by Alissa Ponchione | Jun 7, 2011 | News
EcoSpec Tile has made its debut as a manufacturer devoted to making sustainable tile. The initial product offering includes sustainable tile material made of 50 percent pre-consumer waste, 20 percent post-consumer waste, and 30 percent new material recycled contents,...
by Alissa Ponchione | Jun 7, 2011 | News
IHG has added 54 hotels to its European pipeline in the year from June 2010 to May 2011. The 7,874 rooms are spread across the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Russia, Turkey, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. The signings represent the Hotel Indigo (which...
by Alissa Ponchione | Jun 7, 2011 | News
Orient-Express will bring its sixth hotel to Peru with the 2012 debut of Palacio Nazarenas in Cuzcos in the heart of the Andes mountains. The property- a Spanish colonial building dating back to 1715-is the culmination of a three-year restoration project carried out...
by Alissa Ponchione | Jun 7, 2011 | News
Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels has released updated metrics on the U.S. hotel market, reporting that volume reached $4.9 billion through May-triple the volume recorded during the first five months of 2010. “We are seeing a striking turnaround in the market for hotel...
by Alissa Ponchione | Jun 7, 2011 | News
Starwood president and CEO Frits van Paasschen and the company’s top executives have relocated to Shanghai for a month in order to to understand and leverage different cultural perspectives and approaches to business in China. “With properties in nearly...