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Starwood will extend its presence in Mexico with the debut of W Punta de Mita, located in Mexico?s Riviera Nayarit. Scheduled to open in 2016, the 120-villa W Punta de Mita will be part of Los Veneros, an exclusive enclave located on Mexico?s Pacific Coast. ?With the
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InterContinental Hotels Group?welcomes three leading chefs ? Jason Atherton, Pierre Gagnaire and Theo Randall ? with the opening of new signature restaurants at?InterContinental hotels and resorts?in Dubai, Danang and Bangkok. Bruce Ryde, director of brand marketing, luxury and lifestyle brands for Asia, Middle East and Africa says:??Chef Jason
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AccorHotels launches AccorHotels Business Solution, a free solution for SMEs and SMIs that allows them to manage online their travel policy and bookings in 2,800 hotels around the world. Cyril Kovarsky, senior vice president, global sales, comments: ?With AccorHotels Business Solution, AccorHotels is the first hotel group to provide
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The battle for control of Lotte Group, South Korea?s fifth-largest conglomerate, escalated as the founder?s elder son said he will seek to oust his younger brother and executives of a holding firm that fired the group patriarch this year, Reuters reported. The founder?s eldest son, Shin
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Starwood?s Four Points brand will more than double its footprint in India over the next five years with the signing of three new hotels and landmark debuts in Bhopal, Vijayawada and Vembanad Lake in Kerala. Dilip Puri, Starwood?s managing director for India and regional vice president South Asia,
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Starwood will launch its W Hotels brand in?Egypt?in 2020 with the opening of?W?Sharm El Sheikh?and The Residences at W Sharm El Sheikh. Michael Wale, president, Starwood Hotels & Resorts,?Europe,?Africa?and?Middle East, says: ?Not only does this signing underline our continued commitment to
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Starwood Preferred Guest unveils the winners of its?2015?Member Favorites Hotels & Resorts List, an annual ranking that highlights the group?s Top Thirty Hotels and Resorts from around the globe. Highlights include: * Newcomers include?Sheraton Hong Kong Hotel & Towers and the?St.?Regis Bora?Bora; * The?St.
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Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group signs the first four?Radisson RED?hotels in the Americas: Radisson RED Bogota, Colombia; Radisson RED Cali, Colombia; Radisson RED Campinas, Brazil; and the Radisson RED Minneapolis Downtown. Carlson Rezidor plans to open 60 Radisson RED hotels globally by 2020. The other locations currently under development
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Dubai-based Jumeirah Group appoints Naser Mohammed as general manager of Jumeirah Living World Trade Centre Residences.?He reports to Marwan Al Ali, senior vice president, Middle East Africa South Asia Operations.
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Tracey Rucks is named general manager of the new 271-room?Holiday Inn New York City ? Times Square. Rucks, an 11-year hospitality industry veteran who has managed hotels in Indiana, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, will oversee all aspects of the hotel?s operations, including sales, marketing, security,
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InterContinental Hotels Group and Noble Investment Group announce a joint venture to develop a dual-branded?EVEN?Hotels?and Staybridge Suites?hotel in downtown Seattle. The new dual-branded hotel, expected to open in mid-2017, will be the first EVEN Hotels property on the West Coast and the third
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Marriott International plans to almost triple the number of its hotels in Brazil, in a bet that the nation?s worst recession in a quarter century will be short-lived. The company will spend 400 million reais (US$104 million) in Brazil by 2018, part of which will go to