IHG Reopens Florida Resort

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) reopened the Holiday Inn Resort Daytona Beach Oceanfront following a renovation that included the 185 guest rooms

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Houston Marriott Debuts Redo

The Houston Marriott West Loop by the Galleria completed a renovation of all 301 guest rooms as well as of the fitness center and concierge lounge.

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Five Major Resorts Declare Bankruptcy

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Ravella Debuts at Lake Las Vegas

Ravella at Lake Las Vegas, a former Ritz-Carlton property that closed down last May, opened on Feb. 11 in Henderson, Nev.On the shores of a manmade

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Religious Meetings

Once the off-season mainstay of budget properties in secondary markets, religious meetings have a lot more options available to them these days.

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Business as Usual?

Are corporate meetings coming back strong this year? It depends on whom you ask.Some say that pent-up demand for corporate meetings is bursting onto

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Morgans Expanding Hotel Portfolio

Morgans Hotel Group signed management agreements for several new hotels, including a Delano-branded resort in Mexico and a boutique hotel in New York

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STR Releases Upbeat Hotel Forecast

The U.S. hotel industry will end 2011 with positive gains in all three major areas: occupancy, ADR (average daily rate) and RevPAR, according to a

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Major Casino Resort Coming to Gulf Coast

Construction is expected to start soon on the $450 million, 18-acre CanCan Casino Resort and French Village in D’Iberville, Miss.Set to open by

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Embassy Suites Set for Fayetteville, N.C.

A 165-room Embassy Suites with a free-standing conference center offering 9.000 square feet of meeting space is scheduled to open in Fayetteville, N.

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Storms Costing Airlines Big Bucks

The U.S. airline industry could suffer over $600 million in losses due to flight cancellations resulting from this winter’s severe storms,

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Five Takeaways: Corporate Social Responsibility: "Good Business Practices"

Corporate Social Responsibility requires an organization to: Be less bad (negative impact) and Do more good (

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NBTA Changes Name to GBTA

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Landry’s Buys Trump Casino Hotel

Landry’s Restaurants, which owns the Golden Nugget casino hotels in Las Vegas and Laughlin, Nev., purchased the Trump Marina Casino Hotel in

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Crowne Plaza Closes in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

The Crowne Plaza Five Seasons Cedar Rapids closed down for a major renovation scheduled for completion in late 2012.The hotel, which is owned by the

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Events Center Set for Idaho

The lakefront Hagadone Events Center is scheduled to open in July in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.The 11,000-square-foot facility will feature high-

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Two Denver Hyatts Consolidate Sales

The Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center and the Grand Hyatt Denver Downtown merged their sales teams.Headed by Director of Sales David

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County Asked to Finance Savannah CC Hotel

Savannah’s Georgia International and Maritime Trade Center Authority is asking county commissioners to consider a proposal for a new convention

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Minnesota Resort to Target Meetings

Leisure Hotels & Resort, a Kansas City-based management company, has been awarded management of Cove Point Lodge on the shore of Lake Superior in

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A.C. Casino Could Spark Meetings Competition

Moody’s Investor Services, a Wall Street credit ratings firm, says the half-finished Revel casino project would boost Atlantic City’s

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