Largest African American Owned Resort in the US
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NABHOOD 2008 SUMMIT DATES
12th Annual International African American
Hotel Ownership & Multicultural Tourism Summit & Trade Show
July 16-19, 2008
Atlanta Century Center Marriott
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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NABHOOD MISSION STATEMENT
To increase the number of African-Americans owning, developing, managing
and operating hotels; increase vendor opportunities & executive level
jobs for minorities.
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Dear Hospitality Partner:
We are pleased to invite you to the 12th Annual International African American Hotel Ownership & Multicultural Tourism Summit & Trade Show on July 16-19, 2008 at the Atlanta Marriott Century Center. The theme is "Getting Stronger By Working Together". This event is presented by the National Association of Black Hotel Owners, Operators & Developers (NABHOOD), Black Meetings & Tourism Magazine and Horizons Marketing Group. This year's summit will be exciting and packed with information to help you understand the many opportunities that are available in multicultural tourism & hotel ownership. 2007 was a strong year for hotel investors, developers and lenders and 2008 looks even better.
The summit will focus on creating partnerships through African American hotel ownership while developing strategies to understand how to take advantage of the fifty billion dollar minority travel market. There will be many opportunities for hotel and industry professionals to meet and network with attendees who can help them increase their presence in the growing multicultural tourism market. You will meet and network with industry leaders, African American hotel owners, investors, lenders and potential joint-venture partners.
The 4-day educational summit is designed to educate attendees on how to become a hotel owner or investor, share minority travel trends, learn how to market to minorities and look at diversity issues affecting the industry. The summit will open on Wednesday morning, July 16 with the NABHOOD HBCU Celebrity Scholarship Golf Tournament followed at noon with our Orientation Program for new & prospective hotel owners, Committee Meetings, Opening General Session and the Chairman's Welcome Reception in the evening. General Sessions & workshops will be held Thursday through Saturday with the Trade Show on Friday. NABHOOD Corporate Dinners take place Thursday evening to allow new & potential owners to spend time with a preferred hotel brand (eligible attendees must sign up in advance based on availability). The NABHOOD Awards Luncheon will be on Thursday to recognize individuals and companies that have demonstrated through their actions a commitment to diversity while providing opportunities to minorities. On Saturday afternoon, we will hold the NABHOOD Career Expo & Job Fair and close with the Multicultural Tourism Banquet.
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National Association of Black Hotel Owners, Operators & Developers NABHOOD 2007 SUMMIT DATES
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11th Annual International Multicultural Tourism/Minority Hotel Ownership Summit & Trade Show July 18-22, 2007 Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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Marriott Hotels Minority Incentive Program
http://marriott.com/development/north-america-diversity-ownership/default.mi?WT_Ref=mi_left
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NABHOOD NEWS FLASH!!!!!!Newsletter of the Multicultural Tourism Industry & The National Association of Black Hotel Owners, Operator & Developers (www.nabhood.com)
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RLJ DEVELOPMENT, LLC AGREES TO ACQUIRE 100 HOTELS FROM
WHITE LODGING SERVICES FOR $1.7 BILLION MAKING IT THE LARGEST AFRICAN AMERICAN OWNED HOTEL COMPANY IN THE WORLD
BETHESDA, MD (February 13, 2006) – Privately held RLJ Development, LLC (“RLJ Development”) controlled by Robert L. Johnson, founder of BET and owner of the NBA Charlotte Bobcats, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 100 hotels from White Lodging Services Corporation (“WLS”) and its affiliates for approximately $1.7 billion.
A first group of 87 hotels is expected to close in the second quarter of 2006, with the remaining 13 hotels, which are currently under construction or recently completed, scheduled to close over the next 18 – 24 months. WLS will retain management of the hotels under long-term management agreements and the hotels, which are primarily leading brand franchises including Marriott and Hilton, will continue to operate under the same brand affiliations with long term franchise agreements also in place.
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| THE VISION: This sketch suggests the look of a $93 million development in Miami's long-poor Overtown area. |
Miami Overtown
to get African American owned hotel, condo & entertainment complex
Poor in income but rich in history, Miami's Overtown neighborhood is now attracting
condo builders -- and an upscale hotel.
Full Story....
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NABHOOD NEWS FLASH!!!!!!Newsletter
of the Multicultural Tourism Industry & The National Association of Black Hotel
Owners, Operator & Developers (www.nabhood.org)
If you want to be added to this newsletter please send us a email and put add
in the subject area.
Reopening
New Orleans: B & B's See a Future
Richard Perry/The New York Times
Glenn Pogue and Monique Greenwood returned to their New Orleans bed-and-breakfast
after Hurricane Katrina to find a tree blocking the front entrance.
Full
Story....
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PROPOSED PROJECT: Lawrence Duprey stands next to a model of the planned Palazzo
Las Olas, a $120 million condominium complex that would be built on
a city-owned parking lot at Las Olas Boulevard and the Intracoastal
Waterway in Fort Lauderdale. CANDACE WEST/HERALD STAFF |
Site-plan approval to build $220 million African
American owned W Hotel at Fort Lauderdale Beach
Click the link if the artical does not open
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamih...
Posted on Wed, Aug. 27, 2003
Lauderdale upscale vision sees key jobs for minorities
BY SONJI JACOBS
sajacobs@herald.com
Full Story....
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Break Out...African Americans blaze hotel trails in Houston and Boston
First And Only African American Wholly Own Casino Company Goes National !!!!!
Tunica, Miss., Black Hawk, Colo., Gary, Ind. and Las Vegas, Nev.
Fitzgerald Hotels & Casinos
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Welcome to Hilton
Garden Inn Chicago Downtown North
 This 23 story hotel is located close to everything that is Chicago. Just two blocks from Michigan Avenue.
Hilton Garden Inn Chicago Downtown North
Hotel development experts tend to make the process sound relatively
straightforward: find a site, line up the other key players, raise
the necessary money, start building, open for business. But they're
equally quick to warn that while the steps are easy enough to comprehend
on the surface, the process can be fraught with all kinds of problems
if novices jump in without understanding what's involved in each step
along the way.
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Rendezvous Bay
Resort in Anguilla, BWI
Situated on one of the loveliest beaches in the Caribbean, Rendezvous
Bay Hotel offers spacious villas and sea side rooms.
Rendezvous Bay Hotel
Full Story....
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Gigi's
Resort By The Beach.....Fort Lauderdale's Ultimate Vacation Paradise
Gigi's Resort is an African American owned, Art Deco, Boutique Resort
located between the Intercoastal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean.
We are the ultimate beach vacation spot and offer a quiet, relaxing
atmosphere that is only a 2-minute walk to the famous Fort Lauderdale
Beach.
Gigi's Resort By The Beach
First African American-owned
casino in the U.S. Virgin Islands set for groundbreaking in St. Croix
By Ann Brown
Luck seems to be on Curtis Robinson's side these days. His East Granby,
Connecticut-based C&R Development Company is getting ready to
begin construction on his dream: Seven Hills Beach Resort and Casino
in St. Croix, the first African American-owned casino in the U.S.
Virgin Islands. Full Story....
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Builder vows to
complete project
County to vote on deal with Peebles
BY BRAD BENNETT
His grandfather worked as a doorman at the Sheraton Wardman Washington
Hotel in the nation's capital. Roy Donahue Peebles Jr. yearned to
open doors in much bigger ways.
And he has.
Peebles, 40, of Coral Gables, is the owner of Peebles Atlantic Development
Corp., the largest wholly African-American hotel and real estate development
company in the country. The company's development portfolio includes
projects in Miami Beach, Fort Lauderdale and Washington with a total
value of more than $250 million.
Full Story....
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Hotel developer R. Donahue Peebles finds opportunities
By TOM STIEGHORST
When developer Roy Donahue Peebles Jr. met his wife, he found the
one love that could surpass his passion for real estate deals. Even
then, it was close.While on his honeymoon in Montana in 1992, Peebles
phoned in a $5 million bid on a 101-year-old bank building in Washington,
D.C., that was languishing in the portfolio of the Resolution Trust
Company, a government agency for failed savings and loans. It took
two years for the Washington, D.C., native, who now lives in South
Florida, to gain title to the property. The red-brick building sat
empty for another four years. Finally, when market conditions ripened,
he redeveloped it. Last year, it reopened as a 188-room Courtyard
by Marriott. Full Story....
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Johnson names two
to hotel development team
January 19, 2001
Bob Johnson, chairman and CEO of BET Holdings, announced today that
Thomas Baltimore and Ross Bierkan will join RLJ Development -- his
newly formed entity that purchased seven Homewood Suites from Hilton
Hotels for $95 million in December. Full Story....
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175 gather to network, develop marketing strategies
By BRAD BENNETT Herald Staff Writer
As a young man, Bob Wilson worked as a busboy and waiter in hotels
that would not let him stay overnight as a guest because he is black.
Today, the 65-year-old architect, based in Miami and Connecticut,
is developing 30 hotels across the country that will bear the familiar
names of Ramada Inn, Days Inn, Howard Johnson, Wingate Inn and others.
Some of those hotels will be in Coral Gables and Miami.
Racism, he said, is just another obstacle to brush aside for black
hoteliers.
Full Story....
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