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The 171-room Westin San Jose opens in the centre of Northern California?s largest city. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the hotel has undergone upgrades to guestrooms and public areas. The Westin San Jose is the brand?s 18th?hotel to open in California and one
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European tourism maintains strong this year according to the European Travel Commission?s latest report ?European Tourism 2015 ? Trends & Prospects?. A significant majority of European destinations registered positive growth in the pre-summer months, proving the resilience of the sector and underlining its significance as a contributor to the
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Starwood expands the European portfolio of its The Luxury Collection by four, with the addition of the Augustine in Prague, Caresse Resort & Spa in Bodrum, Falisia Resort & Spa in Portopiccolo, Italy, and Grand Hotel River Park in Bratislava. This follows Starwood?s recent announcement that it is investing
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Two sister Bali properties, bvilla+spa and bvilla+seaside, received the?TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence award 2015.? The accolade is given to properties that ?consistently achieve outstanding traveller reviews? on TripAdvisor.
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Singapore?s ?upscale lifestyle hotel brand? Amara Group debuts its first hotel in Thailand, the Amara Bangkok.? Located in the Surawong district, it compromises 250 Deluxe, Executive, Club and Cabana Rooms and a Suite all featuring abstract Thai art prints conceived by local artists. The hotel features an ?innovative minibar
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Oakwood Asia Pacific which manages serviced apartments for business and leisure travellers, expands into Sri Lanka with the Oakwood Apartments Colombo under general manager Tilome Nanayakkara.? It is scheduled to open in early 2016 with 12 studio apartments and 66 one-bedroom apartments.
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The Eaton Hong Kong is awarded the EarthCheck Gold Certification for its environmental management programme.? The award is reserved for organisations that have consistently demonstrated an ongoing commitment to support their local communities and which have maintained the highest standards of environmental management over a period of at least five
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South Korea’s Hotel Shilla wins licences to operate duty-free stores in downtown Seoul.
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Vietnam’s top real estate firm Vingroup is planning a resort island project off the northern port city of Hai Phong?- a project, which state-run media has put at about 19 trillion dong (US$870 million). Vingroup did not say whether it would be the sole investor or would
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Austrian property group Immofinanz sells a hotel and residential properties in Vienna for nearly 100 million euros as part of its strategy to focus on commercial real estate.? A package of residential properties was sold to an Austrian insurance group and the Leonardo Hotel Vienna was sold to the lessee,
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Two-thirds (66 percent) of corporate travel managers agree that hotel loyalty programmes play at least a ?slightly important? role in their negotiations with hotels, and one in five admit they play a ?very important? or ?extremely important? role, according to research from the GBTA Foundation, the education and research
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Ash spewing from an Indonesian volcano closed Bali airport again on Sunday, just a day after it reopened, causing fresh travel chaos for weary holidaymakers stranded on the holiday island. Mount Raung on the main island of Java has been erupting for weeks, and on Thursday a cloud of drifting