Luxury travel up-and-coming destinations also include United Arab Emirates, African Safaris, Iceland and Antarctica; European river cruises top all luxury travel international destinations.
TAA calls for urgent regulation of commercial short-term accommodation operators
Australia’s peak accommodation body, Tourism Accommodation Australia, says ‘collaborative’ economy must be more about contributing to the economy, rather than just taking.
Hyatt hit by malware at 250 hotels
Hyatt has now listed the hotels affected since it announced it found malware at its hotels in December.
Centara Hotels & Resorts renamed Central Hospitality International (CHi)
The introduction of CHi serves to differentiate the corporate brand and its member hotel brands, as well as to align the hotel group with the other eponymously named Central Group companies creating greater affiliation and synergy within the Central family.
Demand growing for serviced apartments: operators reveal their pipelines
Savills Extended Stay report predicts the serviced apartment sector is set to at least double and be the UK’s fastest growing hospitality segment in the next 2 years.
AAA adds six hotels to exclusive Five Diamond list for 2016
This exclusive group of 118 properties represents just 0.4 percent of the nearly 28,000 AAA/CAA Approved and Diamond Rated hotels.
Travelers say smartphone is their most indispensable travel companion
Study reveals travelers now consider their smartphone to be the single most indispensable item they carry with them when they travel, ahead of their toothbrush, deodorant and driver’s license.
Forces that drive hospitality innovation: The Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne workshop
The workshop seeks enhance the understanding of innovation in service and, specifically, international hospitality management by integrating the largely interdependent works on strategic renewal and innovation so hospitality management can apply what contemporary research on service innovation has revealed on organizational transformation.
2016 hospitality trends: influenced by pops-ups, peer-to-peer and grandparents
With pop-up hotels, peer-to-peer dining, and Generation “0” travellers (grandparents taking their grandchildren on all-inclusive holidays) Les Roches International School of Hotel Management has come up with some trends that you might not find on other such lists.
Abu Dhabi hotel boasts world’s fastest Internet connection
Jannah Burj Al Sarab’s newly upgraded Internet speed is faster than any other hotel in the world and is free to all guests.
