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The new addition to the Hospitality lecturing staff at the Academy, Chad Tilbury, is lighting the spark for careers to sizzle as he teaches students the art of cocktails. (more…)

Industry demand for graduates to manage Meetings and Events has promped an upgrade of the Tourism program with the latest new Event software.

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New monthly travel figures released by Abacus International showed the Asia-Pacific travel industry maintained a steady pace in the first half of 2006. (more…)

Singapore’s ambitious plan to double tourist arrivals to 17 million by 2015 has prompted the British-based InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) to map out its own bold blueprint for expansion here. (more…)

Hotel room rates are likely to rise by 10 or 15 per cent a year for the next three years, says a wide ranging UBS report on the Singapore property market. The Swiss bank report goes on to predict a further 15 per cent rise this year in sale prices for high-end residential properties, following last year’s 26 per cent increase. (more…)

Fewer Australians are choosing to see their own country with domestic tourism remaining relatively flat over the past 20 years, a new report shows. (more…)

Millennium & Copthorne International Limited  will be unveiling its first hotel in China, Shanghai on 28 August 2006.  This is a management contract signed with China owner, the Shanghai Workers Union , which also owns hotels, villas and spas amongst other investments in China.  (more…)

Marriott will manage what will ultimately be a 1000-room hotel at the Hong Kong Int’l Airport, under an agreement reached with Union Sky Holdings Limited, a partnership between Shun Tak Holdings Limited and Dragages Hong Kong Limited.  When opened in the second half of 2008, the hotel will be Marriott International’s fifth hotel in Hong Kong.

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VietNamNet Bridge - The Tourism Department of HCM City, the Tourism Ministry of Cambodia and the Lao National Administration of Tourism have agreed to jointly organize International Travel Expo-Ho Chi Minh City 2007 (ITE-HCMC 2007), themed “Three countries, one destination”, in HCM City, said Deputy Director of the Department La Quoc Khanh at the closing ceremony of ITE-HCMC 2006 on August 6. (more…)

Following the recent security alerts at UK airports hotel operators, particularly those in the vicinity of Heathrow and Gatwick airports, have seen occupancy and rates rise as large numbers of passengers seek short-term accommodation. (more…)