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Hyatt Reports Q3 2013 Net Income of $55M Compared to $23M Prior Year; RevPAR Growth of 6%
Hyatt Hotels | October 30, 2013
CHICAGO (October 30, 2013) - Hyatt Hotels Corporation (NYSE: H) today reported third quarter 2013 financial results as follows: To download the third quarter 2013 earnings release with tables, please visit the Hyatt Investor Relations wesbite. Adjusted EBITDA was $159 million in the third quarter of 2013 compared to $154 million in the third quarter of 2012, an increase of 3.2%. Adjusted for special items, net income attributable to Hyatt was $36 million, or $0.23 per share, during the third quarter of 2013 compared to net income attributable to Hyatt of $30 million, or $0.18 per share, during the third quarter of 2012. Net income a...
Google Analytics vs. Adobe Site Catalyst for Hotels by Vikram Singh
Vikram Singh | October 30, 2013
Marketing is evolving, especially the Internet kind. Website analytics have come a long way in the past decade. We have access to more information than ever before. You can now monitor in detail how people are interacting with your website, where they are coming from, and where they are going. Google Analytics vs. Adobe Site Catalyst (previously called Omniture) is one of those questions that I get asked regularly, so here are my thoughts. I have been an ardent user/supporter of Google Analytics for a while. I am amazed at the power and value it provides for free. On top of that, almost every year Google Analytics rolls out product upda...
Strengthening Communities Through Volunteerism; Stories of Service & Hospitality Around the World
Hilton Worldwide | October 30, 2013
Hilton Worldwide Completes Over 2,400 Volunteer Projects During Annual Global Week of Service McLean, VA - October 30, 2013 - Hilton Worldwide celebrated the company's annual volunteer campaign completing more than 2,400 volunteer projects in over 700 cities in 72 countries throughout the month of October. Now in its second year, Global Week of Service is Hilton Worldwide's largest annual volunteer service event which recognizes the company's service and volunteer culture and strengthens the communities Hilton Worldwide serves. Team Members from over 900 properties and offices completed projects including resume building for and mentori...
Casa Velas in Puerto Vallarta Honored in Condé Nast Traveler’s 2013 Readers’ Choice Awards
Casa Velas | October 30, 2013
"Beyond All-Inclusive, Beyond All Compare" Velas Resorts' Boutique Offering Named One of Top Hotels in Mexico Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (Oct. 30, 2013) - Casa Velas adults-only boutique hotel and Ocean Club in Puerto Vallarta is honored as a top regional Mexican resort in the prestigious 26th Annual Condé Nast Traveler's "Best in the World" Readers' Choice Awards. The all-inclusive resort was ranked as one of the 15 Best Hotels in Mexico by more than 80,000 discerning readers of Condé Nast Traveler. Casting a record 1.3 million votes, readers determined the ultra-competitive awards, given to top hotels and resorts, destinations, airline...
Caesars Entertainment Reports Q3 2013 Net Loss of $761.4M Compared to $505.5M Prior Year
Caesars Entertainment Corporation | October 30, 2013
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 29, 2013 Caesars Entertainment Corporation (NASDAQ: CZR) today reported the following third quarter 2013 results. For complete results and accompanying tables please visit: http://investor.caesars.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=801329 Continued positive underlying trends in third quarter Las Vegas hotel and F&B revenue as a result of resort fees and hospitality investments Effective cost containment generated $65 million in cost savings in the third quarter 2013, compared to the third quarter 2012 Strengthened debt maturity profile through refinancing of CMBS and LINQ/Octavius debt Raised approximately $200 ...
Tracy Blair Appointed Director of Sales and Marketing of Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel in Colorado
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. | October 30, 2013
DENVER - October 30, 2013 - The Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel announced that Tracy Blair has been appointed as its new director of sales and marketing. Blair brings over 25 years of hospitality experience to the position at Colorado's largest hotel. "Having Tracy on board is a big asset for us," said Tony Dunn, the hotel's general manager. "Her leadership and market experience will drive our group and convention business in some exciting ways," he continued. Blair is no stranger to Denver downtown hotels, coming to the Sheraton from the 430-room Westin Denver Downtown where she was director of sales and marketing for five years after b...
Hector Pabon Named Executive Sous Chef at Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach Resort and Spa in Florida
Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach Resort and Spa | October 30, 2013
CLEARWATER BEACH, Fla. (October 30, 2013) - The AAA Four Diamond Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach Resort and Spa, the newest luxury resort on Florida's west coast, proudly announces the appointment of Chef Hector Pabon to the position of executive sous chef. With more than 13 years of culinary experience, Chef Pabon comes to Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach from its sister property, Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay, where he most recently served as chef de cuisine at the hotel's world-renowned Oystercatchers Restaurant. Prior to joining the Hyatt family, Chef Pabon worked at several leading restaurants in the Tampa Bay area, including the Centre Club ...
David Martinez Named Director of Sales & Marketing for 1,230-room Hyatt Regency Waikiki Beach, HI
Hyatt Regency Waikiki Beach Resort and Spa | October 30, 2013
HONOLULU, HI (October 30, 2013) - Hyatt Regency Waikiki Beach Resort and Spa announces the appointment of David Martinez as the new Director of Sales and Marketing for the 1,230 room resort. An enthusiastic hospitality professional with 14 years of Hyatt experience, Martinez brings to the resort a strong knowledge of global and leisure travel markets and a long history of sales and marketing successes in the hospitality industry. Martinez most recently served as Director of Sales and Marketing for Hyatt Regency Jersey City. "David is the perfect fit for our Oahu 'ohana," says David Nadelman general manager at Hyatt Regency Waikiki Beach...
Boykin Management Company Increases Florida Call Center Revenue; Tracks ROI on Marketing, Ad Spend
Boykin Management Company | October 30, 2013
Boykin Management Company's Florida Resorts Track 'Every Penny' of Revenue for Each Ad Buy at 4 Properties; Company Uses Real-Time Voice-Caller Data Display to Increase Conversions, Capture Call Information for Outbound Sales October 30, 2013 - Resort operators spend big money to drive business to their properties. They use print ads, online promotions and banners, email blasts and direct mail. Some of it works, but which campaigns? It is difficult to accurately measure which programs are effective and pay for themselves. The Holy Grail in marketing is knowing exactly how much revenue each online and offline campaign generates. If a com...
Las Cruces CVB to Implement Regatta Travel Solutions Booking Engine
Regatta Travel Solutions Inc. | October 30, 2013
Charlottesville, Virginia (October 30, 2013) - Regatta Travel Solutions announced today that the Las Cruces CVB has signed an agreement to use the Regatta booking engine on its official website, explorelascruces.com. "We are very excited about this new partnership," said Chris Faivre, Director of Marketing & Communications at the Las Cruces Convention & Visitors Bureau. "Regatta's solution is better for the hotels, better for visitors to our destination and better for us, the DMO. We looked at several solutions but only Regatta provided everything we wanted in an ideal solution." "Our solution will allow potential visitors to ea...
PolyU Study Finds Hotel Location Determines Tourist Activities
PolyU School of Hotel and Tourism Management | October 30, 2013
October 30, 2013 - Hotel location has a significant effect on how tourists move around a destination, according to a research paper published by Professor Bob McKercher of the School of Hotel and Tourism Management (SHTM) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, graduate student Erica Ng and two co-authors. Using data collected in Hong Kong from global positioning system (GPS) loggers, the researchers show that "hotel location has a profound impact on tourist movements". The tourists tracked spent most of their time "in the immediate vicinity of the hotel", which has significant implications for tourism industry stakeholders. The import...
Evolution Hospitality Adds DoubleTree Golf Resort San Diego, CA to Management Portfolio
Evolution Hospitality | October 30, 2013
San Clemente, CA - (October 30, 2013) - Effective October 28, 2013, Evolution Hospitality has assumed management of the 130-acre DoubleTree Golf Resort San Diego. The hotel becomes the 25th property in Evolution's management portfolio. The property is owned by Laurus Corporation, a private real estate investment and development firm based in Los Angeles, CA. Located in North San Diego County off I-15, DoubleTree Golf Resort San Diego is about 25 minutes from Downtown San Diego and San Diego International Airport, and within five miles of leading technology companies including Intel, General Atomics, Broadcom, Cymer, Hewlett-Packard, Si...
The Hotel Group Selected to Manage Courtyard by Marriott-Walla Walla Opening in Fall 2014 in WA
The Hotel Group (THG) | October 30, 2013
Edmonds, Wash. (October 30, 2013) - The Hotel Group, (THG) an award-winning hotel management and ownership company, is excited to announce the groundbreaking of the newest hotel in its management portfolio - the Courtyard by Marriott in Walla Walla, Wash. Owned by Walla Walla Hospitality, LLC, the Courtyard by Marriott is slated to open in the end of 2014. "We are pleased to add another Courtyard by Marriott to our growing portfolio," said Doug Dreher, president and CEO of The Hotel Group. "Walla Walla offers a unique combination of beautiful scenery, world-famous wineries and a collection of shops, restaurants and cultural attractions....
$9 Million Re-Design at Ocean Drive’s South Beach Marriott Beachfront Nears Completion
South Beach Marriott | October 30, 2013
MIAMI, FL - October 2013 - On May 1, 2013, South Beach Marriott, a boutique beachfront hotel in the much sought after South of Fifth (SoFi) neighborhood of Miami Beach, began a six-month, $9 million redesign. Jeffrey Beers International (JBI), an award-winning hospitality design and architecture firm, is spearheading the design project, which is slated for completion by the end of this year. The renovation is intended to introduce a livable yet luxurious, residential feel, with high quality finishes, all new hard and soft goods, and attention to the smallest details. Known for projects including The Cove Atlantis, Fifty St. James in Lon...
Brigade Group & IHG to Open 10 Holiday Inn Express Hotels in India By 2020
October 30, 2013
Bangalore, 30 October 2013: InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has signed a deal with South India's leading real estate developer, Brigade Group. Under the agreement, 10 Holiday Inn Express hotels are to be built in southern India, owned by Brigade Group and managed by IHG. The newly-signed hotels will add to IHG's strong pipeline of properties of the Holiday Inn brand family, which now represent 88% of IHG's growth in India. The first two hotels under this partnership will open in Bangalore in early 2017, while the remaining eight hotels are scheduled to open within the next four to seven years. IHG and Brigade Group are currently in ...
Selling as a Community: Create Seamlessness for Your Customers
Gary R. Hernbroth and Training for Winners | October 29, 2013
by Gary R. Hernbroth Through many customer (planner) panels, events and conversations over the years, several themes stand out, and the idea of what they want and need from a particular destination is as clear as day. Whether planning a full-tilt convention, or a smaller corporate gathering, or even a family reunion or wedding, event planners want to sleep well at night knowing that they've made the right choice in the destination and facilities, and also that that destination is going to be all it said it was going to be for their attendees/delegates. Collaboration Every business has its own agenda, goals, constraints, etc., but it wor...
U.S. Travel Co-Sponsors Fly-In to Call for Immediate Action on Immigration Reform
The U.S. Travel Association | October 29, 2013
Measures in Reform Package Would Modernize Critical Travel Services, Create "Massive" Economic Opportunity, Says Marriott International President and CEO Arne Sorenson at Event Kick-off WASHINGTON (October 29, 2013) - The U.S. Travel Association is among the backers of Tuesday's "Americans for Reform: Immigration Reform for Our Economy, Faith, and Security" fly-in on Capitol Hill, which brings 600 public- and private-sector leaders from across the United States to meet with Members of Congress on the importance of immigration reform. "Today's event demonstrates the incredible groundswell of support for immigration reform across all sect...
Miracle Comeback for BEST WESTERN PLUS Seaport Inn Downtown New York City
BEST WESTERN INTERNATIONAL, INC. | October 29, 2013
One Year After Super Storm Sandy the Seaport Area is Bustling NEW YORK (October 29, 2013) - On October 29, 2012, the Seaport area was devastated by high tides, resulting from Super Storm Sandy. Water rose up to 5 feet and destroyed many of the businesses in the area. Just days after the storm, the cleanup started and the true devastation of the event was realized. Like most business in the South Street Seaport area, the BEST WESTERN PLUS Seaport Inn Downtown lobby was flooded and destroyed. As soon as it was possible, General Manager ZB Moham and his team began major cleanup and repairs. Determined to get the hotel reopened, the team w...
IHG Army Hotels Portfolio Continues Growth with Ground Breakings and Openings
IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) | October 29, 2013
Holiday Inn Express®, Staybridge Suites® and Candlewood Suites® Branded Hotels 29 October, 2013 - ATLANTA — IHG® (InterContinental Hotels Group) [LON: IHG, NYSE: IHG (ADRs)], the exclusive hotel manager and operator of the $1 billion Privatization of Army Lodging (PAL) program that has brought the first-ever branded hotels to U.S. military installations, announces continued progress on the IHG Army Hotels portfolio. IHG, along with Lend Lease (US) Public Partnerships – the asset manager, developer and design builder – and the U.S. Army have broken ground on three hotels this year, including the first Staybridge Suites® hotel ...
Franchisee, Mr. Shuping Chen, Opens Super 8 Fuzhou Jin Shan Wan Da; Brand’s 500th Property in China
Super 8 | October 29, 2013
HONG KONG (October 29, 2013) – Wyndham Hotel Group, the world's largest hotel company with approximately 7,440 hotels and part of Wyndham Worldwide Corporation (NYSE: WYN), today announced the opening of the Super 8 Fuzhou Jin Shan Wan Da, the brand's 500th property in China. Nine years after the first Super 8 hotel opened in Beijing, the hotel brand, which provides quality and affordable accommodations for both business travelers and budget-conscious tourists, has made significant strides with a strong presence in almost 200 cities in China, cementing its position as an economy hotel leader in the country. "This is a tremendous achie...
HotelFAQS.com Helping Hotels Elevate Visibility on Google
Lodging Interactive | October 29, 2013
Lodging Interactive is helping hotels increase conversion rates, maximize organic search and boost SEO rankings via personalized FAQ pages; Watch this HotelFAQs.com Video PARSIPPANY, N.J. - OCTOBER 29, 2013 - Last month Google significantly changed its algorithm that determines search results. The new system interprets the "inferred meaning" of a search, rather than providing listings that contain exact keywords used in the query. Google's rational is this: by requiring sites to deliver improved content that answers searchers specific questions, it will provide a more reliable resource, and in turn, improve the site's visibility and vi...
The 146-key Holiday Inn Warwick Farm Opens in Sydney, Australia Completing Sunnybrook Hotel Makeover
IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) | October 29, 2013
Sydney, Australia, 29 October, 2013: InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has opened the 146-room Holiday Inn Warwick Farm in south west Sydney. The previously-named Sunnybrook Hotel has benefited from a multimillion-dollar makeover and refurbishment to become Holiday Inn Warwick Farm. Located at 355 Hume Highway Warwick Farm, the hotel is within easy access to a number of commercial and business park precincts and will meet the needs of the growing commercial and leisure based industries of south west Sydney. The hotel facilities include an all-day dining restaurant, gymnasium, meetings and events centre, heated outdoor swimming pool, a...
Susan Santiago Named Area VP and General Manager of Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles, CA
Hyatt Regency Century Plaza | October 29, 2013
Los Angeles, CA (October 29, 2013) - Susan Santiago has been appointed Area Vice President and General Manager of Hyatt Regency Century Plaza. In this role, Santiago is responsible for managing all operations for the 726-room Century Plaza hotel, while also overseeing the operations of additional Hyatt Hotels in the Los Angeles area. Santiago is Hyatt's first female Area Vice President and the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza's first female General Manager. Most recently, Santiago was Vice President of Food and Beverage -Americas operations for Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, where she was responsible for the overall success of food and beverage...
The 297-key JW Marriott Bengaluru and the 523-key JW Marriott Hotel New Delhi Aerocity Open in India
JW Marriott Hotels & Resorts | October 29, 2013
MUMBAI, India, October 29, 2013 – Marriott International, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: MAR) global luxury brand JW Marriott Hotels & Resorts is continuing to grow it's India portfolio with the opening of two new hotels – in Bengaluru and New Delhi –within weeks of each other. These will be JW Marriott brand's fourth and fifth hotels in India, and 61st and 62nd properties worldwide. "We are very excited to launch these two new, beautiful properties in India," said Mitzi Gaskins, JW Marriott Hotels & Resorts Vice President & Global Brand Manager. "India is a compelling and dynamic market and we look forward to continuing to celebrate...
