1. Four Obstacles Preventing Hotels from Implementing Service at the Level of Creating Truly Memorable Experiences / Peter McAlpine
2. Global Update: Who’s Where and Doing What  / June 2006
3. St. Regis Resort, Bora Bora Opens in French Polynesia; Milton Sgarbi, the Opening GM
4. The Politics of Revenue Management / Doug Kennedy
5. Curse of the Hotel Lobby-Dwellers / Larry Mundy
6. Revenue Management for Dummies…Smaller Hotels Should Reap the Benefits Too / Neil Salerno
7. A Future Vision for Hotel Revenue Management / Caryl Helsel and Kathleen Cullen
8. More Hotel Web Site Hints, Tips, and Tricks – Unwrapped / Neil Salerno
9. Beyond “Outrageous,” and “Legendary” Customer Service Training: Creating “Ordinary Excellence, Daily!” / Doug Kennedy
10. “A Bakers Dozen” of Strategies for Hotel Sales & Marketing Professionals / Dr. John Hogan
11. Hotel Developer Suing Attorney for $100 million in Damages; Claims Attorney Represented a Lender that Had No Intentions of Fullfilling a Loan Commitment
12. Memo to GMs: The Pros and the Con of Relationship Selling / Larry Jackstien
13. Good Service is Not Enough: Global Travel Reshapes Guest Service in the 21st Century / Michael Squires
14. Create a Successful Hotel Restaurant / Robert R. Cohn
15. Top 50 Destinations List For Summer 2006; Priceline Survey Indicates Boston with Biggest Hotel Rate Increase, Washington Has Biggest Rate Decline
16. Top 5 Group Events - North America - May 2006
17. Seven Franchisees Awarded Marriott’s Highest Honor, the Partnership Circle Award
18. Some Long-term Trends that Might Be Adverse to the Future of the Hotel Industry / Steve Rushmore
19. The Hospitality Industry Facing Four Transformative Issues Over the Next Five Years,  Including Brand, Emerging Markets, Human Assets and Technology
20. Dubai Boasts 22 Five-star Hotels
21. How to Keep The Winners: Some Proven Business Management Techniques for Maintaining Great Staff / Jack Turesky
22. The Sterling Companies Planning a 33-acre Full-service 1,700 unit Condominium Resort in Panama City Beach, Florida
23. Create a Sales Proposal in Less than 60 Seconds with Cendyn's eProposal Tool; A Success for More than 700 Hotels Worldwide
24. Marketing to the Next Generation of Buyers; A Test for Your Hotel Reservations System / Debra Kristopson
25. The Employer Wins! Union Withdraws Complaint Against Hotel NLRB Concludes Owners Do Not Have to Re-hire Workforce / Marta Fernandez

• Travelport and TravelCLICK Announce Restructured and Expanded Media and Business Intelligence Partnership
• Travel Hotlink Enters Into a Strategic Alliance with ZDirect, the Leading Hospitality Electronic Marketing Company
• What Makes a Successful Condo-Hotel Project? Excerpts from a Panel Discussion at JMBM's The Hotel Developers Conference™
• The Exercise Room in Your Hotel - Sweating the Details
• Hotel Development in the Anaheim, California Area Picks Up, But Lags the Pace in San Diego, Los Angeles and San Bernardino
• Arthur Keith Named Outstanding GM of the Year by American Hotel & Lodging Association in the Large Property Category
• Dubai - a Hot New Vacation Spot; Hotel Room Inventory to Reach 52,000 by 2010
• Owned and Managed by Driftwood Hospitality, the 140 room Hotel Indigo Houston Opens; Fourth Property for the InterContinental Hotels Group New Brand
• Starwood Vacation Ownership Acquires 28.7 Acres Inside the Desert Willow Golf Resort in Palm Desert, California; New Timeshare Development Expected to Carry the Westin Brand
• MGM Grand Las Vegas Turns to MTech to Streamline Guest Services Work Flow; HotSOS Internet-based guest services tool helps world-class Vegas venue improve on even its own high standards of operation
• Portola Plaza Hotel Upgrades Its Group Business By Implementing Passkey
• Hotel Source Closes 6th Wisconsin Dells Transaction
• Choice Hotels Names Mark Weiner as Vice President, Customer Care; Move a Part of Choice’s Emphasis on Guest Satisfaction
• Five New Country Inns & Suites Properties Open During May, 2006
• Chris Van der Baars Named Vice President, Development for Interstate Hotels & Resorts

• The Informed Meetings Exchange (INMEX) Launches with the Support of over 100 Organizations
• Early Enrollment Surges for the Fall 2006 Elite Meetings Alliance; Ultra exclusive event for corporate meeting planners and luxury hoteliers to take place September 10-12, 2006, at The Club at Hammock Beach in Palm Coast, Florida
• What's New in the Hotel Guestroom? Digital, HD or IP Televisions / Ashok Kumar
• Hotelier Larry Broughton Survives Rough 2001 Start; Broughton Hospitality Group Runs 14 Hotels; $28M in Revenue / Sandi Cain
• Top 50 Destinations List For Summer 2006; Priceline Survey Indicates Boston with Biggest Hotel Rate Increase, Washington Has Biggest Rate Decline
• HITEC 2006 Held in Minneapolis Draws 4,700 Attendees; HITEC 2007 Set for Orlando, Florida on June 25-28, 2007
• Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. Acquires the W San Diego Hotel for Approximately $96 million, or $370,000 per room
• Neptune Hospitality Advisors Arranges $22 million Acquisition of Wyndham Dallas Hotel
• The 180 room Pelican Beach Resort in Fort Lauderdale Sold; Hotel Will Go Condo
• A Proposed 100-room Hotel and Conference Center Raises Many Concerns with the Isle of Wight County (Virginia) Planning Commission; Proposal too Vague
• Louise Cragun, Co-Founder of Northern Minnesota's Largest Year Round Resort, Cragun's Resort and Hotel on Gull Lake, Dies at 96
• New York City-based DHG Chooses HotSOS to Enhance High Guest-Service Standards; Owner of Affinia and The Benjamin upscale/luxury brands installing MTech’s Internet-based guest-service system in all its hotels
• Hawaiian Hotels & Resorts Installs Datavision’s Business Intelligence and CRM Tools; Datavision to provide revenue management and CRM Tools for The Royal Kona Resort and The Royal Lahaina Resort
• Leading Chicago Hotel ‘Migrates’ to HotSOS to Maximize Guest Services, Satisfaction; InterContinental Chicago now features MTech’s Internet-based Hotel Service Optimization System to streamline service response
• Hotel Source, Inc.is Pleased to Announce its 6th Successful Hotel Sale in the Wisconsin Dells
• Peter Odle, Owner of the Mango Bay Hotel in Barbados, Takes the Reigns as President of the Caribbean Hotel Association
• Raffles Beijing Hotel Opens After Nine months of Careful Refurbishment
• InterContinental Hotels Group and Shanghai University’s Advanced Polytechnic College Create Specialty Academy Aimed at the Fast Growing Hotel Industry in China
• Red Lion Hotels Corporation Completes Remodel and Expansion of Red Lion Kalispell Center Hotel
• Coral Hospitality Appoints Charles Burton General Manager of Brasstown Valley Resort

• Senior Executives from America’s Most Profitable Travel Companies Discuss How to Thrive in Today’s Highly Competitive Marketplace
• Guest Satisfaction Not a Gamble at Tropicana Resort & Casino with Help of GuestWare
• General Manager, Hans-Rudolf Rutti, Discusses His Management Style and the Ongoing Renovations at One of the Most Famous Hotels in Romania, The Bucharest InterContinental
• Good Ideas are a Dime a Dozen…But, Success or Failure is in the Execution / Neil Salerno
• Adding an"I" for Interaction to “Management By Wandering Around” / Mark Hamister
• Summer 2006: Hotels Profit, Guests Pay / PKF
• Nobody Asked Me, But… Do Hotel Franchisees Need Independent Franchise Associations? / Stanley Turkel
• Wineries in Oregon's Willamette Valley Oppose a New "Napa Valley" Style Hotel; Claim the Land Needs to Be Preserved for Agricultural Use
• Hotel Tax Waiver Spurs Lawsuit Between the Developers of Four Seasons Hotel Silicon Valley and City of East Palo Alto
• Choice Hotels Names Eleven Properties Inn of the Year Winners for 2006
• Sanjay Bedi Joins Hospitality Talent Scouts as Senior Vice President; Executive Search Firm Notes Talent Harder to Locate in Current "Good Times"
• FreshStay® Online Network Unites Hotels Worldwide,Fuels Smoke-Free Movement: Kentucky is the 48th state to join the FreshStay® union of nonsmoking lodging properties
• Adam’s Mark Hotels Implements Passkey as its Online Group Reservation & Management System
• Holiday Inn on The Hill Announces Travel Agent Appreciation Month in August; Travel Agents Can Stay for $69 throughout August 2006
• Sonnenblick-Eichner Company Arranges $41.5 million of First Mortgage Financing for the Maui Coast Hotel in Maui, Hawaii
• Interstate Hotels & Resorts Acquires the 131-room Hilton Garden Inn in Baton Rouge, La. for $14.4 million,  $110,000 per key
• Linda Canina Named Editor of Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly
• Robert Gartner Joins Northwest Hospitality Group, LLC as the Director of Acquisitions
• Destination Properties Company Limited Acquires the Kamala Bay Terrace Resort in Phuket; Plans to Turn Property into a 5-star  Resort
• Danat Hotels and Resorts Names Ali Salih the General Manager at the Mafraq Hotel, Abu Dhabi

• Three Years After Union Workers at Chicago's Congress Plaza Walked Out in a Contract Dispute, the Sides Remain Deadlocked
• Bill Peeper, Longtime President of the Orlando/Orange County CVB, Retiring at the End of 2006
• Memo to GMs: The Pros and the Con of Relationship Selling
• MGM MIRAGE Begins a Transformation of the Las Vegas Strip with the $7 billion Urban Metropolis - Project CityCenter
• Guest at Royal Solaris Resort in Cancun Falls to Death in Elevator Accident
• Journey’s End Resort in Belize Repositions Itself with $2 million Renovation
• F & F Realty, Ltd. Completes Multi Million Dollar Hotel Transformation, Opens the Doubletree Hotel Chicago-Arlington Heights
• HEI Hospitality Acquires the 293-room Embassy Suites in Irvine, Calif., HEI Subsidiary, Merritt Hospitality, Will Operate the Hotel
• John Vanderslice, Former Executive with Club Med, Named CEO of Miraval, the Tucson Wellness Resort Company
• Industry veteran Clive Taylor, previously IT Director for the Savoy Group & CIO of Extended Stay of America joins EasyRMS as Director of Sales & Operations
• Benchmark Appoints Marcia Abel as Director of Human Resources for The Northland Inn, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota
• Heidi Stone Appointed Director of Sales & Marketing for Berry Hill Plantation Resort, South Boston, Virginia
• Amber Anthony Fox Joins Signature Worldwide as Regional Sales Manager

June 23, 2006

• Remembering the Old-time Hotel Engineering Department / Larry Mundy
• Florida Keys Tourism Officials Carefully Examine Effects on the Bed Tax as More then 2,400 Hotel Rooms Go Condo
• Rosewood Hotels & Resorts Has Plans to Manage and Build a Host of New Hotels Around the World
• Fraport AG, Owner of the Frankfurt Airport, Signs Hilton International to Operate Two New Build Hotels on the Airport - a 314-room Hilton Garden Inn sitting alongside a 247-room Hilton Hotel
• Benchmark Hospitality Selected to Manage the Naples Bay Resort, a Four Star Mixed-use Destination Resort Being Constructed in Naples, Florida
• City Wide Conventions Are Back in New Orleans with the Arrival of 18,000 American Library Association Delegates; New Orleans Metropolitan CVB Had Cancelled $2 billion in Meetings Business Since Last Fall
• Gaylord Entertainment Co. Joint Venture Acquires the 311 room Courtyard by Marriott Kauai; Property Will be Renamed the ResortQuest Kauai Beach at Makaiwa
• Sofitel Los Angeles Unveils Its New Look After $40 Million Extreme Makeover
• The First W Hotel in Texas, the W Dallas Victory Hotel and Residences Opens with 252 Guestrooms and 144 Condos
• Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians Receives Financing for $400 million Four Winds Casino Resort Outside New Buffalo, Michigan
• Broadway Hospitality Chooses the Knowland Group for Group Sales Leads
• Air-Transport IT Services, Inc. Launches Web-Based Airline Check-in Kiosk Pilot Project at Hilton Garden Inn at Seaworld International Center
• Thailand Hotel Company, Dusit and Le Cordon Bleu Set up a Joint Venture to Operate Culinary School in Bangkok

• Resort Hotels; Wanted: Eaters, Golfers, and Shoppers / Robert Mandelbaum
• Restaurant Ambiance: “Pay the Cashier on the Way Out” / John R Hendrie
• Despite Setback in Redevelopment Plans, the Sonesta Beach Resort Key Biscayne Will Lay Off  Entire Staff of 385 When the Resort Shuts Aug. 31, 2006
• The Wisconsin Dells Getting Another Water Park Resort; Mac McDonald and Ron Flock Building $163 million Grand Cambrian Resort
• How to Keep The Winners: Some Proven Business Management Techniques for Maintaining Great Staff
• California, Connecticut, Arizona Are One, Two, Three in Indian Casino Revenue
• Beau Rivage Resort & Casino Will Reopen 12 Months After Katrina; Will Employ 3,800 Mississippians
• Focus Lodging Group Co-Developing a Resort Condo Hotel with 130,000 Sq Ft Indoor/Outdoor Waterpark in Hoffman Estates, Illinois
• General Hotels Corporation Spending $6 million to Renovate and Rebrand the Holiday Inn Select Indianapolis Airport to a Crowne Plaza
• Marriott Vacation Club International Building 88 Villas Within St. Kitts Marriott Resort & The Royal Beach Casino Property
• Interstate Hotels & Resorts Acquires 10.9% Equity Interest in The Statehouse Inn in Boise, Idaho
• First Hospitality Group Acquires Two Indianapolis TownePlace Suites
• TeleAdapt Launches the DeskPoint™ on Board the Sunborn Yacht Hotel in London
• LRA Worldwide Appoints John Roberto to Lead Quality Assurance Group; Hospitality Industry Veteran to Oversee Multiple Brand Teams and More Than 4,000 Annual Site Visits
• Tim Miller Rejoins Morgans Hotel Group as Chief Branding Officer and Jennifer Nellany Named General Counsel
• Cornell Hotel School Professor Steve Mutkoski Named Wine Educator of the Year

June 21, 2006

• Exclusive Dorchester Group Hotels Install EzRMS™ in 5 Luxury Properties Worldwide
• Turn Trash into Cash; Pineapple Hospitality® and Midas Consulting Identify Eight Red Flags For Hotel Operators to Improve Environmental Practices and Reduce Waste Management Expense
• Create a Successful Hotel Restaurant / By Robert R. Cohn, ex-Food and Beverage Director
• Regulating Condo Hotels; Bad Condo Hotel Municipal Ordinances Will Discourage Good Projects / Catherine DeBono Holmes
• Employees of the Hotel Palomar in Washington DC Receive Unconventional Training from the Washington Ballet; Incorporating Ballet Moves into Opening Doors, Picking Up Luggage
• Hotel Association of New York City and Union Reach Tentative Agreement; Six-year contract Provides Wage Increases of 4% in Each of the First Three Years and 3.5% in Each of the Last Three Years
• New Mexico Ski Resorts Report Worst Season in 6 Years; 2005-6 Skier Visits Totaled 416,617 vs 954,181 in 2004-05
• Private Equity Group Permira and Starwood Hotels Among Possible Bidders for De Vere, Owner of 19 Hotels in Britain
• Innco Hospitality Inc. Completing $6 million Renovation of the Hotel Pere Marquette in Peoria
• The $73.1 million, 226-room City Owned Hilton Vancouver Concludes Year 1 of Operations; Hotel Has Helped the Washington State Community With Recognition and Creation of Spinoff Businesses in the Downtown Core
• Sonnenblick-Eichner Company Arranges $236 million in Construction Financing for Viceroy Anguilla Resort and Residences, Anguilla, B.W.I.
• E-site Marketing Announces RSS Application for Destination Hotels & Resorts
• StayOnline Responds to Meetings Market Uptick with On-Site Meetings HSIA Support; Conference Services Division Rate of Adoption Strong
• St. Regis Resort, Bora Bora Opens in French Polynesia; Milton Sgarbi, the Opening GM
• The Knowland Group Begins Service in San Francisco, CA; Market Intelligence Firm Continues Solidifying Its West Coast Presence
• Orco Property Group Reopens the Riva - Hvar Yacht Harbour Hotel Following Reconstruction
• James Douglas Named General Manager for Pan Pacific Whistler Mountainside and Pan Pacific Whistler Village Centre
• Lazer Lodging Appoints James Hovark as Vice President, Asset Management

• TravelCLICK Introduces iStay Booking Engine to Revolutionize How Hotel Guests Book Online; iStay gives shoppers control of the shopping experience and provides superior merchandising that drives incremental revenue
• TravelCLICK Introduces Powerful New Rate Recommendation Tool, RateADVISOR; Created in partnership with IDeaS, RateADVISOR is the industry’s first rate recommendation tool within a rate shopping solution
• Hotel Labor - Big Cost, Big Issue
• Starwood's Preopening Squad Performs the "White Glove" Test on the New 790 room Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel
• Nobody Asked Me, But… No. 10 / Chinese Tourists, Gasoline Prices and Alternatives, GLBT Segment, Travel Agents, FAC’s, Manhattan’s Record Breaking Year, Impertinent Questions
• Lodgenet Reports on Successes in High-Speed Internet Access; Company Receives Highest Satisfaction Ranking Among Major HSIA Providers
• Lodgenet Facilitating the Move to HDTV as Interest, Implementation Increase Among Leading Hotels; “Easy HD” Program Brings All Components Together To Manage The HDTV Transition, Help Maximize ROI And Deliver A Superior In-Room Experience
• Lodgenet Connecting Guests with New In-Room Solutions for Entertainment, Information and Productivity; Company Goes Live With Entertainment 2GoSM Content Download Service
• Seven Spring Mountain Resort, Pennsylvania's Largest Ski Resort, Sold by the Dupre Family to the Nutting Family in a Family-to-Family Transaction
• E-site Marketing Releases Latest Version of RSS Enabled Website Content Management Tool
• Clairvoyix Releases Database Marketing Software Upgrades at HITEC
• MSI Launches Web-Booking Engine at HITEC; To increase property revenues and attract a new online customer base for hotels
• MSI Features New Self-Service POS Solution and Pocket Concierge at HITEC’s Guestroom 2010
• Teledex Announces New DECT 1.9 GHz and 1.8 GHz Digital Cordless Phones; New phones offer global compatibility with frequency assignments, new features
• Softscribe Inc. Launches College Intern Program; Adam Travis, business major at Georgia State University, tapped as first intern
• Business JetClass Introduces Private Jet Specialist Program
• Grand Heritage Hotels Group Giving the Casa del Mar Beach, Golf & Spa Resort a $2 million-plus Renovation; General Manager of the Cabo San Lucas, Mexico Resort is Oscar Ornelas
• J&A Jaidah Signs Starwood to Manage the 292 room W Doha Hotel & Residences in Qatar
• The 393 room Renaissance St. Louis Airport Hotel Acquired by a Joint Venture Between RockBridge Capital, LLC and Davidson Hotel Company
• Hilton Petaling Jaya Appoints Markus Kaliss as Director of Business Development

• TravelCLICK Announces Next-Generation Hotel Internet Advertising Capabilities; Interactive technology drives qualified demand, maximizing campaign performance through advanced keyword optimization with enhanced direct revenue tracking
• Create a Sales Proposal in Less than 60 Seconds with Cendyn's eProposal Tool
• TRUST.WIZCOM and IDeaS implement one of the first interfaces using new industry standards; New interface allows seamless exchange of data between IDeaS’ revenue management solution and Voyager Central Reservation System
• Beyond “Outrageous,” and “Legendary” Customer Service Training: Creating “Ordinary Excellence, Daily!” / Doug Kennedy
• Chefs Rick Tramonto and Gale Gand Joining Other Celebrity Chefs in the Trend that is Transforming Hotel Dining; Marriage Between Hotels and Celebrity-Chef Restaurateurs Can be Mutually Beneficial
• Pennsylvania Starts Adding 61,000 Slot Machines from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh and Casinos in Atlantic City Reinventing Itself As a Getaway for Vacationers and Conventioneers
• The San Francisco Bay Area Hotels Are Displaying the "No Vacancy" More Frequently, However, Not So for "Help Wanted"
• Dubai Boasts 22 Five-star Hotels
• Twenty-two Years after Detroit's Book-Cadillac Hotel Closed, The Ferchill Group's $176-million Rehab is Close to Happening - Plans Call for a 455 room Westin with a Condominium Component
• Twenty Thousand Librarians to Test New Orleans Rebuilt Infrastructure; First Citywide Convention Since Hurricane Katrina
• City of San Jose Not Sure What to Do with the Historic and Financially Struggling Dolce Hayes Mansion Hotel and Conference Center; Annual Subsidy Expeced to Reach $4.2 million
• MSI Celebrates 15 Years of Hospitality Service; Leading provider of property-management and integrated operations/marketing technologies reflects on growth and industry success; Company achieves more than 2,800 hotel installs and business partnerships with leading hotel companies
• StayOnline’s 2nd Annual Symposium Scores Broadband
• The Embassy Suites Hotel Anaheim South/Garden Grove Wins Large Business of the Year Award at the Garden Grove Chamber of Commerce Installation Event
• Guests Connect with TeleAdapt Solutions at HITEC in Booth 735
• Great Wolf Resorts Installs Datavision’s Business Intelligence System
• Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 37 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database

• The Ritz, London Selects EzRMS™ for Continued Revenue Management Performance
• SynXis Offers Online Activity Scheduling with Nirvana Technology; SynXis and Nirvana booking engines connect to form real-time scheduling system
• Union Withdraws Complaint Against Hotel; NLRB Concludes Owners Do Not Have to Re-hire Workforce / Marta Fernandez
• Mississippi Gaming Commission Approves a $250 million Isle of Capri Casino and a $400 million Foxwoods Resort
• Interstate Hotels Acquires for $2 million, a 21% Equity in the 286-room Doral Tesoro Hotel & Golf Club near Dallas/Ft. Worth
• ARAMARK Harrison Lodging Survey Reveals Venue Selection Plays Critical Role in Overall Success of Meeting or Conference
• LaSalle Hotel Properties Acquires the 109 room Alexis Hotel in Seattle, Washington, for $38.0 million
• Ground-breaking Held for The Grand Waikikian, a 38-story Timeshare Development at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort and Spa
• GBCblue Teams With IKON and Canon U.S.A. To Deliver Self-Service Copy/Fax Stations To Hotels
• Experts: Chains Leave ‘Group’ Money on the Table; Manugistics Webinar team decodes group pricing; ‘total property spend’ is new measure
• Don Shula’s Hotel & Golf Club Jumps “Into the Revenue Zone”
• Best Value Inn Brand Membership Exceeds 650 properties in Seven Years of Operation
• Ginn Company installs Datavision’s Business Intelligence System at all their resorts and at Corporate
• Eydeas Technology Software Automates Leading Electronic Marketplace for Booking Vacation Rental Properties
• Marc-Henri Dumur Named GM of the Meritus Chiang Mai Riverside Spa Resort in Thailand
• Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints Diane E. Barr Director of Training

• SynXis to Unveil a Major Upgrade to the RedX  Distribution Management System at HITEC; Release continues a year of tremendous growth in customers and offerings
• Aptech’s Data Manager Automates Multi-Property Information Gathering; Replaces Manual Spreadsheets, Centralizes Financial Data for Faster Decisions
• Hotel Developer Suing Attorney for $100 million in Damages; Claims Attorney Represented a Lender that Had No Intentions of Fullfilling a Loan Commitment
• Revenue Management for Dummies… (Like Me); Smaller Hotels Should Reap the Benefits Too
• Curse of the Hotel Lobby-Dwellers / Larry Mundy
• Starwood Selected to Manage the Astir Palace Hotel Complex in Greece; The Three Hotels to be Branded a Westin, Luxury Collection and a W Hotel
• Irish Private Equity Fund, Inchydoney Partnership, Acquires the Spanish Resort Dolce Sitges for Approximately USD $77 million

• TechTeam Global Offers Comprehensive PMS/POS Technology Support and Training; Package of solutions includes training, technology rollout, and ongoing support/help-desk services
• SECURE-RES Presents SEO Super Reporter (SM) at HITEC 2006
• PrinterOn invites HITEC 2006 attendees to experience the convenience of ‘Guest Printing’ and print to the PrinterOn sponsored Printing Station
• Hotel Concepts Awarded Microsoft® Gold Partner Status
• Looking for a CRM Solution at HITEC? Checklist Helps Find Best-Fit Solution

• Managed by Columbia Sussex Corporation, the Former Wyndham Boston Now Operating as Hilton Boston Financial District
• District Court Dismisses Securities Class Action Suit Against Great Wolf Resorts
• Jonathan Tisch Receives Tourism Achievement Award for Dedication to New York City
• Four Seasons Hotel Miami Elevates Poolside Service, F&B Sales with intelliChaise® Personal Ordering System by Tiare Technology
• Manugistics Announces Unconstrained Demand Forecasting to Optimize Revenue; Newest Revenue Management product more accurately predicts demand to aid price setting
• art’otel, Park Plaza's Quirky Art-focused Hotel Brand, Adding Fifth Hotel in Bucharest, Romania
• Amadeus Partners with HSMAI Foundation to Sponsor 'Defining Revenue Management' Special Report
• Destination Development Initiative Unfolds in the Caribbean
• Pegasus Scottsdale Data Center Becomes Hosting Facility for MSI’s Web-based Solutions
• Onity Revolutionizes Hotel Security Design and Technology with Introduction of ADVANCE  by Onity™
• John Q. Hammons Considering a Second Hotel In Colorado Springs, Colorado
• SynXis Answers the Hospitality Industry's Interface Needs with RedX™ Property Connect sm and Channel Connect sm (Clarification to the original June 6, 2006 press release)

• SoftBrands Adds a Trio of Solutions to Growing PMS Business; At least one SoftBrands PMS sold every day across the globe from October 2005 to April 2006
• SynXis Announces New Enhanced Revenue Management Services; Furthers customer ability to drive distribution via the RedX System
• Hotel HDTV:  The Picture is Getting Clearer / David Bankers
• Who Are Your Online Customers?; Does Broadband Effect How They Find Your Web Site? / Neil Salerno & David Hart
• Generation X Hotel Sales Associates: All Important Curiosity Factor Missing? / David Brudney
• Hotel Management Fees on the Rise, Incentive Clauses Triggered In 2005
• Giuseppe Cipriani Redeveloping the Shuttered Saxony Hotel in Miami Beach; Will be Transformed into170-room Cipriani Resort and Residences South Beach
• Hyatt Regency Azulera Resort & Spa and a Greg Norman Designed Golf Course Part of $300 Million Resort Village in Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica
• The Lodge at Rancho Mirage to be Closed on August 13, 2006 for Re-Development
• Pre-Show Report: 2006 International Hotel/Motel and Restaurant Show - November 11-14, 2006
• The Levante Parliament, Vienna: A Progressive Hotel Concept Uniting Art and Hospitality
• The Harrah's Employee Recovery Fund Distributed $6.6 million in Relief Funds to Non-management Employee Impacted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
• A Group of Duluthians Building a 116 room $17 million Hotel on Duluth's Downtown Waterfront
• Warnick & Company Advises on the Acquisition of the Outrigger Keauhou Beach Resort
• InnLink Set to Showcase New features at HITEC 2006
• Pelican System Launches GDS/IDS Solution
• New Consumer Research To Be Presented at Aug. 24 - 25 Tourism e-Marketing Conference in Chicago
• PAR Springer-Miller Systems Debuts Self Service Kiosk At Club Quarters Hotel in New York City
• Hotel Information Systems and Active Golf Solutions Provide Integrated Management Solution for Resort Hotels
• Interstate Hotels & Resorts Promotes Ted Knighton to President, Hotel Operations
• Rosario Bianchi Named General Manager for the Fitzpatrick Grand Central Hotel, New York City
• Highland Hospitality Names Graham Wootten  Vice President and Corporate Controller and Sean Dell’Orto as Vice President and Treasurer 
• Benchmark Appoints Thomas Barretta Food & Beverage Director at Glen Cove Mansion Hotel and Conference Center
• Himanshu Vahal Appointed Chef of the Hilton Garden Inn in Greenbelt, Maryland
• Global Events Partners (GEP) Announces Management Promotion, Addition

• Luxury Skytop Lodge Increases Revenue with Focus on Groups, Packages; Package Strategy Helps Drive 48% Reservation Conversion Rate
• Meyer Jabara Hotels Selects Cendyn's eConnectivity™ Services
• Feeding the Revenue Elephant – Hotel Revenue Management Summer 2006 / Carol Verret
• Successful Hotel Brand Differentiation Means Connecting With Customers / Rick Swig
• Unique Partnership Moving Forward with Downtown Los Angeles Convention Center Hotel; 54 story Tower to Include 876 room Marriott Marquis, 124-room Ritz Carlton and 216 Condominiums
• An American Love Affair with Pubs and Bars; National Trust Historic Hotels of America Showcases Many Legendary Bars

• Looking for a CRM Solution at HITEC? Checklist Helps Find Best-Fit Solution
• Hotel Concepts to Reveal Smart Client Enterprise Solution at HITEC 2006
• PrinterOn invites HITEC 2006 attendees to experience the convenience of ‘Guest Printing’ and print to the PrinterOn sponsored Printing Station
• SECURE-RES Presents SEO Super Reporter (SM) at HITEC 2006
• TechTeam Global Does it Again, Continuing its Successful String of Successful Rollouts

• Former Melrose Hotel Company Executives Launch New Management Company; Access Hotel Advisors Will Offer a Broad Range of Hotel Management Services
• New Zealand Tourism's Official Quality Agency, Qualmark, Signs the Country's Largest Hotel Operator, Millennium Hotels and Resorts
• Focusing on “The Politics of Revenue Management,” the 3rd HSMAI Revenue Management Strategy Conference Attracts 47 Different Hotel Brands and Management Companies
• Westin to Manage the Former Wyndham Resort on Aruba;  Starwood Vacation Ownership Building 154 two-bedroom Villas Adjacent to the Hotel
• Davidson Hotel Company Seeks to Augment its Sliver Equity Focus with Third-Party Management
• Hotel Companies Experience Power of Mintek’s Automated Asset Management Systems; Lodging Asset Management Suite Extends Asset Life, Improves Operations, Increases Guest Satisfaction 
• The Knowland Group Begins Service in Sacramento, CA
• Donnie Lee Named General Manager The Gant Condominium Resort in Aspen, Colorado
• Dan Shaughnessy Appointed Director of Sales at JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa, Phoenix, Arizona

June 12, 2006

• Good Service is Not Enough: Global Travel Reshapes Guest Service in the 21st Century; Well-traveled guests transform concierge duties, expect more personalized services faster
• Owner Operator Lodging Industry Inc. Grows by Exceeding Brand Standards; 24-property hotel company builds loyalty by delivering value, guest security
• A Future Vision for Hotel Revenue Management / Caryl Helsel and Kathleen Cullen
• Some Long-term Trends that Might be Adverse to the Future of the Hotel Industry / Steve Rushmore / Canadian Lodging Outlook
• Even as Hurricane Scientists Predict a Cycle of More Storms, The Blackstone Group Has Acquired 17 Waterfront Hotels in Florida During the Last 18 Months
• Capital Properties Acquires the Historic Chatham Bars Inn on Cape Cod for $166 million; First Hospitality Venture for Capital Properties
• Bermuda Hotel Association Creates “Hurricane Guarantee” Program, 16 of the Island’s Resorts Participating
• The Former America's Best Inn & Suites in Memphis Being Converted to an Artisan Hotel, Fashioned After the Artisan Hotel in Las Vegas
• NCL/National Content Liquidators, Inc. Awarded Liquidation Contracts for Two Hotel Properties for the Month of June
• ProfitSage Business Intelligence Software Fuels Productivity and Profitability at New Castle Hotels & Resorts
• Benchmark Hospitality Completes Renovation of Classic Golf Course at Chicago-area Eaglewood Resort & Spa; Circa 1928 Charles Maddox-design Course
• Trump Entertainment Resorts and Diamondhead Casino Corporation Sign Letter of Intent for Mississippi Casino Development; Diamondhead Owns 404 Acres on the Bay of St. Louis
• Steigenberger Strandhotel Zingst Opens in the Baltic Sea Spa of Zingst
• Kalahari Resorts Selects Signature Worldwide for Reservation Training
• Benchmark Appoints Jerry Gleason Managing Director for West Baden Springs Hotel
• Marshall Management Names Benjamin N. Seidel Joins as Executive Vice-president and Patrick Welton as Corporate Director of Revenue
• Benchmark Appoints Donna Miklich Director of Human Resources for Glen Cove Mansion Hotel and Conference Center
• Rocco Forte Hotels Appoints Robert Singer as Director of Sales for Hotel de Rome in Berlin

June 9, 2006

• Four Obstacles Preventing Hotels from Implementing Service at the Level of Creating Truly Memorable Experiences / Peter McAlpine
• Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG) Unveiling New Initiatives at HITEC® 2006
• Seven Franchisees Awarded Marriott’s Highest Honor, the Partnership Circle Award
• Focus Development Joins Project to Build 185-room Hotel on Baltimore's Fells Point Pier
• Microtel Inns & Suites Adds 31 Executed Contracts During the First Quarter of 2006;  The Majority of New Microtel Hotel Owners Have Never Owned a Hotel Before
• InterContinental Hotels Group Appointed to Manage the 560-room Holiday Inn Resort Regent Beach Cha-Am, Formerly the Regent Cha-Am Beach Resort & Spa
• Pride Hospitality, LLC Renovating the 160 room Holiday Inn – Houston Willowbrook
• Windsor Management Services Names Brad Poncher and Amanda Frank as General Manager and Director of Sales for the Homewood Suites in La Quinta, California
• Starwood Appoints Victor Barothy-Langer General Manager of the THE US GRANT - A Luxury Collection Hotel in San Diego
• Mari Palace Named General Manager of the Courtyard by Marriott in Warwick, Rhode Island
• InnLink CRS and REMco Software Forge Alliance
• EasyRMS Enters Cyprus Market With the Help of the Internationally Acclaimed Leptos Calypso Group
• Victor M. Rodriguez Named Director of Rooms, North Maple Inn in Basking Ridge, New Jersey
• Several CSM Lodging Employees Named for Excellence by Marriott International
• Benchmark Appoints Diana Wellman Director of Conference Services for Cheyenne Mountain Resort
• In case you missed it - Nobody Asked Me, But… No. 9 / Blang, Bathtubs, Best Green, Arbitration, Best Western, AAHOA, State Franchising Laws, VFR / Stanley Turkel

• More Hotel Web Site Hints, Tips, and Tricks – Unwrapped / Neil Salerno
• “A Bakers Dozen” of Strategies for Hotel Sales & Marketing Professionals / John Hogan
• The Politics of Revenue Management / Doug Kennedy
• W Dallas Had 3,000 Applications for 200 Positions; Wit, Whimsy Are Keywords for W Staffers in Training
• Two Companies with No Experience in the Gaming Industry Planning a 2,300 room Hotel/Casino on Las Vegas Strip Themed on Mens Life Style Magazine - Maxim
• Fairmont And Apollo Partner On Scotland's 209-room St Andrews Bay Golf Resort & Spa 
• Owned by GH Capital LLC and Managed by Joie de Vivre Hospitality the 209 room Hotel Angeleno Opens in Los Angeles
• Holiday Inn Hotels Begins Multi-million-dollar Marketing Campaign that Asks Guests to "Look Again" at the Brand; Campaign Targets Generation X and Baby Boomers
• Mövenpick Opens First Non-smoking Hotel, the 288 room Mövenpick Hotel Frankfurt City; Bernhard Haller Opening GM
• The Culinary Institute of Virginia Opens at the Former Johnson & Wales Campus in Norfolk, Virginia
• Clairvoyix Maps Out ‘Best-Guest’ Marketing Strategies for Grand Heritage Hotels & Resorts
• Leonardo to Provide Cultuzz with Rich Media Content for eBay Travel 
• True North Hotel Group Receives Marriott International’s Partnership Circle Award
• Key West Inns, Inc. Adds Brian Robinson as Franchisee Success Coach
• Ghee Alexander Named General Manager of Melbourne Crowne Plaza in Florida
• Noble Investment Group Names James E. Conley, Jr. as CFO and Paul Burke as EVP of Operations
• 111 Benchmark Hospitality Executives Converge on Norfolk, Virginia Landmark To Expedite Major Wetlands Restoration Project
• Dolce International Names Gerald Lampaert as Vice President of Global Information Technology
• Mohammad Zolfagharian, Room Service Server at the Calgary Marriott Hotel, Receives the J. Willard Marriott Award of Excellence

• The West Paces Hotel Group Selects TravelCLICK’s Integrated Distribution Solution Featuring iHotelier Central Reservation System
• Donald Trump Will Have Two Hotels on Fort Lauderdale Beach; Is there Enough Brand Drawing Power to Keep Two Hotels on the Same Beach Profitable?
• Marketing to the Next Generation of Buyers; A Test for Your Hotel Reservations System / Debra Kristopson
• Conference Centers Thrive In 2005; Viewed as Stable, Relatively High Revenue-per-Guest Yielding Assets with Potential Upside Given Professional Management
• Thayer Lodging Group Planning a 575 room Expansion at the Wyndham Miami Airport Hotel and Executive Meeting Center
• The Sterling Companies Planning a 33-acre Full-service 1,700 unit Condominium Resort in Panama City Beach, Florida
• Survey Reveals Vacationers Will Travel Farther and Stay Longer this Summer; Look to the Internet as Primary Resource for Researching and Booking Travel Plans
• HVS International Honors the Board of Directors of Four Seasons Hotels Corp. and Hilton's Steve Bollenbach with Lodging Leadership Awards
• The Spanish Hotel Industry has Finally Seen the Light at the End of the Tunnel
• Orbitz Data Base Now Has Over 90,000 "Authentic" Hotel Customer Reviews
• Shanxi Jinhao International Hotel Company Limited Signs Hilton Hotels Corporation to Manage 450 Hilton in Taiyuan, Capital of Shanxi Province in China
• Visual One Selected for Warren House, a Management Conference Venue Near London
• “B2B Reservation System”– New Perspective in Organizing Reservation from Travel Agents
• Brandon McCarter Named Regional Director of Operations for Florida for Noble House Hotels & Resorts
• Benchmark Appoints Rikki Boparai General Manager for the Historic Bedford Springs Resort
• Bill Oates Named to Passkey Board of Directors
• Christine Nevers Named General Manager of the Boutique Hotel Providence, Providence, Rhode Island
• Waterford Hotel Group Names Suzanne Longo General Manager of the Courtyard by Marriott in Norwich, Connecticut
• Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints Mike Wilkins Director of Sales & Marketing for Turtle Bay Resort

• SynXis Answers the Hospitality Industry's Interface Needs with RedX™ Property Connect sm and Channel Connect sm
• The Knowland Group Presents Services to Southern California Embassy Suites Co-op; Market Intelligence Firm will Provide Group Sales Leads to Properties in San Diego, Los Angeles and Palm Springs
• Global Update: Who’s Where and Doing What / June 2006
• What Do You Do With an Old Hotel? / Larry Mundy
• Asian Spa Market Experiences Brand Expansion / Bernard Burt
• Following $10 Million Renovation, the 532 room Holiday Inn Martinque on Broadway in New York City to be Reflagged Radisson Hotel Martinique
• The Hospitality Industry Facing Four Transformative Issues Over the Next Five Years, Including Brand, Emerging Markets, Human Assets and Technology
• The Previously Announced $3 billion Las Ramblas Project in Las Vegas Pulls the Plug; Construction Costs Came In More than Twice the Estimates
• The $8.5 million Remodeling Project for the 1,000 room Kansas City Marriott Downtown Should Help Attract More Conventions
• The Wyndham Lake Buena Vista Hotel and Spa at Bonnet Creek Resort To Be Centerpiece of a Nine-tower Vacation Ownership Resort Being Developed and Managed by Fairfield Resorts®, a Wyndham Vacation Ownership Company
• HITEC’s GUESTROOM 2010 Featuring intelliChaise® Personal Ordering System by Tiare Technology
• Visual OneDB to be Launched at Hitec 2006; Real Time Graphical Statistics at a Glance!
• CMX Introduces New Online Prospecting Management Application; Readerboard Data Information Service Provides Group Sales and Catering Managers With New Competitive Intelligence Tool
• Intergroup’s Tandy O. Lofland Arranges Equity and Management for Florida To-be-built Sheraton Prototype
• Puerto Rico Tourism Creates the Brand  'Porta Caribe' to Develop Tourism in Southern Puerto Rico
• Carlson Hotels Adds 12 Properties to Portfolio of Brands in April, 2006
•  Harold Rowland Named Senior Director of Hotel Operations at L’Auberge du Lac Hotel & Casino, Lake Charles, Louisiana

• American Indian Gaming Fuels Opportunities for Hospitality Industry/ Valerie Red-Horse
• Houston Looks Again at Suing Online Travel Companies for Uncollected Hotel Occupancy Tax
• Hotel Sales “Steps” and “Processes” Are Out; Today’s Inquiry Caller’s Want a Personalized Sales Experience / Doug Kennedy
• The Doubletree Hotel Tucson Used a Seven-step Process to Convert 10 Guest Rooms into Allergen-Resistant Environments at a Cost $2,100 per Room
• Several New Hotels Planned for Yuma, Arizona, Including a 172 room La Jolla Suites & Spa
• A Good First Year for Harford's Connecticut Convention Center, However Unsettled Questions Threaten Continued Progress
• Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 62 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database
• Leonardo Announces it Has Been Selected by Starwood Hotels & Resorts to Distribute its Online Rich Media Content
• Accurate Forecasts Achieved Using Carnus Systems Automated Software at 966-Room Hyatt Hotel
• Hotel Financing Professionals - Pacifica Real Estate Brokerage - Arrange Refinance of Las Vegas Hotel
• Morning Star Hospitality Services, Inc., Selected to Manage the El Tropicano Hotel, on the Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas
• The Westin Chain Goes Smoke Free in Australia & Fiji
• A Record 33.04 million Domestic and Overseas Travelers Visited Chicago in 2005 – Up 3.5% over 2004
• Intrawest Corporation Joins K2 Developments in the Operation of Solara Canmore Resort and Spa in Alberta 
• Nemacolin Woodlands Resort Preps Employees for Peak Season; Signature employee training program to impact the customer experience at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort
• Richard C. Kessler Honored by the Developer’s & Business Alliance as Florida’s Developer of the Year
• Daniel Carusone Named General Manager of the Westin Columbus, Ohio
• Holly Shumate Named General Manager Glorietta Bay Inn,  Coronado, California
• Mark Theis Named Executive Vice President, Sales, Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau
• Benchmark Appoints Heather Cunha Director of Human Resources for Chaminade Resort
• Trevor Roots and Mark Tapling Join the Executive Team at InfoGenesis / June 2006

• The Kahala Hotel and Resort Seeks the Power of an Integrated Distribution Solution from TravelCLICK; Legendary hideaway island resort selects iHotelier to drive greater web conversion
• The Trump Organization and Irongate Capital Partners Developing The Trump International Hotel and Tower - Waikiki Beach Walk; The Project, with 460 Hotel Rooms and Condominium Residences, Will Be Part of Outrigger Enterprises' Waikiki Beach Walk
• Some Speculation About a Planned W Hotel Planned Near Denver's Historic Union Station
• The Development of Cotai Strip Helps Complete a Personal Vision for 72-year-old Sheldon Adelson - Creating a Second Las Vegas; Up to 3 billion People Live a Short Distance from Macau
• “Social Computing” and Enhanced Rich Content to Shape Future of Hotel Electronic Distribution
• Vail Resorts Subsidiary, Grand Teton Lodge Company, Selected to Continue as the Concessionaire in Grand Teton National Park
• Gallery One Fort Lauderdale - A Doubletree Guest Suites Hotel In Final Phase of a Two-year, $20 Million Conversion to a Condo/hotel Business Model
• Top 5 Group Events - North America - May 2006
• Lazer Lodging Debuts As Aggressive, Proactive Hotel Asset Manager
• The Softwear Group Introduces Chain-Link™, a Multi-Branded Hotel Company Solution
• Atlas Hospitality Group Structures Sale of Palm Springs Riviera Resort & Racquet Club
• Embassy Suites Hotel Tampa-Downtown Building a Sky Bridge Connection to the Tampa Convention Center
• Best Western Sebastian Hotel & Suites in Sebastian, Florida Scores 1,000 Points Out of a Possible 1,000 for Cleanliness and Maintenance
• The Former Wyndham Dallas Market Center Converted to Doubletree Brand Following $2 Million Renovation
• The Landmark Claremont Inn in Claremont, California Completes $10 million Renovation and Transformation to a Doubletree Hotel
• Donald Martelli Named Corporate Director of Restaurant Operations for Shilo Inn Suites Hotels
• Dany Barakat Appointed Director of Human Resources for Bavaria Executive Suites Dubai

Top 25 Read Articles - May 2006

1. Are We Teaching Our Guests that the Front Desk Cannot be Bothered? Getting Back to the Basics of Hospitality: Treating Our Guests as Friends /  Kent Sexton
2. Seven Ways to Be a Better GM – Today! / Bruce Wienberg
3. Starwood Details Clear Strategies for its 8 Brands; New Signature Service Elements Created in Each Brand
4. Global Update: Who’s Where and Doing What / May 2006
5. Soon Every Town in America Will Have an Unused Convention Center / Larry Mundy
6. Top 50 Destinations for Memorial Day 2006
7. A Bakers Dozen” of Strategies for Hotel General Managers / John Hogan
8. Where Not To Build a Hotel / Larry Mundy
9. Using Fraudulent Hotel Appraisals to Scam $67 million from JP Morgan Chase Gets 3 and 5 Year Prison Terms for Two Former Hoteliers
10. Nine Tips to Create a Dominant Hotel Web Site / Neil Salerno
11. The Future of Hotel Reservations / Larry Mundy
12. Hotel Liquidators Have Little Room for Error
13. The "Tipping Point"; Identifying the Touch Points in Hotel Sales / Carol Verret
14. Affiliate of Westmont Hospitality Group Acquiring Boykin Lodging Company for Approximately $416 million
15. Unfinished $71 million Embassy Suites in La Quinta, California Has Been Foreclosed On, Franchise Yanked
16. Your Hotel Web Site: If It Ain’t Broke…Break It! Create change. Develop a “break-it” routine. / Neil Salerno
17. Whitehall Acquires 130 Hotels from the Tharaldson Family for $1.2 Billion;  Tharaldson Property Management Inc. Will to Continue as Manager of Properties
18. Turning a Transaction into a Relationship – Creating the Memorable Experience / John R. Hendrie and Brecca Loh
19. What is Customer Service Like at the Level of Creating Memorable Experiences; How Do You Create It? What Does it Look Like? / Peter McAlpine
20. Some Believe Dallas' Fragile Hotel Market Does Not Have Enough Demand to Support Addition of 1,400 Luxury Rooms
21. Independent Hotel Web Sites - Marketing Winners…and Losers / Neil Salerno
22. Morgans Hotel Group Co. to Acquire Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas and Related Assets for $770 Million
23. What You Must Do to Create a Hotel Experience Based on Service at the Level of Creating Truly Memorable Experiences? /  Peter McAlpine
24. The 2006 LIIC – The Lodging Industry Investment Council - Top Ten:  An Annual Survey of Lodging Investment Trends and Challenges
25. Starwood's aloft Select Service Brand Will Franchise Two New Build Hotels in Toronto and at Montreal's International Airport

• A 1,000-room Hilton and a 500-room Waldorf=Astoria Planned for Bonnet Creek Adjacent to Walt Disney World Resort; The First Ground-up Waldorf=Astoria Hotel to be Built Since the Original in New York
• Noble House Hotels and HBF Holdings Acquire the 475 room Palm Springs Riviera Resort & Racquet Club; Hotel Closes for Ambitious 18 month $50 million Renovation
• San Antonio's River Walk On Track to Get an Embassy Suites Hotel, Years After an Exclusivity Deal Barred the Brand from Entering the Downtown San Antonio Market
• Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Starwood Form Third Party Development Arm for Restaurant Concepts in Starwood Branded Hotels
• Jewish Resorts Thrived for Decades Around the U.S.; The Ethnic Specific Vacation Became a Casualty of Air-conditioning, Air Travel and Assimilation
• Molinaro Koger Structures Shamrock-Hostmark Acquisition of Radisson Hotel Princeton, New Jersey
• Cambria Suites, Choice Hotels New All-suites Brand, Has 23 Executed Contracts, With Boise, Idaho, and Green Bay, Wisconsin Under Construction
• Right Man, Right Time:  Denis Ivosevic - the Head of Tourism for Istria, Croatia
• The Softwear Group, LLC Announces its New Multi-Property Management Solution is a New Breed Among Multi-Property Systems
• After Three Years of Planning, Arrowood Development Begins Building Cascade Highlands, a Destination Resort and Golf Course Near Bend, Oregon
• Kwek Leng Beng, Among Singapore's Three Richest Persons, Spearheaded the 543 room Millennium Hilton Hotel Development in Bangkok
• Benchmark Announces the Appointment of Robert Boyle as Managing Director for Turtle Bay Resort
• Napa Valley’s Silverado Resort's  Growing List of Sustainable Cuisine Offerings Includes Beef, Produce, Seafood and Wine

• Hampshire Hospitality & Leisure Selects TravelCLICK for Web Booking Engine and GDS Connectivity
• Big Boost in Time-share Ownership Has Orlando Hoteliers and Orange County Hotel Occupancy Tax Collectors Worried
• Cell Phone Chargers are the No. 1 Item Left Behind by Hotel Guests
• Even in Myrtle Beach the Hotel Water Park, Once a Resort Amenity, Is Now a Necessity to Stay Competitive
• Correction & Praise - Foundation for Excellent Front Desk and Sales Training / Neil Salerno
• Hotel Smokers: A Dying Breed / Larry Mundy
• PKF Study Suggests Hotel Investment Market Still Positive Despite Peak-of-Cycle Behavior
• PURE Solutions Signs On As A Corporate Sponsor Of FreshStay™; FreshStay™’s rapidly growing online directory of non smoking hospitality properties is the perfect match for the PURETM Rooms program, which converts guestrooms to allergy-friendly rooms within 24 hours
• A Top Golfing Destination in Phuket, The Blue Canyon Country Club, Exits Bankruptcy Court
• The Grand America Hotels and Resorts Use Hospitality Call Center Training to Increase Reservations, Convert Calls; Lessons from Signature Worldwide Training Program Translate to Additional Customers
• The Augusta (Georgia) Inn & Conference Center Likely to Be Demolished, to be Replaced with a Hilton Garden Inn and a 150 room Sheraton
• Manitoba Based Canad Inns Makes Pitch for 260 room Hotel with Water Park Adjacent to the Bismarck Civic Center
• The Palms Hotel By Lexington in Kissimmee, Florida Adds the 160 Room Former Hampton Inn Following $2.5 million Renovation
• Sivica Hospitality Receives Partnership Circle Award for Exemplifying Marriott’s Vision of Hospitality Excellence 
• Sofitel Opens Two Hotels in Two Different Areas of Nanjing’s Expanding Downtown and Suburbs, A Gary Player Designed Golf Course Surrounds the Surbanban Sofitel Zhongshan Golf & Resort
• Fattal Hotel Management Franchises Five Israeli Hotels with Golden Tulip Hospitality

• Las Vegas Sands Corp. Selected by the Singapore Government to Build and Operate a $3 billion Resort/Casino at the the Marina Bay Waterfront Site
• AH&LA Applauds Senate Passage of Comprehensive Immigration Bill; Lodging CEOs Say the Bill is Critical to the Economic Future of the Industry
• John Burns and Jon Inge  Inducted into the HFTP International Hospitality Technology Hall of Fame
• Approximately 36 Companies Selected to Provide Technologies for HITEC's Guestroom 2010;  Some Technologies Not Included Because they Lacked a Working Model
• Portland, Oregon Proposed Convention Center Hotel Faces Large Funding Gap, City Council Opposition
• Interstate Hotels & Resorts to Manage 1,100-unit Pinnacle Condominium Resort in Las Vegas
• Pacifica Hotel Company Acquires Two Marina Del Rey, California Hotels, the Marina del Rey Hotel and the Marina International Hotel & Bungalows
• Ramada Inn Governor House in Olympia, Washington Severs Ramada Affiliation; The 119 room Hotel Will Operate Independently as the Governor House
• What You Must Do to Create a Hotel Experience Based on Service at the Level of Creating Truly Memorable Experiences? / Peter McAlpine
• The Peabody Hotel Group Acquires the Management Contract and Will Assist in the Repositioning of the 193 room Holiday Inn in Newton, Massachusetts
• Vagabond Franchise System, Inc Gains New Franchise in Rancho Cordova, California;  The former 116-room Fairfield Inn by Marriott Re-branded Vagabond Inn Executive Sacramento (Rancho Cordova)
• Benchmark Appoints Dan Santiago General Manager at North Maple Inn, Basking Ridge, New Jersey
• Deborah Stinebert Named to Head the the Washington, D.C. National Sales Office for Peabody Hotels

• The House of Blues Hotel Turns to TravelCLICK iHotelier CRS for Fast Implementation and Impressive Results; Boutique Chicago Hotel Drives New Business through GDS and Award-Winning Online Booking Engine
• At Pinnacle Hotel Management, GM Entrepreneurs and Centralized Accounting Support Growth; When the corporate office handles  accounting, properties focus on profitability
• Opposition from Neighbors Forces Sonnabend Family and Fortune International Realty to Withdraw Plans for Redevelopment of the Sonesta Beach Resort on Key Biscayne
• Get Them At Hello: Establishing Personal Relationships With Our Hotel Guests / Mark Hamister
• Unionization Fight Hurting Business At the Connecticut Convention Center and 409-room Marriott Hartford Downtown; Disagreement Over How Workers Should Be Allowed to Organize
• Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association Finalizes Branding and Marketing Initiative; "Get in on it"
• Montelucia, the $200 million Reincarnation of the Former La Posada, No Longer Affiliated with Horst Schulze's West Paces Hotel Group
• The Hilton Philadelphia Cherry Hill Receiving $5 million Renovation and Brand Conversion to Crowne Plaza; the 408 room Hotel Opened as the Hyatt Regency in 1975 and Later Converted to a Hilton
• Istria's Housekeeper; The Property Rental Market in Istria, Croatia Has Grown Markedly, Now often Referred to as the New Tuscany / Barry Napier
• Orient-Express Hotels Acquiring the Napasai, a Luxury Hotel and Villa Development on Koh Samui island in the Gulf of Siam
• Holiday Inn Hotel and Conference Center Long Beach Airport Listed for Sale
• Hilton Hotels' Shareholders Overwhelmingly Approve Binding By-Law Amendment to Redeem Poison Pill
• Columbia Sussex Corp. Completes the Caesars Tahoe Makeover to MontBleu Resort Casino & Spa
• Jean-Pierre Boespflug, Tamarack Resort CEO,  Says the Idaho Mountain Resort Sold $89 million Worth of Real Estate in First Year
• Gary Mano Appointed General Manager of the Fairfield Hawaii at Waikiki Beach Walk
• Chris Tsoi Appointed Hotel Manager at the St. Regis Hotel, Shanghai
• Carol Mellon and Marie Pennington-Buonanno Join Hersha Hospitality Management as Regional Directors of Sales

• New Maestro ‘GEM’ Guest Experience Management Drives Repeat Business, Captures Comments Online; Automated Response Analysis Boosts Guest Loyalty
• Seven Ways to Be a Better GM – Today! / Bruce Wienberg
• Starwood Details Clear Strategies for its 8 Brands; New Signature Service Elements Created in Each Brand
• The $75 million Umstead Hotel and Spa Being Built in Cary, North Carolina, Sets Sight on Five Star Ranking
• Hotel Industry Leaders Urge Senate to Pass Historic Immigration Bill; Hoteliers Seek Adequate Guest Worker Program with a Fast and Reliable Employment Verification System
• Auberge Resorts New Hotel Concept Being Built in Calistoga, California - the 89-room Cottage-style Solage
• The New Food & Beverage – Food “Just Like Home” / Larry Mundy
• Mitchell C. Hochberg Named President and Chief Operating Officer, Ian Schrager Company
• Naman Hospitality and Sree Hospitality Group LLC Each Plan to Build Limited Service Hotels in Downtown, Columbia, South Carolina
• Seattle Marriott Hotel Sea-Tac Airport Completes Transformation of 459 Guestrooms as $15 Million Renovation Continues; Washington State's Fifth-Largest Hotel Continues Multi-Year Renovation
• Signature Worldwide and the WTC Dulles Airport Announce Cooperative International Sales and Customer Service Training Program
• Buffalo Lodging Associates Opens Fifth Homewood Suites by Hilton;  Holyoke, Massachusetts Property Managed by Sarah Jewell
• Brian Dees, Director of Golf at Barton Creek Resort & Spa in Austin, Texas Named One of Golf Inc.’s Most Admired Operators
• Tomas Hansson Appointed General Manager of Sheraton Shenzhen Hotel, Futian
• Eight Canadian Radisson Hotels Receive the President’s Award
• Stacy Dreyfus Appointed Global Sales Director for Boutique Hotels & Resorts International
• Kaaren Hamilton Named Sales Manager at the Hyatt Regency Jersey City on the Hudson

• SynXis Makes Executive Appointments with Two Industry Veterans in North and South America; Kim Tisdale and Laura Brouk join SynXis to address customer needs and rapid growth
• Hoteliers and Corporate Planners Give High Marks to Inaugural Elite Meetings Alliance; Next Alliance scheduled for September 10-12, 2006, at The Club at Hammock Beach in Florida
• Hotel Website Mythbusters:  Search Engine Marketing is the Bait; Content Makes the Sale / Shane Ettestad
• Nobody Asked Me, But… No. 9 / Blang, Bathtubs, Best Green, Arbitration, Best Western,  AAHOA, State Franchising Laws, VFR / Stanley Turkel
• U.S. Hotels: Revenues and Profits Rise, But So Do Expenses / 2006 Trends in the Hotel Industry
• Unfinished $71 million Embassy Suites in La Quinta, California Has Been Foreclosed On, Franchise Yanked
• Hotels Increasingly Putting Out the Welcome Mat for 63% of American Households with Pets; Generating New Revenue through Fees and Services
• First Quarter Worldwide Hotel Revenue Up 12.9% from Electronic Channels According to TravelCLICK
• Pineapple Lights Up Hotels’ Bottom Lines; Hospitality Properties Reap Significant, Sustained Economic Benefits By Embracing Environmentally-Friendly, Energy-Efficient Bulbs; Lighting Retrofits Reduce Costs & Bolster Guest Satisfaction
• Choice Hotels Has Chosen EthoStream to Implement the Wireless Hotspot Initiative for the 800+ Property Econo Lodge Hotel Chain
• Opportunity Is Knocking - Will Hoteliers Answer the Door? / Joseph Gravish
• New Hotels and Resorts Popping Up in Curaçao While Existing Properties Are Taking Strides to Keep Up
• Genesis, a Costa Rican Developer, to Build an Ultra-Luxe St. Regis Resort and Residences in the Playa Coyol Area of Costa Rica
• The Kessler Collection Enters into a Management Agreement with the Historic Sundy House in Delray Beach, Florida
• Benchmark Appoints Nicole Ferrer Director of Sales & Marketing  for Danfords on the Sound
• Carlos Cerda Named General Manager of the 144-room Hampton Inn in Marlborough, Massachusetts
• Metro-Home Corporate Apartment Owner Linda Coughlin Wins National Award for Leadership in Advancing Women-owned Businesses

• Nine Tips to Create a Dominant Hotel Web Site
• Affiliate of Westmont Hospitality Group Acquiring Boykin Lodging Company for Approximately $416 million
• Demolition of the 12-story Grand Casino Island Hotel in Biloxi Clears Way for Harrah's $1 billion Casino and Resort Project
• Using Fraudulent Hotel Appraisals to Scam $67 million from JP Morgan Chase Gets 3 and 5 Year Prison
• Federal Realty Investment Trust, Developers of Hotel Valencia, Planning a 27 story Hotel and Condominium Complex in Downtown San Antonio; Some Speculate the Project Will Carry the Fairmont Brand
• Host Hotels & Resorts to Acquire The 732 room Westin Kierland Resort & Spa for $393 Million
• Rustic Cuisine of Istria, Croatia; Family Owned Restaurant-Hotel Provides Immense Pleasure / Barry Napier
• The Holiday Inn Brand’s 11th Indoor Waterpark, the  60,000 sq.-ft.Fort Rapids, Opens at the Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites Columbus (Ohio) East
• Winds Blow in Washington DC; Tax Code Changes Affecting The Lodging Industry / Kevin F. Reilly
• What is Customer Service Like at the Level of Creating Memorable Experiences;  How Do You Create It? What Does it Look Like? / Peter McAlpine
• Top 50 Destinations for Memorial Day 2006
• CIM Group Signs Joie de Vivre to Manage The Strand Hotel in Huntington Beach, California
• The Ritz-Carlton, St. Thomas Undergoing $40 million Renovation
• Greg Champion Named President of Noble House Hotels & Resorts
• John Neutze Appointed Director of Business Development for Hilton’s National Sales Office – Thailand
• Hyatt Hotels Corporation Names Elsa Pagan Individual Travel Sales Manager of the Year
• Sterling Resorts Signs Management Contract for Sea Breeze Condominiums-Resort in Biloxi, Mississippi

May 19, 2006

• Does Your Hotel Have an Ethics Policy? Now more than ever, “Good ethics is good business” / Kirby D. Payne, CHA and Bill Gillette
• Guest Privacy – It’s Not Just a Door Tag Anymore / Larry Mundy
• Hilton Hotels Corporation Recognizes 2005 Development Champions for Hilton, Doubletree and Embassy Suites Hotels Brands
• Canyon Ranch and LR Development Company Building 128 Hotel Condominiums and 256 Residential Condominiums in a 67-story Tower in Downtown Chicago
• Managed by Heartland Hotel Company, the 227 room Hilton St. Petersburg at Carillon Park Set to Open
• St. Regis Hotels & Resorts Breaks Ground on Luxury Property in Punta Mita; St. Regis Resort, Punta Mita Will Have 120 guest rooms and 65 villas for Fractional and Whole Ownership
• Monarch Hotels and Resorts Selected to Manage The Blue Rose, Orlando’s New 1,300 Unit Condo Hotel
• Roedel Companies Set to Open First Hotel in Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire in 20 Years - the 125 room Hilton Garden Inn
• A $100 million-plus Hotel and Condominium Project for Downtown Escondido, California Waiting for City Approval; Some Say Hotel "Yes", Condos "No"
• Small Luxury Hotels of the World Adds 15 Properties; SLH Portfolio Reaches 374 Hotels in 60 Countries
• Jack Nicklaus Begins Work on a Signature Golf Course in Istria, Croatia
• The Caribbean Hotel Association and The Caribbean Tourism Organization Launch New Branding Campaign with Single Identifiable Logo
• Donna Leong and Ruthann Yamanaka Appointed to Senior Vice President Positions with Outrigger Enterprises Inc.
• Benchmark Appoints Keith Battaglia Director of Sales & Marketing For Glen Cove Mansion Hotel and Conference Center
• Leslie Power Named GM and Rene Hampton DOS at the 95 room Hotel Indigo Sarasota
• Yin Yin Wong Named Director of Marketing, Millennium & Copthorne Hotels International

May 17, 2006

• Starwood's aloft Select Service Brand Will Franchise Two New  Build Hotels in Toronto and at Montreal's International Airport
• Dancing Bear Lodge – New Lodge in the Smoky Mountains Debuts
• British Hoteliers Voice Concerns Over the New Hotel Rating System; Diamonds Aren’t Forever! / Barry Napier
• The New UK Hotel Grading System Explained / Barry Napier
• Loews Makes Comeback in Washington DC Hotel Market, Signs Management Contract for the Madison Hotel
• The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C. and Developer Louis R. Cappelli Planning a 123-room Hotel with 400 Condominiums in Downtown White Plains, New York
• Germany the Conventions and Meetings Market Leader in Europe; Many New Hotels and Convention Centres in Germany
• Aztec Group Arranges the Sale of the Hampton Inn & Suites Ft. Lauderdale - Airport in Hollywood, Florida
• Neptune Hospitality Advisors Arranges Sale of Downtown San Diego Hotel
• Leonardo and ICE Expand Products to Satisfy Growing Demand for Online Rich Media Content
• M3 Hotel Accounting Now Offers Flex Budgeting; Management Listened Carefully
• Golden Tulip Takes Over the Management of Golden Tulip Accra - Ghana's Capital and Largest City
• John Meeske Named Chief Executive Officer for Myriad Entertainment and Resorts, Inc., Developers for a Planned $1.9 billion Casino Resort in Tunica, Mississippi
• La Quinta Hotels Promotes Jim Mitchell to Executive Vice President Information Technology
• TIG Global Receives Two Webby Awards for Website Design; LXR and the Boulders Resort Recognized as Top International Websites

• The 2006 LIIC – The Lodging Industry Investment Council - Top Ten: An Annual Survey of Lodging Investment Trends and Challenges
• Hospitality Safe Corporation Installs 8,500 Challenger Series Safes in Casino and Hotel Guest Rooms in 1Q’06; Flamingo Las Vegas, Tropicana Tap Market Leader for  Reliability, Uptime, Security for Guest Valuables
• Hotel Feasibility/Market Demand/Valuations and Appraisals / By: Betsy MacDonald and Steve Rushmore / Reprint From 1997 and CANADIAN LODGING OUTLOOK / March 2006 Year-to-Date
• The Future of Hotel Reservations / Larry Mundy
• Morgans Hotel Group Plans to Team with a Licensed Gaming Company to Operate Hard Rock's Casino; Expects to Bring the Margins at th