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TIG Global Wins Four HSMAI Adrian Awards for Website Design and Accompanying Online Marketing Programs / February 2006
January 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report TIG Global Wins Four HSMAI Adrian Awards for Website Design and Accompanying Online Marketing Programs -. TIG Global also Recently Honored by Washingtonian Magazine and the Washington Business Journal WASHINGTON, DC February 6, 2006 TIG Global today announced receipt of four Adrian Web Marketing Awards from the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI). The 2005 competition recognized the best hospitality and travel websites worldwide based on overall design and functionality and statistical performance objectives, such as ROI and conversion rates. ...
FelCor Lodging Trust Appoints Chairman, CEO and CFO / February 2006
January 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report FelCor Lodging Trust Appoints Chairman, CEO and CFO Tom Corcoran Appointed as Chairman of the Board of FelCor Lodging Trust IRVING, Texas, Feb. 7, 2006 - FelCor Lodging Trust Incorporated (NYSE: FCH - News), one of the nation's largest hotel real estate investment trusts (REITs), today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Thomas J. Corcoran, Jr., as Chairman of the Board. With this appointment, Mr. Corcoran concurrently received a five-year employment agreement with FelCor. The Company also has announced Donald J. McNamara will resign his position as Chairman but remain on Fel...
Tom Conophy Named Chief Information Officer, InterContinental Hotels Group PLC / February 2006
January 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Tom Conophy Named Chief Information Officer, InterContinental Hotels Group PLC ATLANTA, Feb. 1, 2006 - InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (IHG) today announces the appointment of Tom Conophy to the newly-created position of Chief Information Officer (CIO). Tom, who will report directly to CEO Andrew Cosslett and take a seat on the Group Executive Committee, will start in his position next month. Tom, 45, joins from Starwood Hotels & Resorts International, where he held the position of Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer. Previous to Starwood, Tom was Senior Vice P...
January 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report TCK Group, Vietnams First International Hotel Consultancy Group Is Launched Hanoi, Vietnam February 15, 2006 -- At the end of 2005, Vietnam saw its first international hotel management group being established. Now, at the beginning of 2006, Vietnam has its own, industry-specific consulting group, the TCK Group, which has been launched to serve the tourism boom that is taking place in Indochina and facilitate investment into Vietnam. An experienced team of hospitality & business consultants have been established in Vietnam. The new group is headed by its Chief Executive Officer, Karl...
Hotel Travel Alliance Sales & Marketing Program Now Available for US Hotels and Resorts Interested in the European and UK Markets / February 2006
January 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Hotel Travel Alliance Sales & Marketing Program Now Available for US Hotels and Resorts Interested in the European and UK Markets February 17, 2006 - Travel Alliance Marketing Services, Inc. announces the 2006-2007 USA Hotel Travel Alliance Sales & Marketing Program in conjunction with the opening of their new office in Vienna, Austria. The program is geared for US based hotels and resorts interested in the European and UK markets. Travel Alliance has an extensive tour operator network throughout England, France, Holland, Germany, Aust...
New Lodging Supply Growth in Check / Robert Mandelbaum / February 2006
January 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report New Lodging Supply Growth in Check by: Robert Mandelbaum, February 2006 Changes in supply and demand patterns are the two factors that cause shifts in the hotel industry cycle. Currently, most hotel owners, operators, and analysts are bullish with regards to the short- and intermediate-term outlooks for the lodging industry. On the demand side, occupied room nights continue to climb despite rising gas prices and multiple hurricanes. Barring an unforeseen catastrophic event, our PKF Consulting/Torto Wheaton Research Fall 2005 Hotel Outlook forecast calls for growth in demand...
Stratus Performance Group Debuts Hospitality Event in Santa Barbara; Elite Meetings Alliance Unites Luxury Hoteliers with Top Corporate Buyers / Feb
January 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Stratus Performance Group Debuts Hospitality Event in Santa Barbara . Elite Meetings Alliance Unites Luxury Hoteliers with Top Corporate Buyers Santa Barbara, Calif.— February 28, 2006 - Many of the hospitality industry’s top players will convene on the “American Riviera" for the Elite Meetings Alliance, a two-day industry event beginning Sunday, April 30, 2006, in exclusive Santa Barbara, California. Stratus Performance Group conceived the event as a way to bring together 25 luxury hoteliers and up to 50 corporate meeting ...
It is 10am: Do You Know How Much Money Your Owners Made Last Night? Strand Development Company Does; Multi-flag operator provides customized owner fi
January 30, 2006
It is 10am: Do You Know How Much Money Your Owners Made Last Night? Strand Development Company Does - Multi-flag operator provides customized owner financials, forecasting techniques with dashboard business intelligence hotel software February 21, 2006 - Strand Development Company started out as a small owner-operator specializing in Holiday Inn properties, but they did not stay that way long. Three decades of growth refocused Strands operation and transformed its business. Now, Hilton-branded flags make up half of its franchises and Strand operates 26 properties, many for outside owners with unique financia...
The 88th and 89th Staybridge Suites Hotels Open in Las Cruces, New Mexico and Newark, Delaware / February 2006
January 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report The 88th and 89th Staybridge Suites Hotels Open in Las Cruces, New Mexico and Newark, Delaware ATLANTA (Feb. 21, 2006) InterContinental Hotels Group, the worlds largest hotel group by number of rooms, announced today that Staybridge Suites has opened the doors of its 88th and 89th all-suite hotels in Las Cruces, N.M. and Newark, Del., the brands first entrée into these markets. We welcome our newest Staybridge Suites properties in Las Cruces and Newark as our first two openings for 2006, said Robert Radomski, vice president, Brand Management, Staybridge Suites. ...
StayOnline Provides Proprietary Bandwidth Shaping Tool to Clients; New GuestPass DirectorSM is Next-Generation Firewall for HSIS / Feburary 2006
January 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report StayOnline Provides Proprietary Bandwidth Shaping Tool to Clients . New GuestPass DirectorSM is Next-Generation Firewall for HSIS Atlanta, GA – February 15, 2005 – StayOnline, the nation’s market leader in premier High Speed Internet Solutions (HSIS) for the hospitality sector, has added a revolutionary new product to the toolkit it provides its hotel, resort, meetings facilities and vacation property customers. GuestPass DirectorSM is the company’s proprietary new bandwidth shaping tool which offers each individual pr...
St. Regis Hotel, San Francisco Honored As Development of the Year by the Americas Lodging Investment Summit / February 2006
January 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report St. Regis Hotel, San Francisco Honored As "Development of the Year" by the Americas Lodging Investment Summit SAN FRANCISCO (February 2, 2006) -- St. Regis Hotel, San Francisco has been honored with the Americas Lodging Investment Summit's (ALIS) "Development of the Year" award, which was presented on January 24, 2006 during the ALIS Awards ceremony in Los Angeles. The ALIS, co-hosted by the American Hotel & Lodging Association and Burba Hotel Network, recognizes the year's most significant hotel real estate events. "We are thrilled to be recognized by the industry as the Dev...
New Orleans, Cocktail's Birthplace, Hosts Convention of Spirited Experts From Around the World, July 19-23, 2006 / February 2006
January 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report New Orleans, Cocktail's Birthplace, Hosts Convention of Spirited Experts From Around the World, July 19-23, 2006 NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 13, 2006 -- In 1838, a young French Quarter apothecary, Antoine Amadee Peychaud, concocted a drink of Brandy and bitters as a pain reliever that was served in a French egg cup called a "coquetier," which became the word, "cocktail," and has remained a mainstay in bars and restaurants in New Orleans and around the world. Tales of the Cocktail celebrates the history and spirit of the cocktail on July 19-23, 2006 with stars from around the wor...
Sonnenblick-Eichner Company Arranges Permanent Financing for The Crowne Plaza Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona / February 2006
January 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Sonnenblick-Eichner Company Arranges Permanent Financing for The Crowne Plaza Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona PHOENIX, AZ February 21, 2006 - Sonnenblick-Eichner Company announced today that it has arranged permanent financing for the 250-room Crowne Plaza Phoenix Hotel located in Phoenix, Arizona. The Crowne Plaza Hotel is a AAA 3-Diamond full service hotel that just recently underwent renovations of approximately $20,000 per room to the hotels guestrooms, common areas, lobby, meeting and banquet areas, porte cochere and pool areas. Elliot Eichner, principal of Sonnenblick-Eichner Company ...
Sonnenblick-Eichner Company Arranges $54 million of Leasehold Renovation Financing for The Sheraton Park Hotel at the Anaheim Resort, Anaheim, Califor
January 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Sonnenblick-Eichner Company Arranges $54 million of Leasehold Renovation Financing for The Sheraton Park Hotel at the Anaheim Resort, Anaheim, California Los Angeles, CA February 7, 2006 - Sonnenblick-Eichner Company announced today that it has arranged $54 million in unsubordinated leasehold renovation and mini-perm financing for The Sheraton Park Hotel at the Anaheim Resort located in Anaheim, California. Previously operated as the 500-room Coast Anaheim Hotel, The Sheraton Park Hotel at the Anaheim Resort is a 490-room, 13-story, full-service hotel undergoing a complete renovation, ...
Five Tips for Driving Sales through Search Engine Optimized Public Relations Writing / Polly Wade / February 2006
January 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Five Tips for Driving Sales through Search Engine Optimized Public Relations Writing . Polly Wade, Director Search Engine Optimized Writing and KeywordCapital Softscribe® Inc February 28, 2006 - A recent study indicated that 93% of survey participants would conduct online research, primarily via search engines, when making a business to business purchase. And the majority of click-throughs to a particular website occur when it is one of the first three listings of a search engines results. Statistics clearly show that purchasers are using search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and ...
STP – Smile Transfer Protocol / Barry Williams / February 2006
January 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report STP - Smile Transfer Protocol By Barry Williams, February 2006 Good Day Good People of Hotel Land! Yahoo! I'm back in the saddle again! I've scored a job managing a group of cleaners for our local airport and am practicing some hospitality voodoo science on them that I want to share with you. I'm going way out on a limb here and will tell you all about my nefarious contrivances and whether or not I get fired for attempting this... First - the set up. The previous cleaning contractor for our fine airport was of your typical flavor; ride the employees hard, pay them nuttin' and treat th...
Sivica Hospitality Adds 15th Management Contract with Wingate Alpharetta / February 2006
January 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Sivica Hospitality Adds 15th Management Contract with Wingate Alpharetta Atlanta, GA February 13, 2006 Atlanta-based Sivica Hospitality (SH) recently added a management contract, effective immediately, for the 84-room Wingate Inn-Alpharetta. The four-story hotel is conveniently located north of downtown Atlanta in the suburb of Alpharetta, off Mansell Road at Exit 8 of Georgia 400. With the addition of the Wingate Inn, Sivica Hospitality now manages 15 properties in the Southeast. Built in 1996 and owned by P.D. Patel, this hotel carries the distinction of being the first...
Orient-Express Hotels Acquires 75% Shareholding in Casa de Sierra Nevada, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, its 50th Property / February 2006
January 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Orient-Express Hotels Acquires 75% Shareholding in Casa de Sierra Nevada, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, its 50th Property HAMILTON, Bermuda, February 8, 2006 - Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. (NYSE: OEH, www.orient-express.com), owners and operators of 49 deluxe leisure properties in 25 countries, today announced its latest acquisition, a 75 per cent interest in Casa de Sierra Nevada in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, for US$8.4 million. Orient-Express Hotels will manage the property. The investment was made at a prior year EBITDA multiple of nine. The historic Casa del Parque and a further parcel...
The 150-room Sheraton Midwest City Hotel & Conference Center Opens; Owned by the City of Midwest City and Managed by De Palma Hotel Corporation / Feb
January 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report The 150-room Sheraton Midwest City Hotel & Conference Center Opens; Owned by the City of Midwest City and Managed by De Palma Hotel Corporation Second Sheraton Prototype Designed Hotel Opens WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Feb. 21, 2006 -- Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT - News) announced today the grand opening of the new Sheraton Midwest City Hotel & Conference Center. The 150-room hotel is owned by the City of Midwest City and managed by Arlington, Texas-based De Palma Hotel Corporation. Situated across from Tinker Air Force Base and six miles from Oklahoma City, OK, the Sh...
Lake District Westmorland Hotel Makes Booking a Breeze / February 2006
January 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Lake District Westmorland Hotel Makes Booking a Breeze February 21, 2006 - There is a growing opinion amongst Hoteliers that it makes commercial sense to manage your bookings system in-house and reap the financial rewards. You do the hard work so why should you lose commission to a third party booking service, whose contribution is arguably minimal? Motivated by this school of thought, The Westmorland Hotel in Penrith, Cumbria is reaping the benefits of centralised booking, since introducing a new in-house on-line Sensible Rez reservation system. Aside from the financial incentive, bu...
Selling Up! Taking Group Room Revenue to a New Level / Carol Verret / February 2006
January 30, 2006
Carol Verret Consulting and Training Consulting Training Seminars . . . . Selling Up! . Taking Group Room Revenue to a New Level by Carol Verret, February 2006 2006 is the year for hotels to maximize their revenue opportunities. Demand is high and new supply is low new supply currently in the pipeline will begin entering the market in late 06 and 07. It is clearly a sellers market this year! Hotel sales departments clearly have an opportunity! Hotels that may have grown a bit tired in the lean years are now investing in capital improvements and extensive renovations as there is finally the ...
Hotel and Resort Internet Booking Engine Production up by 51.7% in 2005 / February 2006
January 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report Hotel and Resort Internet Booking Engine Production up by 51.7% in 2005 Jacksonville, FL(February 1, 2006)SECURE-RES, a world leader in providing online marketing services for the hospitality industry, reports that $176 million in consumer direct online bookings were generated through SECURE-RES (the Internet booking engine) for 2005. The $176 million figure represents a 51.7% increase from 2004 production levels of $116 million. SECURE-RES clients are generating an average rate of $146.66 through our booking engine, which is twenty percent higher than industry averages produced by ot...
Two Cases of Legionnaires' Disease Force the Seagarden Inn in Daytona Beach Shores, Florida to Voluntarily Close / February 2006
January 30, 2006
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Willoughby Mariano, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4, 2006 - DAYTONA BEACH SHORES -- Two cases of Legionnaires' disease -- including one that might have been fatal -- led a hotel to close its doors voluntarily Friday. The Seagarden Inn relocated all of its guests as a precautionary measure after the Volusia County Health Department informed hotel officials late Thursday that two guests had contracted the disease, said Doug Kosarek, a spokesman for Ocean Waters, the Daytona Beach company ...
The Scottsdale Plaza Resort Promotes Kelly Moenter-Nofal to Director of Sales and Marti Waicelunas to Director of Conference Services / February 2006
January 30, 2006
Hotel Online Special Report The Scottsdale Plaza Resort Promotes Kelly Moenter-Nofal to Director of Sales and Marti Waicelunas to Director of Conference Services SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Feb. 8, 2006 - The Scottsdale Plaza Resort, one of the nation's premier resorts, continues to grow with the promotion of Kelly Moenter-Nofal to Director of Sales and Marti Waicelunas to Director of Conference Services. Moenter-Nofal, formerly Associate Director of Sales for The Plaza, will work closely with the Sales Department developing strategies to increase revenue and continue to build long-term business partnerships with clients. ...
