HOSPITALITY HEADLINES

• Visitors Bureau touts efforts to boost tourism (The Telegraph, Alton, Ill.)
• Big Bear Lake officials hope change helps B&B, lodging businesses (San Bernardino County Sun, Calif.)
• Casino revenues at 2007 level: Economy having some effect on Coast (The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.)
• South Beach developers get more time to regroup (The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.)
• Casino industry focuses on future: G2E looks at what Obama may change (The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.)
• Maryland rescues museum, resort: Sports Legend, Rocky Gap get rent break, bond payment from Board of Public Works (The Baltimore Sun)
• BRIEF: Kinseth plans Coralville extended-stay hotel (The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa)
• Dallas' Ritz-Carlton ranked No. 1 large hotel in Zagat guide (The Dallas Morning News)
• Credit crunch may jeopardize projects in city: Rising interest rates have put the planned Goggleworks Apartments on hold and could delay the proposed hotel at Seventh and Penn streets, according to developer Albert R. Boscov. (Reading Eagle, Pa.)
• Air clears on smoking ban: Some Berks restaurant owners say bar trade hurt; others believe slumping economy is also to blame (Reading Eagle, Pa.)
• Hotel plan sunk by weak economy (The Daily Telegram, Superior, Wis.)
• Hilton Head's silver economic lining - a tourist destination accessible by car: Chamber speakers confident the area will weather tough economic times (The Island Packet, Hilton Head Island, S.C.)
• MGM Mirage taps new chief (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
• Gaming revenues tumble nationwide (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
• Sunny side down: LV boosters see dark clouds (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
• Grande Dunes Resort Course wins award: Course owners tab Resort Course tops in U.S. (The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.)
• Bollywood movie seen as a 'powerful postcard' for Miami: Indian movie stars were in Miami earlier this year filming a movie. Tourism officials hope the rest of India will follow. (The Miami Herald)
• Taking it to the Max: The lunch crowd knows a good deal -- and a good location -- at restaurant Max in the Hotel Minneapolis. (Star Tribune, Minneapolis)
• Tourism campaign on target (The Day, New London, Conn.)
• Motel 6 joins green program (The Sun, Port Charlotte, Fla.)
• Third casino project of four now on hold (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
• Convention Center board OKs loans from Chinese investors (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
• The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C., Jack Hagel column: Holly Springs may get a hotel (The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.)
• BRIEF: Restaurateur pleads guilty to tax charges (The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.)
• Governor drafting bill abolishing private club fees: Liquor laws ? Effort seeks to curb impact on tourism, hospitality industry (The Salt Lake Tribune)
• EDITORIAL: Make restaurant reports uniform (The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.)
• Hotel owner sentenced for bulldozing beach (The Record-Eagle, Traverse City, Mich.)

INSIDE HOTEL ONLINE TODAY
DAILY EMAIL NEWS

• The Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association Names the Top 25 Most Extraordinary Minds in Sales and Marketing for 2008
• SynXis Chooses HBSi Demand Gateway Connectivity Platform Increasing Distribution Exposure for More Than 8,500  Hotels and Resorts Worldwide
• Milesone Launches Graviti™; Hotel Industry's First Integrated Social Media Optimization Plan
• Gaylord Entertainment Nixes Plans to Develop a Resort in Chula Vista, California, as it Reaffirms Plans for Similar Resort in Mesa, Arizona
• Harrahs Drops Plans for $535 million Resort Near Wichita, Kansas; Cites Economic Conditions and Disruption of Financial Markets
• Dolce Hotels and Resorts Names Steven A. Rudnitsky President and Chief Executive Officer
• 31 New Hotels and Restaurants Accepted into Relais & Chateaux
• PKF Capital Hotel Realty Marketing the Marriott Norwalk For Sale
• Pacifica Capital & Brokerage, Inc. Arranges Purchase Financing for Oregon Hotel
• Educational Institute, FreemanGroup Partnership Focuses on Training and Measurement Solutions
• Seattles's Historic Lorraine Hotel Sold for $3.1 million; Likely to be Renovated into a Hostel or Hotel
• Intelity's ICE, the Edge a Timeshare Needs to Score Sales Conversions
• Medical Tourism: Are Major Changes in Health Care Afoot?
• Bharat Hotels' Selects Trust International as Enterprise CRS for  Worldwide Distribution Channels for The Grand Group/Lalit Hotels
• Millennium and Copthorne Appoints Clement Teo General Manager of M Hotel Singapore
• Brian Jago Named Director of Marketing and Sales and Dan Sierka as Director of Sales at Sheraton Universal, Universal City, California
• Janis C. Parry and Steven T. Patton Appointed National Sales Managers at Wyndham Rio Mar in Puerto Rico
• Benchmark Hospitality International Appoints Lillian Murphy Controller At Edith Macy Conference Center, Briarcliff Manor, New York

• Starwood Caribbean Resorts Join Passport Online's ResortPort™ Program; Content Now Available on Thousands of Agency Websites
• Softscribe to Sponsor Youth Birding Competition for 4th Consecutive Year; Committed to Helping Young People Build Lifelong Learning Habits and a Respect for Nature, PR Firm Helps Georgia DNR Program Soar
• Six Hotels Achieve 2009 AAA Five Diamond Status For the First Time; Complete List of 103 Hotels and 59 Restaurants
• MGM Mirage Chief, 65 Year Old Terry Lanni, Retiring; Flap Over Academic Credentials No Bearing On Decision to Retire
• Work Could Stop on the Nearly Finished 400 room Greektown Casino Hotel; Michigan Gaming Control Board Seeks to Yank the Bankrupt Casino's License, Appoint a Conservator to Run the Casino and Order a Sale of the Property 
• The Luxury Fractional Segment Likely to be the First to Rebound from the Current Real Estate Morass
• E-Guide Services, Inc. Contracts Accor North America, Motel 6 and Studio 6
• Twenty One Campgrounds and RV Resorts Earn "A" Grades in Consumer Satisfaction Survey of Independent Parks
• Increase Profits by Mentoring Directors of Sales
• The First New Luxury Hotel Built in Beverly Hills in More than 16 Years, the 201 room Montage Beverly Hills Opens
• Joie de Vivre Hospitality Nears Completion of Transforming Dowdy Sacramento Office Building to the Haute Citizen Hotel
• In Tiny Ignacio, Colorado the State-of-the-art 146 room Sky Ute Casino Resort and Conference Center Opens 
• Bunkhouse Management L.L.C. to Provide Management for the Belmont Hotel in Dallas' Oak Cliff  District; Susan Alarcon Appointed General Manager
• Las Ventanas al Paraíso, A Rosewood Resort for 8th Straight Year Is the Only Property in Los Cabos to Earn AAA's Five Diamond Rating
• Joie de Vivre Promotes Ingrid Summerfield to President, Reporting to Founder Chip Conley
• Benjamin Rafter named President and CEO of Aqua Hotels & Resorts and it's Portfolio of 12 Waikiki Hotels
• Key West Inns Attributes Booking Engine and Website Developer for Increased Reservations
• TynanGroup Appoints Siemianowski Vice President Overseeing Projects in the Southwest Region

Top five viewed pages during October 2008

1. 1. What Does the Current Financial Crisis Mean to Us in the Hospitality Industry? /  Jim Butler
2. 2. What's Hot in Future Travel Trends and Destinations - 2009 TripAdvisor-Survey
3. 3. Conde Nast Traveler Names Top Hotels and Resorts Around the World that Manage to Exceed our Expectations 
4. 4. The Cost of a Filled Room / Bill Geoghegan  
5. 5. The MICHELIN Guide New York City 2009 Gives 3 Stars to Four Restaurants, 7 Restaurants Receive 2 Stars