Boise's hotel market has maintained ~70% occupancy despite a 50,000-room-night supply increase since 2019, driven by tech sector investment, healthcare expansion, and 10%+ population growth in Ada County.
The Bench rebrands its Branded Residences Forum as FHS Living, expanding scope to cover student, senior, co-living and mixed-use assets across Dubai, Cairo, Paris, and Riyadh editions.
Monday brought confirmation that Google's agentic hotel booking test now reaches the GDS, with Amadeus named as the first infrastructure partner and Sabre offering the same capability, which gives independent hotels a second route into the agent that skips the OTA. IHG signed 14 Kyoto hotels with GCP Hospitality in one of Japan's largest conversion deals, and Expedia Group's quarterly data showed European booking windows compressing sharply while Asia Pacific led global search growth at 20%. Canadian RevPAR rose 9.0% in July, two longevity property projects landed on the same day, and Marriott signed the first urban Ritz-Carlton Reserve in Shanghai.
The hotel will bring IHG’s fastest-growing premium brand to an emerging leisure and MICE destination.
Last week, Hyatt announced the debut of Hyatt Vivid Cancun, marking the transformation of the former Dreams Vista Cancun Golf & Spa Resort into the newest adults-only, all-inclusive resort to join the Hyatt Vivid portfolio. Located within the exclusive Puerta del Mar community overlooking the Caribbean Sea and Puerto Cancun marina, the 416-room oceanfront resort introduces a fresh take on the all-inclusive experience, one designed for today’s experience-driven travelers seeking flexibility, meaningful connection and effortless moments of discovery.
Google's live agentic hotel booking test includes Booking, Expedia, Marriott, Wyndham, and IHG, with Amadeus confirmed as the first GDS infrastructure partner, leaving independents reliant on OTA or GDS pipes.
Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts has opened Mövenpick Resort & Spa Bintan Lagoon, a new beachfront resort on the Indonesian island of Bintan. Located on Bintan’s northern coast and easily accessible by ferry from Singapore, the resort brings Mövenpick’s generous hospitality and convivial culinary spirit to a relaxed island setting designed for time well spent together. Welcoming families, couples, friends, teams and business travellers, the resort combines accommodation, dining, recreation, wellness, golf and extensive meetings and events facilities.
Van der Valk Exclusief Hotel Maastricht-Maas will begin trial operations on 15 October. Part of the hotel rooms will be bookable from mid-October, and the team will welcome a small number of restaurant guests by reservation. The official opening is planned for November.
Expedia Group's Q2 data shows global travel search rebounding after a soft start, with APAC leading at 20% YoY growth, EMEA shifting to last-minute bookings, and U.S. fall travel demand building fast.
Four Seasons Yachts and Lanserhof launch an eight-day longevity residency aboard Four Seasons I during its November 2026 transatlantic crossing, offering diagnostics, expert consultations, and personalized wellness programming at sea.
Reservations are now open for the first Andaz hotel in Australia and the Pacific, bringing the global lifestyle brand to the heart of Broadbeach.
A hotel finance coach explains how consistent, public content creation over a decade led an AI to recommend him to a stranger, and what hospitality professionals can learn from that to build their own specialist reputation.
A guest's extended stay exposes a pattern where housekeeping routines, booking system rigidity, and broken DND protocols silently undermine the experience ownership paid to configure.
HomeToGo's 2026 Labor Day report finds U.S. searches up 23% year over year, with rural destinations capturing 90% of searches and domestic trips rising 13.5% vs. 2025.
Terence Ronson recounts the early careers of three hotel lobby managers in Hong Kong, none of whom had traditional front office backgrounds when they started.
A detailed framework for managing hotel opening budgets, covering stabilization timelines of 36-48 months, comp set forecasting, pricing tactics, KPI tracking, and common financial mistakes to avoid.
TheLifeCo Saint Lucia anchors A'ila Developments, a $1B+ master-planned longevity village in Rodney Bay with three resorts, 500 residences, a medical district, and a 523-acre organic farm.
IHG and GCP Hospitality have signed a 14-hotel, 1,063-room conversion deal in Kyoto, one of Japan's largest such portfolio agreements, anchored by 12 Garner hotels converting over the next 12 months.
Marriott International, Inc. today announced that it has signed an agreement with Shanghai SIIC North Bund New Landmark Construction and Development Co., Ltd. to introduce the first Ritz-Carlton Reserve to Shanghai, marking the debut of the urban Reserve concept, a highly selective extension of the brand created for the world’s leading global gateway cities. Scheduled to open in 2030, the property will bring the rarity, personalization, and sense of wellbeing that define the Reserve experience to one of the world’s most dynamic urban destinations.
Canada's hotels posted strong July 2026 gains, with Montreal leading major markets at +23.7% RevPAR, driven by festivals including Jazz Fest and Osheaga.