HOSPITALITY HEADLINES

• Allegiant touts diversity: Company typically offers air, room, car in its vacation deals (The Honolulu Advertiser)
• Two "Maury' guests arrested in Stamford hotel brawl (The Stamford Advocate, Conn.)
• 80-room Savannah Lakes Resort at Thurmond Lake closed (The Augusta Chronicle, Ga.)
• City to ask for hotel occupancy tax: Collection would be up to $5 a night (The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.)
• Citizens offer suggestions for Mammoth Cave Hotel's planned upgrade (The Daily News, Bowling Green, Ky.)
• Poll: Bay State residents support casinos (Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass.)
• Last resort: In remote area (The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa)
• BRIEF: $43.9 million bet on slots at casino (Erie Times-News, Pa.)
• City council approves fees to promote tourism (North County Times, Escondido, Calif.)
• Missing sea turtle statue returned to Boca Raton's Bridge Hotel (Sun Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)
• Proposal would release convention center from state control (Seattle Times)
• UAE has 52,566 Hotel Rooms in Active Pipeline (Khaleej Times, Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
• Casino has backing of visitors bureau: Position change may help group win developer's money (The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio)
• Tribal tax fight to continue: Casino: Resort now part of Chehalis reservation, but county's not ready to give up on lawsuit over taxes (The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.)
• After pay cuts, Westin hotel workers to decide on strike or boycott (The Providence Journal, R.I.)
• Owners at Resort at Singer Island sue over high fees (The Palm Beach Post, Fla.)
• WTTC: Lebanon to rank first globally in tourism growth (The Daily Star, Beirut, Lebanon)
• Saudi hotel sector set for growth (Arab News, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
• EDITORIAL: Johnsonville statue must be tied to specific tourism plan (Lake City News and Post, S.C.)
• Poll shows Adams County supports casino: 62 percent favor proposal in poll commissioned by Mason Dixon Resort officials. (The Evening Sun, Hanover, Pa.)
• 58% support Robert DeLeo's plan for casinos, slots at tracks: Most back expanded gambling (Boston Herald)
• Room tax hike worries motel owners (The Observer, La Grande, Ore.)

INSIDE HOTEL ONLINE TODAY
DAILY EMAIL NEWS

• Cendyn Increases Online Business for Galt House Hotel with Advanced Website Design and Marketing; 1,290-room Convention Property Implements eBooker Online Reservations and EZYield.com Rate Optimization; Increases Online Visibility 184 Percent to Sell More Rooms and Services
• Are You Using the Power of Video to Fill Your Hotel Rooms? - Register for this Complimentary Webinar to Learn What Every Hotelier Needs to Know about using Online Video to Appeal to Different Generations of Travel Shoppers
• UK-Based Hotel Group Increases Bookings and Average Rate Using Sabre Hospitality Solutions' Reservation Technology; Red Carnation Hotel Collection increases call center bookings by over 50 percent after expanding relationship with Sabre Hospitality Solutions
• On the Rocks - Observations on How the Economic Meltdown Will Affect Hotel Management Contracts / Richard Warnick
• Hotel Spas: An Examination on How the Economic Recession Has Impacted Hotel Spas / Gabrielle Lerner
• Union Workers Taken by Surprise as Westin Providence Hotel Owner Imposes 20% Pay Cut and Increases Employee Health Care Contribution 43%
• New Jersey Gaming Regulators Successful in Forcing MGM Mirage Out of Atlantic City; State Releases Exhaustive 74-page Report Detailing Pansy and Stanley Ho Links to Organized Crime
• Seattle Hoteliers Angry with Lawmakers Who Have Diverted Hotel-tax Accounts of $80 million to Help Balance the State Budget Rather then for Convention Center and Tourism Promotion
• Owners Abruptly Close the 80-room Savannah Lakes Resort on Lake Thurmond in McCormick, South Carolina
• INNCOM Automated Guestroom Systems Play Lead Role in LEED Certification at Bardessono; Napa Valley's Bardessono luxury boutique and spa becomes third hotel in the world to receive this prestigious recognition
• Luxury Link Releases 2010 Consumer Survey Results; Online Luxury Hotel Deal Expert's Annual Survey Reveals Preferences, Travel Booking Practices and Most Sought-After Destinations of More Than 6,000 Travelers
• StarCite Partners With EveryScape To Provide Rich Visual Experience For StarCite Online Marketplace Properties; WebScapes Empower Meeting Planners with Additional Information and Offer Suppliers Added Opportunities to Showcase Location
• Mehta Family, LLC Prepares to Open a 310 studio Staybridge Suites in New York City's Times Square
• Claiming to Be the World's Largest Hospitality Exhibition, Hotelex Shanghai 2010, Set for March 29-April 1at the Shanghai New International Exhibition Center
• Driven By Dubai's Vibrant Hospitality Industry, the UAE Has 52,566 Hotel Rooms in Active Pipeline
• Best Western Business Travel Advisory Board Finds Increase in Business Trips, New Growth Opportunities in 2010
• AH&LA Recognizes Bhupen Amin of Lotus Hotels & Investments with State Leadership Award
• Broughton Hospitality Names Jim Sichta as Chief Operating Officer

• Independent Hotels and Resorts Attract Guests, Increase Revenue Using Social Media and E-Marketing to Promote Direct Website Bookings, Loyalty; Personalized Service, Engaging Guests in the Era of Internet & Social Marketing Proves a Winning Strategy for Independent Hoteliers to Outshine Large Chains
• New Survey Provides Hoteliers Insight on Industry Trends; HSMAI and VIZERGY® Partner to Create Best Practices for Hoteliers
• Aqua Hotels and Resorts Collaborates with Milestone Internet Marketing and Launches Newly Revamped Portal Website for Aqua Managed Hotels
• Update on South Florida Projects Branded with the Trump Name
• New Technology is Cool, But Don't Forget  Hotel Marketing Basics / Neil Salerno
• LA Times Travel Writer Christopher Reynolds Writes About His Favorite 14 Hotels
• AH&LA Expresses Strong Opposition to Draft Legislation Known as the "Internet Travel Tax Fairness Act" / Issues Brief and Talking Points
• Hawai'i's Popularity Rising with South Korean Tourists: TV Home-Shopping Show Selling up to 800 Vacation Packages an Hour
• Macau May Take Back Cotai-Strip Land Designated for Casino Development and Use for Social Housing
• Lodgian Receives Audit Report Identifying Matters that Raise Substantial Doubt About the Company's Ability to Continue as a Going Concern
• Waves of Job Seekers Descend on the Soon to Open $140 million Ocean House in Watch Hill, Rhode Island
• Planning Board in Bar Harbor, Maine Rejects Developer's $12 million Luxury Hotel Proposal
• EZYield.com Delivers Time Saving Channel Management Solution For Rembrandt Hotel & Towers Bangkok; SaaS platform enables efficient Internet business model for luxury 407-room property in Thailand
• eRevMax Launches RateTiger Academy; eRevMax and XOTELS partner to develop knowledge for hoteliers in changing markets
• onPeak Appoints Glenn Feder as Executive Vice President of Sales & New Business Development; Key Addition Made to the onPeak Executive Team
• LodgeNet Joins AAHOA as Founding Platinum Member; Offers High-Quality, Value Priced Free-To-Guest, Broadband Internet and Professional Services to AAHOA Members
• Zermatt Resort & Spa Near Park City, Utah Delinquent on Taxes; Company Confident of Future with New Leadership Team
• Alaskan Travel Officials Expecting 140,000 Fewer Cruise Visitors This Year
• WNW Hospitality Group Recognizes its Best of the Best Winners 2009; Gus Szkotnicki Awarded General Manager of the Year
• The Radisson Albuquerque Earns Proclamation from New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson on Opening of First Indoor Waterpark in New Mexico
• Laurus Corporation Completes the Acquisition of Le Meridien Cancun
• Hotel School Alum Tom Thomas Advises MSU Students, Named Honorary Faculty
• The Peabody Hotel Group Promotes Several Executives In its Hotels Division
• Benchmark Appoints Heidi Krause Controller at Makena Beach & Golf Resort, Maui

Top five viewed pages during February 2010

1. The Ritz-Carlton Lake Las Vegas Informs 340 Employees that it Will Close on May 2, 2010; Village Hospitality LLC Concludes Funding Operations No Longer Economically Viable
2. What's the Secret to Achieving Top Ranking on TripAdvisor? / Daniel Craig
3. Las Vegas City Leaders Blast Obama Stating "He is Not Really Welcome in this City Until he Straightens This Out." in Response to Presidential Comment
4. What to Do When Things Go Wrong in a Hotel / Daniel Craig
5. InterContinental Takes Aim at Hilton's Loyalty Program Members with Bold Move to Entice Customers