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Daniel Ritacco Named Director of Restaurant Operations at New Jersey’s Park Ridge Marriott
Marriott Hotels & Resorts | June 26, 2013
PARK RIDGE, N.J. (June 27, 2013) - Daniel Ritacco has been named Director of Restaurant Operations at the Park Ridge Marriott, it was announced by Sal Pignio, General Manager. Prior to this position he was Senior Sous Chef at the Renaissance Newark Airport Hotel. A self-taught chef, Mr. Ritacco gained his passion for food through his mother, where, as a child, he would help her prepare authentic Italian dishes for the family's Sunday dinner. His first professional culinary experience was at Giordano's hometown market in Nutley, NJ, where he learned the culinary basics that he still uses today including making home-style soups, sauces, a
Regatta Travel Solutions Produces Impressive Results for Lake Havasu City CVB
Regatta Travel Solutions Inc. | June 26, 2013
Charlottesville, Virginia (June 27, 2013) - Regatta Travel Solutions announced today that nine months after the launch of the Regatta booking engine on GoLakeHavasu.com, the project is exceeding expectations of the CVB and the hoteliers in the destination. By implementing its innovative tactical online marketing strategies, Regatta Travel Solutions has been able to attract a highly qualified audience to the CVB website and convert them into bookings with their user-friendly booking engine. The Company then uses data and analytics to optimize the process. "I discovered Regatta at last year's DMAI Annual Convention in Seattle and was imme
Digital Dress-Up Modernises Peninsula’s ‘Grande Dame of the Far East’
McLaren Technologies Asia Pacific Pte Ltd. | June 26, 2013
Singapore, 27 June 2013 - Impeccable service and a long history of luxury tradition might be what The Peninsula in Hong Kong is most famous for, but more recently it's the hotel's trendsetting technology ways that have guests tweeting up a storm. The Peninsula Hong Kong now offers some of the most personalised and high tech guest rooms and guest service in the world, made possible in part by the combination of ICE installed in all guest rooms as part of a comprehensive room technology upgrade and HotSOS, the leading preventative maintenance, task management and service optimisation system used by the hotel industry worldwide. Favoured b
TrustYou & RezNext Partner to Deliver Top-Notch 360-Degree Approach to Online Reputation Management
TrustYou | June 26, 2013
Preferred Partner Arrangement Brings Reputation Machine, Cutting-Edge Technology & Superior Semantic Analysis to India, Africa & Middle East Munich, Germany - June 27, 2013 -TrustYou, an online reputation management (ORM) market leader specializing in the hospitality industry, has partnered with real-time online distribution and travel technology company RezNext to provide hotels in Asia, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa an integrated, 360-degree solution for aggregating and analyzing online reviews and social media content. TrustYou's Reputation Machine offers RezNext customers a holistic approach to deliver superior semantic
TravLynx Integrates i-Rates Technology to Bring Advanced Revenue Management To Mid-Tier Market
i-Rates LLC | June 26, 2013
(June 27, 2013) - i-Rates, the creator of the revolutionary new Revenue Management technology for the mid-tier hotel market, and TravLynx, the leader in the Central Reservations Service technology, have agreed to pilot i-Rates Revenue Management software to InnLink customers. "With the complexity of distribution in the market today, hotels need an efficient solution to determine the best rates possible to maximize RevPAR. We are excited to pilot with i-Rates to provide a Revenue Management solution to our InnLink customers that is easy to use and functionally robust. " said Kristin Intress, CEO of TravLynx. "We are excited to be working
Development by Plains Management of a 120-key TownPlace Suites is Underway in Garden City, Kansas
June 26, 2013
June 26, 2013 --Around April 2014, Garden City will have its first Marriott hotel. The TownPlace Suites by Marriott is being developed by Plains Management of Oklahoma City at 3510 Kansas Ave. Project cost is an estimated $9.5 million. Ryan Slater, managing partner of Plains Management in Oklahoma City, said the foundation for the four-story TownPlace Suites was poured at the beginning of May. The hotel will offer 120 suites for extended stays. About 88 of the suites will be one- and two-bedroom studios with full-size refrigerators, stoves, microwaves and cooktops. The remaining rooms will be open-plan suites. "We should have the first
IHG’s Holiday Inn Signs Three New-Build UK Properties Opening in Q3 2013 and in 2014
IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) | June 25, 2013
26 June, 2013 - IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) continues to grow its presence in the UK with the signing of three new hotels – Holiday Inn Huntingdon - Racecourse in Cambridgeshire, Holiday Inn Glasgow Green in Scotland and Holiday Inn - Watford Junction in Hertfordshire. The first of the three to open will be Holiday Inn Huntingdon - Racecourse , a 98 room new build due to open its doors in quarter three of 2013. The hotel will operate under a franchise agreement with HP Hotels Limited who also own Holiday Inn Express Nuneaton. In 2014, a franchise agreement with Nine Hospitality LTD will see Holiday Inn - Watford Junction open,
Felcor Sells 160-room Holiday Inn-Santa Barbara/Goleta in California for $24 Million
FelCor | June 25, 2013
IRVING, Texas, June 26, 2013 - FelCor Lodging Trust Incorporated (NYSE: FCH) today announced that it has sold the 160-room Holiday Inn-Santa Barbara/Goleta for $24 million. FelCor will use the proceeds to repay outstanding debt.