Hotels' makeup-removal towelettes recalled because of bacteria
Makeup-removal towelettes ? called "simplySmart Remove" ? are recalled from Holiday Inn Express hotels because of contamination that could cause eye infections

British Hotels,Restaurants Must Step Up Or Fail-Tourism Chief
LONDON (AFP)--Just as the falling pound has sparked hopes that foreign tourists will flock to Britain for cheaper holidays, the government's tourism chief warned Thursday that poor service could put them off.

Hotels drop bid for compensation
HOTELS and restaurants in Bahrain have no plans to seek compensation after being forced to cancel their New Year's Eve entertainment at the last minute, it has emerged.

Simon Calder: Some hotels are awful ? but not all of them
Who would be a hotelier? First Basil Fawlty mocked the profession; next, the then tourism minister, Kim Howells, accused some English resorts of "rotting from the ground up". And now the biggest cheese in domestic tourism, Christopher Rodrigues, lambasts "grumpy" and "greedy" hotel proprietors.

Poor service 'risks tourism jobs'
Poor service in hotels and restaurants could cost thousands of jobs in the recession, Britain's tourism chief says.

South Florida hotels, bowl organizers have plan for double-duty
Out with the old, in with the new. Not the year. College football teams -- and their traveling caravans. Orange Bowl opponents Cincinnati and Virginia Tech head home Friday morning after a weeklong stay that culminated in the OB's 75th annual classic. Arriving by evening will be even bigger headliners -- No. 1 Oklahoma and No. 2 Florida to prepare for their Jan. 8 national-title game at Dolphin ...

Where to stay in Malmo
From modern comfort to budget hotels, there are several options for centrally-located accommodation in Malmo.

Report finds some budget hotels filthy
A consumer group says it found rooms from clean to utterly filthy when it inspected Britain's most visited budget hotel chains.The rooms added a whole new meaning to the concept of a dirty weekend, said the report from Which?Which? employees inspected a total of 16 rooms during four days last September at Ibis, Travelodge, Premier Inn, Jurys Inn, and Comfort Inn. The hotels all were within a ...

Verizon's Data 'Hotels' Bring IP Traffic Closer
The program lets content owners and CDNs bypass traditional backbone-peering processes by depositing their content directly into temporary data centers.

EASTIN HOTELS & EASTIN RESIDENCES GROUP ANNOUNCES GROUP GENERAL MANAGER APPOINTMENT
Çѹ·Õè 6 Á¡ÃÒ¤Á 2552 14:47 ¹. Eastin Hotels & Eastin Residences Group is delighted to announce Group General Manager Mark Heather, effective January 8, 2009.

Dirty Weekends In London's Budget Hotels
A Which? Holiday survey has made the not entirely surprising discovery that some budget chain hotels in London and Manchester are not reaching high enough standards of cleanliness . Ibis and Travelodge had the worst levels of hygiene in the findings, declared as safe by the chain hotels' spokesmen but most likely declared 'yucky' by users. Mould growing on mattresses in Manchester, ...

Embassy Suites Hotels® Unveils First Design Option III
Memphis, TENN, Embassy Suites Hotels today announced the highly anticipated opening of the brand's first Design Option III property, the 145-suite Embassy Suites Jackson - North/Ridgeland -- the brand's first in Mississippi. Located in Ridgeland, Miss., an upscale community north of Jackson, the property also boasts the brand's first Flying Spoons, an innovative new restaurant concept that will ...

Peninsula Hotels Upgrade to OPERA v5.0 and Deploy MICROS OPERA Revenue Management System
MICROS Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: MCRS), a leading provider of information technology solutions for the hospitality and retail industries, is pleased to announce that The Peninsula Hotels is upgrading all of its hotels to OPERA v5.0 and deploying the OPERA Revenue Management System (RMS) after successful pilots at The Peninsula Hong Kong and Peninsula New York properties. The deployment of the ...

Area around Wachovia Arena sees boom in hotels
Four hotels are planned or under construction near the Wachovia Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes-Barre Township, an area where officials say new lodging is needed to accommodate travelers.

Entlastung für Hotels und Carrier
Der ägyptische Tourismusminister Zoheir Garranah hat ein Hilfspaket für die dortige Reiseunternehmen aufgelegt. So sollen Gebühren ausgesetzt werden, die Hotels für touristische Werbekampagnen des Landes aufbringen und Charterfluggesellschaften erhalten einen Rabatt auf Gebühren erhalten.

'Dirty' budget hotels are criticised
Mouldy mattresses and dirty toilets are found at several budget hotels by a consumer rights magazine.

Here's the deal on Marriott's breakfast promo
Remember I mentioned an upcoming free-breakfast promotion from Marriott full-service Hotels? Here are the details from Marriott spokesman John Wolf: "The free breakfast promotion booking window begins Jan. 8 though January 26 for stays between Jan. 15 through March 29...

El Monte may shutter hotels due to crime
The city of El Monte wants to clean up crime at local motels.

Al Madina A'Zarqa announces tie up with Anantara Hotels and Resorts
Blue City Company 1 (BCC1) has announced an agreement with the internationally recognized luxury hotel group, Anantara Hotels & Resorts, part of the Minor Hotel Group, one of Asia's leading hotel owners and operators, for a new beachfront hotel development in Al Madina A'Zarqa - the most significant real estate infrastructure project in the Sultanate of Oman currently under Phase One of its ...

'Dirty' U.K, budget hotels criticised | bbc.co.uk
Mouldy mattresses, stained duvets and dirty toilets have been found at budget hotels by a consumer rights magazine. Which? Holiday magazine said it found poor cleaning standards at some London and Manchester hotels run by budget chains Ibis and Travelodge. The dirtiest toilet was at Ibis Euston in central London, it said. Spokesmen for Ibis and Travelodge said the levels of uncleanness found did ...