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Luxury hotel group Mandarin Oriental has announced plans for its first Greek property, situated in Costa Navarino on the southwest coast of the Peloponnese. Mandarin Oriental, Costa Navarino is scheduled to open next spring, and will offer 99 rooms including 48 pool villas, all with outdoor terraces and sea views. Features will include 1,500 sqm […]

Travelodge has enlisted a set of robot cleaners to support its housekeeping teams across 579 properties in the UK. The 7,500 RoboVac Buddies, developed by Sheffield-based company Killis Ltd, are being used to “lighten the workload” for its housekeeping team members, who clean nearly 44,000 rooms daily. Each housekeeping team member will be allocated one

Hyatt has announced plans to expand its luxury and lifestyle brands in the Asia-Pacific region. The hotel group will bring its Caption by Hyatt, Destination by Hyatt and Thompson Hotels brands to the Asia Pacific market as the region begins to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. The first Caption by Hyatt hotel is expected to

Aer Lingus has announced plans to resume flights between Dublin and Miami later this year. The Irish flag carrier last served the Floridian city in March 2020, when the route was suspended due to the onset of Covid-19. Twice-weekly flights (Friday and Sunday) will resume on October 21, 2022, rising to thrice-weekly (with an extra

While regarding demand management as “a last resort”, the airport says that it has been “a long-standing advocate of the polluter pays principle and passengers should pay the carbon costs of their flights. “By applying robust carbon pricing, for example by including flights in the UK Emissions Trading System, the cost of carbon will be