Benjamin Jones

Hotels across Spain are reopening as the vital summer season gets underway, fueled by an easing of domestic and international travel restrictions and increasing vaccination levels.

Spain's hotel industry could soon see relief from the low-demand environment induced by the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Spanish hoteliers, already devastated by plunging occupancy triggered by COVID-19 restrictions on both foreign and domestic travel, are now reeling from a government move to cancel this season’s ...

Reeling from the precipitous drop in international and domestic bookings due to COVID-19, Spanish hoteliers have taken another hit with the British government’s recent decision to quarantine ...

REPORT FROM SPAIN—Reeling from the precipitous drop in international and domestic bookings due to COVID-19, Spanish hoteliers have taken another hit with the British government’s recent decision to ...

MADRID—While the Spanish hotel industry faces the prospect of a long and perhaps difficult recovery following the COVID-19-induced shut down, Madrid-based family office Mazabi announced it will ...

MADRID—If all goes according to plan, the Room Mate group will open its first resort property next April on the Spanish Mediterranean island of Majorca in what founder and President Kike Sarasola ...

MADRID—Spanish hoteliers are worried that the number of guests from the United Kingdom, the sector’s biggest source market, will suffer a major decline if London and Brussels fail to agree on a ...

MADRID—International tourist arrivals increased 6% to 1.4 billion in 2018, with the Middle East and Africa leading regional growth, and speakers at a conference of the United Nations World Tourism ...

MADRID—Investment in the Spanish hotel sector set a record again in 2018 with international and domestic investors plowing €4.8 billion ($5.5 billion) into existing hotels, properties for conversions ...

REPORT FROM EUROPE—Breakfast buffets offered by the major hotel companies active in Europe are becoming healthier, more local and more varied as operators realize the meal’s impact on their earnings ...

MADRID—Spanish hoteliers see clouds on the horizon concerning foreign visitor numbers, according to sources gathered at a news conference last week given by the Confederation of Spanish Hotels and ...

MADRID—Spain’s hotel industry is on a positive upswing, according to local industry analysts and hoteliers. Visitor numbers and transaction volume are setting records, and high-end hotel brands are ...

MADRID—Spain’s major hotel groups are riding a wave of booming visitor numbers at home and new openings abroad, and that has executives buoyant on prospects for the new year.

MADRID—Global tourism increased 7% last year to more than 1.3 billion international arrivals, with Europe and Africa as regional leaders, and further growth can be expected in 2018, according to the ...

GLOBAL REPORT—International chains and local operators are adding dozens of new extended-stay hotels across Europe as investors begin to better understand a market which is still largely underserved ...

MADRID–In a move to re-enter the North American market, Spanish hotel and travel giant Barceló Hotel Group has bought back the 60% of United States hotel management firm Crestline Hotels & Resorts it ...

MADRID—Leading Spanish hotel chains are entering the fiercely competitive Manhattan hospitality market, and so far, so good, according to executives of three of the companies which have opened ...

MADRID—After years of crisis, Spain’s major hotel groups seem to be on a roll.

MADRID—As Room Mate Hotels continues its rapid expansion both in its domestic Spanish market and abroad, President and Founder Kike Sarasola has set his sights on the resort market.