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2008-04-22 News Highlights

Features

Common Problems with 'Perfect' Staff: Be Careful - By Ken Burgin
Do you employ Mr or Ms Perfect? ...more

Boutique Hotels - Good For The Good Times - By Robert Mandelbaum
Boutique hotels have been all the rage in the lodging industry. Developers want to build them. Guests want to stay in them. Travel writers want to wax on about their virtues. ...more

How to get the right hotel operator: Part 1 - By Jim Butler, author of www.HotelLawBlog.com
Hotel Lawyer on hotel management agreements. Long-term, no-cut hotel management agreements: How to get the right brand and operator for your hotel project . . . and a deal you can live with. ...more

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Trends

Ernst & Young's European Non-Performing Loan Report
The report provides a detailed analysis of each European NPL market that does today or may in the near future provide opportunities for international investors. ...more

HVS Market Intelligence Report: Charlotte, North Carolina - By Katharine Lowe
At a time of nationwide fiscal drought and a slump in development, the 'Queen City' maintains a regal guise. ...more

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Technology

Broadband Hospitality Opens Regional Offices in Northeast, Southeast
High-Speed Internet Leader Adds 35 Years of Experience to Sales Team ...more

Amadeus signs 60 hotel brands to pioneering Worldwide Commission Manager and launches solution in France
Solution provides travel agencies with a single screen to track all hotel commissions from all hotels and payment providers - Hotels get more bookings from travel agents confident of commissions ...more

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Appointments

New General Manager at Pan Pacific Seattle
David Sullivan has been appointed as the new General Manager for the Pan Pacific Seattle. Sullivan assumed his position on April 1, 2008. ...more

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Development

The Waldorf=Astoria Collection Signs Agreement To Open First Hotel In Israel
The Palace Jerusalem expected to debut 2010 ...more

First Holiday Inn Express in South Africa
IHG partners with ISO Leisure to develop 25 properties in South Africa ...more

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Other

Stark Service Solutions Announces New Hospitality Client Relationship With Charleston, South Carolina's Exquisite Vendue Inn
Known internationally for its cutting edge programs to enhance customer loyalty through superior guest satisfaction and associate satisfaction ratings, Stark Service Solutions announced today the addition of one of Charleston, South Carolina's most charming and exquisite luxury inns to their client roster, The Vendue Inn. ...more

Hotel chefs embrace local, organic food trend
An increasing number of hotels are touting restaurants that offer organic and locally grown foods, much in the same way they would promote pillow-top mattresses and in-room wireless Internet. ...more

A Pod of One's Own
From Amsterdam to New York, travelers seeking refuge from soaring hotel rates have an alternative: pods with little space and, sometimes, no windows. What it's like to spend a night in 84 square feet. ...more

Cool hotels that take no prisoners
From solitary confinement to champagne - former jailhouses that rock ...more

EMEA Hospitality Enews - Week Ending April 18 - 2008
Weekly Hotel Industry News Roundup from Europe, Middle East and Africa ...more

Asia Pacific Hospitality Enews - Week Ending April 12 - 2008
Weekly Hotel Industry News Roundup from Asia Pacific ...more

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Sales and Marketing

Worldwide Revenue Solutions Launches Hotel Sales Kit
Worldwide Revenue Solutions (WRS), a hotel Internet marketing company, has co-developed and launched Hotel Sales Kit, an innovative online marketing tool that helps hotels manage their customer database to deliver interactive sales proposals, customer newsletters, eMail blasts, pre-arrival messages, post-departure correspondence, online surveys, and eCards. ...more

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