News and Reviews of Hotels

Archive for December, 2007

Pride Hotels plans IPO

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

Hyderabad, Dec 26: The Pride Hotels today announced its plan for an IPO in the first quarter of 2008 and also the receipt of an investment from Kotak India Real Estate Funds towards its Rs 340 crore expansion-cum-renovation plan.

Read More at New Kerala…

Crestline Hotels & Resorts Appoints Hans J. Schmitt as General Manager for the Hotel Derek

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

Crestline Hotels & Resorts, Inc. today announced the appointment of Hans J. Schmitt as General Manager for the 314 guestroom Hotel Derek in Houston’s Galleria area.

Read More at PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance…

Local Hotels Serve Up Food For Less Fortunate

Tuesday, December 25th, 2007

Local needy and elderly people had a place to go today for a warm, holiday meal thanks to the Salvation Army and hundreds of volunteers at five Pittsburgh hotels.

Read More at KDKA Pittsburgh…

Robbers hold up two hotels on Christmas Eve

Tuesday, December 25th, 2007

STAUNTON ? A couple wasn’t looking for room at the in when they entered two area hotels on Christmas Eve. Instead, they demanded cash at gunpoint and fled.

Read More at News Leader…

Fort Lee OKs two hotels for Route 4

Monday, December 24th, 2007

FORT LEE — Two new hotels will soon be a part of the redevelopment of Route 4. The borough Planning Board unanimously approved a project Monday to construct a seven-story, 160-room Sheraton hotel and a six-story, 101-room Comfort Suites hotel off the highway’s eastbound lanes.

Read More at The Record…

Carlson Hotels Worldwide Adds Eight New Properties to its Global Portfolio in November

Monday, December 24th, 2007

MINNEAPOLIS | Carlson Hotels Worldwide today announced the addition of eight new locations to its global portfolio during November 2007. The new hotels include one Radisson SAS property in the United Kingdom?s Channel Islands; five Country Inn & Suites By Carlsonsm hotels in the United States; and two Park InnŽ hotels ?one in the Sheffield, England, and one in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Carlson?s …

Read More at Hospitality Net…

Confessions of a man ? a dad, yet! ? who cheats at hotels

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

LET ME start with a travel confession. I’m a flagrant and repeat violator of a cardinal hotel rule.

Read More at Inside Bay Area…

Hotels Discover the Brooklyn Vibe

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

Several projects planned in the next few years will end a relatively dry spell in hotel development in Brooklyn.

Read More at NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance…

US hotels to get Bhagvad Gita

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

The Vishwa Hindu Parishad will try to place copies of Bhagvad Gita in hotels and motels owned by Indian-Americans.

Read More at The Times of India…

Hotels fine room smokers

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

GUESTS who defy a smoking ban at some of Brisbane’s top hotels are being slugged with $500 fines in a move to get tough on recalcitrants.

Read More at The Courier Mail…