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Readers of Travel + Leisure (China) voted 15 Shangri-La luxury hotels among the top 100 hotels in China in the 2007 “Readers’ Choice Awards,” the most properties of any hotel group represented on the list. 

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Hospitality Leaders at the annual HSMAI ‘Asia Connect’ conference in Singapore were positive about Singapore’s outlook for the industry. (more…)

Holiday Inn on Flinders has taken out the Australian Hotel Association (AHA) national award for “Best Environmental Initiative” at an awards night dinner held in Adelaide recently. (more…)

IHG’s (InterContinental Hotels Group’s) portfolio of hotel brands has been growing at record pace across Asia Pacific during the past year, accompanied by an equally strong growth in the group’s regional support infrastructure. (more…)

The 2010 FIFA World Cup will present the South African hospitality industry with the greatest opportunity to showcase developments in the industry. (more…)

The Asia-Pacific region includes economies at polar opposites of the online development spectrum. (more…)

Hotel owners have posted the highest Average Daily Rates (ADR) on record for a June quarter.  The newly released Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) accommodation data show that national occupancy and ADR levels reached a new pinnacle for a June quarter. (more…)

Marriott International, Inc will add a total of 59 hotels to its Asia-Pacific portfolio through the end of 2010. The new hotels will provide 18,160 rooms across five brands with multiple openings in Thailand, China and India. This growth will add about a third more hotels and almost 50 percent more rooms to Marriott’s lodging presence in Asia-Pacific over the next 36 months.

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Orient-Express Hotels Ltd., owners and operators of 49 deluxe leisure properties in 25 countries, announces its latest acquisition, the 200-room Hotel das Cataratas, the only hotel within the UNESCO World Heritage designated Iguaçu National Park in the Paraná region of Brazil. 

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There were close to 356 million international trips to Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) member destinations in 2006, representing region-wide year-on-year growth of 5.3% over 2005. (more…)