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Tune Hotels Comes to Jakarta

Aleksandr Shatskih

Our friends at Tune Hotels, the leading value hotel brand with properties across Southeast Asia and the UK, has just announced a further expansion – with the grand opening of Tune Hotel Pasar Baru in Jakarta, Indonesia, scheduled to take place on July 12.

WIHP Hotels Selects ComTranslations

Aleksandr Shatskih

For travel and tourism engaged companies, there’s perhaps no more crucial component of operations than communications. And not just in a company’s native language. ComTranslations, a rapidly growing international translation company, has just been signed by World Independent Hotels Promotion (WIHP), another rising star in the tourism sector.

Marina Bay Sands’ Unique Business Travel Experience

Aleksandr Shatskih

Being successful in business means doing more than simply making money – it entails cultivating friendly relations so as to establish trust and understanding between partners, and nobody understands this more than Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.

New Titanic to Sail in 2016

Aleksandr Shatskih

If everything goes as planned, Palmer hopes that the new Titanic will sail from London to New York in late 2016.

California Fitness, Food, and Fun 2012

Phil Butler

Fitness spas, ranches, resorts, and getaways California, all the rage these days. How come? Well, Spring and Summer in California is pretty marvelous. Hotels and other venues there wait to help guests get fit, fed, and entertained, so Argo Travel News offers this slight preview.

Monday Travel Deal Favorites

Phil Butler

Okay, so you’re headed to Europe, or at least thinking about it for the Summer. Argo Travel News came across a few deals that bear closer scrutiny for the traveler who’s plans are not completely filled out. From boutique hotels to full fledged luxury resorts, bad economic times can spell big time savings, as you’ll see below.

FHA 2012 Opens in Singapore

Aleksandr Shatskih

For those interested in food and hospitality, and/or those headed to Singapore, the Singapore Exhibition Services Pte Ltd opens Food & Hotels Asia 2012 (FHA 2012) this Tuesday at the Singapore Expo Convention and Exhibition Center.

Tune Hotels Extends £9 London Room Sale

Phil Butler

Tune Hotels extends their winning £9 room sale for a fourth Tune London accomidation, Tune Kings Cross. This brings Tune Hotels’ properties in London to total 4. With the Olympics at the door, Tune Hotels may have ensured 100 percent occupancy with this move. If customers repeat, Tune Hotels just unleashed a dynamite marketing strategy.

Seebad Prora: One Hitler Vision Comes to Pass

Phil Butler

In a bit of nostalgia news from Germany, the Baltic Sea resort monstrosity, the Colossus of Prora, is slated to become a luxury German resort of some proportions soon. One of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s projects for the Thousand Year Reich, Prora was built in the 1930’s as a Nazi resort complex by the sea, but never actually used as such.