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Starwood is to debut its Sheraton brand in Okinawa, Japan. The 200-room Sheraton Okinawa Sunmarina Resort will be located on Sunmarina Beach, with panoramic views of the East China Sea. It is scheduled to open in mid-2016 after an extensive re-branding of the existing Sunmarina Hotel, with
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InterContinental Hotels Group launches globally what it says are two industry leading initiatives for business travellers. IHG Assist and IHG Meeting Point are being rolled out across more than 4,900 IHG hotels to enhance the experience offered to business guests and corporate partners. Ingrid High, IHG?s director, global
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Starwood expands its partnership with Design Hotels ? which, the company says, ?consumers will see as an 11th?Starwood brand?. The move comes seven months after Starwood launched its 10th?brand, Tribute Portfolio. Since 2011, Starwood has been a majority but passive investor in the Berlin-based Design Hotels, which for
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InterContinental Hotels Group has earned a perfect score of 100 percent on the 2016 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), a national benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) workplace equality, administered by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation. This is the
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The Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel, Ljubljana opens in Slovenia with 208 guestrooms, 25 junior suites, two business suites and one executive suite.
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Booking.com and Wyndham Vacation Rentals, which claims to be the world?s largest professional manager of vacation rental properties with over 105,000 properties spread across more than 550 destinations, announces a worldwide distribution agreement. Through the arrangement, Wyndham?s global portfolio of vacation rental brands ? including Landal GreenParks,
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InterContinental Hotels Group announces a new collaboration designed to make it easier and more rewarding for guests to get to and from their hotels. From this week, anyone who is travelling within the US and signs up as a new Uber rider can earn 2,000 IHG?Rewards Club points?
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AccorHotels purchases three hotel asset portfolios in Europe representing 29 hotels with 3,677 rooms for a total of ?284 million. The transactions comprise: A portfolio acquired from AXA Investment Managers ? Real Assets acting on behalf of its clients for a total of ?56 million. The portfolio comprises 19 hotels
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Goodwin Gaw ? chairman of private equity fund management firm Gaw Capital Partners, who advised consortium Supreme Key Ltd in buying InterContinental Hotels Group?s Hong Kong hotel for US$938 million in July ? said the buyer is planning to invest around US$193-US$258 million to renovate the interior
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InterContinental Hotels Group signs the first Holiday Inn Express hotel in Gibraltar. The new build 120-key hotel is set to open during the summer of 2017 and will operate under a franchise agreement with G. & J. B. Hotels 2014 Ltd.
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Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group signs a management contract with Eurowindow Nha Trang Investment and Tourism to develop the 290-key Radisson Blu Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam, scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2019. Carlson Rezidor is pursuing development opportunities throughout Vietnam, including tier-one destinations Hanoi, Ho
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The Saudi developer behind plans for the world’s tallest building said it had secured financing to complete the record-breaking project, Agence France-Presse reported. Kingdom Holding Co, chaired by billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, said its affiliate Jeddah Economic Company had reached a more than US$2