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Reading Time: 3 minutesUK: A deaf awareness tutor has urged hoteliers to undertake deaf awareness and sign language classes. Consultant Ruthy Fletcher, who is deaf herself, says: “For

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAustralia: QT Hotels and Resorts will manage the renovated Swiss Grand Hotel at Bondi in Sydney. The refurbished property will be the hotel component of
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSo what’s the next luxury hotel accommodation trend? How long will it be before the less innovative luxury hotels and resorts becomes yesterday’s accommodation?

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: Pebblebrook Hotel Trust has acquired the 57-room, extended-stay Redbury Hotel in Hollywood, California, for US$34 million from the CIM Group. sbe Hotel Group will
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe latest of a series in which Nathalie Salas interviews the owners and proprietors of independent boutique hotels.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDavid Taylor looks at the importance of a clearly defined social media strategy.

Reading Time: 2 minutesIndia: American entrepreneur Michael van Cleef Ault is in talks with Indian conglomerate Spice Global to launch boutique hotels under the Pangaea nightclub brand. Ault,

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: The Independent Hotel Show has announced the shortlist of nominees for its Independent Hotelier of the Year Award 2013. The list comprises:• Robin Hutson,
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA five-step guide to developing a boutique hotel concept that is unique, protectable and profitable.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: John Pritzker, through his private-equity firm Geolo Capital, has bought the Pomeranc brothers’ 50 per cent share of Commune Hotels and Resorts for an