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...

Destination design firm WATG won first place in the Radical Innovation in Hospitality competition for their entry, Mosaic. The award, which was founded by The John Hardy Group and co-sponsored by Hospitality Design, recognizes ingenuity in built or unbuilt hospitality concepts. Thirty projects from eight countries were submitted by hospitality brands, design and consulting professionals, and stud...

Pantone LLC, an X-Rite company (NASDAQ: XRIT) and the global authority on color, today announced the opening of the PANTONE HOTELTM in Brussels. Centrally located just steps from Avenue Louise, a glamorous shopping and business district named for a king's daughter and now a muse to modern-day designers, the boutique PANTONE HOTEL combines a chic, colorful design aesthetic with comfortable, well-a...

This week INNCOM International unveils its next generation of guestroom controls that takes its popular "Glass Series" to new levels. With an unprecedented MODular design, the guest-facing DEVice boasts heightened functionality and customization to accommodate new construction and retrofit hotel projects with equal ease, and the solutions Artistic look and feel can meet nearly any design requirem...

TRAVELCLICK®, the leader in hotel ecommerce, announced today that it has teamed with Mobiata, the developer of today’s best-selling mobile travel applications, to launch a new free mobile application called StayHIP™. The partnership combines the best in mobile app design from Mobiata with hotel search expertise and award-winning booking technology from TRAVELCLICK to create an app designed exclu...

Along with the high room rate, there are certain characteristics to be found in luxury (increasingly called "boutique") hotels these days: The mattresses are Tempur-Pedic; the thread counts of the sheets are 180 or higher; the shower has a deluxe nozzle, and the bathroom has a telephone; the televisions are 54-inch LCD flat panels; rooms are wired for high-speed Internet access; the contemporary ...