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Euromonitor unveils its ?WTM Global Trends Report 2015?, identifying the top emerging travel trends: The new American dream: work less, play hard A growing number of American companies offer unlimited vacation time to create a happier, loyal and motivated staff, which will have an effect on travel bookings; Smart technology
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TripAdvisor launches its app for Apple TV ? the first time the firm has developed a custom app for television. The TripAdvisor Apple TV app is designed to ?inspire wanderlust highlighting TripAdvisor content, such as photos of TripAdvisor?Travelers? Choice award-winning destinations and points of interest.? The app displays photos
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San Franciscans voted Tuesday on a measure to limit short-term housing rentals in what is seen as a referendum on surging start-up Airbnb, Agence France-Presse reported. The vote is a key test of sentiment over a simmering housing crisis and on Airbnb, in a city experiencing waves
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The Free Port of Vladivostok, a zone with special economic and fiscal conditions in Russia?s Far Eastern Primorye Territory, has attracted its first investor ? a five-star hotel built by a joint venture between the Russian Transit-DB Holding and two Chinese companies: Zhun Gun Sin, which manages Chinese
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A woman fell six feet down an elevator shaft at a four-star hotel in Midtown early Sunday, the New York Post reported. Emergency crews rushed to the Grand Hyatt hotel on East 42nd Street at around 4am after the unidentified woman?s accident, law-enforcement sources said. It was
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A man suffered serious injuries to his head and face after being struck by a sofa that fell from the roof of a luxury hotel in central?London, the Guardian reported. The pedestrian, who is in his 20s, was walking past the W hotel on Wardour Street, near Leicester Square,
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The DoubleTree by Hilton at the Ricoh Arena ? Coventry, opens. The 121-room hotel is located in the Ricoh Arena ? home of Aviva Premiership Rugby club Wasps and where professional football team Coventry City Football Club also plays.
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InterContinental Hotels Group?opens the new-build?Staybridge Suites?Puebla?(Mexico) hotel. The eight?story extended-stay hotel, which provides 129 suites, opens following an investment of more than US$12 million by Hotel Royal Plaza. The Staybridge Suites brand has seen strong growth in Mexico with recent openings in?
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Preferred Hotels & Resorts announces a partnership with international human rights organisation Love146, whose mission is to end child trafficking and exploitation. Confronting the reality that, according to the International Labour Organisation, there are more than 20 million enslaved victims ? including millions of children ? Preferred Hotels & Resorts has expanded
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InterContinental Hotels Group signs the Holiday Inn Warsaw ? City Centre, Poland. The hotel will operate under a management agreement with UBM, who own a number of IHG hotels including the InterContinental Warsaw. Due to open in early 2018, the 254-room property will be the first Holiday Inn hotel in
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Wyndham Hotel Group announces an agreement for its first property in Vietnam, the new-build, 217-room Wyndham Legend Halong. The property will be located in Halong City, the gateway to World Heritage-listed Halong Bay. The US$40 million development is currently under construction and is scheduled to open
Awards and Recognition
Lotte Hotel Moscow is awarded ?Best breakfast in Europe? by the Prix Vill?giature Awards. The Vill?giature Awards, established in 2013, consist of 22 journalists and press correspondents representing major media organisations throughout the world. Every year they select the best of the best hotels in Europe, Asia, Africa