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Asian Paper Products Firm Files Lawsuit Against Chinese Hotel Association; Napkins, Fax Paper Not Up to "Green hotel" Status According to
April 30, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Ralph Jennings, Kyodo News International, TokyoKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 10, 2004 - BEIJING -- Asia Pulp & Paper Co., a major Southeast Asian logging company, is seeking 2.2 million yuan (about $266,000) in damages from a Chinese hotel association, arguing the association defamed APP by asking its members to quit using the firm's paper products based on reports of harmful forestry practices, the hotel group's legal advisers said Friday. APP filed the lawsuit against the Zhejiang Province Hotel Industry Association with the Hangzhou Xihu District People's Court on Nov. 3...
After Standing Vacant for 10 years, Charlotte's Old Convention Center Now in Hands of Developer; Mixed-use Project Envisioned / December 2004..
April 30, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Doug Smith, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 21, 2004- CITY'S OLD CONVENTION CENTER GETS NEW OWNER: After standing vacant for almost 10 years, Charlotte's old convention center finally is in the hands of a private developer who says he's ready to breathe new life into a pivotal corner of uptown. The Ghazi Co. of Charlotte concluded paperwork Friday and recorded ownership transfer documents Monday, said Afshin Ghazi, president. "Everything happened from about six weeks ago until today," he said Monday. "It's the quickest closing I've ever had in my l...
The One-of-a-kind 63-room Mount Charleston Hotel near Las Vegas Acquired by Great American Capital for $4 million / December 2004...
April 30, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Hubble Smith, Las Vegas Review-JournalKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 7, 2004 - Great American Capital of Las Vegas has purchased the 63-room Mount Charleston hotel on Kyle Canyon Road for $4 million, a company executive said Monday. The 5.7-acre mountain site has tremendous potential, said Gary Myers, director of special projects for Great American. The company plans to spend in excess of $1 million renovating the hotel lobby and rooms with new beds, televisions and furniture, he said. The hotel also has enough water rights to support the development of 20 condominiums or per...
TravelCLICK Launches ChannelManager in Europe; Increased Channel Support Enables Customers To Improve Their Online Revenue Stream / December 2004...
April 30, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report TravelCLICK Launches ChannelManager in Europe Increased Channel Support Enables Customers To Improve Their Online Revenue Stream . CHICAGO (December 1, 2004) -TravelCLICK launched its newest revenue management application, ChannelManager, in Europe this summer, stimulating the expansion of the products already diverse portfolio of channels. Recent enhancements made to ChannelManager include the addition of eight more European sites. Among these sites are some of Europes leading online travel agencies such as HRS.de and LastMinute.com. With sites such as Expedia, Travelocity,...
Cendant Hotel Group Integrates with Former Ramada International Employees to Create New International Structure / December 2004...
April 30, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Cendant Hotel Group Integrates with Former Ramada International Employees to Create New International Structure PARSIPPANY, N.J. (Dec. 16, 2004) Following its acquisition of Ramada International Hotels and Resorts, Cendant Hotel Group today announced that it has integrated its existing global staff with former Ramada International employees to create a platform for worldwide expansion. Reas M. Kondraschow, Cendant Hotel Group senior vice president and managing director, international, said that by merging the two teams, the company has expanded its International department and cr...
Cendant Hotel Group Offers Group Rates through Groople.com / December 2004...
April 30, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Cendant Hotel Group Offers Group Rates through Groople.com PARSIPPANY, N.J. (Dec. 21, 2004) Cendant Hotel Group today said it has signed an agreement with Groople Inc., a leading online group travel booking company, to offer special rates for leisure group travel planners. Discounted group inventory will be offered for participating Super 8®, Days Inn®, Ramada®, Travelodge®, Howard Johnson®, Knights Inn®, Wingate Inn® and AmeriHost Inn® franchised hotels. The agreement will ensure that retail group rates for Cendant-franchised hotel rooms are displayed prominently on groople.com...
Cendant Hotel Group Announces Quality Assurance Initiative; +GX or Positive Guest Experience / December 2004...
April 30, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Cendant Hotel Group Announces Quality Assurance Initiative; +GX or Positive Guest Experience PARSIPPANY, N.J. (Nov. 30, 2004) Cendant Corporations Hotel Group today announced a two-part initiative to refocus its quality assurance evaluation process more closely on guest priorities as identified in a recent J.D. Power and Associates independent guest satisfaction study. The first part of the initiative, called +GX or Positive Guest Experience, will provide every franchisee and manager with real-time access to guest satisfaction survey scores in addition to customized digital quality ...
Carlson Hotels Adds Nine New Properties to Global Portfolio / December 2004...
April 30, 2004
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 Carlson Hotels Adds Nine New Properties to Global Portfolio MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (Dec. 21, 2004) ---- Carlson Hotels Worldwide today announced that the company added nine new properties to its global portfolio of brands in October and November. Three new Radisson Hotels & Resorts properties opened in the United Stat...
Carneros Holdings LLC Appoints the PlumpJack Group As Management Company for The Carneros Inn, Napa Valley / December 2004...
April 30, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Carneros Holdings LLC Appoints the PlumpJack Group As Management Company for The Carneros Inn, Napa Valley NAPA, Calif. (December 6, 2004) - Carneros Holdings LLC and PlumpJack Group have announced that PlumpJack Group will become the management company for The Carneros Inn, the luxury resort located amid the vineyards in the heart of Napa Valley's beautiful Carneros winegrowing district. "The vision for The Carneros Inn has always been to provide guests with the highest levels of service and luxury while drawing upon the Inn' s wonderful vineyard-edge location in the spectacular C...
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April 30, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Claudia Passamonti Named Director of Sales & Marketing at the Mayfair Hotel & Spa in Coconut Grove, Kimpton Hotels First Florida Property Miami, FL - November 2004 Claudia Passamonti has been named Director of Sales & Marketing at the Mayfair Hotel & Spa in Coconut Grove, Kimpton Hotels first Florida property. Passamonti will supervise all marketing initiatives, help generate revenue for the hotel and be a key constituent in business development plans. Claudia has extensive knowledge of the South Florida market which will prove to be a vital asset in building bu...
Chester Deptula, GM of the Surrey Hotel in New York City, Named Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show
April 30, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Chester Deptula, GM of the Surrey Hotel in New York City, Named Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show for 2005 WHITE PLAINS, NY, December 16, 2004 Chester Deptula, general manager of the Surrey Hotel in New York City, has been named Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show (IH/M&RS) for 2005. In addition, Cristina Lussi, vice president, Lake Placid Resort Hotel & Golf Club, has joined the nine-member Board. Deptula has more than 40 years of experience in the hospitality industry and i...
Outlook 2005: Hotel Industry Fundamentals, Where have we been? Where are we going? / The Global Hospitality Advisor / JMBM / December 2004...
April 30, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report The Global Hospitality Advisor -Outlook 2005: A Roundtable Discussion Hotel Industry Fundamentals Where have we been? Where are we going? December 2004 Jim Bulter recently chaired the annual hospitality roundtable with some of the leading experts in the industry, talking about some of the "hot" issues for 2005. Butler: We have come a long way since the heady days of 1999 and 2000, not to mention the downdraft of 2001. It looks like the U.S. economy is on track for a steady recovery and the hotel industry certainly breathed a huge sigh of relief as things started to retur...
A Red Roof Inn Room for $319; Budget Hotels Entering New York City in Record Numbers / December 2004...
April 30, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Elizabeth Sanger, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 9, 2004 - From Wall Street to Harlem, Manhattan is becoming a hotbed of no-frills hotels. The city's glitzy four-star hideaways generate plenty of publicity, with celebrity check-ins, swanky suites and fancy restaurants. But quietly and forcefully, budget-minded motels, long the staple of airports, interstates and small towns, are bunking down in Manhattan in record numbers. Hampton Inn has 1,300 destinations worldwide but only acquired its first Manhattan location -- and tallest hotel -- 16 months ago. T...
Plans for Riverhouse Resort with 102 room Hotel, 80 Condos and 38,000 sq ft Convention Center Wins Approval from City of Bend, Oregon / December 20
April 30, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Eric Flowers, The Bulletin, Bend, Ore.Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 16, 2004 - Plans for a convention center and resort on the Deschutes River in Bend got a final stamp of approval Wednesday night. Councilors set conditions for the 23-acre resort development on the west side of the Deschutes River near the Mount Washington Bridge, including a restriction on any development before the construction of the convention center. "What you have is the final package of findings of what's taken close to a year now to put together," said Dale Van Valkenburg, current planning manager, ...
Adding 928 Rooms and Suites to the Bellagio Entails More than Just Building a 33-story Tower / December 2004...
April 30, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review-JournalKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 23, 2004 - Adding 928 rooms and suites to the Bellagio entails more than just building a 33-story tower. With Bellagio recognized by AAA as a five-diamond property -- the organization's highest rating -- the hotel-casino's executives say they needed to carry that same level of expectation into the resort's newest addition, which opens to customers this morning. The $375 million Spa Tower expansion also includes a new upscale restaurant, four specialty retail shops, 70,000 additional square feet of meeting s...
The hotel Industry Is Pinning its Hopes on Gold at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 – But Is it a Sure Winner? / HOTEL Asia Pacific / December 2004.
April 30, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report The hotel Industry Is Pinning its Hopes on Gold at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 But Is it a Sure Winner? Staying ahead of the Games By Kieron Ritchard, VP Development, Le Meridien Hotels & Resorts HOTEL Asia Pacific, December 2004 The hotel industry is setting a breakneck pace as it jostles for position in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics in 2008. But the real tourism impact that a host city derives from the Games is a much-debated topic - and one that is already raging, four years before the Games begin in Beijing. Not every host city has won gold once the Games have ended and ...
Richard C. Kessler Re-opens the 72-all Suite Beaver Creek Lodge in Colorado; 10th Hotel to Join the Kessler Collection / December 2004...
April 30, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Richard C. Kessler Re-opens the 72-all Suite Beaver Creek Lodge in Colorado; 10th Hotel to Join the Kessler Collection Orlando, FL/Beaver Creek, CO (December 13, 2004) Orlando-based hotel developer and owner Richard C. Kessler is ready to re-open his newly remodeled, Colorado chic, Beaver Creek Lodge. The Beaver Creek Lodge is a 72-all suite lodge located in the heart of Beaver Creek, Colorado. Mr. Kessler purchased the property in August and is completing a multi-million dollar redesign to position it as a luxury, four diamond lodge. . . Mr. Kessler is known for buildi...
Turkish Developer Mehmet Bayraktar Preparing to Convert Watson Island into Miami's newest Resort, the 600 room Island Gardens / December 2004..
April 30, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Douglas Hanks III, The Miami HeraldKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 6, 2004 - Sure, the tranquil harbor waters between Miami and South Beach -- home to Fisher Island, Star Island and Shaq -- are a nice place to live. But how many people will want to visit there? That's the question facing Mehmet Bayraktar as he prepares to convert Watson Island into the Miami area's newest resort, Island Gardens. On a sleepy 87 acres of land just off downtown Miami, the Turkish developer plans a pair of hotel towers with some 600 rooms, high-end shopping and dining, and a mega-yacht marina cap...
Pierre Barthes Appointed General Manager at the Mandarin Oriental, Macau / December 2004...
April 30, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Pierre Barthes Appointed General Manager at the Mandarin Oriental, Macau Hong Kong, December 23, 2004 Mandarin Oriental, Macau announced the appointment of new General Manager, Mr Pierre Barthes, effective 1 November 2004. Mr Barthes brings with him a wealth of more than 20 years of experience in hospitality industry. In 1998, he joined Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group as Food & Beverage Director at the Kahala Mandarin Oriental. In 1999, he was transferred to Mandarin Oriental, San Francisco as Rooms Division Director before he was promoted as Resident Manager. After two a...
Bangkok's Leading Hotels Anxious to Raise Room Rates for First Time Since 2002 / December 2004...
April 30, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Boonsong Kositchotethana, Bangkok Post, ThailandKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 20, 2004 - Bangkok's leading deluxe hotels, particularly those catering to business travellers, plan to raise room tariffs for corporate clients next year by as much 8-10 percent to make up for rising costs as well as boost yields. For many hotels in the capital's central business district, this will be the first increase in so-called "corporate contract prices" since 2002. Rates have remained flat as hotels were reluctant to raise prices in the face of the poor economic environment caused by such...
Charlotte's Ballantyne Resort Signs Long-term Agreement with Starwood's Luxury Collection / December 2004...
April 30, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Charlotte's Ballantyne Resort Signs Long-term Agreement with Starwood's Luxury Collection WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. Dec. 7, 2004-- - Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) announces a long-term agreement with The Ballantyne Resort, a first-class urban luxury retreat, to join Starwood's Luxury Collection of prestigious hotels and resorts. The resort is part of a vibrant live, work and stay community that offers guests outstanding recreational, retail shopping and entertainment options. The Ballantyne Resort is owned and operated by Bissell Hotels of Charlotte, North Carol...
Electrobug Appoints Bruce W. Mainzer to Head New North American Office; Electrobug Expands Rate Intelligence Services for U.S. and Canadian Hotels / D
April 30, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Electrobug Appoints Bruce W. Mainzer to Head New North American Office . Electrobug Expands Rate Intelligence Services for U.S. and Canadian Hotels Chicago (Dec. 2, 2004) - Electrobug Technologies Ltd, a leading provider of rate shopping intelligence services, announced today that Bruce W. Mainzer will lead Electrobugs product sales and development in North America. Electrobug is widely known for its suite of online data retrieval tools for price tracking, currently in use at a number of retailers, airlines, hotels, and travel agents throughout Europe. The new North American office...
Broughton Hospitality Group Now Operating The Georgian Hotel, Santa Monica, California / December 2004...
April 30, 2004
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 Broughton Hospitality Group Now Operating The Georgian Hotel, Santa Monica, California Huntington Beach, California -- Larry Broughton, president of Broughton Hospitality Group (BHG) headquartered here, has announced that effective November 15, 2004, his firm began providing daily operational and marketing services ...
Developers Richard Sanders and John Tynan Open the 97 room Hotel Andalucia in Santa Barbara, California / December 2004...
April 30, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Developers Richard Sanders and John Tynan Open the 97 room Hotel Andalucia in Santa Barbara, California SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Dec. 17, 2004 - With its December 17th opening, Santa Barbara's Hotel Andalucia makes its mark on the downtown skyline as the city's tallest hotel. At five stories (60 feet), which conforms to city building codes specifying the heights and styles of downtown buildings, the 97-room Hotel Andalucia opens as the first full-service luxury hotel and conference center in the historic city center. Developers Richard Sanders of Sanders Investments and John Tynan...
