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Now that California’s new Green Building Standards Code (also known as CALGreen) has officially gone into effect, many industry leaders believe the code will eventually affect the design, construction, and specification of plumbing materials for new hotel projects on a national level. However, questions remain about its long-term impact on business and the guest experience. Background. Without question, CALGreen is complicated legislation. It requires residential and commercial developers to implement a wide range of sustainability

The history of competitive sets stems from the late 1980s when STR wanted to create a way for hotels to safely and legally share data in a manner that would allow hotels to effectively benchmark their performance against similar hotels. STR Analytics, a consulting branch of STR, is currently studying more than 36,000 global primary comp sets to help answer hoteliers’ questions about their comp sets and all the financial implications tied to the imperfect

In 2009, all segments of the lodging industry struggled. However, the combined impact of the economic recession and the demonizing of corporate meetings resulted in an even more dramatic falloff in performance for conference centers. Now, as the U.S. lodging industry has turned the corner and proceeded up the recovery slope of the business cycle, the fortunes of U.S. conference centers have improved as well. Unit-level profit growth was a modest 5.4 percent in 2010,

Internet privacy has been “the next big issue” for more than half a decade. During that time, the Internet has developed into an incredible tool to sell and market our industry, with U.S. retail e-commerce sales totaling $165.4 billion in 2010, a 14.8 percent increase over 2009. In the wake of the voicemail and e-mail hacking scandals in Great Britain this summer, privacy is a hot topic on Capitol Hill. In July 2011, two subcommittees

The American Hotel & Lodging Educational Foundation (AH&LEF), the not-for-profit affiliate of the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA), has awarded 209 scholarships, totaling $297,000, through three of its core programs—the Annual Scholarship Grant, Incoming Freshman Scholarship, and Graduate Scholarship programs.   The Annual Scholarship Grant Program, the Foundation’s biggest program, is co-administered with 85 universities and colleges. In 2011, 194 students, nominated by AH&LEF-affiliated schools, received $244,000 in funds. The program is funded from