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Green Key and Expedia to Recognize Sustainable Hotel Operations

Green Key Global today announced that Expedia, the world’s leading online travel agency, has incorporated the Green Key Eco-Rating Program, alongside other sustainability programs, into a new feature on its website that allows listed properties to showcase their commitment to “green” hotel operations.

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Green Key and Expedia to Recognize Sustainable Hotel Operations

Green Key and Expedia to Recognize Sustainable Hotel Operations

Green Key Global today announced that Expedia, the world’s leading online travel agency, has incorporated the Green Key Eco-Rating Program, alongside other sustainability programs, into a new feature on its website that allows listed properties to showcase their commitment to “green” hotel operations.

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Green Key and Expedia to Recognize Sustainable Hotel Operations

a oeThe price wars in some markets have really hurt profitabilitya

The nature of the lodging business is that there are always peaks and troughs of demand related to the supply available in any given market.

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a oeThe price wars in some markets have really hurt profitabilitya

Deal signed for 1 billion Manchester City scheme

Plans, understood to have been drawn up by BDP, for a gargantuan Las Vegas-style leisure complex next to the City of Manchester Stadium have taken a major step forward Last week, Manchester City Football Club announced it had signed a deal with Manchester City Council and urban regeneration company New East Manchester to redevelop 200 acres of land …

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Deal signed for 1 billion Manchester City scheme

Developer Starwood Hotels & Resorts Tops Off All Three of the…

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. proudly announces that in less than 24 months since the implosion of the landmark Sheraton Bal Harbour, The St.

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Brits ’spend least on hotel rooms’

UK tourists, who two years ago were among Europe’s biggest spenders on hotel rooms abroad, are now forking out the least for foreign accommodation, it has been revealed.

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Brits ’spend least on hotel rooms’

Whitbread Buys Out Emaar’s India JV Stake

Whitebread, owners of the Premier Inn budget hotel brand in the UK, has bought out its Indian joint venture partner Emaar MG, it was reported on Saturday.

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Whitbread Buys Out Emaar’s India JV Stake

Outbreaks continue on Mercury

Celebrity Cruises is struggling to deal with continued outbreaks of diarrhea and vomiting aboard the Mercury , which is sailing out of Charleston, S.C. The cruise line issued a statement Monday, saying that a port visit to Tortola, British Virgin Islands, was being skipped so the ship could return to its home port a day earlier.

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Oasis of the Seas overflowing with things to do

Sure, it’s bigger: Nearly four football fields long, with space for 6,300 passengers and volume that’s 40 percent larger than any other cruise ship at sea.

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Oasis of the Seas overflowing with things to do

Steiner Leisure Ltd. (STNR) Chairman Clive E Warshaw sells 17,718 Shares

Chairman of Steiner Leisure Ltd. Clive E Warshaw sells 17,718 shares of STNR on 03/11/2010 at an average price of $42.69 a share.

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Steiner Leisure Ltd. (STNR) Chairman Clive E Warshaw sells 17,718 Shares

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