Our focus on Mexico began just five years ago, he said. Today, we already have five hotels open all

The company entered into development agreements to open its first hotels in Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Panama, said Wayne Goldberg, the company s president and CEO, during the 2013 La Quinta Conference.
The partnership with Grupo Santos, a Honduras-based business whose affiliates include luxury hotels edinburgh a construction and development company, will take La Quinta to San Pedro Sula, Honduras; Comayagua, Honduras; Choluteca, Honduras; Roatan, Honduras; Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Managua, Nicaragua; Panama City, Panama; and Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Our focus on Mexico began just five years ago, he said. Today, we already have five hotels open all new construction and 14 additional hotels under development with three more scheduled to open this year.
With 846 properties in its portfolio by year end, La Quinta reported a 7.9% increase in revenue per available room in 2012. Occupancy increased 2.6%, while system-wide revenue grew 10% to $1.4 billion.
Goldberg also reported strength on the development side: We opened 25 new properties, we executed 25 new contracts, and the La Quinta pipeline now includes 153 properties, of which 87% are new construction.
In 2013, the focus on technological investments will continue, said Julie Cary, La Quinta s executive VP and chief marketing officer. For the first time in more than 10 years, La Quinta will embark on a completely luxury hotels edinburgh different platform for LQ.com.
The company will provide different websites and URLs for each of the properties in its network, Cary said. This will improve organic search and link an online search more directly to the property booking path, driving more traffic, conversions luxury hotels edinburgh and bookings.
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