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SRS-WORLDHOTELS Now Includes the Timeshare Industry in its Distribution System / April 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report SRS-WORLDHOTELS Now Includes the Timeshare Industry in its Distribution System April 8, 2004 -- SRS-WORLDHOTELS, the Americas, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Daily Management, Inc., a resort property management company based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to provide sales, marketing and distribution services for Dailys 11 timeshare properties. The resorts are located in Floridas key leisure destination cities of Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach Shores, Kissimmee, Pompano Beach and Ormond Beach, as well as in historic Hancock, Mass., and Williamsburg, Va. A future resort l...
Small Luxury Hotels of the World Convened 12th Annual Global Conference in Bangkok / April 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 Small Luxury Hotels of the World Convened 12th Annual Global Conference in Bangkok NEW YORK, April 19, 2004 Small Luxury Hotels of the World held its 12th Annual Global Conference in Bangkok, Thailand this past April 1st 4th. SLH members from across the globe gathered at The Banyan Tree Bangkok to discuss th...
Scott Butera, the 37 Year Old EVP of Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts, Has Tall Order – Building Trust Between Bondholders and Donald Trump / April
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Scott Butera, the 37 Year Old EVP of Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts, Has Tall Order - Building Trust Between Bondholders and Donald Trump By Lore Croghan, Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 12, 2004 - If Scott Butera can complete his assignment, he is never, ever going to hear Donald Trump say, "You're fired." The former Wall Street investment banker's job is to turn around Trump's troubled Atlantic City casino company -- the one part of Trump's business empire that's visibly out of sync with the image of success projected on the TV hit show "T...
Hotel Websites Have Much to Do to Increase User Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty; New Report Tracking User Satisfaction and Web Site Performance Now
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Hotel Websites Have Much to Do to Increase User Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty . New Report Tracking User Satisfaction and Web Site Performance Now Available New York, NY (April 28, 2004) iPerceptions and Hospitality eBusiness Strategies (HeBS), two of the most respected names in hospitality-related eBusiness and eMarketing strategy and intelligence today released the first edition of the RUSH Report, a new strategic report for the hospitality vertical. The RUSH Report, an intelligence report on user satisfaction and website performance in the hospitality sector, provides the ind...
JHM Hotels Inc. Will Reposition, Reflag the 330 room Charleston Riverview Hotel / April 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive JHM Hotels Inc. Will Reposition, Reflag the 330 room Charleston Riverview Hotel By Kyle Stock, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 15, 2004 - The recently acquired Charleston Riverview Hotel, the peninsula's second-largest lodging, expects to fly the flag of a big hotel chain in the next few weeks, part of a multimillion-dollar renovation that will pit the property against luxury hotels downtown. "It will be completely repositioned," said D.J. Rama, vice president of operations at Greenville-based JHM Hotels Inc., which bought ...
Traditionally a Conservative Office Building Investor, a REIT Acquires the Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne for $46.3 million and Assumption of $61 million i
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Traditionally a Conservative Office Building Investor, a REIT Acquires the Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne for $46.3 million and Assumption of $61 million in Debt By Douglas Hanks, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 6, 2004 - An investment fund said Monday that it had acquired a majority share of the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Key Biscayne. The resort performed so well during the post-Sept. 11 tourism slump, the fund said, that fund managers had decided to drop their no-hotel policy. Jamestown, a fund run out of Atlanta and Germany, said it paid $46.3 mil...
Rezidor SAS Developing 220 room Park Inn Connected to the Sarvar Spa, Hungary / April 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Rezidor SAS Developing 220 room Park Inn Connected to the Sarvar Spa, Hungary Brussels, March 2004 Park Inn, the growing mid-market hotel brand of Rezidor SAS Hospitality, signed an agreement for the development of its first hotel in Sarvar, Hungary. The hotel will open at the end of 2005. The newly-constructed Park Inn Sarvar will be one of the leading hotels in the spa-city. The hotel will be connected to the new Sarvar Spa that offers indoor and outdoor spa facilities as well as an extensive wellness complex. The Park Inn will offer 220 rooms, all overlooking the gardens a...
Class Action Suit Initiated on Behalf Guests Who Were Improperly Assessed Resort Fees at Starwood Hotels / April 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Class Action Suit Initiated on Behalf Guests Who Were Improperly Assessed "Resort Fees" at Starwood Hotels NEW YORK - April 8, 2004 -- Notice is hereby given that Paskowitz & Associates has filed and is prosecuting a class action suit on behalf of persons who paid a "resort fee" in connection with a stay at a hotel run by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) ("Starwood Hotels"). Starwood Hotels presently operates or franchises hotels under the names Sheraton, Westin, The Luxury Collection, St. Regis, W, and Four Points by Sheraton. The class action is brought o...
G. Holdings Corporation Building 357-suite Residence Inn In Times Square New York City / April 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report G. Holdings Corporation Building 357-suite Residence Inn In Times Square New York City WASHINGTON, April 13, 2004 - John Marriott, executive vice president of Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE: MAR), joined by New York City's Mayor Bloomberg and G. Holdings Corporation chairman and CEO Harry Gross, today announced plans to open the first Residence Inn by Marriott in New York City -- a 357-suite hotel located at Avenue of the Americas and West 39th Street. Construction begins today, and the hotel is scheduled to open by the end of 2005. The project is part of the Bryant Park Towe...
Profile: Renee West, President and COO of Primm Valley Resorts, a Multicasino Resort Destination / April 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Profile: Renee West, President and COO of Primm Valley Resorts, a Multicasino Resort Destination By Chris Jones, Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 11, 2004 - Though the businesses she oversees are largely known for the Desperado roller coaster and its signature 225-foot drop, life at work has largely been on an upswing in recent years for Renee West. Since December 2002, the 45-year-old executive has served as president and chief operating officer of Primm Valley Resorts, a multicasino resort destination in Primm owned by Las Vegas-based g...
The 293-room, $45 million Renaissance Tampa Hotel International Plaza Pre-Plans for 4-Star Rating / April 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Randy Diamond, Tampa Tribune, Fla.Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 28, 2004 - TAMPA, Fla. -- Operators of Tampa's first major new hotel to open in four years, the Renaissance Tampa Hotel International Plaza, say they are sparing no expense in preparing the hotel for August's opening and winning top ratings from the two key travel rating services. If the 293-room, $45 million hotel, scheduled to open Aug. 2, can win a four-diamond rating from AAA and a four-star rating from Mobil Travel Guides, it could instantly distinguish the hotel in the city's crowded hotel market. That wo...
The Red Rock Station, a 400 room $450 million Casino Breaks Ground in Las Vegas; Station Casinos Most Expensive Project / April 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality ExecutiveBy Chris Jones, Las Vegas Review-JournalKnight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 16, 2004 - Hoping to bury last year's zoning controversy like so many unwanted tumbleweeds, executives from Station Casinos on Thursday staged a ceremonial groundbreaking at the site of their proposed Red Rock Station resort. With bulldozers now in their second week of preparing the hotel-casino's approximately 70-acre site near Charleston Boulevard and the Las Vegas Beltway, the windswept smile-and-shovel event was largely a public relations ploy to build public interest in the 400-room project long before ...
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Raymond Management Company Starts Construction of 253 room Hilton Garden Inn® Chicago OHare Airport in Des Plaines, Illinois Des Plaines, IL (April 1, 2004) Raymond Management Company, a Madison, WI-based multi-brand hotel company, has announced the groundbreaking of a new Hilton Garden Inn® Chicago OHare Airport hotel in Des Plaines, Illinois. Scheduled to open in summer of 2005, the hotel will be one of the largest within the Hilton Garden Inn brand. The upscale mid-priced property will feature 253 guestrooms offering complimentary high-speed Internet a...
Validity of Online Hotel Ratings / Cheryl Griggs / April 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Validity of Online Hotel Ratings E-mail: info@optimumrating.com April 2004 - In recent months we have seen a steady increase in TV and Internet ads touting online hotel booking opportunities. They often offer discounted rates, a simple and easy 24/7 reservation process, and a star rating, often with glossy photos. My personal knowledge of online ratings is very limited; my experience with booking online is likewise limited. My questions and comments are not intended as criticism of online ratings; they are simply questions I would ask before trusting a rating of unknown ...
Internet Based Rates Monitoring Services from eMark Services Relaunched as RateGain / April 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Internet Based Rates Monitoring Services from eMark Services Relaunched as RateGain Chicago, USA, April 13, 2004 – Chicago-based Riv Consulting Inc. announces that it has taken over eMark Services-a software services company. eMark Services is a leading provider of internet based airfares and hotel-rates monitoring services to the global travel industry. Subsequent to the takeover, the price-intelligence services from eMark are being re-launched as RateGain. Riv Consulting’s expertise in e-business applications is going to add tangible value to the portfolio of eMark offerings...
Maintain Control Over Rates and Allotments with Online Contracting / April 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Maintain Control Over Rates and Allotments with Online Contracting Singapore, 18 April 2004 Instability in global politics, climate and economies is having an enormous impact on the tourism industry. Like modern financial markets, where billions of dollars in hot money is transferred on an instants notice to maximize yield or escape risk, easy access to situational information at a destination and increasing flexibility in air fares and schedules allow tourists to make last-minute changes in itineraries. Increasingly, hotels gearing up for traditional peak-season occupancy are face...
Radisson Hotel Utica Centre Receives Presidents Award for 3rd Straight Year / April 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Radisson Hotel Utica Centre Receives Presidents Award for 3rd Straight Year Utica NY- April 1st 2004 - Radisson Hotels & Resorts (based in Minneapolis, Minn) announced today that the Radisson Hotel Utica Centre has been awarded the Presidents Award for 2003. This is the 3rd consecutive year the Radisson Hotel Utica Centre has received the award, which is only given to those few hotels that achieve the highest levels of guest satisfaction as measured by customer feedback. Bjorn Gullaksen, executive vice president and brand leader for Radisson Hotels & Radisson Hotel Utica ...
Thompson Calhoun Fair, LLC, Brokers Sale of the Radisson Hotel Atlanta Airport – Atlanta, Georgia / April 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Thompson Calhoun Fair, LLC, Brokers Sale of the Radisson Hotel Atlanta Airport - Atlanta, Georgia ATLANTA, Georgia, April 20, 2004 - Thompson Calhoun Fair, LLC, an Atlanta-based hotel real estate firm, announced today it advised College Park Holdings, LLC in the disposition of the Radisson Hotel Atlanta Airport located at 5010 Old National Highway in Atlanta, Georgia. Located one mile from the Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport, the property is just off of Interstate 285 and close to Interstates 75 and 85. The 232-room, interior corridor hotel has a full-service restaurant and lounge, ind...
Richard Southard Named General Manager of the 315-room Doubletree® Hotel & Executive Meeting Center in Rockville, Maryland / April 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Richard Southard Named General Manager of the 315-room Doubletree® Hotel & Executive Meeting Center in Rockville, Maryland BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., April 7, 2004 Richard Southard has been named general manager of the 315-room Doubletree® Hotel & Executive Meeting Center in Rockville, Md. Southard most recently served as director of sales & marketing for the hotel, a position he has held since 1999. With more than 20 years in the hotel industry, Southard began his career in hotel sales and catering at full-service properties in the Washington D.C. area in the early 1980s...
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report FelCor's EVP and CFO Richard J. OBrien Resigns IRVING, Texas April 27, 2004 - FelCor Lodging Trust Incorporated (NYSE: FCH) today announced the resignation of Richard J. OBrien, its Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since 2001. Mr. OBrien left FelCor to pursue other opportunities as of April 23, 2004. Rick joined FelCor almost three years ago and during his tenure provided many positive contributions to the company, including substantial improvements to financial measurements, management of external communications, and excellent liquidity for the Comp...
Raluca Leibowitz Named General Manager and Cliff Brutus Director of Sales & Marketing of Grove Isle Resort & Club in Coconut Grove, Florida / April
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 Raluca Leibowitz Named General Manager and Cliff Brutus Director of Sales & Marketing of Grove Isle Resort & Club in Coconut Grove, Florida MIAMI, FL (April 12, 2004) Noble House Hotels and Resorts has appointed Raluca Leibowitz general manager and Cliff Brutus director of sales & marketing of Grove Isle Resort &...
Resort Data Processing Announces Membership in the Vacation Rental Managers / April 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Resort Data Processing Announces Membership in the Vacation Rental Managers Association April 6, 2004 - Resort Data Processing (RDP) exhibited at the Vacation Rental Managers Association (VRMA) show in Tucson March 26-27, and plans to exhibit at both the South East Seminar May 14-15 and the Annual Conference and Showcase October 16-20 this Fall. Steve Green, West Coast Account Manager for RDP, said of the Western Seminar: "RDP has a great product for vacation rental managers, and VRMA gave us a great chance to showcase our Owner Billing Module, Enhanced Housekeeping Module, Work Order Mo...
Quantifying Hotel Demand Growth Projections / Jeffrey H. Walker / April 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Quantifying Hotel Demand Growth Projections By Jeffrey H. Walker, MAI, CHME, April 2004 Within the hotel community, there is finally a sense that demand may be turning the corner. But the optimism is still somewhat cautious, as several previous predictions of increasing demand since 9/11 have failed to fully materialize. To get a clearer picture of future trends, USRC has analyzed historical hotel demand increases in relation to historical levels of business fixed asset investment, as tracked by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. In general, during periods of economic recess...
A Publicly Funded Conference Center In a Privately Funded Hotel May Be an Unworkable Idea in Jacksonville, North Carolina / April 2004
February 28, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive A Publicly Funded Conference Center In a Privately Funded Hotel May Be an Unworkable Idea in Jacksonville, North Carolina By Christopher De Nittis, The Daily News, Jacksonville, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 5, 2004 - Last year, the Jacksonville City Council OK'd a publicly funded conference center that would go in a privately funded hotel, but when developers recently presented conceptual drawings of the project, the sketches renewed past council concerns. Preliminary drawings show meeting rooms, a ballroom, a dining area and supporting facilities on the...
