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Benchmark Hospitality’s Top Ten Meeting Trends for 2010
Benchmark Hospitality International, the leading privately held hospitality management company in the United States, which operates 30 award-winning hotels, resorts, and conference centers nationwide, announces its annual “Top Ten Meeting Trends” as observed by its properties in 2010.
Trend #1 – Cautiously Optimistic for 2010, with Strong Pacing for 2011!
Demand for corporate meetings is up in [...]
Independent Hoteliers: Strategies for Success
Independent hoteliers often find themselves in a tough position – they often don’t have the resources to compete with the big chains in terms of marketing budgets and investment in third party booking channels, or the well recognized brand name that goes hand-in-hand with these activities. However, there are a number of strategies that independent [...]
TripAdvisor Premieres America’s Top 10 Movie Hotels
TripAdvisor®, the world’s most popular and largest travel community, today announced its top 10 famous movie hotels, according to TripAdvisor editors.
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While landing a seven-figure movie contract will never be more than a silver-screen dream for most travelers, anyone can be a star at [...]
Accor Hotels Readies Vietnam Expansion
Accor announced its strategic expansion plans for Vietnam. This plan includes additional hotels within the Novotel, Mercure hotel brand, launching of the ibis brand and MGallery label and the ambitious goal of doubling the number of rooms under management in the Vietnam by 2012.
“Vietnam has always been considered as one of the strategic markets in [...]
Ctrip offers best-price guarantee for hotel bookings
Ctrip promises that consumers who book domestic hotels through its website can get the lowest price than with its competitors. If a consumer finds the booking price provided by another online service provider is lower than that they can get from Ctrip, they will receive compensation equaling three times the price gap.
Ctrip.com on Wednesday launched [...]
First Doubletree by Hilton in Scandinavia to Open in Spring 2010
Doubletree by Hilton, Oslo-City Centre Will Be Hilton Worldwide’s First Property in Norway
Hilton Worldwide has announced that it has signed a multi-year franchise license agreement with Key Hotels Group s.r.o. to open the Doubletree by Hilton, Oslo-City Centre this spring — the company’s first hotel in Norway and the Doubletree by Hilton’s first location in [...]
Continent Hotels to open second hotel in Russia
Continent Hotels Worldwide has signed a management agreement with the investment company “Pacific Management Service”, Russian closed joined company, to open and manage first “Continent Resort” in Olginka village-Black Sea Coast, Russia.
Scheduled to open by April 2010, the Continent Paradise Resort-Olginka will be Continent Worldwide’s second hotel in Russia and the country’s first completed “Resort [...]
TravelTainment snaps up marketing specialist Pixell
TravelTainment, the leisure travel arm of Amadeus, has bought online marketing specialist Pixell.
Pixell’s Travel Suite technology offers automated updating of banner, adword and contextual advertising campaigns as well as social networks like Twitter and on mobile devices.
It won the innovation award at the recent Travel Technology Europe show in London in 2009.
TravelTainment said the Pixell technology [...]
TravelClick launches global hotel services
TravelClick announced that it is launching Global Hotel Services (GHS), comprehensive sales and marketing support services covering corporate, consortia, and Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions (MICE) markets across the globe. Exclusively available to customers of iHotelier, TravelClick’s Internet-based, state-of-the-art central reservations system (CRS), the offering will enable these hoteliers to drive incremental revenue simply and [...]
Courtyard by Marriott Launched in Gurgaon India
Marriott International Inc., the leading world-wide lodging company, announced the launch of the Courtyard by Marriott, Gurgaon. The launch marks the foray of the ‘Courtyard by Marriott’ brand into the National Capital Region. Located in the heart of the Cyber City, Gurgaon, the hotel near Indira Gandhi Airport will offer its guests 198 rooms and [...]
