The business of running the services within the hotel is global.
Global hotel room night rented was up 56% form a year ago, while car rental days was up 55%.
Global hotel room nights booked increased by 28% y-o-y in Q1 2013.
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In fact, 23 global hotel groups have recently come together to develop a protocol for measuring and reporting the carbon footprint of hotel stays and corporate meetings.
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.
New World Development, led by the family of billionaire Cheng Yu-tung, moved to expand its global hotel business by acquiring Dallas-based Rosewood Hotels and Resorts last year.
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Expedia, the largest US online travel service provider in terms of booking volumes, recently announced a new agreement with eLong Inc. to further expand the global hotel booking options for users.
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Until recently, the demand for global hotel brands and good air links mainly came from overseas business travellers, mainly Chinese and Europeans, and the business and leisure sector afforded by domestic oil and gas wealth.
It is partnered with many global hotel brands including Radisson, Hyatt, Best Western and Marriott, and rates are dependent on how busy the hotel is and what time rooms are needed for overnight guests.
Eventually the Holiday Inn brand passed into the ownership of Six Continents, a British-based outfit that calls itself the world's leading global hotel company, and was this week being threatened with a possible takeover bid by a firm headed by Hugh Osmond, a Briton with an eye for opportunity.
Derreck Kayongo's Global Soap Project collects partially used hotel soap and reprocesses it to save lives.
The Global Soap Project recycles uses bars of soap from hotel rooms and distributes them throughout the world.
In Acapulco, the blue water of the bay gives way to a skyline dotted with closely packed tall white hotels operated by major hospitality companies such as InterContinental Hotel Group, Starwood Hotels, Wyndham Worldwide Corporation, and Global Hospitality Investments.
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Over time, we would expect the price to continue to increase as the global economy expands and as it continues to take market share in the hotel bookings market.
Earlier this week, veterans bonded over free meals at restaurants and relaxed with their families in free hotel rooms, courtesy of Veterans Day offers from businesses ranging from local shops to global chains.
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Late one night this week, your columnist met a young global leader who, after a happy drinking session, had wound up outside the wrong hotel.
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With my health on the mend, I posted some travelogue articles via hotel WiFi and made a couple of phone calls that came through with impressive clarity on the Droid II Global phone that Verizon lent me for the trip.
It was only after U.S. Secretary of the Treasury James A. Baker III strongarmed the finance ministers of Germany, France, Great Britain, and Japan into a hotel room in New York and produced the Plaza Accord on September 22, 1985, launching an unprecedented global market intervention to bring down the overvalued U.S. dollar, that protectionist pressures began to subside.
His company, a global sales operation with an association of independently owned four- and five- star hotels, secures hotel buyouts for group business meetings.
The Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2007 was presented at a press conference on 13 November in the Mena House Oberoi Hotel, Cairo.
We believe that with an expanding international presence, the robust growth in hotel bookings and a focus on developing its mobile platform, it is well-equipped to leverage growth in the global online travel market.
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The 15-storey hotel was originally built as part of the Embassy Suites brand, but its owners (Goldman Sachs, with its global headquarters next door) shut it down for a tip-to-toe re-do and re-brand, which was completed in March 2012.
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