IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) today announced that it’ll be providing free internet to all its 71m loyalty programme members, worldwide. The announcement comes as IHG reveals the result of a world online survey* which show that just about 1/2 adults (43%) would select to not stay in a hotel that charged for internet. IHG is the primary and only hotel group to supply free internet in all hotels to all loyalty programme members, globally – whether or not they stay the night or are available in for a coffee or an impromptu meeting. It’ll benefit millions of guests globally as IHG has the foremost rooms and is in additional countries than any individual of the opposite four largest hotel companies on earth**. This would start from July 2013 for Elite...
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New South Kensington boutique hotel Xenia is delighted to announce the appointment of Mario Ovsenjak as General Manager. Mario brings his breadth of expertise to this exciting new hotel: with a hospitality career that started in London with Thistle Hotels at both Thistle Piccadilly and The Royal Trafalgar as Food & Beverage Manager, Mario has also worked as Operations Manager at InterContinental Hotels Group and at Corus Hyde Park where he re-focused the hotel’s food and beverage offering, maximised HOD team efficiency and demonstrated his passion for customer support. A step into boutique hotels and the posh sector followed when Mario joined the Eton Collection on the Colonnade and, keen to continue to develop smaller properties, is now to go up the hotel team on the independently-owned Xenia. Mario says:‘I...
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