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The results from Wotif.com’s (www.wotif.com) annual business travel survey are in, and while, ultimately, business travellers may not have a choice about when, where and how often they travel, the results indicated that they clearly have preferences for each.  (more…)

Mr. Trauttmansdorff joins Le Meridien Nirwana Golf and Spa Resort Bali from Sheraton Perth Hotel, Australia. (more…)

The list of the World’s Best 50 restaurants in the world will be announced in London overnight in the fifth of the annual awards organised by Restaurant magazine. (more…)

Australia’s top players in the lucrative conventions market have put aside their traditional rivalry to launch a new representative body as part of joint strategy aimed at growing the country’s share of the conference market. (more…)

A combination of record occupancy levels and higher hotel room rates has seen hotel revenues increase by 8% during 2006 across Australia with Perth showing the strongest growth of all. (more…)

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide is increasing the number of hotels it manages in Shanghai to at least 12 in the coming year as it competes with other foreign hoteliers for a bigger slice of a thriving market, according to a senior official. (more…)

Pod-like rooms of just 10sqm, Yotel, coming to Sydney Developed in the UK, the first Yotel is due to open in May in the South Terminal of London’s Gatwick Airport. (more…)

aloha! Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.®  and its much-anticipated new lifestyle brand, aloftSM hotels, today announced it has signed an agreement with Argus Developments Pty Ltd (a subsidiary of Tuscan Corporation) to develop the first aloft hotel in Australia, the aloft Sydney Airport, O’Riordan Street. (more…)

‘Soaring’ room rates helped London hotels record a double-digit increase in February revenue per available room (revPAR), reports TRI Hospitality Consulting. (more…)

The Golden Tulip Shanghai Riverside will be the first hotel for Golden Tulip Hospitality in the market of China. The Swiss-Dutch based hotel company will assume management as per the 1st of April, 2007 after the agreement signing  with Shanghai Eastern Airline Hospitality. (more…)