World - Hotels

New Chinese-owned resort brand to launch in China
A China-owned hospitality group is launching a new homegrown five-star hotel brand in Shanghai, reported Travel Daily Media Tuesday.

Conrad Bali to customize hotel toiletries
The Conrad Bali will customize its hotel amenities to suit the personal taste of its guests, reported Thailand’s The Nation daily Wednesday.

Chinese guests prefer Hyatt and Marriott hotels while Japanese favor Ritz-Carlton
Wealthy Chinese travelers prefer to stay at the Hyatt and Marriott chains of hotels, reported hospitality news website 4hoteliers Monday.

Thai luxury resort to ban children
The Akyra Chura Samui luxury resort will soon ban children from the hotel, reported etravelblackboardasia.com last week.

Rio's favelas welcoming hotels for international tourists
Rio is getting ready to welcome millions of tourists as it hosts the FIFA World Cup in 2014 as well as the Olympic Games in 2016. As part of the preparations, a number of hotels are opening in forgotten areas such as the old quarter and pacified favelas.

Luxury brand JW Marriott lands in Peru at an altitude of 11,154ft
Luxury hotel brand JW Marriott is opening its first property in Peru, the JW Marriott Cusco.

Adelson unveils plans for new Macau casino resort
Las Vegas casino boss Sheldon Adelson on Thursday unveiled plans to build a scaled down replica of the Eiffel Tower as part of a new $3 billion gambling resort in Macau.

The new Refugia Lodges brings luxury to the rustic Chiloé archipelago.
Hotels

Ibis hotels prove that sleeping is an art
Ibis hotels will select a happy few to test a new kind of bedding connected via 80 sensors to a robot. The sensors will capture the guests' sleep data to turn it into a work of art.

Four Seasons to open first property in Beijing
The Four Seasons hotel brand continues its expansion in China with the opening of its first property in Beijing. The opening is scheduled for September 28.

Refugia is Chile’s new luxurious lodge
The new Refugia Lodge, opened this month, brings a luxurious establishment to the Chiloé archipelago, an island in southern Chile.

Chantal Thomass's Parisian hotel design inspired by seven deadly sins
Hotels

Ritz-Carlton’s first hotel in Tunisia
The Ritz-Carltongroupwill open its first Tunisian hotel in Sidi Bou Saïd (outskirts of Tunis) in 2014.

W Hotels opens its first hotel in Central America
W Hotels announced this Wednesday that it was opening a new property in Panama City, the first for the brand in Central America.

Two new Hard Rock hotels to rock China
Hard Rock hotels will be opened in the Chinese cities of Shenzhen and Haikou by 2015, announced the international lifestyle chain Tuesday.

LVMH to open Maldives resort in 2013
Luxury giant Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LVMH) will open a resort hotel in the Maldives in 2013, TTG Asia daily reported Wednesday.

Chantal Thomass's Parisian hotel design inspired by seven deadly sins
Lingerie designer Chantal Thomass has lent her boudoir stylings to the decor of a new hotel on Paris's Left Bank, seeking inspiration in the seven deadly sins.

US business travelers rank favorite hotel brands
Newer luxury hotel chains seem to be beating well-established brands for customer satisfaction according to the latest survey carried out by the publication Business Travel News, published this week.

Stockholm visitors found few hotel bargains this summer
Tourists visiting Stockholm this summer would have had trouble finding bargains for their overnight stays, more so than in any other destination in Europe, a recent survey shows. The best summer hotel bargains were to be found in Athens, Budapest and Warsaw.

Luxury hotels arrive in forgotten downtown Rio
With an eye on upcoming sporting events such as the FIFA World Cup 2014 and the Olympic Games in 2016, 22 hotels are being built by 2016 in the long forgotten historic center of Rio de Janeiro.