NEW YORK—In partnership with Manhattan-based Heartbeet Juicery, Trump International Hotel & Tower New York, located near Manhattan’s Central Park, offers the New York! New You! experience designed to energize and rejuvenate guests. The program entails a cleansing package that features the daily, in-room delivery of Heartbeet’s Juice ’til Dinner series along with a one-hour session…Read More

LONDON—Integrating different technologies is vital to maximizing the efficiencies at any business, including hotels—which is one of the main reasons why HotelREZ Hotels & Resorts launched REZSwitch, a new property management system (PMS) interface for CentralREZ, its central reservations system (CRS).Read More

As the hotel industry continues to see considerable growth across the board in terms of performance, there are many beneficiaries—but perhaps none greater than the franchise companies that make up the lion’s share of the business. Not surprisingly, these large brand companies continue to focus on expanding distribution within their existing brands and, in many…Read More

NEW YORK—Call it foresight, maybe intuition—or perhaps it was just the fact that a former hotel guy knew a good thing when he saw it.Read More

There’s more than one way to be a franchisee and, for many in lodging, diversification of a hotel portfolio has become an increasingly attractive tactic for hedging against industry hiccups, as well as paradigm shifts in the cycle.Read More

“All pretty cool things always seem to have been developed out of necessity,” according to Charlie Bidwell, a photographer with a new line of photo-based products geared toward the hospitality industry. Many hotels, including the Beverly Hills Hotel and Sunset Marquis Hotel, have commissioned his art. He’s also produced work for Ralph Lauren stores nationwide.Read More

LAKE BUENA VISTA, FL—This week, Disney began sales of Four Seasons Private Residences Orlando at Walt Disney World Resort, the most recent phase of development in the luxury resort-residential community of Golden Oak.Read More

BROOKLYN, NY—Dazzler Hotels, an upscale collection of properties by Argentinean brand Fën Hotels, has opened its first hotel in the U.S. here at 85 Flatbush Ave. Extension.Read More

ROCKVILLE, MD—WTS International has been commissioned to create a new spa concept for the Cachet Hotel Group in Asia. The new brand will be called cSPA and developed at Cachet’s properties throughout greater China, Southeast Asia and the Americas. The first cSPAs will debut in Bangkok, Thailand and Hangzhou, China.Read More