Carlson
Carlson Hotels Worldwide global portfolio of brands includes Radisson Hotels & Resorts, Country Inns and Suites, Park Plaza, Park Inn. The lodging company’s corporate headquarters are in Minnetonka, MN.
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2012 Design Awards: Building Success
The amount of new openings in recent years has dwindled as a result of the credit crunch, but three new developments persevered through the downturn to open last year and ultimately prevail in this year’s Lodging Hospitality Design Awards contest....
Hotel Executives See Clear Path Ahead
The Americas Lodging Investors Summit, held each January on the West Coast, is a good early bellwether of industry sentiment for the year. Budgets are complete, plans are made, and executives are hungry to execute. To get a reading on the sentiment for 2012, Lodging Hospitality gathered a roundtable of industry leaders during this year’s ALIS to gauge future developments, challenges and opportunities for the lodging business....
Carlson Rezidor Stays the Course
There was no major announcement, nothing like the bold Ambition 2015 strategy unveiled by Carlson Hotels in 2010, but one thing was noticeably different at last week’s global business conference: the company’s name was now Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group. ...
Can Room Key Be The Great Equalizer?
While sitting in the lobby of the JW Marriott at LA Live last month, John F. Davis III couldn’t keep his phone quiet. The CEO of Room Key was already a popular man, but now he was getting message after message about what Michael Shannon had just said on stage at the Nokia Theatre during the Americas Lodging Investment Summit. The managing director at KSL Capital ...
Carlson, Rezidor Go to Market As One
As the saying goes, perception is reality. That’s the rationale behind yesterday’s announcement of the formation of The Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group, the merging of two lodging giants—U.S.-based Carlson and European-based Rezidor—as a platform to go to market under one identity. Since the two firms have different ownership structures—Carlson is private, Rezidor is publicly traded with Carlson as majority shareholder—the arrangement only involves strategic and tactical maneuvers. ...
Guestroom TVs Top Product Offerings at IHM&RS
The biggest buzz at this year’s International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show, which concludes Tuesday in New York City, is the guestroom television. The show attracted several top TV manufacturers—Samsung and Panasonic—who have booths at the event, and at least one firm new to the field, GlobalVue. ...
Radisson’s Brand Transformation Progresses
Thorsten Kirschke, president of Carlson Hotels, Americas and COO of Carlson Hotels, is the man behind the transformation of Radisson. He plans to bring the company’s global brand standards to Radisson hotels in the United States through a radical transformation plan launched to great fanfare in 2010. We chatted with Kirschke recently to get a progress report on the strategy....
Developer plans new hotel in Port au Prince
Despite Haiti’s lack of infrastructure, at least a million homeless and a chaotic economy, Dominique Carvonis is taking steps to develop a seven- to eight-story hotel of at least 100 rooms near Toussaint Louverture Airport in the capital of Port-au-Prince....
OTAs Driving Hotels’ Costs, Business and Conversation
Mark Lomanno joked, somewhat seriously, that online travel agencies contributed 10% of the hotel industry’s business, but led to 80% of the discussion. Lomanno, STR’s chief strategy officer, was moderating a general session at the Hotel Data Conference in Nashville earlier this month when “pre-final” results were unveiled from a distribution channel analysis by STR and the AH&LA....
