This month, the cost of dropping someone off at a British airport, the so-called “kiss-and-fly” tax, went up — of course it went up, not down — at most from £5 ($6.70) to £7 ($9.38...

South Africa’s Minister of Tourism Patricia de Lille kicked off the Future Hospitality Summit Africa held in Cape Town last month.

The British media is going gaga with the news that Meghan Markle is open to the idea of using her name to market hotels.

Last September, U.K.'s Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan launched a proposal to transform London’s best-known street, Oxford Street, into a pedestr...

This week, Southwest Airlines killed its free-checked-bags policy. Early next year, the popular lower-cost airline will end its open seating policy in favor of assigned seats and f...

The United Kingdom is a small country with a large population.

The 30-room Langdale Chase Hotel, which sits beside Lake Windermere in England’s famed Lake District, has unveiled a new toy for guests: a restored, 1920’s motor yacht named Albatr...

The demand outlook for the U.S. hotel industry this year doesn't exactly look too hot right now, and I'm hoping as hotel company leaders figure out their new plans, they remember t...

Two “U-words” are making the rounds of the global hotel circuit right now. I think you can guess the first one?

Thirty-three years ago, I embarked on a trip from England to Sweden by car.

Earnings calls give us a peek into both the publicly traded company giving the report and the behavior of consumers buying goods and services. They tell us about what has already h...

By now you may have noticed some of the changes we're making here at Hotel News Now, the first being just that — our name.

Thai hotel owner-operator Minor Hotels is to enter a new country market — Paraguay.

Another spring in Berlin, another International Hotel Investment Forum, which was one dominated by talk on tariffs and supply chain headaches but also optimism and growth opportuni...

We're keeping a close eye on Canada these days from the HNN newsroom.

By my calculation, the 2025 International Hotel Investment Forum will be my 11th edition, and as I write this the weather in London is reminiscent of Berlin’s weather in mid-April ...

We're nearly to the end of March, wrapping up this year's Women's History Month.

All the best ideas are simple at their core but also can devilishly complex in their detail.

If you've been paying attention to the news recently, and this week in particular, you're aware that the economic outlook isn't as rosy as it was a few months ago.

Another hotel has come up with another first, and it is a supremely worthy one.