Deanna Ting

Consider this the eventual next evolution of making your hotel room a real home away from home.

The lesson leaned from the latest SEC filings from Morgans? When your company's stock price dwindles and its future looks bleak, you need to put aside personal differences and seriously consider a potential buyer.

No hospitality merger or acquisition is ever as simple as it seems and, as this case shows, hotel buyers need to consider what kind of impact their purchases may have on their other investments.

Discrimination isn’t a problem limited to peer-to-peer platforms like Airbnb, and it’s not a problem with the sharing economy itself. It’s a problem that has to do with human behavior — how we interact with one another, whether online or in real life — and one that travel brands need to offer more than lip service to improve.

This seems like an interesting and contrarian approach. But the big question is: Will men actually respond to this digital marketing campaign?

The biggest news from last week’s hospitality conferences was that there wasn’t much news. But where there was, it all had to do with a single theme: branding. Here’s why.

Red Lion Hotels is bucking the direct bookings push adopted by the likes of Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, InterContinental Hotel Group, Choice Hotels, Wyndham, and other big hotel players. Here's why.

They don't call him the "godfather of boutique" for nothing. Schrager's candid, insightful remarks give you a glimpse into the inner workings of a true innovator — and they will certainly surprise you.

Boutique hoteliers are just as optimistic about the future of their businesses as the CEOs of the big brands, but we wonder if their optimism is a bit overstated. In a world where "boutique" and "lifestyle" have become so ubiquitous, and even the big brands are adopting their design and service aesthetics, we wonder if boutique hotels can still hold onto their competitive advantage in an increasingly crowded marketplace of brands.

In the hospitality space, brands are everything, and Wyndham's investment in its 16 brands is one that was definitely needed, especially in the economy space. If the popularity and brand loyalty of lower-cost airline carriers like JetBlue or Virgin America have shown, it's that economy and midscale brands can successfully enter the lifestyle space, too.