Hotels

Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. announced on Thursday that it expected it to take at least two years for the hotel chain to rebound after the coronavirus pandemic.

After the coronavirus has put a dent into occupancy rates, some hotels have taken creative leaps to repackage rooms as workspaces. 

In the U.S., more than 65% of full-service hotel bookings and more than 75% of budget hotel bookings were made only four days in advance during June, CEO Mark Hoplamazian said on the company's second-quarter earnings call on Tuesday.

Wynn Resorts Ltd. reported a second-quarter loss of $637.6 million on Tuesday.

Under a new industry-wide safety checklist, leading hotels will require face coverings in public.

Hotels are struggling to bring back furloughed or laid off employees as the coronavirus pandemic continues to devastate the travel industry, an industry trade group says.

He admitted to police he had secretly recorded people in the past.

Many hotels are still offering room service, but guests can expect to find a few changes to the traditional dine-in amenities.

A Black family has filed a federal lawsuit against the parent company of Hampton Inn and others after the family said a North Carolina clerk called police on them over a billing dispute two years ago.

Airbnb will block some of its younger U.S. guests from booking homes in their local area in a continued effort to crack down on unauthorized house parties in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. 

A black woman was at the hotel's pool with her children on Friday when a white employee and two white police officers approached her as shown in a Facebook Live video.

The COVID-19 crisis has forever transformed global travel and tourism, the CEO of Airbnb has speculated.

The Ritz-Carlton hotel in White Plains, New York, will temporarily shut down to undergo a "significant renovation" before reopening in 2021, ownership announced Thursday.

About 20 percent of hotels across the U.S. use commercial mortgage-backed securities loans, but many hoteliers have faced many obstacles in navigating relief and worry their business may not survive.

Travel restrictions implemented in response to the outbreak of the virus grounded planes worldwide, gutting the travel industry.

In the COVID-19 landscape, hotels will meet the new normal and prioritize health by scaling back amenities in order to meet new cleanliness and safety standards.

California’s tourism industry is gearing back up just as summer gets underway, though it will not be the same.

As leisure travel starts to pick up, hotels see cleaning standards as a way to soothe jittery guests and possibly win back business from rivals like home-sharing companies like Airbnb.

Guests can now cancel reservations booked through Hyatt for stays through July 31, 2021 up to 24 hours before any scheduled arrival for no added fee including advance purchase rate reservations, the company announced Wednesday, noting that some exclusions apply. 

New York City has shelled out roughly $15.5 million in taxpayer money to Texas travel management company Crewfacilities.com LLC in order to book more than 8,600 hotel rooms at an affordable rate for hundreds of vulnerable homeless shelter residents, frontline hospital workers and recently released Rikers Island inmates to help mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, according to a report by THE CITY.