Hotel Lodging News

LIVINGSTON, TX (May 2007) - The 39th Alabama-Coushatta Tribe Powwow will be held Friday June 1 & Saturday June 2, 2007.  The first weekend in June at the Alabama-Coushatta Reservation near Livingston Texas American Indians from across the country will gather in their finest regalia to dance, sing, drum and reunite.

Nestled deep in the Big Thicket of East Texas lies Texas’ oldest Indian Reservation.  Approximately 500 Alabama-Coushatta tribal members call these 4,600 acres of timberland their home. The reservation goes to great lengths to honor their heritage while they carefully consider how decisions made today will affect the Tribe and its families seven generations forward and seven generations back.  This traditional philosophy, combined with a faith-based focus on daily living, helps them stay committed to bettering themselves and their community.

Anyone needing reservations with Hampton Inn or Holiday Inn Express in Livingston for the first weekend in June will need to call soon as possible.For a weekend of festive dancing, costumes, and the celebration of Native American traditions, visit www.alabama-coushatta.com.  The tribe is also host to the annual Children’s Powwow held Saturday, November 24, 2007 in Livingston. 

LIVINGSTON, TX (January 2007) - Two families received food baskets for Christmas on December 22^nd from the Hampton Inn Livingston. The baskets include all the trimmings for a Christmas dinner such as a ham, sweet potatoes, corn, green beans, carrots, bake and serve rolls, cake mix and icing, cobbler mix and canned peaches, and cranberry sauce.  Also included were soup, tuna, chili, mac-n-cheese, ravioli, and other non-perishable items. The families selected were local families with a need this
Holiday season.  

The Hampton Inn Livingston employees also contributed to ‘Toys for Tots’.  Employees and guests collected two bicycles, dolls, a football, basketball, coloring books, crayons, stuffed animals, trucks, cars, books, play dough, watercolors and paper.  Hotel employees delivered the toys to a local Fire Station that was a designated ‘Toys for Tots’ collection station.

LIVINGSTON, TX (May 2005) – Lodging Host Hotel Corp officially announces it will open a new 56–room Hampton Inn Hometown in Livingston, TX. Ground broke on the hotel property location of 225 Southpoint Drive in Livingston last month. The new Hampton Inn is scheduled for completion in the winter of 2005/2006. 

“The Hampton Inn Hometown is an ideal additional lodging product for the Livingston market.” said Kevin P. Hilchey, President of Lodging Host Hotel Corp. “It will be the first Hometown product built in Texas and was designed for smaller communities. Business and leisure travelers visiting the area will enjoy the same high-quality services and amenities they’ve come to associate with the Hampton Inn name. When completed, the new Livingston Hampton Inn will provide guests with a full complement of services and amenities, including a complimentary full hot breakfast and high-speed Internet access throughout the hotel.”

Long term Livingston residents Don Baskin, Cary Baskin and Ernie McClendon are partners with Lodging Host in the Development. The final partner is Bruce McClendon, brother to Ernie and a resident of the Woodlands. According to Cary Baskin, “The location houses all of the additional services needed to make a successful hotel site: a gas station, a number of restaurants with a wide selection of foods, retail outlets and even another hotel and has easy access on and off Highway 59 with out the congestion of the 190 Interchange.” According to Ernie McClendon “I think that we can even anticipate some addition retail development at this exit in the future.”

All Hampton Inn hotels offer an unconditional 100% Satisfaction Guarantee, which assures guests that they will be completely satisfied or their night’s stay is free. Every Hampton Inn hotel also provides guests with fresh, clean comfortable accommodations and friendly, reliable service.

The hotel chain features many value-added services and amenities for consumers, including a free breakfast bar, free local telephone calls, no surcharge for long-distance access when using a calling card, a free in-room movie channel, an in-room coffee maker, iron and ironing board, free accommodations for children 18 yeas old and younger when sharing a room with their parents, and 75 percent of guest rooms designated as non-smoking.

Lodging Host Hotel Corp will manage the new Hampton Inn hotel in Livingston. According to Peggy Franklin Regional Director for the Livingston area, “Lodging Host has a lot of experience in the successful operation of hotel properties.” In addition, Lodging Host Hotel Corp manages the Holiday Inn Express & Suites® in Livingston.

Lodging Host Hotel Corp has been in business and based out of Longview, Texas since 1984. They currently operate twelve hotel properties in Texas, one in the Washington DC area of Virginia, one in Indiana, one in Florida, and are in the construction phase of a hotel in New Mexico. For more information regarding Lodging Host Hotel Corp, visit their website at www.lodginghost.com.

Members of the Hilton HHonors® guest reward program will earn HHonors points in addition to airline miles for every qualifying stay at the new Livingston Hampton Inn. HHonors is the only hotel program that allows any of its members to reap Double Dip® Earnings by simultaneously accumulating both hotel points and airline miles with each qualifying stay. To make reservations or request information about Hampton Inn, travelers may access the Hampton Inn website at www.hamptoninn.com or call Hampton Inn’s national toll-free number, 1-800-HAMPTON (1-800-426-7866).

Hampton Inn is part of the Hilton Hotels Corporation, recognized internationally as a preeminent hospitality company. The company develops, owns, manages or franchises approximately 2,000 hotels, resorts and vacation ownership properties. Its portfolio includes many of the world’s best know and most highly regarded hotel brands, including Hilton®, Conrad®, Doubletree®, Embassy Suites Hotels®, Hampton Inn®, Hampton Inn & Suites®, Harrison Conference Centers®, Hilton Garden Inn®, Hilton Grand Vacations Company®, and Homewood Suites®.