Cvent Instant Book and Groups360 GroupSync Marketplace publish live rates and availability for simple meetings. Hyatt joined GroupSync under an agreement signed on October 7, 2025. CoStar reports group bookings of 10 or more room nights up 2.7 percent from February to April 2026.
Climate Week NYC runs September 20 to 27, 2026, and the UN General Assembly's High-Level Week runs September 18 to 28, so the city carries two demand programmes across the same week.
Festival Day puts a free crowd into Borough Hall Plaza on September 27. Ten hotel addresses sit inside a kilometre of the plaza, and the district's newest flag opened in March 2026.
Turner Construction began 2 World Trade Center on July 9, 2026 for Silverstein Properties, with American Express as the anchor tenant and completion targeted for 2031. Lower Manhattan holds 7,928 hotel rooms across 41 hotels, with 346 more under construction.
Crews are stripping three buildings at 350 Park Avenue. The replacement tower runs 64 stories and 1.8 million square feet at a $4.5 billion cost, and it targets 2032 for completion.
IHG Hotels & Resorts signed an agreement with Pacific Beachcomber to convert the InterContinental Bora Bora Resort & Thalasso Spa into Regent Bora Bora. The resort closed on 1 June 2026 and reopens in late 2027 with 84 overwater villas, giving Regent its first property in French Polynesia.
The Welsh Government will cut business rates for hospitality venues by 30 percent from April 2027. UKHospitality Cymru says 84 percent of ratepaying hospitality businesses benefit and more than 500 larger venues will pay more.
FEHGRA president Daniel Prieto asked for targeted tools for hotels and restaurants at no added fiscal cost, and named a Decreto 814-style VAT offset as the mechanism. The federation published the remarks on 18 September 2026.
Ruby Hotels starts Dive in with Ruby, a live music series staged in its bars and lounges, with Sasha Keable opening at Ruby Zoe in Notting Hill on 24 September 2026 and a second, artist-curated show on 30 September.
Chipper Social opened at Kampstraße 1 in Dortmund on 3 September, the second German venue that GA Bars runs with The Social Gaming Group. The 1,700-square-metre site took a gaming arena that closed in 2025.
HVS's Asia Pacific newsletter for the week ending 11 September 2026 carries four deals, a guide to 260 management contracts and a share price table across 11 exchanges.
Hilton signs the 153-room London Bridge Hotel to Tapestry, Radisson Blu Medlock opens 401 rooms at the Etihad Campus, Inception Group takes a bar inside Waldorf Astoria London, and Air India links Maharaja Club to IHG One Rewards.
The Do it Best Fall Market holds 22 downtown Indianapolis hotels in its block for 25-28 September 2026, and leaves the rest of the core to carry the overflow.
MAPP's 650-attendee benchmark conference books one Indianapolis property. Seven downtown hotels publish the meeting space to hold that contract.
The 38-story Signia by Hilton Indianapolis topped out on October 9, 2025 at 800 rooms, with the convention center expansion finishing behind it for a December 2026 opening.
Boxcar Development broke ground on 7 January 2026 on the former CSX Building site. The venue opens in fall 2027 and the hotel in early 2028.
Río Negro will fold a 4 percent Ingresos Brutos exemption on foreign visitors' lodging into its 2027 fiscal package. The 21 percent national IVA rebate stacks on it.
ATD Core4 puts four concurrent breakout rooms and four AV packages into the Indiana Convention Center for three days from 29 September 2026, with five 15-minute reset windows in the grid.
Hendricks Commercial Properties renamed Circle Centre Mall Traction Yards on December 12, 2025. Tenants had to vacate by December 31, Phase 1 work starts in 2026, and the first major phase carries both a 2029 and a 2030 date.
Indianapolis is converting the Georgia Street west block between Capitol Avenue and Illinois Street into a park, with construction under way since February 2025 at a $9.1 million cost. Visit Indy lists the block opening as October 2026, with the Signia by Hilton and the Convention Center expansion following in December 2026.
ATD OrgDev returns to the Indiana Convention Center on 29 September to 1 October 2026 with a 1,000-attendee forecast and a $195 block at the Hyatt Regency and The Westin. Both conferences on the same three days book through one reservation path.
The host block and the courtesy block at the Gas Machinery Conference are closed. A third at the Fairfield Inn & Suites is open at $179 plus tax until September 25, and the organiser ties sponsors and exhibitors to the block.
Aleph Hospitality opened a Cape Town regional office on 18 September 2026 to cover its five Onomo hotels in South Africa and build a development pipeline above 4,000 rooms.
ISBA and IAPSS bring 1,000 school officials to the Indiana Convention Center on 5 and 6 October, with no published room block, a late district-approved list and a breakfast-only food and beverage ask.
IHG signed the InterContinental Bora Bora Resort & Thalasso Spa over to its Regent brand on 16 September 2026. The 84-villa resort closed on 1 June 2026 and reopens as Regent Bora Bora in late 2027, which ends InterContinental Ambassador status at the address.
The Indiana Convention Center lists the second annual Emerging Leaders Forum for 7 October 2026 in Meeting Rooms 231-239, forecast at 220 attendees, on a Wednesday the venue's own calendar packs between the Gas Machinery Conference and the FullScale Symposium. The same news feed carries the Signia by Hilton Indianapolis taking reservations for February 2027.
The federal Productivity Mega Deduction lifts immediate expensing above 65 per cent of depreciable assets and leaves buildings in CCA Class 1(q) and Class 3(k) outside it. Hotels Canada called the measure significant and asked for the buildings.
Pacers Sports & Entertainment released plans in January 2025 for a three-story, 108,000-square-foot training centre at 78 million dollars on the west half of the former Marion County Jail site. Groundbreaking ran 4 September 2025, the opening is set before the 2027 WNBA season, and the Ritz-Carlton tower beside it opens in early 2028 with 176 rooms.
IU Health broke ground on a 4.3 billion dollar Indianapolis hospital campus in March 2022, topped out in May 2025 and opens the 864-room hospital in December 2027.
The education symposium takes Sagamore Ballroom 1-7 from 8 to 10 October, inside a week the venue calendar fills from 4 October through 10 October.
