Design Quarterly Sooner or later, every owner of a hotel or restaurant must take a hard look at renovations and make that financial decision. Is it time for a minor or major facelift to breathe new life into their hotel or restaurant or can it wait a bit longer? The timing question is easily answered [...]

Hotel Business Review In the age when reviews are a Tweet away and websites such as TripAdvisor leave a long trail of guest comments, hoteliers are under increasing pressure to keep properties up to guests’ high standards. While a quick coat of paint or a new set of furniture can often keep a hotel looking [...]

Hotel News Now From the front door to the rooftop at The Watson Hotel in New York City, a variety of colorful plants, ranging from hibiscus trees to floral arrangements in the lobby, can be found throughout the two-tower, 600-room hotel. Most urban hotels lack the amount of acreage that some suburban and resort properties [...]

Water Technology Condensate is considered good water — as pure as distilled water, low in mineral content and can be used for a number of applications in addition to cooling towers. It can be used for irrigation, in ornamental fountains and ponds, for industrial process makeup and even flushing toilets, if filtered and disinfected first.  READ [...]

Meetings Net Global design firm Gensler won the Sleep Set competition at Sleep 2016, the annual hotel design event, with a radically different conception of what guest rooms — and hotels — may become. The guests they were assigned to design for were termed “Digital Avant-Gardes” — “globalized, nonconformist travelers in constant search of new, [...]

Hotel Management The total construction pipeline ended 2016 with 4,960 projects with 598,688 rooms, a 12-percent increase by number of projects and a 10-percent rise in the number of rooms year over year, according to the year-end United States Construction Pipeline Trend Report from Lodging Econometrics. The fourth quarter of 2016 was the 19th consecutive [...]