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Louvre Hotels Group, which operates Golden Tulip hotels in Southeast Asia and was fully acquired in March by Shanghai-based Jin Jang Holdings International, announces expansion plans. Jin Jiang, one of China?s leading travel and tourism conglomerates, is a state-run company with a strategy based on China?s
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Today, Frank Marrenbach announced the transfer of?Stephan Boesch, Hotel Manager at Brenners Park hotel to?The Lanesborough Hotel in the same position, supporting General Manager?Geoffrey Gelardi.
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Renaissance Hotels opens its first?hotel in North India, the 112-room Renaissance Lucknow Hotel.
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Sands China, a majority-owned subsidiary of global resort developer Las Vegas Sands, appoints Wilfred Wong as president and chief operating officer, effective November 1. He replaces Rob Goldstein, president and COO of Las Vegas Sands, who has been serving as Sands China?s interim president since earlier this year.
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Swiss International Hotels (China) Group signs a franchise agreement with Taipei?s YOKO International Corporation to develop its business in Taiwan. Swiss International Hotels (China) Group owns and operates two hotels in China, in Xiamen and Nanchang, with locations under development in Shanghai, Beijing, Guiyang, Kunming, Hangzhou and Wuyishan. YOKO
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Marriott International signs two new properties in?South Africa in partnership with The Amdec Group. Expected to open by?February 2018, the 150-room Johannesburg Marriott Hotel Melrose Arch and 200-unit Marriott Executive Apartments Johannesburg Melrose Arch will be located in the Melrose Arch precinct in?Johannesburg. The two
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Pope Francis told congregations which run hotels and restaurants to pay their taxes ?like everyone else?, weighing in on a heated debate in Italy over Church privileges, Agence France-Presse reported. In an interview with Portuguese Catholic broadcaster Renascenca, the Argentine returned to one of his favourite topics, the need
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Accor Hotels will become the first international hotel group to operate in Iran as the Islamic Republic opens up to the West following the deal on its nuclear programme. AccorHotels will open an Ibis hotel and a Novotel branch near Tehran?s international airport. The move comes just two months
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Actor Manu Bennett has been charged with misdemeanour assault after he was accused of punching a 29-year-old man at a party at a San Antonio hotel. The incident happened early on Sunday at the Grand Hyatt San Antonio hotel. Bennett was in San Antonio for the Alamo City
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Universal Studios signs a deal with a Chinese state-owned consortium to build a Hollywood theme park in Beijing to open in 2019. A signing ceremony for the joint venture took place at the New York headquarters of Comcast NBCUniversal, which owns Universal Studios Hollywood. Universal Parks & Resorts, a
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International Hotel School (IHS), Africa’s leading resort school, lately hosted and facilitated a General Manager’s Workshop in the Oyster Box Hotel in Umhlanga, South Africa , that was attended by the nation’s top-notch resort GMs. The workshop, which happened from 24 to 28 August 2015, functioned as
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Kerry Simon, a former ?Iron Chef? champ who served up dishes to rock bands including Led Zeppelin and Motley Cre, has died aged 60. Simon was diagnosed with Multiple System Atrophy, a degenerative neurological disorder, and died from complications related to the disease, Associated Press reported. His business partner, Cory