At the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort, summer guests can hunt for desert plants and local bugs with a Gila River Indian Community guide.

Valley hotel bookings so far this year are much better than last year, but a local industry expert warned Wednesday that deep discounts on room rates are killing hotel bottom lines and posing even more problems for the future.

A union is trying to organize Valley hotel workers, launching that effort with a boycott of a Scottsdale-area resort, The Phoenician.

Couple staying in Scottsdale Hilton for honeymoon

Chandler could land an Arizona exclusive — a Renaissance Club Sport, hotel giant Marriott International’s newest concept.

In April 1953, Ray Silverman, an accountant from Iowa looking to move to a warmer climate, bought the just-completed 12-suite Paradise Valley Guest Ranch at Scottsdale and Chaparral roads.

Five hotels are proposed for Chandler that could add about 1,000 rooms in the next couple of years, boosting the city’s capacity to host visitors by more than 50 percent.

Since the Hotel Valley Ho in downtown Scottsdale reopened in November 2006, it has recycled more than 48,000 pounds of paper, installed water-saving guest room features and dimmed the lights.

While searching statewide for additions to a program she dubbed "Arizona’s Treasures," Gov. Janet Napolitano found a gem in Scottsdale.

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Valley hotels — battered since the decade began by the economy, travel fears, war and slashed corporate travel budgets — fared better than the rest of the country in 2003, according to a U.S. lodging industry report released Friday.

The Chicago Cubs hit a grand slam for the East Valley in March, handing nearby hoteliers the best winter tourist season in several years.

The war with Iraq is taking jabs at the East Valley’s already wounded tourism trade.

There’s not a guest room to spare at the 730-room Westin Kierland Resort and Spa on the Scottsdale-Phoenix border today, and there won’t be any available until Tuesday.

Just a block from the nearly completed super-sized Phoenix Convention Center, the 1,000-room Sheraton Phoenix Downtown Hotel made its grand debut Tuesday.

Valley hotels overall show a major boost in business in September, with both occupancy — the percent of available rooms actually filled — and average daily rate racking up big increases, U.S. lodging industry trackers Smith Travel Research reports.

The Elliotts of San Diego showed up Tuesday evening at the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort after escaping the soot-thick air generated by the raging fires that left the family suddenly homeless.

“It is absolutely great,” said Chaparral Suites Resort general manager Tom Silverman of the requests for reservations pouring into his Scottsdale hotel since Sunday evening when the line-up for the college bowl season was finalized.

As progress in Apache Junction steams ahead to pave the way for urbanization, it also leaves in its wake the last sepia-toned vestiges of the wildest Western town in the East Valley. The Grand Hotel — which once drew to Apache Junction the likes of John Wayne, Audie Murphy and Elvis Presley — will be razed by its new owner, Apache Junction Town Centre, LLC.

Some of the names are famous — Hilton, Marriott, Hyatt, for example — but guests might be surprised to find out who really owns East Valley hotels.

Just two years after Stephen Hanson and Danny Errico launched their hip, urban James Hotel in Scottsdale, the entrepreneurs have sold the 194-room inn. Morgans Hotel Group said it will pay $47.5 million for the property and rebrand it Mondrian, after Morgans’ own West Hollywood hotel on fabled

Just two years after Stephen Hanson and Danny Errico launched their hip, urban James Hotel in Scottsdale, the entrepreneurs have sold the 194-room inn. Morgans Hotel Group said it will pay $47.5 million for the property and rebrand it Mondrian, after Morgans’ own West Hollywood hotel on fabled Sunset Boulevard.

Just two years after Stephen Hanson and Danny Errico launched their hip, urban James Hotel in Scottsdale, the entrepreneurs have sold the 194-room inn. Morgans Hotel Group said it will pay $47.5 million for the property and rebrand it Mondrian, after Morgans’ own West Hollywood hotel on fabled