You'll find insight and observations about travel, tourism and all things Outrigger
at this Saturday Briefing, featuring
Chairman Emeritus Richard Kelley's
weekly blog, plus the latest news, happenings, photos, guest
stories and updates on the special 'ohana that is
Outrigger® Hotels and Resorts.
We should not forget the tortured history of taxation and the visitor industry. In 1986, the industry agreed to a 2% Transient Accommodations Tax (TAT or hotel room tax) with dedicated funding for marketing and a convention center. The end … Read More.
To calculate the kind of profits the Hawaii Convention Center generates for the State of Hawaii, it’s instructive to first consider the Longs drug store merchandising and accounting model.When you visit a branch of Longs, you always expect to find … Read More.
In exactly four months, on June 30, 1999, the Hawaii Convention Center Authority is scheduled to terminate. This is not a surprise, the Authority was started with an end date in sight, and the June 30 date was set from … Read More.
I was pleased and proud to attend the recent President’s and Chairman’s Awards Luncheon. We recognized a number of candidates and finalists for Manager of the Year, Employee of the Year and President’s Awards. In presenting the Chairman’s Award, I … Read More.
Outrigger Hotels & Resorts will expand our presence Down Under with the addition of our seventh resort property in Australia, the 204-room Outrigger Mooloolaba International, a luxury resort under construction in Mooloolaba on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. When it is completed … Read More.
It’s a pleasure to welcome Bill Peters to the Outrigger ‘ohana, as our new Denver-based Vice President of Reservations. Bill has an extensive background in the hotel industry, having worked at everything from Rooms Division and Front Office Manager to … Read More.
We, as a nation, have become so used to lies coming out of Washington, DC, that it is not surprising that most people did not even wince when the President presented his budget proposal for fiscal year 2000 a few … Read More.
On Monday, February 1, Outrigger Hotels & Resorts added the beautiful Outrigger Wailea Resort (OWR) to its portfolio of hotels and resorts and 450 employees to its ‘ohana.Over 40 Oahu-based employees flew to Maui to attend a traditional Hawaiian blessing … Read More.
When I was in college, every year the registrar would publish each student’s grade average in a booklet we students called the “Bawl Out.” This was discontinued in the Sixties when it was decided that such openness was not politically … Read More.
