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Rotana announces plans to substantially grow its portfolio in 2015 with the addition of 11 new properties spanning the United Arab Emirates, KSA, Qatar, Bahrain and Turkey, in addition to its first property in the African market. The new properties – all of which are scheduled to open before the year-
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Ashford Hospitality Prime?enters into a definitive agreement to acquire the leasehold interest in the 62-room Bardessono Hotel and Spa in?Yountville, California,?for US$85 million.?The property will be managed by Remington Lodging.
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A wedding guest?s gun went off accidentally at New York?s Waldorf Astoria hotel and four people suffered minor injuries from debris. The shooting happened at 7.25 pm on Saturday in the Park Avenue hotel?s lobby. Police said the wedding guest?s gun discharged and the bullet
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1 Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide announces plans to debut in?South Australia?with the signing of 200-room Aloft Adelaide in the state capital. The signing of Aloft Adelaide marks the brand?s third property to enter the Australian market. Slated to open in early 2018, the new-build
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Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide debuts its Element brand in Asia Pacific with the opening of the 188-room Element Suzhou Science and?Technology?Town?in?Suzhou,?China. Brian McGuinness, Senior Vice President of Specialty Select Brands for Starwood, said: ?On track to triple its global portfolio by the end
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1 Accor seals a deal to open a luxury hotel in Cuba, the 518-room Pullman Cayo Coco, near the Caribbean island?s international airport. Accor, which has been operating in Cuba for nearly 20 years, already manages two mid-scale Mercure hotels there, the 178-room Mercure Sevilla Havana
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1 Marriott International Asia Pacific president and managing director Simon Cooper will retire at the end of the month and will be replaced by Craig S. Smith, currently president of Marriott International Caribbean & Latin America. By the end of the year, Marriott International plans to surpass one million rooms
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A delegation from Marriott International and the Yao Foundation traveled to southwest China to visit and celebrate the renovations underway at The Sela Marriott ? Yao Foundation Hope Primary School. The school is located at 4,000 metres above sea level in Sela village within Daocheng, the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of
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Singapore and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will collaborate to enhance food and nutrition security in Southeast Asia. This is the first agreement signed between the FAO and Singapore since it became a part of the organisation in 2013, and will focus on food safety and fisheries.
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