| //11-10-2009 As part of China’s 60th National Day celebrations this year, Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, Asia Pacific’s leading luxury hotel group, is offering citizens and residents of the People's Republic of China, including Hong Kong and Macau, the National Day Special Rates from 25 September to 11 October 2009. With these special rates, which include breakfast for up to two persons, guests staying for two consecutive nights at any Traders hotel or Shangri-La hotel or resort will be rewarded with a free night, which they can use at the same hotel on the same trip, or choose to redeem at any participating Shangri-La city hotel before 31 January 2010. |
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| //10-10-2009 INITIAL signs were not promising. As I emerged from the Sant Antoni metro station on a warm Barcelona afternoon in search of the Market Hotel, a place I had booked a few days earlier on the Web, I was confronted by a busy commercial thoroughfare anchored on one corner by a ramshackle market selling everything from espadrilles to salted fish and on the other by an unpromising-looking cafe populated by a lone elderly man sipping coffee and flipping idly through a newspaper. |
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| //10-10-2009 The 7.6-magnitude earthquake that devastated West Sumatra last week has left the local hotel industry in tatters, officials and business players say.
"The impact is much worse compared to the aftermath of the earthquake in Yogyakarta in 2006," Sapta Nirwandar, the Culture and Tourism Ministry's director general of marketing, told The Jakarta Post on Friday in Padang, West Sumatra. |
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| //10-10-2009 If you find yourself sleeping in hotels as often as you do at home, then it's probably worth your while to sign up for one of the growing number of rewards programs that can make your time on the road a little more comfortable.
Hotel loyalty programs, which have been around since 1983 when Holiday Inn chain launched the trend, are frequently tiered, so that the more often you stay, the more they pay. Rewards come in a variety of forms, ranging from free nights and points toward flights to a variety of ways to enhance guest experiences, including rounds of golf, ski lift tickets at various resorts, as well as health club memberships, assorted experiential rewards and the chance to be charitable and donate points to others. |
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| //02-10-2009 Has a hotel ever returned to you an item that you'd forgotten in your room?
And - perhaps more importantly, given how hard the economy's hit hotels - will hotels be as willing to do guests the favor since they've been cutting staff and spending over the past year?
Well, seasoned business traveler Mike Hillwig of Salem, Mass., sheds a little light on the subject... |
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| //02-10-2009 Hotel Celebrates FotoWeek DC with illy coffee Photo Contest |
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| //01-10-2009 Poolside, the crisis in corporate travel looks pretty fun.
Faced with a big decline in the business travelers who once filled its beds, the staid InterContinental Hotel West in Doral has been forced to pursue vacationers with new vigor. That has meant livening up a spacious pool that used to be empty except for the occasional executive swimming morning laps. |
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| //01-10-2009 High Performing Business Travelers Tell Their Stories |
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| //01-10-2009 Hyatt Place and Hyatt Summerfield Suites will reward
guests with a special bonus: a $20 prepaid MasterCard gift card*.
Through November 25, 2009, guests who book a stay at a participating Hyatt Place or
Hyatt Summerfield Suites hotel on any weekday Monday through Thursday at the Hyatt Daily
Rate will receive a $20 prepaid MasterCard gift card. |
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| //28-09-2009 The toilets are still being scrubbed and the sheets changed at the three Hyatt hotels in the Boston area, but the workers performing these tasks are making half as much money to maintain up to twice as many rooms as the staff housekeepers the hotel fired. |
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 | //28-09-2009 There was a time in the not-so-distant past when Lehman was the name of a bank rather than the symbol of a global crash, a time when it was hard to sleep a night in Manhattan for less than $500. All that has changed – for now. It's been a great year for visitors to New York, thanks – ironically – to the economic recession. |
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| //28-09-2009 Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, Asia Pacific’s leading luxury hotel group, took home the highly coveted title of Best Business Hotel Brand in Asia-Pacific plus seven other titles at the 2009 Business Traveller Asia-Pacific’s 18th Travel Awards, which was held in Hong Kong today.
Regarded as one of the travel industry’s most anticipated events, Business Traveller Asia-Pacific’s Readers’ Poll is held annually, surveying its readers, both frequent business and leisure travellers, mainly in Asia-Pacific.
For the eighth consecutive year, the title of Best Business Hotel in the World went to Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore. The hotel was also voted Best Business Hotel in Asia-Pacific and Best Business Hotel in Singapore, for the ninth and seventh time, respectively. |
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| //25-09-2009 NEW YORK -- When you hear the term budget travel, we know what you think: cheap hotels, C-list attractions and meal portions that wouldn't satisfy your average toddler.
But what if we said you could save hundreds of dollars on a weekend trip to New York without missing any of the things that make the city great?
The Big Apple is ripe with freebies and good, solid deals. Here are our favorites: |
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| //18-09-2009 White Lodging of Merrillville, IN is
pleased to announce the appointments of Michael Kauffeld and Kim Meyerholtz to
key General Manager positions at the new Courtyard, Springhill Suites, and
Fairfield Inn and Suites by Marriott in downtown Indianapolis.
Kauffeld who is responsible for the 297 room Courtyard by Marriott, and the
156 room Springhill Suites by Marriott, has over 17 years experience in the
hospitality industry. Since joining White Lodging in 2003, he has won Marriott
Leadership and Guest Satisfaction awards as well as company awards for
Property of the Year and General Manager of the Year. |
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| //18-09-2009 SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) - Small can definitely be beautiful, with boutique hotel specialists and booking service Mr & Mrs Smith (www.mrandmrssmith.com) listing their five favorite properties around the world.
This list is not endorsed by Reuters.
1. Casa Tua, Miami, United States
There's no sign above the door of this intimate hideaway, and it's screened from the street by wrought-iron railings and lush vegetation, but everyone knows where Casa Tua is. It's won acclaim for its excellent Italian-fusion restaurant and draws Miami's in-crowd to its exclusive members-only lounge bar. In each of the five guest rooms, which have a separate entrance, heavy cream drapes, soft white Bellora linens, rich dark woods and carefully chosen art pieces suggest rigorous editing and impeccable taste. White marble gleams in the bathrooms, and little balconies jut jauntily out over the garden greenery.
2. Lone Star Restaurant & Hotel, Barbados, Caribbean
This one-time petrol station has much more to offer than finessed world cuisine and a celebrity cast list, however; its four impeccably appointed suites offer a brand of luxury Caribbean accommodation with a refreshingly personal touch and a quirky designer eye. This Barbados hotel sustains a smart palette of blue, white and mahogany throughout. There are playful touches, too: huge gilt silver mirrors lean against palm trees on the talc-white beach, waiters and waitresses flit around the restaurant - dubbed 'the Ivy of the Caribbean' by British restaurant critic Michael Winner - in mechanics' overalls in a throwback to the hotel's garage roots. |
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| //18-09-2009 Several hundred hotel workers and their supporters turned out yesterday for a raucous rally in front of the Hyatt Regency Boston for the 100 housekeepers who were fired by the hotel chain. Politicians called for businesses to boycott the Hyatt, and workers banged on drums, rattled detergent bottles filled with rocks, and chanted “Hyatt, shame on you’’ as they marched in front of the hotel with picket signs.
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* 9/17/09: Housekeepers’ jobs outsourced
Hyatt Hotels Corp. laid off the entire housekeeping staffs at the Hyatt Regency Boston, Hyatt Regency Cambridge, and Hyatt Harborside Hotel after the morning shift had ended on Aug. 31, citing challenging economic conditions, and immediately replaced them with workers from an out-of-state staffing firm. The housekeepers had been training those very workers, from Georgia’s Hospitality Staffing Solutions, who they were told would be filling in for vacations. |
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| //18-09-2009 Where do VIPs go when they need a break from the runway shows at New York Fashion Week?
To W Hotels' hip looking lounge inside the giant Bryant Park tent, of course. I stopped by W's lounge on Tuesday to check it out and interview a new W hire. Here's my report...
Since W's VIP lounge was inside a tent, I figured it would be low key. Forget that. As soon as I walked past security and through the door, I saw what resembled a stylish, darkly lit, W lounge scene inside an actual hotel and heard music that made me think I was on a runway. |
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| //17-09-2009 LAS VEGAS—The U.S. Green Building Council says two hotels at the $8.5 billion CityCenter complex on the Las Vegas Strip meet high environmental standards for "green" construction and operation.
CityCenter developers said Monday that they've received three Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design gold certifications for the Aria (AR'-ee-uh) Resort and Vdara (Vid-AR'-uh) Hotel.
Aria received separate LEED certifications for its hotel tower and convention center.
The project, jointly owned by casino operator MGM Mirage and Dubai World, is due to open in December.
Developers say they expect remaining CityCenter buildings to also win LEED certification. |
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| //13-09-2009 The Empire is among the oldest hotels in Manhattan, but a renovation last year has transformed it into a modern refuge, with a sleek rooftop lounge, pool deck and sumptuous lobby bar. Despite its giant 1920s neon sign, it now resembles the sort of hotel you’d expect to see in the meatpacking district, not around Lincoln Center. That perception will likely be underscored a year from now, when New York Fashion Week moves from Bryant Park to Lincoln Center, mere steps from the Empire, and the pretty young things from the catwalks go on the prowl for an after-party. |
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