RIYADH: To promote inbound travel from the UAE to Saudi Arabia, a UAE travel delegation consisting of 17 UAE senior representatives of airline general sales agents, national travel and tourism associations, travel agents, tour operators and Nas Air's UAE offices, participated in discussions with representatives from the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA), Saudi tour operators ...

For the past few years people have driven by the old Gulf Towers building near the I-110 loop in Biloxi and watched it being turned into a hotel.

People watched and waited for it to open.

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Hong Kong-based Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, one of Asia Pacific’s leading luxury hotel group, will launch three new hotels in north China in 2013. The hotels will be set up in Qinhuangdao, Tianjin and Tangshan, all of which are coastal cities on the Bohai Bay with ports serving North China and Northeast Asia.

According to a company release, the Shangri-La Hotel, Qinhuan...

Pebblebrook Hotel Trust today announced that it has acquired the InterContinental Buckhead Atlanta hotel for $105.0 million. The 422-room, AAA five-diamond, luxury, full-service hotel is located in the heart of Buckhead, an affluent community in Atlanta, Georgia. The hotel will continue to be managed by IHG ("InterContinental Hotels Group PLC"). The transaction was funded entirely wi...

New Luxury On West Coast: Park Hyatt Aviara Resort Opens In Southern California

CHICAGO (June 21, 2010) – Hyatt Hotels & Resorts announced today the opening of Park Hyatt Aviara Resort in Carlsbad, Calif., just north of San Diego. Park Hyatt now has 25 p...

European Union transport ministers have signed a second Open Skies deal with the United States at a meeting in Luxemburg.

The move is designed to reduce barriers to foreign ownership of European and American airlines. At present European carriers can only own 25 p...

1- Pan Pacific Hotels Group will open two new properties in the Chinese province of Zhejiang (Pan Pacific Ningbo and Pan Pacific Serviced Suites Ningbo).

2- Jumeirah Group and Shanghai Zendai Group sign management agreement for VENU HIMALAYAS Hotel...

The U.S. hotel industry is forecast to end the summer with increases in all three key performance metrics in year-over-year comparisons, according to STR's revised 2010 summer forecast.

During the summer travel season which comprises June, July and August, STR anti...

Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts has announced the opening of its new Beirut hotel. Located on the corniche in central Beirut, the five-star hotel comprises 230 guest rooms and suites, four food outlets, a ballroom, a business centre with five meeting rooms and a spa and health club, which includes a rooftop swimming pool.

Cape Town - Hotels in Cape Town were quiet during the first half of the World Cup, with occupancy rates averaging only 40 per cent during the group stages of the tournament, the city's tourism authority said Friday.

Assessing the situation at the half-way mark, Cap...