Vancouver Sun: The former Quality Inn Vancouver Airport Hotel has been stripped of its Quality Inn franchise, leaving hundreds of customers who made guaranteed bookings for the 2010 Olympic Games facing stiff price increases to retain their rooms. The hotel is honouring reservations guaranteed by the booking agents for its former franchise, but not the […]
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Hotels Magazine: InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has signed a 20 year management contract with Splendid Hotel Group for a new 254-room six storey InterContinental property in the centre of London. The InterContinental London Westminster is set to open in late 2011. InterContinental London Westminster will occupy the former Queen Anne’s Chambers, originally built in the
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Franchising.com: Hotel Indigo today announced the addition of two new properties in San Antonio to double the brand’s presence in Texas. The Hotel Indigo San Antonio Riverwalk, which opened last week, and the Hotel Indigo San Antonio at the Alamo, which will open this winter, join properties in Dallas and Houston for a total of
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HotelWorld Network: Unsettled times are becoming more settled – certainly for the five hotel brands operated by America’s Best Franchising Incorporated, which during the third quarter of 2009 sold nine new franchises with a total of 584 rooms and opened 11 new properties with a total of 757 rooms. This brings the company’s results for
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eTravelBlackboard: InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has signed two new Hotel Indigo properties in Glasgow and Liverpool. Hotel Indigo is IHG’s newest hotel brand and offers guests boutique hotel design as well as the peace of mind they get from staying with a large hotel group. There are 27 hotels open in North America and 59
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Hotels Magazine: In last year’s special report on franchising, we wrote that the international landscape provided a fertile opportunity for strong brands between conversion product and the potential for new-build unit growth. A year later, the story is similar, but progress has been made. Take McLean, Virginia-based Hilton Hotels Corp., for example, which has spent
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Hotel Interactive, Inc.: Though they’re not giving up on standards entirely, the major brands are becoming a little more malleable with their expectations. And that’s not all the major hotel companies are doing to try to keep costs down as rates have plummeted an average 18 percent this year, according to Smith Travel Research. By
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Franchising.com: Hotel Indigo today announced the opening of Hotel Indigo Durham-Research Triangle Park, the first of five properties planned for North Carolina. The 125-room new-build boutique hotel will be joined later this year by a 100-room property in Asheville; additional deals are signed in Charlotte, Wilmington and Winston-Salem. The new hotel is conveniently located off
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The Associated Press: Struggling with an economy that has gouged gambling profits and cut casino companies’ ability to borrow, MGM Mirage hopes to keep expanding its international hotel and casino empire and fattening its profit — but have other companies foot the bill. Under 10 new deals, the largest owner and operator on the Las
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Franchise Key: A hotel chain that allows its guests to select the services they require: this is the novel concept currently being offered by the “Harry’s Home” hotel business and the owner, Harald Ultsch from Innsbruck, is intending to expand the concept throughout Europe. According to a report published in the Austrian ‘Wirtschaftsblatt’, guests choose
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