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Renaissance Pere Marquette reveals post-hurricane renovation
In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, which inflicted extensive first-floor flooding damage, the owners of the 272-room Renaissance Pere Marquette in New Orleans ordered the first renovation at the property since it opened in 2001.
Posted on 7/14/2008

World Market Center launching year-round design resource for the hotel industry
World Market Center Las Vegas recently announced it will be broadening its horizons to address the needs of the hospitality furnishings industry and the design community.
Posted on 7/9/2008

San Francisco's Hotel Union Square gets a high-style makeover
Housed in a building that has been a part of the San Francisco lodging scene for nearly 100 years, the Hotel Union Square completed a $5 million renovation this past spring that refreshed its 131 guestrooms as well as public spaces, allowing for contemporary enhancements while maintaining the historic architectural elements of the original structure.
Posted on 7/2/2008

In the battle for purchasing supremacy, does the agent or dealer model win with hotel owners?
Alan Benjamin of Benjamin West and Chris Robinson of Hatchett Hospitality face off to debate their two different purchasing models and how each offers benefits to hotel owners.
Posted on 4/25/2008

Jay Schultz, senior VP, Hospitality Group

Globalization continues to impact hotel industry as new players emerge
During the last decade or so a week has not passed without a hotel company announcing some sort of development deal somewhere outside the U.S. The worldwide marketplace has become an important, if not essential, target for not only hotel brands and developers, but for servicers and suppliers as well.