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In the last twelve months alone, Airbnb has more than doubled in size in Africa. In the wake of strong successes in key markets around the world, Airbnb plans to significantly grow its business in Africa, where the company has already seen some impressive growth. In just the last year:
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Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide debuts its Four Points brand in Indonesia with the opening of the 185-room Four Points Bali, Kuta. Four Points signed 50 hotels in 2014, the most in Starwood’s history, and the brand is on track to surpass 200 hotels in 2015, with more
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Outrigger Resorts recently launched a Chinese-language website to serve as a tailored resource for selected properties. The site, outriggerresorts.cn, is written in Mandarin and is designed to further increase Outrigger?s engagement with Chinese-speaking customers. Outrigger also continues to grow its Chinese presence online by utilizing WeChat
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InterContinental Hotels Group opens the new-build 134-room Holiday Inn Express and Suites Vaudreuil-Dorion hotel in Quebec. It is the first Holiday Inn Express in the city and joins other IHG properties in the Greater Montreal area including the Holiday Inn Express & Suites Montreal Airport hotel, the
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Hilton Worldwide enters a franchise agreement with Reliance Hotels to open the 171-room Hilton Garden Inn Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi.
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An affiliate of Hyatt Hotels Corporation announces a management agreement with Essendon Fields for a Hyatt Place hotel in Melbourne. Upon its expected 2017 opening, Hyatt Place Melbourne will be the country?s first Hyatt Place hotel. The property will join five Hyatt-branded hotels in Australia: ?Park Hyatt Melbourne,
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One hundred and seventy hospitality educators from more than 60 vocational?schools and universities across 18 provinces in China gathered at the Ningbo Marriott Hotel to attend the second Marriott China Hospitality Education Initiative (CHEI) Teaching Conference. CHEI, a project of The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation, is
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InterContinental Hotels Group is to open a 101-room Hotel Indigo in York under a franchise agreement with Sojourn Hotels.
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Moxy Hotels, Marriott International’s contemporary and edgy lifestyle brand, is producing DO NOT DISTURB, a YouTube web series hosted by Taryn Southern, the comedian, creator and star of Taryn TV. Set to launch in September, filming for the series will take place from July 28-31, at YouTube Space
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Hyatt Hotels appoints Michael Jokovich as area vice president and general manager of the Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort & Spa. As area vice president, Jokovich will oversee 11 Hyatt-branded properties throughout the central United States, stretching across Texas and as far north as Minneapolis.
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The new-build, 216-room Holiday Inn Natal hotel opens in the capital and largest city of the State of Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil.
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A 175-room Choice Hotel is scheduled to open near Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in late 2016.