InterContinental to open Dubai’s first fully solar-powered hotel
The world’s biggest hospitality chain plans to open Dubai’s first fully solar-powered hotel. InterContinental Hotels Group aims to open the 170-room Hotel Indigo in the first half of 2017 as the city...
EPA wants to monitor how long hotel guests spend in the shower
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants hotels to monitor how much time its guests spend in the shower.
The agency is spending $15,000 to create a wireless system that will track how much water...
A high-tech hotel opening in Japan will be staffed by multilingual robots
This summer, a hotel will open in the Netherlands-themed Huis Ten Bosch amusement park in Nagasaki, Japan. It will have 72 rooms. Room fees will start at $60 per night. And it will be staffed by 10 humanoid...
Economy of energy in the hotel. Energy-saving solution from INNCOM
Integrated room automation and energy management system from Inncom, capable of reducing energy use levels by up to 50%, featured at the opening of the new Park Hyatt Hotel in New York last week.
The Inncom...
RCI Consulting was selected in 2014 as a maintenance organization for television system of Hilton 5-star hotel in Kiev. Hotel management company decided to continue cooperation with RCI Consulting in...
Len Markidan, a 26-year-old marketing consultant based in San Francisco, is the type of business traveler who forced LodgeNet, the hotel guest-room entertainment provider, to file recently for Chapter...
Even the savviest traveler can use a few new tricks each year, whether on the road for business or leisure.
We asked travel experts for some tips that might help road warriors save time and money as we...
‘Poshtels,’ ‘braggies,’ and peer-to-peer eating are just some of the trends that will shape the global travel market over the next year, a report by the World Travel Market (WTM)...
The Sheraton Waikiki pool next to RumFire will fill with lava and other visual wonders when the hotel debuts two 3-D pool-mapping light shows. The “Helumoa” shows, open to resort guests and the public,...
Marriott launches vending machine with healthy food
As hotels cut back on room service, what’s a traveler to do at meal time? Marriott has teamed up with Chicago-based Farmer’s Fridge to launch one solution: a vending machine stocked with supremely...
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