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Accor Names New General Manager at Novotel Athenes

2019-11-21 by Argophilia Travel News

Novotel Athenes

Novotel Athenes, in the center of the Greek capital, has appointed Georgios Kritikopoulos as its General Manager.

Tags: Accor, Accor Athenes, Accor Athens, Accor Group, Georgios Kritikopoulos, Greece hotels, hotel appointments, hotel managers

FastBooking Report Reveals Recipe for Direct Distribution

2017-09-04 by Phil Butler

FastBooking

A new report and a revealing graphic from FastBooking reminds us that hotelier uptake for using more and more advanced tools and strategies needs to be incremental. The report entitled “A guide for independent hotels: budget hotels, small luxury hotels, and hotel groups” shows how CRM and other energies need to work hand-in-hand with websites, social, SEO and SEM, email marketing, metasearch and other facets to spur direct bookings.

Tags: Accor, Accor Hotels, Bookings, CRM, distribution, FastBooking, hotel bookings, hotel marketing, hotel revenue, Hotel rooms, Jean-Louis Boss, rooms, rooms sales

Brands Eyeball Croatia & Airbnb Competitiveness

2017-02-15 by Phil Butler

Croatia coast

Fear of growing competition has made Croatia’s hotel market prime for big hotel management and development brands intent on expansion.

Tags: Accor, Adria Hotel Forum, Choice Hotel, Croatia hotels, Croatia investment, Dogus Group, Hilton, Hotel investment, Hyatt, Magnuson Hotels, Plateno Group, Takuya Aoyama, Tom Magnuson, Tomasz Janczak, Zagreb, Zagreb Airbnb, Zagreb travel

Sofitel Tirana Palace On the Build

2014-05-29 by Rhett Butler

Tirana Albania

Luxury hotel chain Sofitel announced last week a management agreement for the new Sofitel Tirana Palace in Albania’s capital city. Located just a few kilometers from the city center in Tirana, the hotel is a mix of Greco-Roman architecture and Versailles-like splendor inside.

Tags: Accor, Albania hotels, Europe hotels, hotels, Sofitel, Tirana travel

Accor Names Picheral & Daines to Key Positions in Europe

2014-05-12 by Liliana Steffens

In hospitality people moves, Accor has named Laurent Picheral as CEO Hotel Services Germany, Poland and Central Europe. Effective July 1, Picheral becomes a member of the executive committee of the group. Steven Daines is also slated to take over those operations for Benelux and beyond.

Tags: Accor, hotel execs, Laurent Picheral, Sébastien Bazin, Steven Daines

Russia Hotels to Double by 2018 Report Says

2013-03-12 by Liliana Steffens

Ranking of international operators in the Moscow market

A report from KPMG; ‘International Hotel Operators in Russia’, tells of major hotel brands expanding to twice their current presence by the year 2018. Last year’s accelerated growth and the immediate future are discussed, as well as extended reach within the country.

The KPMG data shows that not only are key centers like Moscow

Tags: Accor, BRIC, InterContinental, Marriott, Moscow hotels, Rezidor, Russia & CIS Summit 2013, Russia hotels, Sochi, Sochi hotels, St. Petersburg

Accor Q3 Good, PR and Expansion Moves Even Better

2012-10-20 by Phil Butler

Accor Facebook fans

In earnings news from Accor Group, the French hotel company released their Q3 results last week reflecting a slight upturn for the first nince months of this year. Despite a European industry staggered by economic woes, Accor manages black ink.

Tags: Accor, Africa hotels, Cure Kids Fiji, French hotels, hotel investments, hotel profits

Accor Hotels’ First MGallery in Downtown Doha

2012-04-03 by Phil Butler

Accor Facebook images

Accor Group, the world’s leading hotel operator with some 4400 plus hotels in 90 countries, has just announced a deal with Qatar’s Msheireb Hospitality for operating the Msheireb Downtown Doha project., an Accor Hotels MGallery hotel in the city’s prime business district. This luxury boutique offering expands upon traditional Qatari hospitality with a truly original thematic scheduled to open in 2015.

Tags: Accor, Accor Group, Accor Hotels, Al Mohannadi, Asia hotels, China hotels, Denis Hennequin, Doha tourism, hotel industry, Ibis, Latin America hotels, Mercure, MGallery, Msheireb Downtown Doha, Novotel, Pullman, Qatar, Singapore hotels, World hotels

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