Regulatory The Rezidor Hotel Group (STO:REZT) announces its first Park Inn in Kazakhstan at Almaty Airport: The 133- room hotel is located adjacent to the International Airport Terminal and will open its doors in December 2008. Almaty’s airport serves many international airlines, and has an advantageous geographical location on the route from East Asia to [...]
The Toyoko Inn Co., Japan’s largest business hotel chain operator, plans to open a business hotel next year in the city of Daejeon, central South Korea, officials from the Daejeon municipal government said Thursday.
The Toyoko Inn Development Korea Co., the Japanese firm’s South Korean unit, and local firm Solomon Holdings Co. have signed a deal [...]
An international hotel giant plans to open a $100 million, 290-room hotel in Auckland’s CBD by the middle of 2010.
Paul Richardson, vice-president of Accor for New Zealand and Fiji, said yesterday a new five-star Pullman hotel would be built near the city’s waterfront.
The hotel will be aimed at the corporate and meetings market and is [...]
The developers of a proposed 160-room hotel on the site of Tacoma’s old Columbia-Heidelberg Brewery say they’re redesigning the hotel after its preliminary design failed to impress historic preservationists on a city board.
Han Kim, principal at Seattle’s Hotel Concepts, said Monday that he’s hired Albany, Ore., architect Don Johnson to modify the initial design to [...]
The ugly side of San Diego’s condominium downturn is on display along Fifth Avenue.
The bones of what was supposed to be Atmosphere, nearly 80 “luxury live/work units for a life well-designed,†sit open to public view. Naked steel rods and yawning holes are in the earth. The wood and chain-link fence around the site [...]
San Francisco boutique company Kimpton sold its 195-room Hotel Palomar to Griffin Capital of Los Angeles.
Kimpton will continue to operate the hotel.
The future direction of Palomar’s high-profile, four-star restaurant the Fifth Floor remains unclear, though a source had said earlier this year that Kimpton was in talks with Aqua Development Corp. to [...]
The grungy hotel room was reeking of smoke. The bathtub was rusty. The bedspread and furnishings were dingy relics. But I couldn’t leave. I’d already paid $155 in an online travel auction for the Queen Mary Hotel room — $91 for the room, $20 commission, $24 in taxes and $20 to upgrade to a room [...]
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 [...]
Traders Hotel, Beijing says it has become one of the first properties in the city to install water-free urinals, saving thousands of liters of fresh water each year.
As an Olympic Partner Hotel, the property says it has placed environment protection on its list of preparations for the Games, and is currently installing the environmentally friendly [...]
A New York hospitality company has agreed to open a trendy, Mondrian hotel in a development proposed for the Gold Coast neighborhood.
Morgans Hotel Group Co. has formed a joint venture with Chicago-based M Development Co. to build a 200-room hotel at 1118 N. State St.
The new, 250-foot building would replace the Cedar Hotel, but preserve [...]
A Courtyard by Marriott hotel will offer newly developed amenities for travelers, Marriott International Inc. announced Tuesday.
The Courtyard Cincinnati-North at Union Centre will open June 5 on Muhlhauser Road in West Chester, the company said Tuesday. The five-story, 126-room hotel in Butler County includes a restaurant, indoor pool with a whirlpool spa, exercise room [...]
The Wag Hotel, a 239-room hotel made exclusively for dogs and cats, will celebrate the grand opening of its San Francisco property on Saturday.
The three-story, 35,000- square-foot hotel on 14th Street boasts a 5,600-gallon indoor swimming pool, a rooftop lawn for “business walks,” and spacious indoor play areas allow “guests” to remain active during their [...]
