Shortly after announcing its new contemporary lifestyle hotel brand VENU at the Arabian Hotel Investment Conference in April, Jumeirah Group has signed an agreement with Shanghai Zendai Himalayas Real Estate to manage VENU HIMALAYAS Hotel Shanghai.

The new contemporary lifestyle hotel in the heart of Pudong district of Shanghai is scheduled to open in 2011.

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Worldhotels is the latest travel firm to join the smartphone booking world.

BlackBerry and iPhone users who go to worldhotels.com are automatically linked to a splash page, enabling them to make a booking or search the group’s full directory of more than 450 ...

Gordon Ramsay Holdings has announced that its central production kitchen in Wandsworth, GR Logistics, which supplies Foxtrot Oscar and its three pubs, is to close at the end of this month.

The announcement comes just days after GRH closed The Devonshire pub in Chis...

Some of Britain’s largest industrial cities have become highly fashionable international tourist destinations, a surprising new survey reveals.

While London and Edinburgh are amply maintaining their traditional pre-eminence as the two most popular urban destinations in the UK, Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow are emerging strongly as formidable rival attractions.
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The UAE is to refuse to offer fuel to Iranian passenger jets stopping at its airports, Iranian news agencies have reported. The UAE joins Britain and Germany in making the move, which is a result of sanctions imposed by the United States on Iran, due its nuclear programme. Kuwait has also said it will not offer fuel to Iranian passenger planes, IRNA, the official state news agency has revealed...

Ritz-Carlton Dubai is to begin an expansion project that will increase its total number of guest rooms and include the addition of several new restaurant concepts. The expansion includes building an adjacent wing to house an additional 163 guestrooms, bringing the total number to 301. The project will also see the addition of 10 new private dining rooms the Italian specialty restaurant Splendi...

Rezidor Hotel Group, the Brussels-based hotel management company, announces the Radisson Blu Resort & Spa Porticcio. Located on the French island of Corsica, the 170-key hotel is scheduled to open its doors in spring 2012.

"With this signing we are not on...

The coming together of Suitehotel and Novotel is opportune for the two brands which already enjoy good client-based synergy generated by business travellers or families on urban holidays.

"Suite Novotel will draw from Novotel, the international upper midscale ...

Emirates Airline has inaugurated a new route from Dubai to the capital of the Czech Republic, Prague. An Airbus A330-200 aircraft is being deployed for the non-stop daily service, offering up to 278 seats across business and economy. The Emirates flight leaves Dubai daily at 1030hrs and arrives in Prague at 1450hrs, while return flights to Dubai departs from Prague at 1620hrs and gets into Dub...

Egypt's tourism sector revenu rose 24% in the first quarter to $2.7bn, but ongoing trouble in European markets is making forecasts for next year less clear, Bloomberg has reported. Egypt's tourism industry will not be deeply affected this year by the ongoing financial turmoil in Europe, Minister of Tourism Zoheir Garranah told the news service. However, the long term outlook may be less rosy a...