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Maestro Strengthens Internet Integration; Provides Clients Free Online 'Web Connection' Training to Boost Revenue, Productivity; New Web tra
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online .Special Report Maestro Strengthens Internet Integration; Provides Clients Free Online Web Connection Training to Boost Revenue, Productivity . New Web training program teaches operators the most effective online strategies, how to use Maestro Internet tools to increase profitability . Markham, ON June 12, 2007 - NORTHWIND, provider of Maestro Enterprise Property Management hotel software and reservation software solutions for hospitality, today announced it strengthened its already robust suite of Internet connectivity tools by launching a series of free online training classes to boost client...
Maestro Partners with Hotel Operators and Experts on Web 2.0; Maestro sponsors 2nd annual Online Revealed travel conference for Web marketing to help
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online .Special Report Maestro Partners with Hotel Operators and Experts on Web 2.0 . Maestro sponsors 2nd annual Online Revealed travel conference for Web marketing to help hotel operators prepare for and better understand the powerful effect of social media and Web 2.0 on internet bookings Markham, ON June 5, 2007 - NORTHWIND, provider of Maestro PMS Enterprise Property Management hotel software and reservation software solutions for hospitality, enabled hospitality professionals to address marketing challenges in todays Web 2.0 environment through its sponsorship of the Online Revealed travel conferen...
In the Face of Substantial Public Opposition, the Macon, Georgia City Council Votes to Contract with Noble Investment Group to Build a $32 million H
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Matt Barnwell, The Macon Telegraph, Ga.McClatchy-Tribune Regional News Jun. 20, 2007 - In the face of substantial public opposition, the Macon City Council on Tuesday voted to hire Atlanta developer Noble Investment Group to build a hotel in the parking lot next to the Macon Coliseum and Wilson Convention Center. The measure, passed 9-6, heads now to the desk of Mayor Jack Ellis for final approval. "I'm going to sign it, yes," Ellis said Tuesday. "I have 12 days though." About 120 people filled the council chamb...
SaaS a Success for MTECH Customers; MTech has grown its offering to meet growing customer demands at a swift pace in great part because of the benefit
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report SaaS a Success for MTECH Customers MTech has grown its offering to meet growing customer demands at a swift pace in great part because of the benefits of hosted solutions. See more in Booth 1028 at HITEC! , MIAMI JUNE 22, 2007 Attendees of the 35th Annual Hospitality Industry Technology Exhibition & Conference (HITEC) are encouraged to stop by Booth 1028 to see the latest technology innovations from MTech. As the industrys leading Software as a Service (SaaS) guest incident tracking and workflow automation provider, MTech has been able to demonstrate the power of the SaaS model. W...
Michael J. Taylor, GM of The Heldrich, Installed as President New Jersey Hotel & Lodging Association / June 2007...
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Michael J. Taylor, GM of The Heldrich, Installed as President New Jersey Hotel & Lodging Association New Brunswick, New Jersey, June 2007 ... Michael J. Taylor, general manager of The Heldrich, the new hotel and conference center that opened in March in the heart of New Brunswick, New Jersey, has been installed as the president of the New Jersey Hotel & Lodging Association. His term will extend from 2007-2010. . Mr. Taylor is a 22-year veteran of the hospitality industry. He has served in leadership positions during many of his two decades of service, including as general manager of N...
Marco Perry Named Managing Director at San Ysidro Ranch, A Rosewood Resort in Santa Barbara, California / June 2007...
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Marco Perry Named Managing Director at San Ysidro Ranch, A Rosewood Resort in Santa Barbara, California Santa Barbara, California (June 7, 2007) Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, the premier manager of ultra-luxury hotels and resorts around the world, is pleased to announce the appointment of Marco Perry to the position of Managing Director at San Ysidro Ranch, A Rosewood Resort in Santa Barbara, California, effective May 14, 2007. Owned by Ty Warner Hotels & Resorts, LLC, San Ysidro Ranch has recently completed a stunning $150 million restoration that includes two renovated restaurants, enhanced gr...
Mike Larson Named General Manager of Pheasant Run Resort & Spa, in St. Charles, Illinois / June 2007...
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Mike Larson Named General Manager of Pheasant Run Resort & Spa, in St. Charles, Illinois ST. CHARLES, Ill. June 5, 2007 - Oakbrook Hotels Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Mike Larson to General Manager of Pheasant Run Resort & Spa, in historic St. Charles, Illinois We are delighted Mike is joining us at Pheasant Run. He comes to the resort from the Adams Mark Hotel in Indianapolis where he completed a short re-structuring assignment there. Previously, he honed his management skills and enjoyed a long tenure with the Starwood and Doubletree organizations, said Joe Pinto, vice...
MGM Mirage Planning Joint Venture with Resort Developer Kerzner International Holdings Ltd. to Develop a Multi- billion dollar Resort on the Corner of
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report MGM Mirage Planning Joint Venture with Resort Developer Kerzner International Holdings Ltd. to Develop a Multi- billion dollar Resort on the Corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Sahara Avenue . LAS VEGAS and PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas, June 20, 2007 - MGM MIRAGE (NYSE: MGM) and Kerzner International Holdings Limited ("Kerzner" or "Kerzner International") announced today that the companies have entered into a letter of intent to form a 50/50 joint venture to develop a multi- billion dollar integrated resort property on the Las Vegas Strip. The parties plan to enter into immediate negotiations with ...
Building a New Luxury Hotel Room Requires A Demonstration Guest Room that Received Months of Tweaking / June 2007...
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Heather Newman, Detroit Free PressMcClatchy-Tribune Regional News Jun. 5, 2007- Today is the first day you can reserve a room at the MGM Grand's permanent Detroit hotel, which opens in October. The rooms will feature luxurious touches -- and a luxury price tag that starts at $299 a night and tops out around $2,500. An exclusive tour through demonstration rooms designed to look like the new hotel's facilities is a peek at the high-end accommodations all the casinos are likely to offer visitors. The MGM is the first of Detroit's...
Welk Resorts Names Mark Ansteth To Corporate Director of Marketing / June 2007...
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Welk Resorts Names Mark Ansteth To Corporate Director of Marketing Escondido, CA (May 30, 2007) Welk Resorts, a North County hospitality and entertainment landmark announced today Mark Ansteth has been promoted to Corporate Director of Marketing for the Welk Resorts. Mark's new role as Corporate Director of Marketing will oversee Operations Marketing for all Welk Resorts properties including Welk Resorts San Diego, Welk Resorts Desert Oasis, Palm Springs, Cathedral Canyon Golf & Tennis Club, Cathedral City, Welk Resorts Branson, Missouri. Prior to arriving at Welk Resorts, Mark wa...
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February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report New Research Uncovers Hidden Gem in Luxury Travel Luxury Links Audience Raises the Bar for Luxury Travel Websites Los Angeles, CA June 28, 2007 During the first quarter of 2007, Luxury Link commissioned Nielsen//NetRatings, the global standard for Internet audience measurement and analysis, to conduct an independent study of the Luxury Link audience and their lifestyles. Categories of interest included basic demographics, travel and vacation habits, finance and business, shopping, health and family. The findings were remarkable. David Martin, Nielsen//NetRatingss Director of Survey Re...
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February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Four Hospitality Luminaries Join Lorica Solutions Advisory Board . Experts to Advise on Growth of Industrys Only Fully Managed Converged Network June 11, 2007 - Mark Holzberg, Chairman and CEO of Lorica Solutions, announced today that four of the hotel industrys most distinguished technology leaders -- Robert Bennett, Jules Sieburgh, Bryan Steele, and Jeremy Rock -- have joined Loricas Board of Advisors. Amherst, New York-based Lorica Solutions is the developer of the Lorica Room Center (LRC), the only fully managed converged network specifically designed for the hosp...
Kronos Hotels & Resorts Acquires 16 Hotels from Lodgian for $64.9 million / June 2007...
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Kronos Hotels & Resorts Acquires 16 Hotels from Lodgian for $64.9 million ATLANTA, Ga., June 14, 2007 Lodgian, Inc. (AMEX: LGN), one of the nations largest independent owners and operators of full-service hotels, today announced the sale of 16 hotels to Atlanta-based Kronos Hotels & Resorts for an aggregate sales price of $64.9 million. The purchaser has signed an agreement to buy one additional hotel, which is expected to be consummated later this year. Twenty of the 27 non-core hotels, whose planned disposition was announced in November 2006, have now been sold. Of the remaining ...
LodgeNet Featuring Turn-Key High Definition TV Solution With EasyHD Service at HITEC 2007; Complete Solution To Plan and Deliver HD Technology and Con
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report LodgeNet Featuring Turn-Key High Definition TV Solution With EasyHD Service at HITEC 2007 .. Complete Solution To Plan and Deliver HD Technology and Content for Hospitality Industry . LodgeNet LaunchPad Enables Easy Connectivity for Guests with Personal Entertainment and Productivity Devices . SIOUX FALLS SD, June 25, 2007 LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation (NASDAQ: LNET) announced today that its EasyHDTM solution a comprehensive program of consulting, project management, installation, service, marketing opportunities, financing, furniture options and more will be featured at HIT...
LodgeNet Announces Special Bundled Offer to Qualified Customers for High-Speed Internet Access / June 2007...
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report LodgeNet Announces Special Bundled Offer to Qualified Customers for High-Speed Internet Access .. Providing a Complete Solution That Combines LodgeNet Video on Demand and LodgeNet StayOnline High-Speed Internet . Bundled Offer to be Featured at HITEC 2007 in Orlando, FL . SIOUX FALLS SD, June 22, 2007 LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation (NASDAQ: LNET) announced today that qualified hotel properties are eligible to receive a special savings on their high-speed Internet support fees. As a single source for interactive TV and broadband solutions, LodgeNet is offering a savings to qua...
LodgeWorks, L.P.Chooses SynXis as Their Distribution Partner; Management company to fuel expansion using RedX® as their single image of inventory
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report LodgeWorks, L.P.Chooses SynXis as Their Distribution Partner Management company to fuel expansion using RedX® as their single image of inventory SOUTHLAKE, Texas, 14 June SynXis, the Sabre Holdings business that provides hotel distribution, technology and internet marketing services globally, announced today that LodgeWorks, L.P. has selected the RedX Distribution Management System as its single distribution platform for its growing Sierra Suites Hotel brand that includes six properties and plans to add four more by the end of this year. LodgeWorks is also in the midst of exciting gr...
LodgeNet Launches Comprehensive Preventative Maintenance Program for High-Speed Internet Access Service; Service Offers a Cost-Efficient and Proactive
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report LodgeNet Launches Comprehensive Preventative Maintenance Program for High-Speed Internet Access Service .. Service Offers a Cost-Efficient and Proactive Approach for Hoteliers to Ensure Optimal, Stable and Secure Internet Access for Guests . SIOUX FALLS SD, June 26, 2007 LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation (Nasdaq: LNET) today announced the launch of its High Speed Internet Access (HSIA) Preventative Maintenance Program through LodgeNet StayOnline. The program was introduced to reduce HSIA system outages and support calls made to outside vendors with a proactive approach to conducting i...
Will the Schrager-Marriott Marriage Lead to Eternal Bliss or End in Divorce? / Jim Butler / June 2007...
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Will the Schrager-Marriott Marriage Lead to Eternal Bliss or End in Divorce? By Jim Butler, Hotel Lawyer | Author of www.HotelLawBlog.com 14 June 2007 One of my steady themes here at www.HotelLawBlog.com, is that lifestyle hotels are the hottest thing going in new hotel development, particularly hotel mixed-use. (See, for example, "The new "LIFESTYLE" hotel brands are changing the hotel industry and hotel mixed-use.") But at a press conference held on the roof of Schrager's Gramercy Park Hotel in Manhattan at 10:00 am on June 14, 2007, Bill Marriott (chairman and CEO of Marriott International...
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February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Huntington Hotel Group Nearing Completion of Two Hotels at San Diegos Liberty Station SAN DIEGO June 6, 2007 - Significant progress is being made at Huntington Hotel Groups 150-room Homewood Suites by Hilton hotel and 200-room Courtyard by Marriott hotel, joining the Liberty Station community at the corner of North Harbor Drive and Lanning Road. These two hotels, designed by architects Awbrey Cook McGill, comprise 17.81 acres of Liberty Stations 37-acre hotel district. The hospitality district is one of the last major components to the hundreds of acres at Liberty Station already devote...
Bob Lauth Agrees to Sell 50% Ownership of the French Lick Resort and Casino to Cook Group Interests, All Pending Lawsuits and Arbitration Dismissed
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Andy Graham, Herald-Times, Bloomington, Ind.McClatchy-Tribune Regional News Jun. 7, 2007 - FRENCH LICK -- Geneva Street shrieked with joy and said she felt like "the heavens opened up" about 8:30 Wednesday night, but she wasn't referring to rainfall. Street, one of 269 "Orange Shirt" advocates for the casino and hotel properties in Orange County, had just gotten the news that the French Lick Resort and Casino will now proceed basically unencumbered by lawsuits and with Cook Group in charge. Lauth Resorts & Casino LLC ha...
Larkspur Hotels Simplifies Management of Its San Francisco Hotels With SoftBrands' Epitome PMS / June 2007...
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Larkspur Hotels Simplifies Management of Its San Francisco Hotels With SoftBrands' Epitome PMS Multi-Property Solution Brings Benefits of System Consolidation Minneapolis, Minn. -- June 6, 2007 SoftBrands, Inc. (AMEX: SBN), a global supplier of enterprise application software, today announced that Larkspur Hotels and Restaurants has successfully implemented the SoftBrands Epitome multi-property management system (PMS) at multiple Larkspur hotels in San Franciscos Union Square. SoftBrands .Net property management system is built on the Microsoft .Net Internet framework and prov...
The Historic La Posada Hotel in Laredo, Texas Completes Extensive $15 million Makeover / June 2007...
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report The Historic La Posada Hotel in Laredo, Texas Completes Extensive $15 million Makeover LAREDO, Texas, May 31, 2007 - The historic, resort-like La Posada Hotel on the banks of the Rio Grande in Laredo, Texas has completed an extensive $15 million makeover that combines the hotel's historic Spanish influence and colonial architecture with new floor-to-ceiling renovations. While the original 1916 facade remains, the hotel's reconstruction runs the gamut from a newly-designed lobby and Spanish contemporary public spaces including el Cafe restaurant, the award-winning Tesoro Club and the Tack Room...
Hilton Hotels Corporation and Hotel Owners Investing Up to $200 million to Develop 70 New Spas; New Guerlain and Acqua di Parma Spas to Be Featured at
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Hilton Hotels Corporation and Hotel Owners Investing Up to $200 million to Develop 70 New Spas . New Guerlain and Acqua di Parma Spas to Be Featured at The Waldorf=Astoria Collection, Conrad Hotels & Resorts, and Selected Hilton Hotels BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.-June 12, 2007 - In a strategic arrangement designed to redefine the global luxury hotel spa experience, Hilton Hotels Corporation (NYSE:HLT) has announced a partnership with Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH) brands Guerlain and Acqua di Parma and with Spa Chakra to offer exclusive spa services and boutique products in many of its luxur...
LTD Management Co. Building a $27 million Residence Inn by Marriott in Downtown Norfolk, Virginia, Without a City Subsidy! / June 2007...
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Harry Minium, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.McClatchy-Tribune Regional News Jun. 27, 2007 -- NORFOLK Downtown is getting yet another hotel, and this one won't require a city subsidy. LTD Management Co. of Chesapeake announced Wednesday it will build a 9-story Residence Inn by Marriott extended-stay hotel on Brambleton Avenue between Duke and Boush streets. The 160-unit, all-suites project will cost at least $27 million. Unlike two other hotel projects finalized earlier this year, this one will have no city su...
