In response to AH&LA’s efforts on behalf of the lodging industry, the General Services Administration (GSA) announced today that they will not alter its market-based methodology in calculating federal per diem rates. After hearing from AH&LA and its members about the severe unintended consequences of radically changing the methodology, GSA has decided to freeze per diem rates at the FY2012 level. While certainly not ideal, the rate freeze is a far less radical approach than
Marriott International, Inc. has opened its first AC Hotel by Marriott in France, the first new AC Hotel by Marriott to open since the launch of the joint venture and co-brand last year. The former Hotel Ambassadeur, located in the heart of Juan-les-Pins, has been re-branded an AC Hotel by Marriott hotel, following ambitious growth plans for the brand announced last year. The 221-room AC Hotel Ambassadeur Antibes-Juan Les Pins joins the JW Marriott Hotel
In the past few years, the hotel lobby has evolved from a place where guests simply check in to a place where guests work, socialize, and interact. With this forward-thinking and flexible concept comes a wide range of innovative design styles, and Westin Hotels & Resorts recently introduced a new public space design that refreshes the lobby with vertical gardens, a restructured space, and a convenient grab-and-go food and retail space. “Our new lobby experience
Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group announced the opening of the Radisson Kandla, in Gujarat and the Radisson Blu Ghaziabad, near New Delhi. The addition of these two new hotels to Carlson Rezidor’s portfolio is testament to the group’s growing presence in India, with 99 hotels in operation and under development. “Our hotel brands are well represented in key cities such as Chennai, Delhi, and Hyderabad. In Delhi and the NCR (National Capital Region) alone, Carlson Rezidor
PARSIPPANY, N.J.—Wyndham Hotel Group announced the expansion of the Wyndham Hotels and Resorts brand in South Carolina with the addition of the first Wyndham Garden hotel in the state, the 117-room Inn at USC Wyndham Garden Columbia. The hotel is owned by the USC Development Foundation and managed by Columbia-based IMIC Hotels. “This newest addition to the Wyndham portfolio represents our continued commitment to providing travelers with upscale, dependable locations throughout the United States in
