IHG announced its further support of global efforts to boost tourism among world leaders’ priorities focused on growth and employment through the participation of Kirk Kinsell, president, the Americas, IHG in a trade mission with the British Prime Minister to Mexico.
Marriott International Inc. (MAR) said it is on track to have 4,000 hotels in 90 countries by 2014, including 100 hotels expected in China.
Spain’s Iberostar Hotels & Resorts plans to invest $100 million in a new beachfront hotel in Nayarit, a state on Mexico’s Pacific coast, the Tourism Secretariat said. The new hotel will be built in the Litibu planned development in the Riviera Nayarit, a National Tourism Promotion Fund project located north of Puerto Vallarta and Punta Mita, the secretariat said.