Travel News: Airlines, Tourism and Airfares

As a hotel manager, when a guest comes to the front desk to register a complaint, do you: 1) look busy; 2) skulk out the back door; or 3) handle the matter personally?

The National Restaurant Association released the following statement today from Hudson Riehle, Senior Vice President of the Research and Knowledge Group:

The Renaissance Hotel, Courtyard by Marriott & Marriott Executive Apartments Doha City Center, as part of the Doha City Center Mall development, is predicting a simultaneous opening late this year.

For most consumer products (CP) executives, the process for planning, budgeting, and forecasting (PBF) is inconvenient at best and irrelevant at worst. Time is spent and resources wasted, on an overly complicated process. For what?

The following statement from W. Craig Barber, Chairman of the Denny’s Franchisee Association, is in response to a message on Friday, April 30 by the Committee to Enhance Denny’s regarding their proxy solicitation.

Global airline seat capacity and frequency will both experience solid growth in May, over the same month a year ago. May seat capacity will grow 6%, and the total number of flights will increase 5%, over the same month last year, reports OAG, (www.oagaviation.com), the global leader in aviation intelligence, in its monthly report on trends in the supply of airline seats and flights.

Ritz-Carlton, Homewood Suites, Renaissance, Drury Inn & Suites, and Microtel Inn & Suites among the top chains for their price.

With its November-December Mexican Riviera series, Crystal Cruises becomes the only luxury cruise line to sail round-trip from Los Angeles to western Mexico's tropical resort towns in 2010.

First premium cruise line to offer convenience of pre-cruise booking of new onboard beverage options

ReServe Interactive, a leader in hospitality management software solutions, announces the latest upgrade to ReServeIT, the company’s online dining reservation software. Using state-of-the-art Web 2.0 technologies, ReServeIT now offers a more customizable and flexible platform designed to further improve the end user experience, including an enhanced user interface for easy navigation and set-up; improved performance features such as centralized control over multiple sites; and additional customization options allowing restaurateurs to create customer facing pages that reflect their brand throughout the reservation process.