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One to One Hotel – the Village, introduces a perfect setting for smart business solutions. Just by booking 10 rooms or more, get facilities and usage of the meeting room, morning and afternoon refreshments with buffet lunch at Resto (international cuisine) complimentary basis. Meeting room facilities include unlimited high-speed internet, secretarial support, hi-tech conference facilities, necessary stationery…
Beijing, China – Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) is lengthening its long established lead in China as one of the largest four and five star hotel operators here with 62 existing hotels and a pipeline of 86 new hotels. Now through 2011, one in every three new Starwood hotels will open in China, including new brand flagships for eight of its nine brands. China is now Starwood’s second…
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: With a reputation for the finest dining in the Kingdom, the renowned five-star Al Faisaliah Hotel, A Rosewood Hotel in Riyadh is soon to be adding the finest freshest flavours of Italy to its menu. This fall marks the opening of La Cucina, a stylish Italian restaurant offering the best in traditional and contemporary Italian cuisine in a warm and welcoming atmosphere. The sixth dining…
Dubai, UAE, October 19, 2010 - HP and InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) today announced a broad technology agreement that will see IHG upgrade and streamline its existing technology infrastructure to address new business and growth opportunities. The annual framework agreement with IHG, the world's largest hotel group by number of rooms, covers IHG’s 77 hotels and resorts across the Middle East region.…
Dubai, UAE; October 18, 2010: The second annual wedding fair, organised and hosted by The Address Hotels + Resorts recently showcased all wedding requirements – from décor, to design and venues. The fair hosted wedding planners, photographers, hair and make-up artists and fitness companies in addition to airline partners who provided information on the most-sought after honeymoon destinations. Guests were also…
Park Hyatt Dubai took top honours at the prestigious 23rd annual Conde Nast Traveler 2010 Readers’ Choice Awards held in New York last week. The uber-luxury property, which celebrated its fifth anniversary in August this year, was named “Top Hotel in the Middle East” ahead of The Four Seasons, Doha and David Citadel Hotel, Jerusalem. The Readers’ Choice Awards survey is unique for both its size and the…
The upscale hotel management company, Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts, opened today the iconic Ibn Battuta Gate Dubai, its third hotel in the United Arab Emirates, raising its portfolio to 67 properties globally. The five-star Ibn Battuta Gate Hotel offers guests a privileged location in which to enjoy Dubai’s world-class entertainment and shopping. The property is situated next to the landmark Ibn Battuta Mall, in…
Dubai, September 2010: A new exciting restaurant concept, JoyBean Noodle Bar, will be launched by Dusit Princess City Centre Dubai on 01 October 2010. With a menu inspired by traditional Thai street food, cooked and served in a contemporary style, Executive Chef Poonsak Sumonratanakul, who is himself Thai, is realising a dream to serve some of his favorite traditional Thai dishes to Dubai’s discerning food…
This past weekend, the Pacific Islands Club Saipan hosted the 4th Annual International Point Break Challenge, inviting recent winners from the contest in Seoul at Caribbean Bay in August 2010. Co-sponsoring the event was PTC (Monster, Pepsi, Gatorade), DFS, Borderline, Delta Airlines, Triple J Wholesale, Quicksilver, BSEA Sunsports, Docomo Pacific, Tony Roma’s, Hard Rock Cafe. and PIC Saipan. Participants…
The European Tour Operators Association (ETOA) has studied tourism effects in past Olympic cities and has identified several issues associated with previous Olympic Games, which have damaged inbound tourism to the host destination. The market for hotel rooms for the 2012 London Olympics appears to be distorted. ETOA members, who are responsible for tens of thousands of visitors a day in the UK tourism market,…
The University of Seychelles (UniSey) and the Seychelles Tourism Academy (STA) have signed an agreement that will further develop cooperation between the two institutions. The memorandum of understanding was signed at a ceremony in August at La Misere by the Academy’s principal Flavien Joubert and UniSey vice chancellor Dr. Rolph Payet. Guests at the ceremony included Minister for Foreign Affairs Jean-Paul…
One may say there is nothing new about the “all inclusive” resort concept. Most everybody knows how it works: all the fun you can handle and all the food you can eat. Since Club Med established the “all-inclusive” resort in the 1950s, it has become one of the most popular types of resorts for millions of travelers: youngsters, families with kids, and active adults of any age. By definition, an all-inclusive…
Easy Hotel, a franchise operated by the Istithmar Group, is planning to begin operation by Eid. The city’s cheapest hotel will open doors at AED 99 a night. The hotel is the first of its kind, and already has 216 furnished rooms. The management hopes to get an influx of guests from cruise liners docking at the Jebel Ali port, because of the hotels proximity to the port and the Jebel Ali Free Zone area.…
LONDON, England - Today, Corinthia Hotels released further details of the five-star luxury hotel it is building in central London, which is due to open in early 2011. It will become the world’s ninth Corinthia Hotel. Corinthia Hotel London is being built within an imposing Victorian building, on a city block location between Whitehall Place, Northumberland Avenue and Great Scotland Yard, overlooking Trafalgar…
Centara Grand Beach Resort & Spa Sokhna, a new five--star resort set on the beach at Ain Sokhna, on the Red Sea coast between Suez and Zafarana, about 90minutes drive from Cairo opened in Egypt. This is the third overseas property of Centara Hotels & Resorts after the openings of Centara Grand Island Resort & Spa Maldives and Moksha Himalaya Spa Resort, Centara Boutique Collection in India late 2009. The hotel…
This year, AlamKulKul Boutique Resort will be taking home the gold in recognition of its outstanding green efforts. The resort will claim its PATA Grand Award in the environment category at the Travel Mart awards ceremony on September 17 at the Venetian Macao Resort Hotel. Jantung Hijau or Green Heart is an environmental awareness program first introduced to AlamKulKul Boutique Resort employees in early 2000.…
2nd August 2010 - Al Jawhara Group of Hotels and Apartments, part of the UAE-based conglomerate S.S. Lootah Group, became the first hotel to receive the highest ‘crescentrating’ of seven for shariah-compliant services. The Singapore-based ‘Crescentrating’ is a new rating system that focuses on the halal travel market segment worldwide and rates hotels on a scale of one to seven based on the services and…
LOS ANGELES, CA - The Park Inn Muscat is the first hotel in Oman certified as having met the requirements of the Green Globe standard. The hotel also holds the honor of being the second hotel in the Middle East region and first hotel worldwide in the Rezidor Hotel Group to be merited the certificate. The Green Globe seal of approval is recognized as representing the highest quality in sustainable practices within…
