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=P18183 Property Improvement Plans or PIPS, are a reality to today's hotel owners and management groups.  If a property is part of a franchised system, dealing with PIPS can be an expensive proposition both at the time of sale as well as in continuing operations. By Dr. John Hogan CHE CHA MHS http://ehotelier.com/hospitality-news/item.php?id=P18190 The Twitter campaign invites a number of well-known Twitterers, including celebrities and journalists, to review the refurbished Marriott Hotels instantly online by communicating their thoughts and experiences to followers live on Twitter. http://ehotelier.com/hospitality-news/item.php?id=P18189 Revenue management professionals quite often get into the RevPAR vs GOPPAR debate. The pitfalls of RevPAR and the advantages of GOPPAR as a metric or vice-versa have been highlighted on several occasions.According to the vastly experienced RM professional, Steve Pinchuk, one needs to be clear whether the discussion is about a metric for yielding or accounting. By Marco Saio http://ehotelier.com/hospitality-news/item.php?id=P18195 A Lone Traveller initiative, believed to be an industry first, has been launched by Expotel, the UK's largest booker of hotels. Formerly branded ‘Women Aware', the non-gender-specific programme is intended to emphasise the potential for hotels to contribute to the personal safety and comfort of all of their solo guests in an increasingly hostile society. http://ehotelier.com/hospitality-news/item.php?id=P18191 The Manitoba government and the provincial hotel industry are teaming up in an effort to crack down on child sexual exploitation. http://ehotelier.com/hospitality-news/item.php?id=P18193 Hoteliers in London could see double-digit revenue per available room (revPAR) growth this year, according to the latest Hotel Market Outlook, a quarterly report issued by Deloitte. http://ehotelier.com/hospitality-news/item.php?id=P18194 The 1,600 delegates assembled in Berlin this week for the annual International Hotel Investment Forum were all asking each other one question: when will the gloom that has enshrouded the hotel industry over the past 18 months lift? By Dominic Walsh http://ehotelier.com/hospitality-news/item.php?id=P18192 Radio listeners in central Scotland could be forgiven for checking their calendars this week as the first Christmas adverts of the year begin. http://ehotelier.com/hospitality-news/item.php?id=P18188 Hotel industry news in brief................. http://ehotelier.com/hospitality-news/item.php?id=P18178 Revenue management in its present day format did not exist until the mid 90's. Propagated as the ultimate tool to optimize seating capacity and revenue in the airline industry it found its way gradually into the hotel industry. By Dietmar Kielnhofer