Premier Resorts International, both voluntarily and involuntarily, appears to have lost all of its significant sources of revenue in the past six weeks.

Premier also failed to pay hotel tax to the city of South Lake Tahoe for the month of August, a city official said.

On Sept. 30, The Park Record reported the company had lost significant property-management contracts in five communities, including Sun Valley, Idaho, where it managed about 100 condominiums and more than 30 homeowner associations.

Since Wednesday, The Park Record has learned that more contracts have been cancelled and that the company is also late on multiple payments to associations.

Colorado

Officials at Hotel Telluride and Manor Vail Resort confirmed earlier in the week that new property managers had been appointed. Joe Shackleton, general manager at the third Colorado property formerly managed by Premier, confirmed that Beaver Run in Breckenridge cancelled its contract.

Shackleton estimated Premier was in default on about 15 contractual agreements ranging from financial issues to failure to communicate. In accordance with the contract, Beaver Run’s homeowners association notified Premier it was in default on Aug. 4. The company did nothing to rectify the problems, so the contract was cancelled Sept. 4, he said. The amount of money owed to the association is undetermined, he said.

Hawaii

The status of six Hawaii lodging offerings found at the www.premier-resorts.com Web site was undetermined as of Sept. 30. Tom Hagen of South Kohala Management said his Hawaii company manages three of the properties on the big island mentioned on the Premier Web site: Vista Waikoloa, Fairway Villas and Mauna Lani Terrace.

“They (Premier) don’t manage anything. They have a wholesale agreement to be a booking entity for some of our stuff but haven’t booked anything for us in the last year.”

He said they haven’t returned the wholesaler contract documents for next year.

A manager at The Cliffs at Princeville on Kauai said Premier only has a few nightly-rental contracts with individual unit owners in the timeshare.

Staff members at The Whaler on Maui, another property listed on the Web site, said Premier Resorts does not operate there.

The other Maui lodging option, a beach house, is currently listed for sale by Maui Realtor Buz Moffett.

J Witt, president of the association board at Whaler’s Cove on Kauai, said Premier had managed the 39-unit condo/hotel until Sept. 15. It also did nightly-rental management for about 20 of the unit owners, he said.

Premier is late on payments to the association and on behalf of owners, so he asked for a cessation of the contract starting Oct. 31. The company responded by proposing Sept. 15.

He said financial statements showed deductions for expenses that were never actually paid not even to the association itself. An audit is ongoing to determine the amount it owes the association.

He believes Premier has also cancelled its nightly-rental contracts with unit owners.

California

Mary Anne Brand, accounting manager for the city of South Lake Tahoe, confirmed Wednesday that Premier Resorts at Lakeland Village Resorts has not paid its hotel tax, the equivalent of Utah’s Transient Room Tax, to the city.

August is usually the community’s busiest month for tourism and definitely the resort’s biggest because of its location to the lake, Brand said.

She isn’t clear on the amount since each property self-reports gross receipts.

“We’re in the process of obtaining that information. A formal request is in and we should have it in a week to ten days,” she said.

Brand is worried since Kelvin Bloom, president of Hawaii-based Aston Hotels and Resorts, announced Oct. 2, his company assumed management of Lakeland Village Thursday. Law requires owed taxes to be paid immediately upon change of property managers. That means September money is due now as well.

The tax goes into the city’s general fund, she said. California law prohibits the state’s tax agencies from commenting on whether Premier in South Lake Tahoe has paid its sales or payroll taxes for August.

The general manager for Premier at Lakeland Village Resort, Jerry Bindel, is also president of the South Lake Tahoe Lodging Association. He was contacted repeatedly for comment via email but did not respond. Bloom said Aston offered continued employment to all the staff.

Oregon

Jim Kinney, general manager at Seventh Mountain Resort near Bend, Ore. confirmed Friday that his staff was notified by letter on Wednesday, Sept. 30, that Premier would cease operations there.

“It effectively terminated all our employees and staff with no prior knowledge or warning,” he said.

He said his staff and the resort’s owners in Eugene, Ore., had been working through a possible transition, but the letter Wednesday came as a surprise.

“They dropped a bomb on us. We had to figure out in 12 hours how to re-employ the staff. It was not a pleasant day,” he said.

Kinney said everything was worked out, and he and his staff will work for the new entity at Seventh Mountain.

Bradley Goulding, co-owner of Premier Resorts International with Barbara Zimonja, was contacted for comment on this story on Wednesday via email but said he declined in protest to The Park Record’s coverage of his company.

The reservations line at the corporate offices was called Friday morning but went straight to voicemail.

Aston Hotels & Resorts

In Sun Valley, Premier voluntarily handed over operations to Aston Hotels and Resorts. Shackleton in Breckenridge and Witt in Kauai both said Premier suggested Aston as a replacement but both associations elected a different option. Bloom said there was no deal or purchase with Premier for the hand-overs in Idaho and California. He has known Premier since he was general manager at Lakeland Village in the 1980s.

“The hospitality industry is small, and we all know each other quiet well,” he explained. “I believe their (Premier’s) motivation was to ensure continuity and minimal disruption for the owners and associations.”

He said the company’s reception in Sun Valley has been very welcoming.