Expedia®, the world’s leading online travel company, released the new issue of the quarterly Expedia Travel Trendwatch®, focused on the holiday travel season. Most notably, this issue of the Trendwatch predicts that the upcoming holiday and winter travel season will not differ greatly from previous years, and with fuel prices declining in recent months, many [...]
WeRentMotorcycles.com, the leading motorcycle adventure travel company in California, announced today that it is offering free delivery and pickup of its motorcycles for customers in Southern California. “People visiting California don’t want to rent a car to drive somewhere to rent a motorcycle,” says Jack Reynolds, President of WeRentMotorcycles.com, “They want the bike and gear [...]
Alaska Airlines today will inaugurate daily, year-round service between Seattle and Kona on Hawaii’s Big Island. The new flights will provide convenient connections to travelers in other cities served by Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air throughout the Pacific Northwest and state of Alaska.
Flights from Seattle will depart daily at 8:40 a.m. Pacific time and arrive [...]
Exercise equipment leader Life Fitness will be carried through 15 new specialty retailers beginning this month, in a move to extend its reach in advance of the all-important holiday shopping season and beyond. The new relationships increase the presence for Life Fitness within key markets in the Northeast, Northwest, Southwest, Southern California, Colorado and Alaska.
The [...]
AirTran Airways, a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings announced a partnership with e-Rewards, the nation’s largest online market research panel. A+ Rewards members can earn A+ credits simply by sharing their opinions with marketing researchers through e-Rewards.
“Our partnership with e-Rewards creates a new way for A+ Rewards members to earn reward travel faster,” said Tad Hutcheson, [...]
The Plaza Hotel has reopened after a three-year, $400 million renovation, bringing landmark luxury back to Manhattan.
“They say this place is the world’s most famous hotel,” said doorman Freddy Davila, who worked for the hotel for 15 years before it closed in 2005. As he welcomed hundreds of visitors up the red-carpeted steps and through [...]
The developers of a proposed 160-room hotel on the site of Tacoma’s old Columbia-Heidelberg Brewery say they’re redesigning the hotel after its preliminary design failed to impress historic preservationists on a city board.
Han Kim, principal at Seattle’s Hotel Concepts, said Monday that he’s hired Albany, Ore., architect Don Johnson to modify the initial design to [...]
The city of Seattle may allow taller apartment and condo buildings near downtown — up to 125 feet — if developers make some units available for middle income residents.
Those would be people who earn too much to qualify for subsidized housing but not enough to be able to afford market rates. Deputy Mayor Tim Ceis [...]
When checking in to my room at the Jury’s Inn in Limerick, Ireland recently, I noticed a coffee trolley labeled “Il Barista†in the lobby. It was adjacent to the reception desk and had a sleek espresso machine and mini-pastries. Mind you, there was no warm-blooded barista in sight. But my hotel, it seems, was [...]
Starwood Capital Group today announced that the recently launched “1†Hotel and Residences, the world’s first luxury, eco-friendly global hotel brand, will open New York City’s first five-star green hotel on West 40th Street in Manhattan, across from Bryant Park. The “1†Hotel and Residences will be part of a proposed 31-story mixed-use green tower [...]
New condominium buildings — they’re not just for downtown, Belltown, Capitol Hill and Ballard anymore.
Developers say commercial areas in many Seattle neighborhoods could see more condos in coming years — a prediction that worries some residents.
Sapphire, in Greenwood, and Fini, in Phinney Ridge, are two of the fastest-selling new condominium buildings. They offer new homes [...]
The competitive hotel market of Seattle, Washington welcomes 360 Hotel Group, renamed from Northgate Hotels as part of a re-branding effort and value focus. The 360 Hotel Group portfolio includes three hotels and a restaurant in North Seattle, providing value to customers by delivering a unique, comfortable, and convenient experience. 360 Hotel group has launched [...]
