Valhalla Associates Limited and Luxury Leisure Properties International LLC today announced that they have formed a partnership to jointly service owners and developers of mixed-use hotel and resort complexes where leisure real estate is integrated with luxury hotel operations. The two companies offer advisory and turn-key project management services ranging from product concept, market research [...]

Created in 1934 in the Famed King Cole Bar at The St. Regis New York, the Legendary Hotel brand Marks 75 years of the Iconic Cocktail With Bloody Mary Inspired Menus, Spa Treatments, Special Offerings and More St. Regis Hotels & Resorts today celebrates the 75th anniversary of the iconic Bloody Mary with a series [...]

The Hideaways Club is a leading international property investment fund that offers its members the opportunity to invest in and exclusively enjoy an entire portfolio of luxury holiday villas and chalets throughout Europe, Africa and Mauritius. The company has recently added two spectacular new properties to its expanding Far East programme on the beautiful islands [...]

Lifestyle Holidays Vacation Club, located in Puerto Plata on the North Coast of the Dominican Republic, announces the appointment of Manny Slomovits as Executive Chef.  A New York native and graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Slomovits has over 18 years of international culinary experience in the U.S. and abroad, including five star restaurants [...]

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C. is reaching out to corporate executives, meeting planners, and conference attendees in an effort to encourage the scheduling of meetings from educational seminars, incentive trips, customer appreciation events to annual retreats. With a message that “It’s Not Extravagant, If It Produces Results”, the award-winning hotel company is highlighting the added [...]

RCI, the global leader in vacation exchange and one of the Wyndham Worldwide family of companies (NYSE: WYN), today launched a new programme to formally honor sales and innovation among its European affiliates in the timeshare industry. The RCI Award for Developer Achievement (RADA) programme will recognise the importance of a quality sales operation, and [...]

IFA Hotels & Resorts (IFA HR) announced it has achieved over US$100 million in sales for the first six months of 2009 through its global network across the Middle East, Europe, Africa and Asia. Werner Burger, President & COO of IFA HR said: “This is a unique achievement given the global downturn in the real [...]

Hapimag, the leading provider of holiday rights of residence on the European market, continued its positive development of the previous year in the first half of this year. In comparison to the same period last year, total sales increased by 2.4 per cent to EUR 81.9 million (EUR 80 million in 2008). The operating result after the first six months was EUR 1.8 million (EUR 2 million in the first half of 2008) and the occupancy rate of the resorts at around 71% is the same as for the previous year. In February 2009, Hapimag opened its new flagship resort in Hörnum (Sylt), and thanks to the cooperation venture with ‘Dial an Exchange’ the company now offers even better access to apartments worldwide.

Global Connections, Inc. has recently announced the opening of a new sales distribution center in Boise, Idaho for the sale of its Global Discovery Vacation (GDV) product. The addition of the Boise facility brings the total to 18 sales centers in about as many states for the respected travel club organization.    The new 3,800 [...]