Hotel industry news in brief...................

Christchurch city is without a third of its usual rooms, from hotels to backpackers, following last week's quake and in the period leading into the Rugby World Cup, according to one estimate. By Alan Wood

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), the world's largest hotel group by number of rooms, today entered a management agreement with Thai company, Elite Villa Co., Ltd, to launch the InterContinental Resort brand in Koh Samui, Thailand. IHG will ta ...

Keeping with its commitment to environmental protection and sustainability, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts will participate for the fourth consecutive year in Earth Hour, a global event organized by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to raise awareness abo ...

Spain is still Europe's most popular place to stay, according to figures released February 28 by the European Union. In total, 268 million nights were spent in Spain's hotels by travelers last year, a rise of 6.4 percent on 2009's figures ...

HotelsCombined.com has revealed the HotelsCombined.com Price IndexTM review of global hotel prices for March 2011. If you are looking for the best value accommodation deals in March, then the HotelsCombined.comTM Price Index is for you. Every month w ...

While in London this month, I couldn't resist hopping on the Eurostar to visit Paris, where I spent four months in Paris in 2009 on a writing sabbatical. Like so many others, I fell in love with the city. But my next sabbatical will take place so ...

Taking a vacation isn't exactly cheap, so what recourse do consumers have when their hotel accommodations turn out to be less than satisfactory? By Jeanine Skowronski

Global Staff Movements for February 2011 provided by Spectrum International.

With all the budget cuts the last few years, many hotels and call centers have allowed training to fall by the wayside. So a good starting place is to schedule a sales training meeting for your team. Here are some good themes.

While Google finds itself haggling with the Justice Department over ITA Software, Microsoft Bing added an autosuggest capability for flight prices based on ITA data. The new feature displays flight prices, including Bing's prediction of the best flig ...

VisitEngland and Lastminute.com have teamed up to give domestic tourism a push. February 28 will see the launch of a targeted joint marketing campaign online and off, focusing on showcasing all that England has to offer.

Faced with the expanding number of online travel providers and channels in the marketplace, hoteliers must develop and implement increasingly sophisticated revenue management strategies to manage rates and availability. Omni Hotels has created and im ...

eMarketer estimates that more than half of Western Europe?s online population will use social networks at least once a month in 2011, an increase of 16.2% from 2010. By 2015, 64.4% of internet users in the region, or 141.9 million people, will be reg ...

Quite obviously, the first metric that you probably all monitor are fans, or as Facebook now has it, "likers". But there is more to Facebook than just that. The following articles lists a few Facebook metrics you might currently not measure.

Cendyn Concierge Platform Builds Loyalty and Reduces Cancellations

Hotel industry news in brief...................

On Thursday, Showboat became Atlantic City's first dog-friendly casino-hotel - a marketing ploy designed to draw more human customers to a tourist town just begging for business. By Donald Witkowski

The Accor hotel group and its hotel owners announced today that they will donate NZ$2 for every room sold at its 29 hotels and resorts across New Zealand until the 31st of March in order to raise urgent funds in aid of the Christchurch earthquake rel ...

The hotel industry continued to recover in January with strong growth in both global hotel revenue and bookings, according to data released today by Pegasus Solutions in The Pegasus View. Driven by demand and assisted by rate growth, business travel ...