This Week's Top Headlines Choice Hospitality to open six Clarions in India   Choice Hospitality (India) Ltd, the owner of brands Clarion, Quality Inn, Comfort Inn and Sleep Inn brands of Choice Hotels International, is in the process of adding six Clarion hotels to its Indian portfolio. These hotels will come up at  ...read more>>   FHRAI Annual Convention 2008 heads for Shanghai   Federation of Hotels & Restaurant Association of India (FHRAI) has decided to hold its Annual Convention in 2008, at Shanghai, China. The convention will be held from 12 – 14  ...read more>>   WORLDHOTELS and Amadeus launch booking competition   WORLDHOTELS, the Europe based global hotel group for independent hotels and regional hotel brands and Amadeus have launched a competition, which will reward travel agents for room bookings between  ...read more>>   The Leela Kempinski Mumbai among Travelocity's Indian top six list   Travelocity has ranked The Leela Kempinski Mumbai among the six best performing hotels in India, for the quarter ending 2007. The hotel was chosen from among 500  ...read more>>   Chandigarh Administration auctions off 5 acres for five star property   Due to increased growth in the Chandigarh hospitality industry, the Chandigarh Administration plans to auction off five acres of land for a five star hotel. The land is located at sector 29 near the  ...read more>>   Home stay owners in Kerala form charitable society   Fifty home stay owners and tour operators in Kerala have formed a charitable society, ‘Kerala Home Stay and Tourism Society’ (Kerala-HATS), in order to bring home stay owners under one roof. Kerala-HATS has been registered under the Travancore-Cochin  ...read more>>   Tourism industry should be given top priority: HRAWI   The Hotel and Restaurant Association Western India (HRAWI) has welcomed the initiative of the Central government to lease out land to private hotel developers and enter into a revenue sharing agreement. The association discussed the problems  ...read more>>   Punjab assures HRAP — no luxury tax on room tariff   The Punjab Government has assured the Hotel and Restaurant Association of Punjab (HRAP) that it will not implement the luxury tax (of about eight per cent) on room tariff. Recently, the association sent  ...read more>>   Philippines on the Taj business radar?   According to a recent report in Manila Standard Today, Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces plans to establish one of its hotels in either Philippines’  ...read more>>   Cricket fever drives occupancy rate of hotels in Chandigarh   With various leagues jumping into the fray to capture the frenzied cricket mania, the occupancy rate of Chandigarh’s hotels has recorded a growth of about 85 to 90 per cent from the previous year. After the Indian Cricket League (ICL) tournament, it is the turn of the Indian Premier League (IPL) tournament to begin from  ...read more>>  PRIME FOCUS Outsourced services for horticulture: Covering all bases Outsourced services are becoming the trend in the hospitality industry, especially for services like horticulture and housekeeping. Rashmi Pradhan analyses the pros and cons of outsourcing horticulture ...read more>>    FACE TO FACE Chef Soundararajan P, General Secretary, IFCA ...read more>>     MARKET SCOPE Hotel rate projections Indian hotel rate projections for the year 2008 ...read more>>    F&B SERVICE The right glass for the right wine The glassware to serve a particular wine requires several specifications, that the sommelier has to focus on. Dheera Majumder finds out the factors that govern the selection...read more>>    HOTEL SECURITY Key control: Encoding and decoding One of the essential factors of effective security, key control is essential in hotels. P Krishna Kumar examines how the concept has evolved for the better ...read more>> www.hospitalitybizindia.com This e-newsletter has been sent since you are part of Hospitality Biz Magazine's subscriber list. If you wish to unsubscribe, please send UNSUBSCRIBE as a reply to this e-mail.