Whitehead Associates, Inc. and Irwin and Wagner, Inc. Form an Alliance to Improve and Expand Executive Recruitment/Consulting / Oct 1999

April 30, 1999

Hotel Online Special Report Whitehead Associates, Inc. and Irwin and Wagner, Inc. Form an Alliance to Improve and Expand  Executive Recruitment/Consulting  October 11, 1999 - Whitehead Associates, Inc. and Irwin and Wagner, Inc. form a cooperative alliance to improve and expand the Executive Recruitment/Consulting capabilities for a growing industry demand. Two veterans of the industry, Mary Ellen Irwin and Ted Whitehead, bring together over 50 years of combined experience in executive recruitment, industry operations, human resources and consulting, to offer a unique blend of resources aimed at uniting both the clien...

Westmont Hospitality Converting Agip and Clarine Hotels to the Holiday Inn Brand / Oct 1999

April 30, 1999

Hotel Online Special Report Westmont Hospitality Converting Agip and Clarine Hotels to the Holiday Inn Brand  ATLANTA, Oct. 11, 1999 - Bass Hotels Resorts (BHR) today announced that it has entered into a multiple franchise agreement with Westmont Hospitality (Westmont) that will result in up to 20 hotels converting to the Holiday Inn brand before the end of 2000. The agreement is the largest of its kind for the brand in Europe and, when combined with the 11 existing Holiday Inn hotels in the country, propels Holiday Inn to the position of number two international mid-market hotel brand in Italy. The agreement will ...

Leofoo Development Company and Hone Shee Group Sign Franchise Agreements with Westin for Two Taiwan Hotels / Oct 1999

April 30, 1999

Hotel Online Special Report  Leofoo Development Company and Hone Shee Group Sign Franchise Agreements with Westin  for Two Taiwan Hotels TAIPEI, Taiwan, Oct. 18, 1999 - Westin Hotels Resorts continues its expansion in Asia-Pacific with the opening of two Westin hotels in Taiwan, its first in the country. Over 113 Westin hotels are now located in 24 countries around the world, of which 18 are located in 10 countries in Asia- Pacific.   The Westin Taipei The Westin Taipei proudly opened its doors on October 12, 1999 to welcome visitors to its deluxe facilities and services.  The opening of the hotel was eager...

Marriott Wardman Park Hotel Relies on Nextel Wireless Capabilities for Internal Communications / Oct 1999

April 30, 1999

Hotel Online Special Report Marriott Wardman Park Hotel Relies on Nextel Wireless Capabilities for Internal Communications BETHESDA, Md., Oct. 2, 1999 -  It’s no easy task coordinating a year-long, $100 million-dollar renovation of the largest hotel and convention complex in Washington, D.C. Especially considering this hotel boasts 173,000 square feet of meeting space, 1340 guestrooms, and five dining areas—all spread across a vast 16-acre facility. But today’s successful grand opening of the newly renovated Marriott Wardman Park Hotel is due in some part to the wireless communication capabilities provided by Nexte...

Five Distinguished Michigan State Alumni Inducted to the Wall of Fame / Oct 1999

April 30, 1999

Hotel Online Special Report Five Michigan State Alumni  Inducted to the Wall of Fame October 18, 1999, East Lansing, Michigan.   Five distinguished alumni will be inducted into The School of Hospitality Business Alumni Association’s Wall of Fame on Sunday, November 7, 1999 at the Celebration of Leadership.  The event is scheduled during the International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show in New York City.  Although their careers have been widely varied, one trait is common to each -- all have distinguished themselves by their foresight and innovation, thus are designated as the “Class of Innovators”.  The 19...

WAT&G Designed Hotels Earn Top Scores in World's Best Awards / Oct 1999

April 30, 1999

Hotel Online Special Report WAT&G Designed Hotels Earn Top Scores  in World's Best Awards NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - September 30, 1999 - Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo (WAT&G) has been responsible for the creation of more of the world's best hotels, resorts and spas than any other architecture and design firm, according to the 1999 survey by Travel & Leisure magazine.  Twenty-five of the hotels designed by WAT&G ranked among the world's best, including the Four Seasons Resort on Maui and The Palace of The Lost City in South Africa.  WAT&G-designed properties were ranked among the top five hotels in five d...

Vistana, Inc. Building Complex of 1,450 Villas Along International Drive in Orlando / Oct 1999

April 30, 1999

Hotel Online Special Report Vistana, Inc. Building Complex of 1,450 Villas  Along International Drive in Orlando Orlando, Florida - October 12, 1999  – Vistana, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Starwood Resorts and Hotels, Inc. (NYSE:HOT) recently began construction on its second large-scale vacation ownership resort in the industry’s most popular market, Orlando, Florida.  When completed, the Vistana Vacation Villages will add up to 1,450 villas to Vistana’s current inventory in Orlando of more than 1,700 vacation ownership units. “Orlando is one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations and we a...

The Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino to Raise Awareness and Funds To Preserve and Revitalize the Venice Lagoon / Oct 1999

April 30, 1999

Hotel Online Special Report The Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino to Assist in Raising Awareness and Funds To Preserve  and Revitalize the Venice Lagoon LAS VEGAS - Oct. 5, 1999 - When developers of The Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino decided to recreate the famous Italian city built on water, they thought of the irony of transporting the famous city of canals and gondolas to the desert of Las Vegas, Nevada. Now, that irony has translated into a cultural alliance between the new resort and a group of architects, government officials, and international policy experts from Venice, Italy.  The Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casin...

Hilton Tokyo Offering High-Speed Internet Access through the Tut Platform / Oct 1999

April 30, 1999

Hotel Online Special Report  Hilton Tokyo Offering High-Speed Internet Access Through the Tut Platform  PLEASANT HILL, Calif., October 25, 1999 — Tut Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: TUTS) today announced that the Hilton Tokyo is offering high-speed business-class Internet services to its guests through Tut’s high-speed Internet access system, Expresso MDU?.  Expresso MDU is a “no new wires” solution that uses Tut’s LongRun? technology to deliver cost-effective, “always-on”, plug-and-play high-speed Internet access to multi-tenant (MTU) buildings including hotels, apartments, and shared commercial properties. Overlo...

Training in the Hospitality Industry: How well and how you serve customers? / Andreas Gunawan Putra / Oct 1999

April 30, 1999

Hotel Online Special Report Training in the Hospitality Industry:  "How Well" and "How" You Serve Customers? by: Andreas Gunawan Putra, 18 October 1999 Many researchers have given a lot of attention to define what training is. Many authors have also explained what training is all about. But, all have come up with the same idea that training is about skills, knowledge and attitudes. The question is how we know if individuals posses those sources. The answer would be if you were able to demonstrate your skills (how well) and managers were happy about it, then you ready to go on board. Wait a minute! What is actu...

Topaz Hotel Services Powers Joie de Vivre, Kimpton Group, and Personality Hotels Web Sites With Online Booking Engine / Oct 1999

April 30, 1999

Hotel Online Special Report Topaz Hotel Services Powers Joie de Vivre,  Kimpton Group, and Personality Hotels Web Sites  With Online Booking Engine  SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 8, 1999 - Topaz Hotel Services™, San Francisco’s leading supplier of hotel reservations and Internet services announced today that its Web-based reservations’ product, BookAbility.net™, is now fully operational with Joie de Vivre, The Kimpton Group, and Personality Hotels.  BookAbility.net increases e-commerce revenues for these hotel groups by allowing visitors complete reservation and booking capabilities based upon real-time availabil...

Toby Allen Appointed General Manager of the Rebranded Radisson Waikiki / Oct 1999

April 30, 1999

Hotel Online Special Report  Toby Allen Appointed General Manager of the Rebranded Radisson Waikiki Stanford Hotels Acquires 625-Room Prince Kuhio Hotel SAN FRANCISCO - Oct. 26, 1999 - Stanford Hotels of San Francisco announced today that it has acquired the 625-room Prince Kuhio Hotel in Waikiki from Outrigger Hotels for an undisclosed amount. Stanford will manage the property, its first in Hawaii, using a Radisson flag under the name “Radisson Hotel, Waikiki.” Lawrence Lui, President and CEO of Stanford Hotels, said, “We are very pleased to have our first Hawaii property and we are all looking forward t...

Developers Flock to Southeast as Timesharing Soars / Oct 1999

April 30, 1999

Hotel Online Special Report Developers Flock to Southeast as  Timesharing Soars MIAMI - Oct. 12, 1999 - With more than 20 percent of cumulative national sales coming from the Southeast, timesharing, also known as vacation ownership, has become one of the fastest-growing segments of the travel and tourism industry in the Southeastern United States. Leading resort developers, hoteliers, financiers, country club and golf course developers, and government and tourism officials will gather this month in Atlanta for the Southeast Regional Timeshare Investment Conference. Taking place October 26-27 at the Ritz-Carlton h...

Tiger Vision Hospitality Training Offering Self-study and On-site Hospitality Training Programs / Oct 1999

April 30, 1999

Hotel Online Special Report  Tiger Vision Hospitality Training Offering Self-study and On-site Hospitality Training Programs  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - October 20, 1999 -  A group of hospitality training professionals lead by Kathy A. Bannan, former Corporate Director of Training for Interstate Hotels Corporation has formed Tiger Vision Hospitality Training based in Pittsburgh. The company’s new training programs were test marketed to a select group of individual hotels and hotel management companies in July and August, and are now available to the worldwide hospitality industry.  Bannan served as Corporate Di...

Premier Hospitality Management, Inc. Signs Five -Year Contract with Telman / Oct 1999

April 30, 1999

Hotel Online Special Report Premier Hospitality Management, Inc. Signs  Five -Year Contract with Telman Houston, Texas and Durant, OK - October 15, 1999 -  Premier Hospitality Management, Inc  the Durant, Oklahoma-based hotel management company with 9 hotels, has signed a five year contract with Telman. Premier contracted with Telman for the use of Telman's Focused Scorecard, an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) class of software specifically designed for the hospitality industry. Focused Scorecard uses a hotel's information with a discreetly designed set of metrics (measures) that establishes a fundamental structure, ...

Telman Names Guy McPhail President and COO / Oct 1999

April 30, 1999

Hotel Online Special Report Telman Names Guy McPhail President and COO To Guide Company Through Next Growth Phase HOUSTON, TEXAS - October 6, 1999 -Telman, the leading supplier to the hotel industry of analytical software applications and telecommunications management solutions, announced today the appointment of Guy McPhail as its new president and chief operating officer. McPhail has served as vice president of Telman since June 1998. Prior to joining Telman, McPhail spent over nineteen years in finance, management and consulting services. He replaces Telman's founder Daniel Prosser, who will continue to serve a...

Sunburst Hospitality Corporation Opens MainStay Suites hotels in Raleigh, North Carolina and Malvern, Pennsylvania / Oct 1999

April 30, 1999

Hotel Online Special Report  Sunburst Hospitality Corporation Opens MainStay Suites hotels  in Raleigh, North Carolina and Malvern, Pennsylvania SILVER SPRING, MD – October 26, 1999 -- Sunburst Hospitality Corporation (NYSE: SNB), one of the country’s leading hotel owners and managers, announced the opening of its 20th extended-stay hotel this week with the opening of MainStay Suites hotels in Raleigh, North Carolina and Malvern, Pennsylvania.  Sunburst’s extended-stay hotels offer a mid-priced lodging alternative for guests who wish to have home-like amenities while traveling.  The Company also reported t...

Travel and Leisure Companies Poised to Fare Well in 2000 due to Steady Growth in Economy, High Consumer Confidence / Oct 1999

April 30, 1999

Hotel Online Special Report Travel and Leisure Companies  Poised to Fare Well in 2000 due to Steady Growth in Economy,  High Consumer Confidence  SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1, 1999 - The following is being issued by Banc of America Securities, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, CRD number 26091: Remaining bullish on the travel and leisure sector, Banc of America Securities’ analyst, J. Cogan, argues that many travel and leisure companies are poised to fare well in 2000 due to a steady growth economy, high consumer confidence and favorable demographic trends. According to Cogan, the cruise ...

Starwood Receives Gross Proceeds of $186 million in Partial Sale of Lampsa S.A. Asset / Oct 1999

April 30, 1999

Hotel Online Special Report Starwood Receives Gross Proceeds of $186 million  in Partial Sale of Lampsa S.A. Asset WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Oct. 15, 1999 - Starwood Hotels Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT), one of the world’s largest hotel and leisure companies, said today that as part of the company’s previously announced plan to sell $500 million of non-strategic assets by mid-year 2000, majority owned subsidiaries of Starwood reduced their holdings in Lampsa S.A., a publicly traded Greek company that owns the Grande Bretagne Hotel in Athens, from 52.8% to 5.7%.  The sales were made on the open market.  Starwoo...

April 30, 1999

Hotel Online Special Report  'eRooms’  Latest High Tech Weapon  at Pan Pacific Singapore Wednesday, 20 October Singapore – StarHub, Singapore’s new operator for fixed and mobile telecommunications services, has reached an agreement with The Pan Pacific Singapore to provide the hotel with high speed Internet access and a host of integrated fixed and mobile telephony services. These services will be made available in all of the hotel’s 784 guestrooms, 26 meeting rooms and business centre, making The Pan Pacific Singapore the first premier business hotel in Singapore to be eReady in all guest rooms starting Janu...

Speed.Comm Providing Hotels with New Revenue When Guests Dial 1-800 / Oct 1999

April 30, 1999

Hotel Online Special Report  Speed.Comm Providing Hotels with New Revenue When Guests Dial 1-800 Tulsa, Ok - October 15, 1999 - A new company formed by a group of lodging telecommunication pioneers is receiving the attention of a number of large hotel management companies. Speed.Comm LLC is the new company, and their product helps to gain phone revenue.  The Speed.Comm service provides a way for a hotel to glean revenue when their guests dial  1-800 to place Calling Card Calls to AT&T, MCI and Sprint. These types of calls represent nearly  70% of all long distance calls made by guests.  Speed.Comm has devis...

Bedroom Design for First Space Resort Reflect the Reality of Space / Oct 1999

April 30, 1999

Hotel Online Special Report Bedroom Design for First Space Resort  Reflect the Reality of Space LOS ANGELES - Oct. 27, 1999 --  Space Island Group, America’s leading private space enterprise, today unveiled the interior design of the world’s first commercial space resort through its partnership with the design team of MyHome.com, a new online home decor and design destination.  The unveiling of the interior design comes one week prior to the first annual International Space Business Assembly (ISBA) in Washington, D.C., where NASA officials will join with industry leaders to discuss the advancement of commerc...

The Former Harley Portfolio of 10 Hotels Receives $50 Million of Renovation Financing / Oct 1999

April 30, 1999

Hotel Online Special Report The Former Harley Portfolio of 10 Hotels Receives  $50 Million of Renovation Financing New York, NY - October 4, 1999 - Sonnenblick-Goldman Company, acting as the exclusive advisor to GF Management and Lubert-Adler Real Estate Fund, arranged approximately $50 million of renovation financing for 10 hotels that were once part of the former Harley Hotel portfolio.  The hotels, which were previously owned by Leona Helmsley, were acquired by the current owners in 1998. Originally built in the 1960’s and 1970’s, the hotels are located in Cleveland, Ohio (3); Orlando, Florida (2); Enfield,...

The Sol Club Falco Receives Certification for its Environmental Management Under ISO 14001 Standards / Oct 1999

April 30, 1999

Hotel Online Special Report The Sol Club Falco Receives Certification for its Environmental Management Under  ISO 14001 Standards October, 1999 - This emblematic Menorcan hotel has become the first Spanish hotel certified by AENOR under the ISO 14001 standards for environmental management.  The Sol Club Falcó has been awarded the “Distinction for Tourism Merit” by the Menorca Hotel Association in recognition for its work to protect the natural environment. The award was presented today, 27th. October during a lunch organised by the Association in Mahón, capital of Menorca, attended by the Vice Chairman of S...