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Langham Place opens in New York

The acclaimed Langham Place hotel brand plants its feet in New York this week with the opening of Langham Place, Fifth Avenue. ...

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Rydges Sydney Airport now open

Sydney now has its first real airport hotel, following this week's opening of the Rydges Sydney Airport. Located at the a...

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IHG sets the Net free

The InterContinental Hotels Group has pledged to offer free Internet access to all members of its Priority Club Rewards sc...

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Hotel Indigo comes to Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s first Hotel Indigo will open its doors next month, adding another appealing boutique hotel to hip Hong Kong s...

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Should hotels set wi-fi free?

In his High Flyer column for Fairfax Media – appearing in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Canberr...

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Marriot, Ikea partner to launch new Moxy Hotels

Ikea and Marriott may make unlikely bedmates, even in the Swedish flat-packer's modern Malm or rustic Hemnes beds, but the...

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Hilton Sydney's new executive lounge

Sydney's Hilton hotel now boasts an upmarket executive lounge to match the rest of the five-star hotel's slick style.  Pa...

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Pullman opens first London hotel at St Pancras

The first Pullman business hotel in the UK has opened, right next to Eurostar hub St Pancras International. It's a conversion o...

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InterContinental London Westminster opens

Business travellers heading to London will have another option from later this month, when the InterContinental London Westmins...

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Hotel hack: skip hotel form-filling with a card

Sick of filling out hotel registration forms with your name, address, phone numbers and so on? Save the time and repetition by ...

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Five hotel room staples you can repurpose

When you're on the road, sometimes you just can't get your hands on various key toiletries or personal necessities you need. Y...

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Sydney Harbour Rocks Hotel becomes Accor MGallery

Business travellers heading to Sydney have a new boutique hotel option -- that still lets them earn Accor points -- with the Sy...

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Travel tip: hotel 'incidentals deposits'

It’s a nearly unavoidable part of the hotel check-in ritual: show your ID, sign the paperwork and then hand over your cre...

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Shower caps: ideal for packing shoes

Trying to figure out how to pack your shoes? Are they a bit dusty or dirty for the just-washed clothes in your suitcase? Or pe...

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Five new hotel trends improving business travel

Like many business travellers, we spend much of our time in hotels, running into those little touches that make staying in a ho...

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Accor moves to free Internet

Hotels across the Accor group are looking to scrap in-room Internet charges, which remains a thorn in the side of many business...

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'Day stay' at Mercure Hobart, Launceston

The Mercure Hobart and Mercure Launceston hotels are now offering day rates of $65 for stays between 9am and 5pm as part of a n...

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Brisbane Holiday Inn turns into Traders Hotel

Brisbane's Holiday Inn hotel is a Holiday Inn no more after reopening as the first Australian Traders Hotel, from Hong Kong's S...

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