Premier Inn has relaunched its award-winning application for iPhone and its first application for iPad. Answerable for over 100,000 room bookings in 2012 alone, the award-winning application was downloaded over 2,000,000 times since its launch in January 2011 and has become one of many hotel brand’s most vital channels.
The new generation of commercial executives, entrepreneurs and leisure travellers now have a hotel brand tailored only for them with Vida Hotels & Resorts by Emaar Hospitality Group, the hospitality and leisure subsidiary of Emaar Properties.
Vida, meaning ‘life’ in Spanish, embraces warmth, simplicity and youthful vitality, making a stimulating environment.
An ‘urban hub where inspiring minds stay, play and connect’, the primary branded outlet within the novel hotel chain will open in Downtown Dubai, offering 156 rooms.
Mohamed Alabbar, chairman, Emaar Properties, said: “The profile of today’s global traveller is changing, with a younger, upwardly mobile audience seeking a different hospitality experience to fit their needs.
“Vida will add life to the hotel stays of this increasingly important tourist community, delivering an intimate touch but in addition the liberty they expect.
“With Vida Hotels and Resorts, we’re making a modern-day concept in inspired living, elegant yet simple, and a brand new urban hub for the discerning traveller.”
According to the ITB World Travel Trends Report 2012/2013, greater than a 3rd of travellers are aged 15-34.
Dubai serves because the hub for an unlimited youthful demography of over 2 billion people below the age of 25 years around the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Vida Hotels and Resorts aims to tap into this rapidly emerging market, offering services and an ambience designed to entice the more youthful generation, in addition to the sensible advantages that flatter great hotels inside the best locations.
Vida Hotels and Resorts may be distinguished by neutral colours making a chic ambience, good food inspired by Middle East and international cuisine, and the ease of the most recent technology, including check-in via iPad and uninterrupted Wi-Fi service.
Emaar plans to roll out the hot hotel chain in its key global markets, starting with the Vida Downtown Dubai (formerly Qamardeen hotel), within the heart of Emaar’s world-famous master-planned community, Downtown Dubai.
The new hotel brand can even oversee the operations and management of the neighbouring Al Manzil Hotel.
The portfolio of Emaar Hospitality Group includes: The Address Hotels + Resorts, Arabian Ranches Golf Club, Dubai Polo & Equestrian Club, and Dubai Marina Yacht Club, along with independent lifestyle dining restaurants including At.mosphere Burj Khalifa, The Palace Cafe and Madeleine.
JacTravel, the united kingdom-based B2B wholesaler best known for its extensive range of hotels online and inbound travel services, is reporting a very good period of growth in tourism from Brazil to the us within the wake of visa reforms by the united states government, in a report back to be released at the first day of the inaugural World Travel Market Latin America.
As the summer cruise season gets under way in Europe, 96 ships have sailed back to European waters from their winter routes within the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa and Asia, bringing the whole fleet inside the region this summer to 200 cruise ships, operated by 65 lines, serving at the least 530 destinations stretching from the Mediterranean to the Arctic.
Underlining the industry’s steady growth in Europe, the eu summer fleet will include 11 new ships this year, including 3 ships re-entering service for brand spanking new operators because the data compiled for the Cruise Lines International Association in Europe shows.
“The variety of new destinations, new lines and new ships entering service in Europe this year are all further evidence of ways cruising is growing and may keep growing inside the region, drawing on Europe’s unique offering in the case of its rich culture, its varied geography and its long maritime traditions, and its expertise in hospitality and repair,” said Manfredi Lefebvre d’Ovidio, CLIA Europe’s Chairman.
“Seeing such a lot of ships arriving in European ports for the beginning of the summer cruising season underlines how the eu cruise sector is an integral and growing component of the worldwide cruise industry that provides consumers high value holiday options and economic benefits to hundreds of communities,” said Robert Ashdown, Secretary General of CLIA Europe.
AmaWaterways proudly announces the discharge of its new 2014 Africa Safaris & Wildlife Cruise brochure. The brochure provides complete information about AmaWaterways’ one-of-a-kind program in Africa, with four different land safari itineraries – Discover Africa, Stars of South Africa, Rivers & Rails of Africa and Golden Trails of East Africa – all consisting of a wildlife river safari on Botswana’s Chobe River.
