LE's Mid-Year Report for South America Shows the Lodging Construction Pipeline at 341 Projects/56,316 Rooms
South America's Construction Pipeline for Q2 decreased to 341 projects/56,316 rooms after cresting in Q1 2008. ...more

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Round Peg, Round Hole - By Ralf Borchert
A formal tool developed to ensure human resourcing matches the roles and purpose of the function and reduces the cost of failure. ...more

Not What, Not How, but Who? Western Companies Face a Worldwide Talent Crunch
Faced with an aging workforce and a growing demand for skilled workers in emerging markets like China and India, companies in the West are grappling with a talent crunch of unprecedented scope. ...more

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Wine Industry Intent on Truly Going Green
The wine industry is making a concerted effort to adopt environmentally responsible practices but sees a need for better education among both consumers and professionals on many 'green' issues, according to two surveys of wine industry professionals and executives conducted by Robert Smiley, professor and director of wine studies in the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis. ...more

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Food & Beverage - Food Cost Control ROI - By Joe Dunbar
If you've invested the time and money to build a food cost management system, this year will give you an above average return on investment. The reason your ROI will be higher is the edge may keep you in business. Many of my clients have seen their sales decline from 2007. Certainly, everyone has seen an increase in their cost of sales. Energy costs are soaring and the impact is seen in every delivery. ...more

Restaurant Trends - Growing And Emerging Concepts - Data reflects change and activity from May 15, 2008 to September 15, 2008
Update from Restaurantchains.net on growing and emerging restaurant concepts ...more

New Study Finds Dollar Signs Reduce Sales
An academic study by faculty members at The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) and the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration has found that restaurant customers spend more money when no dollar sign precedes prices on a menu. ...more

Cornell Study Demonstrates Improvements in Hotel Food and Beverage Forecasting
Occupancy Data Can Substantially Improve Predictions of Hotel F&B Trends ...more

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Lodging Interactive Offers Free Web 2.0 Social Media User's Guide for Hotels
Lodging Interactive, a leading interactive marketing agency servicing the hospitality industry, has published the hospitality industry's first Web 2.0 Social Media User's Guide. The guide serves to educate hoteliers on how to proactively establish and manage hotel profiles on the leading Social Media websites Facebook, Wikipedia, MySpace, Squidoo, Twitter, PhotoBucket and others. This comprehensive user's guide is offered by Lodging Interactive via a free download. ...more

Back To The Future: Meet The Hotel Guest Of 2020 - By Jitendra Jain
It is the year 2020. The past twelve years have been a flurry of development in the areas of design, nanotechnology, robotics, medicine, the internet, security and law. Contrary to popular opinion, the hotel industry has not been slow on the uptake. It's been the decade of hospitality renaissance. A coming of age, an evolution of service as it should be...and a tribute to true personalization. Here's a look at the hotel guest experience in the year 2020 and how guests have helped the industry become truly magnificent. ...more

Travel Marketers Hitch a Ride with Web 2.0
The web 2.0 shift has had a huge impact across a variety of markets. The peer to peer influence on today's online buyers has prompted many industries to get involved in these new trends to stay on top. Online marketers across the board have responded by incorporating podcasts, blogs, social networking, photo/video-sharing, etc. into their marketing mix. ...more

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Urgent ADA warning from Hospitality Lawyer: You won't believe what they want to do with ADA now - By Jim Butler, author of www.HotelLawBlog.com
Hospitality Lawyer: Big changes proposed to the ADA look to be very expensive and cause lots of litigation. ...more

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Lessons from the Field - Defining Hospitality - By John Hogan
As I was completing a project today, I came across something I wrote more than 20 years ago and it caused me to reflect a moment. ...more

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Cape Town, South Africa Market Overview
Cape Town has the potential to become one of the world's top lodging markets. With the rising anticipation for FIFA World Cup 2010, it will be interesting to see how the lodging industry in Cape Town and the overall economy of South Africa evolve. ...more

AH&LA 2008 Lodging Industry Profile Reveals Increased Hotel Profits, Sales, and International Arrivals
Reveals $139.4 Billion in Sales, Qualifies Consumer Characteristics and Expenditures ...more

U.S. Hotels To Bottom Out In 2009
PKF Forecasts Two Years Of Declining Lodging Demand ...more

Weekly U.S. Lodging Performance for the week ending 20 September 2008
The U.S. hotel industry posted ADR and RevPAR increases during the week of 14 - 20 September 2008, according to data from STR. Occupancy rates fell for the week. ...more

UK Hoteliers Hold Own Despite Gloomy August Weather
: Hotels across the UK were able to maintain steady occupancy levels, room rate and rooms yield figures in August despite the gloomy weather that set in across the country, according to preliminary monthly figures released today by PKF Hotel Consultancy Services. ...more

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What Part of No Don't You Understand? How to Track and Assess Lost Group Business - By Thomas Hazinski
Group sales managers in hotels, convention and conference center, and CVB's need to understand the reasons for lost business. This article presents a comprehensive approach to lost business analysis that helps increase group sales. ...more

Dare To Be Better - By J. Ragsdale Hendrie
It is a strenuous leap from the pretty good to the excellent, and that chasm represents a stretch for many of us. So, let's focus on what we do well and aim to move the Hospitality Bar gradually. ...more

U.S. Commercial Gaming Grows 3.7%, to Reach Over $93 Billion
Casino City's North American Gaming Almanac and CD, released today by Casino City Press, reports that in 2007 gaming revenue in the US grew 3.71 percent, for a total of $93.37 billion. ...more

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