Hotel News

Most hotel design concepts never make it past that stage anyone that’s ever looked for an office or apartment in NYC knows building zones are so specific that it’d be impossible to (legally) execute.

Like Facebook's concerns that mobile would dilute advertising revenue, TripAdvisor fretted that hotel and restaurant reviewers on mobile would get cryptic in their reviews. But, if TripAdvisor is to be believed, mobile reviewers can be just as verbose as people behind desktops.

Ease of use should indeed increase conversions, but it's difficult to compare the complexity of dealing with apartment hosts on Airbnb with simply completing a hotel booking from one brand on Hilton.com.

If you thought Priceline was the largest publicly traded travel company in the world by market cap, you'd be very wrong. Two Taiwanese airlines and a global hotel and casino business boast greater bragging rights.

Wyndham plays on the middle and low end of the market, so the CEO has a reason for saying what he did. But he is right, opulence for opulence sake is Dubai's specialty.

European hotels have long conquered U.S. counterparts when it came to the breakfast spread, but the extra costs for warm meals and healthier options are now necessary to keep pace and satisfy customers in the U.S. market.

The growing trend of turning prisons into boutique hotels exemplifies consumers’ desire for authentic or unique experiences as well as hoteliers’ appetite for differentiating themselves by pushing design boundaries.

There's a clear financial benefit to the consumer when hosts don't have to pay the high costs associated with regulated transient housing.

TripAdvisor didn't buy Jetsetter to have it sit in the background, and the impending doom of SniqueAway is the logical next step.

The surge in vacation home sales in key resort communities bodes well for vacation rental companies such as HomeAway as buyers often purchase their homes as investments or at least rent them out for part of the year.