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Pam Ferraro Named Revenue Manager at the Thayer Hotel at West Point, New York / April 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Pam Ferraro Named Revenue Manager at the Thayer Hotel at West Point, New York West Point, NY (April 2007) The historic Thayer Hotel has recently appointed Pam Ferraro of Newburgh, NY as its Revenue Manager. Ms. Ferraros responsibilities include management of the front desk, concierge, security, maintenance, and housekeeping departments. In addition, she is involved in sales for the hotel. Prior to joining the Thayer Hotel, Ms. Ferraro was General Manager of the Holiday Inn and Conference Center in Fishkill, NY for the past year. She received a promotion to General Ma...
Deep Divisions Among Oregon Wine Growers May Prevent Development of Two High-end Destination Hotels / April 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Dana Tims, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.McClatchy-Tribune Business News Apr. 5, 2007 - Plans for the Oregon wine country's first luxury hotel are on hold while attorneys representing those for and against the project decide whether to appeal a state land-use ruling. But one wine industry leader says it won't be long before at least two high-end destination hotels spring up to accommodate the surging numbers of affluent wine-lovers seeking out the state's increasingly celebrated pinot noir. "I'll guarantee you t...
Measuring Results from Marketing Spend in Hospitality: Using Metrics and Analytics for Quantifiable Results / Free vs. Paid Website Analytics / Max St
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Measuring Results from Marketing Spend in Hospitality: Using Metrics and Analytics for Quantifiable Results . Free vs. Paid Website Analytics By Max Starkov and Jason Price, April 2007 Introduction Marketing is all about results. Unlike offline marketing, we can track and analyze ROIs from our online marketing campaign results quickly and accurately over the Internet. There is no medium that allows tracking like the Internet does, yet in hospitality, we didnt adopt these tracking technologies as soon as they were available. Instead we relied on cheap or free analytical tools to pr...
What Makes Travel 2.0 Different From the First, Booking-oriented Wave, Also the Realities of Search Marketing / HSMAI Reports / April 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report What Makes Travel 2.0 Different From the First, Booking-oriented Wave, Also the Realities of Search Marketing / HSMAI Reports Conference Featured Online Behavior and Travel Search MCLEAN, VA (April 13, 2007) Empower consumers to organize content themselves, and create conversations with consumers, urged Philip Wolf, founder, president and CEO of PhoCusWright, Inc. in his opening address on Travel 2.0 Confronts the Establishment at the Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association Internationals (HSMAI) 8th Travel Internet Marketing Strategy Conference, which took place in L...
Omni's Sensory Activation Mission Includes Attaching a Fresh-Berry Scented Sticker to Each USA TODAY / April 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Omni's Sensory Activation Mission Includes Attaching a Fresh-Berry Scented Sticker to Each USA TODAY IRVING, Texas, April 2, 2007 - Beginning today, Omni Hotels' guests will wake up to the aroma of fresh berries along with their daily issue of USA TODAY for the next six months. As part of Omni's innovative sensory activation mission, the luxury hotel brand has forged a partnership with the nation's top-selling newspaper to stimulate the sniffer by attaching a special berry-scented sticker to each issue. The luxury hotel brand and USA TODAY developed the sticker as a nod to the scratch-and-...
Omni Hotels Redefines the Ho-hum Reputation of Standard Hotel Breakfast with All-Natural Meats, Cage Free Eggs and Organic Shade-Grown Coffee / April
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Omni Hotels Redefines the Ho-hum Reputation of Standard Hotel Breakfast with All-Natural Meats, Cage Free Eggs and Organic Shade-Grown Coffee IRVING, Texas, April 24, 2007 - Breakfast is typically the most commonly eaten meal at hotels. Unfortunately, the offerings are often described as just that ... common. Omni Hotels' new morning masterpiece, "The Art of Breakfast," aims to redefine the ho-hum reputation of standard hotel breakfast. Omni Hotels started with a fresh palette and the intent to elevate the most basic ingredients and join them with mouthwatering signature elements. The new b...
City of Omaha Facing Restructuring of $103 million in Bonds Used to Build the 450 room Hilton Omaha; Hotel Revenues Have Not Met Projections / April
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By C. David Kotok, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.McClatchy-Tribune Business News Apr. 21, 2007 - The immediate pressure may ease for Omaha taxpayers to pick up the bill for new plush pillows, firm mattresses, silky sheets and new televisions for the city-owned Hilton Omaha. The Fahey administration could avoid tapping tax dollars to help pay for upkeep at the same time the city makes interest and principal payments on the original hotel construction debt. The good news for taxpayers would be achieved through a technique...
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Raymond Management Company and Marsh Pitman Break Ground on the 200 room Hampton Inn & Suites Oklahoma City / Bricktown OKLAHOMA CITY, OK., April 19, 2007 Raymond Management Company, a Madison, WI-based multi-brand hotel company, and Marsh Pitman, an Oklahoma City real estate developer, have jointly announced the groundbreaking of the new Hampton Inn & Suites Oklahoma City / Bricktown in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Scheduled to open in summer of 2008, the upscale mid-priced property will feature 200 guest rooms and suites. Raymond Management Company selected Oklahoma City, Oklah...
Niagara Falls Enters a New Tourist Season in a Leadership Slump; Several Key Tourism Execs Leave / April 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Gail Franklin, The Buffalo News, N.Y.McClatchy-Tribune Business News Apr. 22--Niagara Falls will enter the new tourist season in a leadership slump. Since last season, the county's top tourism pitchman has left. The man who headed the downtown hotel and business associations had to step down. The city conference center manager is gone. The top two executives at the Seneca Niagara Casino quit. The head of the countywide Chamber of Commerce is leaving next month. And the state...
Relationship Building – New Generation of Hospitality Sales Professionals Lesson #6 / David Brudney / David Brudney / April 2007
February 28, 2007
By David M. Brudney, ISHC, April 2007 . (sixth in a series) . Were in the business of making friends. That statement - - made by Keith Fowler of Anheuser-Busch - - resonated with me very early in my hospitality Sales career. Making friendships and maintaining those relationships is very important for most everyone, but for those of us in Sales it is an absolute cornerstone for successful selling. Those initial contacts made by todays new generation of hospitality Sales professionals represent potential clients and referral sources for a career lifetime. Its all about relationships Building relationships w...
Nonsmoking Nevada Casinos a Matter of When, Not If; the Nevada Clean Indoor Air Act's Exemption for Casinos Not Expected to Last / April 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Arnold M. Knightly, Las Vegas Review-JournalMcClatchy-Tribune Business News Apr. 8, 2007 - Gaming companies would rather not discuss the prospect of Nevada casinos being forced to go nonsmoking in the near future. One local gaming company spokeswoman said when asked about the possibility that "the company wasn't going to deal with conjecture." But the writing may be on the wall. In November, voters passed the Nevada Clean Indoor Air Act, which banned smoking in most public spaces, including restaurants, ...
Neptune Hospitality Advisors Arranges $31.9 million Loan for the Purchase of the Sheraton Oklahoma City Hotel / April 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online .Special Report Neptune Hospitality Advisors Arranges $31.9 million Loan for the Purchase of the Sheraton Oklahoma City Hotel SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA - - April 23, 2007 - - Neptune Hospitality Advisors, acting as exclusive financial advisor, has arranged the senior financing for the purchase of the 395-room Sheraton Oklahoma City Hotel in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Neptune arranged the $31,900,500 fixed-rate interest-only loan through a global investment bank. The property will receive a $3,800,000 renovation and will remain a Sheraton. The hotel was acquired by American Property Management Corporation (...
Nevada's Gaming Win for February 2007 was $1.055 billion, Up 2.9% from $1.026 billion a Year Ago / April 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review-JournalMcClatchy-Tribune Business News Apr. 11, 2007 -February's hosting of the NBA All-Star Game brought to the Strip marquee athletes and big-name celebrities, as well as large crowds of visitors and volumes of national and international attention -- both good and bad. What the festivities didn't bring was gamblers. Nevada's gaming win for February was $1.055 billion, a 2.9 percent increase from $1.026 billion a year ago, according to figures released Tuesday by the Gaming Contr...
New Mexico Tourism Department Launches New Advertising Campaign – The Best Place In The Universe. New Mexico, Earth / April 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report New Mexico Tourism Department Launches New Advertising Campaign - "The Best Place In The Universe. New Mexico, Earth" SANTA FE, N.M. From balloon fiestas to lava flow caverns, world-class skiing to pristine white sand fields, private spaceports to opera under the stars, New Mexico has a million amazing things to see and do. The state has long drawn tourists from near and far; now it has started attracting them from other worlds. . . That's the creative idea behind the New Mexico Tourism Department's new ad campaign - "The Best Place In The Universe. New Mexico, Earth." - develop...
New Generation Hospitality Acquires the Somerset Hills Hotel in Warren, NJ; the Inn @ Somerset in Baskin Ridge, NJ; and the Four Points by Sheraton in
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive New Generation Hospitality Acquires the Somerset Hills Hotel in Warren, NJ, the Inn @ Somerset in Baskin Ridge, NJ, and the Four Points by Sheraton in Allentown, PA , Plans to Brand the Inn at Somerset Hills as a Hotel Indigo April 9, 2007 New Generation Hospitality (NGH) announced today that it has completed the acquisition of the Somerset Hills Hotel in Warren, NJ and the Inn at Somerset Hills in Basking Ridge, NJ. In addition to this acquisition, NGH also acquired the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel and Suites Allentown Jetport, Allentown Pa. at the Lehigh Valley ...
Free Mystery Shopping / April 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Free Mystery Shopping Dallas, TX - April 23, 2007 Revenue Source One announced today that the company would be providing free telephone Mystery Shopping to a limited number of companies. Jay Delerno, President of Revenue Source One said, we are offering these free Mystery Shops to a few companies to demonstrate the state of the art technology we use. Our reservations and sales/catering department shops are unique in a number of ways. Some of the unique features of the Mystery Shopping performed by Revenue Source One are: E-mail delivery of call results. Call r...
Mospromstoi, a Moscow Based Hotel Ownership Company, Selects Interstate Hotels & Resorts to Manage Two Holiday Inns in Downtown Moscow / April 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Mospromstoi, a Moscow Based Hotel Ownership Company, Selects Interstate Hotels & Resorts to Manage Two Holiday Inns in Downtown Moscow Interstate Adds Sixth and Seventh Hotel to Moscow Management Portfolio ARLINGTON, Va., April 16, 2007 - Interstate Hotels & Resorts (NYSE: IHR), one of the nation's largest independent hotel management companies, today announced that the company has been selected to manage two Holiday Inn hotels in downtown Moscow, Russia: the 301-room Holiday Inn Moscow Lesnaya Hotel and the 312-room Holiday Inn Moscow Suschevsky Hotel. Both properties ...
Real Estate Developer Andrew Farkas Wants to Redevelop the Montauk Yacht Club into a World Class Yachting Destination / April 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Daniel Wagner, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.McClatchy-Tribune Business News Apr. 16, 2007 --For international maritime real estate developer Andrew Farkas, buying and developing the Montauk Yacht Club Resort & Marina is something of a homecoming. Farkas built his career on residential real estate investment, founding what would become the nation's largest owner of apartments before taking the company public and selling it off. Insignia Financial Group, the business he started, eventually merged with CB Richard Ellis ...
A Tightly Scripted Schedule – Mohegan Sun Renovating Its 1,176 Hotel Rooms While Keeping Every Floor Open On Weekends / April 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Mark Peters, The Hartford Courant, Conn.McClatchy-Tribune Business News Apr. 3, 2007 - MONTVILLE -- At the Mohegan Sun, a renovation of the casino's 34-story hotel is unfolding like a television home improvement show on steroids. Its title might be "45 Rooms in Five Days." Floor by floor, contractors and hotel employees are redoing 1,176 rooms in the casino's sleek glass tower. The more than $13 million project includes new carpeting and wallpaper, a fresh coat of paint, a brighter style of linens and drapes, r...
Chef Robert Nyerick and Food and Beverage Director Leopold Krenn Join Miramonte Resort & Spa, Indian Wells, California / April 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Chef Robert Nyerick and Food and Beverage Director Leopold Krenn Join Miramonte Resort & Spa, Indian Wells, California Indian Wells, Calif. April 4, 2007 - Mark Hickey, vice president of operations for Destination Hotels & Resorts, recently announced appointments to the culinary leadership team at the companys Miramonte Resort & Spa in Indian Wells, Calif. Executive Chef Robert Nyerick will oversee culinary operations at Restaurante Brissago and all banquet operations, while Leopold Krenn was appointed food and beverage director for the property. Chef Nyericks style and ...
American Resort Management, LLC, Selected to Manage Mille Lacs Golf Resort and Marina, Lake Mille Lacs, Minnesota / April 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive American Resort Management, LLC, Selected to Manage Mille Lacs Golf Resort and Marina, Lake Mille Lacs, Minnesota Garrison, MN (March. 01, 2007) Christenson Development, Inc and American Resort Management, LLC, a premier Hotel, Resort and Indoor Water Park Management Company, today announced completion of a multi-year management agreement. The Mille Lacs Golf Resort & Marina is owned by Christenson Development, Inc. (www.millelacsgolf.com) and will be professionally managed by American Resort Management, LLC www.americanresortmanagement.com). The Mille Lacs Golf Res...
Mentoring To The Max; Frontline Supervisors Often Caught in the Middle / Doug Kennedy / April 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Mentoring To The Max; Frontline Supervisors Often Caught in the Middle by Doug Kennedy, April 2007 It is definitely arguable that the role of supervisor or assistant manager in a hotel environment is perhaps one of the most stressful positions on the organizational chart. While everyone has superiors and subordinates, frontline supervisors and assistant managers are often caught in the middle of competing needs of stakeholders ranging from executive-level managers through frontline employees, not to mention being called upon to handle the most difficult and out of hand guests. That bei...
Maxim Hotel Brokerage Announces Western Region Hotel & Casino Transactions / April 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Maxim Hotel Brokerage Announces Western Region Hotel & Casino Transactions April 17, 2007 - Maxim Hotel Brokerage Announces the Following First Quarter 2007 Casino and Hotel Sales Transactions: . Silver Nugget Casino and RV Park and Opera House Casino, North Las Vegas, NV Maxim represented a private Las Vegas seller in the sale of these two well known locals-oriented casinos in North Las Vegas. Both are located on N Las Vegas Boulevard and the Silver Nugget included 20 acres of land. Both casinos have grandfather-protected licenses for non-restricted gaming. The Las Vegas based purchaser p...
Makar Properties Acquires the 1,572-room Hilton Anaheim Hotel in Orange County, California; Plans Full Renovation, Repositioning / April 2007
February 28, 2007
Hotel Online Special Report Makar Properties Acquires the 1,572-room Hilton Anaheim Hotel in Orange County, California; Plans Full Renovation, Repositioning NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - April 4, 2007 - Makar Properties, LLC, has announced that an affiliated joint venture acquired the 1,572-room Hilton Anaheim Hotel in Orange County, California, for an undisclosed amount. As the largest hotel in Orange County by room count, with award-winning facilities and an experienced staff, the Hilton is widely recognized as Anaheims premier convention and resort facility. Makar will begin to reposition the property with plans f...
