Hotel.Online Hospitality News
November 18, 2008

• Reports Split on Proposed Arena's Impact: Naming rights sell may be ?very difficult,' but project could help hotels (Albuquerque Journal, N.M.)
• BRIEF: Police chief: Motel fire is 'suspicious' (The Bradenton Herald, Fla.)
• Construction proceeding on mall hotel (The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, Va.)
• Cash crisis puts Greektown Casino-Hotel in jeopardy (Detroit Free Press)
• A destination resort (The Daily Times, Farmington, N.M.)
• The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Ind., Kevin Leininger column: Hotel's delay may hurt city (The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Ind.)
• Norwood, N.J., man will be new chief at Montvale hospitality company (The Record, Hackensack, N.J.)
• The Kansas City Star, Mo., Rick Alm column: Kansas City convention industry anticipates a 2009 dry spell (The Kansas City Star, Mo.)
• Worries subside for Las Vegas Sands (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
• Pebble Beach Co. cuts 29 jobs: Recession cuts into hotel reservations, holiday event bookings (The Monterey County Herald, Calif.)
• EDITORIAL: Convention center could help city (High Point Enterprise, N.C.)
• Don't call it Sheraton: Now it's the Lexington Plaza Waterfront Hotel (The Record, Stockton, Calif.)
• Police probe suspicious death at Comfort Inn (New Haven Register, Conn.)
• Top of Utah resorts delay opening, waiting for snow (Standard-Examiner, Ogden, Utah)
• Number of visitors to Florida drops (The Orlando Sentinel, Fla.)
• Rendell pushing to use Chinese loans for Convention Center (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
• Dowdy office building becomes haute Citizen hotel (The Sacramento Bee, Calif.)
• Historic former hotel in Belltown sold; once housed movie stars (Seattle Times)
• Utah's tourism industry welcomes visa waiver for South Koreans: Tourism ? State is clearing the way for foreign visitors (The Salt Lake Tribune)
• Marvel: Rebidding for casino 'not something we'll get real excited about' (The Wichita Eagle, 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.)