Owners of Liberty Forge recreation complex in Lower Allen Township unveiled plans Monday for a resort community built around the golf course.
Plans for the Villages of Liberty Forge include 582 condominiums, a 200-bed resort hotel and a 100-bed nursing home with the 18-hole executive length golf course remaining as the centerpiece of the project.
The design, [...]

A three-alarm fire caused $8.5 million in damage early Tuesday when it ripped through a four-story hotel under construction in Carmel Valley, forcing the evacuation of about 400 people and destroying more than two dozen vehicles.
The fire broke out around 1:45 a.m. at the Hilton Garden Inn on the corner of Vista Sorrento Parkway and [...]

Starwood Capital Group today announced that the recently launched “1” Hotel and Residences, the world’s first luxury, eco-friendly global hotel brand, will open New York City’s first five-star green hotel on West 40th Street in Manhattan, across from Bryant Park. The “1” Hotel and Residences will be part of a proposed 31-story mixed-use green tower [...]

Telkonet, Inc. (AMEX:TKO), the leader in providing in-building broadband access over existing electrical wiring, today announced that its Telkonet iWire System™ has been installed at the Best Western Midland Hotel in Derby, UK, to provide every guest with the freedom to choose either hard-wired or wireless broadband Internet access throughout the venue. Telkonet’s solution was [...]

Marriott will open its third Renaissance branded hotel in Paris in 2009, under a management agreement with Empire SAS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Altarea SA, a publicly traded French company.
When opened, it will be Marriott’s eighth hotel in the Paris metropolitan area.
The 118-room Renaissance Paris Arc de Triomphe will be located on Avenue Wagram [...]

With a view to meet the growing needs of the Hotel & Tourism industry for visiting Indian as well as Foreign tourists, the Punjab Governor and Administrator, Union Territory, Chandigarh, Gen. (Retd.) S.F.Rodrigues, PVSM VSM, today inaugurated “Hotel Chandigarh Beckons” set up by the Chandigarh Institute of Hotel Management and Catering Technology in Sector 42
Chandigarh, [...]

Like a cat with nine lives, the venerable downtown Aladdin Hotel will reopen — again — on May 4.
The event will mark the 193-room, 16-story tower’s second go-round as a Holiday Inn franchise after two stints as Embassy on the Park, a stretch under the Days Inn flag and most recently as the independent Citi [...]

Starwood Hotels & Resorts has signed eleven new franchise agreements with ITC Limited. As a result, travelers in India will soon have access to 23 hotels in the country under the Sheraton, Westin, The Luxury Collection and Le Méridien brand umbrellas.
As part of the agreement and following significant renovations in recent months, seven existing Sheraton [...]

The Emerson Resort & Spa in Mount Tramper, Ulster County, recently celebrated the grand re-opening of its new facility that was rebuilt after the resort had a fire in 2005.
The event was the culmination of nearly two years of design and construction activities involving more than 300 construction workers, 130 resort employees and tens of [...]

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), the world’s largest hotel group by number of rooms announces that the 306-room El Tropicano Riverwalk Hotel has become a franchise of the Holiday Inn Brand.
“We are thrilled to welcome this property to the Holiday Inn family of hotels. Holiday Inn hotels are specifically designed for business and family oriented leisure [...]

Rated (number sign)1 among New England resorts for food and service on Conde Nast Traveler’s Gold List, the BALSAMS Grand Resort Hotel entices Canadian travelers with winter packages available through the month of March. Starting at $79 USD per person per night, the Mountain Getaway Package includes accommodations, breakfast and access to most of the [...]

Kicking off 2007, the Marco Island Marriott Beach Resort has unveiled the $10 million, 21,000-square-foot Clubhouse at The Rookery. This newest addition for golfers, which boasts richly-designed banquet space perfect for exclusive group functions or post-tournament celebrations, rounds out an extensive $187 million renovation at the Naples golf resort.
Among the swank features of the new [...]