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First Hotel in 35 Years Comes to Georgia’s Jekyll Island

Jekyll Island, Georgia, has welcomed its first new hotel since 1974 with the 138-room beachfront Hampton Inn and Suites. Owned by Jekyll Ocean Oaks, LLC, and operated by New Castle…

News January 11

Garrett Leather Offers Newborn Trees to Clients

Garrett Leather, a wholesale distributor of Italian upholstery leather, has teamed up with NewbornTrees.com to distribute newborn trees to clients. The company has chosen a select group of 1,200 interior…

News January 11

Hyatt Plans Three Hotels for China

Hyatt Hotels Corporation has signed three agreements for new hotels in China’s Jiangsu province. Slated for a mixed-use development, the 400-room Grand Hyatt Nanjing will feature innovative F&B concepts, grand…

News January 11

Marriott’s Q4 North American RevPar Declines 13 Percent

Marriott International has updated its Q4 RevPar outlook, which is slightly improved over previous guidance. Outside North America, RevPar declined 14 to 16 percent. On the continent, the key metric…

News January 11

Nancy Paliani Joins La Torretta Lake Resort & Spa as F&B Director

Hospitality industry veteran Nancy Paliani has joined La Torretta Lake Resort & Spa near Houston as director of food & beverage. In her new role, she will oversee culinary operations…

News January 11

Venus Group Opens Sales Office in Las Vegas

Venus Group has opened a hospitality sales office in Las Vegas, which the company has deemed an important strategic market. Lynn Gray Kerecman will move from the New York office…

News January 11

Crowne Plaza Debuts Along Chicago’s Magnificent Mile

Avenue Hotel Chicago is now Avenue Crowne Plaza Chicago following a conversion to the IHG brand. The property, which wrapped up a multimillion-dollar renovation in the summer of 2008, offers…

News January 8

Choice Hotels Heads to Haiti

Choice Hotels International is entering Haiti with plans for two new hotels. Opening this year, the 32-room Comfort Inn will mark the first global hotel brand in the country in…

News January 8

New Jersey Welcomes First Element Hotel

Starwood’s Element brand has entered New Jersey with the Element Ewing-Hopewell, 10 minutes outside of Princeton. Like all hotels flying the Element flag, the Ewing property will be LEED certified…

News January 8