Category Archives for Hospitality.
Accor is launching the Ibis Mumbai Vikhroli in October 2021. And to celebrate the launch, it is inviting everyone to check into the hotel, and pay what they want, after spending time at the hotel. Here are the details.
Raffles The Palm Dubai is all set to open, and it looks majestic. The timing of opening coincides with the opening of the Expo 2020 in Dubai as well.
Marriott has a huge pipeline in India and the rest of South Asia in the coming years, with tonnes of hotels coming up in the neighbourhood across luxury and select hotel brands. Here is an update.
Accor has launched a new global promotion, offering up to 6,000 points, worth 120 Euros, on the completion of three stays with ALL participating hotels. Here are the details. Registration required.
Accor Hotels’ ALL loyalty club members will now be able to earn points for their dining and bar expenses at hotels across India, Middle East, Turkey and Africa, when dining and not staying with Accor hotels as well. Here are the details!
ITC Hotels’ Club ITC has cut down the requirements to (re)qualify for the next year, effectively making it very easy this year to qualify for status on their chain.
The fabulous Raffles Udaipur, the first in India is all set to open on August 2, and from the looks of it, is marvellous, sitting pretty atop an island in the Udai Sagar Lake
57 Lounges operated by Plaza Premium will go away from the Priority Pass network as of July 1, 2021. Here is an update on the lounges which are going away (and those that stay for now).
IHCL, the hotel group that offers the Taj, Vivanta and Ginger brands of hotels, has gone ahead and signed up another big hotel contract in Bengaluru, this time at the airport. With this, they are almost tripling their capacity at BLR Airport, with a 5-star already there, and a 4- and 3- star hotel set to come up in a few years.
Hyatt Regency Mumbai, the airport-side 5-star hotel of the Hyatt in Mumbai, has shut down operations till further notice. This appears to be due to a non-provision of funds, even to pay salaries to staff at the moment.
Hotels had just started to tie up with hospitals and other healthcare services to offer vaccines to people who wanted to come and stay with them and get a shot on a paid basis. Now, the government has said this is not an approach in line with guidelines and asked for this to be stopped.
