Here’s how a group of luxury travel professionals and other experts see the trends shaping up at the high end of the market for the rest of this year and into the next.
A visit to six luxury properties in Florida exposed some obvious cutbacks in service and amenities that seem out of place for the chain scale.
After studying food technology in Stafford College UK, Mr. Beresford started his career in London in the hospitality industry.
Sojern released a new interactive Hotel Insights Report, based on the rigorous analysis of more than a billion traveler intent data points across the globe.
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With crowdfunding in the lodging space, what hotels are looking to do is not just provide a stake in a hotel but also perks. Besides raising capital, hotels are also building an audience.
The Ritz-Carlton takes top honors. “Traditional” luxury marks, including Oberoi Hotels & Resorts, Raffles Hotels & Resorts and Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, dominate the Top 10.
Complementing the multi-million dollar campaign, The Luxury Collection is also unveiling a new brand logo. A new website, brand collateral and signage will follow in 2016.
Achieving luxury status involves a venue combining several elements, including the meanings of upscale, improvement of facilities, consistent good service and focus on food.
Regent Place Xian will offer 156 guest rooms and suites and will house four unique restaurants.
A new luxury hotel of Wanda Hotels & Resorts opened on 29 August in Fuyang city, Anhui province.
The Chinese love of travelling is tremendous and after two decades of rapid and mostly double-digit growth, China has developed into one of the leading global source markets.
Strategic Hotels & Resorts Inc., the owner of luxury resorts across the U.S., is exploring a sale and hired a bank to help it find a buyer.
The Grand Mansion, A Luxury Collection Hotel, Nanjing is Unveiled in China’s Intriguing Ancient City.
In the early going, Beijing and Shanghai, the political and business capitals of the country got the critical mass of hotel development, but these days hotels are turning up all over the country.
Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group has announced that it will manage another luxury property in the heart of Beijing, scheduled to open in 2017.
Primed to open in the heart of Ulaanbaatar on 3 June is Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts’ latest luxury hotel -- Shangri-La Hotel, Ulaanbaatar.
Starwood has already established its 4.5-star Aloft brand in China and the US and will launch in Australia through the deal.
Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts will open the doors to its newest property in the Haigang District of Qinhuangdao, a small seaside city renowned for its blue waters and golden beach.
Times are booming for luxury hotels. Properties are being sold for record amounts. Occupancy percentages and room rates are increasing.
An affiliate of China Communications Construction Company U.S. International buy Miami site for $74.7 million and plan to build mixed-use Hotel-Condo-Office.
At the Four Seasons resort in Scottsdale, Arizona, corporate customers crowd meeting rooms and bars as vacationers take cowboy for a day classes or relax in TV-equipped pool cabanas.
The ceremony brought together an array of boutique hoteliers, press and industry representatives from across the globe and 8 individual SLH hotels walked away with awards.
Security researchers have uncovered a sophisticated industrial espionage campaign that targets business executives in luxury hotels across Asia.