They conduct a research to analyze whether it is reasonable to seek in the US potential buyers for their residences, and perhaps corporate or individual investors for their ongoing and future hotel projects.

I plan to be in town next week, and will likely be staying at the Brookfield Suites on Tuesday...so I'll likely be in the hotel during the REIA meeting.

The cost was something like $300 plus hotel plus airfare.

Short vacations staying in a hotel do not (in my mind) give you a true feel for what the area is really like.

But in Orange County the drop was 12.4 percent, and in Los Angeles County, 20 percent.Orange County’s largest private employer is Disneyland, with 22,000 workers at its theme parks and hotels.

Do I have to provide a hotel or is she on her own?

It sounds like you're trying to do one of three things:1)  A condotel type of thing and place it in the hotel pool2)  Generate positive cashflow via leasehold3)  A VRBO type of thing, which doesn't have to be specifically in Waikiki.  

A hotel/casino owner in Las Vegas got word that one of his front desk employees was treating some folks poorly.

Near our hotel there was a street that looked like an alley.

@Jonathan Leake - I don't see downside to requiring it and it helps if heat is out and the tenant needs a hotel room or something.