by Greg Thompson | Feb 7, 2021 | HX News, Latest News
Sonesta Acquires RLH Corp NEWTON, MA – Sonesta International Hotels Corporation (Sonesta) recently entered into a definitive agreement to acquire RLH Corporation (NYSE: RLH). RLH is the 10th-largest U.S.-based hotel franchise company with more than 900 hotels....
by Greg Thompson | Feb 7, 2021 | HX News, Latest News
ATLANTA – Designers, architects, and creatives submitted ideas last year for relevant, customer-focused, revenue-generating foodservice pioneering concept (FPC) designs. Judges reviewed several inspiring entries, with “Foodbots” eventually earning second place in an...
by Greg Thompson | Feb 7, 2021 | HX News, Latest News
CHANTILLY, VA – Back in May 2020, HX: The News asked Vinay Patel, CEO of Fairbrook Hotels, Chantilly, Va., for an honest assessment of the health of his business. Patel did not flinch. “I’m excited today at 20% occupancy,” he said eight months ago. At the end of...
by Greg Thompson | Dec 20, 2020 | HX News, Latest News
NEW YORK, N.Y. – As we look back on an astonishingly bad year for the hotel industry, there are only clichés on which to fall back. For example, there is nowhere to go but up. Surely that must be true. I remember chatting with an industry commentator in early Feb...
by Greg Thompson | Dec 19, 2020 | HX News, Latest News
ATLANTA – Hard Rock Hotels officially launched its REVERB by Hard Rock brand in late December. Company officials describe it as “a new hotel concept designed to be an energetic cultural hub for connection, creation, and inspiration among music fans, locals, and...
by Greg Thompson | Dec 19, 2020 | HX News, Latest News
SEATTLE – At the heart of her professional life, Melanie Corey-Ferrini, FCSI, NCARB has long been concerned with the fundamental elements of human existence, primarily shelter and food. Armed with an architecture degree from California Polytechnic, Pomona, Calif, she...
