TDCP offers tour packages to historical sites
BAHAWALPUR: The Tourism Development Corporation of Punjab (TDCP) has announced tour packages to historical and recreational places in Bahawalpur division...
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ArchiveTDCP’s tour packages for historical sites
BAHAWALPUR: The Tourism Development Corporation of Punjab (TDCP) has announced tour packages to historical and recreational places in Bahawalpur division...
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ArchiveCabinet committee gives go-ahead for sale of Services International Hotel in Lahore
ISLAMABAD: The Cabinet Committee on Privatisation (CCoP) on Thursday gave the Privatisation Commission (PC) the go-ahead to proceed with the sale of Services International Hotel (SIH) property in Lahore...
The PC had presented a summary regarding the approval of the reserve price for the privatisation of SIH which is centrally located in Upper Mall Lahore and spread over an area of more than 15 kanals...
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ArchivePrivatisation Commission auctions Lahore hotel for Rs1.951bn
ISLAMABAD: The Privatisation Commission on Thursday auctioned the Services International Hotel in Lahore at the highest bid of Rs1...
Only two bidders participated in the auction and a renowned real estate developer of Lahore, Faisal Town Pvt Ltd, emerged successful, according to an official announcement...
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ArchiveIs US embassy building a hotel, SC asks govt
ISLAMABAD: A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court on Monday asked the government to verify the allegation by a private petitioner that a hotel was being constructed in the US embassy compound...
But the submissions made by Deputy Attorney General Sohail Mahmood on Monday that the petitioner’s entire case rested on newspaper reports did not weigh with the bench which called for a concise statement from the government acknowledging or...
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ArchiveOnline hotel booking in Pakistan ‘set to grow’
KARACHI: When it comes to hotel room booking, Wi-fi is a deal-breaker with 68 per cent of visitors asking for this amenity, followed by 24pc looking for swimming pools and 8pc searching for air-conditioned rooms, according to a report released by hotel booking website Jovago...
Talking about the experience of ‘educating’ hotel and guesthouse owners, she said that it was the website’s biggest challenge to get hoteliers to understand...
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WorldSaudi pilgrims die of poisoning in Iran hotel
TEHRAN: Iran's official IRNA news agency is reporting that four young Saudi pilgrims have died in Iran as a result of an accidental mass poisoning in their hotel...
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WorldMakkah hotel evacuated after fire
A hotel in Makkah, where around 2 million Muslims have gathered to perform Haj, was evacuated on Monday after a fire broke out, the Saudi Civil Defence Directorate said...
Civil defence spokesman Major Nayef Al-Sharif said no casualties were reported following the fire, which was sparked by a faulty air conditioning unit on the eighth floor of a hotel in the Azaziyah district of Makkah...
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PakistanPIA has no plan to sell Roosevelt Hotel, NA panel told
ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary panel was informed on Wednesday that the Pakistan International Airlines has no plans to sell the Roosevelt Hotel in New York...
When Mr Mahmood said there were reports that the PIA was going to sell its Roosevelt Hotel in New York, the acting PIA chairman said that there was no such plan...
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PakistanCase filed against 5 men for assaulting girl at hotel in Karachi's DHA
A first information report (FIR) has been registered against five men accused of assaulting a girl at a hotel in Defence Housing Authority (DHA) in Karachi, police officials said on Monday...
According to the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Karachi South Javed Akbar Riaz, the incident took place on October 29 at a four-star hotel where the girl went with a friend...
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PakistanBodies of man, woman recovered from hotel room in Bahawalpur
Police on Monday recovered bodies of a man and woman, who had allegedly been shot dead, from a hotel room in Bahawalpur, DawnNews reported...
The victims, identified as Mohammad Owais and Anoosha — both in their early 20s — had checked into Shine Star hotel in Bahawalpur at 10...
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WorldVegas gunman transferred $100K, set up cameras at hotel room
The Las Vegas gunman transferred $100,000 overseas in the days before the attack and planned the massacre so meticulously that he even set up cameras inside the peephole of his high-rise hotel room and on a service cart outside his door, apparently to spot anyone coming for him, authorities said on Tuesday...
The cameras Paddock set up at the Mandalay Bay hotel casino were part of his extensive preparations that included stockpiling...
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WorldSomalia police end night-long siege of hotel, 23 dead
Somali security forces ended a night-long siege at a Mogadishu hotel by five attackers who stormed the building after a suicide car bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at the entrance gate on Saturday afternoon...
Troops regained control of the Nasa-Hablod hotel on Sunday morning, having killed three suspected attackers and captured two alive, said Capt Mohamed Hussein...
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ArchiveAt historic Aleppo hotel, nostalgia for a Syria lost
ALEPPO: On the terrace of the Baron Hotel in Aleppo, the owner’s widow, Roubina Tashjian, sorted through old photographs of its happier past in a more peaceful Syria...
Lawrence’s hotel bill...
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ArchiveFire in German Alps hotel kills five
BERLIN: A fire that ripped through a hotel in the German Alps on Saturday killed at least five people and wounded seven others, while another person was missing, police said...
The fire began early on Saturday in the hotel in the southern state of Bavaria with 50 people inside, including 47 employees from the same company who were spending the Pentecost holiday weekend there, a police spokesman said...
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