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Articles tagged “starwood”

Hotels

Talent crunch hurts hotel growth in Southeast Asia

Many skilled management employees flee Asian countries to find work, which leaves global hotel chains with few local hiring options and hefty costs to import overseas employees.

Sharon Chen, Bloomberg | 12 years ago

Talent crunch hurts hotel growth in Southeast Asia

Hotels

Starwood redesigns HQs, to live in its own brand image

The new Starwood HQ presents developers with an unified brand evident through its own design, as well as an idea lab where developers and guests can view future design concepts get thrown around.

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

Starwood opens its first W Hotel in Singapore, its seventh hotel in the region

Tourism in the Southeast Asia continues to grow and international brands have realized to do well they must find a way to infuse local culture into high-end amenities guests are accustomed to from home.

Skift | 12 years ago

Business Travel

Survey finds corporate travel buyers’ favorite hotel brands at each price range

Top picks like Starwood brands and Hampton Inn won by only a tenth of point indicating that preferences may depend more on location and taste than vast differences in brands’ service.

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

Starwood to expand in emerging hotel market in Ukraine

Hotel growth was kick started in Ukraine during this summer's Euro Cup tournaments, but Starwood expects the trend to continue and sees wide-open spaces for high-end hotel development.

Skift | 12 years ago

Starwood to expand in emerging hotel market in Ukraine

Hotels

SkiftAds: Aspiring screenwriters should set next film inside a W Hotel

Most filmmakers wouldn't mind having a great hotel as a setting for their film. The challenge of this contest, though, is to work in a product placement for an ultrabook laptop that's not an Apple product.

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

Starwood invests in its most profitable Starwood Preferred Guests

Starwood will wisely continue to pour money into Starwood Preferred Guests and its most loyal members because they are driving profits. Too bad online travel agencies don't actually operate hotels -- they'd then have better luck at discovering the loyalty gene.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

Starwood Hotels Q2 income falls, betting future on China expansion

Aloft & W hotel is where the growth is brandwise, and China's where it is betting its future on. Europe's dragging it down, so no wonder.

Samantha Bomkamp, AP | 12 years ago