Hotel.Online Hospitality News
October 1, 2009

• Hilton sued over fatal accident in its lagoon (The Honolulu Advertiser)
• Hotelier balks at moving center (The Augusta Chronicle, Ga.)
• Editorial: Rio Nuevo board must be open about its hiring: Our view: Many questions remain concerning hotel consultant's contract (The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson)
• Going green to pull in conventions: Environmental issues of growing concern to event planners (The Buffalo News, N.Y.)
• Seven developers to be honored for Baltimore projects: Awards will be given for Legg Mason Tower, Silo Point condos, other city buildings (The Baltimore Sun)
• Firm takes on LaSalle Hotel (The Eagle, Bryan, Texas)
• Option taxes, 'tourism' boost face questions (Gloucester Daily Times, Mass.)
• IKE NOT GONE YET: City demands action on deteriorating Flagship Hotel (Houston Chronicle)
• With Sam's Club departure, KC has now lost its top 3 conventions (The Kansas City Star, Mo.)
• Strip stocks stage September surge: LV Sands, MGM Mirage, Wynn Resorts rise (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
• New hotel looks to set itself apart (Montgomery Advertiser, Ala.)
• Wisconsin Tourism Federation changes name to avoid acronym (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
• Pittsburgh Hilton Hotel threatened with sheriff's sale (The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
• Penn National confi rms Vegas bid: Wyomissing gaming fi rm acknowledges effort to buy the Fontainebleau (Reading Eagle, Pa.)
• Casinos face fines over rash of underage gamblers (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
• Benicia hopes for a boost from new Holiday Inn (Times-Herald, Vallejo, Calif.)