Orient Express Hotels starts a franchise development program
Orient-Express Hotels owns or invested in 45 hotels, restaurants, itineraries on railroads and river cruises in 22 countries of the world. It launched the Orient-Express Associate Hotels program, which is dedicated to independent luxury hotels. The first hotel to join the network is the Hôtel du Palais of Biarritz.
130 franchised hotels for EcoWorldHotel
EcoWorldHotel is the first Italian eco-friendly hotel chain and reached the goal of 130 properties. There are 24 new members, among which the first foreign hotel, while 13 obtained the Ewh environmental quality brand. There is a 20% increase in bookings.
