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1615-14 Various Miami Beach P • mh95 HOTEL'S OPENING 10/22/1995 THE MIAMI HERALD Copyright (c) 1995, The Miami Herald DATE: Sunday, October 22 , 1995 EDITION: FINAL SECTION: NEIGHBORS MB PAGE: 20 LENGTH: 21 lines SOURCE/CREDIT LINE: Herald Staff HOTEL'S OPENING TOPIC OF LUNCHEON Jonathan Tisch, president of Loews Hotels, will discuss the economic impact his company' s new 830-room hotel will have on South Beach at a Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce luncheon at noon Wednesday at the Doral Ocean Beach Resort, 4833 Collins Ave. The convention hotel is scheduled to open at Collins Avenue and 16th Street in the fall of 1997 . The blue-and-white, 16-story Deco-style hotel will be the first major hotel to open in Miami Beach in 30 years, and second in size only to the 1,266-room Fontainebleau Hilton. Armando Codina, the project ' s developer, will also speak at the luncheon. To reserve a seat, call 672-1270 . TAG: 9503080734 7 of 34 , 5 Terms mh95 BEACH FLEXES MUSCLES 10/16/1995 THE MIAMI HERALD Copyright (c) 1995, The Miami Herald DATE: Monday, October 16, 1995 EDITION: FINAL SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: 1B LENGTH: 59 lines ILLUSTRATION: chart: Miami Beach' s Tourism Support SOURCE/CREDIT LINE: ANNE MONCREIFF ARRARTE Herald Business Writer BEACH FLEXES MUSCLES ON TOURISM DECISIONS As in-line skaters glide down Ocean Drive and tourists leave their Deco rooms to sip cool drinks in open-air cafes, one can almost hear the steady sound of South Beach cash registers ringing. Miami Beach tourism has found its place in the sun. And, as tourism tax dollars grow, city leaders have decided they no longer will take a back seat to Dade ' s tourism executives across the causeway. Instead, they want to be at the wheel . "Miami Beach is a vital part of the Dade tourism partnership, and until recently, the Greater Miami power structure did not respond to that, " said Tony Goldman, owner of South Beach' s Park Central Hotel and board member of the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau. "We contribute a significant amount of tourism tax dollars; we are the primary reason that people come to Greater Miami; we are what drives Dade ' s tourism train. "