Almost 50 years after Hyatt opened its first hotel in China, the company has a solid footprint in the country.

The hotel construction pipeline in the Middle East set another cyclical high in the third quarter with 617 projects and 180,097 rooms, according to the latest data from Lodging Econometrics.

Radisson Hospitality has officially changed hands.

Perkins Coie represented Integrated Capital, a private real estate advisory and investment firm, in the negotiation of a $57 million refinancing loan for the Atlanta Marriott Perimeter Center hotel.

IHG has added two senior executives to reinforce the company's development presence in Europe.

IHG has signed a management agreement with the Al Arabiya Real Estate Company, owned by Kuwaiti conglomerate The Bukhamseen Group, to bring the company's Staybridge Suites brand to Kuwait. The Staybridge Suites Kuwait Salmiya is due to open in January 2022.

Italian real estate company Gruppo Barletta has tapped Rosewood Hotels & Resorts to manage the Rosewood Venice, which is set to open in 2020 as the brand’s second property in Italy and eighth in Europe.

Hotels in the Middle East and North Africa recorded a 34.8-percent year-over-year decrease in profit per room in September as revenue levels slid and costs escalated, according to the latest HotStats data tracking full-service hotels.

Bangkok-based Minor Hotels has taken a minority stake in the Global Hotel Alliance, an independent group that has 33 brands with more than 550 hotels in 77 countries across its platform.

Life House, a hotel company from Rami Zeidan of Starwood and programmer Yury Yakubchyk, launched a collection of lifestyle hotels, with its first two properties located in Miami’s Little Havana and South Beach neighborhoods.

Marriott International and Eagle Hills have signed a deal to open the St. Regis Tamuda Bay in 2020, marking the brand’s debut in Morocco.

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.