4,573 Opinions results

England has completed the King Charles III England Coast Path, a path that permits hikers, ramblers, runners, day-trippers and everyone else to walk around its entire coastline.

Hoteliers with roles to fill, this may be an opportunity for you.

Traveling by airplane has always and will always have an element of stress. This includes but is not limited to trying to book the parking lot closest to your terminal at the airport to hoping ...

It’s a familiar story: An intriguing advertising campaign gets customers in the door, but the experience does not always match what was promised. Why? The brand experience is often diluted to a few ...

Anyone who has secured a commercial loan is familiar with the formal process referred to as Know Your Customer or “KYC.” Lenders request due diligence materials on a potential borrower to develop, ...

The fire that ripped through a section of Glasgow on March 8 is a big punch in the stomach for the Scottish city.

One of the more interesting bits of industry news to emerge this week was the announcement of a franchise agreement between Hilton and Yotel. The structure of it seems somewhat unique to me, although ...

I typically dread traveling in March for one reason: spring break at the airport.

Hotels are deceptively simple. It’s a home you pay to access while you’re on the road and what’s hard about that? A bed, a shower, throw in a croissant and off you trot. Just like your house, but ...

It just does not seem to stop, the brands, developers, products and characters piling into the branded residential space and its perceived promise of an easy 20% to 40% sales premium.

Brits like to complain about the weather. They like talking about anything connected to the weather.

The U.S. hotel industry does the reporters covering it a courtesy of holding several conferences throughout the year, giving us front-row seats into how executives are feeling about the year as it ...

I was not the only one to scoff at the cruel irony that International Women's Day also fell on Daylight Savings this year — a day celebrating women being only 23 hours long is very "75 cents on the ...

As I write my monthly article for CoStar today, I find myself back at the Marriott Griffin Gate Resort, in Lexington, Kentucky. This time as a guest at the place where my hotel career began 45 years ...

Hotel markets are experiencing their most significant supply surge in over two decades. San Diego exemplifies the challenge: the 1,600-room Gaylord Pacific Resort opened in May 2025, with 9 ...

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 ...

More and more over the years, I've developed a habit of asking hotel executives how they define lifestyle hotels.

Last week it was an operation to kill a Mexican cartel leader. This week it's a new war targeting Iran with retaliatory action happening across the Middle East and surrounding regions.

This July, Edinburgh’s hotels will start to navigate the city’s bed tax, which will apply to everyone staying in hotels, B&Bs, Airbnbs and hostels. The 5% tax will apply to the first five nights of ...

If you have been reading my columns, you know I am a huge proponent of everything AI. However, as we advance, I find myself increasingly concerned by some of its unintended social implications. ...