| //06-02-2010 Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, while posting a fourth-quarter 2009 loss yesterday, credited a boost in business travel demand with mitigating declining revenues during the final months of last year.
"Business travelers have returned, as witnessed by improving Monday through Thursday occupancy," Starwood CEO Frits van Paasschen said on Thursday during a conference call to investors. "New York, a good leading indicator, saw occupancy levels of roughly 88 percent in the fourth quarter, just short of the peak 88.5 percent in 2007."
Revenue per available room declined by 7.9 percent worldwide and by 9.6 percent in North America during the quarter compared with the same period in 2008. Those results beat Starwood's expectations, however, and were Starwood's best RevPAR results since the third quarter of 2008, van Paasschen said. Starwood CFO Vasant Prabhu said the company expects business travel to continue its rebound this year. |
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| //06-02-2010 With thousands of travelers from all over the world set to converge on Canada for the 2010 Winter Olympics, the time to book Vancouver hotels is now. As the clock ticks down to the Feb. 12 opening date, hotels are becoming more scarce, say officials at EasyToBook.com. |
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| //06-02-2010 As if Brevard hotels didn't have enough to deal with in this economy, the U.S. General Services Administration has seemingly dealt them another blow. |
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| //06-02-2010 Carlson has partnered with Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities and KIPP: Stand Academy in Minneapolis to launch Beyond School Walls, a program where fifth- and sixth-graders are matched with company employees for one-to-one mentoring.
Funded by the Curtis L. Carlson Family Foundation, this innovative youth mentoring program matches Carlson employees, who serve as Big Brothers or Big Sisters, with students from KIPP. The Big Brothers/Sisters will meet with their Little Brothers/Sisters for the first time at 11:30 a.m., Wednesday, Feb. 3, at Carlson’s world headquarters, 701 Carlson Parkway, near the Interstate 394 and 494 interchange in Minnetonka. |
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| //02-02-2010 For the 13th year in a row, Four Seasons has been named by FORTUNE magazine as one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For, ranking 58th. Four Seasons is one of only 13 organizations to have the distinction of being recognized every year since the list’s inception in 1998 and is the highest ranked hotel company on the list.
“The past year has been extremely difficult for the hospitality industry, and Four Seasons is no exception,” says Kathleen Taylor, president and chief operating officer, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. “We are so appreciative of the hard work and dedication exhibited by our employees every day. In a year wrought with so many challenges, it’s a privilege to be recognized by them once again.” |
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| //02-02-2010 Five Mandarin Oriental hotels were recently awarded the prestigious 2009 Forbes Five Star Spa Award out of only 13 hotels worldwide. Mandarin Oriental hotels in New York, Miami and Hong Kong, who had been awarded in previous years, were joined this year by The Landmark Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong and Mandarin Oriental, Boston. In addition Mandarin Oriental Washington DC was honoured as a Forbes Four Star Spa. |
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| //01-02-2010 Fourteen Shangri-La hotels and resorts were voted by readers of Travel + Leisure onto the 2010 T+L 500 and Island Shangri-La, Hong Kong and Pudong Shangri-La, Shanghai were placed amongst the top 50 hotels in the world. Readers of Condé Nast Traveler U.S. edition voted five Shangri-La luxury hotels onto the 2010 Gold List. Both lists were published in the January 2010 issues. |
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| //01-02-2010 New restaurants, pools and spas among makeover highlights. |
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| //30-01-2010 A recent article on CNN.com called "Dirty Hotels Gross out Travelers" deals with an issue that many U.S. travelers and visitors from other countries deal with every day. |
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| //30-01-2010 What are the dirtiest hotels in the US to avoid when you travel? The filthy and stinking and basically what readers consider to be the "dirtiest hotels in the United States" have been released by travel website TripAdvisor.
The list is formed on opinions from people that have spent time in the hotels as the list of the top 10 dirtiest hotels based on traveler review |
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 | //30-01-2010 Above the televisions in the lobby, a ticker runs not only the latest news but also stock updates. Over by the elevator, a screen tells you whether flights at the airport are on time. Next to the pool table in the lobby, there's another table so you can set up your laptop and plug it in. |
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 | //25-01-2010 ANA Crowne Plaza Kobe officially launches today following a successful rebranding exercise. Widely regarded as one of Kobe's key landmarks, the 593-room, 37-storey hotel is now the tenth ANA Crowne Plaza hotel in Japan, and the second in the Kansai area. |
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 | //23-01-2010 Planning a trip to New York City? How about dodging the crowds and staying in hideaways that even know-it-all New Yorkers know nothing about? |
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| //23-01-2010 China's relations with Taiwan have been tense and potentially explosive ever since the civil war 60 years ago when the island broke away from the mainland government, but there are increasing signs of a thaw.
Some Grand Hotels just do not live up to their name. One in north east Scotland particularly comes to mind. |
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| //23-01-2010 Amenities abound at this historic landmark building in Downtown St. Louis's City Center. 288 warm, artfully appointed rooms and suites are but the beginning of this great new hotel experience |
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| //23-01-2010 Hyatt Hotels & Resorts and OTO Development, LLC,
today announce the opening of Hyatt Place Fort Lauderdale Airport-South, phase one of the
country’s first joint Hyatt Place and Hyatt Summerfield Suites development. Hyatt Summerfield
Suites Fort Lauderdale Airport-South is scheduled to open in early March. |
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| //19-01-2010 From January 19 through January 23, 2010, Hyatt Place and
Hyatt Summerfield Suites are offering savings at more than 165 hotels nationwide, including
locations such as Atlanta, Dallas, Las Vegas, Nashville, Miami, Orlando, Phoenix, Portland and
Tampa.* |
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| //04-01-2010 Coloradans and visitors to our state can rest assured that we have nine of Travel + Leisure magazine's top 500 of the world's best hotels for 2010.
In its January issue, T+L rates the Little Nell, St. Regis Resort and Hotel Jerome in Aspen; The Ritz-Carlton in Bachelor Gulch; Park Hyatt Beaver Creek Resort & Spa; The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs; Hotel Teatro and Brown Palace Hotel & Spa in Denver; and The Sonnenalp Resort in Vail in the top 500.
The state that led the list with the most top hotels was California, with 36 of the top 500 award winners.
Card shark. Urban planner Karle Seydel, who had a hand in landing Coors Field in downtown, is selling a piece of Denver trivia on eBay. The collectable ballpark cards are a collection of six postcard-sized trading cards depicting Denver's baseball fields of old plus an artist's rendering of what would become Coors Field.
"The purpose of the cards is just fun, and to tell the history of Denver ballparks," Seydel said. "It's just a slice of history. It's fun particularly with the next year being the 15th year of Coors Field." |
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| //04-01-2010 Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, Asia Pacific¡¯s leading luxury hotel group, has signed an agreement with Themed Attractions and Resorts Sdn Bhd (TAR), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Khazanah Nasional Berhad ¨C the investment holding arm of the Government of Malaysia ¨C to open, and operate Traders Hotel, Puteri Harbour, Iskandar, Malaysia. This marks the first international hotel in the newly developed area of Nusajaya, Malaysia, and the only hotel to be associated with Malaysia¡¯s soon-to-be-built first family indoor theme park. |
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