Franchising.com: Carlson Hotels Worldwide today announced that it is reinvigorating its trailblazing, patented look to bookSM travel agent loyalty program. The program, which began in 1992 and is noted as the industry standard for recognizing travel agents for their brand loyalty, will now offer new generation functionality, as well as a contemporary design and enriched […]
Franchising.com: Carlson Hotels Worldwide has partnered with the American Red Cross, Kids in Need, YMCA, La Escuelita and Big Brothers Big Sisters in an effort to help youth in need across the country. In Texas, Carlson worked with the American Red Cross to distribute more than 4,300 activity bags in shelters to children displaced by
The Peninsula (Qatar): Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide and Al Muttahed opened three towers of the ‘all suites’ eight-tower Le Méridien Hotel in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. The additional five towers are expected to open by the end of 2009. A total of four towers will be an ‘all suites’ hotel and the remaining four towers
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Franchising.com: Wyndham Worldwide, one of the world’s largest hospitality companies, has expanded the innovative Women on Their Way program to include career development, leadership training, work/life balance seminars, mentoring and networking for Company associates. The Women on Their Way Associate Program will include mentoring circles, workshops on topics surrounding health, family life, and work/life balance
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eMediaWorld.com: Red Lion Hotels Corporation announced today that it has closed on a $14 million loan from Wells Fargo Bank, National Association on Red Lion’s 181-room hotel in Bellevue, Washington. The loan provides for a five-year term and a variable spread over LIBOR based on certain financial ratios. The current pricing is 1.75% over LIBOR.
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Franchising.com: Go for Gold! Choice Hotels International, Inc. is proud to announce a new permanent Armed Services program as part of its Choice Privileges rewards program. Effective immediately, active duty or reserve military members, retired military, National Guard, U.S. Coast Guard, as well as eligible spouses and dependents can join the Choice Privileges rewards program
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Bangkok Post (Thailand): Carlson Hotels Worldwide-Asia Pacific plans to operate seven new hotels in Thailand by 2010. Four of the hotels will be in Bangkok: the 436-room Radisson Hotel Bangkok Sathorn and 170-room Radisson Suites Bangkok Sukhumvit – both scheduled for next year – and the 142-room Park Plaza Bangkok Asoke and 321-room Regent Bangkok,
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Hotel Interactive: The popularity of the new “3 Palms†brand for upscale independent and condo-hotel properties continues to grow with signed agreements that will add two properties to its portfolio. The two hotels are a 76-room new construction in Dothan, Alabama, which is expected to open in September of 2009 and a 60-room conversion in
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The Franchise Magazine: G&D (UK) Ltd, the London franchisee of Advanced Media Information (AMI), has placed its second touch screen guest information kiosk at the prestigious Millennium Gloucester Hotel and Conference Centre, Kensington. This follows the success of its first kiosk at the Hilton London Metropole Hotel. “The company is delighted with the response it
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Focus on Travel News: IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group), the world’s largest hotel group by number of rooms, announced the introduction of the first Hotel Indigo property in Central America. The property is expected to open in the first quarter of 2009 in the metropolitan city of San Jose, the capital and largest city of Costa
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