Cox and Kings unit Meininger Hotels said that it has signed a contract with French real estate developer COFFIM for the construction of a 194-room hotel in Marseille, its fourth in France. The new hotel, scheduled to open in 2021, will have 574 beds as well as 22 parking spaces. The new hotel is located […]
Travel services firm Cox & Kings said it has agreed to provide ‘ancillary travel services’ to RCI, considered the largest timeshare holiday network in the world. Cox & Kings will provide various facilities to Indian members of the RCI network, including visa processing, air tickets and transfers. The Indian timeshare holiday market is currently dominated […]
Cox and Kings’ unit Meininger Hotels said it will construct a 126-room hotel in Bremen, Germany. The new hotel, scheduled to open in 2022, will have 378 beds in an area of 5,100 square metres on 11 floors. The hotel is located near Bremen’s Old Town and central station, the travel and tourism company said. […]
Cox & Kings said its hotel subsidiary, Meininger, has signed “an agreement for a hotel in Reykjavik”, the capital of Iceland in Europe. The company did not clarify who will own the property, but it is likely that ownership will be with a third party, with Meininger managing the hotel. Meininger is a subsidiary of […]
Royal Orchid Hotels said it opened its 48th hotel in Pushkar under the name of ‘Regenta Resort Fort’. “We are taking continuous steps towards expanding our presence all over India,” said Chander K. Baljee, Managing Director, Royal Orchid Hotel. The chain has opened seven properties – Mysore, Ahmedabad, Dehradun, Kanpur, Dwarka, Indore and Pushkar in […]
The ministry of consumer affairs, food and public distribution is still waiting to hear from the hotel and restaurant industry associations on how they intend to resolve the issue of levying service charges ‘unfairly’. The matter had come to a head in early January when the ministry sent a directive to all state governments asking […]
Blue Coast Hotels Ltd, the owner of the property of Park Hyatt Goa Resort & Spa said the Bombay High Court has quashed the recent auction of the hotel by IFCI. “By Order dated March 23, 2016 uploaded on April 4, 2016, the Hon’ble High Court of Bombay has quashed and set aside the Order […]
Mumbai-based Oberoi Group has won contracts to manage two new luxury hotels in Qatar, the hotel and hospitality group said. The first is a 250-key luxury hotel being developed in the West Bay area of Doha and the second a 148-key luxury serviced apartment building located in Lusail, Doha. In the hotel business, properties are […]
Due to low tariffs rates and discounts offered by hotels, resorts and airlines, India’s domestic tourism has gone up by 23.5% during the monsoon season as compared to 18.5% last year, said industry association ASSOCHAM. The ASSOCHAM survey reveals that there has been a surge in travel by Indians within the country in the last […]
