Grace Santorini reopens with fresh new design
Grace Santorini reopened for the summer season in May 2016 with a fresh new design following a complete renovation to enhance the iconic luxury…
/ 21.07.2016
Grace Santorini reopened for the summer season in May 2016 with a fresh new design following a complete renovation to enhance the iconic luxury…
/ 21.07.2016
A Seaside Tsar should be appointed to help Britain’s forgotten seaside towns fight back from decades of decay according to new research which paints…
/ 21.07.2016
Blumen Haus Lech will soon offer the ultimate Alpine retreat in the Austrian mountains, when this extraordinary nine suite hotel launches on 1 December…
/ 21.07.2016
For 50 years, EquipHotel has helped French and international hospitality and catering professionals to decipher trends, identify innovations, promote networking – with one goal:…
/ 20.07.2016
Economy designer brand Ibis Styles is thinking big with the opening of not just one but two new hotels in Budapest. This is a…
/ 19.07.2016
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide has announced it will debut the iconic W Hotels brand in Scotland with W Edinburgh. Opening in 2021 and…
/ 18.07.2016
The International Society of Hospitality Consultants (ISHC) is the leading source of global hospitality expertise and counsel, represented by some two hundred of the…
/ 15.07.2016
From this summer onwards the five-star hotel, IBEROSTAR, in Playa de Palma will be home to the first GROHE Experience Suite in Mallorca. The…
/ 15.07.2016
BW Premier Collection has announced that Ten Hill Place, in central Edinburgh, will become the tenth member of Best Western Great Britain’s soft branded…
/ 15.07.2016
The hotly anticipated, exclusive first properties at Portonovi, Montenegro – the Adriatic’s newest luxury lifestyle destination – have been released for purchase this week…
/ 14.07.2016
A historic London hotel is set for a £10 million renovation to be headed up by Wolff Architects. Kensington Rooms Hotel, the 41,000sq-ft luxury…
/ 14.07.2016
London’s newest luxury boutique hotel Courthouse Hotel Shoreditch opened its doors on 1 May 2016, allowing guests to discover its eclectic criminal past. The…
/ 13.07.2016
Tune Hotels’ Liverpool Street property is nearing completion of a 34-room extension of its current 183 room hotel. The newly designed rooms will be…
/ 13.07.2016
On Tuesday 12 July, Dorsett Hospitality International and Willmott Dixon celebrated a milestone event at the ‘topping out’ of the Dorsett City Hotel. Guests…
/ 12.07.2016
Permission has been granted to the St James’ Hotel Group to begin construction work on the new 117-room Hotel Indigo Bath. Operating under a…
/ 12.07.2016
Amastan Paris has opened and marks the first flagship of the new urban hotel brand, Amastan. The hotel is situated in the heart of…
/ 11.07.2016
The 5-star Gran Meliá Palacio de los Duques in the historical and artistic heart of Madrid has opened its doors. Gran Meliá Palacio de…
/ 11.07.2016
Developer Allied London has confirmed Nadler Hotels will operate a 110-bedroom hotel in the heart of Manchester, which will form part of the £1.3…
/ 11.07.2016
Pestana Hotel Group is delighted to announce the opening of the first Pestana CR7hotel on 1 July in Funchal, Madeira Island. The highly anticipated…
/ 11.07.2016
Hilton Worldwide has opened a DoubleTree hotel in Sighisoara – the sixth property in its Romanian portfolio. DoubleTree by Hilton Sighisoara – Cavaler joins…
/ 08.07.2016
With fresh and elegant new interiors designed by The Gallery HBA, the public areas at London’s Grosvenor House, a JW Marriott Hotel have reopened…
/ 08.07.2016
This July sees the grand opening of the new citizenM hotel in the heart of one of London’s most historical sites. Right opposite the…
/ 07.07.2016
As part of the extensive refurbishment of the Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire, Scotland, Dernier & Hamlyn has manufactured bespoke lighting for the main bar,…
/ 07.07.2016
An historic former school building next to Edinburgh’s Royal Mile is to be converted into a boutique hotel and restaurant as part of the…
/ 07.07.2016
Luxury resort Puente Romano Beach Resort & Spa in Marbella, has announced the launch of three deluxe new villas for summer 2016. Complementing the…
/ 06.07.2016
Canopy by Hilton, the new lifestyle brand, along with Icelandair Hotels have announced the opening of the world’s first Canopy hotel in the city…
/ 05.07.2016
Stockholm is one of the fastest growing cities in northern Europe, embracing its bank of up-and-coming fashion, design, and musical talent. It wasn’t going…
/ 05.07.2016
Situated in the Old Town part of Gdańsk, the Almond Hotel perfectly brings together the functions of a hotel, restaurant, and a spa &…
/ 28.06.2016
Cornish property Penolva is the latest new addition to the ever-popular St Mawes Retreats portfolio, a sublime collection of exclusive holiday sea view houses…
/ 28.06.2016
One of York’s top hotels – the Grand Hotel and Spa – has started to undergo an extensive £15 million development project, which will…
/ 27.06.2016
The Lodge Hotel in Putney has long been a fantastic place to stay in South West London, close as it is to the delights…
/ 27.06.2016
SACO – The Serviced Apartment Company – has marked the 10th anniversary of its well-established aparthotel in Bath with the addition of four new…
/ 27.06.2016
Muckrach Country House Hotel in the Scottish Highlands just north of Aviemore is an 11 bedroom Victorian Shooting Lodge set in 10 acres, surrounded…
/ 24.06.2016
Wyndham Hotel Group has announced that accessible luxury is coming to Athens when the Wyndham Grand Athens, the first Wyndham Hotel Group hotel in…
/ 24.06.2016
The new bar and lounge is now open at Sketchley Grange Hotel & Spa in Hinckley, Leicestershire. This well-established hotel has just opened the…
/ 24.06.2016
Worldhotels, a premier group of independent hotels, is proud to announce a new member – the Courthouse Hotel London. Formerly the Great Marlborough Street…
/ 21.06.2016
The Lake District’s most successful self-catering cottage company, Heart of the Lakes, is delighted to be representing one of Ambleside’s most unique holiday properties….
/ 21.06.2016
One Warwick Park, the elegant 39-room hotel, in Tunbridge Wells’ historic Pantiles district, was finally unveiled last week at a glittering launch party. Owner-operators…
/ 21.06.2016
AccorHotels has expanded the MGallery by Sofitel brand with the opening of Hotel Paris Bastille Boutet in the French capital’s 11th district near Le…
/ 20.06.2016
Autograph Hotels, Marriott International’s distinctive portfolio of independent hotels, is proud to welcome four one-of-a-kind properties to its global portfolio, in the Florida Keys,…
/ 20.06.2016
Radisson Blu has opened their first upper upscale international hotel in Armenia’s capital city, Yerevan. Overlooking the famed Mount Ararat, within walking distance of…
/ 17.06.2016
93 rooms at the five-star Steigenberger Golf & Spa Resort Camp de Mar on Mallorca, operated by RIMC, now boast a resplendent new look…
/ 15.06.2016
The neighbourhood-lifestyle brand pentahotels is introducing a new innovative and exciting category of rooms – the PentaPlayerPad. The stylish penta-experience already begins upon arrival….
/ 13.06.2016
The iconic and classically-styled Ritz Paris Hotel has reopened following a four-year renovation, which was blighted by a major fire earlier this year. The…
/ 13.06.2016
Hyatt Hotels Corporation has announced plans for a Hyatt Regency hotel in Sofia, Bulgaria. Hyatt Regency Sofia will mark the first Hyatt-branded hotel in…
/ 09.06.2016
Luxury Hotels Group is delighted to announce the latest addition to its growing portfolio – in the heart of Bilbao, Hotel Carlton is a…
/ 03.06.2016
Bulgari Hotels and Resorts has signed an agreement to bring the luxury brand to Moscow, with development to be carried out by Moscow-based Storm…
/ 03.06.2016
Located right next door to the Amsterdam ArenA and the Ziggo Dome, Jaz Amsterdam has celebrated its official hotel opening and has succeeded in…
/ 02.06.2016
Park Hyatt Mallorca, located on the relatively undiscovered north-eastern coast, has opened to become the first Park Hyatt resort in Europe and the first…
/ 01.06.2016
Rose Tascher de la Pagerie, nicknamed Josephine by Napoleon Bonaparte and known as JoBo to her closest friends, possessed all the characteristics, including the…
/ 31.05.2016
Located within the Hotel Barsey by Warwick in Brussels, The Avenue by Barsey restaurant recently unveiled a dramatic new look created by Paris-based interior…
/ 28.05.2016
Hilton Worldwide’s Hampton by Hilton brand, the global mid-priced hotel that serves value-conscious and quality-driven travelers around the world, today announced the opening of…
/ 26.05.2016
Il Sereno presents a new era of luxury hotel for the iconic destination of Lake Como with an ethos of understated elegance. Designed by…
/ 26.05.2016
Consisting of eleven Townhouse rooms and grand Suites of different sizes, the luxury Palazzo Scanderbeg is located in the heart of Rome, with a…
/ 24.05.2016
The beautifully restored 19th century Chateau de La Redorte in the heart of France’s Languedoc region will open its doors to guests later this…
/ 23.05.2016
Mercer Hotel Sevilla, opening in the summer of 2016, is the new luxury landmark hotel set in the heart of the historic centre of…
/ 20.05.2016
Situated on the banks of the Rhine, just moments away from Bonn’s famous Museum Mile, the Marriott Bonn World Conference Hotel is scheduled to…
/ 16.05.2016
Marriott Hotels, the signature brand of Marriott International, has opened its first hotel in Macedonia, the Skopje Marriott Hotel. Situated on Macedonia Square, in…
/ 05.05.2016
This June the luxury resort of Daios Cove, Crete, is opening ‘The Mansion’ – a new exclusive villa which comes complete with exquisite design,…
/ 04.05.2016
Renaissance Hotels has opened its sixth hotel in the emerging neighbourhood of La Republique, Paris. Conveniently located near Le Marais and Canal Saint Martin,…
/ 04.05.2016
Louvre Hotels Group has strengthened its position in the Middle East and North Africa by announcing the opening of 40 economy hotels over the…
/ 03.05.2016
Ikos Olivia, a contemporary and stylishly designed hotel on Greece’s Halkidiki coast, is set to open four new, two-bedroom beach-front bungalow suites this year….
/ 03.05.2016
Frankfurt Messe Premier Inn officially opened to the public last week, marking Whitbread’s first hotel of the brand in Germany. Adopting European-style open-plan lounge,…
/ 25.04.2016
The first foundations have been laid for One&Only Portonovi – an integral part of the new luxury lifestyle development being built in Montenegro. In…
/ 22.04.2016
The first, award-winning major revamp since the the Hilton Budapest originally opened in 1977 has been revealed; maintaining its strong appeal to conference and…
/ 21.04.2016
Andrew’s Lane Theatre is set to become a ‘micro hotel’ after investors revealed plans to build a seven-storey development containing 115 pod rooms of…
/ 20.04.2016
Hilton has begun proceedings to enter the Serbian market after signing an agreement with local developers to open a Hilton-branded hotel in the capital…
/ 19.04.2016
Rezidor announced this week the opening of the world’s very first Radisson RED hotel in Brussels, Belgium. Radisson RED is a new hotel philosophy…
/ 14.04.2016
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company has revealed its first hotel in Hungary this week. The Ritz-Carlton, Budapest, is housed within a protected historic building, located…
/ 13.04.2016
April will see representatives of the world’s fashion and design industry converge on Milan, where the 55th Milan Design Week will be held from…
/ 11.04.2016
Hilton Worldwide has reached a franchise agreement with Grupo Avintia to bring Curio – A Collection by Hilton to Ibiza’s historic town centre. The…
/ 04.04.2016
Award-winning design practice Areen Hospitality has completed the first phase of the 467 guest room renovation of the iconic Westin Palace Madrid, one of…
/ 19.03.2016
AC Hotels by Marriott has opened its fifth property in France, the AC Hotel Marseille Velodrome, in the heart of the city’s business district….
/ 11.03.2016
Marriott International announced earlier this week that it plans to open an additional five Moxy Hotels in key European cities in 2016, including Munich,…
/ 10.03.2016
I still consider the historic centre of Bruges (or to use its correct, local name; ‘Brugge’) to be a relatively ‘hidden gem’. Of the…
/ 09.03.2016
Marriott International in conjunction with Ian Scharger and KKH Property Investors have announced their plans to open a new EDITION hotel in Barcelona in…
/ 09.03.2016
With comfort and luxury at every turn, Geberit AquaClean 8000plus shower toilets were the natural choice for the five-star Park Hyatt Vienna Hotel. Situated…
/ 08.03.2016
Marriott International in Europe announced on Tuesday that it will double in size once its parent company completes its acquisition of Starwood Hotels &…
/ 07.03.2016
Nuremberg, Germany; home to an eclectic blend of Medieval and Renaissance architecture is welcoming the best-connected, contemporary 177-roomed Park Plaza Nuremberg in spring 2016….
/ 06.03.2016
It’s fair to say that until relatively recently, airport hotels didn’t have the best of reputations. Seen as merely a necessary concession for ease…
/ 03.03.2016
Marriott Hotels – Marriott International’s signature brand – has welcomed The Hague Marriott to its portfolio following an extensive four-month refurbishment. The hotel, situated…
/ 29.02.2016
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has announced the signing of InterContinental® Sofia, the first for the brand in Bulgaria. The hotel will operate under a…
/ 25.02.2016
Relais & Châteaux, a leading and prestigious collection of hotels and restaurants around the world, welcomed 4 new hotels to its family this January….
/ 23.02.2016
IHG are pleased to announce the signing of two new Hotel Indigo Properties in Europe: • Hotel Indigo Stratford-upon-Avon, UK – The hotel will…
/ 18.02.2016
Starwood is bringing its Sheraton brand to the upmarket resort town of Cascais, Portugal with the signing of the Sheraton Cascais Resort. Owned and…
/ 12.02.2016
Minor Hotel Group (MHG) has announced the completion of the final stage of its acquisition of Tivoli Hotels & Resorts, a well-known Portugal-based brand…
/ 07.08.2015
In recent years, the global hospitality industry has been marking the steady rise in popularity of the ‘aparthotel’. And looking at the trends, it…
/ 07.05.2015
In March I made a long overdue trip back from the antipodean colonies to the motherland. To break up the frenetic efforts to see…
/ 06.09.2014
For many years my practice worked for island hotel groups, the Hugglers (see Club Hotel and Spa) and the Seymours of Jersey (see the…
/ 05.02.2014
It stands almost as a symbolic icon of the recovery of Germany from past disasters. Top floors burned out, requisition by occupation forces, rebuilt…
/ 04.01.2012
I don’t ski. I have this image of gliding out onto the slope and slowly sinking into the snow as my weight proves too…
/ 07.10.2011
Louvre Hotels Group brands are known to generations of UK travellers through France. My first visit to a Campanile in the 1980’s amused me….
/ 23.01.2011
I’ve lost count of the number of trips I have made into what we must now call Central Europe over the last ten years….
/ 06.01.2011
Many things can drive the genesis of a new hotel chain, but mostly it is driven by personal views of owners. Room Mate was…
/ 23.12.2010
Any ski hotel will fill if it is positioned at the bottom of the ski-lifts. The Royal Spa sits on the edge of Jochberg,…
/ 23.11.2010
Set in the Silesian coalfields, Katowice is a city of concrete. Dotted around the skyline of this grey city are sets of the pithead…
/ 23.10.2010
I have just featured two hotels (Cube and Ongava) where the guests’ needs, in terms of why they are at those locations, has driven…
/ 22.08.2010
Cube’s name is expressive. The building is a glass cube, unashamedly modernist amongst the traditional Tyrolean valley chalet style architecture. The ‘shock of the…
/ 06.08.2010
Noel Coward’s ‘Brief Encounter’ was set on a railway platform in which a couple waiting for different trains fall for one another. Returning to…