Hamak Hotels: Seeing Green, Finding Gold
Hamak Hotels continues to make a statement in some of the Mexico’s most pristine and historic locations with 11 hotel and resort properties … and counting. The latest footprint in the portfolio opens this summer with Chablé Maroma on the Riviera Maya. READ MORE …
What are the Best Hotels in the World?
How do you pick the best hotels in the world? First it depends on where they are. Second, it may help to have a way of sifting through data on 24,000 luxury hotels across the USA, Europe, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean for starters. Fortunately, the numbers crunchers at U.S. News & World Report had […]
Hotel Room of the Future Glimpsed at CES2018
What’s in store for the hotel room of the future? According to the pulse of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, the word is plenty. CES2018 was mostly about the Internet of Things – the connectivity between things that can be managed not as much by one cool app or one very responsive control module, but […]
The Norman: Luxury Boutique Hotel in Tel Aviv
If you are searching for a boutique hotel in Tel Aviv, the choices are bounteous and range from crowded hostels to quaint residences on quiet streets. However, searching for a luxury boutique hotel in Tel Aviv can be quite another story. Luxury hotels in Tel Aviv, until recently, have been few and far between and […]
La Valencia: Meet the Grand Dame of La Jolla
Travelers heading to Southern California can build a little offbeat style into their stay by hubbing in La Jolla, an easy 20 minutes north of Downtown San Diego. The city of about 50,000 has the sunshine and surf and exquisite seaside village appeal and has maintained its luster through a century of changes along the Southern […]
Faena Miami Beach: New Depth to Design Hotels
The word “Faena,” heard most emphatically in neighborhoods fanning from the blinding white sands lining Miami Beach, could be another term for fantastical, improbable. It stems from one unstoppable Alan Faena, co-creator of the new Faena Hotel Miami Beach and the energy behind the increasingly famous Faena District Miami. READ MORE […]
Colorado Romance: 10 High Altitude Hotels
It’s possible to get high on more than marijuana in Colorado. Love is in the air in any season in Colorado with its fantasstical settings, mountaintop accommodations, gorgeous views, outstanding adventures and blissful ski days that lead to wildly romantic evenings. Where to go? Whether for honeymoons, revows or remarrying moons or just a perfect […]
Philadelphia Freedom: The Ritz-Carlton is Reborn
By Stacey Zable The completion of a year-long, $25 million dollar renewal project on The Ritz-Carlton, Philadelphia last year brought updates to new guest rooms and meeting spaces, the lobby and public spaces, and a new restaurant, bar and lounge. Here’s what else makes it a good choice for Philadelphia-bound travelers.
MGM National Harbor: Las Vegas Does D.C.
The MGM National Harbor looks across the Potomac from its perch on prime land in Prince George’s County, MD and knows it is just the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship with the nation’s capital. It may not have been MGM Resorts International’s first foray into surprising destinations outside of Las Vegas, but it […]
Rooms with a View from Virtuoso
At the Virtuoso travel industry conference taking place in Las Vegas this week, Travel-Intel sat down with JoAnn Kurtz-Ahlers, CEO of a precious collection of high end hotel and resort properties around the world, to discuss some of the issues facing independent properties in an ever burgeoning landscape of large chains and hospitality sub-brands. Here […]
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