Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: Chinese hotel operator Leader Group has opened the Leader Hotel in Lower Pacific Heights, San Francisco. Leader Group paid US$7 million for the four-storey

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: YOTEL is to build a 258-room hotel in Manchester’s Piccadilly district. The 20-storey tower will be YOTEL’s first non-airport property in the UK and

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSwitzerland: Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide has opened the 123-room W Verbier, the brand’s first ski resort property. W Verbier, and the adjacent 15 Residences

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: Hersha Hospitality Trust has bought the 75-room Blue Moon Hotel and the 70-room Winter Haven Hotel for $50.95 million. Both Miami Beach hotels are

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: The Hotel Marketing Association (HMA) has need its 2013 award winners at a ceremony held at London’s Melia White House hotel. The event marked

Reading Time: < 1 minuteQatar: The Classical Palace Group is launching the Zubarah Hotels and Resorts luxury hotel brand with the opening of the 45-room Zubarah Boutique Hotel Doha

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Hotel Indigo has teamed up with Italian shoemaker Superga, to create limited-edition “sightseeing shoes”. The indigo-coloured shoes will given to guests at check-in, for

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Michael Achenbaum, the founder of New York-based Gansevoort Hotel Group, has announced plans for a 120-room lifestyle hotel in Shoreditch, east London. Achenbaum has

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: Hilton is set to launch a lifestyle brand in 2014 to compete with the likes of Starwood’s W and Marriott’s Edition flags. Chief executive