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Vicki Winston Appointed Human Resources Director / June 1998
February 28, 1998
Hotel Online Press Releases Vicki Winston Appointed Human Resources Director at Best Western International --- PHOENIX, JUNE 2, 1998 - Vicki Winston joined Best Western International last month as the new director of Human Resources. She comes to the company after three years as human resources manager at the Holiday Inn Reservations Center in Raleigh, N.C. "The employees of Best Western are fortunate to have Vicki," explains Jerry Manion, chief operating officer, Best Western International. "Her many years of experience in the industry and specifically within the hospitality industry will be a great as...
Free Customer Service Management and Training Consulting on the Web / June 1998
February 28, 1998
Hotel OnlinePress Releases Free Customer Service Management and Training Consulting on the Web --- Vancouver - Friday, June 5th, 1998 - Managers, business owners, and employees can now discuss the many complicated issues surrounding Customer Service and learn how to manage operations to ensure standing out from the crowd. A yet undiscovered forum that has won the participation of some of the top international Consultants and Students dissects the entire subject of Customer Service in all its forms as it was never done before. This forum also discusses management and training strategies and how these affect...
Swissotel Growth Strategy Takes Major Step with Management of Watergate Hotel in Washington / June 1998
February 28, 1998
Hotel Online Press Releases --- Swissotel Growth Strategy Takes Major Step with Management of Watergate Hotel in Washington -- Landmark Property to Receive $11-million Refurbishment --- NEW YORK, June 25, 1998 - Swissotel, the luxury hotel management company with properties in the United States, Europe and Asia, is assuming management of the prestigious landmark Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C., effective August 1, 1998. The agreement marks a major step in the company's growth strategy aimed at establishing Swissotels in key businesss centers around the world. "We are excited about...
February 28, 1998
Hotel Online Press Releases Ten WAT&G - Designed Hotels Take Top Spots in Ranking of Worlds Best --- HONOLULU, HAWAII 11 June 1998 - Ten projects designed by Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo Architects, Planners and Consultants (WAT&G) have been chosen as the best hotels in the world according to a comprehensive survey of sophisticated travelers conducted by Gourmet magazine and published in the May issue. The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel in Dana Point, California commanded a spot among the very best hotels in the world, selected along with several other U.S. properties. According to Gail Z...
H. Skip Boyer to Head Best Western Communications Functions / June 1998
February 28, 1998
Hotel Online Press Releases H. Skip Boyer to Head Best Western Communications Functions --- PHOENIX, JUNE 2, l998 - Best Western International, Inc., named veteran communicator William H. Skip Boyer to direct its public relations and communications activities, according to an announcement today by Chief Operating Officer Jerry R. Manion. Boyer will serve as director of Public Relations / Communications, a newly established department that combines the external and internal communications operations of the global hotel giant. "We believe that the establishment of a single communications team is an efficien...
Is the Venetian Trying to Push Your Convention into Buying Expensive Blocks of Rooms at its Las Vegas Hotel? / June 1998
February 28, 1998
Hotel Online Special Reports Is the Venetian Trying to Push Your Convention into Buying Expensive Blocks of Rooms at its Las Vegas Hotel? --- Introduction The Venetian Hotel & Casino, currently under construction, is purported to be requiring conventions to book rooms at its property as a condition of using the Sands Expo Center. Sheldon Adelson developer of the Venetian and owner of the Sands Expo Center intends to use the link between the two in order to have convention-goers fill the Venetians rooms. Convention and meeting planners should note two major problems with this arrangemen...
Unifocus Evolves from Merger of the Heymann Group and SQS / June 1998
February 28, 1998
Hotel Online Press Releases Unifocus Evolves from Merger of the Heymann Group and SQS The Next Generation of Totally Integrated Management Support Systems Tailored To The Service Sector: --- DALLAS, TX June 16, 1998 - New Company Offers Unique Approach to Helping Organizations Optimize Service Quality, Employee Performance, Customer Satisfaction and Financial Results. UniFocus a totally new company born of the merger between The Heymann Group and SQS. UniFocus is the first company to provide totally integrated management support systems to service organizations seeking to maximize their success...
USA Technologies files lawsuit against AlphaNet for patent infringement and violation of non-disclosure / non-use agreement / June 1998
February 28, 1998
Hotel Online Press Releases USA Technologies Files Lawsuit Against AlphaNet for Patent Infringement and Violation of Non-disclosure / Non-use agreement --- Wayne, PA, June 15, 1998 USA Technologies Inc. (OTCBB: USTT) announced today that it has filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, a lawsuit against AlphaNet Hospitality and its parent company AlphaNet Telecom (AlphaNet), charging both entities with patent infringement as well as violation of a non-disclosure / non-use agreement. The lawsuit alleges that AlphaNet signed a non-disclosure / non-use agreement p...
CJPG, UNLV Join Forces To Present Industry's First Comprehensive Casino Education Conference / June 1998
February 28, 1998
Hotel Online Press Releases --- CJPG, UNLV Join Forces To Present Industry's First Comprehensive Casino Education Conference UNLV's Casino Ops Is The Gaming Industry Conference Where Today's Leaders Meet Tomorrow's Executives --- LAS VEGAS, June 19, 1998 - The casino industry has long been concerned about a shortage of formal gaming education for its employees. While universities in Nevada offer a wide range of courses focusing on gaming, few other institutions of higher education even recognize gaming as a business discipline. To fill that void, the International Gaming Institute at the University of Neva...
New Service Offers Relief to Travel Managers Responsible for Soliciting Hotel Bids / June 1998
February 28, 1998
Hotel Online Press Releases New Service Offers Relief to Travel Managers Responsible for Soliciting Hotel Bids --- Indianapolis, IN, June 5, 1998, At last the monstrous problem of soliciting hotel bids every year has been eliminated. Travel Managers widely acknowledge that the annual hotel RFP process is one of the most inefficient and time-consuming chores that they face each year. Companies have been struggling for years to come up with a better system to reign in this unwieldy process. Hotel Bid Express developed by Innsight Information Group has finally done it. Billed as the firs...
Travel Weekly Conference Predicts Major Changes in Travel Purchase Process / June 1998
February 28, 1998
Hotel Online Press Releases Travel Weekly Conference Predicts Major Changes in Travel Purchase Process --- SECAUCUS, N.J., June 9, 1998 - The travel agent of the future will: A) Communicate with customers on the Internet? B) Become a specialist in sports vacations, cruises, eco-trips or other specific types of travel? C) Make house calls? D) All of the above? The answer is "D" -- according to experts addressing the annual Travel Weekly Conference last week in Nashville. Organized by the leading newspaper of the travel industry, more than 900 delegates and 60 "faculty" explored the trave...
Texas Hospitality Survey Shows Concern Over Smoking Bans / June 1998
February 28, 1998
Hotel Online Special Report --- Texas Hospitality Survey Shows Concern Over Smoking Bans --- HOUSTON, June 29, 1998 - A majority of Texas hospitality business owners and managers say they would expect a decline in business if a smoking ban were imposed on the hospitality industry, according to a poll conducted for the Texas Restaurant Association which was released this week at the annual Southwest Foodservice Expo. Hospitality business owners and managers were also overwhelmingly in favor of having managers (61 percent) or customers (24 percent) decide smoking policies for their businesses inste...
Telman' s Hotel Scorecard System Now Available in Windows / June 1998
February 28, 1998
Hotel Online Press Releases --- Telman' s Hotel Scorecard System Now Available in Windows --- Houston, Texas ... June 15, 1998 - Telman, the hotel industry's leading technology company, announced today the newest release of FOCUS software is developed in a Windows format, and therefore integrates well with many different computer environments. FOCUS is Telman's custom designed Enterprise Decision Information System that uses unique proprietary software to integrate property management systems with corporate office accounting systems. FOCUS helps hotel companies control payroll costs and manage the day to da...
Promus and Telman Sign Biggest Telecom Management Deal in the Hotel Industry / June 1998
February 28, 1998
Hotel Online Press Releases Promus and Telman Sign Biggest Telecom Management Deal in the Hotel Industry --- HOUSTON, TX... June 1, 1998 One of the world's largest hotel companies, Promus Hotel Corporation (PHC), has signed a partnership agreement with Telman, the leading provider of telecommunications management for the hotel industry. Memphis-based Promus Hotels' recent merger with Doubletree Hotels Corporation created the lodging industry's third largest revenue producer with more than 1,200 hotels, 177,000 rooms and approximately 40,000 employees. The merger also increased the number of company man...
PMC Commercial Trust Enters Into Definitive Agreement to Acquire Supertel Hospitality, Inc. / June 1998
February 28, 1998
Hotel Online Press Releases PMC Commercial Trust Enters Into Definitive Agreement to Acquire Supertel Hospitality, Inc. --- DALLAS, June 4, 1998 - PMC Commercial Trust (Amex: PCC) and Supertel Hospitality, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPPR) announced that they have entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger pursuant to which Supertel will merge with and into PMC Commercial. The consideration to be paid by PMC Commercial would be 0.6 common shares of PMC Commercial (the "Common Shares") for each share of Supertel, subject to an adjustment in the event the average trading price of the Common Shares for the ten trading ...
Starwood Unveils a Comprehensive and Friendly Travel Agent Area on the WWW / June 1998
February 28, 1998
Hotel Online Press Releases --- Starwood Unveils a Comprehensive and Friendly Travel Agent Area on the WWW --- BOSTON, June 23, 1998 - On June 23, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. breaks ground with the their brand new online Travel Agent area - the most comprehensive, information-intensive and agent-friendly Web-based travel agent area offered by a travel supplier. The travel Agent area can be found on three of Starwood's Web sites ( www.sheraton.com , www.luxurycollection.com and www.fourpoints.com ). In a first for the travel industry, the new travel agent area all...
Patriot American Hospitality, Inc. Teams With Shula's Steak Houses, Inc. / June 1998
February 28, 1998
Hotel Online Press Releases Patriot American Hospitality, Inc. Teams With Shula's Steak Houses, Inc. Expand Shula's Brand Throughout Patriot System Expansion Plans Call for Up to Twelve New Restaurants Each Year in Patriot American's Wyndham and Interstate Hotels --- DALLAS, June 9, 1998 - Patriot American Hospitality, Inc. (NYSE: PAH), whose shares are paired and trade with those of Wyndham International, Inc., today announced its joint venture agreement with Miami Lakes, Florida-based Don Shula's Steak Houses, Inc. to expand the Shula's Steak House brand as the signature food and beverage ...
Servico Acquires 14 Hotels in Connecticut, Maryland and Pennsylvania / June 1998
February 28, 1998
Hotel Online Press Releases Servico Acquires 14 Hotels in Connecticut, Maryland and Pennsylvania WEST PALM BEACH, Fla - June 1, 1998--Servico, Inc. (NYSE:SER) a nationwide owner and operator of hotels, today said that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of 14 hotels from Prime Motor Inns Limited Partnership. All 14 hotels are full service properties which are currently franchised as Holiday Inns. Servico intends to sell four of the hotels, retain ten hotels containing 1,772 rooms and anticipates investing $26 million in refurbishments at the ten hotels retained. Taking into account ass...
San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau Announces 1998–99 Officers and Directors / June 1998
February 28, 1998
Hotel Online Press Releases --- San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau Announces 1998--99 Officers and Directors --- SAN FRANCISCO, June 10, 1998 - The new Officers, standing committee chairs and directors of the San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau were introduced today by President John A. Marks at the Bureau's 88th Annual Luncheon. Cleopatra Vaughns, RN, CPIW, manager, community relations at Blue Shield of California, will replace outgoing Chairman Frank R. Kent and serve a one-year term as the new chairman of the board. Last year, Vaughns served as vice chairman of the board. Vau...
San Francisco CVB Awards the 1998 Silver Cable Car Award to Sunset Magazine / June 1998
February 28, 1998
Hotel Online Press Releases --- San Francisco CVB Awards the 1998 Silver Cable Car Award to Sunset Magazine --- SAN FRANCISCO, June 10, 1998 -- Sunset Magazine, celebrating 100 years of promoting the West, was awarded the San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau's (SFCVB) 1998 Silver Cable Car Award at its 88th Annual Luncheon today in the Esplanade Ballroom at Moscone Center. The Silver Cable Car Award, established in 1965, is an annual award honoring those who have made significant contributions to San Francisco's visitor industry. Past recipients include the Golden Gate Bridge, Herb Caen, Willie ...
San Francisco CVB Reports on Years Activity / June 1998
February 28, 1998
Hotel Online Press Releases --- San Francisco CVB Reports on Years Activity Also: San Francisco CVB Awards the 1998 Silver Cable Car Award to Sunset Magazine San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau Announces 1998--99 Officers --- SAN FRANCISCO, June 10, 1998 -- At the annual meeting of its general membership today, the San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau drew a crowd of 1,000 members and guests to hear a report on the status of the City's number one industry, celebrate the conclusion of a successful fiscal year, and observe the 100th anniversary of Sunset Magazine. A Gold ...
South Dakota Innkeepers Association / June 1998
February 28, 1998
Hotel Online Press Releases South Dakota Innkeepers Association May, 1998 Bulletin Items South Dakota Issues New Consumer Protection Laws Affecting Innkeepers AH&MA Update Midwest Purveyors Trade Show --- South Dakota Issues New Consumer Protection Laws Affecting Innkeepers Innkeepers should become acquainted with the new sections that were added to the consumer protection law that the 1998 Legislature added to the State's Deceptive Advertising & Trade Practices. This law is meant to insure that our guests do not have any surprises when visiting South Dakota. This chapt...
SDD Releases Newest Convention Billing Module to its Popular Jazz Windows NT Call Accounting System / June 1998
February 28, 1998
Hotel Online Press Releases SDD Releases Newest Convention Billing Module to its Popular Jazz Windows NT Call Accounting System --- BOCA RATON, FLORIDA - May, 1998 - Systems Design & Development, Inc. ("SDD"), a privately held company specializing in telemanagement systems for the hotel industry recently released JAZZ Convention Telephone Billing its newest module for automatically posting and billing back equipment, service, and call usage charges to group accounts set up in the property management system. JAZZ Convention Billing replaces the manual processes previously required by hotels to...
Host Marriott Corporation Acquires the Ritz-Carlton, Tysons Corner, Virginia for $96 Million / June 1998
February 28, 1998
Hotel Online Press Releases Host Marriott Corporation Acquires the Ritz-Carlton, Tysons Corner, Virginia for $96 Million --- BETHESDA, Md., June 11, 1998 - Host Marriott Corporation (NYSE: HMT) announced it has completed its acquisition of the 397-room Ritz- Carlton, Tysons Corner, Virginia. The hotel was purchased for $96 million. The Earnings Before Interest Expense, Taxes, Depreciation, Amortization and other non-cash items (EBITDA) from the hotel is projected to be $10.1 million, in the first year. Mr. Terence C. Golden, president and chief executive officer, stated, "We are excited to add the...
