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FreshAir Announces Unique and Highly Effective Smoking Detection System for Hotels
FreshAir Sensors | September 30, 2020
FreshAir1 monitors for, detects, and proves tobacco smoking and marijuana smoking Lebanon, NH – FreshAir, an industry leader in the development of sensors to detect and alert for hazardous chemicals, announces its unique and highly effective FreshAir1 Smoking Detection System. The FreshAir system is ideally suited for use in hotels, casinos, and other hospitality industry settings. The only technology available to monitor for, immediately detect, and prove tobacco smoking and marijuana smoking, FreshAir1 Smoking Detection Systems are ideal for enforcing no-smoking policies, protecting infrastructure investments, securing cleaning fees...
Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts to Debut in Dana Point, California, With Conversion of Monarch Beach Resort
Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts | September 30, 2020
MCLEAN, Va. – September 30, 2020 – Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts, Hilton’s (NYSE: HLT) iconic luxury hotel brand, today announced the upcoming debut of the Waldorf Astoria Monarch Beach Resort & Club, a distinctive 400-room AAA five-diamond hotel in Dana Point, Calif. Purchased by Ohana Real Estate Investors in November 2019, Monarch Beach Resort is a celebrated coastal retreat in relaxed, sun-splashed Orange County. “The Monarch Beach Resort’s impeccable product, unmatched service standard and enviable location make it a perfect addition to the Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts portfolio. We are incredibly exci...
Liz Johnson Appointed Director of Sales & Marketing for Salmon Falls Resort and Edgewater Inn Restaurant & Marina
Salmon Falls Resort | September 30, 2020
KETCHIKAN, Alaska (September 30, 2020): Liz Johnson has been appointed Director of Sales & Marketing for Salmon Falls Resort, an intimate full-service waterfront resort in Ketchikan, Alaska, and its sister property Edgewater Inn Restaurant & Marina. In her new role, Johnson will be responsible for leading a revenue-driven sales team and overseeing both resorts’ advertising, public relations, social media and branding initiatives. “We are excited to welcome Liz to the Salmon Falls Resort and Edgewater Inn teams,” said Matt Herod, General Manager, Salmon Falls Resort. “Her background and expertise in the travel industry, and ...
Refined Hospitality Opens River House at Odette’s in New Hope, Pennsylvania
River House at Odette’s | September 30, 2020
September 30, 2020 (NEW HOPE, PA) – River House at Odette’s, a new luxury lifestyle hotel in New Hope, Pennsylvania, opened along the Delaware River on September 28, 2020. The new hotel features an edgy, yet elegant design, inspired by the hotel’s previous life as actress and musician Odette Myrtil Logan’s boisterous cabaret, Chez Odette. For over two decades, Chez Odette was the social hub of New Hope’s lively artistic community, attracting celebrities and locals alike from nearby Philadelphia and New York. River House at Odette’s weaves historic elements from Chez Odette’s colorful past into the contemporary architecture and ...
Historic Hilton Garden Inn Jackson Downtown Unveils Multimillion Dollar Renovation
Hilton Garden Inn | September 30, 2020
JACKSON, MS. (September 30, 2020): The Hilton Garden Inn Jackson Downtown, an iconic historic hotel located in the heart of the city center, has completed renovations to its 7,321 square feet of meeting and event space, 186 guest rooms, full-service restaurant and bar, lobby and fitness center. A Mississippi Landmark listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and formerly known as the King Edward Hotel, the property is a symbol of Jackson’s downtown Renaissance and continues its legacy of offering classic charm and warm Southern hospitality to today’s travelers from around the world. Completed in July 2020 and designed to reta...
IDeaS Announces Fabian Specht Future Revenue Innovator Scholarship With EHL
IDeaS | September 30, 2020
EHL hospitality management school scholarship to honor the legacy of the late EMEA-area vice president of IDeaS, Fabian Specht LONDON—Sept. 30, 2020—Global hospitality revenue management solutions provider IDeaS has partnered with world-leading hospitality management school EHL to offer the Fabian Specht Future Revenue Innovator Scholarship. IDeaS has committed to €15,000, awarded annually beginning with the 2021-22 academic year, to two international EHL students pursuing a revenue management education. IDeaS’ EMEA-area vice president Fabian Specht passed away unexpectedly in December 2019. A passionate and visionary industry l...
Onyx CenterSource Leverages OnyxComp in Partnership With Skift Recovery Index
Onyx CenterSource | September 30, 2020
DALLAS (Sept. 30, 2020) -- Onyx CenterSource, a leading global provider of B2B payments and business intelligence to the hospitality industry, today announced it is a contributing partner to the Skift Recovery Index, a real-time measurement of the travel industry’s recovery. The monthly index – published by Skift, a media company that provides news, research, and marketing services for the travel industry – uses key indicators from data partners to calculate a recovery score that industry leaders can use to guide strategic planning initiatives. Onyx will provide weekly datasets for a number of countries around the globe using its pro...
Virdee Closes $2M Seed Round to Accelerate Contactless Guest-Interaction and Operational Efficiencies
Virdee | September 30, 2020
Industry leaders back API-first solution to reduce owners’ labor costs while elevating the guest experience in hotel, multifamily and other real estate verticals AUSTIN, Texas - Sept. 30, 2020 - Virdee, a SaaS company serving the lodging and commercial real estate industries, announced the closing of a $2M seed round financing led by a group of strategic investors, including former La Quinta president, Rajiv Trivedi. In a time of disruptive change and shifting models of customer service and operation, Virdee’s software is leading the industry toward the adoption of contactless, customer-centric interactions. Virdee Concierge reduces c...
Milestone Internet Marketing, Inc. Selected by Choice Hotels as a Qualified Vendor for Property Websites
Milestone | September 30, 2020
Milestone Internet Marketing, Inc., a premiere provider of digital marketing solutions for the hospitality industry, has been selected as a Qualified Vendor by Choice Hotels International, Inc. Milestone will develop property websites for Choice Hotels franchisees across the world in an effort to help drive guests to the properties. Milestone will provide its best-in-class, SEO-first CMS platform technology to Choice's independently owned and operated hotels. The developed property sites will include advanced mobile sites, schemas, speed, voice search, and search engine optimization. In addition to a sophisticated technology platform, th...
Aptech Offers Hoteliers Six Budgeting Tips for 2021
Aptech Computer Systems Inc. | September 29, 2020
At a time when revenues are at their lowest, it’s critical that operators understand where to trim costs and how to track spending per occupied room using historical drivers PITTSBURGH, Sept. 29, 2020 — With operating budgets thrown out the window by second quarter this year, hoteliers are scrambling to find useful historical data to help guide them through the 2021 budgeting and forecasting process. Aptech, a provider of budgeting and forecasting, enterprise accounting, and business intelligence solutions for hotels, is advising operators to rely on historical drivers rather than bottom line revenues to help them better plan for the d...
Zoom With a View: Displaced Workers Fuel the New Work-From-Hotel (WFH) Trend
Ted Helvey | September 29, 2020
By Ted Helvey The world froze due to COVID-19, and the hotel industry is still in a bit of shock. While business travel is mostly stalled and vacations are slowly picking back up, there’s another category of guests that shouldn’t be ignored: Work-From-Hotel (WFH) guests. Whether displaced by the pandemic, floods, fires or other extreme circumstances, a growing number of professionals are using hotel rooms for temporary shelter and as home offices. Another group of guests are the thousands of university students seeking temporary housing due to campus social distancing measures. The expectations of these unlikely guests are more demandi...
Hotel Nikko Changshu to Open in 2023
Changshu Kuncheng Development Investment Co., Ltd. | September 29, 2020
TOKYO - Okura Nikko Hotel Management Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Hotel Okura Co., Ltd., announced today that it will open Hotel Nikko Changshu in 2023. The hotel will be located at Changshu National New & Hi-Tech Zone in Changshu city, one of the county-level cities in the Suzhou of southeastern Jiangsu Province. The company has contracted with Changshu Kuncheng Development Investment Co., Ltd. to manage the new property through its joint venture BTG Nikko International Hotel Management Co., Ltd. The Hotel Nikko Changshu will offer 288 guest rooms, each with a standard area of about 40 m², including 14 suite rooms, on 22 floors above ...
Ghost Kitchens in the Lodging Industry: A F & B Strategy for Hotels
Frederick J. DeMicco | September 29, 2020
By Frederick J. DeMicco, Ph.D. and Isaiah Morrow, School of Hotel and Restaurant Management, Northern Arizona University A Ghost kitchen is a professional food preparation and cooking facility that serves customers exclusively by delivery. Ghost kitchens do not have a physical location that customers can enter (yet). The concept of ghost kitchens strips down the traditional dining establishment by removing dining areas and fancy décor. Instead, they serve as kitchens for restaurants to prepare food to deliver to customers. Several restaurants can operate out of the same ghost kitchen, either working from the same facility or breaking the ...
HRI Lodging Appoints Executive Team Members for The Last Hotel in St. Louis
The Unbound Collection by Hyatt | September 29, 2020
ST. LOUIS, MO. (September 29, 2020): The Last Hotel, a historic property within the Unbound Collection by Hyatt, announces the appointments of Tyler John as general manager and Carrie Hunt as director of sales and marketing. The 10-story boutique hotel, located in downtown St. Louis’ Garment District, features 142 guest rooms, more than 8,500 square-feet of meeting and event space, three food and beverage outlets, a year-round rooftop pool, and a lobby that celebrates the art and essence of a bygone era. Tyler John, General Manager, brings more than a decade of experience in hospitality to his role managing day-to-day operations at The L...
Midas Hospitality Names Two Key Team Members to New St. Louis Element Hotel
Midas Hospitality | September 29, 2020
(St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 29, 2020) Leading hotel development, management and investment firm Midas Hospitality recently appointed two key team members to its newest Element by Westin. The hotel, which is set to open Oct. 30, is St. Louis’ first Element by Westin. Janessa Corpuz was named the hotel’s General Manager. She has more than 20 years of hospitality experience and previously served as GM for Midas Hospitality’s Courtyard by Marriott in St. Peters. Corpuz has worked in numerous capacities and earned many awards during her noteworthy career. James Metcalf was named Director of Food and Beverage. He will manage the Elem...
Preferred Hotels & Resorts Promotes Brenda Collin to Senior Vice President of Europe
Preferred Hotels & Resorts | September 29, 2020
NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA – September 29, 2020: Preferred Hotels & Resorts, the world’s largest global provider of sales, marketing, and distribution services to independent luxury hotels, has promoted Brenda Collin to Senior Vice President of Europe, effective immediately. In her new role, Collin will oversee a regional team to ensure the success and retention of more than 125 member properties based across an expanded region inclusive of the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Nordics, The Netherlands, Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Eastern Europe, and Turkey. “Over the past seven years, Brenda has achieved great success for ...
Mainsail Lodging Opens Luminary Hotel & Co. in Downtown Fort Myers, Florida
Luminary Hotel & Co. | September 29, 2020
FORT MYERS, Fla. (Sept. 29, 2020) – The highly anticipated 243-room waterfront Luminary Hotel & Co. officially opened its doors today, making its long-awaited debut in downtown Fort Myers, Florida. Opening in conjunction with the new 12-story Luminary Hotel are three of its featured food and beverage outlets – Ella Mae’s Diner, Dean Street Coffee, and the Lobby Bar. The hotel’s signature Silver King Ocean Brasserie, and Beacon Social Drinkery rooftop lounge, will both open later this fall. Other key features include The Workshop, an innovative culinary laboratory; an indoor and outdoor fitness facility; and a spacious pool area on...
Evolution of Hotel Management Agreements and Rise of Alternative Agreements
Hala Matar Choufany | September 29, 2020
By Hala Matar Choufany and Ersin Yildirim Hotels are complicated investments and therefore selecting an appropriate hotel agreement for a property requires exhaustive research and investigation by an investor. The choice of an operator as well as the hotel operating agreement has a significant impact on the cashflow and the potential value of the property. Hotels and the hospitality market are constantly evolving as a result of brands consolidating, owner profiles changing, technology disruption, changing traveler behavior as well as hotel investment trends altering. The 2019 HVS Middle East Valuation Index highlighted declining hote...
Valor Hospitality Partners Plans January 2021 Opening of The Valley Hotel in Homewood, Alabama
The Valley Hotel | September 29, 2020
HOMEWOOD, Ala. – September 29, 2020 – Valor Hospitality Partners announced today plans to open The Valley Hotel, a 129-room luxury hotel in the heart of idyllic and quaint downtown Homewood, Ala. in January 2021. A Curio Collection by Hilton™ hotel, The Valley Hotel offers a modern retreat infused with an independent spirit that blends Southern charm and contemporary lifestyle. Just minutes away from bustling downtown Birmingham, the new property will feature spacious rooms, an upscale chef-driven restaurant, a signature café and over 7,000 square feet of meetings and event space. Nestled along Homewood’s main thoroughfare, ami...
Donohoe Hospitality Services Opens New Dual Branded Hampton Inn & Suites/Home2 Suites by Hilton Las Vegas, NV
Donohoe Hospitality Services | September 29, 2020
BETHESDA, MD/ LAS VEGAS, NV – September 29, 2020 – Thomas Penny, III, President of Donohoe Hospitality Services, a division of Donohoe, today announced the recent opening of the newly built dual branded Hampton Inn & Suites/Home2 Suites by Hilton Las Vegas. The hotels are adjacent to the Las Vegas Convention Center, which is undergoing a $1 billion expansion, one mile from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and have easy access via the monorail to the Strip. The Hampton Inn & Suites offers 150 guestrooms, while the Home2 Suites has 100 well-appointed guest suites. The hotels share common amenities including a lobby, ...
Delta Hotels by Marriott Dallas Southlake Set for November 2020 Opening
The Delta Hotel by Marriott Dallas Southlake | September 29, 2020
SOUTHLAKE, Texas (Sept. 29, 2020) – Delta Hotels by Marriott™ announced today that the official grand opening of the Delta Hotels by Marriott™ Dallas Southlake is scheduled for mid-November 2020 – just in time to celebrate holiday festivities. The eagerly anticipated hotel, owned by RREAF Holdings affiliate and managed by Aimbridge Hospitality, is conveniently located at the intersections of State Highway 114 and White Chapel Boulevard in Southlake, Texas. “Our focus at this world-class hotel is on doing the simple things perfectly, featuring a clean aesthetic and a modern take on comfort,” said Hotel Manager John Emmett. “Ev...
Hotel Alhambra Palace Checks In With Infor for World-Class Customer Service
Infor | September 29, 2020
Five-star Spanish hospitality leader set to standardize with Infor Hospitality LONDON — 29 September 2020 — Infor today announced that the five-star, 108-room Hotel Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain, has chosen to implement Infor Hospitality Cloud solutions throughout all operations, including front of house, housekeeping, restaurants and conference bookings. Deployed in the cloud, the deal includes Infor Hospitality Management Solution (HMS), Infor Sales and Catering, and Infor Table Management. Following a thorough review of the market, Hotel Alhambra Palace chose Infor based on its global expertise with elite hospitality establis...
Turnbull Capital Group and Dr. Donald W. Wise Present a World Class Team of Professionals to Discuss: Where Are Hotel Asset Values Today?
Turnbull Capital Group | September 29, 2020
Dr. Donald W. Wise, Co-founder and Senior Managing Director of Newport Beach-based Turnbull Capital Group, and Gretta Brooks, Founder & CEO of Plano-based SalesBoost, LLC, are pleased to announce their third Webinar in a series on the discovery of hotel and resort values today. This Webinar is moderated by Dr. Donald W. Wise, Founder of CBRE Hotels in the 1984 and Founder of the lodging and hospitality lending group at Walker & Dunlop in 2007. The panel features a world-class crew of veterans: Mr. Gregory Mount, Founder, the Victory Hotel Group Ms. Suzanne Mellen, MAI, CRE, FRICS, ISHC, Senior Managing Director...
Hotel Internet Services Launches BeyondTV MyRemote to Provide Guests With Ultimate in In-Room Convenience and Contactless Service Control
Hotel Internet Services, Inc. | September 29, 2020
Mobile web-app offers personal smart device access to full range of BeyondTV features to reduce shared surface risks, including controlling TV functions, communicating with staff, requesting amenities and much more. CLEARWATER, Fla. — September 29, 2020 — Hotel Internet Services (HIS), a full-service provider of internet services and solutions for the hospitality industry, has unveiled the latest in guestroom entertainment and contactless convenience with the launch of BeyondTV MyRemote. Designed to be instantly accessible by a wide range of personal devices without the need to download software, MyRemote is simultaneously able to ca...
