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News for hotel and lodging professionals | December 9, 2008
 
 
Editor's Viewpoint
  • Looking back at 2008
     
    Angela Giroux, Lead Editor
    Over the course of 2008, I have been pleased to deliver you the news that matters to your industry. Part I of this AH&LA SmartBrief special year-end report rounds up the most important trends, stories and events of the past year. Part II, which will hit your inbox Thursday, will provide a glimpse into what's in store for 2009.

    There were several legislative issues in Congress and the elections that affected the hotel and lodging industry in 2008, including card-check action in key Senate races, President George W. Bush's signature on a law further defining the Americans with Disabilities Act, and Travel Promotion Act passage in the House of Representatives. Trends that dominated the industry ranged from in-room technology and green construction to larger-than-life resorts and global expansion.

    This year's conferences and meetings took AH&LA members to Washington, D.C., for the AH&LA Legislative Action Summit, to Oklahoma City for the AH&LA Summer Summit, and to New York for the AH&LA Fall Conference, held in conjunction with the International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show.

    It's been a busy and exciting year!

    And now, here's what was most important to YOU in 2008.

  Best of 2008 
  Your Favorite SmartQuotes 
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."
--Theodore Roosevelt,
26th president of the U.S.
Most companies don't exercise patience during the hiring process. There is no development system that is going to compensate for making a bad hire."
--Eric Foss,
CEO of Pepsi Bottling
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened."
--Alexander Graham Bell,
American inventor
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."
--Soren Kierkegaard,
Danish writer, philosopher
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."
--Jonathan Kozol,
American nonfiction writer and educator
The most successful people are those who are good at Plan B."
--James Yorke,
mathematics and physics professor
You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
--Mahatma Gandhi,
Indian political leader
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously."
--Peter Ustinov,
British actor and writer
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."
--Aristotle,
ancient Greek philosopher
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time."
--Marian Wright Edelman
children's activist
  

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