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Booking.com’s ambition to connect travellers with the widest choice of incredible places to stay in the most seamless and enjoyable way possible has reached new heights with the addition of the website’s one-millionth property. The soon-to-open Greydon House, in the historic district of the
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Mandarin Orchard Singapore and Marina Mandarin Singapore have equipped all guestrooms with “handy” – a smartphone solution that provides registered hotel guests complimentary access to unlimited 4G data, local and international calls, online city guides and ticket bookings to Singapore’s places of interest at their fingertips. 1 Mandarin Orchard Singapore
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Travelers have spoken and they say in-room WiFi is more important to them than a hotel’s location, parking and even complimentary breakfast! A Research+Data Insights survey led by Red Roof Inn found that complimentary WiFi came in second only to cost when considering booking a hotel stay.
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Google will change the hospitality industry. While winning the war against imposed rate parity, hotels in Europe see a huge shift to direct booking, Rich Tuckwell, head of sales and marketing at Avvio, stated. Not only major hotel chains are looking more and more to direct bookings. ‘Hoteliers have to
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Torsten Rolke, Vice President Distribution at Worldhotels, on new booking engines, digital storytelling and other challenges. Interview from HSMAI Europe conference at Kempinski Hotel Gravenbruch near Frankfurt early July 2016.
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Robert Panz, principal of school for hotel management in Hamburg, Germany, faces on overwhelming digitilization in the hospitality industry. Interview from HSMAI Europe hotel conference at Kempinski Hotel Gravenbruch near Frankfurt early July 2016.
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All visitors to Choicehotels.com or the Choice mobile app now have access to discounted rates that it says cannot be found anywhere else on the internet. Both existing and new members of Choice Privileges, the guest-loyalty programme for Choice Hotels International, can access exclusive room rates that are
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London hotel group glh Hotels announced the launch of 1 – the world’s first online booking site that lets guests choose the exact room they want to stay in, before making a reservation. 1 Choose Your Own Room will turn room booking on its head by putting guests in control
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Expedia revealed a new real-time tool for guest reviews just after check-in into their hotels, CNN reported. Premier impressions of service quality, cleanliness and location will be given by tipping on smileys and short text notices. The results will be distributed to the hotel operator – they could react
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The travel industry witnessed a groundbreaking turning point in the hotel experience with the launch of SPG Keyless in the Fall of 2014, the industry’s first truly mobile and keyless entry system that allows guests to use their smartphone as a key to their hotel room doors. Starwood Preferred
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W Hotels Worldwide debuts the W Sound Suite at W Bali – Seminyak. The company says the private music studio and writer’s room “will be the place for professional recording artists, studio musicians and producers, in addition to hotel guests, to record in style while on the road.” Additional studios
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Hilton HHonors members have used the HHonors app to choose the exact room they want more than 13 million times. Now, in a new benefit available exclusively to Hilton HHonors members, Hilton Worldwide has integrated Google Maps into the app, giving members the ability to see more details about the