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Accor's Revenues from Economy Hotels Growing Faster than Upscale and Midscale Hotel Revenue During First Half of 2005 / July 2005
March 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Accor's Revenues from Economy Hotels Growing Faster than Upscale and Midscale Hotel Revenue During First Half of 2005 First-Half 2005 Revenues Up 6.8% July 29, 2005 - Accor's consolidated revenues rose 6.8% to Euros 3,643 million in the six months that ended June 30, 2005. Based on constant scope of consolidation and exchange rates, the like-for-like increase was 5.0%. (in Euros million) 2004 2005 % change % change IFRS ...
Anthony Loos Appointed Director of Food & Beverage at The Founders Inn in Virginia Beach, Virginia / July 2005
March 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Anthony Loos Appointed Director of Food & Beverage at The Founders Inn in Virginia Beach, Virginia VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA, July 2005 - Benchmark Hospitality International has announced the appointment of Anthony Loos as director of food & beverage at The Founders Inn, an award-winning property located in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Bob Zappatelli, general manager of the Inn, made the announcement, saying, "we are exceptionally pleased to promote Anthony to this position. He brings a remarkable culinary resume and superb management skills to his new role and will provide excellent leader...
Rezidor SAS Planning a US $51 million 329 room Radisson SAS Hotel at the Zurich Airport / August 2005
March 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Rezidor SAS Planning a US $51 million 329 room Radisson SAS Hotel at the Zurich Airport Brussels, August 2005 - Rezidor SAS Hospitality, the Brussels-based multi-brand hospitality company, has announced plans for the new Radisson SAS Hotel Zurich Airport, Switzerland. Construction will begin at the start of 2006, and is slated for completion in autumn 2008. The £65 million (approx. $51 million U.S.) hotel will be located directly opposite the departure terminal (Terminal 1) of Zurich Airport and will feature 329 rooms and 40,000 square feet of conference space. The hotel will be the first ...
ZMail Used by Myrtle Beach National Company to Consolidate Multiple Guest Databases, Strengthen Repeat Business with Cost-effective Expert Email Solut
March 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report ZMail Used by Myrtle Beach National Company to Consolidate Multiple Guest Databases, Strengthen Repeat Business with Cost-effective Expert Email Solution . Myrtle Beach Operator Rides Resort and Condo Boom, Internet Email Marketing Trend to Power 65% Repeat Business August 2, 2005 - Myrtle Beach South Carolina is the East Coasts top beach and golf vacation mecca and the most popular drive-to destination in North America. Legend has it that The Beach grew from a sleepy vacation hideaway to its current status as an internationally known tourist sensation after one chilly season when ...
March 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report ZMail Tapped by Intellistrand to Grow Customer Base in 19 Major Metro Areas . Top intelligent email provider, ZDirect, turns C lists into A lists, ensures delivery, grows quality customer databases Myrtle Beach, SC August 16, 2005 ZDirect, Inc., a top provider of solutions for travel and tourism in the emerging area of Internet-based dynamic content communication, today announced that Intellistrand LLC , an industry leading developer of city, state and leisure portal Internet sites, has signed an agreement to license its best selling ZMail product. Based in Myrtle Beac...
Yellowstone Club, a Ski and Golf Destination-club in Big Sky, Montana, Marketing Membership Fees of Up to $10 million / August 2005
March 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Julie Dunn, The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 25, 2005--Yellowstone Club, a private ski and golf community in Big Sky, Mont., is launching the world's most expensive luxury vacation-home club, with membership fees of up to $10 million. In return, members won't just have access to multimillion-dollar private homes and concierge services, but to entire private resorts, yachts and jets at their disposal, said Hank Kashiwa, former Olympic skier and vice president of marketing for Yellowstone Club. The destinatio...
March 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Lions and Tigers and Bears Oh My . The Hotel Yellow Brick Road is Less Scary than It Used to Be By: Neil Salerno August 2005 Dorothy and Toto would have had a much easier time finding the Great Wizard, today, than they did forty years ago. Poor Dorothy didnt have the benefit of the Global Positioning Satellite System, Mapquest, or the Internet. Her trip was beset by lions, good and bad witches, and hoards of flying monkeys pretty scary. Searching for a success in the good ole hotel days was very much like finding the Land of Oz. If one had the luck to meet a good witch ...
Turnberry Associates Acquires Union Station – A Wyndham Historic Hotel, Nashville; Plans Multi-million dollar Restoration / August 2005
March 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Turnberry Associates Acquires Union Station - A Wyndham Historic Hotel, Nashville; Plans Multi-million dollar Restoration NASHVILLE, Tenn - Aug. 18, 2005 -- Aventura, Florida based Turnberry Associates and Nashville based Corner Partnership have announced the purchase of Union Station - A Wyndham Historic Hotel in the heart of Downtown Nashville. A classic Romanesque masterpiece built in 1900, Union Station was the cornerstone of elegance and sophistication in travel for many generations. For the first time in many years, the former historic train station will be locally owned and managed....
Wisconsin Hotels Want Another Chance to Get on List for State Employee Approved Lodging; More than 3,300 Lodging Properties Out of the Mix for State
March 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Stacy Forster, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 25, 2005 - MADISON -- A newly created list of hotels that may be used by state employees when traveling on official business is drawing fire from Wisconsin's lodging industry, with some hotel operators arguing they didn't get enough time to complete the necessary paperwork. The list -- which went into effect July 18 -- includes about 325 hotels that state employees should use, leaving more than 3,300 hotels and other lodging properties out of the mix for stat...
Orient-Express' Windsor Court Hotel Hurricane Katrina Update / August 2005
March 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Orient-Express' Windsor Court Hotel Hurricane Katrina Update HAMILTON, Bermuda, August 30, 2005 - Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on Monday, August 29, 2005 with the hurricane passing just east of New Orleans with sustained winds of 125 miles an hour. "We are thankful that we weathered the storm safely," said Tony McHale, General Manager of the Windsor Court Hotel. "We had fully prepared the hotel to safely accommodate guests and staff that rode out the hurricane, and we have had no injuries." The hotel did sustain some damage, however, preliminary reports indicate that it is limited to s...
Apple REIT Six, Inc. Appoints White Lodging Services to Manage Five East Coast Hotels / August 2005
March 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Apple REIT Six, Inc. Appoints White Lodging Services to Manage Five East Coast Hotels MERRILLVILLE, Ind., Aug. 24, 2005 - White Lodging Services, a rapidly growing hotel ownership, development and operating company, was recently awarded the management contract for five premium branded select service and extended stay hotels on the east coast from Apple REIT Six, Inc. Each of these hotels will be owned by Apple REIT Six, Inc. of Richmond, VA and managed by White Lodging Services of Merrillville, IN. The multi-property agreem...
LaSalle Hotel Properties Plans to Acquire the 803 room Westin Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts for Approximately $318 million / August 2005
March 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report LaSalle Hotel Properties Plans to Acquire the 803 room Westin Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts for Approximately $318 million BETHESDA, Md. - Aug. 16, 2005 -- LaSalle Hotel Properties (NYSE:LHO) today announced that it signed an agreement to acquire the Westin Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts for approximately $318 million before expenses. The acquisition is expected to close in the third quarter. The Company currently intends to assume a $210 million first mortgage on the property, issue to one of the current owners approximately $59 million in preferred units that wi...
Outrigger Enterprises to Purchase the 500 room Waikiki Beachcomber Hotel; Majority of Beachcomber Employees to be Offered Jobs with Outrigger / August
March 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Outrigger Enterprises to Purchase the 500 room Waikiki Beachcomber Hotel; Majority of Beachcomber Employees to be Offered Jobs with Outrigger HONOLULU, HAWAII - August 12, 2005 - Outrigger Enterprises, Inc. announced today it has signed an agreement to acquire the Waikiki Beachcomber Hotel from an affiliate of Tokyo-based Mitsui Leasing & Development, Ltd. The sale is expected to close in mid-October 2005. The purchase price was not disclosed. We are proud to include this fine property as part of our family of quality Outrigger and OHANA hotels in Waikiki, said David Car...
Hong Kong PolyU signs pact with World Tourism Organization / August 2005
March 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Hong Kong PolyU Signs Pact with World Tourism Organization August 2, 2005 - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)s School of Hotel and Tourism Management (SHTM) and the World Tourism Organization (WTO) have signed pact to foster co-operation in research and industry support activities relating to tourism in Asia and the Pacific region. At a special ceremony held on the University campus on 22nd July, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed by Mr Xu Jing, WTOs Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific, and Prof. Kaye Chon, Chair Professor and Head of SHTM, in the presence...
RockResorts Names William Hall Vice President of Operations / August 2005
March 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report RockResorts Names William Hall Vice President of Operations DENVER - Aug. 11, 2005--RockResorts, a Denver-based luxury resort operator with properties in seven states, has named William Hall as its new Vice President of Operations. Hall's extensive background in luxury hotels spans four decades and includes experience as the General Manager of no less than four Mobil Five Star properties. Hall's distinguished hospitality career includes eleven years with The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, having served as general manager of the The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel, The Ritz-Carlton, Huntington Hotel...
Wyndham International Stockholders Approve Merger with an Affiliate of The Blackstone Group / August 2005
March 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Wyndham International Stockholders Approve Merger with an Affiliate of The Blackstone Group DALLAS - Aug. 11, 2005 -- Wyndham International, Inc. (AMEX: WBR - News; the "Company") announced that its stockholders have adopted the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of June 14, 2005, among Wyndham and affiliates of The Blackstone Group at its annual stockholders meeting today. The Company expects the Blackstone merger to close next week, subject to the satisfaction or waiver of all the conditions set forth in the Blackstone merger agreement. Under the terms of the Blackstone merger agreeme...
Visual One Selected for the New Forbury Hotel, Reading / August 2005
March 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Visual One Selected for the New Forbury Hotel, Reading August 4, 2005 - Visual One Systems (Europe) are delighted to announce the signing of a contract to supply systems to the new Forbury Hotel and Cerise Restaurant & Bar, Reading, which opens early in 2006. Visual One has been chosen to supply the Integrated Property Management System, Point of Sale, Sales & Catering, Web Bookings Engine, Sales Ledger and interfaces. About the The Forbury Built in 1911 as the Shire Hall for Berkshire County Council from a design by Warwick & Hall in Queen Anne style, this listed building at 26 The Forbu...
Visual One Selected for Barnsdale Hall Hotel / August 2005
March 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Visual One Selected for Barnsdale Hall Hotel August 24th 2005 - Visual One Systems are delighted to announce that Barnsdale Hall Hotel, Rutland have placed an order for their integrated Front Office, Sales Ledger, Sales & Catering and Web Bookings. Anne Penman, Director of Barnsdale Hall Hotel said, The service and professionalism we have received from Visual One so far has been superb. We have found them to be very flexible, attentive and helpful. Choosing, negotiating and installing a new software system can be a very stressful experience, Visual One has so far made it seem to be a ve...
Opened in 1972, The 12-story Holiday Inn Ventura Beach Resort Receiving $8 million Remodel and Conversion to Crowne Plaza / August 2005
March 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Jim McLain, Ventura County Star, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 17, 2005 - New investors are putting up the capital to complete a much-delayed renovation and upgrade project at the Holiday Inn Ventura Beach Resort hotel in Ventura. A San Francisco-based development firm, HCV Pacific Partners LLC, bought an undisclosed percentage of the high-rise hotel in April and is moving to complete an $8 million remodel of what will become a Crowne Plaza Hotels brand, Douglas Wood, the hotel's new general manager, said Tuesday. ...
Starwood Joint Ventures with Edge Resorts to Build a 3,000 unit W Branded Hotel, Condominium and Casino in Las Vegas; Project May Cost Up to $1.7 bill
March 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Starwood Joint Ventures with Edge Resorts to Build a 3,000 unit W Branded Hotel, Condominium and Casino in Las Vegas; Project May Cost Up to $1.7 billion LAS VEGAS, Aug. 24, 2005 - W Hotels Worldwide, in partnership with Edge Resorts, will open its first hotel and residences in Las Vegas, NV, the W Las Vegas Hotel, Casino and Residences. The W Las Vegas is scheduled to open in 2008 and will be located at the intersection of Harmon Avenue and Koval Lane, in the heart of Las Vegas's most exciting development corridor, 500 meters east of the famed Las Vegas Strip. Starwood Hotels & Resorts Wo...
UK Largest Segment of Las Vegas' Overseas Visitors with 392,000 Citizens in 2004; Japan Second with 217,000 Visitors / August 2005
March 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Chris Jones, Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 16, 2005--Las Vegas residents may want to learn the words to the British classic "God Save the Queen." God knows her subjects are saving up their cash before pumping it into this city's economy. For the third consecutive year, residents of the United Kingdom made up the largest segment of Las Vegas' growing overseas visitor count. Approximately 392,000 U.K. citizens came here from across the Atlantic, up 8.3 percent from 2003, the Las Vegas Convent...
Attorneys Looking into the The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority Selling the Popular "What Happens Here, Stays Here" Trademark f
March 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Chris Jones, Las Vegas Review-JournalKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 4, 2005 - Attorneys with Morrison & Foerster will report Tuesday on their investigation of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority's recent $1 sale of the popular "What happens here, stays here" trademark to its creators at Las Vegas-based advertising agency R&R Partners. The attorneys' report will come at the regularly scheduled meeting of the convention authority. Details of the San Francisco-based legal team's findings were unavailable Wednesday, but the convention authority's 14-member board last...
Nevada Casinos Continue Record-setting Pace in June 2005; Receives Healthy Kick from Wynn Las Vegas / August 2005
March 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Rod Smith, Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 12, 2005 - Nevada casinos continued their record-setting pace in June, winning just shy of $1 billion, thanks to a healthy kick from Wynn Las Vegas for the second month in a row. While the gaming win set a record for June, it fell short of breaking the $1 billion mark reached for the first time ever in April and hit again in May. With a total win of $954.2 million, the state exceeded last year by $99.9 million, an 11.7 percent jump. Strip revenues ro...
Boyd Gaming's $600 million 1,350-room South Coast Hotel and Casino Is First to be Built South of the Airport Runways on Las Vegas Boulevard / A
March 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Rod Smith, Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 16, 2005 - The South Coast is going to be a lot more than just another locals casino when it opens early next year, industry experts said Monday. The $600 million project, which started filling 2,400 positions with a job fair Saturday, will be the first high-rise hotel-casino to be built south of the airport runways on Las Vegas Boulevard. With its 1,350-room hotel casino, Boyd Gaming Corp. is likely to redefine the Strip, dragging it southward from Mandala...
