InterContinental Hotels Group said on Aug 14 it is launching its first flagship e-store on one of China"s leading online travel booking platforms.
Typically lacking their foreign counterpart"s hospitality acumen, most Chinese hotels have competed for the market"s middle and lower tiers, and few have ventured overseas.
Google dominates the search market and will increasingly do so in social. Links that will drive most value to you as a business come from high-profile authors and people that influence other people.
Holiday Inn Shanghai Pudong Kangqiao"s swimming pool has an exceptional view, as the image above shows.
A county in East China"s Anhui province cancelled a 15 million yuan ($2.35 million) subsidy for a local hotel after it caused controversy.
The recent surge in the ADRs of Home Inns and Hotels Management could mean a post-earnings drop.
Employee satisfaction, customer satisfaction and financial achievement. Ensuring employee accountability and consistent performance evaluation helps secure success in all of these sectors.
Thanks to the Almighty miracle that is YouTube, we could spend all day just browsing clips of featherbrained folks doing weird things in hotel rooms (like watching Cuban rapper Pitbull get it on with a hot female plumber in Miami"s Epic Hotel—not the kind of thing you see every day).
The cost and fees data is part of a larger survey of more than 61,000 hotel guests from the United States and Canada.
Home Inns and Hotels Management investors are worried about the budget hotel sector in the nation"s slowing economy.
China"s Mission Hills Group, owner and operator of the "World"s No. 1 Golf Club," formally partnered with the world"s largest luxury hospitality organization, The Leading Hotels of the World (LHW) in a ceremony at the Group"s Hainan Island resort.
As we mentioned earlier today, there"s a hotel boom happening in Asia right now. There"s so many to list, we"re giving you a sort of Magic Mike-type news brief. A little tease, and a little unveiling. It"s just a little show for now, but keep coming back and we"ll keep giving you a little more...detail.
China"s economic success has created a fast-growing middle class and an explosion in domestic travel. Cashing in on the travel boom is one hotel chain that"s expanding so fast, it"s opening a new property every two days.
Customer reviews are vitally important. They can make or break a hotel and its reputation.
Nan Dazhan Cun (南大掌村), a rural village on the outskirts of Changzhi city in Shanxi Province, is set to open a "luxury" hotel made from 35 new shipping containers next month.
Riding the wave of the nation’s booming art scene, hotels in China are getting ever more serious about art.
It is a book that has proved a publishing phenomenon, establishing itself as the fastest-selling paperback ever seen in the UK thanks to its rather exotic content.
Ahead of the ninth series of her Channel 5 TV show The Hotel Inspector, hotelier Alex Polizzi has said hotel owners at venues she visits are continuing to make the same mistakes around cleanliness and service.
A press release from Starwood Hotels on Wednesday showed that it intends to open a further 100 hotels in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan over the next 5 years.
Meliá Hotels International, the first Spanish hotel to operate in China, announced further growth in the country with the signature of a management agreement for a new hotel in the city of Chongqing.
Despite central government instructions, large holdings still remain.In 2003, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission Minister Li Rongrong tasked the watchdog with reorganizing SOEs by divesting non-core hotel assets.
The turnover of CEOs amongst the world’s 50 largest hotel companies doubled in 2011, compared with 2009, with 12% of companies now being led by a new chief executive.
With the number of hotels under construction in China skyrocketing in the last few years, and virtually all of the world’s top chains digging into Beijing and Shanghai for the long haul……
The challenge of rate parity and influencing nature of OTAs is challenging hoteliers to source new revenue and booking streams.