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 [...]
Construction of the £20 million Fitzwilliam Hotel in Belfast got under way today.
The hotel is sited in Great Victoria Street, next door to the historic Grand Opera House, and is the latest in a string being built to meet demand from visitors to what the Lonely Planet guide calls “a must-see city”.
Planned as a five-star [...]
It seemed like a great idea at the time: Rent a fabulous apartment and spend a week living like a Parisian.
First of all, look at all the money we would save with four of us staying in an apartment instead of pricey hotels, then doing our own cooking to avoid expensive restaurants and cafés where [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Telkonet, Inc. (AMEX:TKO), the leader in providing in-building broadband access over existing electrical wiring, today announced that its Telkonet iWire System™ has been installed at the Best Western Midland Hotel in Derby, UK, to provide every guest with the freedom to choose either hard-wired or wireless broadband Internet access throughout the venue. Telkonet’s solution was [...]
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 [...]
French hospitality group Accor said Thursday it will open its largest economy hotel outside of Paris here as it ramps up efforts to meet growing demand for economy lodging in the Asia Pacific region.
The 538-room Ibis hotel, which will be the first ever in Singapore, and will open in the first quarter of 2009, with [...]
The Kansas City Council on Thursday approved The Cordish Co.’s plans for a condominium-hotel tower in the Power & Light District.
The proposal, which includes as many as 350 condo units and a four-star hotel northwest of 13th and Walnut streets, on the block formerly occupied by a Jones Store Co. department store, will seek public [...]
On 17th January 2007, three days before the World Social Forum opened in Nairobi, a gentleman walked into the Jamia Plaza, which is located behind the Jamia Mosque in Nairobi’s Central Business District.
He walked around some of the almost 100 shops selling apparel, cosmetics, cell phones, fast foods and other merchandise on the ground floor [...]
The Cordish Co.’s plans to build a condominium-hotel tower in the Power & Light District will need to be approved by Kansas City’s new City Council.
The current council could pass an ordinance supporting the proposed building on Thursday. But the Tax Increment Financing Commission of Kansas City won’t be able to consider amending the district’s [...]
