News and Reviews of Hotels

Archive for September, 2007

Check into these supposedly haunted hotels ? if you dare

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

BOO! THERE ARE plenty of you who enjoy ghoulishly good Halloween getaways and things that go bump in the night.

Read More at Inside Bay Area…

Utell Segments, Classifies Hotels

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

APRIL 23, 2007 — Pegasus Solutions’ Utell Hotels & Resorts, which has a portfolio of 3,600 hotels worldwide, is boosting member hotel accessibility through travel management companies and Internet resources via a new segmentation strategy, the Dallas-based company announced this month.

Read More at Business Travel News…

Choice Hotels plans expansion

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

Choice Hotels India (CHI) plans to have around 80 hotels in the country in the next three years.

Read More at Business Standard India…

Red Lion Hotels to Acquire Radisson in Anaheim

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

Red Lion Hotels Corporation has entered into an agreement to acquire the leasehold interest in the 314-room Radisson Hotel Maingate-Anaheim in California. The deal is expected to close in October.

Read More at Hospitality Design…

Red Lion Hotels Corporation Announces Stock Repurchase Program

Friday, September 28th, 2007

Red Lion Hotels Corporation today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a common stock repurchase program that enables the Company to purchase up to $10 million of its common stock.

Read More at PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance…

Short circuit: Hotels play new name game

Friday, September 28th, 2007

What?s in a name? A lot. A wrong one could take the unsuspecting Delhi?ite on a wild goose chase round the Capital, scouting for the right address. So, who are all being re-christened? Hotels.

Read More at Hindustan Times…

Indian Hotels revises rights issue plan

Friday, September 28th, 2007

Indian Hotels Company Ltd informed Bombay Stock Exchange on Thursday that it has modified one of the two instruments of its proposed rights issue announced on August 13.

Read More at Express India…

INDIAN HOTELS CO TO US$212 MLN VIA RIGHTS ISSUE

Friday, September 28th, 2007

Share/credit issues   Indian Hotels Company (BSE:500850), that runs the Taj group of hotels, said Thursday it will raise Rs 8440 million (US$212.7 million) through issue of equity shares on rights basis in 1:5 ratio at a price of Rs 70 each.

Read More at Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 Finance…

Hawaii’s Aqua Hotels & Resorts Becomes Affliate

Friday, September 28th, 2007

Indianapolis, IN. Aqua Hotels & Resorts, the Official Hotels of the ABA Hawaii Hurricanes, was named an ABA Affiliate today.

Read More at OurSports Central…

Berlin hotels offer high style at budget prices

Friday, September 28th, 2007

BERLIN, Germany (AP) — Berlin’s Mayor Klaus Wowereit once famously described his eternally broke city as “poor, but sexy.” A new crop of sleek budget hotels are betting that economy minded tourists and business travelers like it that way.

Read More at CNN.com…