Jennifer Kirk, former resident of Lake Worth and Wellington Florida, admitted accountable to charges of conspiracy and fraud. The office of the US Attorney meted Kirk with up to 25 years imprisonment for illegally acquiring $30 million from over 22,000 US residents. Stephen R. Wigginton, US attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, said that [...]
Travelers bound for the UK have been earlier warned about possible delays on their expected arrival time on Thursday, June 29th, both at the ports and airports, as a bunch of customs and immigrations officials were all set to partake in the public sector strike. The commotion was the result of the proposed changes in [...]
Marriott International, Inc. filed Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corp. at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as the new name of the company’s timeshare business spin-off. Earlier this year, the hotel company had already planned the spin-off of its timeshare firm into a separate free-trade group. The new company name registered an initial Form 10 Registration [...]
French-owned luxury hotel Sofitel has formally launched its first Legend property in Europe, turning its historic The Grand hotel in Amsterdam into Sofitel Legend The Grand Amsterdam. The hotel is also the company’s second largest Legend property in the world. The Legend brand is known for its presence in buildings that have at least 100 [...]
Airports now have a choice—whether or not to avail of the federal screening program. As airports are usually crowded and busy with the goings on of the daily flights, they often become an easy target of unscrupulous individuals, thereby compromising public safety. Thus, it’s essential to have an effective security checkpoint staff. The Option to [...]
Recently, Hilton Grand Vacations sealed their purchase of the Ohana Islander Waikiki Hotel. It was regarded as an unusual move, primarily because the property itself has not been used as a hotel since some time in 2008. The Ohana Islander Waikiki is a 285-key hotel, which Hilton timeshare plans to renovate and convert into an [...]
Frontier Airlines will have additional nonstop seasonal routes between Branson, Missouri and both Austin, Texas and Phoenix, Arizona, making it the only carrier to offer nonstop service via these new routes. Frontier vice president of strategy and planning Daniel Shurz said that the new route to Branson proved to be beneficial to customers who found [...]
An increasing number of tourist complaints prompted the local government of Phuket to hold a meeting to discuss the problem involving false timeshare operators. These bogus timeshare companies cheat tourists by using outside public contacts (OPCs).Some of the protesters are handing out annoying advertisements to tourists on the streets while some are pretending to be [...]
Known to lovers as Canada’s honeymoon city, Niagara Falls has claimed a top spot to level itself with the rest of Canada’s key travel destinations. Apart from the iconic and vast waterfalls, the American and the Horseshoe, Niagara Falls is now heading towards the limelight to be the perfect set for trade shows, conferences, and [...]
Record prices are being paid by investors for hotel properties in the US, and they may be outpacing the potential gains in room rates, as the rate of recovery is dampening a revival in lodging demand. The average price of lodging properties climbed to an estimated $185,000 per room in the first quarter of 2011, [...]