White Plains (Global Adventures): It does not get much cheaper than free – Sheraton offers a free night stay at 86 locations in the US and Canada to drum up business. The massive campaign that starts tonight is intended to highlight the chain’s $6 billion revitalization efforts, according to a press release. The free stay [...]

Germany (Global Adventures): The German newspaper “Handelsblatt” reports that Europe’s top-hotels fight for survival. Occupancy rates in the four- and five star categories continue to collapse and the business market is all but dead. Revenue has been down 18 percent during the first 6 months of 2009 alone. While Marriott tries to attract meeting and [...]

Palau (Global Adventures): Palau, a small island and diver’s paradise in the Pacific, is currently creating the world’s first shark sanctuary to protect great hammerheads, leopard sharks, oceanic whitetip sharks and more than 130 other species fighting extinction. The news was announced today at the United Nations General Assembly. "Palau will declare its territorial waters [...]

Las Vegas (Global Adventures): Shark diving in Nevada? Well, the Shark Reef Aquarium at the Mandalay Bay Hotel offers just that! Certified divers can now share the 1.3 million gallon, 22 feet deep aquarium with 30 sharks. The website promotes the new Las Vegas attraction as “… a total sensory experience designed to transport visitors [...]

France (Global Adventures): Accor confirmed that it did sell 158 Formule-1 hotels for 272 Million Euro ($401.6 Million) to an international investment consortium.  Europe’s largest hospitality group also confirmed that it will continue to manage the budget hotels and has signed a 12 year lease contract. Accor ventured into the budget market more than 25 [...]

Dublin (Global Adventures): Air-travel is not what it used to be – something you look forward to, something to get away from it all. Most people now are used to take off their shoes when queuing up at long security checks, view people complain that kerosene surcharges are still in force, notwithstanding the fact that [...]

Tampa (Global Adventures): Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. (OME) has accepted a salvage award in the amount of $160.000 from the British Government. In return, the Tampa, Florida based company has turned over two Brass Cannons it raised last year from the legendary HMS Victory that sank in the British Channel of Cornwell in 1744. OEM [...]