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Focus Development Joins Project to Build 185-room Hotel on Baltimore's Fells Point Pier / June 2006
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Lorraine Mirabella, The Baltimore Sun Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 9, 2006 - The developer chosen more than a year ago to transform Fells Point's landmark Recreation Pier into a three-story, European-style boutique hotel plans to start construction this fall with a new partner. Baltimore developer J.J. Clarke Enterprises Inc. and a New Orleans partner, HRI Properties, were chosen in December 2004 to redevelop the pier at the foot of Broadway. But the $50 million project was delayed for several months after HRI dr...
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Senior Executives from Americas Most Profitable Travel Companies Discuss How to Thrive in Todays Highly Competitive Marketplace June 27, 2006 - In order to provide travel executives with a broad range of highly specialized and professionally researched business-intelligence, EyeforTravel will be holding two stand-alone conferences, co-located at the same venue in Chicago, October 4-5. Topics such as Sales and Marketing, Distribution, Forecasting, Technology, Ecommerce, Pricing, Revenue Management, CRM, Demand Management and Channel Management are all on the agenda. With such an extensive...
Eydeas Technology Software Automates Leading Electronic Marketplace for Booking Vacation Rental Properties / June 2006
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Eydeas Technology Software Automates Leading Electronic Marketplace for Booking Vacation Rental Properties WHISTLER, BC June 14, 2006. Eydeas Technology, a Whistler, BC based company providing distribution automation to the resort industry, was selected by LeisureLink of Altadena, CA to provide software that connects vacation rental property and timeshare companies to LeisureLinks electronic marketplace for booking vacation rental properties. Eydeas Connect product creates an information bridge between property management systems used by vacation rental managers, hotels, and time share ...
E-site Marketing Releases Latest Version of RSS Enabled Website Content Management Tool / June 2006
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report E-site Marketing Releases Latest Version of RSS Enabled Website Content Management Tool Bethesda, MD (June 20, 2006) - E-site Marketing, a leading hospitality Internet marketing company, released their latest version of their Website Content Management Tool (CMT) leveraging RSS technology to facilitate content syndication beyond the hotel Website. E-site has harnessed the content syndication opportunities created by RSS technology to position their Website Content Management Tool not only as a simple way to keep a hotels Website content current but also to allow for this same content to be ...
E-site Marketing Announces RSS Application for Destination Hotels & Resorts / June 2006
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report E-site Marketing Announces RSS Application for Destination Hotels & Resorts Bethesda, MD (June 21, 2006) E-site Marketing, a leading hospitality Internet marketing company, recently developed a customized RSS (Real Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary) Feed Solution for Destination Hotels & Resorts. E-site Marketings application enables Destination Hotels & Resorts to notify subscribers of special offers, events and promotions at their favorite destinations via RSS feed readers. When one of the portfolio hotels publishes new content to their individual Website via the RSS solution, an i...
HEI Hospitality Acquires the 293-room Embassy Suites in Irvine, Calif., HEI Subsidiary, Merritt Hospitality, Will Operate the Hotel / June 2006
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report HEI Hospitality Acquires the 293-room Embassy Suites in Irvine, Calif., HEI Subsidiary, Merritt Hospitality, Will Operate the Hotel NORWALK, Conn., June 26, 2006 HEI Hospitality, a rapidly growing hospitality investment and operating company, today announced that it has acquired the 293-room Embassy Suites in Irvine, Calif., from a private entity. The company will begin a $7 million renovation of the hotel in the first quarter of 2007, with an expected completion date of June 2007. This is the third acquisition by the companys recently announced HEI Hospitality Fund II, a $425 mi...
Hoteliers and Corporate Planners Give High Marks to Inaugural Elite Meetings Alliance; Next Alliance scheduled for September 10-12, 2006, at The Club
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Early Enrollment Surges for the Fall 2006 Elite Meetings Alliance , Ultra exclusive event for corporate meeting planners and luxury hoteliers to take place September 10-12, 2006, at The Club at Hammock Beach in Palm Coast, Florida Santa Barbara, Calif. After just three weeks of registration, Stratus Performance Group reports an enthusiastic response to this falls Elite Meetings Alliance. The highly touted three-day event brings representatives from 50 discerning hotels and resorts, located in the eastern half of the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Europe together, with 75 ...
Feeding the Revenue Elephant; Hotel Revenue Management / Carol Verret / July 2006
February 28, 2006
Carol Verret Consulting and Training Consulting Training Seminars . . . . Feeding the Revenue Elephant . Hotel Revenue Management Summer 2006 by Carol Verret, June 2006 Hotel Revenues this summer are anticipated to be gargantuan high demand and high rates. What more could an hotelier ask? A lot! Hoteliers who blindly accept the demand that comes their way at the rate they ask will never know how good it could have been had they fed the elephant of hotel revenue with guests that were not measure solely by rate but by value. Amitava Chatterhjee in the upcoming edition of Hospitality Upgrade has...
EasyRMS Enters Cyprus Market With the Help of the Internationally Acclaimed Leptos Calypso Group / June 2006
February 28, 2006
EasyRMS Enters Cyprus Market With the Help of the Internationally Acclaimed Leptos Calypso Group June 9, 2006 - The Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, a 421- luxurious bedroom, five-star Resort, owned and managed by the Leading Cypriot Hotel Group of LEPTOS CALYPSO, today announced implementation of the EzRMS Core Module & Ez-QUOTE and Ez-COMPETE additional modules along with Upload interfaces to both their PMS and CRS systems at their property in the heart of Coral Bay, next to Paphos, in CYPRUS. Mr. Michael Sanidiotis, Sales and Marketing Director of the Leptos Calypso Group, states: We are investing heavily in a full re...
Hotel Tax Waiver Spurs Lawsuit Between the Developers of Four Seasons Hotel Silicon Valley and City of East Palo Alto / June 2006
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By S.L. Wykes, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 27, 2006 - As with many disagreements, the legal tangle between the city of East Palo Alto and the developer of the town's five-star Four Seasons hotel started with something seemingly insignificant: a geotechnical report that projected the hotel's foundation would support its weight. City officials, eager to boost the civic image of a town that in 1992 was named murder capital of the U.S.A., offered a nice incentive to the LDW Resort ...
The San Francisco Bay Area Hotels Are Displaying the "No Vacancy" More Frequently, However, Not So for "Help Wanted" / June 2006
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By George Avalos, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 18, 2006 - East Bay hotel managers display the "no vacancy" sign more often these days, but the "help wanted" sign seems likely to stay tucked away. The Bay Area hotel industry has turned the corner and is headed for better times. More rooms get filled more often. Room rates have edged a bit higher. That's in sharp contrast to the woes of recent years, when the industry languished in the doldrums. The Sept. 11, 20...
Benchmark Hospitality Completes Renovation of Classic Golf Course at Chicago-area Eaglewood Resort & Spa; Circa 1928 Charles Maddox-design Course / J
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Benchmark Hospitality Completes Renovation of Classic Golf Course at Chicago-area Eaglewood Resort & Spa - Circa 1928 Charles Maddox-design Course The Woodlands (Houston), Texas, June 8, 2006 - Benchmark Hospitality International has announced the completion of more than $1 million in course upgrades to the Eaglewood Golf Course, a classic 1928 Charles Maddox-design golf course located 35 miles west of Chicago at the Eaglewood Resort & Spa in Itasca, Illinois. Greg Parsons, Benchmark's general manager at Eaglewood Resort, made the announcement. "We are extremely excited abo...
The Culinary Institute of Virginia Opens at the Former Johnson & Wales Campus in Norfolk, Virginia / June 2006
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report The Culinary Institute of Virginia Opens at the Former Johnson & Wales Campus in Norfolk, Virginia NORFOLK, Va. (June 7, 2006) Norfolk Mayor Fraim and regional business leaders joined ECPI College of Technology today to announce the opening of the Culinary Institute of Virginia. The new educational arm of ECPI, a 40-year leader in collegiate educational programs, will open at the former Johnson & Wales location in Norfolk. The Culinary Institute of Virginia is currently accepting applications for fall classes (www.chefva.com or 757- 858-CHEF). The curriculum is being developed by E...
Thailand Hotel Company, Dusit and Le Cordon Bleu Set up a Joint Venture to Operate Culinary School in Bangkok / June 2006
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Thailand Hotel Company, Dusit and Le Cordon Bleu Set Up a Joint Venture to Operate Culinary School in Bangkok June 23, 2006 - Since the contract signing that took place last year between Dusit Thani Plc and Le Cordon Bleu to establish the Le Cordon Bleu Dusit Academy of World Cuisines, the institute is close to its final phase of construction and is scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2007. The Academy is located in the Dusit Thani Building on Silom Road, next to The Dusit Thani, Bangkok hotel, and will concurrently also offer an international Bachelors degree in Business Administrati...
Dubai Boasts 22 Five-star Hotels / June 2006
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Jim Landers, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 18, 2006 - DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES -- The rich and the royal are different from you and me. That's why there's a checkpoint on the road leading to the island where the Burj Al Arab Hotel soars above the sapphire-blue waters of the Persian Gulf. Unless you're arriving by Rolls-Royce or BMW limousine, you shall not pass. Perhaps you should direct your helicopter to the landing pad on the roof. The Burj Al Arab ("The Arab Tower") is a sail-...
Dubai – a Hot New Vacation Spot; Hotel Room Inventory to Reach 52,000 by 2010 / June 2006
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Douglas Hanks III, The Miami HeraldMcClatchy-Tribune Business News June 29, 2006 -- Terrorism fears scuttled Dubai's attempt to take over the Miami seaport, and now the Arab emirate has the Caribbean spooked, too. But this time the nervousness stems from a desert ski slope, hotels built on a giant palm-tree island and the rest of Dubai's zany offerings as the world's hot new vacation spot. Dubai's growing popularity with European and Asian travelers makes it a prime example of the competition the Caribbean faces in th...
Gallery One Fort Lauderdale – A Doubletree Guest Suites Hotel In Final Phase of a Two-year, $20 Million Conversion to a Condo/hotel Business Mod
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Gallery One Fort Lauderdale - A Doubletree Guest Suites Hotel In Final Phase of a Two-year, $20 Million Conversion to a Condo/hotel Business Model Bill Derbins And Christopher Tompkins Lead Repositioning FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - June 1, 2006 -- Gallery One Fort Lauderdale - A Doubletree Guest Suites(R) Hotel, is entering the final phase of a two-year, multi-million-dollar renovation project, in anticipation of welcoming the world's travelers to what will become Fort Lauderdale's premier, full-service hotel on the Intracoastal Waterway. Renovations on the 231-room, all-suite hotel, which...
The Former Wyndham Dallas Market Center Converted to Doubletree Brand Following $2 Million Renovation / June 2006
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report The Former Wyndham Dallas Market Center Converted to Doubletree Brand Following $2 Million Renovation DALLAS - June 1, 2006 -- Doubletree(R) Hotels (NYSE:HLT) proudly announces the debut of the Doubletree Hotel Dallas Market Center with the excitement of a $2 million, multi-phase enhancement project. From luxurious, new beds to refreshed public areas, the project is rejuvenating the hotel's 228 guest rooms and 7,000 square feet of meeting space with its first property-wide cosmetic upgrade in nearly 10 years. Formerly a Wyndham(R) hotel, the Doubletree Hotel Dallas Market Center is own...
The Landmark Claremont Inn in Claremont, California Completes $10 million Renovation and Transformation to a Doubletree Hotel / June 2006
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report The Landmark Claremont Inn in Claremont, California Completes $10 million Renovation and Transformation to a Doubletree Hotel Opening of the Doubletree Hotel Claremont Represents Return of Property to Prominence in Community CLAREMONT, Calif. - May 31, 2006 -- Doubletree® Hotels (NYSE:HLT) proudly announces the opening of the Doubletree Hotel Claremont, representing the latest full-service addition to join the brand's portfolio of more than 160 fine properties across North America. Nestled at the base of the scenic San Gabriel Mountains and centrally located between Southern Californ...
F & F Realty, Ltd. Completes Multi Million Dollar Transformation, Opens the Doubletree Hotel Chicago-Arlington Heights / June 2006
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report F & F Realty, Ltd. Completes Multi Million Dollar Transformation, Opens the Doubletree Hotel Chicago-Arlington Heights ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - June 23, 2006 -- When the Doubletree Hotel Chicago-Arlington Heights (formerly the Radisson Arlington Heights) quietly opened its doors a few months ago, the hotel was in the midst of completing the finishing touches on a multi-million-dollar renovation of what used to be an ordinary 241-room hotel. On Monday, June 26, hotel owners F&F Realty and the Doubletree hotel team will proudly share its extraordinary multi-million-dollar tran...
February 28, 2006
Exclusive Dorchester Group Hotels Install EzRMS in 5 Luxury Properties Worldwide London 21st June 2006, the Dorchester Group Hotels, London today announced successful completion of system implementation of the EzRMS Internet Product Suite at 3 of their deluxe 5 Star properties in London, Paris, & Milan with Beverly Hills going live next month and their 2nd Paris property activated later this year. Mr. Francois Delahaye, C.O.O of Dorchester Group Hotels, had very specific requirements in their selection of an automated Revenue Management solution. At our end of the...
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Hotel Common Sense . A Bakers Dozen of Strategies for Hotel Sales & Marketing Professionals by Dr. John Hogan, CHA MHS CHE A Bakers Dozen equals 13. It means 12 loaves plus one extra for luck. While business is brisk today in many parts of the industry, planning makes luck much more achievable. 1. Learn everything about the services and product you will be promoting. This first step is perhaps the most obvious requirement for any successful sales professional, yet one that is often overlooked especially by those individuals who may have additional responsibilities at their h...
Trump Entertainment Resorts and Diamondhead Casino Corporation Sign Letter of Intent for Mississippi Casino Development; Diamondhead Owns 404 Acres on
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Trump Entertainment Resorts and Diamondhead Casino Corporation Sign Letter of Intent for Mississippi Casino Development - Diamondhead Owns 404 Acres on the Bay of St. Louis ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - June 12, 2006 -- Trump Entertainment Resorts, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRMP) and Diamondhead Casino Corporation (OTCBB: DHCC) announced today that they have signed a letter of intent pursuant to which the parties intend to form a joint venture partnership to develop, build and operate a destination casino resort in Diamondhead, Mississippi. The joint venture would cover a minimum of forty acres wit...
February 28, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report TeleAdapt Launches the DeskPoint on Board the Sunborn Yacht Hotel in London June 2006 - TeleAdapt, a leading provider of HSIA guest connection point solutions for the hospitality market worldwide, is pleased to announce its premier installation of the DeskPoint on board the exclusive Sunborn Yacht Hotel, in London. The DeskPoint, TeleAdapts latest HSIA guestroom solution, creates a simultaneous wired and wireless in-room access point. With its modern and sleek design, the DeskPoint is the perfect solution for conventionally wired properties who want to fully maximise usage of their ...
