Despite the credit crunch business is 'blooming' for a local garden maintenance service.

Check out the November events organised by the White Cliffs Countryside Project.

A listed red phone box featured in the 1969 film Battle of Britain is under threat after BT earmarked it for removal because it is not used enough.

A long established landmark hotel in Hythe is to be redeveloped and extended after plans for a £12m facelift were approved by Shepway planners.

If it weren't for the OU appearing to be about to drop all their science summer schools and consequently their named science degrees, the choices for 2010 would be very easy. First I'd be doing Biological Psychology in February and

Intelity's Interactive Customer Experience(ICE), an innovative guest service solution and back-end monitoring system, has launched its latest phase of interactive development with ICE Mobile. Now featuring full smartphone capabilities, ICE Mobile offers all the integral components of ICE as an

Brannen, an international firm recognized by the Boston Society of Architects as gifted in sustainable design, and New York-based design team Bentel & Bentel, recipient of the American Institute for Architects Award for Interior Design (2007) and the James Beard

One of the hospitality industry's most influential champions, who has raised the profile of the profession in the UK to unprecedented levels in recent years, is to be the keynote speaker at the 4th Annual BAHA (British Association of Hospitality

EZYield.com, the originator of automated online channel management solutions for the worldwide hospitality industry, today announced the launch of RoomRez, a feature-rich, flexible and functional hotel web booking engine that transforms a hotel's website into a fully transactional and secure

The Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI) announces the dates of its 2010 Affordable Meetings® Conference & Expositions and Event Technology Expo™ (ETE) at Affordable Meetings® National. This highly acclaimed event series attracts more than 3,000 motivated planners from

he U.S. online leisure/unmanaged business travel market is significantly outperforming every other distribution channel in 2009, according to PhoCusWright's U.S. Online Travel Overview Ninth Edition. Amid a severe economic downturn, U.S. online leisure/unmanaged business bookings will decline 7% while the

Hotel human resource directors regularly evaluate questions of competency, casting wide influence on decisions concerning the hiring or continuing employment of fellow employees. But how do we evaluate HR's competency? What factors should we be considering? A basic competency model

Duane Vinson, VP at Smith Travel Research presented this data to attendees of the U.S. Travel Association Marketing Outlook Forum in Little Rock, Arkansas.

During the first of my carefree college years, my freshman dormmate, Kyle, left our room for only three reasons: 1. to occasionally go to class; 2. to occasionally visit the dining hall on the off nights he didn't order food;

While Expedia executives have been tight-lipped about the company's mid-October decision to take most Choice Hotels International properties off of its Expedia.com and Hotels.com Web sites because of an expired contract, president and CEO Dara Khosrowshahi and CFO Michael Adler

London hoteliers experienced in September an increase in monthly Revenue per Available Room (RevPAR) for the first time since August 2008, according to the latest HotStats survey by industry experts TRI Hospitality Consulting. Meanwhile, hotels in Budapest, Munich and Prague

A discussion on the existing lodging demand fundamentals and outlook for peripheral New York City hotel markets. The article also discusses why these areas may present good investment opportunities for hotel investors. Long Island City - and for that matter

When it comes to profits, the benefits of rate discounting for hotels are illusory, and the negative effects are both immediate and far-reaching. One of the most important decisions facing hotel managers in an economic drought is determining room rates

By: Cristina Balekjian and Saurabh Chawla. This market snapshot is the fourth in a series of articles that HVS is producing every month with STR Global data for a number of key markets. Our analysis for this market is based

MSI (Multi-Systems, Inc.), a hospitality technology solutions provider, with a focus on property management, sales & catering, point of sale, business intelligence and central corporate services, announces an agreement with eRevMax, to provide competitive rate shopping through RateTiger into its