1. Global Update: Who’s Where and Doing What / September 2007
2. The Top 10 Quirkiest Hotels from Around the World
3. A New Jersey Hotel Guest Details His Experience Concerning the Loss of a Laptop from His Hotel Room
4. The Mail Rooms of Three Hotels in Palm Beach, The Breakers, Ritz-Carlton and the Four Seasons, Used as Shipping Drop Locations in Marijuana Trafficking Scheme
5. Benchmark Hospitality's Top Five Dining Trends for 2007 
6. Top Five Most Bizarre Meeting Planner Complaints about Group Events; Drifters and Vagrants Crash Event, Eat Banker’s Buffet
7. A Gameplan for Dealing with Front Desk Clerks More Focused on Their Computer than Welcoming Guests / Doug Kennedy
8. New Forecast Report from PKF Hospitality Research No Sunset on the Horizon
9. National Customer Service Week is Coming Soon
10. Ed Scheetz, President and Chief Executive Officer of Morgans Hotel Group Resigns; Fred J. Kleisner Named Interim President and CEO
11. Habits of Highly Successful Hotel Sales People – A Seismic Shift in 2008! / Carol Verret
12. So You're 45 Years Old. You Just Sold Your Hotel Empire in a Deal Worth $834 million. What next? If you're Robert W. Winston III, You Try to Do it Again
13. Heirs to Wal-Mart's Walton Family Fortune and Investment Banking Giant Goldman Sachs Together Investing $1 billion in Global Hyatt Corp
14. This Year’s Critical Issues Will Escalate If the Hotel Industry Doesn’t Address Them Now / Rick Swig
15. Following the Steps of a  AAA Diamond Ratings Evaluator at the Mirage, Las Vegas
16. Regent Hotels Pulls Out Nine Months after Opening the Regent South Beach; Hotel Owner Names Vincci Hotels, a Chain Based in Spain, to Operate the 80 room Boutique Condo-hotel
17. A Hotel Guest at the Embassy Suites - St. Paul Facing Up to 2 Years Prison Time for Killing a Duck in the Hotel's Ornamental Pond
18. Accor Sells Red Roof Inn Brand (341 hotels) to Citi's Global Special Situations Group and Westbridge Hospitality Fund, L.P. for US 1.313 billion
19. Being Green is Getting Easier; Practices that Hotels and Restaurants Can Implement Immediately / Lee Simon
20. Hyatt’s New Lodging Brand Andaz(TM) to Open in Austin, Texas; The 210 room Hotel Will Include 150 Condo Units
21. Starwood Maintains Consumer-Brand Focus, Names Frits van Paasschen, Former CEO of Coors Brewing Company, Chief Executive Officer
22. GMs – How User Generated Review Sites Can Make you a Better Manager! / Carol Verret
23. Is Print Marketing Dead? / Carol Hart
24. Hotel Review Site that Marries Social Networking, Hotel Reviews and Meta-searches Launched by Two Recent College Graduates
25. Why Hospitality Employers Are Poor at Replying to Job Applications / Jeff N Ross

• Coined the World's Best Hotel School, the Cornell School of Hotel Administration Celebrates 85 Years; The School's Five Living Deans Attend NYC Event
• Hilton Hotels Corporation Recognizes Development Champions; William J. Yung, III, Columbia Sussex Corporation, Named the Hilton Brand Developer of the Year
• LRA Worldwide Senior Consultant Gary Tan to Serve as Panelist at HSMAI's ASIA Connect 2007 Forum in Singapore; Hospitality Expert to discuss "Guest Experience" and Hotel Standards in Asia Pacific Region
• Jim Butler, Hotel Lawyer, at Phoenix Lodging Conference: State of the Lodging Industry - Is the party over? Or is this just the intermission?
• Arlington Convention Center Development Corporation Seeks Proposals for Expansion of the Convention Center and Full-Service Hotel
• Why Hospitality Employers Are Poor at Replying to Job Applications / Jeff N Ross
• Developer Clement Chen Signs Licensing Agreement with IHG; Will Flag $70 million Project on Monterey, California's Cannery Row - The InterContinental The Clement Monterey
• Prior to The Savoy's £100 million Restoration, An Auction Will Showcase Historic Items from the PastThe ProHost® Housekeeping System has been selected for the 234 room Sands Macau Hotel
• IHG To Open a Crowne Plaza Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam in 2010; Tran Hong Quan Trading Selects the Crowne Plaza Brand to be Part of a US$65 million Mixed-development Complex
• Tramline Development Signs Letter of Intent with Aspen Skiing Company to License the The Little Nell in Jackson Hole, Wyoming
• Philip B. Mertens Appointed by Mövenpick Hotels to Senior Vice President Development & Facility Management

• Leadership and Sustainability: Gettys Blazes a Trail In Green Hospitality Design
• NYLO Hotels Chooses SynXis to Launch the Brand; Properties will use RedX® to manage all distribution channels
• Signature Worldwide Introduces Industry's First Comprehensive Customer Experience Program; Customer Experience Edge™ Earns Impressive Returns for Program's First Participants
• Hyatt's New Lodging Brand Andaz(TM) to Open in Austin, Texas; The 210 room Hotel Will Include 150 Condo Units
• Budgeting Labor Costs in '08; Our Guests are Paying the Prices We Ask on Virtually Every Item We Offer - a Room, a Cocktail, a Food Item or a Gaming Experience - Overbudget So You Don't Have To Fudge It! / William "Billy-O" Orilio
• Rim Hospitality Enters a Joint Venture with Tepic Management Group; Forms Rim Hospitality Canada to Manage 9 Properties in British Columbia and Alberta
• Chef Chat: Michael Rhoades, Executive Chef of the Newly Renovated Holiday Inn and CoCo Key Water Resort, Omaha, Nebraska
• The 3,000 room Las Vegas Hilton Quietly Undergoes $100 million of Renovations, Runs 90% Occupancy During the Week and Slightly Higher on Weekends
• LRA Worldwide CEO Rob Rush to Speak at the 2006 ESOMAR Leisure World Research Conference in Rome
• R.D. Olson Development Opens the $23 million Residence Inn by Marriott in Oceanside, California
• Kirchert Pakonen Development Signs Chef Michael Mina to Create the five-star Dining at La Punta Papagayo, Costa Rica
• HEDNA Conference in Singapore, October 18, 2007, Will Focus Electronic Distribution in The Asia-Pacifice Travel Market
• The Asian American Hotel Owners Association Rallys its 8,000 Members to Call on Congress to Extend the H-2B Visa Program
• Golden Tulip Hospitality Alters Strategy in the UK & Ireland, Following the Sale of its Master Franchisee Golden Tulip(UK) to Whitbread PLC
• NYLO Hotels Appoints Four Key Executives To Management Team
• Hotel Equities Names Andrew Pace as Director of Acquisitions and Construction
• John Johnstone Named the Director of Food & Beverage at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia
• Mark Riddell Named Director of Marketing for Lansdowne Resort Near Washington DC

September 26, 2007

• TIG Global Collects International WebAwards for Superior Website Design; Grand Hotel Esplanade Berlin and LXR Luxury Resorts and Hotels Receive Web Design Honors
• Gettys Awarded Luxury Resort Project in Costa Rica; Completes Hurricane Recovery Renovation
• Softbrands Broadens Mosaik Product Line to Include CRM Solutions Tailored to Hotels
• Web 2.0 vs. Search Engines: Are Search Engines Becoming Obsolete in the Web 2.0 Frenzy? / Max Starkov and Jason Price
• Constellation Hospitality Group Will Use Cash From Condo Sales to Finance the Lumina Branded 220 room Hotel with  245 Condominiums in Tempe, Arizona
• The 300 room Hyatt Regency Wichita Getting Makeover; Owned by the City of Wichita, All of its Share of Profits Must Go to Hotel Maintenance and Renovations
• From Attracting, Retaining and Training Staff to Employer Branding and Incentive Building, HR in Hospitality™ Conference Tackles Tough Issues
• It's Not Just About Winning - Improved Customer Service Pays off for Casinos; Market Metrix Introduces Customer Metrix 3.0 for Casinos - Web-Based Customer Feedback for Global Gaming Industry
• Novel Marketing Channel Now Available for Hoteliers Direct to Travel Agents
• MGM Grand at Foxwoods Signs Chef Tom Colicchio to Open a Craftsteak
• The 2009 Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition and Conference (HITEC®) Will be Held June 22-29, 2009 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California
• The Most Famous Hotels in the World - The Strand Yangon; Myanmar's oldest hotel, is the only hotel in Yangon left over from the colonial era
• Travel industry Leaders Gathering in Washington, DC to Urge Action on Travel-related Issues, Including the Creation of an International Travel Promotion Program to Encourage Overseas Travel to the U.S.
• First South American Investments Selects Starwood's St. Regis to Manage a 160 room Hotel and Residence Complex in Buenos Aires
• With Plans to be the Most Luxurious Hotel in Spain, Jumeirah Signs Lease to Manage the Jumeirah Port Soller, Mallorca - go to
• South Florida Hotels Posted Gains in August 2007, As Hurricanes Stayed Away
• Michael Morton Named Corporate Vice President of Operations for BMC, formerly Boykin Management Company
• Gregory M. Smith Joins Denihan Hospitality Group as Executive Vice President, Human Resources
• Elyes Ben Brahim Named Director of Operations for the Hard Rock Hotel in Pattaya, Thailand
• Jeff Erwin Appointed Managing Director Colcord Hotel, Oklahoma City
• Benchmark Hospitality Appoints Steve Ludwig Director of Sales & Marketing for Stonewall Resort
• Michael J. Dwyer Named Assistant General Manager at the Thayer Hotel, West Point, New York

• Focus on Dynamic Packages is Shifting Towards Augmenting RevPar; EFT's Revenue Management in Travel USA 2007
• Gettys: Renowned Design Firm Goes Global
• Mintek Mobile Data Solutions Named Top Hospitality Company by VSR Magazine; Florida Firm Recognized for Industry-Leading Maintenance Automation System
• Phelps Development (Marriott Brand) and FaulknerUSA (Hilton Brand) Pitched in Battle for Rights to Build 1,000 room Hotel Adjacent to Fort Lauderdale - Broward County Convention Center
• Texas Attorney General Settles Price Gouging Complaint of Customers at San Antonio's St. Anthony Hotel; Hotel Will Pay $190,000 in Consumer Restitution
• So You're 45 Years Old. You Just Sold Your Hotel Empire in a Deal Worth $834 million. What next? If you're Robert W. Winston III, You Try to Do it Again
• A Hotel Guest at the Embassy Suites - St. Paul Facing Up to 2 Years Prison Time for Killing a Duck in the Hotels Ornamental Pond
• Habits of Highly Successful Hotel Sales People - A Seismic Shift in 2008! / Carol Verret
• Luxe Worldwide Hotels Adds the Chic and Upscale Bulfinch Hotel
• Johnson Capital 100% on track supporting all of the major Hospitality Conferences including Phoenix, Rome, ALIS, JMBM, RealShare and NYU; The firm is sponsoring and speaking at all of the major hospitality events for the balance of 2007 and 2008
• Hotel and Lodging Merchant Account: Accept Credit Cards with Some Reservation
• American Liberty Hospitality Seeking a Tax Abatement for a Proposed $50 million 250 room Embassy Suites in Downtown Houston
• The Travel Industry Association Selects Ten Travel Industry Organizations to Receive 2007 Odyssey Awards
• Savannah, Long Beach, Napa and North Houston Set for Lodgework's AVIA Branded Boutique Hotels
• Tony Potter, CEO of Malta-based Corinthia Hotels International, Sets Up Separate Luxury Collection of Hotels, Re-organizes Marketing Department
• Matthew Bailey Named Managing Director of the 780-room Grand Wailea Resort Hotel & Spa in Maui, Hawaii
• Mike Motichek Appointed Southeast Regional Director of Franchise Sales and Development for Settle Inn and Guesthouse

• NxTV Selected by Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago for Next Generation HD IP Video on Demand Entertainment Services; Guests to receive NxTV ultra-crisp 100% digital HD VOD content delivery
• 'Increasing Revenue' is Focus of Rainmaker Group Client Steering Committee Meeting; Multi-family executives assemble to shape future revenue optimization innovations
• National Customer Service Week is Coming Soon: October 1-5, 2007
• LodgeWorks Hotel Company Launching Two New Brands - Hotel Sierra and Avia
• Two New Food and Beverage Programs You Won't Find Anywhere Else: iTASTE and The Virtual Menu at the Grand Hyatt DFW
• Palm Beach County's Convention Center Continues to Lose about $1 million a Year; Four Year Old $84 million Convention Center Lacks Adjacent Hotel
• After an Updated Market Study, Developers Now Planning a $40 million 150-room Hotel with a Spa and Resort Quality Facilities at Oklahoma's Lake Murray State Park
• Red Lion Hotels Acquiring the Leasehold Interest in the 314 room Radisson Hotel Maingate- Anaheim; Will Spend $10 million on Extensive Renovation
• Revenue Management Pricing Conference Delivers NextGen Strategies to Boost the Bottom Line; Leading execs from GM, Delta, UPS and other top companies share revenue generating practices
• Johnson Capital Welcomes Bryan K. Williams, CQA, Chief Service Officer and Baldrige Examiner, of B. Williams Enterprise, LLC, to their Global Hospitality Industry Advisory Board
• Mark Sanders Named Regional Vice President of Millennium Hotels' New York Properties and General Manager of the Millennium Broadway Hotel
• Randall K. Villareal Named Vice President of Hotel Operations MotorCity Casino Hotel, Detroit, Michigan
• Duncan MacArthur and Jeffrey Boland Named Managing Director and Director of Operations, Respectively, for the Seven Stars Resort on Providenciales in the Turks & Caicos Islands, BWI
• The Tokyu Group Names Hisashi Konno President of the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel & Bungalows, Kohala Coast, Hawaii
• Jackie Nguyen Appointed Director, Sales & Marketing  at the Marriott Calgary

• Knowland Unleashes INSIGHT on the World of Hospitality and Asks Hoteliers to Imagine…Imagine a breakthrough tool that provides access to over $3 billon In group bookings
• Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation Negotiates with Great Wolf Resorts to Develop an Indoor Waterpark Resort on Tribal Lands in Southeastern Connecticut
• Vail Resorts Outlines Specific 'Green' Measures for $1 Billion Resort Development at the Base of Vail Mountain; Using Reclaimed Water from Snowmelt in the Toilets
• Inland American Real Estate Trust Inc. Paying $920 million for an Affiliate of the RLJ Development LLC
• Business is Slow, and Debt Dogs Rocky Gap Lodge & Golf Resort in Flintstone, Maryland; The 10 year Old State Supported Resort Struggels with Operating Losses
• Joie de Vivre's Multi-million Dollar Renovation of Miyako Hotel Boosts Revitalization of San Francisco's Japantown
• The Seneca Nation of Indians is Weighing an Expanded Buffalo Seneca Creek Casino that Would Include a Luxury Hotel -- Boosting Cost of Permanent Gambling Complex to $275 million
• Building a Presence in the Marketplace: Destination "Demand Generators"
• Providing the Tools to Be a Great General Manager: Triple Mentoring a  Key Component of Hotel Equities Management Training Program
• Boyne USA Resorts Acquiring Ski Resorts in Maine and Washington State
• Tech-focused Seminars Will Complement Nearly 200 Tech Exhibitors at International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show, November 10-13, 2007, New York City
• Johnson Capital Welcomes David M. Brudney, ISHC. Principal, David Brudney &  Associates, of Carlsbad, CA to their Global Hospitality Industry Advisory Board
• Paradise Found: The Cove Atlantis on Paradise Island Harbors a Romantic Bahamian Escape / Bernard Burt
• Now Hotel Guests Can Plug into Hotel Entertainment Systems via the TeleAdapt MediaHub
• Developer Yogesh Manocha and Choice Hotels Break Ground for a 103-room Cambria Suites in Morrisville, North Carolina
• Jason McLeod Appointed Executive Chef for The Grand Del Mar, Manchester Grand Resorts' 249 room Resort in Del Mar, California Opening in October 2007
• Peter Evenhuis Named Director of Sales and Marketing for Dinah's Garden Hotel, Palo Alto, California
• The Beverly Hills Residence Inn seeking a Director of Sales and Marketing for the 186 room/all suite property. Candidates should have previous hotel sales experience in the Los Angeles market

• Bruce Dalen, Hotelwaterparks.com CEO, discusses how hotel owners should consider adding waterparks or a slide to existing pools to increase occupancy & ADR in an exclusive Hotel Online One-on-One Interview
• The Providence Group Helps Spearhead Upscale Project
• Ed Scheetz, President and Chief Executive Officer of Morgans Hotel Group Resigns; Fred J. Kleisner Named Interim President and CEO
• Many Chefs, Restaurants Working More Diligently to Trademark, Copyright and Patent to Protect the Fruits of their Creative Labor and Innovations
• TripAdvisor Surveys Reveals Marriott Favorite Hotel Chain for Business Travelers for Second Straight Year; Seventy-eight percent of Business Travelers are Members of a Hotel Points Program
• Hempel Properties and Morrissey Hospitality Co. Keep Hotel Plans, Drop Condos, On the Makeover of the the Midland Bank Building in Downtown Minneapolis; The Hotel Minneapolis Will Carry the Doubletree Brand
• Hotel Rates Rose by 0.8% Year-on-year on a Global Level in the Second Quarter of 2007; Europe Year-on-year Hotel Prices Rose 5.2% While the U.S. Fell
• Disney Expanding Grand Californian Hotel; Adding a Wing with 200 Hotel rooms and 50 Timeshare Condominiums
• The Procaccianti Group Acquires the Tudor Hotel at the United Nations and the Holiday Inn SoHo; Appoints Louis Llach as Manhattan Area Manager
• Prism Hotels Selected to Manage the 707-room Crowne Plaza Hotel Astor -- New Orleans; The Hotel Recently Acquired by RREEF and Loeb Partners Realty LLC
• The Scotia Group Opens the Embassy Suites Tucson-Paloma Village in Tucson, Arizona; The 119-suite Hotel Managed by Grace Hospitality
• Industry Veterans Richard Reyer and Dick Wheeler Introducing 'New Ring in Hospitality; Bittel USA taps the talents of hospitality telecom experts to spark awareness of its guestroom telephone solutions
• Utell Hotels & Resorts Expands in Latin America with Enjoy Resort & Casino Agreement; Two Chilean Properties Tap Utell® Representation Services for Global Branding
• Meeting Alliance Recognized as the Fastest-Growing Company in the Meeting Industry
• Global Events Partners and Krisam Group join with Germany-based destex for European Sales, establishing a Global Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions (MICE) Gateway for Austria, Germany and Switzerland
• Langham Hotels International Wins Management Contract for its Second Hotel in Beijing - Langham Place Beijing Capital Airport Hotel
• Institute of Hospitality Charters New Branch in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Hotel and Tourism Management
• Vikki Wrede, Chef Concierge at the Clearwater Beach Marriott Suites Awarded Membership in Les Clefs d'Or Association
• Crestline Hotels & Resorts Appoints David Brian Catalon as Director of Sales & Marketing for the Sheraton Reston and the Westin Reston Heights Hotels in Virginia

• Lodge of the Ozarks Drives Higher Profitability with Maestro at The Largest Convention Center in Branson; Maestro optimizes all hotel and conference center operations on one database for greater staff productivity, stronger financial management and better guest tracking
• Group Business, Education and Networking Highlight the Fall 2007 Elite Meetings Alliance; Powerful Combination Delivers Successful Outcome
• Orient-Express Spurns Indian Hotels' Overtures;  The Indian Hotels Company Acquires 10% Stake in Orient-Express Hotels for US$ 211 million Seeking Proposed Alliance
• Sluggish Condominium Sales Has Developers of St. Paul's Penfield Project Studying Adding a 200 room Hyatt Place Hotel to the 33 Story Tower
• Interstate Hotels Forms Joint Venture with Investcorp Real Estate Group; Will Acquire for $118 million from Afiliates of The Blackstone Group the 321-room Hilton Seelbach, Louisville in Kentucky; the 226-room Crowne Plaza Madison in Wisconsin; and the 288-room Sheraton Columbia in Maryland
• Rockingham Asset Management Begins Construction on Liberty Cove, a $50 billion Destination Resort Located on Sea of Cortez in Sonora, Mexico
• Klaus Tenter, Former GM of the Four Seasons Toronto, Opens the 77 room Hazelton Hotel, Toronto
• TTI Brings 'Concierge on Demand' Services to Hotels as Guest-Service, Revenue Tool; Portland Square Hotel in NYC is first to use the self-service entertainment ticketing system - Ideal for independent hotels with fewer than 200 guestrooms
• Hospitality eBusiness Strategies Wins Five WebAwards
• Real Estate Veteran Establishes Atlanta Based Hotel Assets Group, LLC; Company set to focus in Hotel Brokerage, Hotel Ownership and Hotel Investment Banking services
• The Hotel Group Will Manage Three Hotels Being Developed by A&A Construction in Anchorage, Fairbanks and Seward Alaska
• Claret Capital, a Dublin, Ireland private investment firm, Acquires 90% Interest in the St. Regis Hotel, Washington D.C.
• Howard C. Karawan Named Chief Operating Officer, Fontainebleau Resorts, LLC; Will Oversee Fontainebleau Las Vegas and Fontainebleau Miami Beach
• Novare Group Holdings, LLC Opens Second Atlanta Hotel/Condo Property - TWELVE Hotels & Residences Centennial Park with 102 Hotel Suites and  517 Condominium Residences
• Denihan Hospitality Group Appoints Andrew Labetti General Manager of The Benjamin, New York City
• Sage Hospitality Names Peter Psihas Director of Sales and Marketing for THE BLACKSTONE, a Renaissance Hotel, Chicago

• Senior Travel Executives Convene in Las Vegas to Discuss the Latest Trends in Online Marketing, Distribution and Technology - Attendee List Now Available to View
• TravelCLICK Wins Nine International WebAwards for Outstanding Achievement in Website Development; Winning Websites Position TravelCLICK as a Leading Internet Marketer for the Hotel Industry
• Top Five Most Bizarre Meeting Planner Complaints about Group Events; Drifters and Vagrants Crash Event, Eat Banker's Buffet
• GMs - How User Generated Review Sites Can Make You a Better Manager! / Carol Verret
• American Property Management's Plan to Renovate the 15-story Wyndham Hotel at Albuquerque International Sunport At a Dead Stop Because of Differences with the City of Albuquerque
• Rhode Island Improves Franchise Rules, What's Up With Canada? Conversion of a Jail Into a Hotel / Stanley Turkel
• Destination Hotels & Resorts' Ken McKenzie Recently Inducted into Arizona Hotel & Lodging Association Hall of Fame
• Cap Cana Joins Forces With Ritz-Carlton To Develop 220-room Resort and Residential Project In Dominican Republic
• Robert Patasnick Recipient of HFTP's 2007 Paragon Award; Honored for Significant Contributions to HFTP and the Hospitality Industry
• National Customer Service Week is Coming Soon - October 1-5, 2007
• Pet Friendly San Francisco Hotels Join BringYourPet.com
• IHG's Candlewood Suites Diverts 3,200 Mattresses and Box Springs and 4,000 Linen Sets from Landfills to 4,300 Families Across the U.S.
• Dallas' Hilton Anatole Undergoes Second Phase of Multi-Year $100 million Renovation; The Renovation Design Inspired by the Anatole's Asian Art Collection - the Largest Private Assembly for any U.S. Hotel
• Nathan Boyd Appointed Director of Sales & Marketing for the Hotel Jerome in Aspen, Colorado

• SmartCube Replaces AutoClassic as #1 Automated Minibar in the Hotel Market 
• A Gameplan for Dealing with Front Desk Clerks More Focused on Their Computer than Welcoming Guests; Transform Your Guest Contact Staff Into "Hostmasters" / Doug Kennedy
• Regent Hotels Pulls Out Nine Months after Opening the Regent South Beach; Hotel Owner Names Vincci Hotels, a Chain Based in Spain, to Operate the 80 room Boutique Condo-hotel
• The $100-million, 24-story JW Marriott Hotel Grand Rapids Opens; City  Hopes to Compete Better with Cities Such as Detroit and Chicago for the Smaller Meetings Market
• Unity Village Hotel and Conference Center, Near Kansas City, Missouri Claims to be the Fourth Hotel to be Certified Green by the U.S. Green Building Council
• Manga LLC Planning a $15 million 149 room aloft Hotel Near Buffalo Niagara International Airport
• Five Years after Spokane's Davenport Hotel Reopening, Caretakers Recall the Dark Days
• A 414-room Loews Hotel to be Centerpiece of 12th & Midtown, New Mixed-use Development on Atlanta's Midtown Mile
• Rockford Area Convention & Visitors Bureau: Destination Segmentation / Cohorts Analyzes and Segments Databases to Increase Tourism
• The ProHost® Housekeeping System Has Been Selected for The Liberty Hotel Boston
• Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. Realigns Management Structure
• Christian Clerc Named General Manager of The Ritz-Carlton Chicago (A Four Seasons Hotel)
• The Ritz-Carlton, Westchester Appoints James R. Dangler as Executive Chef
• Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 98 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database
• Rene Teuscher Appointed General Manager of the Orchard Hotel Singapore

• Knowland Offers Holiday Party Lead Lists to Over 70 Markets Across North America; Holiday Party and Catering Reports now available for your market
• Concord Hospitality Enterprises Sells 19-hotel Portfolio of Marriott-branded Properties to Moody National Cos. for $440 million; Plans to Build New Hotels with Proceeds
• Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts Developing Strategy to Enhance Corporate Social Responsibility Activities in Five Key Areas: the Environment; Employees and the Community; Health and Safety; Supply Chain Management; and Stakeholder Relations
• Is Print Marketing Dead? / Carol Hart
• HEDNA's December 2007 Conference Looks at Shaping the Future of Digital Travel; Keynote speakers are Henry H. Harteveldt of Forrester Research and Daniel Levine of Avant-Guide
• Three American Indian Tribes Make History in California, Open the First off-reservation Hotel in California - the 235 suite Residence Inn by Marriott Sacramento at Capitol Park
• Joanne Yoo Joins The University of Houston Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management as Assistant Professor; Will Research Two Current Tourism Trends - Gaming and Medical Tourism
• Playa Hotels & Resorts, S.L. Acquires the Ocean Bavaro Spa and Beach Resort in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic; Resort to be re-branded as the Barcelo Dominican Beach Resort
• Marilyn Carlson Nelson, chair and CEO of Carlson, Inducted into the American Society of Travel Agents Hall of Fame
• Hiring properly documented legal aliens, plays a vital role in the growth of the U.S. tourism industry. If you are looking for reliable english speaking seasonal labor then we can help you
• A New Jersey Hotel Guest Details His Experience Concerning the Loss of a Laptop from His Hotel Room
• Web-Based Time & Attendance Solution Now Available Through UniFocus; Web-based solution performs rich management reporting, advanced administrative functions and job costing capabilities to streamline payroll operations
• The ProHost® Housekeeping System Has Been Selected for The Liberty Hotel Boston
• Mainsail Management Group Selects SoftBrands' Epitome Property Management System
• Great Wolf Resorts Selects the MICROS OPERA and MICROS 9700 HMS for Enterprise Deployment
• Choice Hotels Australasia Acknowledges Top Performing Individuals and Hotels
• Famed New York Eatery - Junior's - to Open at MGM Grand at Foxwoods in 2008
• Francois Malric Named Operations Manager of Rihiveli Beach Resort in the Maldives
• Pan Pacific Hotels and Resorts Appoints Alexander A. Pangelinan to Regional Director of Sales, Americas
• Benchmark Hospitality Appoints Brian Schack Executive Chef for French Lick Resort Casino
• Adam Votaw Appointed Executive Chef of LaPlaya Beach & Golf Resort, Naples, Florida
• Michael Russell Named Executive Chef of Chicago's McCormick Place
• Hard Rock Hotel San Diego Hires Jeff Walter as Executive Chef
• Noelia Nava Named Director of Housekeeping for The Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort, Phoenix, Arizona

• New Forecast Report from PKF Hospitality Research: No Sunset on the Horizon
• Engage Me . .  the Voice of Your Customer / www.engagemenow.com
• The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels (Peninsula Hotels) Finds Demand for Quality Accommodation Remains Strong in 2007; The Peninsula New York Achieves Average Daily Room Rate of $732 at a 74% Occupancy for the Six Months Ending June, 2007 
• Texas Rangers Owner Tom Hicks Envisions 2-3 Hotels for $1 billion Glorypark Town Center Development Located Between the Rangers' Ballpark and the New Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington
• City of Mesa, Arizona Offers $20 million in Incentives to Developer of Proposed Massive Waterpark and Resort
• Qbic Hotels, With its Low Cost Design Hotels Concept, Opens First Hotel in Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Key Element a Cube-shaped Guest Room, Appropriately Called Cubi
• Brett Melzer Opens the Malikha Lodge; Designed by Jean Michel Gathy, the Lodge is Located Myanmar's  Himalaya Rainforest Near the Border of Tibet and Northern India, Will Help Support Hill Tribes and Sustainable Tourism
• Report on Social Media: Not Just an Online Network for 15-year-olds; It Can Be Used by Hotels to Deepen the Brand and Expand the Relationship with the Customer
• Only 2 Days Left to Register - Web 2.0 and the Hotel Group Sales Process
• Caribbean Hotel Association Sponsoring 2nd Annual HFTP Conference on December 10-11, 2007 in Montego Bay, Jamaica
• Austin's Historic Driskill Hotel Joins Associated Luxury Hotels International
• Sonnenblick-Eichner Company Arranges $33,000,000 of First Mortgage Financing for Hilton Fort Lee at the George Washington Bridge, Fort Lee, New Jersey
• Raffles Hotels Signs Agreement with PT Asia Pasifik Property to Manage Raffles Amarthain in Bali, Indonesia
• Global Events Partners (GEP) and Krisam Group Open Office in the  Raleigh-Durham Research Triangle - GEP's Rachel Elliott Leads Sales and Service in Burgeoning Market for Meetings and Event Business; Tracey Lankford Manages Krisam Office
• The Hotel Group Acquires 388-room Radisson Hotel and Suites in Downtown Kansas City; Planning $12 million in Renovations to the Rebranded Crowne Plaza
• UNITE HERE files Initiative to Control Condo Development Near Ritz Carlton Huntington Hotel and Spa; Union Seeks to Protect Hotel Workers Jobs
• Kimpton Hotels Appoints Sholeh Katherina Kia as General Manager and Vicki Walker as Director of Sales and Marketing for the Hotel Palomar in Arlington, Virginia
• Edgar Lozoya Named General Manager for the Hilton Sedona Resort & Spa, Sedona, Arizona
• The San Jose Convention & Visitors Bureau Names Anita Pagin National Sales Manager
• Carlson Hotels Worldwide Names Karen deKanter Director of National Sales
• Emmanuel Robert Named Executive Chef for Sofitel San Francisco Bay

• Discover How to Get Your Revenue Management and Sales Departments on the Same Page
• Following the Steps of a AAA Diamond Ratings Evaluator at the Mirage, Las Vegas
• Widow of Hollywood Director-Producer Moustapha Akkad Sues Global Hyatt Corporation for Wrongful Death; Akkad Was Killed in a 2005 Suicide Bombing at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Amman, Jordan
• MGM MIRAGE, Kerzner International and Istithmar Finalize Definitive Agreements to Develop Multi-Billion Dollar Las Vegas Resort
• Harrah's Foundation Gifts $30 million to UNLV's William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration; Designates $25 million toward Construction of New Hotel Administration Academic Building and $5 million for Related Research and Education Initiatives
• ESuites Hotels Planning a $35 million Tech-heavy 224 suite Hotel Near Raleigh-Durham International Airport
• Top 10 Group Events: North America and Selected Markets / Aug 01, 2007 - Aug 31, 2007 / Knowland Group Inc
• The Caribbean Continues to Show Tremendous Investment Potential for Spanish Hotel Companies; Caribbean Hotel Association Sets Meeting with 30 of Spain's Most Powerful Hotel Investors
• The Wirth Companies Transitions the 403-room Grand Lodge Hotel in Bloomington, Minnesota to Radisson Hotel Bloomington By Mall of America®
• Tom Giannopoulos Named 2007 Hospitality Executive of the Year by Penn State Hotel and Restaurant Society
• Benchmark Hospitality's Cheyenne Mountain Resort Honored as Best "Good Neighbor" In Colorado by National Restaurant Association; Receives 'Restaurant Neighbor Award' for the State
• ICE Portal Introduces New Multilingual Digital Brochures; Now Hotels Will Have Auto Translations for Eight Different Languages
• Pegasus Expands Distribution Channels through New Agreement with StarCite; Pegasus to Provide StarCite with UltraDirect® Distribution Technology
• First Hilton Garden Inn Franchise Agreement in Costa Rica has Been Signed with Hoteles Aeropuerto H.A.L., S.R.L.
• Vietnam Investment & Project Development Group Contracts with Life Resorts and Blue Ocean Company Ltd to Develop a 110 unit, Resort in the Mountainous Region of Sa Pa, Vietnam
• Alexander Pichel and Mirco Zanini Named to GM Posts with Rocco Forte Hotels
• Pamela Line Appointed Assistant Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Coakley & Williams Hotel Management Company
• Kirk DeLong Named Executive Chef at Fess Parker's Doubletree Resort, Santa Barbara, California

September 10, 2007

• Accor Sells Red Roof Inn Brand (341 hotels) to Citi's Global Special Situations Group and Westbridge Hospitality Fund, L.P. for US 1.313 billion
• Social Media Scrutiny - Managing a Hotel's Online Reputation / Neil Salerno
• Hotel Review Web Site that Marries Social Networking, Hotel Reviews and Meta-searches Launched by Two Recent College Graduates
• Industrial, Flexible and Demountable (IFD) Building System at the Core of a New Dutch Hotel Group - citizenM Hotels
• Songy Partners and Omni Hotels Preparing to Spend $100 million to Turn the Long Shuttered 28-story Sheraton-Lincoln Plaza in Downtown Houston into an Omni Luxury Hotel
• The Mail Rooms of Three Hotels in Palm Beach, The Breakers, Ritz-Carlton and the Four Seasons Used as Shipping Drop Locations in Marijuana Trafficking Scheme
• All Four of the Main Convention Center Hotel Operators -- Marriott, Hyatt, Hilton and Sheraton Are Part of the Four Proposals Submitted to the City of Tucson
• Best Western Positioning Itself as a Four Star Chain in Asia While Most North American Hotels are Considered to Be in the Mid-market Segment
• Crescent Hotels & Resorts Acquiring the 293-room Sheraton Tampa Riverwalk Hotel; Crescent Will Assume Management and Invest $6 million to Upgrade
• The Keauhou Beach Resort, Managed by Outrigger Enterprise Group, Giving 310 rooms a Complete Makeover
• James Rowe Named Director of Acquisitions and Development for Thayer Lodging Group
• The Saunders Hotel Group, LLC Names Colin O'Donnell Area Director of Revenue Management for Boston Properties
• Diane Riche Appointed Director of Sales and Marketing at Loews New Orleans

September 7, 2007

• Washington D.C. Hotel Owners Reach a Tentative Three-year Labor Agreement with Local 25 of Unite Here; Hotels Will Continue to Pay 100% of Employees Health Care Premiums and Must Reduce Housekeepers' Workloads
• Sage Hospitality Resources Finding Success Adding Coco Key Water Parks to Hotels; Have Four Open with Five More Planned 
• LQ Management L.L.C. Breaks Ground on a 241 room La Quinta Inns & Suites in Downtown Chicago
• The Iconic, Bright Red "New Yorker" Sign on the New Yorker Hotel Will Remain a Fixture of the Historic Hotel
• Environmentally-friendly Products Making Debut in Guestroom 2010 at the 2007 IH/M&RS
• Recap HSMAI Hotel Sales Strategy Conference: Meeting and Event Professionals Tell Hotel Sales & Marketing Directors That Budgets Were Not Going Up and They Better Get Online for Both RFPs and Bookings
• Embassy Suites Challenges Guests to Design the Brand's New "Do Not Disturb" Sign: Such As:  "There's a Good Reason for You NOT to Knock Right Now"
• The Courtyard by Marriott Hotel in Downtown Milwaukee Sold for $26.1 million; Third Sale of a Downtown Hotel in the Past Four Months
• Critiquing a Retro Grillhouse, the Daily Grill at  the Sheraton Seattle
• Optimum Hotel Brokerage Sells Holiday Inn Express in Plainfield, Connecticut; Connecticut Casino Region Hotel Sold to New York-Based Operator
• The Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Now Owned by Omni Hotels Following the Acquisition of the Hotel Component of the Austin Centre Complex
• PAR Springer-Miller Selected by Scotland's Gleneagles® Hotel to Install Completely Integrated Property Management System; Famed Destination Resort Chooses Guest Centric SMS|Host Hospitality Management System
• Portfolio Hotels & Resorts Managing the 470-room Hyatt Regency Woodfield in Schaumburg, IL  on Behalf of Owner The Harp Group
• Lánchíd 19, Named after Budapest's "Chain Bridge" Opens, Hungary's First Member of Design hotels™
• Dania Duke Appointed General Manager of Hyatt at Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco
• Donna Turner Named 2007 Certified Hospitality Accountant Executive (CHAE) of the Year

• Global Update: Who's Where and Doing What / September 2007
• Flyte Systems Installs Airline Flight Information Displays at Berger Hotels; Updated airline departure-arrival screens keep guests and revenue on property
• This Year's Critical Issues Will Escalate If the Hotel Industry Doesn't Address Them Now / Rick Swig
• Halsey Minor, Founder of CNET,  Building a 9 story Hotel in Downtown Charlottesville, Virginia
• Developers Reach Agreement with Environmentalists Over Plans for Massive Resort in the Catskill Mountains; Scaled-down Belleayre Resort at Catskill Park Will Have Two Hilltop Hotels and One World-class Golf Course
• Building Permit Issued for Resort Hotel in Dove Mountain, North of Tucson; Some Speculate a Ritz Carlton Branded Resort Will Be Part of the Golf Resort Community
• Web 2.0 and the Hotel Group Sales Process - Managing User Generated Content to Increase Sales! Web Cast  / September 14, 2007
• The Regent Bal Harbour: A New Standard of Elegance Comes to South Florida January 2, 2008
• Margarita Güitron Named Director of Sales of Grand Velas All Suites & Spa Resort
• Armand Notó Named General Manager of the Newly Refashioned Casanova Hotel in Barcelona Spain
• Neptune Hospitality Advisors Arranges $16.73 Million Acquisition Financing for Two Hampton Inns
• Pet Friendly New Mexico Hotels Join BringYourPet.com
• UniFocus to Unveil Mystery Shopping Evaluation Tool - SERVICEScope®; Susan Perrin to head new on-site service evaluation process providing actionable information with links to Guest and Employee Satisfaction
• Grapevine, Texas Approves Economic Incentives for Expansion to the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center, Adding 200,000 Sq Ft of Meeting Space and 500 Rooms
• Ardent Hotel Advisors Signs Agreement to Manage the Sheraton Atlantic Beach Oceanfront Hotel in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina; Names Tim Peters General Manager
• Ron C. Ray Appointed Shilo Inns' South Region Director of Operations
• Martin J. Joyce Appointed Director of Sales and Marketing for The Regent Boston at Battery Wharf

• Luxury Link: Creating Unique Value for Luxury Hotel Partners
• The Top 10 Quirkiest Hotels from Around the World
• A Legend Among CVB Executives, Robert Imperata Reflects on 39 Years with the Greater Pittsburgh Convention & Visitors Bureau
• Report Predicts Dramatic Changes in Hotel Marketing Discipline as Result of Consumers' Use of Social Media; The Cost to Use these Tools is Low and the Impact is High
• The ProHost® Housekeeping System Has Been Selected for The Westin Lombard
• Vista Capital Company Arranges $17,000,000 of First Mortgage Financing for the Best Western Sterling Inn Located in Sterling Heights, Michigan
• Meeting Alliance Expands; Leading Meeting Planning Organization Announces Management Additions and Promotion, to Complement and Further Accelerate the Company's Rapid Growth
• The Providence Group Manages The Microtel Inn & Suites in Seneca Falls, New York
• Radisson Edwardian Hotels Opens 169 room Hotel at New Providence Wharf Overlooking River Thames, London
• UNITE HERE and Affiliates Claim a $80 million Strike Fund Available to Support a Potential Strike of More than 13,000 Casino and Laundry Workers in Las Vegas and Reno
• Noble Investment Group Acquires the 483-room Hyatt Regency Milwaukee; Will Provide $18 million Renovation
• Mark Andrew Appointed Regional Vice President, Pacific Northwest, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts and General Manager, The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver
• Andres Araya Named Chief Operating Officer of Logan International Mexico; Will Oversee Development of Cabo San Cristobal Resort, Los Cabos
• Frank Heller Appointed General Manager of Rocco Forte's The Charles Hotel in Munich

• Technology's Role in Handling Individual Transactional Uniqueness; EFT's CRM Technology for Travel 2007 Special
• Starwood Maintains Consumer-Brand Focus, Names Frits van Paasschen, Former CEO of Coors Brewing Company, Chief Executive Officer
• Being Green is Getting Easier; Practices that Hotels and Restaurants Can Implement Immediately / Lee Simon
• "A View from the West" - HIS Reports for July 2007 show Ups & Downs of Meetings Business in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Phoenix/Scottsdale.  Ten "Most Active" Hotels compete for market share
• The Magic of the Internet - Why Some Hoteliers Excel and Others Don't / Neil Salerno
• Apollo Real Estate Investment Fund V, L.P.,  Aimbridge Hospitality, L.P. and JF Capital Advisors, LLC Complete Merger with Eagle Hospitality Properties Trust, Inc.
• NCL/National Content Liquidators, Inc. Selected to Liquidate the contents of the Elegant Watergate Hotel, Washington, DC 
• MTech Celebrates Milestone Installation of PMWorks Preventive-Maintenance Solution; Interstate-managed Hilton Garden Inn El Paso becomes 1,100th property to feature MTech's innovative, cost-saving maintenance-management software program
• Al Areen Holding Company Opens the Middle East's First Fully-themed Water Park, the US$ 50 Million Lost Paradise of Dilmun Water Park
• Benchmark Completes Extensive Renovations for The Chattanoogan, Chattanooga, Tennessee
• Hotel-Online and BuildCentral Add/Update 93 Hotel Projects to the New Hotel Construction Projects Database
• Sage Hospitality Names Fletcher C. Mayes General Manager for The Blackstone, a Renaissance Hotel; $112 million Renovation of Chicago's Legendary Hotel Set for Completion Late in 2007
• François Thomas Named General Manager at the Regent Boston at Battery Wharf 
• Chris Miller Appointed to Regional Director of Sales and Marketing at the Hotel ICON, Managed by Destination Hotels & Resorts

1. Top Ten Hospitality Trends for Summer and Fall 2007
2. Global Update: Who’s Where and Doing What / August 2007
3. Blackstone’s Acquisition of Hilton, The Art of Groveling, The Origin of Franchising, Key Facts about Franchising, Quote of the Month / Stanley Turkel
4. Former Front-desk Staffer at the Park Lane Hotel on Central Park South Sets the Record Straight on Leona Helmsley
5. Five Things Hoteliers Can Do, Today, to Improve Sales / Neil Salerno
6. Spectacular Four Winds Casino Resort Opens in New Buffalo, Michigan; May Give Detroit Casinos a Run for the Money
7. A Frequent Hotel Guest Responds to Starwood's 'Eco-Etiquette'' Secrets
8. Tom Bodett, the Voice Behind Motel 6, Humorously Lists All the Amenities He Does Not Need When Staying at a Hotel... Including Sewing Kits, Shoe Mits, Elevator Music and Jordan Almonds on Your Pillow
9. Luxury Travel & Lifestyle Trends - Design: It's What Consumer Crave / Karen Weiner Escalera
10. Corporate Director, Rooms at Starwood Hotels& Resorts Reveals ''Eco-Etiquette'' Secrets
11. Buyers Who Paid Millions in Down Payments for Condos at Bahama Island Resort, North Myrtle Beach, SC, Perplexed Where Funds Are; Escrow Agent Bank of America Does Not Have the Funds  
12. Why Do Hotels Fail Online?  A “How - To” List for Avoiding Common Pitfalls
13. Green Leaders - EcoRooms & EcoSuites new Board of Advisors hopes to raise the environmental standards of the hospitality industry, educate consumers and differentiate green from ‘greenwashing’
14. California Developer Claims Permission Received from Mexican Government to Build a $900 million Resort and Casino in Baja California on the Sea of Cortez
15. Customer Engagement: Where do we begin? / Byran K Williams
16. Hotels Worldwide Are Asked to Destroy Tubes of Gilchrist & Soames, 0.65-ounce Toothpaste - Provided by Gilchrist & Soames
17. To Engage…Listen to the Voice of Your Customer / Bryan K. Williams
18. The Lodging Ledger - Still a Dealmaker’s Paradise / The Upper-Upscale Sector Elbows Its Way to the Front
19. Collapse of Subprime Home Mortgages and Falling Home Values Could Eventually Affect Hotel Financing
20. Revolution LLC, Created by AOL Co-founder Steve Case, Building a One&Only Resort and  Tom Doak 18-hole golf course at Cacique on the Northwest Coast of Guanacaste, Costa Rica
21. Cosmopolitan Resort & Casino to Integrate Celebrity Chef Wolfgang Puck Cuisine and Service to Banquets, Room Service, Hotel Room Mini Bars, the Employee Dining Room - and Not in Hotel Restaurants
22. After 14 Years of Battles Developer Fess Parker Likely to Get the Green Light to Build 150-room Luxury Hotel on the Santa Barbara Waterfront
23. Westin Hotel Brand Creating a SuperFoodsRx Focused Menu; Adding More Brain Food - Blueberries, Wild salmon, Avocados and Spinach
24. Benchmark Hospitality's Top Five Dining Trends for 2007
25. Las Vegas Night Club Owner Sean Christie Describes His Newest Club - Blush in Wynn Las Vegas; What the Customer Gets for $400 Dollar Bottle Service

• Heirs to Wal-Mart's Walton Family Fortune and Investment Banking Giant Goldman Sachs Together Investing $1 billion in Global Hyatt Corp.; Cash Expected to be Used to Help Settle Dispute Among its Owners, the Pritzker Family
• Benchmark Hospitality's Top Five Dining Trends for 2007
• Busboy or Busser: What Is the Officially Preferred Term for the Person who Clears Restaurant Tables?
• Ali Kasikci Accepts Managing Director Position at Montage Beverly Hills / Jim Butler
• A Plan to Build a $125 million Hilton Hotel and Convention Center in Norfolk, Virginia May be Falling Apart
• New Study, Collaborated with UNITE HERE, Reports Certain Hotel Workers Are Injured at Different Rates; 35 Union Hotels in the Full Servie Sector Studied
• The University of Houston Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management Provides Students with Intership Opportunities All Over the World; Gives Students Advantage When it Comes to Competing for Industry Jobs
• Crowne Plaza Oceanfront, Singer Island Recently Liquidated by NCL/National Content Liquidators, Inc.
• The Pritzkers Selling $1 billion Stake in Global Hyatt Corporation
• BMC, Formerly Boykin Management Company, to Manage the 127 room Ellis Hotel in Downtown Atlanta
• Gammon India Ltd. to Develop at Least 38 Wyndham Branded Super 8® and Days Inn® Hotels Throughout India by 2011
• PT Dua Cahaya Anugrah Building a 232 room W Retreat & Spa in the Seminyak Area on the Isle of Bali
• Don Weintraub Appointed Director of Sales & Marketing at the Enchantment Resort in Sedona, Arizona
• The Villa Group Names David Kuhn Corporate Director E-Commerce Sales & Marketing
• Sunil Sharma Named General Manager of the Courtyard by Marriott in Westborough, MA

• SynXis Appoints 20-Year Industry Veteran as Vice President of Accounts and Revenue Management; Trevor Stuart-Hill, a former Destination Hotels & Resorts VP, brings expertise to SynXis's rapidly expanding customer base
• Suppliers Are Winning the Battle for Online Revenues
• Las Vegas Night Club Owner Sean Christie Describes His Newest Club - Blush at Wynn Las Vegas; What the Customer Gets for $400 Dollar Bottle Service
• The Peninsula Tokyo Enters Tokyo's International High-end Hotel Market: Competition Stiff for Talented Staff, Faithful Patrons 
• Wyndham Vacation Resorts in Pompano Beach, Florida Named in Negligence Lawsuit Following Death of Guest in Parasail Accident
• Resort Owner Jim Confalone Reveals Big Plans for Big Squaw Mountain Resort; Wants to Turn the Underutilized Maine Ski Slope into a Year Round Destination by Adding 18 hole Golf Course, Two Hotels and Conference Center
• HEI Hotels & Resorts to Acquire Site for Planned 378-Room Hotel in Bellevue, Washington
• Quanah Hospitality Partners, LP Plans Major Expansion of Value Place Branded Properties; Secures $100 million in Capital from NorthStar Realty Finance Corp.
• The 402-room Reef Club Cozumel Beach and Dive Resort Signs Agreement to be Wyndham® Branded
• NCL/National Content Liquidators, Inc. Completes Another Major Florida Hotel Liquidation
• Real Hotels & Resorts Selects Newmarket International's Delphi® to Power Its Group Business Strategy; Leading Central American hospitality management company will leverage Delphi to connect its InterContinental properties
• ICE Portal Now Features a "Supersize" Option for their Virtual Tours and Videos
• AKA, a division of Korman Communities, Opens its Largest Extended-stay Property - AKA Dulles Station in Herndon, Virginia
• Sava Holding Breaks Ground on a 123 room  Element Branded Hotel in Irving, Texas
• Israel's Tourism Industry Emerges from the Shadow of the 2006 Lebanon War; Hotel Occupancy Rates Now Similar to Those in the Summer of 2005
• Windsor Hospitality Group Appoints David McCartney to General Manager at the Asheville Renaissance Hotel
• Jesse Suglia Joins Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants as the Director of Hotel Sales
• Luis Rodríguez Named General Manager of Casa Velas Hotel Boutique, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

• Financing Your Indoor Waterpark Resort / David J. Sangree
• Cosmopolitan Resort & Casino to Integrate Celebrity Chef Wolfgang Puck Cuisine and Service to Banquets, Room Service, Hotel Room Mini Bars, the Employee Dining Room - and Not in Hotel Restaurants
• 16 of 17 Harlingen Hotels Continue to Boycott the Harlingen Convention and Visitors Bureau; Lists 9 Demands
• The 3,000 suite Venetian Macao Opens as the First Fully Integrated Resort in Macao; The US$2.4 billion Mega Resort the Largest Single Structure Hotel in Asia
• 2nd Annual HR in Hospitality™ Conference Predicted Another Winner at Wynn Las Vegas; Produced in association with Human Resource Executive® Magazine, Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, and Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
• Market Metrix Unleashes Employee Metrix™ 2.0 -  Web-Based Product Line for Hospitality Industry; Employees are central to delivering a superior customer experience
• Investment Firm Aetos Capital, LP Commits $50 million to Tian Rui Hotel Corporation to Accelerate Super 8 Hotel Growth in China
• Resorts & Great Hotels Wish Book of Vacation Experiences Relaunches with Greater Frequency and Editorial Content; New Publisher Responding to Industry Need for More Luxury Lifestyle Content
• Manchester Grand Resorts Prepares to Open the 249 room Grand Del Mar in Del Mar, California
• IKEA Building a 140 room Tulip Inn Adjacent to the IKEA Concept Center in Delft, The Netherlands; Hotel Will be Furnished with IKEA Furniture
• Warmbrodt Hotel Investments Advises in the Sale of the Baymont Inn and Suites, Omaha, NE and the Hampton Inn Hays, KS
• Wyndham Hotels Assumes Management of the 364-room Lakeside Princeton Conference Center & Hotel in Plainsboro, New Jersey; Renamed The Wyndham® Princeton Forrestal Hotel & Conference Center
• The Landmark Green Oaks Hotel in Fort Worth has Date with Wrecking Ball
• Opened in 1972 as the Alameda Plaza, The 336 room InterContinental Kansas City Receiving $15 million Restoration
• Fairmont Extends Relationship with Pegasus
• SDC Solutions and MTech Join Development Forces to Improve Guest Service; IntelliDESK® Integrates with HotSOS to Streamline Guest Service Workflows
• David Martin Appointed Senior Vice President of Operations, Wyndham Hotels and Resorts
• Daniel M. Wade Named Chief Operating Officer of the New Plaza Las Vegas
• Rocco Forte Opening the New Build $US 47 million Charles Hotel in Munich, Germany

• Dawnay Shore Hotels PLC, the Owner of the Paramount Hotel Chain, Selects Barcelo Hotels & Resorts to Manage 20 Hotels Throughout the United Kingdom
• NxTV Tapped for Inc. 500 List of America's Fastest Growing  Private Companies; Los Angeles-based NxTV, first and largest provider of IP VOD, joins the list with three-year sales growth of 736%
• Washington, DC Convention & Tourism Corp. Rebranding the City with a New Logo
• Fort Lauderdale Tourism Leaders Confront the City's Mayor Jim Naugle
• Speakers Selected for the Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series at Cornell Hotel School
• The Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians Planning an $800 million Resort Casino Just East of San Diego, California
• Davidson Hotel Company Will Manage the Recently Opened 225-room Westin Annapolis, Maryland
• South Florida Hotels Find Going Green Helps Bottom Line and the Planet
• Completed in March 2007, the $62.2 million McAllen (Texas) Convention Center Likely to Have a 154 room Embassy Suites Built Adjacent
• A Hotel Gem in Peoria: the Hotel Pere Marquette
• The Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly Will Change its Name to Cornell Hospitality Quarterly; First Published in 1960
• The Lam Group, Lam Generation Sign Marshall Management to Facilitate Accelerated Development in New York City
• Aquilini Group Properties LP Opens 210-suite Embassy Suites by Hilton® in Downtown Montréal

• Songy Partners LLC Acquiring the Fabled Chicago Athletic Association Clubhouse on Michigan Avenue; Investing $100 million to Convert to a 300-room Omni Hotel with Ballroom and Athletic Facility
• Tom Bodett, the Voice Behind Motel 6, Humorously Lists All the Amenities He Does Not Need When Staying at a Hotel... Including Sewing Kits, Shoe Mits, Elevator Music and Jordan Almonds on Your Pillow
• Hotel Investor Survey Mid Year 2007 - Hotel Capitalization Rates Hold for Now, But Capital Market Concerns Emerge
• Mayor of Toledo, Ohio Audits City Hotels and Issues Report Card to the Public. Is the Destination Sullied?
• Kimpton Selected as Hotel Operator for Hotel Palomar, a 199 room Hotel Being Built within Nashville's 70 story Signature Tower
• Lodgian Temporarily Suspends Discussions with Interested Suitors; Implements Share Repurchase Program, Continues With Plan for the Sale of Certain Hotels
• Recap: Memphis Lodging Industry Summit
• Presidian Joint Ventures with Local Owners to Renovate and Reopen Downtown Tulsa's Historic Mayo Hotel
• You are invited to fill out an online survey about Web-based Marketing Strategies in the Lodging Industry and win a prize. The survey, conducted by the Rosen College of Hospitality Management, University of Central Florida, specifically focuses on lodging property's Web-based marketing practices
• JTC Inc. Building a 100 room Country Inn and Suites by Carlson in Grand Forks, North Dakota
• Houston Based Benchmark Hospitality Helps Build Seawall Protecting Sheffield Island in Long Island Sound

• Award-Winning Hotel du Pont Selects TravelCLICK for Total Property Merchandising Solution; Historic Luxury Hotel Implements iHotelier CRS, Market Intelligence, Internet Marketing Services
• A Frequent Hotel Guest Responds to Starwood's 'Eco-Etiquette'' Secrets
• Hospitality Leaders Take Note: The Bill Walsh Legacy / David Brudney
• The University of Florida Providing 5 Years of Funding for a New On-campus Institute - the Crisis Recovery Tourism Research Institute; Names Elaine McLaughlin Director of Strategic Operations
• Harrah's Entertainment and AEG Agree to Develop a Privately Funded 20,000 seat Arena Just Off the Las Vegas Strip; Will Be Capable of Hosting an NHL or NBA Franchise
• Stoneleigh Hotel & Spa in Dallas Undergoes $30 Million Dollar Renovation; Restoration Will Maintain Historical Integrity and 1930's-era Art Deco
• Equity Inns, Inc. Acquiring Eight Marriott Branded Hotels from InterMountain Management, LLC for Approximately $90.5 million, or $122,000 per Key
• Competition Between Grapevine and Arlington for Conventioneers and Tourists Continues to Intensify
• A Coalition Public Event Promoters in Monterey, California Launch Web Site Featuring Hotels Designated as Preferred Providers; Seeks to Stop Price Gauging During Periods of High Demand
• South Carolina Visitors Use BringYourPet.com to Find Hotels that Accept Pets
• Exclusive Tarsadia Hotel Group to Let Knowland Take the Lead; Tarsadia Hotels Signs on with Knowland Group's INSIGHT to Track Group Sales Leads
• Stay Jay Hotels, LLC and Pride Hospitality Begin Construction on a a 73 room Holiday Inn Express & Suites in Portland, Indiana

• Increasing Online Revenue is Focus of NORTHWIND Maestro's 2008 Users' Conference; Maestro "Guest Connections" Conference presents workshops, expert training to support operators' 360-degree view of guests, drive  profitability, service
• ADR and Occupancy Soar at IP Casino Resort Spa with Post-Katrina Upgrade and Revenue Management Technology; IP earns Four-Diamond status, optimizes rates and availability for upscale clientele
• Nobody Asked Me, But… No. 31 - Blackstone's Acquisition of Hilton, The Art of Groveling, The Origin of Franchising
• Five Things Hoteliers Can Do, Today, to Improve Sales / Neil Salerno
• Key Preliminary Findings of the ISPA 2007 Spa Industry Study
• Corporate Director, Rooms at Starwood Hotels & Resorts Reveals ''Eco-Etiquette'' Secrets
• Short-term Contracts, Low, Flat Fees, and No Liquidated Damages Provides Americas Best Value Inn Plenty of Growth
• Does a Hotel Have a Legal Obligation to Pay Costs for an Employee Arrested for Serving Beer to an Underage Patron?
• Orlando Hotelier Harris Rosen Conducting a One-man Crusade Against Three Orlando Venues - a New Arena, Performing-arts Center and Refurbished Citrus  Bowl
• Travel Agency Sales Up as They Continue to Reinvent Themselves - with New Markets, New Travel Options
• PolyU Invites Industry Participation in Shaping Future Hotel Rooms
• Starwood Hotels Building First Wholly-Owned ALOFT and ELEMENT Branded Properties in Lexington, Massachusetts
• Owned by The Village of Lombard, Illinois, The 500 room Westin Lombard Yorktown Center Opens; Brent Menzel the Opening GM
• Ten State Tourism Offices Recognized for Excellence and Creative Accomplishment in Travel Marketing
• Robert J. Lowe, Jr. Named President and Chief Operating Officer of Lowe Hospitality Group

• Will Your Next CEO be a Revenue Manager?
• Customer Engagement: Where do we begin? / Bryan K Williams
• What Hot Internet Marketing Topics are on the Minds of Hoteliers? A Mid-Year 2007 Review as Hoteliers Enter into Budget Planning Season / Max Starkov and Jason Price
• Airlines and Luxury Hotels Disappoint: Customers Want More Comfort and Pampering; Market Metrix Announces Second Quarter 2007 Hospitality Index Results
• Hotel Queen Leona Helmsley Dies at 87
• Former Front-desk Staffer at the Park Lane Hotel on Central Park South Sets the Record Straight on Leona Helmsley
• Hotel Owners Sue Illinois Sheriff Claiming a Five-time Felon Duped Police Into an Errant Credit Card Probe, Resulting in Arrest of Four Hotel Owners
• The Meetings and Convention Industry is Booming in Orange County (Anaheim Area) as Competition from Los Angeles and San Diego Intensifies / Sandi Cain
• After 14 Years of Battles Developer Fess Parker Likely to Get the Green Light to Build 150-room Luxury Hotel on the Santa Barbara Waterfront
• Neptune Hospitality Advisors Arranges $21.6 Acquistion Financing of Hilton Downtown Saint Louis
• Outrigger Enterprises Group Teams with PROS to Optimize Revenue
• TIG Global Receives Top International Honors for Website Design; Nickelodeon, LXR Luxury Resorts and American Express Web Campaigns Receive Summit Creative Awards
• Singapore based firm seeking a senior Project Director for its $80m hotel development in Western Australia. Requires degree in Construction or Architecture, preferably an MBA, and 15+ years experience in hospitality-based Design and Construction project management

• The Gaylord Texan and Other Hotels Making Grapevine, Texas a Top Texas Market
• Arizona Resorts Quickly Recognizing the Economic Necessity of Green Initiatives
• Web 2.0 and Hotel Sales Strategies for '08; What Are Your Clients Saying About You? / Carol Verret
• The Start of Columbia Sussex's $2.5 billion Makeover of the Ageing Tropicana Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Delayed Because of a Volatile Debt Market and Rising Construction Costs
• Best Western Plans to Grow Presence in Thailand from 11 to 25 Hotels by End of 2008; One-third of the Hotels will be Managed by Best Western
• Newmarket International Launches New Version of its Daylight Sales and Catering Application; New capabilities include powerful integration with market leaders Passkey and Cendyn
• For Many the Job's Too Much; Sound Familiar to You, Mr. /Ms. Hotel Owner/Manager? / Joseph M. Gravish
• Who Are the New Spagoers? / Bernard Burt
• Aztec Group, Inc. Arranges the $12.25 Million Sale of Ramada Inn Airport North/Days Inn Westland Mall in Hialeah, Florida
• CVB's from Indianapolis, Las Vegas and Lee County (Florida) Recognized with 2007 Destiny Awards for Marketing Programs and Special Projects
• Interstate Hotels Selected to Launch the EuroSuites Brand - Will Manage the First Property - the 368-suite EuroSuites in the Doral Area of Miami, Florida
• Barcelona's Casanova Hotel is Reborn with New Urban Chic Decor, Set to Debut October 2007
• Windsor Capital Group, Inc. and Windsor Management Services Open the 130 room Homewood Suites La Quinta, California
• Columbia Sussex, Inc. Completes $16 million dollar Renovation and Rebranding of the Former Wyndham in Burlington, Vermont to the Hilton Burlington

• Strong Gains in Hotel Revenues Overcome Expense Growth / Robert Mandelbaum
• Marriott International Plans to Increase Spending Among Diverse Suppliers to 15% by 2009; Sets New Diversity Goals
• Landry's Restaurants Falls into Technical Default; Additional Plans for the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas Put on Hold
• Marriott International Acquires 10.6 acres Across from the Las Vegas Convention Center; May Be Site for High Rise Marriott Marquis Hotel
• Positives Top 2007 Texas Trends Hotel Industry Report
• Hotel Developer Richard C. Kessler Opens Development Office in Vienna, Austria; Kurt Dohnal Appointed VP and COO For The Kessler Collection Europe
• Seneca Nation of Indians Planning a Second Hotel Tower at Seneca Allegany Casino & Hotel in Salamanca, NY; First Tower of 212 rooms Exceeding 90%  Occupancy
• American Property Management Corporation Completes $11 Million Hotel Transformation; Former Radisson San Diego Harbor View Rebranded The Doubletree Hotel San Diego Downtown
• InterContinental Hotels Group Adds Two Crowne Plaza Branded Properties in Southern California; In San Diego, the Former Red Lion Hanalei Rebranded Crowne Plaza San Diego
• Sahara India Club Royale Corporation Limited and Carlson Hotels Building a Radisson Hotel in Lucknow, India
• Kate Neu Appointed As Marketing Manager at the Newly Renovated Stoneleigh Hotel & Spa, Dallas, Texas

• HTNG Forms Workgroup to Focus on Payment Systems and Data Security for the Hotel Industry
• Hotel Developers Threaten Fort Lauderdale with $59 million Lawsuit Following City's Denial to Proceed with Hotel-Marina Complex
• Howard Schultz, Chairman of Starbucks Coffee Company, and Gary Loveman, Chairman & CEO of Harrah's Entertainment, to be Inducted into the 2007 Hospitality Hall of Honor at the Univeristy of Houston
• Shoney's Inn Brand to be Relaunched; First Shoney's Inn Opened in 1976 in Hinesville, Georgia
• Benchmark Hospitality's Burt Cabañas One of the Top 25 Most Influential People in the Meetings Industry, According to Meeting News
• Courtyard by Marriott Washington Embassy Row Adds Barista on Demand to Their Menu
• Global Hyatt Appoints Two to Hyatt Regency GM Posts - Keith Butz in Calgary and Tom Wolf in Bethesda, Maryland
• Michael Tiplady Appointed Senior Vice President of GR8 Leisure Concept Ltd in Hong Kong
• PolyU Assists Guilin Institute of Tourism Develop its Diploma Programme

August 15

• Four Major Multi-Family Housing Operators Select The Rainmaker Group for Revenue Management Pilot Launch; Revenue Management specialist, Rainmaker, tapped for lease/rent rate lift programs by REITs and independents
• Hotels Worldwide Are Asked to Destroy Tubes of Gilchrist & Soames, 0.65-ounce Toothpaste - Provided by Gilchrist & Soames
• Owners of the Plaza Hotel & Casino in Downtown Las Vegas File Lawsuit to Block Elad Group from Using the Plaza Name in Las Vegas
• Westin Hotel Brand Creating a SuperFoodsRx Focused Menu; Adding More Brain Food - Blueberries, Wild salmon, Avocados and Spinach
• Colorado Springs' Second Largest Hotel, the 500-room Sheraton Colorado Springs Rebranded to Crowne Plaza; Began as the Four Seasons Motor Inn in 1974
• Collapse of Subprime Home Mortgages and Falling Home Values Could Eventually Affect Hotel Financing
• Grand Rapids Hotel Employee, Ollie Marions, Winds Down 54 Year Career
• TTI Taps Talents of Oumou Bah to Drive Customer Relations, Quality Control; As Hotel Relations Manager, Bah to serve as liaison between TTI and hotels to streamline communications and assess need for new guest-service technologies
• MagiNet Distributes MTech's HotSOS, Expanding HotSOS Support in Asia, Middle East and Africa Global technology integrator will bring MTech's Software as a Service (SaaS) guest incident tracking and workflow automation tools to its customer base of more than 600 hotels in 40 countries
• Tim Estes Appointed Vice President of Beaver Creek/Aspen Hospitality for Vail Resorts
• Leo Chandler Appointed Area General Manager at the 601-room St. Louis Airport Marriott
• Noble House Appoints Jim Lopez to Director of Sales and Marketing at the 404-room Palm Springs Riviera Resort & Spa

• Hilton, Wyndham, Sol Melia, Expedia and Travelocity Reveal How to Manage and Measure Customer Data to Build Loyalty and Maximize Sales
• California Developer Claims Permission Received from Mexican Government to Build a $900 million Resort and Casino in Baja California on the Sea of Cortez
• Owners of the New Yorker Hotel Recognize its Past History -  the 860 room Art Deco Hotel Built in 1930 Receiving $65 million Restoration
• Nostalgic Tourists Fueling a Renaissance of Interest in the Storied 2,400-mile Route 66, But Most Route 66 Motels Beyond Any Hope of Renovation
• Some Question Columbia-Sussex' Management of the Tropicana Casino & Resort, Atlantic City
• After 21 years at the Mansion on Turtle Creek, Chef Dean Fearing Prepares to Open His Own $6 million Restaurant at the Ritz-Carlton Dallas
• Portland Continues 20 Year Debate Over Building a Publicly Owned Large Hotel Next to the Oregon Convention Center 
• Supertel Acquires 20 Hotels During 2nd Qtr 2007 for $79.6 million; Net Income Available to Shareholders Up 65.9% to $2.2 million / Hotel Operating Statistics
• University of Illinois Research Park's Hotel and Conference Has Name Selected; the "I" Hotel and Conference Center 
• The Dow Hotel Company Acquires Radisson Hill Country Resort & Spa in San Antonio, Texas
• Nicholas DiMeglio Named General Manager of the The Ritz-Carlton Club, Aspen Highlands
• Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group Appoints Valerie Thompson as Vice President of Finance, The Americas
• Don Fraser Named Corporate Director of Operations for Denihan Hospitality Group

• Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Chooses EZ Yield V3 as their Channel Management Solution
• Engage Me…the Voice of Your Customer 
• Groups and Meetings - the Next Frontier in Online Booking / John Burns
• Achieving Greater Revenue Generation from Your Food and Beverage Operation; 10 Things an Operator Can Do / Bernie Otis