United Kingdom private equity company M&G Investments has announced it will invest £203 million ($265.5 million) in a hotel development due to open in the Paddington district of London in 2021, according to the city’s Evening Standard newspaper.

Handling and managing thousands of employees can be a treacherous endeavor, especially with notable staff turnover, but despite all the warning signs, mistakes can still be made, writes HNN’s Bryan Wroten.

Hotels in the U.S. reported positive year-over-year results in the three key performance metrics for the week ending 19 January, according to data from STR, parent company of Hotel News Now.

Fuller’s, the London brewery founded in 1654, will concentrate on its hotels and pub business following news it has agreed to sell its “entire beer business” to Japanese brewer Asahi Group Holdings .

Real estate investment trust Ashford Hospitality Trust has paid $195 million for the 310-room Embassy Suites by Hilton New York Midtown Manhattan. The deal on a per-key basis is $629,000.

An avalanche in Ramsau am Dachstein, Austria, hit a hotel and an apartment-style tourist accommodation property, the BBC reports.

, hoteliers there hope the shutdown will end soon so they don’t lose out on upcoming group travel business, writes HNN’s Dana Miller.

Marriott International announced the creation of Marriott Bonvoy, its new loyalty program brand to replace its existing Marriott Rewards, The Ritz-Carlton Rewards and Starwood Preferred Guest programs, according to a news release.

The Canadian hotel industry also reported mixed year-over-year results, according to STR data. Occupancy decreased by 2% to 43%, but ADR grew by 5.2% to 163.50 Canadian dollars ($122.81), which combined for RevPAR growth of 3.1% to CA$70.36 ($52.85).

The U.S. hotel industry registered record-breaking performance during 2018, according to data from STR.

Another set of data-crunchers has found November was a month of solid profit growth for Europe’s hotels, with year-to-date GOPPAR 9.5 percent above the same period in 2017.

TWA Hotel donates to Jamaica Bay recovery effort.

Industry experts predict European hotel performance in 2019 will not light the skies a hundred colors but will continue to rise soberly, notably on the continent.

Maintaining a good workplace reputation at a hotel or hotel company is crucial, and looking at reviews on websites from current and former employees and responding to them can help companies improve their reputation, HNN’s Bryan Wroten writes.

Irish entrepreneur Stephen Vernon’s John Pollard Foundation has acquired a 5-percent share in Staycity, a privately held Dublin-based company that manages short- and long-term "aparthotels" across Europe.

Building on October’s GOPPAR gains, hotels across the UK in November produced a second consecutive month of profit growth, positioning hotels in the region to achieve another successful year, according to the latest data tracking of full-service hotels from HotStats.

Modular construction might not be the cheapest way to build a hotel, but it does save owners some time, Hotel News Now’s Jeff Higley writes in part one of three of his modular-construction series.

Marriott today is providing an update on the number of guests whose passport numbers and payment card numbers were involved in the Starwood reservations database security incident announced by the company on November 30, 2018.

Even after the World Cup and the Olympics, Rio de Janeiro is still in demand.

Dallas-based real estate developer Hall Group appointed Darryl Jett as GM and Jennifer Wasserman as director of marketing of the Hall Arts Hotel, a boutique hotel scheduled to open next autumn in Dallas.