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Mintek Mobile Data Solutions to Introduce WinTrack PM for Windows Mobile Platform at HITEC; Powerful New MC Terminals Support Upgraded Preventive Main
February 28, 2007
Mintek Mobile Data Solutions to Introduce WinTrack PM for Windows Mobile Platform at HITEC . Powerful New MC Terminals Support Upgraded Preventive Maintenance Software DUNEDIN, FLA. — June 18, 2007 — Mintek Mobile Data Solutions, the lodging industry’s leading provider of turnkey, automated preventive maintenance (PM) systems, announced that it will introduce WinTrack PM for the Windows Mobile platform at HITEC (booth 831). The lodging industry’s annual technology exposition and conference will be held June 25-28 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando. WinTrack PM is the cornerstone of Mintek’s Lodging Asset ...
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February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Watt Stopper/Legrand’s New Card Key Switches Help Hotels Keep Guestroom Lights Off When Room Is Vacant SANTA CLARA, CA June 2007 – Watt Stopper/Legrand has developed a line of card key switches for hospitality facilities which help hotels stop the energy waste of guestroom lighting being left on when no one is present. The only products of its kind in the U.S., these switches comply with IECC and ASHRAE/IESNA energy codes which require that hotel guestrooms have a master switch at the entrance of every room. Lights being left on in hotel guestrooms when the rooms are left v...
PATRIZIA Projektentwicklung GmbH Opens The Mövenpick Hotel Hamburg in Historic Converted Water Tower Built in 1910 / June 2007...
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report PATRIZIA Projektentwicklung GmbH Opens The Mövenpick Hotel Hamburg in Historic Converted Water Tower Built in 1910 June 11, 2007 - The moment has finally arrived: The new Mövenpick Hotel Hamburg in the converted water tower in the Sternschanzen Park is now ready to open its doors. For over two and a half years the industrial landmark, built in 1910, has been comprehensively renovated and upgraded. With its unique atmosphere the 4-star plus hotel with 226 modern rooms is a delight, offering both business and leisure travellers the ideal setting for a personalised stay in one of Europe’s flour...
See the Walkwire Powerdesk by WIT Featuring PrintMe at Guestroom 2010 and Booth 1251 at HITEC 2007; Walkwire and PrintMe by EFI announce integration o
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive See the Walkwire Powerdesk by WIT Featuring PrintMe at Guestroom 2010 and Booth 1251 at HITEC 2007 . Walkwire and PrintMe by EFI announce integration of remote printing with the Walkwire Automated Business Center New solution fully integrates the hotel-wide wired or wireless High Speed Internet Access Network with Automated Business Centers or Lobby PCs San Francisco, CA – June 21, 2007 – Most hotels have by now deployed hotel-wide HSIA for those guests traveling with a laptop, and many are rolling out Automated Business Centers and Lobby PCs to provide connectivity ...
The New Kiosk: Walkwire and Workspace Integration Technologies Partner to Bring Revolutionary Public Internet access and PC Solution to US Hospitality
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive The New Kiosk: Walkwire and Workspace Integration Technologies Partner to Bring Revolutionary Public Internet access and PC Solution to US Hospitality Industry Fully managed Lobby PCs, Boarding Pass PCs and Automated Business Centers find their perfect complement in the stylish new Powerdesk product line San Francisco, CA – June 14, 2007 –The days of bulky and cumbersome Kiosks are over thanks to a new partnership between Walkwire, a leading provider of fully managed Lobby PCs, Boarding Pass PCs and Automated Business Centers and Workspace Integration Technologies, the ...
Walking The Thin Line Between Hospitality Excellence and Mediocrity / Doug Kennedy / June 2007...
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report  Walking The Thin Line Between Hospitality Excellence and Mediocrity by Doug Kennedy, June 2007 Like most trainers, I frequently engage participants in interactive activities that hopefully shift some paradigms for the long-term. With one such activity, I give teams of two participants a list of hotels in a city they’ve never been to, and then have them each place an inquiry call. Afterwards, each participant reports back to the overall group on their experiences and observations.  Recently, while training the reservations team of a four-star hotel, the results were especially interes...
Vintage Hotels Gains 360 Degree View of Guest at Every Touch Point with Maestro Enterprise Suite; Learn more about Maestro Four Diamond Service and fr
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online .Special Report Vintage Hotels Gains 360 Degree View of Guest at Every Touch Point with Maestro Enterprise Suite . Learn more about Maestro Four Diamond Service and free ‘Web Connection’ training at Northwind’s HITEC booth June 19, 2007 - Vintage Hotels combines beautiful locales, Four-Diamond comfort and exceptional service at its three properties in the Niagara-on-the-Lake region of Ontario, Canada, to provide discerning travelers with a gracious sophisticated destination. To strengthen its already superb guest service and give its staff tools for greater efficiency, Vintage Hotels installed the Maes...
VingCard® Receives Two Prestigious ADEX Awards for Innovation; Industry Professionals Recognize VingCard Products With Platinum and Gold Awards fo
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report VingCard® Receives Two Prestigious ADEX Awards for Innovation . Industry Professionals Recognize VingCard Products With Platinum and Gold Awards for Design Excellence DALLAS – June 20, 2007 – Signature RFID by VingCard® was awarded the Platinum ADEX while Signature by VingCard® earned Gold in the 2006-07 Awards for Design Excellence, the largest and most prestigious awards competition for product design of furniture, fixtures and finishes marketed to the design trade. "Receiving the highest-level ADEX award for Signature RFID is an honor and a testament to the product's innovative de...
Developer The Andalex Group Acquires Veneto Hotel and Casino in Panama City, Panama; 301 room Hotel to be Rebranded to Wyndham Flag / June 2007...
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Developer The Andalex Group Acquires Veneto Hotel and Casino in Panama City, Panama; 301 room Hotel to be Rebranded to Wyndham Flag . NEW YORK - June 20, 2007 - Silver Entertainment, LLC (SE), a new hospitality and gaming company established in March by New York-based developer, The Andalex Group, acquired Veneto Hotel & Casino in Panama this week. SEÂ’s gaming license application in Panama was deemed complete earlier this year and the Veneto acquisition is SEÂ’s first venture in Latin America. Meridian Capital Group was broker to the financing which was led by Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.Â...
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February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Introducing BusinessClub™ at HITEC, VSi’s Solution to Lobbies that Leave You Wanting More .. Visit Booth No. 161 at HITEC! . Vertical Systems, Inc. can transform the traditional lobby with its innovative BusinessClub™, a multifunctional space where business travelers can work, socialize, and relax SUNNYVALE, CALIF.— JUNE 20, 2007 — Hotels looking for the next great guest-service solution that combines high-tech guest computing with low-cost, turnkey lobby design should consider implementing the new “BusinessClub™” concept created by Vertical Systems Inc. Busin...
Benchmark Appoints Veronique Paquet as Spa Director for the Springs Eternal Spa at Bedford Springs Resort, Bedford, Pennsylvania / June 2007...
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Benchmark Appoints Veronique Paquet as Spa Director for the Springs Eternal Spa at Bedford Springs Resort, Bedford, Pennsylvania  The Woodlands (Houston), Texas, June 2007 - Benchmark Hospitality International has announced the appointment of Veronique Paquet as spa director for the Springs Eternal Spa at Bedford Springs Resort, the landmark property dating to 1796, which is scheduled to reopen this month. Rikki Boparai, general manager for Benchmark Hospitality at the resort, made the announcement.   "It is with great pleasure that we welcome Veronique to this remarkable property...
Victoria Nykolaychuk Named General Manager of the Staybridge Suites Calgary Airport / June 2007...
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Victoria Nykolaychuk Named General Manager of the Staybridge Suites Calgary Airport Calgary, Alberta, Canada (June 01, 2007) – Staybridge Suites Calgary Airport has named Victoria Nykolaychuk, General Manager of its 96-room hotel located at 2825 Sunridge Way NE, just minutes from the Calgary International Airport. The hotel has been open since April 2006. In her new role, Nykolaychuk will oversee the overall operations of the hotel with a determined goal to be the leading extended-stay hotel in the Calgary market and the leader among the Staybridge Suites brand. “I look forwarding to wo...
Print from your Mobile Device to One of Uniguest's Remote Printing-Enabled Automated PC's; HITEC Attendees and hotel guests throughout the U
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report  Print from your Mobile Device to One of Uniguest’s Remote Printing-Enabled Automated PC’s . HITEC Attendees and hotel guests throughout the U.S. can use their mobile device to send print jobs to remote printer-enabled PC workstations supported by Uniguest Nashville, TN - June 22, 2007- Uniguest is expanding the remote printing capability that has traditionally been for laptop users to now allowing printing of emails and email attachments from any mobile device that has email service. By integrating remote printing into its automated PC workstations found in hotels throughout the U.S., ...
Uniguest Continues to Meet the Demand of New Security Standards for Automated Public PC Workstations in the Hotel Industry; Nashville-based Uniguest c
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report  Uniguest Continues to Meet the Demand of New Security Standards for Automated Public PC Workstations in the Hotel Industry . Nashville-based Uniguest continues to fill industry-leading orders for its services of automated public PC workstations to the tune of over 2,000 workstations representing over 1,500 hotels Nashville, TN - June 18, 2007 - The hotel industry is listening. To whom you may ask? How about major news agencies, The Securities and Exchange Commission Chief of Internet Enforcement, The Deputy Director of Cyber Crimes Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Unig...
UniFocus to Showcase Labor Management and Business Intelligence Applications at HITEC; Greater intelligence means better marketplace positioning; Perf
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive UniFocus to Showcase Labor Management and Business Intelligence Applications at HITEC Greater intelligence means better marketplace positioning; Performance-management company to unveil new upgrades to coveted solutions in Booth 755 DALLAS— JUNE 25, 2007 — UniFocus, the most comprehensive performance management company in the hospitality industry, will showcase its leading labor and financial-management solutions and business-intelligence applications at the Hospitality Industry Technology Exhibition & Conference (HITEC), June 26-28 in Booth 755 at the Orange County Con...
Two Cincinnati Marriott Properties Managed by Winegardner & Hammons, Inc., Claim Top Awards at Marriott International Global Conference / June 2007...
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Two Cincinnati Marriott Properties Managed by Winegardner & Hammons, Inc., Claim Top Awards at Marriott International Global Conference Cincinnati, OH., June 7, 2007 - Both the Cincinnati Airport Marriott and the Cincinnati Marriot North were multiple award winners at the 2007 Marriott International Global Conference held recently in San Francisco, CA. President and Chief Operating Officer of Marriott International North America Lodging Operations, Robert J. McCarthy made the official presentation where 343 Marriott Hotels & Resorts throughout the U.S. were represented. "Our associates are the ...
Seven Developers Pitch Tucson for a Downtown Convention Hotel of Up to 700 rooms; Gaylord Hotels Makes a Surprise Proposal / June 2007...
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Rob O'Dell, The Arizona Daily Star, TucsonMcClatchy-Tribune Regional News Jun. 2, 2007 - --The city hit the jackpot Friday as seven developers from across the country, with ties to many of the leading lodging chains, responded to the city's call for plans to build a convention center hotel to anchor Tucson's Downtown of the future. Developers from as far away as Tennessee and Texas joined several locals in making a pitch to build a more-than-700-room hotel, which is being called the key to Downtown revitalization. One p...
The Deal to Sell Donald Trump's Casino Company Hits Several Snags; Analysts Put its Value at $11 a Share; Trump Seeks $22 / June 2007...
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Suzette Parmley, The Philadelphia InquirerMcClatchy-Tribune Regional News Jun. 27, 2007 - --The deal to sell Donald Trump's casino company has hit several snags, including price, according to people involved in the negotiations. While the stock is now trading at less than $14 a share, an independent Wall Street firm says the company should fetch about $11 a share. "What they want, and what the other side is willing to pay for, are so far apart," said one of those people, who is close to t...
Winston Hotels Calls Off Acquisition of the Tribeca Hilton Garden Inn from McSam Hotel Group; Cites Quality of Construction for the Unfinished Hotel
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Jack Hagel, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.McClatchy-Tribune Regional News Jun. 15, 2007 --RALEIGH -- Winston Hotels, which in August said it would buy two Manhattan hotels for $110 million, is backing out of part of the deal because of construction problems hampering the seller. The Raleigh real estate investment trust terminated a contract to buy the Tribeca Hilton Garden Inn and agreed to drop a lawsuit against seller McSam Hotel Group in exchange for $16 million. Winston, which has a stake in 50 hotels across the...
When I Am in the UK, I Often Stay at a Travelodge / Barry Napier / June 2007...
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report When I Am in the UK, I Often Stay at a Travelodge by Barry Napier, June 2007 I prefer an easy-in easy-out hotel, no fuss and simple procedures, because I am not concerned to receive special treatment; for me a motel is just somewhere to sleep. That is one reason why, when I am in the UK, I often stay at a Travelodge. Another reason is that it can be incredibly cheap, when booked at the right time. Book at least 21 days in advance and you get a room that can hold up to two adults and two children for just $30/£15 a night. For $52/£26 per night book seven days in advance. Any other booking Â...
TravelCLICK's iStay Web Booking Engine Delivers On Key Online Metrics for Hoteliers; Drives 15 Percent Higher ADR and 14 Percent Higher Website R
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report TravelCLICK’s iStay Web Booking Engine Delivers On Key Online Metrics for Hoteliers . Drives 15 Percent Higher ADR and 14 Percent Higher Website Reservation Conversion Rates ORLANDO, Fla. (HITEC Conference, June 27, 2007) — TravelCLICK’s award-winning iStay web booking engine continues its industry-leading position, delivering a 15 percent higher average daily rate (ADR) than traditional multi-step web booking engines. Based on its advanced hotel merchandising capabilities and ‘enhance your stay’ options, iStay also drives a 27 percent higher ADR for add-on bookings than traditional multi...
Trump Entertainment Resorts Selects TravelCLICK for Total Property Merchandising Solution; Robust Technology Complements Property Upgrades at World-Fa
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Trump Entertainment Resorts Selects TravelCLICK for Total Property Merchandising Solution . Robust Technology Complements Property Upgrades at World-Famous Casino Hotels ORLANDO, Fla. (HITEC Conference, June 26, 2007) — TravelCLICK, Inc., the leading provider of emarketing solutions for the hotel industry, announced today that Trump Entertainment Resorts, Inc. has selected TravelCLICK to provide a new distribution and marketing solution, including reservation services, market intelligence, electronic marketing services and travel agent advertising, for all three of its Atlantic City, NJ prope...
New Online Competitive Intelligence Tool Enables Hotels to See Themselves as Consumers Do; TravelCLICK Expands Suite of Market Intelligence to Include
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report New Online Competitive Intelligence Tool Enables Hotels to See Themselves as Consumers Do . TravelCLICK Expands Suite of Market Intelligence to Include Online Presence Tracking CHICAGO (June 25, 2007) — TravelCLICK Inc., the leading provider of emarketing solutions for the hotel industry, is expanding its suite of market intelligence solutions with SearchVIEW, a powerful online market intelligence tool that showcases the effectiveness of a hotel’s search engine optimization and pay-per-click campaigns, online travel agency placement, and online customer reviews. The online presence tracking...
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February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report TravelCLICK Ranks #33 On Crain’s Fast Fifty List For Chicago Area CHICAGO (June 5, 2007) — TravelCLICK, Inc., a privately-held Schaumburg, IL-based hospitality solutions company, has made the Crain’s Fast Fifty list for the Chicago area, published yesterday in Crain’s Chicago Business. The list highlights the region’s best and most innovative public and private companies, with rankings based on five-year revenue growth. TravelCLICK is #33 on the Fast Fifty list, which is often considered a leading indicator of a company’s outlook for long-term performance and industry leadership. From ...
