HOSPITALITY HEADLINES

• 7.8 percent profit increase projected for lodge in 2009 (Star Beacon, Ashtabula, Ohio)
• Former co-owner of Victoria Inn pleads not guilty to identity theft charges (The Anniston Star, Ala.)
• Ski resort overhauls marketing campaign (The Bulletin, Bend, Ore.)
• A few language lessons for restaurant servers (The Buffalo News, N.Y.)
• Done-deal city plan runs into opposition: Group urges more attention to tourism (The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.)
• Real estate, hotels, best placed to offer discounts (Hindustan Times, New Delhi)
• Norwood, N.J., man will be new chief at Montvale hospitality company (The Record, Hackensack, N.J.)
• Casino seeks bankruptcy protection (The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colo.)
• Kansas casino plan comes to halt (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
• Worries subside for Las Vegas Sands (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
• LV Sands completes offering (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
• Las Vegas Review-Journal Inside Gaming column (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
• Financial meltdown has an effect on tourism in Maine (Bangor Daily News, Maine)
• Police probe suspicious death at Comfort Inn (New Haven Register, Conn.)
• Top of Utah resorts delay opening, waiting for snow (Standard-Examiner, Ogden, Utah)
• Pinnacle eyes President Casino's move to Chain of Rocks (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
• Number of visitors to Florida drops (The Orlando Sentinel, Fla.)
• 1-cent hotel tax will pay for parks, sports (The Orlando Sentinel, Fla.)
• Rhode Island hotels, meals tax collections take a dip (The Providence Journal, R.I.)
• Tourism Ministry unveils plans to host virtual visitors (The Daily Star, Beirut, Lebanon)
• Quality Inn arson trial rescheduled for late March (The Leader-Telegram, Eau Claire, Wis.)
• Historic former hotel in Belltown sold; once housed movie stars (Seattle Times)
• Sumner casino site back in play (The Wichita Eagle, Kan.)
• Tourism ads leave newspapers for AAA magazines: Marketing ? Utah officials say publications have longer shelf life and will attract more visitors. (The Salt Lake Tribune)
• Gaylord assures Mesa officials resort project in city is still a go: Developer backed out of similar plans near San Diego (The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.)
• Casino plans not deterred (The Hutchinson News, Kan.)
• Competition, sluggish economy force Centre Inn to close (The Citizens' Voice, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.)
• Rockin' Rogers County: Catoosa casino to bear Hard Rock logo (Claremore Daily Progress, Okla.)
• Tourism gets Obama boost (York Daily Record, Pa.)
• Woman sues resort for sexual harassment (The Record-Eagle, Traverse City, Mich.)

INSIDE HOTEL ONLINE TODAY
DAILY EMAIL NEWS

• The Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association Names the Top 25 Most Extraordinary Minds in Sales and Marketing for 2008
• SynXis Chooses HBSi Demand Gateway Connectivity Platform Increasing Distribution Exposure for More Than 8,500  Hotels and Resorts Worldwide
• Milesone Launches Graviti™; Hotel Industry's First Integrated Social Media Optimization Plan
• Gaylord Entertainment Nixes Plans to Develop a Resort in Chula Vista, California, as it Reaffirms Plans for Similar Resort in Mesa, Arizona
• Harrahs Drops Plans for $535 million Resort Near Wichita, Kansas; Cites Economic Conditions and Disruption of Financial Markets
• Dolce Hotels and Resorts Names Steven A. Rudnitsky President and Chief Executive Officer
• 31 New Hotels and Restaurants Accepted into Relais & Chateaux
• PKF Capital Hotel Realty Marketing the Marriott Norwalk For Sale
• Pacifica Capital & Brokerage, Inc. Arranges Purchase Financing for Oregon Hotel
• Educational Institute, FreemanGroup Partnership Focuses on Training and Measurement Solutions
• Seattles's Historic Lorraine Hotel Sold for $3.1 million; Likely to be Renovated into a Hostel or Hotel
• Intelity's ICE, the Edge a Timeshare Needs to Score Sales Conversions
• Medical Tourism: Are Major Changes in Health Care Afoot?
• Bharat Hotels' Selects Trust International as Enterprise CRS for  Worldwide Distribution Channels for The Grand Group/Lalit Hotels
• Millennium and Copthorne Appoints Clement Teo General Manager of M Hotel Singapore
• Brian Jago Named Director of Marketing and Sales and Dan Sierka as Director of Sales at Sheraton Universal, Universal City, California
• Janis C. Parry and Steven T. Patton Appointed National Sales Managers at Wyndham Rio Mar in Puerto Rico
• Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints Lillian Murphy Controller At Edith Macy Conference Center, Briarcliff Manor, New York

• Starwood Caribbean Resorts Join Passport Online's ResortPort™ Program; Content Now Available on Thousands of Agency Websites
• Softscribe to Sponsor Youth Birding Competition for 4th Consecutive Year; Committed to Helping Young People Build Lifelong Learning Habits and a Respect for Nature, PR Firm Helps Georgia DNR Program Soar
• Six Hotels Achieve 2009 AAA Five Diamond Status For the First Time; Complete List of 103 Hotels and 59 Restaurants
• MGM Mirage Chief, 65 Year Old Terry Lanni, Retiring; Flap Over Academic Credentials No Bearing On Decision to Retire
• Work Could Stop on the Nearly Finished 400 room Greektown Casino Hotel; Michigan Gaming Control Board Seeks to Yank the Bankrupt Casino's License, Appoint a Conservator to Run the Casino and Order a Sale of the Property 
• The Luxury Fractional Segment Likely to be the First to Rebound from the Current Real Estate Morass
• E-Guide Services, Inc. Contracts Accor North America, Motel 6 and Studio 6
• Twenty One Campgrounds and RV Resorts Earn "A" Grades in Consumer Satisfaction Survey of Independent Parks
• Increase Profits by Mentoring Directors of Sales
• The First New Luxury Hotel Built in Beverly Hills in More than 16 Years, the 201 room Montage Beverly Hills Opens
• Joie de Vivre Hospitality Nears Completion of Transforming Dowdy Sacramento Office Building to the Haute Citizen Hotel
• In Tiny Ignacio, Colorado the State-of-the-art 146 room Sky Ute Casino Resort and Conference Center Opens 
• Bunkhouse Management L.L.C. to Provide Management for the Belmont Hotel in Dallas' Oak Cliff  District; Susan Alarcon Appointed General Manager
• Las Ventanas al Paraíso, A Rosewood Resort for 8th Straight Year Is the Only Property in Los Cabos to Earn AAA's Five Diamond Rating
• Joie de Vivre Promotes Ingrid Summerfield to President, Reporting to Founder Chip Conley
• Benjamin Rafter named President and CEO of Aqua Hotels & Resorts and it's Portfolio of 12 Waikiki Hotels
• Key West Inns Attributes Booking Engine and Website Developer for Increased Reservations
• TynanGroup Appoints Siemianowski Vice President Overseeing Projects in the Southwest Region

Top five viewed pages during October 2008

1. 1. What Does the Current Financial Crisis Mean to Us in the Hospitality Industry? /  Jim Butler
2. 2. What's Hot in Future Travel Trends and Destinations - 2009 TripAdvisor-Survey
3. 3. Conde Nast Traveler Names Top Hotels and Resorts Around the World that Manage to Exceed our Expectations 
4. 4. The Cost of a Filled Room / Bill Geoghegan  
5. 5. The MICHELIN Guide New York City 2009 Gives 3 Stars to Four Restaurants, 7 Restaurants Receive 2 Stars