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IHG Hotels & Resorts has opened two ANA Holiday Inn properties in Japan within 24 hours of each other, establishing the Holiday Inn brand's first international full-service presence in Sanda City and Tosu City. The back-to-back openings mark...

As Anantara Hotels & Resorts marks 25 years since its founding, the luxury brand is making an unusual choice for its anniversary campaign: rather than leading with design awards, RevPAR records or expansion announcements, it is leading with...

Marriott and Denver-based Stonebridge Companies have officially opened JW Marriott Atlanta Downtown, completing a full repositioning of the former W Atlanta Downtown into a 237-room luxury property in the heart of the city. The conversion introduces the US...

Westport Hospitality will open The Harborvale, Autograph Collection, a 161-room lakeside hotel on Lake Champlain in Burlington, Vermont, in June 2026, repositioning the existing 25 Cherry Street property from Marriott's Courtyard brand into the group's upper-upscale Autograph Collection....

IHG Hotels & Resorts and Adani Airport Holdings Limited (AAHL) have signed a managed portfolio agreement to develop five hotels with close to 1,500 keys across India's airport-led growth corridors, in a deal that also brings the global...

The United Nations' specialised tourism agency has launched its first WhatsApp-delivered training programme, opening 2,000 fully subsidised places for hospitality workers, entrepreneurs and SMEs across Spain. Delivered in partnership with Fundación Mahou San Miguel, the Digital Course on...

Marriott International will convert two of its flagship Lima hotels under The Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott brands by 2028, executing one of the most significant luxury repositionings in Peru's hospitality history and bringing only the second Ritz-Carlton property...

Mews has struck a technology partnership with the North American Hostel Association (NAHA), giving more than 150 independent hostel operators across the United States, Canada and Mexico access to cloud-native property management infrastructure for the first time through...

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts and Ovolo Group have confirmed their first new-build hotel under the brands' strategic franchise partnership, with The Bennett by Ovolo Perth a Wyndham Hotel set to open in East Perth in March 2028. The...

World of Hyatt is implementing its most significant structural change in five years, expanding its award chart from three to five redemption levels effective 20 May 2026, as the programme seeks to balance long-term financial sustainability with the...