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57 min ago | CBC

Transat links with big French travel agency

Canadian tour operator Transat A.T. says it is expanding its retail reach in France by teaming up with the country's largest travel agency network.

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4 hrs ago | Hotels

YTL Corp. To Reposition REIT For Hospitality

YTL Corp Bhd plans to embark on a restructuring of the RM8 billion real estate investment trust and hotel portfolio under its control.

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Related Topix: REIT, Personal Finance

9 hrs ago | The Real Deal

Sternlicht says he's focused on buying deb...

While it's bad enough that the boom days of commercial real estate are over, Barry Sternlicht argues that investors are stuck with their tail between their legs in the wake of the market crash.

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Related Topix: Hotels, Starwood Hotel and Resorts Worldwide

13 hrs ago | www.canada.com | love2travel

Kiss Me, I'm Filthy: Blarney Stone

With hand sanitizer flying off shelves and people forgoing large crowds to avoid catching swine flu, for many, basic hygiene seems to take a vacation when on holiday.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, West Seattle (Seattle, WA), Fremont (Seattle, WA), Seattle, WA, Capitol Hill (Seattle, WA), Travel

16 hrs ago | Hotels

Vietnamese Businessmen To Invest In Myanmar Hotels

Vietnamese businessmen will invest in Myanmar hotel industry for the first time as part of its engagement in the country, sources with the Myanmar Hoteliers Association said on Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Burma, World News

20 hrs ago | Hotel Interactive

Westin Hotels Opens Six Hotels In Six Weeks

Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. today announces the opening of six new Westin hotels the remaining six weeks of the year.

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Related Topix: Hotels, Starwood Hotel and Resorts Worldwide, World News, India,

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Hotels

Penn National Seeks Court Approval To Buy Fontainebleau Vegas

Penn National Gaming asked the federal bankruptcy court in Miami on Tuesday to approve the company as the stalking horse bidder for the shuttered Fontainebleau project, setting a starting price of $50 million for the Strip development that had a construction budget of almost $3 billion.

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Related Topix: Gaming, Penn National Gaming, Economics News, Bankruptcy, Las Vegas, NV

news.airwise.com | love2travel

Germany Tells Non-EU Airlines To Raise Prices

The German government is putting pressure on airlines, including Dubai-based Emirates, to raise business class prices on some routes so they don't undercut European carriers.

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Hotels

Marriott adds another hotel in Buckhead; With lodgings for varied...

The new Marriott Atlanta Buckhead Hotel and Conference Center at 3405 Lenox Road opens next week with floor-to-ceiling windows, expanded meeting space and a Shula's restaurant, part of a chain of steakhouses founded by football legend Don Shula.

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Related Topix: Atlanta, GA, Buckhead (Atlanta, GA)

Hotels

Starwood Hotels May Bring Aloft Brand To Chile

Furthermore, its capital market is attractive and the company can create a different product in Chile in terms of design and atmosphere.

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Related Topix: Chile, World News

The Hartford Courant

Starwood Hotels To Move Global Headquarters To Stamford

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide , one of the world's biggest hotel operators, will move its global headquarters and about 800 jobs to Stamford in early 2012, the company confirmed Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Hotels, Starwood Hotel and Resorts Worldwide, Stamford Metro, Stamford, CT, New Haven Metro, Office Equipment, Pitney Bowes, Norwalk, CT

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Hotels

Trump drops plans to win back A.C. casinos

Real estate mogul and reality TV star Donald Trump announced yesterday that he no longer planned to regain control of the three Trump Atlantic City casinos, but said they would still bear his famous name.

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Related Topix: Economics News, Bankruptcy

Hotels

Intrawest tackles debt with sale of Colorado ski resort

The Globe and Mail November 18, 2009 Wednesday REPORT ON BUSINESS: CANADIAN; REAL ESTATE; Pg.

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Related Topix: Alpine Skiing, Winter Sports, Sports, Olympics, Olympic Winter Games

Connecticut's WB 20

Late-paying airline and hotel customers may face a new fee _ courtesy of credit card company

In this Dec. 14, 2007 file photo, a traveler uses a Delta Airlines credit card to buy an airline e-ticket at the Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, Calif.

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Related Topix: American Express, Financial Services, Transportation, Airlines, Delta Air Lines, JetBlue Airways, Hotels, Starwood Hotel and Resorts Worldwide, Hilton Hotels Corporation, Banking, JP Morgan Chase

Hotels

South Korea Plans US$8.8b Tourism Hub

South Korea plans to spend 10.2 trillion won by 2020 on developing a world-class tourism industry hub on a vast reclaimed tidal flat south of the capital, the government said Sunday.

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Related Topix: South Korea, World News

Hotel Interactive

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Appoints Jim Curtis Area Dosm, Caribbean

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide has appointed Jim Curtis as area director of sales and marketing, Caribbean.

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Related Topix: Hotels, Starwood Hotel and Resorts Worldwide, Marketing, World News, Virgin Islands, Central America, The Bahamas, Hollywood, FL

Tue Nov 17, 2009

Hotels

Sheraton Puerto Rico Convention Center Hotel & Casino Celebrates...

November 16, 2009 Monday 4:31 PM GMT Business Editors 1319 words Hotel Hotels & Resorts and Interlink Group Unveil the New 503-Room Hotel - Part of a $6 Billion, Multi-Year Sheraton Brand Revitalization - with Superior Meeting Space, Casino, Pool, Spa and Club Lounge in Exquisite Surroundings; San Juan's First New Full-Service Hotel and Casino in ...

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Related Topix: Hotels, Energy, Starwood Hotel and Resorts Worldwide

WebWire

HP and Technology Service Provider Pegasus Solutions to Collaborate on Travel Technology

PALO ALTO, Calif., HP Enterprise Services and Pegasus Solutions, the leading provider of technology and services to hotels and travel distributors, today announced they have entered into a seven-year services agreement that will allow Pegasus to enhance customer service, deliver business innovation and serve new markets while at the same time ...

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Related Topix: Computers, Laptops/Notebooks, Pegasus Solutions, Electronic, Pegasus, Marketing

KNDU

Govt may get billions under Forbes' divorce decree

The federal government might get to collect billions of dollars in court-ordered restitution under a new divorce decree between imprisoned former Cendant Corp.

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Related Topix: Transportation, Hotels, Cendant, Connecticut, Yakima, WA

Hotels

Best Western Outpaces Industry in 2009 Despite Recession; World's...

Chain Sets Sites on Growing Market Share in 2010, 2011 Through Improved Customer Service and Harnessing Diversity as Strength PHOENIX, AZ; Nov 16, 2009 More than 2,000 hoteliers from across the United States and Canada gathered in Phoenix in late October for Best Western International's North American Convention to recap 2009 and preview 2010.

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Related Topix: Phoenix, AZ, Phoenix Metro, Hotels, Marketing, Cornell University

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