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1Concord Hospitality Enterprises today announced the sale of a portfolio of 13 premium-branded, select-service hotels to companies owned by a global investment fund?for approximately $240 million in an all-cash transaction. Concord will continue to operate the hotels under a long-term management agreement. The portfolio is
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1As social media is constantly evolving, hotels are forced to come up with new and innovative ways to stay connected with their guests. While many have now acclimated to using various social networks, some are taking an outside-of-the-box approach to tying social media into in-person activities.
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1On any given Sunday, Mike Azzaro ? or mikeycasino, as he?s known online ? will travel from his home in Yonkers, N.Y., to a Ramsey hotel room for the night. The reason is not glamorous, but it is profitable: Azzaro, 27, is a professional poker player. Of the online players
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1After years of complaining about how 1?doesn?t compete on a level playing field, apparently the hotel lobby in New York now wants to ensure that the peer-to-peer hospitality startup isn?t held to the same standards, especially as it relates to taxes. Airbnb has taken steps
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MONTICELLO, N.Y.–(1)–Empire Resorts, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries, ?Empire?) (NASDAQ-GM:NYNY) today submitted the $1 million application fee to the New York State Gaming Commission for a destination gaming resort license (?Gaming Facility License?) in the Catskills. Pursuant to the Request for Applications (?RFA?), an individual,
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DENVER, Colo. ??1, a leading hotel management company, today announced that Jeanne Lynch has joined the company as vice president of human resources. She will guide all Richfield portfolio hotels to attract, motivate and train high-performance employees. ?Having worked in a variety of industries in numerous countries, Jeanne brings
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LONDON, ENGLAND, April 18, 2014 /24-7PressRelease/ — When Tim and Kit Kemp’s Firmdale Hotel group opens its eighth London property, Ham Yard Hotel, on 1st June 2014, it will be the group’s most ambitious project to date. The recently announced date means the Ham Yard Hotel will open
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Dealing with a crisis online can be daunting, especially if you?re not prepared. And with social media?s immediacy and consumer feedback, retaliation can happen quickly. Negative sentiments can easily be shared, searched, and escalated before the truth or clarifying explanations have the chance to be organized. Having a
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1Increasing numbers of tourists in Spain are opting to stay in rented accommodation rather than hotels when they visit for their holidays. Statistics released by the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Energy & Tourism showed that the growth rate for tourists who chose to stay in forms of accommodation other than
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Rosewood Hotels & Resorts debuted Rosewood Abu Dhabi, the brand’s first property in the United Arab Emirates, in May. The property is located on Al Maryah Island in the new Central Business District, with direct, climate-controlled links to Sowwah Square offices, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, and The Galleria
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The Star casino’s ambitious $1.1 billion redevelopment bid to hold off James Packer features a proposal to build a state-of-the-art bridge linking Pyrmont to Barangaroo. The Star’s owner Echo Entertainment has released a series of photographs exclusively to The Sunday Telegraph showing off a
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Echo Entertainment Group Ltd chief executive officer John Redmond has attacked Crown Ltd plans for an invitation-only casino and six-star hotel at Baranagaroo, less than a week after it dumped its stake in Echo. Crown was planning a “casino on steriods” for the site but had mislabelled its