Industry News & Reports

Date: May 2018 Location: Trade and Church streets, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA Name: Grand Bohemian – opening 1st Qtr 2020 No. of Keys: 254 including 32 suites Owner: The hotel is being developed by the Kessler Collection, a boutique operator with nine hotels in cities such as Asheville, Charleston and Savannah, Ga., that are affiliated with…

May 2018 Location: 70 hotels across the UK Name: Now RBH Hospitality Management

Date: May 2018 Location: Across Canada What: Lodging Econometrics (LE) report…the total Construction Pipeline in Canada currently has 237 Projects/29,881 Rooms, up 11% by projects Year-Over-Year. There are 90 Projects/11,811 Rooms Under Construction, up 20% by projects YOY.

Date: June 2018 Location: Gallagher Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa Name: The Hotel Show Africa 2018, part of Africa Hospitality Week 2018 What: The Hotel Show Africa 2018 is a major part of Africa Hospitality Week 2018, which runs from June 24 to 26 at The Gallagher Convention Centre, with 1,000 of products and services…

Date: May 2018 Location: Japan What: With the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo just over two years away (THPT: and the Rugby World Cup in 2019!), investors are taking a closer look at Japan’s hotels.

Date: May 2018 Location: Court in Shanghai Who: Mr Wu Ziaohui, Founder of Anbang Insurance What: Sentenced to 18 years in prison

Date: May 2018 Location: Cumbria, UK Name: Gilsland Hotel

Date: May 2018 Location: Ambassador to the EU, based in Brussels, Belgium What: President Trump has nominated Gordon Sondland, a Portland hotel magnate and major donor to the president, to be ambassador to the European Union.

Date: May 2018 Location: Up North! What: Russell Kett, chairman of the London office of global hospitality consultancy HVS Russell Kett, chairman of the London office of global hospitality consultancy HVS, has been appointed as special adviser to the board of hotel and leisure investment company, Northern Powerhouse Developments (NPD).

Date: May 2018 Location: USA What: The LW Hospitality Advisors Q1 2018 Major U.S. Hotel Sales Survey from Lesser and LWHA shows that the United States saw an uptick in transactions in the first quarter of 2018 compared with the same period in 2017.

Date: May 2018 Location Malaysia – Recent election What: Nonagenarian Mahathir Mohamed wins the election.

Date: May 2018 Location: Paris, France What: The City of Light’s hotel industry may have dimmed for a spell but now is back on track and pulling the rest of France up with it, according to analyst data. In February, STR pointed to the resurgence in Paris propping up the the rest of the country.…

Date: April 2018, updated two days later. Location: 80 hotels Name: Movenpick Hotels No. of Keys: 20,000 or so Seller: According to Le Figaro, Accor plans to strengthen its luxury segment and is in ‘advanced’ negotiations to buy the Swiss group Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts. The newspaper refers to a total amount of the possible…

Date: April 2018 Location: Global, with a healthy USA bias. What: This reports covers Hospitality, Airlines, Restaurants, Ground Transportation and other subject headings such as Building bigger ecosystems: Unlocking the power of adjacent spaces (yes I thought that!)

Date: April 2018 Location: UK What: BDO’s Hotel Britain report, which analyses the room yield of UK hotels, reveals the sector experienced another year of positive results in 2017 despite the global uncertainty which has impacted other sectors.

Date: April 2018 Location: Mainly UK, with emerging markets such as Germany Name: Premier Inn and Costa demerger.

Date: April 2018 Location: Latin America Name: Homewood Suites Silao and other Hilton brands

Date: 2017…updated April 2018 Location: HQ Amsterdam, The Netherlands…Looking at Copenhagen, Vienna, Paris, Berlin, London, Manchester and Hamburg for their new hotels. Name: Zoku, a true combination of work space and living quarters – serviced apartments with a twist…co-founded by Hans Meyer and Marc Jongerius, who started the company in 2014 and opened the first Zoku…

Date: February 2018 Location: New York, USA About: Room rates continue to fall while lending constraints, regulatory environment could hinder future pipeline

Date: June 1876! Location: Chicago, USA What: Hotels suffering in 1876, reports the New York Times.