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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc today announced the entry of its innovative Aloft brand to the Saudi Arabian market with the opening of Aloft Riyadh. Designed for today's hyper-connected, tech-forward global traveller ...
Mergers frequently don't work, failing to generate anticipated synergies. The winner in any merger is usually the one willing to pay the most, and that frequently means overpaying. This is known as the winner's curse. Assuming that each bidder has the ...
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STAMFORD, CT - Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc today announced that it has closed on the sale of Hotel Goldener Hirsch, A Luxury Collection Hotel in Salzburg, Austria to companies of the WILD Group for €20M (approximately $22 million USD).
Marriott was eager to get into bed with Starwood. Now some of the excitement has worn off. The $12 billion hotel megamerger is taking longer to close — thanks to Chinese authorities extending their review — and is turning out to be less enticing than ...
Starwood Hotels & Resorts has continued to expand in the Pacific region with the signing of its first ever hotel in Palau – the island nation located southeast of the Philippines. Scheduled to open in March 2019, the new-build Sheraton Palau Resort ...
Malware is believed to have infiltrated point-of-sale (POS) terminals and compromised customers' payment card information at 20 HEI Hotels & Resorts locations. On 12 August, the hotel chain that operates Starwood, Marriott, Hyatt, and Intercontinental ...
HEI Hotels & Resorts (HEI) has reported a data breach at point-of-sale (PoS) terminals of around 20 of its properties across the US, which may have compromised financial details of its customers. The breach hit food and beverage outlets at 20 Starwood, ...
HEI Hotels' breach announcement comes just days after Hold Security researchers announced that the same Russian hackers who breached a customer support portal for Oracle's MICROS POS system also hit POS vendors Cin7, ECRS, Navy Zebra, PAR ...
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Thamrin Ekspress Indonesia today jointly announced the opening of Four Points Jakarta, Thamrin. The opening marks the first Four Points property in Jakarta, and the sixth in Indonesia. The hotel is part of an approximate 159,000 ...
Starwood Capital Group LLC is seeking $6 billion from investors for its latest global opportunistic property pool. The new fund, Starwood Global Opportunity Fund XI LP, would be the firm's biggest yet. It will be invested primarily in North America and ...
China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) review is the only remaining merger clearance for the deal, which is expected to create the largest hotel group in the world with a combined enterprise value of $36 billion and 1.1 million hotel rooms. Hilton ...
The Luxury Collection Hotels & Resorts, part of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT), yesterday announced the opening of The Prince Gallery Tokyo Kioicho, a Luxury Collection Hotel, marking Starwood's first-ever luxury hotel in Japan's ...
Customer experience in the travel industry certainly isn't immune from the impact that mobile has in today's loyalty marketing world. Just ask Julie Atkinson, Senior Vice President, Global Digital, at Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide. “The travel ...
Just over one mile from downtown Syracuse, Aloft Syracuse Inner Harbor is within close proximity of Destiny USA, a major shopping and entertainment destination with more than 1.3 million square feet of outlets, restaurants and retail stores. Guests ...
STAMFORD, Conn. -- Starwood Preferred Guest® (SPG®), the award-winning loyalty program from Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT), today announced its biggest US Open activation yet, offering members access to a newly ...
Marriott International, Inc.'s (MAR - Free Report) proposed takeover of Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide continues to move further. We note that last November, Marriott had inked a definitive merger deal to purchase Starwood and create the world's ...
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Same old USA ambition, questionable ethics and double talk. As for engagement, this falls in the same realm as cruise-ship sailings and the imaginary theory that if enough Americans disembark at selected and controlled points and follow a highly ...
POINT 1: Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) today announced the debut of the Four Points brand in cosmopolitan Singapore, with the opening of Four Points by Sheraton Singapore, Riverview. Located along the bustling Singapore ...
Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, the world's leading luxury hospitality company, andStarwood Capital Group, a private real estate investment firm, today announced that Four Seasons will assume management of the Viceroy Anguilla resort, which is owned ...
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:HOT) today announced that it has signed an agreement with Sydney based developer, JL Parramatta Pty Ltd to open Four Points by Sheraton Parramatta in the cosmopolitan city of Sydney in Australia, ...
POINT 1: Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:HOT) today announced a historic milestone with the opening of Four Points Havana—the company's first hotel in Cuba—representing a watershed moment for the fast-growing Four Points brand.
In an official inauguration on Tuesday, Four Points by Sheraton Havana became the first American hotel chain with a presence in Cuba since the country's 1959 revolution. “This is a historic moment,” said Nancy Sarabia, the public relations manager for ...
Starwood Starwood's Aloft, Element and W properties are already providing the service, which is currently available at more than 160 locations in over 30 countries. The luxury hotel chain is also expanding the service to enable multiple guests sharing ...
STAMFORD, Conn. -- The travel industry witnessed a groundbreaking turning point in the hotel experience with the launch of SPG Keyless in the Fall of 2014, the industry's first truly mobile and keyless entry system that allows guests to use their ...
Marriott International, Inc. (MAR - Free Report) and Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide have declared that the European Union has given antitrust clearance to their pending merger. Last November, Marriot inked a definitive merger to purchase ...
BETHESDA, MD and STAMFORD, CT - Marriott International, Inc and Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide today announced they have received unconditional clearance from the European Union for Marriott to acquire Starwood in a merger transaction.
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SUNSHINE COAST, Australia -- Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) today announced it has signed an agreement with Sekisui House Australia to plan and operate The Westin Coolum Resort & Spa in Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
Starwood Capital Group LLC hired Eastdil Secured LLC to broker the sale of U.S. malls valued at about $1.2 billion, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. Starwood is selling malls it had acquired from Westfield Corp. including assets in ...
Starwood Hotels & Resorts has signed an agreement to manage a new-build Westin resort on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. Scheduled to open in 2021, the Westin Coolum Resort & Spa will be located next to Yaroomba Beach and will form part of a new ...
POINT 1: Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:HOT) today announced an agreement with joint venture partners, Frasers Property Australia and Sekisui House Australia, to open Four Points by Sheraton Sydney, Central Park. Located in the AU$2 ...
Starwood Hotels & Resorts closed its sale of Italy's St. Regis Florence and The Westin Excelsior, Florence to Nozul Hotels & Resorts, a subsidiary of Qatar-based Jaidah Holdings, for $123 million. Starwood will continue to operate the properties under ...
Starwood is expanding its presence in the Middle East. The hotel chain has reached a joint agreement with Saudi Real Estate to open two new hotels in Riyadh, according to Reuters. The new hotels, one a five-star under Starwood's Westin brand the other ...
Global · Asia Pacific · Caribbean · Europe · Central & South America · Middle East & Africa · USA & Canada; Set your edition. Regionalize Hospitality .... Hot industry trend: Video marketing for hotels | By Sarah Came · Heads in beds: refining room ...
CEO Mark Hoplamazian explains. Hyatt Hotels is having a great year. Earnings are up double digits so far, it's on track to open 60 hotels in 2016, and business in China is growing, despite all of the gloomy reports about a slowing economy in the Asian ...
Element Detroit at the Metropolitan Building Starwood is to open the first property under its eco-friendly, extended stay Element brand in Detroit. The 110-room property will be housed within the Metropolitan Building in the city's central business ...
STAMFORD, Conn. -- Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) today announced Element Hotels, its stylish eco-incubator brand, will debut in Detroit in July of 2018, following an adaptive re-use project that will transform the historic ...
'Better together' – the slogan of the UK Brexit campaign – could become the Marriott-Starwood riposte to critics of the deal that argue Customer Service and true personalisation will suffer as a result. Not so, says Glenn Stress, Starwood Director of ...
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Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.® (NYSE:HOT) today announced its rapidly expanding Aloft brand has opened its first hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona. Owned and managed by Triyar Hospitality, the hotel recently completed a $4 million conversion to ...
While Marriott, as well as its competitors, have emphasized increasing investments in offering tech-based Customer Service solutions, one shareholder wondered if the company was sacrificing human Customer Service interactions for the sake of technology.
Global · Asia Pacific · Caribbean · Europe · Central & South America · Middle East & Africa · USA & Canada; Set your edition .... Customer Service vs. The Customer Experience | By Jana Love · Learning from good practices: Uber and hoteliers | By ...
Leading hotelier Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc.'s (HOT - Analyst Report) first-quarter adjusted earnings of 70 cents per share easily beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 58 cents by 20.7%. Earnings were also above management's expected ...
Starwood has announced the signing of Aloft Jakarta Simatupang. Owned by PT. Anugrah Karya Bangsa, the hotel marks the fourth Aloft hotel in Indonesia and the third Aloft in Jakarta. Set to open on 1 January 2020, the hotel will bring its passion for ...
Interval Leisure Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: IILG) ("ILG") and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) ("Starwood") today announced a brief delay in the planned closing of ILG's acquisition of Starwood's vacation ownership business, Vistana ...
Starwood Hotels & Resorts may be waiting for its deal to be acquired by Marriott to be finalized, but it isn't standing still on expanding its hotel footprint. Starwood's Element brand, its sustainable extended-stay unit, said it is opening 22 new ...
A rendering filed with the city shows the mixed-use hotel and commercial project planned for 600 Meeting St. prev. next. An opening date has been set for a dual-flag, nine-story hotel planned next to a Ravenel Bridge on-ramp in downtown Charleston.
It would seem the news that hotel chain Starwood (hot) is going to be bought by rival Marriott International (mar, +1.42%) instead of by a little-known Chinese company with uncertain funding would be welcomed by investors. It hasn't been. Shares of ...
