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	Safemark Systems Creates XL Desk Drawer Safe to Accommodate Today's Larger Laptops Wednesday 27 August 2008 | With laptop computers evolving at a furious pace, so too must the products that business travelers rely on to protect those valuable machines.
	Middle East | Hotels Standing out from the crowd | thenational.ae Wednesday 27 August 2008 | Trying to find Abu Dhabi’s newest hotel, at an obscure address to the east of Salam Street, my taxi driver kept insisting there was nothing there but desert. He was almost right – even Google Earth shows the area as a bare stretch of sand.
	Star Resorts Sponsors 1st South American Hotel & Tourism Investment Conference Wednesday 27 August 2008 | MIAMI | Star Resorts Development, Inc., (the “Company”) (OTCBB: SRDP), is a publicly traded U.S. company with headquarters in Miami, Florida. Star Resorts is focused on emerging growth property markets and aims to secure and develop a portfolio of real estate projects in association with proven high-end developers.
	Georg R. Rafael, managing director of Rafael Group To Receive "International Hotelier Global Citizen" Award :: International Hotel Conference to Make €5,000 Grant to Medecins Sans Frontiers in Rafael's Name Wednesday 27 August 2008 | Georg R. Rafael, managing director of Rafael Group S.A.M., has been named the 2008 recipient of the "International Hotelier Global Citizen" award. Rafael will be honored at the sixth annual International Hotel Conference, which will be held October 15-17 at the Cavaleri Hilton in Rome, Italy.
	Best Western says data breach even smaller than first thought | computerworld.com Wednesday 27 August 2008 | Hotel chain now says data of just 10 guests was exposed; newspaper claims 8 million.
	Japan’s Granvia Hotels Switches To SynXis Distribution Services :: West Japan Railway’s Hotel Group Cites Extensive International Functionality as Top Reason for Switching to the RedX™ Distribution Management System Wednesday 27 August 2008 | SOUTHLAKE, Texas, | SynXis, the Sabre Holdings business that provides complete hotel distribution, Internet marketing and channel management solutions worldwide, announced today that Granvia, the Japanese hotel chain owned by West Japan Railway Company, has switched to the RedX Distribution Management System.
	FL Hotels Stretch Food Dollar | floridatoday.com Wednesday 27 August 2008 | As occupancy rates sag, the food and beverage departments at Brevard County hotels are increasingly important to their operations' bottom lines. But as food costs continue to skyrocket, it is taking some clever planning to get the most revenue from each potential diner, hoteliers say.
	With Republican Convention, It's a Green State | wsj.com Wednesday 27 August 2008 | Hotels in the Twin Cities are banking on John McCain and the Republican National Convention to lift a tourism market strained by a surge in rooms and increasingly budget-conscious travelers. The market couldn't ask for a better antidote, lodging analysts say. Hotel occupancies have edged down in the Minneapolis-St.
	Dubai-controlled KOP buys $250 mln Stein hotels stake | reuters.com Wednesday 27 August 2008 | Singapore-based KOP Capital, controlled by the emirate-owned Dubai Group, will buy a 50 percent stake in European hotel chain Stein Group for $250 million, and spend about the same amount on new hotels in Asia.
	PAR Technology Corporation Names New President for PAR Springer-Miller Subsidiary Wednesday 27 August 2008 | John W. Sammon, Chairman & CEO of PAR Technology Corporation (NYSE: PTC), today announced the appointment of Lawrence W. Hall as President of PAR Springer-Miller Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of PAR Technology. Mr.

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