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2008-06-16 Hospitality Trends

Development

Lodging Econometrics Quarterly Report Shows Middle East Hotel Construction Pipeline at 527 Projects/155,989 Guestrooms
New Hotel Openings to Accelerate Through 2008 and 2009 ...more

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Employment

CHART Board Member Says, 'When It Rains, Train'
Council of Hotel and Restaurant Trainers (CHART) board member John Alexander offers training strategies to help restaurant and hospitality operators thrive in an economic storm ...more

Newest Online Member Tool From ASTA Answers the Question: How Does Your Salary Compare?
An online interactive salary tool is the latest member benefit to hit ASTA.org, designed to help agency owners and managers, as well as current and prospective employees see where they rank in terms of salary and benefits. ...more

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Food and Beverage

Restaurant Trends - Growing And Emerging Concepts - Data reflects change and activity from February 2, 2008 to June 2, 2008
Update from Restaurantchains.net on growing and emerging restaurant concepts ...more

Restaurants Shifting Their Beverage Strategies, Says Technomic
Limited-service restaurants, in the aggregate, have reduced the number of beverage items on their menus compared to the prior year, reports foodservice consultants Technomic in the new Beverage Consumer Trend Report. The greatest drop occurred in customized beverages like specialty coffees, teas and smoothies. At the same time, there has been a corresponding increase in limited-time only (LTO) beverages. ...more

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Internet

Food & Beverage - Hospitality Education in Second Life - By Joe Dunbar
My HP Vista Notebook finally loads the Second Life viewer without crashing and I have been touring SL using my Inworld avatar, Limerick McMahon. ...more

Cornell Roundtable Focuses on Marketing Challenge of Social Media
Hospitality marketers must rise to the challenge of determining how to use web-based social media to support marketing objectives, according to participants in the fourth annual Marketing Roundtable. Chaired by Lisa Klein Pearo, a faculty member at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration, the roundtable explored the relatively uncharted marketing terrain created by social media. ...more

Hotel Website Design 2.0... Using Travel Social Media To Advance Website Sales - By Neil Salerno
The Social Media, web 2.0, is causing quite a stir in our industry, the articles keep flowing and many hoteliers are poised to capture their fair share of the millions of social media users. In my opinion, the only social media, which are currently relevant to our industry, are the few travel-related sites like TripAdvisor and VirtualTourist. General social media sites like FaceBook or You Tube are not yet the magic panacea some hoteliers had hoped they would be. ...more

Hitwise May 2008 Travel Category Report
The Hitwise Travel Report provides marketers an understanding of the competitive online travel landscape in terms of competitive clickstream, including traffic sources and referred destinations. ...more

Hotel eMarketing - Beyond Rooms! - Jitendra Jain
'We've come a long way, baby' claimed a high-spirited pop idol not so long ago, following up on the claim with an equally upbeat track. And so we have...in the world of Internet Marketing too. ...more

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Management

Lessons from the Field - Factors For Successful Interviewing Potential Hotel Sales Candidates - By John Hogan
My last three columns have discussed decisions to be made if your hotel needs a professional totally dedicated to the selling of property services, potential sources on where to recruit from and the significance of having everyone know what is expected in the job. I have had a good amount of feedback on all of them and I thank readers for their questions and comments. ...more

Hospitality R.O.I. METAPHOR - Let'S Play Ball! - By J. Ragsdale Hendrie
Hospitality is one intriguing game we have chosen. We play in splendid venues, our Fans are enthusiastic with high expectations. Our competition often has the marquee players, bench depth, ace pitching and storied coaches. We field the best Team we can, mindful of injuries, slumps, steroids and scandals. ...more

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Market Reports

Canadian Occupancy, ADR, RevPAR - Week Ending May 24, 2008
Published in conjunction with STR (Smith Travel Research) and endorsed by the Hotel Association of Canada. This publication summarizes weekly occupancy and average room rates from major cities in Canada. ...more

Canadian Occupancy, ADR, RevPAR - Week Ending May 31, 2008
Published in conjunction with STR (Smith Travel Research) and endorsed by the Hotel Association of Canada. This publication summarizes weekly occupancy and average room rates from major cities in Canada. ...more

European Chain Hotels Market Review - March 2008
Early Easter causes occupancy and profit to fall ...more

Israeli Tourism Peaks, Despite Dollar Slump
With so many of Israel's visitors arriving from the United States you may think there's a real slump in tourism numbers, given the performance of the dollar. But despite the odds, Israel's tourism chiefs are talking of 2008 as a record year. ...more

Weekly U.S. Lodging Performance for the week of June 01, 2008 - June 07, 2008
Weekly summary of Occupancy, ADR and REVPar for the United States. ...more

HVS Market Intelligence Report: Reno, Nevada - By Desiree Flanary
New hotel, retail, recreation, and business developments are making 'America's Adventure Place' more welcoming than ever. ...more

Thailand's Tourism - waning confidence needs steady nerves - By Andrew J Wood
Thailand's Tourism industry faces a testing time. With Thai economic fundamentals taking a beating and a potentially weaker baht, what's in store for the Thai Tourism sector? ...more

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Other Articles

Cornell Hospitality Reports on Discounting and Turnover Win Industry Relevance 2008 Awards
How do you capture liquor inventory to the last drop? Create the healthiest environment in your guest room? Interpret data to optimize revenue? ...more

Video - Room for Improvement
A check on hospitality, with Jonathan Tisch, Loews Hotels CEO, Bill Marriott, Marriott International CEO and Barry Sternlicht, Starwood Capital CEO ...more

PKF Predicts NBA Champs Using Hotel Performance Data
Should anyone really be surprised about this year's old-school NBA finals matchup? Not if they've been tracking the health of the hotel industry. According to PKF Hospitality Research (PKF-HR), the nation's leader in hospitality research and consulting, there is a strong relationship between hotel industry data and the NBA championship. ...more

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Technology

Technology in HFTP's GUESTROOM 2010 Serves as an Industry Point of Reference
Only at GUESTROOM 2010 - a model hotel room - will one find a voice recognition alarm clock set by speaking to it instead of punching buttons, a virtual library of the latest best-selling books, a bed without a mattress, a closet that generates electricity, a 3D golf course tour, a bath that gives a massage to the beat of your favorite music, a transducer that turns almost any surface into a speaker and an art gallery with thousands of choices. ...more

TeleAdapt announces the MediaHub HD with Bluetooth, the next generation in connectivity
The MediaHub(TM) gives hotel guests the ability to experience their music, photos, videos and other multi-media content from their own personal portable electronics device through the hotel room's flat screen HDTV. ...more

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Travel Trends

Business Travelers Changing Behaviors in Current Economy
Orbitz for Business and Business Traveler Magazine Team Up to Survey Travel Trends ...more

CLIA Releases 2008 Cruise Market Profile Study
Findings Demonstrate Growing Cruise Industry Driven By Satisfied Customers, with Travel Agents Playing Essential Role ...more

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