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...local residents polled said they had a more negative opinion of Disneyland since its opening. "Disney knows the theme-park business, but when it comes to understanding the Chinese guest, it's an entirely new ball game," says John Ap, an associate professor at the university's School of Hotel and Tourism Management...
...they make so little money organizing Disneyland trips that they don't have any incentive to market the park. Disney has tried to improve its ties to travel agents by, for example, boosting the commission they earn on selling tickets and reducing the advance notice needed to secure hotel bookings. "We're listening to everything they have to say and adjusting where we can," says Josh D'Amaro, Hong Kong Disneyland's vice president for sales and travel-trade marketing. But, Yu says, Disney is "still far from understanding the real market in China. They started off doing business...
...restaurants pull in about $1.4 billion in annual sales and represent $450 million in purchasing power--so its members get the clout and volume prices previously reserved for the big boys. Last month Luria signed a contract with Avendra, the top U.S. group-purchasing company in the restaurant-and-hotel sector, to get members lower prices on food and supply contracts as well as consulting advice on how to run their businesses more efficiently. The help may not reverse the chain-restaurant juggernaut, but it gives small restaurants a fighting chance. Even before the Avendra deal, many chapters had developed...
...says. “This green van came up to me and said, ‘Taxi, taxi.’”De Beausset got in, noticing another man sleeping in the back seat, and asked to be taken to the nearest hotel. But the driver passed by several hotels without stopping, promising that their destination was only several minutes away.“I knew they wanted money from me,” says De Beausset.He believes the men were working with coyotes to pick up migrants and force them to pay a fee to be smuggled...
With its cool and uncompromising minimalism, the new Mavida Balance Hotel & Spa mavida.at - located 98 km from Salzburg in the lakeside hamlet of Zell am See - has set out to prove that there's more to Austria's high-altitude resorts than knotty wood paneling and endless chintz. "Having traveled the world, I wanted to create something that would eventually bring it back here to me," says proprietor and native son Herbert Bren of his $11.4 million brainchild. A collaboration between Munich-based architects Niki Szilagyi and Evi Märklstetter, the Mavida [an error occurred while processing this directive...