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“There’s something very special about playing host to guests of a hotel or resort. It’s akin to having guests in your home, where you and your family look after them with care and warmth at every turn. We just do it on a slightly larger scale here, with
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1The UK’s hospitality and food service sector throws away 920,000 tonnes of food waste each year, which is the equivalent to 1.3bn meals, according to new research from Wrap. The report, ‘Overview of waste in the UK Hospitality and Food Service (HaFS) Sector’ also revealed that the
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1Rosewood Hotels & Resorts?thinks the next big city for travelers is Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. That?s why it?s partnering with Cambodia-based property developer Vattanac Properties to manage Rosewood Phnom Penh, which is set to open in 2015. Rosewood Phnom Penh will join a burgeoning
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1Sahara India Pariwar?is looking to put a lid on reports that it intends to sell?The Plaza Hotel,Dream Downtown?and the?Grosvenor House?in London. Multiple overseas publications, including?India?sDealCurry, reported that the assets were up for sale earlier this month, and later the?New York Post?
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1Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the Saudi billionaire with stakes in companies including Citigroup Inc., is weighing options including an initial public offering for Four Seasons Holdings Inc. and Fairmont Hotels & Resorts Inc. The founder and Chairman of?Saudi Arabia?s?Kingdom Holding Co. (KINGDOM), who took a 95 percent
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After a period of in-depth analysis which began at the end of January 2013 and focused on both the strategic and economic aspects of this investment, EHL is now completing its acquisition of 75% of the SSTH. hotelleriesuisse, the umbrella organisation of the Swiss hotel industry, holds, alongside EHL
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1The hospitality industry is growing fast ? especially in Asia. Jones Lang LaSalle recently published data showing that?hotel investment in Asia has increased 85 percent?compared to last year?s figures. That?s an alarming increase in hospitality investments, and it indicates that the entire continent is going to be
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2013: Hamburg, Germany?s first cruise port with over 500 000 passengers. Further growth forecast for 2014 ? 200thship mark in sight. For the first time ever the magical 500 000 passenger mark has been achieved in a single season Hamburg.??The visit by the ?Queen Mary 2? to Hamburg on
JetBlue Airways?(JBLU)?today begins daily nonstop service from Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood to Lima, Peru. The new route is part of the airline’s continuous expansion at Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood airport, where JetBlue now offers nonstop flights to 25 destinations, three of which are in South America. Lima is JetBlue’
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Since October 2008, BlueLink has been running an employee volunteering programme in support of the samusocial emergency services for a renewable 6-month period. The emergency services hotline (115) has been able to take advantage of the Group advisors? know-how in customer relations management by phone.? This initiative has
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Hospitality New Zealand says the strong performance of our tourism sector is a huge boom for the hospitality industry which in turn is determined to ensure the growing number of international visitors feel welcome here. HNZ fully supports the recent Government initiatives – including the increased investment in Budget 2013, the
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1What does the word ?hospitality? actually mean to you? When I asked this of some school children earlier in the year they thought it meant working in a hospital. When I asked the same question to undergraduate hospitality students the answer I got was working in a hotel. Do you
