The region’s occupancy ended the month with a 1.1-percent increase to 72.4 percent; its average daily rate dropped 4.9 percent to US$123.13; and its revenue per available room was down 3.8 percent to US$89.12....

For hotel marketing, simple and meaningful trump complicated and obtuse every time....

"From the recent opening in Dalian to Aloft Yancheng, Aloft reflects a growing demand for design-led hotels with a lively social scene in emerging cities,” said Qian Jin, President, Greater China, Starwood....

There are two basic ways to evaluate and monitor any staff within any department and it is a shame that most managers wait until something goes wrong to focus on either of them....

For the third quarter of 2013, Ctrip reported total revenues of RMB1.6 billion (US$268 million), representing a 32% increase from the same period of 2012. Total revenues for the third quarter of 2013 increased by 24% from the previous quart...

"The needs and desires of today s business travelers are changing and hotel brands that don t know their customers intimately will quickly lose a share of the market, " says Brian McGuinness, Starwood Hotels senior VP of specialty select br...

The Shangri-La Tibet will join the company’s existing portfolio of 37 hotels in mainland China, with a further 16 in the pipeline....

Starwood Hotels & Resorts has opened its first Four Points by Sheraton hotel in the southern Chinese province of Guizhou....

A few hotels have localized their brands in China. In 2012, Accor renamed its Grand Mercure hotel in Shanghai as Mei Jue. IHG designed a new brand called Hualuxe Hotels & Resorts for its customers in China....

The announcement last summer that New York Hilton Midtown would end room service sparked plenty of industry debate about the direction of this oft-maligned F&B segment and whether it could survive at all in the long term....