Q Hospitality Management, a Seattle-based hospitality management company offering consulting and operational support to independent hotels and restaurants, secured, under its management brand The Q Hotel Group, the management contract for the 43-room Captain Whidbey Inn on Whidbey Island, Wash.

With the growth of higher-margin destinations like Turkey and Egypt failing to offset the pressure on Spain’s margins, Thomas Cook Group offered a cautious full-year forecast.

Preferred Hotels & Resorts hired Nicolas Villemin as its new regional director for the Middle East and North Africa.

Hilton opened the dual-branded Hampton Inn by Hilton Teaneck Glenpointe and Homewood Suites by Hilton Teaneck Glenpointe, bringing a total of 350 new rooms to New Jersey's Meadowlands area.

Jamsan Hotel Management, a Lexington, Mass.-based hospitality company that owns and operates more than 60 hotels in New England, is expanding its offerings to include construction services for not just its own projects, but to other hotel management groups.

Oxford Hotels & Resorts, the Chicago-based hotel management and branding affiliate of Oxford Capital Group, will open the Hotel Julian Chicago this coming fall.

A new Wyndham Grand Hotel is slated to open on the island of Crete in Greece in summer 2019.

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts plans to open a new resort with villas in Palau in the Pacific Ocean under its Wyndham brand.

More than 3 million tourists arrived in Israel in 2017.

New hotel room supply in Sydney, Australia has driven declines in both occupancy (despite the increase in demand) and hotel performance, according to a report from Horwath HTL Australia.

The Canadian hotel industry reported positive year-over-year results in the three key performance metrics during the second quarter of 2018, according to data from STR.

Hilton signed a new franchise agreement with the Al Habtoor Group to rebrand three hotels in Dubai’s Al Habtoor City, effective Aug. 1, 2018.

WorldHotels has added the Gulf Court Hotel Business Bay in Dubai, UAE to its portfolio.

Electric vehicles are rapidly growing from niche to normal. A Bloomberg New Energy Finance report, "Electric Vehicle Outlook 2018," predicts that sales of electric vehicles will increase from a record 1.1 million worldwide in 2017 to 11 million in 2025 and then to 30 million in 2030 as the price of manufacturing the vehicles falls.

OLS Hotels & Resorts, a hotel management company consisting of 22 hotels and resorts throughout the U.S., appointed Rob Robinson to VP. In his new role, Robinson will oversee OLS Hotels & Resorts’ Hawaii operations, while working with CEO Ben Rafter and his team to expand the company’s footprint in the Hawaiian market.

The Radisson Blu Hotel, Bucharest has installed the Guestware CRM software, allowing staff to recognize guests and know their preferences.

Hotels have started installing elevators with customizable design options and better technology to improve operations and the guest experience, HNN’s Dana Miller reports, but hoteliers are saying installation issues are a bit of a downer.

Luxury hotels and restaurants in developing countries are figuring out ways to reduce the amount of food waste they produce.

Qatar-based hotel owner, operator and developer Katara Hospitality has teamed with AccorHotels to kickstart an investment fund, with more than $1 billion geared toward the expansion of Sub-Saharan Africa's hotel market.

Tokyo is getting a new boutique hotel, courtesy of IHG and Tsukada Global Holdings.