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July 29, 2015

This Apartment Travels From Tokyo To Paris In An Instant | fastcodesign.com

It starts as a blank white room. A white bed. A white comforter. A white table. A white couch. But moments later, thanks to the magic of a few projectors, the space gets all new materials, finishes, and decor, taking you to Bali, Tokyo, Penang, or Paris—where you can even look out the window and see the Eiffel Tower. The project was a promotion by Airbnb Singapore to celebrate the romance of traveling to various homes and cultures around the world.

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July 10, 2015

Virgin’s First Hotel Got Rid of Everything We Hate About Hotels | yahoo.com

Everyone who works at the new Virgin Hotel is impossibly chic ... but in an incredibly accessible sort of way. Let’s start with the minibar. It’s a very good place to start. In all my years of visiting hotels for both business and pleasure, the minibar has become a true source of discontent. While they’re handy in a pinch, the amount of egregious price gouging that occurs in those diminutive refrigerators is criminal.

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Chicago, Illinois, United States

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June 2, 2015

Starwood launches new lifestyle concept rooms | hoteliermiddleeast.com

Starwood Hotels & Resorts has launched its next generation designs for its lifestyle select brands, Aloft, Element and Four Points. Each design brings something different: Aloft hotels will be serviced by new robot butler called Botlr; Element rooms will have smart floor tiles, mapping out a gentle lighting path for guests going to the bathroom during the night; while Four Points’ new concept will have smart mirrors with news headlines and weather forecasts.

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June 2, 2015

5 Outrageous Luxury Hotels Now Underway | forbes.com

Scores of luxury hotels debut all over the globe each year. And though every shiny new development strives to shatter the industry’s gold standard in terms of services and amenities, some aim to stand out from the pack in a far more daring way, putting up highly ostentatious fronts—bold architectural masks crafted out of ingenuity and ambition, glazed with a touch of crazy. The following soon-to-be lodges—from a waterfront resort meant to emulate the shape of microscopic sea creatures, to a flashy new “coconut” ripening in Dubai—defy design conventions to the extreme, showcasing whimsical, outré shells unlike any other.

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April 2, 2015

Interview with Carl Michel, Executive Chairman at Generator | hospitality-on.com

Carl was appointed executive chairman of Patron Generator Holding Ltd in summer 2011. He led the rebranding work and has been involved in the rapid roll-out of the Generator hostels platform. He is also on the board of Stay Wyse, the industry association covering youth accommodation providers. He has extensive leadership experience in a number of consumer oriented businesses, having been a chief executive of Holidaybreak plc and commercial director of British Airways. He has worked extensively in the UK and Germany but also has experience in several other European markets. He was formerly on the board of Comair (South Africa) and Austrian Airlines, and is now chairman of Vive Unique, a managed luxury home rental business in London. His background includes seven years at McKinsey & Co. Carl has an MA from St. John’s College, Oxford and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar. He is an Austrian/British binational.

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March 30, 2015

Hotel giants target tech-savvy millennial travelers | latimes.com

At the latest breed of hotel, rooms are up to one-third smaller than traditional quarters, with furniture that looks fresh from an Ikea showroom.. The work desk is downsized and might double as a nightstand. The Internet speed is super fast. The Wi-Fi is free. Power outlets and USB ports dot the walls, especially near the bed to accommodate binge watching. The target is the millennial traveler, ages 18 to 34, who likes to stay connected online, eat on the run and commune with other millennials.

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March 24, 2015

Chains make room for lifestyle hotels | bdlive.co.za

Driven by the demands of a new plugged-in generation seeking "authentic" travel experiences with a local feel, the world’s biggest hoteliers are moving into a new sector in Europe — the "lifestyle" boutique hotel. After many years focused on baby boomers and business travellers, brands such as Marriott, Hilton, Starwood and InterContinental Hotels Group are paying more attention to the millennials, expected to be the biggest group of hotel customers by 2020.

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March 17, 2015

Hotels for the Next Generation | nytimes.com

Longing for alternatives to the conventional, cookie-cutter hotel? Along with crocuses and daffodils, new specialty chains from major hospitality companies including Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt and Carlson Rezidor will be springing up across the globe in the coming weeks and months. The hotels are what’s known in the industry as “lifestyle” brands: They strive to appeal to the predilections of next-generation travelers. Some are trying to lure millennials (who are defined as between 18 and 34 in 2015, according to the Pew Research Center)) with high-tech lounges, reasonable rates, locally inspired amenities, and grab-and-go meals.

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March 2, 2015

Where did the ideas behind Virgin Hotels come from? | virgin.com

The design of Virgin Hotels Chicago has been widely praised for bringing something new to the industry and offering guests an alternative to the traditional hotel experience. But where do the ideas for a new business come from? We caught up with CEO Raul Leal to find out more about how their ideas were conceived and developed...

Chicago, Illinois, United States

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February 20, 2015

Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson remains bullish on hospitality brands, especially those for millennials | bizjournals.com

With Marriott International's fast pace of growth over the past year, CEO Arne Sorenson was bound to be posed that age-old question: How much is too much? Marriott acquired South Africa-based Protea Hotels as well as Canadian hotelier Delta in the past year, not to mention adding lifestyle brands AC Hotels and Moxy — both of which got their start in Europe — to its portfolio of brands in the U.S. Marriott now operates 18 brands around the world.

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February 3, 2015

Asian hotels: a lesson in design | independent.co.uk

In a new book, Singapore's Wow Architects explain that anything is possible if you incorporate context into the building's form. Spanning an array of countries that are each undergoing varying degrees of economic development and cultural change, the architecture, interior and landscape designs of Wow Architects are driven by a desire to create a sensory experience. An awareness and appreciation of the place, its culture and craftsmanship are achieved through the engagement of the body with the spaces themselves, whose designs rely on memory in the formation of impressions and references by their users and inhabitants.

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January 22, 2015

Interview: SIXTY Hotels CEO Jason Pomeranc on the New Boutique Stay | skift.com

Jason Pomeranc was bred to be a hotelier. He attended university in New York City before joining his father’s real estate firm, which later opened the 60 Thompson hotel in 2001. Pomeranc led what was then one of first trail-blazing boutique hotel groups for the next decade before merging the 12-property brand with the Joie de Vivre chain to create Commune Hotels & Resorts.

New York, New York, United States

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December 22, 2014

Interview: Commune CEO on How Lifestyle Hotels Adapt to Guest Desires | skift.com

Commune Hotels and Resorts is a relatively new hotel company, which formed in 2011 when boutique hotel brand Joie de Vivre merged with luxury lifestyle brand Thompson Hotels. In addition to the two founding brands, Commune recently launched tommie, a value-oriented that combined the luxury and bespoke lifestyle elements of the former brands. Niki Leondakis, the company’s current CEO and one of very few women leading a hotel corporation, joined Commune in 2012 after serving as COO and president of Kimpton Hotels & Restuaurant. Her experience puts her in the center of the lifestyle hotel sector whose growth was evidenced by IHG’s $430 million offer to acquire Kimpton last week.

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December 22, 2014

Hotels revamp guest rooms for Millennial travelers | usatoday.com

When it comes to designing hotel guest rooms for the modern-day business traveler, one piece of furniture is always a matter of debate: the desk. "The Millennial traveler doesn't seem to need to put everything on the desk," says Nigel Hatcher, senior director of Interior Design for Marriott International.

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December 11, 2014

Ian Legend: Hotelier Ian Schrager Talks the Lower East Side, Luxury and Nostalgia | commercialobserver.com

Before he was in the hotel business, Ian Schrager owned the legendary Studio 54 with the late Steve Rubell, a club known for having the most celebrated, the most moneyed, the most glitter-spackled and the most fearless clientele in their ingestion of illegal substances anywhere in the world. Since then, Mr. Schrager went from one form of hospitality to another; he became something of a father figure to the boutique hotel before the concept caught on.

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New York, New York, United States

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December 1, 2014

‘Strange Bedfellows’ Conceive Boutique-Hotel Chain Edition | wsj.com

As hotel impresario Ian Schrager and Marriott International Inc. were putting the finishing touches on their venture’s new Miami property, a dispute broke out over what to do with some extra basement space. Marriott executives suggested conference rooms. Mr. Schrager, co-founder of the glitzy 1970s disco Studio 54, had something else in mind: a backlit ice-skating rink with bikini-clad women gliding across the ice, with floor-to-ceiling windows to attract passersby. Mr. Schrager’s vision for the new high-end hotel brand Edition won out, as it usually has in the often-erratic collaboration between tradition-minded Marriott and the man credited with starting the boutique-hotel craze.

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November 25, 2014

Latest trend in Las Vegas is boutique hotels | reviewjournal.com

Boutique hotels have been sprouting up across the Las Vegas Valley and there could be more soon. Chris Komanowski, vice president of commercial real estate brokerage CBRE, said the rise in boutique hotels could mark a new trend. “Our market is underserved and people see an opportunity,” Komanowski said. “In the last 10 to 15 years, the boutique space really became a viable segment that a lot of the Marriotts and Hiltons realized they want to be in that growth arena as well.”

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Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

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November 12, 2014

Hotels Think Small | wsj.com

Microhotels are hot in Manhattan, and operators hope they will play in the rest of America, too. Emerging hotel brands like Yotel, the Pod Hotel and CitizenM Hotels have been a big hit with travelers to global capitals like New York in recent years, stacking up hundreds of scale-downed rooms, focusing on design and turning lobbies into social hubs.

New York, New York, United States

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October 15, 2014

The world's 10 most amazing design hotels | theguardian.com

With the opening of the oval-shaped Yanqi Lake hotel in Beijing next month – one that resembles a glowing shell – we take a look at the most creatively designed hotels you can stay in around the world

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September 11, 2014

Andre Balazs: Hospitality's Revolutionary | papermag.com

The hospitality world was never the same after André Balazs converted the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood in the early '90s and opened the Mercer Hotel in New York in 1998. When he launched his first Standard Hotel, that same year, he pioneered the idea of super cool affordable hotels, which has now taken the world by storm.

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