Best Western Hotels is now bookable via a direct interface on the online hotel reservation platform www.travelres.com, powered by German-based hotel.de. By this, more than 4,200 hotels of the Best Western group can be booked directly and immediately, with no delay, via www.travelres.com.
San Francisco-based Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, with 40 properties in the U.S. and Canada, is breaking into the Caribbean market for the first time with Royal Island, a private island retreat in the Bahamas, scheduled to open in 2009.
Real Resorts will unveil a number of property enhancements and a new name for a Playa del Carmen property, in an effort to give its Royal brand a cache all its own.
The sounds of spectacular drives and incredible putts will once again be music to the ears of avid golfers at the Hilton Cancun Golf & Spa resort, as the course reopens after a $6 million renovation.
Cap Juluca has announced two golf programs with Temenos Golf Club, the island’s new 18-hole Greg Norman-designed championship course, which is next to Cap Juluca and will be part of the St. Regis Resort and Residences, Temenos Anguilla when it opens in the winter of 2008.
The 453-room Beaches Turks & Caicos is to undergo a $100 million expansion, according to Sandals Chief Executive Officer, Adam Stewart.




