HOSPITALITY HEADLINES

• High court upholds hotel project (Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine)
• Tourism on rise in November (The Virgin Islands Daily News, St. Thomas)
• Dade City/Zephyrhills hotel named National Lighthouse Award winner: Hotel ranked in top 5 percent of Hampton Hotels in U.S. (Americus Times-Recorder, Ga.)
• Alton Comfort Inn earns hospitality award (The Telegraph, Alton, Ill.)
• S.F. center can't pay own way: Convention site shy on subsidies (Albuquerque Journal, N.M.)
• House Panel Kills Tourism Tax Proposal (Albuquerque Journal, N.M.)
• Loews hotel checks in at end of luxury wave (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• Hotel to remain open during foreclosure process (The Buffalo News, N.Y.)
• Holiday Inn could be built at airport by fall 2011: Holiday Inn and Suites owner must secure corporate and federal approval, financing. (Dayton Daily News, Ohio)
• Marriott may bring budget brand Fairfield to India soon (The Economic Times, India)
• Yosemite Lodge rebuild plans delayed (The Fresno Bee, Calif.)
• BRIEF: Hotels see decline of occupancy, revenue (El Paso Times, Texas)
• Hotels eye a top-down recovery (The Post Star, Glens Falls, N.Y.)
• Hotel-retail project coming to downtown Newark (The Record, Hackensack, N.J.)
• Pinnacle to sell Boardwalk casino site, other assets: Company saw $242 million net loss in fourth quarter (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
• MGM to divest from Atlantic City (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
• Las Vegas Review-Journal Norm Clarke column: Wynn Las Vegas club named No. 1 (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
• Has the East Valley lost the power of the perk?: Recent court ruling may stop cities from offering tax subsidies and other financial incentives to lure big development projects (The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.)
• Purchase of Delphi casino site done deal (The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio)
• Suburban competition hurts Pittsburgh's Rivers Casino (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
• Military project might include retailers: Bill would allow Air Force to cooperate with private landowners to build a hotel in the Park City area (Park Record, Park City, Utah)
• The Washington Times Nicholas Kralev column: Hilton, InterContinental cross swords (The Washington Times)

INSIDE HOTEL ONLINE TODAY
DAILY EMAIL NEWS

• InterContinental Takes Aim at Hilton's Loyalty Program Members with Bold Move to Entice Customers
• The 414-room Loews Hotel Atlanta Set for April 2010 Opening; Last of New Luxury Hotels in Atlanta for Some Time to Come
• The First New Hotel in Newark in 38 years; Tucker Development Corp Building a 150-room Courtyard by Marriott in Downtown Newark, New Jersey
• Hollywood's Walk of Fame Attraction Plays Crucial Role in Making Tourism the Biggest Industry in Los Angeles County
• HFTP Now Accepting Concurrent Session Presentation Proposals for Annual Convention and Tradeshow
• Marriott Contemplating Introducing Budget Brand Fairfield Inn & Suites to India
• Penn National Gaming Completes Purchase of Former General Motors/Delphi Automotive Plant in Columbus, Ohio; Planning to Build $400 million Casino Complex
• Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 96 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database
• The Plaza and the Pierre; La Quinta's Backward Step / Stanley Turkel
• Rainy Chan and Nicolas Beliard Receive New Executive Appointments with The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Limited
• Dolce Executive, Mike McNeill, to Serve as General Manager of its 120-room Dolce Norwalk in Norwalk, Connecticut
• Keith York Named Senior Director Revenue Management for Aqua Hotels
• Chris Dolce Appointed General Manager of the 206-room IBM Palisades Executive Conference Center in Palisades, New York

• The Mansion on Peachtree, A Rosewood Hotel and Residences Sold in Foreclosure; The Atlanta Building Sold for $66.1 million Against an Estimated  $197.4 million in Total Loans
• Starwood Removing the Sheraton flag from the 665-room Sheraton Manhattan at Times Square; The Hotel Will Remain Open as an Independent Property While the Company Decides What to Do with It
• Details Emerge How Orbitz.com Was Defrauded of Nearly $850,000 by Two Victorville, California Hotels
• Foreign Workers Suing Orlando Hotels - Swan, Dolphin and Westin Imagine for Wages Not Paid to Them by Their Labor Sub-Contractor Which Closed During a Visa Fraud Investigation
• Starwood Reports $107 million Net Loss for 4th Qtr 2009 Compared to Net Income of $79 million in the 4th Qtr 2008; Takes $362 million Impairment Charge Related to Starwood Vacation Ownership World Wide RevPAR Down 7.9% / Hotel Operating Statistics
• What to Do When Things Go Wrong in a Hotel / Daniel Edward Craig
• 2010 Outlook - LE's Canada Construction Pipeline
• The $160 million Financing of the 532-room Hilton Columbus (Ohio) Downtown a Mix of Local Equity and Build America Bonds Enabled by the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
• Orlando Hotelier Harris Rosen Builds Prototype of Little House He Wants to Send to Haiti; His Team Expects to Build 25 Homes to Start and Envisions Haiti Villages of about 200 Homes Each
• The Management Company that Operates the Hilton Hotel in San Gabriel, California to Pay $500,000 for National Origin Bias and Sexual Harassment;  EEOC Said Hotel Refused to Hire Non-Chinese Banquet Servers and Subjected Women to Verbal Abuse
• Costa Rica's Tourism Outlook? Depends on Who You Ask
• Room Mate Hotels Optimizes Online Bookings with RateTiger; Global hotelier benefits from channel management software
• Elite Meetings International (EMI) Adds Two Sales Directors and Promotes a Third; As EMI Increases its Suite of Products to Support Meeting Professionals and Hotels, it Bolsters its North American Sales Team
• India's Government to Issue Code of Conduct for "Safe and Honourable Tourism" - Objective is Protecting Women and Children From Human Trafficking and Pornography
• THG's $15 million Renovation of the 289-room Crowne Plaza in Billings, Montana Honored by IHG as 2009 Renovation Award Winner -
• Andaz WeHo, the Reinvented Hyatt on Sunset Strip, Recognized for Architecture, Design
• Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts Signs Agreement to Manage a 469-room Hotel in Chongqing in Central-western China
• Lane4 Property Group's Proposed $35 million Mixed Use Project in Kansas City, Kansas Gaining Momentum
• Lala Enterprises Preparing to Open 122-room Holiday Inn, Meridian, Mississippi
• Robert Lagerwey Appointed General Manager of Capella Singapore
• Rene Zimmer Appointed General Manager at the Finca Cortesin Hotel, Golf and Spa on the Costa del Sol of Southern Spain
• Langham Hotels International Appoints Nadine Schaperdot Director of Sales for Germany, Austria and Switzerland
• Veteran Hotelier Jon D. Kennedy Joins GrandStay Hospitality as Senior Vice President of Franchise Development

Top five viewed pages during January 2010

1. San Francisco's Heritage Marina Hotel Claims the Title of America's Dirtiest Hotel; TripAdvisor Identifies the 10 Grmiest U.S. Hotels
2. With Levity, Here's My List of Predictions for Trends in the Hotel Industry in 2010 / Daniel Edward Craig
3. Dan Brannan, General Manager of The Heritage Marina Hotel, Offers Response Concerning the Inaccurate Information by TripAdvisor.com in Their "10 Dirtiest Hotels in America"
4. Sunstone Hotel Investors Provides Business Update - Forfeits Additional 11 Hotels to Mass Mutual, Holder of $246 million Loan on the Hotels; Expects a $83 million Impairment Charge Related to the Forfeitures
5. The iPad is Coming to a Hotel Near You! / Terrence Ronsen