Hotel.Online Hospitality News
September 25, 2009

• Visitor arrivals stable in August: More from West came to Islands, but tourists' spending still declined 14% (The Honolulu Advertiser)
• Unions, others mount protest of mayor's 'unity' dinner: HILTON: Hotel workers locked in labor dispute have asked for boycott. (Anchorage Daily News, Alaska)
• Upscale hotel will rise downtown: $1.35 million state grant leads to official groundbreaking (The Buffalo News, N.Y.)
• Developer to renovate notorious Arlington motel (Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas)
• Hotel Eutaw back in business for Claflin students (The Times and Democrat, Orangeburg, S.C.)
• Montauk Resorts is front-runner among suitors to buy Daufuskie resort (The Island Packet, Hilton Head Island, S.C.)
• Indiana Convention Center expansion is about 30 percent complete (The Indianapolis Star)
• Hotels to focus on guest satisfaction (Jordan Times, Amman)
• Hotels Occupancy Down, But Up To Expectations (Khaleej Times, Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
• Lancaster, Pa., convention center wins building honor (Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era, Pa.)
• BRIEF: Renovations complete on part of downtown hotel (The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.)
• Ex-Resorts dealer charged in scheme to cheat casinos (The Times, Munster, Ind.)
• Gaylord's financial boost good news for Mesa: $380M in funds likely to go toward planned hotel and conference center (The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.)
• Tourism campaign luring black travelers to Phila. (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
• Portland ponders how to lure big conventions without a big hotel (The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.)
• BRIEF: Seminars on attracting hotel guests are set (The Sacramento Bee, Calif.)
• Hotels seek tax increase for marketing, upgrades (The San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Convention hotel backers pledge no tax hike: The only supports it would get would come from taxes generated on its own property. (The Salt Lake Tribune)
• Convention hotel backers pledge no tax hike: The only supports it would get would come from taxes generated on its own property. (The Salt Lake Tribune)
• 200 protesters arrested outside Park Hyatt Chicago: Union members were showing support for labor negotiations and for housekeepers fired in Boston area (Chicago Tribune)
• BRIEF: Eola Hotel on auction block (The Natchez Democrat, Miss.)