Model T Fords used to roll across the floors of a vast, century-old building that now houses contemporary art and hotel guests.
Wriggling youngsters once occupied a former YMCA gymnasium, where wedding attendees and corporate cornhole champions today take advantage of a unique hotel event space. Once devoted to beer, a new brewery-turned-hotel quenches 21st-century thirsts on several levels.
With so many iconic cities and diverse landscapes, beautiful hotels in the United States are a dime a dozen. But some are, quite simply, more beautiful than others. From rustic alpine lodges in the Rocky Mountains to sleek beachfront resorts in Miami, we've handpicked 20 of America's most beautiful hotels.
In 2015, Britons made up only 4% of the workforce in the country's catering and hospitality sectors. Britain's vote in favour of leaving the European Union could have a huge impact on the country's hospitality and catering sectors, with EU employees at risk of losing their jobs if the UK opposes freedom of labour movement.
The hospitality and tourism sector is the fourth-largest employer in the UK, with 10% of the workforce employed in 180,000 businesses, including independent restaurants, major hotel chains and visitor attractions.
Brexit has sent shockwaves across the hospitality industry, but operators attending the British Hospitality Association’s (BHA) Hospitality and Tourism Summit have been urged to embrace change and see the potential positives.
Airbnb is taking its beef with the city of San Francisco to court. The short-term rental company filed suit today over a new law that requires Airbnb to verify that its hosts have registered with the city before showing ads for their homes online. The suit aims to block the law from going into effect as scheduled on August 1. San Francisco legislators passed the law earlier this month in an effort to combat the housing crisis in the city, but Airbnb and technology advocacy groups argue that the new rules violate the Communications Decency Act.
With summer near, beach hotels are on our mind. Well, they always are, but especially now. A spate of new coastal hotels are opening in time for this weekend's Memorial Day holiday -- the unofficial launch of summer in the United States. Here are six of the best in the United States.
Marriott International Inc.’s acquisition of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Inc. was challenged by the owners of hotels in Chicago and New York who say the merger would violate exclusivity agreements. Cityfront Hotel Associates Limited Partners, the owner of the Sheraton Grand Chicago, and Dream Team Hotel Associates LLC, which owns the Westin Times Square in New York, sued Marriott and Starwood in New York state court Tuesday, arguing the merger would unfairly eat into their business. Sheraton and Westin are units of Starwood. The lawsuit seeks to block Marriott and Starwood from taking steps to finalize the purchase.
With so many iconic cities and diverse landscapes, beautiful hotels in Europe are commonplace. But some are, quite simply, more beautiful than others. From clifftop luxury retreats on Italy's Amalfi Coast to art nouveau masterpieces in the heart of Budapest, we've handpicked Europe's 20 most beautiful hotels.
As the number of online hotel bookings continues to increase, so does the rate of booking scams. A study released in 2015 by the American Hotel & Lodging Association found that around 15 million hotel bookings are affected by deceptive rogue affiliates each year. That translates to roughly $1.3 billion going to fake bookings annually. The study, which was conducted by GfK Custom Research, included 1,1017 interviews conducted among adults age 18 and over. Fraudulent websites and call centers will often mimic an affiliation with a certain hotel, when they in fact have no relation.
A guide to the best five-star hotels in Rome, featuring the top places to stay for glamorous interiors, great views, Michelin-starred dining and pampering service.
Want to drop 80% of the average U.S. annual income in one night? Or maybe get some shuteye where Bill Clinton and Pavarotti have previously laid their heads (on separate occasions)? The Middle East's most opulent hotel suites can deliver. With acres of gold leaf and chandeliers at every turn, there's opulence and decor to make Liberace blush. Throw in Jacuzzis, cinemas, butlers and fine dining, and those cavernous 12,000-square-foot chambers can soon fill up. Sure the prices are high, but the money buys jaw-dropping views over sights including the Bosphorus, the Gulf of Oman and the world's tallest building. And who knows, the hotels might even throw in a toothbrush for guests who forget theirs. Here are nine of the most extravagant nights that platinum credit cards can buy:
Whether they're in emerging destinations, repurposed embassies and discos or the hippest neighborhoods, the hottest new hotels around the world are creating a lot of buzz.
Conde Nast Traveler picked 60 winners on six continents for its 20th annual HOT List of the world's best new hotels, which was released Wednesday. "We want to steer you to places which offer that push-pull of foreignness and familiarity: comfortable but also defiantly out of your comfort zone," said Pilar Guzmán, the magazine's editor-in-chief. CNN Travel asked Conde Nast Traveler editors to pick a baker's dozen of their favorite properties from the list of 60 hotels, all of which have opened in the last 12 months.
A survey of 800 millionaires by New World Wealth, a firm that analyses the lives of dismayingly rich people, has revealed the five hotels they love staying in most. Ordinary folk, start saving up...
There's nothing like the royal touch for bringing in tourists -- or for providing the glitz needed to be named number one.
It certainly hasn't hurt the Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodphur, India, listed by TripAdvisor as the best hotel in the world in 2016. As in the UK, where the royal family in 2015 brought in tourism revenues of $760 million, India's regal past is also proving profitable. That's a relief for the palace's founding family, who turned to tourism after India's government de-recognized royal titles and ended their privileges in the 1970s. Stripped of an official income, they decided to turn the palace -- originally built between 1928 and 1943 as a private residence for Maharaja Umaid Singh -- into a hotel. But not before almost losing it.
If this week’s Panama Papers revelations have shown anything, it is that rich people will go to great lengths to hide their wealth from tax collectors.
For sharing economy companies like Airbnb, which last raised $100 million at a $25.5 billion valuation, it’s a little more complicated. Airbnb’s strategy on taxes is to pay them, or at least help the homeowners who make use of the service to pay them. The startup wants to legitimize itself with local municipalities, partly as a way to fend off future battles that can get drawn out. At the same time, the company is also shielding some of its corporate profits from tax liabilities through a complicated web of subsidiaries, according to a Bloomberg News story.
Though Singapore may have retained its title as the world's most expensive city for the third consecutive year, other cities like Zurich, Hong, Kong, London and New York are quickly closing the gap. That's according to the latest ranking by The Economist Intelligence Unit's 2016 Worldwide Cost of Living index.
Panelists at the Hospitality Law Conference explained how capital expenditure projects require planning and coordination before and during renovations.
A scant majority of European hotel professionals believe M&A activity and RevPAR would be adversely affected if Great Britain left the European Union. The latest European Hotel Market Survey by international law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner asked 200 hotel professionals from more than 20 countries what they thought about the EU referendum set for June 23 in the U.K., and 54% said Britons should vote against exiting.
Iceland is spectacular, mystical, mythical and beautiful, and tourists in ever higher numbers have discovered this. Is it time to put the brakes on a little? Iceland’s lodging and tourism industry is at a crossroads, if my recent conversations with its movers and shakers are anything to go by.
A statement has been released by Kempinski Hotels SA, which said that the international luxury hotel group has reached an amicable, out-of-court settlement with Reto Wittwer, to resolve their mutual litigation.
The statement issued said that "the unfortunate allegations made in its press statement on November 2, 2015 were unfortunate and should not have been published".
It continued: "Both parties agreed they would put an end to these unfortunate accusations and allegations, and would refrain from any action against each other, once the facts became clear and understood."