Janak Desai, owner of the 64-room Baymont Inn and Knights Inn onU.S. 192 in east Kissimmee, FL, is chairing the newly formed,50-member Kissimmee-Highway 192 Hotel & Motel Association. Theproperty members each have from 50 to 100 rooms.

Hospitality industry consultants tell GlobeSt.com, in anotherarticle on this page, the smaller properties near Disney are faringthe worst in the current economic downturn.

"They're dependent on Disney," Richard C. Kessler,president/CEO, The Kessler Enterprise Inc., Orlando, tellsGlobeSt.com.

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