Hotel News

Guests at Hilton Worldwide will soon be able to use their smartphones to select specific rooms, make special requests, check in and out, and even unlock their room doors, the McLean-based hotel chain announced Monday.

Average Selling Price Per Room Year-Over-Year catapulted 28% to $150,223 per room in 1H 2014, compared to $117,300 in 1H 13. Prices in 1H 14 are also up 17% over the year-end 2013 total of $128,352.

Noble Investment Group last week announced the acquisition of the SpringHill Suites by Marriott Miami Airport South.

Hilton Worldwide last week announced further expansion of its fastest growing full service brand in Eastern Europe with the signing of DoubleTree by Hilton Minsk.

Chef Cyrille Pannier joins Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills as Executive Chef after spending two decades with the company.

Almost a year ago, we learned InterContinental Hotels Group would open one of its first Even Hotels at 1775 Rockville Pike.

Miami New Times' Iron Fork is Miami's most hotly anticipated culinary event. This year, on July 31st, we up the ante by partnering with the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau to kick off two months of discounted three-course meals at Miami's best restaurants during Miami Spice.

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SANDALS Resorts International is pumping US$5.5 million into five of the Caribbean's first over-the-water suites and the renovation of 14 suites at Sandals Royal Caribbean in Montego Bay.

Alexander Philips joined the rush to buy foreclosed U.S. homes four years ago, spending $40 million on houses in California and Nevada to operate as rentals.

The Sheraton Amman Al Nabil Hotel will celebrate Eid Al Fitr this year by offering guests a special buffet on Eid days.

Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson has been outspoken on many topics, and online gaming is one of them.

Noble Investment Group today announced the acquisition of the SpringHill Suites by Marriott Miami Airport South.

Matrix Hotel. A boutique/business hotel conveniently located downtown with a complimentary full breakfast buffet and nightly wine and cheese reception, it boasts an excellent fitness center and amiable, informed staff.

A day after the state Gaming Commission suggested Boston was "abandoning" Charlestown, neighborhood residents were split yesterday on whether Mayor Martin J. Walsh did the right thing by breaking off talks with Wynn Resorts about how much money the city should get to cope with the company's proposed Everett casino.

William Mackay has been promoted Senior Vice President, Hotel Operations - Asia Pacific at Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts in Singapore, Singapore Born in England, Mackay began his Four Seasons career in San Francisco in 1982, and was most recently Regional Vice President and General Manager of Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong.

Tammy Stokes, an adviser for EVEN hotels, demonstrates the in-room exercise equipment at the new Even Hotel in Rockville.

Wall Street stocks Thursday finished little changed with the S&P 500 inching to a new record following mixed US economic data and a flood of corporate earnings.

The hotel and leisure company said it is expecting earnings per share to be between 62 cents and 65 cents, compared to the expectations of analysts polled by Thomson Reuters of 67 cents per share.

Group 70 International, Inc. was selected as the architect, interior designer and civil engineer on record for the 130-acre Tahiti Mahana Beach Resort and Spa project intended to reignite tourism in Tahiti and stimulate its economy.