HOSPITALITY HEADLINES

• Casino still in Spitzer's court (Times Union, Albany, N.Y.)
• One West finds hotel after same location (The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson)
• Yaquis' first Indian CEO ready for growth: Long brings big-casino experience (The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson)
• Tourists' safety, convenience top concern of new police unit (The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson)
• Wellness tourism wins local support (The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson)
• Report: Tourists bring big money (Connecticut Post, Bridgeport)
• Gator Ranch rebuilt, waiting on tourists (The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.)
• BACVA gets a new leader: Noonan, industry vet from Dallas, is tourism agency pick (The Baltimore Sun)
• Check in at Silicon suites for a different taste of hospitality (The Economic Times, India)
• Scam targets area hotels, guest houses: Lodging officials, Police Department, warn businesses (Florida Keys Keynoter, Marathon)
• Tribes betting on big deals beyond casinos for a rich future (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
• Tourism boom could bring gridlock to South Florida's roads and skies: Aviation analysts warn skies could be at a standstill by 2025. (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
• Tourism proposal has a familiar look Missouri's tourism proposal has a 2004 look: An award-winning 2004 ad campaign will be recycled if a Missouri commission has its way. (The Kansas City Star, Mo.)
• Hold 'em tables adding a wrinkle (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
• Beach condos face opposition: The proposed Hollywood Grande development on Hollywood beach raises concerns about building heights and traffic on State Road A1A (The Miami Herald)
• In pursuit of more visitors, St. Paul gets ready to make a name for itself (Star Tribune, Minneapolis)
• Four Winds Casino hiring top managers (The Times, Munster, Ind.)
• Abu Dhabi poised for larger slice of golf tourism's US$17.5 billion cake (Middle East and North Africa Business Report, Amman, Jordan)
• Bahrain's National Hotels Company to open Manama's largest spa (Middle East and North Africa Business Report, Amman, Jordan)
• Entertainment City raises Qatar's tourism bar (Middle East and North Africa Business Report, Amman, Jordan)
• Hotel's admirers rescue a palace on the prairie in Nebraska (Omaha World-Herald, Neb.)
• EDITORIAL: Countdown To Casino Decision: D-DAY IS NEXT WEEK. HERE'S WHAT WE HOPE THE GAMING BOARD DOES (Philadelphia Daily News)
• Pinnacle is said looking at A.C. sites: Resorts Atlantic City or the Atlantic City Hilton could be bought. Pinnacle also wants to build a Philadelphia casino (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
• E. coli lawsuit outbreak (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
• La Quinta scores high-end resort (The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif.)
• Resorts board boss steps down with pitch for 2 projects (The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.)
• Colonnade Hotel's Joaquin Pastora Named Concierge of the Year by the Greater Miami Convention Center and Visitors Bureau and the South Florida Concierge Association
• Vail Resorts Announces Fiscal 2007 First Quarter Results
• Wyndham Hotel Group Agreement Calls for 10 New Ramada Hotels in India
• DiamondRock Acquires the Renaissance Waverly & the Renaissance Austin Hotels for $237.5 Million
• Taco Bell Lawsuits Highlight Liability Issues for Restaurants

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DAILY EMAIL NEWS

• TravelCLICK Helps Move Broughton Hospitality Group Ahead of the Competition; Boutique Hospitality Management Company Uses iHotelier CRS, Market Intelligence To Build Brand Value Across Properties
• Industry Outlook: Looking Back on 2006, Looking Forward to 2007/ Global Hospitality Advisor
• Outsourcing: A Prime Example of �The Sum of the Parts is Greater than the Whole� / Brenda Fields
• Fairmont Has Large Number of Mixed-use Projects in Development Pipeline
• City of La Quinta, California Agrees to Sell 60 Acres to Developer Lowe Destination Development for About $10.5 million to Build Two Hotels with 600 Rooms
• Scam Involving the Transfer of Money to a Third Party Targets Florida Hotels
• Tom Noonan, Second-in-command at the Dallas CVB, Named President and CEO of the Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association
• Progressive Design, Individualised Hotel Experience Highlight the Three New Additions to Hotel Consortium design hotels(tm)
• Solare Hotels Begins Construction of Chisun Inn Tosu and Chisun Inn Kagoshima
• Royal Orchid Hotels Ltd. Investing $100 million to Build 10 Ramada Hotels in India
• Luxe Worldwide Hotels Adds Herrington Inn & Spa
• Clarendon Hotel + Suites Phoenix Midtown Sold to Partner Ben Bethel; 50 Additional Rooms, Rooftop Meeting/Event Space with Retractable Roof, and Rooftop Bar/Restaurant Planned
• Warwick International Hotels to Manage Ibah Luxury Villas & Spa in Ubud, Bali
• Larry Magor Named Managing Director for Wyndham Sugar Bay Resort & Spa, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
• Mintek Mobile Data Solutions Names Ty Abrahams Director of Marketing
• Tim Billing Appointed General Manager at the Embassy Suites San Luis Obispo
• Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints Janet Thiel Director of Benefits
• Colonnade Hotel�s Joaquin Pastora Named Concierge of the Year by the Greater Miami Convention Center and Visitors Bureau

• Tom Bodett's Top 6 Reasons to Stay at a Motel During the Holidays Instead of With Relatives
• Loews 18 Hotels in the U.S. and Canada Implementing a Full Ban on all Artificial Trans-fats by June 1, 2007
• Anthony G. Marshall, JD, CHA, CHE  / 1939-2006
• Buyer of Boston's Most Expensive Condominium, the $14.3 million Penthouse at the Residences at Mandarin Oriental, Sues the Developers to Get Out of the Deal
• Wedding Party Room Reservations Abruptly Canceled When the Deauville Beach Resort Managers Realized the Reservations Were for Super Bowl Weekend
• What the Experts Say Now: Hotel Mixed-Use Development Projects in China, India, Mexico, the Caribbean, Guam / Jim Butler
• Did you like Guestroom 2010?  Tell Us Why/Why Not?
• Ashford Completes $267.2 Million Acquisition of Seven Full-Service Hotels; 2,004 rooms for $133,333 Per Key
• Neptune Hospitality Advisors Arranges US $56 million Loan for the Purchase of the Le Meridien Resort and Spa in Cancun
• For sale -  Parcels for hotel construction at the main entrance of the Kansas City International Airport
• Rebranding Completed for the 250 room Doubletree Hotel Syracuse, Formerly a Wyndham
• Fred Euler Named General Manager and Kelly Commerford Director of Sales & Marketing at the Hyatt Regency Bonaventure Conference Center & Spa, Weston, Florida
• Scott Dougherty Named General Manager for the Outrigger Maui Eldorado
• Brian Ehrlich Named Vice President of West Coast Acquisitions and Development at Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants
• Joseph McCurdy Appointed Assistant General Manager of The Lodge at Brainerd Lakes and Paul Bunyan Water Park in Baxter, Minnesota

Top five viewed pages during November 2006

1. 1. The 2007 Mobil Five-Stars Awarded to 37 Hotels and 16 Restaurants;  Also 117 Hotels and 145 Restaurants Win Four-Star Award
2. 2. Loews Hotels Plans to Acquire and Assume Management of the 493 room Hyatt Regency Lake Las Vegas; Resort Will be Renamed Loews Lake Las Vegas Resort, Dale McDaniel Named Managing Director
3. 3. Hyatt Place, aloft and Indigo Pursuing the Generation X Guest - Hotel Lobbies Are Now the "Gallery", the Pool is "Splash" and the Fitness Room "Train"
4. 4. Top Ten Issues in the Hospitality Industry for 2007 / ISHC
5. 5. Drunks in Your Ballroom. It�s Holiday Party Time!