Hilton has appointed Matt Fry as senior vice president of development in Asia-Pacific, effective Aug. 6, 2018.

Technology is vitally important to the overall success of the hotel industry, but the industry’s general approach to utilizing technology might be holding it back, according to a panel of experts speaking during the Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition & Conference.

The global construction pipeline currently stands at 12,714 hotel projects with 2,139,002 guestrooms, up seven percent by hotel projects year-over-year, according to data from Lodging Econometrics.

Meliá Hotels International will open The Grand Reserve at Paradisus Palma Real in the Dominican Republic in December 2018.

Karisma Hotels & Resorts is set to open the Holiday Villages Montenegro on the Montenegrin coast of Ulcinj in late summer of 2018.

Novum Hospitality has partnered with project developer GBI AG in a joint venture to develop Frankfurt, Germany’s third Niu hotel.

Saudi Arabia and Nigeria have ranked highest in total number of hotel projects for the construction pipelines of the Middle East and Africa, respectively.

Preliminary data from HNN’s parent company, STR, shows United States hotel industry revenue per available room and average daily rate both grew 2% to 4% year over year, despite occupancy growth ranging from -1% to 1%.

The rise in visitors to theme parks, cultural attractions, Expo 2020 and in affordable hotels has put Dubai's hospitality industry on track for continued growth past 2020.

Marriott International built a 4,200-square-foot “vignette” of its new vision for Sheraton Hotels & Resorts, the third-largest brand in its portfolio and its largest outside of North America in terms of room count.

MCR, the seventh-largest hotel owner-operator in the United States, now is managing the 259-room Miami International Airport Hotel.

Hotel and brand management company Dream Hotel Group and Mexico-based Tamayo Desarrollos have set plans to open the next Chatwal hotel in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, in 2020.

Following its recent acquisition of the La Quinta hotel brand, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts revealed new benefits for members of its Wyndham Rewards loyalty program and members of La Quinta Returns, specifically 1:1 point transfer between the two programs and complimentary status match.

Investment in Croatia's hotel industry is predicted to reach €1.2 billion by 2022, according to report from Ernst & Young.

Changes in latitudes isn't the only change afoot for Margaritaville, the Jimmy Buffett-inspired hospitality company. The company is launching a new boutique select-service hotel brand called Compass by Margaritaville Hotels and Resorts.

Radisson Hotel Group subsidiary Radisson Hospitality has signed a deal to open the Radisson Blu Hotel, Al Ahsa in Saudi Arabia.

AC Hotels is a lifestyle brand within the Marriott International global portfolio. AC Hotel Sunnyvale Cupertino is the first property in a cluster of planned hotels in the Bay Area to be introduced by owner T2 Hospitality and managed by Evolution Hospitality.

The 252-room Pod Philly will be an 11-story micro-hotel spread across 100,000 square feet of space.

Executives from Omni Hotels & Resorts along with Gov. Charlie Baker, Mayor Martin J. Walsh, the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) and New Boston Hospitality began development on the Omni Boston Seaport Hotel.

Across the street from The Palm restaurant and across the bay from the Bal Harbour Shops is the Grand Beach Hotel Bay Harbor.