Hotels

Boutique hotel set for Leicester Square opening

Victory House will part of Accor’s MGallery collection of hotels

Richard Singer to leave Travelzoo

Travelzoo is slated to release its Q2 2017 earnings on July 27

Accor boosts home-sharing arm with onefinestay brand merger

The French hotel giant will integrate onefinestay with two other rental companies

Sabre names new president of Hospitality Solutions arm

Replaces Alex Alt, who has accepted an executive position at another company

Olympic champion backs Thomson swimming scheme

Rebecca Adlington launched the operator’s new initiative in Croatia

Travelport selects DataArt to help develop new Hotel Retail platform

Thew new Hotel Retail tool allows agents to stay within their workflow by delivering everything they need in one place. It is integrated into Travelport’s platform, and the company claims it gives Travelport Smartpoint-connected agencies efficient and seamless access to multiple rate types, hotel details, amenities and location information.

EasyHotel expands to Sri Lanka and Iran

Currently the only easyHotel outside of Europe is in the UAE

World of Nobu culinary festival coming to London

Celebrity chef will be holding two-day event at Shoreditch hotel

Palazzo Versace Dubai seeks trade boost

The hotel designed by Donatella Versace is looking to the UK for bookings from agents

Couple ordered to pay costs after Thomas Cook wins fake illness claim case

Claimants were left facing costs totalling almost £4,000 after the judge threw out a bogus illness claim

All in good taste: Fine dining in the Caribbean

From dining inside a 300-year-old sugar mill to gorging on indigenous Jamaican wood-infused slow-roasted pork, Andrew Doherty discovers a cornucopia of high-end gastronomic experiences in the Caribbean

ITC offers agent fam trips to Mauritius and Ibiza in booking incentive

ITC has also created a new Facebook group where agents can interact with the group’s relationship managers and follow the latest offers and incentive updates

Holidaymakers urged 'run, hide, tell' in the event of terrorist attack

New FCO video aimed at holidaymakers’ safety

Agents scoop more than £2,000 in vouchers with Bourne incentive

The operator’s Summer Lovin’ campaign is its biggest giveaway in recent years

Thomas Cook to open first own-brand UAE hotel

The smartline Ras Al Khaimah Beach Resort will open its doors in November

HotelsPro names Robert Turner as managing director

Former European director promoted

How Local Measure is helping hotels harness guests' social media feeds

Australian start-up Local Measure is helping hotels to go the extra mile, enabling them to harness public data from guests’ social media output. Founder and chief executive Jonathan Barouch explains the concept...

Tui Blue opens first hotel in Croatia

Tui Blue has opened its first hotel in Croatia, combining a “historic building on Croatia’s Adriatic Sea with a modern lifestyle concept"

Tui sees 1,800 holiday sickness cases against it dropped

Customers who submitted false claims against hoteliers in Majorca in the past year can now ’expect criminal action to be taken’

Hotelier inspired by Angelina Jolie to expand in Namibia

Zannier Hotels hopes to open three lodges there and further hotels in Belgium and Vietnam

Middle East: Twin centre city breaks and desert getaways

Many Middle Eastern destinations offer a striking contrast of cutting-edge city life and traditional desert experiences. TTG rounds up top choices for a range of clients keen to combine the two

Parents vow to 'carry on taking term-time holidays despite risk of being criminalised'

11% of parents also revealed that they would lie to the school about absences, “reporting their kids as sick when they are in fact on a term-time holiday”

Mandarin Oriental to make debut in Australia

The group will manage a Zaha Hadid-designed tower

Ritz-Carlton to enter cruise market with three luxury yachts

The first ship will launch in the fourth quarter of 2019