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Noble House Hotels and HBF Holdings Acquire the 475 room Palm Springs Riviera Resort & Racquet Club; Hotel Closes for Ambitious 18 month $50 million R
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Noble House Hotels and HBF Holdings Acquire the 475 room Palm Springs Riviera Resort & Racquet Club; Hotel Closes for Ambitious 18 month $50 million Renovation PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (May 31, 2006) -- Continuing to grow its portfolio of luxury properties, Noble House Hotels & Resorts has purchased the Palm Springs Riviera Resort & Racquet Club, a legendary 24-acre property which in its heyday played host to luminaries such as Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Gerald Ford, Jayne Mansfield and Elvis Presley. According to Noble House Chairman Pat Colee, his company, in partnership with Phoenix...
Peter Högh Pedersen Appointed General Manager of Hilton Cebu Resort & Spa; Maria Lourdes Aguilar Named Director of Sales and Marketing / May 200
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Peter Högh Pedersen Appointed General Manager of Hilton Cebu Resort & Spa; Maria Lourdes Aguilar Named Director of Sales and Marketing 11 May 2006, Cebu & Singapore Hilton International has appointed Peter Högh Pedersen as General Manager of Hilton Cebu Resort & Spa, with effect 1 May 2006. Pedersen joins the international hospitality chains first and only Hilton Worldwide Resort in the Philippines, from Hilton Sharks Bay Resort in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt where he was responsible for the entire pre-opening set up, through to launch. Pedersen has been responsible ...
Management Companies Seeing Big Value in Effective Preventive-Maintenance Programs / May 2006...
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Hotel Management Companies Seeing Big Value in Effective Preventive-Maintenance Programs . From huge national firms to small regional operators, management companies are turning to PMWorks as their preferred preventive-maintenance tool MIAMI MAY 8, 2006 A clear trend is emerging in the hospitality industry that is having a positive impact both on guest satisfaction and hotels bottom lines. Its called preventive maintenance, and nowhere is it being applied with more success than by hotel-management companies that recognize this crucial component to successful operationand enha...
U.S. Hotels: Revenues and Profits Rise, But So Do Expenses / 2006 Trends in the Hotel Industry / May 2006...
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report U.S. Hotels: Revenues and Profits Rise, But So Do Expenses - 2006 Trends in the Hotel Industry Atlanta, May 23, 2006: In 2005, U.S. hotels were able to turn a healthy 8.8 percent rise in total revenue into an impressive 15.5 percent increase in profits according to the recently released 2006 edition of Trends in the Hotel Industry published by PKF Hospitality Research (PKF-HR), an affiliate of PKF Consulting. This marks the second consecutive year of double-digit profit growth for U.S. hotels. However, expenses continue to escalate at a level more than twice the rate of...
PKF Study Suggests Hotel Investment Market Still Positive Despite Peak-of-Cycle Behavior / May 2006...
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report PKF Study Suggests Hotel Investment Market Still Positive Despite Peak-of-Cycle Behavior ATLANTA, GA., May 30, 2006 -- Hard statistical evidence gleaned from interviews of U.S. hotel investors and lenders conducted in the 2006 first half suggest that domestic hotel markets are fully recovered from the damaging economic and horrendous social events early in the decade. Furthermore, there is increasing evidence in the hotel real estate investment markets that the industry may be closer to the peak of this cycle than the beginning. These observations come from an analysis of dat...
Philip S. Harris Promoted to General Counsel and Chief Executive Officer, Shilo Inns / May 2006...
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Philip S. Harris Promoted to General Counsel and Chief Executive Officer, Shilo Inns PORTLAND, OR May 1, 2006 - Shilo Inns, the Portland-based hotel chain, has announced that Philip S. Harris has been promoted to General Counsel and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Harris, who joined the company in August 2005 as Co-General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer, will take over from 30-year Shilo veteran, John Kneeland who retired, April 30, 2006. Growth, including the ongoing construction of the brand new 160 room Full-Service Shilo Inn Suites Hotel, in Killeen Texas, is a big part of ...
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February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Checked Your Hotels Reviews Lately? . Odorous hotel rooms are getting stinky reviews on travel sites; Is your hotel up to sniff? By Dean Gruber, May 2006 Ever feel like the Internet was created specifically to sell travel? Beautiful pictures and virtual tours of your hotel or resort are really helping to increase online bookings. Likewise the colorful dialog and marketing-rich descriptions of your rooms and amenities are painting an even prettier picture. But guess what? Travelers are using the same venue to write not-so-favorable reviews on your hotel. And, using even-more-colorful...
Big Boost in Time-share Ownership Has Orlando Hoteliers and Orange County Hotel Occupancy Tax Collectors Worried / May 2006...
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Tim Barker, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 30, 2006 - For months, Orlando hoteliers have worried about a pair of seemingly conflicting facts. On one hand, they keep hearing estimates of record numbers of tourists coming to the state. On the other, their occupancy rates are falling. Where, they ask, are all these people sleeping? Cars? Campgrounds? The homes of friends or relatives? The answer appears to be: time shares. In 2001, 10 percent of Orlando visitors st...
Opportunity Is Knocking – Will Hoteliers Answer the Door? / Joseph M. Gravish / May 2006...
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Opportunity Is Knocking - Will Hoteliers Answer the Door? By Joseph M. Gravish (May, 2006) A series of recent articles touts the resurgence of the travel industry. Higher airline ticket and vehicle gas prices appear to have been absorbed by the consumer. Airplanes are flying at or very near capacity as business travel remains strong. Theme park sales are up 7% as parents are apparently hard-pressed to tell Jane and Johnny that there will be no vacation this year because the price of gas has risen 50% in the past year. This is much needed good news for the hospitality industry in...
The Opening is Two Years Away, But the $115 million Omni Fort Worth Hotel Sets Up Advisory Board to Weigh In On Everything from Volume of Lobby Musi
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By David Wethe, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 6, 2006 - The opening is more than two years away, but the $115 million Omni Fort Worth Hotel has already lined up several retail concepts aimed not only at out-of-towners, but at Cowtowners as well. It's helping to up the ante in the high-stakes gamble of upscale hotels in downtown Fort Worth. Officials for Irving-based Omni Hotels say they will have a Bob's Steak & Chop House, a Starbucks coffee shop, an upscale wine bar, an...
Orange County California Tourism Set to Hit Another High Mark; Disneyland's 50th Anniversary Boosts Attendance, Hotel Room Rates / Sandi Cain / M
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Orange County California Tourism Set to Hit Another High Mark; Disneyland's 50th Anniversary Boosts Attendance, Hotel Room Rates By Sandi Cain, Orange County Business Journal Staff May 2006 Orange Countys tourism industry continues to ride the coattails of Disneylands 50th anniversary, which has drawn record crowds to the theme parks and the county. Forecasts call for OC to continue attracting record crowds at least into next year, though Walt Disney Co. will end its party in September. The trend suggests this year could be better than last year, said Disneyland Resort Presiden...
Slim Growth in Orange County, California Hotel Room Count; Hoteliers Expecting a Very Strong Summer / Sandi Cain / May 2006...
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Slim Growth in Orange County, California Hotel Room Count; Hoteliers Expecting a Very Strong Summer By andi Cain - Orange County Business Journal Staff May 2006 Just One Debut on Top Hotels List; 20,874 Rooms at OCs Biggest Orange Countys largest hotels have kept a firm grip on their ranking among the top 50 hotels during the past three years. Only one new hotel cracked the list this year: the 252-room Doubletree Guest Suites Anaheim Resort/Convention Center, which opened in March. The list ranks the countys largest hotels by number of rooms. The total number of rooms on...
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February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report MSIs NovaPlus Wins Continued Acceptance, Best Western Two-Way Interface to be Deployed MSI software enhancements, turnkey solutions to complete two-way interface; Tucson Best Western is first to deploy new NovaPlus hardware/software upgrade PHOENIX MAY 11, 2006 Multi-Systems Inc. (MSI), the leading supplier of fully integrated property-management and marketing systems, completed a comprehensive survey of its NovaPlus PMS users which confirmed the value of the product and its benefits, and validated MSIs continuing strategy to grow the product and complete the Best Western Two-...
Noble Investment Group Acquires Former Wyndham Metairie Hotel in New Orleans, La.; Hotel to Re-Flag as Sheraton Brand Following Multi-Million Dollar U
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Noble Investment Group Acquires Former Wyndham Metairie Hotel in New Orleans, La.; Hotel to Re-Flag as Sheraton Brand Following Multi-Million Dollar Upgrade NEW ORLEANS, La., May 11, 2006 Officials of Noble Investment Group, one of the hospitality industrys leading owners and operators of luxury and upscale hotels, today announced that it has acquired the four-year-old, former Wyndham Metairie Hotel in the New Orleans airport market. This summer, following a multi-million dollar upgrade, the hotel will convert to the Sheraton brand. Noble is pleased to make this investment in the...
Nine Tips to Create a Dominant Hotel Web Site / Neil Salerno / May 2006...
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Nine Tips to Create a Dominant Hotel Web Site By: Neil Salerno May 2006 Many hoteliers today agree that the only way to really measure the effectiveness a hotel web site is to track the number of reservations being generated from it. For those of you who are still satisfied with simply knowing how many visitors your site gets, you may be missing the big picture. More visitors dont necessarily mean you are getting more reservations. There are actually two separate issues at hand; one, driving visitors to your site and two, converting lookers into bookers once they visit. Many people a...
Jack Nicklaus Begins Work on a Signature Golf Course in Istria, Croatia / May 2006...
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Jack Nicklaus Begins Work on a Signature Golf Course in Istria, Croatia May 19, 2006 - Jack Nicklaus organisation doesnt invest in dud deals. Any wise investor would do well to note where he is building his golf courses. A few days ago Jack travelled to Zagreb, Croatia, to meet with the Prime Minister, Dr Ivo Sanader, and other government officials. They agreed on a plan and now Jack is set to begin work on a Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course. Right now Croatia has only three working courses catering for a population of 4.4 million. If they all decided to play on the same day I guess th...
Neptune Hospitality Advisors Arranges Sale of Downtown San Diego Hotel / April 2006...
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online .Special Report Neptune Hospitality Advisors Arranges Sale of Downtown San Diego Hotel SAN DIEGO, California - - May 15, 2006 - - Neptune Hospitality Advisors announced today that it has arranged the sale of the 68-room StayBridge Suites Hotel located in downtown San Diego, California. The hotel sold to Trendwest Resorts, Inc, a subsidiary of Cendant Timeshare Resort Group, Inc. Trendwest plans to convert the hotel into a timeshare property. The sale price was not disclosed. The StayBridge, which opened in early 2004, is actually a 78-year old building formerly known as the Riviera Apartments/H...
Orient-Express Hotels Acquiring the Napasai, a Luxury Hotel and Villa Development on Koh Samui island in the Gulf of Siam / May 2006...
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Orient-Express Hotels Acquiring the Napasai, a Luxury Hotel and Villa Development on Koh Samui island in the Gulf of Siam HAMILTON, Bermuda, May 25, 2006 - Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. (NYSE: OEH), owner and operator of 50 deluxe leisure properties in 25 countries, today announced it has agreed to acquire a 100% interest in Napasai, a luxury hotel and villa development located on Koh Samui island in the Gulf of Siam, about one hour's flight from Bangkok, Thailand. The company will pay $25 million in total for the hotel, 8 adjacent villas that are available for sale and a large parcel of land ...
Benchmark Appoints Nicole Ferrer Director of Sales & Marketing for Danfords on the Sound / May 2006...
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Benchmark Appoints Nicole Ferrer Director of Sales & Marketing for Danfords on the Sound The Woodlands (Houston), Texas, May 2006 - Benchmark Hospitality International has formally announced the appointment of Nicole Ferrer as director of sales & marketing for the 86-guestroom Danfords on the Sound, located in Port Jefferson, Long Island, New York. Stewart Weiner, general manager, made the announcement. This represents a reappointment for Ms. Ferrer, who for four years held the same role at the property when it was under previous management. "Nicole is a first-rate hospitality profe...
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February 28, 2006
Room With a View by Larry Mundy May 2006 Its time to talk about guest privacy. Actually, at the moment its time for lunch, but I have a deadline to submit a column, so Ill talk about guest privacy and youll agree to forgive the ramen-noodle stains on the draft, OK? When you think about it, privacy is pretty much what your guests are paying your room rate for. If they didnt care about privacy, you wouldnt need to have rooms at all. You could just erect a huge, open structure and fill it with beds, like they do in school gymnasiums after a natural disaster flattens a neighborhood. Two big restr...
The Future of Hotel Reservations / Room With a View – a Column by Larry Mundy / May 2006...
February 28, 2006
Room With a View by Larry Mundy May 2006 I keep hearing that by 2008, 113% of the rooms booked in the U.S. will be sold through the Internet. If thats true, we need to start planning now, what to do with all those useless telephones and reservations agents and brand directories. You know those museums where you see a wax figure of a telephone operator plugging patch cords into a big console to connect calls? Someday that same museum will have a wax figure of a reservationist wearing a little headset and staring at a GDS screen and visitors will remark, How quaint. To get something as simple as a hotel re...
Soon Every Town in America Will Have an Unused Convention Center / Room With a View – a Column by Larry Mundy / May 2006...
February 28, 2006
Room With a View by Larry Mundy May 2006 There are, quite simply, not enough conventions in this country. Thats not to say that we are for some reason an antisocial people. Most of us like to get together in big groups and hear uplifting speakers and chat with our colleagues from other cities and eat the standard rubber chicken and squishy peas that are the staple of lunch for 1,000 people, when the facilitys banquet kitchen is the size of a suburban bathroom. Well, maybe we dont like that part, but we do like to get together, and well suffer all the considerable indignities of travel to get there. And...
Hotel Pool Safety 101 / Room With a View – a Column by Larry Mundy / May 2006...
February 28, 2006
Room With a View by Larry Mundy May 2006 There are two kinds of hotel pools, the kind that fitness-conscious adults swim laps in, and the kind that a dozen children splash and pee in. But because pools are expensive, high-maintenance, and dont add a nickel to your ADR, one pool must serve both types of users. The pool is really unique, among all your common-area amenities in this regard. Children are rarely seen in your fine-dining restaurant. Adults never congregate in the video arcade. Kids arent allowed in the exercise room, and shouldnt be. Press the sprint button on the treadmill, and some 5...
Where Not To Build a Hotel / Room With a View – a Column by Larry Mundy / May 2006...
February 28, 2006
Room With a View by Larry Mundy May 2006 The economy is improving. People are traveling again. Things are looking up for the hotel business. You know what that means, of course. It means hotel developers are in high gear planning, financing and building new projects. If they hurry, and there are no glitches in zoning, and the loan terms are favorable, and construction gets started before winter, then maybe, just maybe, the new hotel can be opened just as the industry enters another down cycle. Actually, if enough new hotels are opened, that can cause the next down cycle all by itself, but thats anoth...
