Bed and Breakfast Industry News - Middle East & Africa Regional News

Lodging Interactive an award winning interactive and social media marketing agency servicing the hospitality industry, today announced Link2Brand an innovative marketing solution for branded hotels. With Link2Brand hotels can launch their own marketing campaigns without the need of a dedicated hotel website; Link2Brand links directly to the bran... - More

Back in December 2003, Smith Travel Research published a much discussed article titled, 'The Billion Dollar Leak - The Impact of The Merchant Model on US Hotel Profits.' In this article the authors attempted to quantify the financial impact of third party sites on U.S. hotel industry room revenues and profits. To describe this loss, they coined ... - More

The region’s occupancy ended the month virtually flat with a 0.1-percent increase to 61.3 percent, average daily rate increased 11.8 percent to US$145.00, and revenue per available room grew 11.8 percent to US$88.82. - More

Lodging Interactive, a leading interactive marketing agency servicing the hospitality industry and the publisher of the free Chatter Guard Monthly Benchmark Monitor Report has released its June 2010 report. - More

The Middle East/Africa hotel development pipeline comprises 455 hotels totalling 126,273 rooms, according to the July 2010 STR Global Construction Pipeline Report released this week. - More

The latest hotels in Beirut could not have timed their entrance to the market much better. The new properties in the Lebanese capital are benefitting from the recent upswing in revenue per available room as illustrated by data from STR Global, the leading provider of market information to the global hotel industry. - More

There should be no such thing as 'limited service' in hotels or hospitality - More

The Chinese and Singaporeans Are Most Likely to Increase Vacation Spend, While the French, British and South Koreans Look to Save (and Almost Everyone Wants to Travel) - More

The global economy continues to grow but uncertainty has gripped observers about the sustainability of growth in the world’s three biggest markets: the United States, Europe, and China. - More

E-Guide Services, Inc. (EGS) announced results of an independent Arbiton Inc. study of its innovative E-GuideTV service, an in-room hotel television channel guide. Results prove the Out-of-Home advertising medium to be both a valuable and popular amenity to hotel guests and an outstandingly effective medium for advertisers. - More