Cognizant of the fact that we are now in an era of revolution and phenomenal changes, it is true, one may say, that the world has continually changing even the fundamental movement of transmitting thought, i.e., communication. An instance on this movement is the electronic commerce (eCommerce) which has evolved technically from telephone, fax, and other electronic form of media. Now, this business communication or eCommerce has changed with the breakthroughs of technology, thus, electronic then is considered to be the Internet.

While in many parts of the world, eCommerce is just starting, it has already reached sizeable proportions in developed countries like the United States. The internet has changed many ways of conducting business, as well as the buying of goods, and promises to further change the way of life for consumers and producers in the future.

The world’s leader in hotel group intelligence products and services has just made it even easier to stay on top of the ever-growing group sales competition. The Knowland Group is rolling out a series of improvements to its READERS 2.0 technology, which is already the country’s largest hotel reader board service.

With READERS 2.0, hoteliers and sales managers can already track the daily business activities of their competitors, receive detailed sales leads, and have access to historical data in their chosen markets. Now, users will be able to search through hundreds of hotels by the market of their choosing, and will be able to view the average number of daily events and the average number of square feet of meeting space used for each hotel. Users can also now add and remove hotels from their competitive set reports on the fly based on their searches, and have the freedom to schedule the delivery days for their competitive set reports. In addition, hoteliers will be able to manage their own system users.

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Guests Control Their Hotel Experience Through Their Own Interactive Platform

"Le Meridien is providing a proscenium, a stage, a platform in which ideas can play out to a much larger audience. I hope the guests of Le Meridien will join this exchange in order to find a new perspective." - Ralph Gibson, photographer and member of LM100(TM).

Today, Le Meridien announced the launch of the re-designed LeMeridien.com, a website created for guests interested in traveling to discover a new perspective in arts, music, fashion, design and cuisine. The re-designed website offers a unique image-based navigation system, allowing guests to create a personalized interactive experience in those fields.

ALOHA ABU DHABI! “The new tWist in Travel” will debut in 2009 in the sophisticated Capital Centre Development

aloha! Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.® (NYSE: HOT) and its much-anticipated new lifestyle brand aloftSM hotels today announced plans for the first aloft hotel in the Middle East - aloft Abu Dhabi. aloft is partnering with Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company PJSC (ADNEC) to open the new-build hotel in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. Construction starts in 2008, and the hotel is expected to open in late 2009.

Today Le Meridien introduced LM100(TM), a group of international creators of mixed generations and interdisciplinary artistic fields, chosen from the fields of art, architecture, cuisine, design and fashion by Jerome Sans, Le Meridien's Cultural Curator. LM100 members will offer their creativity and develop original and interactive programs for Le Meridien hotels worldwide that will transform the guest experience. LM100 members will curate Le Meridien's interactive initiatives and propose other established or emerging talents that reflect the brand's core values of CHIC, CULTURED, DISCOVERY. Over the next few years, Le Meridien plans is to expand the programme to include 100 members.

Knowland Group Research Reveals That Price Isn’t Everything

1. Location
Planes, Trains, and…Nightclubs
A coordinator for a northwest sports association explained to Knowland researchers their only requirement is that the event be located near downtown nightlife. “We have a large group that likes to enjoy post meeting activities,” she states, stressing the importance of keeping the attendants happy.

Whether the criteria includes nearby golf, proximity to an airport, or indulging in local culture, Knowland reveals that location is the most important factor for 44% of event planners.