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Reading Time: < 1 minuteItaly: A 19th-century estate has been reimagined as The Monteleone, a 17-room boutique hotel in rural Umbria.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSingapore: Millennium Hotels and Resorts has hired Cinn Tann as its chief commercial officer, overseeing the group’s 145 hotels.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMorocco: Nikki Beach will launch a luxury resort, spa, and branded residences in Marrakech, set to open in 2028.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Hyatt will redevelop the South Congress Hotel in Austin, reopening in 2027 as The Standard and the brand’s first US opening in more than a decade.
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Reading Time: 7 minutesIHM’s Connor Foote examines how the US–Israel conflict with Iran is disrupting the Middle East, impacting the hospitality industry, and redirecting global capital flows.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrance: Hospitality group Accor now operates more than 180 hotels across five brand collections, with more than 100 on the way.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Hospitality investment firm Blue Flag Capital will open four boutique hotels in Montauk, Greenport, Jackson Hole and Sag Harbor this summer.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesChina: Luxury hotel group Corinthia has signed a deal with developer ShiLong Industry Co and investment platform The Geminus Group to open a hotel with residences in Chengdu, 2032.
Reading Time: 3 minutesEurope: Hotel consultancy HVS’s 2025 Hotel Valuation Index (HVI) shows hotel valuation grew 0.2 per cent across the continent.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIndia: The Leela Palaces acquired a 76-acre nature resort near Madikeri in the South Indian state of Karnataka, reopening as The Leela Coorg Forest Sanctuary later this year.
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