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The upscale hotel is expected to begin welcoming guests in 2016 and will be located just a few minutes’ walk from the historic old town and major commercial areas of the city, making it an ideal choice for both business and leisure guests.

Arabic speaking customers worldwide can now access a host of online functions and important hotel information through the new Arabic website from Marriott International.

Pullman, the Accor Group’s upscale international brand, is inaugurating the Pullman Phuket Arcadia Naithon Beach. It is the fifteenth resort in its portfolio, the fifth Pullman in Thailand, and nestled in Naithon Beach, one of the most beautiful expanses on Phuket’s west coast.

The U.S. lodging market may be going gangbusters, but it seems that China is grabbing many of the headlines these days. Between the incredible bounty of new development and its rising middle class, China is one market that’s on a major winning streak.

There’s yet more change afoot for luxury hotels in Paris with the announcement that the Raffles property Le Royal Monceau has been granted an official ‘Palace Distinction’.

InterContinental Hotels Group is celebrating the introduction of IHG® Rewards Club by launching its “Discover IHG” sweepstakes on social media tool Instagram, a mobile app for sharing photos and video.

Centara Hotels & Resorts, Thailand’s leading hotel operator, will in September soft open a five-star hotel in Pattaya’s Phratamnak Hill district, the city’s premier residential area.

In recognition of its increasingly connected mobile guests, Marriott Hotels, the signature brand of Marriott International , is announcing plans to rollout mobile check-in at 325 hotels in the U.S. and Canada. Now launched at 31 Marriott-brand hotels, mobile check-in will expand to all 325 Marriott-brand hotels later this summer.

InterContinental Hotels Group, one of the world’s largest hotel companies, today announced the opening of the 122-room Holiday Inn® Hotel Guayaquil Airport in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Zorlu Center picks Raffles, the premium luxury hotel chain, as the hotel to be located within the project as it is prepared to host the most famous brands in the world. Raffles, the winner of the Condé Nast Traveler “World’s Best Places to Stay” and Travel & Leisure World’s Best Awards, will be opened in the last quarter of 2012. Raffles Istanbul Zorlu Center, which will be opened with an investment of approximately 175 million dollars except the land value

Picking up on Hollywood’s fascination with hotels throughout the years, Hotels.com®, the hotel experts, lifts the clapper board on ten hotels around the world that have been made famous by films. Hotels have been used in scenes of love, conspiracy, heartache and even murder and will continue to play an important part in film history. The versatility of hotels enables the creation of a specific world, era, mood or atmosphere for any particular film genre.

You may know these famous hotels by name, but do you know what they‘re famous for? Adlon Kempinski Hotel, Berlin, Germany The last tzar of Russia, Adolf Hitler, Marlene Dietrich, Josephine Baker—they were all guests—so were Einstein, Edison, and