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Bentley Legacy Holdings (BLH), through its partnership with Pendant Capital, has expanded its portfolio of boutique hotel assets with the acquisition of The Raphael Hotel, Autograph Collection, a historic Kansas City landmark blending classic with contemporary elements. Bentley Legacy Group (the management arm of BLH) has assumed management of the hotel.

Hotel supplier Gympak announces that Linn Örneskog will immediately take responsibility for the sales of the company's products and services to Croatia's over 1000 hotels. Starting from the month of May, Gympak has a representative in the Croatian hotel market in the form of Swedish-Croatian Linn Örneskog.

Hospitality businesses are already and now set to continue paying a high price for South West Water’s Brixham cryptosporidium water poisoning scandal. As half-term holiday cancellations are widespread alongside wider reputational damage to the region.

A joint partnership between London-based private equity firm Henderson Park and Boston-based Pyramid Global Hospitality has acquired the 28-acre property for $705 million from investment management company Blackstone Inc., according to real estate database Vizzda. The deal closed on May 8.

The Grade II-listed Cathedral Quarter Hotel in St Mary's Gate has been bought by Rashmi Dedigama and Peter Karan of Lavendish Leisure, a subsidiary of the Dedigama Group, for an undisclosed amount.

The two-year partnership will accommodate the world’s best touch footballers across a range of tournaments, camps and events – from grassroots to elite – and provide Touch Football Australia’s 700,000 participants access to exclusive offers at Accor’s 340+ hotels, resorts and apartments across Australia via Accor’s lifestyle loyalty program and booking platform ALL – Accor Live Limitless.

Nigeria’s leading hospitality company, Capital Hotels Plc, owners of Abuja Continental Hotel (formerly Sheraton Hotel, Abuja) has recorded a 48 percent revenue increase to N7.9 billion in the financial year ended December 31, 2023.

Officers from Thung Maha Mek Police Station arrested Mr. Wang, a 30-year-old Chinese national, on May 19 after he damaged several items inside his room on the 15th floor of a hotel on Sathorn South Road.

A 27-year-old woman died of asphyxiation after a massive fire broke out on Saturday evening on the fourth floor of a newly inaugurated hotel in Hazipur in Sector 104, Noida, police said on Sunday. The woman had checked into the hotel barely three hours before the fire with her boyfriend, who is undergoing treatment for asphyxiation in a hospital, police added.

A Tennessee hotel that canceled a pro-Israel Christian event amid reported threats has reached an agreement with the group behind the gathering as it has moved the event to a different venue.

The Chilanzar district criminal court sentenced an Israeli citizen who violated order in a hotel, UzNews.uz reports, citing the court verdict. According to the court document, on May 16 at 22:30, a hotel employee called the hotline of the Tashkent city DIA and complained about a client, Alexander Khaustav, who arrived from Israel.

The ROMEO Collection, an Italian luxury hospitality group with a strong international focus and a member of the prestigious Small Luxury Hotels of the World, is inaugurating the tenth floor of its Naples property, bringing to the heart of the Neapolitan city, just steps away from Piazza del Plebiscito, the region of Campania’s most spectacular infinity pool. 

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs allegedly paid the InterContinental Hotel $50,000 for the newly surfaced hallway footage that shows him physically assaulting his ex-girlfriend, singer Cassie, during a March 2016 altercation, according to the latter’s bombshell civil lawsuit filed late last year.

Ten years after he bought the beachfront Casa Malibu Inn for $20 million, Oracle founder Larry Ellison is just about ready to unveil the first in a new group of ultra-high-end luxury retreats. He’s doing it with a trio of high-profile partners: Robert De Niro, chef Nobu Matsuhisa, and film producer Meir Teper.

A hotel security guard is dead after a confrontation with two suspicious individuals early Saturday morning. The shooting happened around 1:46 a.m. at a hotel near IH-35 N and Eisenhower Rd.

Voters are overwhelmingly supporting a 2% increase in Fort Worth hotel taxes to fund the renovation of the Convention Center, according to unofficial results from Tarrant County.

The FBI and the U.S. army captured an innocent Delta Airlines pilot - who was not the intended target - in a training exercise gone wrong in Boston.

Walker & Dunlop Inc. (W&D) has arranged a $155-million refinancing deal for The Lexington Hotel, a historic landmark in Midtown Manhattan. 

Hyatt Hotels Corp. is the latest hospitality company to partner with fitness brand Peloton, which is best known for its Peloton exercise bike.

IHG Hotels & Resorts is proud to announce the continued growth of its Hotel Indigo brand in Thailand through an agreement with international property developer Magnolia Quality Development Corporation Limited (MQDC).

The latest Hotel Construction Pipeline Trend Report for Canada from Lodging Econometrics (LE) reveals, at Q1 2024, there are 314 projects/39,628 rooms in the total pipeline. This new record-high in project counts represents an 11% increase in project counts and a 5% increase in room numbers year-over-year (YOY).

US-based hotel management company Remington Hospitality has expanded its technology partnership with Amadeus.

Luxury Atelier Maison Happiness (LAMH) is leveraging Shiji’s integrated hospitality solutions technology for the luxury hotel industry.

Macau’s first-quarter hotel occupancy rate was 84.8 percent, from a base of approximately 47,000 rooms. It was the best performance since the 85.4 percent occupancy achieved from a base of 45,693 rooms, in the third quarter last year.