Carlson Hotels has announced and confirmed that they plan on adding over 50 properties and more than 6,000 guest rooms to their portfolio in India by 2011.  The guest rooms are to be spread out throughout the 4 Carlson Hotels brands, which include Park Plaza Hotels & Resorts, Country Inns & Suites by Carlson, [...]

Renaissance Hotels, a brand of Marriott, has opened their tallest hotel in the world at 60 floors tall.  The Renaissance Shanghai Zhongshan Park Hotel is located in the commercial complex of Cloud Nine and offers panoramic views of Shanghai.
The hotel is visible from nearly all parts of the city, and it occupies only the [...]

Folio Hotels has been bought out of administration by management, after the United Kingdom hotel brand collapsed last month.  The buyout has saved the jobs of 1,200 people.  Folio Hotels, who did operate 36 hotels throughout the United Kingdom and had a £70 million turnover, blamed the high rents and costly refurbishment program for [...]

Holiday Inn, a part of the InterContinental Hotels Group, has announced the opening of a 136-room hotel, Holiday Inn Long Island City-Manhattan View. This property is going to showcase the new sign of the brand, which seals the approval of this hotel to meet the standards of the brand’s relaunch program, which cost $1 [...]

easyCruise, part of easyGroup, and Cruise Partner, a cruise reservation system by IBS, have teamed up in an agreement to provide every aspect of the reservation process to consumers, call centers, travel agents, and tour operators via the internet. This new iTG, which is Cruise Partner’s Travel Gateway system, will provide multi-lingual interfaces on [...]

Yesterday, Regent Seven Seas Cruises announced that shore excursions are going to be included for free on 35 of their cruises as part of their new ultra-inclusive voyage pricing initiative. Guests who book select cruises on the Seven Seas Navigator, Seven Seas Mariner, or Seven Seas Voyager for this year will get to choose [...]