HotelNewsNow.com offers an interesting look on Gaylord Entertainment Company’s repositioning as a real estate investment trust (now known as Ryman Hospitality Properties) and the 2012 sale of the management of its Gaylord-branded properties. Coline Reed, the REIT's CEO, chairman and president, notes transitioning to a REIT was not "my first choice," reports the site (a division of Hendersonville-based hotel info company Smith Travel Research Inc.). Check the story here.