Recovering occupancy rates and food and beverage sales are combining to fuel a marked recovery in the London hotels market, according to the RSM Hotels Tracker.
IHG Hotels & Resorts has announced that it will cease all operations in Russia due to the war in Ukraine.
Australian national carrier Qantas Airways has reintroduced its first class offering to its customers travelling from Sydney to London via Singapore with the return of its superjumbo A380 aircraft, which were reconfigured during the pandemic lockdown.
Center Parcs is set to reopen conference and event spaces at two of its UK locations from September following their closure due to the pandemic.
Aer Lingus Regional is to increase flights from Belfast City airport this summer by adding two new routes to UK cities.
From today, US customers using the world’s first voice travel assistant service, MyVoiceTravel, will benefit from additional options to spread the cost of their flights at the time of booking.
As the holiday season gets under way, Qatar Airways is making it easier for customers to enjoy the Greek Isles with the launch of its new service to Santorini (JTR), and the resumption of flights to Mykonos (JMK).
Paris hotel sector set for impressive post-Covid recovery as demand continues to grow
The move, under which masks will also no longer be required at airports, was welcomed as “a big step forward in the normalisation of air travel”
InterContinental Hotels’s revenue per available room (RevPAR) was up 61 per cent compared to 2021, clinching 82 per cent of 2019 levels overall.
The company said it currently expects passenger numbers to increase sharply in coming months, as it forecast rates would be 80 per cent of 2019 levels in Q2, 85 per cent in Q3, and 90 per cent in Q4. The firm said higher passenger numbers were in part being driven by the highest levels of business travel since the start of the pandemic alongside strong demand for premium leisure. The aviation giant blamed omicron on a higher number of cancellations in January and February but said it had not seen any impact on passenger number from the war in Ukraine. AIG chief executive Luis Gallego said: “Demand is recovering strongly in line with our previous expectations. We expect to be profitable from the second quarter onwards and for the full year.” “The welcome removal of UK’s stringent travel restrictions, combined with strong pent-up demand, have contributed to a steep ramp up in capacity.”