Green
Lessons For Hoteliers From Other Sectors
Hospitality, government and education are very different verticals, with their own missions and operating procedures. Despite the differences, they also have a lot in common—in particular, concerns about standards, time, sustainability and budgets. Here’s a look at common challenges during renovation projects, and how best practices can be shared across industries....
Scheinblum, Cambean On a Green Mission
Brian Scheinblum, the head of Cambean Hospitality, views his Clifton South Beach hotel as a magnet for tourists seeking a travel experience based on sustainability. A 35-room boutique structure in the city’s Art Deco district in which Scheinblum invested $2.5 million, the Clifton is the first LEED Gold ...
Hampton Flexes Its Hotel Marketing Muscle
For Phil Cordell, innovation is a guidepost. As global head of focused service, Hampton brand management, Hilton Worldwide, it’s up to Cordell to execute the company’s elastic vision. The 15-story, 221-room Hampton Inn & Suites Miami Brickell Downtown embodies it....
Behind the Scenes Oct. 15
Operational insight to help keep your property running at full speed...
IHG Updates Online Tool Innovation Hotel
Who knew soap dispensers could be so controversial? IHG found out just how much when guests to their Innovation Hotel website debated the environmental benefits vs. hygiene concerns of the resource-saving measure....
Design Elements Sept. 5, 2011
A roundup of design and architecture news and notes....
Insuring Against Risks with Sustainable Hotels
Green building has grown exponentially in the past few years. As of March, 91 lodging properties had achieved the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED certification. An additional 1,100 properties have registered to seek certification. ...
Designing Hotels with the Forest in Mind
As green becomes the new gold standard, hotel owners and operators are increasingly looking to differentiate their brands through environmentally responsible facilities that get the attention of eco-conscious travelers. A 2010 survey of U.S. travelers found this strategy is effective; 48 percent of travelers said they would select a supplier that shows concern for the environment over those that do not....
Vertical Garden Debuts at Chicago Embassy Suites
Five years ago, vertical gardens started popping up in Asian buildings. It wasn’t long before they took root in the U.S. The Embassy Suites Chicago Downtown Lakefront is likely the first hotel in the country to grow such a dramatic example of the indoor landscaping tool. The wall went ‘live’ in late spring. ...
Dolce Hotels and Resorts Prepares to Enter Indianapolis Market
Look at a map of downtown Indianapolis to see a vibrant city center, the striking Conseco Fieldhouse outpost, industries including the Indianapolis Farm Bureau and WellPoint, and a parking lot between Eli Lilly & Co. and the city’s bustling retail and commercial core. The 11-acre parking lot, more barrier than bridge, is about to be history....
Crosby Street Hotel Is Manhattan’s First LEED-Certified Hotel
The Crosby Street Hotel can now claim two firsts: It was the first Firmdale Hotel in the U.S. and just became the first Manhattan hotel to win Gold LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council....
Behind the Scenes April 2011
Operational insight to help keep your hotel running at full speed....
Design Awards: High Honors
From the towering 54-story L.A. Live project all the way down to the eight-story Padre Hotel in Bakersfield, CA, this year’s Design Award winners all stand out. Lodging Hospitality editors chose five projects to honor that displayed innovative, effective and creative architecture and design....
Hersha Hospitality Management Helps Clean the World
Hersha Hospitality Management takes its obligation as a steward of the environment seriously. The Philadelphia-based operator of more than 80 diverse lodging properties recently partnered with Clean the World, a non-profit group that fights the spread of preventable diseases by recycling hotel soaps and bottled amenities. Like all its sustainability and social action initiatives, Hersha looks at the partnership as a way to do well by doing good....
One Developer Masterminds Albuquerque’s Two Boutique Hotels
If he were still alive, Conrad Hilton would have no trouble recognizing the expansive lobby of the Hotel Andaluz in downtown Albuquerque. When the New Mexico native built the 10-story property in 1939, it was the city’s tallest building and Hilton’s fourth hotel project following three in neighboring Texas. More than 70 years later, the design and the feel both remain that of a Moorish Riad, or palace, exactly as Hilton envisioned back in the 1930s....
Tax Credits Fuel Philly Homewood Suites Project
When the Homewood Suites University City broke ground in December, it was a first to many people for many reasons. For the developer, Campus Apartments, it marks the company’s first hotel project. For the City of Philadelphia, it is the first recipient of an EnergyWorks loan ...
Sage Hospitality Partners in Higher Education in Denver
Some lodging companies, like Sage Hospitality, recognize the future health of the hospitality industry rests with the quality of the education system serving it. As a way to bring life to that philosophy, Sage is partnering with Metropolitan State College in its home city of Denver on an intriguing, if not unique, project that combines academics with real-world hotel and f&b experience for MSC’s 500-plus hospitality majors....
Delaware North Strikes Gold With Special Places
It may be the most successful hotel company you probably never heard of. It’s Delaware North Companies Parks & Resorts, the Buffalo, NY-based operator of 20 lodging properties with about 4,000 units mostly in or near national and state parks in the U.S. and Canada. The firm also owns five resorts in Australia and is concessionaire at a number of national parks (Grand Canyon, Sequoia, Yosemite), two New York State parks and the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. ...
First Staybridge Suites With Student Designs Opens
A unique partnership between the Savannah College of Art and Design and IHG’s Staybridge Suites brand has born fruit. The first hotel in the brand’s portfolio to open with designs created by interior design students at the school debuted last week near Houston. ...
Behind the Scenes Jan. 15, 2011
Operational insight to help keep your property running at full speed....
Renovating Your Hotel Cost Effectively
A lot of properties will be renovated in the coming year with the mounting number of hotel owners contemplating sales and investors viewing acquisitions. Hotels are often spruced up before a sale and usually renovated after a purchase and reflagging. However, with money tight, renovations must ...
