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In this section you'll find the latest news from the world of hotel chains, find out the information about the appearance of the new «whales» of hotel business as well as loud bankruptcies, mergers, about rebranding and restyling.

Hotel chains punctually supply news for the market of tourism media. The world financial crisis had forced the hotel chains to make fundamental changes in their policies. As a result, there is an increasing number of news regarding changing in hotel chain strategies from the world's leading mass-media agencies.

The huge part of hotels, which open all over the world every day, belong to hotel chains. Besides hotels, hotels chains launch dozens of new brands regularly. News about opening of the new hotels as well as appearing of new brands in the hotel industry will be covered in this section.

Hotels chains actively implement new technologies into the structure of their hotels. Mobile management and flexible structure of the companies allows monitoring and launching of the latest developments as soon as possible. <<Hotel Chains News>> section will familiarize portal users with the latest innovations, which are used by the hotel chains today. The list of topics is wide: from Wi-Fi Internet access to hi-tech rooms in hotels, where the guest is served by a computer program.

Recent novelties in the field of hotel service also belong to the hotel chains. Standards of staff training developed by them are institutive for the whole industry. In this section we will post news about the personnel policy of hotel chains: from staff training to career fairs.

We use news feeds of the leading news agencies, hotel corporation, major tourist portals and our personal correspondent as a source of news. If you are a member of the hotel chain, and would like to see news of your company represented at the portal «City of Hotels», please contact us via e-mail news@city-of-hotels.com. Our editorial would be happy to consider your proposal.

The first 5* hotel in Turkey celebrates its anniversary, (05/07/2010)
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Turkey's first five-star hotel Hilton Istanbul has recently celebrated its anniversary. For celebrations of the 55th anniversary of the first luxury hotel in Turkey arrived celebrities from all over the world. Gala evening in honor of the anniversary was
Gerhard Mitrovic In one of the best hotels in Moscow appeared a new director, (04/07/2010)
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Hotel Baltschug Kempinski Moscow - the flagship of the Kempinski chain in Russia and one of the best hotels in Moscow - introduced its new director. Gerhard Mitrovic replaced at the position of the manager of the Baltschug Gianni van Daalen.
Hotel, Sicily Domina presented renovated hotel on Sicily, (02/07/2010)
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Domina Home La Dolce Vita hotel itself is surrounded by a private park with the area of about 28000 square meters, where there are 38 comfortable mini villas and the main building - a five-storey complex with more than 300 rooms for every taste.
Sol Melia and IBM: joint IT-management, (25/06/2010)
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The Spanish hotel chain Sol Melia signed an agreement with IBM, under which IBM team will be responsible for managing of IT-structure of Sol Melia including an online booking portal www.solmelia.com
Second hotel in Shanghai from Ritz-Carlton, (21/06/2010)
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The world-renowned luxury hotel chain Ritz-Carlton today, on June 21, 2010, has officially opened its second hotel in Shanghai - Ritz-Carlton Shanghai in business center of Pudong.
Club Med has become partially Chinese, (15/06/2010)
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French hotel operator Club Med has sold a part of shares to the Chinese financial conglomerate Fosun. Club Med, which specializes in tourist and hotel services on an all-inclusive principle, sold 7% of shares to Fosun for slightly more than 23 million eur
Marriott enters the boutique hotel market, (15/06/2010)
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Collaboration in the development of a new Marriott brand is carried out with Ian Shrager - a man who is believed to coin the concept of boutique hotel.
Shangri-La will open a hotel in Tibet, (06/06/2010)
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Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts hotel chain announced its plans to open a new hotel in Tibet in 2012. The network promises to open hotel in Lhasa - the capital of Tibet. The new hotel will be one of the most highland hotels of Shangri-La chain. As you know,
In Thailand will appear a new Banyan Tree, (23/05/2010)
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Chain of leading hotel resorts in the Asia-Pacific region, Banyan Tree, opens a new resort in Thailand on Samui Island. Banyan Tree Samui will be ready to receive its first guests in July 2010. The new hotel is situated in the most picturesque bay of the
Kempinski, Bratislava Kempinski Hotel in Slovakia: opening of a new hotel in Bratislava, (23/05/2010)
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To date, Kempinski is actively developing markets of Eastern Europe. Hotel in Bratislava is one of the next openings. In addition, in the next five years, Kempinski Hotel is planning to open its hotels in such Eastern European capitals like Kiev (2012) an
Sol Melia hotels will present updated hotels in Croatia, (08/05/2010)
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Spanish hotel chain Sol Melia, one of the largest hotel operators in Europe, opens after modernization and reconstruction their hotels in Croatia. Hotels are located in the resort of Umag. The restoration, which took place in hotels, was undertaken in ord
Missoni plans to open a hotel in Kuwait in October, (08/05/2010)
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Missoni, the Italian fashion house, which was one of the first of its industry to enter the U.S. hotel market, intends to submit another hotel under its brand. This time the location is selected in Kuwait. To date, the only hotel from Missoni can be found
Rezidor has bought Reval and sold Regent, (02/05/2010)
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Reval Hotels is hotel chain, which hotels are mainly located in the Baltic region, now goes under the control of the Rezidor corporation. An agreement to purchase 10 hotels of the network representatives of Rezidor signed with the current owner of the net
Hyatt will open designer hotel in Amsterdam, (01/05/2010)
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Hyatt hotel chain and Aedes Real Estate developer on April 27, 2010 signed an agreement on managing the new hotel Andaz Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Opening of a new Hyatt hotel will be held in Amsterdam in 2012.
Hotel in Copenhagen offers to treadle for food, (19/04/2010)
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Recently opened in Copenhagen hotel Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers from the very beginning declared itself as one of the most important accommodation facilities of the city. And the case is not only that the Crowne Plaza is one of the tallest buildings in
New hotel in Barcelona was presented by Accor, (08/04/2010)
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Accor hotel chain presented in Barcelona its new hotel Novotel Barcelona City. According to the representatives of the hotel chain, this hotel in the near future should become a "flagship" of Novotel brand in Europe, reports europapress.es.
Fairmont and Hilton come to Baku, (01/04/2010)
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The future Fairmont Hotel Baku will be a part of a new modern complex "Towers of Fire", which in addition to the hotel will also include a complex of apartments, entertainment and shopping centers. Fairmont Baku would occupy a part of the complex. In tota
Hotel Hyatt, Rostov-on-Don Hyatt opens a hotel in Rostov-on-Don, (24/03/2010)
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The agreement, which Hyatt has signed with the Russian developer RosEuroDevelopment on March 23, 2010 in Zurich, provides for the opening of a new hotel Hyatt Regency Rostov - Don Plaza in 2011.
Kempinski openings: hotels in Thailand and Qatar, (19/03/2010)
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Kempinski hotel chain is planning to submit at least two new hotels in the upcoming summer season 2010. Both hotels are to be built in the capitals.
Mövenpick has represented a new online booking service, (15/03/2010)
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"Guest Connect"- this is the name of the service, which Mövenpick hotel chain has recently offered to its customers.
The Scandic brand will present 4 hotels in Finland, (15/03/2010)
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Scandic signed an agreement on the management of 4 hotels in Finland on the 11th of March 2010. Henceforth, the hotels, which were previously owned by the Finnish chain Next Hotels Finland Oy, will offer their services under the brand Scandic.
Electronic room key in Tune Hotels Budget hotels from Malaysia come to London, (15/03/2010)
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Budget hotel chain Tune Hotels.com announced its plans to open 15 hotels in London. Due to the Olympics 2012, which will be held in the British capital, London is a tasty morsel for many hotel operators, including budget ones.
Accor opens hotels in Turkey and sell in Europe, (06/03/2010)
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The French hotel giant Accor is continuing its expansion in Turkey. Hotels in Turkey this year promise to be one of the hits of the season. Analysts predict the continuing growth in demand for inexpensive holiday in the world. And Turkey is one of the nic
Marriott will open a new hotel in Jordan in 2013, (04/03/2010)
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The hotel chain Marriott International intends to open a new hotel in Jordan in 2013.
A new hotel in New York by Yotel, (03/03/2010)
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. The new hotel by Yotel will appear in New York in 2011. It will be located in the center of Manhattan, in a busy area on the corner of 42th and 11th Streets.
Accor will present a new hotel in Dubai in March, (22/02/2010)
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Hotel giant Accor continues its expansion in the Middle East. Among the nearest plans of the chain – opening of a new hotel in Dubai.
Hotel in the Dominican Republic by a Spanish chain, (22/02/2010)
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NH Hoteles, a hotel chain from Spain, has announced the opening of NH Royal Beach - a new 5-star hotel in Punta Cana resort.
Taj brand will present new hotels in Egypt, (17/02/2010)
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Indian hotel brand Taj Hotels will soon be represented at the Egyptian hotel market. Indian Hotels Co Ltd, the owner of the brand, in early February has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Egyptian developer Palm Hills Developments.
Hyatt Manager Hyatt’s manager was named the hotelier of the year in Germany, (15/02/2010)
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Fred Huerst was named “The Hotelier of 2010” in Germany.
Luxury Hotel in London became a part of Kempinski chain, (11/02/2010)
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An old hotel in London - The Stafford - will now represent Kempinski brand in the segment of luxury hotel real estate of the British capital.
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