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  • Choice Hotels adds 88 properties in 1Q

    Choice Hotels has has added 88 newly opened franchised properties to its portfolio through the first quarter of 2013. Additionally, the corporate has executed a complete of 83 new domestic contracts inside the first quarter of 2013, a 30-percent increase over an identical period of the prior year.

    During the primary three months of 2013, openings include hotels in 28 U.S. states and 11 countries, adding greater than 6,500 guestrooms to the company’s existing rooms which stand at greater than half one million. The alternative Hotels portfolio of franchised hotels offers business and leisure travelers an entire spectrum from premium economy to upscale hotels and resorts.

    “We are especially pleased by the positive reception we’ve seen to our upscale brands, in addition to the numerous traction we’re gaining in major urban markets,” said David Pepper, senior vice chairman of world development for Choice Hotels International. “Across all brands, the improvement environment has improved for brand spanking new construction, lots in order that we believe 2013 is heading in the right direction to be considerably stronger than last year for franchise development.”

    Ascend Hotel Collection, a membership program created from exquisite independent hotels, continued its exceptional growth into the primary quarter of 2013, with 28 new membership agreements signed when compared with three membership agreements in the course of the same time last year. Much of this growth have been attributed to Choice Hotels International’s strategic marketing alliance with timeshare company Bluegreen Vacations.

  • News: WTTC 2013: Global Summit heads for Hainan

    Officials from Hainan have taken at the mantel of the realm Travel & Tourism Council Global Summit because the 2013 event involves a detailed in Abu Dhabi.

    Following two days of intense discussions at Jumeirah at Etihad Towers within the emirate, responsibility for the 2014 summit was symbolically passed to Yibo Chen, special representative, Hainan Tourism Commission, in the course of the closing ceremony of the once a year event.

    According to the WTTC, Hainan is heading in the right direction to become one of the vital world’s leading tourist resort destinations by 2021.

    According to a report from the organisation – ‘Hainan: Travel & Tourism Development Potential 2011 – 2021’ – tourism expenditure in Hainan would be roughly resembling that of Singapore today by 2021, and the industry will support as many roles as in Malaysia and Italy today.

    In December 2009, China’s State Council issued a decree that Hainan within the South China Sea – the most important Special Economic Zone in China – was to be elevated right into a world-class international tourist resort destination by 2020 and the Provincial Government is now well so as to reaching these goals, in line with the WTTC report.

    WTTC president David Scowsill said: “Hainan is obviously well on-track to succeed in its aim of changing into an international-class international tourism destination by 2020.

    “With rapid growth in employment, visitor expenditure and contribution to GDP, it’s not surprising that this tropical island has already attracted the eye of just about every major international hotel brand.

    “The government of Hainan Province clearly recognises tourism’s potential for economic and social contribution and great steps has been taken during the last three years to develop Hainan as a global-class destination.

    “The opportunity is now to develop a sustainable, diverse product which pulls at the Province’s unique cultural and natural heritage, burgeoning business tourism sector and high profile new attractions.”

    Tourism is of growing importance in China.

    Duan Qiang, president, Beijing Tourism Group, explained to delegates in Abu Dhabi: “We are more than happy to determine that many member companies of WTTC have already taken the initiative to develop human resources in width and depth.

    “We want to join hands with these companies and other tourism enterprises with same philosophy and ambition to succeed in win-win, and meet the challenge of financial wave and population restructure.

    “We will keep our efforts in creating more products with high added value, raising service quality, efficiency and benefits, promoting full employment, developing the total potential of human resources, adding the price of mental and human capital of staff, in an effort to run tourism market large and powerful, and to accumulate a more friendly image of enterprise citizen and a global brand with higher fame, recognition, reputation and loyalty.

    “Let’s try our greatest to further promote the recovery of economy and stability of society, and welcome the brilliant future.”

  • News: Unprecedented 5.7% rise in visitors from UK to Germany

    Destination Germany remains heading in the right direction for fulfillment, with excellent growth within the volume of overnight stays by international visitors providing much of the momentum. In 2012 the German Federal Statistical Office recorded in way over 68.8 million overnight stays by visitors from abroad in accommodation establishments with greater than ten beds, a rise of around 8 per cent at the previous year. “We have exceeded, by a transparent margin, the forecast volume of 400 million overnight stays from Germany and abroad. This emphatically underlines the large acclaim for Destination Germany, that is becoming increasingly attractive to people from other countries,” says Ernst Burgbacher, Member of the German Parliament, Parliamentary State Secretary on the Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology and Federal Government Commissioner for SMEs and Tourism.

    Europe and the BRIC countries go from strength to strength

    The German Federal Statistical Office recorded a complete of 68.8 million overnight stays by visitors from abroad in 2012, up 8 per cent at the previous year.  The united kingdom market (visitors from the united kingdom to Germany) alone rose by 5.7%. “The European source markets and the BRIC countries are going from strength to strength and so they have played an incredible role on this new record result for inbound tourism in Germany. If the most source markets continue to accomplish strongly, we can be on course to pass the 80 million mark in international overnight stays by 2020,” says Petra Hedorfer, Chief Executive Officer of the German National Tourist Board (GNTB). In accordance with a UNWTO survey, growth in inbound tourism for Destination Germany remains well above the worldwide and European average.