HOSPITALITY HEADLINES

• Slow recovery seen for state: UH report says pace of global rebound a bad sign for tourism (The Honolulu Advertiser)
• Designs on downtown Albany's future: Wraps come off convention center plans today; cost updated (Albany Times Union, N.Y.)
• Water bill cut for investor: Decision may pave way for redevelopment of DeWitt Clinton Hotel (Albany Times Union, N.Y.)
• Convention business continues strong on Coast (The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.)
• After heavy discounts this year, hotels expect rates to rise (The Dallas Morning News)
• Hotel occupancy slides further: Improvement not expected until 2011 (North County Times, Escondido, Calif.)
• Ginger hotels on expansion spree (Hindustan Times, New Delhi)
• THE STRIP: License approved for Aria: Panel's unanimous nod for gaming permit means resort can open as planned (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
• Study: Minority hotel workers face more risks on the job: A study finds female, Hispanic and Asian hotel workers more likely to be injured on the job. (The Miami Herald)
• Gilbert's new hotels eye economic rebound: Town has jumped from 140 beds to 466 in 6 months (The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.)
• Three local hotels, 2 restaurants awarded 4 Diamonds from AAA (Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.)
• Convention Center gets more land to expand (The San Diego Union-Tribune)
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch, David Nicklaus column: Hotel is in need of more help (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
• Chief Logan State Park lodge a hit (The Charleston Gazette, W.Va.)
• BRIEF: Ames hotel opens in Boston (Boston Herald)
• Grand Soleil faces foreclosure again (The Natchez Democrat, Miss.)

INSIDE HOTEL ONLINE TODAY
DAILY EMAIL NEWS

• Hospitality/Hotel/Restaurant Trends for 2010 / Andrew Freeman & Co.
• New Study by The American Journal of Industrial Medicine Finds Female, Hispanic and Asian Hotel Workers Face Higher Risk for on the Job Injuries
• Hotel Common Sense - Where Is Your Desk? / Dr John Hogan
• Normandy Real Estate Partners and Morgans Hotel Group Open Ames in Boston, a Transformation of Boston First Skyscraper into a 114 room Hotel
• Landry's Restaurants Completes $150 million 500-room Rush Tower at the Golden Nugget Las Vegas;  Property Now Has 2,300-rooms in Four Towers
• Once Thought Dead, The Albany Convention Center Authority in New York Unveils Proposed Design for 300,000 Square-foot Facility at a Cost of $220 million
• HEI Hotels & Resorts' Fund III Acquires Doubletree Guest Suites in Waltham, Massachusetts; Hotel to Undergo $16 million Renovation
• Barceló Hotels & Resorts Set to Open the All-inclusive 626 room Barceló Los Cabos Palace Deluxe in Los Cabos, Mexico
• IHG Opens the 119 room InterContinental Resort in Hua Hin, Thailand
• North San Diego Hotel Occupancy Slides Further: Improvement not Expected Until 2011
• Hotel Horizons Reports Dallas Area Hotels Should Expect Rates to Rise by Mid-to-Late 2010
• Losing Money From Day One, the 7 Year-old Renaissance Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri in Need of Financial Help
• Ginger Hotels Expansion Continues in India; on Target to Have 30 Hotels in Portfolio by End of 2010
• Michael Benecke Named President of Noble House Hotels & Resorts
• Tom Mason Named General Manager of the Radisson Plaza Hotel Minneapolis
• Central Florida Hotel & Lodging Association Elects 2010 Board of Directors; Paul Tang Voted Chairperson

• Largest Japanese Hotel Consortium Switches to Sabre Hospitality Solutions as Marketing Provider; Japan Rail Hotel Group cites local Tokyo office and Japanese version of CRS as top reasons for switching
• Going Rogue on Group Pricing; How to Compete with Irrational Discounting
• Starwood Hotels & Resorts Moving Headquarters from White Plains, NY to Stamford, CT; Lured to Connecticut With $80 million in Tax Credits and $9.5 million Loan
• Health Care Legislation; Which Hotels Might Get Sick? / Robert Mandelbaum and Taylor Beauchamp
• Judge Rules in Favor of Columbia, South Carolina Stating City Does not Have to Pay up to $4 million to Designers, Builders and Architects for City-Funded Hotel that was Never Built
• Mosaic Company, the World's Largest Producer of Phosphate, in Early Planning for a Luxury Resort Facility on 200,000 Acres of Reclaimed Phospate Land near Fort Meade, Florida
• Horizon Hospitality and the Pittsburgh Penguins Partner to Build 142-suite Cambria Suites Hotel Adjacent to the Penguin's New Arena
• Interstate Hotels Completes Sale of the Hilton Garden Inn Baton Rouge Airport to Fairwood Capital for $10.6 million 
• Haik Enterprises and Aimbridge Hospitality Open the 216-room All-suite Houston Embassy Suites
• Guest Satisfaction - October 2009 Chatter Guard Benchmark Report Is Released
• Qasr Al Sarab Desert Resort by Anantara Solves Distribution Challenges with The ProHost® System by Hostar
• Construction Resumes on Stalled Marriott Residence Inn Project in San Marcos, California
• Sage Hospitality Rebrands The Sheraton Ferncroft Resort as Crowne Plaza Hotel Boston North Shore, Massachusetts
• Developer Bharat Patel's Proposal for 125-room Upscale Hotel Gains Aprroval in Hampton, Virginia
• U.S. Casino Industry Could be on Road to Recovery; Rate of Revenue Declines Slows
• Brian Brandstetter Named Wisconsin Innkeepers Association 2009 Innkeeper of the Year
• Hilton Waikoloa Village Adds Five Area Sales Executives
• Corinthia Hotel St Petersburg, Russia Appoints Three Executives - Gianluca Tozzo, David Stern and Evgenia Nagimova

Top five viewed pages during October 2009

1. The Attorney for ESPN Reporter Erin Andrews Criticizes Hotel Where Alleged Peephole Incident Occurred
2. Conde Nast Readers Name the Top Hotels Around the World: The Top Hotel United States - 21c Museum Hotel, Louisville and the Top Resort Mainland U.S. - Sanctuary at Kiawah Island
3. Do You Think Like a Leader or a Manager? / William P. Fisher, Ph.D.
4. Taking Back Hotels by Foreclosure or by Deed in Lieu of Foreclosure:  Lenders Beware / Rob Nicholas
5. Seven Independent U.S. Properties Come Together to Form Kindred Resorts and Hotels; A New Logo and Website Kicks Off the Initial Phase