Hotel News and Updates

Card sharks setbait to hire rats
Desert Sun - And because the indictment showed that some of the country’s larger, Las Vegas-styled riverboat casinos were fleeced - such as the Resorts East Chicago Hotel and Casino and Caesars Indiana Casino, both of Indiana, and the Horseshoe Casino and Hotel

Latin Music Songwriter Estefano Shot
Washington Post - Colombian songwriter Fabio Alonso Salgado, also known as Estefano, arrives for the BMI Latin Music Awards in this Thursday, April 21, 2005 file photo at the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas. Estefano, a prominent Latin music songwriter and producer

Mini Britney Gets Vegas Residency
Undercover Music News - Mini Britney Spears, a tiny Britney impersonator, has scored a one year residency at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Mini Britney, whose real name is Terra Jole, says she is unlike the real Britney because unlike the real Britney, mini

Osmonds Celebrate 50 Years In Entertainment
All Headline News - Las Vegas, NV (AHN) - The Osmonds are getting ready to reunite to celebrate 50 years in the entertainment business. The family The show will be taped August 13 and 14 at The Orleans Hotel Showroom and will include a meet and greet with the Osmonds

Endless summers no more at Coney Island amusement park
Newsday - In its place comes a planned $2 billion Coney Island makeover, a proposal to convert the once-seedy stretch of Brooklyn into a year-round stop with a swanky Vegas-style hotel and glitzy indoor attractions. Albert, who sold the family property to

Knock, Knock: Inside the Coolest Places and Spaces
WRAL - The Mormon temple in Apex, The Umstead hotel in Cary, homes on Lakeview Drive in Raleigh, River Mill condos off Falls of the She’s getting some great ideas from taping Knock Knock, and hopes her next gig can feature great-but-cheap ways to decorate

John Feinstein Goes Inside the PGA’s ‘Q School’
NPR News - The Nationwide Tour is real life: searching for cheap airfares or driving from event to event; looking for the best rate the The rest go back to hotel rooms to pack their bags and wait till next year. If, by some chance, one of the nonqualifiers were

Web Publishers Eye Your Wallet
Wired - Although it sounds like that old Qwest TV ad for broadband, in which a clerk at a seedy hotel promises a traveler that in his The company operates 300 websites and employs about 200 online strategies — free content, cheap content, expensive content

Eric Kinney, President
PRWeb - Urshelf.com, a college website, is rapidly expanding to the college market to help students find a cheap alternative to overpriced new textbooks. - 2005-06-17 www.ujiko.com, the First Search Engine which Personalizes its Results According to Your

Friday wild card
Spokane Spokesman-Review - MSN Web site puts Boise on list of 8 “cheap places you’d want to live” here . *The Spokane River is contaminated with more of a fire retardant than any other tested Washington waterway here . Orbusmax Special: Boise eyeing crackdown on sidewalk eating

San Francisco Chinatown details
Raleigh News & Observer - HILTON HOTEL, 750 Kearny St.; (800) 445-8667, www.hilton.com. This hotel, in the Financial District, was a Holiday Inn until early 2006. About $40 million later, its interior gleams with Asian-inflected minimalist design. It’s not cheap — continental

Wake up to park views in these hotels
Honolulu Advertiser - It’s the ultimate New York City tourist experience: a hotel room with a view of Central Park or maybe just a glimpse. Here’s a sampling of rooms with a park view, including what you’ll pay to hobnob among horse-drawn carriages. It’s not cheap (is

Moratorium on some lakefront construction
Kalamazoo Gazette - Projects being put on hold in Holland Township. HOLLAND TOWNSHIP At the request of 30 township residents Thursday, the Holland Township Board approved a six-month moratorium on lakefront construction while it creates a zoning ordinance requiring

Hotel occupancy plunges below 59%
Pacific Business News - Hawaii hotel occupancy was actually lower than the national rate, which Smith Travel Research reported Thursday as 64.8 percent. Usually the difference is the other way around. Occupancy was 67.5 percent in San Diego, 69.1 percent in Orlando, and 73.6

Commission discusses hotel/motel tax
Herald-Dispatch - Gerry Krueger, executive director of the Cabell-Huntington Convention and Visitors Bureau, which receives half of the hotel put together travel packages for skiing or whitewater rafting in West Virginia that would be marketed to people in the Orlando

Jumeirah receives definitive Ultra Travel Award in London
AME Info - The world famous Burj Al Arab, Jumeirah’s flagship hotel, was awarded the much-coveted title of Best Hotel in the Middle East at the gala function, whilst the discrete but equally luxurious Beit al Bahar Villas, located within the grounds of Jumeirah

UK Travel Agents To Promote Brunei
BruDirect - With daily flights by Royal Brunei Airlines to London, The Empire Hotel & Country Club hopes that through this familiarisation visit, more guests from the United Kingdom will visit Brunei for leisure. — Courtesy of Borneo

Lily, you’re so much better than a size zero model
Daily Telegraph - Currently on tour in America, London’s finest pop star posted a depressing blog entry complaining that she feels “fat and ugly”. Reduced to tears in her hotel room contemplating her weight, she confessed to considering gastric bypass surgery and

A Painting for $70 Million? Why Not a Caribbean Island Instead?
Bloomberg - That was the value it put on the financier Martin Zweig’s penthouse atop New York City’s Pierre hotel. To contact the reporter on this story: Linda Sandler in London at lsandler@bloomberg.net . Last Updated: May 18, 2007 07

Babacan in London:
Turkish Daily News - annual dinner of the Turkish-British Chamber of Industry and Commerce. Babacan was welcomed by Turkish Embassy officials at Heathrow airport. He was expected Friday to take part in the dinner at the Royal Garden Hotel and deliver a speech. LONDON

Orqis Medical Corporation CEO to Present at the 2007 Citigroup
Forbes - LAKE FOREST, Calif., May 15 /PRNewswire/ — Orqis Medical Corporation announced today that Ken Charhut, President and Chief Executive Officer, will present at the 2007 Citigroup Healthcare Conference at The Hilton Hotel in New York. The presentation

Harris Interactive to Present at FBR 2007 Growth Conference
Forbes - ROCHESTER, N.Y., May 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Harris Interactive(R) (Nasdaq: HPOL) will participate in the Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Company 2007 Growth Conference to be held on May 30 and 31, 2007 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City

Forget the drugstore: High-end travel essentials
MSNBC - This New York City-based apothecary earlier this year launched the Kiehl s men s grooming travel set, which offers seven don t have to waste time checking in your bags. And, more importantly, you re no longer relegated to raiding your hotel

Spectranetics to Present at Citigroup Healthcare Conference on May 23
Forbes - COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., May 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Spectranetics Corporation (Nasdaq: SPNC) today announced that it will present at Citigroup’s Healthcare Conference to be held May 22-24 at the Hilton New York Hotel. Guy A. Childs

NYC Photographer Sues Lohan and Her Mom
Washington Post - Arnold was reportedly among several photographers trailing the 20-year-old actress from a nightclub to the Hotel Gansevoort in the Meatpacking District. Lohan reportedly told the New York Post in March that one of the photographers jumped on the hood

SEMDirector: Organic Insight Selected as American Business Awards
Consumer Electronics Net - Stevie Award winners will be announced during the annual gala on Monday, June 11, at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. More than 700 executives from across the U.S. are expected to attend. The ceremonies will be videocast on the Internet

RAE Systems to Present at Morgan Keegan Homeland Security Technology
MSN MoneyCentral - The conference is being held at the New York Palace Hotel in New York, NY. Presenting from management will be Robert Chen, president and chief executive officer, and Randall Gausman, chief financial officer. “We look forward to meeting with the

Online Press Release
PRWeb - The St Andrews Grand is Coming Back to Life at the Old Course Once-glorious hotel overlooking a site of the Open Championship is being turned into exclusive club; Phil Mickelson becomes founding member. - 2006-07-21 Training Company Launches Unique

The father of thrifty travel
Baltimore Sun - This first-time release from Zagat Survey rates and reviews all six of Disney’s Orlando, Fla., theme parks, from Magic Kingdom lists, revealing that Soarin’ is the most popular attraction, while Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge is the most popular hotel

Hotel’s young duckmaster hopes to make a splash
Knoxville News Sentinel - Sensat, 33, was officially hired as duckmaster at Memphis’ historic hotel in April, joining duckmasters stationed in Peabody hotels in Little Rock, Ark., and in Orlando, Fla. He cares for, feeds, exercises and trains the five mallards that are a part

Starpulse News Blog
Starpulse.com - Orlando Bloom To Make Theater Debut In London’s West End drama next season, playing a billionaire with a mysterious past who becomes the new owner of the show’s centerpiece hotel

Online Press Release
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Disney Movies
Mickey News - You can get great prices on Disneyland tickets and hotel accomadations around the resort. Mickey News Travel can also get attendance across the board in the quarter — including international visitors, though they still are not flocking to Orlando

Online Press Release
PRWeb - Highly acclaimed President of Environmental Air Science is beginning 4-day training classes in Orlando, FL on January 23, 2006 Ovidias Chocolates were an award winner at the Hotel/Motel and Restaurant show and featured on CNBC’s Power lunch. - 2005-11

Will it be arts, music, sports, or neon overkill?
Orlando Sentinel - If you don’t like the revitalized look of downtown Orlando, there is plenty of hotel space along I-Drive where you can enjoy the amenities of neon overkill. I am certain that Miss Parton and the dueling knights would make you feel welcome. George Diaz

Net widens in sting of online escorts
Orlando Sentinel - ORLANDO AREA Baldwin Park | College Park | Colonialtown / Audubon Park | Downtown Orlando / Thornton Park | MetroWest | when they lured women — including, they said, an employee of the Florida Department of Children & Families — to a hotel

Softball: Tribe, players share in dream
Palm Beach Interactive - More than a half-century ago, when the Glades County school system wouldn’t allow Seminoles from the Brighton Indian Reservation The Seminole Tribe is financing the players’ hotel rooms and providing a bus, free of charge, for Okeechobee students to

STAR ‘CAUGHT WITH CRYSTAL METH’
Daily Mirror - The 45-year-old, who has a history of drug abuse, was held after he and actor Jason Salcedo rowed with a hotel receptionist. Salcedo allegedly invited the worker outside for a fight in the early hours after he could not find their reservation.

Spokane sisters reach out with line of natural products Email this
Indian Country Today - Sister Sky offers a full line of products that can be customized for their hotel and spa clients such as these (at right from it, but to create an economy back home, with a facility that will employ people and elevate the economy on the reservation

SRIA sets deadline for hotel decision
Pensacola News Journal - It’s heavily modeled after the city of Gulf Shores, Ala., hotel standards. It includes requiring hotels to: have a front desk, a central reservation system, a limit on number of bedrooms in each unit, a daily room cleaning service, and to prohibit

Tom Sizemore Busted Again
WPSD TV - Sizemore and his friend, actor Jason Salcedo, allegedly threatened to beat up a hotel clerk Tuesday morning, because the clerk couldn’t find their reservation. Hotel staff called police, who said they found Sizemore and Salcedo in their car with

Forgive me if I don’t join in this great Ulster backslapping bonanza
Daily Mail - But it does not follow from this that we should welcome the new settlement without reservation, as much of the media is doing. Take Patrick Magee, who in 1984 blew up the Grand Hotel in Brighton, killing five people and maiming others, including

hotelbook(R) Rides High With Qunar
PR Newswire - Founded in 1989, Pegasus’ customers include a majority of the world’s travel agencies and more than 78,000 hotel properties around the globe. Pegasus’ services include central reservation systems, electronic distribution services, commission

Do North calendar, part 1
Gloucester Daily Times - p.m.; Thursday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Located on the first floor of the Hawthorne Hotel Life and Trade, 1630-1800″ and “Local Haunts,” 30-minute presentations, Thursdays , 7:30 p.m. by telephone reservation and

President’s award goes to Radisson
St. Cloud Times - The Radisson Suite Hotel in St. Cloud was named this month as one of the Radisson Hotels & Resorts’ top-performing hotels In addition, the Chanticleer’s private dining room will be available by reservation. Wohlleber said Fifth Avenue Grill will offer

Newest military-only resort opens at Virginia oceanfront
Seattle Times - A new facility in the Bavarian Alps called the Edelweiss Lodge and Resort opened in 2004. The program’s other resorts include the Hale Koa Hotel, which was built in Honolulu in 1975; Orlando’s Shades of Green, which opened in the mid-1990s; and Dragon

In a Quiet Part of Florida, a Bid to Bring in the Crowds
New York Times - Backers say the airport could transform the so-called Redneck Riviera into an international tourist destination like Orlando or Miami, drawing more visitors and part-time residents to fill a glut of new hotel rooms and condominiums. Critics see that

US judge drops charges against anti-Castro exile
Gulf Times - Cuba blames him and Orlando Bosch for planning the attack. Former US president George Bush pardoned Bosch in 1990. And now US authorities are investigating whether Posada Carriles was involved in a 1997 Havana hotel bombing that killed an Italian

FIFA: S. Africa Will Host 2010 World Cup
Orlando Sentinel - Something in the sports world on your mind? Send us a letter and we may print it in a future edition of the Orlando Sentinel . World Cup, but has faced logistical problems in overhauling its transport system, updating infrastructure and boosting hotel

Army opens new military-only resort
Wilmington Morning Star - A new facility in the Bavarian Alps called the Edelweiss Lodge and Resort opened in 2004. The program’s other resorts include the Hale Koa Hotel, which was built in Honolulu in 1975; Orlando’s Shades of Green, which opened in the mid-1990s; and Dragon

East Ridge offers studies this summer
Orlando Sentinel - ORLANDO AREA Baldwin Park | College Park | Colonialtown / Audubon Park | Downtown Orlando / Thornton Park | MetroWest | The theme was “Escape to Atlantis,” which alluded to one of the auction items, a trip to the Atlantis Hotel in Paradise

Disney Movies
Mickey News - You can get great prices on Disneyland tickets and hotel accomadations around the resort. Mickey News Travel can also get Smith, who will bless the plane that will carry more than 100 special needs children, the majority in wheelchairs, to Orlando

MGM Mirage 1Q Profit Rises 17 Percent and Las Vegas Sands Corp
Financial News USA - In the first quarter of 2007 in Las Vegas, hotel revenues increased 7.3% to $96.1 million versus $89.6 million in the first quarter of 2006. The Venetian’s average daily rate (ADR) increased 10.8% to $276, compared to $249 in the first quarter of 2006

De la Hoya, Mayweather ready for Las Vegas superfight
Citizen.co.za - Boxers Oscar De La Hoya (L) and Floyd Mayweather Jr. face off during their final news conference at the MGM Grand Hotel/Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, 02 May 2007. The two will fight for the WBC super welterweight championship at the MGM on 05 May 2007

Sun photographer snaps a winner
Las Vegas Sun - Brown’s photograph, “A mother’s anguish,” showed a woman collapsed in exhaustion on her Las Vegas hotel bed after searching fruitlessly for her missing adult daughter. The frozen moment in time told much about the larger story, a judge remarked. “The

Power outage briefly affects three hotels on Las Vegas
KRNV - LAS VEGAS Lights are back on at three hotel-casinos on the Las Vegas Strip after a power outage that Nevada Power says was caused by a rodent getting into a substation. Fox news is reporting the New Frontier, Riviera and Circus Circus lost

Trojans’ Holley among top 10 south Nevada athletes
Pahrump Valley Times - He and his nine southern peers will be honored at a May 21 banquet to be held at Sam’s Town Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas. The northern honorees will be recognized at the Atlantis Hotel-Casino in Reno May 23. Other southern athletes selected included

Lawmakers being wined and dined in Las Vegas
Southern Illinoisan - While in Las Vegas, the lawmakers will be staying at the Renaissance Las Vegas Hotel, which, according to its Web site, features rooms with flat-panel television screens, a steakhouse called “Envy” and “convenient monorail access to the Strip.” At the

De La Hoya, Mayweather fight Saturday
Earthtimes - LAS VEGAS, May 4 A record revenue figure is likely when Oscar De La Hoya meets Floyd Mayweather Jr. for boxing’s WBC junior middleweight title. The bout takes place Saturday at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nev. De La Hoya, 34, is a six-weight

Hard Rock Hotel San Diego - Luxury Property Set to Open Fall 2007
PR Inside - We’ve been in Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Las Vegas for about eight years and the brand is so strong worldwide. I also live in Los Angeles and I love coming to San Diego, so when I saw the location, I was in. The hotel and the city itself have such a

ALA Boys ready to rumble
ABS-CBN - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The eyes of the boxing world will be glued to the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on Saturday when Oscar De La Hoya defends his World Boxing Council super welterweight title against Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Reuters

Gordon Scott, 80, ‘Tarzan’ Film Actor
Ledger - Scott was a lifeguard at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas when he was discovered by Hollywood producer Sol Lesser, said Scott’s brother Rayfield Werschkull of Portland, Ore. He was signed to a seven-year-contract after he outperformed 200 other

The freshest dining spots and events in the city
Georgia Straight - An early alert to nail that Mother’s Day reservation asap. Broad-strokes possibilities: the killer buffet ($70 adults, $60 seniors/teens, kids three to 12 $3 per year) at the Pan Pacific Hotel’s Caf Pacifica (999 Canada Place, 604-895-2480). A

NASCAR fans fuel region
Richmond Times-Dispatch - Tena Nelson, reservation supervisor for the Hotel & Motel Association of Williamsburg, which books for about 80 hotels, said she suspects most of the NASCAR fans staying in Williamsburg are from out of state. Seeing as most points in the eastern half

Business Calendar Your first look at next week in Tucson business
Arizona Daily Star - TAF/Ad2 networking mixer-reservation deadline Sheraton Tucson Hotel & Suites-Park Theater, 5151 E. Grant Road. Mixer hosted by the Tucson Advertising Federation and Ad2 Tucson. Features clips from the 2006 Clio Awards, along with the debut of Ad2

Some in former Wild West town in Kansas pinning hopes on casino
Herald Tribune - The law requires them to invest at least $50 million ( 36.9 million) in a casino and hotel complex, and they would like approved the measure after watching Kansas residents increasingly head to neighboring Oklahoma and its Indian reservation casinos

Welcome to Mother s Day Dining at Opus, in the Renaissance
dBusinessNews.com - Discover the only four-star downtown Pittsburgh hotel , where culture and comfort co-exist at the legendary Renaissance Pittsburgh, PA Hotel . For more information or to make a reservation, call (800) 468-3571, or visit http://marriott.com/hotels/travel

Recruiting casino opponents
Beloit Daily News - City Council Administrative Committee discussed issues from competition to federal regulations, as related to off-reservation She said because of the money the county receives from the Ho-Chunk Casino Hotel and Convention Center, and concerns with

Online Press Release
PRWeb - Web users are able to reserve a hotel room in all European languages and as well in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Bahasa Malay, Thai and Arabic. - 2004-10-19 How to Select the Next President Leadership advisor Dennis Sommer shows frustrated or undecided

Legacy Hotels Real Estate Investment Trust Reports First Quarter
CCNMatthews - Hotel EBITDA up 50% - TORONTO, ONTARIO–(CCNMatthews - May 3, 2007) - Legacy Hotels Real Estate Investment Trust (”Legacy To access the recording please dial 416-695-5800 or 1-800-408-3053 and use the reservation number 3220747. A live audio webcast

MY RIDE: Events
Times Herald-Record - Call Amy Gold at 794-4100, ext. 439, or Lori Rothman at 794-4100, ext. 600, to make a reservation or for info. Walden Humane 24th annual Lead East, World’s Biggest ’50s Party, Aug. 30-Sept. 2, Hilton Hotel, 1 Hilton Court, Parsippany, N.J