Category: edition hotels

W Hotels Gets Its Own Fashion Director and Music Curator

| June 30, 2009 | 0 Comments

W Hotels is about to announce two new positions: Fashion Director and Music Curator. Two positions that you’d never think to find in a international boutique hotel brand.

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Hilton Will Announce Boutique Brand In January – But Are They Too Late?

| November 24, 2008 | 0 Comments

Looks like Hilton will finally announce the details on their new boutique brand during the ALIS Conference in January. This is what Ross Klein has been working on and is much needed to finish out Hilton’s hotel brand portfolio.

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Hilton is Finally Creating a Boutique Brand

| June 2, 2008 | 0 Comments

Ever since one of my first posts, I’ve been waiting for the day that Hilton Hotels (now known as The Hilton Group) will create a boutique hotel brand. It was even one of my predictions for 2008. They are the largest hotel brand in the world without a boutique brand, and its clearly noticable. Brands such [...]

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DoubleTree’s New Logo

| May 14, 2008 | 0 Comments
DoubleTree’s New Logo

UPDATE 10/14/10: The story below was written in 2008 and has nothing to do with the announcement made today. For information on the Sept, 2010 announcement for DoubleTree’s new logo and brand name click here. Last night while I was fast forwarding through the commercials on my DVR, a different logo for the DoubleTree Hotels flashed on [...]

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The Edition Hotels Logo

| February 28, 2008 | 0 Comments
The Edition Hotels Logo

Last month with great interest from the hotel development community Marriott & Ian Schrager finally announced the name and details of their new venture together: Edition Hotels. Not much information was revealed except for the usual – where the first locations would be, and the fact that each location would be unique and designed differently [...]

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I Could Never Be A Journalist

| February 12, 2008 | 0 Comments

Whew, well I just finished my two days of being a guest editor at HotelChatter.com, I’ll post links to all of my 11 articles at the bottom of this post, but I wanted to say: I could never be a journalist!Even though HotelChatter is not the equivalent of a daily newspaper, or even a magazine, [...]

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Chicago Edition Hotel Reveled

| January 29, 2008 | 0 Comments
Chicago Edition Hotel Reveled

Thanks to the intrepid investigating of Kal B, he pointed me to some initial renderings & the address of what is supposed to be the Chicago Edition, located at 150 East Ontario. This building has been in development for some time, and I think its only recently that it was decided to be branded as [...]

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Edition Hotels – Schrager & Marriott’s REAL Brand Name

| January 29, 2008 | 1 Comment

Today at the ALIS Conference in Los Angeles, Marriott & Ian Schrager will officially announce the name of their new hotel brand, and unlike the “scoop” reported by the New York Post – it is to be called “Edition Hotels”, not “Schrager Hotels”. According to the NY Post, the hotel company was supposed to be [...]

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