June 1, 2009
Forum
Coping With a Hotel Industry Paradigm Shift
OPINION: Are You Ready For the Reset?
Hotel industry observers, bloggers and other pundits have suggested recently that the economic environment has changed permanently, that once the recession eases it won't be back to business as usual. ...
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MLIS Meets Investment Challenges
The hotel industry's investment community gathers next month in Chicago for the second annual Midwest Lodging Investors Summit with one goal: to determine when financing will again be available to buy, sell and develop lodging properties...
Dolce Hotels Beefs Up
FEATURE: Brand Builder Rudnitsky Aims To Grow
Steve Rudnitsky is a brand builder. His latest project is Dolce Hotels and Resorts, the highly regarded but not-very-well-known New Jersey-based operator of conference centers and other lodging properties. ...
Holiday Inn Relaunch Going Strong
Q&A: Merkin Believes Brand’s New Look Already Paying Off
No one thought remaking the American hotel brand was going to be easy. With 3,200 Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express hotels worldwide (2,500 here in the Americas), the sheer volume makes it a daunting task. The ensuing economic meltdown...
Choice’s Roadmap to RevPAR Growth
Choice Hotels has a simple plan to help its franchisees weather the current downturn: Send them more business. At last week’s Choice Hotels convention near Washington, DC, President & CEO Steve Joyce and other chain executives discussed a lot of topics, but none was as important as revenue generation...
AAHOA Goes to Washington
NEWS: Asian American Hoteliers Test Political Clout
Incoming Chairman Tarun Patel threw down the gauntlet at last month’s annual meeting of the Asian American Hotel Owners Association. “It’s time to test the political muscle of our community,” ...
Features
Sheraton’s Link to Customer Satisfaction
FEATURE: Lobby Computer Lounges Also Generate Revenues
Some of the most effective hotel technologies are those that simultaneously satisfy guests, improve operational efficiencies and generate additional revenues. That’s what Sheraton Hotels & Resorts believes it has in Link@Sheraton, ...
Anatomy of a Development: Four Points and Darpan a Perfect Fit
Four Points the right choice for Darpan Management...
Technically Speaking
Tech Handbook 2009
There's a lot of uncertainty as to what to expect at this month's Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition & Conference. This year's edition of HITEC,...
Davis Goes Back with BirchStreet
Q&A: Pegasus Founder Turns Attention to Back Office
John F. Davis III, the well-known industry veteran who founded and built
the industry’s global reservations network on which virtually every hotel operates today, is on track for building yet another...
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