Posts tagged "hotels"
17 Dec 2012
26 Nov 2012

  • Silicon Valley legislators go to bat for Google over FTC probe

    Transport

    With the FTC reportedly close to deciding on whether to sue Google over the way it directs users to its own products in search, two of Google’s hometown Congressional representatives have urged the commission to avoid going after Google for deceptive practices. Representatives Anna Eshoo and Zoe Lofgren sent a letter to FTC chairman Jon Leibowitz [...]

15 Oct 2012

  • Fed up with fees? Hotels, car rental companies eager to mimic airlines

    Transport

    It seemed like a great deal at the time. Morgiana Celestine-Lewis and her cousin Angie Taylor had scored a room at the Westin near Los Angeles International Airport for $124 the first night. As part of a birth-year promotion, they paid $73 the second night because Taylor’s birth year is 1973. When they got the [...]

05 Sep 2012

  • Bedbugs are a common problem for several hotels hosting politicians at the DNC

    Rooms

    You think incumbent politicians are hard to get rid of? Try bedbugs. The blood-sucking insects have made a resurgence in recent years, including reports of them at nine of the hotels being used for Democrats’ nominating convention this week in Charlotte. Some convention-goers were fearful in the run-up to the convention, and state officials and [...]

  • SkiftDesign: Hotels vying for attention partner with fashion designers for PR buzz

    Rooms

    Hotels increasingly are turning to the world of fashion to make their properties more attractive to guests who want a touch of luxury, and to create a source of buzz. As New York City’s Fashion Week 2013 spring collection shows get underway, Starwood’s trendy W chain on Wednesday is announcing a partnership with the Council of [...]

30 Aug 2012

  • Expedia puts hotel mobile exclusives into apps as desktop users pay more

    Digital

    Expedia has a new outlet store — its mobile hotel apps. While Orbitz may show more expensive hotels to Mac and iPad users, Expedia is taking a different tack and offering “mobile exclusives” on hotel deals to users of its iPhone, iPad and Android hotel apps. It’s all part of an update to Expedia’s hotel apps.

  • Half of hotel chains in UK breaking the law by not including VAT taxes on advertised prices

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    Nearly half of Britain’s major hotel chains have been accused of breaching regulations by not including VAT in their headline prices.
    An investigation by Which? Travel magazine found that 11 of 24 hotelchains did not include the tax in the initial pric…

  • Los Angeles hotels’ occupancy rates reached record high this July

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    Hotels in Los Angeles County enjoyed record occupancy rates in July thanks to surging numbers of foreign and U.S. tourists, as well as growing convention and conference visitors. The rate of occupied rooms in the county in July hit 83.9%, the highest for any month in the 25 years that the data has been collected, [...]

  • Starwood to expand in emerging hotel market in Ukraine

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    Ukraine is one of the key emerging markets for hotel business development, as stated in the recent press release by the international hotel chain Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. Due to the upcoming economic boost, the company plans to expand its operations in CIS countries and open the Sheraton Kyiv Olympiysky hotel in Ukraine’s [...]

29 Aug 2012

  • More UK and U.S. expansion for last-minute booking service HotelTonight

    Digital

    The summer travel rush has been good to HotelTonight, the last-minute hotel booking service: the site today announced that it has now had 3 million downloads of is mobile app, and it is marking the occasion by continuing its scaling efforts in the U.S. and UK — where it spearheaded its international push in June, fuelled [...]