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Hostmark Hospitality Group Named to Manage Three Northern California Holiday Inns / Jan 2002
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online .Special Report Hostmark Hospitality Group Named to Manage Three Northern California Holiday Inns Schaumburg, IL, January 22, 2002 -- Hostmark Hospitality Group, one of the nation's largest third party management companies, was recently selected to manage three northern California Holiday Inns including Holiday Inn Walnut Creek, Holiday Inn Concord and Holiday Inn Sacramento NorthEast. All of the properties are newly renovated business hotels; two serve the greater San Francisco area, and the other serves greater Sacramento, California's capitol city. "Our 37-year industry reputation for...
CHIP Hospitality Donates Portion of Revenues from 10,600 Room Nights to Homeless Projects / Jan 2002
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report CHIP Hospitality Donates Portion of Revenues from 10,600 Room Nights to Homeless Projects Raises $113,000 to Fight Homelessness in Canada VANCOUVER, BC (January 17, 2002) - CHIP Hospitalitys hotels across Canada will donate more than $113,000 to help fight homelessness in their communities as a result of the success of the hotel management companys Friends in Need holiday season initiative. The money will go to support projects at more than 30 local charities from St. Johns to Vancouver. Homelessness affects every city in Canada and we have made it a corporate mission to ...
Caribbean Hotel Association Evolves from Trade Association to Developmental Agency; Commemorating 40 Years / Jan 2002
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online .Special Report Caribbean Hotel Association Evolves from Trade Association to Developmental Agency; Commemorating 40 Years SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (January, 2002) The Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA) celebrates in 2002 its 40th anniversary as the body that brings together the members of the Caribbean hospitality industry to address a broad range of issues that are common to them. Over four decades, CHA has metamorphosed from a straight trade association to a developmental agency for the regions tourism private sector. CHA first began in 1959 as a committee of the Caribbean Tourist Association - a...
The Soon to Open Graciela Hotel in Burbank in Battle with Neighborhood Over its Application to Serve Alcohol / Jan 2002
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive The Soon to Open Graciela Hotel in Burbank in Battle with Neighborhood Over its Application to Serve Alcohol By Helen Gao, Daily News, Los Angeles Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 7--BURBANK, Calif.--Even before it opens, the Graciela extended-stay hotel is locked in battle with residents over its application to serve alcohol. The Burbank City Council is scheduled to hold a public hearing Tuesday night on an appeal filed by the Graciela, seeking to overturn a planning board's decision to limit alcohol to hotel room service. Set to open in March, the 101-room h...
The Breakers in Palm Beach and Produce Supplier Settle Lawsuit Filed by 29 Conventioneers Who Claimed Illness from Contaminated Food / Jan 2002
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive The Breakers in Palm Beach and Produce Supplier Settle Lawsuit Filed by 29 Conventioneers Who Claimed Illness from Contaminated Food By Jon Burstein, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 22--The Breakers in Palm Beach, along with a local produce supplier, have settled a lawsuit originally filed by 29 conventioneers who said they became ill from contaminated food served at the posh resort. The group was part of a contingent from the American General Life Brokerage Group convention in May 1999 who got sick from an outbreak of cyclospora -- a...
Three Industry Sales Executives Join Boutique Hotel Group / Jan 2002
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online .Special Report Three Industry Sales Executives Join Boutique Hotel Group NEW YORK - Jan. 22, 2002 -- Boutique Hotel Group has launched a new national sales force. The team will be located in the company's New York City headquarters and will be responsible for increasing brand awareness and significantly growing the individual corporate and meeting business for the five-property portfolio, as well as new hotels that will be added as part of the company's expansion strategy. Boutique Hotel Group is the largest collection of boutique hotels in Manhattan, including The Shoreham, The Mansfield, The Roger ...
City of Bloomington, Ind., Considering Two Hotel Proposals for Downtown Site / Jan 2002
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive City of Bloomington, Ind., Considering Two Hotel Proposals for Downtown Site By Brian Werth, Herald-Times, Bloomington, Ind. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 26--Construction of a new hotel and commercial complex at the corner of Seventh Street and College Avenue next to Graham Plaza in downtown Bloomington could begin in the spring. A committee of city government officials and city council members has been reviewing two competing but similar proposals. The committee may decide on a winner -- or continue to tweak the proposals -- as soon as next week. Nathan H...
Ten Meeting Industry Trends Observed by Benchmark Resorts, Hotels & Conference Centers / Jan 2002
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Ten Meeting Industry Trends Observed by Benchmark Resorts, Hotels & Conference Centers THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS, January 2, 2002 Benchmark Hospitality, which manages 25 award-winning resorts and conference centers in the United States, Canada and Japan, has released the following meeting industry trends for 2002, as observed by its properties. Trend 1: Staying closer to home Companies are holding their meetings closer to home as resistance to air-travel continues in the wake of September 11, 2001. Conferees are being offered incentives, by their employers, for driving or t...
Franchisee Blames Fort Worth, Texas, Bank in Failed Motel Venture / Jan 2002
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Motel Franchisee Blames Fort Worth, Texas, Bank in Failed Motel Venture By Jim Fuquay, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 27--DECATUR, Texas--Bed and Bath Inns, a fledgling motel chain based in Addison, had big plans but not much of a track record when three Wise County women signed a franchise agreement with it in 1998. The three women -- Ruth Ann Taylor, her mother, Ruth Narramore, and her daughter, Erika Taylor -- wanted to build a business that they could run and pass from generation to generation. "We wanted a family busin...
Bartech Completes Multi-million Dollar Installation of Automated Mini-Bars in World's Largest Five Diamond Casino Hotel / Jan 2002
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Bartech Completes Multi-million Dollar Installation of Automated Mini-Bars in World's Largest Five Diamond Casino Hotel Bellagio Deal Further Underscores Bartechs Position As The Worlds Leading Provider of Automated Mini-Bars -- BWI CORRIDOR, MD, January 15, 2002 Bartech Systems International announced today that it has completed the largest installation to date of its customizable automated e-fridge mini-bar system in the worlds largest Five Diamond casino hotel, the Bellagio in Las Vegas. The 3,005-room Bellagio multi-million dollar contract reinforces Bartechs positi...
Barry Fix Named Director of Sales and Marketing at Pittsburgh Ramada Plaza Suites & Conference Center / Jan 2002
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Barry Fix Named Director of Sales and Marketing at Pittsburgh Ramada Plaza Suites & Conference Center PITTSBURGH, PA. - January 2002 - Full of expertise, energy and enthusiasm, Barry Fix is someone travel planners can get comfortable with as the new Director of Sales and Marketing at Ramada Plaza Suites & Conference Center, which is apropos given the hotels profile as a welcoming destination with ambitious goals. Fix, 41, earned high praise as Director of Sales for Fort Wayne Marriott in Fort Wayne, Ind., Wyndham Garden Hotel in Lexington, Ky., and Candlewood Hotel Company in Lou...
Best Western Adds 58 Hotels in Fourth Quarter / Jan 2002
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online .Special Report Best Western Adds 58 Hotels in Fourth Quarter Total additions for 2001 at 252 properties PHOENIX, Jan. 28, 2001- Best Western International, the World's Largest Hotel Chain(tm), added 24 new hotels in North America and 34 new international hotels to the brand in the fourth fiscal quarter ended Nov. 30. The 58 hotels bring the year-end total to 252 opened under the Best Western flag. Consistent with 2001 goals, the company's North American development team continued to add hotels in key markets where the brand was underrepresented. In the four...
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online .Special Report Bert Pooser, CEO of IMIC Hotels Named the 2002 Hospitality Leader of the Year by The University of South Carolinas School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management Columbia, SC January 2002 - The School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management at the University of South Carolina will honor Bert Pooser, President and CEO of IMIC Hotels, as the 2002 Hospitality Leader of the Year at a gourmet awards banquet in Columbia, SC on Friday March 15, 2002. Pooser founded Interstate Management & Investment Cooperation, I.M.I.C. Hotels, in 1981 and has since acquired over forty hotel...
Atlantica Hotels Completes Year End Growth Spurt with Nine Hotel Additions in Brazil / Jan 2002
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Atlantica Hotels Completes Year End Growth Spurt with Nine Hotel Additions in Brazil SÃO PAULO, January 7, 2002 Atlantica Hotels International completed a major growth push in December 2001 and January 2002 by adding nine hotels to its rapidly growing portfolio. The company opened five new hotels and assumed management of four existing hotels in December representing a total of 2,376 rooms. All the hotels are located in Brazil. The rapid growth will continue into 2002 with five hotel openings representing 895 rooms planned for the first 90 days. New hotels added in D...
Atlanta CVB Projecting a Struggle for Convention Attendance for First Three Quarters of '02 / Jan 2002
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Atlanta CVB Projecting a Struggle for Convention Attendance for First Three Quarters of '02 By Shelia M. Poole, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 16--Here's another ailing patient from the nation's recession -- the city's once robust convention and meetings business. The industry, which is a critical part of Atlanta's economy, is still trying to regain its footing from a slippery economy, exacerbated by the September attacks. Attendance continues to lag at some conventions and meetings as corporations clamp down on travel and en...
Several New Hotel Construction Projects in Metro Atlanta Put on Hold / Jan 2002
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Several New Hotel Construction Projects in Metro Atlanta Put on Hold By Shelia M. Poole, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 19--The recession has put a chill on the hotel industry. Hotel occupancy is down, and several new construction projects in metro Atlanta have been put on hold. Others have been scuttled altogether. Plans to build a luxury Inter-Continental hotel off Peachtree Street have been put on hold until economic conditions improve, said David Tennery, a consultant and co-developer of the project with the Hogan Group. T...
Windmill Inn in Ashland, OR Pays $35,000 to Settle Lawsuit Alleging it Refused to Hire a Blind Applicant / Jan 2002
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Windmill Inn in Ashland, OR Pays $35,000 to Settle Lawsuit Alleging it Refused to Hire a Blind Applicant By John Darling, Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 24--ASHLAND -- While maintaining innocence on all charges, Windmill Inn of Ashland has paid $35,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging it refused to hire an applicant because she was blind. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Seattle brought the case for Sandra Newkirk, now of Salt Lake City, who claimed she applied and was interviewed for a job as guest services agent in M...
The Arden Group, Gemstone Resorts Form Joint Venture to Acquire and Operate Two Hotels; Omni Colonnade and The Savoy / Jan 2002
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report The Arden Group, Gemstone Resorts Form Joint Venture to Acquire and Operate Two Hotels; Omni Colonnade and The Savoy PHILADELPHIA & PARK CITY, Utah - Jan. 21, 2002-- The Arden Group, a major real estate investment company headquartered in Philadelphia, and Gemstone Resorts, a resort and unique hotel management company, today announced the formation of a joint venture to acquire, asset manage and operate four- and five-star hotels and resorts in the U.S., Hawaii, Mexico and the Caribbean. In its first transaction, the joint venture has taken on two properties: The Savoy Hotel in the heart ...
Marriott International Plans to Stick by Andersen, the Accounting Firm / January 2002
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Marriott International Plans to Stick by Andersen, the Accounting Firm By Delroy Alexander, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 13, 2002 - As Andersen scrambles to contain the fallout from revelations about its audits of Enron Corp., nervous clients say they're not ready to abandon the Big Five accounting firm--at least for now. Already under fire as auditor for the bankrupt Houston energy-trading company, Andersen is now under even more intense scrutiny for its disclosure that its employees destroyed documents related to Enron. The Chicago-base...
CHIP Hospitality Converts Hotels in Grande Prairie and Fort McMurray to the Quality Brand / Jan 2002
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online .Special Report CHIP Hospitality Converts Hotels in Grande Prairie and Fort McMurray to the Quality Brand VANCOUVER, BC (January 29, 2002) - The Quality Hotel flag will soon fly in Grande Prairie and Fort McMurray as CHIP Hospitality re-brands its two hotels in the northern Alberta cities. CHIP is targeting the conversion for the end of March 2002. We converted our hotels to the strong Quality brand to increase our awareness and image in the Grande Prairie and Fort McMurray markets, said Minaz Abji, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of CHIP Hospitality. These are growing and dev...
The Ahwahnee Lines Up 27 Chefs for Yosemite Chefs' Holidays / Jan 2002
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report The Ahwahnee Lines Up 27 Chefs for Yosemite Chefs' Holidays YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif., Jan. 2, 2002 - Yosemite National Park announces the roster of guest chefs headlining the 17th Annual Yosemite Chefs' Holidays at The Ahwahnee. The popular consumer wine-and-food series, recently expanded to nine sessions, begins January 9 and continues through February 7, 2002 at the world-famous Ahwahnee hotel. The 2002 schedule reads like a "who's who" of distinguished culinarians from such popular West Coast destinations as Portland, Ore.; Seattle, Wash.; Dallas, Texas; Tucson, Ariz.; Denv...
Adam's Mark Cancels Deal to Sell Up to Seven Hotels to Columbia Sussex Corp. / Jan 2002
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Adam's Mark Cancels Deal to Sell Up to Seven Hotels to Columbia Sussex Corp. By Wayne Heilman, The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 9--Adam's Mark Hotels & Resorts says it no longer plans to sell any of its hotels after a deal to sell its hotel in Colorado Springs and six others collapsed last week. Adam's Mark confirmed Tuesday that the deal to sell the downtown Antlers Adam's Mark was canceled after it refused the buyer's request to extend the deadline to complete the deal. Buyer Fort Mitchell, Ky.-based Columbia Sussex Corp....
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online .Special Report The Fairmont Chicago's Summer Advertising Campaign Earns Gold Award in HSMAIs Golden Bell Public Relations and Adrian Advertising Awards Competition Pittsburgh, PA Ad 1 Partners won three awards in Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association Internationals (HSMAIs) Golden Bell Public Relations and Adrian Advertising Awards competition, the largest and most prestigious travel award of its kind in the world. Ad 1 Partners summer advertising campaign for The Fairmont Chicago earned a Gold Award in the Adrian Advertising competitions print / consumer / newspaper category. The ...
Accor Reports Consolidated Sales Up 4% in 2001 / Hotel RevPAR by Country / Jan 2002
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Paris, January 29, 2002. - Consolidated sales rose 4% to € 7,290 million in 2001. Excluding asset disposals and the currency effect, sales increased by 8.3% during the year. Reported growth of 4% broke down as follows: Like-for-like + 2.5% Business expansion + 5.8% Currency effect - 0.7% Asset disposals - 3.5% Hotels: up 6.6% Hotel sales grew by 6.6%, reflecting a 0.8% increase in existing units and a 7.1% gain from business expansion. Services: up 14% Services continued to enjoy strong growth, as sales rose 14% despite the negative currency effect (mainly the Brazilian real)....
