POLAND Von der Heyden Group plans on renovating three historical semi-detached tenement houses located at the heart of Gdańsk in order to convert them into the IBB Blue Hotel.
LATVIA Polish hotel operator Orbis will open an Ibis-branded hotel in Riga at the end of 2016.
UKRAINE The occupancy rate of three-, four- and five-star hotels in Kyiv fell in 2014 to 30.4 pct, according to consultancy UTG.
POLAND Hotele Diament is preparing for its debut on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
POLAND Construction work is nearing completion on an underground car park with 74 spaces earmarked for the guests of the Lwowska 1 aparthotel in Kraków .
RUSSIA The majority of branded hotels in Moscow are pushing up their rates in rubles in an effort to soften the impact of Russia’s ailing economy.
POLAND The Petropol hotel in Płock, which has recently undergone major renovations, will now operate under the Best Western brand.
CEE REGION In 2014, the US hotel giant Starwood, which operates such chains as Westin, Sheraton, Le Meridien, St. Regis, Aloft and W, has opened 74 new hotels worldwide which translated into app. 15,000 rooms in 26 countries. The company now aims to keep up with the pace of openings by adding, among others, new CEE locations to its portfolio.
RUSSIA The current military and political conflict in the region has led to the deterioration of the Moscow hotel market and falling property values.
POLAND The Orbis hotel group has signed a franchise contract with the Four Hotel company for a hotel that is being developed on ul. Pszenna in Gdańsk.
BULGARIA Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts, a hotel group owned by the Toronto-based and Gulf-financed FRHI Hotels & Resorts (FRHI), will manage Swissôtel Sofia, a condo hotel tower that is currently being developed by Turkish developer Garanti Koza in Bulgaria’s capital city.
POLAND Four-star hotel Mercure Bydgoszcz Sepia has opened in the Polish city of Bydgoszcz, becoming the first Orbis Hotel Group property in this location.
POLAND The four-year-old Dyplomat hotel in Olsztyn is to become part of the Best Western chain under the Best Western Plus brand in spring 2015.
POLAND The B&B budget hotel chain is planning to open its fourth location in Poland. The company, which recently purchased a Katowice investment plot, is getting prepared to start the construction work on the site.
POLAND The first Alto hotel is set to open at the beginning of 2015 in Żory. The Alto brand, operated and owned by the Polish hotel chain Qubus, was created to serve minor Polish markets.
POLAND The second stage of the 69-apartment Sun & Snow Resorts complex has opened in Szklarska Poręba. Located at ul. Górna 19, the three-stage project provides 140 apartments with floor plans ranging from 30 to 100 sqm.
POLAND Polish hotel group Orbis has accepted the offer of its strategic partner Accor to become the sole licensor of 46 hotels and all Accor brands in 16 countries in the CEE region.
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.
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