In late November, it sent out warning letters to 22 undisclosed hotel chains.
The rise and rise of boutique hotels has not gone unnoticed by the major hotel chains.
The company employs around 2, 000 workers and has won lucrative contracts to clean rooms at many popular hotel chains.
It can be found everywhere in the corporate world, from credit-card companies to hotel chains to the retail trade.
As Japan got a taste for foreign holidays, they set up or bought travel agents, airlines and hotel chains.
In America, where the market is most developed, most large hotel chains began wiring up their rooms several years ago.
Customers were able to feel special, cared-for and cooler than those frumpy tourists and business drones at the hotel chains.
Three international hotel chains, Radisson, Hilton and Inter-Continental, are likely to assume management of three new luxury hotels now under construction.
For those firms with fewer entry-level jobs than hotel chains, the chances of much help for tougher welfare cases are slim.
Since their limited-service lodging has average gross margins of 51%--versus 38% for full-service hotel chains--most owners can operate at lower occupancy levels.
Recently, this trend has spread to the major hotel chains as well.
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Hotel industry officials say they have not conducted surveys of hotel compliance but say all major hotel chains have made their pools accessible.
His firm is paid per transaction, and during an economic downturn airlines and hotel chains will cut prices to keep filling seats and beds.
As managing director, Henry bet heavily on international hotel chains Ramada and Renaissance, China property and infrastructure, and Hong Kong's second television station, ATV.
Most hotel chains in the US and around the world have not implemented broad initiatives and instead leave newspaper delivery up to individual hotels.
Expedia competes with other online travel agents like Priceline, Orbitz and Travelocity as well as hotel chains that offer their own online booking services.
Mr Cohen of Accor thinks that some hotel chains will actually grow during the recession, if only because there is bound to be further consolidation.
Guests rate four of Choice's hotel chains as about average and three as below average in quality, according to Westlake Village, Calif. market research firm J.
This modern urban zone is comprised of glass and steel skyscrapers, a giant shopping mall, convention centre and office parks that house Fortune 500 corporate offices and global hotel chains.
In contrast, most Asian hotel chains, such as Shangri-La Asia, Mandarin-Oriental, and Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels (which holds the Peninsula brand), own and manage their own hotels.
Their loyalty programs give the business travelers a shot at free nights in fancier hotel chains that those companies operate, so they'll be hard for Cambria to displace.
All of these hotel chains hope that the provision of free access will boost loyalty and occupancy, by encouraging customers to choose the same hotel or chain again.
After the booking, Room 77, which has partnerships with a number of hotel chains, will email the customer to inform them of the type of room they received.
As a result, big hotel chains like Holiday Inn or Marriott are radically redesigning the lobby space, making it more conducive to vocational as well as social activities.
With increase in travel demand, hotel chains are no longer as desperate to liquidate their inventory of hotel night stays through online travel agencies by offering highly discounted rates.
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Two of the world's best boutique luxury hotel chains, Aman Resorts and Como Resorts, have multiple lodges here set up for logistically easy - and decadent - explorations of Bhutan.
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Since the hotel chains can sell more hotel stays themselves and rely less on OTAs to fill up spare inventory, fewer hotel nights are available for bookings through online travel agencies.
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