August 28, 2008 Today's Headlines: Beijing Rates, Revenue Spike During Olympics Hotel Capitalization Rates Continue To Soften Thompson Hotels To Open In Seoul Breeze To Add 15 In India Secondary Cities Accor First-Half Revenue Up 5% Vietnam Gets Its First Holiday Inn Green Blog: Leading The 'Ecolution' Sales Blog: Why Put In Such Crazy Hours? Beijing Rates, Revenue Spike During Olympics Beijing hotels posted an occupancy rate of 88.47% during the event, according to STR Global. Secondary host cities Hong Kong and Qingdao experienced RevPAR declines. Read the full story >> ADVERTISEMENT HOTELS' Hotelier Radio Listen in as industry's leading hoteliers discuss their experiences, challenges, future plans, vision and outlook on the industry in podcasts featured on HOTELS' Hotelier Radio. Click here to tune in to Hotelier Radio. Hotel Capitalization Rates Continue To Soften The mid-year US Realty Consultants Hotel Investment Survey indicates that capitalization rates for both limited-service and full-service hotels have continued to moderately increase, a trend that began last winter. Read the full story >> Thompson Hotels To Open In Seoul Thompson Hotels is launching Thompson Seoul in South Korea, the brand’s first venture outside of North America and the first luxury boutique property of its kind in Seoul. Read the full story >> Breeze To Add 15 In India Secondary Cities Breeze Hotels, part of Rajathi Group, announces its foray into second- and third-tier cities as part of its expansion plans. Breeze plans to set up 15 business-class hotels, all 3-star. Read the full story >> Accor First-Half Revenue Up 5% Accor posts a solid first-half revenue performance, up 5.1% in hotels. Read the full story >> Vietnam Gets Its First Holiday Inn IHG has signed an agreement with Military Bank Land to manage the group's first Holiday Inn in Hanoi. The 300-room hotel is scheduled to open in 2012. Read the full story >> Green Blog: Leading The 'Ecolution' Ray Burger writes: "I do think American Founding Fathers would be impressed with the leadership and commitment to sustainability by some of the “ecolutionaries” that lead the green charge in Boston." Read the full story >> Sales Blog: Why Put In Such Crazy Hours? Bart Berkey writes: "You just completed working a back-to-back shift entailing 18 hours. When you finally arrive home, you'll literally be too exhausted to sleep and you might muster enough energy to fill a cereal bowl with milk and cheerios. Why do you do this?" Read the full story >> Click here for all news headlines ADVERTISEMENT Keep Your Culinary Keen with Food & Beverage Bites Find out what's current and upcoming in the culinary corner of hotelkeeping with Food & Beverage Bites eNewsletter from HOTELS. This free monthly F&B briefing delivers food and beverage news, menu ideas and product information relevant to the world of hotelkeeping. Subscribe today! readers' choice - our most popular web pages Ted Teng Named New President, CEO Of The Leading Hotels of the World Dolce Intl. Becomes Dolce Hotels and Resorts HOTELS’ 325 Longtime IHG, Hilton Exec Steve Porter Dies Room At The Top Gencom, Lehman Sell Portfolio To RLJ Fund HOTELS' Daily News Service is edited by Jeff Weinstein +1 630 288 8260. Copyright © 2007 Reed Business Information. All rights reserved. For information about sponsorship opportunities, contact David Wood +1 630 288 8267.

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