Jason Freed

The top three hospitality data research firms have changed their tune in the past six months, each now predicting positive year-over-year growth for revenue per available room by the end of 2010.

Travel, tourism and lodging associations in the Gulf Region continue to lobby BP for more marketing dollars to help them combat the lack of demand their region is experiencing due to oily beaches.

Hotels along the coast, reeling from its third disaster in 10 years, are busy building public relations campaigns and marketing messages to assure travelers are aware of this basic geography.

Just yesterday the HotelWorld Network staff was chatting about the irony of last year’s ALIS conference, when Hilton was in the beginning stages of marketing their then-code-named Project 21 global, luxury-lifestyle brand.

Hilton Hotels Corp. places top executives on paid administrative leave and delays development of Denizen Hotels brand Starwood Hotels & Resorts alleges corporate espionage and theft of trade secrets.