Hotels

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.

Shares of the hotel operator rose as much as 8.1 percent in afternoon trading.

The president's members-only club in Palm Beach will reopen Saturday with social distancing measures in place.

The Walt Disney Co. has reportedly reached an agreement with unions for Walt Disney World Resort workers over coronavirus safeguards for once the park reopens.

An appeals court has rejected the Trump Organization's bid to reject a lawsuit accusing the president of corruption for owning a hotel in D.C. while in office.

The hospitality and leisure industry lost more than 7.6 million jobs in April.

Gasoline prices fell 20.6% in April and contributed the most to the downward pressure on inflation.