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AI Is Becoming the Hotel Industry's New Manager
In North America, 65% of hotels reported staffing shortages in 2025, BCG reported, citing the American Hotel and Lodging Association (AHLA). The math is pushing hotel operators toward AI not as a guest-facing amenity but as an operational…
Why Luxury Hotel Brands Are Launching Their Own Cruise Ships
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Grand Atlantic Hotel owners slammed for not tackling break-ins
The owners of an iconic Victorian hotel is failing on its duty to deal with repeated break-ins, according to the local council leader. Since the Grand Atlantic Hotel on Weston-super-Mare's seafront closed in 2025 for a multi-million pound revamp…
Lankan hotels and price discrimination
In planning a long trip to Sri Lanka from the UK, I was disappointed to see different hotel pricing for foreign visitors when compared to local rates. Like many travellers, I prefer to book directly with hotels, rather than international hotel…
HK guest claims hotel refused refund after finding suspected faeces on bedsheet in Shenzhen
A Hong Kong resident has gone public with a complaint after allegedly finding a suspected faecal stain on a bedsheet during a stay at a hotel near Luohu Port in Shenzhen, in a social media post that has drawn widespread attention online. SCROLL TO…
Legendary Texas hotel that hosted rock stars, housed inmates reborn
A historic North Texas hotel once known for welcoming rock royalty—and later prisoners— is beginning a new chapter as affordable housing. The Cabana Motor Hotel, at 899 N. Stemmons Freeway in Dallas, opened in 1963 and became a…
People looking round our hotel room?
Please or to access all these features Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters. Randomchat · Today 09:05 Staying in a lovely 5* hotel for 2 nights. Total treat, it's lovely. Yesterday we went out for the day. Came…
Last Manvers hotel rioter jailed as police break silence after 120 convictions
The final person convicted over the Manvers Holiday Inn Express disorder has been jailed, bringing one of South Yorkshire Police 's biggest investigations to a close. Ashley Ivermee, 25, of South Drive, Barnsley, was sentenced to 18 months in…
Hilton Hotels where World Cup 2026 teams stayed
There is no greater showcase for a united world of sports than the World Cup. In 2026, matches at international soccer's pinnacle were played in the United States of America for the second time. World Cup 2026 is the biggest in the competition's…
California hotels named top two in America - and one is surprisingly affordable
Two California hotels –– Appellation Healdsburg and Rosewood Miramar Beach –– have claimed the top spots as the best resorts in America. Appellation Healdsburg, launched less than a year ago in Sonoma County, was ranked…
Brigade Hotel Ventures earmarks ₹1,100 crore for Chennai expansion, plans three new hotels
Brigade Hotel Ventures (BHVL) is stepping up its presence in Chennai with an investment of about ₹1,100 crore as part of its next phase of growth, underlining the city's increasing importance in the company's South India expansion strategy.
I spent 2 nights at Lisa Vanderpump's brand-new Las Vegas hotel. I think she's ready to become the Queen of Sin City.
Before it bore her name, Vanderpump's hotel was known as The Cromwell, a small hotel that my friends and I only visited once to go to Drai's After Hours, the post-midnight club on its first floor. My friend Kayla, who came along with me to The…
New hotel revitalises a 56-year-old property in a tired city street
In the Perth CBD, a tired, one-way street is grooving to a new beat, as a piece of LA's Sunset Strip jets in. The Hyde brand began life as a Hollywood music lounge in the mid-2000s and segued into hotels through parent company Ennismore. It is now…
Tour de France director hits back at Uno-X hotel criticism and reveals how hotels are shared out fairly
Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme has hit back at criticism about the quality of the team hotels from Tobias Halland Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility) by explaining that all teams are treated equally using a carefully calculated system of…
Review: Hotel Schwarzschmied (Marriott Design Hotels), South Tyrol (Solid)
We recently took a family trip to South Tyrol, the beautiful autonomous region in the Dolomites, in northern Italy. In this post, I'd like to review the the 68-key Hotel Schwarzschmied, part of Design Hotels, which belongs to Marriott Bonvoy. So…
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