Hotel Management

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Marriott International has marked another year of strong growth in the Asia Pacific excluding China (APEC) region, signing a record 109 deals across 11 markets, contributing 21,439 rooms to the region’s development pipeline, closing the year with 77,532 total rooms in the region’s year-end pipeline.

Pipeline

Hotel Management

JULY 6, 2025

Marriott International is set to bring its AC Hotels brand to Queensland for the first time following an extensive renovation of a Gold Coast hotel. Marriott has previously signed agreements to debut its world-renowned luxury brands, including The Ritz-Carlton, St.

Branding

Hotel Management

DECEMBER 3, 2024

New Zealand hotelier Chris Dickinson has introduced a new luxury accommodation brand to the market with four Auckland properties slated to launch within the first half of 2025. We are excited to debut Luminous on Anzac in early 2025 and have a strong pipeline of three additional properties to be announced,” Dickinson said.

Branding

Hotel Management

JANUARY 28, 2025

With a new focus on global market diversification, the three-year pipeline over 285 new hotels and almost 47,000 keys will see the addition of more than 100 properties in Asia, more than 60 in the Middle East and Africa, and 40 in Australia and New Zealand.

Closing

Hotel Business

JUNE 12, 2025

hotel industry maintains a steady development pipeline, though current activity reflects a more cautious approach amid near-term challenges. Hotel Construction Pipeline Trend Report, the total pipeline has expanded to 6,376 projects encompassing 749,561 rooms—representing a 5% increase in projects and 7% growth in rooms compared to Q1 2024.

Pipeline

Hotel Management

JULY 3, 2025

Trent Conroy, Choice Hotels The Australasian greenfield development market continues to witness feasibility challenges, with elevated construction costs, inflation, and tighter lending conditions dampening new supply pipelines. We’re actively working with investors to unlock value in these markets.

ROI

Hotel Designs

APRIL 28, 2025

The brands current pipeline includes three under-construction hotels totalling over 600 rooms that are anticipated to open by mid-2026, with the prospect of significant additional growth across Marriotts global regions over the next decade. Europe, and Asia Pacific, including gateway cities like New York, London, Paris, and Rome.

Branding

Hotel Business

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The company also announced that it has acquired the Ruby brand and related intellectual property from Ruby SARL for an initial purchase consideration of approximately $116 million. IHG expects to expand the brand globally, including the Americas. RevPAR up 1.7% for the year, accelerating from 0.6% in the first half to 2.6%

Branding

Hotel Business

APRIL 28, 2025

Marriott International has reached an agreement to acquire the lifestyle, select-service brand citizenM. At closing of the transaction, Marriott will pay $355 million to acquire the brand and related intellectual property. “I envisage this relationship will greatly enhance citizenM’s global reach and brand impact. .

Branding

Hotel Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

I am excited to return to the Accor family and work with these much-loved brands, said Fraser. Joining the Sofitel, Sofitel Legend, MGallery, and Emblems brands gives me the opportunity to bring this experience to some of the Pacifics most iconic luxury properties.

Pipeline

Hotel Business

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

growth in international markets. “Marriott achieved excellent results in 2024, as we delivered best-in-class experiences that helped drive strong demand for our industry-leading portfolio of brands,” said Anthony Capuano, president/CEO, Marriott. . & Canada and 7.2% from year-end 2023. to more than 1.7 & Canada.

Market

Hotel Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

IHG Hotels and Resorts is set to introduce its Voco hotel brand to the Sunshine Coast under an agreement with Sydney-based developer Felix Capital, as the region gears up for the arrival of the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Resorts

Hotel Management

JUNE 26, 2025

Marriott International’s Fiji-based Area General Manager and Vice President Pacific Islands, Neeraj Chadha, discusses hotel performance and future opportunities in market. Neeraj Chadha, Marriott International Tell us a bit about Marriott International’s Fiji portfolio to date and any pipeline properties.

Pipeline

Social Hospitality

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Brands are always looking for new ways to create leads and close sales. Let’s dive into why they’re so helpful, select the best for your brand, and build long-term partnerships that provide continuous results. This can also further increase a brand’s reach without always having to blow the budget.

Branding

Hotel Speak

JANUARY 15, 2025

OTAs increase their bids on branded searches when they know they can offer travelers the best price. This in turn pushes up the cost per click for the hotels when bidding on their own branded search results. While these platforms help hoteliers reach a wider audience, abandoning rate integrity sacrifices marketing spend and profit.

Cost Per Click

Lodging

JUNE 10, 2025

LONDON—IHG Hotels & Resorts (IHG) celebrated the milestone of 100 open hotels for its voco brand within seven years. In 2023, voco had 100 open and pipeline hotels, and […] The post IHG’s voco hotels Reaches 100 Open Hotels appeared first on LODGING Magazine.

Pipeline

Hotel Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Bagley joins from Choice Hotels Asia-Pac, where he recently served as Franchise Development Manager, successfully expanding the brands portfolio and contributing to significant revenue growth. At Kelsian Group, he played a key role in tourism product development understanding customer needs and developing market-driven products.

General Manager

BCV

JULY 21, 2025

If your marketing team is working hard—but struggling to move the needle—it’s not a work ethic issue. The modern hotel marketing team is overburdened, under-integrated, and way too dependent on vendors who can’t prove ROI. 44% of marketers want to reduce time spent on campaign optimization, reporting, and tracking.

Market

Hotel Management

APRIL 21, 2025

IHG is set to introduce its fastest growing premium brand, Voco, to the Northern Territory for the first time under a partnership with JH Group. Were thrilled to welcome John Halikos and the JH Group to our IHG community, as together we bring the Voco hotels brand to Darwin, he said.

Hotels

Preno

JULY 15, 2025

LONDON — Hilton has retained its position as the world’s most valuable hotel brand for the 10th-consecutive year, according to the latest report by Brand Finance. Hilton’s brand value increased 30 per cent to USD$15.1 billion,” says Henry Farr, director, Brand Finance. Marriott (up 20 per cent to USD$3.8 out of 100.

Branding

eHotelier

JULY 16, 2025

The 130 room ANA Holiday Inn Kobe Sanda, currently The Celecton Premier Kobe Sanda Hotel, and the 126 room ANA Holiday Inn Tosu, currently, Hotel Bientos, will both undergo extensive renovations and convert to the much-loved Holiday Inn brand in 2026. Suppliers Research Podcast Careers Events All Insights Podcasts eLearning Tech.Ex

Branding

Hotel Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The latest signings add over 560 rooms to Hiltons South East Asia portfolio, joining a pipeline of 28 mid-market openings in the coming years. Hilton plans to more than triple its focused service footprint in the region in the coming years, with a focus on Hilton Garden Inn as well as other mid-market branded hotels, from 12 to 40.

Dining

Hotel Designs

MARCH 26, 2025

The brand continues to deliver unique, authentic stay experiences across new destinations worldwide. She later brought her expertise to Hiltons supply management, leading strategic initiatives that enhanced brand engagement, responsible sourcing, and marketing efforts.

Pipeline

Hotel Business

JUNE 10, 2025

IHG Hotels & Resorts (IHG) has reached the  milestone of 100 open hotels for its voco brand since it launched in 2018. The brand has more than 95 hotels in the pipeline. The brand has more than 95 hotels in the pipeline. “We She added, “We’re now open in more than 25 countries, from the U.K.

Branding

Hotel Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

With a development pipeline of nearly half a million rooms, we are confident that we are well positioned to deliver net unit growth between 6% and 7% in 2025.” During the quarter, the company continued to expand its portfolio in the Asia-Pacific market, surpassing 1,000 hotels in the region. 31, 2023 Diluted EPS was $2.06

Pipeline

Hotel Business

MARCH 26, 2025

By Ryan Bosch Ask any hotel developer today, and youll hear the same thing: the market is tough. For those who understand how to navigate this kind of market, this may be one of the best windows in years to get a deal off the ground. While plenty of projects remain in the pipeline, very few are actually moving forward.

Market

Hotel Business

MAY 1, 2025

Net rooms growth was 10.5% “In the face of growing volatility in the economy and financial markets, we continue to deliver strong performance, highlighted by our first quarter results,” said Mark S. We are excited about the momentum in our pipeline and the continued strong demand we’re seeing for our brands around the world.”

Real Estate

Hotel Management

JULY 13, 2025

During her time at Accor, Couton has held several senior roles across loyalty, digital marketing, distribution and commercial B2B, most recently serving as Managing Director, Asia Pacific, at D-EDGE, a distribution, technology and digital marketing platform for the hotel industry. “I’m

Digital Marketing

Hotel Designs

JULY 23, 2025

Patrick Fitzgibbon, senior vice president, development, Europe, Middle East & Africa, Hilton, said, “We’re delighted to be collaborating with M&L Group to introduce the Waldorf Astoria brand to Finland. As we near 300 luxury hotels in EMEA, it’s fantastic to have signed our first in the Nordics.

Hotels

Hotel Business

MAY 8, 2025

excluding the Ruby brand acquisition, compared to 17.7K in the same quarter last year; global pipeline of 334K rooms (2,265 hotels), +9.4% year-on-year increase in our pipeline. rooms across 30 hotels from our acquisition in February of premium urban lifestyle brand, Ruby. and occupancy +0.6% YOY, +1.5% YTD; opened 14.6K

Pipeline

Hotel Speak

MAY 5, 2025

Instead of planning time-consuming shoots or relying on generic stock photos, you can generate tailored, on-brand visuals in minutes. These AI-enhanced images can be used across your marketing channels: social media posts, email campaigns, digital ads, in-house screens, and more.

Hotels

Hotel Business

DECEMBER 20, 2024

All three hotels reside in prime real estate locations within urban, high barrier-to-entry markets with strong demand drivers, according to the company. We are looking forward to bringing our vision and creativity to the ZaZa brand, building on what was started. Stay tuned as we execute our plan and create an exciting future for ZaZa.

Real Estate

eHotelier

JUNE 30, 2025

Scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2029, this signing reinforces IHG’s commitment to strengthen presence in high-growth markets across India, catering to the needs of both business and leisure travelers.

Resorts

Hotel Designs

MARCH 27, 2025

Six Senses was chosen to introduce a 70-key hotel and 58 branded residences as part of a holistic, enriching, and harmonious way of life that blends the timeless appeal of nature and community with the Six Senses hospitality ethos and signature offerings.

Resorts

Hotel Business

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

“In 2024, we also successfully relaunched four brands, substantially expanded our partnerships business, significantly increased our international footprint, achieved record organic rewards program growth and unlocked new value through additional ancillary revenue opportunities. Global pipeline as of Dec. Repurchased 3.1

Ancillary Revenue

Hotel Business

MAY 8, 2025

“Our unique positioning has enabled us to outperform our peers, gain market share and emerge stronger even in periods of economic uncertainty. compared to March 31, 2024, and the segment’s pipeline reached to more than 40,000 rooms as of March 31, 2025. compared to March 31, 2024, and its pipeline increased by 13% from Dec.

Pipeline

Hospitality Today

JULY 23, 2025

Pipeline expansion: Hilton’s development pipeline now exceeds 510,000 rooms, with new projects announced in Helsinki, Bali, New Delhi, Singapore, and more. Full-year projection: Hilton expects full-year 2025 RevPAR to be flat to up 2%.

Pipeline