Hotel.Online Notes...October 23, 1996
OK...everybody out there who contracts with Lodgenet for in room movies and entertainment raise their hand. Many of us. Those hotels with long term contracts with Lodgenet should read this Oct. 22, 1996 Denver Post article. The Stephen Keating article �TCI Satellite Invests in Movies-on-Demand Firm� explains how Lodgenet is going to go full throttle in to the residential apartment market with the system used by hotels. Will this move allow for continued strong servicing and new products for the lodging industry?
Remember this name - Ssangyong - . This Korean conglomerate is starting to make a name of itself in the Asian hotel business. The Oct. 22, 1996 Journal of Commerce briefly mentions Ssangyong as the developer of a big Vietnam hotel. Better yet...check out the Ssangyong web site. All hotel marketing directors better look at it...
Is Biloxi over saturated with casino hotels? Primadonna Resorts thinks so as stated in their PR Newswire release of Oct. 22, 1996.
The right of hotel workers to choose union representation through a secret ballot election seems be a lost privilege. The ability of a local hotel union to gain bargaining status with a non-union hotel without a formal election is happening more and more. Unions are using unconventional strategies, are being confrontational with employers and now according to Tim Shorrock�s article in the Oct. 22, 1996 Journal of Commerce are going international. His article �AFL-CIO Extends Pressure to Japanese Corporations� describes how Local 11 (Los Angeles) of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union is taking on Kajima Corp. the Japanese owner of the New Otani Hotel.
Several quarterly reports have been released in the last two days: Lady Luck (midwest casinos)... MGM Grand Inc....Winners Entertainment (Mountaineer Racetrack and Gaming Resort in Chester, West Virginia...Riviera Holdings ( Riviera and Four Queens Hotel in Las Vegas...Coast Resorts (Barbary Coast in Las Vegas)...Bally Entertainment...all very good reading for those inclined to numbers.
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