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The 12 Classic Cocktails; In a Wave of Nostalgia Noble House Hotels Features the Drinks Our Grandparents Used to Have / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report The 12 Classic Cocktails; In a Wave of Nostalgia Noble House Hotels Features the Drinks Our Grandparents Used to Have SEATTLE, WA (June 24, 2004) - In an age of apple martinis, flavored rums and cosmopolitans, Noble House Hotels and Resorts is paying tribute to the classics, with the introduction of 'The Dirty Dozen' classic cocktail menu. The selection of traditional cocktails being offered is as timeless as the epic World War II film after which they are named, and a tribute to this bygone era. Perhaps it is a wave of nostalgia that is responsible for the revival of the class...
Detroit Officials Favor Expanding Cobo Center from 700,000 sq ft to 900,000 sq ft Over New $1-billion Convention Center / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy M.L. Elrick, Detroit Free PressKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News June 9, 2004 - Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's bid for a new $1-billion downtown convention center is all but dead. After determining that the cost of a new, high-tech, million-square-foot facility outweighed the economic benefit, a task force of public officials and business leaders decided Tuesday to endorse expanding Cobo Center. Kilpatrick, who hoped to rally Detroiters and suburbanites behind his call for a new convention center, said he accepted the Tourism Action Group's decision. "So now we can focus the regio...
Starwood Atlanta Cluster Converts 312% More Business With Cross-Property Lead Sharing Solution; Achieves 42% Revenue Gain, 18-Month ROI on Technology
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Starwood Atlanta Cluster Converts 312% More Business With Cross-Property Lead Sharing Solution . Achieves 42% Revenue Gain, 18-Month ROI on Technology Investment June 14, 2004 - What do most world-class companies do when faced with an operational problem? Many of them turn to the internationally known Six-Sigma process, which can modernize auto production, streamline healthcare delivery, or -- in the hospitality industry boost revenue gains 42 percent. Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. recently proved the validity of this process at the companys Atlanta cluster of seven high-end...
Accor Acquires 28.9% Stake in Club Méditerranée; Will Accelerate the Development of Club Mediterranee / 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 Accor Acquires 28.9% Stake in Club Méditerranée; Will Accelerate the Development of Club Méditerranée Paris, June 11 2004. - Accor has announced that it is acquiring a 28.9% equity interest in Club Mediterranee, including the 21.2% of shares held by Agnelli Group (Exor/Ifil) and 7.7% held by Caisse des Dé...
Castrop Wolfe Development Co. Acquires the Dublin (Ohio) Wyndham Hotel for $5.3 million; Will Reposition with Clarion Hotel Flag / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Mike Pramik, The Columbus Dispatch, OhioKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 5, 2004 - A central Ohio company has acquired the Dublin Wyndham Hotel for $5.3 million and is repositioning it under the Clarion Hotel flag. Castrop Wolfe Development Co., a Dublin hotel owner-manager that has 16 properties in its portfolio, will spend $3 million over the next 18 months to upgrade the Clarion Hotel-Dublin, said William Wolfe, principal of Castrop Wolfe's property-management company. Wyndham acquired the 24-year-old property, then called the Stouffer Renaissance, in 1996 from a partnershi...
DSRA, LLC. Completes $2 million Renovation of the Former 165-room Howard Johnson Hotel; Rebranded as Clarion Hotel, Chester, Virginia / 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 DSRA, LLC. Completes $2 million Renovation of the Former 165-room Howard Johnson Hotel; Rebranded as Clarion Hotel, Chester, Virginia CHESTER, Va. (June 22, 2004) - The 165-room Clarion Hotel, located at 2401 West Hundred Rd. (exit 61B off of I-95), is now open. The hotel, which formerly operated as the Howard Jo...
A Cinderella Story – EZ Yield Evolves from the Garage to The Standard in Online Distribution Channel Management / June 2004
February 28, 2004
A Cinderella Story - EZ Yield Evolves from the Garage to The Standard in Online Distribution Channel Management Orlando, FL June 2004 - In the land of the Magic Kingdom © Cinderella stories still exist. EZ Yield.Com, Inc, has exceeded hoteliers and revenue managers wildest expectations with the continued growth of its industry leading web-based software, giving hotels the power to simultaneously update all of their internet wholesalers on one simple-to-use automated interface. Within the last two years, EZ Yield has developed from a garage based business in Orlando to the standard in online distribution channe...
Choice Hotels Joins HotelRooms.com / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Choice Hotels Joins HotelRooms.com FOREST HILLS, New York- June 9, 2004 - Continuing to expand its membership base of hotels, motels, and resorts, HotelRooms.com announced that Choice Hotels International (NYSE:CHH) is the latest hotel partner of the global, one-stop, hotel search engine and super site. The partnership provides a distribution channel for each of Choice Hotels' brands, which include Comfort Inn, Comfort Suites, Quality, Clarion, Sleep Inn, MainStay Suites, Econo Lodge, and Rodeway Inn. By linking to each property's own page on the Choice Hotels website to generate bookings, ...
Sunstone Hotels Opens the 196-room JW Marriott Denver at Cherry Creek / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Sunstone Hotels Opens the 196-room JW Marriott Denver at Cherry Creek WASHINGTON June 2, 2004 Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE: MAR) announced today the opening of the JW Marriott Denver at Cherry Creek. The 11-story, 196-room luxury hotel is located at 150 Clayton Lane and will operate as a Marriott franchise managed by Sunstone Hotels and owned by a partnership consisting of WB Cherry Creek, L.L.C. and Sunstone Hotels . The JW Marriott Denver at Cherry Creek is part of the prestigious Clayton Lane development, which also includes Janus Funds world headquarters a...
Owners of Downtown Chattanooga's Clarion Hotel Seeking to Re-position the Hotel or Sell It / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Mike Pare, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News June 29, 2004 - Downtown Chattanooga's Clarion Hotel could be in store for big changes as its owner looks at repositioning the site amid the riverfront's growth or selling it. Richard Aaronson, a partner in the hotel's ownership group, said it is looking at a possible multimillion-dollar renovation and a change in the Clarion's nameplate. The Doubletree Hotel flag is one of those under study, he said. A sale of the hotel at 407 Chestnut St. also is possible, said Mr. Aaronson. "With the location, it's gone...
TeleAdapt Helps Guests Get a Charge From Hotel Staff / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report TeleAdapt Helps Guests Get a Charge From Hotel Staff Dallas, TX, June 21, 2004 If you are looking to increase your front desk, room service or business center profits and raise your level of customer service, look into the ChargeCentre from TeleAdapt. Next to the toothbrush, some of the most commonly forgotten items are laptop and cell phone power cables. The ChargeCentre by TeleAdapt gives hotel staffers a wide array of cables and chargers stocked in a secure easy-to-inventory attractive lockable case that can be displayed behind the front desk or in the business center. Until now, tr...
Midscale Operators Navigate with Centralized Business Intelligence, Enterprise Accounting; Use 2/3 Less Accounting Staff / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Midscale Operators Navigate with Centralized Business Intelligence, Enterprise Accounting; Use 2/3 Less Accounting Staff Highpointe, Concord, ZMC Hotels Target Details and Profitability; Shorten Month-End Close to 4 Hours; GMs Review 90% Accurate Trial Balances Daily SEE APTECH AT HITEC BOOTH #1008 PITTSBURGH, June 17, 2004 Midscale operators are rapidly adopting centralized financial management technology that delivers accurate real-time decision data, and lets managers repeatedly make small cost cutting measures that result in increased profitability. These technologies, like business intel...
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Cendants Hotel Group Consolidates Brand Leadership, Increases Field Support Staff PARSIPPANY, N.J. (June 22, 2004) Cendant Corporations Hotel Group today announced an initiative to enhance franchisee service by nearly doubling its field support staff by years end, thereby increasing the ratio of field representatives to individual properties and providing unprecedented on-site support. We are creating a larger and more effective organization that is more property focused and in which management will be closer to our franchisees, said Tony Berger, Hotel Group chief operating offic...
Cendant's Hotel Group Reports Online Bookings Two Months Ahead of Last Year, 2 million Room-nights Booked So Far this Year / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Cendant's Hotel Group Reports Online Bookings Two Months Ahead of Last Year, 2 million Room-nights Booked So Far this Year PARSIPPANY, N.J. (June 28, 2004) Cendant Corporations Hotel Group today announced that its online bookings are two months ahead of last year, with 2 million room-nights booked so far this year through its Super 8®, Days Inn®, Ramada®, Travelodge®, Howard Johnson®, Knights Inn®, Villager, Wingate Inn® and AmeriHost Inn® Web sites. The 2 million room-night milestone was reached May 29, nearly two months ahead of last year. Cendants hotel Web sites have br...
Cayuga Nation's $500-million Catskill Casino Holds Great Economic Promise / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Tom Wanamaker, Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y.Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News June 23, 2004 - If all goes as planned, June 10 could end up becoming an anniversary of sorts for the Cayuga Nation. On that day, the nation and the state of New York announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that would, in exchange for settlement of long-running land claim litigation, allow the tribe to open the first of three Catskill casinos authorized back in late 2001. "The Cayuga Nation is gratified that 24 years of litigation is drawing to a successful conclusion," said Timot...
First American Hotels and Welcome Holdings Merging; The Soleil Group Owns 11 Hotels in the Carolinas / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Dudley Price, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News June 21, 2004 - Two of the Triangle's largest hotel developers are merging their companies and plan to diversify into residential, office and retail markets in North Carolina and Florida. Sanjay Mundra, president and chief executive of First American Hotels of Cary, and Dicky S. Walia, chairman and chief executive of Welcome Holdings of Cary, will merge their firms into a new company named the Soleil Group, effective July 1. The two own 11 hotels in the Carolinas. They have hired Wayne C. Shusko, the ...
Carlson Hotels Worldwide Inititates New Brand Building Strategies / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Carlson Hotels Worldwide Inititates New Brand Building Strategies ARUBA (May 24, 2004) --- Carlson Hotels Worldwide announced a variety of new business building and brand defining strategies here this week during its four-day, 2004 Annual Business Conference as nearly 900 participants and guests gathered for the event from around the world. Focusing on the creation of a "Brand New World" of opportunity in the travel industry, the conference included hotel owners, franchisees, partners, managers, vendors and employees from the Carlson organization and its five hotel brands: Regent Inter...
Carlson Hotels Worldwide Recognizes Best in the Brands; Sean Shannon, GM of the Radisson on John Deere Commons, Moline, Illinois Named Best Radisson
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Carlson Hotels Worldwide Recognizes Best in the Brands - Sean Shannon, GM of the Radisson on John Deere Commons, Moline, Illinois Named Best Radisson General Manager MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (June 16, 2004) ---- Carlson Hotels Worldwide honored its best performing hotels at its annual business conference held recently in Aruba. Following are highlights of the top award winners for Radisson Hotels & Resorts; Park Plaza Hotels & Resorts; Country Inns & Suites By Carlson; and Park Inn. RADISSON HOTELS & RESORTS Radisson Hotels & Resorts presented its Esprit Award, for best general m...
Destination Marketing 101: Take Care of Mom / John R. Hendrie / 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 Destination Marketing 101: Take Care of Mom May 31, 2004 By John R. Hendrie, CEO, Hospitality Performance, Inc. Fact: The greatest influence on where the vacationing family will stay, dine, recreate and shop is the Mother. Fact: Destination Markets have yet to discover how to successfully manipulate (th...
Capital Lodging's $300 million IPO Completion Date Unkwnown; Plans to Acquire 22 of 27 Crown American Hotels / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Jeff McCready, The Tribune-Democrat, Johnstown, Pa.Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News June 22, 2004 - Crown American Hotels of Johnstown said there will be minimal job losses at its downtown corporate headquarters when 22 of its 27 properties are sold to Capital Lodging of Dallas for $146 million in cash. Two of the five hotels Crown will retain are in the Johnstown area -- Holiday Inn, 250 Market St. in downtown Johnstown, and Holiday Inn Express, 1440 Scalp Ave. in Richland Township. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings said Capital plans to use a portion of the $300 mil...
Colorado Reports 11.2 million Ski Visitors in 2003-04, Down 3.4% from Previous Year; International Ski Visitors up 10% / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Jason Blevins, The Denver PostKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News June 11, 2004 - ASPEN, Colo. -- With undeniable optimism, Colorado's ski resort leaders announced a 3.4 percent annual decline in ski visitors last season. The tumble from 11.6 million visits in 2002-03 to 11.2 million in 2003-04 was good news to the nation's leading ski state because of a rebound in out-of-state and international vacationers. Virtually all of the total decline came from in-state "day" skiers, many of whom pay for their season passes long before the snow flies. Resorts said their bottom lines improved. ...
Chris Dewey Joins Thompson Calhoun Fair, LLC / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Chris Dewey Joins Thompson Calhoun Fair, LLC ATLANTA, Georgia, June 21, 2004 Thompson Calhoun Fair, LLC, an Atlanta-based hotel real estate firm, announced today Chris Dewey has joined the firm as Vice President. Mr. Dewey comes to Thompson Calhoun Fair after spending his last four years as a broker with a competing hotel brokerage firm in Atlanta. His strong work ethic and industry knowledge resulted in successfully closing approximately ten hotel transactions a year with an aggregate volume of over $50 million in hotel assets. Mr. Dewey has an impressive track record of client service an...
Country Club Lima Hotel Selects TravelCLICK as Electronic Distribution Partner / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Country Club Lima Hotel Selects TravelCLICK as Electronic Distribution Partner . CHICAGO (June 11, 2004) - Ray Cohen, president and co-CEO of TravelCLICK, announced today that the 75-room luxury Country Club Lima Hotel has selected TravelCLICK's iHotelier booking engine for its GDS and Web site connectivity. The Country Club Hotel will be using TravelCLICKs technology platform to manage its own distribution activities through all electronic channels. Concurrent with their decision to take control of their electronic distribution process, the property discontinued its representation fir...
10 Ways to Bulletproof Your Hotel Against Legal Attacks / Diana S. Barber / June 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report 10 Ways to Bulletproof Your Hotel Against Legal Attacks By: Diana S. Barber, Esq., June 2004 How can you dramatically reduce legal attacks while building a wall of defense around your company? Follow these ten simple steps and you will be on your way to protecting your company by building a fortress of defense. 1. Investigate and take action on all reports of harassment and discrimination. All managers and directors must report to the human resources director or other personnel any and all incidences or claims made by employees in connection with sexual harassment or any other t...
