Hotel News

The Mykonos-born lifestyle brand is showing how Western operators must adapt to succeed in the Kingdom.

Accor opened its 800th hotel in China and plans to add 800 more in five to six years, focusing on midscale and premium brands. Plus, more hotel deal and development news.

Hotels are losing the AI conversation – to NerdWallet and Reddit.

Hotels that cut fossil fuels can lower operating costs and risk and even improve guest comfort, but the industry still treats decarbonization as optional, too expensive, confusing, and hard to compare or find.

Invel Real Estate secured a EUR 65 million UniCredit facility to expand its Yellow Square hybrid-hotel brand across Italian cities. Plus, more hotel deal and development news.

Karnal city in Haryana may not be the first place that comes to mind when you think of Marriott or the Autograph Collection. But that, it turns out, is exactly the point.

Hotel loyalty programs are evolving from points systems into commercial engines that influence booking behavior, guest spend, and brand choice. New data shows travelers want simplicity, relevance, and meaningful value, not complexity or novelty.

Samhi’s new hotel is coming up near the upcoming Ikea in Noida, highlighting how mixed-use developments are becoming significant drivers of hospitality growth in India.

The hotel franchise model isn’t broken yet, but the owners propping it up are starting to do the math.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Barclays believes in the American exceptionalism thesis, expecting U.S. RevPAR momentum to override international weakness this year. Plus, hotel deal and development news.