Hotel News

Marriott International will introduce its City Express by Marriott brand to the Asia Pacific region, with the first hotels in Japan next year. Plus more hotel deal news.

Europe’s small hotels are still catching up on digital tools. Amenitiz’s latest funding shows how AI could help them narrow the gap with larger players.

To paraphrase Ernest Hemingway: You go bankrupt two ways. Gradually and then suddenly.

Kessler Collection hands hotel operations to Highgate, keeping ownership to focus on expanding its boutique brands faster.

Every major hotel group wants a slice of the midscale pie, and for good reason: It’s where most of the action will be in Asia Pacific for the foreseeable future.

Marriott had given Sonder a lifeline in August 2024 by offering to list the troubled brand's apartment-style rooms on its site and app. Sonder has struggled to hold on.

Airbnb has a big opportunity in hotels. But CEO Brian Chesky makes it all sound a little too easy. It's not a big investment, he said, and Airbnb won't have to spend a lot on marketing for it. Signing up hotels? Not a problem — they have phone numbers.

Emblems shows Accor’s soft-brand ambitions at the high end. It looks smart on paper, but it only adds value if Accor keeps it feeling selective.

Tech solutions won’t fix the hotel industry’s climate challenge on their own. But when they work, hotels should share those wins and scale them fast, because smarter kitchens today could mean smaller footprints tomorrow.

Hyatt’s rough quarter shows the strain of a corporate restructuring and Hurricane Melissa. But new profits from a co-branded credit card and gains from adopting AI suggest a brighter 2026.