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 [...]

Oman International Trade & Exhibitions, leading organizer of exhibitions, conferences and events today announced its 3rd property and real estate exhibition, the International Property Exhibition (IPE) from the 15th to 17th April, 2008. Scheduled to be held at the Oman International Exhibition Centre, this three day event will showcase a full spectrum of services in [...]

IFCOT, the International Forum on Chinese Outbound Tourism, will co-partner with COTTM for a consecutive year to run their annual forum alongside the outbound travel and tourism show of China.
COTTM, China Outbound Travel and Tourism Market, is the only business-to-business exhibition in China designated to service the fast-growing Chinese outbound travel and tourism market. Taking [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In order to come into line with the investment periods of tourist industry professionals, the SETT (”Tourism Equipment and Techniques Trade Fair”) is bringing forward the dates of its next trade fair. The next event will take place between 6th and 8th November 2007 at the Parc des expositions in Montpellier.
Established in a geographical area [...]

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 – [...]

Hotel buyouts are proving a bonanza for mutual funds which snapped up Hilton, Marriott and other hotel stocks after the September 11, 2001, attacks.
Private-equity firm Blackstone Group’s (BX.N) $20 billion bid for Hilton Hotels Corp. (HLT.N) on Tuesday sparked a 27 percent rise in shares of the second-biggest U.S. hotel chain over Thursday and Friday, [...]

Another new hotel in Starkville by Candlewood Suites will add 100 more beds to the region’s expanding tourism economy. While retail development in the area is also moving forward, though with more mixed itinerary of stops and starts.
Candlewood Suites, a hotel designed for extended stays, is a subsidiary of the InterContinental Hotels Group, and is [...]

Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s administration has ordered private developers not to talk about plans for a huge new resort near Pinckneyville until Blagojevich himself can announce it, sources say.
Some lawmakers who support the project say that public relations directive could be endangering the proposal.
“People have asked, ‘If these (developers) are credible, why don’t they answer the [...]

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 [...]

IndoUS Ventures, a venture capital co-founded by tech evangelist Vinod K. Dham and seasoned Silicon Valley entrepreneur Vani Kola, has invested $5 million in Via, India’s leading travel services firm.
The first round of funding in Via, set up as FlightRaja last year, will be invested in expanding its products and service offerings, besides its presence [...]