Awards and Recognition
Choice Hotels Asia-Pac, one of Australasia’s largest and fastest growing hotel franchisors, won Best People & Culture at the 2016 IQPC Contact Centre Awards held recently on the Gold Coast, Queensland. Awarded to Choice Hotels Asia-Pac in recognition of its recruitment and retention programme in its contact
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Specialty Select brands from Starwood announce its increasing footprint across Florida, USA with the addition of six new Aloft hotels, one Element and two for the Four Points brand. Upcoming Openings in Florida: Aloft Coral Gables – Opening January, 2017 Aloft Miami Airport – Opening March, 2017 Aloft Aventura – Opening July, 2017
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Shangri-La celebrates its newest opening with the Shangri-La Hotel, Doha. A blend of Middle Eastern and East it promises to deliver the best of Asian and Qatari hospitality. The hotel offers museum-quality art and is designed to resemble a falcon’s head, a reminder of the iconic
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Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. announces the opening of Four Points Seattle Airport South, the brand’s second hotel in greater Seattle. The newly constructed Four Points is built for the modern traveller with an emphasis on approachable design and stylish comfort. Owned as a joint venture between Shanghai
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After 12 years as MD of InterContinental Hong Kong, Jean-Jacques Reibel relocates to California as opening GM of the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, scheduled to open in mid-2017. He is replaced by Claus Pedersen who returns to the hotel after his stint as VP, Hotel Operations for the
Awards and Recognition
Galaxy Macau™ received seven star ratings in Forbes Travel Guide annual Star Rating list for 2016. Galaxy Hotel™, Hotel Okura Macau, and Terrazza Italian Restaurant were given 4-star ratings. Banyan Tree Macau and its signature restaurants, Belon, as well as the Banyan Tree Spa, were awarded 5-star ratings.
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Kong citizens travelled more in 2015, with recent figures and surveys showing the trend will continue into 2016. Outbound 2015: Hong Kong citizens made a total of 89.1 million departures in 2015, up 5.4 percent. Outbound tours business grew by 7.9 percent. Figures show that Hong Kong
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Le Méridien will open in Rome, marking the brand’s re-entry into Italy. Le Méridien Visconti Rome is scheduled to debut by the end of this year following an extensive renovation and conversion from the independent Visconti Palace Hotel.
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Marriott International and Japan’s leading lodging company Mori Trust Group announced the signing of five hotels in Japan under the Marriott Hotels brand. The agreements for five Mori Trust hotels will see Marriott International double the footprint of its flagship Marriott Hotels brand in Japan, and will increase its
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InterContinental Hotels Group announced a surge in annual net profits after offloading establishments in Paris and Hong Kong, while a solid underlying performance resulted in large dividend pay outs, Agence France-Presse reported. Profit after tax more than trebled to US$1.22 billion (1.11 billion euros) in 2015
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Sheraton Hotels & Resorts, part of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, announced accelerated growth plans for Asia Pacific, continuing its sharp focus on Sheraton 2020, a comprehensive 10-point plan designed to put the brand firmly back into the global spotlight. Following the most recent designation of Sheraton Grand Macao,
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South African hotel chain Sun International reported a 19 percent fall in half-year profit, in line with its own forecast, blaming flat casino revenue growth at home for the decline. Sun International said headline earnings per share slid to 332 cents for the six months to the end of