HOSPITALITY HEADLINES

• Reports Split on Proposed Arena's Impact: Naming rights sell may be ?very difficult,' but project could help hotels (Albuquerque Journal, N.M.)
• BRIEF: BLOG: Tucson luxury spa-resort offers downturn deals (The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson)
• BRIEF: Police chief: Motel fire is 'suspicious' (The Bradenton Herald, Fla.)
• Construction proceeding on mall hotel (The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, Va.)
• Cash crisis puts Greektown Casino-Hotel in jeopardy (Detroit Free Press)
• Fairfield Inn renovation draws praise from Marriott exec (The Frederick News-Post, Md.)
• A destination resort (The Daily Times, Farmington, N.M.)
• The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Ind., Kevin Leininger column: Hotel's delay may hurt city (The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Ind.)
• The Kansas City Star, Mo., Rick Alm column: Kansas City convention industry anticipates a 2009 dry spell (The Kansas City Star, Mo.)
• BRIEF: Florida sees decrease in tourism (The Miami Herald)
• Pebble Beach Co. cuts 29 jobs: Recession cuts into hotel reservations, holiday event bookings (The Monterey County Herald, Calif.)
• EDITORIAL: Convention center could help city (High Point Enterprise, N.C.)
• Don't call it Sheraton: Now it's the Lexington Plaza Waterfront Hotel (The Record, Stockton, Calif.)
• Rendell pushing to use Chinese loans for Convention Center (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
• Dowdy office building becomes haute Citizen hotel (The Sacramento Bee, Calif.)
• Utah's tourism industry welcomes visa waiver for South Koreans: Tourism ? State is clearing the way for foreign visitors (The Salt Lake Tribune)
• Marvel: Rebidding for casino 'not something we'll get real excited about' (The Wichita Eagle, Kan.)
• Middleton's Colonial Motel to take a room in history (The Wisconsin State Journal)

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• Starwood Caribbean Resorts Join Passport Online's ResortPort™ Program; Content Now Available on Thousands of Agency Websites
• Softscribe to Sponsor Youth Birding Competition for 4th Consecutive Year; Committed to Helping Young People Build Lifelong Learning Habits and a Respect for Nature, PR Firm Helps Georgia DNR Program Soar
• Six Hotels Achieve 2009 AAA Five Diamond Status For the First Time; Complete List of 103 Hotels and 59 Restaurants
• MGM Mirage Chief, 65 Year Old Terry Lanni, Retiring; Flap Over Academic Credentials No Bearing On Decision to Retire
• Work Could Stop on the Nearly Finished 400 room Greektown Casino Hotel; Michigan Gaming Control Board Seeks to Yank the Bankrupt Casino's License, Appoint a Conservator to Run the Casino and Order a Sale of the Property 
• The Luxury Fractional Segment Likely to be the First to Rebound from the Current Real Estate Morass
• E-Guide Services, Inc. Contracts Accor North America, Motel 6 and Studio 6
• Twenty One Campgrounds and RV Resorts Earn "A" Grades in Consumer Satisfaction Survey of Independent Parks
• Increase Profits by Mentoring Directors of Sales
• The First New Luxury Hotel Built in Beverly Hills in More than 16 Years, the 201 room Montage Beverly Hills Opens
• Joie de Vivre Hospitality Nears Completion of Transforming Dowdy Sacramento Office Building to the Haute Citizen Hotel
• In Tiny Ignacio, Colorado the State-of-the-art 146 room Sky Ute Casino Resort and Conference Center Opens 
• Bunkhouse Management L.L.C. to Provide Management for the Belmont Hotel in Dallas' Oak Cliff  District; Susan Alarcon Appointed General Manager
• Las Ventanas al Paraíso, A Rosewood Resort for 8th Straight Year Is the Only Property in Los Cabos to Earn AAA's Five Diamond Rating
• Joie de Vivre Promotes Ingrid Summerfield to President, Reporting to Founder Chip Conley
• Benjamin Rafter named President and CEO of Aqua Hotels & Resorts and it's Portfolio of 12 Waikiki Hotels
• Key West Inns Attributes Booking Engine and Website Developer for Increased Reservations
• TynanGroup Appoints Siemianowski Vice President Overseeing Projects in the Southwest Region

• The Rainmaker Group, Microsoft Team to Leverage Future Products for Gaming Hospitality Operators; Partnership Will Enable Operators to Extend Enterprise Data beyond Revenue Management
• TripAdvisor. . The Best Thing Since Peanuts; Learn How to Use It / Neil Salerno 
• IH/M&RS 2008 Post Show Report: 1,250 Exhibitors Attracts 34,050 Registrants
• Don't Fake Your Smile: Hospitality Workers' Personalities Influence Rates of Job Burnout
• Sheraton Hotel North Houston Reopens with All 200 Employees after Water Damage from Hurricane Ike
• Texas Attorney General Charges Two Franchised Hotels with Price Gouging During Hurrican Dolly
• Developer Randy Salvatore Acquires the Hotel Portion of the Stamford, Connecticut YMCA; Plans to Convert Into a 99-unit Comfort Inn & Suites
• Akron, Ohio's Lost Landmark: The 11-story Hotel Howe Was Tallest at Opening in 1915
• The Recently Opened Sheraton Hotel Stockton and Currently the Waterfront Hotel Stockton Will Fly the Lexington Flag
• 'HR in Restaurants' Sessions Promote Leading, Training During Tough Times at 3rd Annual HR in Hospitality™ Conference
• Guest-Tek Selected for Membership in Avaya DevConnect Program; Network of companies creates innovative, IP-enabled Intelligent Communications applications that extend the value of multivendor networks
• Hotel Students at University of Nevada, Las Vegas Educated with the MICROS OPERA Enterprise Solution
• The Historic Morrison-Clark Hotel in Washington D.C. Should Follow Campaign for Change

Top five viewed pages during October 2008

1. 1. What Does the Current Financial Crisis Mean to Us in the Hospitality Industry? /  Jim Butler
2. 2. What's Hot in Future Travel Trends and Destinations - 2009 TripAdvisor-Survey
3. 3. Conde Nast Traveler Names Top Hotels and Resorts Around the World that Manage to Exceed our Expectations 
4. 4. The Cost of a Filled Room / Bill Geoghegan  
5. 5. The MICHELIN Guide New York City 2009 Gives 3 Stars to Four Restaurants, 7 Restaurants Receive 2 Stars