MHI Hospitality Corporation announced today that the Company received the Stakeholder of the Year Award for the Crowne Plaza Hampton Harborside. The award was presented by the Downtown Hampton Development Partnership in recognition of a business or individual that contributed significantly to the city’s new development or redevelopment over the past year. The Stakeholder [...]

MHI Hospitality Corporation announced that the Company has completed the acquisition of the 172-room former Radisson Hotel in Hampton, Virginia for approximately $7.75 million, or $45,000 per room. The Company has also entered into a 10-year franchise agreement with InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) [(LON: IHG) (NYSE: IHG - News; ADRs)] through its franchising entity, Holiday [...]

Brussels | The Rezidor Hotel Group, the Brussels-based hotel management company, announces plans for its first property in Makkah, Saudi-Arabia. The Al Diyafa Radisson Hotel is currently slated to open in 2010.
Located within walking distance of the Al Diyafa shopping mall and less than two miles from the legendary Haram mosque, the new hotel will [...]

Radisson SAS Hotels & Resorts will build a 256-room hotel in Mecca. The Al Diyafa Radisson Hotel will include male and female spas, four restaurants, six meeting rooms and a 12,500 sqft ballroom for weddings and banquets. The hotel will cater for religious tourism and the corporate and the MICE market. It is due to [...]

Harrah’s Entertainment Inc., the world’s largest casino company, and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. have signed a deal to help build the Baha Mar hotel and casino complex in the Bahamas worth more than $2 billion.
Harrah’s will own 43 percent of the project with the remainder owned by Nassau, Bahamas-based Baha Mar Resorts Ltd., [...]

Carlson Hotels Worldwide Monday announced the rebranding of a 159-room Chandler hotel as the Radisson Phoenix-Chandler following a $4 million renovation.
The former Park Plaza hotel, owned by Hospitality Properties Trust, is located at 7475 W. Chandler Blvd.
The conversion is part of a renovation that began in early 2005 when Carlson Hotels Worldwide first [...]

Union negotiators for the hotel workers at the Sheraton Grand Sacramento reached a tentative agreement for a new contract that raises wages, reduces workloads and doubles the hotel’s contribution to employee health insurance coverage over the life of the contract.
The Sheraton’s management and the union have been working on the contract since June. The [...]

Over 700 people have now registered to attend the Travel Distribution Summit and the vast array of FREE seminars which are being held alongside. Attendees are all senior-level travel professionals who control the distribution of billions of dollars worth of products. Meaning that this event is an unrivalled networking opportunity for travel executives from across [...]

Gaylord Entertainment announced Wednesday it has reached an agreement that advances its plans to build a major resort and convention center near San Diego.
The Unified Port of San Diego Board of Commissioners and city of Chula Vista, Calif., have approved the initial plans for a 1,500- to 2,000-room resort and convention center hotel on the [...]

A bevy of hotel development is expected locally in the coming year or so, and one unlikely name is emerging as a probable leader in room construction.
Benderson Development Co. is best known for shopping centers, office buildings and mixed-use projects that blend residential and commercial components.
But now, amid a loss of lodging rooms to condo [...]