An international hotel giant plans to open a $100 million, 290-room hotel in Auckland’s CBD by the middle of 2010.
Paul Richardson, vice-president of Accor for New Zealand and Fiji, said yesterday a new five-star Pullman hotel would be built near the city’s waterfront.
The hotel will be aimed at the corporate and meetings market and is [...]
International Hotel Investments p.l.c. (IHI), together with Libyan Foreign Investment Company (LFICO) and Istithmar Hotels FZE (Istithmar) of Dubai, acting as a joint-venture, have entered into an Exclusivity and Development Agreement with Crown Estate of the UK to develop a 283- bedroom deluxe five-star hotel and a suite of adjoining luxury apartments in a prestigious [...]
New resources designed to enhance the guest experience and propel the eco-friendly movement within the industry will take center stage at the 92nd annual International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show, taking place November 10-13, 2007, at New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.
Among the products to be featured for the restaurant industry are new uniform [...]
The Rezidor Hotel Group will bring its fresh and energetic mid-market brand Park Inn to the holy city of Makkah in Q1-2009: The Al Diyafa Park Inn Makkah will be in the Al Zahir area approximately three kilometres from the Haram, the mosque of the prophet. It adds 221 rooms to the Rezidor portfolio – [...]
Dissatisfaction with accommodations is the second-most-common travel complaint, after airline problems.
It’s happened to every traveler. You arrive someplace to discover the hotel described in the brochure or Web site as “first class†turns out to be anything but, at least by your personal standards. Perhaps the room is too dirty, too small, too hot, too [...]
Lured by congressionally authorized tax credits and other financial incentives after Hurricane Katrina, a procession of developers announced plans to build high-rises.
Adding to the tension for commercial investors: Construction and insurance costs have soared.
At least one big plan — a $400 million proposal by Donald Trump to construct the city‘s tallest building — is going [...]
THE Philippines posted a record 13,939 rooms last year, a 9.9-percent increase from the 12,683 recorded in year earlier, Trent M. Frankum, general manager of CB Richard Ellis Philippines, Inc. (CBRE) said.
But Frankum also said these additional hotel rooms are not enough to meet the growing demand for more rooms.
Citing the reports of the Philippine [...]
The Grand Rotana Resort & Spa Sharm El Sheikh has triumphed as ‘Best Middle East & North Africa Resort of the Year’ at the DEPA Hotel Awards beating 26 participants although it has been open for less than 2 years.
The awards, attributed by live ‘Interactive Voting System’, were presented during a glittering ceremony at Dubai’s [...]
Donald Trump will be in town Thursday to mark completion of the hotel portion, up to the 29th floor, of the 92-story, $850 million Trump International Hotel & Tower overlooking the Chicago River.
The hotel is scheduled to open in December.
Trump will also be trying to generate sales of residential units in the building. Usually, [...]
IT will be the highest building in Southampton - rising 83m into the sky to the tip of its white spire.
The 21-storey shimmering hotel, dubbed a “gateway to the city”, is set to become its latest landmark.
It is the centrepiece of a prestigious £110m development that has been given the go ahead by the city [...]
Talon International Development Inc. and joint venture partner Donald Trump have secured financing for the construction of Trump International Hotel & Tower, Toronto. The project (pictured), which marks the Trump International Hotel & Tower brand’s debut outside U.S. borders, carries a total development price tag of approximately $500 million.
Raiffeisen Zentralbank osterreich AG, Austria’s third largest [...]
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), the world’s largest hotel group by number of rooms announces that the 306-room El Tropicano Riverwalk Hotel has become a franchise of the Holiday Inn Brand.
“We are thrilled to welcome this property to the Holiday Inn family of hotels. Holiday Inn hotels are specifically designed for business and family oriented leisure [...]
