29
Oct 2024

Costa Sur Resort, Classico Collection by Sonesta Opens in Puerto Vallarta

Vendor News , , Michael Handy

NEWTON, MA [July 09, 2024] – Sonesta International Hotels Corporation (Sonesta) today announced the opening of Costa Sur Resort, Classico Collection by Sonesta. The 206-room, upper-upscale property is located on a private beach overlooking the Pacific Ocean at Banderas Bay, south of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico. The resort sits atop a protected lagoon and is minutes away from local attractions, including The Malecón boardwalk, The Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Zona Romántica (Old Vallarta), and Rio Cuale Island.

“The opening of Costa Sur Resort, Classico Collection by Sonesta is significant for Sonesta as it is our first property in Mexico,” said Keith Pierce, Sonesta’s EVP and President Franchise & Development. “Operating as the second Classico, a soft brand launched in 2023, this hotel underscores Sonesta’s continued global expansion with a particular focus in the LATAM region and a spectacular new location at which our loyalty members can redeem Sonesta Travel Pass points.”

Classico, positioned in the upper-upscale segment, blends local authenticity with global appeal. Each Classico location has a distinct identity and offers signature local cuisine, traditional high-touch service and refined interiors. The result is a unique, inviting experience that welcomes guests to immerse themselves in each destination.

Costa Sur Resort, Classico Collection by Sonesta guests will be eligible to earn or redeem points as members of the award-winning Sonesta Travel Pass loyalty program.

ABOUT SONESTA
About Sonesta International Hotels

Sonesta is the 8th largest hotel company in the U.S. according to Smith Travel Research (STR) with approximately 1,100 properties totaling 100,000 guest rooms across 13 brands in eight countries. Sonesta owns, manages and/or franchises under The Royal Sonesta; The James, Classico Collection by Sonesta, Sonesta Hotels, Resorts & Cruises; MOD Collection by Sonesta, Sonesta Select; Sonesta Essential, Sonesta ES Suites, Sonesta Simply Suites, Red Lion Hotels, Inns & Suites by Sonesta; Signature Inn by Sonesta; Americas Best Value Inn by Sonesta and Canadas Best Value Inn by Sonesta. Redefining hospitality through its award-winning Sonesta Travel Pass loyalty program, Sonesta offers guests the opportunity to earn and redeem points for unparalleled value and personalized experiences. Sonesta Travel Pass members receive the best rates, earn immediate points towards free nights, and accelerated status progression based on stays. For more information about Sonesta, visit Sonesta.com to make a reservation or franchise.sonesta.com to explore joining our portfolio. www.sonesta.com

26
Sep 2024

Sonesta Essential Opens in Rapid City, South Dakota

Vendor News , , Michael Handy

Sonesta Continues Expansion of Newest Brand with Latest Opening

NEWTON, MA [September 24, 2024] – Sonesta International Hotels Corporation (Sonesta) today announced the opening of Sonesta Essential Rapid City. The 200-room, upper-midscale property is located at 1902 North Lacrosse Street in Rapid City, SD. The hotel offers a convenient location to explore Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Custer State Park, the Crazy Horse Memorial, The Badlands National Park and Black Hills National Forest.

“We are excited for the opening of Sonesta Essential Rapid City, which represents a milestone in the growth of our newest brand,” said Keith Pierce, Sonesta’s EVP and President Franchise & Development. “Since its debut in January 2023, Sonesta Essential’s appeal to both franchisees and consumers has made it Sonesta’s fastest growing brand.”

Sonesta Essential provides guests with only the essentials for their stays. Sonesta Essential features elevated bedding as part of the brand’s unique sleep program, high-speed complimentary WiFi, complimentary hot breakfast, premium all-day coffee and a fitness center.

Sonesta Essential Rapid City guests can earn or redeem points as members of the award-winning Sonesta Travel Pass loyalty program.

ABOUT SONESTA
About Sonesta International Hotels

Sonesta is the 8th largest hotel company in the U.S. according to Smith Travel Research (STR) with approximately 1,100 properties totaling 100,000 guest rooms across 13 brands in eight countries. Sonesta owns, manages and/or franchises under The Royal Sonesta; The James, Classico Collection by Sonesta, Sonesta Hotels, Resorts & Cruises; MOD Collection by Sonesta, Sonesta Select; Sonesta Essential, Sonesta ES Suites, Sonesta Simply Suites, Red Lion Hotels, Inns & Suites by Sonesta; Signature Inn by Sonesta; Americas Best Value Inn by Sonesta and Canadas Best Value Inn by Sonesta. Redefining hospitality through its award-winning Sonesta Travel Pass loyalty program, Sonesta offers guests the opportunity to earn and redeem points for unparalleled value and personalized experiences. Sonesta Travel Pass members receive the best rates, earn immediate points towards free nights, and accelerated status progression based on stays. For more information about Sonesta, visit Sonesta.com to make a reservation or franchise.sonesta.com to explore joining our portfolio. www./newsroom.sonesta.com

24
May 2024

Snow Melt

Vendor News , , , , Cliff Shumate

I am an electric heat distributor with products from 3 manufacturers available and am interested in adding electric floor heat, snow and ice melt and ice dam prevention products to the projects being built. These are obviously luxury items and items that make hotels, commercial buildings and residences more comfortable and safer to access. IE… tile floors, parking garage entrances, north facing building entrances, roofs over hanging walkways subject to icicle hazards.

Tile is a cold but durable and easy to clean product. It is specified in many hotels, commercial buildings and residences. It is always better warm! Adding this to the bathroom floor will make the room warmer and more comfortable. These can be individually controlled or controlled by a multi room system control. Multi room system control will allow the hotel or commercial building maintenance to operate the floor heat at a suitable temperature and keep operating costs down.

Parking garages and north entrances. These areas tend to get snow and ice built up and make them dangerous or hard to navigate. Having a snow and ice melt system in place to operate when needed keeps these areas safe to use. I have many systems to aid in making all of these possible and cost efficient.

Roof ice dam and icicle prevention is a critical area of concern especially in mountain towns and resorts. Eliminating ice dams and icicles should be a major consideration for these buildings.

Please let me know if I may be of assistance with any of these areas of interest.

Thank you for your time,

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30
Jan 2024

Hospitality Update: Growth in Demand, Wellness, and Sustainability

Vendor News , , , Craig Watts

The state of the hospitality industry—and the trends to watch—are discussed with IMEG Director of Hospitality Bob Winter in the first in a series of episodes featuring the firm’s market leaders.

“Last year, 2022, was a tremendous year in the market for design and construction,” Bob says, citing the recovery of occupancy rates as the industry emerged from the pandemic. “I have seen a little bit of a headwind this year with some of our projects due to the cost of construction and the cost of money.” However, he adds, there are still a lot of “pent-up opportunities that are coming online,” along with growing demand for more hotels in urban and resort environments.

Bob also sees a growing focus on sustainability and energy efficiency, as well as continued growth in properties with a focus on wellness. “Many of the major brands have wellness hotels that are really retreats and are located in places like Sedona or Palm Springs or in wilderness settings, but they’re also in top urban markets, too. These are places where people can go to experience various mind and body rejuvenation or even a much more focused healing and recovery experience, with medical staff and licensed therapists.”

Bob is no stranger to the concept of wellness retreats. In 1912 his great grandfather opened the Hotel Thermia Palace in Czechoslovakia, one of the world’s first wellness resorts.

“It was built on natural hot springs and there were mud baths; people from throughout central Europe would go there for treatment, primarily for rheumatism,” he says. Though no longer owned by the Winter family, the Thermia Palace exists to this day as a luxury spa and wellness hotel catering to clients worldwide. Those who cross the bridge onto the property pass a statue of a man breaking his crutch—a likeness of Bob’s great grandfather and a symbol of the retreat’s long-standing healing properties.

“It’s still a very popular place,” says Bob, who has visited the site.

The Winter family’s hospitality legacy transferred to the U.S. at the outbreak of World War 2, when Bob’s grandmother emigrated with her sons to the U.S. She soon became the country’s first female general manager of a major urban hotel, the Hotel Pearson in Chicago. Bob continues the family legacy today as IMEG’s director of hospitality.

“It’s the ‘giant circle’,” he says. “It’s been an interesting journey.”

IMEGCorp.com

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10
Mar 2023

Marble Systems Inc

Vendor News , , , Munir Turunc

Since 1982, Marble Systems has been committed to delivering sublime collections of natural stone. We have emerged as the top choice among distinguished architects, renowned interior designers, and discriminating homeowners.

Established by entrepreneurs, we are driven by the true principles of business: superior products, excellent quality, and the highest levels of customer service. As a result, we offer the finest selection of natural stone products. Some of our most prestigious projects include Merrick Plaza in Miami, Trump Plaza in New York, and the Bellagio Casino in Las Vegas.

We are the leading global supplier of marble, travertine, limestone, granite, slate, glass tiles, onyx and more. Therefore, we are experts in helping customers choose the perfect natural stone to adorn their homes or commercial projects. We offer products in a wide variety of surface finishes. Moreover, we process and quarry them to exact specifications using the latest technology.

We provide a virtually unlimited supply of the industry’s highest-quality natural stone products. We have distribution and design centers in Washington, DC, New York, Florida, Puerto Rico, and California. Additionally, our design centers feature the industry’s most extensive selections of tiles and decorative materials, including moldings, mosaics, borders, corner shelves, glass tiles, and slabs. We have more than 160 collections of color and design-coordinated floors, walls, decorative accessories, and finishing trims. Also, we offer total design packages that span from classic to minimalist styles. At Marble Systems, we help our customers achieve their ideal vision for their homes or commercial projects.

If you’re looking for the leading source for naturally beautiful surfaces, choose Marble Systems. www.marblesystems.com

14
Jul 2022

Francisco Matte, regional director of Crystal Lagoons: “PAL™ project to bring beach life to Madrid

Vendor News , , , , Sales US

Although Madrid, the second most populous city in the European Union, is recognized as a major tourist hub for its diverse gastronomic and cultural heritage, the city has no beach life. That until now, because on the outskirts of that city, Crystal Lagoons will build Alovera Beach, its first Public Access Lagoons™ project on the Iberian Peninsula. Elsewhere in Europe the company is already developing PAL™ projects in the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Hungary and Turkey, as well as having already developed two real estate complexes in Spain (Costa del Sol and Murcia).

What are the main characteristics of this iconic project?

Alovera Beach will be the largest artificial beach in Europe, located in a Mediterranean urban area less than 40 minutes from the center of Madrid. The centerpiece of this resort will be a 2.1-hectare turquoise lagoon that will be open to the general public for the price of an entrance fee.

What benefits will this new complex bring to the region?

The project is an innovative concept, which will transform the municipality of Alovera and boost tourism in the Guadalajara area, positioning itself on the European map of technology, innovation and sustainability and as a unique reference point in outdoor water sports. The complex will be open all year round and expects to receive around 350,000 visitors annually.

The project, which will be developed by Crystal Lagoons in partnership with Grupo Rayet, will become a model for urban regeneration that will change the local landscape in a revolutionary way, have a high social impact and generate more than 330 direct and indirect jobs.

How will local residents benefit with the project?

Public Access Lagoons™ projects, also known as PAL™ developments, drastically change people’s lifestyles. They bring beach life and water sports possible in a city context, making going to the beach as close and as normal as going to the local park is today.

The body of water will be surrounded by an extensive, 1.6-hectare, white sandy beach and include sports facilities, a water park with slides and children’s pools, a water sports school for kayaking and paddle boarding and gastronomic services.

How do you address the current need to be a sustainable amenity?

Like all of Crystal Lagoons projects, the Alovera Beach lagoon will include the multinational’s sustainable technology, which allows the use of any type of water, consumes 30 times less water than a golf course and only half that of a park of the same size. Its filtration system uses only 2% of the energy of a conventional system and up to 100 times less chemicals than a swimming pool.

What are the main projects of Crystal Lagoons in Spain and Europe?

Alovera is the firm’s third project in Spain, which include the Alcazaba Lagoon (Costa del Sol) and Santa Rosalía (Murcia) residential developments. Meanwhile, elsewhere in Europe, Crystal Lagoons has just signed a master agreement to develop six PAL™ complexes in Prague, Warsaw, Budapest and Bucharest. The company also has a project in Turkey and is in advanced negotiations for projects in Italy (Milan, Verona, Rome and Naples), Portugal, Greece and Georgia. www.crystal-lagoons.com

03
Oct 2021

New Hand-Textured High-End Artist Reproductions

Vendor News , , Douglas Morgano

We are so excited to be able to create hand-textured Artist prints on canvas making the piece look like the original! The artist hand-texture and sign each piece! Our artist are among the top artist working in the US today and we are lucky enough to have their works for hospitality designs.

Please feel free to contact Douglas Morgano at 858-899-0118 or email info@artinspired.space  www.artinspired.space

03
Apr 2021

Prevail Financial News

Vendor News , , , Jeff Ventress

Serving commercial clients in Dallas, Texas and the rest of the country for over 10 years, Prevail Financial has been one of the premier leading financial consulting companies nationwide. Count on us to help you explore options and get the funding that your business or company needs. Backed by over 20 years of experience, our team is always at your service. Loan amounts from $250,000 to 100 billion.

Corporate Address:
3010 LBJ Freeway, Suite 1200
Dallas, TX 75234
Direct: (888)-381-2411
Cell: (214) 205-8586
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Email: jeff@prevailfinancial.com
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