Over 410 hospitality training professionals took the time to share best practices, network and improve their skills at the 72nd CHART Semi-annual Hospitality Training Conference, held July 29 - August 1, 2006 at the Renaissance Las Vegas Hotel
‘Conference attendance grew 20% over last year’s summer conference, and has doubled since our 64th conference in Montreal, [...]

David Bowens has endured the smell of slaughterhouses, inhabited cramped dormitory rooms with a teammate and slept on beds so uncomfortable he ultimately dozed on the floor instead.
This is why the defensive end recently expressed gratitude for his temporary accommodations at the Renaissance Fort Lauderdale-Plantation Hotel during Dolphins training camp.
“We’ve got it good [...]

Already facing a membership squeeze, South Florida’s leading hotel union is in the midst of an internal corruption probe targeting two top organizers, according to union officials and documents.
Outside investigators accuse Unite Here Local 355’s president and secretary-treasurer of abusing their union expense accounts, filing bogus financial reports with the federal government and violating court [...]

Sabre Travel Network has launched Hotel UpSell, a product that enables hoteliers to automatically offer upgrades when travel agents book hotel rooms in the Sabre GDS, in the UK.
According to Sabre, travel agents benefit as they are able to offer customers higher-value products during the hotel booking process, thereby increasing commission payments. Hoteliers benefit by [...]

The Columbus hospitality market will add nearly 350 hotel rooms or suites by the end of this year to meet the demand of conventions, business, military and leisure travelers.
But the building boom is far from over with nearly 200 more rooms being added next year and the strong likelihood of even more as the city [...]

The Managing Director of the Carlton Hotel Group says he’s confident the Thalasso Spa pool at the Redcastle Hotel is now free of any trace of the Legionella bacteria which recently sparked a major health threat.
The saltwater heated pool has been closed since the HSE detected the bacteria following tests in July, which were sparked [...]

A FIVE-STAR hotel and private members club in London is to get an image overhaul, courtesy of Edinburgh-based Nevis Design Consultants.
The St James’s Club and Hotel will receive the new brand identity as part of a multi-million-pound refurbishment.
Nevis commercial director Mike Lynch said: “We will be repositioning the brand to reflect the more homely and [...]

Some might call the closing of the Divine Tracy Hotel the end of an era. But really it was the end of two.
Gone are perhaps the last truly affordable rooms in an otherwise high-rent part of the city. Also gone is the strict behavior code under which the accommodations were offered: no alcohol, no immodest [...]

If you think traffic down on the Strip is bad right now, just wait a couple more years. With all of the new casino resorts, high-rise condos and other projects, round the clock traffic jams could soon be the norm.
Flamingo and Las Vegas Blvd. is one of the busiest intersections - just trying making a [...]

Selectmen tonight will get an update on the housing project a developer plans to build on the old Natick Paperboard property.
Representatives from developer Barberry Homes are scheduled to attend tonight’s meeting to explain to the board what their 150-condominium project at 90 North Main St. is all about.
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Following complaints from one of the county’s largest employers — the real estate industry — Palm Beach County Commissioners have reestablished an exemption in the occupational licensing ordinance for licensed professionals serving under the direct supervision of another person.
Revocation of the requirement to pay occupational license fees came about when commissioners amended the Occupational License [...]

Napier real estate agent Malcolm Cox has called for an independent authority to deal with complaints and offences relating to the real estate industry.
Mr Cox, of Cox Partners Estate Agents in Napier, said the real estate industry should not be the judge and jury of its own people.
The call follows a Real Estate Institute investigation [...]