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Complete Network for Broadband Hotel / Benefits of Wireline and Wireless / January 2004
January 30, 2004
Complete Network for Broadband Hotel Benefits of Wireline and Wireless Many technologies are available for Hospitality broadband networks. Alone, they cannot provide a complete solution. Wireline and wireless technologies combined, plus guest authentication comprises a Universal Access Network. . Capitalize on the power of wireline and wireless technologies by building a network with guaranteed access for all guest PCs. Maximize the flexibility of a broadband network to increase occupancy and guest satisfaction. Optimize the broadband network with Universal Management. Authenticate all network users; whether wired o...
Hotel Online: Hospitality News
January 30, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Tom Droege, Tulsa World, Okla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 17--Six years ago, when business travel was booming and conventions were commonplace, it was sometimes difficult to find a hotel room in Tulsa. Nowadays, business travelers and convention planners can take their pick of places to stay and prices to pay. "It's amazing what companies are pulling off these days," said Kim Carpenter, spok...
Golden Tulip Signs First Franchise Agreement in Mexico, The Tulip Inn Ritz Mexico / January 2004
January 30, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Golden Tulip Signs First Franchise Agreement in Mexico, The Tulip Inn Ritz Mexico Amersfoort (The Netherlands), 28 January 2004 Golden Tulip is proud to announce the signing of its first franchise agreement in Mexico. The Tulip Inn Ritz Mexico joined the Golden Tulip chain as per 1st January 2004. Located in the heart of Mexico Citys historical centre, the hotel carries a long history and tradition in offering Mexican hospitality. The Tulip Inn Ritz Mexico offers its guests 121 recently remodelled rooms, a restaurant, bar, solarium, Internet facilities, multiple boardrooms and a banq...
Hotel Online: Hospitality News
January 30, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Travelocity Business Negotiates Additional Savings On Hotel Stays For Companies Jan. 19 - Providing businesses continued money- and time-saving opportunities, Travelocity Business(SM) finalized an agreement with worldwide hotel provider Pegasus Solutions and its Utell representation service to offer its customers access to discounted rates at more than 4,300 Utell member hotels around the globe, ranging from...
Travelocity Launches $80 million Ad Campaign; Hopes to Regain Market Share Lost to Expedia / January 2004
January 30, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Travelocity Launches $80 million Ad Campaign; Hopes to Regain Market Share Lost to Expedia By Andrea Ahles, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 6, 2004 - SOUTHLAKE, Texas -- Travelocity is pinning hopes for growth on an $80 million gnome. The Southlake-based online travel site launched ads featuring a "Roaming Gnome" on Monday, the most expensive campaign in the company's history. The television, radio and newspaper ads feature a two-foot, white-bearded gnome with a red hat and blue coat that has been stolen from its owner's garden...
TravelHero Distinguishes Itself with Largest Database and by Being Both Consumer and Hotelier Friendly / January 2004
January 30, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report TravelHero Distinguishes Itself with Largest Database and by Being Both Consumer and Hotelier Friendly January 26, 2004 - TravelHero, a full service Internet travel technology company, enjoys a number of distinctions from other online travel sites. Primary among these is the fact that, unlike all of the other major sites, TravelHero is not based solely on the information available from existing global distribution systems (GDS) such as Sabre, Worldspan, Amadeus, or Galileo. All of the mega sites depend on a GDS provider, and the result is that they have at their disposal only a limited nu...
TravelCLICK's RateVIEW Adopted by Interstate / January 2004
January 30, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report TravelCLICK's RateVIEW Adopted by Interstate Chicago, IL (January 26, 2004) - Ray Cohen, president and co-CEO of TravelCLICK, announced today that Interstate Hotels & Resorts has endorsed TravelCLICK's RateVIEW report to its 300 managed properties in the U.S., Canada, Portugal and Russia. Interstate Hotels & Resorts is the nation's largest independent hotel management company. RateVIEW is the preferred reporting service by hoteliers who use up-to-the-minute, rather than cached, rate information for their revenue management and pricing decisions. RateVIEW enables the best possible ...
The $600 million Marriott's Grande Lakes Orlando Resort Receives Americas Lodging Investment Summit 'Transaction of the Year Award' / J
January 30, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report The $600 million Marriott's Grande Lakes Orlando Resort Receives Americas Lodging Investment Summit 'Transaction of the Year Award' WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2004 - Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE: MAR) has received the 2003 Americas Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS) "Transaction of the Year Award" for the development of the nearly $600 million Grande Lakes Resort in Orlando, Fla. The prestigious award was presented at the third annual ALIS conference held in Los Angeles, Calif. this week. Grande Lakes was the largest non-gaming hotel project to open in the United States in 2003...
Tokyo's Top Three Hotels, the Imperial Hotel, Hotel New Otani and the Hotel Okura, Facing New Competition / January 2004
January 30, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Tokyo's Top Three Hotels, the Imperial Hotel, Hotel New Otani and the Hotel Okura, Facing New Competition Kyodo News International, Tokyo Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 7, 2004 - TOKYO -- Top foreign hotel chains have set their sights on Tokyo, betting that their respective brands of high-class luxury and innovative services will shake the capital's hotel market out of the doldrums that followed the bursting of Japan's asset-inflated bubble economy. Following the opening in April 2003 of the Grand Hyatt Tokyo in central Tokyo's Minato Ward, the Ritz-Carlton, Hi...
Warner Center Marriott in Woodland Hills, California Sold; Tishman Hotel Corporation Appointed New Manager of 476-room Hotel / January 2004
January 30, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Warner Center Marriott in Woodland Hills, California Sold; Tishman Hotel Corporation Appointed New Manager of 476-room Hotel Los Angeles, December, 2003 Stone-Levy LLC closed on the sale this month of the 476-room, full-service Warner Center Marriott in Woodland Hills, California, on behalf of a pension fund client. Concurrently, Tishman Hotel Corporation (THC) was appointed manager of the hotel, bringing the number of rooms in its management portfolio to nearly 9,500. THC brought the deal to Stone-Levy, and supported Stone-Levy as it carried out all due diligence,...
Fairmont Streamlines its Corporate Marketing Division – Appoints Two Executive Directors / January 2004
January 30, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Fairmont Streamlines its Corporate Marketing Division - Appoints Two Executive Directors TORONTO, January 12, 2003 - In a strategic step to maximize brand communication and streamline its marketing services to its hotels, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts is pleased to announce the recent appoints of two executive directors within its Corporate Marketing division. Taking on increased levels of responsibility and larger roles within the group will be Thatcher Brown, who has been appointed executive director, brand marketing and Sean Taggart who has taken on the role of executive director...
Tourism Authority of Thailand Targets Whopping Three-fold Jump in Tourist Arrivals for Next Seven Years; Government Seeking Investors to Add Thousands
January 30, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Tourism Authority of Thailand Targets Whopping Three-fold Jump in Tourist Arrivals for Next Seven Years . Government Seeking Investors to Add Thousands of New Hotel Rooms By Nondhanada Intarakomalyasut, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 7, 2004 - The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has become more progressive, even outrageous, these days in setting growth targets for the country's tourism industry, projecting a whopping threefold jump in arrivals over the next seven years to 30 million in 2010. TAT governor Juthamas Siriwan release...
Thai Hotels Association Asks 400 Member Hotels to Pull All Chicken from Menus; No Impact on Tourism Industry Yet / January 2004
January 30, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Thai Hotels Association Asks 400 Member Hotels to Pull All Chicken from Menus; No Impact on Tourism Industry Yet By Nondhanada Intarakomalyasut, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28, 2004 - The Thai Hotels Association (THA) has suggested that its 400 members pull all chicken and other egg-based dishes from their menus to avoid the risk of bird-flu transmission, THA secretary Prakit Chinamornpong said yesterday. He said the advice had been taken up by most of the hotels until the disease is contained. "Currently, most of our hotel members ...
Hospitality Industry: Top 10 Thoughts for 2004 / Ernst & Young / January 2004
January 30, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Hospitality Industry Top 10 Thoughts for 2004 Ten Key Issues for the Coming Year In recent months, Ernst & Youngs Hospitality Advisory Services practice has conducted its annual review of the lodging industry. The full report, scheduled to be released shortly, found that while the lodging environment of the past two years has been night and day compared to the boom times of the mid to late 90s, the worst of the recent lodging down cycle is likely behind us. In fact, after one of the most aggressive periods of demand and rate contraction experienced by the lodging industry in...
Eight A-list Restaurants and Bars Opening Almost at Once in New York's Time Warner Center; Reinforces New York as Capital of Gastronomy / Januar
January 30, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Eight A-list Restaurants and Bars Opening Almost at Once in New York's Time Warner Center; Reinforces New York as Capital of Gastronomy By Elizabeth Sanger, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 30, 2004 - New York restaurateurs will soon have a lot more on their plates. The opening of the $1.7 billion Time Warner Center on Thursday will turn Columbus Circle into a culinary crossroads, as eight A-list restaurants and bars start dishing out pricey appetizers and eating up the huge media hype. It's the first time in the closely followed Man...
Tom McMahan and Stuart Burdette Named to Management Team at Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa / January 2004
January 30, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Tom McMahan and Stuart Burdette Named to Management Team at Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa LA JOLLA, Calif., (January 20, 2004) Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa announces the addition of two new staff members, National Sales Manager Tom McMahan and Learning Retreat Director Stuart Burdette. Tom McMahan has over 15 years of hospitality experience holding top sales positions at a number of renowned properties in the Los Angeles, CA area including his most recent position as National Sales Manager at the Biltmore Hotel. Prior, McMahan spent nearly ten years with the Inter-Contine...
ThompsonCalhounFair Closes 1 Hotel Transaction Every 7 Days in 2003 / January 2004
January 30, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report ThompsonCalhounFair Closes 1 Hotel Transaction Every 7 Days in 2003 ATLANTA, Georgia, January 13, 2004 - For the 2003 calendar year, ThompsonCalhounFair, an Atlanta-based hotel brokerage firm, closed one hotel transaction every seven days. The companys three principals, H. Keith Thompson, Al Calhoun and Mark G. Fair, report on the year just ended and on the hotel transactional market for 2004. According to Al Calhoun, 2003 was a volatile transaction year. Much of the concern was based, in part, on the perceived bottoming out of hotels values. Clearly it has bottomed and the pro...
Thompson Calhoun Fair Brokers Sale of the Holiday Inn Express – Orlando, Florida / January 2004
January 30, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Thompson Calhoun Fair Brokers Sale of the Holiday Inn Express - Orlando, Florida ATLANTA, Georgia, January 22, 2004 - Thompson Calhoun Fair, LLC, an Atlanta-based hotel real estate firm, announced today it advised Kemmons Wilson Companies of Memphis, Tennessee in the disposition of the Holiday Inn Express located at 8750 East Colonial Drive and Bypass 417 in Orlando, Florida. The Holiday Inn Express is comprised of 118 guest rooms and is located near the University of Central Florida. The property was listed for sale at $3,500,000 and sold to Ishwar Naran. Keith Thompson, a partner of...
Terry Alder Named Vice President of Operations and Hunter Webster Named Vice President of Revenue Management for Interstate Hotels & Resorts / January
January 30, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Terry Alder Named Vice President of Operations and Hunter Webster Named Vice President of Revenue Management for Interstate Hotels & Resorts ARLINGTON, Va., January 6, 2004 Interstate Hotels & Resorts (NYSE: IHR), the nations largest independent hotel management company, today announced that Terry Alder has rejoined the company as a vice president of operations and Hunter Webster has joined Interstate as a vice president of revenue management. Terry Alder and Hunter Webster have demonstrated exceptional leadership skills within their respective disciplines, said Steve...
SynXis and hubX Announce Merger of Companies and Technology / January 2004
January 30, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report SynXis and hubX Announce Merger of Companies and Technology - Two industry leaders join forces to strengthen their competitive offering with the best of breed reservation systems McLean, VA, and Boston, MA January 07, 2004 - SynXis, a leading provider of reservation management and distribution systems for the hospitality industry, and hubX, a leader in technology solutions for the hospitality industry, announced a merger today that will create a dominant force in the reservation technology industry while providing huge benefits for customers of both companies. The deal officially c...
Starwood Acquires Bliss Spa and Toiletries Company; Will Launch Bliss Spas in W Hotels / January 2004
January 30, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report Starwood Acquires Bliss Spa and Toiletries Company; Will Launch Bliss Spas in W Hotels WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Jan. 21, 2004 -- Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:HOT) announced today that it has acquired Bliss from LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the world's leading luxury goods group. As part of the acquisition, Starwood plans to launch Bliss spas in its W Hotels. The first Bliss spa designed for W Hotels is expected to debut at the W New York late this year, followed by spas in the W New York - Times Square, the W Los Angeles - Westwood, W San Francisco, the W ...
Hotel Online: Hospitality News
January 30, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 15--The weaker U.S. dollar will make international tourism here more frequent and Colorado exports more affordable, analysts said Wednesday at the Vectra Bank Colorado Economic Forecast breakfast in Denver. "You will hear more Japanese, French and German spoken in Denver than you've heard in 10 years," predicted Jeff Thredgold, a Vectra Bank economi...
Hotel Online: Hospitality News
January 30, 2004
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive By Megan Cooley, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 15--The Mirabeau Park Hotel was built in 1969, during the height of geometric-patterned wallpaper, plastic chairs and color palettes that can only be described as "groovy." The Spokane Valley hotel has shed much of that image, but its new owners, Spokane Hospitality LLC, are undertaking a $3 million renovation to truly moderniz...
The Hospitality Industry Losses a Great Leader, Sonny Look / January 2004
January 30, 2004
Hotel Online Special Report The Hospitality Industry Losses a Great Leader, Sonny Look Houston, Texas -- On December 29, 2003, Houston lost one of its great restaurateurs of all time, Garret Dawson Sonny Look. Sonny was 84 years of age and passed away at his home. He was born on April 21, 1919 in Caldwell, Texas. He graduated from Brenham High School. Sonny attended the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Florida State University, and Oklahoma State University. At the age of 21, Sonny bought his first restaurant, The New York Cafe in Brenham. In 1942, Sonny joined the United States ...
