Kaban Hotel and Casino opened at Station 0 in Barangay Yapak on 16 September 2026 with 88 rooms and a 2,000 sq m PAGCOR-licensed gaming floor inside a 23-hectare Golden TW development. The Diocese of Kalibo opposed the casino in a 4 October pastoral statement, and NABBSI raises forestland and flying-fox habitat objections that no agency record read here confirms.
Bohopo has financing from Banco BPI for a 22-room Maison Arya hotel at Rua do Bonjardim 690-694 in Porto, with completion set for December 2027.
General liability rates rose 5% to 15% for hotels with clean loss histories and 15% to 30% without, per IMA Financial Group's Q1 2026 report. The carrier pool has fallen from about 25 insurers to 10. Brokers put documented staff training ahead of price shopping.
Centara Hotels & Resorts is courting large property investors for multi-hotel management deals. Its filed accounts put 29 of 52 operating hotels under management agreements, and COO Michael Henssler points to distressed Gulf assets and broken partnerships as openings.
Whitbread reported first-half adjusted pre-tax profit of £287m, closed all 197 branded restaurants in September and told shareholders to vote against Corvex on 9 November.
TKO LLC offers $2 billion in cash for the 93 hotels of Service Properties Trust. The trust calls the approach unsolicited and says its board of trustees will review it.
Sonesta launched the F1RST Meetings Collection, 25 Royal Sonesta and Sonesta Hotels & Resorts properties in the U.S. and Canada with 10,000 to 65,000 square feet of meeting space each.
IHCL signed 47 hotels and opened 20 in the first half of FY2027, taking the portfolio to 670 hotels with a 280-hotel pipeline against its 700-hotel Accelerate 2030 target.
Preferred Hotels & Resorts has added 11 hotels to its Legend Collection, taking the group's top luxury tier past 125 properties worldwide. The additions range from San Clemente Palace Venice to Wynn Al Marjan Island, due in spring 2027.
The planned 451-key Westin at Miami International Airport is off after the FAA rejected the 150-foot design over a radar blind spot. Miami-Dade County is moving to terminate the ground lease and re-bid the site.
Braemar Hotels & Resorts will sell the Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North for $372 million, a deal set to close on 22 October and fund the last fees owed to Ashford Inc. Braemar settled with Al Shams for $25 million and counts its own share at $4 million to $6 million.
ORA Hospitality will open its first resort on a hillside above Kalo Livadi Bay on Mykonos in May 2027. The EUR 100 million property holds 93 keys, four restaurants and bars, event space for 200 guests and a 900-square-metre wellness centre. The brand name, the restaurant names and the chefs are undisclosed. Reservations open in January 2027.
The Honolulu City Council adopted Resolution 26-171, CD1 on 7 October in a 9-0 vote. The plan carries a 400-foot hotel tower with 294 units, a 200-foot residential tower and 69 affordable rentals at Ala Moana Center.
Accor, Wyndham and Minor Hotels are examining Syria while Eagle Hills builds in Damascus and Latakia. Arrivals reached 3.52 million in the first half of 2026.
Christie & Co is marketing a freehold site at 1 Boord Street with planning permission and a Travelodge agreement for lease over a 366-key hotel.
Apex Hotels has unveiled a new brand identity as it marks 30 years since its first Grassmarket hotel, with an October programme led by a £19.96 menu.
IHG says Hotel Indigo reached 200 open hotels, up from 100 in 2019, with 134 properties in development and a Saudi debut set for next year.
Accor has been appointed Living Sector Management Partner for Freecity, running build-to-rent, co-living and purpose-built student accommodation across Australia under a white-label agreement.
Hyatt published a growth package on 5 October 2026 that carries a HALL Structured Finance loan program for new-build Hyatt Studios, a Gen 4 Hyatt Place prototype built to cut costs about 25 percent, and four conversion brands.
Travel + Leisure Co. and Wyndham set a development framework on 5 October 2026 for hotels under the Sports Illustrated Resorts brand, with Nashville, Chicago, Baton Rouge and Tuscaloosa carrying the pipeline.
Valencia Hotel Collection has dropped Hotel from its corporate name and moved to valenciacollection.com, the Houston operator's second rename since November 2023. The eight properties keep their own names.
Accor and CITYVIEW Developments signed Pullman Residences & Offices Dubai Meydan, a 2029 development that carries 282 branded residences and Accor's first branded offices for sale.
Minor Hotels signed the 310-room Avani+ Hanoi for a 2028 opening, its first city property in Vietnam, and is looking for more urban hotels in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
Anuraag Bhatnagar told Skift's Suite Success the group is growing from eight hotels to 15 with 10 in development, and it plans a Palm Jumeirah resort for 2028.
Soul Community Planet launched a Regulation CF offering for Class B stock at $9.00 a share, capped at $2,000,002.50 and live at invest.scphotel.com.
SJM Resorts says Grand Lisboa Palace Resort Macau became the first integrated MICE venue in Greater China to reach sustained carbon neutrality, and launched Macau's first standardised Zero-Carbon MICE Service.
Hilton has released the Home2 Suites Clean Energy Prototype, an optional all-electric design its modelling projects will cut annual energy costs 18 to 40 per cent.
My Place Hotels of America relaunched its Trend by My Place conversion brand at its 2026 convention in Miami with three owner tiers, the My Place commercial platform and Stay Rewarded access. An introductory royalty applies to franchises executed before 31 December 2026.
Hive House, a 45-suite hotel in Cary, North Carolina, has converted to Unscripted by Hyatt, after opening independently under CMC Hotels, and Hyatt calls it the town's first branded hotel.
Rosewood stops managing Le Guanahani St. Barth on 1 October 2026 and the property reopens as Airelles Le Guanahani on 1 November. The owner's heirs triggered a 2026 exit clause.
