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Visit Rentals sets sights on trade with ‘cheap’ offering Juliet Dennis
A new real-time bookable website claims it can offer aparthotels and serviced apartments to the trade up to 45% cheaper than hotels.
Visitrentals.com was initially launched for the business travel market, but has set its sights on the leisure market, including the trade.
It aims to plug a gap in the
market with a live booking platform and instant confirmation for product that is less well known in the trade, according to founder and chief executive David Nicholson. A TV advertising campaign launches in the autumn to increase consumer awareness and drive bookings to the site
One&Only Hayman Island opens in July with new Pool Wing
One&Only Hayman Island will open on July 1 in Australia’s Whitsunday Islands after a multimillion-dollar refurbishment. The design, interiors and
landscaping architecture are by Kerzner International, the team behind One&Only Reethi Rah in
via the trade and direct. Nicholson is confident the site
offers accommodation that is more competitively priced than hotels and more spacious, which could better suit agents’ customers, such as families struggling to find suitable family rooms.
the Maldives and One&Only The Palm in Dubai, and Australian designers DBI Design. The accommodation is divided into three wings and almost half is made up of suites, villas or penthouses. A new all-suite
Pool Wing has been HOTEL NEWS IN BRIEF
It has a portfolio of more than 550,000 properties from studio accommodation to five-star luxury apartments, with live rates and availability, and boasts the largest global database of aparthotel properties. He said: “We now have the challenge of bringing this product to agents’ attention. It is currently very poorly understood.” The portal, which plans to offer
agent logins, will allow agents to book and pay directly with the accommodation provider. Agents will be able to add their
own commission, or the company will split the commission it receives from accommodation providers with agents.
visitrentals.com
added with separate living and dining areas. Ground floor pool suites allow guests to swim straight out into the pool from their own terrace. The One&Only Hayman Wing houses guest rooms through to one, two and three- bed Penthouse Residences. Special opening rates for travel before September 30 start from £305 per room per night.
oneandonlyresorts.com.
New-look Pullman Paris Montparnasse reopens The Pullman Paris Montparnasse is to reopen with a new look this month as part of a programme to revamp all five Pullman hotels in the French capital. The hotel’s 957 rooms and suites were created by designers Didier Rey and Mila Stokic, and feature a monochrome look with touches of colour. All rooms have a large desk and armchair, a Pullman bed with memory foam pillows and a bathroom with a rain shower.
pullmanhotels.com/montparnasse
Viceroy to open two new properties in Dubai Viceroy Hotel Group has revealed plans to open two hotels in Dubai. The Viceroy Dubai Sheikh Zayed Road, which will occupy a tower spanning 76 floors, and its sister property, Viceroy Dubai Business Bay will open in late 2016 and 2017. They will join the previously announced property Viceroy Dubai Palm Jumeirah, which is set to open in late 2016 on the trunk of the Palm Jumeirah. The plans are part of continued expansion for Viceroy Hotel Group.
viceroyhotelsandresorts.com
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travelweekly.co.uk — 5 June 2014
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