'She gets too hungry, for dinner at eight...' - How to Elevate the Dining Experience - By J. Ragsdale Hendrie
Just picture this. You are at a music festival, seated, awaiting the top performer. He enters, the lights dim, spots begin to cross the stage, the band strikes up. Soon, you are tapping your feet, perhaps drumming your fingers, beginning to sway, mouthing the words, bopping your head. The song moves into the finale. Crescendo! ...more

Food & Beverage - Leveraging Your Investment in Food Cost Control - By Joe Dunbar
The current economy presents a once in a lifetime opportunity for the operators who have an effective food cost control system in place. Imagine adding rampant commodity price increases to an out of control food cost mess. Can you picture the meetings in operations with soaring food prices, theft, poor ordering, waste and lousy portion control? Obviously, the managers who were already abusing the lax system will contribute all the bad news to the market conditions. ...more

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Four Seasons Resort Vail Names General Manager
Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts and project developer Black Diamond Resorts - Vail LLC are pleased to announce that 30-year Four Seasons veteran Hans Willimann has taken the helm as the property's general manager. Willimann will oversee the opening of the Resort in late 2009 when Four Seasons Resort Vail debuts as the first Four Seasons in Colorado and the third mountain property for the company. ...more

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Jumeirah To Manage Luxury Hotel In Business District Of Guangzhou
Jumeirah, the Dubai-based luxury hotel company, has been appointed by GT Land Holdings Limited to manage a luxury hotel in Guangzhou. ...more

Gemstone Selected to Concept and Manage Two New Boutique Hotels
Company has entered into agreements with two separate development groups to concept and manage two new luxury properties. ...more

Proposed Oxford County Casino Project Builds Momentum
The Olympia Group has unveiled preliminary plans for Oxford Highlands Resort- Spa-Casino. Executive architect, Peter Wilday, of Reno, Nevada, explained that the four-season facility was designed to capture the feel of a traditional New England village center, with a variety of architectural features such as turrets, roof treatments and storefronts characteristic of buildings in Maine. ...more

Hilton Hotels Corporation Announces Major Expansion Plans to Quadruple its Caribbean and Latin America Portfolio
Hilton Hotels Corporation today announces expansion plans to quadruple its presence in the Caribbean and Latin America by adding 150 new hotels to the portfolio over the next five years. ...more

Choice Hotels Announces the First Cambria Suites Hotel for Rhode Island
Development of the new upscale lifestyle hotel brand Cambria Suites continues to grow with the execution of another franchise agreement for a property in Middletown, Rhode Island -- the first Cambria Suites hotel planned for the state. ...more

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Whole Travel Launches Rating System To Keep Eco-Friendly Hotels Honest
The 'green' incarnation of travel, called ecotourism, mandates that travelers minimize their cultural, economic, and environmental impacts as much as possible to promote sustainability. But while there are thousands of hotels worldwide that promote themselves as 'green', many of them are only partially fulfilling these requirements - they might not be wasting energy, but are paying locals at near-slave wages, or funneling money out of the local economy. ...more

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Hotel stocks drop as 2009 travel outlook worsens
Shares of hotel companies dropped on Monday - and plunged further after the House rejected a $700 billion bailout of the U.S. financial system - as the travel outlook for 2009 grew gloomier amid the escalating economic crisis. ...more

Orient-Express Hotels Recommends Rejection of Proxy Effort by Requisitioning Shareholders
Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. (NYSE: OEH), owners or part-owners and managers of 51 luxury hotels, restaurants, tourist trains and river cruise businesses operating in 25 countries, issued the following statement today: ...more

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Rezidor opens the Radisson SAS Hotel, Toulouse Airport
The Rezidor Hotel Group has opened the Radisson SAS Hotel, Toulouse Airport. The property in the 'pink city' is the 11th Radisson hotel in France - and at the same time the biggest hotel in Toulouse with 200 rooms and suites. ...more

Ramada Brand Opens First Property in Lebanon
The 99-room Ramada Beirut Downtown is located in the heart of Beirut, Lebanon, and is a ten minute drive from Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport. ...more

Wyndham Vacation Ownership Opens WorldMark Long Beach in Washington
WorldMark Long Beach Becomes Company's Second Resort in Popular Coastal Area ...more

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Follow the Industry's Hottest Trend - Waterpark Resorts
Attend the World Waterpark Association's Waterpark Resort Development & Expansion Workshop - The waterpark resort is the fastest-growing segment of the waterpark industry - come learn why at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas! ...more

Choice Hotels Lends Support to Recent Hurricane Victims
As the recovery efforts continue throughout areas of the Gulf Coast following the recent hurricanes, Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE:CHH) remains focused on the safety and security of its franchised hotels' guests and staff. ...more

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