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NYU Conference Goers Look for the Bright Side
Jun 10, 2011
If the mood at this week’s New York University International Hospitality Industry Investment Conference is any indication, the hotel industry is ready to believe full recovery is here, or at least very close...
Hotel Leader Tisch Calls for Infrastructure Overhaul
Hotel Leader Tisch Calls for Infrastructure Overhaul
Jun 08, 2011
NEW YORK — Loews Hotels CEO Jonathan Tisch called on the hotel and tourism industry to tackle what he calls one of the next defining challenges: repair and restoration of the country’s crumbling infrastructure...
A Global Hotel Focus at NYU Conference
Jun 07, 2011
The NYU International Investment Conference is finally living up to its name as an international meeting. This year, more so than any of the 33 previous editions of the conference, the dominant discussion among most...
New Website Helps Hotel Guests Find the Right Room
Mar 21, 2011
It may be the last piece of the hotel distribution puzzle. Room77.com is a newly launched website that enables hotel guests to get detailed glimpses of their hotel rooms before they check in. And armed with this...
Holiday Inn’s Relaunch Drives Revenues, Satisfaction
Mar 15, 2011
Costing $1 billion and involving nearly 3,400 hotels and 430,000 rooms, the recently completed relaunch of the Holiday Inn brand family was the most ambitious, wide-ranging hotel industry initiative ever undertaken...
Hotel Lenders Invade Hunter Conference
Hotel Lenders Invade Hunter Conference
Mar 09, 2011
If you were at this week’s Hunter Hotel Investment Conference in Atlanta, you would think plenty of lenders are providing lots of money to finance hotel industry deals. While that’s far from true, it was a good sign...
Carlson Revamps Loyalty Program, Eyes New Brands
Feb 15, 2011
At its annual conference, Carlson launched a rebranded and revamped loyalty program and outlined broad plans to add new brands in the economy and luxury lodging segments. But company officials were most anxious to...
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