Wayport, Inc will install Wi-Fi wireless Internet access at the Wyndham Nassau Resort & Crystal Palace Casino, which offers one of the Caribbean´s largest casinos.
Wayport will provide Wi-Fi wireless Internet access in all 850 rooms at the resort and in all common areas such as the lobbies and lounges.
Starwood Vacation Ownership, a division of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, has announced major expansion plans for the Westin St. John Resort & Villas in St. John, USVI.
The new Bay Vista phase will include a total of 94 two- and three-bedroom villas overlooking the island and the picturesque Great Cruz Bay.
InterContinental Hotels Group PLC is to announce the sale of seven hotels in continental Europe to Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund for about $740 million, according to The Times of London.
The best-known of the seven InterContinental-branded hotels that Morgan Stanley is acquiring is the Carlton in Cannes, on the French Riviera. The others are in Amsterdam, Budapest, Rome, Frankfurt, Madrid and Vienna, the newspaper said.
Hilton Hotels plans to open its first Conrad-branded luxury hotel in Shanghai in 2008, and build a total of fifty in different brands in China, according to the China Daily.
Hilton´s high-level managers also released that Hilton had ranked the fifth among its worldwide counterparts after the integration of Hilton brand.
The Society of Incentive and Travel Executives (SITE) received from Sol Meliá, the Spanish hotel and resort chain, a $50,000 USD donation to SITE´s capital fundraising campaign called “FutureSITE: Investing in Tomorrow & Today.”
“Sol Meliá reinforces its commitment to the incentive industry by continuously supporting such a highly regarded organization as SITE,” said Violeta Sales, Director of Group Sales/Americas Division. “SITE offers its members invaluable opportunities and services and maintains and promotes the highest universal standards. We salute their efforts.”
Hilton Hotels Corp. plans to double the number of its hotels under management in China in the next several years, the company said in a statement on Thursday.
The international hotel company, which now manages five hotels in China, plans to open the Hilton Hefei in eastern China´s Anhui province by the end of 2006.