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St. Regis Resort, Bora Bora Opens in French Polynesia; Milton Sgarbi, the Opening GM / June 2006
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report St. Regis Resort, Bora Bora Opens in French Polynesia; Milton Sgarbi, the Opening GM BORA BORA, French Polynesia (June 20, 2006) -- St. Regis Resort, Bora Bora has officially opened, marking the legendary brands first resort in French Polynesia and introducing an unrivaled dimension of luxury and hospitality to the South Pacific. The magnificent 44-acre property offers the most luxurious accommodations in the region -- with construction costs exceeding $1 million per villa -- combined with St. Regis personalized services and amenities, including 24-hour concierge, room service and t...
Fairmont And Apollo Partner On Scotland's 209-room St Andrews Bay Golf Resort & Spa / June 2006
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Fairmont And Apollo Partner On Scotland's 209-room St Andrews Bay Golf Resort & Spa TORONTO, June 7, 2006 - Fairmont Hotels & Resorts is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement to manage the St Andrews Bay Golf Resort & Spa in Scotland. Apollo European Real Estate Fund II, L.P. will purchase the resort from Chateau Elan Hotels & Resorts, with financing from Bank of Scotland Corporate. Fairmont will assume management of the 209-room resort on July 1, 2006 under a long-term management contract and the property will be reflagged early Fall 2006. This latest acquisition expand...
Sonnenblick-Eichner Company Arranges $236 million in Construction Financing for Viceroy Anguilla Resort and Residences, Anguilla, B.W.I. / June 2006
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Sonnenblick-Eichner Company Arranges $236 million in Construction Financing for Viceroy Anguilla Resort and Residences, Anguilla, B.W.I. Los Angeles, CA June 21, 2006 - Sonnenblick-Eichner Company announced today that it has arranged $236,000,000 in construction financing for the Viceroy Anguilla Resort and Residences located on the Caribbean island of Anguilla in the British West Indies. The financing was obtained from a U.S. money center bank and closed without any syndication contingencies. . . The financing follows two other facilities arranged by Sonnenblick-Eichner Company inc...
Despite Setback in Redevelopment Plans, the Sonesta Beach Resort Key Biscayne Will Lay Off Entire Staff of 385 When the Resort Shuts Aug. 31, 2006 /
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Niala Boodhoo, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 22, 2006 - Despite a recent setback in redevelopment plans, the Sonesta Beach Resort Key Biscayne still plans to close its doors as scheduled this fall, the company said Wednesday after informing state officials of plans to lay off its entire staff of 385 people when the resort shuts Aug. 31. Following opposition from Key Biscayne residents and planners, Sonesta International Hotels and Fortune International Realty last month withdrew redevelopme...
SoftBrands Adds a Trio of Solutions to Growing PMS Business; At least one SoftBrands PMS sold every day across the globe from October 2005 to April 20
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report SoftBrands Adds a Trio of Solutions to Growing PMS Business - At least one SoftBrands PMS sold every day across the globe from October 2005 to April 2006 Minneapolis June 14 2006 -- SoftBrands Inc. (AMEX: SBN), a global leader in next-generation enterprise software for manufacturing and hospitality businesses reached a milestone in its hospitality customer growth and is enhancing its current Medallion and PORTfolio property management solutions (PMS) with additional revenue-generating solutions for its growing hotel customer base. With two strong quarters from October 2005 to April 200...
Sofitel Los Angeles Unveils Its New Look After $40 Million Extreme Makeover / June 2006
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Sofitel Los Angeles Unveils Its New Look After $40 Million Extreme Makeover World-Class Designers, Celebrity Chef and Leading Bar & Lounge Impresario Transform the Hotel Into One of LA's Most Vibrant Locales LOS ANGELES, June 21, 2006 - Accor, one of the world's leading hospitality companies and the parent company for Sofitel hotels worldwide, announced the official re-opening of Sofitel Los Angeles today. Following a nine-month, $40 plus million refurbishment, the hotel anticipates becoming one of Los Angeles' most desirable urban resorts. Celebrities, hotel industry executives and...
Luxury Skytop Lodge Increases Revenue with Focus on Groups, Packages; Package Strategy Helps Drive 48% Reservation Conversion Rate / June 2006
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online .Special Report Luxury Skytop Lodge Increases Revenue with Focus on Groups, Packages . .Package Strategy Helps Drive 48% Reservation Conversion Rate June 2006 - The outlook is bright for Skytop Lodge, a historic luxury resort on 5,500 acres in the Poconos, west of New York City. Bookings are up four percent over last year and rack rate is common. The upscale 193-room luxury golf resort is clearly doing something right. Refocusing marketing efforts to attract valuable group convention business and implementing a new hotel software package-pricing strategy are only half the story. ...
Irish Private Equity Fund, Inchydoney Partnership, Acquires the Spanish Resort Dolce Sitges for Approximately USD $77 million / June 2006
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Irish Private Equity Fund, Inchydoney Partnership, Acquires the Spanish Resort Dolce Sitges for Approximately USD $77 million Montvale, NJ (June 14, 2006) Dolce International, the company behind Dolce Sitges, the first Spanish resort designed for conferences, meetings, incentives and special events has announced that the Irish group Inchydoney Partnership has acquired the property. Inchydoney Partnership, an Irish private equity fund specializing in the hotel sector, has acquired 100 per cent stake of the company Dolce Sitges (Med Dolce Sitges S.L.), which was previously equally cont...
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Don Shulas Hotel & Golf Club Jumps Into the Revenue Zone Miami Lakes, FL (June 2006) - It wasnt even a year ago that Don Shulas President and General Manager Linda Harvey was beginning to rethink the hotels strategy due to lagging hotel occupancy and average rate, until she receives a call from OZone Strategic Marketing claiming to have added several occupancy points and substantially improved average rates to a major / branded hotel client. All achieved in as little as three months! After more than 30 years of hotel management, Harvey was to say the least, quite skeptical of thei...
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report InterContinental Hotels Group and Shanghai Universitys Advanced Polytechnic College Create Specialty Academy Aimed at the Fast Growing Hotel Industry in China Shanghai, 28 June 2006 InterContinental Hotels Group today announced plans to establish the InterContinental Hotels Group Academy in partnership with Shanghai Universitys Advanced Polytechnic College and two leading specialist hospitality education providers in Australia the William Angliss Institute and Box Hill Institute. The Academy will offer a series of specially-developed learning programmes aimed at addressing the dema...
Seven Spring Mountain Resort, Pennsylvania's Largest Ski Resort, Sold by the Dupre Family to the Nutting Family in a Family-to-Family Transaction
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Seven Spring Mountain Resort, Pennsylvania's Largest Ski Resort, Sold by the Dupre Family to the Nutting Family in a Family-to-Family Transaction June 19, 2006 - After 74 years of ownership, the Dupre family has agreed to sell Seven Spring Mountain Resort to another long-time family business from the region, the Nutting family. The announcement was made by Robert Nutting, current Chief Executive Officer of the family-operated Ogden Newspapers. Financial terms of the family-to-family transaction were not disclosed. Seven Springs has grown from a single tow rope in 1932 into th...
Four Obstacles Preventing Hotels from Implementing Service at the Level of Creating Truly Memorable Experiences / Peter McAlpine / June 2006
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Four Obstacles Preventing Hotels from Implementing Service at the Level of Creating Truly Memorable Experiences By Peter McAlpine, June 2006 There are obstacles that will prevent a hotel from upgrading service to the level of creating truly memorable experiences (CTME), and here are 4 of them. The obstacles will act as lead weights to your efforts to implement this higher level of service if they are not dealt with. Therefore, I dont recommend that you simply start the change process with, Now we want you to create truly memorable experiences, and this is how wed like you to do it. ...
Marshall Management Names Benjamin N. Seidel Joins as Executive Vice-president and Patrick Welton as Corporate Director of Revenue / June 2006
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Marshall Management Names Benjamin N. Seidel Joins as Executive Vice-president and Patrick Welton as Corporate Director of Revenue SALISBURY, Md., June 12, 2006 Marshall Management, a leading, mid-sized hotel management company, today announced that it has added two key executives to its senior management team. Benjamin N. Seidel has joined the company as executive vice-president, and Patrick Welton was appointed director of revenue. As we continue to expand our management portfolio of leading, branded and independent hotels and resorts, we intend to add greater bench stre...
SECURE-RES Presents SEO Super Reporter (SM) at HITEC 2006 / June 2006
February 28, 2006
Spot Light HITEC 2006 SECURE-RES Presents SEO Super Reporter (SM) at HITEC 2006 Booth #1541 Jacksonville, FL(June 13, 2006)SECURE-RES, a national leader in online marketing services for the hospitality industry, is proud to announce its sponsorship of HSMAIs educational journal Defining Revenue Management. SECURE-RES would like to invite HITEC attendees to visit our super booth #1541 at HITEC, June 20-22, 2006 to sign-up to receive this high-quality publication by HSMAI. Don Bosworth, VP of Sales and Marketing at SECURE-RES said, We are very excited about this years HITEC convention as it will provide u...
Giuseppe Cipriani Redeveloping the Shuttered Saxony Hotel in Miami Beach; Will be Transformed into170-room Cipriani Resort and Residences South Beac
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Douglas Hanks III, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 14, 2006 - The operator of New York's Rainbow Room and scion of the family behind the famous Harry's Bar in Venice hopes to take on the Setai, Ritz-Carlton and other luxury resorts in Miami Beach. Giuseppe Cipriani, who runs glitzy catering halls and restaurants in New York, will lend his name to the shuttered Saxony Hotel, which is being transformed into a condominium complex and a 170-room condo-hotel. In branding their $250 million projec...
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Hotel Sales Steps and Processes Are Out . Todays Inquiry Callers Want a Personalized Sales Experience by Doug Kennedy, June 2006 Traditionally, lodging industry training programs have taught hotel sales as being a linear process we need to use to lead an inquiry caller down a pathway towards closing the sale. Whether to referred to as steps, tools, or pathways, these programs have generally showed how to start out by building rapport, listening and probing, turning features into benefits, handling objections, and of course closing the sale. So we have reinforced ...
The Knowland Group Begins Service in Sacramento, CA / June 2006
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report The Knowland Group Begins Service in Sacramento, CA .. Market Intelligence Firm Continues Its Midas touch As It Adds The City First Incorporated during the Gold Rush to Its Client Base Washington, DC (June 13, 2006) The Knowland Group announced today that it has begun service in the Sacramento, CA market. The Knowland Group, whose lead generation service has helped many hotel group sales departments strike gold, will begin offering its services to hoteliers in Sacramento. When gold was discovered in 1848, just 30 miles east of Sacramento, it was the start of something big. Since its W...
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Nobody Asked Me, But No. 10 . Chinese Tourists, Gasoline Prices and Alternatives, GLBT Segment, Travel Agents, FACs, Manhattans Record Breaking Year, Impertinent Questions by Stanley Turkel, MHS, ISHC June 20, 2006 1. For the first time in history, large numbers of Chinese are leaving their country as tourists resulting in an explosion of Chinese travel. In 1995, only 4.5 million Chinese traveled overseas. By 2005, the number increased to 31 million and by 2010, international travel industry experts forecast 50 million and by 2020 100 million. The six most popular destinatio...
Cornell Hotel School Professor Steve Mutkoski Named Wine Educator of the Year / June 2006
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Cornell Hotel School Professor Steve Mutkoski Named Wine Educator of the Year Ithaca, NY, June 21, 2006 Stephen A. Mutkoski, the Banfi Vintners Professor of Wine Education & Management at Cornell Universitys School of Hotel Administration, has been named Wine Educator of the Year by the European Wine Council. The award was presented at the Councils 10th annual Dinner Gala and Awards Presentation held recently at Le Cirque in New York. Formed in 1992 in New York, the European Wine Council is comprised of trade representatives of eight European wine-producing nations. The council ai...
Waterford Hotel Group Names Suzanne Longo General Manager of the Courtyard by Marriott in Norwich, Connecticut / June 2006
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Waterford Hotel Group Names Suzanne Longo General Manager of the Courtyard by Marriott in Norwich, Connecticut (Norwich, CT - June 6, 2006) --- Suzanne Longo has recently been appointed as General Manager of the Courtyard by Marriott in Norwich, CT. The property is professionally managed by Waterford Hotel Group, Inc., a national hotel management firm currently operating 27 properties. Longo will oversee all operational, sales and administrative aspects of the hotel. The Courtyard by Marriott, Norwich has been open since 1997 and features 120 guest rooms, Courtyard Café, fitness ...
Sanjay Bedi Joins Hospitality Talent Scouts as Senior Vice President; Executive Search Firm Notes Talent Harder to Locate in Current Good Times / June
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Sanjay Bedi Joins Hospitality Talent Scouts as Senior Vice President . Executive Search Firm Notes Talent Harder to Locate in Current "Good Times" NEW YORK, N.Y., June 27, 2006 - Officials at Hospitality Talent Scouts, LLC (HTS) a leading executive search and consulting firm specializing in the hospitality industry, today announced that Sanjay Bedi has joined the firm as senior vice president. In the new position, Bedi will provide executive search and operational consulting services to the firm's nationwide client base. "With the hotel industry in a rapid growth mode, finding q...
Hawaiian Hotels & Resorts Installs Datavision's Business Intelligence and CRM Tools; Datavision to provide revenue management and CRM Tools for T
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Hawaiian Hotels & Resorts Installs Datavisions Business Intelligence and CRM Tools . Datavision to provide revenue management and CRM Tools for The Royal Kona Resort and The Royal Lahaina Resort WESTON, FL (June 28, 2006) Datavision Technologies, the industry leader in business intelligence systems for the hospitality industry, has installed their DVEnterprise suite of products at Hawaiian Hotels and Resorts (Newbury Park, CA). The DVEnterprise suite collects and warehouses data from a variety of on-property systems, such as PMS, golf, spa, point-of-sale, sales & catering and payroll. Dat...
Rosewood Hotels & Resorts Has Plans to Manage and Build a Host of New Hotels Around the World / June 2006
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Rosewood Hotels & Resorts Has Plans to Manage and Build a Host of New Hotels Around the World DALLAS, TX (June 23, 2006) Dallas-based Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, the premier manager of ultra-luxury hotels and resorts throughout the world, is pleased to announce the global expansion of its premier portfolio. Dedicated to upholding the highest standards of service and offering guests one-of-a-kind amenities and experiences, Rosewood has announced plans to open, manage and build a host of new hotels and resorts around the world. The new properties will join Rosewoods present collection of 1...
Trevor Roots and Mark Tapling Join the Executive Team at InfoGenesis / June 2006
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Trevor Roots and Mark Tapling Join the Executive Team at InfoGenesis Santa Barbara, CA (June, 2006) InfoGenesis, one of the countrys leading hospitality technology companies, has appointed two new executives to its corporate team: Trevor Roots has been named Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer and Mark Tapling as Chief Operating Officer. The addition of these two executives complements an already strong executive team whose vision is to make guest experience management a reality in the hospitality and foodservice industries. In his position, Roots will overse...
