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April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report iHoteliers Recent Deals Detail Flexibility In Hotel Representation - Representation Company That Delivers An Integrated Array Of Offerings HOUSTON, Texas (November 27, 2001) iHotelierTM, a division of Webvertising, Inc.TM, has recently acquired a series of contracts that further qualify the flexibility of their offerings. The Greenbrier (White Sulphur Springs, WV), Hotel Royal Plaza (Orlando, FL), The Lancaster Hotel (Houston, TX), Ponte Vedra Inn & Resort (Ponte Vedra Beach, FL), The Colony Beach & Tennis Resort (Long Boat Key, FL) and The Hotel Pennsylvania (New York City, ...
iHotelierTM & Ad FactoryTM Deliver Record Shattering Destination Marketing Success; End of Season Assessment Proves Solid Technology & Marketing Savvy
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report iHotelierTM & Ad FactoryTM Deliver Record Shattering Destination Marketing Success End of Season Assessment Proves Solid Technology & Marketing Savvy Is The Answer! HOUSTON / GALVESTON, Texas (November 7, 2001) iHotelier (a division of Webvertising, Inc.) and The Ad Factory, driving forces behind the Galveston CVB tourism web site (www.Galveston.com), recently conducted a post-season performance analysis of the site and have realized record breaking success. Galveston.com provides a complete tourism guide, including information about attractions, recreation, restaurants, convention s...
E-Commerce Room Nights Booked Via GDS Show Slight YTD Growth Despite September Drop in Bookings / eMonitor / Nov 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report E-Commerce Room Nights Booked Via GDS Show Slight YTD Growth Despite September Drop in Bookings / eMonitor CHICAGO - Nov. 13, 2001 -- TravelCLICK released quarterly eMonitor results today showing that worldwide hotel room nights and revenue, booked electronically through the Global Distribution Systems (GDS) during the third quarter of 2001 decreased versus the same period last year. Room nights were down 7% over the third quarter of 2000 while revenue was off 12%, as average rate declined by 5%. The entire room night decrease was due to Septembers impact, as July and August both disp...
Georgina Lopez and Javier Rosenberg Named Young Hoteliers of the World 2001 / November 20, 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Georgina Lopez and Javier Rosenberg Named Young Hoteliers of the World 2001 London 15 November 2001. Georgina Lopez, 27, Senior Event Booking Manager at Marriott Hotels, Costa Rica, and Javier Rosenberg, 29, General Manager at Swissôtel Atlanta were named this years Young Hoteliers of the World 2001. Monique Dekker, 29, Executive Assistant Manager-Rooms, Park Hyatt Chicago, and Linas Pucinskas, 29, General Manager at the Baltpark Hotel Vilnius, Lithuania, were selected as runners-up. The judges were also extremely impressed with Diego Fernandez, who, at just 27 years...
Four out of Five BusinessTravelers Have Returned to Their Pre-September 11th Travel Patterns / YP&B / Nov 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Four out of Five BusinessTravelers Have Returned to Their Pre-September 11th Travel Patterns Business Travel Decline Remains in Holding Pattern ORLANDO, Fla. (Nov. 20, 2001) -- Nearly one in five business travelers (19%) now say their future business travel plans will be affected by the terrorist attacks of September 11th, the same percentage reported the week after the commencement of military action in Afghanistan, according to the results of a new national business travel survey issued today by Yesawich, Pepperdine & Brown (YP&B), a travel marketing services firm that t...
The History of Xerox Document University Training and Conference Center / Nov 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report The History of Xerox Document University Training and Conference Center November 2001 - Nestled along the south banks of the Potomac River and bordering Belmont Ridge, the estate of Thomas Lees grandson, is the historic town of Leesburg, Virginia. Leesburg has been called home by such famous names as the Lee family, President James Monroe, and General George C. Marshall, and served as the capital of the United States during the War of 1812. Just four miles east of Leesburg lies Xerox Document University with a history of its own. On June 2, 1974, the Xerox International Center for ...
Wireless Technology: Where We Have Been, Where Are we Going? / Hospitality Upgrade Magazine / November 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Wireless Technology: Where We Have Been, Where Are we Going? To view more articles covering technology for the hospitality industry please visit the Hospitality Upgrade Web site or to request a free publication please call (678) 802-5300 or email. . By Geneva Rinehart, November, 2001 At the International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show in New York this November a panel of industry experts came together to discuss wireless technology, its past and its future. Moderated by Rich Siegel, publisher of Hospitality Upgrade, the panel included Dan Phillips, COO, ITS Inc.; Antonio Dimilia, Pres...
Intrawest Charges ahead with Plans for Winter Park and a $250 million Village at Snowmass Village / November 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Intrawest Charges Ahead with Plans for Winter Park and a $250 million Village at Snowmass Village By Jason Blevins, The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 8--While other resorts and mountain developers are tightening their belts with a wary eye toward the ever-softening economy, Canada's Intrawest is charging forward. The resort developer is vying for development opportunities at Winter Park, planning a $250 million village at Snowmass Village, and throwing a billion dollars into each of its ski resorts in Mammoth, Calif., and Tremblant, Quebec, Ca...
Free-to-guest Internet Access Business Model Is Working Very Well for Wingate Inns / Nov 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Free-to-guest Internet Access Business Model Is Working Very Well for Wingate Inns High Speed Internet Usage Exceeds 20% Throughout Wingate Inn® Hotel Chain PARSIPPANY, NJ (November 12, 2001) - Consumers are proving that theres definitely a strong demand for hotel high speed Internet access as usage rates have surpassed 20 percent throughout the Wingate Inn hotel chain. What makes this statistic even more remarkable is that the industry usage average is only 3-5 percent. While our overall system average exceeds 20 percent, that number only begins to tell the complete s...
Wichita Hotels Bucking Trend; Wichita's Hotel Occupancy Is Ahead of Last Year's / November 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Wichita Hotels Bucking Trend; Wichita's Hotel Occupancy Is Ahead of Last Year's By Novelda Sommers, The Wichita Eagle, Kan. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 12--Wichita's downtown Hyatt Regency bustled Thursday and Friday with agribusiness equipment buyers and sellers. Across town at the Holiday Inn Select, municipal government managers from across the state met. Wichita hotels seem to be bucking a trend that has the industry nationwide predicting its worst financial performance in decades. So far this year, Wichita's hotel occupancy rate is ahead of last ...
What's Up With Call Accounting Systems (CAS) / Dan Phillips / Hospitality Upgrade Magazine / Fall 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report What's Up With Call Accounting Systems (CAS) To view more articles covering technology for the hospitality industry please visit the Hospitality Upgrade Web site or to request a free publication please call (678) 802-5300 or email. . This article is from the Fall 2001 issue of Hospitality Upgrade Managzine. This article is from the Fall 2001 issue of Hospitality Upgrade Managzine. By Dan Phillips If you are new to the hotel business, you probably dont even know what a call accounting system (CAS) is. And with good reason. There is so little telephone reve...
Wayport Signs Agreement to Provide High Speed Internet Service at New Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University / Nov 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Wayport Signs Agreement to Provide High Speed Internet Service at New Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University Wireless and Wired Online Connectivity Enhances Guest Experience at Luxury Hotel Austin, TX - November 7, 2001 - Wayport, Inc., the leading provider of high-speed Internet service in airports and hotels, today announced an agreement to provide wireless and wired Internet access to the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University. The new luxury hotel, managed by Washington-based MeriStar Hotels & Resorts (NYSE: MMH) and located in the heart of Nashvilles West End, is set...
Wayport Announces New, Flexible High-Speed Internet Access Membership Programs / November 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Wayport Announces New, Flexible High-Speed Internet Access Membership Programs -- Simplified Pricing, Flexible Connectivity Options to Benefit New Corporate and Individual Members PHOENIX, Nov. 28, 2001 - Wayport Inc., the leading provider of wireless and wired high-speed Internet service in airports and hotels, today announced at the Go Mobile Executive IT Conference two new membership programs and pricing models that provide flexible connectivity options for corporate organizations and individual mobile professionals. Both the Corporate and Individual Membership programs pro...
Wyndham Honored With Awards For It's Innovative Use of Information Technology / Nov 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Wyndham Honored With Awards For It's Innovative Use of Information Technology InformationWeek and Hospitality Technology Magazines Applaud Wyndham's Technology Initiatives; Hotel Company is Three-Time Award Winner This Year for its Revolutionary Business Practices and Services DALLAS (Nov. 8, 2001) - Wyndham International, Inc. (NYSE: WYN) proudly announces its selection as the winner of the 2001 Hospitality Technology Lodging Award for IT Operator of the Year, and the prestigious InformationWeek 500. Both honors were a result of Wyndham's ongoing commitment to several IT initia...
Crisis Committee of the World Tourism Organization Reports on Response Around the Globe to Restore Travel Confidence / Nov 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Crisis Committee of the World Tourism Organization Reports on Response Around the Globe to Restore Travel Confidence Tourism Industry Takes Action To End Crisis - The committee included tourism ministers from 21 of the countries most affected by crisis London, 21 November, 2001 - The tourism industry is responding to the crisis that followed the September 11th attacks with dozens of measures taken around the globe designed to strengthen tourism companies and restore public confidence in travel. Recovery strategies and an assessment of the current situation in tourism were p...
Starwood Approaches Broadband Services With the Help of Unisys / November 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report advertisement Starwood Approaches Broadband Services With the Help of Unisys BLUE BELL, Pa. - Nov. 5, 2001-- With more and more business and leisure travelers seeking a high-speed connection to the Internet while on the road, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:HOT) is poised to meet this increasing demand and has selected Unisys Hospitality Solutions to enable their new broadband services in guest and meeting rooms, said Unisys today. Under this agreement, Unisys has already wired five Starwood properties: the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers, Sheraton Manhattan Hotel,...
The University of South Carolina School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management Hosting a Hospitality Entrepreneurship Conference on January 12, 2
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report advertisement The University of South Carolina School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management Hosting a Hospitality Entrepreneurship Conference on January 12, 2002 in Columbia, SC. Columbia, SC, Nov 6, 2001 - Are your workday afternoons spent staring blankly at a computer screen while you daydream about owning you own business? Do you fanaticize about operating a gourmet restaurant, a country inn or a snazzy nightclub but dont know how to start? If this sounds like you, than The University of South Carolina School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management has the...
Trump Hotels to Make Interest Payment; Makes No Assurance for Further Payments Unless New Deal is Struck / November 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Trump Hotels to Make Interest Payment; Makes No Assurance for Further Payments Unless New Deal is Struck NEW YORK-- Nov. 28, 2001-- Based on the establishment of a bondholders committee for the purpose of good faith negotiations between the bondholders and representatives of Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts (NYSE:DJT), THCR has decided to make interest payments in the aggregate amount of approximately $91 million, on: TRUMP ATLANTIC CITY ASSOCIATES AND TRUMP ATLANTIC CITY FUNDING, INC. 111/4% Mortgage Notes due May 2006; TRUMP ATLANTIC CITY ASSOCIATES AND TRUMP ATLANTIC CITY...
Latest Airline Crash in New York Leaves Tourism Trembling / November 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Latest Airline Crash in New York Leaves Tourism Trembling By Donna De Marco, The Washington Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 13-- On a slight rebound since September 11, the travel and tourism industry took another blow yesterday when an American Airlines flight crashed in the Rockaway area of Queens, N.Y., likely leaving Americans even more apprehensive about traveling. Travel and tourism officials aren't sure yet how much this event -- whether a terrorist act or an accident -- will affect leisure travelers, especially this close to the holiday seaso...
The Tisch Family, Founders of Loews Hotels, Honored with the AH&LF's Fourth Annual Hospitality Heritage Award / Nov 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report The Tisch Family, Founders of Loews Hotels, Honored with the AH&LF's Fourth Annual Hospitality Heritage Award WASHINGTON, November 14, 2001 - The American Hotel & Lodging Foundation (AH&LF), an affiliate of the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA), has announced that the Tisch family, founders of Loews Hotels, will be honored with the Fourth Annual Hospitality Heritage Award in Philadelphia on April 3, 2002. Each year, an individual or family is recognized for their exceptional contributions to the lodging industry at a black-tie-optional Dinner Tribute gala. Proceeds of t...
Survival Tactics; New Technology Directions Surface in Business Intelligence Survey / November 2001
April 30, 2001
Survival Tactics; New Technology Directions Surface in Business Intelligence Survey Automated Budget and Trend Forecasting on the Increase; Tactics Are To Cut Overhead, Improve Worker and Manager Productivity, Manage Operating Expenses Automated Budget and Trend Forecasting on the Increase; Tactics Are To Cut Overhead, Improve Worker and Manager Productivity, Manage Operating Expenses PITTSBURGH, November 6, 2001 - Aptech Computer Systems, Inc. today disclosed results of its Business Intelligence 2001 survey conducted among ten of the industrys top management firms to as...
Third TIA Travel Confidence Survey Shows Slight Increase in American Travel Intentions; More Than 40 Percent Say Travel Tax Credits Would Spur Additio
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Third TIA Travel Confidence Survey Shows Slight Increase in American Travel Intentions; More Than 40 Percent Say Travel Tax Credits Would Spur Additional Travel Washington DC -- November 8, 2001 - The latest Travel Confidence Survey taken by the Travel Industry Association of America (TIA) since the September 11 attacks shows a slight increase in travel intentions by Americans for the next six months (November 2001 to April 2002). Sixty-two percent of Americans now plan on taking at least one leisure trip in the next six months, up from 58 percent in the first two survey...
TIA Puts Numbers Behind the Downturn in Both Domestic and Inbound Travel / Nov 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report TIA Puts Numbers Behind the Downturn in Both Domestic and Inbound Travel Washington, DC -- November 13, 2001 - According to the Travel Industry Association of Americas (TIA) latest forecast, total domestic travel volume by Americans will decrease 3.5 percent in 2001 to 962.3 million person-trips*. Domestic traveler expenditures are expected to decline twice as much in 2001, falling 7 percent below 2000, for a loss of $33.7 billion. Total inbound arrivals for 2001 are projected to decline nearly 13 percent and international traveler spending will decrease 11.2 percent, for a l...
Ted Axe Named New Vice President and General Manager of La Costa Resort and Spa / Nov 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Ted Axe Named New Vice President and General Manager of La Costa Resort and Spa SAN DIEGO Nov. 16, 2001-- KSL Recreation Corp., owners and operators of a number of marquee resorts across the United States, announced today its acquisition of the renowned La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, Calif. La Costa Resort and Spa is legendary among spa aficionados as well as professional and amateur golfers and tennis players. The expansive 479 room resort, set on 400 rolling acres in the coastal foothills north of San Diego offers a full-service experience year round. La Costa is fully equipped wi...
