| HST Impact on Hotel Operations - June 2010 Canadian Lodging Outlook |
| Published in conjunction with STR (Smith Travel Research) and endorsed by the Hotel Association of Canada. This publication summarizes occupancy and average room rates from major cities in Canada. |
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Posted on 31 July 2010 | 9:12 am |
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| Canadian Occupancy, ADR, RevPAR - Week Ending July 24th, 2010 |
| Published in conjunction with STR (Smith Travel Research) and endorsed by the Hotel Association of Canada. This publication summarizes weekly occupancy and average room rates from major cities in Canada. |
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Posted on 31 July 2010 | 9:10 am |
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| Crafting High-Performing Promos for Email and Social Media Channels |
| You’ve got your OTA offers out, your auction site offers, your email offers and now your Twitter and Facebook offers. Do you know what promotions are returning the best bang for your buck? Chances are if you are offering the same thing through all the different channels you aren’t targeting users enough and could be missing out on revenue and engagement opportunities. |
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Posted on 31 July 2010 | 9:02 am |
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| Why Choosing to Create a Custom IPhone App is the Clear Choice |
| Do you have a smartphone or plan to buy one in the next 90 days? If not you’re quickly becoming a minority. To accommodate the tremendous increase in users, manufacturers and providers are pumping out a dizzying array of smartphone options and hi-tech features to choose from. But, while the bevy of Blackberries, Palms, Droids and Motorolas are providing tempting eye candy for consumers, one phone still leads the pack in both adaptation and satisfaction - Apple’s iPhone. |
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Posted on 31 July 2010 | 8:59 am |
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| EZYield.com Assists Nickelodeon Suites Resort With Increasing Revenue Potential |
| EZYield.com, the originator of automated online distribution management solutions for the worldwide hospitality industry, has helped the world-famous Nickelodeon Suites Resort save time and labor by streamlining its channel management efforts, slashing the time spent on tedious data input and simplifying precision yield analytics, and allowing more labor time to be dedicated to guest service. |
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Posted on 31 July 2010 | 8:53 am |
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| The Rocco Forte Collection Appoints New Managing Director | Enables Sir Rocco Forte To Devote More Time To Spearheading Expansion Of The Business |
| The Rocco Forte Collection today announced that it has appointed Karim Naffah as the company’s new managing director with immediate effect. Naffah, 47, has acted as a consultant to the company since July 2009 during which he has assisted with the company’s successful refinancing and helped drive improvements in the performance management and corporate governance of the group of luxury hotels and resorts. |
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Posted on 31 July 2010 | 2:10 am |
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| NH Hoteles EBITDA Grows By 87% In The First Half Of 2010 |
| The negative environment that the sector suffered in the 2009 financial year presented a very positive advance in the first half of 2010. The Group income reached €646.5M, a rise of 7.2%, and the EBITDA, which shows the operational evolution of NH Hoteles, reflected the significant market recovery and an increase in productivity which is worthy of note. The Company generated an EBITDA of €68M, practically double the same period of 2009, which is fundamentally due to the improvement in hotel activity in all the markets in which NH Hoteles operates. |
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Posted on 30 July 2010 | 11:46 pm |
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| Think Europeans Pick Travel Sites by Price? Think Again | PhoCusWright FYI |
| Visiting a variety of travel-related websites has become a fundamental part of the travel planning process for many consumers. Understanding what motivates travelers to visit particular websites is vital for travel companies wishing to attract more consumers to their sites, products, and services. One might expect, especially in today's price-conscious environment, that price would be the dominant reason why consumers choose to visit a travel website. However, according to PhoCusWright's European Consumer Travel Report, positive prior experience is the most common reason consumers visit specific websites. Approximately half of U.K. and German travelers, and 38% of French travelers cited positive prior experience as the reason they chose a particular website. |
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Posted on 30 July 2010 | 11:41 pm |
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| Sol Melia Announces 13.5 Million Euro Profit For The First Half Of 2010 And Is Optimistic About The Summer Season |
| Sol Meliá announced results today for the first half of 2010, during which the company made a profit of 13,5 million euros compared to the 1.2 million euros in the same period of 2009, thus meeting market expectations after registering revenues of 581 million euros, compared to 544.9 million euros in the first half of 2009. EBITDA grew by 13% to 97 million euros compared to 85.9 in the same period in 2009. |
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Posted on 30 July 2010 | 11:35 pm |
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| Video: Hilton CEO Chris Nassetta Sounds Off | cnbc.com |
| Insight on the state of the travel, leisure business, with Chris Nassetta, Hilton Worldwide president & CEO. Nassetta sees signifant signs of recovery after 18 months of historic declines in the hospitality business. Nasetta thinks we are in the early stages of industry recovery. |
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Posted on 30 July 2010 | 11:31 pm |
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