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Morgans Hotel board gains upper hand ahead of proxy vote
ReutersBy Bijoy Anandoth Koyitty June 13 (Reuters) - A proxy battle for control of Morgans Hotel Group Co's board will be decided on Friday but the momentum seems to have swung in favor of the incumbent board after it said it would explore a sale of the company...Tags: Elections, Companies and Corporations, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Politics
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City Center Marriott expects more catering this year
TidewaterBizThe Newport News Marriott at City Center is expecting an additional $750,000 in catering revenue at the conference center this year over last year after pushing more e-commerce marketing, the general manager said. “The hotel is doing well in the...Tags: Finance, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Charlottesville (Charlottesville, Virginia), Busch Gardens Orlando, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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As guest habits change, New York hotel clears away room service
ReutersBy Jonathan Allen NEW YORK, June 10 (Reuters) - Soon, the black-uniformed waiters wheeling trolleys of food will disappear from the halls of the Hilton Midtown. Will visitors to New York City's largest hotel mind having to leave their rooms for...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking, Astoria, Marketing
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Scaled-down convention-center projects do little for tourism corridor
It was an outrageous claim: Osceola County was going to get a convention-center complex so big you could see it from the moon. Fifteen years and many fizzled efforts later, the best the county could muster is 46,000 square feet of meeting and event...Tags: Kissimmee, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Event Planning, Business, Gaylord Palms Resort
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Business leaders on John Q. Hammons
John Q. Hammons rubbed elbows or did business with some of the top hotel developers in the world.
In every community in which he built a hotel or a convention center, Hammons made an impact.
He also left a mark on those who knew him:
"When John Q....Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, FelCor Lodging Trust Incorporated
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Hillary Clinton to appear in Beverly Hills for award and speech
In the sort of appearance destined to fan speculation about her presidential aspirations in 2016, Hillary Rodham Clinton will speak in Beverly Hills next week at a gala hosted by the Pacific Council on International Policy. The nonpartisan group,...
Tags: Elections, European Union, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Barack Obama, Polls
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Marriott plans 35 layoffs in June, several hundred later
Bethesda-based Marriott International warned the state that it will lay off 35 employees in June, and potentially several hundred others later in the year, the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation said Friday. The company's layoff...Tags: Unemployment, Labor Markets, Job Layoffs, Layoffs and Downsizing, Career and Workplace
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Swift, hopeful reaction to immigration bill
WASHINGTON – An eagerly awaited immigration overhaul from a bipartisan group of senators arrived early Wednesday, an 844-page bill that both the political left and right now see as the best chance in decades to achieve fix a broken immigration...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Human Interest, Lindsey O. Graham, Migration, Michael F. Bennet
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Beat the zealots on immigration reform, then gun control
On Tuesday, I wrote about two senators’ bipartisan plan to expand background checks on gun buyers, saying it was a common-sense measure and should pass. On Wednesday, its sponsors -- Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, an NRA member,...Tags: Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Elections, National Rifle Association of America, Parties and Movements, Gun Control
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Hotel design team rooted in Maryland
The jeans are too gray, Toby Schermerhorn is on the phone saying. They need to be bluer, she tells the person handling the jeans. Prints of this collage — dozens of overlapping blue jean-clad bottoms — are going to grace guest room bathrooms...
Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Michael Phelps, Architecture, Colleges and Universities, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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How loyal are you to your hotel?
If you are a member of a hotel loyalty program, you are probably not really very loyal to your hotel at all. That is one finding of a survey of about 4,000 travelers by Deloitte & Touche about how they book hotels and what guides their decisions. Only...
Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Car Guides and Reviews, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd., Rentals, Transportation Industry
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Romney can retire later
WASHINGTON -- The nation is heading toward the "fiscal cliff," but have no fear: Mitt Romney is coming to the rescue -- of Marriott International Inc. In his first public comments since election night, the defeated Republican presidential nominee issued...
Tags: Elections, Karl Rove, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Parties and Movements, Barack Obama
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