Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP(R)) announced that the 2011 Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition and Conference (HITEC(R)) will be June 20-23 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas.

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Start with the Basics, Add A Pinch of Grit, and A Whole Bunch of Common-Sense

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The H-2B Workforce Coalition believes that it is important for Congress to address comprehensive immigration reform, including much needed relief for many seasonal industries that use the H-2B program to supplement their year-round domestic work force during peak seasons when too few American workers are available.

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Lodging Interactive, a leading interactive marketing agency servicing the hospitality industry and the publisher of the free Chatter Guard Monthly Benchmark Monitor Report has released its October 2009 report.

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Luxury spa participants in the Spa STAR performance report continued to show declining performance metrics through the third quarter of 2009, according to data released by STR.

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The Europe hotel development pipeline includes 577 hotels comprising 97,266 rooms, according to the November 2009 STR Global Construction Pipeline Report released this week.

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The properties, currently slated to open on various dates between mid-2010 and early 2014, include Park Hyatt Mumbai, Grand Hyatt Goa, Grand Hyatt Pune, Hyatt Place Pune, and Hyatt Place Mundra.

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Did you catch the revised forecast from PKF? PKF-HR is now forecasting lodging demand to post a quarterly year-over-year increase during the first quarter of 2010, thus ending eight consecutive quarters of declines. On an annual basis, PKF-HR is now forecasting lodging demand to rise 1.9 percent in 2010, up from the 1.6 percent increase forecast back in September. (HotelNewsNow, 12/14/09)

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Hyatt Hotels & Resorts and Stonestreet Hospitality Realty Corporation, announce the opening of Hyatt Place Uncasville. Hyatt Place Uncasville is the first newly built hotel to open in Uncasville since 2001.

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Newly Formed Partnership Aims to Elevate Hotel Performance

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