Airbnb launches curated listings of homes and hotels

5th March 2018

Last month, Airbnb announced a number of improvements to the way search results are displayed on its site with the launch of new property types, tiers and colle...

Hotels

Hotel booking site Luxury Bared is banking on expert reviews

2nd March 2018

Are all five-star hotels equally good? Launched in January 2017, a new website called Luxury Bared hopes to better inform travellers with expert reviews of top-...

Hotels

Why elite hotel brand Aman is a quietly ambitious trendsetter

13th February 2018

One of the world’s most exciting ultra-lux hotel brands is 30 this year but its vision for the future is only just gathering pace. At the moment it has 31 res...

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Why Moxy hotels target guests who are ‘fun hunters’

9th February 2018

At Moxy hotels, you can check in at the bar and get a free cocktail. Once you have unpacked, you can experience acupuncture happy hours, nail tattooing, burlesq...

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Maldives resort launches Instagram butlers

28th October 2017

The five-star Conrad Maldives Rangali Island has it all – exquisite over-water villas, not one, but two luxury spas and even an under-sea restaurant. But just...

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New high design Roomers hotel opens in Munich

18th October 2017

This month, Marriott International welcomed the new Roomers hotel in Munich to its Autograph Collection of independent hotels. The design-led property has a blo...

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Five Feet to Fitness: Hilton creates hotel rooms with gyms

10th July 2017

Hilton has taken the innovative step of installing gym equipment in individual hotel rooms so guests can workout in privacy. The new room category, which will b...

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Ian Schrager’s new Public hotel represents ‘luxury for all’

26th June 2017

A new hotel brand from legendary hotelier Ian Schrager has arrived in New York this month with the opening of Public on Chrystie Street in the Bowery, on the Lo...

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Luxury hotel brand Ritz-Carlton expands into yacht voyages

24th June 2017

Five-star hotel company Ritz-Carlton, which is part of Marriott International, is taking the innovative step of branching into yachting, with its own fleet of t...

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Three ways hotels are innovating in Las Vegas

30th May 2017

Las Vegas is a city like no other, and often leads the way when it comes to delivering consumers superlative travel experiences. Here we look at three trends em...

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Search by mood – the new way to shop for hotels

26th April 2017

For anyone feeling uninspired or overwhelmed when it comes to deciding where to go for a weekend away, French company Accorhotels has partnered with tech start-...

Hotels

Five amazing remote hotels that are luxurious and sustainable

27th February 2017

Harbouring fantasies of woodland retreats, the desire to go off-grid is a reaction to our increasingly urbanised existence. The modern huma...

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IQ economy: Ace hotel London offers coding class with IBM

25th January 2017

The Ace hotel in London has published its spring schedule of events, tapping into the IQ Economy trend for self-betterment. Sessions will include learning how t...

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The ten most Instagrammed hotels of 2016

18th January 2017

In December 2016, Instagram announced that it had built a community of 600 million users, with 100 million people signing up to the photo-sharing app since last...

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New Jo & Joe hotel brand embodies ‘joie de vivre’ trend

8th January 2017

French group Accorhotels is launching a new concept called Jo & Joe, which will embody the fledgling trend for "joie de vivre" in its day-glo, pop-art desig...

HotelsInnovators

CitizenM opens trendy hotel in Shoreditch

17th December 2016

As if Shoreditch wasn’t trendy enough, Dutch chain CitizenM has added a cool, ultra-sleek hotel to the heart of the London’s East End. Jack Southan reports ...

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2060 forecast: 14 innovations for the hotel of the future

14th December 2016

Dr James Canton, from leading think tank the Institute for Global Futures, has predicted that the hotel of the future will come with robo-butlers, 3D printers, ...

HotelsVoices

Pod launches new micro hotel in Brooklyn

9th December 2016

A trend-setting micro hotel concept in (perhaps) the trendiest location on the planet. Globetrender's senior trend reporter Ben Brown had to explore… In New ...

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Neuroscientist creates Brain Power package at Corinthia hotel

23rd November 2016

London’s Corinthia hotel claims to be the first in the world to have a resident neuroscientist. It began partnering with leadership coach and senior lecturer ...

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Marriott opens world’s first hotel innovation incubator

16th November 2016

Marriott Hotels has launched the M Beta at Charlotte Marriott City Center, an ideas lab and interactive showroom that the functions as the world’s first hotel...

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Mama Shelter opens in Rio – with space for artists to collaborate

6th November 2016

Rose Dykins reports on the opening of hipster boutique hotel Mama Shelter in Rio de Janeiro's creative quarter. It is the sixth property from the trendy French ...

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Knowledge economy: Marriott Hotels partners with TED Talks

28th September 2016

Marriott Hotels has joined forces with nonprofit organisation TED to deliver a series of creatively curated videos, talks, blogs, quotes and salons to guests wh...

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Building down: Stockholm’s ‘Hotel With’ is built entirely underground

26th September 2016

Opened last year, the subterranean Hotel With in Stockholm is built under the city centre in a former utilities basement beneath a food hall. It has no exteri...

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Dubai’s new Rosemont hotel to feature artificial rainforest

23rd September 2016

By 2018, Dubai is planning to open new twin-tower luxury resort the Rosemont, which will feature a vast artificial rainforest, urban beach and cantilevered Sky ...

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