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March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Settle Inn & Suites® & GuestHouse International® Set to Bring Shoneys Inn® Brand back to National Scene HENDERSONVILLE, TN, (August 16, 2007) Fresh off the heels of their Dec. 2006 purchase of GuestHouse International, which included the Shoneys Inn brand, from ShoLodge Inc., Settle Inn & Suites is on the move again. The Shoneys Inn hotel brand is a great brand. During its initial launch and expansion, it experienced tremendous growth. Shoneys is a well known brand with quality properties and reviving a great brand is a no-brainer, said T...
Houston Based Benchmark Hospitality Helps Build Seawall Protecting Sheffield Island in Long Island Sound / August 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive The Woodlands (Houston), Texas, August 24, 2007 - Every year, Benchmark Hospitality hosts a company picnic celebration on the exquisite and historic Sheffield Island in Long Island Sound. At the foot of this intimate island is a restored circa 1868 Victorian-era stone lighthouse, which opens its doors daily, inviting island goers to take a few moments and commune with the 19th century lighthouse keeper family, whose household items remain in the building. Students on summer break serve as tour guides. A Benchmark picnic on the Sheffield Island simply isn't complete withou...
Shangri-La Hotel, Beijing Completes US$50-million Expansion, Includes Additional 142 rooms / August 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Shangri-La Hotel, Beijing Completes US$50-million Expansion, Includes Additional 142 rooms On March 8, 2007, Shangri-La Hotel, Beijing unveiled a new world of sophistication with its Valley Wing, a RMB400-million (US$50-million) expansion program, which includes an additional 142 rooms and suites, a magnificent Grand Ballroom and conference facilities, an exclusive contemporary Western restaurant, a health club and CHI, The Spa at Shangri-La. Following in the footsteps of the acclaimed Valley Wing at Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore, the new tower is designed to create an addr...
Seneca Nation of Indians Planning a Second Hotel Tower at Seneca Allegany Casino & Hotel in Salamanca, NY; First Tower of 212 rooms Exceeding 90% Oc
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Sharon Linstedt, The Buffalo News, N.Y.McClatchy-Tribune Regional News Aug. 17, 2007 - The Seneca Gaming Corp. plans to build a second hotel tower, with additional gambling space, at Seneca Allegany Casino & Hotel in Salamanca. The Seneca's casino company intends to spend $130 million on the project and another $40 million for conversion of the temporary casino building into a state-ofthe- art event center. "[This] demonstrates the Seneca Nation of Indians' commitment to providing a premier gaming and entertainment expe...
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Essential Guide for Travel Suppliers ICEs Henry Woodman Publishes How to Sell Travel on the Internet HOLLYWOOD, FL August 8,2007 -- ICE Portal (Internet Content Exchange) has just announced publication of How to Sell Travel on the Internet, an enlightening, entertaining book by company founder Henry Woodman. The new, fast reading, illustrated, full color paperback presents an insiders view of todays burgeoning online travel world while guiding the reader step-by-step through what has become the travel industrys major distribution channel and sales platform. Woodman, who lite...
Hotel Developers Threaten Fort Lauderdale with $59 million Lawsuit Following City's Denial to Proceed with Hotel-Marina Complex / August 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Brittany Wallman, South Florida Sun-SentinelMcClatchy-Tribune Regional News Aug. 15, 2007 - FORT LAUDERDALE -- The city could be on the hook for $59 million for denying a hotel-marina complex proposed by longtime attorney and developer Ron Mastriana and his partner on the project, Tom Gonzalez. That dollar figure is the appraised market value of The Sails, a hotel-marina-retail project city commissioners rejected recently. Now Mastriana and Gonzalez say the city has to pay up, or give them the approval they were looking for. ...
Sunil Sharma Named General Manager of the Courtyard by Marriott in Westborough, MA / August 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive WESTBOROUGH, MA (August 30, 2007) --- Waterford Hotel Group recently announced the appointment of Sunil Sharma as General Manager of the Courtyard by Marriott in Westborough, MA . The property is professionally managed by Waterford Hotel Group, Inc ., a national hotel management firm currently operating 26 properties. Sharma will oversee all operational, sales and administrative aspects of the hotel. He joins the Westborough Courtyard with more than 15 years of experience in the hospitality industry, including several postings as Food & Beverage Director for such brands as Marr...
Benchmark Hospitality Appoints Steve Ludwig Director of Sales & Marketing for Stonewall Resort / September 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Benchmark Hospitality Appoints Steve Ludwig Director of Sales & Marketing for Stonewall Resort The Woodlands (Houston), Texas, September 2007 Benchmark Hospitality International has announced the appointment of Steve Ludwig as director of sales & marketing for Stonewall Resort, located in Roanoke, West Virginia. Eric Terry, vice president of sales & marketing, made the announcement. I am very pleased to welcome Steve to Benchmark Hospitality at Stonewall Resort, said Mr. Terry. A native West Virginian, he brings a wealth of industry expertise and intimate know...
SynXis Appoints 20-Year Industry Veteran as Vice President of Accounts and Revenue Management; Trevor Stuart-Hill, a former Destination Hotels & Resor
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report SynXis Appoints 20-Year Industry Veteran as Vice President of Accounts and Revenue Management . Trevor Stuart--Hill, a former Destination Hotels & Resorts VP, brings expertise to SynXiss rapidly expanding customer base SOUTHLAKE, Texas, 29 August, 2007 - SynXis, the Sabre Holdings business that provides hotel distribution and Internet marketing services globally, announced today the addition of Trevor Stuart--Hill to the executive management team. In his role as Vice President of Accounts and Revenue Management, Stuart-Hill heads up the full-service Revenue Management consulting gro...
American Property Management Corporation Completes $11 Million Hotel Transformation; Former Radisson San Diego Harbor View Rebranded The Doubletree Ho
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive SAN DIEGO - August 16, 2007 - Doubletree® Hotels (NYSE:HLT) welcomes a city center hotel addition in Americas Finest City with todays debut of the Doubletree Hotel San Diego Downtown. Situated on a hillside in Little Italy that overlooks the downtown San Diego skyline with dazzling harbor and bayside views, this 333-room, 22-story full-service hotel is situated in the heart of one of the countrys most vibrant and successful downtown business, entertainment and shopping districts. The historic Gaslamp Quarter, Horton Plaza, Seaport Village, Petco® Park and the San Diego ...
SDC Solutions and MTech Join Development Forces to Improve Guest Service; IntelliDESK® Integrates with HotSOS to Streamline Guest Service Workflow
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report MIAMI AND MANCHESTER, NH AUGUST 28, 2007 SDC Solutions, Inc. and MTech today announced a partnership in which both companies will leverage their respective technologies to deliver a superior hospitality solution. As a result, hospitality organizations will benefit from an integrated, proactive approach to guest service that will maximize team efficiency, enhance the guest experience, and ensure guest retention. Providing our hospitality customers with tools that increase efficiency and contribute to a positive guest experience is of paramount importance to SDC. Integrating our IntelliDESK PC-...
Nostalgic Tourists Fueling a Renaissance of Interest in the Storied 2,400-mile Route 66, But Most Route 66 Motels Beyond Any Hope of Renovation / Au
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By John Biemer, Chicago TribuneMcClatchy-Tribune Regional News Aug. 12, 2007 - PONTIAC, Ill. -- With its name writ large in red cursive letters and lit by a neon glow, The Palamar Motel once beckoned countless travelers driving Downstate on The Mother Road. Now the "T" and half the "P" have fallen off, the faded pink motel room doors are bolted shut, and weeds fill the swimming pool to the rim. But Gerald Hillyer remembers The Palamar's heyday, when Saturday night crowds jammed in to hear big bands ...
Orlando Hotelier Harris Rosen Conducting a One-man Crusade Against Three Orlando Venues – a New Arena, Performing-arts Center and Refurbished
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive The Orlando Sentinel, Fla.McClatchy-Tribune Regional News Aug. 22, 2007 - It's bad enough that hotelier Harris Rosen is putting his own financial interest ahead of the community in his one-man crusade against three important downtown venues. But the petition drive Mr. Rosen is mounting to sabotage a new arena, performing-arts center and refurbished Florida Citrus Bowl is even worse than that. It strikes at the very idea of representative government. It's also blatantly unconstitutional, so the only thing Mr. Rosen is likely to ac...
Judge Orders Full Reinstatement for 18 Former Rochester, Minnesota Holiday Inn Express Employees; New Hotel Owner Claimed He Bought Just the Hotel,
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Matthew Stolle, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.McClatchy-Tribune Regional News August 1, 2007 - For 18 former Holiday Inn Express employees, Christmas finally arrived. It just came seven months late. Inside the Local 21 union hall, there was holiday music and Christmas trees, evergreen garlands and tables decorated with red and green tablecloths -- everything you might expect to see at a Christmas party although not on a sweltering late-July day. The cause of this belated celebration was a Christmas gift of sorts: A fed...
Strong Gains in Hotel Revenues Overcome Expense Growth / Robert Mandelbaum / August 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By: Robert Mandelbaum, August 2007 A familiar pattern repeated itself in 2006 strong gains in hotel revenues surpassed significant expense growth, which resulted in double-digit increases in unit level hotel profits. In 2006, the average hotel manager in our Trends in the Hotel Industry survey achieved a 13.3 percent gain in operating profits , the third consecutive year of bottom-line increases in excess of ten percent. Favorable supply / demand conditions allowed these operators to enjoy an 8.2 percent jump in revenues for the year. However, management continued to...
For Many the Job's Too Much; Sound Familiar to You, Mr. /Ms. Hotel Owner/Manager? / Josepth M Gravish / August 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Joseph M. Gravish (August 2007) The statistics alone are telling: Locally one-half leave before they hit the five-year mark; 29% statewide; 24% nationwide. In a few struggling places, inexperience (defined as less than five years on-the-job) approaches 70%. New hires find the job more difficult than they expect. Does this sound familiar to you, Mr. /Ms. hotel owner/manager? Maybe it applies to your housekeeping staff - the same group of people you compensate the least? Or provide little if any - medical benefits? Offer no paid time off? No educational/self-improve...
Resorts & Great Hotels Wish Book of Vacation Experiences Relaunches with Greater Frequency and Editorial Content; New Publisher Responding to Industry
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive WINTER PARK, Fla. Aug. 28, 2007 Jay Nelson, group publisher for the travel division of Bonnier Corporation, today announced that the company is reinvesting in and relaunching its premier luxury travel publication Resorts & Great Hotels. Known as the connoisseurs guide to the worlds best hotels and resorts, the magazine will relaunch in January 2008 as a quarterly publication with integrated editorial content for the first time in the magazines history. The luxury segment of the hospitality industry continues to expand and we wanted to evolve Resorts & Great Hotels t...
Sunstone Hotel Investors Completes $27 million Renovation of the 778 room Renaissance Orlando Resort at SeaWorld / August 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Sunstone Hotel Investors Completes $27 million Renovation of the 778 room Renaissance Orlando Resort at SeaWorld ORLANDO, Fla.- August 6, 2007 - As the peak travel season returns to Orlando, leisure and meeting guests are discovering the newly renovated 778 room Renaissance Orlando Resort at SeaWorld, which just completed a $27 million makeover. Located across from SeaWorld, the resort is minutes from Orlandos most popular attractions, including Discovery Cove and the soon-to-open Aquatica, Magic Kingdom, Orlando International Airport and one mile from the Orange County Co...
The 402-room Reef Club Cozumel Beach and Dive Resort Signs Agreement to be Wyndham® Branded / August 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive COZUMEL, MEXICO - Aug 29, 2007 -- Travelers will now find the widely recognized Wyndham Hotels and Resorts brand among the variety of accommodations offered on the island of Cozumel. The 402-room Reef Club Cozumel Beach and Dive Resort recently announced that it signed an agreement with Wyndham Hotel Group to become the first Wyndham® branded property in Cozumel. The former Reef Club will be known as the Wyndham Cozumel Resort and Spa after it undergoes a multimillion-dollar renovation to fulfill the quality standards and excellence synonymous with the Wyndham name. Operatin...
Real Hotels & Resorts Selects Newmarket International's Delphi® to Power Its Group Business Strategy; Leading Central American hospitality ma
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report .Real Hotels & Resorts Selects Newmarket Internationals Delphi® to Power Its Group Business Strategy . Leading Central American hospitality management company will leverage Delphi to connect its InterContinental properties Portsmouth, NH - August 29, 2007 Newmarket International, Inc., the leader in sales and catering solutions for the hospitality industry, today announced that Real Hotels & Resorts, a leading hotel management company, selected Newmarkets Delphi Multi Property Edition® (MPE) to help drive growth and innovation. Delphi MPE, the leading application for automating g...
Four Major Multi-Family Housing Operators Select The Rainmaker Group for Revenue Management Pilot Launch; Revenue Management specialist, Rainmaker, ta
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report ATLANTA, GA, August 15, 2007 The Rainmaker Group, the world leader in automated revenue management software and services to the multi-family housing and other industries for total property profitability, announced that Laramar Group, Julian LeCraw Company, Carmel Partners and an additional REIT, with over 82,000 combined units, are conducting pilot installations of Rainmakers revolution LRO SM revenue optimization system. Rainmaker pilot installations enable multi-family operators to certify the effectiveness of the revolution LRO revenue management system across a sample of their propertie...
Mid-America Apartment Communities Installs Rainmaker revolution LRO SM Revenue Management Throughout 140 Properties; revolution LRO delivers a 3% rate
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Mid-America Apartment Communities Installs Rainmaker revolution LRO SMRevenue Management Throughout 140 Properties > revolution LRO delivers a 3% rate increase to Mid-America in pilot test ATLANTA, GA, August 1, 2007 The Rainmaker Group, the world leader in automated revenue management software and services to the multi-family housing and other industries for total property profitability, announced Mid-America Apartment Communities (NYSE:MAA) has completed installation of Rainmakers revolution LRO SM revenue optimization system throughout all of its nearly 140 properties comprising o...
ADR and Occupancy Soar at IP Casino Resort Spa with Post-Katrina Upgrade and Revenue Management Technology; IP earns Four-Diamond status, optimizes ra
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report ADR and Occupancy Soar at IP Casino Resort Spa with Post-Katrina Upgrade and Revenue Management Technology > IP earns Four-Diamond status, optimizes rates and availability for upscale clientele August 22, 2007 - The Four-Diamond IP Casino Resort Spa in Biloxi, Mississippi is an extraordinary post-Katrina success story. The waterfront Biloxi Bay high-rise casino property, named the Imperial Palace Hotel and Casino before the storm, was severely battered by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. In January 2007 the property re-branded as IP Casino Resort Spa after a total property renovation th...
Robert J. Lowe, Jr. Named President and Chief Operating Officer of Lowe Hospitality Group / August 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive LOS ANGELES - August 22, 2007 - Lowe Enterprises, a national real estate development, investment and management firm, has named Robert J. Lowe, Jr. president and chief operating officer of Lowe Hospitality Group, the firms national hotel, resort and resort residential community acquisition, development and management division. Rob has made a tremendous contribution to the expansion and success of our hospitality development activities, said John B. Platt, III, CEO of Lowe Hospitality Group. He is an outstanding leader as well as an accomplished professional who wil...
