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Kelco/FB Ocean Point LLC, Owners of Ocean Point Resort and Club, a 166-unit Condominium Hotel, Select Boykin Hospitality as Management Company / Feb
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Kelco/FB Ocean Point LLC, Owners of Ocean Point Resort and Club, a 166-unit Condominium Hotel, Select Boykin Hospitality as Management Company February 25, 2002 - Boykin Hospitality, one of the industrys most successful and respected management companies has been awarded a contract to operate one of South Floridas newest resorts. Boykin Hospitality, a privately-held company based in Cleveland, has taken over management of Ocean Point Resort and Club, a luxury 166-unit condominium hotel affiliated with the SRS World Hotels Deluxe Collection. The resort is in Sunny Isles Beach, Flo...
Occidental Hotels Was Founded in 1982, with a Capital of One million Pesetas; Today it is the 5th Largest Spanish Hotel Chain / Feb 2002...
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Occidental Hotels Was Founded in 1982, with a Capital of One million Pesetas; Today it is the 5th Largest Spanish Hotel Chain February, 21, 2002 - The chain was founded in 1982, with a capital of one million pesetas and a small management team that targeted for internalisation and holiday resorts. At that time Occidental Hotels managed just two establishments. Between 1985 and 1995 new hotels were gradually joining the chain, not only in Spain, but specially in destinations such as Caribbean, Europe and northern Africa. Occidental Hotels strengthens its position as the reference ...
Nexus World Services Unveils Consortia RFP Module For the Hotel Industry; After a Successful Launch, Nexus World Services Rolls-Out Web Based Applicat
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Nexus World Services Unveils Consortia RFP Module For the Hotel Industry After a Successful Launch, Nexus World Services Rolls-Out Web Based Application That Will Manage the Bid, Offer, Acceptance and Load Process of This Vital Hotel Segment DENVER, CO February 19, 2002 Nexus World Services announces the roll-out of an entirely web based consortia management application that will facilitate a more efficient and professional approach to soliciting and filing rates with the consortia and mega-agencies worldwide. Designed for hotel groups responding to major consortia and agen...
The Largest Gaming Companies, Represented by Nevada Resort Association, Lobbying to Defeat Nuclear Waste Repository at Yucca Mountain / Feb 2002...
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive The Largest Gaming Companies, Represented by Nevada Resort Association, Lobbying to Defeat Nuclear Waste Repository at Yucca Mountain By Dave Berns and Jan Moller, Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 19--The casino industry's Carson City lobbying arm is set today to announce plans to significantly escalate its anti-Yucca Mountain political effort, four days after President Bush approved the opening of a nuclear waste repository at the isolated Southern Nevada site. Leaders of the Nevada Resort Association, which represents many of the sta...
Profile: Najam Kam, General Manager of the 984 room New Frontier Hotel Casino / Feb 2002...
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Profile: Najam Kam, General Manager of the 984 room New Frontier Hotel Casino Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevadan At Work Column By Jeff Simpson, Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 24--A 30-year veteran of the hotel industry, Najam Khan had to learn the casino business when his boss, New Frontier owner Phil Ruffin, tabbed him to run the aging New Frontier hotel-casino. A Pakistani native who emigrated to the United States to study computer science, Khan has spent his career in the lodging business. General manager of the New Frontier since...
Hospitality Industry's Frugality Apparent at the 26th Annual Hotel, Motel and Restaurant Supply Show of the Southeast / Feb 2002...
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Hospitality Industry's Frugality Apparent at the 26th Annual Hotel, Motel and Restaurant Supply Show of the Southeast By Dawn Bryant, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 31--Hospitality leaders are browsing more than buying at this year's trade show in Myrtle Beach as they continue to cut back amid the sagging economy. Small-ticket items created the biggest crowds Wednesday at the 26th annual Hotel, Motel and Restaurant Supply Show of the Southeast, while vendors with pricier products worked to convince consumers to spend. "Everyb...
Fairfield Resorts Receives Approval for 544 unit Timeshare Resort in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina / Feb 2002...
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Fairfield Resorts Receives Approval for 544 unit Timeshare Resort in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina By Erin Reed, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 19--NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.--Construction could start as early as March 1 on a large resort that received final approval Monday night from North Myrtle Beach City Council. The council approved a zoning change that allows the 544-unit Fairfield Ocean Drive Resort to go up as a planned-unit development between Fourth and Fifth avenues South. The resort had been rejected twice by ...
Intrawest sells ski resort Mont Ste. Marie to Camp Fortune Resorts / Feb 2002...
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Intrawest Sells Ski Resort Mont Ste. Marie to Camp Fortune Resorts VANCOUVER, Feb. 25, 2002 - Intrawest Corporation, the leading operator and developer of village-centered resorts across North America, today announced the sale of Mont Ste. Marie ski operation and golf course in Quebec to Camp Fortune Resorts of Ottawa, Ontario. Intrawest is retaining developable land at the base of the mountain. Further terms of the sale were not disclosed. We are very proud of our accomplishments at Mont Ste. Marie, said Joe Houssian, Intrawests chairman, president and chief executive officer. ...
Milwaukee Convention Bureau Reports 20 Percent Drop in 2001 Bookings / Feb 2002...
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Milwaukee Convention Bureau Reports 20 Percent Drop in 2001 Bookings By Rick Romell, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 9--Milwaukee's convention bureau booked 200,000 room-nights worth of future business last year, down about 20 percent from business booked in 2000. The sales decline follows a national pattern linked to the economic slowdown and the aftereffects of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, said Doug Neilson, president and chief executive officer of the Greater Milwaukee Convention and Visitors Bureau. "Obviously, I feel dis...
Donald Trump Licensing Name to Miami Hotel Projects / Feb 2002...
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Donald Trump Licensing Name to Miami Hotel Projects By Douglas Hanks III, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 2--When Michael Dezer opens his new hotel on Sunny Isles Beach next year, it will carry Donald Trump's name. Notably absent, though, will be any of Trump's money. In fact, Dezer is paying Trump millions of dollars for the privilege of letting the celebrity developer scramble Dezer's plans for his erstwhile 11-acre Ocean Grande project and rechristen it the Trump Grande Ocean Resort. Two more Dezer buildings will follow the 32-story Tru...
Several Just Opened Hotels in Miami Beach Softening Occupancy Recovery / Feb 2002...
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Several Just Opened Hotels in Miami Beach Softening the Areas Occupancy Recovery By Cara Buckley, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 12--Tourism in South Florida is still tepid -- off roughly 10 percent -- as the winter season shakily hits its stride. And hotel revenue declines remain greatest in areas that depend the most on air traffic. "Recovery is a continuing process, and it's not showing up in the airline numbers," William Talbert, president of the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau, said Monday. "That was the key and continues to be ...
Southern Wisconsin Development LLC Building $20 million Doubletree Hotel, Conference Center in Menomonee Falls, Wis. / Feb 2002...
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Southern Wisconsin Development LLC Building $20 million Doubletree Hotel, Conference Center in Menomonee Falls, Wis. By Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 12--MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis.--A $20 million hotel and conference center that will cater to business executives is being built near Woodland Prime Office Park, developers said Monday. Construction of the 150-room DoubleTree Hotel & Conference Center will begin this spring, with a planned opening in summer 2003, according to Southern Wisconsin Development LLC. The hotel wil...
The 489-room Meliá Mexico Reforma Hotel Upgraded to Gran Meliá Category Following $12 million Renovation / Feb 2002...
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report The 489-room Meliá Mexico Reforma Hotel Upgraded to Gran Meliá Category Following $12 million Renovation MEXICO CITY (Feb. 14, 2002) - Spain-based Sol Meliá Hotels & Resorts has upgraded its 489-room Meliá Mexico Reforma Hotel to its Gran Meliá luxury level product category, following the completion of a $12 million renovation program and implementation of three floors of its signature Royal Service executive floor rooms. Sol Meliá's exclusive Servicio Real ("royal service") concept at Gran Meliá Mexico Reforma features private, express check-in and check-out, butler and sho...
The Gran Meliá Don Pepe Hotel Awarded EMAS and ISO 14001 Environmental Management Certification / Feb 2002...
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report The Gran Meliá Don Pepe Hotel Awarded EMAS and ISO 14001 Environmental Management Certification February 25, 2002 - The Gran Meliá Don Pepe Hotel, magnificently located alongside the sea and only 500 meters from the center of Marbella (Malaga), has been awarded EMAS and ISO 14001 environmental management certification for the implementation in the hotel of an Environmental Management system in line with both European Community Regulations 761/2001 on environmental management and audits, as well the international ISO 14001 standards. The Gran Meliá Don Pepe thus becomes one of the f...
Franklin McLarty Opts for a Career in Hospitality, not Politics / Feb 2002...
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Franklin McLarty Opts for a Career in Hospitality, not Politics By Cara Buckley, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 10--Considering he spent much of his childhood in Little Rock, Ark., in the company of Bill Clinton, you'd think Franklin McLarty would opt for a career in politics. Not so. McLarty is steadily ascending the ranks of the Seaway Group, a hospitality company that owns a hotel in Staten Island, N.Y., and four in Florida: the David William and Biltmore hotels in Coral Gables, the Alexander in Miami Beach, and the Sheraton Sand Key ...
MCCARTAN Retains the Heat; Celebrates Five Years of Design / Feb 2002...
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report MCCARTAN Retains the Heat; Celebrates Five Years of Design San Francisco, CA (February 6, 2002) - How does an interior design firm stay hot? I know that it sounds strange, but at MCCARTAN, we do so by trying not to get caught up in the latest trends and styles. We find many of our competitors chasing the latest trend to be fashionable and the big project budget payout, but in the end that causes them to lose their edge, explains Colum McCartan. MCCARTAN remains selective about their client base relying on strong communications and shared visions as key selection criteria....
Mandarin Oriental To Build $144 million Hotel In Washington D.C.; Contingent on Completion of Tax Increment Financing / Feb 2002...
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Mandarin Oriental To Build $144 million Hotel In Washington D.C.; Contingent on Completion of Tax Increment Financing February 22, 2002 - Mandarin Oriental International Limited today announced that it had entered into an agreement in principle to develop a 400-room luxury hotel in Washington D.C., expected to open in Spring 2004, in which it will have an 80% equity interest. Mandarin Oriental, Washington D.C. will be part of the Portals project, a premier mixed-use development comprising significant upscale office, retail and restaurant components located in the southwest sector of...
Phyllis Madonna Writes Book about Her Renowned Madonna Inn and Family / Feb 2002...
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Phyllis Madonna Writes Book about Her Family and the Renowned Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo, CA By Carol Roberts, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 12--Phyllis Madonna has put together a portrait of one of the area's best known families -- her own. Called "Madonna Inn My Point of View," its more than 300 pages chronicle her youth, marriage to Alex Madonna, and his construction projects and ranching operations, as well as what they've produced together, the renowned Madonna Inn and four successful children -- Cathie, John, K...
Steve Wynn, Sheldon Adelson and Stanley Ho Given Preliminary Approval to Build Casinos in Macau / Feb 2002...
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Steve Wynn, Sheldon Adelson and Stanley Ho Given Preliminary Approval to Build Casinos in Macau Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 10--The early Friday morning exchange was brief. Its tone, enthusiastic. Strip developer Steve Wynn had just learned he was part of a wealthy group of investors given preliminary approval to build a Las Vegas-style casino near the southeastern tip of mainland China. So he chatted by phone with Venetian builder Sheldon AdelÂson, a leader of the second of three competing groups to receive government approv...
Michael Murphy Named Executive Vice President and General Counsel at The Boutique Hotel Group / Feb 2002...
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Michael Murphy Named Executive Vice President and General Counsel at The Boutique Hotel Group NEW YORK, NY, February 4, 2002 - Boutique Hotel Group has named Michael Murphy Executive Vice President and General Counsel. Mr. Murphy brings more than twenty years of transactional real estate experience to BHG with specific expertise in the hospitality industry. Mr. Murphy will be responsible for sourcing and structuring new acquisition, management and advisory opportunities for the Company as it aggressively seeks to expand its portfolio. Prior to joining Boutique Hotel Group, Mr....
Michael W. McCormick Named Cendant VP of Travel Distribution; To Focus on WizCom and THOR / Feb 2002...
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Michael W. McCormick Named Cendant VP of Travel Distribution; To Focus on WizCom and THOR PARSIPPANY, NJ, February 13, 2002 Cendant Corporation (NYSE: CD) announced today the appointment of Michael W. McCormick as a Senior Vice President of Cendants Travel Distribution Division. In his new role, McCormick becomes President of WizCom International, a leading supplier of reservation and information management systems for the travel industry, and President of THOR (Twenty-four Hour Online Reservations), a leading provider of services to thousands of travel agencies around the world,...
Martha Heagany Named Vice-President, Marketing at Pinehurst's Barton Creek in Austin, Texas / Feb 2002...
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Martha Heagany Named Vice-President, Marketing at Pinehurst's Barton Creek in Austin, Texas 25-Year Industry Veteran Adds New Role To Existing Responsibilities As Vice President of Sales and Marketing At Palmilla VILLAGE OF PINEHURST, N.C. (February, 2002) The Pinehurst Company has announced the appointment of Martha Heagany as Vice-President, Marketing at Barton Creek in Austin, Texas. Ms. Heagany, who boasts more than 25 years of industry experience, adds this new role to her existing responsibilities as Vice-President, Sales and Marketing for Palmilla Resort in Los Cabos, Mexic...
Marni Dacy Joins Enten & Associates after Eight-year Career with the American Hotel & Lodging Association / Feb 2002...
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Marni Dacy Joins Enten & Associates after Eight-year Career with the American Hotel & Lodging Association Bethesda, Md. February 2002 - Enten & Associates, a Washington, D.C.-area advertising, marketing, and public relations firm specializing in hospitality marketing and communications, recently hired Marni Dacy as a senior hospitality and travel account executive and publicist. Dacy comes to E&A after an eight-year career with the American Hotel & Lodging Association, where she served as marketing director for three years. In that role, Dacy developed strategies for the association'...
Marriott Reports Loss of $116 million for Fourth Quarter; For 2001, Marriott Earned $236 million Compared to $479 million Last Year / Key Lodging Sta
January 30, 2002
Hotel Online Special Report Marriott Reports Loss of $116 million for Fourth Quarter; For 2001, Marriott Earned $236 million Compared to $479 million Last Year KEY LODGING STATISTICS Marriott International Reports 2001 EPS of $1.58 Before Charges Terrorist Attacks and Recession Contribute to Fourth Quarter Charges Totaling $271 Million Pre-Tax WASHINGTON DC February 13, 2002 - Marriott International today reported its diluted earnings per share of $1.58 for the full year ended December 28, 2001, excluding $271 million, pre-tax, of restructuring and other charges. Restructuring charges totaled $124 mi...
