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.

The New York Times reports that the rise of culturally significant music festivals like Coachella are driving some hotels to host festivals of their own in an attempt to “lure travelers obsessed with finding the next thing to post about on social media.”

This has been a good tourism year for Israel, with a strong increase in inbound visitor numbers.

Pantone has named “Living Coral” as its trending color in 2019 and Sherwin-Williams has picked “Cavern Clay,” opening up new design opportunities for hotels, writes HNN’s Dana Miller.

The U.S. hotel industry reported positive year-over-year results in the three key performance metrics during the week of 9-15 December 2018, according to data from STR.

AccorHotels has announced the debut hotel for its Orient Express brand, a brand stemming from Accor’s 50%-50% joint venture with French national train operator SNCF Group announced in October 2017.

Data from Cushman & Wakefield indicated occupancy at Singapore’s hotels reached 87 percent this year—the highest in a decade—driven by a continuing increase in visitor arrivals.

AccorHotels has launched the second tranche of its share buyback program for the amount of €500 million.