Aug 06

The Hotel Pure Avalon Erie lobby.
The most recent addition to the Hotel Pure family and the first full service hotel in the United States to sign under the Hotel Pure Brand, has launched its new website to reflect its recent change in management.
Hotel Pure Avalon Erie may found on the Word Wide Web at http://www.avalonerie.com.
Visit the Hotel Pure Avalon Erie website for complete information on the hotel as well as the city of Erie, Pennsylvania.
Aug 03

The specialized publication in the hotel industry has published Hotel Pure’s press release at its website. The Hotel Magazine provides its readers with complete information of today’s hospitality market.
Information such as worldwide hotel project development, operations, trends and foodservice are offered to the readers through Hotels Magazine.
Hotel Pure’s recent press release regarding the company signing its first full service hotel under its Hotel PURE brand can be read in Hotels Magazine . The Hotel PURE Avalon Erie in Pennsylvania joins the Hotel PURE family on Monday August 3rd, 2009.
The Hotel PURE brand is provided by Oriens Travel and Hotel Management Corp.
Jul 31
Oriens Enters US Hospitality Industry – Signs First Full Service Hotel under its Hotel PURE Brand
Oriens Travel and Hotel Management Corp. (OTC:OTHM), a Global Boutique Hotel Lodging Brand Provider operating its Hotel PURE brand, is pleased to announce it has signed its first Full Service Hotel in the United States to operate under its Hotel PURE brand commencing August 3, 2009.
Following Oriens successful completion of its technologies and proven business strategies, leading to representing over 100 hotel properties in Central America, Oriens has entered the United States hospitality industry earlier this year to recruit hotel lodging properties into its Hotel PURE brand. As a result, Oriens has signed its first Full Service Hotel in Erie, PA with 192 guest rooms, convention center accommodating up to 1000 people, restaurant and bars and will re-brand the hotel as Hotel PURE Avalon Erie. A new Internet website is currently being developed along with the initiation of comprehensive marketing strategies to assist escalating the daily occupancy rate of the hotel.
In addition to the re-branding of the hotel to Hotel PURE, Oriens has also signed a management contract to operate the hotel physically to ensure the level of customer service standard is improved along with streamlining daily operations of the hotel, utilizing Oriens Hotel Management personnel.
With the consummating of this re-branding and management Contract, Oriens will also integrate its FROL Online Booking / Payment Processing engine into the new website to process all hotel room reservations conducted through the website. Oriens expects launching the new website early next week.
Ken Chua, President of Oriens stated “The addition of the Avalon into our Hotel PURE brand has allowed us to firmly set our foot into the hospitality industry in the US. This is a very exciting time for us because we now have validated our business model that we have been building over the past 3 years. Our ability to recruit a 192 rooms hotel and convention center into our Hotel PURE brand has allowed us to change our initial approach of only recruiting hotels with 30-60 rooms. We now are able to include larger hotels into our PURE portfolio following the inclusion of the Avalon and look forward to expanding rapidly from here.”
Jul 30

Hotel Pure Avalon Erie
For over two years, Hotel Pure has been diligently working with the independent hotels in the Central American and Caribbean region. Hotel Pure has provided these small to medium hotels a presence on the Internet that has helped increase sales in over 300% for most of these properties.
Having been able to achieve such remarkable numbers for hotels in Costa Rica and the Caribbean island of St. Maarten, it was a matter of time in which hotels in a much larger market such as the United States would turn to Hotel Pure.
The Hotel Pure management team is proud to announce that it will be moving on to the next step and will include several hotels from the United States within its business scheme. In addition, the Hotel Pure website will have a new appearance that will go live on August 1st, 2009. The new Hotel Pure website will move on from its Costa Rican image to focus on an international image in order to welcome its new hotels from the U.S and Canada.
Also on August 1st, 2009, Hotel Pure is proud to announce its first U.S hotel: Hotel Pure Avalon Erie. Located in Pennsylvania, the Hotel Pure Avalon Erie will mark the turning point for Hotel Pure’s bright and promising future within the international hotel industry.
Jul 29
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Costa Rican Art Museum’s director, Eduardo Faith, mentioned that Central American contemporary art has many elements in common. This is why the organization has launched their project of exhibiting Costa Rican art to other Central American countries as a way to reach out and communicate with their neighbors.

The exhibition named “Costa Rican Art Museum: 60 Pieces from the 20th Century”, will include 50 paintings and 10 sculptures from Costa Rican artists. These samples will be traveling through Central America where they will be on display for a limited period of time. The Costa Rican Art Museum’s organization will not only seek to promote local art but also start an artistic exchange between these countries.
The exhibition will kick off on July 30th in El Salvador and will conclude on January 22nd in Honduras. The itinerant Costa Rican art exhibition will also visit Guatemala and Nicaragua. Faith mentioned that due to a limited schedule, Panama will not be included in the program.
Faith explained that the exhibition has been divided into 6 chronological eras. The first part contains pieces from the 19th century in which local artists such as Tomás Povedano and Emilio Span stand out. The second part contains samples from 1928 through 1950 in which nationalist art was the main focus.
The third part is dedicated to abstract art from 1950 through 1971 while socialist art from 1971 through 1979 will make up the fourth stage of the exhibition. The fifth stage will include art from the 80’s era while all pieces created from 1993 to today will close the exhibition.
The Minister of Culture, Maria Elena Carballo, stated that the panned exhibition is a communication process in which cultural similarities should be exalted instead of political differences.