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Bangkok's 75,000 Hotel Rooms in Unchartered Territory; Projections Clouded by Global Tension / November 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Bangkok's 75,000 Hotel Rooms in Unchartered Territory; Projections Clouded by Global Tension By Natalie Suwanprakorn, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--Hoteliers in Bangkok are being very cautious in projecting room rates for next year, saying volatile global conditions prevent them from making accurate demand and occupancy predictions. Industry executives say that rate increases for the first half of next year would be slim, if any, but most are reluctant to give exact figures. "I could tell you percentages, but the whole thing may f...
Springfield, Oregon Best Western Grand Manor Suing Contractor for Rotted Roof Completed in 1991 / Nov 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Springfield, Oregon Best Western Grand Manor Suing Contractor for Rotted Roof Completed in 1991 The Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 6--The owner of Springfield's Best Western Grand Manor Inn is suing several Oregon contractors, alleging that faulty construction a decade ago allowed water to penetrate and damage the building's interior. Redding, Calif.-based Meyer-Crest Ltd. filed the lawsuit in Lane County Circuit Court, claiming damages of up to $1.6 million for repair costs and lost rental income. Meyer-Crest alleged in the...
Columbia Sussex Corp. May Acquire the The Antlers Adam's Mark Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado / November 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Columbia Sussex Corp. May Acquire the The Antlers Adam's Mark Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado By Wayne Heilman, The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 29--The Antlers Adam's Mark Hotel will soon be flying the Marriott flag as a Kentucky-based company has agreed to buy the landmark downtown Colorado Springs hotel, sources familiar with the deal said Wednesday. Fort Mitchell, Ky.-based Columbia Sussex Corp., the nation's largest full-service Marriott franchisee, hopes to complete purchase of the 292-room hotel by year's end, sourc...
Two Hotel Deals in Anaheim Have Been Derailed; Disney's Third Theme Park on Indefinite Hold / November 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Two Hotel Deals in Anaheim Have Been Derailed; Disney's Third Theme Park on Indefinite Hold The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 20--ANAHEIM, Calif.--The sizzle has fizzled. A year ago, this city was buzzing with excitement -- Disney's new theme park and a hotel were about to open and the sparkling additions to the Anaheim Convention Center were nearly complete. The street light banners in the Anaheim Resort heralded a happy holiday season. These days, developers and businesses mull stark revenue losses and find funding for pro...
Southern California Tourism Officials Gather to Reflect, Look to Future / Nov 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Southern California Tourism Officials Gather to Reflect, Look to Future By Emily Bittner, The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 2--LONG BEACH, Calif.--The Anaheim Convention Center was like a ghost town after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but the head of the visitors' bureau expects operations to return to nearly normal levels by March. "There was no business, it was empty; there were ghosts," said Charles Ahlers of the Anaheim/Orange County Visitor & Convention Bureau, who put a crystal ball on the speaker's dais at a Southern ...
Allegiant Announces Special Leasing Offers / Nov 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Allegiant Announces Special Leasing Offers Raleigh, NC October 24, 2001 Allegiant, a full service FF&E supplier to the lodging industry, is pleased to extend a special lease offer to the lodging industry. Beginning November 1st, Allegiant will offer flexible lease terms including INTEREST ONLY PAYMENTS for six months on all complete FF&E projects purchased and leased through Allegiant. This special offer comes with the lowest financing rates Allegiant has ever offered, and is based on a 60-month term and approved credit. This offer will be extended to every qualified customer ...
The Rimrock Resort Hotel, Banff, Receives Service Excellence Award from Alberta Tourism / Nov 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report The Rimrock Resort Hotel, Banff, Receives Service Excellence Award from Alberta Tourism RED DEER, Alberta (Nov. 8, 2001) - The inaugural Alberta tourism awards, known as the Alto Awards, were presented at the Travel Alberta Fall Industry Conference this evening in Red Deer. The Alto Awards were created by the tourism industry to recognize the outstanding efforts to cooperatively develop Albertas tourism industry. The winners of the 2001 Alto Awards are: Alberta Pride: The Worlds Largest Dinosaur, Drumheller Ambassador: Lloyd Kunkel, The Great Canadian Barn Dance, Hillsprings...
Accor Launches Mercure Brand in New Zealand with 5 Properties / Nov 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Accor Launches Mercure Brand in New Zealand with 5 Properties 8 November 2001: One of the worlds largest hotel brands - Mercure - is set for rapid expansion in New Zealand with the launch of a network of five hotels in key centres, including a new hotel development in Auckland, over the next three months. The first Mercure hotel - Mercure Grand Puka Park Resort - was announced last month. It will be officially rebranded Mercure Grand on 15 November, along with Mercure Grand Hotel St Moritz in Queenstown (formerly St Moritz Novotel Suites). On 1 December, the Novotel Auckland wi...
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report AH&LA Meets Second-Year Americas Promise Goal NEW YORK, November 2001 - Twenty-five member state associations of the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA) recently joined the associations industry-wide commitment to Americas Promise-The Alliance for Youth. These new AH&LA Hotels of Promise members fulfills the associations second-year goal of enrolling 40 member state associations. Participating in this national, philanthropic organization founded by Ret. General Colin Powell demonstrates AH&LA members commitment to supporting and improving the lives of youth i...
AH&LA President Joseph A. McInerney's Update / November 20, 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report AH&LA President Joseph A. McInerney's Update / November 20, 2001 Dear Friends & Colleagues, In our suggestions to Congress on how to stimulate the economy, AH&LA recommended that Congress set up a temporary fund to promote travel within the U.S. and encourage international visitors to come to America. As a result, last Thursday, Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) introduced The American Travel Promotion Act. The bill would provide $100 million to states to promote travel and tourism. The funds would be distributed over a nine-month period based upon each states economic dependence on tra...
April 30, 2001
Front Desk Fails To Catch Americas Hospitality Spirit By David M. Brudney, ISHC, November 2001 Like so many other Americans, Ive been out there doing my small share as a citizen, consumer and businessman since September 11th. Ive been flying commercial airlines, consulting with hotel clients, taking leisure trips, eating out, making purchases, and going to the movies. All that stuff. Finding genuine hospitality out there Whats been amazing to me is how much genuine hospitality Ive found. It began with my first flight on September 17th and ever since then Ive been greeted and treated almost like royalty by flig...
iHotelier Continues To Build Latin American Presence Clients in Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, Brazil and now, Bolivia / Dec 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report iHotelier Continues To Build Latin American Presence Clients in Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, Brazil and now, Bolivia HOUSTON, Texas (December 12, 2001) iHotelier, a division of Webvertising, Inc., continues to build its Latin American presence by signing on three Bolivian properties. The Hotel Europa (La Paz), www.hoteleuropa.com.bo, The Aparthotel Camino Real (La Paz), www.caminoreal.com.bo, and The Camino Real Hotel (Santa Cruz), www.caminoreal.com.bo have signed contracts to use iHotelier for room inventory distribution over the web. iHotelier plans to continue to increase i...
New Castle Hotel Corp. Closing the 279-room Sheraton Waterbury Hotel / Dec 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive New Castle Hotel Corp. Closing the 279-room Sheraton Waterbury Hotel By Brenda Marks, Waterbury Republican-American, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 7--WATERBURY, Conn.--Management of the Sheraton Waterbury Hotel gathered employees this week and told them the 279-room hotel will close Dec. 17, employees said Wednesday. The move will force about 100 people out of work and require all events scheduled after Dec. 17 to be moved to other locations or canceled. Employees, most of whom live in Waterbury, said they're not sure if they will receive severance ...
W Hotels Opens the 57-story 509-room W in Times Square; 16th W to Open in Three Years / Dec 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report W Hotels Opens the 57-story 509-room W in Times Square; 16th W to Open in Three Years NEW YORK - Dec. 26, 2001-- W Hotels, the hottest brand in the Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide family, opens its flagship property in Times Square, New York City today. Situated in the heart of the Broadway Theater district, the new 57-story W is the 16th W to open in just three years. "The opening of the W New York-Times Square flagship marks another huge coup for this brand,'' said Barry Sternlicht, Chairman and C.E.O. of Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:HOT). ``We are pleased to deb...
Viennese Developer, D7 Donauzentrum besitz-und Vermietungs AG Moving Forward on a 300-room, Five Star Le Meridien in Vienna / December 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Viennese Developer, D7 Donauzentrum besitz-und Vermietungs AG Moving Forward on a 300-room, Five Star Le Meridien in Vienna Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels Advised Owner on Lease Contract Frankfurt, 17th December 2001 Le Meridien Hotels & Resorts have signed a lease to open a 300-room, five star hotel in the heart of Vienna. Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels advised the owners and developers of the site and selected Le Meridien as the preferred operator. Le Meridien is the ideal partner as they are one of Europes leading hotel brands, and were able to offer an institutional...
Las Vegas Strip's 42 Casinos Sustain a 10.6% Decline in October Winnings from a Year Ago; Megaresorts Say High-end Wagering Has Disappeared but N
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Las Vegas Strip's 42 Casinos Sustain a 10.6% Decline in October Winnings from a Year Ago; Megaresorts Say High-end Wagering Has Disappeared But Nickel Slots up 20.7% By Dave Berns, Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 12--The massive worldwide travel drop-off that followed the Sept. 11 terror attacks and the recession that preceded them saw Nevada casinos win 5.12 percent less from gamblers in October than in October 2000, according to figures released Tuesday afternoon by the state Gaming Control Board. The state's 350 largest casinos s...
Sol Melia Completes Training Program for 500 Tryp Hotel Executives; Integration of Sol Meliá and Tryp Hotels Now Finalized / December 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Sol Melia Completes Training Program for 500 Tryp Hotel Executives; Integration of Sol Meliá and Tryp Hotels Now Finalized December, 2001 - The Spanish hotel company Sol Meliá has completed the training program it has carried out over the last six months for more than 100 General Managers and Assistant General Managers and 400 Heads of Department from hotels that previously formed part of the Tryp Hotels chain. After the merger of the two hotel companies, the main objective of the program has been to transmit the business philosophy, values, management techniques and operati...
TRUST Initiates Customer Advisory Board in Response from Hotel Groups Who Want More Involvement in TRUST's Technology Development / December 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report TRUST Initiates Customer Advisory Board in Response from Hotel Groups Who Want More Involvement in TRUST's Technology Development ORLANDO, FL, Dec. 12, 2001 - TRUST International, a member of the Bertelsmann Group and a global provider of reservations technology for the hospitality industry, held its first Customer Advisory Board meeting (CAB) at the start of the fourth quarter in Frankfurt, Germany. TRUST is offering its clients an executive forum to provide direct feedback on the further development of technology products. Key accomplishments emerging from the first CAB in...
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report New Advertising Technology Delivers Results for Travel Marketer TripAdvisors Contextual Links Produce Response Rates 32X Better Than Banner Advertising NEEDHAM, MA December 3, 2001 In response to the disappointing results from online travel banner advertisements, TripAdvisor today announced the release of its contextual-linking technology. Leveraging a proprietary software engine built exclusively for the travel industry, TripAdvisors new travel specific advertising technology has shown impressive response rates of over 8% for online travel advertising (a 32X improvement over...
For the Travel Industry, 2001 Was a Year to Remember — and One to Forget / Dec 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive For the Travel Industry, 2001 Was a Year to Remember -- and One to Forget The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 30--For the travel industry, 2001 was a year to remember -- and one to forget. The upcoming year will look better by comparison, analysts say. But that doesn't mean it will be good. "Hopefully, it won't be what they call a sequel," said airline analyst Ray Neidl of ABN Amro Securities LLC. "But I'm afraid in the first half of the year, it's largely going to be that way." This year was already shaping up as mediocre for airline...
Ideas and Issues the Travel Business Expected to Focus on in 2002 / Dec 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Ideas and Issues the Travel Business Expected to Focus on in 2002 The Philadelphia Inquirer Business Travel Column By Tom Belden, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 16--The events of Sept. 11 not only heightened awareness of travel security but prompted lots of thinking about the future of how we get where we need to go, how much we should pay for it, what role government has in helping us get there, and even if we need to make some trips. Here are some of the ideas and issues that people in the travel business are expected to focus on ...
Athens, Georgia CVB Website Selects TravelHero.com for Accommodation Database and Reservations System / December 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Athens, Georgia CVB Website Selects TravelHero.com for Accommodation Database and Reservations System ATHENS, GA - December 12, 2001 - Following several months of research, the Athens Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) has entered into an agreement with TravelHero.com to provide lodging information for visitors to the bureaus website and the ability to make reservations at Athens hotels, motels and bed & breakfasts. Using TravelHeros comprehensive database, the Athens CVB online reservations system was launched on November 30. Visitors to the Athens CVB website (www.visitathen...
Support Growing for Less Restrictive Labor Laws for 14- and 15-year Olds / December 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Support Growing for Less Restrictive Labor Laws for 14- and 15-year Olds By Candace Goforth, Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 13--Ever wonder whether those young-looking employees at the corner take-out place are really old enough to be working? Depending on what time it is, they might not be. In Ohio, teens can get work permits and find jobs as young as 14. But, a recent case involving three well-known fried-chicken restaurants highlighted how restricted those jobs must be -- some say too restricted. The U.S. Department of Labor ...
Travel Industry Association of America Forecasting a Decrease 8.4% in Winter Travel / December 2001
April 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Travel Industry Association of America Forecasting a Decrease 8.4% in Winter Travel WASHINGTON, DC - December 17, 2001 - According to the latest seasonal forecast from the Travel Industry Association of America (TIA), travel by Americans will decrease 8.4 percent this winter (December, January, February). Americans are expected to take nearly 118 million person-trips during the winter 20012002 season, down from 128 million person-trips last winter. A person-trip is one person traveling 50 miles or more from home, one way. According to TIAs Winter 20012002 Travelometer,...
