The recruitment process can be costly, so any business wants to try to get it right first time with a minimum of disruption. So what exactly can you be doing before a vacancy even exists, or once your search is on, to attract and hire the best people to your business?

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Space is the next frontier in adventure travel, suggests a survey analysis, with sub-orbital tourism perhaps embracing the modern-day jet set this year.

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Welcoming the Year of Tiger, the 501-room Shanghai Marriott Hotel Changfeng Park has opened its doors to guests offering luxurious accommodation, exquisite food and beverage facilities as well as great meeting facilities. The Shanghai Putuo hotel is well poised to welcome the highly-anticipated World Expo 2010, as well as cater to the burgeoning tourism market of Shanghai for years ahead.

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The Group announces that in the Philippines it has secured a 25-year lease extension from the Bases Conversion Development Corporation and the Poro Point Management Corporation for the Group’s leased property located in Poro Point, San Fernando.

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Hotel Indigo, IHG’s (InterContinental Hotels Group) upscale boutique brand, today announces the opening of its second property in Nashville, Tenn. – the Hotel Indigo Nashville Downtown. Centered in the heart of downtown Nashville, the 97-room conversion property joins the Hotel Indigo Nashville Music Row Vanderbilt. Both Nashville properties were developed by Wesley Hotels & Resorts, LLC, who currently has three Hotel Indigo properties in its portfolio with plans to develop more in the future.

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Leadership is a complex concept that comprises many different elements. It involves creating a vision, communicating, influencing, taking action, making decision and achieving goals.

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I think many hoteliers understand how strongly I feel about the ability of travel social media like TripAdvisor to boost business for hotels. Travel social media sites consist of user-generated comments from the traveling community, which act as a guide to other travelers to use in the hotel selection process.

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New York City hospitality veteran, Brian Kotula, joins Travel Tripper’s growing sales team.

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World’s Largest Website Building Solution First To Bring Facebook Connect to Millions of Websites

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ReServe Interactive, a leader in hospitality management software solutions, has released version 2010 Spring. The first of two annual releases, this update includes a series of new convenience features and platform enhancements designed to further improve the customer experience. More than ninety percent of the updates included in this release are based on direct customer input and were incorporated to meet current industry needs and requirements.

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