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March 31, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Sol Melia Hotels & Resorts Properties in Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico Escape Major Damage Miami, FL, (September 20, 2004) - Although affected by Hurricanes Jeanne and Charley, Sol Melia Hotels & Resorts properties in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic have had only minor damages, said Executive Vice President, Central-North America André P. Gerondeau. The Paradisus Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic was the most affected, reporting some minor flooding in some of its buildings and having to empty out its pool due to all the dirt and mud that ran into the pool during Jeanne...
Eugene Silvestri Appointed General Manager of The Hilton Myrtle Beach / September 2004
March 31, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Eugene Silvestri Appointed General Manager of The Hilton Myrtle Beach Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, September, 2004 - The Hilton Myrtle Beach, a Felcor Lodging Trust property, is pleased to announce the appointment of Eugene Silvestri to General Manager of the recently renovated 385-room hotel. Silvestri brings 19 years of successful hotel management experience in the hospitality industry to his new role at the Hilton Myrtle Beach. Most recently, Silvestri was General Manager at the Embassy Suites St. Louis Downtown where he helped to transition the property from a franch...
Grand Casino Tunica Black Jack Supervisor Wins $60,000 Lawsuit for Job Loss; Refused to Alter Shuffle Pattern with a High Stakes Player / September
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Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Oliver Staley, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn.Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 21, 2004 - A Tunica jury awarded a former Grand Casino employee $60,000 after she claimed she was wrongly fired for refusing to manipulate a high stakes blackjack game played by then-Tennessee Titan Yancey Thigpen. Pat Cuneo of Olive Branch, a longtime Grand floor supervisor, said she refused to ask a dealer to change the shuffle in an effort to break Thigpen's streak of winning hands, which added up to $600,000. Cuneo objected because she said changing the shuffle -- altering the set pattern ...
Owners Consider Going Condo at South Beach's Trendy 325 room Shore Club Hotel / September 2004
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Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Douglas Hanks III, The Miami HeraldKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 16, 2004 - South Beach's notoriously exclusive Shore Club may sell off its hotel rooms to the general public, joining a financial trend reshaping South Florida's vaunted lodging industry. Ian Schrager says he is still running the numbers but that he is leaning toward joining his partners in making the oceanfront celebrity haunt a hotel-condo property, where individuals would own all 325 rooms there. "I'm bullish on the idea," said Schrager, whose nearby Delano hotel helped launch South Beach's turnaround in th...
Shift4 Selects Ambiron as its Card Association Compliance Partner / September 2004
March 31, 2004
Hotel Online .Special Report Shift4 Selects Ambiron as its Card Association Compliance Partner . Ambiron Multi-Card Compliance Program to renew validation of Shift4 for all association data security programs LAS VEGAS, NV, September 21, 2004 Shift4 Corporation, an electronic payment technology company supplying a combination of electronic payment accounting and high-speed financial transaction connectivity to a diverse array of merchants worldwide, announced today that it has selected Ambiron to assist the company in renewing its certification with the card association data security programs. Ambiron is a leading pro...
Pro Golfer Greg Norman Acquires the Exclusive Seven Lakes Lodge near Meeker, Colorado / September 2004
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Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Macario Juarez Jr., The Denver PostKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 21, 2004 -Pro golfer Greg Norman purchased the exclusive Seven Lakes Lodge near Meeker and an adjacent 3,000-acre ranch from renowned Wall Street financier Henry Kravis in what could be the first of several high-profile open-range sales in western Colorado. "There is a huge demand for ranches there, and we had several ranchers watching this sale," said William Bone, president of The National Auction Group in Alabama. The company was supposed to hold an auction of the property Thursday, but Norman made an offer ...
A Proposed 330-room Golf Resort Receives Approval from Seaside, California Planning Commissioners / September 2004
March 31, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Sukhjit Purewal, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 9, 2004 - Seaside's Planning Commissioners approved the pivotal resort hotel project on the Bayonet and Black Horse golf courses Wednesday, with a handful of suggested changes they said would make the project appear friendlier and more aesthetically pleasing. Planning commissioners recommended the City Council approve the project and certify the environmental impact report when it takes up the hotel project at its Oct. 7 meeting. At that meeting, the development team of Tucson, Ariz.-based Seas...
Sanjeev Tandon Appointed Director of Sales and Marketing, Taj Palace Hotel Dubai / September 2004
March 31, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Sanjeev Tandon Appointed Director of Sales and Marketing, Taj Palace Hotel Dubai 28 August 2004 - Dubai - Dubais top five star property, Taj Palace Hotel, a member of the Taj Group of Hotels, Resorts and Palaces welcomes Sanjeev Tandon as its new Director of Sales and Marketing. Recently, Sanjeev Tandon served as Director of Sales and Marketing of Sheraton Muscat in Oman since 2000 before joining Taj Palace Dubai. His other hotel experience includes stints at the Jumeirah Beach Hotel, Dubai, Le Meridien in Saudi Arabia and The Oberoi Hotel in New Delhi. Interestingly,...
Three Years after Bridge Collapse, South Padre Island's 4,000 Hotel Rooms and Rentable Condominiums Coming Off its Busiest Summer Ever / Septem
March 31, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Gilberto Salinas, The Brownsville Herald, TexasKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 19, 2004 - SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas -- The collapse of the Queen Isabella Memorial Bridge not only cut vehicular traffic to the mainland, it yanked the Island's economic bloodline and livelihood. Restaurants and stores shut down, businesses trimmed to the bare necessities and hotels resorted to energy conservation to make ends meet. This was three years ago. Today, the Island is coming off its busiest and strongest summer ever. Hotel construction is standing tall, sales tax revenues are robust and t...
Sean Maddock Appointed General Manager of the Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa / September 2004
March 31, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Sean Maddock Appointed General Manager of the Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa PHOENIX, Arizona, Sept. 29, 2004 -- Sean Maddock has been appointed General Manager of the historic Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa. Maddock, who most recently served as Vice President & General Manager of the KSL Resorts-managed Claremont Resort in Berkeley, Calif., brings extensive hospitality experience, including three years at Shangri La Hotels and Resorts in Bangkok, Thailand, Manila and Hong Kong, where he held the position of Hotel Manager. He will begin at the Biltmore in early October. "Sean's season...
Salt Lake City's Hotel Industry Avoids Post Olympic Depression; Sustains Occupancy, Debunks Myth City is Overbuilt / September 2004
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Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Mike Gorrell, The Salt Lake Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 23, 2004 - While many individual Utahns fell victim to the blues after the 2002 Olympics ended, the post-Games performance of Salt Lake City's hotel industry has avoided the depression that afflicts most host cities of Winter Games. Despite the addition of new rooms as part of the Olympic buildup, hotel occupancy percentages this year bounced back to exceed pre-Games levels, according to a new report from Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels, a Chicago-based hotel services investment group tha...
Sol Kerzner, Founder and Chairman of Kerzner International Will Receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Hotel Investment Conference Asia Pacific
March 31, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Sol Kerzner, Founder and Chairman of Kerzner International Will Receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Hotel Investment Conference Asia Pacific COSTA MESA, California, USA --- September 13, 2004 - Sol Kerzner, Founder and Chairman of the Board of Kerzner International will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the upcoming Hotel Investment Conference Asia Pacific (HICAP), scheduled for October 13-15, 2004 in Hong Kong. Kerzners career spans some 40 years in the hotel/resort and casino industries. He founded both of Southern Africas largest hotel groups, playe...
Steven J. Heyer Named Starwood Chief Executive Officer; Former President and COO of The Coca-Cola Company to Succeed Barry Sternlicht / September 2004
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Hotel Online Special Report Steven J. Heyer Named Starwood Chief Executive Officer; Former President and COO of The Coca-Cola Company to Succeed Barry Sternlicht WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. Sept. 21, 2004 -- Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:HOT) announced that the Company's Board of Directors has named Steven J. Heyer Chief Executive Officer to succeed company founder Barry S. Sternlicht who will assume the position of Executive Chairman. Heyer, most recently President and Chief Operating Officer of The Coca-Cola Company, will join Starwood on October 1. He will report to the Company's Board of Directors. In h...
Reint Reinders, President of the San Diego Convention & Visitors Bureau, Receiving Some Unwanted Scrutiny, Some Say Bureau Has Lost its Focus / Sep
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Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Jennifer Davie, The San Diego Union-TribuneKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 14, 2004 - For Reint Reinders, president of the San Diego Convention & Visitors Bureau, this year has brought both personal satisfaction and some unwanted scrutiny. The voluble Reinders takes pride that San Diego continues to gain clout as a top tourist destination, with its hotel occupancy and room rates among the highest in the nation. Reinders also points to the opening of new attractions, such as the Midway aircraft carrier museum, as part of the reason San Diego continues to gain in popularity. Th...
The $48 million Royal Park Hotel Hopes to be the Third True Luxury Hotel in Metropolitan Detroit / September 2004
March 31, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy John Gallagher, Detroit Free PressKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 1, 2004 - For many new hotels, opening day means offering coffee and muffins to guests. For the Royal Park Hotel in Rochester, today's opening means the Italian chandeliers are hung with care, and the croquet and bocce courts are groomed to perfection. Welcome to that rarity, a hotel that claims to offer luxury service and appears ready to actually deliver it. Built for $48 million, the 143-room, full-service hotel is bidding to become only the third true luxury hotel in metropolitan Detroit, along with the Rit...
The 585 room Roney Palace Hotel and Beach Resort Closes; May or May Not Reopen Under New Ownership / September 2004
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Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Ina Paiva Cordle, The Miami HeraldKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 1, 2004 - The Roney Palace Hotel and Beach Resort, whose roots date back to 1925, shut down Tuesday, the last workday for nearly 200 employees, and days before its scheduled sale to the Chetrit Group. Closed are the 585-room hotel, the Roney Pub, the hotel's sushi bar and poolside dining venues, and Breezes, a casual dining restaurant. The New York developers' $150 million purchase of the Roney hotel and condominium property, which was approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court this summer, is expected to be complet...
PricewaterhouseCoopers Forecasts RevPAR to Increase by 6.3% in 2004, the Largest Increase in 20 Years / September 2004
March 31, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report PricewaterhouseCoopers Forecasts RevPAR to Increase by 6.3% in 2004, the Largest Increase in 20 Years Reflects Confluence of Increased Inflation, Acceleration of Business Travel, Resumption of Robust Real GDP Growth, Perverse Positive Effects of Florida Hurricanes and Other Factors NEW YORK, September 16, 2004 PricewaterhouseCoopers forecasts revenue per available room (RevPAR) to increase by 6.3 percent in 2004, the largest increase in 20 years. The 3.7 forecast increase in average daily rate in 2004 will contribute almost 60 percent of the total forecast RevPAR gain ...
Restaurant Host? Air Traffic Controller? Same Job, Not the Same Pay / William Orilio, MHS / September 2004
March 31, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Restaurant Host? Air Traffic Controller? Same Job, Not the Same Pay by William F. Orilio, MHS / September 2004 The last time I flew, I saw something staring me in the face, and I suddenly realized it had been for over twenty-five years. The significance of the message didnt hit me until that last flight. Its odd, because I fly a lot; I should have seen the correlation sooner. On a yearly average, I fly between eight and ten thousand miles every month. So when I say, Staring me in the face, I mean just that. It was so obvious, it just plain makes sense; its so true and si...
Rezidor SAS Hospitality Takes Over Management of the Four Seasons Hotel in Berlin, Rebrands The Regent Berlin / September 2004
March 31, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Rezidor SAS Hospitality Takes Over Management of the Four Seasons Hotel in Berlin, Rebrands The Regent Berlin Brussels, September 29, 2004 Rezidor SAS Hospitality, the multi-brand hospitality management company, today announced the formal take over in management of the Four Seasons Hotel in Berlin. The hotel will now be branded and operated as The Regent Berlin with immediate effect. This is the second Regent hotel that Rezidor SAS has opened this year as part of its strategic partnership with Carlson Hotels Worldwide. Regent is the global luxury brand of Carlson and Rezid...
Park Plaza Hotel Europe Makes Strategic Decision on Managing e-commerce Distribution, Using RateTiger / September 2004
March 31, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Park Plaza Hotel Europe Makes Strategic Decision on Managing e-commerce Distribution, Using RateTiger Amsterdam, the Netherlands September 15, 2004 After a thorough selection process Park Plaza Hotels Europe selected RateTiger, by eRevMax technologies, to manage its ecommerce portfolio. Our hotels were in need of tools to help them manage the complexity of the dynamic internet distribution market, and RateTiger offers us the perfect solution. said Edwin Wijgergangs, Director of Sales & Distribution for PPHE. RT Shopper allows you to constantly monitor your competitions prices on the ...
March 31, 2004
Is Your Hotels Rate Shopping Report an Overpriced Tree Killer? September 28, 2004 - The ultimate objective of any hotel rate shopping report should be to allow the hotelier to compare their rates to that of their competitors in a quick, simple and easy to read format. Unfortunately, many of todays most commonly utilized rate shopping reports in the industry are quite burdensome and very expensive. Problem 1: Tree Killers - A hotel rate shopping report 40 to 50 pages is too long: It almost goes without saying why read a 40-50 page report, when the primary information needed can be covered in a 3-5 page r...
Accelerated Marketing Group Announces the Absolute Auction of the 205-room Ramada Inn Conference Center, Lebanon, IN on Thursday, September 30, 2004 /
March 31, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Accelerated Marketing Group Announces the Absolute Auction of the 205-room Ramada Inn Conference Center, Lebanon, IN on Thursday, September 30, 2004 Irvine, California September, 2004 Rod Apodaca, National Director of Hospitality and Lodging, Accelerated Marketing Group (AMG), announced today that the Accelerated Marketing Group, has been retained to conduct the auction of the 205-room Ramada Inn Conference Center, Lebanon, Indiana on September 30, 2004. This is an outstanding opportunity to purchase this full service hotel. The sale shall proceed on the basis that there is no r...
Cendant Moves to Acquire Ramada International Brand from Marriott International / September 2004
March 31, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Cendant Moves to Acquire Ramada International Brand from Marriott International PARSIPPANY, N.J. (Sept. 15, 2004) Cendant Corporations Hotel Group and Marriott International Inc. today announced the signing of a non-binding letter of intent for Cendant to purchase Ramada International Hotels & Resorts, primarily a franchised brand of 204 hotels representing 27,728 rooms in 26 countries and territories. Pending approval by regulatory authorities and final negotiation of terms, the signing of a sales agreement and closing on the deal are expected to occur in the next few months. Fina...
Raffles International Appoints of Ms Leong Wai Leng as Chief Executive Officer / September 2004
March 31, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Raffles International Appoints of Ms Leong Wai Leng as Chief Executive Officer SINGAPORE, 30 September 2004 Raffles International is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms Leong Wai Leng as Chief Executive Officer of Raffles International Limited with effect from 1 October 2004. Raffles International is the hotel management arm of Raffles Holdings Limited and markets its hotels and resorts under two brands -- Raffles Hotels & Resorts and Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts. Ms Leong, who is currently the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Raffles Holdings Limited and the Executive...
