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Marriott Hotels Inspiring Meetings for the Next Generation
Today, Marriott Hotels, the flagship brand of Marriott International (NASDAQ: MAR), is launching Meetings Imagined, a first-of-its-kind concept that reinvents how meetings are planned, making them more visual, social, and purposeful. Featuring an online platform, MeetingsImagined.com provides expert tips, the latest meeting trends, and hundreds of inspirational images to spark creativity – all curated by the objective of the meeting. Using the website, customers can collaborate with hotels to design custom experiences or view signature experiences featured at the participating test hotels, as well as post favorites images on social media sites, such as Pinterest and Facebook.
Wednesday, January 08 - 2014
IHG signs Holiday Inn® Plovdiv International Fair in Bulgaria
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG®), one of the world’s largest hotel companies today announced the signing of Holiday Inn® Plovdiv International Fair in Bulgaria. The hotel is scheduled to open in 2015.
Wednesday, January 08 - 2014
Accorhotels.com launches a new Arabic website fully dedicated to Middle East customers
Accorhotels.com, the multi-brand reservation website for Accor hotels, continues its development and its adaptation towards high growth markets. Now available in Arabic, the website offers a choice of 31 geo-localized versions and 16 languages: English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian-Portuguese, Korean, Chinese, Turkish, Indonesian, Russian, Polish, and, newly, Arabic.
Wednesday, January 08 - 2014
Hilton Worldwide Signs Management Agreement to Operate Conrad Fort Lauderdale Resort and Residences
Hilton Worldwide announced today that it has signed definitive agreements with CFLB Partnership LLC to open and operate a 290-room Conrad Hotels & Resorts branded residence and resort in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Currently undergoing a more than $34 million renovation and property enhancements, the 24-story oceanfront Conrad Fort Lauderdale has an anticipated opening in 2015.
Wednesday, January 08 - 2014
Starwood tops four categories in Travel Weekly’s 2013 Readers Choice Awards
Starwood Hotels & Resorts (“Starwood”), the world’s largest high-end hotel company, was honored in four categories in the 11th annual Travel Weekly’s Readers Choice Awards, namely, Best Hotel Chain in Asia, Hawaii/Pacific and Top Overall Hotel Group. The Company’s Westin brand also won Best Hotel Chain in the “Upscale” category.
Wednesday, January 08 - 2014
The Hotelier’s Invisible Enemy | By Jean Francois Mourier
Although it's only the first week of 2014, a new enemy for the hotel industry has surfaced. While the majority of hotels are aware of its existence, most haven't realized the negative effect that it could have on hotels' revenues in the year to come (and beyond). This enemy has now grown larger than any of the international branded hotels and continues to grow even larger at great speed. This invisible enemy dramatically expands room inventory in cities worldwide and does not discriminate based on property type, star rating or geographical location.
Wednesday, January 08 - 2014
HotStats MENA Chain Hotels Market Review – November 2013
Abu Dhabi hotels experienced a rise in all major performance indicators in November driven by a number of prominent events and an increase in leisure demand, according to the latest HotStats survey.
Wednesday, January 08 - 2014
Best Western Brings Royal Comforts to Central Jakarta
Best Western International (BWI) has launched a new hotel in Jakarta, designed to make guests feel like royalty! The new BEST WESTERN Grand Palace Kemayoran is set in an impressive four-story building in the heart of Central Jakarta’s fast-emerging Kelapa Gading area.
Wednesday, January 08 - 2014
Rezidor restructures three lease agreements and terminates one unprofitable contract
Concluding a year of successful Asset Management activities, The Rezidor Hotel Group has signed four agreements in Q4 2013 to further improve the profitability of the leased portfolio. Combined with results from 2012, when Rezidor exited from nine unprofitable leases, these transactions - all related to assets in Europe - have resulted in significant rent reductions for Rezidor, and have increased the company's EBITDA margin by ca. 1 pp as from 2013.
Wednesday, January 08 - 2014
RezNext Adds New Functionality on ReX Platform
RezNext, the world’s only true real-time distribution solution provider has added a significant enhancement to it channel manager solution ReX. Hoteliers can now create packages like honeymoon holidays, adventure holidays, beach holidays, pilgrimage holidays and much more based on room types and real-time availability in ReX, and can share this with all their distribution channels.
Wednesday, January 08 - 2014
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