Hospitality Industry News
1 Egypt’s tourism was up 20 percent in November, with the number of tourists surpassing 600,000, according to the latest report from the Ministry of Tourism. Despite the monthly leap, though, the figures are still 39 percent below the same month from last year, when 1.1 million
Hospitality Industry News
1 Figures from the capital’s state tourism office showed that 1.1 million people visited Berlin in October. This was 3.1 percent more than in September and a city record, the Berliner Morgenpost newspaper reported. Hotels had a particularly good month with 63 percent of all the city’
Hospitality Industry News
CSM Lodging, a division of CSM Corporation, has appointed Craig J. Troxell director of sales for the Courtyard by Marriott Seattle North/Lynnwood Everett, located in Lynnwood, Washington, just north of Seattle. Kate Burda, vice president of sales and marketing, made the announcement. “It is a pleasure to welcome Craig
SWISS will be offering additional seasonal services to Palermo (Sicily) and Thessaloniki in its 2014 summer schedules. Palermo will be served for the first time in the company?s history between 2 July and 31 August next year. The new seasonal destination will receive two weekly flights from Zurich ? on
Veteran hotelier Alain Guernier passed away last Saturday (November 23, 2013) in China after a nine-month fight with bladder cancer. ?I was at his bedside and it all happened so unexpectedly fast,? his wife Eve wrote to friends. The news came as a shock to his friends and peers
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StarWorld Hotel is delighted to announce that it is ranked as ?Top Class Comfort? in the recently released ?Michelin Hong Kong Macau 2014? , praising that it is ?a comfortable, well-managed hotel in a good location?.? Besides, the hotel?s Inagiku Japanese Restaurant is ?Recommended? by the guide as a
Hospitality Industry News
Exports to the world?s second largest economy totalled ?71.5 million last year and the industry is keen to capitalise on its popularity by rolling out a Whisky Ambassador programme to five cities, including Beijing and Shanghai. Delivered in Mandarin, hospitality workers will learn about the value and pricing
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Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. (?Hilton Worldwide?) announced today the pricing of its initial public offering of 117,640,624 shares of common stock at a price to the public of $20.00 per share. Hilton Worldwide is offering 64,102,564 of such shares and a selling stockholder is offering
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1Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group, one of the largest and most dynamic hotel companies worldwide, further strengthens their portfolio in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and announces two upper upscale Radisson Blu properties: The Radisson Blu Resort Al Khobar Aziziya with 186 rooms will open in Q4 2015 ? followed by the
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1 TUI Travel (LSE:TT.), the world’s biggest tour operator, beat forecast profits thanks to strong sales of more expensive holidays in the UK and Germany, and said it would hit ambitious 2014 targets as people spend more on foreign holidays. The British group, which owns the Thomson and
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1 Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, NYC & Company Chair Emily Rafferty, and NYC & Company CEO George Fertitta have announced that New York has set a new tourism record for 2013. With 54.3 million visitors, 2013 was saw nearly 20 million additional annual tourists over 2002. By the end
U.S. News & World Report, a nationally recognized publisher of consumer advice and rankings, today expanded its?Travel?franchise with the release of its inaugural rankings of the?Best Cruises. U.S. News developed the Best Cruises rankings to help travelers ? who might be wary of taking a cruise
