Choice goes all in for Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS, NV—“With every passing month, the recession is further back in our rear-view mirror,” company president and CEO Steve Joyce told over five thousand attendees at the 58th Choice Hotels convention at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas this May.

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News Briefs ~ June 2012

Pastry course, IHG cleans world, In-room comedian

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Best Western Leisure Summit: Weaning consumers off OTAs

TORONTO—Best Western’s Annual Leisure Summit provoked wide-ranging discussion on topics including summer travel trends, Canada’s travel deficit, and how hotel brands are working hard to wean consumers away from online travel agencies.

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CRDA: “Because it’s not business as usual any more”

TORONTO—When Canadian Resort Development Association president Ross Perlmutter was in the music business, people bought records and later CDs at Sam the Record Man at Yonge and Gould Streets in Toronto.

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Ontario’s oldest operating hostelry

NIAGARA-ON-THE LAKE, ON—It’s been around for more than two centuries.
With wide plank floors, exposed wood beams, original fireplace in the pub, and a straight narrow staircase leading to the rooms on the second floor, The Olde Angel Inn retains the look of an 18th-century inn. But its operation as a pub plus inn makes it a friendly place where guests say, “We don’t want to leave.”

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