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Learn From HEBS Digital Experts During Three Workshops at the 2019 HSMAI Digital Marketing Strategy Conference
HEBS Digital | January 8, 2019
For more than 15 years, HSMAI's Digital Marketing Strategy Conference has been where senior leaders in hotel marketing connect and engage in meaningful, thought-provoking conversations about the most important strategic issues facing the business today. The conference continues to provide hoteliers and their partners with practical information, insights, and strategies to drive revenue and engage guests – before, during, and after their stays. The 2019 Digital Marketing Strategy Conference will be held on January 22-23 in New York, where we will be holding three workshops on topics aimed at helping hoteliers improve their digital ...
Carver-Olson Search Names Rick Jordan as Manager of TalentXpress
The Carver Companies | January 8, 2019
Search service option for restaurants and hotels ATLANTA, GA – January 8, 2019 – Carver-Olson Hospitality Search, a subsidiary of The Carver Companies, announced that Rick Jordan will manage Carver TalentXpress, their newly launched search service that will focus on candidates for restaurant and limited service hotel positions within the $30,000 - 50,000 annual salary range. Jordan has a wide range of hospitality experience including his most recent role serving for the past 10 years as vice president of recruiting for a prestigious, Chicago-based, hospitality search firm. "As we launch TalentXpress adding restaurant s...
TownePlace Suites by Marriott to Open in Chesterfield, Missouri
The Sage Agency | January 8, 2019
Get ready to be real and be you on long stays. Marriott International's TownePlace Suites by Marriott St. Louis Chesterfield is scheduled to open for business this Thursday, January 10, 2019. On average, a TownePlace Suites opens every six days. Built for travelers looking for a simple and friendly place where they can settle-in, keep their routine, and easily connect to the Chesterfield Valley area. The new hotel located at 748 Premium Way, will operate as a Marriott franchise, owned and managed by KMG Hotels of North Kansas City, Missouri. "We are excited to introduce the TownePlace Suites brand to the Chesterfield Valley area," said ...
Kahala Hotel & Resort Upgrades Financial Accounting to Aptech PVNG
Aptech Computer Systems, Inc. | January 8, 2019
Hawaiian Luxury Destination Taps Aptech for New Back Office System, Custom Financials for its Unique Operation PITTSBURGH, January 8, 2019 – Aptech Computer Systems announced that Kahala Hotel & Resort installed PVNG Enterprise Accounting to upgrade its back office financial processes. The Kahala Hotel & Resort is a respected luxury oceanfront destination known for its gracious Hawaiian hospitality and elegant amenities. Browser-based PVNG simplifies accounting operations and safeguards data in the cloud. Aptech is the leading provider of hospitality business intelligence, budgeting and forecasting, and enterprise hotel ac...
OpenKey Projects Issuance of 100,000 Mobile Keys Monthly
OpenKey | January 8, 2019
Industry watches closely as mobile key usage skyrockets with popular platform DALLAS (January 8, 2019) - OpenKey, the industry standard for universal mobile key in hotels, expects to build on an impressive 2018 performance by reaching a key milestone in 2019. Following a 970 percent increase in keys issued among OpenKey client hotels last year, OpenKey is projecting performance to reach 100,000 mobile keys a month in 2019. An OpenKey survey, Guest Expectations for Hotel Tech in 2019, identified that technology will play a major role in the overall guest experience this year. Particularly, it found that 54 percent of hotel guests now ex...
Pure Automate - Hotel PMS Software
Pure Automate | January 8, 2019
Pure Automate is an ultramodern cloud-Based Hotel Management Software to simplify operations and enrich guest experience. Turning focus from simply selling rooms to providing flawless guest experience is what Pure Automate Hotel Management System is all about. Meeting the ever evolving standards of the global hospitality industry, our online hotel software is everything you need. Simplify hotel operations and drive your business to success. State-of-the-art technology to help you boost revenue and yield maximum results! Empowering hoteliers all over the world, our online hotel property management system is designed using the best of tec...
Pure Automate - Hotel PMS Software
Pure Automate | January 8, 2019
Pure Automate is an ultramodern cloud-Based Hotel Management Software to simplify operations and enrich guest experience. Turning focus from simply selling rooms to providing flawless guest experience is what Pure Automate Hotel Management System is all about. Meeting the ever evolving standards of the global hospitality industry, our online hotel software is everything you need. Simplify hotel operations and drive your business to success. State-of-the-art technology to help you boost revenue and yield maximum results! Empowering hoteliers all over the world, our online hotel property management system is designed using the best of tec...
Loyal Duke Lodge Completes Full Repositioning Creating a Unique Lodging Experience
| January 7, 2019
Salida, Colorado (January 7th, 2019) — IMPRINT Hospitality announces the completion of the repositioning project of Loyal Duke Lodge in Salida Colorado. Celebrating the Salida landscape and community culture, Loyal Duke Lodge blends the rustic and historic of the surrounding mountains and river valley with a refined artistic flair that is Salida. The renovation project of the former Super 8 property features earthy, modern design and finishes, with the interior warm and inviting, balanced with outdoor spaces that are serene and peaceful. Dreamed up by dash design, the natural colors harmonize with the surrounding nature and enviro...
Loyal Duke Lodge Completes Full Repositioning Creating a Unique Lodging Experience
| January 7, 2019
Salida, Colorado (January 7th, 2019) — IMPRINT Hospitality announces the completion of the repositioning project of Loyal Duke Lodge in Salida Colorado. Celebrating the Salida landscape and community culture, Loyal Duke Lodge blends the rustic and historic of the surrounding mountains and river valley with a refined artistic flair that is Salida. The renovation project of the former Super 8 property features earthy, modern design and finishes, with the interior warm and inviting, balanced with outdoor spaces that are serene and peaceful. Dreamed up by dash design, the natural colors harmonize with the surrounding nature and enviro...
The Downtown Grand Hotel & Casino Expanding With New Hotel Tower Adding 495 Guestrooms
Downtown Grand Hotel & Casino | January 7, 2019
LAS VEGAS (January 7, 2019) – The Grand Entrance to the Downtown Las Vegas party is about to get a little more Grand. In conjunction with the property's five-year anniversary, The Downtown Grand Hotel & Casino Las Vegas has announced expanding the footprint of its hospitality space by over 250,000 square feet in mid-2020 with the addition of a new tower. Anchored by seven guest-room floors and adding 495 new rooms to the property's existing inventory of 629, the Downtown Grand's third tower, located on the east side of the property and flanked by Stewart and Ogden, will redefine the intersection of 4th and Ogden with clean-lin...
Epelboim Development Group and IHG Complete the EVEN® Hotel Miami Airport Project
Epelboim Development Group (EDG) | January 7, 2019
Miami-based Epelboim Development Group (EDG), in conjunction with InterContinental Group Hotels (IHG), is proud to announce the completion of its newest project: EVEN® Hotel Miami Airport. EVEN® Hotels, part of IHG's premier lifestyle hotel brand, offers guests a unique wellness and relaxation experience through its exclusive "Eat Well, Rest Easy, Keep Active and Accomplish More" initiative. From in-room trainers, mounted fitness walls, resistance bands and exercise balls, to yoga mats and blocks, 18+ On-Demand fitness videos, beds with built-in "mood lighting," ergonomic workstations and more—all in its 190 guest rooms&md...
Tambourine: The Most Important Metric in Hotel Marketing: What’s Your OMTM?
Tambourine | January 7, 2019
Determine the single most important metric by which you will be judged this coming year by management/ownership, then align your actions and energy around it. As hotel marketers, we have dozens of metrics to deal with…. but we humbly suggest there's one that should matter more than any other. The One Metric That Matters (OMTM) is a powerful concept derived from a renowned thought leader in Silicon Valley. But the idea transcends every industry and is especially important for serious-minded hotel marketers. We fully recognize that the OMTM may be different depending on your property's needs, your career stage or your personal comp...
Hospitality Financial Leadership: The Matching Principle
David Lund | January 7, 2019
By David Lund I tell my Introductory Hospitality Financial Leadership Workshop participants that the concept behind the matching principle is "the most important concept today." Why? When it comes to producing financial information, it's the cornerstone of understanding why we do almost everything the way we do it in the business world. The profit and loss statement cannot exist and be in any way accurate without using the matching principle every step of the way. Grasp this and you are well on your way to understanding the other principles and most importantly putting these principles to work in your day-to-day hotel leadership role. S...
COURTYARD PORT OF SPAIN STARTS THE NEW YEAR WITH NEW ROOMS
Marriott International | January 7, 2019
Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago (January 2018) – Courtyard Port of Spain starts 2019 with newly renovated rooms providing guests a new experience of luxury and modernity, with designs created to keep the Courtyard guest room brand and provide opportunities to the guests to be their most creative and successful selves. The renovation consisted of 119 guest rooms and suites and involved a complete gutting and upgrading of bedrooms and bathrooms. The rooms are modernized with the latest innovations in technology while highlighting the contemporary feel that provides flexibility and allows guests to optimize and elevate their tra...
Advent International to Acquire Majority Stake in Third-Party Hotel Operator Aimbridge Hospitality
Advent International | January 7, 2019
Advent International, one of the largest and most experienced global private equity investors, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a majority ownership interest in North America's leading third-party hotel operator Aimbridge Hospitality from Lee Equity Partners, a U.S.-based private equity firm, and General Atlantic, a leader in global growth investing. Aimbridge's experienced senior management team will continue to lead the company and will retain a meaningful equity stake in the business. The transaction is expected to close by February. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Ba...
Turnberry Isle Miami to Debut Winter 2019 as JW Marriott Miami Turnberry Resort & Spa
JW Marriott Miami Turnberry Resort & Spa | January 7, 2019
Aventura, FL – January 7, 2019 – Marriott International, Inc. and Turnberry Associates today announced that Turnberry Isle Miami, Autograph Collection will emerge as JW Marriott Miami Turnberry Resort & Spa . The reimagined hotel features a brand-new 16-story Orchid Tower comprised of 325 spacious guest rooms, doubling the resort's occupancy to 685 rooms. JW Marriott Miami Turnberry Resort & Spa includes a renovated hotel entrance and lobby which will house Soff's, a welcoming lobby bar named for Aventura's visionary founder Don Soffer. "We are delighted to introduce JW Marriott Miami Turnberry Resort & Spa ...
2019 Top 10 Hospitality Trends
Philippe Masset | January 7, 2019
By Philippe Masset and Jean-Philippe Weisskopf The hospitality industry has been undergoing tremendous changes and disruptions over the last two decades.What key trends have been steadily reshaping the industry and where is hospitality heading in the near future? A study conducted among EHL faculty in the fall of 2018 provides insights on past and new challenges (as well as opportunities) hospitality players need to take into consideration. The TEN trends that have reshaped (and are still reshaping) the industry: #1 - Virtual communities Social networks and in particular TripAdvisor have had a profound impact on customers. This has led ...
Summit Hospitality Group Selects Hospitality Ventures Management Group (HVMG) to Manage Delta Hotel by Marriott Daytona Beach Oceanfront
Hospitality Ventures Management Group | January 7, 2019
Hospitality Ventures Management Group (HVMG), an Atlanta-based, private hotel investment, ownership and management company, today announced it has assumed management of the 133-room Delta Hotel by Marriott Daytona Beach Oceanfront. This marks the second management agreement with North Carolina-based Summit Hospitality Group, Ltd., a full-service hotel and restaurant ownership and asset management firm. "We continue to expand our third-party management footprint in the Sunshine State by partnering with best-in-class owners and developers like Summit Hospitality Group," said Robert Cole, HVMG President & CEO. "HVMG has earned its repu...
TownePlace Suites by Marriott Opens in Dubuque, Iowa
The Sage Agency | January 7, 2019
Get ready to be real and be you on long stays. Marriott International's TownePlace Suites by Marriott Dubuque Downtown opened for business on Friday, December 21, 2018. On average, a TownePlace Suites opens every six days. Built for travelers looking for a simple and friendly place where they can settle-in, keep their routine, and easily connect to the Dubuque area. The new hotel located at 1151 Washington Street, will operate as a Marriott franchise, owned and operated by Milwork Hotel Associates LLC & Kinseth Hospitality Company. "We are excited to introduce the TownePlace Suites brand to the Dubuque area," said Diane Mayer, vice ...
Prince Waikiki to Boost Productivity and Guest Satisfaction With Knowcross
Knowcross | January 7, 2019
The 2018 Condé Nast Traveler Readers' Choice Award winner adds to the growing list of hotels in Hawaii on the Knowcross Platform Washington D.C., January 07 2019 - KNOWCROSS, the preferred service quality management platform of the finest hotels across the globe, has been selected by Prince Waikiki to boost staff productivity across their operations leading to improved service quality and enhanced guest experience. With this, Knowcross adds to their growing clientele in the Hawaii region. The Knowcross platform will assist the hotel staff by automating management and reporting of the hotel's operations across the various depart...
Hotelogix Helps Utah-Based Hat Rock Inn Boost Revenue by 20%
Hotelogix | January 7, 2019
Hotelogix, a leader in cloud-based Property Management Systems is happy to share that the adoption and successful use of its PMS has helped Hat Rock Inn hotel in the United States to realize 20% more revenue. This spike in revenue is a result of 20% increase in both OTA and direct bookings. Located in Mexican Hat, Utah, Hat Rock Inn is a popular 4-star hotel among travellers. Overlooking the San Juan River, this 43-room property offers many facilities including a private beach, heated saltwater pool, a spa, etc. Based on guest reviews and recommendations, hotel aggregator Kayak rates this property as 'excellent' with 8.6 out of 10 ratin...
What Are the Top Hotel Designs for 2019?
Cicero's Development Corporation | January 4, 2019
PLAINFIELD, IL, JANUARY 4, 2019 -- New Year is the perfect time to check-in on hotel design trends. While some of these trends may only create ripples, others will set off tidal waves. Taken as a whole, these trends underscore that hotel design is no longer the simple task of creating a nice place to stay; it is a science of fashioning a truly distinctive guest experience that flows seamlessly from check-in to sleeping, to working, to dining, to entertainment. According to Cicero's Development, one of the country's leading renovation contractors for the hospitatlity industry, here are six hotel trends emerging on the scene that ...
Aspen Skiing Company Opens the 99-Room Limelight Hotel Snowmass
Limelight Hotels | January 4, 2019
Snowmass, Colo.—Jan. 4, 2019— The Limelight Hotel Snowmass has officially opened. The new 99-room property is consistent with the Limelight brand featuring amenities such as complimentary breakfast, après ski specials in the Limelight Lounge, live music, adventure activities, a ski concierge as well as pet-friendly rooms. The hotel represents the third property in the Limelight brand, joining Limelight Hotel Aspen and Limelight Hotel Ketchum. Its opening is part of the Aspen Skiing Company's strategy to further expand into the hotel business. In addition to the three Limelight properties, the company also owns and ope...
TownePlace Suites by Marriott Opens in Southaven, Mississippi With General Manager Yashica Harrell at the Helm
TownePlace Suites by Marriott | January 4, 2019
Southaven, MS – January 4, 2019 – Get ready to be real and be you on long stays. Marriott International's TownePlace Suites by Marriott Memphis Southaven is now open for business. On average, a TownePlace Suites opens every six days. Built for travelers looking for a simple and friendly place where they can settle-in, keep their routine, and easily connect to the Southaven area. The new hotel located at 7191 Sleepy Hollow Drive, will operate as a Marriott franchise, owned by an affiliate of Peachtree Hotel Group and managed by Peachtree Hospitality Management of Atlanta, Georgia. "We are excited to introduce the TownePlace Suites brand...
