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Res-Web (Pty) Ltd., the developers of InterRes, Merges with AXES Network Computing / Mar 2000
January 30, 2000
Hotel Online Special Report Res-Web (Pty) Ltd., the Developers of InterRes, Merges with AXES Network Computing 24 March 2000 - Res-Web (Pty) Ltd., the South African owners and innovative developers of InterRes, Internet Southern Africa Accommodation and the Res-Web API (Application Programmable Interface) have merged with AXES Network Computing; the Oslo based Internet technology group. AXES ready for international expansion Through the merger with Res-Web, we now have global ownership to not only an innovative state of the art technology, but also to the right persons that will give us the power to implement ou...
The Former Beijing International Club Hotel Now the Sixth St. Regis in the World / March 2000
January 30, 2000
Hotel Online Special Report The Former Beijing International Club Hotel Now the Sixth St. Regis in the World WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., March, 2000 - Starwood Hotels & Resorts introduced The St. Regis Beijing (formerly known as Beijing International Club Hotel), in China today, at a VIP reception attended by more than 200 guests. The conversion brings to six the number of St. Regis hotels owned and operated by Starwood Hotels & Resorts. The St. Regis, Beijing is located on Jianguomenwai Dajie, a prime location in the heart of the citys diplomatic district, near the center for upscale shopping and business and ...
Reducing Housekeeping Costs, Alfred Fine, MHS, Certified Housekeeping Consultant / Mar 2000
January 30, 2000
Hotel Online Special Report Reducing Housekeeping Costs by Alfred Fine, MHS, Certified Housekeeping Consultant March 2000 - Making your housekeeping more efficient is the single most important way to cut costs. But where does a hotel or motel manager begin in this drive to control costs? It is simple - you have to "clean house." Not in the 1990's sense of the term, where jobs are eliminated to save money, but in the traditional sense, with vacuums, mops and dust rags. Best of all, housekeeping is an area where any changes you wish to effect can generally be made quite seamlessly with the proper amount of th...
Riu Palace Bonanza Hotel, Mallorca Completes US$ 4.9 Million Renovation / Mar 2000
January 30, 2000
Hotel Online Special Report Riu Palace Bonanza Hotel, Mallorca Completes US$ 4.9 Million Renovation March 10, 2000 - The Riu Palace Bonanza Hotel, with 4 stars plus, flagship of the chain in Mallorca, has just reopened its doors after being completely renovated. This modernisation, in which 850 million pesetas have been invested, reaffirms it as one of the islands most distinguished establishments and one of those with the most services to offer. During the last three months the hotel has completely renovated its rooms and furnishings, modernising its facilities, set into a cliffside with direct access t...
Evaluating Training Needs Analysis in the Hospitality Industry / Mar 2000
January 30, 2000
Hotel Online Special Report Evaluating Training Needs Analysis in the Hospitality Industry Training needs analysis is heading to its grave: Are we concerned about it?. By Andreas Gunawan Putra, 2 March 2000 Introduction: This article is relatively based on current research being done in the hospitality industry. In fact, it might raise a variety of comments, reactions, and responses and am prepared to accept those outcomes. I have been agitated by current literature review that proposes a kind of figures, different concepts of how the best way conducting TNA with heaps of sophisticated e...
Prime to Add 29 Hotels to its AmeriSuites Brand – New Direction for ShoLodge / Mar 2000
January 30, 2000
Hotel Online Special Report Prime to Add 29 Hotels to its AmeriSuites Brand New Direction for ShoLodge FAIRFIELD, N.J., March 23, 2000 - Prime Hospitality Corp. (NYSE: PDQ) announced today that it will convert 27 Sumner Suites hotels to its AmeriSuites brand pursuant to an agreement with Sholodge, Inc. to acquire the leasehold interests on the hotels. Prime will operate the hotels under the lease agreements with Hospitality Properties Trust (HPT) and Sholodge. Prime will also purchase two land sites from Sholodge to develop two additional AmeriSuites hotels. The transaction is expected to close in ...
Former Interactive Sales Marketing Director With Marriott International Peter Dennis, Joins Fi System UK Plc, As Tourism Sector Strategic Consulting
January 30, 2000
Hotel Online Special Report Former Interactive Sales Marketing Director With Marriott International Peter Dennis, Joins Fi System UK Plc, As Tourism Sector Strategic Consulting Division Manager PARIS, March 28, 2000 - Online transactions generated by the European travel industry are forecast to reach USD1.7 billion by 2002 with flight sales currently the largest sector and package holidays catching up fast. The travel industry has led the net revolutionit now has to work out how to stay in steer its evolution. Faced with the rapidly increasing sophistication of consumers and their expectations, travel companies ...
Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels Changes Leadership in Americas and Expands Operations / Mar 2000
January 30, 2000
Hotel Online Special Report Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels Changes Leadership in Americas and Expands Operations Arthur Adler has been named Chief Executive Officer, Americas NEW YORK, March 9, 2000 - Peter Barge, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels, today announced three new appointments in the United States and the opening of a Miami office on May 1. Arthur Adler has been named Chief Executive Officer, Americas, for Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels, reporting to Mr. Barge. Christoph Harle is relocating to the New York office to serve as Senior Vice President, and Christi...
Passkey.com Holding First CVB User Group Meeting / Mar 2000
January 30, 2000
Hotel Online Special Report Passkey.com Holding First CVB User Group Meeting BOSTON- March 24, 2000--Convention and visitors bureaus from across the U.S. who use Passkey.coms Internet-based group housing inventory management services will gather in Boston next weekend for the first formal Passkey.com CVB User Group Meeting. The growth of Passkey-enabled(SM) CVBs nationwide has been very substantial, said Roger Paradis, the companys president and CEO. By the time our meeting kicks off on March 31 at the Tremont Hotel, we will have added six new CVBs this yearmaking the total 19 since we first bega...
January 30, 2000
Hotel Online Special Report Shangri-La Hotels and Choice Hotels Able to Shape Marketing Efforts to Travel Agencies with Pegasus Business Intelligences Distribution Channel Management Service DALLAS- --March 30, 2000 - Pegasus Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:PEGS) today announced the roll-out of Distribution Channel Management, a new service provided by its Pegasus Business Intelligence unit. Hong Kong-based Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts and Silver Spring, Md.-based Choice Hotels International (NYSE:CHH) are two of the first major hotel companies to contract with Pegasus for this market share analysis service. Pegasus ...
Pegasus to Provide Lowestfare.com to 32,000 Hotels Worldwide / Mar 2000
January 30, 2000
Hotel Online Special Report Pegasus to Provide Lowestfare.com to 32,000 Hotels Worldwide DALLAS, March 8, 2000 - Dallas-based Pegasus Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: PEGS) today announced that Lowestfare.com is tapping Pegasus for private label, real-time online hotel booking capabilities. Las Vegas- based Lowestfare.com is scheduled to implement Pegasus online booking engine in late April 2000. Pegasus Systems is a leading provider of hotel industry transaction processing solutions and electronic commerce services and operates its own consumer Internet travel reservations site: TravelWeb.com® . Lowestfare.c...
ASEAN Tourism Recovers: Part 1 / PATA / March 2000
January 30, 2000
Hotel Online Special Report ASEAN Tourism Recovers: Part 1 ASEAN Tourism Recovers: Part 1 March 2000 - After suffering major declines in visitor arrivals in 1998 as a consequence (at least in part) of the economic crisis, member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) are beginning to regain their old glory. Airlines and national tourism organisations are being restructured. Work is resuming with the development of roads, airports and other infrastructure that had t...
Kris Nickelsen the General Manager at Just Opened US$28 million Outrigger Cairns Resort / Mar 2000
January 30, 2000
Hotel Online Special Report Kris Nickelsen the General Manager at Just Opened US$28 million Outrigger Cairns Resort HONOLULU, OAHU, HAWAII March 20, 2000 - Outrigger Hotels & Resorts continued its expansion into the Pacific with the opening last week of its newest property in Australia, the luxurious 124-room Outrigger Cairns Resort. The hotel welcomed its first guests on March 15, 2000. Located adjacent to the historic Cairns Court House, the US$28 million Outrigger Cairns Resort offers a combination of standard hotel rooms, one-and two-bedroom suites with ocean and city views. It becomes the 5th Outrigger prope...
Outrigger Expanding the Opportunities for the Moderately-Priced Brand OHANA Hotels / Mar 2000
January 30, 2000
Hotel Online Special Report Outrigger Expanding the Opportunities for the Moderately-Priced Brand OHANA Hotels HONOLULU, OAHU, HAWAII March 28, 2000 - Since its introduction just a few months ago, OHANA Hotels of Hawaii has proven extremely popular with the travel community, prompting parent company, Outrigger Hotels & Resorts, to look at expansion opportunities for the brand. The initial response to our new OHANA Hotels brand has been phenomenal, even better than we expected, said Perry Sorenson, chief operating officer for Outrigger Hotels & Resorts. Since we introduced the new brand late last year, weve...
Tiburon Capital, LLC Acquires Ocean Place Conference Resort in Long Branch, New Jersey from Olympus Real Estate Corporation / Mar 2000
January 30, 2000
Hotel Online Special Report Tiburon Capital, LLC Acquires Ocean Place Conference Resort in Long Branch, New Jersey from Olympus Real Estate Corporation International Conference Resorts Continues to Manage Property SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, March 2000 - Tiburon Capital, LLC announced its acquisition of the Ocean Place Conference Resort in Long Branch, New Jersey from Olympus Real Estate Corporation of Dallas, Texas. This acquisition is the second in a series of conference resorts acquired by Tiburon and managed by International Conference Resorts, Inc., the industry's quality and performance leader. The O...
Orient-Express Hotels, Subsidiary of Sea Containers Ltd. Acquires two Australian Hotels for US$40 million / Mar 2000
January 30, 2000
Hotel Online Special Report Orient-Express Hotels, Subsidiary of Sea Containers Ltd. Acquires Two Australian Hotels for US$40 million HAMILTON, Bermuda, March 26, 2000 - Orient-Express Hotels, subsidiary of Sea Containers Ltd., (NYSE: SCRA, SCRB) (www.seacontainers.com) has completed its agreement with Nara Corporation of Yokohama, Japan for the acquisition of the 100 room Observatory Hotel in Sydney and the 86 room Lilianfels Hotel in the Blue Mountains 60 miles west of Sydney, Australia. The combined purchase price is approximately A$65 million (US$40 million). We are delighted to be strengthening our...
Nikko Hotels International Polls Experts for Tips When Visiting China / Mar 2000
January 30, 2000
Hotel Online Special Report Nikko Hotels International Polls Experts for Tips When Visiting China March 2000 - According to the World Tourism Organization, U.S. tourist travel to China is up more than 300 percent from 1990. However, for even the most intrepid traveler, a trip to China can be intimidating. This is understandable, since the language, customs and etiquette are often wholly different than those in the West. Moreover, customs on the Mainland differ from those in Hong Kong. Given the growing popularity of travel to China, Nikko Hotels International polled experts for tips that will make the mo...
January 30, 2000
Hotel Online Special Report Newmarkets MeetingBroker.com Website to be Run by AT&T PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (March 6, 2000) -- Newmarket International today announced an alliance with AT&T in which the service provider will host Newmarkets MeetingBroker.com, an e-commerce resource that is the hub for group sales leads among meeting planner e-RFP sites, hotels, regional sales offices, and convention centers. MeetingBroker.com is currently in beta testing, and will roll out within the next two months. AT&T will run the MeetingBroker.com programs at its Redwood, Calif. Web hosting facilities, providing a fast...
Olympus Hospitality Group Breathing New Life into a Legendary Name in the World of International Resorts; Rockresorts / Mar 2000
January 30, 2000
Hotel Online Special Report Olympus Hospitality Group Breathing New Life into a Legendary Name in the World of International Resorts; Rockresorts SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - March 9, 2000 - A leading hospitality company dedicated to creating a unique resort experience for generations of future guests is making a major commitment to bring past standards of quality and service into the 21st Century. The Scottsdale-based Olympus Hospitality Group announces that it has assembled a unique portfolio of world-class properties which will now be known as Rockresorts. By bringing new four-star resorts under the Rockresorts ba...
BusinessMeetings.com, Hot Dates Hot Rates, and Interactive Sites Partner with MeetingBroker.com / March 2000
January 30, 2000
Hotel Online Special Report BusinessMeetings.com, Hot Dates Hot Rates, and Interactive Sites Partner with MeetingBroker.com PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (March 29, 2000) -- Newmarket International today announced that three of the hospitality industry's top read-publishing Web sites have signed as partners for MeetingBroker.com, Newmarket's new business-to-business e-commerce service that routes sales leads from lead-publishing sites directly into Newmarket sales automation solutions at member hotels and destinations. MeetingBroker.com enables properties to immediately evaluate and accept a piece of business, merge a prop...
Anita Cowen Appointed Director of Corporate and International Travel Sales at The Monarch Hotel, Washington. DC / March 2000
January 30, 2000
Hotel Online Special Report Anita Cowen Appointed Director of Corporate and International Travel Sales at The Monarch Hotel, Washington. DC Washington, D.C. March 2000 - - George Terpilowski, General Manager of The Monarch Hotel, is pleased to announce the following appointments and promotions to the hotel staff. Anita Cowen has been appointed Director of Corporate and International Travel Sales. Cowen previously represented The Monarch Hotel as a Group Sales Manager, Corporate and International Travel. Cowen brings a wealth of experience to her new position, as she has served Washington's hospitality industry f...
Millennium Hotels and Resorts Proceeding with the Installation of the IDeaS Yield Management Solution at More European Properties / Mar 2000
January 30, 2000
Hotel Online Special Report Millennium Hotels and Resorts Proceeding with the Installation of the IDeaS Yield Management Solution at More European Properties MINNEAPOLIS, MN, February 16, 2000 Millennium Hotels and Resorts announced that, following the results of two pilot hotels, it will proceed in 2000 with the installation of the IDeaS yield management solution at more of its properties in Europe. "The results at the pilot hotels were better than the IDeaS guarantee and we are looking forward to installing the system at more of our key hotels," said Tony Dessauer, Millennium & Copthornes Rooms Business...
Leisure Hotels, L.L.C. Opens a Managed Microtel Inn & Suites in Independence, Kansas / Mar 2000
January 30, 2000
Hotel Online Special Report Leisure Hotels, L.L.C. Opens a Managed Microtel Inn & Suites in Independence, Kansas ATLANTA (March 16, 2000) Hutchinson, Kan.-based Leisure Development, L.L.C. has announced that Kansas' fourth Microtel Inn & Suites at 2917 W. Main Street in Independence opened on March 2, 2000. The new hotel is managed by Leisure Hotels, L.L.C. There are currently other Microtels open in Olathe, Hutchinson and Overland Park. Commented Vinay Patel, Microtel's vice president of brand marketing, "Microtel provides value and quality, and is the traveler's alternative to higher-priced, lull-service...
MGM Grand to Acquire Mirage Resorts For $21 Per Share; A Dream Combination of Assets and People According to MGM' s Terrence Lanni / Mar 2000
January 30, 2000
Hotel Online Special Report MGM Grand to Acquire Mirage Resorts For $21 Per Share; A Dream Combination of Assets and People According to MGM's Terrence Lanni LAS VEGAS, March 6, 2000 - MGM Grand, Inc. (NYSE: MGG) and Mirage Resorts, Incorporated (NYSE: MIR) today announced that their respective Boards of Directors have approved a definitive merger agreement, under which MGM Grand (the Company) will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Mirage Resorts for $21 per share in cash. The transaction will have a total equity value of approximately $4.4 billion. In addition, MGM Grand will assume the o...
