How to make your mixed-use development a success
Mixed-use hospitality development has significantly evolved over the past decades, becoming increasingly essential in the current market as securing financing has become more challenging and diversifying a project makes it more economically viable…
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IHIF Asia Preview: How Hilton plans to grow
Asia is fast becoming one of the most important battlegrounds for the major hotel brands. Most have evolved out of the US and Europe meaning there is more real estate to chase elsewhere. The potential of markets like India and China is well…
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Worldwide Hotels makes it big with modest lodgings
The opening of the 989-room Mercure Icon in Singapore this spring, marking the launch of the largest Mercure hotel in the world, was another bold move from hospitality group Worldwide Hotels.
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Clarion Hotel opens a city hotel in the heart of Helsinki
In the 1930s, Finland's construction expertise gathered to create their new headquarters. As the business grew and developed, so did the building. In the early 2000s, needs had changed, and the property began its transformation into a hotel. In the…
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Ballet-inspired double skyscraper design tricks the eye
In Albania’s capital Tirana, where a spate of new towers will soon transform the skyline, architects have revealed plans for a new double skyscraper that will bend elegantly like a ballet dancer’s plié, or a lover leaning in for a kiss…
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Inside Park Lane Copenhagen, a former cinema-turned-boutique hotel
Park Lane Copenhagen is set to begin welcoming guests in October 2024, following an extensive transformation. The 69-key hotel finds home in a property that dates back to the 1920s, originally a cinema and later transformed into a hotel…
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Hotel development is a complex undertaking. It requires little of the skills to operate and monetize the asset. Owners and architects are often ill-equipped to measure up the requirements for running a successful hotel a few years down the…
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Hotel Industry Leader Jim Petrus Launches Petrus Hospitality Advisors
A New Consultancy Providing Asset Management And Strategic Guidance For Developers, Owners And Operators
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What’s Happening at The Hotel Show, 4-6 June at Dubai
The Hotel Show 2024 is fast approaching, with the organizers announcing the participation of 28 countries.
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Reuben Brothers plan $2B Puerto Rico project with Aman, Mandarin Oriental and Rosewood hotels
The Reuben Brothers are planning a massive $2 billion oceanfront luxury resort in Puerto Rico.
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China hotel chain H World begins foray into Thailand
H World Group, a Chinese company operating more than 9,000 hotels at home, will develop markets in Southeast Asia with an eye toward establishing a global chain based on its proprietary platform for reservation and customer management…
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India’s Hospitality Industry Booms
Global chains expand, spiritual tourism surges, analysts bullish on growth India’s hospitality industry currently valued at around $24 billion is experiencing robust growth and is projected to reach around $31 billion over the next five years…
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Shangri-La pares losses; hotels, mall, and apartments generating billions
Hong Kong-based luxury hotels owner and operator Shangri-La Asia Ltd, which owns hotels in Colombo and Hambantota, and a mall and apartments on Galle Face, has reported a US$1.9 million loss for the year ended December 31, 2023…
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When will the Strip see another new hotel-casino?
It seemed like giant ceremonial scissors got plenty of use on the Strip in recent years…
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Court challenge brought against hotel development planned near historic Dublin building
A High Court challenge has been brought against An Bord Pleanála's decision to grant permission for a hotel and office development close to the historic Royal Hospital Kilmainham building.
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Radisson to scale up Morocco portfolio, aims for 25 hotels by 2030
Radisson is looking to accelerate its presence in Morocco and aiming to scale up its portfolio to 25 properties across the country by 2030. The company currently has 11 hotels in operation and under development…
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The great hotel conversion trend
We are seeing an exciting increase in hotels enhancing shopping malls and high streets and saving empty office buildings. This in turn is helping to uplift the local community.
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