http://ehotelier.com/ Global news from the hospitality and travel industries http://ehotelier.com/images/logo_small.jpg http://ehotelier.com/ Global news from the hospitality and travel industries http://ehotelier.com/hospitality-news/item.php?id=P19345 Sara Turner talks to David Cashman, CEO of Focus Hotels, about taking 12 hotels on the brink of closure and turning them around. http://ehotelier.com/hospitality-news/item.php?id=P19338 Owen Zhang, the general manager of Sheraton Hohhot Hotel, first joined the Starwood group at the Great Wall Sheraton hotel in 1983, when it was one of the first generation of five-star international hotels in Beijing. He has had extensive working experience as a sales director, and in food and beverage as well as hotel operations management and hotel marketing strategy. http://ehotelier.com/hospitality-news/item.php?id=P19337 evolution, the next-generation reservation service provider for the hotel industry announces its top ten revenue management tips for hoteliers. The tips, as advised by evolution's team of revenue management experts are proven to be effective in evolution's portfolio of member hotels. http://ehotelier.com/hospitality-news/item.php?id=P19336 Looking ahead, 33% of general managers who participated in the HotStats Hotel Confidence Monitor consider the most significant threat to hotel trading to be a double dip recession. In contrast, 26% of respondents believe that public sector cutbacks will be the single most important factor. http://ehotelier.com/hospitality-news/item.php?id=P19330 Forget soggy pizza and greasy burgers. Airport terminals are the new frontier for high-quality cuisine. By Janelle Nanos http://ehotelier.com/hospitality-news/item.php?id=P19335 Leisure travel average daily rate (ADR) has shown positive growth for the first time globally since the recession hit, increasing just over +1%, according to July's The Pegasus View from Pegasus Solutions. The monthly report, issued on the first anniversary of the inaugural The Pegasus View, draws data from billions of transactions processed by Pegasus, the world's largest single processor of electronic hotel transactions for nearly 100,000 hotel customers worldwide. http://ehotelier.com/hospitality-news/item.php?id=P19333 Unlike most other non-smoking states, Wisconsin in July passed a statewide smoking ban that bans smoking in every hotel guestroom. By Barbara De Lollis http://ehotelier.com/hospitality-news/item.php?id=P19339 More than 51 years after the name went on the new hotel at Commonwealth Place, Downtown, the Pittsburgh Hilton Hotel no longer is considered a Hilton property. By Rick Stouffer http://ehotelier.com/hospitality-news/item.php?id=P19331 For more than a century, the Hotel Des Bains has loomed over Venice's seafront like an opulent ivory fortress, proudly housing the array of glittering international guests arriving at the city's annual film festival. By Arifa Akbar http://ehotelier.com/hospitality-news/item.php?id=P19334 Hotel industry news in brief................