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Wyboston Lakes Case Study Featured at Hostec 2005 / January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Wyboston Lakes Case Study Featured at Hostec 2005 Jan 21st 2005 - Craig Warner, Technology & Process Development Manager, Wyboston Lakes will be presenting a case study on his experiences of using Visual One at the Hostec Show in Birmingham, between January 24th and 26th. Craig will be focusing on three main topics: - Benefits of having your PMS, Sales and Catering and POS integrated Data extraction made easy (examples of integration with Excel and Word) and the Automated Greeting Board How Wyboston Lakes use WiFi The seminars are free to all visitors to Hostec, and the Wybosto...
Visual One Moves into Scandinavia / January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Visual One Moves into Scandinavia 19th January 2005 - Visual One Systems (Europe) Limited are delighted to announce that Sulcus Hospitality Group based in Norway and Sweden have signed an exclusive agreement to distribute the Visual One system in Scandinavia. Sulcus Hospitality Group have been supplying and supporting systems for 18 years and have a well established client base. Roar Hansen, the General Manager of Sulcus Hospitality Group AS, said, There has been a real need for a quality Windows system for this market to replace the many old Dos systems that are still in use. In our opinio...
Visual One Enters Danish Market / January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Visual One Enters Danish Market January 26, 2005 - Visual One Systems have made their first sale in Denmark with the signing of the Nyborg Strand Hotel. The 290 bed roomed hotel have ordered the Visual One PMS, Sales and Catering, Point of Sale, Web Bookings and Accounts Receivable. . . After working with an older Novell/Dos-based hotel application for numerous years they saw the need for a new and modern system to help them in their business. Although the old system was a good and stable product it did not give them the flexibility they were looking for. "We wanted a quick, reliable and ea...
Visual One Announces Global Network at Hostec / January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Visual One Announces Global Network at Hostec Jan 19th 2005 - Visual One Systems are delighted to announce plans to expand their distribution network globally at next weeks Hostec Show, (part of Hospitality Week), which will be held at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England. Recently Visual One has signed up distributors in Ireland, Scandinavia, the Middle East and Asia and there are more distributors in the pipeline. Mike Gadbury, Managing Director of Visual One Systems Europe said, Having moved into the UK market two years ago we have seen strong demand for our product,...
Visual One Selected for Lensbury at Teddington Lock / January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Visual One Selected for Lensbury at Teddington Lock Visual One sails past the competition for the 160 bedroom hotel at Teddington Lock Visual One Systems is delighted to announce that Lensbury at Teddington Lock have placed an order for their integrated Front Office, Sales Ledger, Sales & Catering, Point of Sale system and Dining Room Reservations. Having decided to upgrade their existing Property Management System, the team at Lensbury selected the Visual One product after extensive investigations and site visits. . Lensbury at Teddington Lock . Jo King, IT Project Manager at Len...
Richard Verruni Named Managing Director of the Eldorado Hotel, Santa Fe, Replacing Randy Randall / January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Bob Quick, The Santa Fe New MexicanKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 19, 2005 - Richard Verruni, with 27 years in the hotel business, had his choice of hotel management jobs around the world. When the opportunity arose, he chose Santa Fe ... again. "I love this business, and I love Santa Fe," Verruni said. "A hotel guy can go anywhere. I've always wanted to come back here." Verruni's first business experience in Santa Fe was at La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa, which he managed from 1998 to 2001. Verruni is back -- this time as managing director of the Eldorado Hotel, Santa ...
Hospitality Sales Training Companies Reach Across the Competitive Playing Field to Combine Live Seminar Expertise with the Convenience of the Internet
January 30, 2005
Carol Verret Consulting and Training Consulting Training Seminars . . . Hospitality Sales Training Companies Reach Across the Competitive Playing Field to Combine Live Seminar Expertise with the Convenience of the Internet January 2005 Highlands Ranch, CO - January 31, 2005 -- CVCT (Carol Verret Consulting and Training) and HotelTraining is pleased to announce their association on the development of online sales training modules for the hospitality industry. "We are very excited to bring these new services to the hospitality industry enabling us to continually provide complete hospitality management needs ...
Travelers Roll the Dice when Booking Rooms in Las Vegas
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Chris Jones, Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 2--It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. And unfortunately for Sean DeFrank and Melissa Nunnery, the story of their wedding night unexpectedly became a tale of two cities. After celebrating their July 17 marriage at a reception hall in northwest Las Vegas, the newlyweds headed to the Strip to spend one night at Paris Las Vegas before embarking on a weeklong honeymoon in Hawaii. Instead, they encountered untold frustration when they tried to ...
Ameristar Casinos and Pinnacle Entertainment Keep Corporate Base in Las Vegas; Neither Operates a Hotel-casino in Southern Nevada / January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review-JournalKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 23, 2005 - From the window of his Hughes Center 18th floor office, Pinnacle Entertainment Chief Executive Officer Dan Lee has a superior view looking down toward the heart of the Strip. But when Lee wants to check on one of his company's nine casino projects, he either clicks onto an Internet Webcam or hops on an airplane. Pinnacle Entertainment leases almost 16,000 square feet of prime Las Vegas office space for its corporate headquarters, but the company's nearest casino is about 475 miles north, just out...
Vantis and Buckhiester Management USA Offer Unique Online Seminar on Revenue Management Business Process / January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Vantis and Buckhiester Management USA Offer Unique Online Seminar on Revenue Management Business Process Webinar Series Provides Unique, Cost-effective Introduction for Hotel Clients Calgary, Alberta, Canada January 24, 2005 Vantis, the largest provider of marketing and revenue generation services for independent hotels, car rental companies and airlines, and Buckhiester Management USA Inc., a revenue management industry leader, are pleased to offer a seven-session webinar (seminars accessed via the Internet) to walk hotels through the key components of successful revenue manag...
Publicly Funded Convention Centers in Colorado Springs and Vail Nearing Reality; Will Investments Pay Off? / January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Julie Dunn, The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 30, 2004 - Decades-long proposals to build publicly funded convention and conference centers in Colorado Springs and Vail may be nearing reality amid questions of whether the investments will pay off. Colorado Springs residents will most likely vote this spring on a $74 million convention center and U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame. In Vail, the Town Council will make a final decision early next year on whether to break ground on a $42.5 million conference center that was approved by voters in 2...
Urgo Hotels Acquires the 190 unit Residence Inn by Marriott, Downtown Montreal for $ 19.7 million / January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Urgo Hotels Acquires the 190 unit Residence Inn by Marriott, Downtown Montreal for $ 19.7 million Companys Sixth Canadian Property Will Undergo $1 Million Renovation/Upgrade Program BETHESDA, Md. /MONTREAL, Quebec, January 12, 2005 Urgo Hotels, a major developer, owner and operator of upscale hotels, today announced that it has acquired, in partnership with a major real estate opportunity fund, the Residence Inn by Marriott, Downtown Montreal for $25 million Canadian ($ 19.7 million U.S.). The extended-stay hotel will immediately undergo a $1 million Canadian renovation/upgra...
American Cities Flooding the Market with New Convention Center Space Even As Trade-show Industry Contracts; Underbooked Big Boxes / January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Kathy Bergen, Chicago TribuneKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 17, 2005 - American cities are flooding the market with new convention center space, even as the trade-show industry is contracting, a phenomenon likely to leave the landscape littered with underbooked big boxes, according to a study released Monday. The Brookings Institution report comes as projects are under way or under consideration at McCormick Place and in Schaumburg, Lombard, Peoria and Rockford. "Localities, sometimes with state assistance, have continued a type of arms race with competing cities," Heywood S...
Newest Classroom at University of Delaware's Department of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management Also a Hotel / January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Newest Classroom at University of Delaware's Department of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management Also a Hotel January 2005 - --The Courtyard Newark-University of Delaware offers all the services and amenities of a fine, business-class hotel, while also enhancing the educational and research opportunities for faculty and staff in the Universitys respected hotel, restaurant and institutional management program. The four-story, 126-room Courtyard by Marriott hotel is on University of Delawares Laird Campus, off New London Road in Newark, next to the newly renovated John M. C...
Top Hospitality Professional from Canyon Ranch Named Turning Stone Director of Hotel, Spa Operations / January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Top Hospitality Professional from Canyon Ranch Named Turning Stone Director of Hotel, Spa Operations Oneida Nation Homelands— Michael Tompkins, former associate managing director and director of health and healing at Canyon Ranch in the Berkshires, has been named director of hotel and spa operations at the Oneida Indian Nation’s Turning Stone Resort and Casino. During his five years at the award-winning Canyon Ranch, Tompkins became known nationwide as an expert on wellness, fitness, and the spa industry. He has been interviewed by CNN, the Associated Press,...
Phuket will bounce back from tsunami, says Thai real estate agent
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Nina Suebsukcharoen, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 5--The tsunami tragedy will undoubtedly have an immediate impact on tourism and property sales in Phuket, expected to last around 12 months, according to Stephen O'Brien, managing director of the property agency Knight Frank Phuket. But the outlook is not all gloomy as a number of the real estate agency's clients are proceeding with property contracts in the due diligence stage, he said. "All buyers remain eager to settle. I think most buyers see th...
Twentynine Palms Band of Mission Indians to Buy Out Trump Hotels Contract
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 3--The tribal owner of the Trump 29 Casino plans to buy out the management contract of Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts, which has overseen operations there since April 2002, and sever its ties to the legendary gaming company. The Twentynine Palms Band of Mission Indians will also give up the rights to the Trump name, which it has used for multiple promotions over the years. "They want to once and for all take it back and operate it like they did before, putt...
Le Meridien Selects TravelCLICK's RateVIEW / January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Le Meridien Selects TravelCLICK's RateVIEW CHICAGO (January 6, 2005) Jan Tissera, President of TravelCLICK International, announced today that Le Méridien Hotels & Resorts has selected TravelCLICKs RateVIEW report as the new rate shopping solution for its hotels. In our continual efforts to ensure that our hotels and colleagues around the world are able to benefit from the optimum solutions available, we are recommending that our hotels use TravelCLICKs RateVIEW, said Dean Gregory, Vice President of Distribution for Le Méridien. With RateVIEW, Le Méridien hotels will r...
Tiburon Hospitality Management Poised for Growth in 2005 / January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Tiburon Hospitality Management Poised for Growth in 2005 Carefree, AZ (Jan. 13, 2005) -- Heading into its third year of operation as a full-service hotel management company, Tiburon Hospitality Management, LLC., is celebrating a milestone of successes for its portfolio of resorts and is positioning itself for strategic growth in 2005, according to Greg Champion, president and chief operating officer. Champion, who has more than 26 years of extensive hospitality management experience, has built a comprehensive infrastructurecomprised of an unparalleled team of seasoned professionals with expert...
Tiburon Hospitality Management Poised for Growth in 2005/january 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Tiburon Hospitality Management Poised for Growth in 2005 Carefree, AZ (Jan. 13, 2005) -- Heading into its third year of operation as a full-service hotel management company, Tiburon Hospitality Management, LLC., is celebrating a milestone of successes for its portfolio of resorts and is positioning itself for strategic growth in 2005, according to Greg Champion, president and chief operating officer. Champion, who has more than 26 years of extensive hospitality management experience, has built a comprehensive infrastructure comprised of an ...
Wildly Successful Northern California Entertainment Destination, Thunder Valley Casino, Recipient of Civil Suit Alleging Seven Worker Rights Violat
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveThe Sacramento Bee, Calif.Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 27, 2005 - In a court challenge that pits individual workers' rights against an Indian tribe's sovereignty, seven former employees of Thunder Valley Casino have filed a civil suit alleging sexual harassment, age and sex discrimination and wrongful termination. The Auburn Indian Community owns Thunder Valley, the wildly successful casino that, with a work force of 2,200, is among Placer County's largest employers. Attorneys for both sides say the case, filed in Sacramento Superior Court, could hinge on the tribe's contenti...
Huge Tourism Revenue Loss Expected in Thailand's Tsunami-affected Region
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Nondhanada I.A. Chuenniran, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 5--Thailand stands to lose four billion baht a month in tourism revenue from the tsunami-struck southern provinces, where it is likely to take at least two to three months to restore facilities, according to Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT). TAT governor Juthamas Siriwan said the country needed to work urgently to fix the damaged property to minimise the impact on the overall economy, adding that the agency had not yet revised its target of intern...
Since April 1997 the Asia-Pacific Tourism Industry Has Suffered a Shock a Year / January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Imtiaz Muqbil, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 31, 2004 - Sunday's tsunami has further exposed the fragility of the travel and tourism industry as an investment prospect, and could well lead bankers to look even more closely at the risks associated with the lengthening list of potential external shocks. Since the April 1997 haze (which began with forest fires, also in Indonesia), the Asia-Pacific region has suffered literally a shock a year, all of which have hit travel and tourism in one way or another. These include the cu...
Fort Worth, TX to Send Longhorn Steers to New York City in Tourism Promotion/January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By David Wethe, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News FORT WORTH, Texas (Jan. 13, 2005) -- Look out, New York. Here come the cattle. Five Texas longhorn steers that are usually in the daily trail drives at the Fort Worth Stockyards will soon be shipped to New York City's Times Square along with two NASCAR race cars to promote Fort Worth tourism on Jan. 26. Officials for the Fort Worth Convention & Visitors Bureau said Tuesday that the $50,000 trip is one of the largest promotional stunts they have ever do...
