A site started by travel and search industry veterans--including Calvin Yang, who designed Google's image search--gives users a peek at what's inside and outside of a hotel room, before they arrive. Front-desk griping may never be the same.READ»
The recovery in business travel during the first half of 2011 means fewer available rooms and higher costs. Use these tips to find the prime locations at the best value for your next business trip. READ»
Hotels are finally wising up to the fact that the one-look-fits-all philosophy isn't attractive to design-savvy travelers, who'd rather choose a room with local flavor over a chainy cookie-cutter, as nice as it is. Starwood has ...READ»
We admit, we never understood the appeal of resorts that tower like fortresses over places of exquisite natural beauty, whether Hawaii or Cancun, and seem to exist solely to replicate the creature comforts of life in, say, Overland ...READ»
Hilton hotels aren't exactly known for good taste, unless your idea of taste falls somewhere between a Pottery Barn showroom and the Liberace Museum. Which makes the interior shown here, by Bangkok-based Department of Architecture, ...READ»
Hotel advertisers buying space on travel sites? How very quaint. These
days, ad buyers aren't targeting websites; they're targeting specific
web users. Popular sites employ dozens of bits of tracking technology
to gather insanely ...READ»
Waterfront resorts are great--except when they erode the local coastline. The Waterfront Resort Hotel, designed by U:phoria for the port city of Da Nang, Vietnam, juts out into the ocean instead of hanging back along the coastline ...READ»
A few years ago, before the Great Fall of 2008 but long enough after September 11 that folks were back to traveling with enthusiasm, the economy was humming along and the hotels were packed. So many of the largest hotel chains ...READ»
Sir Terence Conran, the designer and founder of the Conran Shop, has made preparations to design a dozen hotels and resorts in Cuba.
Sir Terence, who revolutionized the sale and marketing of home furnishings in the sixties and ...READ»
Let's say you're based outside NYC. But you come here often enough to need an office. But not so much that it's worth renting one long term. How's someone who's design obsessed supposed to pull that off? You can't very well sell ...READ»
With more than 3,200 hotels around the world, InterContinental Hotel Group's Holiday Inn is the most recognized and most popular hotel brand in the world--every second, three people check into a Holiday Inn property. This year, the ...READ»
Would you live in a house made of cards? Probably not. Would you just stay in a hotel room made of one for a night? Well, now is your chance to at least check out your possible accommodations. Check out Holiday Inn's hotel made entirely of stacked key cards in celebration of their hotel relaunch.READ»
From a resort hanging from the side of a cliff, to one that rolls on rails, the Radical Innovation in Hospitality Awards aim to change your idea of what a hotel is all about.READ»
The New York branch of the Ace Hotel just opened yesterday, and it's a great corrective to the bloated, blinged-out interiors we've come to expect from boutique hotels. Rooms begin at a very reasonable rate for New York--$199 ...READ»
The familiar sight of newspapers scattered on the floor outside hotel rooms might soon be a thing of the past.
In what is being billed as an environmentally-conscious move, Marriott International Inc. announced today that ...READ»
