INTERVIEW: STEFAN RIER & LUKAS RUNGGER, FOUNDERS, NOA
When Stefan Rier and Lukas Rungger first met and bonded over a few beers, they didn’t realise how significant their friendship and shared design ethos would be…
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INTERVIEW: STEFAN RIER & LUKAS RUNGGER, FOUNDERS, NOA
When Stefan Rier and Lukas Rungger first met and bonded over a few beers, they didn’t realise how significant their friendship and shared design ethos would be…
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How to effectively create your hotel’s USP
Has any industry had a more inconvenient pandemic than the tourism industry? Where other businesses’ main issue has been how to manage a remote team, in the early days of March 2020, it felt as though the holiday lights were turned off almost…
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Inauguration of the Spark Hospitality Digital Center
The global Spark innovation sphere by Les Roches has grown rapidly in a year, attracting important partners…
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Sevda Oztetik: the hotel should be eco-friendly and we take it for granted
We talked with Sevda Oztetik about the trend for sustainable tourism and its implementation in hospitality…
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London’s former Snow Hill Police Station to become Hub by Premier Inn
Whitbread has secured planning permission for a new Hub by Premier Inn property in London’s Square Mile.
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Sustainability in hospitality: Putting construction issues first
Hospitality firms are increasingly keen to jump on the sustainability bandwagon. However, too often they get lost in the complexity of the subject and limit their engagement to unimaginative solutions such as towel reuse in bathrooms…
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Graduate hotels open in Cambridge and Oxford
Graduate Hotels has opened hotels in Cambridge and Oxford. The two hotels – the Graduate Cambridge and The Randolph Hotel by Graduate Hotels – have opened for overnight stays, with the bars and restaurants opening in coming weeks…
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Porsche Design and Steigenberger to Establish Joint Hotel Brand
Functional design and a unique brand experience are about to merge at the very highest level. Dr…
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Watergate Bay’s CEO Will Ashworth on hitting the ‘suite’ spot with the hotel’s new Beach Lofts
After a transformation project, the former Jamie Oliver restaurant space at Watergate Bay has been reimagined into seven new suites that will define a new room category at the hotel and within the wider portfolio…
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IHG debuts next-generation Holiday Inn design in Australasia
IHG Hotels and Resorts has opened the first Holiday Inn property in Australasia to feature the brand’s next-generation design including an open lobby concept combining the hotel’s reception area, business centre, restaurant, bar and lounge…
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New York icon Ian Schrager has seen the high-end hotel future: We’re carrying our own bags
‘Who needs all those luxuries from Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries?’ Schrager says of his contemporary, Lower East Side hotel
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How To Improve Your Guest Bedroom's Hospitality Factor
As the saying goes, mi casa es su casa. When a loved one comes to your neck of the woods—be it for a quick moment or a longer trip—you jump at the chance to have them stay with you…
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Five space-saving tips to steal from this minimalist micro-hotel in Santorini
While we're drawn to admire hotels for their boutique furnishings and audacious color schemes, we never expected to find ourselves falling for their space-saving ideas…
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As with all things COVID-19, it’s time to rethink how your hotel gets the most out of its public spaces, Specifically, the hotel lounge, often part of the lobby, will return post-pandemic as a key point of differentiation for properties…
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LVMH Plans to Build an Ultra-Premium Hotel on Rodeo Drive
Just when you thought Rodeo Drive couldn’t possibly get any more luxe, LVMH is like, “Hold my martini.” The luxury conglomerate is planning to open an ultra-premium hotel on the famed thoroughfare to outshine all competition…
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Tiled sinks, café curtains, and other boutique tips from Le Moulin hotel in Provence
The recently renovated hotel sits on the fringe of Lourmarin's château near the mountain-kissed region of Pertuis…
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On sale: $125,000 balloon trips to the edge of space
If you're trying to avoid airborne viruses, heading to a near vacuum might not be the worst idea…
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Boom Supersonic aims to fly 'anywhere in the world in four hours for $100'
The aviation industry is in crisis, there's a global push to cut carbon emissions, and many of us haven't stepped on a plane or hugged far-flung loved ones in more than a year. Reviving the supersonic dream that died with Concorde's retirement…
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