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InterContinental Hotels Adds Luxurious Venice Hotel

2016-03-14 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Palais Nani

InterContinental Hotels Group has signed its first luxury hotel in Venice, Italy, the lavish 16th Century Palazzo Nani in the heart of the city. Scheduled to open at the start of 2018, the new IHG property will run under a franchise agreement with Gruppo Cordifin and H.n.h Hotels & Resorts Management.

Tags: IHG, IHG Venice, InterContinental Hotels, Italy hotels, Italy travel, venice

Milan Marriott Hosts MICE & More

2014-05-22 by Aleksandr Shatskih

MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL, INC. LOGO

Coming to Milan May 27th, the MICE & More networking event will be held at the Milan Marriott Hotel. More than 200 companies and 50 exhibitors are expected to attend a symposium of event managers, travel execs, marketing and communications types from some of Italy’s leading industry businesses.

Tags: Italy hotels, Marriott, Milan hotels, Milan travel

Serrano & Furnirussi Tenuta: More Unforgettable Italy

2013-11-04 by Phil Butler

Furnirussi Tenuta pool

“Live the beauty of Salento.” With this motto travelers are greeted and treated to a 5 star luxury resort Furnirussi Tenuta, located in Serrano – the heart of Grecìa Salentina. Here’s another Argo preview of a marvelous stay, a hidden gem, not so many have heard of.

Tags: Furnirussi Tenuta, Italy boot, Italy hotels, Italy resorts, Italy spas, Serrano, Serrano hotels, Serrano tourism

Affiliation with WIHP brings AMT Hotels Group over 180% ROI

2013-10-24 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Full size image of the Terrace Suite at the award winning Grand Hotel Villa Igiea

AMT Hotels Group (Acqua Marcia Turismo), the Italian hotels group that offers travelers a new style of welcome, hospitality and luxury in Sicily redesigned its corporate website. Visitors to the AMT hotel sites are now presented with a user friendly experience for surfing and booking on their websites, one which ideally proves the value of a refined direct booking path.

Tags: AMT Group, AMT Hotels, Italy hotels, Sicily hotels Sicily, Sicily travel, travel marketing, WIHP

Summer Hotel Ideas: Grand Hotel Poltu Quatu in Sardinia, Where Else?

2013-05-18 by Phil Butler

Pool view of marina in Porto Cervo

Every week we spotlight great hotels and destinations you may not come across via TripAdvisor or other travel portal. Sardinia is just such a vacation wonderland, often overlooked in favor or more visible and populist destinations. And, Port Cervo’s Grand Hotel Poltu Quatu is a double shot of sometimes undiscovered travel bliss. Here’s how come.

Tags: Italian hotels, Italy hotels, Italy stays, Sardinia beaches, Sardinia hotels, Sardinia travel, World hotels

More Eastern Europe Stay’s You Never Imagined

2013-03-13 by Phil Butler

The Fresco Mansion Suite

We take great pleasure in finding wonderful places and faces to share with you. Really we do. Today we bumped into a super friendly group of hotels presented though a company we found on Twitter actually. White Line Hotels may be semi-famous to some people, but we just found them to be quite honest. By way of a focus on what they offer, here’s two hotels in their group you may have never found, were it not right here with us.

Tags: Alpine hotels, Croatia hotels, Dalmatia hotels, Italy hotels, Turkey hotels

Lifestyle Hotels & Other Booking Filters

2012-07-24 by Phil Butler

Hotel Augarten

Are you looking for something or someone to filter your digital world? Argo Travel News takes a look at another travel accommodation filtering channel, Lifestyle Hotels, with mentions of a few others. If ever there were a need for good suggestion engines, the travel space is in dire need. How do you decide where to go, where to stay, what to do? Let’s look at regional players in travel booking.

Tags: ads, billboard effect, booking, destination filters, editing, France travel, hotel filter, human filtering, human filters, Italy hotels, Italy travel, Lago di Garda, Lefay Resort & SPA, marketing, OTA's, PR, resorts, startups, Stay.com, Thomas Holzleithner, Toscolano River, Vinivi, Waggener Edstrom, WHIP Convert, WIHP, WIHP Hotels

Top Luxury Hotels in Italy’s Sorrento

2012-03-18 by Guest Author

Almati, near Sorrento.

Planning on jetting off to Italy for a break? Lucky you! The country’s renowned for its cuisine, great weather and rich culture – and a great place to soak up all three is Sorrento, which is on the south coast. This is also a particularly good spot if you’re organising a luxury holiday.

Tags: Grand Ambasciatori, Imperial Hotel Tramontano, Italian hotels, Italy hotels, Italy tourism, Italy travel, Luxury Hotels, Sorrento, Sorrento hotels

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