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Bedbugs Finding Their Way into Hotel Beds Throughout Orlando / July 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Bedbugs Finding Their Way into Hotel Beds Throughout Orlando By Tim Barker, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 26--Here's something to think about the next time you begin drifting off to sleep in that fluffy hotel bed: You just might be the main course at a midnight feast. Phil Koehler, a University of Florida professor who specializes in bugs, says bedbugs are increasingly finding their way into hotel beds throughout Orlando and beyond. And unlike insects that scurry along walls and ceilings, the bedbug is a shy creature that prefers to...
The Barona Band of Mission Indians Secures $200 million in Commercial Bank Financing for Construction of the Barona Valley Ranch Resort & Casino / Jul
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report The Barona Band of Mission Indians Secures $200 million in Commercial Bank Financing for Construction of the Barona Valley Ranch Resort & Casino Largest Casino Financing for an Indian Tribe Outside of Connecticut SAN DIEGO, July 19, 2001 - The Barona Band of Mission Indians announced today that the Tribe has secured $200 million in commercial bank financing to fund the construction of the Barona Valley Ranch Resort & Casino, a premier resort destination scheduled for completion in late 2002 on the Barona Indian Reservation. Two of the largest financial institutions in the...
Ben Soto, Adam's Mark Senior VP, Assumes Regional Duties in Jacksonville / July 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Ben Soto, Adam's Mark Senior VP, Assumes Regional Duties in Jacksonville JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Ben Soto, senior vice president of Adam's Mark Hotels & Resorts, is relocating to Jacksonville, Fla. where he will oversee six of the upscale hotel chain's 24 properties. In addition to the new, 966-room Jacksonville hotel, which is managed by Irving Kass, Soto will be responsible for Adam's Mark properties in Dallas, Mobile, Al., Charlotte and Winston-Salem, N.C., and Columbia, S.C. Soto previously served as senior vice president overseeing six Adam's Mark hotel operations in the ...
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Northland Inn, The Chattanoogan, Hotel Ambassador and Hotel Teatro Attend Aspires New Revenue Boot Camp Program Designed to Dramatically Improve Revenue Captured Denver, CO (July 16, 2001) Several hotels attended Aspires new revenue management program, Beyond Revenue last week in Denver. The program was held at Hotel Teatro and was designed to give independent hotels and resorts new inventions, resources and knowledge in how to make more money using their key revenue channels. Those channels include: Internet Reservation sales Yield/revenue management ...
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report AremisSoft to Acquire Daylight Software Atlanta, GA July 9, 2001 - AremisSoft Corporation (Nasdaq:AREM), an international supplier of enterprise-wide software and Internet-enabled solutions for the manufacturing, healthcare, hospitality and construction industries, today announced the signing of a letter of intent to acquire Daylight Software, a supplier of leading edge hospitality sales and catering products. This action furthers AremisSoft's plan to serve the entire hospitality market with leading edge enterprise applications. With this acquisition, AremisSoft intends to furth...
Bay Harbor Properties Signs Allied Hospitality to Market/Manage Bay Harbor Place, a 78-room, Condominium Hotel / July 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Bay Harbor Properties Signs Allied Hospitality to Market/Manage Bay Harbor Place, a 78-room, Condominium Hotel PETOSKEY, Mich., June 28, 2001 - Bay Harbor Properties today announced an agreement with Chicago-based Allied Hospitality Group, Inc. to provide marketing and management support to Bay Harbor Place, a 78-room, luxury condominium/hotel that is part of the $50 million Bay Harbor Marina District. Bay Harbor Place is a residential condominium project that offers a broad range of accommodations, including single room suites, two and three bedroom suites with full kitchens,...
San Antonio's Hospitality Industry Officials Endeavor to Keep Alamodome Viable / July 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive San Antonio's Hospitality Industry Officials Endeavor to Keep Alamodome Viable By Melissa S. Monroe, San Antonio Express-News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 18--How to make best use of the Alamodome is a question many are asking in advance of the Spurs' move to the SBC Center after the next NBA season. The Alamodome's administrators and members of the hospitality industry want to keep the dome as fully booked as possible. They got together Tuesday to talk about the best way to do that at a luncheon hosted by the Greater San Antonio Hotel & Motel Associat...
Aladdin Resort Las Vegas Sale Imminent; Planning has Begun on the Redesign of Disjointed Entrance / July 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Aladdin Resort Las Vegas Sale Imminent; Planning has Begun on the Redesign of Disjointed Entrance Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 30--Aladdin Gaming Chairman Richard Goeglein said he was unaware of reported plans to sell the 11-month-old Strip property despite a Sunday story in a British paper detailing the struggling megaresort's pending sale. Alan Goodenough, chairman of Aladdin minority owner London Clubs International, will resign today, paving the way for his successor to acquire a 90 percent stake in the megaresort and sell i...
Adam's Mark Hotels & Resorts Progressing On Expansion and Renvoation Programs / July 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Adam's Mark Hotels & Resorts Progressing On Expansion and Renvoation Programs ST. LOUIS, July 24, 2001 - Adam's Mark Hotels & Resorts is making progress on expansion and renovation projects designed to make three of its hotel properties even more attractive destinations for convention groups and individual travelers. Daytona Beach, Fla. The upscale hotel chain is on schedule with a $45 million expansion of the Adam's Mark Daytona Beach Resort. The project features a new North Tower addition that will add 306 luxurious guest rooms, bringing the total room inventory t...
Accor Registers a Million Room Nights Via its Online Hotel Reservation Service During First 6 Months of 2000; Exceeds Results for 2000 as a Whole / J
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Accor Registers a Million Room Nights Via Its Online Hotel Reservation Service During First 6 Months of 2000; Exceeds Results for 2000 as a Whole Paris, July 10, 2001 - Accor has registered over a million room nights since the beginning of the year 2001 in the Group's 3,600 hotels, via its online, real-time hotel reservation service, and has thus already exceeded its results for 2000 as a whole. A room reserved every 17 seconds Accor has recorded almost 15 million visits since the beginning of the year for its hotel sites as a whole (the accorhotels.com portal and its hot...
Accor Reflects on Ten Years of Growth in Australia / July 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Accor Reflects on Ten Years of Growth in Australia From 1 to 100 hotels in 10 years 12 Jul 2001 - Ten years ago, on 14 July 1991, the Novotel Sydney on Darling Harbour was launched. The hotel was the first in the Darling Harbour precinct, which was formerly an industrial and freight area on the western side of the city. The opening of the Novotel complemented the earlier opening of the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre, and was part of a master plan to regenerate the area into one of the world's leading tourism, convention and entertainment areas. While Darling Harbour and...
Alfonso Romero Appointed General Manager of Meliá Hanoi in Vietnam / July 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Alfonso Romero Appointed General Manager of Meliá Hanoi in Vietnam Singapore, 2nd July 2001 - Leading European hotel chain Sol Meliá today announced the appointment of Mr. Alfonso Romero as the new General Manager of Meliá Hanoi in Vietnam. A Spaniard, Mr. Romero brings to the post more than 15 years international experience in the hospitality industry, having held senior management positions with a number of hotels throughout Spain and Asia. Mr. Romero's extensive experience in Asia includes that of being General Manager for Meliá Hua Hin in Thailand and before that Meliá Ben...
IH&RA's 39th Annual Congress Set for Cairo, Egypt, October 27-30, 2001 / July 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report IH&RA's 39th Annual Congress Set for Cairo, Egypt, October 27-30, 2001 "Building the Pyramid - People, Performance, Profitability" - Human Capital Challenges for the 21st Century This year's IH&RA Annual Congress is about shaking up the industry's management practices. That's why we've invited industry 'new blood' to share their experiences and expectations with you. Students from some of the world's top hospitality management schools will, for the first time in IH&RA Congress history, actually be involved in panel discussions and sessions. Another first will be a 'Student...
Distributors v Providers: Who Will Control E-Travel? / Aug 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Distributors v Providers: Who Will Control E-Travel? Industry heavyweights go head-to-head at e-travel's top conference August 27, 2001 - For the first time, leading figures from some of the world's top distribution companies and travel suppliers are to go head-to-head in a debate on the future of e-travel distribution. The debate will take place at the premier e-travel conference EyeforTravel USA East 2001, New Orleans (10-12 September) organised by EyeforTravel.. Battling it out will be senior representatives from leading distributors Sabre and Hotel Reservations ...
Restaurateur Discusses Circumstances and Aftermath of Refusing Blind Man's Guide Dog / August 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Restaurateur Discusses Circumstances and Aftermath of Refusing Blind Man's Guide Dog By Angela Heywood Bible, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 22--CHAPEL HILL, N.C.--Ten months ago, Iris Andros made a mistake: She refused to let a blind man's guide dog into her restaurant, Zorba's. Since then, she has apologized several times, written a court-ordered book report, offered to donate money to a guide-dog school and tried to plan a workshop for other businesses about the rights of disabled people. But despite her best efforts ...
PM Hospitality Strategies Zero Defects Program Increases Unity Between the Housekeeping and Maintenance Departments / Aug 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report PM Hospitality Strategies Zero Defects Program Increases Unity Between the Housekeeping and Maintenance Departments ALEXANDRIA, VA - August 22, 2001- Alexandria-based hotel management company PM Hospitality Strategies has found a brand new way to put more "heart" into the limited-service hotel industry. PMHS' new Zero Defects program centers around increasing the unity between the housekeeping and maintenance departments - the "heart of the house." PMHS' Chief Operating Officer Greg Miller is the architect behind PMHS' Zero Defects program. As a veteran of the hospitality...
Condo Hotels Sprouting up in South Florida in Concert with the Luxury Hotel Building Boom / Aug 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive The Miami Herald Tourism Column Condo Hotels Sprouting up in South Florida in Concert with the Luxury Hotel Building Boom By Cara Buckley, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 20--Steve Rockmore is hooked on a feeling. A luxury housing consultant with a weakness for posh hotels, Rockmore yearned for hotelier Adrian Zecha's imprint to arrive in the United States. "They have this very Asian feeling, very Zen," Rockmore said of Zecha's ultra-luxurious Amanresorts. "I wanted this feeling here and I wanted to live with it." When Rockmore lear...
Oklahoma Developer Charles Givens Building a Boutique Hotel in Dallas that People Won't Forget / Aug 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Oklahoma Developer Charles Givens Building a Boutique Hotel in Dallas that "People Won't Forget" By Steve Brown, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 22--An Oklahoma developer is hoping a new Uptown hotel with an improbable name will be a big hit with the cutting-edge crowd. Hotel ZaZa, a 148-room luxury "boutique" hotel, is under construction across from the Hotel Crescent Court near the corner of Maple and McKinney avenues. The four-story hotel with its French neoclassical architecture, according to developer Charles S. Givens Intere...
Wyndham Hotel Chain Cuts 850 Employees / Aug 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Wyndham Hotel Chain Cuts 850 Employees, Reports 2nd Qtr Loss By Katie Fairbank, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 8--Wyndham International Inc. has fired 150 corporate staffers and 700 hotel managers this year as the Dallas-based hotel chain tries to deal with unoccupied rooms due to a slumping economy. "Given the impact of the economic downturn on the entire lodging industry, we have taken decisive steps in cost containment and revenue generation while not compromising customer service," Fred J. Kleisner, chairman and chief executive, ...
Cutting Costs by 50% in the Past Year Helps WorldRes Crossover to Profitability / Aug 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Cutting Costs by 50% in the Past Year Helps WorldRes Crossover to Profitability SAN MATEO, Calif. - Aug. 13, 2001 -- WorldRes.com today announced that it reached profitability on an EBITDA basis for the month of July, twelve months ahead of its planned goal of mid-2002. This announcement comes four months after securing $7 million to fund operations to profitability and finance the company's ongoing expansion efforts. "We're incredibly proud of our recent execution and confident of our ongoing success," said Greg Jones, CEO of WorldRes.com, the Internet's hotel reservation and dist...
The Colonial Williamsburg Company Opens the Woodlands Hotel & Suites, Part of 5 Year $100 million Improvement Program / Aug 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report The Colonial Williamsburg Company Opens the Woodlands Hotel & Suites, Part of 5 Year $100 million Improvement Program WILLIAMSBURG, Va. August 15, 2001 - Combining the revolutionary experience of 18th-century history with the comfort and style of 21st-century hotel accommodations, the Colonial Williamsburg Company Hospitality Group opened the first phase of its new 300-room Woodlands Hotel & Suites Monday, Aug. 13. When fully open in late August, the contemporary, three-story hotel will offer 96 suites and 204 guest rooms, all accessed from secure, interior hallways. The ho...
Wichita, Kan., Market Complicates Any Salle of Hyatt Regency / Aug 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online News for the Hospitality Executive Wichita, Kan., Market Complicates Any Sale of Hyatt Regency By Alan Bjerga, The Wichita Eagle, Kan. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 4--The Hyatt Regency Wichita is up for sale. But don't expect any ownership changes quickly, and don't expect the hotel's affiliation to change either. Stormont Trice and Regent Partners, the Atlanta development and management company that built the Hyatt with the city of Wichita in 1997, are looking to sell their interests in the $31 million project. Jim Stormont, Stormont's chief operating officer, said that's standard practic...
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report 2001 Western Lodging Show Set for September 8-10 in Long Beach, CA Powerful Alliance for the Western Lodging Show Creates Attendee Excitement Booth sales are way beyond last year's pace with an expected 200 exhibitors. August 14, 2001 - Lodging Industry Professionals will not want to miss the 2001 Western Lodging Show, which will be held September 8-10 in Long Beach, CA. The California Hotel and Lodging Association (CH&LA), CLIA and AAHOA have joined again to produce the largest lodging-only trade show in California. Educational highlights of the show are: FREE EDUCATIO...
Wayport To Acquire 9 of Laptop Lane's Airport Locations / Aug 2001
March 30, 2001
Hotel Online Special Report Wayport To Acquire 9 of Laptop Lane's Airport Locations AUSTIN, Texas Aug. 27, 2001 Wayport Inc., an industry leader in providing Wi-Fi (802.11b) wireless and wired high-speed Internet access throughout airports and hotels, is expanding its airport footprint and lineup of airport business services for the traveler with the purchase of nine strategic Laptop Lane locations. These high-profile Laptop Lane business centers, to be branded under the Wayport name, provide travelers with critical onsite business services. Amenities include private offices and meeting rooms equipp...
