As London’s hotels are called up for the 2012 Olympic Games, Catherine Martin asks if the city will continue to prosper once the torch burns out.
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Asia’s luxury hotel brands are proliferating in Paris, finds Natasha Edwards.
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The compelling rebranding of Singapore’s tourism product has resulted in new hotels that are changing its landscape, as Neena Dhillon discovers.
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A new wave of hotels has opened around Portugal over the past 12 months, inspired by their natural surroundings of sea, mountains and spa waters.
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Berlin’s hotel scene is close to saturation point says Guy Dittrich, but few cities are as exciting in terms of the sheer variety of new hotel openings.
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Two decades of unprecedented growth for Shanghai have culminated in a bevy of new hotels launching to welcome guests to Expo 2010. Rebecca Lo looks at how the city is hoping to avoid mistakes made in Beijing in the run up to the Olympics, to ensure that rooms remain occupied after the party is over.
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Developers, architects and designers have had to move quickly to get new Cape Town hotels up and running in time for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, finds Matt Morley, but the city’s room stock will have been revitalised by the time the final whistle blows.
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In a competitive market, German hotels are differentiating themselves through innovative design, finds Guy Dittrich
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Recent years have seen a spate of high profile hotel openings in Chicago but this increased supply has impacted rates as demand drops, and new development has ground to a halt, finds Neena Dhillon.
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Stockholm’s hotel market is performing reasonably well in the face of significant increases in supply and a declining Swedish economy finds Guy Dittrich...
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Italy’s hotel sector is undergoing a renaissance, with world class hotels opening their doors throughout the country. It is also weathering the recession better than most in performance terms, but there are still serious structural issues to face finds Matt Turner.
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While unable to escape the harsh realities of recession, Las Vegas has been proving its resilience with high occupancy rates and a cluster of resort debuts showcasing sybaritic design, as Neena Dhillon discovers.
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Although some parts of the Middle East are suffering at the hands of the economy, others are seeing unprecedented growth. Catherine Martin looks at the facts and figures from the latest performance studies and presents her findings.
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Germany’s hotel market was in trouble before the banking crisis set in and has continued to decline in 2009, but that has not stifled the creativity of the developers and designers behind a recent crop of new openings, finds Guy Dittrich...
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From going local in Acapulco, to modern masterpieces in Monterrey, Mexico offers an increasingly interesting array of hotels away from the traditional hotspots of Cancun and Los Cabos. Louise Rodgers recently returned to the country she last visited as a backpacker to see how things have changed...
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