SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A hotel in Seoul is offering guestrooms to up-and-coming writers in need of a workspace. Hotel Prince Seoul, a three-star hotel in Myeongdong, a popular tourist and shopping district, joined hands with the Arts Council Korea to start this initiative in 2014, offering guestrooms to a total of 73 [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Major hotels in South Korea are turning to a variety of rather unusual marketing strategies to attract customers amid the pandemic. The Millennium Hilton Seoul is offering a 50 percent discount on its lunch buffet for recipients of the COVID-19 vaccine and their companions on weekdays until June 30. [...]
SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is offering guests the chance to try out the company’s BESPOKE AirDresser during their stay in a hotel suite. The Experience Room with AirDresser promotion is a room package offered for The Shilla Seoul suites owned by Hotel Shilla Co. where guests can try out Samsung’s [...]
SINGAPORE, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) - Following the inaugural success of Ultimate Getaways promotion in May, Banyan Tree Group has launched its exclusive Ultimate Getaways 2. This time, featuring more than double the destinations, the Group’s 30 properties worldwide will offer countless travel choices with savings of up to 80%. As the world navigates a new [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Dilly Tower, a self-driving robot currently under development by Woowa Brothers Corp., the operator of South Korea’s top food delivery application Baedal Minjok, or Baemin, will begin offering room service at hotels. Woowa Brothers said Friday it started a robot delivery room service at a hotel in Seoul’s Gwangjin [...]
HONG KONG, CHINA, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) - What better way to kick start the New Year than with ‘Dorsett Wanchai 3 Wishes’ room package that satisfies every wish and whim when you are travelling for business or leisure. Breakfast? Check. Dinner? Check. Free meal at a Michelin-recommended restaurant? Check…and more ‘wishes’ waiting to be discovered. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp. said Monday its hotel service robot, enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) and other cutting-edge technologies, made its official debut in a Seoul hotel. The AI hotel robot, dubbed N bot, started its official service at Novotel Ambassador Seoul Dongdaemun Hotels & Residences, to serve guests in about [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A 52-hour workweek policy is changing accommodation patterns at hotels. Ever since the new policy came into effect, hotels are receiving more bookings on Sundays, leading them to come up with various accommodation plans to attract more customers. Recently, the number of customers checking in on Sunday and leaving [...]
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA, Jul. 25 (Korea Bizwire) - From D-EDGE research findings from the past year, hotels in the Asia Pacific are undercut 30-40% of the time have a 31% lower rate conversion on their website. That is a huge swathe of revenue missed out if hotels do not tighten up on parity. * Wholesalers are [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans who prefer spending time at hotels rather than the beach or the mountains for summer vacation have doubled in number since last year. The Korea Transport Institute revealed on Monday that 18.8 percent of the respondents in a survey chose ‘vacation packages at hotels or shopping’ as [...]