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Mark Andrew Appointed Regional Vice President, Pacific Northwest, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts and General Manager, The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver / Septem
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive . VANCOUVER, September 4, 2007 -- Mark Andrew has been named Regional Vice President, Pacific Northwest, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts and General Manager, The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, effective immediately. "Mark was a natural choice to fill this key role within our Pacific Northwest portfolio. His knowledge and understanding of the market, and his network throughout the industry made him the ideal selection to represent Fairmont Hotels & Resorts," states Kevin Frid, Senior Vice President of Operations. "This region has the focus of Fairmont with the opening of our fourth...
Widow of Hollywood Director-Producer Moustapha Akkad Sues Global Hyatt Corporation for Wrongful Death; Akkad Was Killed in a 2005 Suicide Bombing at t
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive CHICAGO September 11, 2007 - A wrongful death lawsuit was filed today in the Circuit Court of Cook County by Sooha Akkad, the widow of Hollywood director-producer Moustapha Akkad (executive producer of Halloween), against Global Hyatt Corporation and Hyatt International Corporation. A guest at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Amman, Jordan, Akkad was killed by a terrorists bomb in the hotels lobby in 2005. Mrs. Akkad and the Akkad Estate are represented by Thomas A. Demetrio and Daniel M. Kotin with the Chicago, IL. law firm of Corboy and Demetrio, P.C. and Browne Greene and Geoffr...
Luxury Link: Creating Unique Value for Luxury Hotel Partners / September 2007...
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Luxury Link: Creating Unique Value for Luxury Hotel Partners Los Angeles, CA September 5, 2007 After ten years of building a top-notch consumer database, Luxury Link has developed a reputation for delivering affluent travel buyers directly to their luxury hotel partners. But perhaps one of the greatest member benefits of working with this online leader is that Luxury Link can open doors for their partners that otherwise may not be possible. Recently, select Luxury Link hotel partners were chosen to participate in a special cross promotion with one of the worlds top luxury car ma...
Luxe Worldwide Hotels Adds the Chic and Upscale Bulfinch Hotel / September 2007...
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Luxe Worldwide Hotels Adds the Chic and Upscale Bulfinch Hotel Los Angeles, CA, September 17, 2007 - Luxe Worldwide Hotels (www.luxehotels.com), a leading provider of marketing services within the hospitality industry, proudly announces the addition of the Bulfinch Hotel (www.bulfinchhotel.com), a flat-iron building right in the heart of downtown Boston. The Bulfinch is an upscale chic destination for travelers who value excellent comfort and unrivaled convenience. The Bulfinch is a star property in Boston and the whole of New England, offering a wonderful form of personalized service and pr...
A 414-room Loews Hotel to be Centerpiece of 12th & Midtown, New Mixed-use Development on Atlanta's Midtown Mile / September 2007...
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2007 - Today, Loews Hotels announced it will open its first property in Atlanta. The centerpiece of 12th & Midtown, a luxury mixed-use development spanning four city blocks in Midtown Atlanta, Loews Atlanta Hotel will feature 414 guest rooms, fitness center and spa services, signature restaurant, lobby bar and more than 24,000 square feet of meeting space. The hotel is slated to open in April, 2010. The Atlanta debut of Loews Hotels comes on the heels of the company's widely publicized expansion program, which aims to grow the chain by 10 to 15 hotels in the n...
Savannah, Long Beach, Napa and North Houston Set for Lodgework's AVIA Branded Boutique Hotels / September 2007...
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive September 24, 2007 (Wichita, KS) LodgeWorks, L.P. announces the launch of AVIAsm, a new boutique hotel collection that will put a fresh new face on the hospitality industrys most inventive and popular genre. Set within enticing vacation and urban destinations, each of four initial AVIA hotels will draw upscale travelers with authentic and imaginative designs, the highest levels of service, and a sophisticated sense of place that encourages guests to discover the nuances of the destination around them. The first AVIA hotels break ground this month in Savannah, Georgia, with ...
Rockingham Asset Management Begins Construction on Liberty Cove, a $50 billion Destination Resort Located on Sea of Cortez in Sonora, Mexico / Septemb
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive LOS ANGELES - September 19, 2007 - A milestone was reached this week for the largest single real estate development in all of Mexico, as men and machinery converged to break ground at Liberty Cove. Phase One of the $50 billion development has been in the planning, entitlement and pre-construction stages for the past five years. Efforts by Rockingham Asset Management, master developers of Liberty Cove, culminated in the initial construction of the projects main thoroughfare, which will transect nearly eight miles of property from the main road to the shores of the Sea of Cortez,...
Providing the Tools to Be a Great General Manager: Triple Mentoring a Key Component of Hotel Equities Management Training Program / September 2007...
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Atlanta, GA (September 20, 2007) Hotel Equities recently launched a leadership program named HELP, Hotel Equities Leadership Program, designed to train candidates for positions in management at the Atlanta-based hotel development and management company. Unique to Hotel Equities in content and format, the program provides a way to help people advance within the company. HELP includes very intense online, technical and face-to-face training as well as job shadowing. Candidates must learn every department in the company including revenue management, sales, housekeeping ma...
Pet Friendly San Francisco Hotels Join BringYourPet.com / September 2007...
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Pet Friendly San Francisco Hotels Join BringYourPet.com Knoxville, TN September 17, 2007 - BringYourPet.com (www.bringyourpet.com) announces the recent addition of three new pet friendly hotels to its Web site: The Cartwright Hotel, Monticello Inn, and Villa Florence. All three properties are part of the Larkspur Hotels and Restaurants family and are located in the heart of San Francisco. "We're delighted that these world class hotels have joined us," states company spokesperson for BringYourPet.com, Brian Bailey. "Weve seen an overall increase in travel with pets, especially to the Sa...
A New Jersey Hotel Guest Details His Experience Concerning the Loss of a Laptop from His Hotel Room / September 2007...
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Received from ray < 126@cablespeed.com > on September 14, 2007 On a recent stay at Deptford Fairfield Inn Marriott, 1160 Hurffville Rd, Deptford NJ, 08096 we were robbed during housekeeping. We were on day three of a four day stay and the theft occurred on the last day when housekeeping would be needed. We left the hotel at around 11:20 am on the day of the robbery to visit a local grocery store and we returned at approximately 1:15 pm to find ONE of our laptops stolen from the room. Below are the details of what took place over the next 2 weeks. We arrived at the Deptford Fai...
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March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive (Hong Kong 20 September 2007) Langham Hotels International (LHI) announces the signing of a new management contract for its second hotel in Beijing Langham Place Beijing Capital Airport Hotel, which is scheduled to open in mid 2008, prior to the Summer Olympic Games. Strategically located adjacent to the new Terminal 3 of Beijings only international airport, the five-star Langham Place hotel will promise a revolutionary luxury airport hotel experience to world travellers and business guests. This management contract was signed between Capital Airport Holdings Co. and L...
After an Updated Market Study, Developers Now Planning a $40 million 150-room Hotel with a Spa and Resort Quality Facilities at Oklahoma's Lake
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Julie Bisbee, The OklahomanMcClatchy-Tribune Regional News Sep. 21, 2007 --ARDMORE -- A proposed development at Lake Murray State Park just got a little bit bigger. A recent market study showed a higher demand for a resort than originally estimated and now developers are changing their plans to meet the need. The $24 million project has turned into a $40 million project that will include a 150-room luxury hotel and resort, Mita Bates, vice president of the Ardmore Tourism Authority told m...
LQ Management L.L.C. Breaks Ground on a 241 room La Quinta Inns & Suites in Downtown Chicago / September 2007...
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive DALLAS (Sept. 6, 2007) La Quinta Inns & Suites announced the groundbreaking of its first hotel in downtown Chicago. Estimated to open in the fall of 2008, the hotel is located inside the Chicago Loop in the Financial District. Construction will begin immediately to convert the existing structure which was the former Jewish Federation Building built in 1958 and to add-on two new wings for a total of 241 guest rooms. We are excited to bring a La Quinta Inn & Suites to downtown Chicago, said Wayne Goldberg, president and CEO for La Quinta. In addition to being a p...
The 3,000 room Las Vegas Hilton Quietly Undergoes $100 million of Renovations, Runs 90% Occupancy During the Week and Slightly Higher on Weekends /
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Arnold M. Knightly, Las Vegas Review-JournalMcClatchy-Tribune Regional News Sep. 25, 2007 --The Las Vegas Hilton has quietly undergone $100 million of upgrades and renovations since a private equity partnership bought the property in June 2004. The latest upgrades, scheduled to be unveiled the first week of October, are 221 Resort Club rooms and a new Resort Club lounge in the north tower. Over the past three years, the Hilton has remodeled 1,523 of its 3,000 rooms and suites, installed I...
Top 10 Group Events: North America and Selected Markets / Aug 01, 2007 – Aug 31, 2007 / Knowland Group Inc / September 2007...
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Knowland Group Inc TOP 10 GROUP EVENTS: North America and Selected Markets Aug 01, 2007 - Aug 31, 2007 North America SELECTED MARKET : San Francisco CA SELECTED MARKET : Phoenix AZ Data derived from reader board reports covering hotels in 59 metropolitan areas across 39 states and provinces. The Knowland Group provides detailed reports on events within a clients competitive set of hotels to over 400 hotels across the United States and Canada. Details include: meeting planner contact information, previous event and size details on all groups surveyed, detailed o...
Knowland Offers Holiday Party Lead Lists to Over 70 Markets Across North America; Holiday Party and Catering Reports now available for your market / A
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Salisbury, MD (September 14, 2007) - Due to popular demand, Knowland is now offering a Holiday Party and Catering Report as an additional way for hotels to increase their group bookings this holiday season. This new seasonal offering includes all holiday related group events by market and is comprised of data collected between November 2006 and January of this year. Key features of this report include group name, event name, property, square footage occupied, square footage catered, and number of attendees. Knowland has added this holiday report as a supplement to their sig...
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March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Salisbury, MD (September 21, 2007) The Knowland Group announced today the launch of INSIGHT, a revolutionary product that will dramatically alter the way sales managers find group business! . . Knowland describes their product by asking hoteliers to imagine: Imagine a simple, easy to use application that combines the intuitiveness of Googles search engine with the latest in satellite imagery and mapping technology An application that gives sales managers a birds eye view of hundreds of thousands of events, groups and meeting planners every day, across every hotel brand...
The Keauhou Beach Resort, Managed by Outrigger Enterprise Group, Giving 310 rooms a Complete Makeover / September 2007...
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Kailua-Kona, Hawaii - September 7, 2007 - All 310 guestrooms at the Keauhou Beach Resort will be getting a fresh new facelift. The improvement project, anticipated to take six months, will include brand-new carpeting, paint, bath tub and shower liners, upholstery, lighting and redesigned vanities in all guest rooms. The corridors will also be re-painted and re-carpeted, and feature new artwork. An added new benefit for guests will be free high-speed Internet access. "The new interior décor was selected for the pleasing environment it creates," said Gregg Enright, general mana...
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March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive SAN FRANCISCO (September 19, 2007) Chip Conley, founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, today announced that the Miyako Hotel in San Francisco will be transformed into the companys newest boutique property and emerge as the new Hotel Kabuki. The quintessential Miyako Hotel experience, appreciated by both domestic and international travelers for more than 30 years, has been refined and updated with the extensive renovation of all 218 guest rooms, suites and public spaces. The hotels traditional bath services have also been enhanced with the addition of personali...
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March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive TEMPE, Ariz. Sept. 17, 2007 Ken McKenzie, general manager of Destination Hotels & Resorts Tempe Mission Palms Hotel, recently was inducted into the Arizona Hotel & Lodging Associations Hall of Fame. The award was presented during the Arizona Governor's Conference on Tourisms Special Tribute and Recognition (S.T.A.R.) Gala this summer. McKenzie was recognized for his tenure in and his contributions to the hospitality industry in Arizona. McKenzie serves as past chair of a number of organizations including the Valley Hotels & Resort Association, Tempe Convention & Visit...
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March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Santa Barbara, California September 10, 2007 - Kirk DeLong has been named Executive Chef at Fess Parkers Doubletree Resort, located at 633 East Cabrillo Boulevard at East Beach. As a member of the Resorts management team, Chef DeLong will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of food preparation and presentation throughout the Resort: including Rodneys Steakhousea Zagat-award winning restaurant; Café Los Arcosserving California cuisine for breakfast, lunch and dinner; Barra Los Arcosthe oceanfront lounge; Terraza del Mar Pool BBQ; 24-hour in-room dining operat...
Famed New York Eatery – Junior's – to Open at MGM Grand at Foxwoods in 2008 / September 2007...
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive MASHANTUCKET, CT (September 12, 2007) A new culinary destination is rising in southeastern Connecticut with todays announcement that Juniors Restaurant, the landmark New York eatery famous for its legendary cheesecake for more than 50 years, will open at MGM Grand at Foxwoods in spring 2008. The first Juniors to open outside of New York City is just one of four highly anticipated restaurants set to debut at the luxury resort casino, a group that also includes celebrity chef Michael Schlows Italian restaurant, Alta Strada. Juniors is an iconic brand, synonym...
Johnson Capital 100% on track supporting all of the major Hospitality Conferences including Phoenix, Rome, ALIS, JMBM, RealShare and NYU; The firm is
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive September 25, 2007 - Hospitality industry veteran Dr. Donald W. Wise is pleased to announce that the Global Hospitality Industry practice of Johnson Capital is sponsoring and speaking at all of the major hospitality events for the balance of 2007 and 2008 including: Thirteenth Annual The Lodging Conference 2007- Phoenix Fifth Annual International Hotel Conference 2007 Rome Condo Hotel Winter Summit 2007 Miami American Lodging Investment Summit 2008 Los Angeles JMBM Hotel Developers Conference 2008 Las Vegas Real Estate Media RealShare Hotel Invest...
Environmentally-friendly Products Making Debut in Guestroom 2010 at the 2007 IH/M&RS / September 2007...
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive WHITE PLAINS, NY, September 6, 2007 Guestroom 2010 will return to the 92nd annual International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show® (IH/M&RS), showcasing the cutting-edge innovations and eco-friendly new products that will soon be found in hotel guestrooms. The model hotel room, developed by the Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP), will feature nearly 50 of the latest and near-future technologies at the industry's premier marketplace, taking place November 10-13, 2007, at New York City's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. "Guestroom 2010 is a unique presentatio...
