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The FINANCIAL -- Hamilton Hotel Partners (Hamilton) has been appointed to operate a portfolio of 20 hotels located throughout Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic under a new management agreement with Central European Hotel Investments GmbH (CEHI). 

The FINANCIAL -- According to caterersearch, the Café Royal on London’s Regent Street is to be turned into a luxury hotel to form the centrepiece of a £750m overhaul of the area.

The FINANCIAL -- While holiday makers in Georgia are looking forward to the upcoming summer 2008, restless times are ahead for the local travel agencies.

The FINANCIAL -- The European Commission announced today that national licences for in-flight mobile communication, granted to individual airlines by the Member State in which they are registered, would now be recognised throughout the EU.

The FINANCIAL -- Flag-carrier Turkish Airlines targets revenues of $4.5 billion this year, up 23 per cent on last year, and expects cost-cutting to offset a rise in fuel costs, CEO Temel Kotil said.

The FINANCIAL -- With some 1.446 million passengers carried in total, the Austrian Airlines Group welcomed 2.9% more guests onto its aircraft in January and February 2008 than it did in the same period the previous year.

The FINANCIAL -- Fitch Ratings said any meaningful credit enhancement of the three biggest Chinese carriers Air China Ltd, China Southern Airlines Company Ltd (NYSE:ZNH) and China Eastern Airlines Corporation Ltd (NYSE:CEA) , otherwise known as the 'Big Three', will be dependent

The FINANCIAL -- Manchester is set to see the opening of its second Crowne Plaza property when a new contemporary-designed hotel opens in the vibrant Northern Quarter in September this year.

The FINANCIAL -- IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group), one of the world's largest hotel groups by number of rooms, announces the addition of Jet Airways as Priority Club Rewards' newest airline partner.

The FINANCIAL -- According to Dow Jones, Franco-Dutch airline Air France-KLM March 10 said that passenger traffic in February increased 3.7% from a year earlier, as a strong rise in yield more than offset the decline in the load factor, and as premium