HOSPITALITY HEADLINES

• Holiday Inn eyed for Loma Linda (San Bernardino County Sun, Calif.)
• The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C., tourism column (The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.)
• Visitors bureau names director (The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, Va.)
• Why the Taj hotel survived? (Hindustan Times, New Delhi)
• Legal issue keeps hotel plans on hold (The Huntsville Item, Texas)
• The Kansas City Star, Mo., Kevin Collison column: President Hotel gains approval of guests (The Kansas City Star, Mo.)
• At crossing of contemporary and comfortable, duo finds creativity (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
• Gambling stocks post another down month in November (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
• Penfield development in St. Paul gets preliminary OK: The project's new plans drop condos for a hotel, 208 apartments and a full-service downtown supermarket. (Star Tribune, Minneapolis)
• Construction begins for 'Armani Hotel Milano' (Middle East and North Africa Business Report, Amman, Jordan)
• Hotel workers found body left behind in a trunk (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
• Man leaps to death from 33rd floor of Loews hotel (Philadelphia Daily News)
• $200 million race-bias suit against food firm (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
• EDITORIAL: State should eschew jump into the hotel business (Public Opinion, Chambersburg, Pa.)
• Tourism bureau presents 9th recognition awards (Republican & Herald, Pottsville, Pa.)
• BRIEF: Medical tourism in Israel worth NIS 160m this year: 48% of the patients came from Eastern Europe. (Globes, Tel Aviv, Israel)

INSIDE HOTEL ONLINE TODAY
DAILY EMAIL NEWS

• Fontainebleau Resort Miami Beach Selects IDeaS Revenue Management System
• Hotel Industry Veteran Rick Henrikson Joins the Atlantis Hospitality Group
• Are Restaurants and Hotels Ready for Prime Time?
• The Reluctant Tourists: Mayo Clinic Makes Rochester, Minnesota a Magnet for Millions
• Why the 105 Year-old Taj Mahal Hotel Survived
• Park City, Utah is on the Verge of Becoming Opulent - a St. Regis and Waldorf-Astoria Set to Open in Early 2009
• Best Western International Elects New Board Officers; Bonnie McPeake, Owner of Best Western Pinehurst Inn in Southern Pines, N.C., Named Chairwoman
• Prior CNL Executives Form Legacy Hotel Advisors; Strategic Focus on Hotel Repositioning and Complex Transactions To Drive Value during Turbulent Economy
• Hotel Sales and Revenue Management Marathon - Updates of The 3 Most Popular Web Casts in 2008 Scheduled for Dec. 9, 2008
• The Maine Innkeepers Association Recognizes Accomplishments of Members; Laura Honey of Fisherman's Wharf Inn, in Boothbay Harbor Named Innkeeper of the Year
• In Kansas City The President, Which Reopened in January 2006 After a $45.5 million Renovation, Hitting Stride with 3rd Qtr 2008 Occupancy of 76.1%
• Fashion Designer, Giorgio Armani and Developer Emaar Properties Begin Construction on the Armani Hotel Milano
• Global Software Applications, the Foremost Provider of Business Center Solutions to the Hotel World, Celebrate the Recent Acquisition of Flight Time TV
• InnLink Central Reservation Service and Innsoft Inc. Announce New CRS/PMS Interface
• Mounir Sami and Jonathan Pace Appointed to GM Positions at Corinthia Hotels in Malta
• Brent C. Jackson Promoted to General Manger of the Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites in Front Royal, Virginia

• Update from Raymond Bickson, the Managing Director of Taj Hotels, as of 1.00 pm IST, December 1, 2008
• Terror Strikes: The Indian Hotel Industry's 9/11 / Manav Thadani
• Dealing With the Economic Downturn: 10 Ideas for Hotels and Resorts / David J. Sangree and Joseph Pierce
• Former Restaurant Manager at the Hilton Minneapolis Files Discrimination Lawsuit; Alleges She Was Fired After Complaining about Hotel Executives' Wild Party
• Hotwire.com Ranks Highest in Customer Satisfaction with Independent Travel Web Sites for a Third Consecutive Year; Market Share Among Independent Travel Web Sites Remains Flat
• Two Attackers Checked in to Taj Mahal Palace & Tower Four Days Prior to Assault, Stocked Up
• Joe Molinaro, Founder of Molinaro Koger and Hotel Investment Pioneer Passes Away at age 86
• Distressed Warner Robins, Georgia Hotel Accepts Qualified Bids December 12, 2008, for Public Auction December 19, 2008
• Second Suit Filed in Best Western Allentown Inn & Suites Death and Sicknesses: Carbon Monoxide
• Funding Pulled: Oakland Convention and Visitors Bureau Shifts from Public to Private Funding
• Newmarket International to Host 6th Annual User Conference
• Golden Tulip Opening Hotel in Delft, the Netherlands, with Interiors Entirely Furnished by IKEA Furniture
• Michael Pitstick and Steven Falciani Promoted to Regional Vice President of Operations for Dow Hotel Company
• New World Inn & Conference Center, Columbus, Nebraska Adds $1.1 million Pirate-Themed Indoor Water Park
• School of Hotel and Tourism Management of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University to Host Fifth China Tourism Forum; December 13-14, 2008 in Huangshan, Anhui Province, China
• Gina M. Kunst Named General Manager of the Holiday Inn, New London, Connecticut 

Top five viewed pages during November 2008

1. Marriott’s New Sales Force Strategy / Nina Vetter
2. The Perfect Storm is Coming -- The Employee Free Choice Act; Unionization by "Card Check" / Marta Fernandez
3. The Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association Names the Top 25 Most Extraordinary Minds in Sales and Marketing for 2008
4. Six Hotels Achieve 2009 AAA Five Diamond Status For the First Time; Complete List of 103 Hotels and 59 Restaurants
5. Speed Bumps in the Road to Bankruptcy for Hotels and Resorts / Robert B. Kaplan