Community Marketing, Inc., the global gay and lesbian market research and communications firm founded in 1992, has announced a full-day educational and networking forum for leaders in the European tourism and hospitality industries. CMI’s European Symposium on Gay & Lesbian Tourism is an extension of the firm’s annual conference, presented in North American locations since [...]

EP Global Communications Inc. (OTC BB:EPGL.OB ), the parent company of Exceptional Parent (EP) magazine, announced today that its upcoming February 2009 issue will include a feature article about bestselling author, Lee Woodruff. Woodruff is the wife of Bob Woodruff, who was severely wounded in a roadside bomb attack in Iraq while anchoring a broadcast [...]

Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. announced that it will provide an online audio simulcast of its presentation to the investment community at the Oppenheimer 8th Annual Consumer Growth Conference in Boston, July 8-10, 2008. The Company’s presentation will take place on Thursday, July 10, 2008, at 4:10 p.m. ET.
The live audio broadcast of Ashford Hospitality Trust’s [...]

A national federation of condo management associations will ask the central government to help cover the cost of ensuring adequate reception of terrestrial digital broadcasting services, which have been blocked by condos and other high-rise buildings, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.
The federation estimates that reception at about 1 million households will be affected by 2011, [...]

O’ LAKES - Paradise Lakes, the clothing-optional resort off U.S. 41, has held nude road races, screened “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and hosted a strip poker tournament to attract new members.
Now, the nation’s largest nudist resort by membership is offering its members luxurious incentives to draw more people. The resort hopes to gain 1,000 [...]

Students seek stories about National Road
Students at Ball State University are searching for stories from people who live and travel along the National Road to include in a TV documentary about the highway.

THE Sahara India Housing Limited (SIHL), which was served notice earlier this week for violating construction norms, is not the only one to have come under the LDA scanner for the offence. The “new team” of Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) has served notices on as many as 15 real estate developers of Lucknow and Delhi.
Sahara [...]

Where once there were only stairs near the Starbucks at the West Village, now there’s a wheelchair ramp. Where once the Taco Diner patio took up the entire walkway, now there’s a path.
But four years after three disabled customers sued the chic shopping center in federal court, West Village is still not complying fully with [...]

At age 18, Schylar Canfield, was living on his own in an apartment he rented through an independent living program that helped him pay his rent. He had been in foster care since he was 8.
Washington, D.C. - Scripps Howard Foundation Wire - infoZine - But as he prepared to graduate from high school on [...]

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. announces today that The Westin Roco Ki Beach & Golf Resort is on schedule to open in May 2008. Destined to become one of the world’s most spectacular luxury properties, the 337-room resort will be located directly on a dedicated four-mile stretch of white sand beach in Punta [...]

Every once in awhile we like to take you into the world of the social elite in a little feature we call Social-ist (we know, we are so clever with those -ists!). Last week we attended the preview party of the new Hotel ZaZa. We had been hearing a lot about this swank tank, and [...]

A new concept, upscale hotel is coming to Saxony Corporate Campus.
Choice Hotels International and Ceres Enterprises plan a Cambria Suites, a new brand, at 13500 Tegler Drive, just off I-69 Exit 10 in Noblesville. The four-story hotel would have 130 suites.
Heather Soule, manager of corporate communications for Choice Hotels, which franchises the brand, said construction [...]