There’s a new yellow rose in Texas. Mr. John Q. Hammons’ new 10-story, 283-suite Embassy Suites® San Marcos – Hotel, Spa and Conference Center (www.sanmarcos.embassysuites.com) today opened at 1001 McCarty Lane in San Marcos decked in brilliant yellow trimmings in honor of its collaborative relationship with the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF). The $50 million hotel [...]

A nine-story main structure with a rooftop pool will connect two 22-story buildings. Amenities of the 900-unit property include restaurants, retail outlets, a spa, a fitness center, and 140,000 square feet of convention and meeting space. Guestrooms will feature fully equipped kitchens with granite countertops, crown molding, flat-screen TVs, and whirlpool tubs. The Scott Partnership [...]

Owners of Liberty Forge recreation complex in Lower Allen Township unveiled plans Monday for a resort community built around the golf course.
Plans for the Villages of Liberty Forge include 582 condominiums, a 200-bed resort hotel and a 100-bed nursing home with the 18-hole executive length golf course remaining as the centerpiece of the project.
The design, [...]

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 [...]

Marriott will open its third Renaissance branded hotel in Paris in 2009, under a management agreement with Empire SAS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Altarea SA, a publicly traded French company.
When opened, it will be Marriott’s eighth hotel in the Paris metropolitan area.
The 118-room Renaissance Paris Arc de Triomphe will be located on Avenue Wagram [...]

In its endeavor to continually help its community, the Jordan Valley Marriott Resort & Spa employs more than 30% of its employees from the local village of Sweimeh, located near the Resort. Several young women from Sweimeh have chosen to work for the resort and have excelled in their different jobs.
One of these young [...]

The Emerson Resort & Spa in Mount Tramper, Ulster County, recently celebrated the grand re-opening of its new facility that was rebuilt after the resort had a fire in 2005.
The event was the culmination of nearly two years of design and construction activities involving more than 300 construction workers, 130 resort employees and tens of [...]

The historic Bedford Springs Resort is going to reopen in June after undergoing a 120 (M) million-dollar facelift.
The new resort, famed for seven mineral springs, will feature a 216-room luxury hotel, new outdoor pool with cabanas, spa, updated golf course, conference center and trout stream.
Doctor John Anderson bought the property in 1796 after discovering natural [...]

Coastal Hotel Group has been selected to manage The Inn at Otter Crest, a 280-unit condominium-hotel on the central coast of Oregon, reports Yogi Hutsen, Coastal’s President & CEO.
According to Hutsen, “The Inn at Otter Crest is a key addition to the Coastal portfolio, particularly because of its geographic proximity, both to our corporate [...]

SPRINGFIELD — Reversing his predecessor’s policy, new state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias is encouraging his aides and other government workers to stay at a Springfield hotel that owes millions of dollars to the state.
The move follows a Sangamon County judge’s decision last week to place the President Abraham Lincoln Hotel and Conference Center into receivership, a [...]

The Texas-based developer seeking to build a resort community on Broad Mountain in Carbon County has crafted a revised proposal that revolves around a property easement it would seek from the Pennsylvania Game Commission. Double Diamond Companies of Dallas has not yet presented its revised proposal to the wildlife agency. And agency spokesman Jerry Feaser [...]

Boykin Management Company, one of the industry’s leading independent hotel management companies, has named Barry M. Shatoff General Manager of the Doubletree Hotel JFK Airport, located in Jamaica, New York. Barry most recently served as the General Manager at the Holiday Inn JFK.
Mr. Shatoff joins Boykin Management Company with over 20 years of experience [...]