EXPLORING THE WEB ✶ Using the Hotel-Online website (www.hotel-online.com), search for five recent hotel development articles and comment on how the debt and equity components were arranged. Besides the major benchmarking companies mentioned in chapter 3, others provide news information on condominium hotels, timeshare, and mixedused development. For example, you can type in ‘‘condo hotel development’’ and gain access to a number of useful sites. Some examples:

www.lodging-econometrics.com www.multi-housingnews.com www.hotelnewsresource.com www.nreionline.com

www.hospitalitynet.org