The hotel industry and the business world at large seems to have a preference for neat and tidy buzzwords that, in just a few characters, succinctly sum up the current market trend. The word of today? Distress, of course. “Finessing Distress” was, therefore, the logically paramount subject matter for this year’s HOTEL BUSINESS® Management Companies Roundtable, which was hosted by Carlson Hotels Worldwide at the Radisson Plaza Hotel Minneapolis and sponsored by American Hotel Register Co., Arthur J. Gallagher and Co., Cintas Corp. and LodgeNet Interactive Corp. Moderated by Stefani C. O’Connor, HOTEL BUSINESS® executive news editor and the managing editor of roundtables, the event provided an esteemed roster of participants that shed, for the first time in some cases, light on today’s distressed hotel operations underworld. Print coverage of the event appears in the April 7, 2010 issue of HOTEL BUSINESS.
