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Melview Viaduct Harbour Limited and Starwood Hotels Planning a 173-room Westin Hotel On Auckland's Waterfront / August 2006
March 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Melview Viaduct Harbour Limited and Starwood Hotels Planning a 173-room Westin Hotel On Auckland's Waterfront Singapore, August 29, 2006 Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc (NYSE: HOT) and Melview Viaduct Harbour Limited announced today that Aucklands prestigious waterfront precinct will become home to a 173-room Westin hotel the first time the Westin brand has entered the New Zealand market. The Westin Auckland, Lighter Quay will be New Zealands first purpose built upper-upscale hotel and promises to become a new Auckland icon. Property developers of the hotel, Melview Viaduc...
March 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Indoor Waterpark Resort Numbers Increase in 06 . By: David J. Sangree, MAI, CPA, ISHC, August 2006 Indoor waterpark resorts have established themselves as a viable segment of the travel industry and expanded well beyond their Wisconsin base. During the period from 1994 to 2005, 80 indoor waterpark resorts opened or expanded their properties in the U.S. and Canada totaling approximately 2,208,000 square feet and offering over 19,000 hotel rooms. The number of indoor waterparks has grown significantly since their inception in the early 1980s, while the average number of hotel rooms attached to...
Warmbrodt Hotel Investments Advises in the Sale of the Clarion Hotel Sports Complex, Kansas City, MO / August 2006
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Hotel Online Special Report Warmbrodt Hotel Investments Advises in the Sale of the Clarion Hotel Sports Complex, Kansas City, MO KANSAS CITY, Missouri, August 28, 2006-WARMBRODT HOTEL INVESTMENTS, INC. (WHI), a Kansas City based hotel real estate firm, announced today it advised in the sale of the Clarion Hotel Sports Complex located in Kansas City, MO. The hotel is located directly across the street from The Truman Sports Complex, home of the Kansas City Chiefs, Kansas City Royals and Kansas City Wizards. The property was sold by Terrapin Investors, LLC to WHP Kansas City, LLC for an undisclosed amount. Plans f...
Wyndham Worldwide Spins Off From Cendant, Begins Trading as WYN / August 2006
March 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Wyndham Worldwide Spins Off From Cendant, Begins Trading as WYN PARSIPPANY, N.J., Aug. 1, 2006 - In a move that will create one of the world's largest publicly traded hospitality companies, Wyndham Worldwide Corporation today will spin off from Cendant Corporation and begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol WYN. Wyndham Worldwide, which became a member of Standard & Poor's S&P 500 index this week, is a global leader in leisure travel accommodations and a major provider of products and services to business-to-business customers. Its three business segments include: ...
Wendy Ramirez Named National Sales Manager at the San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau / August 2006
March 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Wendy Ramirez Named National Sales Manager at the San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau August 15, 2006 - Wendy Ramirez has been named National Sales Manager at the San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau (SFCVB). Ramirez will handle non-convention center corporate and association accounts in the Northeastern and Southeastern regions and internationally. She comes to the SFCVB after several years in group sales positions with Omni San Francisco Hotel, Hotel Nikko San Francisco and Kimpton Hotel Group. "We are excited to have the talent and experience that Wendy will bring...
John Emery, Great Wolf Resorts' CEO, Says Company Not for Sale / August 2006
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Hotel Online Special Report John Emery, Great Wolf Resorts' CEO, Says Company Not for Sale MADISON, Wis., Aug. 16, 2006 - Great Wolf Resorts, Inc. (Nasdaq: WOLF), America's leading family of indoor waterpark resorts, today said that the company has no plans to sell the company or engage an investment banking firm to explore the possible sale of the company. Yesterday, the company received a letter from Hayground Cove Asset Management LLC, a shareholder, in which Hayground encouraged the company's Board of Directors to engage an investment banker to explore a sale of Great Wolf Resorts. "Our board is mindful of its fid...
Turkish Businessman Serdar Bilgili Signs Starwood to Manage a 130 room W Hotel in Istanbul, Turkey / August 2006
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Hotel Online Special Report NEW YORK Aug. 2, 2006 -- W Hotels Worldwide, the fastest growing luxury hotel brand in the world, announced today plans for a new hotel in Istanbul, Turkey. The W Istanbul will embody a multicultural, multireligious city, situated at the point where Europe meets Asia, where centuries meet contemporary arts and where tradition meets trends. Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT), the parent company to W Hotels, entered into a management agreement with Akaretler Otel Isletmeciligive Turizm A.S., a company controlled by Mr. Serdar Bilgili, a prominent Turkish businessman, who will de...
March 30, 2006
Carol Verret Consulting and Training Consulting Training Seminars . . . . Identifying the WIIFM Factor The Essential of Hotel Sales Success by Carol Verret, August 2006 Hotel Sales Training that focuses on the sales process alone misses the point. There is no shortage of hotel sales people that know the process. The pace of business is so fast that a salesperson that continues to go through the steps often fails to hear buying signals. Has anyone noticed in those Smith Travel reports that the demand side of the REVPAR equation is little bit delicate? Mark Woodruff of PKF points out the implic...
March 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report 2006 Wisconsin Lodging Conference & Trade Show To Be Held In Lake Geneva October 3031, 2006 Lake Geneva, WI (August 25, 2006) The Wisconsin Innkeepers Association (WIA) announces the 2006 Wisconsin Lodging Conference & Trade Show October 3031 at the Grand Geneva Resort in Lake Geneva. WIA is the states largest lodging association and the 4th largest state lodging association in the country. This annual conference historically draws over 300 registrants and is the largest gathering of Wisconsin lodging owners and operators. This years conference features 75 vendors on the trade sho...
Intrawest Opens the The Appalachian Condominium Hotel Located Slopeside at the Mountain Creek Resort in Vernon, New Jersey / August 2006
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Hotel Online Special Report Intrawest Opens the The Appalachian Condominium Hotel Located Slopeside at the Mountain Creek Resort in Vernon, New Jersey VERNON, N.J., Aug. 15, 2006 - Mountain Creek resort officially opened The Appalachian, a condominium hotel, located slopeside at the resort in Vernon, New Jersey. A Grand Opening event welcomed The Appalachian's first phase homeowners to their new mountain resort homes, with the official ribbon cutting opening the building conducted by New Jersey's Governor Jon Corzine and Intrawest's Executive Vice President, Lorne Bassel. "The Appalachian is a fantasti...
Expecting to be Billetted in Tents, 100 Members of the Maryland National Guard Accommodated at the Loews Ventana Canyon Resort for 60 day Tour of Du
March 30, 2006
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Josh Brodesky, The Arizona Daily Star, TucsonMcClatchy-Tribune Business News Aug. 11, 2006--When 2nd Lt. Brian Zdunowski shipped out for border duty this summer for Operation Jump Start, luxury was far from his mind. Zdunowski, 34, was eager to see the Arizona-Mexico border. So when he and the other 100 or so members of the Maryland National Guard arrived Aug. 1 at Loews Ventana Canyon resort, which is regularly ranked one of the nation's top resorts, he was surprised. "We were told we would be here two to thre...
Artesia, California Motel Sued for Failure to Prevent a Child from Accessing Adult Television Channels / August 2006
March 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Artesia, California Motel Sued for Failure to Prevent a Child from Accessing Adult Television Channels NORWALK, Calif. - Aug. 23, 2006 -- A lawsuit was filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court in Norwalk today against Value Lodge. Edwina McCombs, a Tennessee resident visiting Southern California while on vacation with her two young daughters, brought the action against Value Lodge, located on Artesia Boulevard in Artesia, CA, for involuntarily subjecting her two young children to hard-core pornographic movies. Jarvis & Krieger, PC, Ms. McCombs' attorneys, filed the action today. According t...
Redesigning the Urban Spa Experience, Park Hyatt Washington Walk-in Bath Adds Glamor to $24 million Upgrade / August 2006
March 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Redesigning the Urban Spa Experience, Park Hyatt Washington Walk-in Bath Adds Glamor to $24 million Upgrade By Bernard Burt - www.SpaGoer.com, August 2006 Going against the trend to eliminate bathtubs, the Park Hyatt Washington rolled out a new concept of spa-inspired bathrooms designed by Tony Chi as part of a dramatic $24 million re-conception for this prime property in the nations capital. Located in the West End power corridor between Georgetown and Embassy Row, the elegant 215-room trendsetter is owned by the Pritzker family, founders of the Global Hyatt network. The concierge confir...
South Florida's Leading Hotel Union, Unite Here Local 355, in the Midst of an Internal Corruption Probe Targeting Two Top Organizers / August 2
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Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Douglas Hanks, The Miami HeraldMcClatchy-Tribune Business News Aug. 19, 2006 - Already facing a membership squeeze, South Florida's leading hotel union is in the midst of an internal corruption probe targeting two top organizers, according to union officials and documents. Outside investigators accuse Unite Here Local 355's president and secretary-treasurer of abusing their union expense accounts, filing bogus financial reports with the federal government and violating court orders barring the union from associating with cer...
King Ventures Acquires Two Bunch Palms Resort & Spa in Desert Hot Springs, California; Plans to Add High-end Residential Units / August 2006
March 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report King Ventures Acquires Two Bunch Palms Resort & Spa in Desert Hot Springs, California; Plans to Add High-end Residential Units By Bernard Burt - www.SpaGoer.com, August 2006 August 2006 - The new owners of Two Bunch Palms Resort & Spa in California have seen the light. After years of mud baths and thermal water therapies, the resort will soon add a healing arts program and a grass labyrinth. But the big bucks will come from sale of condos. Real estate development company King Ventures acquired Two Bunch Palms last May from Sinclair Resorts & Hotels Management, which bought it in 1996. King Ve...
Twin Tier Hospitality Acquires the Radisson Hotel Cleveland Airport / August 2006
March 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Twin Tier Hospitality Acquires the Radisson Hotel Cleveland Airport Sayre, PA, August 17, 2006 Twin Tier Hospitality today announced that it has acquired the Radisson Hotel Cleveland Airport based in Olmsted, OH. The 139 room hotel will be managed by Twin Tier Hospitality. We are very excited to have this property in our Ohio portfolio, said Rob Dmuchowski, Corporate Director, Sales and Marketing, Twin Tier Hospitality. With our two other hotels located in the Cleveland market we are looking forward to developing long term relationships within the community. Sandy Britton wi...
Developer Proposes a 246-room Westin Hotel with 72 Condos Adjacent to the Arena in Downtown Tulsa / August 2006
March 30, 2006
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Brian Barber, Tulsa World, Okla.McClatchy-Tribune Business News Aug. 20, 2006 - -A mammoth development that would include a hotel, condominiums, urban lofts, and retail and restaurant space is being proposed for the city's property for sale across the street from the BOK Center. The Westin at Tulsa Garden Square proposal was the only one submitted to the Tulsa Development Authority by the 5 p.m. Friday deadline. "Frankly, I'm surprised we didn't receive more than that," the authority's chairman, Carl Bracy, said. "We...
Dubai International Capital Plans Aggressive Expansion of Travelodge Hotels, Focus on Low Pricing / August 2006
March 30, 2006
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Middle East and North Africa Business Report, Amman, JordanMcClatchy-Tribune Business News Aug. 20, 2006 - Travelodge, the UK's fastest growing hotel company has today been acquired by Dubai International Capital ("DIC"), a private equity firm, for a consideration of £675 million from the Permira Funds. The acquisition is unconditional and is expected to complete by late September. Following completion of the transaction, Keith Hamill (Chairman), Grant Hearn (Chief Executive), Guy Parsons (Chief Operating Officer) and Jon M...
TravelCLICK Selected by The Hotel Windsor in Melbourne for Integrated Distribution and Marketing Solution; Total solution – featuring iHotelier
March 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report TravelCLICK Selected by The Hotel Windsor in Melbourne for Integrated Distribution and Marketing Solution Total solution featuring iHotelier advanced central reservations and web booking engine provides revenue delivery platform for Australias Grand hotel CHICAGO (August 2, 2006) TravelCLICK Inc., a leading provider of hotel business process management (BPM) solutions, announced today that The Hotel Windsor in Melbourne, Australia, has selected TravelCLICK for its integrated distribution and marketing solution. Featuring the iHotelier central reservation system (CRS) for...
TierOne Hospitality Solutions, Inc. Partners with Chase Business Systems Ltd. to Bring Premier Spa+, the Internationally Renowned Spa Management Softw
March 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report TierOne Hospitality Solutions, Inc. Partners with Chase Business Systems Ltd. to Bring Premier Spa+, the Internationally Renowned Spa Management Software, to the USA and Canada Richmond Hill, ON, Canada (August 8, 2006)...TierOne Hospitality Solutions, Inc. a leader in next-generation technology is recognized as a key provider of total enterprise solutions for the hospitality market in Canada and the USA, covering a broad range of the market from small independent hotels and resorts to the major players in the industry. Chase Business Systems, Ltd. already industry leaders throughout Europe ...
Golden Tulip Works for 8 months Developing the Concept for In-house Restaurant, Bar & Lounge: The Lodge / August 2006
March 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Golden Tulip Works for 8 months Developing the Concept for In-house Restaurant, Bar & Lounge: The Lodge Amersfoort (NL), Lausanne (CH) August 8th, 2006, Golden Tulip Hospitality is proud to announce the launch of: THE LODGE Restaurant, Bar & Lounge. The first brand new LODGE will open its doors in Hamburg at the Golden Tulip Hamburg Aviation in December of this year, followed by the Tulip Inn Düsseldorf Arena in January of 2007. In the existing operated hotels in The Netherlands, the concept will be introduced in the fall, starting in September. The LODGE is a comfortable rest...
Despite Pressure from Conservative Groups to Eliminate Adult Films in Hotel Rooms, Most Hotels Not Changing their Ways / August 2006
March 30, 2006
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Despite Pressure from Conservative Groups to Eliminate Adult Films in Hotel Rooms, Most Hotels Not Changing their Ways By Sue Stock, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.McClatchy-Tribune Business News August 24, 2006 - Despite renewed pressure from conservative groups to eliminate adult films in hotel rooms, most Triangle hotels that carry them are refusing to change their ways. Hotel owners say they are giving customers an option that is in demand and that the films boost the bottom line. Customers can always choose not to watch the films, said Brian McGee, vice pr...
The Reorganized Trump Entertainment Resorts, Inc. Reports 2nd Qtr 2006 Net Loss of $4.9 million; Trump Taj Mahal Adding New 800-room Hotel Tower / Au
March 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report The Reorganized Trump Entertainment Resorts, Inc. Reports 2nd Qtr 2006 Net Loss of $4.9 million; Trump Taj Mahal Adding New 800-room Hotel Tower ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Aug. 1, 2006 -- Trump Entertainment Resorts, Inc. (the "Company") (NASDAQ NMS: TRMP) today reported its operating results for the second quarter and six months ended June 30, 2006. The Company's loss from continuing operations was ($4.9) million or ($0.16) per share for the quarter ended June 30, 2006 and ($14.7) million or ($0.48) per share for the six months ended June 30, 2006. As a result of the Company's reorganization com...
Maximizing Revenue Through Strategic Use of Technology / Terry Cunningham, President and CEO, InfoGenesis / August 2006
March 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Maximizing Revenue Through Strategic Use of Technology By Terry Cunningham, President and CEO InfoGenesis August 2006 - In the not too distant past, hospitality companies relied on their intuitive sense of business and flawed data gathering to try and come up with a strategy that would lead them to success. The insurmountable task for most was having to maintain the proper level of guest service while focusing on profits. This resulted in a balancing act that often failed to produce the desired long-term results. As the strategy was executed, many also found that traditional reporting method...
