Terence Baker has written about hotels, tourism, hospitality, events and business travel for more than 30 years. The former managing editor and travel editor of the American Automobile Association’s Car & Travel magazine, he has also written for Meet...
Terence Baker has written about hotels, tourism, hospitality, events and business travel for more than 30 years. The former managing editor and travel editor of the American Automobile Association’s Car & Travel magazine, he has also written for Meetings & Conventions, Meetings & Incentive Travel and Travel Weekly. Baker moved back to his native London a decade ago after nearly 20 years living and writing in New York City. His focus is on the hotel industry in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Asset-light, tech-driven lifestyle brand Yotel has signed a franchise agreement with Hilton and will be the first brand included in Hilton’s Select by Hilton brand, according to a joint news release.
The founder and chairman of Singapore-based real-estate investment firm SC Capital Partners, Suchad Chiaranussati, has acquired Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam-based Fusion Hotel Group.
LONDON — The risk from climate change and its resultant effects on the travel and hotel industry is no longer merely something that can boost, or damage, a property’s reputation. It's more of an ...
Mumbai-based hotel firm Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts has acquired its first “wellness-anchored” resort, a 71-villa property in the Indian state of Western Ghats region of Karnataka state.
LONDON — It has long been a truism in the hotel industry that what can be measured should be measured, and if one can measure it, then there are savings to be clawed back from the initial capital ...
One of the golden rules when I started writing for STR, now part of CoStar, for Hotel News Now, now CoStar News Hotels, was that we’d only write about a hotel transaction, or some similar piece of ...
A little more than a month since acquiring two adjacent hotel properties in Manchester, Germany’s A&O Hostels is investing more than €40 million of capital expenditure into a site in Berlin to create ...
LONDON — With the macroeconomic landscape remaining relatively frothy, more hoteliers are choosing to enlarge their spheres of influences over their hotels or portfolios by having complete ownership ...
Radisson Hotel Group and New Delhi-based MBD Group have signed an agreement to open as many as 50 co-branded hotels in India in the next 10 years, according to India’s The Economic Times.