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1American Express Travel recently surveyed nearly 200 of its Travel Counselors on top destinations and travel trends they are seeing from their customers for 2014. Traveling abroad will be popular. According to the survey, 52 percent of the Travel Counselors surveyed indicated travelers are planning international getaways, and 45 percent
Hospitality Industry News
1Here are 14 actions that analytic hospitality executives should put on their “to do list” in 2014. Five are higher-level ? helping you to build that strategic analytic culture we’ve been talking about. The remaining nine are more tactical ? but they will help you stay on top of trends I’
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Leonardo Worldwide Corporation (formerly VFM Leonardo, Inc.), the leader in online visual content distribution for hotels, today announced that they will continue to work with Marriott International to strengthen the online visual presentation of Marriott properties through photo distribution and online merchandising. Leonardo has been providing Marriott with enterprise-level digital
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1KuaAll 10 hotels nationwide that were nominated for the Asean Green Hotel Awards 2014 clinched the title in a ceremony held here in conjunction with the Asean Tourism Forum 2014, together with another 76 hotels from the region. The 10 hotels are Shangri-La?s Tanjung Aru Resort and Spa Kota
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Hilton Worldwide?today announced the expansion of the?1?with three new renewable energy projects receiving support for 2014. The Mungcharoen Biomass Project in Thailand, the Musi Hydro Project in Indonesia, and the Song Ong Small Hydro Project in Vietnam will join the Borneo Rainforest Rehabilitation Project in Malaysia as
Lufthansa
In the upcoming summer flight timetable, Lufthansa will set the flight times of three more existing connections at fixed hourly intervals, making it easier for customers to plan their journeys. The busy European routes from Frankfurt to Vienna, London-Heathrow and Brussels will also get regular departure times starting 30 March.
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1Thailand has welcomed a total of 26,735,583 visitor arrivals in 2013, exceeding the year?s original target of 26.1 million and representing a 19.6 per cent increase over 22,353,903 international tourists in 2012. Mr. Thawatchai Arunyik, Governor of TAT said, ?This achievement brings much
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1 Last February, Amalia Reigosa Blanco experienced for the first time the rush of an airplane taking off. She browsed the clothing shops of Italy’s fashion capital, and strolled cobblestone streets echoing with an unfamiliar tongue. She learned what snow feels like. And then she came home. “I hope
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1It’s an assumption you’ve heard before: Travel agents are a dying breed. Many people presume that the rise of do-it-yourself booking engines like?Travelocity.com?andExpedia.com?all but wiped out travel agencies — Yahoo recently declared a career as a travel agent a?”dead-end job.”?But that’s
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1The renovation of the iconic Watergate Hotel, on the drawing board for several years, could begin in March, according to the project architect. Bahram Kamali, an architect with D.C.-based BBGM who is leading the renovation for New York-based Euro Capital Properties Inc., said the renovation will increase the
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1 Once again China is gearing up for the world?s biggest migration of people, the gargantuan transportation surge that comes every year during the 40-day Chinese New Year holiday period. This year, the?Chunyun? literally, ?Spring Festival Transport??begins Jan. 16. The most important night for the masses of
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1Pioneering hotel owner and operator Red Planet Hotels has today announced a multi-billion yen expansion into Japan to grow Asia?s iconic value hotel brand -Tune Hotels ? in the country. Through Red Planet Hotels? newly established and JASDAQ ? listed subsidiary ? Red Planet Japan Inc.,(3350:JP) ? the company will make
