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Spanish Hotel Chain Increases Online Revenue with eRevMax
eRevMax | June 27, 2013
RateTiger Channel Management Solution Helps 10 Ola Hotels to Optimize RevPAR & Occupancy Mallorca, Spain, 27 June 2013: Spanish hotel group Ola Hotels has increased its online revenue with the help of an automated rate & inventory management solution from eRevMax. The group has significantly improved their online sales and RevPAR with RateTiger by introducing more room types and dynamic pricing across third party sales channels. The revenue management team of Ola Hotels is using RateTiger Channel Manager to sell rooms from an allocated inventory pool from each of the properties across multiple channels simultaneously. All reserv...
PAR Springer-Miller Partners with Glad to Have You to Create Mobile Hotel Management Solution
About Glad to Have You | June 27, 2013
STOWE, VT - JUNE 27, 2013 - PAR Springer-Miller Systems, Inc. (PSMS) - a wholly owned subsidiary of PAR Technology Corporation (NYSE:PAR) and the leading provider of guest-centric hospitality management systems - and Glad to Have You™, the leading provider of mobile hospitality and Guest Management Solutions, have partnered to provide comprehensive mobile capabilities for the SMS|Host Hospitality Management System. For properties wanting to deliver better experiences to guests, the ultimate answer lies in the promise of a mobile hospitality management solution integrated with the PMS. This integration of the Glad to Have You mobile ho...
California’s Cypress Inn, the Circa 1929 Carmel-by-the-Sea Landmark, Completes Renovation
Cypress Inn | June 26, 2013
CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA, Calif., June 27, 2013-- A slingshot from the sea and shaker away from a sinful martini, Carmel's Cypress Inn celebrates fall/2013 with a fresh spin on vintage travel. The iconic 1929 historic landmark, co-owned by legendary Hollywood actor Doris Day, debuts a Glam-Meets-Morocco interior renovation perfectly cast to its Mediterranean footprint. Known as one of the West Coast's top Hollywood hideaways and pioneer in pet friendly travel, the Inn steps up with a crisp, contemporary interior awash with elegance and simplicity. GLAM-MEETS-MOROCCO by the SEA Inspired by the Inn's fluid architecture and Spanish Colonial flair...
Konover Hotel Corp Appoints Tammie Catalino as GM for the Country Inn & Suites, Mishawaka, Indiana
The Simon Konover Company | June 26, 2013
West Hartford, CT - June 27, 2013 - Peter H. Mason, CHA, Executive Vice President of Konover Hotel Corporation (KHC), is pleased to announce that Tammie Catalino has been appointed general manager of the Country Inn & Suites in Mishawaka, Indiana. "Tammie has the depth of knowledge and experience to continue our tradition of service and excellence," said Mr. Mason. "We are pleased to have her join our hotel management team." As general manager of the Country Inn & Suites, Ms. Catalino will oversee operations, sales and marketing for the 62-room select service hotel. Ms. Catalino comes to KHC with more than 18 years of industry e...
Sarah Yarnell Named as Catering Sales Manager at The Chattanoogan Hotel in Tennessee
The Chattanoogan | June 26, 2013
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (June 27, 2013) -- The Chattanoogan, Chattanooga's only AAA Four Diamond-rated full-service hotel, has hired Chattanooga native Sarah Yarnell as the hotel's new catering sales manager; she will specialize in weddings and social events. Ms. Yarnell is responsible for coordinating and managing weddings and all social events at the upscale hotel. Yarnell has worked for the past two years as the special events coordinator at the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga. In that role, she worked directly with clients planning and executing weddings and special events; managed and coordinated facility rentals, public pr...
Jamie Link Named as Leisure Travel Sales Manager for the Wild Dunes Resort in South Carolina
Wild Dunes Resort | June 26, 2013
CHARLESTON, S.C., JUNE 27, 2013 - Wild Dunes Resort, near Charleston, S.C., is pleased to announce the appointment of Jamie Link as Leisure Travel Sales Manager. In this role, Link will collaborate and assist travel agencies and individual travel professionals with inquiries as well as the planning process by streamlining information. She will serve as the dedicated property resource to ensure agents have the latest news and expert advice on offerings at the resort as well as the Charleston area. "Jamie will be a valuable asset to our sales team as the momentum continues to build with consumer and group leisure vacation travel. Jamie wi...
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...
Digital dress-up modernises Peninsula’s ‘Grande Dame of the Far East’
McLaren Technologies Asia Pacific Pte Ltd | June 26, 2013
Singapore, Thursday 27th 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. ...
UNH Research: Lodging Executives More Optimistic About Current Business Conditions Than Future
The UNH Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics | June 26, 2013
June 26, 2013 - DURHAM, N.H. - U.S. lodging executives' sentiment about general business conditions was up slightly in May compared to the prior month, according to the University of New Hampshire Lodging Executives Sentiment Index (LESI) for the current month ending May 2013. The index moved from 69.3 in April 2013 to 71.2 in May 2013. "These results are from lodging executives' sentiment of the present general business conditions for their properties, which moved upward 16 percent over last period, offset by a 7 percent decline in their sentiment for how they view general business conditions twelve months in the future. Future busines...
The Prince De Galles, a Luxury Collection Hotel in Paris, Re-Opens Following a Two Year Restoration
The Luxury Collection Hotels & Resorts | June 26, 2013
PARIS--Jun. 26, 2013-- The Luxury Collection Hotels & Resorts, part of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT), today reopens the doors to the legendary Prince de Galles, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Paris, following a meticulous two-year restoration. The restoration, which has brought the hotel back to its original Art Deco splendour, is part of a larger strategy to invest more than $200 million in some of Starwood's most celebrated Luxury Collection hotels throughout Europe: Hotel Alfonso XIII in Seville and Hotel Maria Cristina in San Sebastian, which reopened in 2012, and most recently, The Gritti Palace in Venic...
Joseph Dantoni Named as General Manager of the 142-key Pier House Resort & Spa in Key West, Florida
Remington Hotels | June 26, 2013
KEY WEST, Fla. (June 26, 2013) - Remington Hotels, a full management and hospitality service company, proudly names Joseph Dantoni as general manager of Pier House Resort & Spa. With more than 20 years of experience in luxury hotels and a recognition as General Manager of the Year by Remington Hotels, Dantoni seeks to elevate the guest experience that embraces authentic Key West charm. "Joe's knowledge of the hospitality industry and desire to provide exceptional service in all aspects of operation are indispensable to the Remington team," said Sileshi Mengiste, vice president Remington Hotels Luxury Division. "We are confident he will...
HHM Names Donte Johnson as General Manager of the 152-room Capitol Hill Hotel in Washington D.C.
Capitol Hill Hotel | June 26, 2013
(Philadelphia) - June 20, 2013 - HHM, an industry leading hospitality management company from coast to coast, recently announced the hiring of Donte Johnson as general manager of Capitol Hill Hotel, a newly renovated boutique hotel, located just two blocks from the U.S. Capitol Building in the Capitol Hill historic district. Johnson joins HHM from Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group, LLC, where he worked for more than 11 years, most recently as the General Manager at Topaz Hotel. Johnson, who has a bachelor's in Communications from St. Peter's College, began his career in the hotel business at the front desk and rose through the ranks ...
Do You Make This Revenue Management Mistake?
RevPar Guru | June 26, 2013
It's a pretty common occurrence; when revenue managers see that their property's occupancy has hit a specific, pre-determined percentage, they decide to shut off the channel with the highest commission rates. This percentage could be 50% or it could be 90% depending on a property's specific revenue management goals, but in most cases...READ MORE>>> ...
Shareholders Approve Merger for 7 Days Group Holdings Limited and Keystone
7 Days Group | June 26, 2013
GUANGZHOU, China, June 26, 2013 -- 7 Days Group Holdings Limited (NYSE: SVN; "7 Days Group" or the "Company"), a leading economy hotel chain based in China, announced today that, at an extraordinary general meeting held today, the Company's shareholders voted in favor of the proposal to approve the previously announced agreement and plan of merger dated February 28, 2013 (the "Merger Agreement"), by and among the Company, Keystone Lodging Company Limited ("Parent"), Keystone Lodging Acquisition Limited ("Merger Sub") and Keystone Lodging Holdings Limited ("Holdco"), pursuant to which Merger Sub will merge with and into the Company with ...
Suppliers Help Uniguest Deliver Connectivity Technology to Hotels
Uniguest Inc. | June 26, 2013
Wednesday, 26 June 2013 - NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Uniguest Inc. helps satisfy hotel guests' voracious demand for connectivity technology by designing, assembling and delivering hardware, software and support in a comprehensive, end-to-end approach that marries the company's internal expertise with a world-class supplier network. Uniguest calls its approach "total content and device management," meaning it provides an integrated package of hardware, software, content and support to help hoteliers deliver a consistent connectivity experience while protecting guests and their private information from cyber threats, viruses and malware. Unigues...
Pan Pacific Singapore Takes on Technology Transformation with McLaren
McLaren Technologies Asia Pacific Pte Ltd. | June 26, 2013
Singapore, Wednesday 26th June 2013 - McLaren Technologies and recently renovated five-star hotel, Pan Pacific Singapore, have unveiled the conclusion of a cutting-edge technology upgrade since the hotel's reopening. Pan Pacific Singapore's "transformation" took five months to complete and has redefined standards of comfort and convenience with consideration to room design, dining choices and its new lobby concept, all supported by the latest technology and service innovations to make guest stays effortless and refreshing. To guide them through the process, the hotel appointed McLaren Technologies, widely regarded as the preferred partn...
Pegasus Solutions Takes Hotels into The World of Distribution
Pegasus Solutions | June 26, 2013
Expanded Focus on Essential Hospitality Technology and Demand-generating Tools Brings Global Clients Exactly What They Need: Bookings DALLAS (June 26, 2013) – A year after hotelier David Millili was named chief executive officer, Pegasus Solutions is taking hotels into The World of Distribution. This week, the world's largest processor of electronic hotel transactions premiered an explanatory video called "The World of Distribution" on www.pegs.com. The video sheds light on the essential basics of global distribution for hotels. "As an industry, it is common to deliver overly technical messages that become white noise for the hotelie...
PolyU Launches Doctor of Hotel and Tourism Management Distinguished Lecture Series
June 26, 2013
June 26, 2013 - The School of Hotel and Tourism Management (SHTM) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has recently launched the innovative Doctor of Hotel and Tourism Management (D.HTM) Distinguished Lecture Series in which leading academics and industry executives from across the globe have been invited to share their perspectives and insights on a wide range of interesting topics for the benefit of education, research and industry advancement. The inaugural D.HTM Distinguished Lecture was conducted on 10 May 2013 by Professor Susanne Becken, Professor of Sustainable Tourism, Griffith University, on the topic of "Water and ...
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,...
