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 [...]

Happy endings sometimes are neither the end nor happy.
Ten years ago, the small Iowa town of Perry thought it had a happy ending for the run-down Hotel Pattee, once the town’s showplace before the railroads and meatpackers – and a lot of their former employees – moved out of town.
Newport Beach philanthropists and political activists [...]

Tune Hotels Sdn Bhd has invested about RM20 million to set up its first 173-room ‘no-frills’ hotel which is expected to be fully-operational by March 20.
Founder Datuk Tony Fernandes, who is also group chief executive officer of AirAsia Bhd, said the hotel, situated at the intersection of Jalan Sultan Ismail and Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman, [...]

Highland Hospitality Corporation will release its earnings for the quarter ended December 31, 2006 after the market closes on Monday, February 12, 2007, and will host a conference call on Tuesday, February 13, 2007, at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time. Participating on the call will be James L. Francis, President and CEO, and Douglas W. Vicari, [...]

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 [...]

Gene Grabarnick longed for a hotel with all the things a man would want on a getaway with friends.
Where the concierge ushers guests to the hottest clubs. Where requests, from hand-rolled cigars to a favorite beer in the mini-bar, are unflinchingly filled. Where luxury is wrapped in sexy, swanky style.
So, he built it.
The Regent [...]

If a fortnightly magazine is to be believed, Asean summit organizers are making extra money from foreign journalists and media agencies covering the international gathering next month.
But government officials said the issue the magazine is raising was settled with the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (Focap) as early as last month.
Newsbreak magazine, in [...]

THE Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) will invite those who failed with their bids for the Great Southern hotel in Rosslare to improve their offers this week before putting it on the open market.
Bids of up to €4m are believed to have been lodged with the authority, roughly half the level being sought. It is understood [...]