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The new year is a crucial one for Atlantic City’s future, and 2014 won’t start auspiciously. This is the fourth year of a five-year grace period New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has given the seaside gambling resort to turn around its struggling fortunes before considering expanding casinos to
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1Just over a month after officially opening its doors to guests, The Westin Singapore hotel has been sold for $468 million to Japan-based property developer and investor Daisho Group. Daisho’s acquisition of the 305-room, 99-year leasehold hotel located in Asia Square Tower 2 at Marina Bay is its maiden
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1Pegasus Solutions?said this holiday season is outperforming the 2012 season. The company predicts leisure bookings will climb 4 percent year-over-year during the 2013 holidays. ?Many hotels look to the holiday season as a windfall that will make up for any slow periods from the rest of the year,? said
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1The tourist industry is predicting the creation of up to 6,000 new jobs in 2014. The Irish Tourist Industry Confederation said 7m people visited Ireland in 2013, spending ?4bn in the local economy. It has been the best year for tourism since 2009. ITIC said maintaining value for money
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1Although 2013 has been a record one for Greek tourism, a high number of hotel owners, including some on popular resort islands, put their units up for sale at the end of the season. A Kathimerini survey involving a leading online real estate agency in the November-December period found as
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1Former UNLV and NBA basketball player Jackie Robinson is proposing a $1.3 billion, privately funded 22,000-seat arena and resort on the Strip. The $1.3 billion includes $690 million for the arena. Robinson is calling it, for now, the All Net Arena and Resort, because he does not
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1 Travel and tourism group TUI Travel PLC expects higher profit in Germany in the current financial year ending in September after making strong gains in pre-Christmas holiday bookings, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported. “The early-booking wave is reaching us sooner than in past years,” Christian Clemens, chief executive of TUI
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The?Coralville Marriott Hotel & Conference Center?is pleased to announce?Bryan Stolz?as its new general manager. Bryan began his career in 1994 after graduating from the?University of Florida. Beginning as a shift leader at the Marco Island Marriott Resort & Golf Club, he worked his way through
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Commonwealth Hotels, Inc. today announced that?Casey Chapple?has been appointed General Manager for the Hyatt Place Salt Lake City Airport. The Hyatt Place is 123 rooms and is operated by Commonwealth Hotels, LLC. As General Manager, Chapple will direct all areas of the hotel’s operational and sales and
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Gaming bosses seem confident that growth in Macau?s casino revenue will be somewhere in the middle of the range of 10 percent to 20 percent next year because mainlanders will keep coming here to gamble. The chief executive of SJM Holdings Ltd, Ambrose So Shu Fai, expects casino gross
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1Blackstone Group LP (BX)?hired Eastdil Secured LLC to sell the leasehold on the London NYC hotel in midtown Manhattan, two people with knowledge of the matter said. Blackstone is seeking $500 million for the leasehold, which has 123 years remaining, according to the people, who asked not to be
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Hotels are tailoring their services to meet the needs of a new generation of digitally-savvy, device-obsessed travelers. From putting plugs in easy-to-reach places to providing Wi-Fi and interacting with customers on social media, hotels? relationship with technology and customers is changing. The below infographic from hospitality management platform?eRevMax?outlines
