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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Seoul certifies hotels for recovering international patients
Long drawn by Seoul’s reputation for world-class specialized medical care, cutting-edge cosmetic procedures and advanced health screenings, hundreds of thousands of international patients fly into the city each year…
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Has personalisation become an overused buzzword in hospitality?
Boutique Hotel News held its latest Feed Your Mind hotelier thought leadership event in partnership with Agilysys, hosted at Four Seasons Hotel London at Tower Bridge.
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UMG enters UK hotel business as music-based hospitality experience launches with Outernet in London
The announcement of UMusic Hotel Denmark Street in London arrives just over three years after the major’s first hotel in Madrid. UMG has identified growing demand internationally for experiences combining music, tourism and lifestyle…
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‘We like to mingle with people’: The Italian princess who wants tourists to stay in her palace
In the classic movie “Roman Holiday,” Gregory Peck’s American reporter encounters Audrey Hepburn’s incognito European princess without initially realizing her royal identity.
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I don’t want a hotel that’s a ‘home away from home’. I want the opposite
Staying a night in a hotel room is transactional. The hotel provides the service, and we pay for it.
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Flight of the Concours: how luxury hotels are racing to raise their curb appeal
As the 75th Pebble Beach Concours is set to take place this week, luxury hotels continue to embrace classic car shows as some of their biggest events
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UCB buys Cube hotel in £15m hospitality plan
A university has bought a recently-closed hotel and restaurant as part of a £15m investment programme, aimed at expanding hospitality training and creating more than 150 jobs across the city.
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Channel 4 Unveils New Hospitality Series Fred's Ultimate Hotels
Channel 4 has commissioned Fred's Ultimate Hotels, a new factual entertainment series that follows renowned hospitality expert Fred Sirieix as he travels the world exploring some of the planet's most luxurious hotels—and stepping behind the scenes…
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Study finds carbon-based pricing encourages greener tourist intentions
Hotels have long encouraged guests to reuse towels, limit linen changes and conserve energy. Yet tourism remains a significant source of carbon emissions, and voluntary sustainability programs often struggle to achieve lasting behavior change…
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For decades, a hotel’s value was explained mainly by three factors: location, category, and operating results. Although these elements remain fundamental, the reality of today’s hotel market is far more complex…
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If I Had 30 Days to Turn Around a Hotel, Here’s Exactly What I’d Do
Someone asked me recently what I would do if I had just 30 days to improve a hotel’s performance. It is a question I have thought about a lot over the years because the answer gets to the heart of any effective hotel turnaround strategy…
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What a British etiquette expert would never do in a hotel
From noisy corridors to thieving toiletries, William Hanson reveals the hotel habits that horrify him most.
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NYU IHIF 2026 Takeaways: Optimism, Smarter Growth and the Women Leaders Reading the Market
At the 48th Annual NYU International Hospitality Investment Forum, hospitality leaders pointed to resilient demand, renewed transaction activity, repositioning opportunities and practical AI as signs of a more disciplined growth cycle ahead…
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The School of Hotel and Tourism Management of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University is delighted to announce that Mr Horst SCHULZE, Founding member of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company and Founder of The Capella Hotel Group was inducted into the SHTM…
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EU pushes for unified reporting in short-term rental sector
The reforms target a rapidly growing European short-term rental sector where differing national rules have made cross-border data comparison and market assessment difficult.
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Hotels can refuse tourists tap water, Italy's top court rules
A tourist’s simple request for a glass of tap water at a hotel restaurant in the Italian Dolomites has culminated in Italy’s top court ruling that being served water from the tap is not a consumer right, after a lengthy and costly legal saga…
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Introducing TikTok GO: A new way to discover and book experiences on TikTok
Every day, people come to TikTok to find their next adventure, like the hotel with the view that sparked their interest, the hidden gem restaurant a creator swears by, or the experience they didn't know they needed…
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