Hotel restaurants and clubs are out, swanky rooftop bars are in. Offering the perfect combination of incredible views, hot décor, tasty cocktails and A-list crowds, these new rooftop bars are not to be missed, if you can get in that is…
SLS Beverly Hills – The Altitude Pool Deck: good drinks, two pools, and the center [...]
You can already book a hotel, check in for your flights, and rent a car online, and now luxury hotels are adding ordering room service to that list.
Hotels are beginning to experiment with putting their room service menus online, allowing guests to review their choices with pictures from their phone or laptop. The process could [...]
While the luxury hotel market is holding strong, smart hoteliers are looking towards the future of the industry, and that has been identified as Generations X and Y.
Many major hotel chains are creating new brands catering to a younger generation of guests hoping that “lifestyle brands” will compliment the modern, savvy, relaxed attitude of [...]
Intercontinental will open its 150th hotel in Dubai Festival City this coming November. But this is just the beginning for Intercontinental, which has plans to open a fairly long list of new properties over the next couple of years in a number of different countries including Vietnam, China, Austria, New Zealand and Russia, to [...]
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Elite Traveler, the luxury lifestyle magazine distributed aboard private jets in over 90 countries, just released The Sixth Annual Pure Decadence issue. The July/August issue features the 101 most luxurious hotel and resort suites from around the world. From private Olympic-size pools to en-suite basketball courts, anything and everything goes in these decadent suites catering [...]
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Starwood is upgrading its Sheraton brand (according to this article by Arnie Weissmann, Editor in Chief, Travel Weekly: Starwood reveals major makeover plan for Sheraton brand and in doing so will ask owners of properties currently flagged as Sheratons to either invest or move-on.
Franchised businesses frequently suffer from inconsistent [...]
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I was trying to go through this article and pull out information that wasn’t important and useful but it is all just too good. Luxury hotels and Starwood are leading the way to encouraging LEED certified buildings. Here’s to a very green and luxurious future.
“Starwood Capital Group today announced [...]