Destination News.Intercontinental Hotels Group InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) (LSE: IHG NYSE: IHG) is a multinational company which operates several hotel brands. The largest hotel company by number of rooms (556,000 as of March 2007 [1]), its headquarters are in Windsor just outside Greater London and Intercontinental Hotels Group, based in Windsor (England), which claims to be world's largest hotel group by number of rooms, is growing further. In the coming year, nine new InterContinental in·ter·con·ti·nen·tal adj. 1. Extending or taking place between or among continents: intercontinental exploration; intercontinental cooperation. 2. Hotels & Resorts are currently scheduled to open around the world. In the USA, China, Europe and the Middle East. Included among these new openings in 2006 are resorts located in Spain, Egypt and Panama, increasing the brand's total resort portfolio to 20. Additional highlights anticipated in 2006 include the first InterContinental hotel to open in Boston (see ON TOUR below), and two new InterContinental hotels in Greater China - in Chongqing and Shenzhen - bringing the brand's total to seven in that fast developing region. http://www.ichotelsgroup.com February 12, 2006 Marriott hotels Cologne Cologne (kəlōn`), Ger. Köln, city (1994 pop. 962,500), North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany, on the Rhine River. It is a commercial, financial, and industrial center, a rail and road junction, and a river port. has a new Marriott hotel situated just a few footsteps away from the famous historic cathedral and the main railway station, an ideal location. The property officially opened its doors last week. It has 282 guest rooms and suites, as well as 12 conference and meeting spaces in different sizes and two restaurants. The hotel is Marriott International's first new opening with rooms featuring the Marriott Revive "R" beds. Every room offers not one but two Internet points and a choice of 400 TV channels. Marriott is particularly proud of the Dom Suite, 1,130 square ft in size with a 322 square ft terrace giving a breathtaking breath·tak·ing adj. 1. Inspiring or exciting: a breathtaking view; a breathtaking ride. 2. Astonishing; astounding: breathtaking insensitivity. view of Cologne and the cathedral. There is also an executive lounge on the sixth floor, as well as a business center and health club. http://www.marriott.com February 12, 2006 Taj taj n. A tall conical cap worn by Muslims as a headdress of distinction. [Arabic t Hotel Sydney has now followed New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of in having a Taj Hotel. The up-market Indian hotel group has confirmed that its recently acquired property, formerly known as The W, and in Woolloomooloo Bay and close by the Opera House and Circular Quay QUAY, estates. A wharf at which to load or land goods, sometimes spelled key. 2. In its enlarged sense the word quay, means the whole space between the first row of houses of a city, and the sea or river 5 L. R. 152, 215. business district, has been renamed BLUE. The 100-room, five-year old hotel was voted among the "Top 3 Best Hotels for location in Australasia & South Pacific" in the Conde Nast Traveler Gold List 2006. As can be seen in our picture, left, the view is very fair. Back in July Taj Hotels acquired another international property, The Pierre in Fifth Avenue, New York, opposite Central Park. http://www.tajhotels.com February 12, 2006 |
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