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1 Nearly 40% of Travel Leaders Group’s business-focused travel agents have indicated that business clients will be traveling more in 2014 than last year and nearly another 40% state client bookings will be the same as in 2013, according to the results of the top?business travel?trends survey
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Just days after closing two of their lower performing restaurants, San Diego celebrity chef Brian Malarkey and partner James Brennan announced Monday that a global hospitality firm had acquired a majority stake in their company. The investment by London-based Hakkasan Ltd., should help provide the capital needed to fuel the
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1Dubai-based Hospitality Management Holdings (HMH) plans to double its presence in Sudan this year despite the country?s troubles with its southern neighbour. HMH is also looking to strengthen its budget offerings in its home city with an eye on Expo 2020. HMH has a hotel in each of Port
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Growing the number of aircraft, route network expansion and increasing operating profits and passenger numbers are some key focus areas of Fiji Airways? five-year strategic plan. Fiji Airways managing director/chief executive, Stefan Pichler, revealed details of this masterplan in Suva yesterday which had been approved by the board in
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1The longed-for dawn of private manned space travel appears near at hand. Virgin Galactic’s suborbital SpaceShipTwo, for example, aced its?third supersonic test flight?on Friday (Jan. 10), and company officials say they remain on track to begin commercial service later this year. But as Niels Bohr, Nobel laureate
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FRHI Hotels & Resorts (FRHI) has announced Aiden McAuley, who has relocated to Zurich from Singapore, as the new senior vice president operations, Europe. With 25 years of hospitality knowledge, McAuley joined the FRHI family in 1999 as general manager of Swiss?tel The Howard, London. He then moved from
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Red Roof Inn, a leader in the economy lodging sector, has promoted Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Marina MacDonald to Chief Marketing Officer, effective immediately. MacDonald has been with Red Roof for over six years and has served the hospitality industry for over twenty years. ?As Chief Marketing Officer,
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Olshan Properties, formerly MPI – Mall Properties Inc., announced the promotion of two leading executives. Alan Howe?has been named Vice President of Hotels for Olshan Properties while?Carrie Richards, formerly Director of Operations at the hotel, now steps in for Mr. Howe as General Manager.? Ms. Richards will continue to
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Sage Hospitality, one of the top hotel management and investment companies in the U.S., is excited to announce the general manager of the new Westin Cleveland Downtown hotel, opening May 2014. Mark Anderson will be leading the hotel in operations and guest services after its $64 million renovation. Anderson
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The St. Regis Princeville Resort is pleased to announce the appointment of Nathan Decker as Director of Sales and Marketing. In his new position, Decker will oversee group and leisure sales initiatives, marketing and advertising activities for the island?s premier resort, the only St. Regis in Hawaii. Decker brings
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1 Foreign tourism continues to be an important source of revenue for Italian budget and even in times of crisis and increased competition, tourist flows from abroad ensure a stronghold of the industry. The National Agency of Tourism released data regarding the Christmas holiday season stating that the largest tour
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1 Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts will bring its world renowned hospitality to the highest region on earth with the debut of a 289-room urban retreat in Tibet Few places in the world are as magical as Lhasa, the administrative capital of Tibet. Set on a plateau soaring 3,650 metres
