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Vol. 10: Issue 25 2008-07-02

INSIDE VIEW

Food & Beverage - How to Boost Your Lunch Trade - By Ken Burgin

What happened to the customers? They'rere stilll around, but their needs have changed. Listed below are the core strategies from smart operators we've talked to in the last 12 months. ...more

When will hotel operators 'get it'? - By Jim Butler, author of www.HotelLawBlog.com

Ritz-Carlton breached contractual and fiduciary duties under hotel management agreement giving rise to free termination, $10.3 million in damages plus attorneys fees. ...more

Change v. Experience: Dilemma Facing Presidential Candidates and Hoteliers - By David M. Brudney

With the mortgage meltdown, a troubled economy and the presidential candidate primaries dominating the news this month, it was a profound comment made by good-natured and well-liked New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson that caught my attention. ...more

Training to Keep Your Hotel Sales Effort Strong - By Leora Lanz

With today's economic climate and the surge of new hotels in the last 10 years, basic selling skills - for being an effective sales manager - are more important than ever. We need to revisit them and train to keep our selling ahead of the curve. ...more

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FEATURED SITE

The Open Library
The Open Library website was created by the Internet Archive to demonstrate a way that books can be represented online. The vision is to create free web access to important book collections from around the world. Books are scanned and then offered in an easy-to-use interface for free reading online. If they're in the public domain, the books can be downloaded, shared and printed for free. They can also be printed for a nominal fee by a third party, who will bind and mail the book to you. The books are always FREE to read at the Open Library website.
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FEATURED SUPPLIER

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MITV VISTA International Group Inc. offers the most complete integrated solution for the lodging industry, with more tan 15 years of experience in every area of expertise offered. Successfully installed systems and a constant research and development efforts has been make possible all of our products and services with the goal to become leaders in a short term. MITV-VISTA services brings both direct and indirect profitability, the installed systems are therefore an investment in profitability, rather than a pure technology cost.
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FEATURED MAGAZINE

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ENVIRONMENT

Colorful, Stylish Furniture Made from HDPE Closes the Plastic Recycling Loop

Summer-like weather is here and there is nothing better than kicking back on the beach or close to a pool. Why not kick back on some recycled plastic? There are a number of U.S.-based companies that manufacture outdoor furniture from high-density polyethylene (HDPE). HDPE is made from recycled plastic milk and water jugs. ...more

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HEADLINES

Most viewed headlines this past week at Hotel News Resource. Click on the title to read.

Priceline Releases Its 5th Annual Top Destinations List For July 4th

Emerging Tourism Markets - The Coming Economic Boom

Food & Beverage - Keep It Simple Regression - By Joe Dunbar

Fourth Consecutive Year of Growth in 2007 for Europe's Tourism

The Perfect Storm: Search, Shop, Buy Part 1 - By Philip C. Wolf

Weekly U.S. Lodging Performance for the week of June 15, 2008 - June 21, 2008

International Visitation and Spending Up in the First Quarter of 2008

New Phocuswright Study Reveals Late Adopters Propel Online Travel

How to Make Safety a Marketing Plus, Not a Nuisance - By Ken Burgin

AH&LA Study Reveals Current and Future Technology Trends in Hospitality

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UPCOMING INDUSTRY EVENTS

Tonkin Corporation
2008-07-28
Asian Hotel Investment Congress

Exhibitions India
2008-08-06
All About Food Expo 2008

Council of Hotel & Restaurant Trainers (CHART)
2008-08-09
CHART Hospitality Training Conference

Passkey
2008-08-22
Passkey Housing Forum 08

HSMAI
2008-09-10
Event Technology Expo

VIBevents
2008-09-16
Hotel eMarketing 2008

KTM Society
2008-09-20
KTM 2008

Meetings Technology Expo
2008-09-23
Meetings Technology Expo

HFTP
2008-09-24
HFTP Annual Convention & Tradeshow 2008

KioskCom Ltd
2008-10-01
KioskCom - Self Service Expo

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FEATURED BOOK

The Medium is the Massage

The Medium is the Massage is Marshall McLuhan's most condensed, and perhaps most effective, presentation of his ideas. Using a layout style that was later copied by Wired, McLuhan and coauthor/designer Quentin Fiore combine word and image to illustrate and enact the ideas that were first put forward in the dense and poorly organized Understanding Media. McLuhan's ideas about the nature of media, the increasing speed of communication, and the technological basis for our understanding of who we are come to life in this slender volume. Although originally printed in 1967, the art and style in The Medium is the Massage seem as fresh today as in the summer of love, and the ideas are even more resonant now that computer interfaces are becoming gateways to the global village.
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