The hotel is located on the banks of Jinji Lake and has 92 lake-view rooms in four buildings. The buildings are constructed in classical Suzhou garden style, surrounding a small pagoda, bridge and flowing water.
An entrepreneur from the Netherlands has come up with a program that makes it simpler for couples who want to split up. Check in to a special hotel on Friday, married.
If there’s one major distinguishing factor about the current state of China’s luxury hotel market, it’s the contrast between saturated top-tier cities and “blank slate” cities further inland.
Ma Zhenhuan finds international hospitality at the JW Marriott Hotel in Hangzhou.
The researchers have found that choosing a hotel is dominated by emotional drivers (67% of the decision process) - such as connection, warmth, excitement and pleasure - over rational features and benefits (33%).
In preparing to be a guest speaker at three different hotel conferences recently, I had our KTN team conduct some anonymous mystery shopping calls to see what would happen when we called directly to hotels to double-check online rates posted on OTA websites.
The largest hotel under construction today is the 1,012-room JW Marriott Austin, followed by the 800-room Omni Nashville Hotel. Freitag said both projects represent logical extensions of cities trying to grow.
The largest hotel under construction today is the 1,012-room JW Marriott Austin, followed by the 800-room Omni Nashville Hotel. Freitag said both projects represent logical extensions of cities trying to grow.
For many years the standard complaint about hotel rooms in New York was, “They’re expensive but they’re small,” often uttered with a “What are you going to do about it?” shrug.
Less than one week away from China’s university entrance exam, high school students are scrambling to finish their last-minute preparations.
China Lodging Group, Limited ("China Lodging Group" or the "Company"), a leading and fast-growing limited service hotel chain operator in China, today announced that the Company recently completed an investment in Starway Hotels (Hong Kong) Limited (or "Starway") to own a majority stake.
On June 3, the launch of Shanghai Join In hotel management company - a fashionable, luxurious, high-end international hotel (resort) management company, and the first Asian Tonino Lamborghini brand hotel - Tonino Lamborghini Boutique Hotel Suzhou was held near the Jinji Lake of Suzhou Industrial Park.
Over the past 10 years, several factors have changed the models and approaches to Revenue Management (RM) and Pricing, particularly the Internet and the demise of traditional carriers and the subsequent rise of budget carriers.
Hotels open and close at a astonishing rate, especially in emerging markets and traveller hotspots, and many work hard to avoid common mistakes made in the process.
What are the implications of China becoming the biggest business travel market?
The number of paid employees of Macao"s hotel and restaurant sector reached 63,204 at the end of the first quarter of 2012, up 17.2 percent year-on-year, according to a survey results released Friday by Macao"s Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).
InterContinental and Marriott are two of the world’s biggest hotel players. FTSE 100-listed Intercontinental runs over 4,500 hotels worldwide including New York’s Barclay while America’s Marriott operates 3,700 properties.
Luxury resort and hotel group GHM has announced it is planning to launch a new hotel brand in China.
Just four months after being appointed chief executive of mid-market hotel group De Vere Village, Robert Cook is making his mark with a relaunch of the brand. He tells Journalist why there is so much to shout about the mid-market group
Some years ago when the traveler emancipated from Travel Agents and started doing their own hotel search the typical search could would have started with a broad query such as “Hotel in New York” and then drill down from there, as the traveler created their shortlist of hotels.
While walking along Guilin City’s Zhenyang Lu (literally means Pedestrian Street), bathed in a rainbow of neon lights on both sides, my eyes widen in surprise.
In general, mobile platforms are a good investment from a revenue management perspective as they represent another consumer friendly channel where a company can distribute its rates and inventory.
Lodging Interactive subsidiary helping hotels increase rankings on review sites and search engines, plus increase fan base on social networks.
Adapting hotel spaces to observe the cultural expectations of a particular region while maintaining brand consistency presents both challenges and opportunities.