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Sonesta Welcomes Laxmi to Its Franchise Portfolio with the Transition of 18 Hotels

Sonesta International Hotels Corporation (Sonesta) today announced the opening of 18 hotels with new franchise partner Laxmi Hotels Group, the first major milestone in the planned sale of 113 managed properties. The successful transition of these So...

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Sonesta Welcomes Laxmi to Its Franchise Portfolio with the Transition of 18 Hotels27 October 2025SonestaFranchise
Sonesta Welcomes Laxmi to Its Franchise Portfolio with the Transition of 18 Hotels
IHG Hotels & Resorts Introduces Ruby to the U.S., Targeting Growth in Urban Micro Segment
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IHG Hotels & Resorts Introduces Ruby to the U.S., Targeting Growth in Urban Micro Segment

IHG Hotels & Resorts (IHG), one of the world’s leading hotel companies, today announces development opportunity availability in the U.S.* for Ruby Hotels (Ruby), its 20th global brand. As the latest addition to its premium collection of brands, Ruby...

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IHG Hotels & Resorts Introduces Ruby to the U.S., Targeting Growth in Urban Micro Segment24 September 2025IHGFranchise
IHG Hotels & Resorts Introduces Ruby to the U.S., Targeting Growth in Urban Micro Segment
American Franchise Act will spur hotel entrepreneurship, AHLA Says
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American Franchise Act will spur hotel entrepreneurship, AHLA Says

The American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA), the leading voice representing all segments of the hotel industry, today shared their support and called for the quick adoption of the bipartisan American Franchise Act (AFA) introduced by Representat...

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American Franchise Act will spur hotel entrepreneurship, AHLA Says12 September 2025AH&LAFranchise
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The Hotel Brands of the World
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The Hotel Brands of the World

About a year ago, I shared the Hotel Brand Pyramid a chart I had picked up at a seminar. It turned out to be both old and incomplete, and the feedback came in fast: wrong brands, missing brands, and far too simplistic for today’s hotel landscape. Fa...

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Partner at Soler & Associates
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by Martin Soler
4 September 2025Soler & AssociatesFranchise
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The Cost of Franchising – Core and Soft

U.S. lodging demand increased at an average annual rate of just 0.7% in 2023 and 2024, after two years of double-digit growth coming out of the pandemic in 2020. In the May 2025 edition of Hotel Horizons®, CBRE reduced its forecast for lodging deman...

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Robert Mandelbaum
Director of Research Information Services at CBRE Hotels
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by Robert Mandelbaum and Andrew Hartley
3 September 2025CBRE HotelsFranchise
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