Technology

Top Travel Marketing Executive Launches Kasel Luxury Marketing Group

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NEW YORK, Nov. 8 /PRNewswire/ — Erica S. Kasel today announced the launch of Kasel Luxury Marketing Group, which will help luxury hospitality and travel marketers, and those industries wishing to partner with them, build business among targeted customers. With more than fifteen years as a luxury marketing executive, Kasel most recently served as Executive … Read more

The Peabody Little Rock Wins Glittering Prize – AAA's Four Diamond Rating

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–April 22, 2002–The Peabody Little Rock, which just raised the Peabody flag January 31, 2002, has already received its AAA, Four-Diamond rating. Inspectors from AAA visited the hotel anonymously on two or three occasions, and we have just received the great news, that The Peabody Little Rock has been designated a Four … Read more

Sol Melia Launches Meliaviajes.com, The Travel Agency For the AOL Avant Portal

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The participation of Sol Meliá in the “AOL Avant” portal as the exclusive supplier of travel and leisure products guarantees access to more than 1 million Spanish users for the new online travel agency Coinciding with the agreement by which America Online (AOL) will begin operations in Spain through the “Prodigios” Internet portal, the Spanish … Read more

Everest Broadband Rolls Out High-Speed Internet Service In Seven Doubletree Hotels

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FORT LEE, N.J., October 31, 2000 – Everest Broadband Networks, an innovative leader in high-speed Internet access and advanced network services for commercial and hotel properties, today announced that its FastRoom™ hospitality product has been installed in a seven-property portfolio of Doubletree Hotels across the country. Totaling 2,100 rooms, the properties are located in New … Read more

Orient-Express' Hotel Cipriani Purchases Historic Buildings In Venice And Announces Plans to Extend Hotel

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NEW YORK, Nov. 8 /PRNewswire/ — The legendary Hotel Cipriani in Venice recently purchased three architecturally historic interconnecting buildings on the island of Guidecca in order to create a number of extra meeting rooms, and to enlarge the very popular gathering place, Cip's Club, which opened last year to great acclaim. Called I Granai della … Read more

Westin Hotels Limited Partnership Responds to Third Party Mini Tender Offer

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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nov. 12, 2001–Westin Realty Corp. (the General Partner), the general partner of Westin Hotels Limited Partnership (WHLP), has been notified that an unsolicited tender offer was commenced on or about November 2, 2001, by First Commercial Guarantee (First Commercial) to purchase approximately 3.71% of WHLP's limited partnership units at a price of … Read more

Hostec-Eurhotec Exceeds Expectations

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London, England — February 11, 2002 — In a year marked by declining travel and attendance at industry tradeshows and conferences, Accuvia Events (“Accuvia”), the International Hotel & Restaurant Association (“IH&RA”), and FreshRM, today announced that the HOSTEC-EURHOTEC Exhibition & Conference (“HOSTEC-EURHOTEC”) exceeded all attendance expectations and hit a new record for a global Hospitality … Read more

Bellagio Honored With AAA Five Diamond Award

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LAS VEGAS, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ — Bellagio has earned the prestigious American Automobile Association Five Diamond Award, the first Las Vegas hotel and casino and the largest resort in AAA history to receive this honor. The AAA Five Diamond Award, presented to fewer than one-half percent of the approximately 40,000 lodgings and restaurants in the … Read more