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Features
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Food & Beverage - Ideal Usage Tricks and Techniques - By Joe Dunbar
The people who produce variance reports for the weekly and monthly management meetings need to forecast the likely meeting discussion for each red flag item. Common excuses occur over and over and it's necessary to anticipate and eliminate these distractions. The only way for a food and beverage professional to have a positive impact on the results is through proper focus. ...more
Setting Your Restaurant Up For Success: The Importance of Operating Systems - By Michael Beam
Documented operating systems and policies are absolutely critical to the long-term success of any restaurant operation. Reduced turnover, increased morale, improved consistency and enhanced value are only some of the benefits that can be realized. ...more
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Trends
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Hospitality Wages Trending at a 3.3% Increase over 2005
The average annual wage increase in the hospitality industry is trending at 3.3% nationally, with significant variances by metropolitan area. ...more
Lifestyle Hotels Continue To Raise The Bar For The Industry
Lifestyle hotels are continuing to raise the bar for the industry through differentiation, innovation and value-for-money, according to research released today by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. ...more
Canadian Occupancy, ADR, RevPAR - Week Ending September 9 - 2006
Published in conjunction with STR (Smith Travel Research) and endorsed by the Hotel Association of Canada. This publication summarizes weekly occupancy and average room rates from major cities in Canada. ...more
Favourable Dynamics Drive Further Growth For UK Hotels
The UK hotel industry is experiencing its best performing year since 2000 and looks set for steady growth over the next three years, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP 'Hospitality Directions Europe - UK Hotel forecast' released today. ...more
Travel Industry Performance Mixed in July
According to the Travel Industry Association of America's (TIA) Industry Performance Indicators (IPI), the month of July 2006, revealed a decline of 4.9 percent in domestic air RPMs while international air RPMs rose 6.3 percent, compared to July 2005. Hotel/motel room revenue increased 6.4 percent from twelve months earlier. Gasoline Stations' Receipts jumped 19.2 percent from a year ago largely due to gas price increases. Airline employment was down 3.2 percent from July 2005. ...more
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Technology
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How HoteLook(R) integrates the electronic distribution channel network?
HoteLook(R), www.hotelook.com, is a new generation, innovative online accommodation directory designed to integrate the semi-fragmented electronic distribution channels of the lodging industry (see Figure 1 below). ...more
The Breakers Palm Beach Implements Passkey's Online Group Reservation System
Event attendees can now book their hotel rooms online, and hotels and meeting planners can instantly access group-specific inventory management tools & reports ...more
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Appointments
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InterContinental Hotels Group Appoints Bill Linehan, Vice President, Marketing & New Business Development
Based in Atlanta and reporting to Steve Sickel, senior vice president, multi-brand relationship marketing, IHG, Linehan is responsible for developing marketing strategies and strengthening IHG's development positioning as well as identifying new business opportunities that grow the distribution of IHG's brand portfolio. ...more
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Development
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Coakley & Williams Hotel Management Company Enters Into Strategic Alliance With MHI Hospitality Corporation
Coakley & Williams Hotel Management Company, a premier Maryland-based hotel operator, announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance agreement with MHI Hospitality Corporation (AMEX:MDH). ...more
InterContinental Hotels Group Announces Re-Launch of the InterContinental Medellin
Promotora de Hoteles Medellin S.A. Invests More Than $4 Million to Update Medellin's Most Iconic Hotel ...more
InterContinental Hotels & Resorts to Debut Flagship London and Boston Properties in November
InterContinental Hotels & Resorts announces the simultaneous unveiling of the InterContinental London Park Lane and the InterContinental Boston this November. ...more
Golden Tulip Adds Hotel Apollo Amsterdam To Its European Capital's Portfolio
The hotel is added on the basis of a long term franchise agreement. The hotel, previously part of the Meridien Group, is owned by a group of investors and will be operated by European Hotel Management. ...more
Lifestyle Hotel Brand to Premier in Plano, Texas Rhode Island Property to Follow
NYLO Hotels will break ground on its first hotel in Plano, Tex., the fourth quarter of this year, the company announced today at the 2006 Lodging Conference. A second groundbreaking, in Warwick R. I. near Providence, is slated for the second quarter of 2007. ...more
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Internet
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www.FastBooking.com FastBooking's New Hotel Booking Portal
FastBooking - the Internet hotel booking expert - is launching a new online hotel booking portal. FastBooking.com federates over 3 000 establishments worldwide, contains over 100 000 customer reviews and provides direct access to the hotels' official websites. ...more
Hot Market In India: An Online Corporate Travel Industry Emerges - By Ram Badrinathan
India is clearly an emerging leisure online travel market, attracting millions in start-up funding, according to PhoCusWright's The Emerging Online Travel Marketplace in India report. But is there an online corporate travel market to speak of? The answer is yes and no. ...more
Strategic Linking in Hospitality: Build a Robust Link Popularity - By Max Starkov and Jason Price
Strategic Linking in hospitality and its important by-product, Link Popularity, are part of hotelier's toolkit for building a robust Web presence and taking advantage of the Direct Online Channel. ...more
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Openings
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Choice Hotels Opens 32 New Hotels in August
Choice Hotels continues to grow with the announcement of these newly opened franchised properties: ...more
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Other
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The Most Famous Hotels in the World - The Peninsula Hong Kong
After unearthing the long lost original building plans of Raffles Hotel, thus saving Singapore's most famous hotel from demolition, our reputation for uncompromising historical research quickly spread. ...more
Hotel Association Executives Of The Caribbean To Focus On Advocacy
The Caribbean Society of Hotel Association Executives (CSHAE), which brings together the chief staff executives from hotel and tourism associations across the Caribbean, is meeting in Barbados this week for a two-day workshop on media relations and advocacy. ...more
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