Local Hotels Renovating Rooms Despite Slump
Some of Sacramento's largest hotels are spending big bucks on room renovations, even though their rooms are sitting empty. The most recent hotel numbers show Sacramento's room rates went down almost two percent; not good compared to the overall average of Northern California, where rates went up about four percent.

Nursing Homes are star hotels with costly medical facilities?
Birthday/marriage parties should be simple, sober? Mahesh Kapasi: With lots of money, many people (including black money especially rich people) have now birthday / marriages take place in five star hotels farm houses, just to use their black money and show their high status!

IDeaS Provides Revenue Management Benefits to Newly Opened or Acquired Hotels
IDeaS Revenue Optimization, the leading provider of hospitality revenue management and optimization solutions and services, today announced its New Hotels Success Service Package (NHSSP), a service designed to allow hotels to bring the advantages of the IDeaS V5i Revenue Management solution into new properties. IDeaS designed the package to enable newly opened hotels or hotels with no historical ...

Hotels get inauguration bookings
Franklin County hotels were booked in November for the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama. However, some rooms are available now due to recent cancellations.

New York luxury hotels offering third night free
NEW YORK - Nine luxury hotels in New York City are offering a third night's stay free after you book and pay for two consecutive nights between Jan. 9 and Feb. 27.

Red Lion Hotels to Present at the Eleventh Annual ICR XChange Conference
Red Lion Hotels Corporation (NYSE: RLH) today announced that Chief Financial Officer Anthony Dombrowik will be presenting at the Eleventh Annual ICR XChange Conference on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort & Spa in Dana Point, California. The presentation will begin at 8:25 AM Pacific Time.

Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn among 'world's best' hotels
Travel + Leisure magazine has released its annual ?World?s Best Hotels? list and the Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa, along with 22 other Fairmont hotels and resorts worldwide, was recognized among the 500 best across the globe.

La Plagne ski guide: top five hotels
Five of the best hotels in the French ski resort of La Plagne from traditional mountain inns to luxury apartments.

Omni hotels in Fort Worth, Irving to host Super Bowl teams in 2011
Super Bowl XLV is two years away, but Omni Hotels can declare its chain a winner now. The new Omni Fort Worth Hotel will host the AFC champions, and the NFC team will stay at the Omni Mandalay Hotel at Las Colinas.

Hotels scrap bid to seek compensation
Hotels and restaurants in Bahrain that suffered losses because they were forced to cancel their New Year's Eve entertainment say they have no plans to seek compensation, Gulf Daily News has reported.

Half-empty hotels ask staff to take annual leave | herald.ie
Several city hotels have put staff on reduced working weeks as the hospitality industry sits on the verge of crisis. Workers at one of the capital's most prestigious hotels have been asked to take annual leave now because there is nothing for them to do. However, the economic downturn is good news for anyone booking a break in the capital as hotels have slashed their rates substantially. As many ...

Omni Hotels Fills Newly Created Position of Vice President of Global Distribution & Revenue Strategy
Omni Hotels announced that Lesli Reynolds has been promoted to the newly created position of vice president, global distribution & revenue strategy. In this new position, Reynolds will lead the corporate revenue management team and the Omni Customer Contact Center in Omaha, Nebraska to ensure the consistent optimization of Omni's pricing strategies across all channels.

Omni Hotels Announces New 'Nucleus' Central Reservations System
Omni Hotels announced that the company has successfully deployed its new brand-wide reservation system, powered by the OPERA Enterprise Solution from MICROS Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCRS) , a leading worldwide provider of information technology solutions for the hospitality and retail industries.

Doug Carrillo of Desires Hotels Collection Receives HSMAI Adrian Award
Doug Carrillo, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Tecton Hospitality and Desires Hotels, has been selected as one of the "Top 25 Extraordinary Minds in Sales and Marketing" for 2008. The sixth annual list, given by The Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI), recognizes the most "best of the best" in the hospitality, travel and tourism industries and the ...

9 Luxury Hotels in Manhattan Offer Third Night Free
Hoteliers are cutting prices to maintain occupancy.

New social media platform for hotels launched
Lodging Interactive has rolled out its travel 2.0 marketing services for hotels. The HuBBub social media platform is a turn-key marketing service which leverages travel 2.0 technologies to extend a hotel's online branding, marketing and communication strategies.

'Dirty' budget hotels criticised
Mouldy mattresses, stained duvets and dirty toilets are found at several budget hotels by a consumer rights magazine.

Hotels link up to promote tourism
Four hotels which joined forces to attract tourists to north Wales are congratulated on the initiative.

Hotels' makeup-removal towelettes recalled because of bacteria
Makeup-removal towelettes ? called "simplySmart Remove" ? are recalled from Holiday Inn Express hotels because of contamination that could cause eye infections

British Hotels,Restaurants Must Step Up Or Fail-Tourism Chief
LONDON (AFP)--Just as the falling pound has sparked hopes that foreign tourists will flock to Britain for cheaper holidays, the government's tourism chief warned Thursday that poor service could put them off.