{"id":3555,"date":"2015-07-08T10:54:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T07:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tourism.plus4d.com\/2015\/07\/08\/ksa-hotel-show-2015-to-witness-new-technologies\/"},"modified":"2015-07-08T10:54:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T07:54:05","slug":"ksa-hotel-show-2015-to-witness-new-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/?p=3555","title":{"rendered":"KSA Hotel Show 2015 to witness new technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 0.938em; line-height: 1.5; padding-left: 1.25em; padding-right: 1.25em; color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 900; font-size: 14pt;\">A recent report by Jones Lang LaSalle stated that Saudi Arabia leads the Middle East in terms of number of Internet and Social Media users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 0.938em; line-height: 1.5; padding-left: 1.25em; padding-right: 1.25em; color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This report was unveiled and discussed at the Hotel Show Saudi Arabia 2015. As per the report, Jeddah and Riyadh alone will see an increase of 16,000 new hotel rooms by 2018. Over 50% of these will be five-star developments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 0.938em; line-height: 1.5; padding-left: 1.25em; padding-right: 1.25em; color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Accor HotelServices Middle East has 14 hotels in Saudi Arabia and plans to open 26 new hotels, bringing the total Accor network in KSA by 2018 to 40 hotels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 0.938em; line-height: 1.5; padding-left: 1.25em; padding-right: 1.25em; color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Christophe Landais, chief operating officer for Accor HotelServices Middle East, said: \u201cAs the digital stratosphere is growing at a very high pace, an ever-increasing number of customers are opting for online channels. This trend is catching on particularly quickly in Saudi Arabia, where internet and smartphone penetration rates are among the highest.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report by Jones Lang LaSalle stated that Saudi Arabia leads the Middle East in terms of number of Internet and Social Media users. This report was unveiled and discussed at the Hotel Show Saudi Arabia 2015. As per the report, Jeddah and Riyadh alone will see an increase of 16,000 new hotel rooms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category---economy-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}