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Sonesta has named Mark Sherwin as Executive Vice President Operations. Mark joined the company in late January and will lead the growing operations team for Sonesta focused on cost improvement initiatives, profit improvement plans, operational fiscal responsibility, and bottom-line operations strategies. ?Mark has the background and firsthand experience necessary to
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1 Germany?is hoping that, with an impetus on leisure tourism, the flow of Indian tourists would be back in double-digits this year, an official said. The tourist flow from?India?to Germany recorded only five% growth in 2013 due to the depreciation in rupee and economic instability. Germany hopes
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1China’s ambassador to Jamaica, Dong Xiaojun, said the waiver of the visa requirements for Chinese to visit the land of sea and sun is likely to be widely well-received by persons in the east Asian country. Tourism Minister Dr Wykeham McNeill announced that the removal of the visa restriction
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1Hotel WiFi Test has published its first report selecting and ranking the Top 100 Hotels and the Top 10 Hotel Chains in accordance to their respective WiFi service. The reported results are based on data collected during the first four months of the Hotel WiFi Test service that ran from
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1 Tourism is an important income-earner for the economy of Monaco. While sales of?Monaco real estate?have been consistently on the rise in the past few years, the statistics on hotel reservations had been showing a worrying decline. To turn the tables the Monegasque government together with SBM took
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1 Hotel values for the majority of the key European cities have grown during 2013, according to the 2014 European Hotel Valuation Index (HVI) published this week by global hotel consultancy HVS London. Hotel values are expected to continue to increase as the lending environment becomes more favourable and the
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1Ryanair’s colorful CEO is in the travel headlines again. But this time it’s not for promising to someday charge passengers for using the bathroom in-flight. Michael O’Leary said his airline plans to offer flights from Europe to the United States for as little as $14. Flights from
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1Accor Middle East, a leading hospitality group in the region, has forged a strategic alliance with top Saudi conglomerate Alesayi Group to develop 10 new hotel properties across the Kingdom by 2018. The first ibis in the Kingdom was launched in Riyadh in December 2012. With the second property, ibis
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1 European destinations grew by a robust 5% in 2013, which is well above the most optimistic projections. According to the latest ETC report ‘European Tourism in 2013 ? Trends & Prospects’, confidence is growing in the sector, as some of the factors underlying growth will persist into the next year.
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1 Malaysia received 25.7 million tourists who spent RM65.44 billion last year. Tourism and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz the tourist spending was an improvement form the RM60.56 billion in 2012. “It is an increase of RM4.89 billion or 8.1 percent,” he said
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Denihan Hospitality Group has named Steve Sasso general manager of The Benjamin, the highly-regarded, luxury hotel in the heart of Midtown Manhattan. In his new role Sasso is responsible for overseeing all of the operations, finance, sales and marketing efforts for the 209-room property that recently unveiled a $10 million
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Conrad Bali has appointed Ranu Irawan as the resort’s new Executive Chef. Chef Irawan, a gold medal winner at the Terinex Masterchefs Grandprix Team in Hotelympia London 2012, was most recently with the InterContinental Hotel Muscat in Oman as Executive Sous Chef. A native to the island, Chef Irawan
