From Paris Fashion Week, W Hotels Worldwide, the hotel category buster and industry innovator, tonight celebrates an industry first, the appointment of international stylist and fashion authority Amanda Ross as the brand’s first ever Global Fashion Director. For more than 10 years, W has continually broken new ground through innovative and first-of-its-kind fashion initiatives and programs. As W ...

The Boutique & Lifestyle segment has emerged through a maze of big brands and frequent guest programs to become a prominent lodging category, highly sought after by consumers and investors alike. We recently met with FRANCES KIRADJIAN, Founder & Chair of the BOUTIQUE & LIFESTYLE LODGING ASSOCIATION, who answers some basic questions and then takes us on an extended tour of the segment.

Joie de Vivre is California's largest boutique hotel management company, operating nearly 40 boutique hotels, including a luxury lodging camp resort. The portfolio comprises a total of 4,500 guestrooms, including five spas and twenty distinctive restaurants. Joie de Vivre's growth strategy focuses on market penetration, to become the one-stop hospitality provider in California by creating multipl...

YOTEL, the revolutionary hotel concept, is today announcing that it will open for business in New York City with a property featuring 669 stylish cabins. This will mark the first YOTEL opening outside of its current international airport locations and make it the largest hotel opening in New York in 2011.

The Gansevoort South hotel in Miami Beach is under new management -- and the founders aren't happy. William and Michael Achenbaum, the father-and-son New York developers who opened the Gansevoort in 2008, lost the 334-room hotel to the lender three weeks ago.

Design Hotels™, an international hotel marketing company, announces 36 new member hotels, increasing its membership to 184 hotels worldwide. In 2009, less than 10% of the hotels applying for membership were accepted.

W Hotels Worldwide, the hotel category buster and industry innovator, recaptures the spirit of Hollywood glamour with the unveiling of W Hollywood Hotel & Residences. Located at the historic intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine, this $350 million complex, developed by Gatehouse Capital and owned in a joint venture by HEI Hotels & Resorts and Gatehouse Capital, in affiliation with the Los ...

Putting a new spin on the term "designer hotel," boutique chain W Hotels is hiring a fashion director to amp up its style credentials and its profile within the fashion industry. After a two-year search, the chain is planning to announce next week—on Feb. 11, the opening day of New York Fashion Week—that it has hired stylist Amanda Ross in what is very likely a first for the hotel industry. W Hot...

LG Hausys Surfaces and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) are now announcing the official call for entries for the 2010 LG Hausys Surfaces Student Design Challenge with Aloft℠ Hotels. The contest challenges students throughout North America to design solid surface innovations for the hospitality industry, capturing the theme “where life happens.“ Contestants are encouraged to u...

We could one day be spending our holidays in a gigantic vertical airship that floats thousands of meters above ground if a design concept by Seymourpowell becomes reality. The project dubbed the Aircruise is a radical new design that promises to accommodate guests in a 265-meter tall hotel that could float above city skylines or over dramatic landscapes.