Radisson Hotels

Similarly, most Radisson hotels offer party guests rooms at half price.

The house is presently part of Radisson hotels who have kept a lot of the original decorative features.

Its upscale Radisson hotels have an average occupancy rate of 66 percent, compared with 64.5 percent for the industry as a whole.

Travelers can now book rooms in any of the 315 Radisson hotels in 25 countries using a new toll-free telephone reservation system.

At the Radisson hotels, the new premium-rate Business Class rooms levy no charge.

Three of the hotels operated by the new company will become Radisson hotels after they are renovated to Western standards.

And it gives SAS the right to develop additional Radisson hotels in Europe.

Radisson Blu, is the brand name for Radisson hotels outside the United States, including those in Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Prices would be somewhat higher, said Stephanie Horton, the president, because accommodations will be in Radisson hotels in Vilnius, Riga and Tallinn.

This program, which continues until Sept. 6, applies to all Radisson hotels in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, London, Berlin and Australia.

America West has mileage agreements with, among others, Northwest Airlines and Air France, Hilton and Radisson hotels, and Avis and Thrifty car rental companies.

A second program, Family Approved, will be joined by individual Radisson hotels as they elect; 20 percent already have, and Mr. Griffiths expects 50 percent to be participating in a few months.

They include General Motors, Ford, Daimler-Chrysler, G.E., Microsoft and the Carlson Companies, which control Radisson hotels and T.G.I. Friday's restaurants.

Columbia Sussex became the first franchisee of Radisson hotels with the purchase, renovation and re-branding of the Americana Hotel at the Cincinnati Airport located in Northern, KY.

Ten Radisson hotels in London and participating hotels in Copenhagen, Stockholm and Amsterdam are offering packages that include full buffet breakfast, complimentary newspaper and a free sightseeing tour or museum pass.

Radisson hotels in Minneapolis, Atlanta and Arlington Heights, Ill., have all run ads with the headline "At Radisson, Uncle Fred Can Snore as Loud as He Likes."

Under the agreement, signed last week, the Indian corporation will be able to tie into Radisson's international reservation system, set up Indian ethnic cuisine restaurants in Radisson hotels and receive consultancy services for the purchase of hotel equipment.

Concessions are far from the largest part of ICA's business, which ranges from owning Sheraton and Radisson hotels to building the Mexico City subway, but they have recently provided a big piece of the reported profits.

"The discounting that hotels have had to do has confused customers, led to unrealistic expectations and weakened bottom lines," said Brian Stage, executive vice president of sales and marketing for the Radisson hotels, a unit of the Carlson Companies.

Available year-round at nearly all the 320 Radisson hotels worldwide, Family Magic offers free breakfasts for up to four people in a group, estimated to be worth $8 a head, and the ability to get a confirmed reservation for a room with two beds - double or queen-sized.

A Promise "Ten years ago we had only 21 hotels and were only known in the Midwest," said Juergen Bartels, the president of the Carlson Hospitality Group Inc., a division of the Carlson Companies, which owns the Radisson hotels.

Once aloof, Dubai's gulf neighbors "are looking at what Dubai did and how Dubai did it," said Craig Senior, a former Doha hotel executive who is now Middle East director of sales and marketing for Rezidor SAS, which oversees Radisson hotels.