November 29, 2012

5 Ways Hotel Staffs Get Back at Customers
http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/hotel-confessions-ways-hotel-staffs-back-customers/story?id=17818150
Whether visiting family or taking a vacation, the winter holiday season is one of the busiest and most stressful travel times of the year. But guests beware, don't take your frustrations out on the hotel staff. It may make your stay very unpleasant. In ...


The Dundas Arms, Berkshire: hotel review
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/hotel/89818/The-Dundas-Arms-Berkshire-hotel-review.html
Fiona Duncan, Telegraph Travel's hotel expert, reviews the best and worst of Britain's hotels and bed and breakfasts, from boutique to budget, countryside to city centre. It's not often that I wake in the bedroom of a hotel having seen nothing of the ...


Tourney travel money banned for Ohio high school athletes
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20121127/SPT0301/311270145/Tourney-travel-money-banned-HS-athletes?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7C
The Ohio High School Athletic Association ruled Tuesday that Ohio athletes may not accept travel, hotel and meal expenditures from out-of-season competitions if those athletes wish to maintain their amateur status. La Salle cross country and track ...


Users of travel, hotel industry sites latest target of cybercriminals
http://www.menafn.com/menafn/ec8192f2-6867-455f-a974-5260f0165f1e/Users-of-travel-hotel-industry-sites-latest-target-of-cybercriminals?src=main
Users of travel, hotel industry sites latest target of cybercriminals. NEW DELHI, Nov 23, 2012 (Menafn - Mint - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --After targeting users of e-commerce websites like eBay Inc. and its payments unit ...


Hotel guests face carbon monoxide risk
http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/hotels/2012/11/15/hotels-carbon-monoxide/1707789/
2012 - Eight people have died and at least 170 others have been treated for carbon monoxide poisoning in the past three years in hotels, which rarely are equipped with CO alarms, a USA TODAY investigation finds. And a review of state and local laws ...


Some NYC hotels still struggling to reopen after Sandy
http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/hotels/2012/11/13/new-york-hotels-reopen-after-superstorm-sandy-financial-impact/1703003/
Sandy ravaged New York in "the absolute peak quarter of the year," when business travel and events ramp up and then make way for tourists in November and December, says John Fox, hotel industry consultant at PKF Hospitality. But, he says, "the jury's ...


Ga. city sues travel sites for hotel occupancy tax
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Ga-city-sues-travel-sites-for-hotel-occupancy-tax-4071590.php
(AP) ? Columbus is set to receive about $1.6 million from travel websites that failed to divert money from hotel reservations to pay the city's hotel occupancy tax. The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (http://bit.ly/TppTUQ ) reports that city council voted ...


DC hotels have availability for inauguration
http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/hotels/2012/11/16/washington-dc-hotels-rooms-still-available-for-obama-inauguration-2013/1707313/
USA TODAY's writer and editor of Hotel Check-In, the blog that tracks hotel travel around the US and world. Expect the latest info and talkers about new hotel openings and renovations, travel trends, safety tips, the best hotel bars and restaurants ...