Franchise Key: Guy Degrenne participates at Franchise Show-Franchise Expo Paris , the inescapable meeting of futures French and foreign franchisers, which will be take place from 13 to 16 March in Paris, France. Given the intense development both in France as well as outside national territory borders (Sofia, Dubai, Jakarta, Singapore), Guy Degrenne will demonstrate […]
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Reuters: Choice Hotels International Inc is on track to meet its target for a 3 percent increase in the number of its franchised hotels this year, the company’s chief financial officer said on Wednesday. That would outpace the Smith Travel Research forecast for unit growth in the economy to mid-scale segment of 2.4 percent. Since
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Malaysia Star: Tune Hotels Regional Services Sdn Bhd, which operates Tune Hotels.com hotels, is aggressively in talks with several potential partners to open overseas franchise outlets, said chief executive officer Mark Lankester. The low-price hotel operator had received about 50 to 60 requests from investors keen to be a Tune Hotels’ franchisee since early this
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Toronto Star: You book a room on the website of a famous international hotel chain. As you arrive to check in, its reassuring brand name is above the door. Its logo is everywhere: on the staff uniforms, the stationery, the carpets. But the hotel is owned by someone else – often an individual or an
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Franchise Key: InterContinental Hotels Group has announced that it has signed a franchise agreement with Foremost Hospitality GmbH to introduce 20 new Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express properties across Germany’s key cities by 2016. Karl-Heinz Pawlizki, IHG’s director of operations in Germany, commented: “As IHG’s sixth biggest market globally by number of rooms and
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Economist: You book a room on the website of a famous international hotel chain. As you arrive to check in, its reassuring brand name is above the door. Its logo is everywhere: on the staff uniforms, the stationery, the carpets. But the hotel is owned by someone else—often an individual or an investment fund—who has
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Hospitality 1st: Wayne B. Goldberg, President & Chief Executive Officer of LQ Management L.L.C., announced that Rajiv K. Trivedi has been named Executive Vice President of Franchising and Chief Development Officer, effective immediately. Trivedi’s expanded role includes direction of all franchising operations and sales, and all development activity for the Company. Goldberg said, “I am
Tampa Tribune: TripAdvisor.com is known for the terse descriptions of hotel accommodations generated by travelers’ ratings that range from “The hotel room was clean and pest free” to “The worst hotel on the planet.” Those travelers’ comments described the same property in Tampa, the Days Inn Airport Stadium at 2522 N. Dale Mabry Highway, which
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Forbes: Hotel franchisor Choice Hotels International Inc. is scheduled to report its fourth-quarter financial results after the market closes on Tuesday, amid worsening declines in both business and leisure travel spending. However, analysts expect the Silver Spring, Md.-based company to continue outperforming most of its peers in the hotel industry. Choice’s revenue stream is considered
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CNNMoney.com: Wyndham Hotel Group today announced that nine of its hotel brands made Entrepreneur‘s 2009 Franchise 500® list, a ranking based on objective and quantifiable factors including a franchise’s financial strength, growth rate and system size. The Hotel Group’s Super 8®, Days Inn®, Ramada®, Wingate by Wyndham®, Microtel Inns and Suites®, Baymont Inn & Suites®,
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