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Owner Donald Fortunato Wants to Sell One of Indianapolis's Finest Hotels, The Canterbury, to Local Interests / May 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Jeff Swiatek, The Indianapolis StarMcClatchy-Tribune Regional News May 12--Could Fred Klipsch's next investment be the Canterbury Hotel in Downtown Indianapolis? Klipsch, whose Indianapolis holdings have included movie theaters, medical buildings and the Klipsch Audio loudspeaker company, said Friday that he and partners "had some initial interest" in the privately owned hotel, which is for sale. "It would be premature to consider us a buyer of the Canterbury," he added. Klipsch, 66, who heads the Indianapolis-b...
Formerly a High-rise Apartment Building, the 147-room Candlewood Suites Montréal-Centre Ville Opens; First Hotel Outside the U.S. for Candlewo
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Formerly a High-rise Apartment Building, the 147-room Candlewood Suites Montréal-Centre Ville Opens; First Hotel Outside the U.S. for Candlewood Suites ATLANTA (May 24, 2007) Candlewood Suites® announces today that its first hotel outside the U.S. is scheduled to open next month in downtown Montréal, Quebec, Canada. Formerly a high-rise apartment building, the 147-room Candlewood Suites Montréal-Centre Ville is one of several properties the brand expects to develop in Canada over the next few years. In addition to another Candlewood Suites hotel approved ...
Campbell Lodging Acquires Hilton Garden Inn in Addison, TX / May 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Campbell Lodging Acquires Hilton Garden Inn in Addison, TX Brea, CA, May 4, 2007 Campbell Lodging, one of the lodging industrys leading owner/operators, today announced that it has acquired the 96-room Hilton Garden Inn in Addison, Texas ( The heart of North Dallas) from Magnolia Lodging. We feel this is a great acquisition strategically and improves our presence in the Dallas market, said Marty Campbell, vice president and chief development officer of Campbell Lodging. We are very excited to be a part of the Hilton organization and to be expanding that br...
Hotel Finance & Investment: Build, Buy, Sell or Hold? What the experts are doing in the current market / May 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Hotel Finance & Investment: Build, Buy, Sell or Hold? . What the experts are doing in the current market .. May 16, 2007 - Meet the Money® 2007 brings capital providers and developers together. On May 3, 2007, Jim Butler, Chair of JMBMs Global Hospitality Group® hosted JMBMs annual Meet the Money® conference, the premier hotel finance conference in the United States. A stellar list of speakers representing some of the industrys most active players provided insight into the current market. Hotel development is continuing to ramp up. Some believe that we are approaching the peak ...
The Burj Al Arab: Does it Really Work? / Barry Napier / May 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive The Burj Al Arab . Does it Really Work? by Barry Napier, May 2007 Dubai is famous for its gold retailers. It is also famed for gold properties, like the Burj Al Arab. Though Dubai has 22 luxurious five-star hotels, the Burj Al Arab stands above all the others. Literally, at 321 metres tall, it could look down on the tip of the Eiffel Tower. Famed for its sail-shape, a unique design feature from W. S. Atkins, who also project-managed the whole Jumeirah coastal development, the Burj is the gold crown on the head of the Jumeirah Property portfolio. It is now about ten years...
Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 73 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database / May 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 73 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database Chicago, IL. May 29, 2007 - Hotel-Online and BuildCentral have added or updated 73 hotel projects in the last three weeks to the New Hotel Construction Projects database. Notable projects entered in the last two weeks include: Staybridge Suites, New York NY Hilton Memphis Renovations, Memphis TN Wingate Hotel, Spokane WA Value Place Hotel, Plainfield IL Holiday Inn, Gallup NM Holiday Inn & Suites, Dalton GA Residence Inn Crystal City, Arlington ...
Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 70 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database / May 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 70 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database Chicago, IL. May 14, 2007 - Hotel-Online and BuildCentral have added or updated 70 hotel projects in the last three weeks to the New Hotel Construction Projects database. Notable projects entered in the last two weeks include: Hampton Inn & Suites, Prescott Valley AZ Courtyard Marriott, Glen Allen VA Fort Shelby Hotel Renovation, Detroit MI Hilton Garden Inn & Convention Center, Tupelo MS ESuites Hotel, Jacksonville FL New Hotel, White Plains NY ...
British Developer Bashar Issa Advancing Plans for a 210 room Hotel Within the Former Buffalo Statler Hilton / May 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Sharon Linstedt, The Buffalo News, N.Y.McClatchy-Tribune Regional News May 15, 2007 - The storied hotel rooms in Buffalo's Statler Towers could be welcoming guests again by next spring as its new owner fine-tunes plans for the building's rebirth. British developer Bashar Issa has decided to keep four floors of original, mothballed hotel rooms intact and outfit them in an art deco theme. Earlier plans called for the existing rooms to be gutted to make way for contemporary rooms and a reconfigured layout. "By restoring wh...
Eddie Friel, One of the Great Experts in Destination Marketing, Gives Buffalo, NY Ideas to Reinvent Itself / May 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Bill Michelmore, The Buffalo News, N.Y.McClatchy-Tribune Regional News May 14, 2007 - --Buffalo is beautiful. Just ask Eddie Friel, a tourism guru who has traveled the world. "The architecture is stunning," he said. "The cityscape is wonderful." But Buffalo, a city tarnished by the Rust Belt exodus in the 1960s, is at a crucial crossroads, Friel said. "When the industrial base collapses, you're challenged to reinvent yourself." Buffalo today is where Glasgow, Scotland, was in 1983, Friel said. He helped ...
Some Question the Logic of Building Up to 10 New Hotels with Over 1,000 Rooms in The Boise, Idaho / May 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Joe Estrella, The Idaho Statesman, BoiseMcClatchy-Tribune Regional News May 5, 2007--Ten new hotels with more than 1,000 new rooms are being built in the Treasure Valley this year, a dramatic increase that makes some veteran area hoteliers nervous. Six have opened already, and four are planned to open this summer. That compares with two new hotels in 2005 and two more in 2006. All the new rooms might produce a price war as hoteliers chase guests. "Can the market absorb all these new rooms? That's a question that nobody...
Benchmark Opens West Baden Springs Hotel; Restoration of Two Historic Hotels at the French Lick Resort Now Completed / May 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Benchmark Opens West Baden Springs Hotel; Restoration of Two Historic Hotels at the French Lick Resort Now Completed The Woodlands (Houston), Texas, May 24, 2007 - Benchmark Hospitality International has officially opened West Baden Springs Hotel, the landmark property located in West Baden Springs, Indiana, that was once known as the 'Eighth Wonder of the World.' The historic hotel (circa 1902) reopened with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Wednesday, May 23, that included Indiana Lt. Governor Becky Skillman. The property was last used as a hotel in 1932. The open...
A 241-room Mandarin Oriental to be Located in the New Landmark Headquarters of China Central Television in Beijing / May 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report A 241-room Mandarin Oriental to be Located in the New Landmark Headquarters of China Central Television in Beijing .. Hong Kong, May 21, 2007 At an official signing ceremony that took place today at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group announced that it will manage a luxury hotel in the new, landmark headquarters of China Central Television (CCTV), located in the central business district of Beijing. The 241-room Mandarin Oriental, Beijing will be a key component of the CCTV project, and is expected to open in mid-2008, in time for the Beijing Olymp...
Barcelo Hotels & Resorts Restructures its Americas Division Sales & Marketing; Oscar Serrano Named Managing Director of Sales & Marketing – Amer
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Barcelo Hotels & Resorts Restructures its Americas Division Sales & Marketing; Oscar Serrano Named Managing Director of Sales & Marketing - Americas Miami/ Palma de Mallorca, Spain - May 17, 2007 - Barceló Hotels & Resorts today announced a restructuring and enhancement to its sales and marketing for the Americas. Oscar Serrano has been promoted to Managing Director of Sales & Marketing for Barceló Hotels & Resorts in the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America. Serrano will report directly to the Co-President of the company, Mr. Simon Barcelo Tous. Prior to assuming this positi...
Nitesh Estates Developing a $100 million Ritz Carlton in Bangalore, India / May 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive The Times of IndiaMcClatchy-Tribune Regional News May 15--MUMBAI, India -- The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, leader in global luxury hospitality, has announced plans for its first hotel project in India. This Bangalore-based Ritz Carlton, to be developed by Nitesh Estates, will be a 250-room, five-star property. The total project cost, pegged at $100 million, will be funded through a mix of debt and equity. Citigroup has committed $30 million as the first tranche of investment in the hotel project, to be opened by early 2010. ...
Liceaga Winery and Baja Resort Advisors Planning a Master-Planned Community, Spa and Hotel in Baja California, Mexico / May 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Liceaga Winery and Baja Resort Advisors Planning a Master-Planned Community, Spa and Hotel in Baja California, Mexico . LA JOLLA, Calif. - May 14, 2007 - Baja Resort Advisors, LLC, (BRA), a La Jolla-based housing and resort development firm, will build a master-planned residential, vineyard and resort community in the beautiful Guadalupe Valley Wine Country, just east of Ensenada and known as the Napa Valley of Mexico. American buyers have expressed a keen interest in the Guadalupe Valley; they understand that this is a unique opportunity for estate-style living surrounded by the vineyard...
Bryan Langton, Former CEO of Holiday Inn Worldwide, Named Vice Chairman of Yet to Launch Hotel Brand – eSuites Hotels / May 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Bryan Langton, Former CEO of Holiday Inn Worldwide, Named Vice Chairman of Yet to Launch Hotel Brand - eSuites Hotels TAMPA, Fla., May 29, 2007 Officials of eSuites Hotels, a new concept hotel brand that will launch later this year, today announced that Bryan D. Langton C.B.E., an international hotel industry leader, has joined the company as vice chairman. He will provide advice and counsel to support the rapid growth of eSuites Hotels, including corporate culture design and implementation, brand launch design, brand management, marketing and PR, corporate budgeting and other related c...
Plan to Redevelop Houston's Astrodome into a Destination Hotel Could be in Line for Millions of Dollars in Public Financing / May 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Kristen Mack, Houston ChronicleMcClatchy-Tribune Regional News May 12, 2007 - AUSTIN -- The plan to redevelop the Reliant Astrodome into a destination hotel could be in line for millions of dollars in public financing after a state senator qualified the project for tax rebates. Sen. Kyle Janek, R-Houston, amended a House bill to qualify the project for hotel and sales tax rebates, which could total $150 million over 10 years. "We have a national icon sitting unused," Janek said. "They want the ability to convert the As...
Developer Armada Hoffler Abandons Building a Full Service Marriott Convention Hotel in Wilmington, North Carolina / May 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Richard Quinn, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.McClatchy-Tribune Regional News May 17, 2007 - Armada Hoffler is pulling out of the convention center hotel business -- again. Slightly more than two months after withdrawing a proposal to build a headquarters hotel for the Virginia Beach Convention Center, the Beach-based development firm has dropped plans to build a similar hotel in Wilmington, a city of roughly 97,000 residents on North Carolina's Cap e Fear Coast. In a letter to Wilmington's city manager last week, a c...
Ark Partners and Willow Hotels Acquire the Hilton Washington Embassy Row Hotel in Washington, D.C. / May 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Ark Partners and Willow Hotels Acquire the Hilton Washington Embassy Row Hotel in Washington, D.C. Ark also announces contract to purchase two residential buildings on West 55th street between 5th and 6th avenues in NYC NEW YORK, N.Y. (May 4, 2007) - Ark Partners and Willow Hotels are pleased to announce that Ark Partners has purchased the Hilton Washington Embassy Row Hotel. The property, located on Massachusetts Avenue in the trendy Dupont Circle neighborhood in Washington, D.C., was sold by affiliates of The Blackstone Group. The 200-room hotel i...
Award-Winning Arizona Inn Selects TravelCLICK for Comprehensive Suite of Property Merchandising Solutions; Luxury Resort Implements iHotelier CRS, Mar
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Award-Winning Arizona Inn Selects TravelCLICK for Comprehensive Suite of Property Merchandising Solutions . Luxury Resort Implements iHotelier CRS, Market Intelligence and Digital Marketing Services CHICAGO (May 24, 2007) TravelCLICK Inc., a leading provider of hotel business process management (BPM) solutions, announced today that Arizona Inn, an award-winning luxury resort in Tucson, has selected TravelCLICK to provide a total distribution and marketing solution, including central reservations, distribution management, market intelligence and digital marketing services. The 86-room prop...
Argus Hospitality Group Hosts Elegant Private Event, Featuring St. Regis Residences® New York Luxury Real Estate Offering / May 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Argus Hospitality Group Hosts Elegant Private Event, Featuring St. Regis Residences® New York Luxury Real Estate Offering New York, NY May 21, 2007 - Argus Hospitality Group, in company with Robb Report, hosted the St. Regis Residence® and Residence Club®, New York, event of the year An Evening of Discovery: The Past, Present and Future of Luxury. Entering the hotel, guests passed a gleaming gun-metal gray Rolls Royce Phantom, underscoring the elegant lifestyle represented by ownership in this venerable property. The evenings activities began with a champagne tour of t...
Aqua Dunya LLC Starts Construction on the US$ 1.8 billion Water-themed Destination Resort in Dubailand; Includes the 400 room Jumeirah Desert Pearl
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Middle East and North Africa Business Report, Amman, JordanMcClatchy-Tribune Regional News May 16, 2007 - Dubai-based developer, Aqua Dunya LLC, and its sponsor investor, Al Sharq Investment, have broken ground on the first phase of the US$ 1.8 billion water-themed family entertainment destination in Dubailand. Aqua Dunya's centerpiece, the iconic Desert Pearl, themed as the largest cruise ship in the world anchored at its desert oasis, will create a new landmark for Dubai's growing tourism market when it opens in January 2010. Aqua Duny...
The Marriott Center for Hospitality Management Opens at the University of Massachusetts; Whole New Level of Education for Department of Hospitality
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By David Humphreys, Daily Collegian, Amherst, Mass.McClatchy-Tribune Regional News Apr. 30, 2007 - A new $6.3 million facility atop the Campus Center of the University of Massachusetts has opened to make hospitality and tourism management students more competitive, the latest evidence of a UMass strategy to increase its national competitiveness by leveraging state funds with private dollars. The new facility is named the Marriott Center for Hospitality Management after J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott, the late benefactor...
Ameritel Inns Chooses SynXis; Properties will use RedX® to manage all distribution channels / May 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Ameritel Inns Chooses SynXis . Properties will use RedX to manage all distribution channels SOUTHLAKE, Texas, 03 May 2007 SynXis, the Sabre Holdings business that provides hotel reservation management, distribution and technology services globally, announced today that AmeriTel Inns has selected the RedX Distribution Management System as its single distribution platform. RedX will connect AmeriTel Inns eight properties to all distribution channels including Global Distribution Systems (GDS), third party travel sites, and will also provide a state of the art booking engine for AmeriTe...
