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2004 Luxury Spending Survey: Fear of Global Terrorism is Not Deterring the Elite Affluent from Traveling Abroad This Summer / June 2004
February 28, 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 2004 Luxury Spending Survey: Fear of Global Terrorism is Not Deterring the Elite Affluent from Traveling Abroad This Summer The Summer Supplement of Elite Traveler Magazine/Prince Associates 2004 Luxury Spending Survey Finds That Spending by the Wealthiest Americans Will Sizzle this Summer NEW YORK June 25,...
Innkeepers USA Trust Acquires 182-room Clarion Hotel in Downtown Louisville; Plans Repositioning to Hampton Inn Brand for All-In Cost of $60,000 Per K
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Innkeepers USA Trust Acquires 182-room Clarion Hotel in Downtown Louisville; Plans Repositioning to Hampton Inn Brand for All-In Cost of $60,000 Per Key PALM BEACH, Fla., June 28, 2004 Innkeepers USA Trust (NYSE: KPA), a hotel real estate investment trust (REIT) and a leading owner of upscale, extended-stay hotel properties throughout the United States, today announced that it had completed the acquisition of the 182-room Clarion Hotel in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, for $6.4 million. The property, which was in foreclosure, will be repositioned and converted to a Hampton Inn f...
Developer Charles Wang Proposing 300 room Hyatt Regency on Long Island, New York / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Alan J. Wax, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 2, 2004 - Some Long Island hoteliers said yesterday they are concerned that a 300-room hotel included in Charles Wang's proposed 166-acre "Old Plainview" development could add new pressure to the region's lodging industry, still hurting from travel cuts and overbuilding. The proposed Hyatt Regency Hotel, which would have as much as 30,000 square feet of meeting and banquet space as well as a spa, is at the heart of a proposal by Wang's development company, Northern Bay Management Group, to build a new village...
Lodgenet Announces Major Milestones; More Than One Million Rooms Served Overall, Nearly Half Of Company's Interactive Room Base Now Digital, On-S
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Lodgenet Announces Major Milestones . More Than One Million Rooms Served Overall Nearly Half Of Companys Interactive Room Base Now Digital On-Screen Controls Enhancing Entertainment In 435,000 Guest Rooms Digital Control Rights Secured From All Major Studios . More Than One Million Rooms Served Overall Nearly Half Of Companys Interactive Room Base Now Digital On-Screen Controls Enhancing Entertainment In 435,000 Guest Rooms Digital Control Rights Secured From All Major Studios SIOUX FALLS SD, June 15, 2004 LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation (NASDAQ: LNET), one of the world...
LG Electronics And LodgeNet Develop First HDTV Satellite Programming Solution For Hotels / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report LG Electronics And LodgeNet Develop First HDTV Satellite Programming Solution For Hotels DALLAS TX - June 22, 2004 LG Electronics, Inc. and LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation (NASDAQ: LNET) are bringing satellite-sourced programming in high-definition television (HDTV) to hotel guests for the first time. The end-to-end solution delivers high-definition digital video to the guest room television from both the satellite dish and the off-air antenna. Announced at the Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition and Conference here today, the new system is based on an LG-developed off-air plat...
Governor of Kentucky Seeks Hotel Developer to Build 250 room Resort Hotel on the Grounds of the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy John Cheves, Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 3, 2004 - FRANKFORT, Ky. -- The Fletcher administration plans to recruit a private developer to build a large resort hotel on the grounds of the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington. If a deal is struck, construction could start next year. The hotel complex would be the first commerically operated resort inside a Kentucky state park. Seventeen parks have state-owned lodges. Commerce Secretary Jim Host said in an interview yesterday that a request for bids should be released soon, with a developer being chosen...
Lexington Services Introduces First-To-Market Hotel Website Package Booking Engine / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Lexington Services Introduces First-To-Market Hotel Website Package Booking Engine Package Select Delivers Higher RevPAR, Convenience; Lets On-Line Shoppers Book Reservations with Added Services and Amenities from Hotels Site Visit Lexington Services At HITEC Booth 420 Dallas, Texas June 17, 2004 Lexington Services, a subsidiary of VIP Investment Corp. and a channel marketing provider committed to being the number one producer of reservations and profitability per client for hotels, announced it is expanding its reservation booking services with the introduction of...
ARAMARK Harrison Lodging Selects LexKeySM by Maxim Revenue Management Solutions for Company-Wide Deployment / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report ARAMARK Harrison Lodging Selects LexKeySM by Maxim Revenue Management Solutions for Company-Wide Deployment CHICAGO, June 14, 2004 - Maxim Revenue Management Solutions (MaximRMS), the leading global provider of Revenue Management and Profit Optimization software and services for the hospitality industry and ARAMARK Harrison Lodging, which operates more than 50 conference centers, corporate training centers and distinctive specialty hotels, have signed an agreement to implement MaximRMS LexKey Revenue Management system at all ARAMARK Harrison properties. The first round of implementations begin...
Le Meridien Revs Up the Momentum; Obtains New Long-term Partnerships with Several High-profile/ HOTEL Asia Pacific Asia Pacific Hotel Owners as Recapi
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Le Meridien Revs Up the Momentum . Obtains New Long-term Partnerships with Several High-profile Asia Pacific Hotel Owners as Recapitalisation Strategy Continues . As the once-battered brand forges ahead with new management contracts in Asia Pacific, Steve Shellum, editor of HOTEL Asia Pacific, looks at why owners are eager to sign on the dotted line. / June 2004 As Le Meridien's competitors muse on the future of the once badly bruised brand, its Asia Pacific team is going about the business of signing up hotels. Although [at the time of writing] its eventual ownership remains in the balance...
Wynn Resorts $40 million Buyout Offer of Las Vegas Country Club Viewed as Positive Move for Las Vegas Tourism / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Rod Smith, Las Vegas Review-JournalKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News June 23, 2004 - The Las Vegas County Club's board of directors is preparing a response to Las Vegas developer Steve Wynn's $40 million buyout offer, although some members believe they are not being told all of the facts, sources said Tuesday. Wynn last week offered the club's 650 equity members up to $50,000 each so he could take over the historic golf course on Joe W. Brown Drive across from the Las Vegas Hilton. Wynn Golf, an affiliate of Wynn Resorts, mailed a letter to the country club's members last Friday off...
Larkspur Hospitality Selects PrinterOn In-Room Guest Printing Services for All Hotels / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Larkspur Hospitality Selects PrinterOn In-Room Guest Printing Services for All Hotels DALLAS, TX, June 22, 2004 - Larkspur Hospitality, an independent hotel company, has selected PrinterOn's guest printing service for its hotel properties. Already 16 of its 20 locations in California, Oregon and Washington have implemented the printing service. The PrinterOn remote printing service makes it possible for Larkspur guests to simply connect to the Internet and use their Web browser to visit the hotel's branded printing web site for complimentary and secure printing from their room to a printer i...
Kevin Murphy, Brett Butcher and Nigel Roberts Appointed to SVP Positions with Langham Hotels International / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Kevin Murphy, Brett Butcher and Nigel Roberts Appointed to SVP Positions with Langham Hotels International HONG KONG, June 23, 2004 - Langham Hotels International (LHI), the wholly-owned hotel operating and asset management subsidiary of publicly listed Great Eagle Holdings Limited (HKSE: 41), announced today the appointment of three senior executives for the functions of Development, Sales and Marketing, and Operations at the Group's corporate level. To cope with the rapid expansion of this new five-star international hotel chain, Kevin Murphy is appointed as Senior Vice President - D...
New Jersey Division on Civil Rights Rules Ladies Night Promotions Are Unfair, Men Not Treated Equally / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Tamara El-Khoury, The Baltimore SunKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News June 17, 2004 - Heather Rodenhizer and Beth Schull left their boyfriends at home last Thursday night to visit an Arbutus bar. The two twenty-somethings from Pasadena found themselves girl-talking over drinks specially priced just for them. Every few minutes the DJ announced why: It was Ladies' Night at Fish Head Cantina. For many bar owners, such promotions are obvious: Free admission and discounted drinks will attract women. And a bar full of women usually attracts men. But while some view it as good marketing, oth...
Former Hampton Inn Oakland Airport Reflags to La Quinta Inn / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Former Hampton Inn Oakland Airport Reflags to La Quinta Inn 147-Room La Quinta Inn Oakland Airport/Coliseum is the Brands Fourth Hotel in the Bay Area OAKLAND, CA (June 2, 2004) Dallas-based La Quinta Corporation (NYSE: LQI) announced that the former Hampton Inn adjacent to the Oakland Coliseum/Arena near Oakland Airport has become a La Quinta Inn. The property is the fourth La Quinta flag to fly in the Bay area, joining the La Quinta Inn & Suites San Francisco Downtown, which opened late in 2003, the La Quinta Inn San Francisco Airport, and the La Quinta Inn & Suites Hayward-Oakla...
February 28, 2004
Case Study: . With GuestWares Help, Service Teams at La Cabana All Suite Beach Resort and Casino Drastically Reduce Room Defects, Accelerate Response Time June 16, 2004 - More than two years ago, 10 to 12 percent of the guests checking into La Cabana All Suite Beach Resort and Casino experienced a guestroom with some type of defect. That was unacceptable to the Central Dispatch Service/Guest Response Center team at the property Arubas largest resort. To improve the level of service offered to guests, the dispatch team implemented GuestWare, the lodging industrys leading customer relationship management software...
The 2004 LIIC Top Ten: An Annual Survey of Lodging Investment Trends and Challenges / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online .Special Report The 2004 LIIC Top Ten: An Annual Survey of Lodging Investment Trends and Challenges June 3, 2004 - Each year, the think tank members of LIIC The Lodging Industry Investment Council are surveyed to develop a list of the major hotel investment opportunities and challenges for the coming year. This survey results in the LIIC Top Ten; a well-regarded profile of investment sentiment and attitudes for the lodging industry for the forthcoming 12 months. All together, the members of LIIC represent acquisition and disposition control of billions of dollars in lodging real estate. The hospitality...
Contract Negotiations Stall Between Los Angeles' 17 Union Hotels and HERE; Hotels Seeking 5 Year Contract, Union Wants 2 Year Contract / June 2
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Evan Pondel, Daily News, Los AngelesKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News June 25, 2004 - Los Angeles hotel workers said Thursday that they are moving forward with contract negotiations despite resistance from national chains like Hyatt and Sheraton. Talks between local hotels and the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union began three months ago, but negotiations have hit an impasse in the face of a union-led effort to leverage more negotiating power. The union would like a new contract that expires at the same time as other hotel workers across the country. Howeve...
U.S. Military Contractors Ring Up $11 million in Charges at the Kuwait Hilton; Congressional Probe Continues / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy David Ivanovich, Houston ChronicleKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News June 30, 2004 - WASHINGTON -- Auditors looking into hefty charges rung up by Halliburton Co. and others at a beachfront hotel in Kuwait chastised the Coalition Provisional Authority for failing to better control costs. The authority's inspector general, examining $11 million in charges being incurred annually at the five-star Kuwait Hilton, said the Provisional Authority "did not apply adequate oversight to ensure that operating costs were minimized." According to an inspector general's audit report made available T...
Knights Inn Brand Entices Developers with Fixed, Flat Monthly Charge that Includes Royalty and Marketing Fees / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Knights Inn Brand Entices Developers with Fixed, Flat Monthly Charge that Includes Royalty and Marketing Fees PARSIPPANY, N.J. (June 23, 2004) Knights Franchise Systems today introduced an incentive program to encourage development by first-time franchisees and current Knights Inn owners. The program offers a $20.80 per room, fixed, flat monthly charge that includes royalty and marketing fees. The agreement, offered to first-time franchisees and current Knights Inn owners who sign a franchise agreement for another Knights Inn property features a three-year renewable term for up to ...
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Kinseth Hospitality Assumes Management of the Hilton Garden Inn Independence, Missouri Greater Kansas City June 7, 2004 Kinseth Hospitality Companies, Dial Realty, and Clary Development are pleased to announce that Kinseth Hospitality has secured an equity position in the Hilton Garden Inn Independence, MO, and has assumed management of the hotel as of June 1, 2004. The Hilton Garden Inn is located at Heartman Heritage Pavillion Shopping Center, a 70 acre mixed use project, at the interchange of Hilton Garden Inn Independence 19677 East Jackson Drive Independence, Mi...
Developers Eric King and BBL Construction Open $11.5 million Courtyard by Marriott in Saratoga Springs, New York / June 2004
February 28, 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 Developers Eric King and BBL Construction Open $11.5 million Courtyard by Marriott in Saratoga Springs, New York Saratoga Springs NY (June 28, 2004) -- Another season at the Saratoga Race Course is just around the corner and the starting gate is already up on the new Saratoga Springs Courtyard by Marriott. Located a...
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Kimpton Hotels to Standardize on Hotel Information Systems epitome Enterprise and Property Management System Lake Forest, CA (June 23, 2004)... Hotel Information Systems (HIS), a division of MAI Systems Corporation (OTCBB: MAIY.OB), announces that it has been selected by Kimpton Hotels to provide its epitome Enterprise and Property Management System to all 39 Kimpton hotels. The implementation of epitome Enterprise seamlessly integrated with epitome PMS will enhance Kimptons operational efficiency and guest loyalty program. epitome Enterprise Solutions will deliver the framework to centr...
Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants Recognizes Managers Demonstrating Extraordinary Levels of Hospitality / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants Recognizes Managers Demonstrating Extraordinary Levels of Hospitality . Ron Vlasic, GM of Hotel Allegro Chicago Presented with the Bill Kimpton Award SAN FRANCISCO, June 7, 2004 - Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants announced the winners of its 2003-04 Leadership Awards. The awards are given annually to recognize those that have demonstrated extraordinary levels of hospitality, commitment and leadership during the past year. The awards recognize achievements in various areas. "These award winners are just a few of the people whose contribution is the reason K...
Kirk Kerkorian, Majority Owner of MGM Mirage Continues Working His Magic on Las Vegas; Launched Era of Megaresorts / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Rod Smith, Las Vegas Review-JournalKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News June 20, 2004 - Think of billionaire Kirk Kerkorian, 87, majority owner of MGM Mirage and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studios, as a little old man pulling the strings behind a curtain and Las Vegas as the city at the end of his yellow brick road. Looked at that way, the tale of modern-day Las Vegas seems like a remake of "The Wizard of Oz." Kerkorian has been working his wizardry and making history in Las Vegas for 35 years, and many industry experts agree he has done more than any other individual to transform the...
