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1The Nam Hai Hoi An will be managed by Four Seasons from December 20, 2016, marking the group’s entry into Vietnam. The resort will offer 40 private residence villas and 60 newly renovated resort villas, all featuring outdoor showers, terraces, and expansive indoor and outdoor living spaces. J. Allen
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1The Marriott International-managed 188-room AC Hotel Guadalajara, Jalisco, opens. “AC Hotels’ rapidly growing portfolio illustrates Marriott International’s commitment to making distinctive architecture and design affordable and accessible for creatives, innovators and entrepreneurs around the world,” said Toni Stoeckl, Vice President of Lifestyle Brands for Marriott International. In the coming
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1The Hyatt Place and Hyatt House brands continue growth in new markets with the opening of 10 hotels across the globe during the second quarter of 2016. Of those, 40 percent were in the Asia Pacific region, including the first dual-branded Hyatt Place and Hyatt House hotels in Shenzhen, China.
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1Travellers have booked fewer hotel rooms in downtown Miami, and leisure airfares to the greater Miami area have inched down in the weeks since the Zika virus was detected there, data reviewed by Reuters shows. Hotels sold 2.9 percent fewer rooms in Miami’s central business district and northern
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1Marriott Rewards is partnering with Korean Air to give members more ways to earn miles. This new partnership will offer Marriott Rewards members the flexibility to earn Korean Air SKYPASS miles when they stay at more than 4,300 hotels across 17 brands within the loyalty programme’s portfolio. Marriott
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1InterContinental Hotels Group appoints Jacque Riley as brand director, Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants Europe. In this newly created role, Riley reports direct to Tom Rowntree – VP brand management, luxury & boutique brands, Europe. IHG acquired Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants in 2015 and recently announced the signing of Kimpton Paris as
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1InterContinental Hotels Group opens the EVEN Hotels brand’s fourth hotel and second New York City location, the 202-room flagship EVEN Hotels Brooklyn. Located at 46 Nevins Street in Downtown Brooklyn, the hotel is adjacent to IHG’s Holiday Inn Brooklyn Downtown, which opened in April. EVEN Hotels, IHG’s
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1Outrigger Resorts appoints hospitality veteran Clyde Min to the new position of area general manager for the two Outrigger beachfront properties, Outrigger Waikiki Beach Resort and Outrigger Reef Waikiki Beach Resort, while taking direct responsibility for Outrigger Reef Waikiki Beach Resort as general manager. Min will integrate and coordinate the
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1Rhys Challenger is appointed general manager of the Mercure Singapore Bugis. Rhys first joined AccorHotels in 1996 and has since held various front office, F&B, executive assistant manager and hotel manager positions across several hotels in New Zealand, Australia and Fiji. He took on his first general manager
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1Thai hotelier Erawan Group is aiming for a more than 10 percent growth in revenue this year and an occupancy rate of 81 percent, saying recent blasts in southern tourist cities have marginal impact on the company. Its hotel at Hua Hin, which was affected by recent blasts, contributes just
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1La Quinta Inns & Suites appoints hospitality industry veteran J. Sal Icaza, as director of development for the northeast US. He joins La Quinta after holding senior franchise sales positions at Choice Hotels International, Hilton Hotel Corporation and consumer brands outside the hotel industry.
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1Marriott International opens a combined 153-room Courtyard hotel and 108-suite Residence Inn hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. The 10-storey property will share an indoor swimming pool, fitness centre and 3,050 square feet of flexible meeting or event space to accommodate functions for up to 300 people. “Attracting both business