Conservation work at the crumbling ancient Roman city of Pompeii began. The whole project budget estimated US$ 142 million and the EU is contributing US$ 56 million to the project which should be completed by 2015. The new preservation campaign follo...

Asian-based hotel group Alila Hotels & Resorts will open its first hotel in Oman at the end of 2014. The luxury establishment will be set in the Jabal Akhdar mountain range, a region of the Sultanate that has seen limited tourist development, two hou...

The first tower of the world's tallest hotel, JW Marriott Marquis Hotel Dubai, has opened its doors adding 804 rooms, reported Arabian Business. Earlier this year, the official site of Marriott Hotel announced, that the JW Marriott Marquis Dubai will...

"Hyatt Hotels" Corporation announced that a Hyatt affiliate has entered into an agreement with "Ginekar" Limited Liability Company for a Hyatt Place hotel in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, reported The Financial. Hyatt Place Yerevan is the First Hy...

The Eiffel Tower has been named as the most valuable monument of Europe in a new survey.

It is difficult to believe now that the Eiffel Tower was originally built to last for only two decades. But thankfully it stayed on and became a per...