Barry Sternlicht travel tips

Marriott and Hilton joined all the major hotel groups this week in providing updates on their hotel development pipelines as they gathered at the Americas Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS) in Los Angeles.

Ennismore, the fast-growing lifestyle hospitality company that’s an Accor joint venture, said Thursday it had entered into a strategic partnership to run and market as part of its family of brands the experiential luxury hotel brand Our Habitas.

A popular Seattle hotel in the city's trendy South Lake Union neighborhood is slated to become an outpost for the 1 Hotels brand, known for its posh properties in Hawaii and London.

One of the top reasons Marriott's Westin brand has a loyal following just got a glow-up.

The luxe Baccarat Hotels brand is adding a Maldives property to its portfolio, but don't think it stops there in terms of expansion for the brand — or for its siblings, 1 Hotels and Treehouse Hotels.

1 Hotels, known for wellness and sustainability, is continuing to celebrate the new year, and maybe those resolutions, with a new sale.

Not all islands are created equal. Some people may believe one speck of sand is the same in the Maldives as one in Indonesia or that the pitons in St. Lucia are close enough to Mount Otemanu in Bora Bora. Still others may assume all of Hawaii’s 137 islands, including the eight large ones, are alike. If there’s one thing my travel has proved, it’s that islands are vastly distinct. Among those in Hawaii, Kauai, the oldest of them all in the region, is the prize place.

1 Hotels has launched its first European property, with 1 Hotels Mayfair now open in London, standing as the brands flagship location in the United Kingdom.

JLL Hotels & Hospitality released a report – “An investor’s guide to lifestyle hotels” — highlighting how this sector is enjoying a buzzy moment.

HotelTonight co-founder and CEO Sam Shank, who steered the hotel booking app even after it was acquired by Airbnb in 2019, recently announced he would be leaving the short-term rental giant. Shank wrote on his LinkedIn account that he would take some time before making plans for a future outside of the travel industry.

Starwood Capital, a real estate investment firm run by Barry Sternlicht — who has scaled up high-end brands W Hotels, St. Regis Hotels, 1 Hotels, Treehouse Hotels, and Baccarat Hotels — said it would help launch a limited-service hotel brand focused on the outdoor sector. Enter the iconic media brand Field & Stream, founded in 1895.

SH Hotels & Resorts is a hotel brand management company owned by Starwood Capital, a real estate investment firm that has invested in 4,000 hotels across the decades. The chairman of both is Barry Sternlicht, creator of W Hotels and builder of the St. Regis Hotels brand.