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March 30, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report September 4, 2007 - CRM for Hilton stands for striving for true customer centricity, putting the customer at the center of its decision-making process. The organisation focuses on effectively utilizing and integrating insights collected from consumers. It is significant to assess what is critical from technology perspective when it comes to collecting data from consumers and at the same time making this procedure a pleasant experience for them. Providing an insight into the same, Chuck Scoggins, VP Distribution, Pricing and CRM, Hilton Hotels Corporation told EyeforTravel.coms Ritesh Gupta, Ac...
The Saunders Hotel Group, LLC Names Colin O'Donnell Area Director of Revenue Management for Boston Properties / September 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Harley Chien as Director of Sales for Hampton Inn Boston MA (September 7, 2007) - The Saunders Hotel Group, LLC (SHG) has promoted Colin O'Donnell to the position of Area Director of Revenue Management for three of its metro-Boston properties and hired Harley Chien as Director of Sales for their 139-room Hampton Inn, located in Norwood, MA. Mr. O'Donnell was most recently Revenue Manager for the group's Lenox Hotel in Boston, responsible for coordinating reservations, sales, and third party distribution channel strategies to maximize revpar. In his new role he is now also...
Chris Miller Appointed to Regional Director of Sales and Marketing at the Hotel ICON, Managed by Destination Hotels & Resorts / September 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive HOUSTON (August 31, 2007) Hospitality industry veteran Chris Miller recently was appointed to regional director of sales and marketing at the award-winning Hotel ICON, managed by Destination Hotels & Resorts, where he will oversee group and leisure sales, revenue management, marketing and public relations activities. Miller and his family are returning to the Bayou City after a 10-year hiatus in Chicago, IL. Chris comes to this position with 17 years of industry experience, said Roland Maldonado, general manager of Hotel ICON. He has proven himself to be a dedicat...
Caribbean Hotel Association Sponsoring 2nd Annual HFTP Conference on December 10-11, 2007 in Montego Bay, Jamaica / September 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive AUSTIN, TEXAS (September 11, 2007) Continuing the professional education opportunities in the Caribbean, Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP®) has announced that the Second Annual Caribbean Finance and Technology Professionals Conference will take place December 10-11, 2007 at the luxurious Rose Hall Resort & Country Club in Montego Bay, Jamaica. The conference, produced by HFTP and sponsored by Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA), will focus on the most recent topics of interest in the finance and technology fields. Registration will be available online s...
Christian Clerc Named General Manager of The Ritz-Carlton Chicago (A Four Seasons Hotel) / September 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Chicago, IL - - September 14, 2007 - - Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts is pleased to announce the appointment of Christian Clerc to General Manager of The Ritz-Carlton Chicago (A Four Seasons Hotel). Clerc arrives in Chicago via Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where he served as General Manager of Four Seasons Resort Punta Mita since 2003. "I am honored to take on this new responsibility," says Clerc. "Chicago is a world-class city and The Ritz-Carlton Chicago offers the tradition of hospitality excellence that Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts has been bui...
Jim Butler, Hotel Lawyer, at Phoenix Lodging Conference: State of the Lodging Industry – Is the party over? Or is this just the intermission? /
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Jim Butler, Hotel Lawyer | Author of www.HotelLawBlog.com September 26, 2007 Morris Lasky's Phoenix Lodging Conference is always one of my favorite hotel gatherings each year, and last night the 13th edition of this event got underway with more than 1,400 people registered -- up from 1,200 last year. There is something about the beautiful setting at the Biltmore, the casual atmosphere (with many in shorts -- or at least chinos -- and short sleeve shirts) in the baking Arizona heat that fosters a comfortable, no-nonsense exchange of thoughts. But I do miss the early days whe...
Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 98 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database / September 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 98 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database Chicago, IL. September 17, 2007 - Hotel-Online and BuildCentral have added or updated 98 hotel projects in the last two weeks to the New Hotel Construction Projects database. Notable projects entered in the last two weeks include: Oceanside Resort Hotel, Jensen Beach FL Holiday Inn Express, Wellington KS Comfort Suites, Eugene OR Duffield Hotel, Brooklyn NY Best Western, Morrisville NC Marriott Residence Inn, San Marcos CA Days Inn, Milwaukee, WI Wa...
Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 93 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database / September 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 93 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database Chicago, IL. September 4, 2007 - Hotel-Online and BuildCentral have added or updated 93 hotel projects in the last two weeks to the New Hotel Construction Projects database. Notable projects entered in the last two weeks include: Ramada Inn, Lakeland FL Towne Place Suites by Marriott, Houston TX Hampton Inn, Blythewood SC Embassy Suites Expansion, Charlotte NC Comfort Inn and Suites, Peachtree City GA Hampton Inn & Suites, Nashua NH Value Place, ...
Manga LLC Planning a $15 million 149 room aloft Hotel Near Buffalo Niagara International Airport / September 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Sharon Linstedt, The Buffalo News, N.Y.McClatchy-Tribune Regional News Sep. 15, 2007 - Cheektowaga's growing "hospitality row," along Genesee Street across from Buffalo Niagara International Airport, is getting another player -- an upscale, $15 million "aloft" hotel. Manga LLC, of Mississauga, Ont., has filed plans with the Town of Cheektowaga for the proposed eight story, 149-room hotel to be built on Burgess Boulevard, just off the 4200 block of Genesee Street. The aloft chain is one of the newest nameplates for Starwood Hote...
Johnson Capital Welcomes Melinda Bush, CHA, President and Chief Executive Officer of HRW Holdings, LLC, to their Global Hospitality Industry Advisory
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive September 24, 2007 - Hospitality industry veteran Dr. Donald W. Wise is pleased to announce that Bryan K. Williams, CQA, Chief Service Officer and Baldrige Examiner, of B. Williams Enterprise, LLC, has joined the Global Hospitality Industry Advisory Board of Johnson Capital. Bryan had a distinguished career as Corporate Director of Training & Organizational Effectiveness for The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, having been with that chain for nine years, prior to forming his own firm. He joins Melinda Bush, CHA, Stephen R Hennis, CHA, and David M. Brudney, ISHC, on our Johnson Capital G...
Phelps Development (Marriott Brand) and FaulknerUSA (Hilton Brand) Pitched in Battle for Rights to Build 1,000 room Hotel Adjacent to Fort Lauderdal
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Scott Wyman, South Florida Sun-SentinelMcClatchy-Tribune Regional News Sep. 25, 2007 - Marriott and Hilton are locked in a pitched battle to do what no one has succeeded in doing in two decades: build a hotel to serve Broward County's convention center and boost that emerging piece of the area's tourism trade. Each industry giant proposes a 1,000-room luxury hotel on county land next to the convention center off 17th Street in Fort Lauderdale. The project will cost more than $400 million, but county officials are not offering ...
Boyne USA Resorts Acquiring Ski Resorts in Maine and Washington State / September 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive BOYNE FALLS, Mich., Sept. 19, 2007 - Backed by nearly 60 years of family run resort experience, Boyne USA Resorts is excited to announce its nationwide expansion reinforcing the Michigan-based corporation's position as the largest family owned four-season resort company in North America and owner/operator of more ski resorts than any other in the United States. Aided by a partnership with CNL Income Properties, Inc., Boyne USA's ski resort portfolio will become the third largest in North America and boasts 10 resort locations operating in Maine, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, ...
Industry Veterans Richard Reyer and Dick Wheeler Introducing 'New Ring in Hospitality; Bittel USA taps the talents of hospitality telecom experts
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive ROSEVILLE, CALIF. - SEPTEMBER 20, 2007 Richard Reyer and Dick Wheeler once again are making noise in the hotel industry, this time as VPs of sales for Bittel USA, a Roseville, California based distributor of guestroom telephones. With nearly 45 years of combined hospitality industry sales experience, Reyer and Wheeler plan to shake things up at the major hotel and management companies by introducing a New Ring in Hospitality. Bittel USA brings a refreshing approach to the guestroom telephone market; a market which today is rather complacent and the products pretty dull...
Benchmark Hospitality's Cheyenne Mountain Resort Honored as Best Good Neighbor In Colorado by National Restaurant Association; Receives 'Res
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive The Woodlands (Houston), Texas, September 2007 - Benchmark Hospitality International has announced that Cheyenne Mountain Resort has been honored by the National Restaurant Association with the 2007 "Restaurant Neighbor Award" for the State of Colorado. Through the annual Restaurant Neighbor Awards, the Washington, DC-based National Restaurant Association recognizes restaurants and properties with restaurants that have gone above and beyond in giving back to their local area through an outstanding community service program. "It is extremely gratifying to be honored fo...
Developers Reach Agreement with Environmentalists Over Plans for Massive Resort in the Catskill Mountains; Scaled-down Belleayre Resort at Catskill
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Alan Wechsler, Albany Times Union, N.Y.McClatchy-Tribune Regional News Sep. 6, 2007 - KINGSTON -- Eight years after plans for a massive resort in the Catskill Mountains were first announced, developers have done what many thought impossible. On Tuesday, they signed an agreement with environmentalists paving the way to build a reduced version of Belleayre Resort at Catskill Park. After years of acrimony on both sides, smiles and handshakes abounded as Gov. Eliot Spitzer disclosed the news Wednesday morning at the Holida...
Best Western Positioning Itself as a Four Star Chain in Asia While Most North American Hotels are Considered to Be in the Mid-market Segment / Septemb
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive PHOENIX, Sept. 7, 2007 - Best Western International, already the fastest-growing hotel chain in Asia, has its sights on becoming the largest hotel chain on the continent within three years. Over the next six months, Best Western will sign 17 new hotel contracts in China, Japan, Indonesia and Thailand, among other countries, and is on pace to have more than 200 properties by 2010. The chain's Asia presence has expanded from just six hotels in 2001 to 106 today. "As the world's largest hotel chain, we bring scale, reach and a billion-dollar reservations system to our internat...
Benchmark Hospitality Appoints Brian Schack Executive Chef for French Lick Resort Casino / September 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive The Woodlands (Houston), Texas, September 2007 - Benchmark Hospitality International has announced the appointment of Brian Schack as executive chef for French Lick Resort Casino, located in French Lick, Indiana. Jerry Gleason, vice president hospitality, made the announcement. "It is with great pleasure that I welcome Brian to French Lick Resort Casino," said Mr. Gleason. "He is an accomplished, talented chef who brings important expertise in operating multiple outlets simultaneously to his new role at our revitalized resort complex." A 1991 graduate of the Culina...
Arlington Convention Center Development Corporation Seeks Proposals for Expansion of the Convention Center and Full-Service Hotel / September 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive September 26, 2007 - The Arlington Convention Center Development Corporation (ACCDC) is seeking qualified firms to serve as the developer to expand the Arlington Convention Center and develop a full-service hotel. The outcome is to assess the feasibility of the proposals and negotiate an agreement between the ACCDC and a qualified developer. The agreement will include the construction and operation of the proposed hotel, and development of appropriate convention center expansion. At present, plans include a full-service, national-branded hotel with 300 guest rooms fully integrate...
Ardent Hotel Advisors Signs Agreement to Manage the Sheraton Atlantic Beach Oceanfront Hotel in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina; Names Tim Peters Gener
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., September 5, 2007 Ardent Hotel Advisors, formerly Opus Hospitality Advisors, today announced that they have signed an agreement to manage the Sheraton Atlantic Beach Oceanfront Hotel in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, marking the seventh contract for the newly formed management company. Ardent has appointed Tim Peters, a 25-year veteran of the hotel industry, to be the new general manager of the property. The Sheraton Atlantic Beach contract establishes an East Coast presence for the company, which recently relocated to a larger headquarters to accommod...
Why Hospitality Employers Are Poor at Replying to Job Applications / Jeff N Ross / September 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive by Jeff N Ross, Managing Director, Hospitality Graduate Recruitment LUZERN, SWITZERLAND, September 28th, 2007 - Why do hospitality employers not respond to job applications? This is a question that I often get asked by young hospitality students and alumni. A fair question if this is indeed the case, and seemingly it is. Just this month I visited 3 hotel schools in Switzerland and during the question and answer session at the end of my presentation, I asked if anyone had directly experienced this scenario. Approximately 70% of the students indicated that they had su...
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive AUSTIN, Texas - September 27, 2007 - The East Avenue Investment Group LP and Global Hyatt Corporation announced today plans to develop a hotel under Hyatts new luxury brand, Andaz(TM), as part of a mixed-use development in Austins central core. The 210-room hotel will open in 2010. The announcement comes on the heels of Hyatts unveiling of its new brand in April 2007, and announcements for Andaz hotels in London and Manhattan. The landmark Great Eastern Hotel in the City of London will convert to Andaz in mid-October, followed by properties at 75 Wall Street and 485 Fifth A...
Dallas' Hilton Anatole Undergoes Second Phase of Multi-Year $100 million Renovation; The Renovation Design Inspired by the Anatole's Asian A
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive DALLAS September 17, 2007 Dallas legendary Hilton Anatole Hotel announces a $45 million renovation to transform 126,304 sq. ft. of meeting space, many of its public areas and its 700 Tower guestrooms. This marks the hotels second phase of its multi-year renovation project representing a total investment in excess of $100 million. The Hilton Anatole is owned by Dallas-based Crow Holdings and managed by Hilton Hotels Corporation. The renovation design is inspired by the Anatoles Asian art collection the largest private assembly for any U.S. hotel and the inherent...
American Property Management's Plan to Renovate the 15-story Wyndham Hotel at Albuquerque International Sunport At a Dead Stop Because of Diffe
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Richard Metcalf, Albuquerque Journal, N.M.McClatchy-Tribune Regional News Sep. 17, 2007 - A plan to renovate the 15-story Wyndham Hotel at the airport is at a dead stop because of differences between owner American Property Management Corp. and the city of Albuquerque. The two sides basically disagree on proposed ground rules for the $6 million project. But American Property's construction of Albuquerque's first indoor water park has resumed after stalling in the city approval process. An unexpected city require...
Apollo Real Estate Investment Fund V, L.P., Aimbridge Hospitality, L.P. and JF Capital Advisors, LLC Complete Merger with Eagle Hospitality Propertie
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive AP AIMCAP Holdings LLC acquires 13 full-service and all-suite properties from Eagle Hospitality Properties Trust, Inc.; Aimbridge Hospitality to manage 10 of the assets DALLAS, TEXAS SEPTEMBER 4, 2007 AP AIMCAP Holdings LLC, a joint venture of Apollo Real Estate Investment Fund V, L.P., and affiliates of Aimbridge Hospitality, L.P. and JF Capital Advisors, LLC, announced the closing of their merger with Eagle Hospitality Properties Trust Inc. (NYSE: EHP), a Covington-based real estate investment trust. Eagles common stockholders approved the previously announced a...
