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Four Hospitality Executives Honored with EI's 2002 Lamp of Knowledge Awards / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Four Hospitality Executives Honored with EI's 2002 Lamp of Knowledge Awards ORLANDO, Fla., April 2002 - Four hospitality executives were honored with Lamp of Knowledge Awards during the Stars of the Industry luncheon, sponsored by Visa, Thursday, April 4, 2002, during the AH&LA Annual Conference and Leadership Forum/The Lodging Expo in Philadelphia, Pa. The Lamp of Knowledge award - Gene Coulson, director of the Office of Hospitality Education & Training, West Virginia Department of Education The Lamp of Knowledge Award for Outstanding General Manager - William F. Simps...
John Russell, Steve Belmonte, and Tony Farris, Assume Two-year Roles as Chairman, Vice-chairman, and Secretary/treasurer, Respectively for Revamped AH
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report John Russell, Steve Belmonte and Tony Farris Assume Two-year Roles as Chairman, Vice-chairman and Secretary/Treasurer, Respectively for Revamped AH&LEF AH&LA Completes Merger of Educational and Foundation Affiliates Philadelphia, Pa., April 5, 2002 - During its board of directors meeting at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel, members of the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA) voted to consolidate the organizations two affiliates - the American Hotel & Lodging Foundation (AH&LF) and the Educational Institute (EI) of AH&LA - to form the American Hotel & Lodging Educational Fo...
Starwood Appoints Elaine Fenard to Vice President, Spa Development & Operations / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Starwood Appoints Elaine Fenard to Vice President, Spa Development & Operations WHITE PLAINS, N.Y April 3, 2002 -Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:HOT), one of the world's premier owners and managers of spas, announced today the appointment of Elaine Fenard as vice president, spa development & operations. In this newly created position, Fenard will be responsible for operations throughout Starwood's spa facilities in North America. She will also manage all new spa development projects. Fenard will report directly to Glenn Tuckman, senior vice president, North Amer...
Don Lightenburger, Owner Holiday Express in Cortez, Colorado Receives Most Valuable Volunteer Award by the American Hotel & Lodging Association / Apr
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Don Lightenburger, Owner Holiday Express in Cortez, Colorado Receives Most Valuable Volunteer Award by the American Hotel & Lodging Association Denver, April 3, 2002 Don Lightenburger, CHA, Owner of Lightenburger Lodges, which owns and operates the Holiday Express in Cortez was awarded a Most Valuable Volunteer Award by the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA) during the AH&LA Annual Conference & Leadership Forum/The Lodging Expo, April 34, at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel. The award was given to Lightenburger for his work on behalf of the Colorado Hotel & Lodg...
Ritz-Carlton Dubai Named Outstanding Hotel of the Year in the Middle East / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Ritz-Carlton Dubai Named Outstanding Hotel of the Year in the Middle East 22 April 2002 - Seventeen leading hotels in the Middle East have been honoured at this years Depa Middle East Hotel Awards, which took place at an Oscars style gala ceremony at the Semiramis Inter-Continental Hotel in Cairo on 18th April attended by over 250 senior hotel industry professionals. The awards, sponsored by international hotel interior contractors Depa Hotel Interiors, were presented in sixteen categories, with the accolade of Outstanding Hotel of the Year going to the Ritz-Carlton Dubai. T...
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report The Global Hospitality Advisor - Decertifying a Union? The Employers Bill of Rights April 2002 Increasingly, employees want out! Hospitality employers are often faced with questions from employees who are unhappy with their representative union and want out. Most managers wrongly believe that once a union is in place with a signed labor contract, there is nothing management can do even when employees tell them that they want to get rid of the union. In fact, most managers and supervisors try to avoid talking with employees about getting rid of the union because they...
Lifestyles Organization Rents Entire Radisson Deauville in Miami Beach for Swingers Convention / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Lifestyles Organization Rents Entire Radisson Deauville in Miami Beach for Swingers Convention By Anabelle de Gale, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 11--Talk about a trade show. For the next four days, a swingers convention will take over the Radisson Deauville hotel in Miami Beach. The entire 17-story resort has been reserved by thousands of curious couples, vibrator vendors and veteran swing experts who will swap stories (and spouses), attend sexuality seminars, hawk fetish toys and gab about the latest gadgets. It's open to the public. W...
B.Y. Development, Inc. Opens 103-room AmericInn in Deadwood, South Dakota / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report B.Y. Development, Inc. Opens 103-room AmericInn in Deadwood, South Dakota Minneapolis, MN (April 3, 2002) AmericInn International Chairman and CEO Luke Fowler announces the grand opening of the new AmericInn of Deadwood, SD. The new AmericInn will host a grand opening celebration on Saturday April 6, 2002. The property is located at 360 Main Street in Deadwood; attached to Cadillac Jacks Gaming Resort. The owning company; B.Y. Development, Inc. opened the 103-room upscale limited service lodging property January 25, 2002. We are successfully expanding in South Da...
Trying to Make Sure Black College Reunion Guests are Happy – The Adams Mark Hotel Walks Delicate Tightrope; No Wristbands for Security / April 2
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Trying to Make Sure Black College Reunion Guests are Happy - The Adams Mark Hotel Walks Delicate Tightrope; No Wristbands for Security By Sandra Pedicini, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 12--DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.--Black College Reunion provides a nice influx of cash to hotels and restaurants, but for the Adam's Mark hotel, the annual street party means more than filling rooms at premium prices. It's about redemption. What started out as a mutual friendship between the Adam's Mark and Black College Reunion was soured three years ago by al...
Daytona Beach Spring-break Crowd Out of Control: Many City Officials, Residents Want Spring Break Abolished / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Daytona Beach Spring-break Crowd Out of Control: Many City Officials, Residents Want Spring Break Abolished By Rich McKay, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 30--DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.--When cotton in her ears didn't help, Anita Gallentine tried to reclaim the peace of her beachside home by dialing 911, writing city commissioners and phoning hotels where youths screamed from balconies at all hours. Nothing worked. Spring break won. So Gallentine sued one of the hotels closest to her home -- the Desert Inn -- but offered to settle if thing...
Dallas Convention Center Loses 26 Year Old Trade Show to Las Vegas / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Dallas Convention Center Loses 26 Year Old Trade Show to Las Vegas By Jenni Smith, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 23--One of Dallas' longest-running annual trade shows is packing up and moving to Las Vegas. The Promotional Products Association International Expo, which drew about 18,000 conventioneers and generated about $29 million in economic impact during the five-day event, has met at the Dallas Convention Center for the last 26 years. But trade show organizers say they were lured away by the new convention center at Mandalay Bay...
Day Hospitality Group's In-house Training University Opens Door to the Public / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Day Hospitality Group's In-house Training University Opens Door to the Public ATLANTA (April 12, 2002) - Day Hospitality Group recently announced hotel industry training and general leadership classes open to the public through Ashford Institute. Related classes conveniently arranged in two or three-day blocks of time include modules in Sales, Facilities, Leadership and Self-Improvement. Ashford Institute is a certificate program designed to provide many unique learning opportunities, said Tamara Markham, Director of Training for Day Hospitality Group who heads the ...
With Strict Restrictions a U.S. Travel Company Recieves License from U.S. Department of Treasury to Offer Tours to Cuba / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive With Strict Restrictions a U.S. Travel Company Recieves License from U.S. Department of Treasury to Offer Tours to Cuba By Cherie Strain, Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 20--After two years and three rejected proposals, The World Outdoors, a Boulder adventure travel company, has received a license from the U.S. Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) for an organized trip to Cuba. In 1962, the United States government put an embargo on Cuba that prohibits U.S. citizens from spending money there. Americans can t...
Resort Investor Cook Inlet Region Inc. Recorded $434 million Profit in 2001 / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Resort Investor Cook Inlet Region Inc. Recorded $434 million Profit in 2001 By Paula Dobbyn, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 2--Cook Inlet Region Inc. achieved a record $434 million in profit last year, the Anchorage-based regional Native corporation reported Monday. The whopping number -- a record for Native corporations in Alaska -- eclipses CIRI's 2000 profit of $102 million. "A milestone," said Carl Marrs, CIRI's chief executive, describing the company's success last year. "It's going to be just impossible to match again for...
Proposed New Jersey Tax on Casino Comps Creates Stir; MGM Grand Reconsiders Atlantic City Casino Plan / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Proposed New Jersey Tax on Casino Comps Creates Stir; MGM Grand Reconsiders Atlantic City Casino Plan By Suzette Parmley, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 3--Nervous over a pending tax on giveaways at casinos, a major developer is delaying plans to build a $1.5 billion casino in Atlantic City. "Any time there is a tax increase or a tax targeting an industry, you really have to step back and reevaluate your plans in light of the tax instability," said John T. Redmond, chief executive officer of MGM Grand Inc., in an interview yesterday....
RIU Hotels and Resorts Opening its Largest Hotel, the 700 room ClubHotel Riu Jalisco in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report RIU Hotels and Resorts Opening its Largest Hotel, the 700 room ClubHotel Riu Jalisco in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico April 25, 2002 - On May 15th, RIU Hotels and Resorts will open the doors of the largest establishment in the chain. The 5-star, 700 room ClubHotel Riu Jalisco is in Puerto Vallarta, on Mexico's Pacific coast, will feature high quality all-inclusive stays. The six-floor establishment is on Playa de Flamingos, two kilometres from Nuevo Vallarta and just 300 metres from the Flamingos golf club. Its facilities include two fresh-water swimming pools, a children's pool, ...
Interest in Culinary Schools Heightens; Demand for High-end Chefs has not Waned / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Interest in Culinary Schools Heightens; Demand for High-end Chefs has not Waned By Ameet Sachdev, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 4--After getting burned by the Internet bubble, Joe Campagna headed for the kitchen. The 28-year-old Chicago resident lost his job in June as marketing manager for a local software firm after just four months. He spent three weeks looking for another marketing job but there were few enticing prospects in the midst of a soft economy. So Campagna decided the time was right to make a career change: He enrolled at ...
Cheyenne Mountain Resort Develops Corporate Training Programs, Offers 40 Courses Lead by Local College Professors and Former Executives / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Cheyenne Mountain Resort Develops Corporate Training Programs, Offers 40 Courses Lead by Local College Professors and Former Executives COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, March 22, 2002 -- Cheyenne Mountain Resort has opened a Corporate Learning Center that introduces a new approach to corporate training. "We believe our Corporate Learning Center offers a new prototype for company training programs, elevating them to a higher level," said Fredo Killing, Cheyenne Mountain Resort's general manager. "We have created a results-driven learning experience that is a true alternative to...
Top Ten Investment Challenges Facing the Lodging Industry / Lodging Industry Investment Council / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Top Ten Investment Challenges Facing the Lodging Industry / Lodging Industry Investment Council Los Angeles, CA - April 5, 2002 - Jim Butler, Chairman of the Global Hospitality Group of Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro LLP (JMBM) and Vice Chairman of the Lodging Industry Investment Council (LIIC) announced today that JMBM's Global Hospitality Advisor has published the hospitality industry think tank's list of the Top Ten Investment Challenges facing the industry over the next two years. The list is based on a survey of LIIC members, in combination with member roundtable discussions. ...
U.S. Tries to Seize the Shoreline Inn in Cayucos, Calif., Owner Suspect in a $7 million Fraud Case / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive U.S. Tries to Seize the Shoreline Inn in Cayucos, Calif., Owner Suspect in a $7 million Fraud Case By Patrick S. Pemberton, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 26--Federal authorities are trying to seize a Cayucos hotel whose owner is a suspect in a $7 million fraud case. The U.S. Attorney's Office filed a complaint for forfeiture last month in an effort to acquire the Shoreline Inn, a beachfront property on North Ocean Avenue. Last week, the owners of the inn, listed as the Sexton Children's Trust, were notified by the Inter...
Hotel Development Cost Can Determine Feasibility / Canadian Lodging Outlook / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Hotel Development Cost Can Determine Feasibility CANADIAN LODGING OUTLOOK February 2002 Year to date The Canadian Lodging Outlook is a joint monthly publication of Smith Travel Research and HVS International, Vancouver and Toronto, Canada February 2002 By: Stephen Rushmore, MAI, CHA, CRE - HVS International - New York One of the least understood terms in the hotel/real estate business is "feasibility." What makes one proposed hotel feasible and another not feasible? Some analysts evaluate feasibility by calculating an internal rate of return (IRR) and seeing if the resultant retur...
Hotel Internet Distribution Channels / January 2002 Month-to-Date Results / Canadian Lodging Outlook / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Hotel Internet Distribution Channels CANADIAN LODGING OUTLOOK January 2002 Year to date The Canadian Lodging Outlook is a joint monthly publication of Smith Travel Research and HVS International, Vancouver and Toronto, Canada By: Namit Malhotra and Christian Desira - HVS International Since its advent, the Internet has been touted as a tool that would revolutionize the way the hotel industry does business, primarily by providing additional distribution channels. The lodging industry has not been exempt from this expectation. In particular, the greatest impact on the lodging industry has...
Park Place's Greatest Challenges Are at the 36 year old Caesars Palace / April 2002
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Park Place's Greatest Challenges Are at the 36 year old Caesars Palace By Dave Berns, Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 23--In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terror attacks Park Place Chief Executive Officer Tom Gallagher postponed construction of a 1,500-room hotel tower at Caesars Palace. The former Hilton Hotels general counsel and Merv Griffin gaming executive, who assumed control of the company in late 2000, privately told his executive team that Park Place must first add major attractions to its Strip megaresort before a new tower ...
February 28, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Clay James of Grand Teton Lodge Company Named the International Resort Managers Associations 2001 Resort Executive of the Year GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. April 15, 2002 Clay W. James, vice president and chief operating officer of Grand Teton Lodge Company, has been named the International Resort Managers Associations 2001 Resort Executive of the Year. The announcement was made during the 2002 Resort Management Conference April 15, 2002 at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colo. The prestigious honor is sponsored by the International Resort Managers Association and Ye...
