Accor has announced a franchise agreement with WIN Hotels for the first Tribe hotel in the Netherlands. 

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is to expand its La Quinta by Wyndham brand in Turkey with the addition of two new hotels.

Rosewood Hotels & Resorts is to manage the  Hotel Villa Magna in Madrid for RLH Properties

Staycity has received planning permission for the development of its fourth property in Manchester, in the city’s Deansgate area.

Shiva Hotels has secured £230m in financing with Cale Street and Crosstree for its Marylebone Lane Hotel development.

The impact that COVID-19 is having on the hospitality industry is palpable. There is no time more important than right now to come together, share information, and discuss what this means for our future. As hospitality reopens in Europe, Katherine Doggrell discusses the customer experience with guest Martina Maly-Gärtner, Chief Operating Officer at Arabella Hospitality and we take a look inside The Grand Westin in Munich.

The impact that COVID-19 is having on the hospitality industry is palpable. There is no time more important than right now to come together, share information, and discuss what this means for our future. Julie Rey-Gore and Katherine Doggrell join us this week with guests Martina Maly-Gärtner, Chief Operating Officer at Arabella Hospitality and Margarida de Ordaz Caldeira, Executive Board Director EMEA Chair at Broadway Malyan to discuss the customer experience as hotels reopen in Europe and the impact on design and development. Watch the full In Focus Series here.  

Locke has announced that its first international sites will open over the next two years, in Germany, Ireland and Portugal.

The impact that COVID-19 is having on the hospitality industry is palpable. There is no time more important than right now to come together, share information, and discuss what this means for our future. Alexi Khajavi and Katherine Doggrell join us this week with guests Daniel Fryer, Psychotherapist & Author and Ingo Schweder, Founder & CEO of GOCO Hospitality & Managing Director of Horwath HTL Health & Wellness. Watch the full In Focus Series here, hear how the latest developments in quarantine rules are implicating the hospitality industry and how wellbeing will become an intrinsic part of hotel development, design and operations. 

The UNWTO is to work alongside IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, to fund sustainable training programmes in developing countries.