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Gaylord & Omni: Is Marriage in the Offing?

Published Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Private investor Robert Rowling's recent purchase of a large stake in Gaylord Entertainment has got hotel analysts buzzing. Rowling, a Texas billionaire who last week upped his Gaylord stake to 11.5 percent of the company, also owns Omni Hotels, and some think he'll make a run on Gaylord and somehow combine the two seemingly disparate brands. Omni has about 40 business hotels and resorts in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The firm will open a new-construction 607-room property in downtown Fort Worth, TX in January. Gaylord's specialty is the supertanker convention hotel, a niche it ...

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