Hotel.Online Hospitality News
October 21, 2009

• Dennisport cottage colonies could make way for resort hotel (Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass.)
• New convention bureau director selected for Champaign county (The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill.)
• DoubleTree Hotel gets revised deal with city (El Paso Times, Texas)
• EDITORIAL: Hotel plight: Original tax breaks are enough (El Paso Times, Texas)
• Public funds mulled to keep JAL afloat: Carrier's losses mount; hotels may be ditched (Japan Times, Tokyo)
• Premier Resorts shutdown leaves local owners in a lurch (The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.)
• Tax critic takes parting shot: Stu Blumberg, retiring head of the Greater Miami hotel association, got a fond farewell from the governor. Blumberg to Crist: No more fees on rental cars. (The Miami Herald)
• Gateway 202 Airpark up for review by Mesa: Developer plans for project to eventually be 3.3 million square feet (The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.)
• Convention-center expansion was 'uncoordinated nightmare': Judge orders general contractor behind project to pay $6.3M (The Orlando Sentinel, Fla.)
• Potential manager of Twin River proposes full casino in Mass. (The Providence Journal, R.I.)
• Epic Canyons trial scheduled in Denver: Vail Resorts is still battling Talisker for control of the largest ski area in Utah (Park Record, Park City, Utah)
• Hotels chief upbeat on Inland future (The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif.)
• Plan would require council OK for new hotels (The San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Murano sixth-best hotel in U.S., say Conde Nast Traveler readers (The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.)
• Resort remnants on auction block: Old Bedford Springs items may be bid upon Saturday (Cumberland Times News, Md.)
• Stretching Out: CN Hotels continues expansion with local hotel despite economy (Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.)
• BRIEF: Dickson City hotel, theater plans inch closer (The Times-Tribune, Scranton, Pa.)