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Prof Kaye Chon of PolyU Recipient of the Howard H. Meek Award / August 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Prof Kaye Chon of PolyU Recipient of the Howard H. Meek Award August 13, 2007 - Professor Kaye Chon, Chair Professor and Director of School of Hotel and Tourism Management at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), was recently honoured by International Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education (I-CHRIE) with Howard H. Meek Award. Named after the first dean of hospitality school at Cornell University, Professor Howard H. Meek, the award has been annually presented since 1971 to one hospitality educator for his or her lifetime contributions and outstanding ...
Developer Dan Clothier Planning $38 million Hotel and Garage in Kansas City's Central Business District / August 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Kevin Collison, The Kansas City Star, Mo.McClatchy-Tribune Regional News Aug. 4, 2007--The developer of the historic Freight House building, home of three upscale restaurants, wants to complete his original plan by building a 21-story hotel and garage nearby. Dan Clothier said a hotel was part of the draft redevelopment concept when the 120-year-old Freight House was renovated 10 years ago. The brick landmark at 101 W. 22nd St. in the heart of the Crossroads Arts District now houses City Tavern, which Clothier owns, as well as ...
Global Hyatt Appoints Two to Hyatt Regency GM Posts – Keith Butz in Calgary and Tom Wolf in Bethesda, Maryland / August 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive August 2007 - Keith Butz has been named General Manager of Hyatt Regency Calgary by Hyatt Hotels Corporation. Butz will arrive August 13 and will oversee all hotel operations which include Thomsons Restaurant, Sandstone Lounge and Stillwater Spa. Butz takes over for Mr. Steve McNally, who has been General Manager of Hyatt Regency Calgary for the past six years. McNally has been promoted to General Manager of Hyatt Regency Vancouver. Ive heard wonderful things about the City of Calgary and Im excited to be working with and supporting the incredible team that Steve ha...
With Plans to be the Most Luxurious Hotel in Spain, Jumeirah Signs Lease to Manage the Jumeirah Port Soller, Mallorca / September 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Middle East and North Africa Business Report, Amman, JordanMcClatchy-Tribune Regional News Sep. 24, 2007 --Jumeirah, the fast growing Dubai based luxury international hospitality company and member of Dubai Holding, will be running Mallorca's most prominent new resort and spa development in Port Soller. The hotel development was acquired by Deka Immobilien GmbH for the open ended property fund WestInvest InterSelect and will be leased by the Jumeirah Group under a long term lease. Jumeirah P...
Israel's Tourism Industry Emerges from the Shadow of the 2006 Lebanon War; Hotel Occupancy Rates Now Similar to Those in the Summer of 2005 / A
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Dalia Tal, Globes, Tel Aviv, IsraelMcClatchy-Tribune Regional News Aug. 28, 2007 - Israel's tourism industry has finally emerged from the shadow of the Second Lebanon War last summer. Figures released by the Israel Hotels Association show that tourist numbers and occupancy rates at hotels are now similar to those in the summer of 2005. However, the increase still isn't as high as was expected. Hotel overnights by foreigners and Israelis totaled 2.1 million in July, 4 percent higher than in July 2006, but just 2 percent higher than Jul...
Jesse Suglia Joins Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants as the Director of Hotel Sales / August 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive SAN FRANCISCO, August 28, 2007 Jesse Suglia joins Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants as the new director of hotel sales. In this position, Suglia is responsible for strategic oversight and management of the national sales team. Additionally, Suglia oversees room revenue performance, monitors and capitalizes on industry sales trends and identifies areas of opportunity to ensure Kimptons maximization of revenue and market share for the brand as a whole, as well as individual hotels. Suglia joins Kimpton from Omni Hotels where his most recent position was Global Director of...
Noble House Appoints Jim Lopez to Director of Sales and Marketing at the 404-room Palm Springs Riviera Resort & Spa / August 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive PALM SPRINGS, CA . August 2007 - Seattle-based Noble House Hotels & Resorts, owner of the 404-room legendary Palm Springs Riviera Resort & Spa, has announced the appointment of sales industry veteran Jim Lopez to director of sales and marketing, according to Noble House Vice President of Sales Ted Davis. Lopez, who brings more than 30 years of venerable hospitality sales and marketing experience to the Riviera, will be responsible for directing and implementing the pre-opening and opening sales efforts as well as the propertys overall marketing, advertising and public r...
Sava Holding Breaks Ground on a 123 room Element Branded Hotel in Irving, Texas / August 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By David Wethe, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, TexasMcClatchy-Tribune Regional News Aug. 29, 2007 - Irving will be one of the first cities in the nation to get one of the hip, new hotels known as Element. Inspired by the Westin Hotels & Resorts chain, Element is being marketed as an upscale, extended-stay hotel geared toward business travelers. Sava Holdings broke ground a couple of weeks ago on a 123-room hotel at the southwest corner of Belt Line Road and Interstate 635, just northeast of Dallas/Fort Worth Airport. Su...
Interstate Hotels Invests $5.7 million in a Three-property Portfolio of Tesoro Resorts in Mexico; Interstate Will Manage the Three Former Grupo Situr
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Interstate Hotels Invests $5.7 million in a Three-property Portfolio of Tesoro Resorts in Mexico . Interstate Will Manage the Three Former Grupo Situr Properties in Los Cabos, Manzanillo and Ixtapa ARLINGTON, Va., August 2, 2007 Interstate Hotels & Resorts (NYSE: IHR), one of the nations largest independent hotel management companies, today announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with Steadfast Companies (Steadfast) to own and operate hotels in Mexico. Interstate invested $5.7 million in a three-property portfolio of Tesoro Resorts in Mexico, currently o...
What Hot Internet Marketing Topics are on the Minds of Hoteliers? A Mid-Year 2007 Review as Hoteliers Enter into Budget Planning Season / Max Starkov
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report What Hot Internet Marketing Topics Are on the Minds of Hoteliers? . A Mid-Year 2007 Review as Hoteliers Enter into Budget Planning Season . by Max Starkov and Jason Price, August 2007 Midway through 2007, hoteliers are already planning their marketing budgets for 2008. In the past few months, HeBS has been bombarded by hoteliers requesting information on some of our favorite topics, including the latest trends in Web 2.0, paid search marketing, eCRM, web analytics and ROI tracking, marketing strategies, technology acquisition, and other topics that influence online marketing bud...
Opened in 1972 as the Alameda Plaza, The 336 room InterContinental Kansas City Receiving $15 million Restoration / August 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Robert Cole, The Kansas City Star, Mo.McClatchy-Tribune Regional News Aug. 28, 2007 - The $15 million restoration of the InterContinental Kansas City at the Plaza hotel will bring a fresh look to a popular destination that debuted as the AlamedaPlaza in 1972. A remodeling of all the hotel's 366 guest rooms and public spaces, including the Oak Room restaurant and the Oak Bar, is scheduled for completion in November. The new design will be different from the institutional, cookie-cutter look of many big-box properties, sa...
Some Feel Adding 3,000 Hotel Rooms in Downtown Indianapolis Is Too Much, Too Fast, Creating a Glut of Rooms / August 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Jeff Swiatek, The Indianapolis StarMcClatchy-Tribune Regional News Aug. 4, 2007 --Plans to add 3,000 hotel rooms in Downtown Indianapolis have hoteliers and others concerned that the influx is too much, too fast, creating a glut of rooms. If carried out within the next three years, the 11 hotel projects under way or on drawing boards would increase to 9,000 the number of rooms, bringing the total number of hotels to 35. This sudden expansion could ignite rate wars that might force some hotels out of business. It could also sen...
Achieving Greater Revenue Generation from Your Food and Beverage Operation; 10 Things an Operator Can Do / Bernie Otis / August 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Bernie Otis, August 2007 Numerous recent independent surveys, taken by prestigious organizations suggest that while quality of food is a major reason for the success of a food service facility, other factors, including how noisy children are handled determine whether guest will return. This comes as no surprise to me, since my many years as a consultant in these Industries convinced me long ago that there are factors (which incidentally apply to all businesses even professional practices) other than Quality, Price and Service that determine whether people want to give you the...
Key Preliminary Findings of the ISPA 2007 Spa Industry Study / August 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive LEXINGTON, Ky. August 21, 2007 - Journalists from global television networks, the worlds largest newspapers and most popular magazines were introduced to 25 of the worlds top spas during the 2007 International SPA Association Media Event. Held Aug. 9 in New York, N.Y., the more than 140 leading journalists in attendance were the first media to learn the findings of inaugural research on the global spa consumer as well as new statistics on the U.S. spa industry. The ISPA Media Event has grown from an intimate luncheon to the must-attend event for the latest spa news and t...
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Ian T. Rogers Named Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer fro eSuites Hotels TAMPA, Fla., August 8, 2007Officials of eSuites Hotels, an upscale boutique hotel brand, today announced that Ian T. Rogers has joined the company as senior vice president and chief financial officer. In the position, he will oversee all treasury related functions, financial systems, controls and reporting, planning and analysis and risk management. Ian has an impressive range of financial experience with both public and private companies, as well as start-ups, said Sam W...
IKEA Building a 140 room Tulip Inn Adjacent to the IKEA Concept Center in Delft, The Netherlands; Hotel Will be Furnished with IKEA Furniture / August
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Amersfoort (NL), Lausanne (CH), Delft (NL) 28 August 2007; Inter IKEA Systems B.V. Chairman and CEO Thomas Bergström, Golden Tulip President & CEO Hans Kennedie, and André Boelaert CEO of STRABAG Benelux host the groundbreaking ceremony to kick-off the construction of the Tulip Inn located next to the IKEA Concept Center in Delft. Hans Kennedie and Thomas Bergström at the Groundbreaking ceremony . The 140 room Tulip Inn Delft is expected to open its doors in December 2008. The executive board of Golden Tulip, Inter IKEA Systems B.V. and STRABAG along wit...
Interstate Hotels & Resorts Partners with Premier Properties USA to Build Three Hotels: a Hyatt Place and two aloft Hotels / August 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Interstate Hotels & Resorts Partners with Premier Properties USA to Build Three Hotels: a Hyatt Place and two aloft Hotels Hotels Will Be Centerpiece of Premier Properties Lifestyle/Retail Centers ARLINGTON, Va., August 7, 2007 Interstate Hotels & Resorts (NYSE: IHR), one of the nations largest independent hotel management companies, today announced the formation of a joint venture partnership with Indianapolis-based Premier Properties USA, a rapidly growing retail and lifestyle development company, to build three hotels: a Hyatt Place and two aloft Hotels. E...
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report ICE Portal Now Features a Supersize Option for their Virtual Tours and Videos HOLLYWOOD, FL August 29, 2007 -- ICE Portal, the premier provider of rich visual content production, management, and distribution, has recently launched a new supersize feature for their digital brochures. As of today, all videos and virtual tours contained within the ICE Portal network have the option to be Super-Sized. This innovative super-size image tool makes it possible for web-browsers and prospective travelers to view even the finest details of high-quality images. Clicking the supersize optio...
The 300 room Hyatt Regency Wichita Getting Makeover; Owned by the City of Wichita, All of its Share of Profits Must Go to Hotel Maintenance and Reno
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Brent D. Wistrom, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.McClatchy-Tribune Regional News Sep. 26, 2007 - Oprah's room is out-of-date. So is Mick Jagger's. And Dick Cheney, well, he may not have noticed, but that baby grand piano in the suite he stayed in is so yesteryear. "Nobody uses them for the most part and they take up a lot of space," Hyatt manager Jeff Pace said as City Council members milled about the 17th-floor suite Tuesday, wowing at the views. But things are changing at the Hyatt Regency Wichita, that towerin...
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive HOUSTON, August 14, 2007Coffee and casinos are lauded in the 2007 Hospitality Hall of Honor Ceremony at the University of Houston Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management. Howard Schultz, Chairman & Chief Global Strategist of Starbucks Coffee Company, and Gary W. Loveman, Chairman, CEO and President of Harrahs Entertainment, Inc., are the new inductees for the 12th annual event planned for 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, October 17 in the Hilton University of Houston Hotel Grand Ballroom. Howard Schultz Gary W. Loveman The Board of Overseers i...
Collapse of Subprime Home Mortgages and Falling Home Values Could Eventually Affect Hotel Financing / August 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Kimberly Pierceall, The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif.McClatchy-Tribune Regional News Aug. 13, 2007 - Developers haven't given up on building hotels, but they have slowed down as lenders become more choosy. There are fewer hotel rooms under construction in both Riverside and San Bernardino counties in the first half of 2007, according to a midyear construction survey by Irvine-based Atlas Hospitality Group. Thousands more rooms are in the planning stages, including three large projects in Palm Springs. The 344-room...
Hotel Capitalization Rates Continue Record-Breaking Decline / USRC Winter 2007 Hotel Investor Survey / February 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Hotel Investor Survey Mid Year 2007 . Hotel Capitalization Rates Hold for Now . But Capital Market Concerns Emerge by: Jeffrey H. Walker, MAI, CHME August 24, 2007 - The Mid-Year 2007 USRC Hotel Investment Survey indicates that discount rates and capitalization rates for both limited-service and full-service hotels have generally held at or near the record lows demonstrated in the Winter 2007 survey. However, it does not appear that the generally declining trend since 2002 is continuing, or that rates are become more aggressive, as capitalization rates have generally flattened. In commen...
A Plan to Build a $125 million Hilton Hotel and Convention Center in Norfolk, Virginia May be Falling Apart / August 2007
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Harry Minium, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.McClatchy-Tribune Regional News Aug. 31, 2007 - -NORFOLK A controversial plan to build a Hilton Hotel, convention center and parking garage may be disintegrating, less than a month after a historic building was demolished to make way for it. While the mayor and city manager publicly state their confidence in the deal with billionaire Robert L. Johnson, several city officials privately question whether he will follow through with a commitment to build the oft-delayed hotel, ...
Columbia Sussex, Inc. Completes $16 million dollar Renovation and Rebranding of the Former Wyndham in Burlington, Vermont to the Hilton Burlington / A
March 30, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.- August 17, 2007 - Hilton Hotels (NYSE:HLT) proudly announced the opening of its newest Hilton hotel today, the Hilton Burlington in Burlington, Vermont. Shannon Smith, the hotels general manager, headed up a flag-raising at 60 Battery Street overlooking Lake Champlain, signifying that the former Wyndham Burlington is officially the Hilton Burlington. We are extremely excited to raise the flag over the Queen Citys newest hotel, declared Smith. Using the word new to describe it is no exaggeration, given the year-long, $16 million dollar renova...
