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Marriott Hotels UK Celebrates Hotel Refurbishment with Unique Twitter Campaig
Marriott Hotels is celebrating the completion of a major refurbishment project across its UK city hotels and country clubs with an innovative review campaign communicated via Twitter.
The Twitter campaign invites a number of well-known Twitterers, including celebrities and journalists, to review the refurbished Marriott Hotels instantly online by communicating their thoughts and experiences to followers [...]
Marriott still pegged at $102 million
The Downtown Marriott Hotel project still is a $102 million venture, the developer of the project said Tuesday before members of the Illinois Finance Authority.
That number is different from the $90 million value the authority received in January, in which the group was asked to support a $7.7 million state bond for energy-efficiency projects.
“I’m not [...]
Carlson’s Country Inns Achieves 500th Hotel Milestone
Carlson Hotels today announced at its Global Business Conference that Country Inns & Suites By Carlson(SM), which offers caring, comfortable hospitality with a touch of home, has achieved the 500 hotel mark with its soon to open property in College Station, Texas. Building on this milestone, Carlson’s mid-market brand plans to add another 250 hotels [...]
The Top 10 British Business Hotels – where frequent business travellers enjoy their stay.
the business traveller is an important and much sought after guest for hotels – but in which hotels does the business traveller prefer to stay? Do these business clients remain true to the hotel chains or do smaller, privately owned, hotels have a chance?
hotel.info, the international hotel reservation service with over 210,000 hotels worldwide, which [...]
HomeAway acquires BedandBreakfast.com
With the acquisition, HomeAway strengthens its position as the No. 1 source for unique lodging alternatives to hotels. HomeAway plans to operate BedandBreakfast.com as an independent brand.
HomeAway – a leading online vacation rental marketplace – announced its acquisition of BedandBreakfast.com, the most comprehensive global site for finding bed-and-breakfast properties (B&Bs).
“HomeAway already provides the most trusted [...]
Hotel Prices Nosedive to 2003 Levels
UK hotel prices sank 13% in 2009, versus an average global drop of 14%, according to the Hotels.com Hotel Price Index.
Britons paid £84 per night on average for a hotel room last year, compared with £97 in 2008.
The UK saw the steepest hotel rate decline in Europe, plunging from the most expensive place to spend [...]
Australia’s Top Hotel School Wins at Australian Tourism Awards
Australian Tourism’s biggest night of the year, the Qantas Australian Tourism Awards, brings together the best of Australia’s tourism and hospitality providers and recognises those who excel within the industry. The 2009 awards were held on February 26 in Hobart, Tasmania with the Hon Martin Ferguson AM MP, Federal Minister for Tourism in attendance.
The awards [...]
Obama signs Travel Promotion Act
President Barack Obama signed the Travel Promotion Act (TPA) into law today, ending a multi-year legislative journey that now embarks upon the legislation’s implementation phase.
“Thank you, Mr. President, for your signature today—the American lodging industry will take the opportunities given through this legislation and make the most of it,” remarked American Hotel & Lodging Association [...]
Kerzner named Hospitality Innovator of Year
Hotel and gaming entrepreneur Solomon Kerzner has been named winner of the 2010 Hospitality Innovator Award, given annually by the Leland C. and Mary M. Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship at Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration. Kerzner, founder, chairman, and CEO of Kerzner International Holdings Limited, will receive the honor at the school’s annual [...]
Website helps hotels identify target customers
Demand Increase LLC, a company focused on providing lead generation and revenue management data to the hospitality and travel industries, released its website DemandIncrease.com. The site offers two new, online tools, Demand Data and Smart(er) Data, which are designed to help hotels and local businesses better identify and target local Interest-based, market-based and incremental demand.
Demand [...]
