Hotel.Online Hospitality News
September 29, 2009

• Tourism starts TV campaign (The Virgin Islands Daily News, St. Thomas)
• Northfield outlines slot-parlor proposal: Racetrack official, mayor discuss $300 million plan, urge support of video slots, defeat of casino issue (The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio)
• BRIEF: New 101-room hotel opens on South Wilmot (The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson)
• LU enrolls housing overflow in hotel (The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas)
• Tamarack homeowners ask judge for new receiver so resort can operate this winter (The Idaho Statesman, Boise)
• Planet Hollywood, Westgate bringing 1,201 rooms to Strip with PH Towers (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
• PLANET HOLLYWOOD RESORT: Busts called part of safety push: Hotel-casino working with authorities (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
• Creditors request liquidation: Lenders for the Fontainebleau Las Vegas have filed to force a Chapter 7 liquidation of the unfinished project, claiming that developer Jeffrey Soffer faces too much exposure in the project to manage a sale himself. (The Miami Herald)
• Resort set to offer gambling: The Greenbrier to open with table games pending lottery commission OK (Charleston Daily Mail, W.Va.)
• Excavator signals start of Johnston, R.I., hotel project (The Providence Journal, R.I.)
• Casino zoning restrictions appealed: Developers of proposed slots parlor claim Wyomissing didn't follow legal procedures (Reading Eagle, Pa.)
• Congress Hotel: Despite strike, judge allows sidewalk cafe: U.S. Constitution trumps a Chicago alderman's clout, federal judge rules (Chicago Tribune)
• New inn-vestment: An entrepreneur's hotel plans weather the economy's woes. (Tulsa World, Okla.)
• Tourism bureau holds its own despite recession: Officials set higher goals next year (The Capital, Annapolis, Md.)
• Casinos off the table: Govenor, top lawmakers suddenly shift vote to '10 (Boston Herald)
• Sewer woes may clog hotel's progress (The Press-Republican, Plattsburgh, N.Y.)