Hyatt House LA-University Medical Center announced today its official opening. This is the first Hyatt House hotel in the northeast Los Angeles area. Owned by MHH-LA, Hyatt House LA-University Medical Center is conveniently located on the USC Health Sciences Campus and will provide guests the service and convenience of hotel living with the casual comforts of home.
NeueHouse, the private workspace and cultural home for creators, innovators, and thought leaders, launches its partnership with Design Hotels, a global collection of independent, design-driven hotels, that function as social hubs and spaces for purposeful experiences. Pivoting in the face of major disruption to the hospitality industry, the collaboration between NeueHouse and Design Hotels reinforces their shared missions to support the creative communities with an innovative offering for members to use the spaces for both work and leisure.
STAY OPEN, the Los Angeles-based startup transforming unused commercial space into pod hotels and co-living properties, has today announced the closing of its $2 million seed round funding. The round was led by a European family office which also invested in STAY OPEN's inaugural San Diego project - the conversion of a Budget Rent a Car facility into a 240+ bed STAY OPEN hotel.
In Los Angeles, CA hospitality veteran, Reggie Dominique has been named managing director at Loews Hollywood Hotel. Dominique's 25 years of hospitality experience includes a diverse leadership background in hotel operations and sales, having spent the majority of his career with The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, LLC. Dominique began his hospitality career in sales & marketing, starting as a group sales manager for The Ritz-Carlton, Marina del Rey. He then served as the director of sales & marketing for The Ritz-Carlton, Palm Beach and The Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco before moving into operational leadership roles. Most recently, Dominique was hotel manager, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. Live, where he led the team in raising employee satisfaction scores and increasing overall operational efficiency and revenues.
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Philip Barnes has been appointed Regional Vice President, Southern California and General Manager, Fairmont Century Plaza. Barnes brings more than four decades of international hospitality experience to his role, effective September 1, 2020.
Fairmont Century Plaza will be the centerpiece for a highly walkable enclave where anything a discerning traveler could want can be found within the wood and glass walls, or just steps beyond them. Pedestrians can stroll from Minoru Yamasaki's lovingly restored mid-century modern hotel to innovative outdoor retail and dining establishments. They can rendezvous for coffee or lunch beside a powerful Jaume Plensa sculpture in the grand public plaza, or toast artisanal cocktails at sunset on the hotel roof by the pool. In the heart of Los Angeles, the 400-room hotel will offer guests and locals alike a gourmet café, Lumière Brasserie, a rooftop bar, and more. Through its design, architecture, and location, the Century Plaza Hotel has the ability to remake the past in a way that resonates with modern guests. It will be a place to see and be seen, take home that trophy, slip upstairs to celebrate, or just to retreat into a luxurious suite or one of the top-floor residences and soak up all that retro-modern beauty.
Previously, Ro managed the group sales team and served as interim Director of Sales and Marketing, spearheading strategies to increase group sales production. Ro's previous sales and marketing management roles were held at Le Meridien Delfina Santa Monica, and Four Points by Sheraton Los Angeles. As Associate Director of Sales, Ro will be responsible for sales team leadership, driving revenue, contribute in product and vendor selection, as well as general management responsibilities.
Sandral-Lasbordes formerly implemented strategic marketing, communication, e-commerce and social media strategy as PR and Marketing Manager, executing Sofitel key rituals and standards stemming from French heritage and culture. Prior to her time at Sofitel LA, Sandral-Lasbordes developed guest experience and marketing initiatives at Sofitel Brussels Le Louise and ACCOR Odyssey Paris.Sandral-Lasbordes will be the official spokesperson of Sofitel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills, and work closely with the PR agency to translate the hotel's business objectives into marketing and communication strategies that drive revenue.
Proper Hospitality co-founders Brian De Lowe and Brad Korzen announce the opening of their new brand venture, Hotel June, on Los Angeles' Westside. Inspired by the soul and spirit of California and named to reflect new beginnings and a year-round summer sensibility, the first Hotel June property opens its doors on June 22, marking a new chapter for Proper. De Lowe and Korzen created Hotel June as an approachable lifestyle hotel -- a stylish and uplifting place that invites frequent stays for travelers while also offering an essential setting for locals to gather. That sentiment will be at the heart of subsequent Hotel June properties planned across the U.S. and abroad.
INTELITY®, the provider of the travel industry's most comprehensive guest engagement and staff management platform, announced today a new partnership with JOINGO, a leading-edge mobile technology provider for the gaming industry. The integration streamlines and connects every part of the casino-resort experience, empowering properties to future-proof their business by limiting physical contact while still engaging visitors as both a guest and player.
Analysts at Lodging Econometrics (LE) report that at the close of the first quarter of 2020, the top five U.S. markets with the largest total hotel construction pipelines are: Los Angeles with 166 projects/27,752 rooms; Dallas with 164 projects/19,999 rooms; New York City with 152 projects/26,111 rooms; Atlanta with 143 projects/19,423 rooms; and Houston with 132 projects/13,316 rooms. Nationally, under construction project counts hit a new all-time high with 1,819 projects with 243,100 rooms. Markets with the greatest number of projects already in the ground are led by New York City with 108 projects/18,434 rooms.
Sam Nazarian, Founder and CEO of sbe, the leading lifestyle hospitality company that develops, manages and operates award-winning global brands, today announced that recruitment has begun for more than 500 newly-created positions in the Greater Los Angeles area for sbe's C3 (Creating Culinary Communities) subsidiary, that is focused on expanding the company's growing roster of ghost kitchen concepts and delivery offerings; including Umami Burger, Sam's Crispy Chicken, Krispy Rice and the forthcoming Plant Nation.
RHG's West Coast portfolio will add another feather to its cap with the signing of Radisson RED Los Angeles Arts District. This new-build hotel will feature 140 guest rooms, a state-of-the-art fitness center, meeting space, and a roof top bar with sweeping views of downtown Los Angeles. Guests will be able to enjoy the farm-fresh menu at the brand's signature restaurant, OUIBar + KTCHN. The hotel will boast a fantastic location in the heart of the Los Angeles Arts District, one of Los Angeles' most exciting neighborhoods. Guests will be within walking distance of art galleries, restaurants with celebrity chefs, microbreweries and shopping. The hotel is anticipated to open Q1 2024.
The opening of Hotel June marks the next chapter in the inspiring narrative of Proper Hotels. Together co-founders Brian De Lowe and Brad Korzen have conceived a more approachable, value-focused embodiment of the Proper vision. Opening Spring 2020, this hip Westside charmer marks the debut of a brand that will cater to travelers who seek design, dining, and community at an accessible price point. Occupying a 250-room mid-century building, the modern coastal aesthetic of Hotel June frames an immersive cultural experience thanks to collaborations with local creatives, artists, and artisans. With a culinary concept cooked-up with the team behind Scopa Italian Roots and a sublime, Baja-inspired ground floor pool deck, Hotel June is the requisite urban hangout that the Westside has been waiting for.
Senior executives across the hotel industry united during Americas Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS) to end the stigma of addiction with Shatterproof.
At the close of 2019, analysts at Lodging Econometrics (LE) report that the top five U.S. markets with the largest total hotel construction pipelines are: Los Angeles, at a cyclical high, with 168 projects/28,501 rooms; Dallas with 160 projects/19,787 rooms; New York City with 158 projects/25,825 rooms; Atlanta, also at a cyclical high, with 143 projects/19,660 rooms; and Houston with 136 projects/14,114 rooms. Under construction project counts are at an all-time high with 1,768 projects with 237,362 rooms. Markets with the greatest number of projects already in the ground are New York with 107 projects/17,268 rooms,
Today at the Americas Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS) here, Beekeeper is launching a new push-to-talk feature for chats designed for hoteliers who are too busy to spend time manually typing out messages to their teams. Rather than using less secure consumer platforms like WhatsApp to record, share and receive voice messages, the new feature will enable hotel management and staff to communicate more quickly and efficiently while on-the-go.
In the most recent Lodging Econometrics (LE) Construction Pipeline Trend report on Los Angeles, LE states that Los Angeles has a total of 168 projects/28,501 rooms in the construction pipeline, the largest pipeline of any market in the U.S. Of this total, hotels presently under construction are at 46 projects/7,064 rooms, projects scheduled to start construction in the next 12 months are at 56 projects/9,199 rooms, and those in early planning are at 66 projects/ 12,238 rooms. If all of the projects in the pipeline come to fruition, this will increase the city's guest room supply by 27.1%.The three market tracts with the largest hotel construction pipelines are: Los Angeles Central Business District with 47 projects/11,490 rooms; Los Angeles East with 32 projects/4,418 rooms; and Los Angeles North with 29 projects/3,037 rooms. These three important market tracts combined account for 67% of the rooms in Los Angeles' total construction pipeline. The market tracts with the most projects presently under construction are Los Angeles North with 12 projects/1,153 rooms; Los Angeles Central Business District with 10 projects/2,208 rooms; and Los Angeles East with 8 projects/1,333 rooms. LE's forecast for new hotel openings predicts that in 2020, Los Angeles will have a growth rate of 2.5% with 19 new hotels/2,589 rooms opening. In 2021, Los Angeles is forecast to jump to a 4.4% growth rate with 33 new hotels/4,784 rooms expected to open.
Joining the operations team as hotel manager is Zaw Oo, who brings over a decade of hospitality management experience to his role and will oversee all day-to-day operations and guest experience, bringing the InterContinental life to guest touchpoints.