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			<title>Doing Jordan justice</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Operators have identified both an undersupply of luxury resorts and a lack of international hotel brands in Jordan. In a country aiming to attract four million tourists by 2013, Louise Oakley discovers that this provides maximum opportunity for accommodation development.]]></description>
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			<title>Ordering in</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[High ingredient costs have become ‘the norm' in the Middle East, as numerous food stuffs unavailable in the region have to be air-freighted in; but is it worth paying through the nose for such products, or is there a compromise to be found? Lucy Taylor finds out.]]></description>
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			<title>The spice of life</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Spices and herbs are key tools of the trade adding flavour, colour and panache to a dish. ]]></description>
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			<title>Middle East Express man</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Holiday Inn Express general manager Mark Gillings discusses the market-education process of introducing a limited-service brand to the Middle East and the importance of staff morale.]]></description>
			<category>Travel &amp; Hospitality | Interviews</category>
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			<title>Holiday Inn to open new hotels in UAE and Bahrain</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Budget hotel chain plans new properties in Dubai and Manama.]]></description>
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			<title>Brand new look for Express in Middle East</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  The opening of the 171-room Holiday Inn Express Dubai Safa Park in Dubai saw the debut of the new-look brand in the region.]]></description>
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			<title>Why budget means business</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[With numerous low-cost brands making a splash in the region, Lucy Taylor takes a look at why budget is booming and considers what it will take for brands to survive in the Middle East.]]></description>
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			<title>Making the call</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Kuwait's Holiday Inn Kuwait deployed IP telephony from the start, tackle a number of challenges.  ]]></description>
			<category>Technology | Features</category>
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			<title>Stepping Inn-to the future</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  InterContintental Hotels Group (IHG) has embarked on a "mammoth journey" to relaunch its Holiday Inn brand family.]]></description>
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			<title>Helping markets on the edge</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The region's ‘super cities' can create opportunities for surrounding cities that may have previously been overlooked.   ]]></description>
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			<title>Against the grain</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Vista had Keane set the scene with a relaxed interior scheme.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Are full service hotels a rip off?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Corporate clients have started to question the value of full service hotels and many are opting for no-frills accommodation options instead.]]></description>
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			<title>No frills for smart clients</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[No frills hotels will be an instant hit with both business and leisure travellers visiting Dubai, the owning company of the brand new Dubai Express by Holiday Inn property has claimed.]]></description>
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			<title>The rise of the middle market</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Hotelier Middle East talks to Premier Inn managing director Darroch Crawford about the company's big plans to roll out budget accommodation properties across the Middle East.]]></description>
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			<title>Holiday Inn checks in at Bur Dubai</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) has announced it will open a 400-room Holiday Inn branded property in Bur Dubai - the company's first Sharia-compliant property in the United Arab Emirates.  ]]></description>
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			<title>IHG expecting Express expansion</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[InterContinental Hotels Gro-up (IHG) has debuted its Express by Holiday Inn brand in the Middle East with a flagship property opened in Dubai Internet City last month.]]></description>
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			<title>Express by Holiday Inn opens in Dubai</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A further 20 hotels in the budget chain are set to open across the GCC and Jordan over the next five years.]]></description>
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			<title>The happy wanderer</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Addax Investment CEO Yousef Al Essa talks about Singapore, stock options, and socialism.]]></description>
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			<title>Limited service, unlimited potential</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[While independent hoteliers have offered limited service and budget hotels on a collectively large scale for some time now, larger hotel chains are looking to get in on the action in the Middle East with branded budget alternatives catering to the mid-market traveler.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf playgrounds</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Seeking to carve a distinct niche for themselves to complement the attractions of big brother neighbour, Dubai, the northern emirates are taking a leisurely approach to tourism development. Kathi Everden reports.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Behind the big name brands</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hotel industry consultant Guy Wilkinson looks at the hotels' use of alternative branding in the Middle East, and finds that in several cases hotels may want to consider a different tactic. ]]></description>
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			<title>Holiday Inn AD</title>
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			<title>Double with InterCon</title>
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			<title>Holiday Inn awarded</title>
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