Topic: Timeshare - Global Aspirations is AHIC 2007 theme, but does today’s consumer … - Al-Bawaba

Meanwhile, closer to home, Rotana, the Abu Dhabi-based regional hotel chain, with 21 properties in less than a decade and 21 more on the table to open in the next two years, is set to have a hotel in every major Middle East city. Meanwhile, 63 percent of leisure travellers used the internet in the past 12 months to obtain travel information/prices and 45 percent of leisure travellers actually made travel reservations online, with 72 percent of leisure travellers having internet access from a home computer. One such nudge is directed at travel agents, as 42 percent of those travellers who have made reservations online and via travel agents, said that they find the internet easier and faster, with 74 percent using instinct, not specialist counsel, when making the 'final' decision. Worsley confirmed that other topics for discussion also fall under the Global Aspirations theme and include opportunities in emerging markets; anomalies of Middle East management contracts; presentation on selected mega projects in the region; residential real estate & hotels the ultimate combination? Smith Travel Research, the world's largest and most respected supplier of market information to the hotel industry has joined forces with The Bench to provide a single source of accurate data on a global basis. MEED (Middle East Economic Digest) is internationally recognised as providing essential information for anyone doing business in, or with, the Middle East and North Africa. read more

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