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April 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report The Window to an Operators Soul The Hotel Operating Budget by Ken Wilson CEO and Chad Crandell President, Capital Hotel Management, October 2005 Budget season is upon us once again and this year the experts are giving hotel owners and investors much cause for celebration, promising continued demand growth and great strides in rate. Time will only tell to what degree market optimism is shared by operators. For this reason, the Operating Budget is much like a crystal ball, providing a snap shot of future property performance expectations, but also providing insight into your operators goa...
Mississippi Lawmakers Pass Legislation Allowing 13 Casinos to Rebuild Up to 800 feet Onshore / October 2005
April 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Geoff Pender, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 8, 2005 - JACKSON -- Coast casinos destroyed by Katrina will be allowed to rebuild up to 800 feet onshore after state lawmakers ended a standoff over how to continue charging them a "tidelands fee" once they no longer float over state waterbottoms. Lawmakers ended their Katrina-relief special session Friday night after nearly two weeks of wrangling, mainly over the onshore casino and tidelands issues. Gov. Haley Barbour said he will sign and put the ...
Olympia, Washington Not Happy About Having "Olympia" Dropped from the Convention and Visitors Bureau Name / October 2005
April 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Katherine Tam, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 28, 2005 - The visitors bureau has backed off a proposal that would remove "Olympia" from its name after officials in the capital city threatened to pull funding. The bureau won't change its name to Capital Cities Convention and Visitors Bureau as it first proposed, said Tamara Garcia, executive director. Instead, it will consider renaming itself Olympia, Lacey, Tumwater Visitor and Convention Bureau. The new proposal is getting a warmer response fro...
Neptune Hospitality Advisors Secures $10 million Debt Financing for Purchase and Renovation of 276 room Phoenix, Arizona Hotel / October 2005
April 30, 2005
Hotel Online .Special Report Neptune Hospitality Advisors Secures $10 million Debt Financing for Purchase and Renovation of 276 room Phoenix, Arizona Hotel SAN DIEGO, California - October 7, 2005 - Michael D. Armstrong, President of Neptune Hospitality Advisors, Inc., is pleased to announce his firm arranged the senior financing for the acquisition of the 276-room Sunshine Hotel and Suites located in Phoenix, Arizona. Neptune procured a $10.3 million five-year floating rate loan through national commercial finance company. Hansji Hotels, an Orange County based hotel owner, operator and developer acquired the hotel. ...
Neptune Hospitality Advisors Structures $17 million Debt Financing for Purchase of 295-room Doubletree in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico / October 2
April 30, 2005
Hotel Online .Special Report Neptune Hospitality Advisors Structures $17 million Debt Financing for Purchase of 295-room Doubletree in Downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico SAN DIEGO, California -October 5, 2005 - Michael D. Armstrong, President of Neptune Hospitality Advisors, Inc., is pleased to announce his firm arranged the senior and mezzanine financing for the acquisition of the 295-room Doubletree located in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico. Neptune procured a $13.9 million three-year floating rate loan through a Wall Street investment bank and a $3.0 million coterminous mezzanine loan through a national hybrid re...
The Registry Resort & Club in Naples, Florida Relaunched as Naples Grande Resort & Club Following Multi million Upgrade / October 2005
April 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report The Registry Resort & Club in Naples, Florida Relaunched as Naples Grande Resort & Club Following Multi million Upgrade (Naples, FL -- October 18, 2005) In late December, The Registry Resort & Club located in Naples, Florida, will relaunch with a new name and redesign, officially unveiling the first of many significant enhancements now underway at the property. A favorite destination of discerning travelers since 1986, the property will be known as Naples Grande Resort & Club. The resorts multi-million dollar renaissance will feature a new banquet facility as well as a...
Niagara University's College of Hospitality and Tourism Management Honors Jay Witzel with the Lifetime Hotelier Achievement Award / October 2005
April 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Niagara University's College of Hospitality and Tourism Management Honors Jay Witzel with the Lifetime Hotelier Achievement Award NIAGARA UNIVERSITY, N.Y. (Oct. 7, 2005) Mark Gatley, a 1975 Niagara University graduate and former executive director of the Niagara Falls Convention and Visitors Bureau, is one of five people to be honored at the fifth annual College of Hospitality and Tourism Management convocation. The event will be held Nov. 2 at 4 p.m. in Alumni Chapel. A reception will follow on the fourth floor of St. Vincents Hall. Gatley, currently the general manager of the Grea...
New Orleans Travel Industry's Long Road Back Begins – with an Ironic First Step / October 2005
April 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report New Orleans Travel Industry's Long Road Back Begins - with an Ironic First Step . In a Reversal of Fortune, New Orleans Event Planner Buses Executives to the French Quarter from Baton Rouge, For First Corporate Meeting Held in the City Since Katrina Fort Worth-Based Company is Hosted by Chef Paul Prudhomme, the Royal Sonesta Hotel, and Bonnie Boyd, October 14th-16th New Orleans, October 17, 2005 This time, the buses were rolling from west to east on Louisianas I-10 - as New Orleans hotel, restaurant and destination management leaders came together to host 35 doctors and me...
Strategic Hotel Capital Begins Significant Repair Work on the Hyatt Regency New Orleans / October 2005
April 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Strategic Hotel Capital Begins Significant Repair Work on the Hyatt Regency New Orleans CHICAGO, Oct. 12, 2005 - Strategic Hotel Capital, Inc. (NYSE: SLH) today announced that given the preliminary discussions and progress with its insurance brokers and insurers' representatives, management anticipates that its casualty and business interruption insurance will cover the majority of the damage and lost business to the hotel. Significant repair work was begun in the last two weeks, including the installation of over 700 temporary windows to prevent further water damage. The roof has been tempora...
Murphys Hotel, Opened in 1856, a Historic Landmark in California's Goldrush Country / October 2005
April 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Dana M. Nichols, The Record, Stockton, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 15, 2005 - MURPHYS -- Back when the Murphys Hotel was also a Wells Fargo stagecoach stop, customers such as author Mark Twain, highway robber Charles Bolton aka Black Bart and President Ulysses S. Grant could do banking or get a room through the bars of a teller's cage in the front hall. The front room of the hotel was a ladies parlor where women were expected to wait while their men whooped it up at the saloon next door. Now, women are welcomed a...
For the First Time, the Mt. Bachelor Ski Resort Looks Outside the United States to Peru to Recruit Employees for Full-time, Minimum-wage Jobs / Octo
April 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Anna Sowa, The Bulletin, Bend, Ore. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 2, 2005 - December is the beginning of summer vacation in Peru, but 30 Peruvian college students will spend their upcoming summer 4,766 miles north on the frosty slopes of Mt. Bachelor. The students will work as service employees at Mt. Bachelor ski resort -- as lift attendants, housekeepers, dishwashers and servers. They will provide entry-level labor for a business competing for seasonal help. For the first time, the resort looked outside the United State...
Movenpick Hotels & Resorts Working on 20 New Hotel Projects, Currently Has 53 hotels in 19 Countries / October 2005
April 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts Working on 20 New Hotel Projects, Currently Has 53 hotels in 19 Countries October 2005 - Recently Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts took over a luxurious resort on Mauritius and now announces a total of five new projects in Dubai (UAE) as well as on the tropical island of Zanzibar (Tanzania), putting the Swiss international hotel chain well on course towards achieving its expansion objectives. The hotel group has been steadily expanding over the past five years, and very soon it will have more than doubled its capacity compared with 1999 (35 hotels and 7400 rooms): ind...
MontBleu The New Name for Caesars Tahoe; Columbia Sussex to Remove All References to the Roman Theme / October 2005
April 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 11, 2005 - The Roman Empire has fallen in Lake Tahoe. Columbia Sussex Corp., which purchased Caesars Tahoe in June for $45 million, announced Monday the property will be renamed MontBleu in an attempt to capture a theme that mirrors the character of Lake Tahoe. "We're very conscious of the serene nature of Lake Tahoe, and we hope the new name reflects that idea," said Fred Buro, chief operating officer for Columbia Sussex, which is based in Kentucky and ...
The 2006 Mobil Five-Stars Awarded to 32 Hotels and 14 Restaurants; Also 119 Hotels and 140 Restaurants Win Four-Star Award / October 2005
April 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report The 2006 Mobil Five-Stars Awarded to 32 Hotels and 14 Restaurants; Also 119 Hotels and 140 Restaurants Win Four-Star Award IRVING, Texas - Oct. 26, 2005 -- Mobil Travel Guide, developer of the authoritative Mobil star rating program for lodgings, spas and restaurants, today announced the 2006 recipients of the Mobil Four- and Five-Star Awards in the lodging and restaurant categories. Thirty-two (32) lodgings and fifteen (15) restaurants have been awarded the coveted Mobil Five-Star rating. In addition, 119 lodgings and 140 restaurants across the U.S. and Canada have received the highly rega...
Miami Hotels Take Steps Toward Recovery; Locals, Utility Crews, Cleanup Crews Taking Thousands of Rooms / October 2005
April 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Douglas Hanks Iii, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 27, 2005 - Blessed with electricity but cursed with empty beds, hotels are courting residents left in the dark by Hurricane Wilma. "We're going to be completely sold out through Monday or Tuesday," said Rafael Barrera, general manager of South Beach's Clinton Hotel, which is offering a $70-per-night rate for South Florida residents. For $70, guests get a free breakfast and beach chairs, as well as a tour of hurricane-damaged areas along Biscayne Bay in the ...
Wilma Washes out Millions of Dollars in Tourism, Convention Spending for South Florida Hotels / October 2005
April 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Douglas Hanks Iii And Christina, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 22, 2005 - Hurricane Wilma forced the Fontainebleau to roll up the red carpet for hundreds of publicists, who had planned to start a four-day convention Sunday at the Miami Beach resort. The Public Relations Society of America faced widespread cancellations among the 2,500 delegates signed up to attend. The lost business -- 1,000 rooms at the Fontainebleau alone and about $1.5 million in spending by delegates -- added to the running tally Wilma is tak...
Nation's Leading Resort Development Specialists to Present Educational Conference on Resort Investment in Mexico; Contact Development Corporation
April 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Nation's Leading Resort Development Specialists to Present Educational Conference on Resort Investment in Mexico - Contact Development Corporation, Baker & McKenzie and other resort experts to offer insight on investing and developing in booming Mexico resort sector this December 5-7 in San Diego SAN DIEGO, CA, October 12, 2005 - Real estate investors and developers interested in learning about opportunities for resort development in Mexico will want to mark their calendars to attend, Resort Development in Mexico: Opportunities for Foreign Investment and Development, a three-day confer...
McGlinchey Kin take Pride in Family's Boro Roots; A tongue in cheek look at the history of business, hotel and otherwise, in Queens, NY / Octob
April 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report McGlinchey Kin take Pride in Family's Boro Roots - A tongue in cheek look at the history of business, hotel and otherwise, in Queens, NY By Brian Fraga, Jamaica Times Ledger; Queens, NYC A tongue in cheek look at the history of business, hotel and otherwise, in Queens, NY from one families perspective; spanning the hotel industry from a hotel near the future home of JFK at the turn of the last century that catered to people that required a horse stable next door, to a current day hotel located adjacent to JFK that cater to people flying 747 Bs Internationally September 200...
McDonald's, the World's Largest Restaurant Chain, Preparing Videos Showing How Food Goes "from Farm to Table" / October 2005
April 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By John Schmeltzer, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 24, 2005 - McDonald's Corp., the world's largest restaurant chain, on Tuesday will invite Americans to take a virtual tour of its kitchen. Through a link on its Web site, McDonald's plans to show how its food gets "from farm to table," with videos and explainers showing the processes and companies behind its french fries, hamburgers and Egg McMuffins. It's a notable change for a company known for being reluctant to discuss who its suppliers are. But the Oak Br...
The Spanish Company Obrascon Huarte Lain, S.A, Preparing to Open First of Five Luxury Hotels, 401-room Fairmont Mayakoba, at Mayakoba on Mexico's
April 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report The Spanish Company Obrascon Huarte Lain, S.A, Preparing to Open First of Five Luxury Hotels, 401-room Fairmont Mayakoba, at Mayakoba on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula New eco-resort on Riviera Maya to feature 5 luxury hotels and the first Greg Norman golf course in Mexico TORONTO, Oct. 18, 2005 - "Mayakoba", the ultra-luxurious and highly anticipated resort on the Riviera Maya, will welcome guests for the first time in December 2005, when the Fairmont Mayakoba opens its doors. The resort will also be home to four other luxury hotel brands including Laguna Kai, a Rosewood Resort (2007), B...
Marshall Management, Inc. Signs Contract to Manage La Quinta Inn & Suites in Albany, New York / October 2005
April 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Marshall Management, Inc. Signs Contract to Manage La Quinta Inn & Suites in Albany, New York SALISBURY, Md., October 5, 2005 Marshall Management, Inc., a leading, mid-sized hotel management company, today announced that it has signed a contract to manage the La Quinta Inn & Suites in Albany, New York, scheduled to open in May of 2006. This is the seventh hotel contract the company has signed this year. La Quinta is aggressively moving into the Northeast, and we believe this will be an excellent addition to their brand, said Michael Marshall, president of Marshall Management. ...
Marriott Provides Private Charters to Airlift for Free 239 Guests Out of Cancun, Mexico / October 2005
April 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Marriott Provides Free Private Charters to Airlift 239 Guests Out of Cancun, Mexico Arrange Special Air Transport to Atlanta and Mexico City WASHINGTON, Oct. 26, 2005 - Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE: MAR) and its subsidiary The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, LLC today arranged special air transportation out of Cancun, Mexico for 239 guests who were evacuated from The Ritz-Carlton, JW Marriott and CasaMagna Marriott hotels. Guests traveled yesterday and today from shelters in Cancun to Merida International Airport before boarding private charter flights this evening to M...
Three Marriott Time-share Salespeople Claim They Were Passed over for Promotions and Harassed Because of Their Age, Seek $75 million in Damages / Octo
April 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Three Marriott Time-share Salespeople Claim They Were Passed Over for Promotions and Harassed Because of Their Age, Seek $75 million in Damages By Jerry W. Jackson, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News October 7, 2005 - Three Marriott time-share salespeople who say they were passed over for promotions and harassed because of their age are battling the company in federal court in San Francisco. Kelly Armstrong, a lawyer representing the employees -- two of whom no longer work for Marriott -- said Thursday they will seek at least $75 million in da...
April 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Noble Investment Group Opens the 315-room Marriott hotel in Winston-Salem; Part of $45 million Conversion of the former Adams Mark Hotel WINSTON SALEM, N.C., October 12, 2005 Officials of Noble Investment Group, one of the lodging industrys leading owner/operators of upscale and premium branded hotels and resorts, today announced that it opened the Marriott hotel in Winston-Salem. Centrally located in the heart of the citys downtown and adjacent to the Arts and Entertainment districts, restaurant row and Old Salem, the new 315-room, four star hotel is another completed phase of N...
