Hilton Hotels Corporation (HHC) announced the opening of two new Hilton Garden Inn properties in Italy. These two additions, located in Milan Malpensa and Bologna San Lazzaro, boost the Hilton Garden Inn brand’s presence in Italy to five hotels.
Simon Vincent, President of Hilton Hotels - Europe, commented: “There is significant demand in the hotel [...]

This Thanksgiving, customers on JetBlue Airways can enjoy the convenience of checking one bag free, freeing up time to bask in a stress-free travel experience at the airline’s brand new terminal — T5 — at its home base at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK). T5 offers a spacious check-in lobby, the largest [...]

Virgin America, the California-based airline, today announced the launch of Gogo(r) Inflight Internet, via the first air-to-ground video stream during YouTube Live — YouTube’s first official real-world user event on Nov. 22. The carrier’s first Wi-Fi enabled plane will circle the skies above San Francisco during the event and a segment of the YouTube live [...]

Hilton Garden Inn® the award-winning mid-priced brand, today announced the opening of the 142-room Hilton Garden Inn® Shreveport in Shreveport, La. The opening represents the latest addition to the brand’s growing portfolio of more than 400 Hilton Garden Inn locations across North America and Europe.
The Hilton Garden Inn Shreveport is operated by Akshar 6, LLC, [...]

The Abaco Club on Winding Bay, A Ritz-Carlton Managed Club announces the opening of its initial phase of Ritz-Carlton Club fractional ownership residences. This secluded residential development and sporting retreat known for golf, beach and boating pursuits, now offers five newly-renovated cabanas to fractional ownership Members.
“The opening of The Ritz-Carlton Club, Abaco is a great [...]

According to Zagat Survey, the economic downturn, accompanied by a decline in business travel, may have an upside for leisure travelers: hotels are responding by dropping rates, ramping up promotions and negotiating deals. Zagat’s 2009 U.S. Hotels, Resorts & Spas survey released today, also shows great progress in the industry, with numerous major renovations and [...]

Level 2 Development, based in Washington, D.C., in a partnership with Centrum Properties, a development firm based in Chicago, is planning to build View 14, a mixed-use community also in Washington, D.C. Designed by the Bethesda, Md.-based SK&I Architectural Design Group, the environmentally friendly complex, located on U Street, NW, was originally planned to consist [...]

To celebrate the signing of the newest member of the Boston Red Sox, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Hotel Commonwealth, located just steps away from Fenway Park, is offering a special hotel accommodations package to all of Daisuke’s fans visiting Boston through the end of the 2007 World Series. The package will include elegant overnight accommodations for two [...]

For those in Mumbai, if you happen to pass by the Mahim Causeway, you will notice a makeshift structure of a two storied hotel room and a man sitting inside it. This was done to promote the soon to be launched self service hotels by Roots Corporation, wholly owned subsidiary of Indian Hotels of Tata [...]

Macdonald Hotels & Resorts is investing more than £30m in a 215-bedroom site in Manchester city centre.
The new hotel, due to open in October next year, will occupy the former BT building near Manchester Piccadilly train station, which has been vacant since the telecoms giant moved to another site in the city.
The £33m property [...]

We were tired and hungry - and lost. It turned out there is a difference between 14th Street and 14th Avenue, as surely as there’s a difference between Lincoln Avenue and Lincoln, Nebraska. My girlfriend, Ellen, and I discovered this one Friday as we pulled into rush-hour Denver, midway through a cross-country road trip. Fortunately, [...]

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 [...]