GLOBAL Chinese state-owned travel group Jin Jiang International Holdings has signed a preliminary deal to acquire Louvre Hotels Group, a Paris-based hotelier owned by Starwood Capital Group.
CZECH REPUBLIC The Hilton Prague, the largest hotel in the Czech Republic, has been put up for sale.
WORLD US hotel giant Starwood, which operates such hotel chains as Westin, Sheraton, Le Meridien, St. Regis, Aloft, W and Element, has introduced a new mobile app functionality that allows hotel guests to use their mobiles as a room key.
CEE REGION Polish hotel operator Orbis has been offered to take over a portfolio of 46 CEE Accor hotels.
RUSSIA InterContinental Hotels Group and the Russian developer Regional Hotel Chain (RHC) have opened a Holiday Inn Express hotel in Voronezh, 500 km south of Moscow.
LATVIA Hilton Garden Inn Rīga Valdemāra, the first hotel of the Hilton Garden Inn chain to be built in the Baltics, is to open in spring 2016.
ROMANIA French hotel operator Accor is opening its first Romanian Mercure-branded hotel in Bucharest. Located in the city center, the four-star hotel will have 114 rooms, including 27 suites.
POLAND Wrocław-based company West Real Estate, which is planning the construction of the Hampton by Hilton Wrocław City Center West hotel, is planning to begin the construction work proper on the building in spring 2015.
POLAND New halls of residence at al. Niepodległości 36 in Poznań have been opened, offering almost 560 beds for students and tourists, as well as some retail and service space.
POLAND The Hampton by Hilton Warsaw City Centre has opened its doors to guests for the first time.
RUSSIA US-based hotel group Carlson Rezidor has opened a Radisson Blu-branded hotel at Moscow Sheremetyevo airport, which the company claims to be "the first and the only" international hotel directly connected to the airport.
LATVIA The Orbis/Accor hotel group has opened the first Ibis Styles hotel in Latvia: Ibis Styles Riga.
EUROPE In the first half of the year, French hotel operator Accor has seen a 2.8 pct y-o-y increase in like-for-like revenues as its total revenues hit EUR 2.5 bln. Meanwhile, like-for-like gains in the Northern, Central and Eastern Europe region (NCEE) alone went up 3.2 pct.
POLAND Czarna Góra Apartamenty has decided to build a condo hotel near its existing Czarna Góra resort in Sienna near Stronie Śląskie in Poland’s Lower Silesian Province. Located next to the six luxury apartment buildings, the four storey condo hotel is set to house 142 apartments.
RUSSIA The Nikolskaya hotel in Moscow has officially been included under the management of Starwood Hotels & Resorts, changing the name to St. Regis Moscow Hotel Nikolskaya.
RUSSIA In H1 2014, the St Petersburg quality hotel market saw a 30-pct growth in ADR (up to RUB 4,600) and a 24-pct surgge in RevPar (up to RUB 2,253), compared to H1 2013, according to the latest report by JLL.
HUNGARY Hungary’s central bank (MNB) has found an interesting way to support the country’s recovering real estate market. After what must have been extremely hard bargaining, it has bought a four-star rural residence worth EUR 2.9 mln for over EUR 1.3 mln to pamper its employees, reports the ‘Wall Street Journal.’
RUSSIA With a 5.4 pct drop in the revenue per room (RevPAR) y-o-y, the performance of the Moscow hotel market for H1 2014 is down, but less than feared, according to the Moscow Hotel Market Update report by JLL.
POLAND Hotel group Carloson Rezidor, which owns 1,340 hotels worldwide including Radisson-branded hotels, has decided to enter another Polish city, the mountain resort of Zakopane.
UKRAINE In H1 the hotel occupancy in Kyiv dropped to 28 pct, an all-time low, compared to 50 pct in the first half of 2013, according to the latest Hotel Intelligence report by JLL.
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