Construction underway on $400M Wash. casino expansion
Cumming Group and Skanska are leading construction on a $400 million renovation and expansion of the Snoqualmie Casino in Snoqualmie,… Read More »
Unique interactive hotel room hatched by Marriott
What’s touted as the first immersive hotel guestroom, presenting various puzzles and hidden clues, can be booked beginning July 15… Read More »
Ukrainian hotel business soldiers on as war takes toll
The war with Russia that’s now in its fifth month has battered the hotel industry in Ukraine, though properties in… Read More »
Hoteliers didn’t snooze through rising need for shuteye
Sleep-oriented amenities, ranging from hypnotherapy to soothing tea, are being offered by a growing number of hotels in response to… Read More »
Tailored trailers make for pricey park at Boston hotel
The parking lot behind the trendy Verb Hotel near Boston’s Fenway Park has been converted to a luxury trailer camp… Read More »
COVID-19 crisis puts 4 Macau hotels to work as clinics
Growing COVID-19 contagion has prompted officials in Macau to add two hotels in casino resorts to medical service. The world’s… Read More »
New York law eases hotel-to-housing conversions
A new state law is making it simpler for nonprofits in New York to purchase and convert distressed hotels to… Read More »
Local buyer will rebrand historic Syracuse, N.Y., hotel
A 95-year-old hotel in Syracuse, N.Y., has changed hands and will undergo a change of name. The Jefferson Clinton hotel… Read More »
Robots join depleted workforce at swamped hotels
Hotels are enlisting nonhuman help in their struggle to cope with staffing shortages as patronage swells in the waning of… Read More »
Hackers steal 20GB of data from Marriott hotel chain
Hackers have stolen 20 gigabytes of internal business files, including clients’ credit card details, from the Marriott hotel chain, DataBreaches.net… Read More »
Lenders take note of new Michigan hotel revenue law
Michigan has become the first state to classify hotel revenues legally as rents, a move that could significantly affect lending… Read More »
$100M-plus expansion in works for Austin’s Hotel Ella
Austin, Texas’ historic Hotel Ella will see a quadrupling of its guest rooms in an expansion planned by owner Rex… Read More »
Thailand seeks rise in tourist hotel rates as industry boost
Thailand’s tourism ministry plans to ask hoteliers to raise prices for foreign visitors to pre-pandemic levels while maintaining current low… Read More »
Blackstone grows leisure footprint with purchase of Crown Resorts
In June, Blackstone closed on a deal for Australia’s Crown Resorts worth $6.3 billion. Australian resorts have been slower to… Read More »
New structure coming to Accor’s 5K-plus stable
Accor, Europe’s largest hotel chain, will reorganize its global portfolio of 4,816 properties as of Oct. 1, designating two divisions… Read More »
Gun ban by NYC hotels touted as economic boost
Firearms will be forbidden at approximately three of every four hotel rooms in New York City under an agreement between… Read More »
Trouble grows for Brooklyn’s contested Tillary Hotel
The owner of Brooklyn, N.Y.’s Tillary Hotel, which is under bankruptcy protection and operating as a homeless shelter, is fighting… Read More »
John Lewis debuts culinary apprenticeship program
John Lewis Partnership has created an apprenticeship program aimed at growing the number of qualified chefs in Britain. The Chef… Read More »
Best boost in hotel occupancy claimed by Dallas in STR data
Dallas led the nation in hotel occupancy improvement as gauged against 2019, STR reports. Occupancy of 74.1% for June 19… Read More »
World’s tallest hempcrete construction to include hotel
Hemporium and Afrimat Hemp are embarking on a project that will result in the world’s tallest building to be constructed… Read More »
5 casino-resorts may be proposed in Thailand
A National Assembly committee in Thailand has recommended the development of five casino-resorts in the country, with the goal of… Read More »
Scholars Group likely to buy pair of Penn State hotels
Penn State University plans to sell the famed Nittany Lion Inn and The Penn Stater Hotel & Conference Center in… Read More »
Vermont moves to lengthier hotel plan for homeless
Vermont will modify a pandemic-era program that used hotels and motels to shelter thousands of homeless people, channeling most of… Read More »
Palatial Carlo IV Hotel in Prague sports facelift
The Carol IV in Prague, a five-star hotel with more then a century of history, has reopened after a modernization… Read More »
Staff-strapped European hotels drop application standards
Major hotel companies in Europe are setting aside experience and qualification requirements in the face of critical worker shortages converging… Read More »
Hotel-casino project to break ground in Las Vegas
A groundbreaking is scheduled for Friday on Dream Las Vegas, a $550 million, 531-room casino-resort on Las Vegas Boulevard. The… Read More »