Why London Hotels Are Switching to Dynamic Pricing
London is an unusually difficult city in which to set a hotel room rate and leave it alone. Demand does not simply rise in summer and fall in winter…
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Why London Hotels Are Switching to Dynamic Pricing
London is an unusually difficult city in which to set a hotel room rate and leave it alone. Demand does not simply rise in summer and fall in winter…
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How Berlin’s housing shortage is reshaping hotel development
Berlin’s housing needs are intensifying competition for land, making hotel conversions, mixed-use projects and demand-led locations increasingly important.
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UK tourist tax could do 'more harm than good', hotel bosses warn
A group of Bristol hotel bosses is warning that taxing visitor overnight stays could do "more harm than good" and are calling to be involved in any changes across the region.
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4 hidden risks that trip up Caribbean hotel buyers
Caribbean hotels and resorts have delivered some of the strongest performance in the hotel industry over the past several years, making the region increasingly attractive to investors. But many of the assumptions that apply to underwriting U.S…
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The world’s two largest hotel brands are both Chinese
But scale at home doesn't yet prove they can win abroad.
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The global hotel construction pipeline reaches a record high project count
The Q2 2026 Global Hotel Construction Pipeline Trend Report from Lodging Econometrics (LE) reveals that the global hotel construction pipeline reaches a new all-time high project count with 15,976 projects/2,433,948 rooms…
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150 million foreign visitors are checking into China’s budget hotels
A manager at an ibis hotel in Zhangjiajie says that going to work these days feels a little like “walking into the United Nations.”
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Italian luxury hotels attract $636 million: Chris Hohn’s fund bets on their debt
The British fund TCI, led by financier Chris Hohn, holds $636 million in debt backed by four of Italy’s finest hotels. This information is worth noting, not for the amount, but for the form it takes: it is not an acquisition, it is a loan…
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The High Court of Justice of the Canary Islands has issued a landmark ruling for the tourism sector in the archipelago. The decision fully upholds the lawsuit filed by the CC.OO and UGT unions against the companies that make up the Riu Group…
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Who Is Paying for This Wave of Luxury Hotel Investment
This article asks only two financial questions: who is supplying the capital for the current wave of luxury hotel investment, and who absorbs the loss when returns fall short…
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Hotel robotics leader wins Marroit and Atour as clients—but still can’ t turn a profit
Gross margins on hardware keep getting squeezed, even as R&D and sales expenses continue to climb.
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Ownership change at Grand Metropolitan Hotels Group
Gravity Capital Hong Kong has become the new shareholder of Grand Metropolitan Hotels Holding B.V., marking the conclusion of the former joint venture structure with VZB.
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According to multiple media reports, the standalone property project located at No. 233 South Shaanxi Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai – the Mia Hotel – has completed equity delivery…
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Middle East weakest performing region for hotel operators
The Middle East was the weakest-performing region for the world’s largest hotel operators, as the Iran war dented otherwise strong global results this earnings quarter.
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Hotels warned on AI readiness as tools gain traction
Access Hospitality has warned that many hotels are not ready to use artificial intelligence effectively, limiting the value they can get from AI tools.
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Hilton recognized hotel owner margins compressing. So it did something about it.
Hilton President and CEO Chris Nassetta reached back to COVID days to give context to some of the lodging company’s newest initiatives to alleviate the financial stress its hotel owners have endured.
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Global Hotel Alliance reports double-digit revenue growth in Q2 delivering strong h1 results
Global Hotel Alliance (GHA), the world’s largest alliance of independent hotel brands, has announced double-digit growth across all key performance indicators in Q2 supporting positive momentum in H1 2026…
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