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Industry News – Sonesta, Sweden, and West Hollywood
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....
FPC Runner Up: Rise of the Foodbots
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...
Occupancy Still Low But Rates Are the Bigger Challenge
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...
Optimism, Predictions, Redemption – 2021 Here We Come
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...
New Hotel Planned in Atlanta
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...
From Visualization to Realization – FPC Takes Shape
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 plied her trade early on with retail projects, as well as spaces designed for the food business.
Industry News: NYC’s Roosevelt Set to Close
Sonesta Names New COO NEWTON, MA – Sonesta International Hotels Corporation recently tapped Vera Manoukian as the company’s new chief operating officer. In her new role, Manoukian will leverage over three decades of hotel industry knowledge, skills, and...
A Year to Forget? Not So Fast.
ATLANTA – None of us will soon forget 2020, a year that started innocently enough, but gradually turned into a sea of human suffering and business pain. Viewed through the specific lens of the trade show industry, it has been painful.
Tax Break for Tourism a Good Idea?
WASHINGTON, DC – About a week before the election, the CEO of Booking Holdings, which oversees Booking and several other sites such as Priceline.com, OpenTable, and Kayak, floated an idea for “tax credits or incentives to get people traveling.” In the article at Yahoo...
Word on the Street – NYC
NEW YORK, NY – With shock waves still emanating from the September closure of the iconic 44-story Hilton Times Square Hotel, hospitality professionals in the Big Apple are examining their own bottom lines which continue to be hurt by a virus-driven lean tourist...
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