HACKENSACK, N.J. — Some people watch “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” for the fights. Some watch it for the fashion. And a growing number of New Jersey businesses watch it to see it to see if

Boston Globe
Holiday weekend bounces back
Boston Globe
On Martha's Vineyard, many shop and hotel owners expressed relief over the quick turnaround and gratitude that they had dodged a bullet. ...

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Business people
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Kelly Defebo, sales manager, and Jason Puckett, sports manager, both of the Sarasota Convention & Visitors Bureau, have completed the second part of a ...

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Hard times cast a pall on Labor Day
Houston Chronicle
But without hospitality experience, it's hard for a manager from another field like finance to run a hotel. At the Gallery Furniture table, ...

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New flights, a new boardwalk and more marketing of the Grand Strand helped create a solid summer for tourism despite a still wobbly economy, and the momentum should continue into the fall, officials said.

Sherri Johnson, attorney at Dent & Johnson, has been selected for inclusion in Florida Trend

SOME 150 orphans and senior citizens together with some students in Kedah were recently treated to a breaking of fast dinner by the Sentosa Regency Hotel in Alor Setar, Kedah.

PETALING JAYA: As travellers become more Internet and social media-savvy, airlines have started to leverage on social media sites for branding, promotion and marketing.

Cellphones and laptops taking bite out of hotel revenue
eTurboNews
It has hotel managers scrambling to make up for the loss by offering other entertainment, such as Saturday night movies by the pool, Sunday morning brunches ...

Consumers are bargaining for cheaper hotel accommodations and tour packages, even though prices are already lower than a few years ago as tourism has not recovered from the global economic crisis and local political unrest.

Consumers driving hard bargains
Bangkok Post
It's so difficult to run a hotel right now in Chiang Mai." Komson Klayamee, sales manager of the 25-year-old Korean tour operator One World Service Co, ...

Malalaking diskwento ang alok ng mga bigating hotel sa Visayas kasunod ng dagok sa turismo ng hostage-taking sa Quirino Grandstand. Nagpa-Patrol, Zyann Ambrosio, TV Patrol, Linggo, Setyembre 5, 2010

Wyndham Orange County Promotes New Costa Mesa Event Planning Talent
PR-USA.net (press release)
The Wyndham Orange County promotes two talented individuals Marcy Hail, Senior Social Catering Sales Manager, and Marketing and Event Specialist, ...

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How Business Travelers Contributed to USA Today's Decline
Poynter.org
(They also can request a local newspaper or the Wall Street Journal, which is aggressively trying to skim off what's left of the hotel newspaper business. ...

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Cisco's futurist seeks smarter products through technology.

Recession won't lift until 2011
The Desert Sun
Hotel occupancy fell 2.5 percent in prime tourism time. • Median home prices rose 15.6 percent, though July sales dropped by a similar mount. ...

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The Hall calls: The Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame has counted some 7,000 ballots, and a sizable group of 20 new members, including sportscasters Jon Miller and Gary Radnich and DJs Bonnie Simmons and Dave Morey, will be inducted into its fifth class. "It is a... San Francisco Bay Area - Hall of fame - Jon Miller - United States - Disc jockey

Anyone who has recently traveled to a major U.S. city knows the shock of finding a hotel, car rental or restaurant bill laden with extra charges. It's a growing trend among cities to add bed taxes, airport concession taxes and other charges to visitors' bills in order to fund tourism marketing campaigns, airport improvements and other projects.

More about the new Holiday Inn Sarasota-Bradenton Airport
Sarasota Herald-Tribune (blog)
To build wealth, they invested their savings and some family money in a Scottish Inn franchise hotel in Lake City. In 2003, the bought a Holiday Inn Express ...

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Valley fighting to recover
The Desert Sun
Hotel occupancy fell 2.5 percent in prime tourism time. Median home prices rose 15.6 percent, though July sales dropped by a similar mount. ...

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