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Effective Qualifying and Approaching Prospects and Customer / Carol Verret Consulting and Training October WebCast / October 1, 2004
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Carol Verret Consulting and Training Consulting Training Seminars . Carol Verret Consulting and Training October WebCast - Effective Qualifying and Approaching Prospects and Customer "Training Bytes: Skill Sets for Hunters" October 1, 2004 at 2:00pm EDT/11:00am PDT Skill Sets for Hunters: Effective Qualifying and Approaching Prospects & Customers Greenwood Village, CO, September 22, 2004 - Carol Verret Consulting and Training will present Effective Qualifying and Approaching Prospects and Customer as the next Training Bytes: Skill Sets For Hunters, real time web cast designed for hotel sales people. T...
Industry First: VIP International Inks Strategic Alliance with Buckhiester Management to Optimize Profitable Revenue for Operators / September 2004
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Hotel Online Special Report Industry First: VIP International Inks Strategic Alliance with Buckhiester Management to Optimize Profitable Revenue for Operators Pauls Motor Inn and Laurel Point Inn Pull Away from the Pack with 75% Profitability on Boosted Revenue Calgary, Alberta, Canada September 14, 2004 In a move that gives operators a proven systematic way to reach higher profitability and increase the value of their hotels, VIP Investment Corporation today announced an exclusive strategic partnership with Seattle-based Buckhiester Management USA, Inc., a revenue management industry leader. The fir...
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Plans to Buy the 278-room University Place Hotel; Plans $12 million Renovation / September 2004
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Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Barb Berggoetz, The Indianapolis StarKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 10, 2004 - Indiana University plans to get into the hotel business on the IUPUI campus with a $31 million investment. University trustees on Thursday took the first step to owning and operating the 278-room University Place Hotel on West Michigan Street. "It's an important part of the campus," said Charles Bantz, chancellor of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. "It's been a big asset to Indianapolis, too." Trustees voted to allow the IU Foundation to initially buy the hotel from University Dev...
Rod Siler Overseeing a Three+ year Plan to Renovate the Tubac Golf Resort Near Tucson / September 2004
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Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Karen Mracek, The Arizona Daily Star, TucsonKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 10, 2004 - Rod Siler comes to the Tubac Golf Resort by way of San Antonio; Palm Springs, Calif.; Captiva, Fla.; and the U.S. and British Virgin Islands. He brings 30 years of experience to the position of president, most recently at the Omni Tucson National Golf Resort and Spa. Siler is overseeing a three- to five-year plan to renovate the 46-room resort property. "Tucson is an emerging market in terms of the tourism market," he said. "This is an incredible opportunity to be part of the expansion and re...
Trump Hotels Deal with Credit Suisse First Boston is Dead; Donald Trump Claims Bondholders Will See a Happy Ending? / September 2004
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Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Lore Croghan, Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 24, 2004 -- Bank to Donald Trump: No deal. The cash infusion from Credit Suisse First Boston that Trump had counted on to rescue his debt-burdened hotel and casino empire is dead. Still, the self-styled greatest New York deal-maker vowed yesterday that there will be a happy ending for his casino company -- and his role in it, even if he has to dip into his own pocket. The bank had agreed to invest $345 million in Atlantic City-based Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts and take a majori...
The Holders of $425 million Worth of Bonds in Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts Want More for Their Debt than Trump is Offering in Proposed Restructuri
March 31, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Lore Croghan, Daily News, New YorkKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 14, 2004 - As a new season of "The Apprentice" gets under way, just about everybody in America loves Donald Trump -- except a group of investors in his money-losing casino company. The holders of $425 million worth of bonds in Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts want to be paid $39 million more for their debt than Trump is offering in a proposed restructuring. They asked for 104.8 cents on the dollar instead of the 95.6 cents on the dollar they were offered, Bloomberg News reported. Another group of bondholders has a...
The Tremont Boston Hotel Receiving $6 million Renovation, Will be Re-flagged Boston Tremont Courtyard by Marriott / September 2004
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Hotel Online Special Report The Tremont Boston Hotel Receiving $6 million Renovation, Will be Re-flagged Boston Tremont Courtyard by Marriott MCLEAN, VA, September 27, 2004 - Highland Hospitality Corporation (NYSE:HIH), a lodging real estate investment trust, or REIT, announced today the signing of a definitive agreement with Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE:MAR) to re-flag the Tremont Boston Hotel located in Boston, Massachusetts to the Boston Tremont Courtyard by Marriott hotel, beginning in early 2005. Marriott International will begin management of the property under a long-term agreement on October 16, 2004...
Marlin F. Torguson, Former Pinnacle Entertainment Board Director, Planning 400 Suite Resort Casino in Biloxi / September 2004
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Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Tom Wilemon, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 17, 2004 - BILOXI, Miss. -- Marlin F. Torguson, one of the pioneers in the Coast's gambling industry, will develop a casino resort with a Spanish-mission style theme on the Caillavet Street property owned by the Gollott family. The resort will offer a golf course designed by Arnold Palmer within eight miles driving distance, a bowling alley suitable for national championships and 75,000 square feet of convention space. Its gambling barge will be on water but encased in a land-moored protective shell. To...
Wyndham International, Inc. to Sell Four Wyndham-branded Properties to Partnerships of Thayer Lodging Group for Approximately $69.6 million; Propertie
March 31, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Wyndham International, Inc. to Sell Four Wyndham-branded Properties to Partnerships of Thayer Lodging Group for Approximately $69.6 million; Properties To Retain Wyndham Flag DALLAS - Sept. 20, 2004 -- Wyndham International, Inc. (AMEX:WBR) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell four Wyndham-branded properties to two investment fund partnerships of Thayer Lodging Group for approximately $69.6 million. Pursuant to a long-term management agreement, Wyndham will retain all four assets in its brand portfolio. Thayer Hotel Investors III Limited Part...
Thayer Hotel at West Point Competing $28.5 million Renovation; The 78-year-old Gothic-style Landmark on Upward Trend / September 2004
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Hotel Online Special Report Thayer Hotel at West Point Competing $28.5 million Renovation; The 78-year-old Gothic-style Landmark on Upward Trend West Point, NY (September 1, 2004) The old saying, to make money you have to spend money, has been paying off for The Thayer Hotel for the past half dozen years. In that period of time, as the historic hotel just inside the gates of the famed U.S. Military Academy at West Point, invested $26 million for a major restoration that included the transformation of more than 300 guest rooms into 151 larger, luxury rooms and improving nine meeting rooms, business picked up...
March 31, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Focus on Thailand Bangkok and Phuket Among the Most Profitable Asian Markets for Hotel Operations in 2003 September 2004 - Hotel performance is booming in Thailand, both in resort areas like Phuket and in the capital, Bangkok. Thailands relative political stability encourages development and investment, as does its geographic location in the heart of South-East Asia. Add to that Thailands reputation for its excellent service culture and it is not difficult to understand the recent wave of hotel development throughout the country. This has been especially apparent in Chiang Mai, Phu...
The Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center Contesting a $270 million Property Tax Appraisal / September 2004
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Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Andrea Jares, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, TexasKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 3, 2004 - The Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center on Lake Grapevine is contesting a $270 million appraisal, a tax fight that could affect Grapevine's ability to repay bonds that covered the costs for roads and other infrastructure for the opulent mega-hotel. Gaylord sued the Tarrant Appraisal District in August. The resort contends that the property is worth $138,892,917, said John Marshall, the district's chief appraiser and executive director. Greg Rossiter, a spokesman for Gaylord Entertainmen...
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Hotel Online Special Report Telkonets High-Speed Internet Access System Selected by MHI Hotels and ANM Hospitality . Guests benefit from the security of a wired system with the portability of wireless system Germantown, MD September 7, 2004 - Telkonet, Inc. (Amex: TKO), the leader in commercial powerline communications (PLC) and the Company bridging the Outlet to the Internet, today announced that two hotel companies, MHI Hotels and ANM Hospitality, have selected Telkonet as their high-speed Internet access solutions provider for many of their hotel properties. MHI Hotels has installed Telkonets system in eig...
Hotel Technology Butlers Can Be a Major Asset – Or a Huge Liability/ HOTEL Asia Pacific / September 2004
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Hotel Online Special Report Hotel Technology Butlers Can Be a Major Asset Or a Huge Liability by Terence Ronson, HOTEL Asia Pacific, September 2004 In this cyber era, the nomenclature of room service has shifted away from just delivering breakfast and won-ton noodles. Hotels now have the requirement of a Mr Fix-It to attend technical and computer-related needs of their ever-increasing segment of high-yield road-warrior guests. This state-of-the-art development brings with it the deployment of technology butlers trouble-shooters on call around the clock and [hopefully] well trained in the art of resolving a slew o...
Boykin Management Company Appoints Tory Waterman to the Position of Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer / September 2004
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Hotel Online Special Report Boykin Management Company Appoints Tory Waterman to the Position of Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer Cleveland, Ohio, September 14, 2004Boykin Management Company announces the appointment of Tory Waterman to the position of Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer at its corporate office in Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Waterman joins the Boykin Management Company team with 20 years of experience in the resort, hotel and travel industries, bringing a wealth of experience. Tory recently held the position of Senior Vice President and Controller for 37 managed pro...
TIA Report Shows Number of Americans Using the Internet for Travel Planning Remains Stable at 63.8 million / September 2004
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Hotel Online Special Report TIA Report Shows Number of Americans Using the Internet for Travel Planning Remains Stable at 63.8 million WASHINGTON, DC --September 9, 2004 - Travelers use of the Internet to plan and book their trips continues to grow, albeit at a slower pace, according to the Travel Industry Association of Americas (TIA) latest Travelers Use of the Internet study. Nearly 64 million online travelers30 percent of the U.S. adult populationused the Internet in the past year to get travel and destination information. Of that group, 44.6 million actually booked at least one travel service or pro...
Thompson Calhoun Fair Brokers Sale of the Howard Johnson Express Inn – Tupelo, Mississippi / September 2004
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Hotel Online Special Report Thompson Calhoun Fair Brokers Sale of the Howard Johnson Express Inn - Tupelo, Mississippi ATLANTA, Georgia, September 24, 2004 - Thompson Calhoun Fair, LLC, an Atlanta-based hotel real estate firm, announced today that it advised Arlington Hospitality in the disposition of the Howard Johnson Express Inn in Tupelo, Mississippi. Located at 923 North Gloster in Tupelo, the property is easily accessible via U.S. Highway 78. The Howard Johnson Express Inn consists of two, two-story exterior-corridor buildings comprising 124 guest rooms. The property offers one meeting room that accommoda...
Tim Alex Appointed Director of Sales & Marketing for Outrigger Hotels & Resorts' Condominium and Timeshare Division / September 2004
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Hotel Online Special Report Tim Alex Appointed Director of Sales & Marketing for Outrigger Hotels & Resorts' Condominium and Timeshare Division HONOLULU, OAHU, HAWAII - September 29, 2004 - T.J. Oesterling, vice president of Outrigger's Condominium Collection, is pleased to announce the promotion of Tim Alex to the newly created position of Director of Sales & Marketing for Outrigger Hotels & Resorts' condominium and timeshare division. In his new position, Alex is responsible for promoting Outrigger's Condominium Collection to key travel partners, enlisting new owners into the various condominium rental pools,...
Magnolia Hotels Choose Synxis for New Chain Code (MG) Launch / September 2004
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Hotel Online Special Report Magnolia Hotels Choose Synxis for New Chain Code (MG) Launch MCLEAN, VA, September 30 SynXis announced today that the award-winning Magnolia Hotels has selected the SynXis reservation services and technology to manage their distribution to the GDSs, the internet and their own hotel and chain website (www.magnoliahotels.com). For the first time, all three properties will be consolidated onto one chain code (MG), which played an important factor in their partner selection process. SynXis has many years of experience in successfully managing private label chain codes and currently mana...
The SynXis Dashboard Is Selected by The Fitzpatrick Hotel Group to Enable Quick and Efficient Revenue Management / September 2004
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Hotel Online Special Report The SynXis Dashboard Is Selected by The Fitzpatrick Hotel Group to Enable Quick and Efficient Revenue Management - First-of-its-kind product provides actionable data for hotels in different cities around the world MCLEAN, VA, September 09 SynXis, a leading provider of reservation services and technology for the hospitality industry, announced today that their newly unveiled Dashboard was selected by The Fitzpatrick Hotel Group to help manage and meet their revenue goals. The Fitzpatrick Hotel Group is a family-run business with fifty years and two generations of experience in man...
StayOnline Takes Waikiki Wireless; Moves into Hawaii Resort with Largest 100% Wireless Coverage Install to Date / September 2004
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Hotel Online Special Report StayOnline Takes Waikiki Wireless . Moves into Hawaii Resort with Largest 100% Wireless Coverage Install to Date Atlanta, GA Sept. 14, 2004 StayOnlines portfolio of wirelessly enabled hotel properties is expanding to Hawaii to the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort and Spa to be exact. The newly renovated resort, which offers 1,310 rooms in two towers and 40,000 square feet of meeting space, is StayOnlines largest installation to date. Weve proven with a number of physically diverse and architecturally spread-out properties that we can completely cover a property very se...
StayOnline Takes Emily Wireless; Fast-Moving Company Combines Technology with Tradition at the historic Emily Morgan Hotel in San Antonio / September
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Hotel Online Special Report StayOnline Takes Emily Wireless . Fast-Moving Company Combines Technology with Tradition at the historic Emily Morgan Hotel in San Antonio Atlanta, GA Sept. 15, 2004 If only Colonel William B. Travis would have had wireless connectivity, perhaps his Texas fighters could have won the Battle of the Alamo. Instead, he had to use horseback couriers to get the word out that the Alamo was in jeopardy, weakening the position of the Texans. But now, another historically significant San Antonio building, The Emily Morgan Hotel -- adjacent to the Alamo historic site -- does have a wireles...
EEOC Files Suit Against the Melrose Hotel in NYC for its "English Only" Rule; Seven Hispanic Managers Fired or Left Under Duress Since 200
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Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Tania Padgett, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 24, 2004 - A government lawsuit alleges that the luxury Melrose Hotel told Hispanic employees they could not speak Spanish on the premises -- not even during break time or to Spanish-speaking guests -- and when they complained about it, the hotel's top manager told them "Adios." The suit filed yesterday by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged that Barbara Garcia, 42, the Manhattan hotel's general manager, and Juana Velez, 36, the hotel's assistant director of housekeeping, and unspecified oth...
Trendwest Resorts Begins Construction of New Timeshare Resort in Solvang, California / September 2004
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Hotel Online Special Report Trendwest Resorts Begins Construction of New Timeshare Resort in Solvang, California REDMOND, WA -- September 3, 2004 - Trendwest Resorts, Inc. recently began construction of a new resort in Solvang, California, located at 280 Alisal Road near the downtown city park and shopping district. The two-acre WorldMark Solvang resort will be a charming compliment to the quaint Danish-inspired architectural style seen throughout much of the community. The town of Solvang is quite unique with its rich Danish culture, stated Gene Hensley, chief operating officer. We are thrilled to h...
