Titusville to host writers
Florida Today
"It's going to mean a lot of exposure for the area," said Tom Bartosek, sales manager for the Space Coast Office of Tourism, whose presentation to the ...

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More than 12,000 people spent a sunny afternoon watching professional baseball in the Triangle on Labor Day.

A pack of Newports peeked out of Morgan Evans’ shirt pocket as he waited for his food at the bar of Molly Brannigan’s in Harrisburg. It’s been almost two years since he could legally enjoy a smoke in the average bar-restaurant in Pennsylvania.

The Westin Grande Sukhumvit, Bangkok, a member of Starwood Hotels and Resorts, has appointed Juthamas Carranco as its new Director of Sales. Graduated with bachelor degree in Speech Communication from

Smoky Meadow's Lodge in Pigeon Forge booked more rooms this past weekend than last Labor Day weekend.  In fact, the hotel had no vacancies Saturday night.

Marketing Week
Travel industry uses Facebook and Twitter to reach customers
USA Today
Virgin America's Loopt promotion helped the airline see its fifth-highest-grossing sales day this year. Hotel executives say it's too early to tell if their ...
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Millions were invested to make the world's first baked stackable potato chips in job-starved Mahnomen.

With the starting date of the World Equestrian Games less than a month away, hotel rooms are beginning to become harder to find in Lexington.

Before two luxury hotels, the Andaz 5th Avenue in Manhattan andthe Elysian Hotel in Chicago, opened their doors in recent months,both added something extra to their usual employee trainingpractices: They hired improvisational comedy experts.

Chains are hiring improv comedy trainers and life coaches, or are conducting training sessions with iPods and other devices, to better cater to guests.

New York Times
Hotel Chains Try Training With Improv and iPods
New York Times
... including the general manager, sales and marketing executives and members of the wait staff. The goal of the sessions, said the hotel's general manager, ...

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LEXINGTON, Ky. — With the starting date of the World Equestrian Games less than a month away, hotel rooms are beginning to become harder to find in Lexington.

FORT PIERCE — “How bad do ya WANT IT?”

One of the things that guests look for in a hotel is if it gives them the comforts of home and this is the priority of Sarrosa International Hotel and Residences.

More people are expected to travel this Labor Day weekend than last year.

For the past while, we have been discussing integral areas of revenue management and aspects of revenue management systems that give hotels the best possible competitive edge. In previous columns, these have ranged from general attitudes and approaches to revenue management to more specific, actionable components of the practice like strategic pricing and rate discipline.

‘Growing Profitability in an Uncertain Market – The Challenges to Come’ is the title of the 5th Annual BAHA Hospitality Finance Conference and IT Exhibition - to be held on Thursday, 25 November 2010 at the Sofitel Hotel, London Heathrow at Terminal 5

Britney admits to throwing competitions
Digital Spy
Speaking to her three fellow remaining houseguests, the hotel sales manager admitted that she purposely quit several challenges if she was unlikely to win ...

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There are quite a few aspects of revenue management which one needs to come to grips to for both traditional revenue management structures- wherein a revenue manager and their staff perform tasks manually- and to those that rely on comprehensive revenue management systems.

For the past while, we have been discussing integral areas of revenue management and aspects of revenue management systems that give hotels the best possible competitive edge. In previous columns, these have ranged from general attitudes and approaches to revenue management to more specific, actionable components of the practice like strategic pricing and rate discipline. By Jean Francois ...