Category: Hotel Brands
Loews Hotel’s Development Plan Picks Up Speed
Loews Hotels has always been known as a very high end, yet small luxury hotel brand, with locations in highly populated urban areas, as well as three themed resorts within Universal Studios in Orlando Florida. Loews Hotels is a subsidiary of Loews Corporation – a company run by the Tisch family which also controls CNA [...]
Will Hilton/Blackstone Develop A Boutique Brand?
One thing about the business world is imitation of a good thing. For example, once Apple came out with the iPod in the early 2000′s, most of the world never heard of portable MP3 players, and within a few short years, not only did Apple single handedly create a market, they also created an industry [...]
MGM Grand Atlantic City: Coming Soon
With all the news coming out of Atlantic City over the past few weeks – their Mayor literally missing for almost 2 weeks, (he turned up in a mental institution, and resigned today), declining gaming revenues at almost all of the 11 Atlantic City casinos, Trump Entertainment Resorts having financial difficulties at all 3 casinos [...]
Hyatt Andaz in Austin TX Announced!
Hyatt has finally taken the wraps off of their new Andaz brand with the announcement of Andaz Austin, which will be located in Austin’s new East End development. This is one of the first Andaz’s with officially announced location, estimated opening dates (2010), and architectural renderings. When Andaz was initially announced in April of 2007, [...]
W Harlem, or Aloft Harlem?
For the past few months there have been many rumors about a W or an Aloft being built at 2300 Frederick Douglas Blvd in Harlem, NY. For those who are not familiar with the modern Harlem, NY – a W or Aloft is not completely out of left field – Harlem has definitely come around [...]
W Hotel Phoenix – Cancelled – For Now…
Well, its been confirmed – according to an article in the Arizona Republic – the W Hotel Phoenix is dead.. At least for now. The hotel was proposed to be built by Sun’s Legacy Partners which is owned by the Phoenix Sun’s owner Robert Sarver, as part of a mixed use development which would contain [...]
Pritzker Family selling a portion of Global Hyatt Corporation
It was announced today that the Pritzker family is selling a $1billion stake of their Global Hyatt Corporation to an Investment company named Madrone Capital Partners (owned by the Waltons Family from Wal-Mart fame) and Goldman Sachs. Each company will pick up a $500million stake which will give them a board seat and a minority [...]
Ian Schrager and Bill Marriott? Does anyone think this will work?
One of the biggest news stories to come out of the hotel industry in the last few months is how Ian Schrager (of the Hudson, Cliffs, & Morgans hotel fame) is teaming up with Bill Marriott & Marriott Hotels to design and develop about 100 new boutique hotels worldwide. Marriott will be managing the hotels, [...]
Progress of W Hoboken & W New York Downtown
A number of years ago I spent a night at the W Hotel Times Square, located in New York City – ever since that night, I have had the utmost respect, fondness, and love of the W Hotel brand. Before I even stayed at that W, I always thought Starwood Hotels & Resorts was an [...]
Hilton’s Missed Marketing Opportunity
this has been bugging the heck out of me over the past few months.. all of the hilton brands have redesigned their websites – everything looks great, everything looks uniform, and its easy to get around within the website, and at the bottom of each website, they have a little color bar, one color for [...]
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