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  • easyHotel in Dubai Welcomes Its First Guests

    easyHotel Jebel Ali, the super budget brand hotel chain’s first venture outside Europe, on Monday (September 6) welcomed its first guests, many of them taking advantage of the offer of attractive budget price of AED 99 per night for a double-room.

  • HVS EMEA Hospitality Newsletter – Week Ending 3 September 2010

    Kingdom Sells Its Share In Cairo Hotel Buyer Sought For The Berners Hotel London How To Value Hotels in the Current Market Opposites Attract In Edinburgh | A Park Inn Week For Rezidor Hotel Group | A Laid-Back Bovine Adventure In Warwick | Belgium Says Bonjour To Europe’s First Aloft | Meet The New Four Seasons On Park Lane | Hilton Worldwide Convenes At The Lowest Point On Ea...

    • HVS
    • Monday, September 6 - 2010
  • Hilton Worldwide Appoints New Area President, Operations, Middle East and Africa

    Hilton Worldwide today announced that Rudi Jagersbacher will become Area President, Operations, Middle East and Africa, for the hospitality company, effective January 1, 2011. Jagersbacher will replace Jean-Paul Herzog, who will retire from Hilton Worldwide at the end of the year after 40 years of service.

  • King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Centre at Jordan Re-Launched Under Hilton Hotels & Resorts Brand Management

    Hilton Worldwide has commenced management of Jordan's Dead Sea King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Centre, one of the largest convention centre's in the Middle East region. The reflagged convention centre will now operate under the Hilton Hotels & Resorts brand. With almost 5,000 square meters of meeting space and 23,000 square meters of build-up area spread over 25 conference and meeting rooms and...

  • Mövenpick Resort & Spa Tala Bay Aqaba selects SpaSoft® for New Spa and Wellness Complex

    PAR Springer Miller Systems Inc. (PSMS), a wholly owned subsidiary of PAR Technology Corporation (NYSE: PTC) and the leading provider of guest-centric hospitality management systems, announces that the Mövenpick Resort & Spa Tala Bay Aqaba, Jordan, has selected the SpaSoft Spa and Activity management system for its second Zara Spa.

  • Hotels Invest in Technology Despite the Economic Downturn due to its Positive Impact in the Industry

    Research has predicted that $290 million will be spent on technology alone across new hotels in the Middle East and there will be over 108,600 rooms coming online by 2011. This coupled with the crowded and lucrative nature of the industry has meant that hotel operators and owners have woken up to the need to invest in state-of-the-art technology as a way to differentiate them and remain competiti...

    • IQPC
    • Friday, August 27 - 2010
  • External: Egyptian Resorts Expects Tourism to Boost Land Sales in 2011, CEO Says | Bloomberg

    Egyptian Resorts Co., the second- biggest publicly traded Red Sea resort developer, expects a recovery in tourism to boost sales of land in its Sahl Hasheesh project in 2011, Chief Executive Officer Mohamed Kamel said. “We’re basing our optimism on sales in 2011 on more hospitality business,” Kamel, 31, said in an interview at his office in Cairo yesterday. “What we are seeing is despite the sent...

  • New hotel opens in Dubai: protel`s success in the city of gold

    The recent opening of the Hotel Jumeirah Beach of protel`s long-standing customer Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts confirms the dedication and commitment with which Germany`s protel hotelsoftware GmbH continuously and successfully expands its business internationally. The Jumeirah Beach Hotel benefits from the wide range of products, which is perfectly aligned with the requirements of this hotel.

  • Beirut blossoms: New hotels open at right time

    The latest hotels in Beirut could not have timed their entrance to the market much better. The new properties in the Lebanese capital are benefitting from the recent upswing in revenue per available room as illustrated by data from STR Global, the leading provider of market information to the global hotel industry. RevPAR for year-to-date June 2010 has averaged US$149.79 compared with US$39.56 fo...

  • Raffles Hotels & Resorts Opens Makkah Property

    Raffles has arrived to the holiest city on earth for approximately 1.6 billion Muslims: Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Raffles Makkah Palace is located in the spectacular new Abraj Al Bait complex, a seven-tower community directly adjoining the Masjid Al Haram – or Grand Mosque – and the Kaaba. The hotel, located only steps away from the Holy Mosque, is expected to reach new levels of personal service in ...

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