Priceline buys OpenTable
If you’re an OpenTable member, you probably received a mass email from OpenTable CEO Matt Roberts like the…
Pet friendly hotels?
If you’re getting ready to hit the road with Fido this summer, how much extra are you willing…
Marriott opens 4,000th hotel
WASHINGTON – Marriott International today is officially opening its 4,000th hotel – the Marriott Marquis, next to the…
Virgin Hotels: We’re inclusive
Virgin Hotels, which is developing hip hotels in the U.S. in keeping with Virgin’s cheeky European brand, this…
Miami: Michael Mina’s hot concept
My friend Elaine Walker and I were business reporters together at the Miami Herald in the late 1990s,…
Hotel CEOs + Airbnb
NEW YORK – Did Airbnb come up during the hotel industry’s important investment conference organized by New York…
Scoop: Marriott’s new flagship
Marriott International’s Renaissance brand will soon be able to tout a swanky, glass-wrapped hotel as its flagship in…
Hotel showers: Pump it up!
NEW YORK – Travelers: If you hate the idea of contributing those tiny, plastic hotel toiletry bottles to…
IHG CEO: ‘Speculation’
NEW YORK – Besides the rising popularity and valuation of Airbnb, the most scintillating topic at the 36th…
Ivanka Trump: Tisch interview
NEW YORK – NYU hotel investment conference chairman and Loews Chairman Jonathan Tisch on Tuesday interviewed Ivanka Trump,…