Fairmont, Pullman and Rezidor in the spotlight
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17/04/2012
ACCOR |
Fairmont |
Rezidor
There is a lot going on these days in the fast-paced environment of the hospitality industry: new openings, brand launches and the latest technology! Read here about all the interesting news from Fairmont, Pullman and Rezidor.
Toronto based Fairmont Hotels Resorts enthusiastically announced the opening of the Fairmont Grand Hotel in Kyiv, Ukraine, which is the brand’s first luxury hotel in Eastern Europe. The Fairmont Kyiv will appear in a classical design, featuring 258 rooms including over 50 exclusive suites, with breathtaking views over Podil square and the Dnipro River. Particularly interesting for the MICE industry will be the Hotel’s 1.210 m² banqueting facilities, with an almost 500m² Ballroom and 8 private meeting rooms. The Fairmont Kyiv is the perfect venue to welcome guests, corporations and their clients or incentive groups during the upcoming 2012 UEFA European Football Championship, as the final match will take place in the city’s Olympic Stadium.
The Rezidor Hotels Group expanded globally with 4 new properties in such interesting, upcoming and promising destinations like Istanbul (Turkey), Mersin (Turkey), Sochi (Russia) and Libreville (Gabon). These new hotels mark a milestone for their ambitious growth plans, adding almost a 1,000 rooms to the current 71,600. This development turns the Rezidor group into one of the fastest growing hotel companies worldwide, with new Radisson Blu flagship Hotel Openings to follow later this year in Lusaka (Zambia), Doha (Qatar), Park Inn London Wembley (UK) and the Park Inn by Radisson Lille (France). With these new properties in emerging markets like Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the MICE world, which is always aiming for something new and exciting, can be thrilled to host events in a –yet- low explored environment.
Accor’s international upscale brand, Pullman Resorts and Hotels, strives to be a meetings-industry leader, by deploying the unique Meeting Matrix Software iPlan at their convention hotels. This application, available on the Pullman hotel’s web pages, is an interactive floor plan solution that helps Meeting Planners to first of all locate Pullman hotels via an integrated map function, make use of interactive meeting room set-ups, have access to detailed information about individual meeting rooms including each room’s capacity depending on the various setup options and last but not least obtain the dimensions and surface measures.
Hotel G, a brand launch as a young and trendy designer offshoot of the successful Pullman brand, has announced to open a new lifestyle hotel in Bangkok and Pattaya. Hotel G targets design-conscious travelers and provides them not only trendy entertainment and in-room dining options, but also stylish areas to hang out or work on iPads and laptops. The Bangkok G hotel will feature 12 state-of-the-art meeting rooms and the Pattaya property offers space for up to 1.700 in 13 meeting rooms.