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Enchantment Resort in Sedona, AZ, has announced the appointment of Bruce Grosbety as Managing Director. A hospitality professional with extensive experience in luxury and independent hotels and resorts, Grosbety is responsible for operations of the newly renovated Enchantment Resort, which includes Mii amo spa and Seven Canyons golf club. “We
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Marti Istanbul Hotel has announced the appointment of a new executive team. The glamorous, Five Star Diamond address located in Taksim in the heart of the city has named Gokhan Aykan as General Manager and Feyza Yucefer as Deputy General Manager of Marketing & Sales. Both arrive with impressive luxury
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New Castle Hotels & Resorts promoted Rachel Alcaro to senior sales manager at the Residence Inn/Courtyard by Marriott Syracuse Downtown at Armory Square, NY, and named Bernadette Donohue director sales at the Craftsman Inn and Conference Center in Fayetteville, NY. Alcaro previously was director of sales at the 90-room
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1Tour operators will not be setting any records during the Winter Olympics in Sochi. While there has been a lot of buzz about issues like terrorism and Russia?s anti-gay climate hurting attendance, operators who specialize in sports cite other deterrents. They point to the distance, the cost, the lack
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1InterContinental Hotels Group?(IHG) one of world?s leading hotel companies announced their partnership with prominent real estate company, Jain Group to bring its popular and most recognized hotel brand, Holiday Inn to West Bengal. As a part of the agreement, the hotels will come up in Kolkata, Siliguri and
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Canada and Mexico are putting new air travel measures in place that should boost tourism and business opportunities between the two countries, Mexico?s ambassador says. Francisco Suarez said the change is among the initiatives that could come up when Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto
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1 Think of your vacation budget. Now add a few zeros. Excellent, now you’re ready for the world’s most overpriced travel destinations, places with tremendous appeal and intimidating price tags. But here’s the good news: Great deals do exist in every one of these destinations. We’ve
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1 The inaugural?EU-ASEAN Aviation Summit, which takes place 11-12 February in Singapore, is set to boost bilateral tourism between the two blocs. The one-and-a-half day summit will address key issues such as removing barriers to single aviation markets, new business opportunities, aviation safety, air traffic management, and the way
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New York is gearing up to take applications for four new upstate casinos at a time when some gambling operations in the region are in a slump. A state siting board is scheduled to seek casino applications in March, four months after voters approved a state constitutional amendment to allow
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1 The first tourism satellite account data have quantified the city?s dependence on gaming, revealing that about 84 percent of their spending is at the city?s casinos. The data for 2010 show tourists spent MOP220.4 billion (US$27.6 billion), including MOP184.5 billion in the casinos
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1While other sectors of the U.S. economy have yet to completely rebound from the recession, the travel industry has surpassed its pre-recession employment numbers. U.S. Department of Labor figures released Friday show that the travel industry added 7,000 jobs in January, reaching a total of 14.6
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1Chinese travelers are the biggest spenders when it comes to international tourism, according to the?United Nations World Tourism Organization, and American hotels are pulling out all the stops to win them over, putting teakettles in the guest rooms, congee rice porridge on the menus and Mandarin speakers on staff.
