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Sheraton Mirage Port Douglas Resort, which embarked on an A$40 million renovation in May 2015, is celebrating the first phase of its fresh new look with 146 of the resort’s 294 rooms now fully refurbished, restyled, and back in inventory. The reintroduction of the guest rooms marks phase
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Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts has hired two highly experienced hospitality professionals to be based in its regional office in Bangkok as the Swiss firm prepares for a dynamic period of growth in Asia. Sarah Fernandez has been appointed as director of marketing communications Asia, and arrives from Mövenpick Hotels &
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Red Lion Hotels Corporation appoints Leslee Torres as vice president of innovation and strategy tasked with “influencing the full spectrum of sales, marketing and technology efforts”. Torres has 14 years of strategy and information technology experience, working most recently for Starwood, where she designed, implemented, and oversaw operations for two
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Hotels are getting more aggressive in their fight to get travellers to book reservations directly with them instead of through online travel agencies such as Expedia and Priceline, Associated Press reported. Hyatt Hotels Corp on Monday became the latest chain to offer guests a discount for booking a room directly
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Rezidor opens its first Radisson RED hotel in Brussels. Radisson RED is described as “a new hotel philosophy and lifestyle brand that reflects the ageless millennial mindset. “Inspired by art, music and fashion, this brand is driven by bold design and breaks the traditional hotel model. “Radisson RED recognises that
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The Conrad Hotels & Resorts brand debuts in India with the opening of Conrad Pune, located in the heart of the central business district near Koregaon Park. The art-deco inspired hotel is managed by Hilton Worldwide and owned by Palm Grove Beach Hotels. “The introduction of the Conrad brand in
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Marriott International issued a statement saying it had been made aware of a series of fraudulent telephone calls being made in different parts of the world where the caller offers a complimentary stay at a Marriott hotel to entice the person taking the call to listen to a sales pitch
Awards and Recognition
Marriott International has been named one of the top Travel and Leisure companies on Forbes’ 2016 “America’s Best Large Employers.” The company ranked 117 among the 500 various employers featured on the list. To determine an accurate ranking, Forbes Media collaborated with Statista, an online statistics provider, to conduct
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InterContinental Hotels Group announces the conversion of the 148-room Crowne Plaza Saddle Brook hotel in New Jersey, located eight miles west of New York City.
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Small Luxury Hotels of the World has welcomed the five-star Althoff Hotel Villa Belrose in the Cote d’Azur into its collection of small, exclusive, independently-owned hotels around the world. Villa Belrose has made the move to SLH to provide it with a global marketing and reservations platform. Both brands
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Monera Ali Abdullah Al Nowiser is named general manager of the Radisson Blu Hotel, Jeddah. She joined the Radisson Blu Hotel, Jeddah in 2011 as a meetings and events coordinator and proved a valuable team player, passionate about the hospitality industry. She was soon promoted to assistant meetings and events
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Officials with Disney World, Duke Energy and Disney’s private government flipped on the switch to a Mickey Mouse-shaped solar facility located on 22 acres near the Epcot theme park. The facility, made up of 48,000 solar panels, will be used to power hotels along Hotel Plaza Boulevard, as