The Hilton hotel chain has announced plans to tap into the cheap hotel market in Turkey by opening up four new hotels and signing an agreement on two other projects this year. The brand, which is to be known as Hampton, will provide affordable rooms to business customers within the country.
According to the firm’s development [...]

Online travel agent ebookers.com has published the results of a survey which suggests that many Brits are unable to log-off from social networking sites, even when they are relaxing on holiday.
Nearly two-thirds of the people who responded to the survey admitted that they spent at least two hours or more checking their social networks while [...]

Hotel chain Travelodge is looking into the apparent hacking of its customer database. According to the company, a third party has managed to get hold of email addresses and names. Christopher Graham, the information commissioner, has been given details about the incident and is investigating the situation. If he finds that the hotel firm has [...]

The Hilton group has just opened its first new brand for two decades. Aimed at the extended-stay market in the mid-price range the Home2 Suites hotel in North Carolina’s Fayetteville is the first to open with another six under construction. Although Hilton already caters to the high-end of the extended-stay market with its Homewood Suites [...]

Workers at the Hilton Hawaii Village have walked out on a strike, due to last for five days, over a contract dispute with their employer. The strike began at 4am local time on Thursday. The Hilton in Waikiki is the largest resort on Hawaii. Union Unite Here Local 5 said its members were protesting against [...]

Hotel giant Marriott International has made an agreement with Las Vegas’s newest hotel-casino, the Cosmopolitan, to share its database of customers in return for a percentage of room revenue. When it opens its doors in December this year, the Cosmopolitan will offer close to 3,000 rooms to its guests as well as a casino which [...]

The global travel and tourism industry has been hit hard by a combination of a poor world economy coupled with travelers growing concerns over the outbreak of the H1N1 virus.  Especially hard hit have been those in the luxury hotel segment, which have seen their occupancy rates drop dramatically over the last year, as budget [...]

The plan was simple: take an old, obsolete hotel and give it a makeover.  However, some in the town of Gloucestershire are not happy on exactly how Mystiques plans to change the hotel, which has been a city landmark for over 150 years.  Mystiques, the company behind the makeover, plan was to turn the hotel [...]

Resorts around the United Kingdom are expecting huge crowds over this bank holiday.  Scarborough, which is the third most popular British tourist destination, is enjoying a massive influx of holidaymakers, as staycationers choose to make their holiday within the confines of the United Kingdom.  Concerns over the H1N1 outbreak, coupled with the poor economy accounts [...]

Cliff Jacobs and Mark Goveia, longtime veterans of the hotel industry, have combined to make the Exquisite Card, which will offer hotel and car hire discounts to customers who are loyal to a particular brand.    The two hope the card will allow for easy access to the number of customers who do their own research [...]