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Sheraton Hotels & Resorts designates the Sheraton Krakow Hotel as the Sheraton Grand Krakow. Joining 25 other Sheraton Grand properties worldwide, Sheraton Grand Krakow is the first Sheraton Grand property in Poland. The hotel is undergoing a major restoration which will be completed by the beginning of 2017. Sheraton Grand
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Starwood’s Aloft brand will soon debut in Veracruz, the main commercial seaport in Mexico. Set to open by the end of 2017, Aloft Veracruz will feature 165 guest rooms. Aloft is Starwood’s fastest-growing brand in Latin America with a robust pipeline of seven hotels in various stages of
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Tens of thousands of people turned out in France on Sunday to see off the world’s biggest-ever cruise ship, the 120,000-tonne Harmony of the Seas, as it set out on its first voyage. At 66 metres (217 feet), it is the widest cruise ship ever built, while its
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Hilton HHonors members have used the HHonors app to choose the exact room they want more than 13 million times. Now, in a new benefit available exclusively to Hilton HHonors members, Hilton Worldwide has integrated Google Maps into the app, giving members the ability to see more details about the
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The first Radisson Blu opens in Morocco, the 198-key Radisson Blu Hotel, Marrakech Carré Eden. c is general manager.
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InterContinental Hotels Group launches a new franchise model for its Holiday Inn Express brand in China. The new model, Franchise Plus, has been specifically tailored for the Chinese market and provides owners with all of the benefits of operating a franchise model, but with additional benefits and features from IHG’
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The Moxy New Orleans opens near the French Quarter on O’Keefe Avenue. The 108 tech-enabled rooms featuring mobile check in and check out; keyless entry; motion sensor lighting; internet TV in-room featuring Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, Pandora and Crackle; abundant power and USB outlets; and fast and free Wi-Fi. Moxy
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Hilton Worldwide announced plans to enter a new country with the signing of a management agreement with Grupo Rahal to operate a new build 120-room Hilton Garden Inn hotel in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay. Scheduled to begin construction later this year with the opening planned at the beginning of 2020.
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About a third of Hong Kong hotel staff fear they may lose their jobs and about 6 percent feel certain they will be sacked as a result of a four percentage point drop in average occupancy last year. The Hotel, Food and Beverage Employees Association said 39.4 percent of
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The Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels, operator of the landmark Peninsula Hotel Group, failed to improve its performance in the first quarter as local business stayed sluggish. The luxury hotel operator said revPAR in Hong Kong declined 7 percent in the first three months to HK$3,568 from a
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Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group appoints Eric Kee as general manager of Mandarin Oriental, Sanya in China, and Jan-Hendrik Meidinger as general manager of The Excelsior in Hong Kong. Kee, most recently GM of the Pan Pacific, Xiamen, has 25 years of experience in the hospitality industry. He first joined Mandarin
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InterContinental Hotels Group announces the development of a new InterContinental Hotels & Resorts property in San Diego by Lankford-Phelps-Portman, a development partnership. Set to open in 2018, the 400-room hotel will be part of a multi-phase mixed-use development, known as BRIC, on the former site of Lane Field in the