LMG Data Mining was founded in 1998 by Tom Littleton, whose extensive hospitality experience included more than 20 years as Director of Sales & Marketing at luxury hotels -- The Lodge at Vail, The Buttes, and the Five-Star Wigwam Resort.     This perspective helps LMG identify what clients need, with an inside view available solely to people with hospitality marketing experience.  LMG combines this perspective with sophisticated data-mining technology.  "We understand the hotel business inside and out," says Littleton.  "That's why our solutions work."     By gathering and analyzing relevant guest data, hotels can predict and influence customer behavior, drive repeat business, increase response rates, lower costs and ultimately increase profit.