Boutique Hotel News
APRIL 28, 2023
US/UK: Hyatt Hotels Corporation has announced plans to acquire the London-based hotel booking platform Mr & Mrs Smith for £53 million in cash. The planned acquisition is expected to close in the second quarter of this year. At a later date, Hyatt will introduce direct booking access to more than 1,500 properties within the Mr & Mrs platform.
MEWS
APRIL 28, 2023
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Boutique Hotel News
APRIL 28, 2023
UK: Global property advisor Knight Frank has completed the sale of Aubrey Park Hotel near St. Albans to Somani Hotels Limited for an undisclosed sum. Originally an 18th century farmhouse, Aubrey Park now offers 137 en-suite bedrooms, a restaurant, six meeting rooms, a conference facility, and fitness space. The grounds also include a six acre meadow and a landscaped garden available for event hire.
MEWS
APRIL 28, 2023
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Boutique Hotel News
APRIL 28, 2023
China: The five-star Karl Lagerfeld Macau hotel is slated to open in June this year, designed entirely by the late Karl Lagerfeld. Owned by SJM Resorts S.A., The Karl Lagerfeld Macau is located at The Grand Lisboa Palace Resort Macau. The hotel features 271 rooms, the Mesa restaurant led by chef José Avillez, a book lounge, and a spa and wellness centre including indoor and outdoor pools.
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Boutique Hotel News
APRIL 28, 2023
Serbia: Developer, owner and operator PPHE Hotel Group will debut its first Radisson RED hotel in Serbia under the group’s extended partnership with Radisson Hotel Group. Located in Belgrade, the hotel will be operated by PPHE’s Croatian subsidiary Arena Hospitality Group. The property is currently branded as the Arena 88 Rooms Hotel and will undergo a refurbishment, set to relaunch as Radisson RED later this year.
Hospitality Net
APRIL 28, 2023
Nobu Hospitality is delighted to announce the launch of Nobu Hotel and Restaurant Sevilla. Set in the heart of the Andalusian capital at Plaza de San Francisco, the brand’s latest opening occupies two early 20th century residential buildings, lovingly restored to enhance their traditional architecture. Facing the plateresque façade of the City Hall, Nobu Hotel Sevilla features 25 stylish guest rooms and suites, and an expansive rooftop terrace complete with a swimming pool and dining area which
Boutique Hotel News
APRIL 28, 2023
US: Boutique hotel The Cloudveil, an Autograph Collection property, has named Pablo Migoya as general manager. Migoya brings more than 25 years of hospitality experience to the role and joins The Cloudveil from Hotel Hugo in New York City. In 2001, he also helped create and launch Thompson Hotels alongside the ownership group. Migoya supported the brand’s growth of 12 hotels in 12 years.
Hotel Owner
APRIL 28, 2023
Trade body UK Hospitality has called for all parties involved to “redouble” their efforts to reach a resolution ahead of planned strike action by train drivers. Train drivers from the ASLEF union are set to strike on three dates across May and June dashing hopes of a resolution to the dispute. ASLEF has confirmed that the strikes will be held on 12 May, 31 May and 3 June after the union turned down what it described as a “risible” pay offer of 4% a year for two years.
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Boutique Hotel News
APRIL 28, 2023
US: Pendry Hotels & Resorts will open The Elwood Club this summer, located within a private wing of Pendry Newport Beach. The Elwood Club will feature a private restaurant and bar with garden terrace, a cabaret and bar, a pub with a golf simulator and screening room, and a boardroom. Members will receive discounts to the full suite of amenities and services at Pendry Newport Beach, including the resort’s swimming pool and sun deck, spa, fitness centre, kids club, event lawns, restaurants a
Hotel Business
APRIL 28, 2023
Hyatt Hotels Corporation and Mr & Mrs Smith have agreed to a Hyatt affiliate acquiring London-based Mr & Mrs Smith, a travel club platform offering direct booking access to a curated collection of more than 1,500 boutique and luxury properties worldwide. Hyatt will acquire 100% of the asset-light Mr & Mrs Smith platform for an enterprise value of 53 million pounds ($66.3 million) in cash consideration.
Hotel Owner
APRIL 28, 2023
Hyatt Hotels Corporation and Mr and Mrs Smith have announced an agreement for a Hyatt affiliate to acquire London-based Mr and Mrs Smith, a platform offering direct booking access to a growing collection of over 1,500 boutique and luxury properties. In this acquisition, Hyatt will get 100% of the asset-light Mr and Mrs Smith platform for an enterprise value of £53m in cash consideration.
Hotel Business
APRIL 28, 2023
Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants , part of IHG Hotels & Resorts ’ luxury & lifestyle portfolio, will open a new boutique hotel in New York City, marking the brand’s second in the market. Set to open this fall, Kimpton Hotel Theta will be located a block off Times Square in the city’s Theater District. An adaptive-reuse of an existing mixed-use hotel, the new Kimpton Hotel Theta was originally imagined by Morris Lapidus, the pioneer of Miami Modern Architecture.
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Hotel Owner
APRIL 28, 2023
Gretna Green, the family-owned wedding, hospitality, retail, and experience destination, has recently announced that both its hotels were recognised at the Prestige Hotel Awards. Gretna Hall won Scotland’s Best Hotel Team Award and Smiths Hotel was highly recommended as Scotland’s Best 4-star Hotel in the South of Scotland. The winners of the Scottish Hotel Awards were announced at a gala ceremony held on 23 April, 2023, in Glasgow, with Gretna Green’s two hotels shortlisted across four d
Hospitality Net
APRIL 28, 2023
Stoneweg Hospitality (‘Stoneweg’), the hotel investment arm of global real estate company Stoneweg, has acquired two hotels in Spain from Globalia Business Corporation, the Spanish tourism group, for €83 million. The investments have been made through a variety of Stoneweg’s discretionary funds and increase the Company’s hospitality exposure by 25%, from 1,281 to 1,691 keys, as well as its weighting to the Balearic and Canary Islands to 62%, a region where record visitor numbers are forecasted i
Hotel Owner
APRIL 28, 2023
L+R Hotels has announced the launch of The Mole Resort in Devon this summer. The Mole Resort is a “luxury” lodge set in 125 acres of countryside next to the river Mole and combines lodges, hotel rooms and dining with a myriad of activities. It said 15 premium eco-conscious lodges are already complete and available for booking along with hotel rooms at the existing Highbullen Hotel.
Guides: Lodging Magazine
APRIL 28, 2023
Opened in February, Yours Truly DC represents the Americas debut of IHG Hotels & Resorts’ Vignette Collection, the newest brand in IHG’s Luxury & Lifestyle portfolio. Located within Washington’s Dupont Circle, Yours Truly DC exemplifies the brand’s concept of unexpected guest experiences, known as “Memorable Rituals.” For example, guests can curate the soundtrack to their stay at El Donut Shoppe, an outpost of the Orlando-based record store located off the hotel’s lobby.
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Hotel Owner
APRIL 28, 2023
Meliá Hotels International has completed the “extensive” £40m transformation of its flagship UK hotel, Meliá White House. The four-star deluxe hotel, which is housed in an “iconic” 1930s Grade II listed building and sits alongside Regent’s Park, has upscaled its 581 bedrooms and suites, restaurant, bar, meeting spaces, lobby and members-style The Level service and lounge.
Hospitality Net
APRIL 28, 2023
Hyatt Hotels Corporation (NYSE: H) and Mr & Mrs Smith today announced an agreement for a Hyatt affiliate to acquire London-based Mr & Mrs Smith, a platform offering direct booking access to a carefully curated and growing collection of over 1,500 boutique and luxury properties in some of the world’s most desirable locations. Hyatt will acquire 100 percent of the asset-light Mr & Mrs Smith platform for an enterprise value of £53.0 million in cash consideration.
Duetto Cloud
APRIL 28, 2023
Last year Duetto and Oaky joined forces to create a pioneering integration offering dynamic and highly targeted room upgrade pricing to guests. How does it work? By automatically adjusting upgrade rates in Oaky by leveraging your dynamic rate strategy in Duetto.
Hospitality Net
APRIL 28, 2023
Yesterday local State and Federal MPs, Sarah Connolly and Dr Daniel Mulino, and Brimbank City Councillors Sam David and Thomas O’Reilly, joined Veriu Group co-founder Alex Thorpe, CEO Zed Sanjana and developer Martin Strode of SMA Projects in a sod-turning ceremony to commemorate the start of Veriu’s latest Punthill property build at Sunshine.
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PhocusWire
APRIL 28, 2023
London-based luxury hotel booking site Mr & Mrs Smith, launched in 2003, offers direct booking access to more than 1,500 boutique and luxury properties around the world.
Hospitality Net
APRIL 28, 2023
HSMAI has a rich history of producing educational conferences since our inception in 1927. Our topics and strategies continuously evolved with the times to help hotels be more successful. During the early 2000s as internet marketing was rapidly advancing, we produced the first Hotel Internet Marketing Strategy Conference in 2003 and then the Revenue Management Strategy Conference in 2004.
Travel Pulse Destinations
APRIL 28, 2023
Hyatt's latest acquistion will expand the hotel giant into new destinations and more than double the luxury and boutique properties available for booking.
Hospitality Net
APRIL 28, 2023
Sustainable Hospitality Alliance is partnering with international development organisation Sightsavers to increase disability inclusion in the hospitality industry, with a focus on countries in Africa and Asia. The partnership will see both organisations act in close collaboration, enabling knowledge sharing to make the world’s hospitality industry accessible to all.
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