JAL Hotels Co., Ltd. has signed a comprehensive agreement with DB Hospitality Private Limited, based in Mumbai, to operate multiple luxury hotels for DB Hospitality in major Indian cities, such as Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, and Bangalore.
DB Hospitality Private Limited is the hospitality industry arm of the DB Group of companies, one of India’s leading business [...]

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Tourism industry is available in its catalogue.
World Travel and Leisure Market Brief
http://www.reportlinker.com/p097859/World-Travel-and-Leisure-Market-Brief.html
The global outlook series on Travel and Leisure provides a collection of statistical anecdotes, market briefs, and concise summaries of research findings. The report provides a bird’s eye view of the glitzy, effervescent, [...]

Troops stationed overseas will test their skills in one of this year’s hottest new video games from Activision, Call of Duty®: World at War. Pro vs. GI Joe, the USO, and the Cleveland Browns are teaming up with Activision Publishing, Inc. for a series of online matches featuring the newest installment of the blockbuster Call [...]

Mr. Peter Kerkar, Global CEO, Cox & Kings India Ltd has won the World Travel Market Global Award for his contribution to the travel industry at a glittering ceremony held in London on Monday, 10 November 2008. The award was presented by WTM’s Chairman, Fiona Jeffery.
The WTM Global Award is in recognition of Kerkar’s remarkable [...]

The luggage-contents of this year’s “I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!” contenders’ remains to be seen - but teabags and slippers are a good bet, reveals new research by TripAdvisor®, in a survey of the home comforts and foods that Brits miss the most when travelling abroad.
Creature comforts: travel “essentials”
“Home sweet home” may [...]

Expedia, Inc the world’s leading online travel company, announced today a new agreement with Finnair, one of the world’s oldest operating airlines, and a growing industry player in air travel between Europe and Asia. This new agreement provides Finnair the ability to reach consumers on Expedia®-branded sites in Europe, as well as benefit from Expedia’s [...]

This November, Barack Obama and John McCain aren’t the only ones looking for votes, so are five travel-related nonprofits participating in TripAdvisor’s “More than Footprints(TM)” philanthropic initiative at www.tripadvisor.com/Causes.
To view the Multimedia News Release, go to: http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/tripadvisor/35761/
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With voting top-of-mind, TripAdvisor released a video (www.youtube.com/TripAdvisor) starring Hollywood phenom Rosario Dawson challenging people to make [...]

Expedia announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2008.
“Yes, it’s a difficult environment, but that’s everyone’s news, and for travel any predictions about its depth or duration would be foolish,” said Barry Diller, Expedia, Inc.’s Chairman and Senior Executive. “What is important for shareholders of Expedia to know is that the [...]

The Toyoko Inn Co., Japan’s largest business hotel chain operator, plans to open a business hotel next year in the city of Daejeon, central South Korea, officials from the Daejeon municipal government said Thursday.
The Toyoko Inn Development Korea Co., the Japanese firm’s South Korean unit, and local firm Solomon Holdings Co. have signed a deal [...]

A national federation of condo management associations will ask the central government to help cover the cost of ensuring adequate reception of terrestrial digital broadcasting services, which have been blocked by condos and other high-rise buildings, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.
The federation estimates that reception at about 1 million households will be affected by 2011, [...]

The bilateral friendship facility dubbed Muneo House on Russian-held Kunashiri Island has been used as a hotel, deviating from its original purpose, according to sources from the two countries.
Since fiscal 2003, Japan has paid some 3.7 million yen annually to maintain the facility. Officially called the House of Friendship, it was built on the disputed [...]

The Japanese property developer Thai Nissan Rinkai Mark Co Ltd plans to launch a high-end condominium worth 900 million baht to tap the high-end market, according to managing director Satoshi Kato.
The Rise Sukhumvit 39 will be located on a two-rai site on Soi Prommitr, Sukhumvit 39. It will have 77 units sized between 98 [...]