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Leisure Real Estate Advisors, LLC Announces the Sale of the Holiday Inn Express & Suites, Newton, KS.
“The property was a market leader, offered quality construction and was built adjacent to the local City owned conference center”, says Brent A. Jaynes, Managing Partner with Leisure Real Estate Advisors.

With Flip.to, Adventures on the Gorge Primed for Season Ahead After Inspiring New Audience of More Than 160K in 6 Months
Advocacy marketing platform builds momentum year round with help of their guests

Canadian Hotel Development Cost Survey 2018 / Carrie Russell, Tom Beckett, Lily Li
Each year, HVS researches and compiles development costs from our database of actual hotel construction budgets. This source now provides the basis for our illustrated total development costs per room/per product type.

Why You Are a Difficult Hospitality Employee / Don Kermath
Being easy to work with is not just a matter of improving guest satisfaction, it’s also about improving employee engagement.

Zero-G Hospitality: 4 Reasons Why Hotels Will Be The Shining Stars in Space Travel
Consumers will want to experience zero-G, visit the moon or even Mars, which will replace the white sandy beaches in travel agents’ catalogs and tourists’ fantasies.

The Wagner at the Battery Boosts Online Guest Review Scores and Streamlines Panic Button Implementation With Wi-Fi by Hotel Internet Services
5-Star Manhattan property leverages HIS expertise to provide guests with seamless internet connection and ensure staff safety with property-wide panic button signal coverage

INTELITY Partners With The Howard Hughes Corporation® on New Voice Technology Program
The company celebrates successful use of innovative voice request skill in property's pilot program

Scottsdale Company Helps Hotels, Restaurants Train Staff With E-Books
HMBookstore is trying to instill uniformity with an array of more than 130 electronic learning or e-book courses that provide guidance for people working or planning to work in hotel or restaurant occupations.

Brookfield Asset Management to Acquire Four Hotels From Hotel Leelaventure for $576 Million
The luxury hotel chain owns five hotels, comprising more than 1,400 rooms, in New Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Mumbai and Udaipur. The deal will exclude the hotel in Mumbai while including the land parcel in Agra.

Shamin Hotels Acquires Sheraton Virginia Beach Oceanfront Hotel From Coastal Hospitality Associates
The purchase of the 214-room Sheraton Virginia Beach Oceanfront Hotel at 3501 Atlantic Ave. and a 300-space parking garage at 205 36th St. was finalized on Thursday.





Margaritaville Holdings Breaks Ground on Flagship 123-Room COMPASS by Margaritaville Hotels & Resorts Slated for 2020 Opening on Anna Maria Sound in Bradenton, Florida
Margaritaville Holdings has signed its next two COMPASS properties, both beginning construction later this year in Louisville, Kentucky and Beaufort, North Carolina.

Chartwell Hospitality Breaks Ground on SpringHill Suites 
at McEwen Northside Near Downtown Franklin, Tennessee
Construction on the 150-key SpringHill Suites by Marriott at McEwen Northside is expected to be completed by spring 2020. 

Hyatt Enters Management Agreement With  Ben Thanh Holdings Affiliate to Develop Hyatt Place Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City
Set to open in 2022, the new 200-key Hyatt Place Saigon Phu Nhuan will be the first Hyatt Place hotel in Vietnam.

BENCHMARK® Adds Hilton University of Florida Conference Center at Gainesville to Benchmark Resorts & Hotels Portfolio
The recently renovated, 248-guest room property is located on the University of Florida campus, close to Gainesville's Central Business District.

Hospitality Management Corporation Selected to Manage Hampton Inn® in Snyder, Texas
The Hampton Inn® Snyder offers 80 guestrooms located in the heart of oil and gas country and midway between Lubbock and Abilene.

Davidson Hotels & Resorts Promotes Thom Geshay To President
Geshay continues a 30-plus-year career with Davidson and succeeds John Belden, who will retain the role of chairman and CEO after serving as the company's president and CEO for nearly 14 years.

Fusion Appoints Samir Wildemann as New Vice President of Operations
The German-native’s most recent role was as general manager and senior vice president for Southeast Asia at Siam Kempinski Hotel, a position he held for three years from 2015 - 2018.

Simon Antoine Returns to Accor as General Manager of Sofitel New York
His new post follows a two-year tenure as opening general manager at the InterContinental Washington D.C. – The Wharf.

ACME Hotel Company Appoints Sean Coghlan as General Manager
Coghlan brings nearly 20 years of hotel management experience including most recently as General Manager of the Hilton Garden Inn Hoffman Estates.

Shangri-La Hotel, At The Shard, London Appoints Stefan Müller as New Director of Sales and Marketing
Originally from Germany, Stefan Müller brings over 25 years of experience in the luxury hospitality industry including most recently as Director of Sales and Marketing at the Baglioni Hotel London and Excelsior Hotel Ernst in Cologne, Germany.

Jana Yackel Appointed Director of Sales and Marketing for Rosewood Hotel Georgia
Most recently, Yackel served as regional director of sales and marketing at Executive Hotels & Resorts in the Luxury Division, where she oversaw the opening of several new hotels.

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