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1Aqua Hospitality, an operating business of Interval Leisure Group, Inc. (IILG), continues to expand at an unprecedented pace as five new hotels ? totaling more than 850 rooms ? join the collection over a five week period. Aqua has added three Hawaii properties and its first two hotels outside of Hawaii, bringing
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1 Dubai government has announced a series of new regulations which will reduce the hotel construction pre-approval process for private developers to two months, from the previous range of three to six months. The Ruler of Dubai, UAE Vice President and Prime Minister, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al
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* IHG publishes primary research study covering 7,000 international?travellers worldwide * Report highlights?critical success criteria for global brands delivering localised and personalised guest experiences, enabled by technology * Research also finds that guests from emerging markets are travelling more than their developed market counterparts, and have the highest expectations for
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Sabre, the travel technology company that owns Travelocity, on Tuesday filed for an initial public offering of its common stock in an effort to raise up to $100 million. The Texas-based company, which employs about 10,000 people in 60 countries, said in a written statement that it has not
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1 Two casinos in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada will become the first establishments of their kind to accept bitcoin as currency. Effective Wednesday, customers of both The D and the Golden Gate casinos on Sin City?s famed Freemont Street will be able to spend bitcoins to buy goods and
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1Hilton Worldwide hasannounced the opening of DoubleTree by Hilton Dhahran at the commercial heartland of Al Khobar in Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. The 153-room conversion property becomes the first DoubleTree by Hilton branded hotel to open in Saudi Arabia. “The introduction of DoubleTree by Hilton to Saudi Arabia demonstrates the
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1McKinney Hotel Developers, LLC, has chosen national general contracting firm Hyphen Construction Group, Inc. to build the new Dream Dallas Hotel. The $45 million dollar project will create an upscale dining and entertainment venue in Dallas’s chic Uptown district with 128 hotel rooms, restaurants and meeting rooms. Hyphen Construction
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Today at the 2014 World Economic Forum?s Annual Meeting, Hilton Worldwide announced a global commitment that aims to impact at least one million young people by 2019 by helping them to reach their full potential.
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Sage Hospitality, one of the top hotel management and investment companies in the U.S., is pleased to announce the internal promotion of Jan Lucas as Regional Vice President of the Select Service Division. In this role, Lucas will oversee 15-20 hotels nationwide, driving operational excellence while supporting Sage’s
SWISS will be offering new seasonal services between EuroAirport Basel and the vacation destinations of Ibiza, Olbia and Palma de Mallorca in its 2014 summer schedules. From the beginning of June to the end of October SWISS will operate up to four weekly flights to Palma de Mallorca. Olbia will
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The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) and the Africa Travel Association (ATA) have formally renewed their wide-ranging cooperation partnership. Both important bodies have signed a new memorandum of understanding to strengthen their cooperation in developing the visitor economies of the two fastest growing regions in the world. According to “PATAmPOWER
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1Siem Reap Cambodia – August 11: unidentified young boys and girls play between ruins at Angkor, on August 11, 2011, in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The ruins of Angkor are UNESCO World Heritage Site Asean countries need to strategise their way forward and implement measures to ensure that Southeast Asia would remain
