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November 22, 2019

Encounter with designer Greg Keffer

Greg Keffer, Designer at the Rockwell Group, handled the design of the lobby, reception area and F&B spaces during the refurbishment of the Fairmont Royal York in Toronto. Today, he tells us about his collaboration with our Design & Technical Services teams. These days, design is crucial and cannot be overlooked. It encourages interaction with guests and creates a unique identity specific to each hotel, whilst staying true to their brand. If you thought design was all about looks, Accor proves you wrong with the expert help of Greg Keffer, Designer.

Toronto, Canada

November 14, 2019

Louvre Hotels Group Raises The Curtain On A Redesigned Room For Its Upscale Golden Tulip Brand

After reinventing the client experience at its international Golden Tulip brand in 2016, Louvre Hotels Group now launches the new room, pursuing its endeavors to meet the needs of clients, investors and operational teams. This new product is the brainchild of the group's Marketing and Design teams. They drew their inspiration from the brand's Dutch roots, leveraging light and space to create a feeling of comfort and a complete change of scene

Louvre Hotels Group

November 13, 2019

All Suites Brands by Hilton Third-Quarter Growth Fueled by Innovative Design

Boosted by innovative building models and design, Embassy Suites by Hilton, Homewood Suites by Hilton and Home2 Suites by Hilton, together forming the All Suites brands by Hilton, collectively opened 26 properties in the third quarter of 2019. These openings included six new multi-brand hotels, an adaptive reuse and Homewood Suites by Hilton's first Caribbean location featuring its unique Caribbean and Latin American (CALA) prototype. With 80 new properties opened thus far in 2019, the All Suites brands enter Q4 with a portfolio of more than 1,100 opened hotels and nearly 600 in the pipeline.

November 1, 2019

Keio Plaza Hotel Tama Commemorates the 5th Anniversary of “Hello Kitty Room” - Special Presents for Guests Staying in Our Sanrio Character Rooms, Special Promotional Videos Launched

The Keio Plaza Hotel Co., Ltd., one of Japan's most prestigious international hotel companies operating hotels in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo and other locations, is proud to announce that our Keio Plaza Hotel Tama will celebrate the 5th anniversary of its operation of "Hello Kitty Rooms" with special services and presents provided to our guests. As part of this celebration, we will also launch new promotional videos showcasing our Sanrio character rooms.

Keio Plaza Hotel

October 31, 2019

The Grand Summit Hotel Celebrates Multimillion-Dollar Renovation

The Grand Summit Hotel, a historic hotel serving the greater New York area, today celebrated the reopening of 107 renovated guest rooms and suites in its original 1929 building following a multimillion-dollar renovation designed to restore the hotel's traditional glamour while adding "a hip and trendy vibe."

The Grand Summit Hotel

Summit, New Jersey

October 29, 2019

CitizenM And Samuels & Associates Announce Collaboration On New Hotel For Mixed-Use Complex In Boston’s Back Bay Neighborhood

The pioneer of affordable luxury hotels, citizenM today announced plans to launch a new and innovative hotel in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood. The hotel will be part of the new Samuels & Associates-led mixed-use development known as Parcel 12, located at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Newbury Street. The project will include separate office and hotel buildings, which will both be situated above a retail podium adjacent to a stunning new public plaza located over the Massachusetts Turnpike.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

October 28, 2019

Super 8 by Wyndham Unveils ROOM8, Its First-Ever Shared Room Concept

Super 8® by Wyndham, the world's largest economy hotel brand, today unveiled the winning design for its first-ever shared room concept, ROOM8. Developed by Candice Buttars, an undergraduate design student at Utah State University, with support from celebrity interior designer and TV personality Alison Victoria, the concept reimagines the traditional hotel suite in an effort to accommodate a new generation of road trippers who thrive in communal spaces.

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October 25, 2019

Hello, new hotels! From Asia to America, it’s been a very good year for citizenM so far.

Four new hotels. Three continents. One year. Yep, 2019 has been a big deal for citizenM. We landed in Kuala Lumpur, Amsterdam, Zurich and Boston. The schedule was our most ambitious yet, but we knocked it out of the park.

October 24, 2019

The Luxury Collection Unveils Limited-Edition Travel Sets By Cult-Favorite Cashmere Brand Lingua Franca

The Luxury Collection® Hotels & Resorts today unveiled an exclusive line of cashmere travel sets in collaboration with Rachelle Hruska MacPherson and her coveted cashmere clothing brand, Lingua Franca.

October 23, 2019

Preferred Hotels & Resorts Declares “Independent is Everything” with Launch of Independent Hotel Day

Preferred Hotels & Resorts, the world's largest independent hotel brand, declared yesterday as Independent Hotel Day to celebrate and raise awareness of authentic and unique hotels around the world. This global movement coincides with the release of a recent HVS study that showcases the extent to which independent hotels thrive in the areas of RevPAR penetration growth and ADR - while benefiting from significant cost savings - when affiliating with Preferred, a result of the brand's industry-leading performance.

October 8, 2019

7Pines Kempinski: 12.18. Group and Kempinski Hotels AG Jointly Develop Luxury Lifestyle Concept as Part of Strategic Partnership

Duesseldorf-based 12.18. Group and Kempinski Hotels AG today announced the launch of their luxury lifestyle concept 7Pines Kempinski. The two partners have joined forces to create one of the leading lifestyle hotel products in the luxury segment.

September 26, 2019

The Design Hotels™ Book 2020

Berlin - Over the past quarter-century, Design Hotels™ has been at the vanguard of a disruptive movement in the travel industry, curating a global collection of independent, design-led hotels that reject singular definition to function as transformative social hubs. Spread across 242 destinations, the hotels are united in their unwavering commitment to uncommon aesthetics, transcendent neighborhood culture, and uncompromising, original experiences that defy conventional notions of luxury. In recognition of the collective's 25th anniversary, the release of the 2020 edition of The Design Hotels™ Bookmarks an innovative new editorial and artistic direction for the design anthology, created in collaboration with some of the world's leading photographers. Centering on the concept of New Perspectives, an evocative series of photo essays and reportage provides an individualized look at 25 trailblazing member hotels that are rewriting the narrative of modern hospitality.

September 26, 2019

Crowne Plaza® Paris – Republique is first in Europe to offer new Plaza Workspace

Crowne Plaza® Hotels & Resorts unveils its new public space design for the first time in Europe at Crowne Plaza® Paris - Republique. The transformed lobby and public spaces, called 'Plaza Workspace', are the future direction for the brand globally. The newly launched spaces at Crowne Plaza® Paris - Republique have been designed in collaboration with leading global design studio Conran + Partners. The hotel has maintained its unique nineteenth-century architectural features, whilst re-thinking its public spaces, approach to guest service, and food and drink offering to ensure it meets the needs of today's society, who are blurring the lines between business and leisure.

September 19, 2019

Best Loved Hotels Launch Strategic Global Hotel Alliance On Lanyon And Nexus

Best Loved Hotels, recently acquired by HotelREZ, has launched its new Global Hotel Alliance via Lanyon and Nexus World Services. The programme will provide hotels access to Best Loved Hotels' extensive high net worth customer base, driving incremental business through both bestloved.com and its GDS enabled programme and agency partner base.

Siren Communications

September 19, 2019

Mix & Match! Accor's Aparthotels Adagio launched its very own apartment decoration project

Aparthotels Adagio has launched its very own apartment decoration project. Its trusted ally for this new adventure? Maisons du Monde, its partner and famous interior design brand. The services of a hotel, the comfort of an apartment, a neat and modern decoration... We love it!

September 17, 2019

Boutique & Lifestyle Leaders Association (BLLA) Soft- Launches New Websites and Programs for Members

BLLA, the official association of the world's boutique hotels, is re-energizing and extending its leading brand with the debut of two bold websites offering a host of benefits and enhanced features for hotel members and boutique-loving customers. Continuing to successfully reinvent and expand the global boutique experience, BLLA has launched Stay-Boutique.com which offers the first-ever Master List of the world's authentic boutique and lifestyle hotels that are bookable on the site, along with integrated City Guides showcasing boutique businesses.

September 13, 2019

The Loft: Our New Mobile Hotel Prototype!

At Accor, the Innovation Lab is constantly pushing back the boundaries to offer new experiences to meet our guests' every need. The Lab's teams observe trends, design solutions and act as catalysts for in-house innovation, and now reveal their latest creation: The Loft, a nomadic accommodation concept, building on the success of the existing Flying Nest proposition!

September 6, 2019

HotelREZ Continues Expansion And Growth With Strategic Acquisition Of Best Loved Hotels

HotelREZ, one of the world's leading hotel representation companies, today completed the acquisition of Best Loved Hotels (https://www.bestloved.com/) from the Great British Hotel Company Ltd. for an undisclosed sum. This strategic move is a milestone in HotelREZ's continued global expansion and move into the luxury soft brand sector.

HotelREZ Hotels & Resorts

August 23, 2019

Howard Johnson by Wyndham Creates a “Sweet Escape” with New York’s First-Ever All-Candy Hotel Room

Howard Johnson® by Wyndham today celebrated its largest design-refresh in more than 25 years, giving New Yorkers a "sweet-peek" at its new hotel rooms via a one-of-a-kind, candy-inspired, pop-up event sure to put a smile on the faces of travelers of all ages.

New York, United States

August 8, 2019

Why Hotels Are Designing Picture-Perfect Spaces

Finding images of the Qasr Al Sarab Desert Resort in Abu Dhabi rising like a mirage out of the expansive desert aren’t hard to find. The hotel, with its fortress-like structure and stunning pools, has been named World’s Most Instagrammable Hotel for 2019 LuxuryTravelAdvisor.com.

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