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Gramercy Park Hotel is up for grabs
Crain's New York Business
The Gramercy Park Hotel has hit the market in an offering likely to test the limits of what investors are willing to pay to get into the business of operating one of the city's best-known hostelries.
Real estate investors Aby Rosen and Michael Fuchs have hired brokerage firm Eastdil Secured to market the 186-room hotel.
Italy: Growth in luxury hotels market
International Meetings Review
The luxury hotel market is alive and kicking: In the last year, high-end hotels have seen an upsurge in interest among international consumers of 7.7 percent, mainly owing to their appeal among Americans, who account for 58 percent of specific online searches, followed by the British, with 10 percent.
NU Hotel's NU Prespectives Program has murals covered with art by Brooklyn, New York locals in 15 guestrooms
PR Web
Now more than ever, when you check into NU Hotel Brooklyn, you stand a very good chance to land a guestroom that features a locally-inspired mural painted by a Brooklyn, New York, artist, as the hotel now has a total of 15 guestrooms outfitted in NU Perspectives, a program which brings local Brooklyn artists into the guestrooms and allows them to use the walls as their canvas.
Star attractions boost 'boutique hotels'
Financial News
The growing focus on star fund managers is boosting interest in 'boutique hotels' — firms that provide a platform for high-performing teams of fund managers to keep as much as 30 percent of the operating revenue they generate. Sanlam International, an arm of the South African financial services group, is the latest to mull expansion.
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The future of boutique hotels
Skift
 Avi Brosh, founder of Paligroup Hotels, spoke earlier this month at the Skift Global Forum.
Brosh is the founder, leader and creative force behind the much-loved Paligroup brands and properties in Los Angeles and Santa Monica, California. Brosh spearheads Paligroup's concept innovation, design direction, development execution and operational strategies.
Zaha Hadid and Norman Foster to design luxury hotels in China
Aquila Style
Pritzker Prize-winning architects Zaha Hadid and Norman Foster are set to create two new hotels for the luxury Jumeirah Group in China.
Jumeirah Wuhan will be designed by British studio Foster and Partners. The Wuhan property will combine luxury office space with retail areas, private residences, parkland and a luxury hotel, housed in a series of contemporary skyscrapers of different heights.
Bulgari to open luxury hotel in Beijing in 2017
The Malay Mail
The Chinese capital looks set to welcome a luxury hotel from the Italian jewellery and fragrance house within the next few years.
Bulgari Hotels are set to launch a new luxury hotel in 2017, located in Beijing's upmarket Embassy District and overlooking the Liangma River.
Boutique hotel downtown Pittsburgh to cater to 'cool'
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Holly Brubach remembers one local hotel executive telling her that boutique hotels are "for cool people, and cool people don't come to Pittsburgh."
She's setting out to prove him wrong.
Confident that cool people do come to Pittsburgh, Brubach, a former New York Times style editor, is planning to convert the historic Granite Building Downtown at Sixth Avenue and Wood Street into a 104-room boutique hotel with three bars and a brasserie-style restaurant.
Luxury residence, boutique hotel moving to Manhattanville College in 2016
Columbia Spectator
A boutique hotel and luxury private residence is set to open its doors in Manhattanville in 2016.
Uptown House will include 40 rooms, a pool, up to three restaurants, two bars, a rooftop patio, a library, and a fitness center. It will be located in the Malt House, an 80,000 square foot space on Amsterdam Avenue between West 126th and 128th streets in New York.
New Hotel Okura luxury resort to open in metro Manila, Philippines in 2018
Hospitality Net
Hotel Okura Co., Ltd. announced it will open Hotel Okura Manila (tentative name) in 2018, a new luxury resort in the Philippines. Okura has an agreement to manage the hotel with Resort World Bayshore City, Inc., a subsidiary of Philippines-based Travelers International Hotel Group Inc.
Derelict townhouses to become luxury hotel
Edinburgh Evening News
A derelict site in the heart of the Capital is set to be transformed into the home of an exclusive global hotel brand.
Baxter's Place at the top of Leith Walk will house a Marriott Courtyard Hotel, with an extension offering guests panoramic views of Calton Hill. The Chris Stewart Group said a £20 million project to revamp the three dilapidated adjoining Georgian townhouses into a 240-bed hotel would begin "immediately."
France's Accor invests in Mama Shelter boutique hotels
Reuters via The Daily Mail
Europe's largest hotel group, Accor, said it bought a 35 percent stake in Mama Shelter to help speed up the international expansion of the French boutique hotel chain.
Founded in 2008 by the Trigano family, also behind the birth of all-inclusive holiday pioneer Club Med, Mama Shelter said it aims to open some 20 hotels worldwide over the next five years, including one in Los Angeles in February.
Sheraton to be new Emerald in Phuket luxury hotel market
Phuket Gazette
Emerald Phuket Development, confident that the luxury property market on the island isn't saturated, is bringing the Sheraton brand back to the province in Thailand after a three-year hiatus.
"The Sheraton brand has one of the best distribution systems and traveler loyalty programs. It is returning to Phuket with a firm vision to take its rightful place in Phuket's competitive luxury market," Managing Director Sawit Ketroj told the Gazette.
Hotels can maximize the value of unsold rooms
Lodging
The empty hotel room is a fact of life. On a given night, that might not seem like a significant problem. But when considered over time, a different picture emerges. According to some estimates, 15,000 hotel rooms remain unsold each night in New York City alone, equating to over 5 million empty rooms each year and lost revenues of more than $1 billion.
Ready for chip and pin? Maestro PMS certified for chip and pin credit card processing in North America
PR Web
Maestro PMS announced the Maestro Property Management System Suite is certified for Chip & PIN processing for North American hotel operators. Maestro will provide support for multiple payment card processing providers that accept Chip & PIN payments. Maestro PMS is the leading provider of solutions that increase revenue and create efficient, profitable operations for independents.
The top 5 emerging hospitality marketing trends of 2014
Cvent
What's driving guest loyalty today? Which trends are gaining more and more leverage in the hospitality industry and in hotel marketing? What will help you increase hotel group bookings? For the answers, let's turn to our friends across the pond.
From experientialism to collaboration, the recent 2014 Association of British Travel Agents Convention uncovered several trends that are already starting to impact hotel marketers worldwide.
How you 'engage' with guests on their mobile devices will determine your hotel's failure or success
Hospitality Net
There was a time when a website was viewed as nothing more than a digital brochure. Hoteliers had one goal: putting heads in beds. They approached website development with a "take it or leave it" attitude, mostly because they lacked the human resources and knowledge base to execute it.
Top 5 challenges hotels face
eHotelier
Working with hotels for almost two decades now has given me so much insight on what they encounter on a daily basis. From menial to revenue impacting problems, from operational to systems concerns and from controllable and totally out of their hands issues.
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