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Hilton Worldwide announces an upgrade to LightStay, its in-house corporate responsibility measurement platform, across the company?s more than 4,440 properties globally. The company says that, with new features and enhancements, this next generation of LightStay now serves as the ?comprehensive, one-solution platform for all environmental, operational
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Choice Hotels International signs an agreement with franchise partner?Southern Management Corporation?to develop a new?Cambria?Hotel & Suites in?College Park, Maryland. The 150-room?Cambria?property will be located at?8321 Baltimore Avenue?and is expected to open summer 2017.
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Small Luxury Hotels of the World adds four new members to its exclusive collection of small, independent hotels.?They are: Hotel & Restaurant Chateau le Cagnard, Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France; Hotel Goldgasse, Salzburg, Austria; Hotel Sahrai, Fez, Morocco; and Hotel Vagabond, Kampong Glam, Singapore.
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InterContinental Hotels Group opens the InterContinental Chennai Mahabalipuram Resort in Chennai, the second hotel under the company?s luxury portfolio in India following the InterContinental Mumbai Marine Drive.
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Wyndham Hotel Group and TripAdvisor extend their partnership to add the hotel group?s inventory to the TripAdvisor instant booking platform, allowing travellers shopping for hotels on TripAdvisor to conveniently book Wyndham Hotel Group properties. ?With a shared focus on mobile growth and providing a better way to engage guests
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W Hotels Worldwide debuts in the Netherlands with the opening of?W Amsterdam near Dam Square and the Royal Palace. The Exchange building features 172 guestrooms, while the 66 rooms in the Bank will open early next year. The hotel will have a total of 21 suites, three WOW suites
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Marriott International announces its Residence Inn brand portfolio in the UAE with the signing of Residence Inn by Marriott Al Jaddaf. The 135-key property is due to be completed in 2019. The newly signed property is owned by Bahrain-based International Trading and Investment Company, an existing partner of
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Marriott International?s podcast series, The Wandernaut Show, gives listeners ?an opportunity to scratch beyond the surface of the world at work.? The show features light-hearted conversations that tackle topics related to workplace dynamics. In recent episodes,?David Rodriguez, Marriott?s executive vice president and global chief human resources
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From its luxury Sofitel to budget Ibis, France?s AccorHotels is pepping up its food and drink products to draw in diners and help compensate for room business lost to online booking sites, Reuters reported. In a shift mirrored at rivals InterContinental and Marriott, Europe?s largest hotel group is
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InterContinental Hotels Group?s Q3 Interim Management Statement reports global RevPAR up 4.8 percent. ?We delivered strong RevPAR growth of 4.8 percent in the third quarter, driven by rate up 3.6 percent, and continued to sign hotels into our pipeline at the fastest rate since 2008,? said
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Wholesale travel brokerage Tourico Holidays has doubled its inventory of ?ExclusiveDeals? ? or pre-purchased hotel room blocks ? in the Asia-Pacific market since this time last year ? bringing its total number of ExclusiveDeals in the region to 18. Tourico has also increased its local personnel in APAC during a time
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art’otel signs a management agreement with Battersea Power Station Development Company to open a luxury lifestyle hotel in 2019. The 160-room art?otel London Battersea Power Station, designed by Foster + Partners, will be developed by Battersea Power Station and managed by art?otel?s parent firm PPHE Hotel