Corinthia Hotels marked the 10th anniversary since the reopening of its Corinthia Hotel Budapest in Hungary with a gala dinner hosted by Corinthia Group Chairman and Founder Alfred Pisani in the hotel’s magnificent ballroom. Guests of honor for the evening were the deputy mayor of Budapest Balazs Szeneczey and Malta’s minister for tourism Karmenu Vella. …
U.S. luxury travel agency network Virtuoso will hold its 2014 Symposium in Berlin, Germany, on April 26-30, 2014, as announced by Virtuoso’s CEO, Matthew Upchurch, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the site of the current year’s convention. The German National Tourist Office (GNTO) in collaboration with visitBerlin submitted the winning bid to host next year’s Symposium. “As host …
In honor of the Rome Cavalieri’s 50th anniversary, the Waldorf Astoria Hotel property will be running a “Golden Sheet” promotion throughout June. Five guests will check-in to their room to find a gift-wrapped bed with gold embroidered linen and will be instantly upgraded to the exclusive Petronius or Penthouse Suite, the ultimate in old-world glamour and …
Hyatt Hotels & Resorts has announced the appointment of Claudio Ceccherelli as General Manager of Grand Hyatt Cannes Hotel Martinez, located in Cannes in the South of France. This appointment takes place after the management agreement signed between an affiliate of Hyatt Hotels Corporations and Constellation Hotels Holdings Ltd., allowing Hyatt to reinforce its presence …
An entrepreneurial sales professional with more than two decades of management experience, Ülker works to increase bookings at the elegant address in the Taksim district of Istanbul. Her responsibilities include creating and implementing innovative strategies for heightening revenues, as well as training and inspiring the hotel’s sales and marketing team to develop new channels and …
In June, SAS is launching a new service concept, replacing the previous service classes with two brand new alternatives: SAS Go for customers who want to have a lot and SAS Plus for customers who want to have more. The company has worked with customers to develop the products, which are aimed at meeting the …
Beginning in mid-June, SATA Airlines will have daily flights from Boston to Portugal. The company will offer five flights to the Azores, two to Lisbon, and four (one-stop) to Porto each week. All of SATA’s flights to the Azores connect to Lisbon, meaning the airline will have daily flights to Lisbon. The summer schedule is …
The newly founded IcelandTravelWorkshop—an extremely well organized, casual and convivial meeting of travel professionals from both inside and outside the country—took place in Reykjavik on May 17. Coordinated by the team of Thora Gudmundsdottir, Thorunn Reynisdottir, and Guðný Pálsdóttir, the workshop featured a panel of travel luminaries, including Ólöf Yr Atladóttir, Director General of the …
Iceland, a country with a total population approximately a fifth the size of Manhattan, is a land of sumptuous beauty, ranging from bubbling craters and geysers so hot you don’t dare go near them (though there are many that visitors can watch from a distance of a few feet), to mountainous regions covered with snow …
Cameron House is a beautiful and romantic setting, making it the ideal place for a couple to start the next chapter of their lives. Whether that chapter is a proposal, the wedding itself or the honeymoon, this baronial mansion nestled on the bonnie banks of Loch Lomond provides the perfect backdrop. Employees of the resort …