For the second consecutive year, Conrad Hotels walked away with the award to the World’s Leading Luxury Hotel Brand at the World Travel Awards ceremony, which took place in Turks and Caicos in September.
The prestigious trophy was presented to brand representative, Robert Thrailkill, General Manager of the Conrad Miami during the dinner ceremony.
Occidental Hotels & Resorts was selected as the best all-inclusive hotel chain of the year, an award granted by the British firm The TTG Awards.
The selection was made by a survey conducted on over 60 thousand British travel agents, and the final winner was chosen by 50 independent experts among which were the most important tour operators from the United Kingdom, specialized correspondents, and other personalities in the British tourism industry.
Spanish hotel chain RIU is determined to continue its all-embracing expansion in the Caribbean region and to prove its point the Majorca-based company is now trumpeting the grand opening of its fourth all-inclusive resort in Jamaica by 2008.
The new lodging, announced to be located in Montego Bay, still has no name and there are no details as to the number of rooms and other specifications.
Jamaica-based SuperClubs opened the 142-room Sonesta Brasilia on October 2 in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil.
The hotel venture marks SuperClubs´ second Sonesta-managed property in Brazil in a franchise agreement with Sonesta International Hotels Corp. and third property overall in the South American company.
OpenJaw Technologies has signed a contract with Hyatt Hotels & Resorts to provide its Internet booking engine technology for travel distribution, xRez.
The solution from the Dublin-based company will enable Hyatt’s global customer base to make Hyatt Hotel Reservations online in up to 17 languages including Chinese, Japanese and multiple European languages. Japanese property websites are currently in production.
Playa Hotels & Resorts has announced the purchase of the 357-guestroom Barceló Costa Cancun Hotel. This is the sixth hotel that Playa now owns in Mexico.
The Barceló Costa Cancun is a Mediterranean style hotel complex on the sheltered bayside of the Caribbean overlooking Playa Linda. The upscale hotel is all-inclusive and offers fine dining in a selection of five restaurants.