More than 5,000 athletes and officials, as well as their families and friends, are in Phuket during the 10-day 4th Asian Beach Games that kicked off last Friday (14 November 2014) and will run until this Sunday (23 November).Phuket hotels are running at about 80 per cent occupancy island-wide, according to the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) Phuket Office. The healthy occupancy is attributed to the Games and the high season period, which kicked off from 1 November.

The Golden City Gate announced that the bbw University Berlin will cooperate with the Golden City Gate during ITB in March 2015. Besides this, there are more improvements to come. “We are planning an artist market and a small studio out of glass”, said Wolfgang Jo Huschert, organizer of the event. This November, Vienna has been the scene of the tourism film award ceremony CIFFT – the Comité International des Festival du Film Touristique. During the ceremony the film “Barossa” was awarded with the PRIX CIFFT. The film was determined out of 1.600 films of the global CIFFT circle.

BUDGET HOTEL BOOM: SUSTAINABLE STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN GERMANY’S HOTEL MARKET. SUCCESSFUL CONCEPTS MOTEL ONE AND HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS DISPLACE OWNER-MANAGED PRIVATE HOTELS – 330 NEW HOTELS IN GERMANY IN THE PIPELINE.Germany has to catch up with Budget Hotels: successful concepts such as Motel One and Holiday Inn Express reinforce the profound structural change of the hotel market. Real estate experts from Patrizia Immobilien and CBRE make this clear. According to surveys by TOPHOTELPROJECTS, the worldwide leading provider for global b2b hotel data, six new Motel One and ten projects by the IHG hotel brand Holiday Inn Express are currently in the pipeline in Germany.

49 properties will use RateTiger for rate & inventory management
One of the largest hotel chains in Latin America – Brazil Hospitality Group has selected eRevMax to maximize its e-distribution potential through an efficient channel manager. 49 properties, including Golden Tulip, Tulip Inn and Royal Tulip brands will be using the RateTiger Channel Manager to update rates and availability across multiple online sales channels from a single platform.

After the undisputed success of the seven editions of FIEXPO LATIN AMERICA – the Latin American and Caribbean Meeting and Incentive Exhibition – the event has already positioned itself as the key business space for the continent’s meetings industry. The distinction granted by Mr. Martin Sirk, CEO of ICCA – the International Congress & Convention Association – designating FIEXPO as an “ICCA-Supported Show”, further confirms the feeling expressed by hundreds of exhibitors who, year after year, close important deals with Hosted Buyers and Trade Visitors that visit the event.

Trader Vic’s Wordwide has a rich and storied history of success and innovation that all began in 1934 when the ebullient Vic “The Trader” Bergeron built a cozy little saloon on San Pablo Avenue in Oakland, California that he called Hinky Dinks.After embarking on an adventure to Cuba to refine his skills as a bartender and explore the subtleties of rums from around the world, The Trader eventually landed in Hawaii and completely immersed himself in island living and culture. Upon his return home his objective was clear: inject the spirit of the island into our everyday lives.