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Karambir Kang, General Manager of Taj Boston, the landmark hotel overlooking the Public Garden at Arlington and Newbury streets, has made three new appointments to the luxury hotel’s management team. Brian D. Macaluso, Taj Boston Director of Sales & Marketing:?Brian brings more than 20 years of hospitality industry
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1Nahm in Bangkok has secured the No.1 spot at the Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2014 awards in Singapore, earning the title of?The?S.Pellegrino Asia’s Best Restaurant. Opened in 2010, the Bangkok restaurant is also named?The?S. Pellegrino Best Restaurant in Thailand. Now in its
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1 While average room rates (ARR) have generally been affected by national trends throughout the years, a survey by Hogg Robinson Group (HRG) pointed to ?supercities? bucking the trend. Supercities ? or destinations popular for business and leisure visitors ? apparently tend to be different from the norm around the world, staying
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1 Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:HOT) today announced that it will soon introduce the Westin brand to Egypt with the opening of?The Westin Cairo Golf Resort & Spa Katameya Dunes?early next year. Owned by New Cairo for Real Estate Investment Company SAE, the 128-room resort
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The Dolder Grand?(Zurich) has appointed Therese Martirena as spa director of the award-winning?The Dolder Grand Spa. Martirena will be responsible for overseeing the entire range of services and products offered. She is a Swiss native with an extensive spa background. Martirena completed a commercial apprenticeship at the?Wellness
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1American Hotel Income Properties, Vancouver, British Columbia, through its subsidiaries bought four hotels located in?Virginia for an aggregate purchase price of approximately?US$37.1 million, including up to US$1.6 million?for defeasance of existing debt, and excluding post-acquisition adjustments and brand mandated property improvement plans. The
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New Chinese owners are set to break ground on a sprawling hotel and residential complex that’s expected to alter L.A.’s skyline and cement a growing Asian footprint in downtown Los Angeles. Moving at a pace rare in Southern California development, owner Greenland Group of Shanghai vowed Friday
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Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:HOT) and Parnas Hotel Co. Ltd. today announced the signing agreement of The Parnas, A Luxury Collection Hotel, Seoul. Located in the city?s upscale southern district of Gangnam, the hotel?s debut will mark the first Luxury Collection hotel in South Korea,
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Hilton Worldwide?today announced that it will cease serving shark fin and stop accepting new orders for shark fin dishes by April 1, 2014. The ban covers all restaurants and F&B facilities operated by its 96 owned and managed properties across Asia Pacific. In December 2012, the company
Even before the expiry of the present agreement (which runs until 2015), Professor Peter Thuy, Managing Director of Career Partner GmbH, and Matthias Heck, CFO and Director of Human Resources at the Frankfurt-based hotel group?Steigenberger?Hotels AG, have set the seal on a new five-year arrangement. Steigenberger?has established
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Newly appointed chief executive Omer Kaddouri is continuing his residency with Rotana?s aggressive expansion plans, which are reflected in the development of six new properties, totalling over 1,400 rooms, due to open in 2014. Expanding its global presence, Rotana is not only opening new hotels but expanding into
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China?s resort island of Hainan will welcome the world?s golf tourism industry next month, when the third Asia Golf Tourism Convention (AGTC) heads to the Mission Hills resort. Taking place from 24-27 March, the industry?s biggest annual event is being organised by the International Association of Golf
