Three Ways Hotel Marketers Can Tap into The Authenticity Trend
by Dave Spector It happens every day.Bill and Britney, a couple in their 20s, decide to take their first vacation together. Britney opens her laptop and starts searching while Bill takes to his tablet...
View ArticlePuzzle Partner Launches Marketing on Demand for Travel Tech Companies Looking...
Start-up accelerator offers a full suite of marketing services without the big agency price tag to drive awareness, deliver leads and create partnerships to help businesses grow profitably Toronto,...
View ArticleHyatt Hotels Reaches Settlement with Fired Boston Area Housekeepers; To Pay...
According to a report by the Boston Globe, Hyatt Hotels Corporation has reached an agreement to pay $1 million to 98 hotel housekeepers that were fired and replaced with lower-paid, outsourced...
View ArticleEducational Institute Partners with Aspire. People. Performance. Profits. on...
September 2014, Orlando, Florida-The American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute (AHLEI) is partnering with Aspire. People. Performance. Profits. (Aspire) to launch a new series of leadership...
View ArticleR.D. Olson Construction Begins Construction of 144-key Residence Inn by...
Pasadena, Calif. - September 30, 2014 - R.D. Olson Construction has begun construction on a five-story, 144-room Residence Inn by Marriott extended stay hotel in Pasadena, California, the first hotel...
View ArticleRB Capital Appoints IHG to Launch the 225-key InterContinental Singapore...
To Open in 201630 September, 2014 - InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), one of the world’s leading hotel companies, today announced the signing of a new management agreement with major property...
View ArticleWyndham Hotel Group Signs Management Contract for 136-room Ramada Addis in...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Sept. 30, 2014) – Wyndham Hotel Group, the world’s largest hotel company with approximately 7,540 hotels and part of Wyndham Worldwide Corporation (NYSE: WYN), today announced...
View ArticleThe Newly Built 124-room Value Place Opens in Grand Junction, Colorado
September 30, 2014 - GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Value Place, the nation’s largest economy extended-stay hotel brand, has announced the grand opening of a newly constructed hotel in Grand Junction,...
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Re2pect – to Receive it, One has to Give it
By Dr. John Hogan, CHA CHMS CHE CHO Aretha Franklin has sung about it for the past 50 years. The United States military has evolved from the pain experienced by the soldiers returning from Vietnam to...
View ArticleHoteles City Opens the 104-room City Express Apizaco in Mexico
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 30, 2014—Hoteles City Express, S.A.B. de C.V. (“Hoteles City” or “the Company”) (BMV: HCITY), announced today the opening of City express Apizaco, the 90th property in the Company’s...
View ArticleMorgans Hotel Group Opens the 359-room Mondrian London at Sea Containers in...
NEW YORK, Sept. 30, 2014—Today, Morgans Hotel Group opened its newest hotel, Mondrian London at Sea Containers, a 359-room luxury hotel fusing inventive food, beverage and entertainment offerings with...
View ArticleScrub Island Resort, Spa & Marina Appoints New Director of Food and...
BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS (September 30, 2014) - Scrub Island Resort, Spa & Marina, the first luxury resort development in the British Virgin Islands in more than 15 years and the first member of the...
View ArticleStarwood Hotels to Relocate Headquarters from U.S. to India for a Month
Oct. 01—MUMBAI—Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. on Tuesday said that it will relocate its global headquarters from the US to India in March for a month. Starwood president and chief...
View ArticleFormer Radisson Fort McDowell Resort Completes Rebranding as the We-Ko-Pa...
(Scottsdale, Arizona) October 1, 2014 - IT’S OFFICIAL! Effective today, the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation proudly announces the official re-launch and exclusive Tribal management of the Radisson Fort...
View ArticleHRI Lodging Names Kristi Taglauer General Manager of Aloft New Orleans...
Taglauer has served as GM of two other HRIL properties NEW ORLEANS, LA (October 1, 2014)-Kristi Taglauer, who has served as general manager of two HRI Lodging (HRIL) hotels, has been named to manage...
View ArticleGround Broken in the Philippines for the $1.1B Resorts World Bayshore to Open...
Oct. 02—Resorts World Bayshore City Inc. (RWBCI) broke ground on Wednesday at the Bagong Nayong Pilipino Entertainment City complex in Para?aque City for the development of the $1.1-billion Resorts...
View ArticleHotel Industry to Fight Discriminatory Minimum Wage Increase in Los Angeles
Initiates public records request on Council’s rushed voteWashington, D.C. - October 1, 2014 - After the Los Angeles City Council approved a precedent-setting, discriminatory measure that increases the...
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Lessons from Puerto Rico
by Sam ParkerMy family and I went to Puerto Rico for a quick vacation. When we landed, we hopped the Hertz shuttle bus to get our rental car. For one of the first times I can remember, the bus driver...
View ArticleChesapeake Lodging Trust Acquires JW Marriott San Francisco Union Square...
October 02, 2014 - ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Chesapeake Lodging Trust (NYSE:CHSP) (the “Trust”) announced today that it has closed on the previously announced acquisition of the JW Marriott San Francisco Union...
View ArticleWaramaug LS Hotels Purchases Florida’s 122-room Courtyard by Marriott...
October 2, 2014. Daytona, FL- Waramaug LS Hotels, a private investment group, is pleased to announce today they have purchased the 122-room, Courtyard by Marriott Daytona Beach Speedway/Airport hotel....
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