At first, I was shocked. Then, oddly flattered. A man I had never met until this day, standing at the bar in a foreign country, fleetingly and mid-conversation, dropped in a fact about me that he could have only known had he read a blog post I wrote in 2015.
Based in Hong Kong, Gordon Oldham is a UK-trained lawyer who has recently created his own hotel group.
What’s in a name? A luxury hotel by any other name is still luxurious, right? No longer, it seems, in today’s hospitality industry.
When the rich and famous head to Paris, there are a select few addresses that their chauffeur-driven cars whisk them to. These are the Palace hotels, the crème de la crème of its luxury hotels scene, which used to be seven and but are soon to be fourteen.
Kempinski Hotels has announced plans to expand its portfolio of luxury hotels in Africa. With two new properties opened in Kenya in 2013, Kempinski looks to add five more hotels to its African portfolio in the next year.
Africa is the new jewel of international hotel investments. In the black continent 191 new first-class and luxury hotels with around 39,800 rooms arise in the next years.
The hotel market in London is booming. 51 new first class and luxury hotels will open within the next years, according to TOPHOTELPROJECTS (www.tophotelprojects.com),
Hotel investments are nowhere higher than in Mecca: 133 billion US dollar will be invested in first class and luxury hotels untill 2015 in the holy city of the Muslims.
Maine based US Hotels announced the acquisition from the Carlyle Group of an additional boutique hotel to add to its portfolio of luxury hotels, restaurants and spas across the Northeast of the United States.
The Philippines will open up for more foreign tourists: this year 5,5 million visitors from abroad should be attracted to the island kingdom and several major tourism projects are under development.