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Hospitality 360 Expands Hotel Management Portfolio

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 5, 2022 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Hospitality 360 Sdn Bhd (H360), a Malaysian hotel management and consulting company, is pleased to announce the signing of a strategic partnership with Wyndham Hotels and Resorts to expand their portfolio of hotels, resorts, and serviced apartments across Malaysia.Yang...
Finance

Six more quarantine hotels coming for travellers

Health officials on Tuesday said another six hotels will start accepting bookings from inbound travellers for quarantine purposes from later this week. Officials said they had invited more operators to join the quarantine scheme in anticipation of more people coming to Hong Kong now that entry requirements have been relaxed....
Finance

Govt adds quarantine hotels for travellers

The government announced on Tuesday that it will convert three hotels originally reserved for the isolation of Covid patients into ones that accommodate travellers. Royal Pacific Hotel, The Kowloon Hotel and Cordis will start accepting bookings from people returning from overseas and foreign domestic helpers from Thursday. Four other quarantine...
Finance

Govt eases flight rules, adds quarantine hotels

The government announced two moves on Saturday intended to help SAR residents return to Hong Kong, easing a flight suspension mechanism and announcing that more quarantine hotels would be available when bans on arrivals from nine key destinations are withdrawn on Friday. Hours after Chief Executive Carrie Lam ruled out...
Finance

Isolation hotels to turn into quarantine hotels: CE

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Wednesday that work is underway to convert some hotels currently used for isolation purposes into designated hotels for inbound arrivals to undergo quarantine. Since February, the government enlisted more than 20 hotels to serve as community isolation facilities as the city battles the Omicron...
Finance

‘Difficult finding budget hotels for foreign helpers’

A group representing the employers of foreign helpers says it's troublesome to find affordable quarantine hotels for them. Betty Yung, chairperson of the Hong Kong Employers of Domestic Helpers Association, was commenting after the government redeployed for other anti-epidemic purposes two hotels that were set aside for helpers. On Thursday...
Finance

Quarantine arrangements change for helpers from March

The government said on Tuesday that two quarantine hotels originally designated for foreign domestic helpers arriving in Hong Kong will be converted to house Covid-19 patients from March 1. From then on, helpers will observe the same quarantine rules as other inbound travellers. The government said the changes were made...
Finance

HK to have 5 more quarantine hotels from December

The number of designated quarantine hotels will go up from 35 to 40 in December to meet what's expected to be higher demand during the holiday season. The government unveiled on Tuesday the list of hotels for incoming travellers between December and February, covering Christmas, New Year and the Lunar...
Finance

No second quarantine hotels for helpers, govt says

Labour and welfare minister Law Chi-kwong said the government cannot set aside more quarantine hotels for foreign domestic helpers as talks to add a second hotel broke down. His comments on Wednesday came as some employers are upset that they have to wait longer for their helpers from Indonesia or...
Finance

‘Strict flight bans needed to stop imported cases’

Leading microbiologist Ho Pak-leung said it appears that Hong Kong has managed to limit the spread of the contagious Delta Covid-19 variant in the community, but stressed officials need to be extremely stringent in enforcing flight bans to prevent the virus from seeping in again. There had been fears of...
Finance

‘Compensate hotels for change in quarantine rules’

The lawmaker representing the tourism sector, Yiu Si-wing, on Tuesday said the government should compensate quarantine hotels for their losses caused by a change in quarantine rules expected to take effect in July. Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced on Monday that travellers from overseas who are fully vaccinated will only...
Finance

Govt tightens quarantine measures, beefs up testing

The Government announced on Thursday that it was beefing up infection control measures at designated quarantine hotels. The announcement follows the news that a man contracted a mutant strain of coronavirus at a quarantine hotel, leading to a cluster of variant cases in the community. In a statement, the government...
Finance

Hotels call for greater staycation discounts

2021-03-26 HKT 16:29" title="Hongkongers can enjoy a HK$500 discount at selected hotels if they spend more than HK$800 in shops or restaurants. File photo: AFP"> Hongkongers can enjoy a HK$500 discount at selected hotels if they spend more than HK$800 in shops or restaurants. File photo: AFP Timmy Sung reports...
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