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City Center Marriott expects more catering this year
TidewaterBizThe Newport News Marriott at City Center is expecting an additional $750,000 in catering revenue at the conference center this year over last year after pushing more e-commerce marketing, the general manager said. “The hotel is doing well in the...Tags: Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Services and Shopping, Washington, DC, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Advertising
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Scaled-down convention-center projects do little for tourism corridor
It was an outrageous claim: Osceola County was going to get a convention-center complex so big you could see it from the moon. Fifteen years and many fizzled efforts later, the best the county could muster is 46,000 square feet of meeting and event...Tags: Services and Shopping, Gaylord Palms Resort, Travel, Interstate 4, Business
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Business leaders on John Q. Hammons
John Q. Hammons rubbed elbows or did business with some of the top hotel developers in the world.
In every community in which he built a hotel or a convention center, Hammons made an impact.
He also left a mark on those who knew him:
"When John Q....Tags: FelCor Lodging Trust Incorporated, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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Hillary Clinton to appear in Beverly Hills for award and speech
In the sort of appearance destined to fan speculation about her presidential aspirations in 2016, Hillary Rodham Clinton will speak in Beverly Hills next week at a gala hosted by the Pacific Council on International Policy. The nonpartisan group,...
Tags: Barack Obama, Elections, U.S. Department of State, Epilepsy, White House
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Marriott plans 35 layoffs in June, several hundred later
Bethesda-based Marriott International warned the state that it will lay off 35 employees in June, and potentially several hundred others later in the year, the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation said Friday. The company's layoff...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Labor Legislation, Job Layoffs, Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Career and Workplace
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Swift, hopeful reaction to immigration bill
WASHINGTON – An eagerly awaited immigration overhaul from a bipartisan group of senators arrived early Wednesday, an 844-page bill that both the political left and right now see as the best chance in decades to achieve fix a broken immigration...
Tags: Harry Reid, Michael F. Bennet, Migration, Politics, Jeff Flake
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Beat the zealots on immigration reform, then gun control
On Tuesday, I wrote about two senators’ bipartisan plan to expand background checks on gun buyers, saying it was a common-sense measure and should pass. On Wednesday, its sponsors -- Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, an NRA member,...Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School, Immigration, Elections, Interior Policy, Republican Party
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Hotel design team rooted in Maryland
The jeans are too gray, Toby Schermerhorn is on the phone saying. They need to be bluer, she tells the person handling the jeans. Prints of this collage — dozens of overlapping blue jean-clad bottoms — are going to grace guest room bathrooms...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Michael Phelps, Colleges and Universities, Georgetown, Travel
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How loyal are you to your hotel?
If you are a member of a hotel loyalty program, you are probably not really very loyal to your hotel at all. That is one finding of a survey of about 4,000 travelers by Deloitte & Touche about how they book hotels and what guides their decisions. Only...
Tags: Transportation Industry, Rentals, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd., Car Guides and Reviews, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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Romney can retire later
WASHINGTON -- The nation is heading toward the "fiscal cliff," but have no fear: Mitt Romney is coming to the rescue -- of Marriott International Inc. In his first public comments since election night, the defeated Republican presidential nominee issued...
Tags: Barack Obama, Elections, Mitch McConnell, Republican Party, Disneyland Park
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CFB Top Employers 2012 footnotes
Adventist: Excludes 2,954 per-diem workers; includes Florida Hospital system and several Adventist Care Center nursing homes. Comcast: Universal Orlando resort; excludes local cable-TV operations. Orlando Health: Excludes 1,632 per-diem workers; does...Tags: Leesburg, Hospitals and Clinics, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Daytona Beach, Deltona
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Suit blames hotel for death from Legionnaires' disease
Tribune reporterA wrongful-death lawsuit was filed Thursday against Marriott International, claiming that a downtown Chicago hotel is responsible for infecting an Irish tourist with Legionnaires’ disease. The lawsuit, filed in Cook County Circuit Court, says...Tags: Justice System, Diseases and Illnesses, Personal Service, Trials, Legionellosis
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