes / Tiffany DeShazo New Lodging Trend, "Cabineering," Debuts in West Yellowstone; New Explorer Cabins Offer Hotel Perks while Immersed in Nature With Their Research Indicating a Need for More Three-and Four-Star Hotels in Saudi Arabia, Onyx Hospitality Group Grows Pipeline in the Region; Beyond the Gulf, Growth Plan Includes Indonesia, India, China, Maldives and Sri Lanka Hostel Industry Evolves with Launch of Generator's Flagship Urban Design Property in Barcelona, Spain; With the 154-room Barcelona Hostel, the Design-Led Hostel Brand, Generator, Opens its First Hotel and Hostel Combination True North Hotel Group Opens the 126-room Hampton Inn & Suites in Henrietta, New York Following Major Renovations, the 66-room Holiday Inn Express® Hotel & Suites Indianapolis North - Carmel Opens in Indiana; Owned by HC Carmel and Managed by Hotel Capital Management L'Auberge Casino Resort Lake Charles, a Pinnacle Entertainment Property in Louisiana, Completes its More than $20 Million 754-room Renovation Project; Phase Two, Renovating Remaining 246 Rooms, to Begin in Early 2014 Starwood Hotels & Resorts to Increase Hotel Footprint by 50% in Latin America in the Next Five Years Sleep Inn by Choice Hotels International Brand Reaches Milestone of 100 Designed to Dream® Hotels; The Brand Currently Ranks at the Top for New Construction within the Choice Hotels Family of 11 Brands Bankruptcy Trustee Selects Hotel Market Solutions (HMS) to Manage Downtown Seattle's 114-year-old Montvale Hotel Diaoyutai MGM Hospitality Appoints Mr. William Scott as the Executive Director of Board Choice Hotels International Appoints Eben Hewitt as Chief Technology Officer L'Auberge Del Mar in California Makes Changes to Sales Team; Promoting Robert Harter and Jeffrey Livingston and Hiring Jamie Clave Sage Hospitality Names Brandon Hendricks as Area Director of Sales & Marketing; To Oversee Denver, Colorado's 80-room Oxford Hotel and the New Union Station Hotel Opening in July 2014 May 14, 2013 Leading Meeting/Event Planners Come Together to Review, Praise getplanning at Cendyn® 2013 Technology Roundtable May 2-4; RoundTableHQ® Showcases The Latest Technology to Veteran Planners Softscribe Inc. Wins 2013 Communicator Award for Buyer Persona Messaging; Technology Public Relations Company Earns Award of Distinction for Second Consecutive Year, Honored from Among 6,000 Entries Relax! Resorts Are Recovering / Robert Mandelbaum & Caroline Robichaud Starwood Sets Targets on Young Millionaires from Generation X and Y Who Comprise 85% of Groups Luxury Guests Meet the Money® 2013 -- Mood of the Hotel Industry and Conference Presentations / Jim Butler Madinah, Saudi Arabia Needs 500 Hotels in Five Years to Avoid Hospitality Crisis; 1 Million Visitors Per Month Anticipated Upon Completion of Expansion Work at the Airport and the Prophet's Mosque Playa Hotels & Resorts Issues a Correction Regarding Reports About its Intent to Purchase The Ritz-Carlton Rose Hill Jamaica Atlantic City's Revel Exits Bankruptcy with Hopes for a Strong Summer; Will Work to Reposition Itself with New Marketing and Amenities, Taking Advantage of $1 Billion Less in Debt and Access to as Much as $69 Million in New Financing Choice Hotels to Put $40 Million Into its Biggest Brand; Comfort Brand Nationwide Refresh to be Expanded and Accelerated Alex. Brown Realty, PEG Development and Blue Diamond Capital to Develop Two Hotels in Downtown Salt Lake City, Utah; The 159-room Hyatt House and the 175-room Courtyard by Marriott will Both be Managed by Lodging Dynamics The Westin Ka'anapali Ocean Resort Villas Embraces Guests as 'Ohana' by Deploying VOC Systems Guest Feedback Solution; Unique mid-stay spoken reporting system helps renowned Maui resort bolster its impeccable reputation by capturing and positively impacting guest experiences Radisson Edmonton South Becomes First Hotel in Canada to Launch Lobbyfriend to Engage Guests in Real-Time; New social network platform for hotel guests to connect with hotel staff and other guests Pennsylvania's Historic Cornwall Inn, Dating Back to the American Revolution, Going on the Auction Block Montgomery, Alabama's Winter Building, a Civil War Landmark, to Become Hotel; Developers Plan the 32-room Hotel Dexter in the Circa 1841 Building and Two Nearby Buildings Lodge Partners LLC, Owners of Tucson, Arizona's 77-Year-Old Lodge on the Desert, File for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Reorganization; No Business Interruption Expected Masters Inn in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina to be Replaced with a 133-room Hilton Garden Inn Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants and Wessman Development Company to Open New Palm Springs, California Hotel; Currently Under Development the 190-room Hotel will Open in 2015 Aureus Hospitality Group Nears Opening of The Pearl in Rosemary Beach, Florida; Work on the 55-room Resort Began Seven Years Ago Affiliates of Hyatt Hotels, Aedes Real Estate and UBM Realitätentwicklung AG to Open the 211-room Hyatt Regency Hotel in Amsterdam in 2015 Hotusa Group Debuts in Cuba with the 854-key Eurostars Cayo Santa María The 176-room BEST WESTERN PREMIER Waterfront Hotel & Convention Center Opens in Oshkosh, Wisconsin Owned and Managed by BPR Properties, the 89-room Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott is Set to Open in Smithfield, North Carolina Alliance Hospitality Completes Renovation and Re-Opens the Microtel Inn & Suites, North Canton in Ohio; The Property Closed in May 2012 Due to Fire Damage Four Points by Sheraton Pipeline Includes 27 Hotels Slated to Open in the Next 12 Months; On Track to Open 200th Hotel in 2014 Choice Hotels International Opens 88 New Hotels in Q1 2013 Amy Wiseman Joins The Dow Hotel Company as Project Management Administrator May 13, 2013 hotel SystemsPro Gives Back: Donates Solutions to Ronald McDonald House Charities Across the Country; Ronald McDonald House Keeps High Touch Charity Facilities Running Smoothly with hotel ServicePro Property Maintenance and Guest Request System William "Bill" Cancellare, 1936 - 2013; The Travel Industry's Favorite Photographer Making a Difference: Eleven-Year-Old Milo Cress Pushes Restaurants to 'Be Straw Free,' Or Initiate 'Offer First' Policy Labor Unions Now Looking to Casinos to Bolster Membership in Effort to Combat Shrinking Ranks Register Now for David Brudney's Sales and Marketing Process Class at Lausanne Hospitality Consulting's Executive Education Program July 1-3, 2013 in Lausanne, Switzerland Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas Reports Loss of $24.7 million for Q1 2013 New Owner Makes Many Changes at Gothenburg, Nebraska Hotel; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Have Updated 284 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with Changes in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership Steve Wynn Ups Ante on Everett, Massachusetts Casino Resort to $1.5 Billion; Unveils Plans for 550-room Waterfront Hotel with a Projected Summer 2016 Opening Millennium Gaming, Developers of a Salem, New Hampshire Casino, Boost Plans with $150 million to Add Conference Center, Hotel and Spa to Project Bees are the Buzz at the W Hotel in Austin, Texas Greater Miami & The Beaches Hotel Association Honors Hotel Employees from Miami-Dade County During its 19th Annual Inn Key Awards Luncheon; Geno Marron, Bartender, The Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne, & Alisha Heller, Hostess, The Clevelander Win 'Lodging Employee of the Year' Awards EB-5 Alert: California Moves to Make EB-5 Financing More Competitive in the State -- Changes Rules on TEA Designation / Jim Butler HeBS Digital's CMS Technology Named Finalist for Best Software Programming by the 2013 American Business Awards and Will Receive the Coveted Stevie® Award for this Category Hotel Assets Group Brokers Sale of Huntsville Radisson Airport Glen Cove Mansion Launches Roaring 20s Meeting Package On Long Island's Historic Gold Coast, Setting for 'The Great Gatsby' Beating Out New York City and Miami, Hawaii's Room Rates are Now the Highest in the U.S.; Latest Figures Show a 13% Room Rate Increase in Hawaii for Q1 2013 Over Q1 2012 2013 Industry Relevance Award Given by the Cornell Center for Hospitality Research to Two Studies Focusing on the Use of Technology to Boost Industry Revenues Check Out Miami's New Hotel Scene Occidental Hotels & Resorts Closes Agreement on Long-Term Debt Refinancing and is Set to Begin Refurbishment Plan for its Hotels; Will Renovate 17 Properties throughout the Caribbean and Central America with 2016 Completion Planned Embassy Suites Hotels and Kemmons Wilson, Inc. Break Ground on the Embassy Suites Tuscaloosa Downtown in Alabama; A Q4 2014 Opening is Planned for the 154-suite Hotel to be Managed by Wilson Hotel Management Company Value Place Begins Construction on a 124-room Extended-Stay Property in Lake Charles, Louisiana Two Marathon, Florida Hotel Projects Get Close to Launch; Work Should Begin Soon on a 125-room Hyatt and a 95-room Courtyard by Marriott IHG Signs Agreement for the 130-room Holiday Inn Quito Airport Currently Under Development in Ecuador; A 2016 Opening is Planned for the Hotel Owned by BPO Asesores Empresariales S.A. The 99-room Hotel Xenia, the Latest Addition to Great Hotels of the World's Premium Collection, Opens in London Steve Zanella Promoted to President & COO MGM Grand Detroit Barry Cockrum Named as Director of Sales and Marketing for The 209-key Alexander, a Dolce Hotel, in Indianapolis, Indiana Daniel Harrison Dumont Appointed as Executive Chef for the 273-key Taj Boston in Massachusetts HTNG Appoints Senior Hotel IT Executives to Key Leadership Roles May 10, 2013 Gloria Hotel Dubai Expands Digital Marketing with Sabre Hospitality Solutions The LIIC Top 10: Annual Survey of Lodging Investment Trends and Challenges / Jim Butler DiamondRock Hospitality Reports 1st Qtr 2013 Net Loss of $4.1 million Compared to Net Income of $8.9 million for Same 2012 Period.; Qrtly. RevPAR Increased 2% / Hotel Operating Statistics Ashford Hospitality Trust Report Q1 2013 Net Loss of $23.2 million Compared to Net Loss of $29.5 million in the Prior Year Quarter; RevPar for all Hotels Increased 4.3%; Hotel Performance Indicators California Hotels Corporation to Open the World's Largest Econo Lodge in Orlando, Florida; To Begin Conversion of the 297-room Metropolitan Resort in June 2013 with an October 2013 Opening Planned Ultima Hospitality Acquires the DoubleTree by Hilton Pittsburgh Airport in Pennsylvania; The 135-room Hotel will Undergo a Multi-Million Dollar Renovation Beginning in Q3 2013 Affiliates of Hyatt, DiNapoli Capital Partners and Rockwood Capital to Convert a Denver, Colorado Hotel to the Hyatt Place Denver/Cherry Creek; The 194-room Property will Undergo a Nearly $10 Million Upgrade with a Fall 2013 Opening Planned Clear Sky Software Selected as Preferred Partner for Food & Beverage Inventory Solutions by Technology Training Associates InnLink CRS and Five Star Hotel Systems Partner to Offer Enhanced Two-Way Property Management Interface; Adds New Technology, Partnership Programs for the Hospitality Industry Lifeclass Hotels Doubles Directs Booking with RateTiger; Increasing product packages and exposure results in 30% revenue growth across 6 properties AH&LA Commends the Appointment of Trudy Rautio, President and CEO of Carlson, to the U.S. Department of Commerce Travel and Tourism Advisory Board White Lodging and REI Real Estate Services Begin Construction on a 172-room Hyatt Place Hotel in Bloomington, Indiana; Slated to Open in July 2014 RAM Hotels Breaks Ground on the 99-room Courtyard Marriott in Phenix City, Georgia Telluride Ski & Golf Resort to Acquire the 32-suite Inn At Lost Creek in Telluride, Colorado Owned by Bristol Hotel, LLC and Managed by Prestige Hospitality Group, LLC, the 141-room DoubleTree by Hilton Opens in Bristol, Connecticut; Completing the $20 million Renovation and Rebranding of the Former Clarion Hotel Boomerang Hotels Enters Agreement with S8MQT, Inc. to Convert their 80-room Hotel in Marquette, Michigan, to a Settle Inn; A Mid August 2013 Opening is Planned Starwood Hotels and PT Tiara Raya Bali International Open the 118-room New-Build Le Méridien Bali Jimbaran in Indonesia Turkey Welcomes the 186-room Shangri-La Bosphorus, Istanbul as it Opens this Week DoubleTree by Hilton to Open Two Hotels in London this Summer; The DoubleTree by Hilton London - Hyde Park and DoubleTree by Hilton London - Ealing are Both in the Final Stages of Renovations Totaling Over $30 Million Duke Hospitality is Set to Open the 112-room Fairfield Inn & Suites Atlanta - Gwinnett Place in Duluth, Georgia The 107-room SpringHill Suites by Marriott to Open Next Week in Midland, Texas; Owned and Managed by Insignia Hospitality Group Abdul Latif Jameel Real Estate Investment Company to Open its 1,743-room Anjum Hotel Makkah in Saudi Arabia in July 2013 The 103-room Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott is Set to Open in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Owned and Managed by Magna Hospitality Group Dorchester Collection Appoints Christophe Hilty as Hotel Manager for 45 Park Lane in London, England Jessica Andreola Appointed as Assistant General Manager for the 125-room Hotel Vermont Opening this Month in Burlington, Vermont Benchmark Hospitality International Names Denielle Godwin as Director of Sales & Catering for Costa d'Este Beach Resort, a Personal Luxury Resort, in Vero Beach, Florida May 8, 2013 YOUR Guide to Multiscreen Marketing for Hotels and Resorts; Tim Peter and Vizergy® Provide the Mindset and Strategies You Need to Capitalize NORTHWIND Announces ResWave2 with Enhanced Direct-Booking and Upsell Capabilities for Guests, Groups: Strengthens Online Package Promotions, Activity Bookings, Group Management, Mobile and Social Media Reservations Agilysys Announces General Availability of InfoGenesis POS v4.4; Latest Version Features Simplified Architecture, Infrastructure Enhancements Walt Disney Company Parks Division Profit Soars 73% in Latest Quarter; Overall Profits Grew 32% Red Lion Hotels Reports 1st Qtr 2013 Net Loss of $3.1 million Compared to Net Loss of $7.2 million Same Period 2012; RevPAR for Owned and Leased Hotels Increased 1.3% Chatham Lodging Trust Posts 1st Quarter 2013 Net Loss of $1.6 million Compared to Net Loss of $1.7 million Same Period 2012; RevPAR Increased 4.2% Chesapeake Lodging Trust Posts Q1 2013 Net Loss of $4.9 million Compared to Net Loss of $.8 million in the Same Quarter 2012; Pro Forma RevPAR Increases 2.4% / Hotel Operating Statistics Labor Advocates Ask Court to Step Into J.W. Marriott Hotel Dispute Currently Under Construction in Austin, Texas James Beard Awards 2013 Honor Food World's Finest; Outstanding Chef Awards Presented to David Chang of New York's Momofuku Noodle Bar and Paul Kahan of Chicago's Blackbird Ashford Hospitality Trust to Acquire the 142-room Pier House Resort and Caribbean Spa in Key West, Florida for $90 Million or $634,000 per key Use the Improv's "Yes, AND" Principal to Build a Customer Centric Culture / Jim Hartigan Hotel Assets Group Sees Strong Transaction Pipeline for 2013 Pegasus Solutions Names Temple Weiss Chief Financial Officer; New Corporate Officer Blends Extensive Hospitality, Finance and Development Experience Latest Caribbean Tourism Report Delivers Mixed Numbers; Hotel Occupancy Remains Level Even as Overall Arrivals Dip New Chinese Hotel Group, Ahn Luh, Signs Management Contract with the Qinsen Group for Two Hotels; The 99-key AhnLuhLanting to Open in Shaoxing in Fall 2014, and the 35-villa AhnLuhZhujiajiao to Open in Shanghai in Spring 2015 Wyndham Hotel Group Opens the 56-room Days Hotel Olaya in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; The First Days Inn Hotel of the 10-Property Deal Between Wyndham and Riyada International Hotels and Resorts Owned by B & H Group, the 79-key BEST WESTERN PLUS Coldwater Hotel Opens in Michigan The 207-room DoubleTree by Hilton Binghamton Opens in New York Following Two-Year $15 Million Renovation of the Former Riverwalk Hotel and Conference Center; Owned by Alfred Weissman Real Estate and Operated by the Newport Hospitality Group W New York - Union Square Completes $15 Million Renovation Kana Hotel Group Selected to Manage the Hilton Garden Inn - Greenville, South Carolina David Altobello Joins Interstate Hotels & Resorts as Senior Vice President of Development and Acquisitions Destination Hotels & Resorts Appoints Kevin Barosso as Assistant Vice President of National Sales Rim Hospitality Welcomes Two Senior Level Hires; Tony Bruno Joins as Vice President of Special Projects and Al Ferrone Becomes Vice President of Food and Beverage Jenifer Cutter Named by Amway Hotel Corporation as General Manager of the Downtown Courtyard by Marriott in Grand Rapids, Michigan Outrigger Enterprises Group Names Brent Kitsu as Assistant General Manager for Both the Airport Honolulu Hotel and Best Western The Plaza Hotel Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints Andrew Blair as Controller for the 316-key Cheyenne Mountain Resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado IACC-Americas Presents Scholarships and Awards to Hospitality Students Hanna Giem, Amanda Greenwood and Maggie Baker Basler May 7, 2013 Intelity Wants Hotels to Shine With All-New ICE Sapphire Milestone Internet Marketing's Leading Edge Social Media Products Grabbed Major Honors with Two IAC Awards Without Warning, Sun Travel & Tours, Owners of Hilton Maldives Iru Fushi Resort, Terminate Hilton Contract; Guest Cancellations and Staff Resignations Reported; Hilton Praised for Peaceful Conduct Sunstone Reports 2013 1st Qtr Net Income of $17.5 million Compared to a Net Loss of $21 million Same Period Prior Year; RevPAR Increases 2.1% Summit Hotel Properties Reports 1st Quarter 2013 Net Income of $1.9 million Compared to a Net Loss of $2.8 million in the Prior Year Quarter; RevPAR Increased 7.7%; Acquired Nine Hotels Totaling 1,501 Guestrooms / Hotel Statistics Hospitality Properties Trust Reports 2013 1st Quarter Net Income of $19.4 million Down from Net Income of $28.8 million in the Year Ago Qrt.; RevPAR Increases 7.2% Ryman Hospitality Properties Reports 1st Quarter 2013 Net Income of $53.8 million, Which Includes a Tax Benefit of $66.3 million, Compared to Net Income of $6 million in the Year-ago Quarter; RevPAR Declined 1.2% / Hotel Operating Statistics U.S. Hotel Guests Spend More to Rent Rooms, But Not on Much Else; PKF Reports on Hotel Industry Revenues, Labor Costs, Operating Expenses, and Profits The Truth is in the Numbers: 2013 is Undoubtedly the Year of the Three Screens in Hospitality / Max Starkov EMEA Hotel Investment to Hold Firm at $11 Billion for 2013; Jones Lang Lasalle Reports Hotel Demand Recovering in the Middle East Since the Arab Spring with RevPAR Moving Towards its 2008 Peak Lodging Interactive Offering Independent Hotels Fully-Integrated Online Marketing Glen Cove Mansion Hotel and Conference Center on Long Island, New York Names Jay Zelkowitz as Front Office Manager JDA Software Joins Shift4 as a Preferred Partner Case Study - Expedia Partnership Keeps Ship Afloat During Challenging Times / Brett T. Forshag Sunstone Hotel Investors to Purchase the 1,053-room Boston Park Plaza Hotel for $250 Million GF Management Affiliate Acquires the 123-room Hilton Garden Inn Orlando North/Lake Mary in Florida; The Property Will Remain Open During a Planned Six to Twelve Month Renovation The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company and Jnan Amar Company to Develop the 80-key Ritz-Carlton Marrakech; Construction is Set to Begin in Q4 2013 with Completion Planned for Q3 2016 The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company to Open The Ritz-Carlton, Kyoto in Japan in February 2014; Mr. Yuji Tanaka Appointed as the General Manager for the 136-room Property The Luxury Collection Hotels & Resorts Celebrates the Grand Opening of the Historic Gritti Palace in Venice, Italy Completing its Over $45 Million Restoration NewcrestImage Plans to Break Ground this Summer for a 124-room Residence Inn by Marriott in Tyler, Texas; A Summer 2014 Opening is Targeted Ocean Properties Completes Renovations and Re-Opens The Sagamore Resort in Glens Falls, New York; The 375-room Lake George Destination Returns to Year-Round Operations for the First Time Since Late 2008 Lane Hospitality Re-Branding as Spire Hospitality; Following its 2012 Ownership Change, Lane is Re-branding, Launching New Website and Relocating its Headquarters AH&LA Representatives to Testify Touting Economic Benefits of Travel and Tourism at Congressional Hearing; Pro-travel Policies will Increase Economic Impact of Resident and International Visitors Sean Dee Joins Outrigger Enterprises Group as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints Philippe C. Eversdijk as General Manager for the 350-room Santa Barbara Beach & Golf Resort, Curacao May 6, 2013 HVS Projects Hotel Values to Return to Pre-Recession Highs Last Seen in 2006 Union Ties: The Fates of Culinary and the Las Vegas Strip are Inextricably Linked Revenue Managers - Feeling on Edge? Here's a Way to Stop Costly Pricing Mistakes / Marco Benvenuti Boutique Hotel Projects in Tampa and St. Petersburg Taking Off as Demand and Financing Grow Architect Named for 157-Room Coppell, Texas Hotel and Coference Center; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 164 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database After a Six Year Delay, the $90 million, 322-room Hotel Van Zandt in Austin, Texas Set to Rise 16 Stories with Construction to Begin in June Hilton Hotels Heading for Roll in China; To Launch the Hilton Garden Inn Brand in Five Chinese Cities, Nears Opening of Beijing Conrad Hotel and On Track to Grow from 32 to 150 Mainland Properties JW Marriott Hotels & Resorts, Under a Long-Term Agreement with DesarrollosHotelco Turks and Caicos Ltd., to Open a New 380-room JW Marriott Hotel and Casino on the Island of Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Hilton and Tashyeed Properties Company to Open the 350-room DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Bahrain in 2015 Wyndham Hotel Group to Open First Wyndham Hotel in the U.A.E.; Partners with British Developer, The First Group, to Develop the 497-key Wyndham Dubai Marina Set to Open by 2016 Hyatt Hotels & State Unitary Enterprise Enter Agreement for a New Build, 300-room Hyatt Regency in Tashkent, Uzbekistan; Slated to Open January 2015 The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company and Sienna Investment Group Unveil Plans for New Urban Resort in Sabat, Morocco Khalaf Al Habtoor Receives Lifetime Achievement Award at Arabian Hotel Investment Conference (AHIC 2013); Second Day of Conference Included Discussion of Renewed Confidence in Hospitality Development Throughout MENA Region innRoad Names Matt Neff Executive Director of Sales, North America Hotel Assets Group Has 16 Hotel Portfolios on the Market Today Pegasus Solutions Names Mark Swetman Vice President, Global Sales, Americas; Experienced Hotel Sales Executive Assumes Leadership of Regional Sales Team Travel Employment Accelerates in April; Travel Industry Has Added 85% of Jobs Lost During the Great Recession Starwood Hotels Invests More Than $400 Million in Refreshing its New York City Portfolio; Unveils Several Newly Renovated Properties Including Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, Westin New York at Times Square and W New York - Union Square World's Leading Hotel Groups Announce Major Deals and Project Openings During the Arabian Hotels Investment Conference (AHIC 2013); 150 Hotels are to Open in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries in 2013 with 450 in the Pipeline Hotel Rooms in Thailand's Khao Lak to More than Double in Five Years From 9,000 Rooms to 20,000 Scaled Down Convention Center Projects in Osceola County, Florida Does Little in Bolstering Areas Tourism Corridor Emaar Hospitality Group Unveils Vida Hotels and Resorts; New Hotel Chain to Roll Out in Emaar's Key Global Markets, Starting with the 156-room Vida Downtown Dubai (Formerly the Qamardeen Hotel) Singapore Brothers Hit Jackpot in China Hotel Sector; Starting with a Single Hotel in 2004, the Frontier Group Now Has 45 Existing Properties with 130 Building Projects in the Works Jakarta-based Ciputra Group Selects Rosewood Hotels and Resorts to Manage the Rosewood Tanah Lot Bali and Rosewood Jakarta; Both Scheduled to Open in 2017 Asha Companies Acquires Ten New Hotels and Selects Hospitality Management Corporation (HMC) to Manage the Properties; The Portfolio Totals 860 Guest Rooms Located within North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, and Texas Cobblestone Hotels Breaks Ground on the 44-room Cobblestone Hotel and Suites in Crookston, Minnesota Vienna, Austria's Hotel Bristol, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Completes First Phase of Two-Year Restoration Project; Owned by Sacher Group, the Hotel Plans Completion of Second Phase by Year End FelCor Lodging Trust Appoints Michael C. Hughes as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer Shawn Prescott Named as Sales and Events Manager for the Oceanfront 50-room Timber Cove Inn in Sonoma County, California May 3, 2013 Emerging a Bit Battered and Bruised, MGM CEO, Jim Murren, Discusses MGM's Financial Turnaround, the Park on the Strip and the Rolling Stones Host Hotels Reports 1st Quarter 2013 Net Income of $56 million with RevPAR Up 5.1% / Hotel Operating Statistics The Lowest in Two Years, Hotels Lead CMBS Delinquency Decline Wine Prices Climb as Swelling Demand Puts Squeeze on Supplies What's on Tap? At Caesars Palace, the Answer May Surprise You Hard Rock International, in Collaboration with Bayshore Capital, Plans Development of Hard Rock Hotel in Daytona Beach, Florida; A 2016 Debut is Planned for the Beachfront Site Currently Slated for 250 Hotel Rooms and 100 Condominium Units Australia's First TRYP by Wyndham Hotel to Open in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley; Owner and Developer Jay McPhee Plans a Mid 2014 Completion IHG Signs Agreement with Airport Hotel Limited for first Holiday Inn in Mauritius; The 140-room Old Manor House at Plaisance Airport Will Become the Holiday Inn Mauritius - Plaisance Airport Salesforce and Industry Experts to Present General Sessions at NICC 2013 innRoad Names Sandee Swearingen Director of Sales, Southeast innRoad Names Susan Cotton Director of Sales, Northeast; Recognized hotel industry veteran, Susan brings more than twenty years of hotel sales and marketing leadership to innRoad Boost Productivity to Control Labor Costs / Ralph Varble The World's Top Concierges Celebrate 60th Anniversary in Queenstown, New Zealand for the International Congress of Les Clefs d'Or Concierges Newly Submitted Plan for Hotel and Conference Center in Naperville, Illinois' Freedom Plaza has Commissioners Excited; Proposed Development Includes a 168-room Embassy Suites AWH Partners and The Lane Organization Begin Construction to Transform the Recently Acquired Waterfront Boca Raton Bridge Hotel in Florida R.D. Olson Development Breaks Ground on $50 Million 210-room Courtyard by Marriott at Irvine Spectrum in California; A July 2014 Completion is Planned The UK's Newcastle upon Tyne Business District Development to Include the 251-room Crowne Plaza Newcastle -Stephenson Quarter The 214-room Langham Place, Fifth Avenue to Open Next Week in New York City as Langham Hospitality Takes Over the Management of The Setai Fifth Avenue b2 Hopes to B the Place to Be; B Hotels & Resorts Opens its First b2 Brand, the b2 Miami Downtown Hilton Worldwide Opens the 177-room DoubleTree by Hilton Sukhumvit Bangkok in Thailand Radisson Expands Caribbean Presence with Opening of the 124-room Radisson Aquatica Resort Barbados; Owned by Grand Hotel Limited, the Property Recently Completed Renovations Following the Completion of a Comprehensive Refurbishment Project, the 201-room DoubleTree by Hilton Bristol City Centre Opens in England The American Club Resort Hotel in Kohler, Wisconsin Completes its Renovation of The Carriage House; The Upgrade for the 55-room Annex Completes the Final Phase of the Resort's Multi-Year Renovation Project The D Las Vegas Teams Up with Lexington by Vantage in Effort to Reach Untapped Markets Demetrio Maduro Appointed as General Manager for the 433-room CasaMagna Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort and Spa in Mexico Waterford Hotel Group Names Christopher Beattie as General Manager of the 78-room Residence Inn by Marriott in Danbury, Connecticut May 2, 2013 Hoteliers: Be Prepared for Penguin 2.0: Google Head of Web Spam Quoted as Saying "Updates will be Jarring and Jolting" / Brandon Dennis Meet the Money® 2013 online registration ends Friday. Don't miss this year's exciting edition of the hotel industry's finance conference. / Jim Butler HOTELSnyc is this Friday! Last Day to Register is Today! Marriott Reports 1st Quarter 2013 Net Income of $136 million, a 31% Increase Compared to Net Income of $104 million in the Year-Ago Quarter; Worldwide REVPAR Climbs 4.6% for the Quarter; Hotel Pipeline Increased to Over 135,000 Rooms MGM Resorts International Reports Strongest Quarterly Financials Since 2008 with Qrtly. Net Revenue up 3% to $2.4 billion; Returning to Profit with Net Income of $6.5 million Compared to a Loss of $217 million the Same Year Ago Quarter; Domestic RevPAR Increased 1% Las Vegas Sands Corporation Reports an Increase of 14.6% in Net Income for 1st Qtr. 2013 to $572 million Compared to $498.9 million Same Period 2012 Orient-Express Hotels Reports 1st Qtr 2013 Adjusted Net Loss of $8.3 million Compared to Net Loss of $14.4 million Same Period 2012; Same Store RevPAR Up 6% Caesars Entertainment Reports Q1 2013 Net Loss of $217.6 million Compared to Loss of $280.6 million in the Year Ago Quarter; Reduced Visitation Resulted in Decline of Revenue Educational Institute Adds New Safety Source DVDs 2013 Summer Travel Forecast: Vacationers are planning ahead, seeking value over budget, and leaving the kids behind AH&LA Commends Nominations of Penny Pritzker as Commerce Secretary and Michael Froman as Trade Representative Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts to Debut in Bangladesh with the 375-key Swissôtel Dhaka to Open in 2018 IHG Opens the 198-room Crowne Plaza Edinburgh - The Roxburghe in Scotland Hilton Worldwide Continues Growth in Russia with the Opening of the New-Build 165-room Hilton Garden Inn Krasnodar Fairwood Capital and Davidson Hotels & Resorts Celebrate the Opening of the 418-room Little Rock Marriott in Arkansas; The Former Peabody Little Rock to Undergo Multi-Million Dollar Renovation The 119-room Courtyard Evansville to Open this Month in Indiana; Owned and Managed by Dunn Hospitality Group Aimbridge Hospitality Selected to Rebrand and Manage the 225-key Jewel Paradise Cove Resort & Spa in St. Ann's, Jamaica; A Fall 2013 Opening is Planned for the Former Hotel Royal Decameron Club Caribbean Owned by Sagicor Life Jamaica The Three-Year $168 Million Renovation is Complete for the 2,019-room Hyatt Regency Chicago Charles S. Peck Departs from Lowe Enterprises; Served on Firm's Executive Committee and Led Destination Hotels and Resorts for Over 15 Years as President Davidson Hotels & Resorts Appoints Robert "Bob" LaCasse as General Manager of the 257-room Hyatt Regency Newport in Rhode Island Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints Chia-Hui Lin as Controller for 123-key Hotel Granduca in Houston, Texas Rex O'Connor Joins Group Sales Department for Crystal Mountain in Thompsonville, Michigan; Returning to the Resort Where His Career Began May 1, 2013 Flip.to Brand Advocate Platform Adds Mobile Functionality; Mobile landing page makes it easier than ever for hotels to leverage guest incentives into future bookings Canalta Hotels Adopts RoamingAround's Roam Boost Mobile Phone Signal Enhancement Technology; Boutique hotel operator solves signal strength weaknesses with affordable solution deployed quickly and without interruption to the business International Hotelier Claude Feninger Dies at 87 Hyatt Hotels Reports 1st Qrt. 2013 Net Income of $8 million Compared to $10 million Same Period Last Year; RevPAR Increased 4.5% / Hotel Operating Statistics Hersha Hospitality Reports 1st Quarter 2013 Net Loss of $13.1 million Compared to a Net Loss of $10.7 million in the Year-Ago Quarter; Consolidated RevPAR up 12% for its 56 Hotels Plunging Production on Hotels and Industrial Property Loans Pull Down CRE Originations for Q1 2013 Nobody Asked Me, But...No. 101; Hotel History: The Pierre Hotel (1930); Nothing Like Home: Designing the Hotel Experience; My Service as an Expert Witness; Quote of the Month / Stanley Turkel How Hoteliers Can Leverage New Pinterest Features to Enhance Their Online Marketing Strategy / Victoria Hsia Lake Las Vegas Hotel Getting New Name -- Again; The 349-room Ravella at Lake Las Vegas to Become the Hilton Lake Las Vegas Resort & Spa Hilton Banking on Popularity of Thailand; Plans Two More Hotels in Bangkok, A Hilton and a Waldorf Astoria Hotel Assets Group Contracts the Hilton Garden Inn Ft. Myers with Auction.com ZDirect Updates Forms Center to Create Forms and Surveys on the Fly via ZMail Best Western International Selects MICROS as its Preferred Hosted PMS Solution Provider Pegasus Solutions Reports First Quarter Global Leisure Bookings Climbed +5.1%; Global Rates Paid for Both Corporate and Leisure Hotel Stays Moved Past Prior Year Levels Hotel Pricing and Parity Analysis for the Week of April 25th, 2013 in Europe & Africa Region James Beard Foundation & Benchmark Hospitality Announce Applications Are Open for the 2013 Bob Zappatelli Culinary Arts Scholarship Cornell Study Connects Work-Family Imbalance to Employee Turnover Bismarck, North Dakota's United Tribes Technical College (UTTC) Campus to Get Hotel; A July 2013 Groundbreaking is Planned for the 160-room Hyatt Place with a Summer 2014 Opening Hilton Garden Inn Team Members Rebuild Staten Island Park Six Months After Hurricane Sandy The Historic 331-room St. Ermin's Hotel in London Joins the Autograph Collection IHG Army Hotels Portfolio Expanding to Reach 76 Hotels on 39 U.S. Military Installations Microtel Inns and Suites to Build Three Hotels in 2013; Currently Operating 10 Properties, the Company Plans for 25 by 2016 Saudi Arabia's Frontel for Hospitality Inc. Looks to Grow its Portfolio of Properties; With Three Hotels to Open in the Kingdom by 2015, the Company has Strategic Development Plan throughout the Middle East The 897-room Grand Hyatt Washington, D.C. and the 836-room Hyatt Regency Washington, D.C. Complete their Combined Renovation, Totaling $42 Million Hospitality Management Corporation Selected to Manage the New-Build 52-room Microtel Inn & Suites in Gonzales, Texas; A June 2013 Opening is Planned Bill Farrell Appointed as General Manager for Tennessee's Hyatt Place Nashville/Downtown, Joining Director of Sales Nicole Nielsen; The 255-room Hotel, Owned by Affiliates of Host Hotels & Resorts and White Lodging, Will Open Later in 2013 Valencia Group Names Todd Scholl as Director of Sales and Marketing for the 132-room Hotel Sorella Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri Carlos D. Quinones Appointed as Sales Manager for the 187-key Glen Cove Mansion Hotel and Conference Center on Long Island, New York Devon M. Casciaro Named as E-Commerce Manager the 1,015-room Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, New York Top 25 Read Articles - April 2013 2013 World Rankings of The Top 10 Hotel Groups and Top 15 Brands; IHG Retains Top Spot in Groups With Nearly 660,000 Rooms; Holiday Inn & Holiday Inn Express Overtake Best Western for Top Spot in Brands Top 10 Trends of The Next Generation of Travel: The Millennials / Teresa Y. Lee TripAdvisor Caught Red-Handed; Glasgow's Bellgrove Hotel, a homeless shelter, finds itself in TripAdvisor's Top 100 best hotels in the United Kingdom / Georges Panayotis Identifying Meth Lab Red Flags / Alissa Ponchione Musical Chairs: A History Behind the LodgeNet Bankruptcy / Mark Haley When Should You Choose a Brand for Your Hotel? And When Should the Brand Manage Your Hotel? / Jim Butler Permission to Say No? Permission Denied. Responding to Guest Requests / Jim Hartigan Don't Write to Me in that Tone of Voice! 3 Quick Tips to Improve Your Communication / Tommy Taylor Hyatt Recognizes Excellence Among Owners and Developers with 2013 Awards Conde Nast Traveler Unveils its 17th Annual Hot List of New Hotels & Spas; 2013 List Features 154 New Hotels and Resorts and 35 Spas from Around the World Hotel Owner-Operator Disputes: Marriott v Eden Roc; What it All Means for Terminating Hotel Management Agreements / Jim Butler What the STR Report is to Revenue, TrustYou Comp Index is to Reputation; Hotels See How They Measure Up - Number of Reviews, Overall Score, Management Responses, Positive vs. Negative - All in One Report, Platform-By-Platform Comparison on TripAdvisor, Expedia, Yelp!, Google+ and more The Next Big Hotel Online Revenue Driver Is Here: Google Hotel Price Ads (HPA) / Sue Wiker and Sara O'Brien Airbnb: More than a Threat, It's a Great Disruptor to the Hotel & Travel Sector / Vikram Singh Blackstone Group Makes Big Splash in Hawaii with $450 million Purchase of Leasehold Interest for the 1,230 room Hyatt Regency Waikiki Beach Resort & Spa; Additional $80 million to be Invested in Property Renovations A Call to Arms: How to Shift Market Share from the OTAs to the Hotel Website / Max Starkov A 7-Step Strategy to Manage Hotel Online Guest Reviews: Inspired by the most recent research on responses to TripAdvisor reviews / Miguel Rivera Hotel Asset Management for Colleges and Universities / Matt Arrants Excluding Toiletries, 35% of Hotel Guests Admit to Pocketing Room Amenities; Danish Guests Most Honest While Americans Rank 23rd According to Hotels.com Global Survey A Scant 35 Feet from Detonation Site, Boston Hotelier, Mark Hagopian, Operator of The Charlesmark Hotel, Recounts Aftermath of Marathon Bombings How to Increase your TripAdvisor Scores by 1.4 Stars with Two Easy Changes Interested in Controlling the Bellagio Fountains? It'll Cost You $250,000 to Push that Button! Five Years Later, Having Had a Rocky Start, Las Vegas' $1.3 billion Trump International Hotel - How's it Doing Now? Service Excellence: Can you MAKE your team work like they own it? / Bryan K. Williams, D.M. 4,000 New Hotel Rooms on the Way to Austin, Texas Market April 30, 2013 TripAdvisor Caught Red-Handed; Glasgow's Bellgrove Hotel, a homeless shelter, finds itself in TripAdvisor's Top 100 best hotels in the United Kingdom / Georges Panayotis Stonebridge Companies Selects hotel SalesPro for its Entire 47-Property Portfolio; Stonebridge Taps Cloud-based hotel SalesPro for Integrated Sales Processes that Close More Business Across Multiple Brands Starwood Reports 1st Qtr 2013 Net Income of $213 million Compared to $128 million Same Period 2012; Worldwide System-wide RevPAR Up 5% / Systemwide Hotel Statistics FelCor Lodging Trust Posts 1st Qtr 2013 Net Loss of $35.9 million Compared to Net Loss of $38.1 million in the Year-ago Quarter; RevPAR for its 45 Core Hotels Increased 6.7% / Hotel Operating Statistics Strategic Hotels & Resorts Reports 1st Qtr 2013 Net Loss of $23.4 million Compared to Net Loss of $31.5 million Same Period 2012; Total North American RevPAR Up 6% Morgans Hotel Group Reports 1st Qtr 2013 Net Loss of $14.3 million Compared to a Loss of $16.9 million Same Year Ago Qtr.; System Wide RevPAR up 17%, the Highest Gain Since 2007 / Hotel Operating Statistics Stand Up And Stand Out – Five Ideas To Heighten Your Hotel's Guest Experience / Tom Costello Guest Experience Management: Driven by Genetics, Environment or Both? / Roberta Nedry Refinancing is the Key to Unlocking Trapped Equity in Hotel Portfolios / Jeff McKee Abu Dhabi's 141 Hotels & Hotel Apartments Post Promising Across the Board Growth for Q1 2013 Leonardo Hotels Extends Contract with RateTiger for Future-Proof eDistribution and Company Expansion; Online sales of expanding hotel group monitored and managed with channel management technology by eRevMax Tom Stoffo, CHTP, Earns HFTP's 2013 Certified Hospitality Technology Professional (CHTP) of the Year Award; Tom is the Director of Information Technology for Mainsail Lodging & Development Affluent Consumers Prefer to Book Vacation Travel Online JW Marriott Hotels & Resorts Celebrates Opening of its Newly Acquired Manhattan Landmark, the 509-room JW Marriott Essex House New York Marriott International Enters Agreement with CJSC Globus to Open the 175-room Marriott Novosibirsk Hotel in Russia; A 2014 Opening is Planned Red Lion Hotels to Expand into Arizona through the Conversion of the Current Hampton Inn & Suites Phoenix/Tempe-ASU; The 162-room Property will Convert by the End of May 2013 Boomerang Hotels Opens the 180-room GuestHouse International Hotel in Haikou, China Bricton Group Chosen to Manage the 109-room Hampton Inn & Suites in Ocala, Florida The Westin Imagine Orlando Changes its Name to The Westin Orlando Universal Boulevard and Celebrates 5th Year Anniversary Trump Entertainment Resorts Appoints Mario DiGuiseppe as General Manager of the Struggling Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey Lake Tahoe's West Shore Café and Inn in California Hires Stacie Krenicki as General Manager and Mike Davis as Executive Chef Aqua Hospitality Hires Steve Velez for Newly Created Mainland Sales Position April 29, 2013 Jackie Robinson's Legacy to Hospitality / David Brudney DO's and DON'TS of Hotel Technology v5 / Terence Ronson Choice Hotels Posts 1st Qtr 2013 Net Income of $15.5 million Compared to $19.9 million Same Year Ago Period; Domestic RevPAR Increases 4.6%; Executed 83 New Domestic Hotel Franchises for Q1 2013, a 30% Increase Over 2012 / Hotel Operating Statistics Hotel Front Office Staff Still Need Training On Local Area Information / Doug Kennedy Winston-Salem Holiday Inn Acquires New Ownership; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Have Updated 241 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with Changes in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership Developers, Mark Stebbins and Leo Xarras, Plan to Build 15 Hotels in New Hampshire and Massachusetts within the Next Two to Three Years Miami, Florida Homegrown Hotel Company, Menin Hotels, Seeking Role as South Beach Powerhouse; Current Projects Represent a $100 Million-Plus Expansion for the Company Investors on the Lookout for Hotel Opportunities in Asia's Emerging Markets; Jones Lang LaSalle Reports Hotel Transactions in Asia up 190% in Q1 2013 Over Q1 2012 Grace's Distinctive Properties Announces New Italian Hotel Collection Brochure; Guide Highlights Superior Luxury Properties Throughout Italy, Providing Trusted Resource for the Travel Professional Public Notice of Request for Proposals for Development and Operation of a Limited Service Micro-Hotel at Minneapolis - St. Paul International Airport Pegasus Solutions Names John Owens Senior Vice President, Distribution Sales; International Sales Executive and Company Veteran Chosen to Develop Core Business Hotel Assets Group Discusses How the Firm Markets Individual and Portfolio Hotel Deals Warmbrodt Hotel Investments Announces Sale of the Red Roof Inn, Minneapolis Plymouth, MN Pressure Building at the New Jersey Shore: Sandy Recovery in Full Swing, but Tourism May Fall Short in Contrast to the $19 billion Generated Last Year The First Middle East Hotel Investment Forum will be Held Ahead of the Arabian Hotel Investment Conference (AHIC 2013); Industry Experts will Provide Insight into Hotel Deals Closed in 2012 and Opportunities for 2013 AH&LA Establishes Scholarship to Honor Joe McInerney; More than $150,000 will Help Future Lodging Students Meet Minneapolis Convention and Visitors Association Board Forms Task Force to Complete Hotel Feasibility Study Choctaw Casino Hotel to Open this Week Near the Arkansas-Oklahoma State Line as Part of the Casino's Expansion Project The 91-room Magnuson Hotel, Formerly the Reagan Hotel and Suites, Opens in Dixon, Illinois Several New and Renovated Hotels Targeting Upscale Tourism to Open this Summer in the Southern New Jersey Shore Wyndham Hotel Group Appoints Kathy Maher as Senior Vice President, Revenue Management Barry Bloom Joins Inland American Lodging Advisor as its Executive Vice President of Asset Management and Chief Operating Officer White Lodging Promotes Dave Montrose and Michelle Steffens to Senior Regional Vice Presidents of Select-Service Noble House Hotels & Resorts Appoints Angie Combes as Director of Catering and Conference Services for The Commons Hotel in Minneapolis April 26, 2013 Forbes Travel Guide Adds London as its First Destination in Europe for its Five Star Rating System; 31 Hotels and Spas in London Honored, Including 6 Hotels and 2 Spas Achieving the Coveted Five Star Rating Biggest Myths About WordPress Perpetrated by Hotel Marketing Agencies / Vikram Singh Wynn Resorts Reports 1st Quarter 2013 Net Income of $203 million Compared to $140.6 million Same Quarter 2012; RevPAR for Las Vegas Operations up 6% Over the Prior Year Quarter Pebblebrook Hotel Trust Reports Q1 2013 Net Loss of $4.9 million Compared to Net Loss of $7.2 million Same Year Ago Quarter; RevPAR Increased 8.5% / Hotel Statistical Data Starwood Completes Sale of the 410-room W New Orleans to Chesapeake Lodging Trust for $65 million; Closely Follows Chesapeake's March 2013 Acquisition of W New Orleans - French Quarter Chicago's Circa 1912 Atlantic Bank Building to Undergo $20 Million Renovation and Re-Open as the Hotel Indigo Chicago-Millenium Park Hotel; A Spring 2014 Opening is Planned for the 156-room Hotel Owned by Crown Series 168 North Michigan LLC and Managed by First Hospitality Group RIU Hotels & Resorts to Expand its City Brand, Riu Plaza Hotels; To Open Riu Plaza Berlin in Germany in Early 2014 and the Riu Plaza New York Times Square in 2015 Red Lion Hotels Sells Commercial Mall in Kalispell, Montana; Enters Lease Agreement to Continue Operating the 170-room Red Lion Hotel Kalispell How to Increase your TripAdvisor Scores by 1.4 Stars with Two Easy Changes Eleven Updates Gaylord Hotels with Feature-Rich Guest Internet Access; The ElevenOS guest Internet management platform was deployed to nearly 8,000 guest rooms in just one week eRevMax Focuses on APAC Growth to Meet Demand Acceleration; Prashant Menon promoted to Vice President of Sales for the region Pegasus Solutions Sells Financial Services Division; Company Goes Into Growth Mode to Renew Focus on Core Distribution and Reservation Business Marriott International Selects Cloud-based MICROS OPERA as Its Next-Generation Property Management System for all North America Properties CSM Lodging Executives Receive "President's Award" by Carlson Benchmark Hospitality International Names Erin Hockey Recipient of the Annual Bob Zappatelli Culinary Arts Scholarship; Presented annually with The James Beard Foundation, New York Hotel Statistical Data Provides Optimism in Owensboro, Kentucky with Two New Hotels Coming to Fill Void Cobblestone Hotels Breaks Ground on the 36-room Cobblestone Hotel and Suites and One Box Convention Center in Broken Bow, Nebraska Hyatt Hotels, Concord Hospitality Enterprises, and Oxford Development Company Open the 136-key HYATT house Pittsburgh-South Side in Pennsylvania; Under the leadership of General Manager Michael Rhoten and Director of Sales Danielle Phillips The 134-room Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites New Orleans Airport South Opens in Louisiana; Owned by New Orleans Hotel Partners, and Managed by Expotel Hospitality Owned and Managed by SilverBirch Hotels & Resorts, the 148-room Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott is Set to Open in St. John's, Newfoundland in May 2013 The 50-room FairBridge Inn Express Opens in Roseburg, Oregon Sonesta to Open the 426-room Sonesta Gwinnett Place in Atlanta, Georgia; Assuming Management of the Current Atlanta Marriott Gwinnett Place Michelle Strong Appointed Dual General Manager at the Marriott Courtyard and TownePlace Suites in DFW Konover Hotel Corporation Appoints Three New General Managers within its Midwest Hotel Portfolio; Naming Heather Ann Bennett, David Rains and Pete Fortune as the New Leaders Jackson Cherry Named Manager of Hotel Operations for the 598-key Hilton Sandestin Beach Golf Resort & Spa in Florida Waterford Hotel Group Appoints Alan Miller as General Manager of the 120-room Courtyard by Marriott in Norwich, Connecticut Dan McKeon Appointed as Resident Manager of the JW Marriott Washington, DC The Kessler Collection Names Jeannie DiGrappa as Regional Sales Manager for its Western Properties Cedric Sordillon Named as Director of Food and Beverage for the 252-key Radisson Blu Resort, Marina & Spa St. Martin in French St. Martin April 24, 2013 The Spa at Ponte Vedra Inn & Club Uses Online Booking to Dramatically Increase Revenue; Gift Card Sales Increase 24% over Prior Year with New Website What the STR Report is to Revenue, TrustYou Comp Index is to Reputation; Hotels See How They Measure Up - Number of Reviews, Overall Score, Management Responses, Positive vs. Negative - All in One Report, Platform-By-Platform Comparison on TripAdvisor, Expedia, Yelp!, Google+ and more Denis Hennequin Removed as Accor's Chairman and CEO; Board of Directors Releases Statement Regarding Transition of Executive Team Wyndham Worldwide Reports 1st Qtr 2013 Net Income of $27 million Compared to $32 million for Same Period 2012; Domestic RevPAR Grew 6% While System Wide RevPAR Increased 4% / Brand Operating Stats Caesars Entertainment Forming New Growth-Oriented Venture with $500 million Investment from Apollo Management and TPG Capital; Capital will Allow Caesars to Fund Growth Opportunites in a Less Levered Environment Thoughts from the Golf Industry Show: Part One of Three / Darius Hatami HOTELSnyc Keynote Announcement: Richard Born - Save 25% & Register Today! AH&LA Honors Members From Across the Country with State Leadership Awards and the John Whitaker Award; J.W. Marriott, Jr. Presented with Voice of the Industry Award LeisureLink and ReviewPro Team Up to Integrate Online Reputation Management with Hotel Distribution; Consumer reputation scores influence distribution and revenue management decisions Sonnenblick-Eichner Company Arranges $34,000,000 of Financing for VWI Hotel Portfolio Hotel Assets Group Speaks On Today's Current Real Estate Cycle Always Big, March Bigger Still this Year for Orlando Hotels; Occupancy Rates are the Best in Eight Years at 84.3% Along with ADR Increase of 6.8%, the Best in Five Years Westgate Resorts Founder David Siegel Named to Central Florida Hospitality Hall of Fame for 2013 Depression Era Madison House Hotel in Atlantic City Going on Auction Block; The 126-suite Boutique Hotel has been Closed since 2006 Great Wolf Resorts Investing in Resort-wide Expansion; All 11 Great Wolf Lodge Resorts to Receive Renovations and New Amenities and Attractions in 2013 White Lodging to Build a 346-suite Hyatt Place/Hyatt House Dual-Branded Property in Downtown Denver, Colorado; Construction Start Planned for Fall 2013 with a Spring 2015 Opening Doubletree by Hilton to Debut in Portugal with the 139-room DoubleTree by Hilton Lisbon - Fontana Park Opening in Summer 2013; The Conversion of the Fontana Park Hotel with Occur Through a Management Agreement with Turismadeira SA Hilton Worldwide Signs Franchise Agreement with Panchshil Hotels Pvt. Ltd. to Open the DoubleTree by Hilton Pune-Chinchwad in India; A June 2013 Opening is Planned for the 115-room Hotel IHG Opens the 213-room Crowne Plaza Duqm in Oman The 506-key Crowne Plaza Madinah Opens in Saudi Arabia Marriott Institute of Hospitality Education Makes Debut in China in Co-Operation with Anhui Zhong-Ao Institute of Technology; To Enroll 300 Students in 2013 for a Three-Year Diploma Program Unite Here and Chicago Area Hilton Hotels Reach Agreement Several Months Before Existing Contract Expires Atlantic City's Trump Plaza Woes Continue as General Manager, Eddie Llambias, Moves On to Try His Luck Elsewhere; Named as Vice President and General Manager of the Bally's Casino in Tunica, Mississippi Mary Jo "MJ" Baird Hired as Group Sales Manager for the 322-key Meritage Resort and Spa in Napa, California April 23, 2013 The Next Big Hotel Online Revenue Driver Is Here: Google Hotel Price Ads (HPA) / Sue Wiker and Sara O'Brien Agilysys Announces Availability of Lodging Management System® v7.2; LMS v7.2 Includes Key Enhancements, Can be Viewed at HITEC 2013 Travel Tripper Now Offers Inbound Booked Airline Data Integrated into the Revup Revenue Management Platform Billionaire Investor Carl Icahn Blocks Sale of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino to the Meruelo Group; Argues that the Location of the Atlantic City Property Alone Makes it More Valuable than the $20 Million Proposal U.S. News & World Report Releases Inaugural Ranking of the Best Hotels in Mexico Trends in Hotel Marketing: Social Search, Utility Marketing and Converged Media / Daniel Edward Craig March Brought Gold to South Florida Hoteliers; Perfect Storm of Events and Factors Generated Highest Occupancy and Room Rates in Years Boom Years are Over for Singapore's Tourism Industry with Growth Rate Expected to Slow by 50% Over the Next 10 Years Elite Meetings Alliance at Hotel del Coronado Delivered Record Appointments, Enthusiastic Teamwork and Outstanding Business Results Grand Pacific Resort Management Wins Gold at ARDA World 2013; Timeshare Management Company Receives Four Top Prizes among its 16 Finalists Top 10 Ways 'VirtualHotel' is Enhancing the Guest Experience; Designed by hoteliers for hoteliers, the interactive mobile app is proving to drive revenues, satisfaction, loyalty and more. 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CoMMingle by Lodging Interactive is bringing relevancy and consistency to a hotel's social media marketing campaign while planning, socializing, engaging and measuring effectiveness ZENO Controls LLC and ILLUMRA Collaborate to Develop InnPoint Solution for Hotels; InnPoint Hospitality Solution is the first product jointly engineered by these lighting and energy-control technology partners Guest-tek Welcomes New Addition to Sales Team Educational Institute Announces New Vice Presidents for Domestic Sales, Global Sales, and Information Technology The End of the Luxury Market as we Know it? / Jean Francois Mourier Outlook is Good for State of New Hampshire's Tourism Industry; Attendees at Annual Governor's Conference on Tourism Express Optimism for 2013 Spring and Summer Season Doubletree by Hilton Debuts in Australia with Three Northern Territory Openings as Hilton Hotels & Resorts Opens its First Property in Darwin; The Four Hotels will Open May 1, 2013 through Conversions Owned and Operated by Ascent Hospitality, the 131-room DoubleTree by Hilton Montgomery Downtown Opens in Alabama; Completing the 16-month, $13 million Renovation and Re-branding of the Former Clarion Generations Resorts by Karisma Brand to Debut in June 2013 in Riviera Maya, Mexico; The 30-suite Generations Maroma to Open in June Followed by the 144-key Generations Riviera Maya in November 2013 New Jersey's Teaneck Marriott at Glenpointe on Schedule to Complete Multi-Million Dollar Renovation Project in June 2013 Yelda Taluk Ülker Named as Assistant General Manager, Sales & Marketing for the 270-room Marti Istanbul Hotel in Turkey April 22, 2013 Having Led the Nation in Every Negative Economic Indicator, New Signs of Life Begin to Arise in Las Vegas Inland American Real Estate Trust Acquires Colorado's Residence Inn Denver City Center for $80 Million; Sage Hospitality will Continue to Manage the 228-room Hotel Modus Hotels Partners with Alex. Brown Realty to Acquire The Normandy Hotel in Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C.; The 75-room Hotel was Purchased for $16 Million or $213,000 per key Robert Earl Holding, Owner of the Sun Valley Resort in Idaho, Dies (1926 - 2013) Japanese-style Hotel and Spa Proposed for Morikami Park in Palm Beach County, Florida; County Officials Considering Putting the Project Up to Bid to Seek Interested Developers Financial Woes Once Again Facing Park Hyatt Aviara as Owners, Broadreach Capital Partners and Maritz, Wolff & Co., Become Delinquent on $186 million Loan for the Carlsbad, California Property / Lori Weisberg Hotels in Owensboro, Kentucky Experience Banner Year; Revenue Up 21 Percent from Last Year to $15 million and Occupancy at the Highest Level Since 1994 New Murray, Utah Hotel Set to start Construction in Second Quarter of 2013; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 147 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database Interested in Controlling the Bellagio Fountains? 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Downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin Hotels Likely to Feel the Impact of Projected Development; Including the 205-room Marriott Set to Open in July 2013, the Area's Room Count is Expected to Increase by 26% Over the Next Few Years Hotel Assets Group Speaks On Current State of Hotel Debt How to Value a Hotel Using The Economy, Financing, Market Place, Brand, Product and PIP as Guides / Greg Morris Award Winning iRiS Software Systems to Launch New Spa Application at AHTEC 2013 in Hong Kong PolyU Study Investigates Link Between Leadership Style of Hotel Managers and Their Perceptions of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Sale of the 140-unit Pier House Resort and Caribbean Spa in Key West, Florida Appears Imminent Another Peninsula Hotel, a 54-room Project, Proposed as Charleston, South Carolina Looks to Tighten Lodging Rules; With More than 1,800 Rooms Already Proposed for the Area Some are Concerned About Overbuilding Hyatt and Huayuan Property Co. to Develop the 324-room Grand Hyatt Hotel in Changsha, Hunan Province in Central China Stonebridge Companies Set to Open the 302-room Dual-Branded Hampton Inn & Suites and Homewood Suites by Hilton Denver Downtown-Convention Center in Colorado Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group Adds to Asia Pacific Portfolio in Q1 2013; New Deals and Hotel Openings in China, India, Indonesia and Philippines Result in a Total of 163 Hotels in Operation or Under Development in the Region IACC-Americas Presents Education Awards for Excellence; Recognizing Tom Cole, Sean Anderson and Sean Sands for their Contributions to IACC Education Noble House Hotels & Resorts Appoints Robert Sawyer as Director of Accounts for Gateway Canyons Resort in Gateway, Colorado April 19, 2013 Airbnb: More than a Threat, It's a Great Disruptor to the Hotel & Travel Sector / Vikram Singh HOTELSnyc: Save 25% & Hear Homeier & Law and Wright Johnson Discuss EB-5 Financing Myth of the Casino Maze Debunked: New $100 million MGM Resorts Plan to Transform Part of the Las Vegas Strip Designed to Encourage Customers to Head Outside Recap of the 25th Annual Hunter Hotel Investment Conference / Lee Hunter Las Vegas Continues to Dominate List of Top Convention Towns; Topped TradeShow News Network's 2012 List of the Top U.S. Convention Hosts with 53 Shows in the Top 250 New Back Plate for Verifi® Bed Bug Detectors Makes Continuous Bed Bug Detection Easier HSMAI South Florida Names New Scholarship Award, Honoring Dr. Peter Ricci, Awarding Financial Assistance to South Florida Hospitality Students; Applications Must be Submitted by June 28 with Awards Issued for the Fall 2013 School Year NewcrestImage's Development on Track for the 119-room Hilton Garden Inn in Bryan/College Station, Texas; A Late Summer 2013 Opening is Planned With Comprehensive Renovation Complete, the Sheraton Pittsburgh Airport Hotel Opens in Pennsylvania; The Hotel is Owned by an Affiliate of Platinum Equity Cobblestone Hotels to Open the 65-room Boarders Inn and Suites by Cobblestone Traverse City in Michigan; The Hotel, Owned by Robert Eklund, will Undergo a Refresh and Conversion with a June 1, 2013 Completion StepStone Hospitality Adds Four Hotels to its Management Portfolio John Klukan Named as General Manager of the Worthington Renaissance Fort Worth Hotel in Texas April 18, 2013 Blackstone Group Makes Big Splash in Hawaii with $450 million Purchase of Leasehold Interest for the 1,230 room Hyatt Regency Waikiki Beach Resort & Spa; Additional $80 million to be Invested in Property Renovations Top 10 Trends of The Next Generation of Travel: The Millennials / Teresa Y. Lee LaSalle Hotel Properties Posts 1st Qtr 2013 Net Loss of $7.4 million Compared to a Net Loss of $16.1 million in the Prior Year Quarter: RevPAR Grew to $132.89, an Increase of 3% / Hotel Operating Statistics Whitefish, Montana Could be Home to a $70 million Resort with a Convention Center and 150-room Upscale Hotel; Unnamed Developer Could Break Ground as Early as Fall 2013 Chartres Lodging Acquires the 360-room Radisson Plaza Hotel Minneapolis in Minnesota; Renovations to Begin with Completion and ReBranding to Radisson Blu Planned for 2014 Hilton Garden Inn Steps Up Development in College Locations Philippine Developer, Ayala Land Inc (ALI), to Develop Chain of Affordable Hotels; Plans for Portfolio of 4,000 Rooms by 2015 Raising the Bar: Five-story, $100 million Hakkasan Setting a Precedent for Las Vegas Nightlife 'Metropolis' High Profile Downtown L.A. Full City Block Development Site Comes To Market California School Wins Educational Institute's 2013 International Lodging Management Program Competition The H Hotel in Michigan Selects Clear Sky Software's Food & Beverage Inventory System for Managing and Controlling all F&B Inventory Premier Inn India Increases Online Bookings to over 20% with RateTiger Renowned Hotel eCommerce Expert to Address Second Annual Hospitality Marketing Exchange Event in Miami; Ocean Properties' Loren Gray to open 2013 HME Conference with session entitled "Generating Revenue in Hospitality - Old School Style with Today's Tools" Hampton Hotels Continues Growth with 22 Openings in Q1 2013; Including Two New Properties in Colombia and First Dual-Branded Hampton Inn & Suites/Home2Suites in Huntsville, Alabama Marriott International to Open the 135-room Courtyard by Marriott Ulyanovsk in Ulyanovsk, Russia; To Open in 2015 Operating Under a Management Agreement with LLC New City The 465-room Novotel Dubai Al Barsha is Set to Open in Dubai in Summer 2013 Hotel Indigo Brand to Debut in Italy with the 64-room Hotel Indigo Rome-St George; A Q1 2014 Opening is Planned Following the Conversion of the St. George Hotel AH&LA Shows Support for Introduction of Immigration Legislation Destination Hotels & Resorts Appoints Mark Hays as Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer Hilton Garden Inn Names Heidi Wilcox as the Brand's First Female Owners Advisory Council (OAC) Chair Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints José Castro as Director of Revenue for Bonaventure Resort & Spa in Fort Lauderdale, Florida April 17, 2013 A Scant 35 Feet from Detonation Site, Boston Hotelier, Mark Hagopian, Operator of The Charlesmark Hotel, Recounts Aftermath of Marathon Bombings Kokua Hospitality Managing Grand Historic Venue; Vizergy® Delivering Online Presence to Match; Companies Expect 100% RFP Increase at Premier East Coast Meeting Venue Hyatt Recognizes Excellence Among Owners and Developers with 2013 Awards Go With the Flow; An Analysis of Flow Multiples Measuring Revenue Retained as Profits / Gary McDade & Robert Mandelbaum North Carolina's Fort Bragg to See Nearly $60 Million in Improvements to Guest Lodging; Army Turns Over Guest Lodging Operations to IHG with a Holiday Inn Express and a Candlewood Suites Planned Survival of the Fittest - Analysts State Closing of Atlantic City's Weak Casinos Would Benefit Survivors A February to Love for Hawaii's Hoteliers; Records Broken by Visitors Include RevPAR, Which Rose 16.4%, Setting an All Time High The Historic 104-room Abraham Lincoln Hotel in Reading, Pennsylvania is Acquired; New Owner, Alan Shuman, Plans $10 Million Renovation and Extends Contract with Wyndham Norfolk, Virginia's Rush for New Hotel and Conference Center Persuades Nobody "Still On The Road To Sales and Guest Service Excellence": A Collection of Articles by Doug Kennedy The SmarTV Company and InterKnowlogy Partner to Bring Powerful Next-Generation Guest Interaction Experience to Hoteliers Hotel Assets Group Announces Sale of the Holiday Inn, Jacksonville, Florida Carlton Hotel Budapest Extends 10-year Relationship with Pegasus Solutions; Boutique Hotel Renews for Three Years Under Pegasus Connect+ Gold TRITON HK Application is Revolutionizing Housekeeping Operations Pullman Selects Quadriga as its Preferred Global Guest Technology Partner ....and deploys Quadriga's HTNG award-winning PMN solution (Most Innovative Hospitality Technology of 2012) Santika Hotels & Resorts Augments Their Pricing Decision Support Process by Selecting RateGain's Rate Intelligence Solution Two New Studies from Cornell Center for Hospitality Research Focus on Hotel Technology and Brand Market Research; Provides Model for Strategic Integration of Hotel Technology and Details Best Western's Process for Brand Research New 85-room Hampton Inn & Suites Hotel Planned for Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin; Groundbreaking Slated for July 2013 with Completion Planned for May 2014 Getting Serious? 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Best Western Hotels in Denmark Experience Another Record Breaking Year in 2012 with Revenue Growth of 15% Over 2011; 2013 Marks 30th Year for Best Western in Denmark DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel & Conference Center La Mola Opens in Catalonian National Park in Spain; Completing the Renovation and Rebranding of the 186-room Hotel The 153-room Courtyard Cleveland University Circle to Open this Month in Ohio; Owned by the Snavely Group and Managed by Concord Hospitality Laurus Corporation Opens the 130-room Holiday Inn Express at New Orleans Airport, Completing the Renovation and Rebranding of the Former Ramada Suites Hotel Marriott International Names Stephanie Linnartz as Chief Marketing and Commercial Officer; To Focus on Next Generation Travelers New Global Position Bundles all of the Company's Consumer-Focused Disciplines White Lodging Names New General Managers for Three Properties in Colorado, Florida and Indiana; Promoting Nick Kelley, Jason Crumpacker and Lynnette Tjaarda Dow Hotel Company Makes Two Senior Management Appointments at the Hyatt North Houston in Greenspoint, Texas; Appoints Jayne Murad as Director of Human Resources and Benjamin Moore as Controller Equus at Castle Hotel & Spa in Tarrytown, New York Names Marc Lippman as Executive Chef Bavarian Inn Matriarch, Dorothy Zehnder, at 91 Receives the Outstanding Achievement in Tourism Award; Honored by Michigan Lodging and Tourism Association April 16, 2013 Conde Nast Traveler Unveils its 17th Annual Hot List of New Hotels & Spas: 2013 List Features 154 New Hotels and Resorts and 35 Spas from Around the World Wyndham Indianapolis West Hotel Enhances Guest Experience with Flyte Systems Real-Time Airport Flight Display; Real-Time Airline Schedule Display Keeps Guests on Property When Flights are Cancelled Killing Mobile Phone Dead Spots in Specific or All Areas of a Hotel is Now an Economically Viable and Practical Solution Thanks to RoamingAround Permission to Say No? 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Responding to Guest Requests / Jim Hartigan A Call to Arms: How to Shift Market Share from the OTAs to the Hotel Website / Max Starkov A 7-Step Strategy to Manage Hotel Online Guest Reviews: Inspired by the most recent research on responses to TripAdvisor reviews / Miguel Rivera 22-Year-Old Amelia Fredenburg, Room Attendant at the Otesaga Resort Hotel in Cooperstown to Receive the New York State Hospitality & Tourism Association's 2013 Outstanding Roomkeeper of the Year Award; Promoted to Housekeeping Office Coordinator after Just a Year of Employment AAA Michigan Presents Four Diamond Awards to 15 Hotels and 5 Restaurants at "2013 Pure Michigan Governor's Tourism Conference" Thirteen Michigan Tourism "Stars of the Industry" Honored by the Michigan Lodging and Tourism Association Lodging Interactive Teams with InnLink to Offer Booking Engine, GDS/OTA Connectivity; Integration partnership offers hotels a complete turn-key approach to online reservations and website marketing Newmarket Receives 2013 Confirmit ACE (Achievement in Customer Excellence) Awards; Confirmit's prestigious awards program recognizes leaders using Voice of the Customer to increase customer satisfaction and improve business results MHI Hospitality Corporation Changes Name to SoTHERLY Hotels Inc. The 451-key Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center in Colorado Completes $5 Million Renovation of Public Spaces California's 245-key Courtyard by Marriott San Diego Downtown Completes $5.8 Million Renovation of Public Spaces, Meeting Rooms and Guest Rooms; The Hotel is Owned by Affiliates of Wheelock Street Capital and Managed by Sage Hospitality Griffin Gate Marriott Resort & Spa in Lexington, Kentucky Completes $5 Million Upgrade to Guest Rooms; Finishing Phase One of Expansive Three Year Renovation Project The 199-room Chattanoogan, a Benchmark Hotel, in Tennessee Renovates Meeting and Event Facilities RLJ Lodging Trust Promotes Leslie D. Hale to Executive Vice President; Ms. Hale will Serve in a Dual Role of Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group Appoints Todd Folbrecht as Vice President, Development, Americas Natalia Luna Named as Director of Sales and Marketing for The Courtyard Isla Verde Beach Resort in Puerto Rico Carl Anderson Appointed as Director of Food and Beverage for The Modern Honolulu, a 353-room Boutique Hotel in Waikiki, Hawaii La Toque at the 180-room Westin Verasa Napa Names New Sommelier Team; Richard Matuszczak Appointed as Lead Sommelier and Zoe Hankins as Assistant Sommelier April 15, 2013 Stop Over-Taxing Tourists, Says Marriott Hotel Boss, Arne Sorenson, With an Eye on Global Growth In Memoriam: Dan Musser Jr. (1932-2013) Turned Mackinac Island's Grand Hotel in Michigan into a Destination Excluding Toiletries, 35% of Hotel Guests Admit to Pocketing Room Amenities; Danish Guests Most Honest While Americans Rank 23rd According to Hotels.com Global Survey New Property Manager for 638-room Las Vegas Hotel; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Have Updated 197 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with Changes in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership Coffee Day Hotels and Resorts, a Subsidiary of Bangalore, India-Based Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading Co., Plans to Add Seven Properties in the Next Five Years, More than Doubling its Current Luxury Hotel Portfolio RFR Holding and W Hotels Worldwide to Debut W Brand in Israel with the W Tel Aviv - Jaffa and the Residences at W Tel Aviv - Jaffa; Slated to Open in 2015 in Revitalized and Historic Jaffa District Hilton Worldwide Signs Management Agreement with YAPAR SA de CV for the 130-room DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Toluca, Mexico; Currently the Hotel Campanario, the Hotel will Undergo Major Renovation, Expansion and Re-Branding, to Reopen Late in 2014 Chef Alain Ducasse Given The Lifetime Achievement Award, Part of The World's 50 Best Restaurants Awards 2013 Newly Renamed The Lodge at Gainesville Aligns Itself with the City It Loves Hotel Industry Veteran And FSU Alumnus Frank Nardozza Inducted Into FSU College of Business Hall of Fame HeBS Digital Continues to Raise the Bar with Four Internet Advertising Competition Awards Hotel Assets Group Announces 24 New Hotel Engagements in the Last Six Weeks Boomerang Hotels Caters to Travelers on the Go with Robust Mobile Websites; Boomerang Hotels partnered with HeBS Digital, the hospitality industry's leading digital technology and marketing firm, to launch mobile websites for their brands Settle Inn & Suites® and GuestHouse International® AH&LA Applauds Passage of Preventing Greater Uncertainty in Labor-Management Relations Act U.S. Travel and Tourism Exports Continue to Increase Beyond Record-Breaking 2012; International Visitors Spend $14.3 Billion in February 2013, Up 5 % Over February 2012 Courtyard by Marriott Brand to Debut in Colombia with the 146-room Courtyard in Bogota to Open in April 2014 Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts to Open the 508-room Jing An Shangri-La in West Shanghai in June 2013 Hilton Opens its First DoubleTree in South Africa with the 183-room DoubleTree by Hilton Cape Town - Upper Eastside; The Newly Renovated Hotel is Owned and Operated by Upper Eastside Hotel (Pty) Ltd The 74-room Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott to Open in Moscow, Idaho in June 2013; Owned by Ferguson Properties and Managed by True North Hotel Group Cobblestone Hotels Opens the 45-room Cobblestone Inn and Suites and Convention Center in Bottineau, North Dakota Woodbine Development Corporation Completes $50 million Renovation of the 1,120-room Hyatt Regency Dallas in Texas Ultima Hospitality Completes Multi-Million Dollar Renovation of the 100-room Holiday Inn Express Mill Valley San Francisco Area Hotel in California April 12, 2013 Pegasus Solutions Selects New RFP Provider; Pegasus Sales Connections Uses the Nexus RFP Tool to Produce Superior Outcomes for Hotels Announcing the HOTELSnyc: The Forum for Greater New York Hotel Real Estate on May 3, 2013 Save 25% with Promo Code: 25HOTEL Cyber Security Alert: How to protect your proprietary information from employees / Jim Butler Country Inns & Suites by Carlson, for the First Time in its 25 Year History, Launches New Brand Identity and New Generation Hotel Prototype Pentahotels Enters Belgium with Five Properties to Open in 2013; Total Portfolio to Grow by More than 70% in 2013 to 27 Locations Worldwide What Makes the Perfect Las Vegas Hotel-Casino? World-Class Restaurants, No Smoking and Crunchy Cannolis Design Miami/ Basel and W Hotels Worldwide Name Winners of the 2013 W Hotels Designers of the Future Award; Seung-Yong Song from Korea, Canadian Jon Stam and Bethan Laura Wood from the United Kingdom HEI Hotels Acquires the 170-room Stoneleigh Hotel in Dallas, Texas and the 115-suite Residence Inn Clearwater Downtown in Clearwater, Florida California's Grover Beach Lodge and Conference Center Project Gets Approval; City and State Parks to Begin Construction of the 135- to 150-room Lodge and Conference Facility Customer Comment and Sentiment Analytics is now Easy to Use and Affordable with UniFocus The Byron at Byron Resort & Spa Deploys Delphi.fdc Sales and Catering Solution from Newmarket; Leveraging the Force.com platform, Delphi.fdc allows The Byron at Byron Resort & Spa to yield improvements in the management of their sales and catering operations Lee Pillsbury Joins the Duetto Board Marunouchi Hotel Increases Website Revenue By 900% with Pegasus Solutions; Tokyo Hotel Drives Online and Mobile Bookings with OpenView Internet Booking Engine The Bourbon Orleans Adopts Quadriga's LobbyFriend to Enhance the Guest Experience HTNG and HOTREC Form Partnership to Promote Hospitality Industry Technology Interoperability and Standardization in Europe Napolitano, Hoyer, Collins to Keynote AH&LA Legislative Action Summit Rezidor and Cenpropsaroten Hotel Management to Develop the 206-key Radisson Blu Hotel Port Harcourt Olympia in Nigeria; A Q1 2016 Opening is Planned The Rezidor Hotel Group to Open the Park Inn Istanbul Ataturk Airport in Turkey; The 144-key Hotel is Part of an Office Building Conversion and is Scheduled to Open in Q1 2014 Best Western International Opens the 151-room BEST WESTERN PLUS Condado Palm Inn & Suites in San Juan, Puerto Rico The 91-room Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott is Set to Open in DuBois, Pennsylvania; Owned by Exit 101 LLC and Managed by Interstate Hotels & Resorts Best Western International Opens Nine New Properties in March 2013 The 122-room Courtyard Columbus New Albany to Open this Month in Ohio; Owned by New Albany Hotel Associates and Managed by American Hospitality Management Multi-Phase $30-Million Renovation Project is Complete for the 416-key Westin Hilton Head Island Resort & Spa in South Carolina IACC's 2013 Copper Skillet Award Goes to Belgium's Chef Pascal Marcin of Dolce La Hulpe South Carolina's Westin Hilton Head Island Resort & Spa Makes Three Executive Team Appointments; Names Tim Freisen as General Manager, Gail Wargo as Director of Sales & Marketing and Jim Barnett as Director of Food & Beverage Howard Spittle Appointed as General Manager for the Magdalena Grand Beach Resort in Tobago Marriott International Executive, Paul Puzzanghero, Joins T.R. ENGEL Group April 10, 2013 Seismic Shift: Brands Are Looking for Tech Partners, Not Vendors / Marco Benvenuti NORTHWIND-Maestro PMS Celebrates 35 Years of Stability, Technology Innovation and Passion for Providing the Industry's Leading Service for Independents; Longevity Based on 3 Generations of Commitment to Each Client's Success and System Development Strength Huntington Hotel Group Acquires Land, Plans to Develop Two Marriott-Branded Hotels Near San Jose Airport in California; A May 2013 Start is Planned for the 175-room Residence Inn and the 146-room Springhill Suites MIG Real Estate Acquires the 152-room Hilton Garden Inn Tampa East/Brandon in Florida TripAdvisor Acquires New York-Based Jetsetter.com At Long Last, Norfolk, Virginia Poised for Development of New $126 million Luxury Hotel and Conference Center; City Council Approves Gold Key/PHR Hotels & Resorts Project Environmental Issues Blamed for Decline in China's Tourist Arrivals and Spending Hotel Assets Group Announces it has 36 Full Service Hotels on the Market ThinkHotels Integrates with RateGain for Channel Management Solution GHOTEL Hotel & Living Selects RateTiger for Smart Online Room Distribution Waterfront Shaw Becomes Educational Institute's First Certified Guest Service Property in India Red Roof Inn - Detroit-Plymouth, MI - SOLD by Warmbrodt Hotel Investments, Inc. Experiential Hospitality: Doing More With Less / Osvaldo Torres Cruz Marshall Hotels & Resorts Expands Portfolio with Five Management Contracts in Q1 2013; Sees Uptick in Lender-Owned Hotels Changing Hands GHM Signs Management Contract for the 54-room Al Bait Sharjah Hotel, Scheduled to Open in Early 2015 in the United Arab Emirates Hyatt Hotels Corporation and Innisfree Hotels Open the 127-room Hyatt Place Pensacola Airport in Florida Under the Leadership of General Manager Adam Emling Hotel El Ganzo, a 72-room Boutique, Waterfront Hotel Opens in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico Rotana Upbeat Over Bahrain's Hospitality Industry with the Opening of The Majestic Arjaan by Rotana; Two Additional Properties are in the Pipeline for Region Alliance Hospitality Completes Renovation Project of its 132-room Holiday Inn-Cleveland East/Mentor in Ohio Bangkok, Thailand's Praya Palazzo Choses New Management with the Lifestyle Brand and General Manager Gijsbert Roodenburg; Luring More International Travelers, the 17-room Boutique Hotel in a Circa 1923 Mansion, has been a Local Secret Carmen Lam Named as Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Asia Pacific for Fairmont Hotels & Resorts Marco Menzhausen Appointed as General Manager for the 420-room Hard Rock Hotel San Diego in California Neisja Jones Promoted to General Manager of the 360-key Mainsail Suites Hotel & Conference Center in Tampa, Florida April 9, 2013 Identifying Meth Lab Red Flags / Alissa Ponchione Hotel Performance, Transactions, and Values: Recap of News from the 25th Annual Hunter Hotel Conference / Jennifer Pope As Trial Against Las Vegas Sands Corporation Continues, Sheldon Adelson Changes Testimony to Clarify Details of Macau Deal 4,000 New Hotel Rooms on the Way to Austin, Texas Market; New Inventory Should Bring More Convention Business to the City Fattal Hotels Group Acquisition Completed, Leonardo Hotels Puts the New Hotel Portfolio of Former Queens Moat Houses Holding GmbH Germany Hotels into Operation; The Portfolio of 20 German Hotels Totals 3,600 Rooms Owning It! 3 Keys to Build a Service-Driven Team; Join us for this special complimentary tele-seminar April 16th, 2013 Don't Write to Me in that Tone of Voice! 3 Quick Tips to Improve Your Communication / Tommy Taylor Intelity Adds Technology to Kimpton's Nine Zero Hotel NCED Conference Center and Hotel Leverages Pegasus Solutions to Deliver Online and Mobile Guest Room Sales; Powerful OpenView Booking Engine Expands Booking Options for 964-room Property Bittel Americas Assisting Guests with Charging, Connecting, Playing and Enjoying their Personal Mobile Devices in Rooms Managing All Food & Beverage Inventory Has Never Been Easier; The Ballantyne Hotel & Lodge Implements Clear Sky Software's F&B Inventory Control System Resulting in Greater Efficiency and Cost Control Hotels Completing the Guest Experience with Roll Out of 'VirtualHotel' to U.S. Market; A new mobile concierge designed by hoteliers for hoteliers is now on the U.S. hotel scene Velas Resorts Named Classic Vacations Mexico Partner of the Year for 2012 HSMAI Names Twelve Chapters as Winners of its "Chapter Best of the Best Awards"; Chapter of the Year Award Presented to the Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex Chapter The Wild, Wild West of Hotel Star Ratings / Jean Francois Mourier Recently Acquired by New Midwest Hotels Mattoon S, the 62-room Baymont Inn & Suites Mattoon, Illinois Launches Comprehensive Renovation Atmosphere Hospitality Management to Develop a 300-room Adoba Eco Hotel in Abilene, Texas; Adoba Hotel Brand Plans Further Portfolio Expansion Including Three Hotels in the Northeast by 2014 Everything Clicked into Place for the Opening of the Legoland Hotel in Carlsbad, California; Design Complete with 3,400 Lego Models that a Staff of 40 Spent One Year Building and Installing IHG Opens the 348-room Holiday Inn & Suites Makati in the Philippines AC Hotels by Marriott Opens Two New Properties in Europe; Completing Renovations, the 143-room AC Hotel Nice Opens in France and the 152-room AC Hotel Sant Cugat Opens in Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain The 487-room Westin La Paloma Resort and Spa in Tucson, Arizona Appoints Jacqueline McAbee to New Marketing Manager Position Noble House Names Brendan Mica as Executive Chef to Restaurant Cuvée at River Terrace Inn in Napa Valley, California April 8, 2013 The Case for NOT Promoting Sustainability at Your Hotel, Resort, or Lodge / Hans Pfister Nobody Asked Me, But...No. 100; Hotel History: The Magic of 800-325-3535; Protect Yourself Against Fires; Litigation Support Services; My New Book; Quote of the Month / Stanley Turkel ADA Defense Lawyer: A Blast Against Frivolous, Serial ADA Lawsuits in Striking the Right Balance / Jim Butler Kempinski Hotels, Once Near Bankruptcy, to Open Nine Hotels This Year Park Hotel Group Enters Agreement to Sell Singapore's 336-key Park Hotel Clarke Quay to Ascendas Hospitality Trust for Approximately $242 Million Owner and Developer in Contract Negotiations for Roseville, California Hotel and Conference Center Development; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 71 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database Revenue Management: A Necessary Evil, but Not Sufficient for Delivering Profitably / Young N. Nguyen Plans for Redevelopment of Florida's Key West Triangle Hotels Taking a New Turn; Rather than Replacing, Existing Hotels to be Renovated at a Price Tag of $30 million Despite Massive Purchasing Power, New Survey Reveals Chinese Tourists Spending Less on Hotels than Travelers From Elsewhere in More Than Half of Countries Contacted Hotel Assets Group Engaged on Four Portfolios Since January B4Checkin Completes Certified Interfaces with Infor's Medallion and Epitome PMSs; Hotels operating on popular Infor systems to see increased efficiencies through two-way integration with B4Checkin's customizable CRS Family Owned Outrigger Enterprises, Founded in 1947 by Roy & Estelle Kelley, Pushes Beyond its Waikiki Core and Morphs Into One of the Largest Privately Held Hotel Firms in the Pacific Costa Rica's Colon Caribe Hotel Closes Due to Ongoing Crime Wave; Tourists and Staff Robbed at Gun Point at Several Properties in Region Complete AH&LA's National Policy Agenda Survey and Make Your Voice Heard Latest Employment and Exports Numbers Confirm Travel is Leading Driver of U.S. Growth; Travel Employment Growth Outpaces Overall Economy by 10% Agenda for Arabian Hotel Investment Conference (AHIC 2013) to Include Industry Leader Panel Discussion on Global Hotel Industry Outlook and a Round Up On WTTC's Summit Outcomes Originally Built in 1895 as Housing for Seminary Students, MCR Development and The Brodsky Organization to Debut The High Line Hotel in Manhattan's Chelsea District IHG Opens the 300-room Holiday Inn Bangkok Sukhumvit 22 in Thailand The Historic 80-room Carlton Lyon in France Reopens as an MGallery Collection Hotel after a 10-month Revamp Autograph Collection to Debut in the United Kingdom with Addition of Threadneedles in London and The Glasshouse in Edinburgh, Scotland Gemstone Hotels & Resorts Assumes Management of the 139-room Nautical Beachfront Resort in Lake Havasu City, Arizona; Steven Boswell Appointed General Manager El Dorado Seaside Suites by Karisma in Riviera Maya, Mexico Nears Completion of Expansion; Increasing Resort Size by More Than 30% with an Additional 96 Suites Canada's OPUS Vancouver Completes Renovation of its 96 Guest Rooms New IACC-Australia Asia Pacific Chapter Formed, the Third Chapter for the Association Starwood Hotels & Resorts Appoints Michael Wale as New Leader of Europe, Africa & Middle East Region as President Roeland Vos Steps Down Effective June 1, 2013 Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group Appoints Susan Mason as Vice President, Franchise Operations, Radisson John Hackett Appointed as Vice President of Transient Sales for Loews Hotels & Resorts Catherine Johns Welcomed as Director of Catering and Convention Services for the 1,230-key Hyatt Regency Waikiki Beach Resort and Spa in Hawaii Sioux Lees Named as Spa Director for the 343-room Westin Grand Cayman Seven Mile Beach Resort & Spa The Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina Names Todd Sicolo as Executive Chef April 5, 2013 Musical Chairs: A History Behind the LodgeNet Bankruptcy / Mark Haley Weddings Increase Revenue and Decrease Effort So What Are You Waiting For? / Susan Vladeck, Ph.D. Wizard of the Vegas Strip, Sheldon Adelson, Makes Rare Public Appearance; Armed with one-liners and verbal jabs, he testified about Sands' entry into Macau in breach-of-contract suit Losing Hundreds of Millions of Convention Dollars, Broward County, Florida Looks to Upgrade Convention Center, Add Hotel and More Meeting Space; After Three Failed Attempts, Business Leaders Rank Expansion Plan a Top Priority Hilton Worldwide Signs Management Agreement for a 260-room New-Build Hilton Santa Fe Mexico City, Mexico; Currently Under Construction as Part of Mixed-Use Complex, Samara, with a March 2014 Opening Planned Bloomberry Resorts Corporation Opens Flagship Project, Solaire Resort & Casino in Manila, Philippines; The 500-room $1.0 Billion Integrated Destination Resort is the First to Open in the Government Sponsored Economic Development Zone Known as Entertainment City Leela Palaces, Hotel and Resorts Plans to Double its Portfolio in the Next Four Years; Building on Momentum, Launches New Brand Identity Groundbreaking Set for Two New Hotels in Redondo Beach, California; The $59 million 319-room Hotel Campus to Include Residence Inn by Marriott and Hilton Garden Inn; Managed by Evolution Hospitality Marking a New Era, Choice Hotels International Completing Move to New Headquarters; Sustainable Certified Workplace Reflects Company Focus on Future of Hospitality Starwood's Month Long Headquarter Relocation to Dubai Concludes with Emphasis on Brand Growth in the Middle East & Africa A Blueprint to SEO Success: Creating Professional and Engaging Copy for the Hotel Website / Erica Garza ElevenBC for Mac Gives Hyatt Regency Baltimore Suites a Modern Touch; Hyatt Regency Baltimore updates their luxury suites with iMacs and printers from Eleven What Does it Take to be a Good Revenue Manager? Complimentary Webinar - Infor EzPLUS Critics File Lawsuit Over University of California Los Angeles Hotel Plan; The $162-Million Campus Hotel and Center on the Westwood Campus is Slated to Start Construction this Summer and be Completed in 2016 Construction Contractor, Matrix Builder, Plans 100-room Marriott Residence Inn in Harlingen, Texas Newly Built 132-room Holiday Inn New York City - Lower East Side Opens as Area's First Full-Service Hotel; Owned by the M & R Hotel Group, and Managed by M & R Hospitality Management Owned by Urban Commons/Brighton Management, the 100-room Westin Sacramento Opens in California; Completing the $3.2 Million Renovation and Re-Branding of the Former Le Rivage Hotel Hyatt Hotels, Noble Investment Group and Interstate Hotels & Resorts Open the HYATT house Atlanta/Cobb Galleria in Georgia; The 149-room Hotel is Under the Leadership of General Manager Mark Luther and Director of Sales Jamie Canvin Hilton Garden Inn Brand Debuts in Southeast Asia with the Opening of the 86-room Hilton Garden Inn Hanoi in Vietnam The New-Build 56-key TownePlace Suites is Set to Open in May 2013 in Aberdeen, South Dakota Capella Hotels and Resorts & Castleton Hotel Partners I, LLC Open the 49-room Capella Washington D.C. LodgeNet Names Hotel Industry Veteran Thomas W. Storey As President Of Hospitality; Former Fairmont Hotel Executive to Lead Renewed Focus on LodgeNet Customer Engagement W San Francisco Appoints Roger Huldi as New General Manager Mary Jobb Appointed as Director of Sales for Waldorf Astoria Orlando and Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek; The Two Resort Complex Totals Nearly 1500 Guest Rooms Philma Gomes Named as Director of Sales & Marketing for Cape Grace in Cape Town, South Africa April 4, 2013 Leadership....There's Something Funny Going On Here / James Houran, Ph.D. PhoCusWright® Founder Philip Wolf Joins TrustYou Board; Wolf Embraces Entrepreneurial Spirit & Innovative Tech-Driven Roots of Global Hospitality-Focused Online Reputation Management Company The Music Man: Longtime Excalibur Porter and Employee of the Year, 77-year-old Henry Moore, Treats Guests to Old Vegas Tunes Whistling While he Works Performance Soars at Hotels Connected to Airport Terminals / Joseph Pierce Hotel Asset Management for Colleges and Universities / Matt Arrants Lodging Insights 2013: Tune in to Watch PKF Hospitality's Mark Woodworth and Cornell's Jack Corgel Discuss the Alignment of Industry Fundamentals Impacting Demand Levels IMH Financial Corporation to Acquire the 87-key L'Auberge de Sedona and the 42-room Orchards Inn in Sedona, Arizona Developers for Three New Hotels Totaling 370 Rooms in Portland, Maine Confident the Market Can Fill More Hotel Rooms; The Additional 90 Room Project in the Works Will Not Oversaturate the Market Starwood Hotels and RFR Holdings to Build 125-room W Hotel and 38-key Residential Complex in Jaffa, Israel; Construction to Begin in Spring 2015 Pegasus Connect+ Hotel Revenue Solution Builds Global Sales Momentum; Hotels from 30 Countries Have Clamored for New Distribution and Booking Package Offered by Pegasus Solutions in Recent Months Benchmark Hospitality International Launches Mosaic; A Lifestyle Travel Journal Educational Institute Expands Reach of Hospitality Training Programs with New Country Manager and Operational Structure for China Hollywood, Florida Margaritaville Project, Described as Turning Point for the Beach, Receives Requested Deadline Extension Construction Plan on Track for the 200-room Westin Jekyll Island in Georgia; An April 15, 2013 Groundbreaking is Planned Aimbridge Hospitality and DoubleTree Open the DoubleTree by Hilton Houston Greenway Plaza in Houston, Texas; $15 Million Dollar Renovation of the 388-room Former Renaissance to Begin This Summer Joie De Vivre Set to Open the 135-room Shoreline Hotel Waikiki this Month in Hawaii; Completing Renovation and Re-Launch of the Former Seaside Hotel Waikiki Thailand's Outrigger Laguna Phuket Beach Resort Marks Official Opening; Following the Completion of Major Renovations to the Former Laguna Beach Resort Finalizing its $30 Million Renovation, the 340-room Sonesta Resort Hilton Head Island Opens in South Carolina Centerstone Hotels Opens the 41-room Centerstone Inn & Suites in Carlyle, Illinois; Owned and Managed by Kamla Shivan & Manju Corp Red Lion Hotels Corporation Sells and Franchises the 170-room Red Lion Hotel Pendleton in Oregon Riviera Palm Springs Resort in California Completes Multi-Million Dollar Renovation; The Resort is Part of the Noble House Hotels & Resorts Collection The 223-room Edgewater Hotel, a Noble House Hotel, on Seattle, Washington's Elliott Bay Nears Completion of Renovation Project Interstate Hotels & Resorts Appoints Deepak Sarin as Chief Operating Officer of JHM Interstate India Noble House Hotels & Resorts Increases National Sales Team; Names Michelle Coombs, Jennifer Long and Karen Strgacich as Directors of National Accounts April 3, 2013 2013 World Rankings of The Top 10 Hotel Groups and Top 15 Brands; IHG Retains Top Spot in Groups With Nearly 660,000 Rooms; Holiday Inn & Holiday Inn Express Overtake Best Western for Top Spot in Brands AAA Parking Awarded Contract for Bonaventure Resort & Spa Meritus Hotels & Resorts Enters Agreement with Funtasy Island Development for the Management of Hotel and Villas of Funtasy Island; Located on Riau Islands, Indonesia and Slated to Open in 2014, the Resort Includes a 200-room Condotel, a 230-suite Hotel, and 413-unit Villas Several New Hotels on Tap for Florida's Southeast Coast; Including the 219-room Fort Lauderdale Marriott Pompano Beach Oceanfront Scheduled to Open July 1, 2013 and Opening this Month, the 97-room Boutique Pestana South Beach Art Deco, the First Portuguese Hotel in the U.S. Port of Bellingham, Washington Moves Ahead on Airport Holiday Inn; A Mid-May 2014 Construction Start is Planned for the 150 to 160-room Project Developers of Proposed Holiday Inn Express in Hutchinson, Kansas Get Final Approvals and Plan to Break Ground in May 2013 with a March 2014 Completion Expected Another New Hotel Planned for Downtown Charleston, South Carolina; Tara Investments Submits Plans for a 165-room Hotel Near the Newly Opened 120-room Holiday Inn Charleston Historic Downtown Tourism Tidbits: Are Your Tourism Business and You Legally Vulnerable? / Dr. Peter Tarlow Forbes Travel Guide, Formerly Mobil Travel Guide, Announces Global Star Rating Program to Help Luxury Hotels Worldwide Deliver Best-in-Class Guest Service La Quinta Announces the Opening of the La Quinta Inn & Suites Springfield, MA; La Quinta Executives and Local Officials Welcome the Newly Renovated, Award-Winning 182-Room Hotel during March 25th Ceremony Clear Sky Software's Beverage Inventory System Helping The Aloft Charlotte Ballantyne Hotel Manage All Beer, Liquor & Wine Inventory with Greater Efficiency 5-Star Luxury Thailand Hotel Company SALA Resorts & Spas Communicating with Guests Effectively via ZDirect; In just three months, SALA says revenues from direct channel sales and guest satisfaction is at an all-time high HeBS Digital's Latest Promotion Helps Clients Fight Back and Shift Share from the OTAs Seoul, Korea's Boutique Hotel La Casa Set to Expand Hotel Equities Assumes Management of the 52-room Comfort Suites Hotel in Lawrenceville, Georgia W Hotels Worldwide Debuts in Mainland China with the Opening of the 317-key W Guangzhou; Developed and Owned by KWG Property Holdings The 84-room Fairfield Inn & Suites North Charleston/Ashley Phosphate is Set to Open in South Carolina; Owned by Northside Hotel Associates and Managed by Gateway Hospitality Accor Names Three Senior Vice Presidents within Sales, Distribution and Loyalty Division; Carlo Olejniczak, Cédric Gobilliard, Yves Lacheret David Craig Named as General Manager for the 38-key C Lazy U Guest Ranch in Granby, Colorado Marti Trieschmann as Director of Sales & Marketing for the 343-room Westin Grand Cayman Seven Mile Beach Resort & Spa Joni Barkley Named as Director of Sales and Catering for the Kessler Collection's Casa Monica Hotel in St. Augustine, Florida The 119-key Royal Palms Resort and Spa in Phoenix, Arizona Appoints Michael Petersen-Incorvaia as Director of Catering and Conference Services and Christian Giles as General Manager of the Property's Restaurant, T. Cook's Prestige Hospitality Group Appoints Leo C. Bushey, III as Executive Chef at the Clarion Hotel in Bristol, Connecticut; The Hotel is Currently Undergoing Renovation and Expansion with a May 2013 Completion Planned Douglas Paine Appointed as Chef De Cuisine for Hotel Vermont in Burlington, Vermont; The 125-room Hotel will Open in May 2013 April 2, 2013 Hotel Owner-Operator Disputes: Marriott vs Eden Roc - - What it All Means for Terminating Hotel Management Agreements / Jim Butler Noble House Selects Aptech Financial Solutions for 17 Properties; Noble Installs Profitvue® Enterprise Back Office Accounting; Will Implement Execuvue® Business Intelligence and Targetvue Planning/Forecasting by Mid-Year Five Years Later, Having Had a Rocky Start, Las Vegas' $1.3 billion Trump International Hotel - How's it Doing Now? Unions Turn Focus to Organizing Efforts on Service Sector Workplaces Service Excellence: Can you MAKE your team work like they own it? / Bryan K. Williams Financing Remains Elusive for Company Determined to Develop Saggio Hills, a $310 Million 130-room Resort Hotel and Luxury Home Development in Healdsburg, California Embassy Suites Hotels' Five-Year Retrospective Survey Reveals that While Business Travel is Up, Eight in Ten Travelers Have Changed Trip Behavior; With Stricter Budgets and More Fees, Value Becomes Greater Priority 10th Annual Lodging Management Program International Competition Showcases Training Programs for High School Hospitality Students MICROS Releases Next Generation Mobile Business Intelligence Tool - - MICROS inMotion; Real-time, actionable information allows restaurant operators to evaluate performance, measure success against forecast, and make better, faster decisions! Flip.to Wins Internet Advertising Competition (IAC) Award; Leading brand advocate platform named 'Best Entertainment Interactive Application' in Web Marketing Association’s 2013 IAC Award Competition Second Annual Hospitality Marketing Exchange Summit to Provide Tools and Resources to Help Hoteliers Maximize Online Presence; Special keynote by Ocean Properties Ltd, and sessions sponsored by Digital Alchemy, GCommerce, Nor1, Stash, Flip.to and more, to provide attendees with tips and tricks to build and expand upon online marketing initiatives Milestone Internet Marketing Seeking SEO/SEM Specialist/Account Manager Based in Santa Clara, California HSMAI Revenue Optimization Conference Marks 10 Years; The Tenth Annual ROC Event, Co-Located with HITEC, will Focus on Leading Revenue Management into the Future Jumeirah Group to Add Nearly 600 Keys to its Portfolio in 2013 with the Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel in Kuwait and Jumeirah Bilgah Beach Hotel in Baku, Azerbaijan; Plans Further Expansion in the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific Decatur, Alabama Holiday Inn Gets Multi-Million Dollar Renovation and New Temporary Name, Becoming the Garden Plaza Hotel; Plans to Re-Brand Upon Completion of Upgrades Peachtree Hotel Group Adds Six Hotels to Portfolio During Q1 2013 New Castle Hotels and Resorts Assumes Management of the 117-room Westport Inn in Westport, Connecticut Kempinski Hotels Opens 152-room Palais Hansen Kempinski Vienna in Austria; Completing Two and a Half Years of Restoration for the Property Originally Designed as a Hotel for the 1873 World Exhibition Owned and Managed by InterMountain Management, the 101-suite TownePlace Suites by Marriott to Open This Month in Redding, California Starwood Hotels Opens the 154-room Aloft Tucson University in Arizona, Completing the Renovation and Rebranding of the Former Four Points by Sheraton Property Hyatt Hotels Corporation Debuts its Fifth Brand in India, Rebranding Five Hotels as "Hyatt" in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, and Amritsar The MainStay Suites PGA Village in Port St. Lucie, Florida Completes Renovation and Adds Sleep Inn Brand, Now Operating as a Dual Branded MainStay Suites / Sleep Inn; The 80-room Hotel is Owned and Managed by The Generation Companies Anantara to Begin Renovation of Anantara Bophut Resort & Spa Koh Samui in Thailand; The Resort will be Closed for Seven Months During Upgrades with a November 2013 Completion Planned The 487-room Westin La Paloma Resort and Spa in Tucson, Arizona Completes Guest Room and Function Space Phase of its Extensive $30 Million Renovation Alfredo Gonzalez Joins Brand USA as Senior Vice President, Global Partnership Development Brandon Marshall Named as Director of Sales for Tampa, Florida's New 137-room Epicurean Hotel Set to Open in December 2013 Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints Matthias Layton Director of Food and Beverage at Eldorado Hotel & Spa in Santa Fe, New Mexico Destination Hotels & Resorts Appoints Glorianna Wood as Spa Director at the 119-key Royal Palms Resort and Spa in Phoenix, Arizona April 1, 2013 When Should You Choose a Brand for Your Hotel? And When Should the Brand Manage Your Hotel? / Jim Butler Reputation, Reviews & Revenue: TrustYou Launches Reputation Machine; Holistic Approach to Online Reputation Management Outlined in New Webinar Series Homewood Suites by Hilton Names its Top Performing Properties in 2012, Including Connie Award Winner Homewood Suites by Hilton Dallas/Allen in Texas Currency Exchange Rates Have Differential Impacts On U.S. Lodging Demand New Owner for 202-Room Hilton Head Hotel; Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Have Updated 197 Hotels in the Last Two Weeks with Changes in Personnel, Property Management or Ownership MetroRiverside LLC, Developer of the Hyatt Place in Riverside, California, Sues City Over Closure of Convention Center Two Months After Hotel Opened Alleging Breach of Agreement and Ruined Profit Expectations IHG Agrees to Sell the InterContinental London Park Lane to Constellation Hotels for Approximately $457 Million Chesapeake Lodging Trust Completes Acquisition of the The W New Orleans - French Quarter from Starwood Hotels & Resorts for $25.5 million Morgans Hotel Group and The Yucaipa Companies Enter Agreement for Debt Reduction by $230 million with Transfer of Ownership in Delano South Beach and The Light Group; Deal to Cancel Yucaipa Interests in Convertible Notes & Stock Cosmopolitan Posts 4th Quarter Net Loss of $30 million Compared to Net Income of $72.6 million in the Year Ago Quarter but Claims Corporate Strategy is on Right Trajectory Hotwire Completes Two-Way XML Integration with RateTiger; Integrated channel management specialist secures direct connection with leading discount travel site Lodging Interactive Sites Top 5 Reasons Why Responsive Web Design is Not a Best Practice Pegasus Solutions Reports February 2013 Hotel Bookings and Rates Rivaled or Outperformed 2012 Without Leap Year Bump; Despite Shorter Month, Year-to-Date Bookings Grew over Prior Year through Pre-downturn Warmbrodt Hotel Investments, Inc. Selected to Advise in the Sale of the Holiday Inn & Suites and Comfort Inn in Camden, Arkansas HFTP Announces Strategic Alliance with NABHOOD and LHRA to Increase Educational Opportunities for Hospitality Professionals Worldwide NewcrestImage and InterContinental Hotels Partner for a New Build Holiday Inn Express in the Bricktown Area of Oklahoma City; Opening Expected in Early 2014 Ethika Investments Allocates Capital for Acquisition and Rebranding of Hunt Valley Inn in Baltimore, Maryland; $9.5 million Renovation to Commence as Property Becomes a Part of Wyndham Grand Collection Chile-Based Singular Hotels Begins Construction on Brand's Second Project; The 63-room $20 Million Singular Santiago is Set to Open in Santiago's Lastarria District in Q1 2014 Multi-Million Capital Improvement Project is Launched for the 598-key Hilton Sandestin Beach Golf Resort & Spa in Florida; Closely Follows the Completion of Recent Renovation of Meeting Space and Restaurants A May 2013 Completion Planned for the Extensive Renovation Project Underway at the 375-key Sheraton Framingham Hotel & Conference Center in Massachusetts Owned by Frontier Development, the 156-room Fairfield Inn & Suites Downtown Atlanta in Georgia Completes Multi-Million Dollar Renovation Aimbridge Hospitality and Carabimmo SA Open the $15 Million 106-room Best Western Premier Petion-Ville in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; The First Full-Service US Brand Hotel to Open in Haiti The 239-room Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Midtown Manhattan/Penn Station is Set to Open this Month in New York City; The Hotel is Owned and Managed by OTO Development Owned by Springwood FHP LP and Managed by Springwood Hospitality, the 108-room Fairfield Inn & Suites Hershey Chocolate Avenue to Open this Week in Pennsylvania The 108-suite Home2 Suites by Hilton Baltimore/White Marsh Opens in Maryland; Owned by White Marsh Hospitality I and Managed by Baywood Hotels The 227-room Hotel MdR Marina del Rey - a DoubleTree by Hilton Opens in California Completing a $7 Million Renovation and Rebranding; The Former Courtyard Los Angeles Marina del Rey Was Recently Purchased by Channel West Group and Arris Investments and is Operated by Evolution Hospitality Choice's Ascend Hotel Collection Debuts in Baltimore, Maryland with the Addition of Three Properties, the Inn at Henderson's Wharf, Pier 5 and Admiral Fell Inn Choice Hotels International Launches New Division to Market Hotel Operating Systems Industry-Wide Neil Pompan Presented with IACC's Highest Honor, The Mel Hosansky Award for Distinguished Service Akira Segawa Appointed as President of Fujita Kanko, a Leading Japanese Hospitality Company Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints Deborah Berlingeri Spa Director for Bonaventure Resort & Spa, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

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