The Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism launched Ireland’s first purpose-built sports hotel, Breaffy House in Castlebar, this week.
Minister John O’Donoghue launched the state-of-the-art €30 million Breaffy International Sports Hotel at a glittering event in Dublin.
The first purpose-built sports hotel in the country is located within the 90-acre Breaffy House Resort in Castlebar, Co Mayo, [...]
ProLogis, the world’s largest owner, manager and developer of distribution facilities, announced today that it has acquired the industrial development business of Parkridge, a leading European developer of distribution centers. The total consideration for Parkridge is approximately 298 million pounds sterling ($581 million) in cash and ProLogis common shares.
The transaction combines two of the most [...]
Wall Street will get its first taste of a publicly traded hedge fund Friday when Fortress Investment Group LLC sells shares in an initial public offering valuing the alternative asset manager at $7.38 billion.
The New York-based funds of funds, which manages $29.9 billion in assets, is the first of its kind to go public in [...]
The travel and tourism industry in North America is celebrating a significant year-on-year upturn in transatlantic air travel, according to statistics revealed by OAG Data’s quarterly airline traffic statistics.
It was reported that this month the world’s airlines have scheduled more than 25,000 October flights between North America and Western Europe. This figure is approximately 1,400 [...]
The Hotel Show, the Middle East’s leading supplies exhibition to the region’s burgeoning hospitality and leisure sectors, has already reserved an additional 2,500 square metres of stand space, making a total of 13,000 square metres to cope with escalating sales enquiries for next year.
The industry showcase, organised by dmg world media Dubai Ltd one of [...]
Sales at hotels in London were up by almost a third during the month of July 2006, according to the latest data from TRI Hospitality Consulting’s HotStats survey.
Room revenue per available room soared by 29.9 per cent to reach £100.71, breaking into three figures. Both occupancy and rate showed big increases, with rate up [...]
Hilton Garden Inn(R) (NYSE:HLT), the fastest growing brand that is part of the Hilton Family of Hotels, announced three international franchised hotel openings in Western Europe — making the European hotels the first Hilton Garden Inn locations to open outside the United States, Canada and Mexico. The award-winning mid-priced brand will debut and open one [...]
