Hotel Industry News - Latin America Regional News

Over the past few years, TripAdvisor has been expanding its content offerings, evolving from a hotel review site to a comprehensive resource for planning trips. And while the majority of content is traveler-generated, if you’re a tourism bureau you have a variety of options to contribute content of your own, to enhance existing content and to promote travel to your destination.

Looking for the path to the Memorable Experience for your guests? It all starts with the mood that prevails. If I am in bad humor, I am not receptive to those sensors you have created and marketed. That’s right, I need to be 'gruntled'.

IN-DEPTH: The process of nurturing internal experts that take care of social media marketing initiatives depends on several factors including the company culture, making social media intrinsic to marketing and a brand’s business operations, and the model for social media communications that’s been chosen for your brand.

Formerly managed by Starwood Hotels & Resorts under the Le Meridien flag, the 214-room hotel will re-open on March 1, 2012 as part of the Sandos collection, featuring new culinary offerings and all-inclusive programming.

A key principle for finding personal fulfillment in the never-ending journey to hospitality service excellence is realizing that when we bring out the best in others, we simultaneously bring out the best in ourselves every day, every shift, and with just about every guest we encounter.

Travel is one of those few and lucky verticals that is so broad and engaging that it actually works on various screens – but travel content and service providers need to be thoughtful about what to optimize for each screen and what to carry through to all to convey a consistent and integrated experience and message, says Katherine Bose, Director, Mobile Partnerships, Americas, TripAdvisor.

According to a recent Google whitepaper, the number of mobile users researching travel via their mobile devices is expected to grow 51% in 2012. The case is equally compelling for mobile booking in APAC, with more than 15% of travellers projected to book travel products and service by 2013.

The new hotels are in France, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Thailand. The upscale hotel company of Swiss heritage now has 69 hotels in operation and 31 in development of which nine will open this year.

The worldwide wine business is a good case study in free trade, given that there are many producers and few restrictions on commerce. In recent years, the cost of wine has reflected this generally free global market in two ways — one good and the other bad, as George M. Taber argues in this op-ed piece. Taber is the author of four books on wine. His latest is titled, A Toast to Bargain Wines: How innovators, iconoclasts, and winemaking revolutionaries are changing the way the world drinks.

Located just steps from historic El Carmen Church between modern Panama City and The Old City, the newly transformed, 213-room hotel is situated along the Via España, just 20 minutes from Tocumen International Airport and 10 miles from the Miraflores Locks of the Panama Canal, within walking distance of the city’s premier dining, shopping, casinos and business centers.