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Outlook for U.S. Hotels After September 11, 2001; How the U. S. Hotel Industry May Fare in the Coming Months / Sept 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Outlook for U.S. Hotels After September 11, 2001; How the U. S. Hotel Industry May Fare in the Coming Months Atlanta, GA September 14, 2001. The Hospitality Research Group (HRG) of PKF Consulting today issued a comment on the state of the hotel industry in the wake of Tuesday's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon Building in Washington, DC. "It would be irresponsible for anyone to try to quantify the effect of these tragic events on the performance of the U.S. hotel industry at this time. It is too early. Too much is unknown, and events ar...
Planet Hollywood International Closes High-profile Restaurant in Downtown Atlanta / Sept 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Planet Hollywood International Closes High-profile Restaurant in Downtown Atlanta  By Shelia M. Poole, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 18--Planet Hollywood International closed its restaurant on a high-profile corner of Peachtree Street, suggesting that downtown may still have a problem drawing Atlantans after dark. When the restaurant opened to much hoopla in June 1995, executives had great expectations, said spokeswoman Amy Sadowsky. "Despite our best attempts to build our business in downtown Atlanta, we just fou...
Travel Industry Slowdown Forces Pegasus to Eliminate 300 Positions / Sept 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report  Travel Industry Slowdown Forces Pegasus to Eliminate 300 Positions Reorganization Expected to Save Approximately Nine to 11 Million Dollars Annually      DALLAS, Sept. 4, 2001 - Pegasus Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: PEGS), a leading provider of transaction processing and electronic commerce solutions to the hotel industry worldwide, today announced its decision to reorganize the Company's operations into distinct functional areas rather than its current business unit structure. The restructuring plan, which includes the elimination of approximately 300 positions, or ap...
Florida Tourism Officials Brainstorm Marketing Strategy; Contingency Advertising Fund Available to Urge Automobile Travel to Florida / Sept 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Florida Officials Brainstorm Tourism Marketing Strategy By Todd Pack, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 17--With air safety in doubt after last week's lethal hijackings, Orlando-area tourism leaders are calling on the state to free up all or part of a $2 million contingency fund for advertising to urge people to come by car instead. "You market when you're in trouble," said state Rep. Randy Johnson, R-Celebration, who organized a meeting in Orlando last week of hotel and theme park executives and state officials to talk about the fal...
Travelocity, Expedia and Other Online Travel Sites Search for Ways to Survive Downturn / Sept 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Travelocity, Expedia and Other Online Travel Sites Search for Ways to Survive Downturn By Andrea Ahles, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 25--Two months ago, travel Web sites were beginning to prove they could make money by selling airline tickets and hotel and car reservations over the Internet. But what a difference a couple of months makes. With the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the financial outlook for online travel sites is unclear, analysts say. Bookings for online sites were down as muc...
Orbitz, Expedia and Travelocity Have Reason for Some Confidence / Sept 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Orbitz, Expedia and Travelocity Have Reason for Some Confidence By Martin J. Moylan, Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 22--While the travel industry figures to lose billions of dollars of business -- at least in the short term -- following last week's terrorist hijacking of four jets, the online sales side of the business should take less of a hit. And it should rebound faster than the industry overall. That's the forecast of Forrester online travel analyst Henry Harteveldt. Online travel services, such as Orbitz, Expedia and Tr...
Webvertising, Inc. Introduces OneScreen tm Interface to the Hospitality Industry; Launches OneScreen Reservation Interface with The Broadmoor Resort /
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Webvertising, Inc. Introduces OneScreen™ Interface to the Hospitality Industry Launches OneScreen Reservation Interface with The Broadmoor Resort HOUSTON, TX – August 1, 2000 – Webvertising, Inc. has released the OneScreen™ Reservations user interface: a new, interactive, graphical user interface. Webvertising has incorporated this patent pending technology into its flagship product for the hospitality industry, iHotelier™, but the interface was also designed to have the ability to work with other online systems. In conjunction with iHotelier™, OneScreen™ will transform the...
Delta Hotels Assumes the Management Contract for Delta Victoria – Ocean Pointe Resort and Spa, Victoria, British Columbia / Sept 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Delta Hotels Assumes the Management Contract for Delta Victoria - Ocean Pointe Resort and Spa, Victoria, British Columbia TORONTO, Sept. 10, 2001 - John Johnston, President of Delta Hotels (Delta) announced today that Delta has assumed the management contract for Delta Victoria - Ocean Pointe Resort and Spa, located in Victoria, British Columbia.  "We are delighted to welcome this new addition to Delta's growing portfolio. With the Delta Victoria - Ocean Pointe Resort and Spa, we now have a very strong presence in Victoria. This signature resort is a crucial link for us, e...
Orange County Travel Agencies Bear Brunt Last Week, Waiting For Fallout / Sandi Cain / Sept 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Orange County Travel Agencies Bear Brunt Last Week, Waiting For Fallout By Sandi Cain Staff Reporter Orange County Business Journal September 2001 Just three weeks after Orange County’s tourism industry expressed cautious optimism about business for the rest of the year, last week's terrorist attacks dashed many of those hopes. Local travel agencies were among the first impacted by last week's events. When the World Trade Center and Pentagon were struck by hijacked jets, travel agency revenue—like that of many companies--came to a screeching halt. With air travel grounded and clients...
FelCor and MeriStar Terminate Previously Announced Merger Due to Adverse Financial Markets / Sept 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report  FelCor and MeriStar Terminate Previously Announced Merger Due to Adverse Financial Markets IRVING, Texas and WASHINGTON, Sept. 21, 2001 - FelCor Lodging Trust (NYSE: FCH), the nation's second largest hotel real estate investment trust (REIT), and MeriStar Hospitality Corporation (NYSE: MHX), the nation's third largest hotel REIT, today announced that the companies have jointly agreed to terminate their previously announced merger due to adverse changes in the financial markets. Both companies have cancelled their respective shareholder meetings to vote on the matter. "The ter...
The Tainui Appoint Accor to Manage the Puka Park Resort in Pauanui, New Zealand / Sept 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report  The Tainui Appoint Accor to Manage the Puka Park Resort in Pauanui, New Zealand Resort to be Relaunched as Mercure Grand Puka Park Resort 6 September 2001- Accor will launch its Mercure brand in New Zealand from 1 October 2001, when it takes over management of the renowned Puka Park Resort in Pauanui on the Coromandel Coast. The official rebranding will take place from December, 2001 when the hotel is relaunched as Mercure Grand Puka Park Resort.  "There is no better hotel with which to launch the Mercure brand in New Zealand than Puka Park Resort," said Michael I...
Plunge in Tourism Wallops New York City / Sept 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Plunge in Tourism Wallops New York City By Lydia Martin, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 21--NEW YORK--The city that never sleeps is turning in early these days. Even cabbies, the ultimate night owls, are warning tourists not to stay out late because restaurants, clubs and shops are closing early and few taxis are rolling into dawn. Tourism in New York, already taking an economy-related hit, was left staggering after the attacks against the World Trade Center. Even on Times Square, an evening stroll proved eerie, with neon signs screaming ou...
Middle East Hospitality Facing Slowdown, Uncertainty / Sept 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Middle East Hospitality Facing Slowdown, Uncertainty By Peter J. Cooper, AME Info, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 23--Just as higher oil revenues were turning into business opportunities, the current Middle East crisis is threatening a recession for regional business. While the business community in most of the industrialised world has been facing the prospect of a recession for some months, few people in the Middle East had been anticipating a slump in business before the tragic events of September 11. Indeed, most Middle...
Tourism Industry Reeling as Travelers Cancel Plans; Grim Reports Coming in from Around the World / Sept 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Tourism Industry Reeling as Travelers Cancel Plans; Grim Reports Coming in from Around the World The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 19--Mass cancellations by travelers after the terror attacks in New York and Washington have the tourism industry worried that it's headed for its worst crisis ever. Travel agents called the attacks "catastrophic" for the $455 billion-a-year global business and say the crisis could surpass the worst previous blow -- the Gulf War in 1991. "There is a veil of uncertainty hanging over their heads and when visito...
Developers of the 13,400 Acre Yellowstone Club Private Resort Accused ofViolating the Clean Water Act Related to the Construction of a Golf course, Sk
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Developers of the 13,400 Acre Yellowstone Club Private Resort Accused of Violating the Clean Water Act Related to the Construction of a Golf course, Ski Runs Environmental News Network, Berkeley, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 25--Developers of a new exclusive residential resort near Big Sky, Montana were caught abusing state and federal laws Sept. 13. The developers and landowners of the new community must immediately stop releasing sediment into tributaries of the Gallatin River and stop filling nearby wetlands, state and federal officials have ordered.Â...
J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation Gifts Michigan State University's School of Hospitality Business with $550,000 for Scholarship Suppor
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report  J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation Gifts Michigan State University's School of Hospitality Business with $550,000 for Scholarship Support EAST LANSING, Mich. - September 25, 2001 - Michigan State University's School of Hospitality Business was awarded $550,000 in scholarship support from the J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation. The grant provides an endowment of $475,000, which will perpetually provide assistance to students interested in pursuing a career in the hospitality industry. The foundation also will provide $75,000 in expendable funds to immediately la...
Paul Whetsell Remains Chairman/CEO, John Emery Named President/COO of Both MeriStar Hospitality and MeriStar Hotels & Resorts / Sept 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report  Paul Whetsell Remains Chairman/CEO, John Emery Named President/COO of Both MeriStar Hospitality and MeriStar Hotels & Resorts WASHINGTON - Sept. 24, 2001-- MeriStar Hospitality Corporation (NYSE: MHX), the nation's third largest hotel REIT, and its sister company, MeriStar Hotels & Resorts (NYSE: MMH), today announced several management changes following the cancellation of a previously announced merger between MeriStar Hospitality and FelCor Lodging Trust (NYSE: FCH).     "While we are disappointed that the merger plans were terminated due to the recent tragic events and the...
Michael F. Glennie Departs Boca Resorts, Inc, Commits to Making Seagaia One of the Great Resorts of the Asia-Pacific Region / Sept 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Michael F. Glennie Departs Boca Resorts, Inc., Commits to Making Seagaia One of the Great Resorts of the Asia-Pacific Region TOKYO - Sept. 5, 2001--Ripplewood Holdings L.L.C. announced today that Michael F. Glennie, formerly Senior Vice President, Resort Operations, of Boca Resorts, Inc., is joining Ripplewood as President and Chief Executive Officer of Ripplewood Lodging and of the Phoenix/Seagaia Resort companies at the end of September. Mr. Glennie will be based in Japan, with offices in Tokyo and Miyazaki.       As previously announced, Ripplewood expects to comple...
With 44,711 Employees, MGM Mirage Addresses Affirmative Action Statistics / Sept 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive With 44,711 Employees, MGM Mirage Addresses Affirmative Action Statistics By Jeff Simpson, Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 1--MGM Mirage Chairman Terry Lanni admits there's significant room for improvement in the firm's newly released statistics detailing the racial and ethnic backgrounds of its employees, vendors and contractors. That said, Lanni's proud of the commitment he and his management team have made toward his goal of diversifying employment, purchasing and construction at MGM Mirage casinos. "We've got a long way to go,"...
MGM MIRAGE Granted Internet Gaming License From Isle of Man; Intends to Operate Regulated Internet Gaming Site from the Island / Sept 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report MGM MIRAGE Granted Internet Gaming License From Isle of Man; Intends to Operate Regulated Internet Gaming Site from the Island LAS VEGAS, Sept. 20, 2001 - MGM MIRAGE (NYSE: MGG) today announced it has been granted an Internet gaming license from the Isle of Man, an autonomous British crown dependency. MGM MIRAGE is one of three gaming companies, and the first U.S. casino company, to be granted such a license. "We look forward to operating an Internet gaming site from the Isle of Man because its government has chosen to develop proper licensing and regulation," said Terr...
Tourism Officials to Create Plan to Recoup Tourism Losses in Massachusetts; Boston Hotels Running at 40% Occupancy / Sept 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Tourism Officials to Create Plan to Recoup Tourism Losses in Massachusetts; Boston Hotels Running at 40% Occupancy By Meg Vaillancourt, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 20--Massachusetts tourism officials have called an emergency meeting for tomorrow in Boston to review ideas on how to recoup millions of dollars in revenue lost in the wake of the terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, and to restore confidence in an industry that employs more than 140,000 people in this state. While officials are still assessing the potential fin...
Six Percent of Hotel Projects Scheduled for Completion in 2002 and 2003 to be Cancelled or Deferred / PricewaterhouseCoopers / Sept 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report   Six Percent of Hotel Projects Scheduled for Completion in 2002 and 2003 to be Cancelled or Deferred / PricewaterhouseCoopers NEW YORK - Sept. 24, 2001-- With developers, lenders, and investors wary about lodging performance for 2002, PricewaterhouseCoopers expects six percent of hotel projects scheduled for completion in 2002 and 2003 to be cancelled or deferred. Room completions for 2002 are now estimated to be 81,800 or 28 percent below 2001 completions. Room completions for 2003 will decline to 77,000, or six percent from 2002 levels. Room completions in 2001 will decline 18...
Lodgian Cuts Over 1,600 Jobs; Stock Closes at 18 Cents / September 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Lodgian Cuts Over 1,600 Jobs; Stock Closes at 18 Cents By Shelia M. Poole, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 26--Atlanta-based Lodgian Inc. has cut jobs and the workweek at some of its hotels and reservations offices. Lodgian said the measures, which will reduce payroll costs by 30 percent, were taken to offset lost revenue from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The company said Tuesday the layoffs and reduced hours were the equivalent of 1,600 full-time employees. It was unclear how many employees were laid off, and compa...
Hotel Common Sense – How Well Do We Listen? Ask the Lobby Lizard / John Hogan CHA MHS / September 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Hotel Common Sense – How Well Do We Listen? Ask the Lobby Lizard By John Hogan, CHA MHS - September 2001  “The topic of MBWA (Management by Walking Around) is at once about common sense, leadership, customers, innovation and people." Tom Peters, in A Passion for Excellence To someone who has never heard the phrase Lobby Lizard, it might sound like a cross between an escaped (and probably unauthorized) “guest” and someone who might enjoy a lobby bar too regularly. It is neither. What is it then? A lobby lizard is someone from hotel management who recognizes that customer...
