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Ramesys' Entirety PMS for Windows Pleases the Company's 4,000 Worldwide Customers with its Ability to be Deployed in ASP and Local Server Ne
February 28, 2003
Ramesys' Entirety PMS for Windows Pleases the Company's 4,000 Worldwide Customers with its Ability to be Deployed in ASP and Local Server Network Environments June 2003 - Ramesys will be featuring their front office solution, Entirety PMS for Windows, at Hitec in New Orleans, LA, next week. Entirety PMS is the final integrated module in the Entirety Enterprise Suite that features central reservations (CRes), customer relationship management (CRM), web reservations and global distribution system (GDS) connectivity. Entirety PMS, suited for both stand-alone independent and chain properties, is a scalable solution capable ...
Ramesys to Unveil New Products at HITEC: Entirety PMS for Windows and Imaginn Search Data Mining Tool / June 2003...
February 28, 2003
Ramesys to Unveil New Products at HITEC: Entirety PMS for Windows and Imaginn Search Data Mining Tool June 20, 2003 - The final component of Ramesys Entirety Enterprise Suite, Entirety PMS for Windows, will be showcased to the public for the first time during the upcoming Hitec Exposition in New Orleans, LA. The Entirety product suite consists of integrated modules including property management systems, central reservations, customer relationship management, web reservations, global distribution system access and telecommunication solutions. Entirety PMS, suited for both stand-alone independent and chain properties, is a s...
Through the Travel Industry's Highs and Lows Employees Are Still One of a Hotel's Greatest Assets / Advice from Aspire Marketing / June 2003
February 28, 2003
Through the Travel Industry's Highs and Lows Employees Are Still One of a Hotel's Greatest Assets Aspire Marketing & Training Offers Tips to Keep Employee Morale & Productivity High SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA (June 5, 2003) Capital Renovations. Refurbishments. Enhancement Projects. Keeping a property looking great is one the top concerns of todays hoteliers. Often, however, while concentrating on the physical product, hotels forget about maintaining one of its top assets its employees. As the industry weathers one of its toughest climates, the acclaimed creative motivators of Aspire Marketing & Training of...
Lack of Leadership Development for Mid-Level Managers and Senior Executives Hampering Foodservice and Hospitality Industry / June 2003...
February 28, 2003
Hotel Online Special Report Lack of Leadership Development for Mid-Level Managers and Senior Executives Hampering Foodservice and Hospitality Industry Landmark Study by The Elliot Leadership Institute at Johnson & Wales University Finds Clear-cut Need for Leadership Development PROVIDENCE, R.I. - June 23, 2003 - A landmark survey of senior- and middle-managers in the foodservice and hospitality industry has exposed an acute need for leadership development, particularly among those most likely to climb to the top of the corporate ladder. The Next Generation of Leadership Research, a study released b...
How do I Successfully Manage All These Extranets – Top Hoteliers Find A Way / June 2003...
February 28, 2003
How do I Successfully Manage All These Extranets Top Hoteliers Find A Way June 2003 PROBLEM 1: Effective Yield Management of the Top-Producing Internet Wholesalers, worldwide, has been a daunting, time consuming, and frustrating task. --- Time constraints of managing these extranets SEPARATELY costs hotels tens of thousands of dollars of potential revenue per month. PROBLEM 2: Hotels need to be competitively positioned on Internet wholesalers. --- SOLUTION: Hoteliers say EZ YIELD.com is the answer. EZ YIELD.com provides the hotel the ability to Simultaneously Update Rates, Allotments and Inventory Restrict...
Emma Gross Named General Manager of the Comfort Inn in Oak Ridge, Tennessee / June 2003...
February 28, 2003
Hotel Online Special Report Emma Gross Named General Manager of the Comfort Inn in Oak Ridge, Tennessee OAK RIDGE, TN - May 30, 2003 - Crown American Hotels is pleased to announce that Ms. Emma Gross has been named General Manager of the Comfort Inn located at 433 South Rutgers Avenue in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Ms. Gross is responsible for the efficient and overall operation of the 122-room hotel. She reports to Mr. Gary Thirkell, President of Crown American Hotels. Ms. Gross has earned valuable experience in the hospitality industry. Most recently, Ms. Gross was a Quality Consultant for Intercontine...
Prudential Real Estate Investors Appoint Dow Hotel Company to Operate the 420 room Sheraton North Houston / June 2003...
February 28, 2003
Hotel Online Special Report Prudential Real Estate Investors Appoint Dow Hotel Company to Operate the 420 room Sheraton North Houston HOUSTON, Texas/SEATTLE, Wash., June 10, 2003 The Dow Hotel Company (DHC), a hotel owner/investor and management company, today announced that it has been selected to manage the 420-room Sheraton North Houston Hotel at George Bush Intercontinental Airport. The hotel, which is owned by New Jersey-based Prudential Real Estate Investors (PREI), will undergo a $1 million renovation, including installation of DHCs well received restaurant concept, Basils Kitchen. ...
Dolce International Clicks Through Smith Travel Data To Chart Growth Plans, Increases Market Share 4 Percentage Points / June 2003...
February 28, 2003
Dolce International Clicks Through Smith Travel Data To Chart Growth Plans, Increases Market Share 4 Percentage Points Global Leader in Conference Destinations Grows 144% in Six Years; Uses Business Intelligence to Trend Smith Travel Data for Senior Execs Quick Action June, 2003 - When Melodee Insley squinted at 17 columns of crucial Smith Travel Research numbers that were 26 rows long and, with one touch of a computer key, turned the crowded report into a multi-colored pie chart, she moved the company closer to double-digit growth. As Dolce Internationals regional controller for North America, Insley is part o...
Dolce International Clicks Through Smith Travel Data To Chart Growth Plans, Increases Market Share 4 Percentage Points / June 2003...
February 28, 2003
Dolce International Clicks Through Smith Travel Data To Chart Growth Plans, Increases Market Share 4 Percentage Points Global Leader in Conference Destinations Grows 144% in Six Years; Uses Business Intelligence to Trend Smith Travel Data for Senior Execs Quick Action June, 2003 - When Melodee Insley squinted at 17 columns of crucial Smith Travel Research numbers that were 26 rows long and, with one touch of a computer key, turned the crowded report into a multi-colored pie chart, she moved the company closer to double-digit growth. As Dolce Internationals regional controller for North America, Insley is part o...
Investors Buy $354.7 million Worth of Bonds Offered by Denver Convention Center Hotel Authority; Average Interest Rate of 4.61% / June 2003...
February 28, 2003
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Investors Buy $354.7 million Worth of Bonds Offered by Denver Convention Center Hotel Authority; Average Interest Rate of 4.61 % By Mark P. Couch, The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 18, 2003 - Denver Mayor Wellington Webb celebrated a hard-won victory Tuesday with the sale of $354.7 million bonds for an 1,100-room convention center hotel in downtown. The frequently delayed project has inched through years of union opposition, financing troubles, court battles, site searches and a host of other woes. On Tuesday, investors rallied to buy bonds of...
Newmarket International Introduces Hosted Sales Management Solution, Delphi.Net; to Provide the Midscale Hospitality Market with Robust, Affordable So
February 28, 2003
Hotel Online Special Report Newmarket International Introduces Hosted Sales Management Solution, Delphi.Net; To Provide the Midscale Hospitality Market with Robust, Affordable Solutions HITEC booth #1216 Low-cost Sales System Delivers Centralized Control of Account Data, Negotiated Rate Tools, Improved Customer Service, and Catering Management Solutions . Portsmouth, N.H. June 18, 2003 Newmarket International, with 18 years of technology leadership as maker of the hospitality industrys most widely used sales and catering system, DelphiTM, today announced it is launching a completely new Internet-based sal...
Hotelier Ian Schrager Protects Trademarked Names Skky Lounge and Delano with Lawsuits / June 2003...
February 28, 2003
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Hotelier Ian Schrager Protects Trademarked Names Skky Lounge and Delano with Lawsuits By Cara Buckley, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 17, 2003 - They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but Ian Schrager wasn't flattered. When a gift shop right across from his Delano hotel in South Beach named itself the Delano Art Gallerie, the hip hotelier sued. His company had trademarked the name Delano in 1997. "We've been fortunate to have been successful, and it's frustrating when someone else wants to capitalize on our success," Schrager...
Daylight Software Honored With Prestigious Microsoft R.A.D. Award For The Second Straight Year / June 2003...
February 28, 2003
Hotel Online .Special Report Daylight Software Honored With Prestigious Microsoft R.A.D. Award For the Second Straight Year Annual Awards Program recognizes Application Developers that make the best use of Microsoft® technology to provide outstanding business benefits to customers in the retail and hospitality industries. DOVER, N.H. JUNE 17, 2003 Daylight Software's Advanced Sales and Catering Solution, Daylight ASP, which is rapidly becoming the software of choice in the hotel industry, is a 2003 winner of the coveted Microsoft Retail Application Developer (R.A.D.) Award. Daylight ASP allows propertie...
Datavision Enhances its Revenue Management Module by Adding Spa/Golf Revenue Analysis and Res Agent Productivity Data / June 2003...
February 28, 2003
Hotel Online Special Report Datavision Enhances its Revenue Management Module by Adding Spa/Golf Revenue Analysis and Res Agent Productivity Data WESTON, FLA. (June 20, 2003) Datavision Technologies, the premier vendor of data warehousing and business intelligence solutions for the hospitality industry, announces that it is strengthening its powerful Decisions Revenue Management module by adding Spa/Golf Revenue Analysis and Reservation Agent Productivity data. These products will be demonstrated at HITEC in New Orleans, June 24-26, Booth number 1506, at the Morial Convention Center. The Revenue Management mo...
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February 28, 2003
Hotel Online Special Report InterContinental New Orleans Installs Datavision Business Intelligence System Becomes latest InterContinental Hotel to use Datavision WESTON, FLA. (June 9, 2003) Datavision Technologies, a software solutions firm that specializes in data warehousing and business intelligence systems for the hospitality industry, recently installed Datavision Business Intelligence System in the InterContinental New Orleans Hotel. The hotel joins InterContinental Chicago, Mark Hopkins San Francisco, Barclay New York and InterContinental Central Park properties to use Datavision for revenue management and ...
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February 28, 2003
Hotel Online Special Report David Litman, CEO and Co-founder of Hotels.com, Named the Lodging Industrys Top Performing CEO of 2002 by HVS Executive Search June 2, 2003 - HVS Executive Search, a division of the global hotel consulting and services firm HVS International, has honored David Litman, chief executive officer and co-founder of Hotels.com (Nasdaq: ROOM) as the lodging industrys top performing chief executive officer of 2002. Keith Kefgen, president of HVS Executive Search, and Stephen Rushmore, president and founder of HVS International, presented the award today at the 25th Annual New York Universi...
Dave Crawford Appointed Director of Airline and Auto Rental Business Development for VIP International / June 2003...
February 28, 2003
Hotel Online Special Report Dave Crawford Appointed Director of Airline and Auto Rental Business Development for VIP International Calgary, Alberta, Canada June 10, 2003 - VIP International today announced the addition of Dave Crawford as Director of Airline and Auto Rental Business Development. In his new position, Dave will help VIP grow its car rental client base as well as take the lead role in further exploring and expanding the companys newest market niche, airline reservation services. I am certainly excited to be working with such a great group of people, Crawford stated, adding VIP is kn...
LodgeLaw, P.C., a Hospitality Specialty Law Firm, To Open in Northeast Atlanta; Firm President is former Ritz-Carlton Vice President and Associate Gen
February 28, 2003
Hotel Online Special Report LodgeLaw, P.C., a Hospitality Specialty Law Firm, To Open in Northeast Atlanta - Firm President is Former Ritz-Carlton Vice President and Associate General Counsel June 3, 2003. Atlanta, Georgia.Diana Barber, former Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C. Vice President and Associate General Counsel, has formed LodgeLaw, a legal hospitality services company. This 14-year veteran of the law department of Ritz-Carlton has decided to stay in Atlanta rather than move to Chevy Chase, Maryland when the company's corporate office relocates there this June. LodgeLaw, P.C., is focused on providing prof...
Crisis Management: Could You Cope if the Unthinkable Happened / HOTEL Asia Pacific / June 2003...
February 28, 2003
Hotel Online Special Report Crisis Management: Could You Cope if the Unthinkable Happened By Bert van Walbeek, HOTEL Asia Pacific Columnist June 2003 HOTEL Asia Pacific columnist Bert van Walbeek who produced a post-Bali-bombing crisis-management manual for PATA (the Pacific Asia Travel Association) wonders if hoteliers are fully prepared in these uncertain times We live in ever-changing times, where consumers are increasingly aware, lawyers are ever more litigious and the media increasingly willing to expose any weakness in a hospitality organisation or tourist destination. A company or region in the ...
Profile: Craig Smith, Sales and Marketing Director, Radisson Plaza Hotel Myrtle Beach / June 2003...
February 28, 2003
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Profile: Craig Smith, Sales and Marketing Director, Radisson Plaza Hotel Myrtle Beach By Dawn Bryant, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News June 1, 2003 - Myrtle Beach taxpayers could come to love Craig Smith's aggressiveness and 20-year background in the luxury hotel business. As the new sales and marketing director for the Radisson Plaza hotel, Smith is in charge of regularly filling the hotel's 402 rooms, essentially guarding city residents from having to pick up the tab for the city-financed, $48 million hotel. Smith, whose resume fe...
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February 28, 2003
Hotel Online Special Report Upscale Mid-West Hotel and Office Plaza on Sales Block - Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels Tapped to Market Cornhusker Square - Lincoln, Nebraskas First-Class, Mixed-Use Development LINCOLN, NE, June 5, 2003 On behalf of its client, Cornhusker Square Limited Partnership, an affiliate of Castle & Cooke, Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels will market the sale of Cornhusker Square located in Lincoln, Nebraska. Cornhusker Square is comprised of The Cornhusker Hotel, a 10-story, upscale and full-service hotel and Cornhusker Plaza, a Class-A, approximately 86,000 square-foot office building. Str...
A Fine Line: Designing a Cooking Line that Works / Lee Simon – Drawing Conclusions / June 2003...
February 28, 2003
Drawing Conclusions Foodservice Design By Lee Simon / The General Group / March 2003 A FINE LINE: DESIGNING A COOKING LINE THAT WORKS A cooking line is a culinary teams office. Just as with any space where efficiency, speed, and accuracy are required, a cooking line must be properly set up to allow for the culinary team to perform. Upon first glance, it may be difficult to evaluate how well a particular cooking line is designed; there are an infinite number of issues that must be considered, and each operation is unique. But there is more to a well-designed cooking line than simply placing equipment under the ex...
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February 28, 2003
Hotel Online Special Report Adams Mark Caters to Travelers by Providing Upscale Amenities Such as ConnectedHotel High Speed Internet Access . Guests at 5 Adams Mark hotels stay better connected via ConnectedHotel in-room HSIA; five more properties in the upscale collection are scheduled to follow suit this summer SOUTHLAKE, TEXAS / ST. LOUIS (June 18, 2003) As an extension of its commitment to providing upscale amenities for both business and leisure travelers, Adams Mark Hotels & Resorts recently deployed ConnectedHotel in-room High Speed Internet Access (HSIA) at five properties and plans to follow suit a...
