GreenTree Inns take sustainability to heart, without over-playing it, Brooks says.

Playing purely in the lighting space, Philips Lighting is dealing in larger numbers.

SBE has signed another 10 deals to bring its hotels, residences and restaurants to new territories in Latin America and the Middle East through a mix of management and licensing agreements.

I routinely experience poorly-lit roadways in a smaller New Hampshire town with widely-spaced sodium lamps.

LightingEurope has published a whitepaper entitled “Serviceable luminaires in a circular economy” that explores how the lighting sector can contribute to and benefit from the so-called circular economy movement.

A Hyatt Hotels affiliate has inked a franchise agreement with HR Group for a Hyatt House hotel in Frankfurt, Germany.

Zumtobel has announced a retrofit to LED-based lighting at Wartburg Castle in Germany.

This week we continue and expand on the Internet of Things (IoT) theme from our last blog by blending context and coverage on smart lighting, smart building, and services opportunities enabled by this trending technology.

According to PwC’s African Insights Hotel Outlook: 2017-2021 report, Kenyan hotels are expected to see positive growth across the country.

The Church of Porza was dedicated to Saint Bernardino from Siena in the Tuscany region of Italy and Saint Martino from Tours in France.

Another day, another matchup between a lighting company and an IT firm in an effort to turn lighting infrastructure into intelligent data networks.

Italy will no longer be able to enforce price parity clauses in its hotels after the Senate voted to outlaw the practice.

Samsung Electronics has announced a new family of chip-scale package (CSP) LEDs that the company refers to as Fillet-Enhanced CSP (FEC) LEDs.

Smart lighting pioneer Gooee has enhanced its data analytics capabilities through a deal that gives its cloud computing partner Evrythng an equity share in the firm, a seat on the board, and that gives Gooee greater access to Evrythng's software.

In a transaction with Spanish lender Banco Sabadell, Blackstone has acquired a portfolio of 14 hotels with more than 3,700 guestrooms.

LG and Samsung have invested a combined €25 million (about $30 million) in a small German OLED specialist that claims to be solving a big shortcoming in OLED technology by developing an efficient blue emitter.

In terms of lighting, we can improve the workplace experience by thinking about building design in an entirely new way.

According to the latest stats from STR, 164,497 guestrooms in 574 hotel projects are underway in the Middle East, while 55,349 guestrooms in 299 projects under way in Africa.

The LEDs Magazine Horticultural Lighting Conference took place on Oct. 17 in Denver, CO, and the event yielded the public debut of a number of new packaged LEDs for the burgeoning application.

Osram has taken a first step toward weaving smart lighting into clothes, announcing workwear that lights up with LEDs, while strongly hinting that interactive apparel is coming including a cycling jacket that illuminates when you hit the brakes, and lights that flash when your pulse rate rises too high.