Copyright 1995-2012 Hsyndicate.com http://www.hsyndicate.org/ Top Stories - Latest Hospitality and Hotel Industry News and Events en-us Sat, 19 May 2012 04:37:38 GMT content@hsyndicate.com davy@hsyndicate.com Hsyndicate RSS FeedGenerator 5 http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/4056141.html http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/4056141.html Fri, 18 May 2012 20:17:07 GMT \n http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/4056140.html http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/4056140.html Fri, 18 May 2012 13:29:56 GMT Expedia.com®, the world's largest online travel agency, today released the results of the 2012 Flip Flop Report, an analysis of behavior and preferences among beachgoers in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Harris Interactive, on behalf of Expedia.com, conducted the online study among 8,599 adults in 21 countries. Global study reveals attitudes toward price, beach quality, sharks and nudity; Expedia responds to surge in beach interest by launching the biggest Summer Sale in its history and the "Expedia Beachgoer" Facebook App http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/4056139.html http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/4056139.html Fri, 18 May 2012 13:19:11 GMT Today at the company's 58th annual convention, Choice Hotels International unveiled a new dual-brand combination hotel prototype for its Sleep Inn and MainStay Suites brands. The combined Sleep Inn and MainStay Suites hotel design joins two great brands under one roof. With a highly efficient design and operating model, it allows for unique construction options in markets that could support more than a standalone Sleep Inn or MainStay Suites hotel. http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/4056138.html http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/4056138.html Fri, 18 May 2012 13:15:52 GMT Announced today at its franchisor's 58th Annual Convention inLas Vegas, the first-ever Comfort hotel to feature the brand's entirely new design package is scheduled to open next month -- the Comfort Inn & Suites hotel of SpokaneValley, Wash.As the first hotel to boast the new Comfort design, the recently-converted Spokane Valley Comfort Inn & Suites hotel replaced all of its existing furniture, fixtures, and equipment to incorporate the new Comfort Truly Yours prototype design package. http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/4056137.html http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/4056137.html Fri, 18 May 2012 13:06:24 GMT W Hotels Worldwide, in collaboration with burn studios, an innovative music platform developed by burn®, a globally leading energy drink from The Coca-Cola Company, today announced the new international DJs who have been selected to participate in the second annual W Hotels & burn studios DJ Lab. In addition, a global search has launched on whotels.com/musicto find the final DJ, representing Asia, to join the curated group. The DJ Lab is designed to bring together the most exciting rising DJ talent from around the globe and provide them with unprecedented mentorship and valuable tools to help them realize their full potential. The chosen participants will polish their skills during a weeklong DJ "boot camp" at W Retreat & Spa Bali – Seminyak this July in preparation for a global tour hosted at W Hotels and Retreats around the world. http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/4056136.html http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/4056136.html Fri, 18 May 2012 13:02:45 GMT By Esther Gladen. The article deals with the hotel and tourism markets in Madrid and Barcelona, reviewing 2011 data and comparing with previous years. The reader will learn about visitation, performance, supply, especially the five-star segment in both cities. Barcelona´s hotels are achieving a better overall performance than Madrid at the moment and this may not only be related to overall lower supply, which it has when comparing the number of visitors per hotel room. There are several other factors in the game. Certainly the nature of this destination city, close to the beach and the mountains, plays an important role. Last year Barcelona saw nearly one million more international visitors than Madrid and these may have been the reason why Barcelona,  with 17 per cent fewer visitors in total, achieved nearly the same number of guestnights as Madrid. http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/4056135.html http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/4056135.html Fri, 18 May 2012 12:56:21 GMT The Middle East/Africa hotel development pipeline comprises 494 hotels totalling 126,606 rooms, according to the April 2012 STR Global Construction Pipeline Report. Among the Chain Scale segments, the Upper Upscale segment accounted for the largest portion of the total active pipeline with 31.5 percent and 39,844 rooms. Three other segments each accounted for more than 15 percent of rooms in the total active pipeline: the Luxury segment (20.6 percent with 26,102 rooms); the Upscale segment (+20.1 percent with 25,486 rooms); and the Unaffiliated segment (16.1 percent with 20,384 rooms). http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/4056134.html http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/4056134.html Fri, 18 May 2012 12:54:28 GMT The Europe hotel development pipeline comprises 908 hotels totalling 145,437 rooms, according to the April 2012 STR Global Construction Pipeline Report. Year-to-date 2012, 82 properties have opened totalling 10,071 rooms. There are 197 more properties planned to open in 2012 with 30,851 rooms. The Upscale segment is expected to add the most rooms in the remainder of 2012 with 44 properties comprising 7,213 rooms, followed by the Unaffiliated segment (43 properties with 5,406 rooms) and the Upper Midscale segment (34 properties with 5,074 rooms). http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/4056133.html http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/4056133.html Fri, 18 May 2012 12:53:41 GMT The Asia/Pacific hotel development pipeline comprises 1,591 hotels totalling 365,507 rooms, according to the April 2012 STR Global Construction Pipeline Report. Among the region"s markets, New Delhi, India, reported the largest expected room growth (+43.3 percent) if all 11,049 rooms in its total active pipeline open. Other markets to report expected room growth of more than 20 percent: Mumbai, India (+25.3 percent with 4,907 rooms); Bali, Indonesia (+24.6 percent with 8,403 rooms); Manila, Philippines (+23.6 percent with 4,883 rooms); and Jakarta, Indonesia (+22.6 percent with 6,779 rooms). http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/4056132.html http://www.hsyndicate.org/news/4056132.html Fri, 18 May 2012 12:51:52 GMT With reports explaining a new series of hotel real estate indices and an analysis of gateway cities, the new report series from the Center for Real Estate and Finance (CREF) at the School of Hotel Administration fills a gap in publications for the hospitality real estate and finance industry. "Our faculty have been actively publishing in the discipline academic journals," observed CREF executive director Jan deRoos. "What we are doing here is to make this valuable research accessible to the industry, students, and other academics." All CREF reports are available at no charge.