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GoodSports Proposes Another Project; Turning Florida State Fairground Site into Complex with Hotel
January 22, 2014
Jan. 22--A Virginia company wants to reshape the Florida State Fairgrounds with an amateur sports village, a sports-themed hotel, water park, indoor virtual golf facility and a "restaurant park." One thing missing from Republic Land Development's proposal is a baseball stadium for the Tampa Bay Rays. When the company first proposed redeveloping the fairgrounds four years ago, it envisioned a new Rays stadium there, but it has since backed away from those plans. A committee of the Florida State Fair Authority, the board that oversees the fairgrounds, met Wednesday to evaluate Republic Land's offer to build a sports, hotel and entertainme
Kessler Collection Breaks Ground on $30 million Grand Bohemian Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina
January 22, 2014
Jan. 22--Work began in earnest Wednesday on a hotel project 15 years in the making for the Kessler Collection. The company known for its cluster of luxury boutique hotels in markets such as Savannah and Asheville found its ideal Charleston location for the $30 million Grand Bohemian Hotel at the site of an old bookstore at Meeting and Wentworth streets. "I've never spent so much time looking for the right hotel site in any other city," said Richard Kessler, founder and CEO. "Because we do such a very unique, special kind of a hotel, it takes the right location to make it work." The groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday kicked off a year of
Orange County, California Hotels See a Strong November; RevPAR Up by 5% Over November 2012
January 22, 2014
Jan. 22--Orange County hotels headed into the holidays in November with two-thirds of their rooms occupied and rates up a healthy 4 percent over November 2012, reported PKF Consulting in Los Angeles. Costa Mesa topped the market for occupancy, with 76 percent of the city's hotels full, compared with 69 percent in November a year earlier. Countywide occupancy averaged 67.7 percent. Three areas saw their room rates top $200 a night in November. Newport Beach hotels averaged $206.38 nightly, up from $191.36 in November 2012. South Orange County rates averaged $202.27, an increase from $194.54 the year before. Huntington Beach came in at $2
Chicago Hotels Fill Up to Record Occupancy Rate of 75.28% in 2013 with Average Daily Rate Up By 2.7%
January 22, 2014
Jan. 22--Hotel room occupancy inched higher in Chicago last year, but still hit a new record with a slightly bigger slice of rooms filled than the banner pre-recession mark in 2007. Hotel occupancy was 75.28 percent last year, according to the mayor's office and Choose Chicago, the city's tourism and convention agency. That's just 0.2 percent higher than 2012, but it tops the 2007 record of 75.18 percent. Hotel room demand rose 2.3 percent from last year, also hitting a record at 9.889 million rooms occupied. Demand was driven by growth in vacationers' visits, which increased by 5.6 percent from a year earlier. So-called leisure travele
Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel Appoints Jesse Suglia Director of Sales & Marketing
The Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel | January 21, 2014
The Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel has appointed Jesse Suglia as Director of Sales and Marketing. Suglia joins the newly- renovated hotel from Omni Hotels & Resorts, Kempinski Hotels and The Global Hotel Alliance and where he was Director, Travel Industry & International Sales and leading the New York Global Sales Center. An experienced leader with more than 15 years working in the domestic and international group, business travel and leisure hotel travel segments, Suglia has held hotel sales positions in major cities including New York, Boston, Chicago and San Francisco. Suglia's prior roles with Omni Hotels & Resorts
Dubai Reduces Hotel Construction Pre-Approval Process to 2 Months; Creates Additional Incentives
January 21, 2014
Jan. 21--DUBAI -- As Dubai prepares to welcome 20 million annual visitors by 2020, the emirate has announced a number of new regulations that will reduce the hotel construction pre-approval process to two months. Dubai also announced a range of attractive offers for three- and four-star hotels. In response to recommendations raised by Dubai's private sector developers, Dubai Ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has issued a series of directives to further stimulate the hotel investment and development sector. According to the directives, hotel construction pre-approval process period will be reduced to two months. Currently the a
Baltimore, MD’s BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport Moving Forward with Plans to Build a Hotel
January 21, 2014
Jan. 21--BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport is moving forward with plans to build a hotel and introduce technology that will allow passengers to check their own bags. At a briefing of the Anne Arundel County House delegation last week, BWI Executive Director Paul Wiedefeld said the airport was close to finding contractors to build a "true airport hotel." Wiedefeld said a request for proposals for that project will be out in the spring. Wiedefeld also said BWI's airlines in the "very near future" would be introducing self-bag check systems. As airlines move more toward automating every step of the check-in process, the technology allows trave
Arabtec Wins $1.55 Billion Contract for the Red Sea Astrarium, a Resort in Aqaba, Jordan
January 21, 2014
Jan. 21--JEDDAH -- Arabtec Holding PJSC, a leading engineering and construction Group specializing in complex projects in the Middle East and North Africa region, announced Monday that its subsidiary, Arabtec Construction, has been selected to execute an AED5.7 billion ($1.55 billion) contract for construction of the Red Sea Astrarium (the Astrarium), a themed entertainment resort in Aqaba, Jordan. The Astrarium is an integrated entertainment, hospitality, and leisure development that is sure to become a family destination, attracting visitors from across the Middle East, as well as thrill seekers from all over the world. The Astrarium