Seductive Room Rates
By eTN Staff Writer
Agoda.com, a leading Asia-based hotel booking site and part of Nasdaq-listed Priceline.com, is ramping up the romance this Valentine’s Day with an array of seductive room rates for couples ...
Modern Asian Hospitality
By eTN Staff Writer
Amari, Thailand’s leading hotel group, epitomizing modern Asian hospitality, is introducing an exciting, new, and vibrant concept, "Love." Amari "Love" will be portrayed in several ways: ...
European Waterways Hotel Barge
By Mari Nicholson
At four miles an hour, Go-Barging in Burgundy allows the body to relax into the rhythms of the French countryside while gliding past medieval villages and dark forests.
New Four Star Hotel
By eTN Staff Writer
Ramada Hotel is proud to announce the opening of its first Ramada Hotel and Suites in Amman.
Onboard A Floating Boutique Hotel
By eTN Staff Writer
European Waterways, Europe’s largest all-inclusive hotel barging company, is offering travelers a unique opportunity to combine the spectacle of the famous Paris Marathon with a relaxing river ...
Best Hotel Deals
By eTN Staff Writer
Agoda.com, a leading Asia-based hotel booking site and part of Nasdaq-listed Priceline.com, singles out some of Europe’s best off-season destinations with the top 5 European hot spots for winter ...
Hotel And Restaurant Authority
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
The newly-inaugurated Hotel and Restaurant Authority will play an important role starting next year when all new hotel, resort, and lodge projects require to be licensed first, before commencing ...
Tune Hotels Denies Its Polluting Water Tables In Bali
The controversy surrounding reports in the local press that the recently-opened Tune Hotel on Jalan Ciung Wanara, Kuta, in Bali is contaminating local water supplies continued to boil.
The Curious Case Of The NY Hilton
By Dr. Elinor Garely, eTN
With a great deal of fanfare the New York Hilton invited a few hundred friends and family to witness the renovation of a few of the ballrooms (Trianon and Mercury).
November Down 13 Percent
The Hotel Association of the Northern Mariana Islands reported a 49 percent occupancy rate among its 13 member hotels for November 2009, a 13-percent drop compared to November 2008.
Open In Time For The Holidays
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
Two locally-owned small hotels opened just in time for Christmas last week, one being the Hanneman Holiday Residence at Nouvelle Valle, Beau Vallon, featuring 12 bedrooms, and the other one the ...
Lecturer Exchange And Training Program
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
The Seychelles Tourism Academy (STA) last weekend organized a welcome party for two of their own lecturers and four specially selected hotel staff.
Hotel On Entebbe Road An Eyesore
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
It is now apparent that the members of the public accounts committee in parliament are out for some sacrificial lambs or "baying for blood," as a source within parliament told this column.
Urban Romance
By Mel Webster
Looking for an extraordinary hotel to spend your wedding night?
Tanzania Drought Causing Widespread Problems
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
Hotel operators and local guides in Tanzania have voiced their concern over the migration of the hippos previously resident in Lake Babati.
Accommodation Rebranding
An international hotel operator in Vietnam, announced today the rebranding of a hotel that will enable its distinctive character and style to be expressed.
Pioneering Project
By eTN Staff Writer
The School of Hotel and Tourism Management (SHTM) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has launched the PolyU Tourist Satisfaction Index (PolyU TSI) today (December 17) to gauge the ...
Booking A Trip To The Maldives
By eTN Staff Writer
Agoda.com, a leading Asian hotel booking site and a part of Priceline.com, today announced a strategic partnership with Bangkok Airways that gives independent travelers more freedom when booking a ...
The Very Basic Of Hotels
By eTN Staff Writer
A new stylish capsule hotel, named 9h, as in 9 hours, is set to open in Japan on December 9, 2009.
Anguilla
By Kris Hudson
ANGUILLA, British West Indies - Robert Sillerman amassed a billion-dollar fortune buying and selling media and entertainment companies.
Ethiopia
By Jason McLure
Ethiopia’s government sold National Tour Operation and Travel Agency Enterprise to ABC Plc, the country’s largest car-rental company, Capital reported, citing Wondafrashe Assefa, a spokesman ...
Hotel Guest Security
By Elinor Garely, eTN
Always on the lookout for new ideas and cutting-edge technology that will make traveling and hotel visits safer, I was anxious to get to the ISC (International Security Conference and Exposition) ...
Lavish New Spa Opens
By eTN Staff Writer
A 3,000-square-meter, state-of-the-art health spa has been inaugurated at the five-star Corinthia Hotel in Lisbon, Portugal.
Luthan Hotel & Spa Leads The Way
As hoteliers capitalize on the Middle East's growing young female population, women-only hotels are opening up more reveals the World Travel Market Global Trends Report 2009.
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Union Members Call On Hyatt To Rehire Housekeepers
By eTN Staff Writer
Thousands of workers in a dozen cities across North America will hold a coordinated series of public demonstrations this week to demand that Hyatt Hotels "Bring Back the Hyatt 100." Hyatt fired ...
Bahamas
A Bahamian hotel operator has closed one of his resort properties as the recession slashes occupancy rates across the vast archipelago.
Hyatt Pursuing Profit At Any Price?
By eTN Staff Writer
Hotel workers walked off the job this morning at the Grand Hyatt Union Square in San Francisco, announcing a 3-day strike against the property.
Key Role In Today’s Revenue Management & Hotel Distribution Strategy
By eTN Staff Writer
Rate parity became a major topic of discussion when OTAs switched from GDS-powered rates to merchant model, extranet-powered rates.
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Cornell Study Of Hotel Internet Marketing Tactics
By Glenn Withiam
When a hotel is listed on Expedia.com or Travelocity.com, it receives reservations not only through that channel, but it also gains reservations through other channels, such as its own web site or ...
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"The Grand Lady" Of Malta’s Luxury Hotels
By eTN Staff Writer
CHI Hotels & Resorts (CHI), exclusive operators of the luxury Corinthia Hotels brand worldwide and of the Wyndham and Ramada Plaza brands in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East (EMEA), ...
