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Noble Investment Group Names Jim Williams General Manager of its Winston-Salem Embassy Suites and Ron L. Stephens as Director of Marketing for its Win
February 28, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Noble Investment Group Names Jim Williams General Manager of its Winston-Salem Embassy Suites and Ron L. Stephens as Director of Marketing for its Winston-Salem Hotel and Convention Center Complex Winston-Salem, NC June 14, 2005 - Noble Investment Group today announced that Jim Williams has been appointed General Manager of its new downtown Winston-Salem Embassy Suites. Also, Ron L. Stephens has been selected as Director of Marketing for its new downtown Winston-Salem Hotel and Convention Center complex. Noble is renovating the current Adams Mark hotel into a four-star Marriott Hote...
Jeanine Rhea Appointed General Manager of the New 90-room Hampton Inn & Suites in Yuma, Arizona / June 2005...
February 28, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Jeanine Rhea Appointed General Manager of the New 90-room Hampton Inn & Suites in Yuma, Arizona Overland Park, Kan. June 15, 2005 True North Hotel Group, L.L.C. (TNHG) today announced that Jeanine Rhea has been appointed general manager of the new 90-room Hampton Inn & Suites slated to open in Yuma, Ariz., this September. True North Hotel Group will manage and is an equity investor in the hotel, which is located at 1600 East 16th Street, adjacent to the new Yuma Palms Shopping Center. Rhea, who has worked for Hilton-branded hotels for more than five years, most recently ...
John Q. Hammons Hotels, Inc. Announces Execution of Merger Agreement / June 2005...
February 28, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report John Q. Hammons Hotels, Inc. Announces Execution of Merger Agreement SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - June 15, 2005 -- John Q. Hammons Hotels, Inc. (AMEX:JQH) announced today that it has entered into a definitive Agreement and Plan of Merger with JQH Acquisition LLC. The merger agreement provides that, upon the consummation of the merger, each outstanding share of the Company's class A common stock will convert into the right to receive $24.00 cash per share. The merger is conditioned upon, among other things, approval by the Company's stockholders at a special meeting called for that purpose. The ...
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February 28, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Signature Destinations Club Names Jay Harbison as Vice President of Hospitality and Membership Operations SEATTLE- June 26, 2005- Signature Destinations Club LLC the first and only regionally focused residence club, announced today the appointment of Jay Harbison as vice president of hospitality and membership operations. Harbison brings more than 15 years of experience in the travel and hospitality industry to his new position where he is tasked with developing the infrastructure, systems and personnel to provide club members with the Signature Experience of hassle-free ...
Bellstar Appoints Jackie Frederick General Manager for the Spirit Ridge Vineyard Resort & Spa, Osoyoos, British Columbia / June 2005...
February 28, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Bellstar Appoints Jackie Frederick General Manager for the Spirit Ridge Vineyard Resort & Spa, Osoyoos, British Columbia Osoyoos, British Columbia, June 10, 2005 - The Okanagan's most anticipated resort -- Spirit Ridge Vineyard Resort & Spa -- is proud to announce Jackie Frederick as General Manager. The resort is scheduled to open in Osoyoos, BC this July. Jackie will lead the Spirit Ridge team in delivering exceptional resort experiences, which are only natural due to the resort's spacious condo-style accommodation, concierge services, and easy access to a leading winery, gol...
JAL Hotels Co., Ltd. Opens Five Asia/Pacific Hotels in 2005 / June 2005...
February 28, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report JAL Hotels Co., Ltd. Opens Five Asia/Pacific Hotels in 2005 June 28, 2005, Tokyo - JAL Hotels Co., Ltd., which operates the Nikko Hotels International group of luxury international hotels and Hotel JAL City, a mid-priced chain of hotels for business travelers in Japan, will open five Asia/Pacific hotels this summer; four in Japan: Hotel Nikko Hitachi (opened June 2005), Hotel JAL City Nagano (opened June 2005), Hotel Nikko Himeji (June 29, 2005), and Hotel Nikko Nara (July 1, 2005); and one in the North Pacific Republic of Palau: Palau Royal Resort (June 28, 2005). One-hundred fifty-e...
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February 28, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report The Internet The Great Equalizer For Independent Hotels By: Neil Salerno, Hotel Marketing Coach June 2005 With the continued growth of the Internets popularity, Independent hotels have their best chance ever to truly compete with their franchise competition. For many years, hotels have chosen to flag their hotels in order to cash-in on franchise loyalty and popularity and the resulting reservations contribution. Although franchise contributions to reservations vary greatly by brand and by hotel, buying a flag almost always provided a hotel with a base of business to ensure succ...
inter-touch To Lead in Next Generation Mobile Broadband Services for Business Travellers / June 2005...
February 28, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report inter-touch To Lead in Next Generation Mobile Broadband Services for Business Travellers Singapore, June, 10 2005 - inter-touch, the leading provider of Broadband Internet Access for business travellers across Asia Pacific, China, the Middle East and Europe, has been awarded 20MHz of Wireless Broadband Access (WBA) spectrum by Singapore's Infocomm Development Authority (IDA). The acquisition of this Spectrum elevates inter-touch as the only operator servicing the hospitality Broadband market worldwide who can deploy the next generation of wireless broadband applications to the hospitality market...
Hotel Insurance Expense: Minor Cost, Major Concern; PKF Study Finds Premiums Doubled Since 1999 / June 2005...
February 28, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Hotel Insurance Expense: Minor Cost, Major Concern; PKF Study Finds Premiums Doubled Since 1999 Atlanta, June 13, 2005: Insurance premiums have become the fastest growing expense for U.S. hotel owners. Despite a slight decline in 2004, the payments made by hotel managers for general liability and property insurance have more than doubled since 1999. Given the impact of recent natural disasters, as well as the continuing threat of terrorism, it is feared that this cost will continue to rise at a greater pace than other expenses in the future. This conclusion comes from a special a...
Questions Linger Whether the Pritzker Clan Agreement Will Remain Intact Over the Long Haul; Inside the Pritzker Family Feud / June 2005...
February 28, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Susan Chandler and Kathy Bergen, Chicago TribuneKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 12, 2005 - When it comes to private families, they don't come much more private than the Pritzkers. Members of Chicago's wealthy Pritzker clan hold their vast $15 billion empire in trust funds, many of them overseas. They employ lawyers who fight to keep family legal matters inside sealed courtrooms away from the public. And they shun almost all requests for interviews. So when two young Pritzker heirs filed suit alleging that some family members had looted their trust funds of $1 billion, the famil...
InnLink and The Rubicon Group Create Strategic Alliance for Revenue Management and Enhanced Inventory and Distribution Controls / June 2005...
February 28, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report InnLink and The Rubicon Group Create Strategic Alliance for Revenue Management and Enhanced Inventory and Distribution Controls Hendersonville, TN and Atlanta, GA June 16, 2005 - InnLink and The Rubicon Group announce the signing of a strategic alliance that enables InnLinks hotel customers to utilize Rubicons powerful MarketVision Rate Management tools and competitive shopping strategies through InnLinks proprietary RESmatrix data and information management system. InnLinks customers will have the option to subscribe to Rubicons services, to view competitive sets and rates f...
Make Your Meetings Commercial Free with Interstate Hotels & Resorts / June 2005...
February 28, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Make Your Meetings "Commercial Free" with Interstate Hotels & Resorts ARLINGTON, Va. -- JUNE 22, 2005 - Interstate Hotels & Resorts (NYSE: IHR), the nation's largest independent hotel management company, offers meeting planners an XM Satellite Radio when booking a meeting or catered event worth $5,000 or more in revenue now through Sept. 30, 2005* at up to 180 full-service locations across the United States. As a special incentive for registering, meeting planners are entered into a drawing for a five-day/four-night New Years Eve celebration package in New York City. From staying inspired ...
Starwood Targets Niche Markets to Increase Revenues, Brand Aswareness / June 2005...
February 28, 2005
Hotel Online .Special Report Starwood Targets Niche Markets to Increase Revenues, Brand Aswareness June, 2005 - Although occupancy around the world is on the rise, most hotels still have room for growth and Starwood Hotels and Resorts is taking advantage of niche markets to fill this gap. In the US, nationwide occupancy levels are approaching historical record levels, but not all properties are enjoying this recent surge. In fact, only 12.2% of US hotels had occupancies higher than 80% in 2004 and in 2000 it was only 17.4%, according to PKF Hospitality Research (PKF-HR). Even at 80% occupancy, revenue managers at t...
About 120 Housekeepers, Cooks and Other Workers Began a Two-week Strike at the Hyatt West Hollywood / June 2005...
February 28, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report About 120 Housekeepers, Cooks and Other Workers Began a Two-week Strike at the Hyatt West Hollywood Los Angeles, CA - June 9, 2005 Workers at the Hyatt West Hollywood walked off the job today to protest the actions of the Los Angeles Hotel Employers Council (EC). Workers are on strike because they want the Los Angeles Hotel Employers Council (EC) to return the more than half a million dollars in health care co-pays that the EC hotels collected from workers between July 2004 and February 2005. The National Labor Relations Board now alleges that the hotels collected that money ille...
Ritz-Carlton Grand Cayman Developer Wins $30 million Jury Verdict from Fluor Daniel Caribbean, Inc., the General Contractor for the Project / June 200
February 28, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Ritz-Carlton Grand Cayman Developer Wins $30 million Jury Verdict from Fluor Daniel Caribbean, Inc., the General Contractor for the Project NEW YORK, June 24, 2005 - King & Spalding LLP successfully represented Humphreys (Cayman) Limited, developer of The Ritz-Carlton Grand Cayman, in a breach of contract action against Fluor Daniel Caribbean, Inc., and Fluor Enterprises, Inc., in a three-week jury trial in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Humphreys was awarded $28.8 million, plus interest, legal fees and costs. The jury found in favor of H...
'The Stranger within our gates' / Hotel Common Sense / John Hogan / June 2005...
February 28, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Hotel Common Sense . The Stranger within our gates by John Hogan, MBA CHA MHS CHE, June 2005 . Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. William Shakespeare (15641616), British dramatist, poet. Attributed to Balthazar, in The Comedy of Errors, act 3, sc. 1, l. 26. . When one travels a great deal on business, the danger is there to overlook the small, personal touches that are often present in many hotels. Regardless of the room rate, the size of the hotel or its location, many hotels around the world provide many personalized welcoming messages. At a time when we...
Hotel Real Estate is Alive in 2005 / Scott Smith, MAI / June 2005...
February 28, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Hotel Real Estate is Alive in 2005 By Scott Smith, MAI, June 15, 2005 With few exceptions, it's all good in US hotel markets. Memories of the problems in 2001 and 2002 that caused hotel income to plummet and value to be compromised have faded. Leisure travelers, who only briefly left the market, continue to board airplanes and drive their automobiles to occupy hotel rooms in cities and resort locations. The huge question looming last year regarding the return of business travelers has been answered in the affirmative for hotel owners and managers. And, while demand surged during...
Rampant Optimism in U.S. Hotel Investment Arena / PKF / June 2005...
February 28, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Rampant Optimism in U.S. Hotel Investment Arena By Scott Smith, MAI, June 20, 2005 Atlanta, June 20, 2005: U.S. hotel investors and lenders are the most optimistic they have been since the mid-1990s, according to a recent study published by a leading hospitality consultant. The purchase and lending criteria used in this years lodging transactions indicate a community of buyers willing to pay higher prices and financiers offering liberal lending requirements. Virtually all investment measures are equal to, or more positive than, those used to purchase properties during the early...
New HotelEXPERT v.5.0 Actuates Guest History via 'FUNDAMENTALS' / June 2005...
February 28, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report New HotelEXPERT v.5.0 Actuates Guest History via FUNDAMENTALS" For all the buzz and investment in Guest Profiles --terabytes of them sit unutilized. HotelEXPERT now offers a return on that idle investment by sifting through whats actionable or not. Introducing FUNDAMENTALS. June 13, 2005 - FUNDAMENTALS is HotelEXPERTs unique way to actuate Guest History. If on a previous stay, your returning guest requested the New York Times, HotelEXPERT auto-tasks its delivery again. Or, say, your returning guest once experienced a Dirty Check-In; HotelEXPERT knows to auto-task a Room Inspec...
Developer Robert A. Rauch Opens Homewood Suites by Hilton in Del Mar, California / June 2005...
February 28, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Developer Robert A. Rauch Opens Homewood Suites by Hilton in Del Mar, California San Diego, June 16, 2005 - Robert A. Rauch, CHA, General Partner with Del Mar Hotels Inc., is proud to announce the new Homewood Suites by Hilton Del Mar, celebrated its opening on May 26, 2005. Homewood Suites by Hilton San Diego/Del Mar is the very first Homewood Suites by Hilton in San Diego. Conveniently located just north of the I-5/805 merge at the intersection of Vista Sorrento Parkway and Ocean Bluff Drive, the hotel is easily accessible from north, coastal, central and southern parts of San Di...
Accor Appointed Manager of the Former Corus Hotel Hobart; Will be Re-branded the Mercure Hotel Hobart / June 2005...
February 28, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Accor Appointed Manager of the Former Corus Hotel Hobart; Will be Re-branded the Mercure Hotel Hobart 8 June 2005: Accor will become the only international hotel operator to be able to offer accommodation in every State and Territory, and every capital city across Australia, following the announcement today that it had secured a prime hotel in the heart of Hobart. Accor was appointed manager of the former Corus Hotel Hobart following its sale by Corus Hotels to Melbourne based investor group Lanco Hobart Holdings Pty Ltd. It is the first time Accor has operated a hotel in Hoba...
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February 28, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report InterContinental Hotels Groups Americas Region Hires Two VPs, Irene Hoek and Bill Bagwill ATLANTA (June 2, 2005) - InterContinental Hotels Group, (IHG) [LON: IHG, NYSE: IHG (ADRs)], the worlds largest and most global hotel company, announces it has named Irene Hoek to the position of VP, Development, the Americas, focusing on InterContinental Hotels & Resorts opportunities and Bill Bagwill to the position of VP, Development, the Americas, Southeast region, focusing on InterContinental Hotels & Resorts and Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts opportunities. Irene Hoek Bill Bagwil...
New Hilton Vancouver, Washington, Owned by the City, Integrates Some of the Most Advanced Environmentally-friendly Features Found in the Hotel Industr
February 28, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report New Hilton Vancouver, Washington, Owned by the City, Integrates Some of the Most Advanced Environmentally-friendly Features Found in the Hotel Industry Today Facility Set to Become First Hotel to Receive the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Rating VANCOUVER, Wash. - June 15, 2005 -- Located at the heart of revitalized downtown Vancouver, Washington, the brand-new 226-room Hilton Vancouver is the city's new meeting place for visitors and residents alike, offering upscale amenities, a new restaurant, stylish accommodations, and extensiv...
Hilton Hotels Corporation Enters into a Master Licensing Agreement with Starbucks / June 2005...
February 28, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Hilton Hotels Corporation Enters into a Master Licensing Agreement with Starbucks BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - June 2, 2005 -- "I'll Take a Luxury Suite and a Grande Frappuccino(R) Blended Beverage, Please." More guests of Hilton, Doubletree and Embassy Suites Hotels will begin their day with delicious Starbucks(R) beverages and pastries now that Hilton Hotels Corporation has entered into a master licensing agreement with Starbucks that will enable selected Hilton Family full service hotels to operate Starbucks licensed stores. The hotel-based stores will provide new outlets for Starbucks ...
