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Hilton Hotels & Resorts Blue Paper Points To Key Resort Trends As 2011 Summer Travel Season Approaches
A Blue Paper published today by Hilton Hotels & Resorts indicates 42 percent of upscale travelers in the United States will book within three months of departure. Titled Blue Paper: Resort Trends Summer 2011, the study provides an outlook of 2011 summer resort travel and global trends related to the leisure segment. Hilton Hotels & Resorts uses proprietary qualitative and quantitative global ...
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Elegant Hotels Offers Serious Savings for Families This Summer
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Elegant Hotels, Barbados, is offering a helping hand to families to make their all-important summer vacation budgets go much, much further. Thanks to Elegant Hotels, families can enjoy a sun-soaked Caribbean vacation without downsizing to reduce costs.
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Hyatt hotels to buy shares from founder's family
Family members of Hyatt's founder are cashing in some of their shares. Hyatt Hotels Corp. said Monday that it will spend nearly $400 million to buy shares from trusts that benefit family members of its founder, Jay Pritzker.
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IHCL Gateway brand hotels likely to touch 50 in 4 years
Indian Hotels Company, that runs the Taj Group of hotels, sees its upscale, full service Gateway brand grow through the management contract model, reaching at least 50 Gateway Hotels in the country by 2015.
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Hotels.com launches Vietnam, Indonesia sites
Online accommodation provider Hotels.com on Thursday announced the launch of new websites in Vietnam and Indonesia with localized content, allowing travelers to book over 135,000 hotels.
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Hotels check into boroughs
Lisa Fickenscher - Ravi Patel, a 33-year-old hotel owner and developer, feels like an elder statesman in Long Island City as he tools around in his Jaguar, pointing out the dozen or so hotels that have sprouted in the neighborhood since he opened his boutique property in 2008. Within a one-mile radius of The Ravel Hotel—Mr. Patel's 63-room property located at the foot of the Queensborough Bridge ...
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Hotels see a power surge
Food and fitness upgrades are nice, but hotels also are focusing on the amenity many travelers want most: plug-ins and apps for their electronic devices.
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Awards Abound for Wyndham as Qatari Hotels Take Top Honors
DUBAI, UAE - Wyndham Hotel Group, the world's largest hotel company based on number of hotels and one of three business units of Wyndham Worldwide (NYSE: WYN), today announced that two of its Qatari hotels, the Ramada ® Encore Doha and the Wyndham Grand ® Regency Doha, have been honored with leading industry awards, placing the hotels among the very best in the country and the greater Middle East.
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Canada Hotels Prep for Will and Kate Royal Tour
Hoteliers across Canada are preparing for a visit from Britain's famed newlyweds, Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. Announced in March, the royal tour takes place June 30 through July 8, and it includes a stop in Ottawa for Canada Day. The prince and his bride will also visit Prince Edward Island, Alberta, the Northwest Territories and the Arctic.
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Hotels Asked to Kick in for Convention Center Work
Local hotels would contribute up to $30 million annually to help finance a planned expansion of the San Diego Convention Center, under a proposal announced May 12 by Mayor Jerry Sanders.
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Hotels.com app a good way to find last-minute hotel deals
Travel juggernaut Hotels.com has a new app available for both iOS and Android. The site is similar to discount travel sites such as Priceline and Orbitz, and it features last-minute deals from more than 135,000 around the world. A rudimentary app released in 2008 basically served as a redirect to the Hotels.com site. The updated app allows you to access a complete reservation history even if you ...
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Other hotels also offer smaller rooms and pared-down amenities
The minds behind the Yotel brand aren't the only ones to have realized a smaller room can be a less expensive room for travelers. Most of the following hotels have pared down their amenities and level of comfort, offering the basics of a clean bed (or bunk beds) and sometimes a private bath. Catering to the modern city visitor, however, all have flat screen TVs (HD, of course) and free Wi-Fi ...
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J-K govt plans to consider issuing NOCs to hotels in Valley
Srinagar, May 17 (PTI) Jammu and Kashmir government will consider issuing no objection certificate to hotels in the civil lines area of the Valley for four years if the Housing and Urban Development Department assures it to connect all the building for this purpose with sewerage treatment plant. ...
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New Gatwick Airport Car Park on Offer to Hotel Guests, Report Millennium Hotels
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwire - 05/17/11) - Travellers driving to hotels near Gatwick airport can now make use of a new car park at the base before catching their flight. The GBP 17 million short-stay parking area is spread across six storeys near the check-in area in Gatwick's north terminal and has been constructed in anticipation of increased demand during the 2012 London Olympics and ...
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NYC takes action against 15 illegal hotels
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is announcing the results of a crackdown on illegal hotels. Bloomberg said Sunday that the city has taken action against 15 illegally converted hotels since May 1, when a new state law targeting illegal hotels went into effect.
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