Reported by Star-Bulletin staff & wire
Tuesday, November 19, 1996
Reported by Star-Bulletin staff & wire
Tuesday, November 19, 1996
Outrigger Hotels & Resorts has been signed to manage the Raratongan Resort, a 151-room beachfront hotel at Raratonga, capital of the Cook Islands. Outrigger to manage resort
in RaratongaThe hotel is being sold by Cook Islands government to a New Zealand-based investment banker, Tata Crocombe, who intends to spend $3 million renovating the property, Outrigger said. Perry Sorenson, Outrigger chief operating officer, said his company expects to have a long-term arrangement once the sale is complete and meanwhile will start managing it before the end of this year.
Outrigger has been moving into the Pacific. It manages the 150-room Outrigger Marshall Islands Resort on Majuro and will will manage the 150-room Palasia Outrigger Hotel in Koror, Palau, set for completion next October, and the 600-room Outrigger Guam Resort, due to open in 1998.
An Anchorage tour firm that does $15 million worth of business a year bringing tourists from Alaska to Hawaii plans to increase service this week and has signed a charter contract with Hawaiian Airlines Inc. Anchorage tour firm
boosting isle serviceHawaiian Vacations also will start the first direct Anchorage-Kahului service next month. The company, which has run Anchorage-Honolulu charters for 14 years, said it will go to two flights a week on that route starting Saturday.
On Dec. 14 it will add a third flight, which will go non-stop to Maui and then to Honolulu. Hawaiian Vacations formerly used Rich International as its charter service but that airline was shut down by the Federal Aviation Administration in November. The Alaska firm has since signed a two-year contract to use Hawaiian's DC-10 jets.
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal officials have found no trace of the deadly E. coli bacteria in a plant that bottled apple juice blamed for infecting at least 50 people. Juice factory cleared in
E. coli investigationThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration is now shifting its focus from the Odwalla Inc. plant to the growers and packers who supplied apples to it, as well as other juice makers.
TOKYO - Toshiba Corp said today it would delay the U.S. launch of its new high-capacity digital video disc players until January or February because of a lack of software titles. Toshiba delays U.S. launch
of DVD salesToshiba and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. started selling DVD players in Japan on Nov. 1. Both said at the time they would start selling them later in the year in the United States.
A Matsushita spokesman said it had not changed its plans.
DVDs are expected to eventually replace video movies, compact discs and CD-ROMs.