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 [...]

Sparks have flown as mid-level hotels launch a marketing war in an attempt to win customer’s money.  Advertising campaigns have been aimed at specific hotel chains as Premier Inn and Intercontinental Hotels Group go negative.
The Advertising Standards Authority accused Travelodge of misleading advertising against its rival Holiday Inn, when comparative prices failed to include Holiday [...]