May 2010
In This Issue
UAE, Dubai: Armani Hotel Dubai RUSSIA: Renaissance Moscow Monarch Centre SOUTH AFRICA: Holiday Inn Rosebank TUNISIA: Mövenpick Resort & Marine Spa Sousse GERMANY: Hotel California Berlin SWITZERLAND: Waldhaus Arena Flims In The Air
United and Continental Announce Merger Industry Execs Discuss Unbundled Ancillary Fees
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 With its landmark location inside the iconic Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, Armani Hotel Dubai marks the designer’s first foray into the world of hospitality. The 160-room property includes eight restaurants, exclusive retail outlets and a spa, and each guest is assigned a personal Lifestyle Manager who serves as a personal contact from booking through the stay. Leisure options include the world’s first in-hotel Armani/SPA; Armani/Galleria, a haute couture boutique; Armani/Dolci, a luxurious confectionary; and Armani/Fiori, a floral boutique. Complementing the hotel and located on levels 9 to 16 of Burj Khalifa are Armani Residences, featuring 144 luxurious private residences. A collaboration between Giorgio Armani S.p.A. and Emaar Properties, Armani Hotel Dubai is the first in a collection of hotels, resorts and residences to be unveiled in international destinations. lifestyle.dubai@armanihotels.com · www.armanihotels.com/en/index.html  |
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 Interstate Hotels & Resorts has opened the 366-room Renaissance Moscow Monarch Centre in Russia’s capital city. The new-build hotel includes Moscow’s largest dedicated conference center, located in the new Monarch Centre, in the heart of Moscow’s commercial district near the city’s EXPO center. The property features 40 extended-stay suites, an indoor swimming pool, state-of-the-art fitness facilities, massage rooms and sauna. For dining and entertainment, the hotel offers an all-day restaurant, lobby bar and lounge and a fine-dining restaurant. Twelve conference rooms and large pre-function spaces total nearly 2,415 sqm/26,000 sqft, including a 613 sqm/6,600 sqft ballroom. www.marriott.com |
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The Rezidor Hotel Group recently announced the opening of Radisson Blu Milan. The 250-room property was formerly the Chedi Milan. Radisson Blu Milan offers Rezidor’s signature contemporary Italian restaurant Filini, which serves a modern Italian menu and opens onto a garden courtyard for daily al fresco dining. The hotel’s Lounge Bar, situated between the lobby and restaurant, is highlighted by a marble spiral staircase Additional hotel facilities include an indoor swimming pool located under a glass atrium, as well as a health and wellness facility with steam room, private sauna and fully-equipped fitness center. The hotel also offers eight meeting rooms, a conference room with capacity for 240 guests, a 10-seat boardroom and a private delegate entrance. Located in the northern Bovisa district near Milan’s major international trade fairs, the hotel is within 20 minutes of city-center attractions such as La Scala Opera House and the Duomo Cathedral.
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 The Holiday Inn Rosebank in Johannesburg opened for business on May 7. Located next to The Zone shopping centre in Oxford Road in the heart of the Rosebank business district, this new 158-room room property is within easy reach of tourist attractions like the Apartheid Museum and Constitution Hill, offering guests a business center, fitness center, outdoor pool, cocktail bar and restaurant. Management company ISO Leisure also manages the Holiday Inn Express Woodmead in Johannesburg and co-owns the Holiday Inn Express St George’s Mall in Cape Town and Holiday Inn Express Sunny Park in Pretoria with partner Zenprop. The firm has also signed a deal with InterContinental Hotels Group to operate the Holiday Inn Express Umhlanga Rocks in Durban, which is due to open soon. www.holidayinn.com/hotels/us/en/johannesburg/jnbhi/hoteldetail |
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 Starwood Hotels & Resorts recently announced plans for a second St. Regis hotel in the capital of the United Arab Emirates. The St. Regis Abu Dhabi will be located on the Corniche in downtown Abu Dhabi as part of Nation Towers, a mixed-use development. Located at the top of one tower, the hotel will feature 281 luxury rooms, including 56 suites, signature restaurants, a destination bar, sky bridge restaurant, more than 4,800 sqm/51,667 sqft of meeting and event space and over 3,000 sqm/32,292 sqft of dedicated health club facilities, including an outdoor swimming pool. Guests will also enjoy a beach club adjacent to the hotel, which will be operated by Starwood. www.starwoodhotels.com/stregis/index.html |
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 The new Angelo Hotel opened in early March in Katowice, one of the most important commercial and industrial cities in Poland. The Angelo Hotel offers a total of 203 rooms and eight conference rooms and is specially tailored to the needs of business travelers. The 4-star property is located in the middle of the city’s commercial district and features an executive floor, as well as 17 apartments with separate cooking area. A special feature is the 980 sqm/10,548 sqft conference area consisting of eight meeting rooms and a conference room that can accommodate up to 300 people, making it the largest conference center in Katowice. info@angelo-katowice.pl · www.angelo-katowice.pl/en/home/ |
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 Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts recently announced the opening of the 618-room Mövenpick Resort & Marine Spa Sousse in Tunisia. The property offers 583 spacious rooms and 35 suites with panoramic views over the Mediterranean, as well as five restaurants and six bars. The Marine Spa features an indoor seawater swimming pool, a modern health and fitness club and a wide selection of treatments in its 23 rooms and generous gardens. Sousse is renowned for its beautiful Mediterranean coastline with sandy beaches, its picturesque old town and year-round mild climate. This vibrant port city is located some 130 km/81 miles south of Tunis, and Monastir International Airport is only 20 minutes away. In addition, North Africa’s largest international airport is located in Enfidha, just 30 minutes from Sousse. resort.sousse@movenpick.com · www.moevenpick-hotels.com |
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 Warwick International Hotels recently added a new hotel to its collection: The Hotel California am Kurfurstendamm. Well situated on Berlin’s world-famous boulevard in a building that combines history and design, the Hotel California has been offering its guests rest and calm in comfortable and elegant surroundings for more than 25 years. The hotel has 155 rooms and suites with modern and stylish interiors, with most rooms facing the quiet inner courtyard. The Spa and Fitness Centre offers an expansive sauna facility, modern fitness room and solarium. The Cafe California and the Bridge Bar provide a luxurious atmosphere with mirrored walls, marble floors, fine upholstered furniture and chandeliers. The Summer Garden, in the inner courtyard, with its splashing fountain under palm trees and orange trees, invites relaxation. info@hotel-california.de · www.hotel-california.de |
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 The Waldhaus Arena, operated by the Waldhaus Flims Mountain Resort & Spa in Flims, is a curling hall in the winter months, but from April to December it serves as a multifunctional event space, offering first-class accommodations for events of up to 1,800 people 90 minutes from Zurich. State-of-the-art seminar technology and a unique infrastructure turn the three-storey Waldhaus Arena – with a floor space of 1,472 sqm/15,844 sqft – into an ideal venue for events of any kind, from conferences, gala performances and large company events to trade fairs and concerts. The unique surroundings of the 5-star Waldhaus Flims Mountain Resort & Spa create an extraordinary atmosphere, and the resort offers three additional meeting & event spaces with a total of 16 seminar rooms in the Art Nouveau Pavilion, the Grand Chalet Belmont and the Flem Floor. events@waldhausarena-flims.ch · www.waldhausarena-flims.ch |
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In The Air |
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 Continental Airlines and United Airlines recently announced a merger, creating the world’s largest airline. The holding company for the new entity will be named United Continental Holdings, Inc., and the name of the combined airlines will be United Airlines. The “new” United will continue to serve more than 144 million passengers per year flying to 370 destinations in 59 countries. The merger, which has been approved unanimously by the Boards of Directors of both companies, is conditioned on approval by shareholders, receipt of regulatory clearance and customary closing conditions. The companies expect to complete the transaction in the fourth quarter of 2010. www.unitedcontinentalmerger.com/press-release |
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 European business travel managers may have to accept the reality of unbundled ancillary fees from the airlines, but they want big changes in the billing and negotiations process, according to dialogue generated by a recent event conducted by ACTE, in partnership with CORTAS. Transparency, uniformity and negotiability were the key issues raised by 100 delegates from the Netherlands and surrounding countries, who recently convened for an Executive Forum in Amsterdam. One of the biggest concerns leveled at the airlines was the broad range in costs for similar services and the lack of uniformity. The consensus among travel managers was that unbundled ancillary fees would now become deal makers or breakers in negotiations with carriers for the next year. Conventional wisdom led many travel managers to believe they could negotiate the softer fees, yet this has been repeatedly hindered by the lack of data regarding unbundled ancillary fees. www.acte.org/resources/press_release.php?id=469 |
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