On January 17, the 175 attendees of the first Cornell International Hospitality Summit India had the unique opportunity to hear from India's leading hospitality executives as they discussed the most important issues facing the country's travel and tourism industry. The summit was SHA's first major industry event in Asia and was co-presented by the Center for Hospitality Research (CHR). Taj Hotels...

Hyatt Hotels Corporation (NYSE: H) announced today that a Hyatt affiliate has entered into agreements with Naseel Holding Company to manage three new Hyatt-branded hotels in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. With the addition of these three new hotel agreements, there are six Hyatt-branded hotels under development in Saudi Arabia across five of Hyatt's brands. Currently, there is one Hyatt-branded hot...

Marriott International (NYSE:MAR) today announced three new hotels will join its portfolio in Europe, each to feature the innovative new European design model for the upper-moderate Courtyard by Marriott brand.

Asia is insulated from Europe’s current economic woes – isn’t it ? To find out how several Asian and Pa cific markets will likely fare in 2012, we turned to HORWATH HTL, whose consultants sprang into action and produced the following situation reports and outlooks covering twelve countries from the UAE to Australia, and several points in between.

Our regional outlook continues with a look at key markets in the Western hemisphere. HORWATH HTL has provided an in-depth look at the prospects for 2012 in the USA, Brazil and the Caribbean. The economy of the United States is the world’s largest national economy. Its nominal GDP was estimated to be nearly $14.7 trillion in 2010, approximately a quarter of nominal global GDP. The US economy has b...

According to HORWATH HTL, 2012 will be a year of uneven recovery across Europe – unless the financial, fiscal and Euro crisis worsens substantially, in which case all bets are off. To get an idea of the outlook in key markets across the continent, The Hotel Yearbook asked 11 different offices of Horwath’s international network to contribute their professional assessment of where we are and where ...

Z Soho is a designer conversion of twelve Georgian townhouses in central London. Billed as the designer label without the designer price tag, the 85-room hotel is the first in a planned chain of strategically located properties and opened its doors in November 2011.

The Cornell University School of Hotel Administration (SHA) is launching a new hospitality marketing course in collaboration with Sabre Hospitality Solutions, a leading global hospitality technology and marketing company. SHA faculty and Sabre executives have co-developed the content for HADM 6471: Hospitality Marketing with Evolving Media: Social, Mobile, and Search, which will be offered for th...

OTRUM's Marketing Module has been in operation since 2009, with a target audience of more than 2 million hotel guests annually. Today there are over 115 hotels using OTRUM's marketing tools to communicate, promote and advertise hotel services direct to the guest room.

Recent research suggests that a high number of graduates in the UK are unhappy with the amount of responsibility given to them in their first job. A poll by UKSP, a careers website specialising in hotel recruitment, revealed that 36% of those who have graduated in the last five years were “disappointed” with the low levels of responsibility that they were given in their first job. This has led t...