The Boutique & Lifestyle Lodging Association (BLLA) and Hospitality Design Magazine (HD) are pleased to announce the first annual Boutique & Lifestyle Hospitality Awards, co-founded and produced by BLLA and HD.

TRAVELCLICK®, the leader in ecommerce solutions for the global hotel industry, along with Mobiata, the developer of today's best-selling travel applications, launched StayHIPTM less than three months ago. But it's already made it to the top, voted a Top Travel App for 2010 by Travel + Leisure (T+L). The first bookable app for boutique hotels, StayHIP is included as one of the two featured hotel...

Boutique and high-end hotels such as the W, Ace, the Standard, the Mondrian and the Beverly Hills Hotel are collaborating with designers and bringing exclusive fashion items into the mix.

Ian Schrager, the celebrity hotelier who invigorated South Beach with his launch of the Delano hotel 15 years ago, is coming back to the beach. Through a partnership with Marriott, Schrager is set to turn the shuttered 12-story Seville Beach Hotel into a boutique property under the new Edition brand. The new venture, confirmed Thursday by Marriott, is just the second announced U.S. location un...

Andaz 5th Avenue, the second Andaz property in New York and the fifth in the collection, opened its doors on 5th July, 2010. Andaz 5th Avenue takes its design cues from its own midtown Manhattan neighbourhood. Striking yet timeless interiors are designed by Tony Chi to be both loft-like and evocative of the city's century-old apartment residences. A sophisticated bar, a shop carrying artisanal pr...

The Boutique & Lifestyle Lodging Association, a newly formed association dedicated to uniting the world's boutique and lifestyle properties and the suppliers that sustain them,announced plans for developing a universal standard and criteria for defining boutique and lifestyle lodgings. Initiated by BLLA's Founder and hospitality industry veteran Frances Kiradjian, and in coordination with its Bo...

With their intimate, unconventional properties around the globe, these six trailblazers are transforming the boutique hotel.

As a reflection of its dedication and passion for innovation, W® Hotels Worldwide, the hotel category buster, has partnered with Design Miami/ to present the works of the 2010 W Hotels Designers of the Future Award. This alliance will allow Design Miami/Basel to expand the benefits that the award brings to the winners, including the chance for the commissioned projects to have a life after the fa...

Amid signs that their industry has finally turned a corner after two dark years, hotel executives have begun to plot strategies for better times ahead. But those strategies differ, depending on whether they are running a big chain or independent hotel. Major chains like Marriott and Starwood are increasingly focusing on expanding abroad, as tight credit markets make it tough for developers to bui...

EDITION Hotels marks the next chapter in the lifestyle hotel story. The new Brand was conceived by Ian Schrager in a partnership with Marriott International. It will combine the personal, intimate, individualized and unique lodging experience that Ian Schrager is known for, with the global reach, operational expertise and scale of Marriott. This delicate balancing act will encompass, for the very...