The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) is insisting that the European Commission re-examine compensation legislation following the Eyjafjallajoekull volcanic ash cloud earlier this year. Its demand comes as debate reignites around how much airlines and tour operators should be required to compensate passengers.

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The number of hotel rooms in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is expected to reach 308,000 by 2014, up from 230,000 in 2008, as efforts intensify to accommodate the projected 6.5% year-on-year increase in tourist arrivals in the country.

Religious tourism remains the main driver of Saudi Arabia's tourism industry with millions of Muslim pilgrims visiting the country annually, ...

Mövenpick Hotel Ramallah in Palestine is due to open in the third quarter of this year. Located in the city's diplomatic Almasyoun quarter, will be the city's only modern five star hotel featuring 172 rooms, a heated swimming pool with a barbeque restaurant and gymnasium, an Italian restaurant, an all-day-restaurant, a ballroom that can accommodate up to 800 people, seven meeting and brea...

Global hospitality company Hilton Worldwide has unveiled the new name and logo of its flagship brand, adding ‘& Resorts’ to the Hilton Hotels brand name.

The name change is intended to create a clear distinction between the hotel brand and its paren...

But while the tourist-crowd potential is certainly not lost on Mr. Reisner (in a not-yet-released promotional video about the property, he said seven million gay tourists visited New York last year), he also said he hoped to attract local residents.

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The Hilton family may have dominated the hotel and real estate industry for decades, but it seems they could soon be facing some stiff competition from one of their own.

Reality star, designer and celebrity-sponsor extraordinaire Paris Hilton tells Pop Tarts that s...

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. introduces style at a steal by announcing the opening of Aloft Chennai OMR-IT Expressway, the first Aloft hotel to open in India and the 42nd Aloft hotel globally.  A second Aloft hotel is scheduled to open next month in Bangalore. Urbanedge Hotels, a special purpose vehicle (SPV) of Auromatrix Hotels Private Limited, plans to set up several p...

Marriott International, Inc. has officially opened the company’s first JW Marriott luxury hotel in Bogota, Colombia. On-hand for the celebration were President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia, Rob Steigerwald, chief operations officer for the Southern region of the Americas for Marriott International and Ricardo Poma, president of Real Hotels & Resorts and Grupo Poma. The 264-room JW Marrio...

Swiss-Belhotel International has signed the management of its second property in the UAE. Located in Al Bada, in close proximity to Dubai International Airport, the three-star Swiss-Inn Al Koory boasts 212 rooms and suites, all day dining restaurant, lobby lounge, a roof top terrace, conference and banqueting areas, a fitness centre with steam rooms, and a swimming pool. ...

According to figures by the Jordan Tourism Board (JTB), tourism revenues rose 28% to JD1.089bn in the first half of 2010 from JD851m a year earlier, with over three million tourists visiting the kingdom, Jordan Times has reported. The number of tourists also grew 24.1% to 3.63 million during the period, compared to 2.93 million visited the country in 2009, the data showed.