The Journey Time

(TDN): The JW Marriott Hotel Miami has been voted by Travel + Leisure readers among the top hotels for business travelers around the globe. As part of the magazine’s. 2009 World’s Best Awards survey, readers rated hotels in 24 cities worldwide based on how well they met the highest standards of convenience, service, and comfort for the business traveler. According to a December 2009 Travel + Leisure magazine article accompanying the list, the writer noted that “these top hotels combine service, technology, and comfort - everything that today’s business traveler needs on the road.”

“It is a great honor to be recognized as a Best Business Hotel by Travel + Leisure magazine (more…)

(TDN): Amadeus announced that Kelly’s Hotel Dublin has selected Amadeus as their technology partner to deliver a PMS and WEB booking system to support rate management technologies and to offer an enhanced personalised service to their guests.

The installation will include a bundle of features available through the Amadeus Hotel PMS, including front office (more…)

(TDN): Hyatt Regency London - The Churchill has been awarded The Corporate Social Responsibility Award in Springboards Awards for Excellence 2009. Noted as a highlight of the evening, this prestigious award, sponsored by Danon Waters was awarded to this five-star hotel in recognition of a strong commitment to the preservation of the natural environment.

The hotel’s initiative includes energy management systems; giving back to local communities through employee (more…)

(TDN): The chain of independent hotels belonging to the Hotusa Group consolidates its international expansion with the addition of 50 new establishments outside Spain. Between the months of October and November, Hotusa Hotels have enlarged their portfolio with 72 new associated establishments. The chain of independent hotels belonging to the Hotusa Group thus reinforces its position as one of the major hotel consortiums at international level, offering a wide range of services which, as is demonstrated by the upsurge of new additions, has become of particular interest amongst the independent hotels in an economic situation as complicated as the current conditions.

Out of the total number of new additions, 50 are overseas hotels. Worthy of note has been the increase experienced in Italy (more…)

(TDN): Underground clubs, cool bars, new galleries: for travellers who like to feel like a “local upon arrival” Design Hotels and Unlike Media have created 11 Apple iPhone City Guide applications. iPhone and iPod Touch holders can download ten individual English language city guides for 3,99 euros each or the entire package for (more…)

(TDN): With the notable exception of London, all the cities surveyed in October 2009 experienced declines in RevPAR levels. Jonathan Langston, managing director, TRI Hospitality Consulting, stated: “Whilst the decline in occupancy levels seems to be stabilising across Europe, there is still significant downward pressure on average room rates, particularly in markets heavily reliant on leisure demand.”

Through the current recession, London’s strong performance has been the bright spot in the European hotel (more…)

(TDN): Hotels.com’s latest Hotel Price Index (HPI) has revealed that Irish and Norwegian travellers are bearing the mantle of being Europe’s biggest spenders when travelling abroad, spending on average 122 euros per night on a hotel room. Despite the economic climate, the Irish have retained the title for two years in a row as Europe’s biggest spenders (more…)