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At the sold-out 5th Annual Cornell Hospitality Icon & Innovator Awards, 800 senior leaders from the travel and hospitality industry gathered to celebrate Tom Pritzker and Steve Ells. 1 1
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Singapore, 30 May 2013 ? Pan Pacific Hotels Group has announced movements within its hotel and serviced suites leadership teams across eight of its properties in Asia Pacific and North America. ?Pan Pacific Hotels Group prides itself on providing great opportunities for our leaders to develop their talent and nurture long
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IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group), one of the world?s leading global hotel companies, has announced the signing of the Holiday Inn Express Manisa – West, Turkey. The 102-room property, scheduled to open in early 2014, will operate under a franchise agreement with Procons Turizm and be managed by T&
Lufthansa
The edition of the Balance Sustainability Report, which is published today, once again clearly highlights the great commitment of the Lufthansa Group in the different dimensions of corporate responsibility. Commenting on the publication of the report, Dr. Christoph Franz, Chairman of the Executive Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG, said: ?The
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Thailand was voted the most popular hospitality investment market in Asia by industry and investment executives who attended the fifth annual Asia Pacific Hotel Investment Conference last week, followed by Cambodia, Myanmar, Indonesia Vietnam and the Philippines. The result came in a survey conducted by Questex Hospitality Group during the
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Bangkok?s high global tourism ranking can be attributed to the unbridled and chaotic lifestyle of its streets and people, according to industry forum debaters at the Thailand Travel Mart Plus 2013 (TTM+ 2013). Keynote speaker Professor Greg Richards re-iterated Bangkok?s relevance as a tourism hub by recalling
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NEW YORK ? Luxury hotels will lead a U.S. hotel market where demand growth will moderate slightly this year, analysts said Monday. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) maintained its January 2013 forecast of a 5.9% increase in revenue per available room (RevPAR), though PwC tapered its growth forecast for average daily to
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DENVER, June 5, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ –?Sage Hospitality,?one of the leading hotel investment and management companies in the U.S., is pleased to announce that it has named Kenneth Widmaier?as Chief Operating Officer of Hotels. Widmaier joins Sage from Destination Hotels & Resorts, where he most recently served
MOSCOW and WARSAW, Poland, June 5, 2013 – Russian Standard Corporation announced today that it has completed its acquisition of Central European Distribution Corporation (CEDC), adding more than a dozen brands to its portfolio and vaulting Russian Standard to the position of second-largest vodka producer by volume in the world.
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Years ago there was a phrase in the international travel industrydescribing Chinese tourists – they “sleep cheap, shop expensive”. Even today, shopping still dominates their spending with 34.1percent of the total while traveling, followed by transportation at21.6 percent and hotels at 14 percent, according to a reportreleased by the
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LAS VEGAS, June 5, 2013 /1/ — MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM), launches a new supplier initiative in partnership with Ecodesk, a global sustainability data platform, that builds upon its industry leading commitment to environmental responsibility. MGM Resorts is joining a select group of the world’s most innovative organizations in
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NAY PYI TAW, MYANMAR – The Government of Myanmar, alongside the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Norway, today unveiled a Tourism Master Plan which outlines 38 development projects valued at nearly a half billion dollars that will help increase Myanmar?s tourism competitiveness, protect environmentally important areas, and
