Growing numbers of historic buildings in the UK are now enjoying a second life as high-end and mid-range hotels. Former mansion Cliveden House, near Windsor, was once home to royalty while Roch Castle, in Wales, has been given a boutique-style makeover and Solent Forts, near Portsmouth, offers an off-shore stay with a difference at former sea-based defences.
The Healing Summit, an initiative created by the Healing Hotels of the World, has announced an agenda full of world-class speakers for the 2019 conference, set to take place 6-7 May at the Pine Cliffs Resort in Portugal.
Booking is now live for the programme for the first continental European edition of the Independent Hotel Show. Taking place at the RAI Amsterdam, an attractive, substantive and innovative programme compliments the 120 specialist exhibitors, making it well worth the trip!
Design has long been important to the hotel industry as a way to attract new guests and turn them into repeat visitors.
What do you look for in a hotel interior? A calming color scheme? Crisp white sheets?Or what about wallpaper festooned with sausages, bratwurst-shaped cushions and IRL sausages hanging from hooks on the wall?Welcome to Boebel Bratwurst Bed and Breakfast, in the small village of Rittersbach near Nuremberg, Germany, which lays claim to being the world's first sausage hotel.Many -- including, but not limited to, vegetarians and vegans -- might rather not know how the sausage gets made. But for those curious about this meaty motel, proprietor Claus Boebel filled CNN Travel in on the in(nards) and outs of his unusual inn.
Leading luxury hotel brand InterContinental® Hotels & Resorts has partnered with London-based contemporary artist Alexander Hall, also known under the alias Haut de Gamme©, to create a stunning art installation, commemorating 200 properties around the world.
The French family behind Club Med, the ubiquitous all-inclusive vacation resorts, has a growing hospitality venture that doesn't involve ski slopes or seashores, but rather cityscapes and skylines.
Jacques Garcia is not personally in the business of seduction.
Sleep, which is recognised around the world as Europe's leading and uniquely curated hotel design and development event, has announced the next stage in its evolution. This year it becomes Sleep + Eat, recognising the growing interdependence of restaurants, bars and hotels in creating the full hospitality (design) experience. The event will also be relocating to the National Hall in Olympia, enhancing the visitor experience thanks to the hall's accessible, open-plan environment. Sleep + Eat will take place on Tuesday 20 - Wednesday 21 November 2018.
The UK's country house scene is having a moment. Where once many of these stately homes-turned-hotels offered little more than too much chintz, tired rooms and overblown, fussy service, these days innovative hoteliers are putting in place a new vision to refresh their historic rooms. The result is the opening of a new batch of glorious properties to entice a modern-day traveller.
'Game of Thrones' may return in 2019 but the winter is already here for the fans of the HBO epic fantasy drama who can now have a freezing experience in a new hotel that has opened in Finland, inspired by the show.
London is a city that has always had an abundance of hotels, especially in the high end luxury market, and so it may seem like an impossible feat to build a property that stands out in such a market. However, some of the newer offerings that are currently in London's project pipeline are poised to do just that.
Arctic travel experts at Off the Map Travel announce the new line-up for the ICEHOTEL's 2018 Art Suite designs. Guests at the ICEHOTEL in Jukkasjärvi will now have new options to overnight in space, next to King Kong or in an Alice in Wonderland-style fairytale in Art Suites by sleeping in a hanging installation (Hang in There), sleeping next to a huge ice Fabergé egg (Last Faberge Egg), being transported into a garden and entering the world of giant ice snails (Ground Rules), or staying in a dreamscape named Wandering Cloud. All suites are entirely made of ice. The ICEHOTEL in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden is the world's first hotel made entirely of ice and snow: the amount of snow used to create the hotel rooms is enough to make 700 million snowballs and chandeliers are made of 1,000 hand-polished ice crystals.
With one of Russia's most exciting contemporary artists as its patron and an enviable collection of modern art, StandArt Hotel Moscow has quickly established itself as a stylish hub for the capital's creative scene. The Design Hotels™ member hotel's crown is showing no sign of slipping with its latest cultural initiative, offering exclusive masterclasses with Original Stanislav Tratsevskiy at his personal studio. www.designhotels.com/standart-hotel-moscow
Offering 170 rooms, 25hours Hotel Langstrasse is the brainchild of the Zürich architects from E2A. The design plays with the contrasts between the banking and red-light districts, art and commerce. The people behind the interior design were Werner Aisslinger and his team, who had already given the 25hours Hotel Bikini Berlin its unmistakeable look. Like in the first 25hours Hotel in Zürich West, guests can look forward to culinary delights from the eclectically eastern Mediterranean cuisine served up by Haya Molcho and her family in their restaurant NENI. In the adjacent Cinchona Bar, which was developed in collaboration with Hamburg bar pioneer Jörg Meyer, the focus is on highballs and fortified wines.
One of the main trends in tourist and hotel business is the idea of unique and inspiring holiday experience that largely depends on the hotel and its location. More and more tourists choose small luxury hotels with sophisticated history, original design, exceptional room decoration and unmatched service. These are known as boutique hotels.
Louvre Hotels Group (LHG), one of the largest hospitality groups in the world, has announced the re-launch of its Golden Tulip brand, as part of an initiative to roll out new-age hotels that are more lifestyle-oriented and better suited to meet the needs of today's travelers. To support the re-launch of the four-star brand, Louvre Hotels investing in the renovation and rebranding of Golden Tulip hotels – including those in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
The expansion of prizeotel continues through the joint venture with The Rezidor Hotel Group. The group is proud to announce a new prizeotel near the Munich Airport in the Hallbergmoos municipality. prizeotel Munich Airport will open in early 2019. Karim Rashid, the renowned New York based designer and the brand curator, will once again showcase his 'designocrasy' at the new prizeotel.
To stand out hotels must have more than a pretty face. Yet creating a great concept is not an easy task. Here are a few insights on the challenges and pitfalls of hotel concept development.
Holiday Inn Northampton West, part of the Splendid Hospitality Group, has been transformed and revitalised thanks to a £2million makeover. The hotel, located just a 2-minute drive from the M1, now boasts 66 newly decorated rooms and a stunning Open Lobby design in the hotel's reception area.