Half of tourists stay in four-star hotels
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Most tourists visiting the Maltese islands last year stayed in four-star hotels, followed by the three-star and the five-star categories, according to the National Statistics Office.
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German engineer Michael Bosch is not fazed by the lack of a gym and other creature comforts at his budget hotel in a converted Shanghai office building. He's stayed at such hotels on nearly a dozen trips to Chinese cities.
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Belated news that Hollywood star Tom Hanks plans to attend remembrance ceremonies for the 60th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge this month sent tourism officials scurrying to find him a place to stay since all hotel rooms were taken.
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With hotels reporting some 40 percent of their rooms unoccupied this season, and, for a second summer, many rooms empty even in the hotels that line Spain's fabled beaches, government and industry officials say ...
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InterContinental Hotels, owner of brands such as Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza, wants to convince travelers its employees have the inside scoop on how to have a great visit. To achieve that, the company has debuted a set of four TV spots by agency Legas Delaney.
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Las Vegas's chance for a new boom may be limited by its airport, which is busting at the seams even before the addition over the next four years of around 40,000 new hotel rooms on the Las Vegas Strip, Deutsche Bank analyst Bill Lerner said on Tuesday.
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More than 4,000 overseas tourists from nations worldwide are missing three days after 10-meter (33 feet) waves swept through Asian resorts at the height of the vacation season.
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Las Vegas tourism officials plan to reveal an outline this week of their strategy to attract foreign visitors who have shied away from the United States since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.Officials are to present the vision Tuesday to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board, which is aiming to boost the share of visitors who come from other countries to 15 percent, up from the current 13 percent, by 2010. The destination's percentage of visitors from abroad have fallen from 18 percent before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, buffeted by tougher visa restrictions, wariness of travel and customs checks. Read more
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Business got better for Boston hotels last month, as events including the Democratic National Convention and Macworld brought plenty of guests and higher rates than local hoteliers have seen in recent years, according to a study released yesterday.
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For package holiday-makers, the options are straightforward, in theory. Tour reps at hotels help contact families and organise flights home.
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The recovery in business travel has a dark side for corporations returning to the road: Higher prices for hotel rooms.
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Hotel ratings are often a maze of confusion, aggravated in recent years by online travel booking sites that often use customersâ comments to rate accommodations.
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Indonesian police ratcheted up security  at Hilton hotels Thursday and a few guests in Jakarta said they  would leave after Western governments warned that one of the  establishments could be attacked by militants.
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There isn't much choice for travelers looking for luxury accommodations in Boston, but that's about to change in a big way.
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A group of 250 mainly European tourists was stranded for four days in the Bolivian Andes after indigenous protestors blocked roads amid a territorial dispute, the Interior Ministry said.
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Travel Web sites are clamping down on phony online consumer reviews of hotels, which could undermine a growth area.
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Government is aiming for an increase of between 100,000 and 150,000 tourists by the years 2006/2007 as this year the country witnessed a revival in tourism fortunes following three years, in which it lost in ...