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Hong Kong – 22 Februar 2017 – Rosewood Hotels & Resorts appoints founder of the Honest Company and actress Jessica Alba as the newest addition to its Rosewood Curators programme, described as “a carefully selected group of luminaries and leaders who share travel tips and insider secrets for Rosewood destinations around the
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Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain – 22 February 2017 – Hoteliers in Spain’s Canary Islands are being urged to accelerate the construction of new holiday properties as a spree of terrorist attacks in the Mediterranean prompts airlines to switch capacity to markets perceived as safer by tourists, Bloomberg reports. Tenerife,
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Paris – 22 February 2017 – Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been appointed as a director of AccorHotels and will chair its newly created international strategy committee, Reuters reports. 1 Nicolas Sarkozy Sarkozy, who led France for five years from 2007, lost his bid for another presidential term in November after
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Tokyo – 22 February 2017 – Hard Rock Cafe International is looking to buy up to a 60 percent stake in a Japanese casino resort, seeking entry into what could become the world’s second-biggest casino market. Hard Rock, famous for its music-themed restaurants, last month opened a Japan unit with a
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Paris – 22 February 2017 – AccorHotels reports a forecast-beating 3.8 percent rise in operating profit for last year, helped by restructuring efforts and robust demand in most markets. The company said earnings for its core, domestic market had been impacted as a result of weak demand following a spate of
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London – 21 Februar 2017 – The UK won’t suddenly shut the door on low-skilled migrants from the European Union who work in restaurants and hotels, Brexit Secretary David Davis said, in comments that risk a political clash over migration policy when Britain leaves the bloc, Bloomberg reported. During a visit
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London – 21 February 2017 – InterContinental Hotels Group reported a slightly better-than-expected yearly profit rise and said it would return US$400 million to investors via a special dividend and share consolidation. IHG, which runs hotels under brands such as Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn and InterContinental, posted a 4 percent rise
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Brussels – 20 February 2017 – The board of Rezidor Hotel Group recommends shareholders not to accept HNA Tourism Group’s mandatory offer of SEK34.86 per share. It unanimously recommends the shareholders not to accept the offer, which it says does not reflect the value of Rezidor from a financial perspective.
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Paris – 20 February 2017 – Paul Stevens is appointed chief executive officer of Accor Plus, AccorHotels’ travel, dining and lifestyle programme. Stevens first joined AccorHotels in Australia in 1997, holding several general manager positions before leaving the group in 2004 to pursue other interests in the residential property market. 1 Paul
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South Bend, Indiana – 16 February 2017 – The Morris Inn at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend Indiana has been selected for membership in the Historic Hotels of America programme of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The AAA Four Diamond Morris Inn is one of just 295 hotels
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Lisbon, Portugal – 16 February 2017 – The number of foreign tourists visiting Portugal soared nearly 13 percent last year to exceed 10 million for the first time, helping the recovery of a still fragile economy as the country enjoyed a sixth straight record year for tourist arrivals. Tourist arrivals and all
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Bethesda, Maryland – 16 February 2017 – Marriott International lost a small amount of group business due to travel restrictions under President Donald Trump’s executive order last month, chief financial officer Leeny Oberg said. “We are aware of a handful of groups who have said, ‘You know what? I’m going