Asia Pacific’s most outstanding travel and tourism event will be organised with much aplomb in year 2008. Schedule to be held at the Beijing Exhibition Center, China from 19 to 21 June 2008, the 5th presentation of Beijing International Tourism Expo 2008 (BITE 2008) is exceptionally meaningful and significant as it coincides with the much-anticipated [...]

Beth Collingz, Marketing director for PLC International Marketing Networks, which is exclusively marketing the Lancaster Suites and Lancaster – The Atrium Hotel Condominiums in Metro Manila, said “buyers are investors in hotel-condos, a real estate product that combines the flexibility of ownership of a condo in a hotel setting. Popular in the United States, Europe [...]

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 [...]

According to Beth Collingz, of PLC International Marketing Networks, a Lead Marketing Partner with Pacific Concord Properties Inc., whom have Condotel developments in Metro Manila and Cebu, and specializes in working with international clients: “Since the UK Pound Sterling hit 94:1 on the Philippine Peso, my phone has been very busy with buyers from the [...]

The Condo Hotel concept is attractive to many who are interested in investing their hard earned pennies in real estate. One type of condotel purchaser is someone seeking a vacation place, but due to the limited amount of time they anticipate being able to spend there, buying a traditional condominium would not seem an economically [...]

Boracay Beach Condo Hotel, a flagship development of Boracay Trans Pacific Properties Inc. (developers) and Asiana Villas (land owners), has finally held its ground breaking ceremonies at Barangay Balabag, Boracay Island in Malay, Aklan last February 2, 2007.
In attendance were directors of both Asiana and Boracay Trans Pacific as well as well-wishers, suppliers, architects and [...]

Shangri-La’s Barr Al Jissah Resort and Spa, Muscat is offering GCC residents a special summer family rate of RO120++ for two superior rooms at Al Waha, the resort’s dedicated five-star family hotel, from 10 May to 10 October 2007.
The largest of the resorts’ three hotels, Al Waha features 262 bedrooms with a minimum room size [...]

A Filipino hotel chain operator plans to tap the “huge” market of Indian travelers to hike its revenues and room occupancy rate this year.
“The hotel aims to expand our reach to other Asian tourists and India is a potential market for us,” said Hembler Mendoza, manager of Waterfront Airport Hotel and Casino (WAHC) in Lapu-Lapu [...]

International budget hotel chain Microtel will soon start its biggest project in the country after clinching a deal with a local developer.
Benedicto-led Enrison Land Inc. (ELI) will soon begin construction of a 150-room mid-rise Microtel resort hotel on a 5,000-square meter property located between two major resort hotels in Mactan Island.
Grand Benedicto and ELI signed [...]

A hotel in Cebu, the Philippines, where the President recently stayed, denied Wednesday reports that Indonesians in the presidential entourage had attempted to have the hotel rates marked up.
“We wish to clarify that no one from any organization approached us to increase the room rates for the Indonesian delegation,” Maggie M. Garcia, director of diplomatic [...]

Just as the Asean summits and the Sinulog festival gave tourism in Cebu a boost, tourism in a neighboring province suffered a black eye after no less than a tourism officer and 12 companions were driven out of a hotel in Bacolod City last weekend.
Sun-Star Bacolod reported Tuesday that the five, along with eight other [...]

The owners of the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel have reached a tentative agreement with ILWU Local 142 on the procedures for some 450 employees being laid off early next year as the hotel repairs damage sustained during the Oct. 15 earthquakes.
Details of the agreement were not disclosed. Employees will vote on the agreement Wednesday in [...]