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Celebrate the Life and Career of Reggie Shiu; The Things in Life that Were Most Important to Reggie / January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Celebrate the Life and Career of Reggie Shiu; The Things in Life that Were Most Important to Reggie Commemorative service announced for Accor's Reggie Shiu Friends and travel industry partners are invited to celebrate the life and career of Reggie Shiu, who went missing in the tsunami tragedy. The family requests no flowers - instead, donations should be made at the event to the 'Accor Zoe Shiu Trust Fund' for Mr Shiu's surviving daughter, Zoe. Venue: Bangkok Convention Centre at Sofitel Central Plaza Bangkok 1695 Phaholyothin Road, Chatuchak, Bangkok Date: Friday 21 Ja...
Red Roof Inn in Pennsylvania Subject to Two Bias Complaints; Manager-in-Training Told to Train the New Manager / January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Ellen Lyon, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa.Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 25, 2005 - In separate complaints filed with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, a mother and daughter contend they were discriminated against by the Red Roof Inn in Swatara Twp. because they are Hispanic. Red Roof officials, in a written statement to The Patriot-News, said they have a "zero-tolerance policy on discrimination and harassment." Sylvia Flores of New Bloomfield says in her complaint that she was a manager-in-training for eight months at the motel at 950 Eisenhower Blvd. Instead ...
Raffles International Signs Deal To Manage New Deluxe Hotel In Shanghai/january 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Raffles International Signs Deal To Manage New Deluxe Hotel In Shanghai SINGAPORE, January 11, 2005 – Raffles International Limited has today signed a management contract with Jing An City Construction Fitting Development Company (Jing’an Chengjian), to manage a new hotel development in Shanghai slated for opening in 2007. Named Swissôtel Grand Shanghai, the 478-room hotel will be managed under Raffles International’s Swissôtel brand. The deal marks Raffles International’s first foray into the buoyant Shanghai market and f...
New Owner of Resorts & Great Hotels Creates RGH Hospitality Marketing / January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report New Owner of Resorts & Great Hotels Creates RGH Hospitality Marketing Santa Barbara, CA January 24, 2005 - World Publications is dramatically expanding the reach and resources of its recently acquired Resorts & Great Hotels title with the formation of RGH Hospitality Marketing. This newly formed group will be a prominent leader in the luxury hotel and resort industry, offering an array of print, event and online marketing services and products through its three distinct divisions: RGH Creative, RGH Meetings and RGH Publishing. In recent years, we have evolved into the foremost prov...
Securities Fraud Case: PurchasePro Founder Indicted/January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Securities Fraud Case: PurchasePro Founder indicted-- Lawyer Says Johnson to Enter Not Guilty Plea Today to 13 Charges -- Tuesday, January 11, 2005 Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal By John G. Edwards Review-Journal Charles "Junior" Johnson, 43, who founded PurchasePro.com and led Las Vegas into the Internet age, was indicted for securities fraud Monday along with three associates and two former executives with America Online. Johnson is charged with conspiracy, two counts of securities fraud, two counts of making false statemen...
Prince Hotels Chain May Merge with Seibu Railway Company / January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveKyodo News International, TokyoKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28, 2005 - TOKYO -- A Seibu group reform panel released an interim plan Friday for the scandal-tainted group's reconstruction urging Seibu Railway Co. to merge with a spinoff of the group's core firm Kokudo Corp. and absorb Kokudo's Prince Hotels chain. The plan also calls for Seibu Railway to increase its capital by 150 billion to 200 billion yen before the merger. It says the group should withdraw from or restructure some 40 of its 160 resort facilities, including hotels, and consider selling and other specific refo...
The Plasencia Group Is Exclusive Marketing Advisor on Sale of Long Beach Hilton / January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report The Plasencia Group Is Exclusive Marketing Advisor on Sale of Long Beach Hilton Transaction Marks More Than $400 Million in California Hotel Sales by The Plasencia Group in Past 24 Months Alone LONG BEACH, CA / January 18, 2005 - The Plasencia Group, Inc. of Tampa, the nation's leading hospitality transaction and consulting services firm, announced today that it served as exclusive marketing advisor to LBWTC Partners, LLC and AEW Hotels LLC in the sale of the Long Beach Hilton and Executive Meeting Center to HEI Hospitality LLC. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. With this tra...
Members of the Greater Pittsburgh Hotel Association Remain Divided Over the Need for the new $104 million Convention Center Hotel / January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 24, 2005 - Don't count Heywood Sanders among those bullish about the need for another Downtown hotel to help attract conventioneers to Pittsburgh. If recent experiences in other cities are any indication, the new $104 million hotel to be built next to the David L. Lawrence Convention Center may not be the tourism magnet its boosters proclaim it to be. "I can find no real empirical evidence that the new bunch of hotels has made any difference in the convention center business that we can document," said Sanders...
New Book Helps Hotels Increase Profits by Becoming Pet Friendly / January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report New Book Helps Hotels Increase Profits by Becoming Pet Friendly Knoxville, TN January 21, 2005 Due to the demand for accurate, actionable information about becoming a pet friendly hotel, BringYourPet.com recently released the book, Making Your Property Pet friendly: A How-To Guide. Unfortunately, fears of damages, barks, bites, and allergies keep many hoteliers on the sidelines. The new BringyourPet.com book thoroughly addresses all of these concerns and provides an easy-to-understand blueprint for establishing a profitable pet friendly program at virtually any type of lodging esta...
Pegasus Solutions Expands Relationship with Caribbean Hotel Association/January 2005
January 30, 2005
Pegasus Solutions Expands Relationship with Caribbean Hotel Association DALLAS and MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA (January 11, 2005) - Pegasus Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: PEGS) has announced the expansion of its longstanding relationship with the Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA). Starting this year, CHA member hotels now have access to the full range of representation service options offered by Pegasus, including distribution and marketing services in the Unirez by Pegasus and Utell by Pegasus offerings. Dallas-based Pegasus Solutions is a global leader in providing technology and services to hotels and...
Pegasus Solutions Again Receives World Travel Award for RezView®/January 2005
January 30, 2005
Pegasus Solutions Again Receives World Travel Award for RezView® DALLAS (January 13, 2005) — Pegasus Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: PEGS) announced it has received its third consecutive World Travel Award naming Pegasus’ RezView central reservation system as the World’s Leading Hotel Reservation Service. Mark Hoare, senior director of product development for Pegasus, leads the development for the RezView service and traveled to Barbados to accept the award at a gala award ceremony there on December 11. More than 8,000 properties around the world rely on Pegasus’ RezView service t...
Don Peebles Planning to Acquire and Renovate Southfield, Michigan's 430 room Ambassador Hotel / January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy John Gallagher, Detroit Free PressKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 15, 2004 - Although he lives and works in the Miami area, developer Don Peebles always listened closely when someone mentioned Detroit. Peebles, among the leading African-American real estate executives in the United States, spent five years of his childhood in Motown. Memories of the city were important to him. So, when two acquaintances separately mentioned he ought to look at investment opportunities in southeastern Michigan, he spent part of a vacation touring available properties here. The result is a plan...
Pebble Beach Company has Ambitious Plans for the Del Monte Forest; a New 18-hole golf course and 160 new Guest Suites / January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Kevin Howe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 24, 2005 - Pebble Beach Co.'s ambitious remake of the Del Monte Forest will be heard in a daylong session Wednesday by the Monterey County Planning Commission, but whatever the outcome, the California Coastal Commission has announced that it may have the final say. The company's Del Monte Forest Preservation and Development Plan calls for new projects at 13 locations in Del Monte Forest, including a new 18-hole golf course, a golf driving range, 160 new visitor suites, a new, relocated equestrian ce...
Payson, Arizona Selects Hospitality Support Group to Develop 90,000 sq ft Event Center and 150-room Hotel and Conference Center / January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Payson, Arizona Selects Hospitality Support Group to Develop 90,000 sq ft Event Center and 150-room Hotel and Conference Center January, 2005 - The Town of Payson, Arizona and Hospitality Support Group have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to create a mixed use development on the 36-Acre site which is home of the oldest continuous rodeo in America. The centerpiece of the site will be a new 90,000 square foot multi-purpose event center and a 150-room full service hotel and conference center. With a total of 100,000 Square Feet of event space the site will be the largest con...
Greg Parsons Appointed General Manager of Eaglewood Resort & Spa / January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Greg Parsons Appointed General Manager of Eaglewood Resort & Spa ITASCA, Ill. (January 18, 2005)-- Benchmark Hospitality International announced that Greg Parsons has been named general manager of the Eaglewood Resort & Spa. The property is located in the Chicago metropolitan area and was previously known as Doral Eaglewood Conference Report & Spa. Benchmark assumed management of the resort on December 10, 2004.Prior to this appointment, Parsons served as general manager of Benchmark's Stonewall Resort in West Virginia. He previously...
Paul Kirwin Named President, Carlson Asia Pacific; Will Establish Singapore Headquarters for Carlson Hotel, Marketing and Restaurant Operations / Janu
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Paul Kirwin Named President, Carlson Asia Pacific; Will Establish Singapore Headquarters for Carlson Hotel, Marketing and Restaurant Operations MINNEAPOLIS (January 28, 2005) - Carlson Companies has promoted veteran Paul Kirwin to the newly created position of President, Carlson Asia Pacific. Kirwin will be responsible for leading the coordinated development of all of Carlson's business interests in the Asia Pacific region. A longtime veteran of Carlson Hotels Worldwide, Kirwin relocated to Singapore after he was named president and managing director of Carlson Hotels Asia Paci...
Pegasus Solutions Introduces Weekly Hotel Commission Processing for Travel Agents / November 2004
January 30, 2005
GrandStay Hospitality Names Pegasus Solutions "Vendor of the Year" DALLAS (January 5, 2005) - Pegasus Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: PEGS) was honored by GrandStay Hospitality, LLC, as the hotel company’s 2004 “Vendor of the Year.” Pegasus, which provides electronic distribution and voice reservation services to the growing U.S.-based hotel group, accepted the award at GrandStay’s recent annual conference for general managers and franchisees. Dallas-based Pegasus Solutions is a global leader in providing technology and services to hotels and travel distributors. GrandSta...
A Look at the Larger Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau Booked Conventions Occurring at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in 2005 / January 20
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Discount Hotels London, Sydney, Rome, AmsterdamParis, Melbourne, Lisbon, Barcelona, Berlin, Hong Kong, New York, Auckland Discount Hotels London, Sydney, Rome, AmsterdamParis, Melbourne, Lisbon, Barcelona, Berlin, Hong Kong, New York, Auckland A Look at the Larger Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau Booked Conventions Occurring at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in 2005 PHILADELPHIA - Jan. 28, 2005 -- The Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau (PCVB) today released the convention schedule for 2005; 550 meetings and conventions will generate m...
Outrigger Hotels Announces Key Appointments for its two Beachfront Hotels in Waikiki/January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii (Jan. 10, 2005) -- Kimberly Agas, Vice President of Operations for Outrigger Hotels & Resorts' Beachfront Division, has announced theappointment of two key managers to the company's two beachfront hotels in Waikiki. Elliot Mills has been promoted to General Manager of the Outrigger Reef on the Beach, and Jim Heather has been appointed General Manager of theOutrigger Waikiki on the Beach. Both positions are effective January 1, 2005.Elliot Mills Mills has been Director of Operations for the Outrigger Reef since April 2004,where he ha...
The 2000-room Orlando World Center Marriott Resort and Convention Center Expanding to over 400,000 square-feet of Meeting Space; Will be One of the L
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report The 2000-room Orlando World Center Marriott Resort and Convention Center Expanding to over 400,000 square-feet of Meeting Space; . Will be One of the Largest Convention Facilities in the United States ORLANDO, Fla., January 12, 2005 The worlds largest Marriott hotel, the 2000-room Orlando World Center Marriott Resort and Convention Center announced today a major space expansion and renovation that will bring the resorts existing 214,000 square-feet of meeting, convention and exhibit space to over 350,000 square-feet, almost entirely on one level and under one roof. Upon co...
Optimum Hotel Brokerage Sells Crowne Plaza® Secaucus Meadowlands Hotel / January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Optimum Hotel Brokerage Sells Crowne Plaza® Secaucus Meadowlands Hotel Fairfield, Connecticut - January 3, 2005 Optimum Hotel Brokerage announced today that the firm has closed on the sale of the 304-room Crowne Plaza® Secaucus Meadowlands Hotel in Secaucus, New Jersey. Joe McCann, president of Optimum Hotel Brokerage represented the buyer in the transaction. The Crowne Plaza® Secaucus Meadowlands Hotel is a unique and well-positioned Metro New York hotel. The hotel is strategically located in a high barrier to entry market, and only minutes from Manhattan McCann said. L...
Onity Expands Sales Team in North America with Two New Appointments
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Onity Expands Sales Team in North America with Two New Appointments Atlanta (January 10, 2005) — Onity has announced two additions to the company’s North American sales team. Brian Bevins has been appointed as Sales Manager for Onity’s Senercomm/EMS division. He will oversee Onity’s expansive team of EMS sales specialists, and will be responsible for all North American sales of the company’s wide range of energy management products and systems. In addition, he will work closely with Onity’s R&D department and product management speci...
Olympia Companies Restructures; Daniel J. Flaherty Named President of Olympia Hotel Management / January 2005
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online Special Report Olympia Companies Restructures; Daniel J. Flaherty Named President of Olympia Hotel Management Portland, Maine January 2005 Olympia Equity Investors and The Erin Companies have been restructured to form The Olympia Companies. Kevin P. Mahaney, formerly CEO of both companies, will serve as the CEO of The Olympia Companies. The Olympia Companies will include three divisions - Hotel Management, Development and Investment. This new structure was created, to accommodate the companys rapid growth while maintaining a strong focus on its commitment to excellence and creating value for its ...
Oceanside, Calif. Reviewing Hotel Proposals from Faulkner USA of Texas, Pacifica of San Diego and SD Malkin of San Diego; City Officials Learn Meani
January 30, 2005
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Rob O'Dell, North County Times, Escondido, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 9, 2005 - OCEANSIDE, Calif. --- What's the meaning of a star? Or three or four or five, for that matter? That's the question in Oceanside, which is in the process of deciding what kind of hotel it wants as the centerpiece of its downtown on two vacant lots across the street from the municipal pier. City officials talk often about what type of three-, four- or five-star hotel would best fit the city, and which one could actually be built after it has t...
