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Mandarin Oriental, Boston Gives Guests Real-Time Holiday Travel Information from Flyte Systems
Flyte Systems | December 16, 2014
Guests Confirm Travel Plans on Their Guestroom Television before Leaving for Logan International Airport; FlyteChannel Keeps Guests Comfortable during Delays CHICAGO, IL - December 16, 2014 - Mandarin Oriental, Boston gives guests the gift of more comfortable - and confident - travel this holiday season by implementing FlyteChannel onto all of their guestrooms televisions. FlyteChannel, developed by Flyte Systems, provides real-time airline flight information for Boston's Logan International Airport. Flyte Systems is the leading provider of cost effective airport travel information displays and digital signage content for the hospitali
JLL’s Hotels & Hospitality Group Promotes Nicholas Meli to Vice President
JLL's Hotels & Hospitality Group | December 16, 2014
In order to fully meet our clients' needs across our multiple business lines, JLL has expanded our presence in Florida and promoted Nicholas Meli to Vice President, Investment Sales in JLL's Miami office. Mr. Meli will focus primarily on expanding our select service/middle market investment sales practice throughout the southeast region, with a specific focus on the state of Florida, by continuing to work with Managing Directors Al Calhoun and Mark Fair in Atlanta, as well as with Managing Director Gregory Rumpel in Miami. Having completed a variety of national and regional assignments with a cumulative value of nearly $2 billio
IHG Agrees to Acquire Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants for $430 Million
IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) | December 16, 2014
16 December, 2014 Highlights: IHG has agreed to acquire Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants ("Kimpton") for $430 million in cash. Kimpton is the world's largest independent boutique hotel operator and a sophisticated food and beverage operator. Kimpton is a fully asset-light business that manages 62 hotels in the most attractive cities and resorts in the US with a further 16 hotels in the pipeline. It operates 71 hotel-based destination restaurants and bars. Acquisition makes IHG the clear market leader in the boutique segment, the fastest growing segment in the industry. Highly complementary with IHG's Hotel Indigo and EVEN Hotels b
2014: A Year of Digital Innovation and Success for HeBS Digital & Client Portfolio
HeBS Digital | December 16, 2014
NEW YORK, NY December 16, 2014 - As the year comes to an end, HeBS Digital, the industry's leading digital technology, full-service hotel digital marketing, website design and direct online channel consulting firm, once again demonstrated its ability to drive results and innovative strategies for its hospitality clients. With multiple established best practices and new revenue-driving digital technologies released this year, clients were set up for success in 2014 and the results speak for themselves. This year, HeBS Digital and its hospitality clients took home 29 major industry awards that ranged across the hotel digital marketing spe
Owned by The Hanini Group & Managed by Crestline Hotels, 108-room Hotel Indigo Newark Downtown Opens
December 16, 2014
15 December, 2014 - ATLANTA – InterContinental Hotels Group's (IHG) Hotel Indigo® brand has opened its third hotel in the New York Metro area, the 108-room Hotel Indigo Newark Downtown. Located at 810 Broad Street, this unique hotel is in the historic National State Bank Building and sits on one of the busiest corners in New Jersey, at the intersection of business, retail and culture – making it easy to walk around the neighborhood and discover the local scene. The boutique hotel celebrates Newark's rich history of innovation and commerce, telling the story of modern innovation over time, including a young Thomas Edison's work to i
Rethinking Products to Draw Closer Ties
Georges Panayotis | December 16, 2014
by Georges Panayotis Whether it's a car or a telephone, staging the launch of each new commodity heightens the consumer's anticipation of innovations. The idea is to create an emotional shock around a brand and stimulate closer ties with its followers. What is true for these sectors is true for all aspects of everyday life and the hotel industry is no exception. Forty years ago or so, its transformation was driven by the arrival of concepts, developed broad scale by inspired pioneers, resulting in a community of users seduced by innovation with each new arrival on the market. And then, years after, it became necessary to better manage a
RIU Hotels & Resorts to Open Complex of Three Hotels on Mauritius through Renovation & Conversion
RIU | December 16, 2014
PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain, December 16, 2014 - RIU Hotels & Resorts will add a new destination to its portfolio with the opening of three hotels making up the new RIU Resort located on the glorious Le Morne peninsula on the island of Mauritius. The complex includes the Riu Le Morne (Adults Only by RIU), Riu Creole and Riu Coral. The hotels are currently closed for refurbishment to adapt facilities to the RIU standard of service, involving a total investment of around 70 million Euros. The three hotels, which are on the beach front, all have four stars and offer the recognized RIU All Inclusive 24-hour service. The Riu Creole and Riu
Malaysia’s Felda Investment Buys London’s Park City Hotel for $93.85M; Rebrands to Grand Plaza Hotel
December 16, 2014
Dec. 16--LONDON (The Star/ANN) -- Felda Investment Corp (FIC), the investment arm of Federal Land Development Authority (Felda), has acquired a 4-star hotel in the upmarket Kensington area in London for 60 million pounds (US$93.85 million), making it the 12th investment in the group's hospitality portfolio. Called Park City Hotel, with 62 units of guest rooms and two units of three-bedroom serviced apartments, it was renamed yesterday to Grand Plaza Hotel, following the same brand of another upscale hospitality asset owned by Felda, the Grand Plaza Serviced Apartments in Bayswater, London. Felda had paid 98 million pounds for the 198-un