Hotel Industry Leading Indicator - HIL - Up In April - More

Purchases the Radisson Plaza San Jose and the Embassy Suites Palm Desert - More

Jekyll Oceanfront Hotel, LLC (JOFH) and New Castle Hotels & Resorts today broke ground on the $41 million Westin Jekyll Island, a 200-room, convention-class, beachfront hotel that will open in September 2014 as part of the Jekyll Island Beach Village project. - More

sbe and Larry Levy, Founder and Chairman of Levy Restaurants, and Bob Heyat today announced their partnership to launch The Redbury Hotel South Beach. - More

Overall, the U.S. hotel industry’s occupancy rose 3.5 percent to 63.8 percent, its average daily rate was up 3.8 percent to US$110.02 and its revenue per available room increased 7.5 percent to US$70.24. - More

To kick off the program, 24 Houston students will participate in a three-day hospitality camp starting July 8th at the University of Houston's Hilton College. Program participants will be matched up with a personal mentor from the hospitality industry; a one-year internship at a local Hilton Worldwide-branded hotel managed by American Liberty Hospitality; and, will receive financial support towards a hospitality degree. - More

The American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute (EI) honored the Navy Lodge program with the first Military Certification Excellence Award during the Navy Lodge annual conference on April 26. - More

Mecca currently has 12 new luxury hotels with a total number of more than 6,000 rooms in the hotel construction and development pipeline. - More

Announces agreement to take over the management of the Green Hill Hotel, a property located in the heart of Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon. - More

To date, almost 71 million US dollars have been invested in the hotel with the opening scheduled for summer 2014. - More