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2008 In The Hotel Industry

| January 4, 2008 | 3 Comments

UPDATED: 1/8/08 – Updated address for Louvre Hotel Group Development Website 2008 is shaping up to be a very eventful year for a number of reason – the Presidential elections in November, the war in Iraq, the price of oil, the possibility of a recession due to the sub-prime mortgage industry. 2008 could easily end [...]

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Making Hotel Reservations – via PDA

| December 30, 2007 | 0 Comments

Last weekend I was in Staten Island for a few days, and instead of traveling back and forth to my home, I was going to get a hotel room. Since this was a spur-of-the-moment decision, I hadn’t made any plans ahead of time. So I decided to attempt to find available rooms and pricing via [...]

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Crillon on 57th in New York City

| November 27, 2007 | 0 Comments
Crillon on 57th in New York City

It’s all but official that Starwood Capital’s first Crillon hotel in New York City (and possibly America) will be located in the Steinway Building on 57th Street in Manhattan. If you recall, this building was purchased by Starwood Capital over the summer and is right next to the Ritz Cleaners which was purchased by Starwood [...]

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Will Hilton/Blackstone Develop A Boutique Brand?

| October 12, 2007 | 0 Comments

One thing about the business world is imitation of a good thing. For example, once Apple came out with the iPod in the early 2000′s, most of the world never heard of portable MP3 players, and within a few short years, not only did Apple single handedly create a market, they also created an industry [...]

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Hilton’s Missed Marketing Opportunity

| August 24, 2007 | 0 Comments
Hilton’s Missed Marketing Opportunity

this has been bugging the heck out of me over the past few months.. all of the hilton brands have redesigned their websites – everything looks great, everything looks uniform, and its easy to get around within the website, and at the bottom of each website, they have a little color bar, one color for [...]

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