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A Moment With My Friend: No Tears on Arid Crete

Phil Butler

It’s been three years now since my lifelong friend Johnny Courson told me about his illness during a getaway on Crete. It’s been two years since he and the other members of our tight group, Jay Thomas and Mike Parish celebrated a one year anniversary of our Crete adventure, and since we learned of Johnny’s chemotherapy battle. And about one year ago we all learned Johnny left the world the way he found it – better off for fascinating and luminescent people like him.

8 years ago

How Should Travel Professionals Use Big Data?

Argophilia Travel News

HotelsPro, a technology and reservation solutions provider for travel industry professionals and a brand of the world’s leading travel and accommodation supplier MetGlobal Group of Companies, announced the key points about the accurate and efficient usage of big data which enable travel professionals to touch the customers properly.

8 years ago

Avantio and Receptio Collaboration in Vacation Rentals Market

Argophilia Travel News

Avantio is the first vacation rental management software to join forces with Receptio powered by SysPay, a payment institution specialized in the hospitality industry.

8 years ago

How Guests Perceive Room Quality

Aleksandr Shatskih

Yianna Lo Daskalopoulou talks about guests and their expectations and common perceptions on hotel room quality.

8 years ago

LABRANDA Cactus Garden to Open on Fuerteventura

Argophilia Travel News

Munich, 24 April 2017 – LABRANDA Hotels & Resorts offers even more hotel choices in the popular all-year destination Fuerteventura of the Canary Islands with the new LABRANDA Cactus Garden. The hotel will open its doors on 1 July, 2017 after a comprehensive renovation. With this addition, LABRANDA portfolio now comprises of 18 hotels on […]

8 years ago

Armenia Aircompany Adds Beirut to Its Destination Roster

Aleksandr Shatskih

Armenia Aircompany gains new markets as it adds Beirut and Tel Aviv to its destination roster.

8 years ago

Russia Earns 15 Hotels.com “Choice Awards”

Aleksandr Shatskih

Hotels.com has compiled a list of 15 “Choice Award” winning hotels of Russia from an analysis of millions of reviews worldwide. In total the five-point scale of stays was assessed for hotels from 87 countries.

8 years ago

Channel 360’s Guzel Kamaeva in the Bachelor Kitchen

Aleksandr Shatskih

This week the Bachelor’s Kitchen welcomes Guzel Kamaeva, one of Moscow’s most watched news presenters on the Federal TV Channel “360° Moscow suburbs”.

8 years ago

Turkish Airlines Adds Istanbul – Samara Flights

Aleksandr Shatskih

Samara, Russia, becomes the 250th international destination for global carrier Turkish Airlines. The company launched regular Istanbul – Samara flights on April 11, 2017.

8 years ago

Four Seasons Hotel Tunis to Open in 2017

Aleksandr Shatskih

In a cooperation between the world’s largest luxury hospitality company, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, and Tunisia’s Mabrouk Group, the opening of Four Seasons Hotel Tunis is to open in late 2017.

8 years ago

Malta Marriott Hotel & Spa to Open in 2018

Argophilia Travel News

According to the news this month from the Malta Tourism Authority, the all new Malta Marriott Hotel & Spa is slated to open where once a Le Méridien property stood. The rebrand of the already popular Malta stay promises guest Marriott service at one of St. Julian’s Bay’s most picturesque properties.

8 years ago

Eurowings Adds Flights to Tunisia and Greece

Argophilia Travel News

Eurowings is adding flights from Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Munich and Vienna to the summer lineup of departures to Tunisia and Greece.

8 years ago

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