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AAA Delays the Implementation of New Lodging Diamond Rating Guidelines Until 2003 / June 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report AAA Delays the Implementation of New Lodging Diamond Rating Guidelines Until 2003 ORLANDO, Fla.- June 26, 2002--Citing the unprecedented effect of post-Sept. 11 travel woes, AAA has decided to delay the implementation of its new lodging Diamond Rating guidelines for one year until 2003. The downturn in the travel industry late last year has made it difficult for lodgings to keep up with the demands of industry trends and changing consumer expectations, said Michael Petrone, director, AAA Tourism Information Development. We see this announcement as an important step in preserving t...
Rapid Expansion of Indian Gaming Across the U.S. Brings Misconceptions / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Rapid Expansion of Indian Gaming Across the U.S. Brings Misconceptions By Tom Wanamaker, Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 5--Along with the rapid expansion of Indian gaming across the U.S. have come a number of misconceptions about the casinos operating on Native American lands, and the funds taken in therefrom. Data culled from the web sites of both the National Indian Gaming Association and the American Gaming Association paint a clearer picture of gaming in Indian country. Of the 562 federally recognized tribes in the U.S., o...
Developer Redeveloping the Ambassador Resort in Hollywood, Florida Files Bankruptcy; $20 million Loan from Carpenter's Pension Trust Unpaid / Apr
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Developer Redeveloping the Ambassador Resort in Hollywood, Florida Files Bankruptcy; $20 million Loan from Carpenter's Pension Trust Unpaid By Noaki Schwartz, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 5--HOLLYWOOD, Fla.--The company redeveloping the Ambassador Resort has filed for bankruptcy, jeopardizing the hotel and raising questions about how $20 million borrowed from a carpenter's pension fund will be repaid. Hollywood Hotel Acquisitions LLC is headed by Tom Driscoll, the same man who oversaw the early phase of the Westin Diplomat Re...
Radisson SAS in St. Petersburg, Russia 'Deal of the Year' / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Radisson SAS in St. Petersburg, Russia Deal of the Year International Hotel Investment Forum (IHIF) Recognizes Radisson SAS in St. Petersburg With Deal of the Year Brussels, April 2002... Radisson SAS new MEUR 34.5 (approx. $30.4 million USD) development in the heart of St. Petersburg, Russia, was recognized by the global financial community as the Deal of the Year at the International Hotel Investment Forum (IHIF) in Berlin, March 19-21, 2002. The deal was one of four short-listed in the New Development category, which also included The Lowry Hotel in Manchester, Hilton...
2002 Las Vegas International Hotel and Restaurant Show Includes More International Exhibitors / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report 2002 Las Vegas International Hotel and Restaurant Show Includes More International Exhibitors LAS VEGAS - April 6, 2002 - Hospitality suppliers from both the lodging and foodservice industries will be featured at the 23rd annual Las Vegas International Hotel & Restaurant Show (LVIHRS), June 19-20 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. According to show officials, this year¹s roster includes exhibitors representing numerous foreign countries, as well as, national, regional and local companies. "We¹re pleased to announce that our exhibitors represent countries as far away as Italy as well...
Violence in Israel Shuts Down the Country's Tourism Industry / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Violence in Israel Shuts Down the Country's Tourism Industry By Donna De Marco, The Washington Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 5--The increasing violence in Israel has nearly shut down the country's tourism industry. Easter and Passover, which usually draw hordes of tourists to the Holy Land, generated little business. "With the situation today, most people are afraid to travel to Jerusalem and other parts of the country," said David Levy, owner of Gold Carpet Touring, a travel agency in Tel Aviv. Mr. Levy, like many other Israeli businessmen, has be...
Rock Legend Don Everly's Lake Malone Inn Attracts $1 Million High Bid / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Rock Legend Don Everly's Lake Malone Inn Attracts $1 Million High Bid By Mark Cooper, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 6--Everly's Lake Malone Inn still belongs to rock legend Don Everly despite a $1 million bid at auction Friday. Everly rejected the high bid from Tom Chapman, a Chicago businessman who is a native of Greenville, but countered by asking for $1.2 million. Chapman rejected that price. Chapman and Larry Pitts of Russellville, a dairy farmer, were the only bidders during the private auction at the Executive Inn Ri...
Hasmukh P. Rama, CHA, Recipient of the 2002 Arthur Landstreet Award / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Hasmukh P. Rama, CHA, Recipient of the 2002 Arthur Landstreet Award ORLANDO, Fla., April 2002 - The Educational Institute of the American Hotel & Lodging Association has announced this years winners of the Stars of the Industry awards for champions of hospitality training and education. The following people and properties were honored at the 22nd annual Stars of the Industry luncheon, Thursday, April 4, during the AH&LA Annual Conference and Leadership Forum/The Lodging Expo in Philadelphia, Pa. Hasmukh P. Rama, CHA, is the 2002 recipient of the Arthur Landstreet Award. Na...
Accor Relaunches Contiki Resort Great Keppel Island; A Test-case for the Youth Resort Concept / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Accor Relaunches Contiki Resort Great Keppel Island; A Test-case for the Youth Resort Concept Niche Marketing Strategy Helps Resort Resuscitation Today (Friday 5 April), one of Australias best known resort properties will be relaunched in a bold move to recapture its former glory. Great Keppel Island, on the north Queensland coast, was once one of Australias great tourism success stories, its famous Get Wrecked campaign - centred on sea, sun and sex for 20 year olds - considered the most enduring of all resort campaigns in the 1970s and 1980s. But over the last few years ...
Americas Lodging Investment Summit Moves from Renaissance Hollywood Hotel to Century Plaza Hotel & Spa, and St. Regis Hotel in Los Angeles for 2003 /
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Americas Lodging Investment Summit Moves from Renaissance Hollywood Hotel to Century Plaza Hotel & Spa, and St. Regis Hotel in Los Angeles for 2003 April 5, 2002 - Organizers of the Americas Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS) have announced the dates and location for the 2003 event. ALIS will be held January 27-29, 2003 at the newly renovated Century Plaza Hotel & Spa, and St. Regis Hotel in Los Angeles, California. ALIS was launched in February 2002 at the new Renaissance Hollywood Hotel and Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California and attracted about 1,400 of the worlds top hotel industry...
iHotelier Becomes Bi-coastal With California Signing / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report iHotelier Becomes Bi-coastal With California Signing HOUSTON, TX (April 22, 2002) iHotelier, a division of Webvertising Inc., is now the supplier of innovative web-based hospitality solutions for The Caliente tropics Resort in Palm Springs, CA. The Caliente tropics Resort, a 90-room Tiki and Polynesian Resort located in Palm Springs, CA, signed with iHotelier going live with the new OneScreen reservation site on April 13, 2002 and the first online reservation on April 15, 2002. Originally built in 1964, The Caliente tropics Resort recently underwent a $2.2 million renovation an...
Resort Operator Amfac Changes Name to Xanterra Parks & Resorts; Receives 15 year Concessions Contract for Crater Lake National Park / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Resort Operator Amfac Changes Name to Xanterra Parks & Resorts; Receives 15 year Concessions Contract for Crater Lake National Park DENVER, April 5, 2002 Denver-based Amfac Parks & Resorts has changed its name to Xanterra Parks & Resorts, effective immediately. The name change was made to more accurately reflect the companys management portfolio, which includes national park lodges, resorts and state park resorts. The name Xanterra, pronounced Zanterra is derived from Xanadu, from the Kubla Khan poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about an idyll...
Steve Wynn's Financing for the $1.63 billion Le Reve Will Include an IPO / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Steve Wynn's Financing for the $1.63 billion Le Reve Will Include an IPO By Jeff Simpson, Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 23--Reversing a statement he made two years ago, Steve Wynn said Monday he plans to sell public shares in his redevelopment of the Desert Inn. When he sold Mirage Resorts to MGM Grand, Wynn vowed he would never operate another publicly traded company. Wynn is now completing financing arrangements for the $1.63 billion Le Reve megaresort he plans for the southwest corner of the Desert Inn property, and is also in t...
Wisconsin Dells Becoming a Land of Haves and Have-Nots; Waterpark Hotels Achieved 26 Points Higher Occupancy Than Regular Hotels in 2001 / April 200
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Wisconsin Dells Becoming a Land of Haves and Have-Nots; Waterpark Hotels Achieved 26 Points Higher Occupancy Than Regular Hotels in 2001 By Jeff Coy and Bill Haralson April 12, 2002 --- Hotels WITH indoor waterparks performed at 26.9 points of occupancy higher than hotels WITHOUT indoor waterparks at Wisconsin Dells in 2001, according to a joint report issued today by JLC Hospitality Consulting Inc of Rochester MN and William L. Haralson & Associates Inc of Richardson TX. The report also states that hotels with indoor waterparks captured $69 higher average room rates than ho...
Kemmons Wilson Gives $15 million Hotel and Hospitality School to the University of Memphis, No Strings Attached / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Kemmons Wilson Gives $15 million Hotel and Hospitality School to the University of Memphis, No Strings Attached Holiday Inn founder will leave his empire the way he began it - with a precedent. By Ruma Banerji, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News April 2, 2002 - "This is my final deal," he said of his $15 million hotel and hospitality school on the University of Memphis campus. "This is very special to me." Wilson, 89, who revolutionized the hospitality indu...
Doubletree Hotel Boise Downtown Reflagged to WestCoast Hotel Boise Downtown / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report --- Doubletree Hotel Boise Downtown Reflagged to WestCoast Hotel Boise Downtown April 30, 2002 - WestCoast Hospitality Corporation today added to its WestCoast Hotels brand by re-flagging the Doubletree Hotel Boise Downtown, located in Boise, Idaho. The 182-room property is now the WestCoast Hotel Boise Downtown and the seven-story property includes 8,600 square feet of meeting space. WestCoast Hospitality Corporation acquired the property in December 2001 in an acquisition that included two Doubletrees and the entire Red Lion Hotels & Inns brand. The WestCoast Hotel Boise Dow...
Hotel Waterparks Grow Throughout Midwest, Product Ready for National Expansion / Bill Haralson and Jeff Coy / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Hotel Waterparks Grow Throughout Midwest, Product Ready for National Expansion By Bill Haralson and Jeff Coy April 2002 - Just when you thought everything had been invented, somebody mixes blue and yellow and makes some green. For years, hotel owners have been shedding their restaurants because they couldnt make money in the food business. So, we saw a decade of building limited service hotels. But now, some very enterprising hotel owner-developers are building new full service hotels with restaurants, bars, conference centers, fitness centers and, youve got to be kidding, --- indoor water...
Conrad Wangeman, a 23-year Hilton Veteran, Named General Manager of the Hilton New York / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Conrad Wangeman, a 23-year Hilton Veteran, Named General Manager of the Hilton New York BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - April 15, 2002 - Conrad Wangeman, has been named general manager of the Hilton New York effective immediately. Wangeman most recently served as general manager of the Hilton Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh, Pa., a position held since 1997. A 23-year hospitality veteran of Hilton Hotels Corporation, Wangeman's career began in 1979 installing front office systems at the Flamingo Hilton and Las Vegas Hilton, both in Nevada. He has since held various positions from Food & Beverage Di...
EDITORIAL: Wall Street Journal's Attack on Indian Casinos Called 'Derivative' / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive EDITORIAL: Wall Street Journal's Attack on Indian Casinos Called 'Derivative' Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 15--To be attacked by the April 4 lead editorial in The Wall Street Journal is both a high honor and a thrill. We are honored to be taken as a serious target by one of the greatest institutions in the last 50 years of American journalism. We are thrilled for a reason best expressed by the young Winston Churchill, "Nothing is more exhilarating in life than to be shot at without effect." Anyone who exchanges fire with Th...
Nevada Casino Win Rose 7.7% in February; Gaming Interests Say Numbers Mislead / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Nevada Casino Win Rose 7.7% in February; Gaming Interests Say Numbers Mislead Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 10--Nevada casino win was up 7.7 percent in February for the measure's first monthly increase since August, but the $54.1 million jump to $752.6 million is viewed as misleading by some gaming interests. The results released Tuesday by the Nevada Gaming Control Board were healthier than January's statewide decline of 14.8 percent and the nearly 7.5 percent monthly dropoff in both November and December. But the February numbers,...
Valencia Hotels Corp. $16.5 million Valencia Riverwalk San Antonio Will Seek to Attract the Next Generation Traveler / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Valencia Hotels Corp. $16.5 million Valencia Riverwalk San Antonio Will Seek to Attract the Next Generation Traveler By Melissa S. Monroe, San Antonio Express-News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News April 11, 2002 - Brick by brick, workers at the old Maverick Building at Houston and St. Mary's streets are carefully sanding off years of decay as they create a historic look for the city's newest inn, the Hotel Valencia Riverwalk San Antonio. The hotel, to open in late November, is part of the $200 million Houston Street redevelopment project. The 12...
Wyndham Sugar Bay Beach Club & Resort in St. Thomas Opens $1.5 million Spa / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Wyndham Sugar Bay Beach Club & Resort in St. Thomas Opens $1.5 million Spa ST. THOMAS, U.S.V.I. (Apr. 16, 2002) The "All-inclusive" Wyndham Sugar Bay Beach Club & Resort in St. Thomas will open one of its most stylish recent additions, the $1.5 million Journeys Spa, this June 2002. As the newest and largest full-service spa in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the two-level facility will be the first spa in the U.S.V.I. to offer hydrotherapy treatments. Promising guests tranquility, reflection and peace, Journeys Spa will also offer a full complement of massage and body services, complete fitness...
Hilton New York Converting Two Floors to 78 Vacation Ownership Units / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Hilton New York Converting Two Floors to 78 Vacation Ownership Units New Urban Vacation Ownership Product: The Hilton Club BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - April 16, 2002 -- Hilton Hotels Corporation today announced the launch of a new urban vacation ownership product, The Hilton Club(TM), the first of which is scheduled to open December 2002 in Manhattan's Hilton New York hotel. The Hilton Club concept establishes a distinctive new niche in the vacation ownership industry by incorporating a spectacular urban setting and a collection of high-end services and exclusive travel privileges ta...
Hospitality Minnesota Names George Little Management Show Manager for Upper Midwest Hospitality Lodging and Restaurant Show (UP Show) / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Hospitality Minnesota Names George Little Management Manager for Upper Midwest Hospitality Lodging and Restaurant Show (UP Show) WHITE PLAINS, NY, April 12, 2002 George Little Management, LLC (GLM®) has reached a three-year agreement with Hospitality Minnesota® to manage the Upper Midwest Hospitality Lodging and Restaurant Show (UP Show), held annually at the Minneapolis Convention Center, Minneapolis, MN. With the addition of this annual tradeshow for the lodging and restaurant industry, GLMs managed business roster extends to 22 events in North America. Beginning wi...
