Hyatt Hotels Corporation has opened the Hyatt Regency Xuzhou in China’s Jiangsu Province as part of the 873-foot-tall International Finance Center.

AJ Capital Partners has acquired the Atherton Hotel in State College, Penn.

Another global hotel company is casting its eyes on Cyprus. Radisson Hospitality, part of the Radisson Hotel Group, is bringing its core brand to Southern Europe with the signing of the Radisson Larnaca Beach Resort, due to open in Q3 2019.

Best Western Hotels & Resorts has signed a deal to open an upscale hotel overlooking Ha Long Bay, the UNESCO World Heritage site in Vietnam.

Oxford Capital Group and Oxford Hotels & Resorts are developing the The Godfrey Hotel Hollywood, a 220-room luxury lifestyle hotel located at 1400 Cahuenga Boulevard (one block south of Sunset Boulevard), which is on track to open in spring 2019.

Radisson Hospitality AB, part of Radisson Hotel Group, has signed a deal to open the Radisson Blu Hotel, Rome Fiumicino International Airport.

Radisson Hospitality, part of Radisson Hotel Group, has signed a deal to open the second Radisson Red in Georgia.

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is already the largest U.S.-based hotel company in China, with more than 1,400 hotels in the country.

Alvin Mansour’s Oram Hotels and Azul Hospitality Group plans to open a new luxury San Diego hotel in early 2019 with the debut of The Guild.

Hilton’s upper-midscale Hampton brand has opened 24 new hotel properties, including the Hampton Inn by Hilton Chicago McCormick Place.

Choice Hotels Mexico, a subsidiary of Choice Hotels International, has signed an exclusive multiunit agreement with SI Operaciones, a Mexican private equity fund, to develop 20 new-construction Sleep Inn hotels over the next five years.

This past week has seen several announcements of hotel developments either planned or underway in Australia and New Zealand, demonstrating the Down Under appeal for hospitality projects.

Hoteliers with properties in North and South Carolina said planning ahead for a crisis, along with the dedication of on-property staff.

Tres Sirenas reopened in Rincon, Puerto Rico following 10 months of closure due to Hurricane Maria. Jean Marc Houmard from Indochine in New York City and Tribal Hotel in Nicaragua, and Lisa Masters were both involved in the property’s redesign.

Magnuson Worldwide has added nearly a dozen new hotels in the last 30 days to its branded portfolio and the "By Magnuson Worldwide" soft brand collection.

The Shiji Group has acquired StayNTouch. The addition of StayNTouch’s cloud-based hotel management tools to Shiji’s hotel technology stack will enable both sets of customers to seamlessly integrate across multiple hotel and travel technology systems, the company said.

According to a regional study from Lagos, Nigeria-based W Hospitality Group, Ethiopia is leading hotel development in East Africa.

Just as the Carolinas and Virginia emerged from the devastation of Hurricane Florence, islands throughout the Caribbean are looking back at a year of recovery after Hurricane Irma.

LaSalle Investment Management, a subsidiary of JLL, has bought a 150-room budget hotel in London for £40 million from a syndicate of private investors.

Hilton has formed a strategic alliance with Playa Hotels & Resorts, marking a landmark expansion of the hospitality company’s all-inclusive resort portfolio.