The impact of the pandemic created a new staycation trend in China, with many citizens preferring to stay in their home cities for vacations, or take short trips to surrounding areas…
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The impact of the pandemic created a new staycation trend in China, with many citizens preferring to stay in their home cities for vacations, or take short trips to surrounding areas…
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The Los Angeles County District Attorney has launched an investigation into local hotels' labor practices amid the largest hotel strike in U.S. history…
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How Luxury Hotels Apply Scent Branding To Deliver Immersive Experiences
Venturing into a new dimension of guest experience, luxury hotels are now adopting the art of scent branding. This strategic use of fragrance strives to evoke potent emotions and lasting memories, deepening a guest's bond with the hotelier…
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Erkka Hirvonen The Long Way Home
What Erkka Hirvonen would do with his life was never really in question. When he was a boy, his parents inherited a manor house from his grandfather and converted it into an events space and catering business…
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Planning permission granted for epic £450m hotel close to London’s Olympia
The existing Hilton London Olympia hotel will be expanded to 905 bedrooms, marking the largest hotel to be built in London in a decade…
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Cameron House hotel closes fine dining restaurant
A luxury hotel on the banks of Loch Lomond has closed its fine dining restaurant. Cameron House reopened in May 2021 following a major fire and named its new flagship restaurant after leading Scottish chefs Paul Tamburrini and Martin Wishart…
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CEO change imminent at Kempinski
Kempinski CEO Bernold Schroeder, who led the independent luxury hotel chain through one of its most challenging periods, is understood to be leaving the company in April 2024…
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What I've Learned Training the Top Hotel Brands in Customer Service
Secrets of customer service as practiced by the greatest Five Star hotels in the world — from the trainer who teaches them…
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Feds sue developer over unfinished Bear Lake resort in Garden City
Just off the main drag in Garden City, Water’s Edge Resort bills itself as a luxury retreat on the shores of Bear Lake. But the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC, says the resort’s developer illegally used investor funds to pay himself…
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Domestic hotel industry will see the fastest outflow of skilled manpower: InterGlobe Hotels CEO
'That is an interesting trend that we are not talking (about),' says J.B. Singh. InterGlobe is better known as the parent company of India’s largest airline, Indigo…
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Hotel Bel-Air to pay tens of millions in back wages
The 9th Circuit upheld a National Labor Relations Board ruling that found the hotel violated labor law by refusing to rehire union employees after a temporary closure. The 9th U.S…
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More than 165,000 over-50s have started work in the hospitality sector in the last three years
The Government has also taken steps to make work more attractive to over-50s. The hospitality industry is often seen as the preserve of the young – but a report has revealed that the over-50s now make up a third of its workforce…
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APALEO DATA REVEALS DACH HOTEL AND SERVICED APARTMENTS YOY GROWTH IN Q3
Results unveiled hotels revenue outperformed serviced apartments…
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IHG says funding challenges holding back new hotel development
Holiday Inn owner IHG (IHG.L) said on Friday short-term funding issues were holding back development of new hotels, as it reported a quarter-on-quarter slowdown in its net room supply, a key revenue driver…
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Amherst IDA seeks proof that Uniland hotel has lived up to tax-break deal
The Amherst Industrial Development Agency has asked the developer of the Hampton Inn that received nearly $1.2 million in tax breaks to provide proof the hotel is a tourism destination…
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Young Thai Entrepreneurs Are Turning Their Ancestral Homes Into Chic Hotels and Restaurants
In Thailand, young hoteliers and restaurateurs are converting their family homes into stylish new businesses — and preserving the nation’s architecture along the way…
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Brunello Restaurant launches delivery service — Is this an emerging trend for hotel-based venues?
Brunello Restaurant, at Kempinski Hotel & Residences Palm Jumeirah has partnered with Careem to offer the service…
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The BW Hotelier IHA-2023, known as the Indian Hospitality Summit and Awards, had its 7th edition with the central theme of “Embracing the Future" at Pullman Aerocity New Delhi…
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