Hotel.Online Hospitality News
November 14, 2008

• Mayor touts Lodi's future as tourist destination bright: Economy poses hurdles, Mounce says in address (The Record, Stockton, Calif.)
• Money-saving plan of last resort: Lake George area inns shut down or shorten winter schedules to cut costs (Albany Times Union, N.Y.)
• Tickets, hotel rooms hard to come by for presidential inauguration (Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.)
• Fine dining flourishing: Fast-growing northeast suburbs feed upscale restaurant boom (The State, Columbia, S.C.)
• Hotel not on auction block (The State, Columbia, S.C.)
• Bank financing Landmark Hotel sees tough times (The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, Va.)
• Tourism the topic for business outlook (The Frederick News-Post, Md.)
• Miami Beach's Fontainebleau ready to reopen: Fontainebleau resort set to show off its $1 billion makeover (Sun Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)
• MGM Mirage chief retiring (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
• Station Casinos, International Game Technology plan layoffs (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
• Inn is canvas for art gathering (The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.)
• For now, hotel pools winterized (The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.)
• Developer shelves St. Paul project (Star Tribune, Minneapolis)
• Hearing on hotel to resume Dec. 9 (New Haven Register, Conn.)
• Zoning changes OK'd for Foxwoods casino shift (Philadelphia Daily News)
• VisitPittsburgh hosts tourism group (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• Inauguration could deliver $1M tourism boost in York (The York Dispatch, Pa.)
• Gourmet, the Old Way: Chef's classes grow in popularity (Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.)
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch David Nicklaus column: Renaissance Hotel makes its case to bondholders (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
• State seeing an ebb in tourism, will tweak ads (The Salt Lake Tribune)
• Snow ready early, but tourist bookings 'soft' (The Salt Lake Tribune)
• Bill Marriott: Marriott International did not contribute to Prop 8 campaign (The Salt Lake Tribune)
• Seminole Casino Opens Blackjack, Baccarat Tables (Tampa Tribune, Fla.)
• Casino to reopen under Hard Rock name (Tulsa World, Okla.)
• New casino rules deemed costly: Federal regulations will have a bigger impact than a study predicts, the state gaming association warns. (Tulsa World, Okla.)
• New Palace billboards to beckon to tourists (The Daily Republic, Mitchell, S.D.)
• New hotel will fit Our Town (Redlands Daily Facts, Calif.)
• People look locally for inauguration hotels (York Daily Record, Pa.)