ROOMS in a central London hotel are being offered for a pound a night ($2.50 by Sinclair Beecham founder of the city’s first “luxury-budget” hotel.
Mr Beecham’s Hoxton Hotel in central London opened last Friday, selling 600 nights at just £1 ($2.50) including a light breakfast – a deal that the 48-year-old entrepreneur intends to repeat.
“We [...]

Napa’s first luxury condominium hotel project recently held a party at the Napa Valley Opera House to say thanks to the community.
Partners Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. and Intrawest Corp. will now move forward with the construction and marketing of Westin Verasa Napa, which will be on McKinstry Street, next to the River Terrace [...]

The hotel occupancy rate in Hawaii stood at 86.6 percent in July, down from 88.9 percent in July of last year, Hospitality Advisors LLC announced Wednesday night.
For the first seven months of 2006, the occupancy rate was 81.8 percent, compared with 82.2 percent for the same time period in 2005, the hotel, tourism and real [...]

The new Kempinski will be located in Khao Lak, one of southern Thailand’s top resort destinations, about an hour from Phuket airport. The resort is currently under construction, with the opening of the first phase scheduled for autumn 2007, in time for the high season.
During the first phase of the opening, the resort will feature [...]

The official hotel of Bangkok’s new Suvarnabhumi International Airport, Novotel Suvarnabhumi Airport Hotel, opens this Friday (1 September) in preparation for the official opening of the airport on 28 September.
The airport is set to become one of the world’s most important aviation hubs, and with Bangkok a key hub for flights to Europe, the Middle [...]

Scheduled to open by March 1, 2009, the Shangri-La Hotel, Tokyo will be located in the Marunouchi district, beside the Tokyo Station, the capital’s only station with railway connections to all points in Japan.The Imperial Palace and the Nihonbashi area are 10-minutes walk away. The hotel’s prime location is expected to attract local corporate patrons, [...]

Mulpha Australia, a subsidiary of the Malaysian-listed Mulphs International Bhd, has failed in its A$219 million takeover bid of the Grand Hotel Group.
Grand Hotel’s directors said the offer grossly undervalued the company and was “highly opportunistic”.
Chairman William Conn said a target’s statement with further details would be sent to shareholders this month.
Mulpha made an off-market [...]

A hotel collapsed in Pakistan’s popular hill resort of Murree early Thursday and more than a dozen people were believed trapped in the rubble, police said.
Army teams with heavy cranes have joined police and the local administration in the rescue operation, and none of the victims have been recovered so far, [...]

A southern Manitoba hotel more than a century old has been destroyed by fire.
Firefighters were called shortly after 6 a.m. to the Portage Hotel in downtown Portage la Prairie, about 80 kilometres west of Winnipeg.
Firefighting equipment from neighbouring municipalities had to be brought in to help battle the flames in the brick building.
There have been [...]

A MULTI-MILLION pound hotel, to be built at the heart of Slough, was due to be granted council approval last night.
Slough Borough Council officers have recommended that the proposal to build a nine-storey hotel, opposite Slough railway station, should be given the green light.
Councillors were due to approve the hotel at the planning meeting yesterday [...]

Thirty years after the property opened as an upscale Sheraton Hotel on Route 82, new owners are hoping to resurrect the original grandeur.
Shield Hotel Management Group, based in Massachusetts, bought the 10 Laura Blvd. property last year and in one week will be finished with more than $3 million in renovations to the site. The [...]

Developer John Wessman will not purchase property from hotel owner Frank Tysen, who had offered the land in hopes Wessman would lower the height of his proposed Palm Hotel.
Wessman agreed to purchase the Francis Winter property next to Tysen’s Casa Cody Bed & Breakfast Country Inn for $425,000 plus rehab costs of $159,000 and $7,000 [...]