The corporate housing and serviced apartment provider is planning aggressive global portfolio growth in APAC, EMEA and the United States.
How Ramadan impacted Middle East hotels
Makkah and Medina, Saudi Arabia, were the only major hotel markets in the Middle East to experience increases in RevPAR during Ramadan 2016.
Rezidor reaches 80,000 rooms in operation
Despite the challenging trading environment across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the Rezidor Hotel Group signed more than 2,500 rooms during the second quarter of 2016 and opened more than 1,400 rooms
Israel’s hotel pipeline strong, despite fall in international visitor bednights
While the impact of continuing terrorist activity has resulted in fewer visitors travelling to Israel, those cities with strong corporate-driven business, such as Tel Aviv, have proven to be more resilient than mainly leisure-driven markets such as Jerusalem and the Dead Sea area.
Hoteliers need to change their perceptions of Chinese travellers
Perceptions of Chinese travellers wanting only Chinese breakfasts and Mandarin translations are out dated and the industry needs to develop new products and marketing strategies for the far more sophisticated Chinese traveller of today.
Mantra launches Pokemon Go-friendly hotels
Mantra GroupPokemon Go has launched the world’s first Pokemon Go-friendly hotels, encouraging fans to ‘Pokestop By Our Bar’.
Marriott plans to expand and improve offerings for business travel professionals
The company is undertaking some high-profile additions to the meeting space portfolio.
InterContinental Chicago gets “China-Ready”
As part of a corporate-wide plan with InterContinental Hotels Group to attract Chinese travelers, the China-Ready offerings are an important initiative for InterContinental Chicago with all employees undergoing a cultural training.
AccorHotels initiates project to turn HotelInvest into a subsidiary
The aim of the project is to strengthen AccorHotels’ financial resources in order to accelerate growth, while also providing a legal structure that will ultimately enable third-party investors to hold the majority of HotelInvest’s capital.
Carnival Corporation opens Arison Maritime Center to deliver safety training
Representing a 75-million-euro investment, the new facility features industry’s most advanced simulators and training equipment to provide rigorous annual training to over 6,500 bridge and engineering officers.
