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In the two weeks ending 29 November 2025, U.S. revenue per available room (RevPAR) decreased 0.3% on falling occupancy (-0.7 percentage points) and a 0.9% rise in average daily rate (ADR).

IHG Hotels & Resorts, one of the world’s leading hotel companies, has signed a management agreement with an investment fund managed by SEDCO Capital, a global multi-asset management and advisory firm, to launch Hotel Indigo Grand Square Jeddah. The 150-key lifestyle hotel marks the first collaboration between the global hospitality...

Four Seasons Hotel The Westcliff Johannesburg today celebrates the official opening of its Destination Lobby and Lobby Lounge, a light-filled, architecturally striking space that completes the hotel’s most ambitious transformation to date. The debut represents the final chapter of an extensive building project initiated in 2023, bringing enhanced facilities, new...

Flow Thru—this is my abbreviation—is a catch-all phrase that measures how much made it through your business comparing one period to another. What made it through, from revenues to profit. Another term to describe this measurement is retention.

Copthorne Hotel Holdings Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore-based City Developments Limited (“CDL”) has acquired 706-key Holiday Inn London - Kensington for GBP280 million from UK-based Cola Holdings. This translates to approximately GBP396,600 per key. The freehold property occupies a 6,356 square metres (“sqm”) site and offers three F&B...

UrVenue, the all-in-one hospitality booking platform, today announced it will be exhibiting at the ILHA INSPIRE Luxury Hospitality Conference 2025 at Resorts World Las Vegas, December 10-11. Earlier this year, UrVenue was named the 2025 TravelTech Breakthrough Award winner for “Overall Reservation Solution Provider of the Year,” recognizing its leadership...

The Leading Hotels of the World (LHW) is thrilled to unveil its Winter Collection, welcoming ten extraordinary properties into its global portfolio of 425+ hotels.

Digital transformation in hospitality, from mobile check-ins, digital keys, to IoT-powered smart rooms, is accelerating. According to a 2025 report from Oracle Hospitality + Skift, about 34 % of hoteliers said they are “already heavily invested” in contactless technology, with another 26.6 % in “early stages.”

Extended Stay America, the leading mid-priced extended stay hotel brand in the United States, announced today the opening of the Extended Stay America

Artificial intelligence has hovered on the edges of hospitality for years. Chatbots answered simple questions. Revenue tools nudged prices up or down. Automation handled a few routine tasks. Useful, but hardly transformative.