As hotels seek to reimagine their role and purpose in the hospitality industry, more creative solutions will boil to the surface.
The Hospitality Industry Seeks to Reinvent Itself With the Adjacent Space
How Will COVID-19 Shape Hospitality Architecture and Design?
Much about our current reality is different than it used to be, including how we travel. COVID-19, coupled with a global economic slowdown, is changing people’s priorities.
Motel Revivalism: The Destination for Seamless Work & Travel
A new, modernized network of motels – focused on a fun experience, efficiency in amenities, sleek design and of course, cleanliness and safety – could become the working traveler’s touch down for wi-fi hotspots or fiber cable connections to sustain their career along their journey.
Are hotels facing a downward spiral of death?
More bad news for the hotel space: another $144 million in missed debt payments this month, this time courtesy of Ashford Hospitality Trust. The loans in question pertain to a portfolio of eight hotels.
Industrious Teams Up With Williamsburg Hotel To Provide Private Offices
One coworking company is teaming up with an independent hotel to provide private offices at a daily rate.
Hope College hotel, conference center getting $7.5M renovation
Watch: Designing for Travelers
IA projects take many shapes and sizes, and it should come as no surprise that hospitality spaces built to suit travelers take a very specific skillset. Hear from IA Job Captain Adam Treiser, Managing Director Marlene Liriano, and Senior Designer Gisselle Amador as they discuss those skills and discuss the future of the industry.
Can Psychology Help Combat Anxiety in Crafting Welcoming Hospitality Spaces?
The growing field of environmental psychology examines what makes people feel comfortable. Now it's up to designers to harness its findings.
Sleepbox pods installed at Dulles International Airport
Sleepbox has 16 bookable nap rooms that are available for hire for a minimum of one hour, to offers travellers a place to rest in privacy.
Eat In? Crate And Barrel Opens Restaurant In A Store
As experiential retailing takes deeper root, Crate and Barrel is testing a concept not often found in standard stores: a full-service restaurant sporting, naturally, Crate and Barrel items
The Hoxton hotel opens in Chicago's old meatpacking area
London hotelier Ennismore has designed an outpost of The Hoxton, including a co-working lobby space and rooftop pool, on the site of an old meatpacking facility in Chicago.
Inside the secret laboratory where Marriott is cooking up the hotel of the future
The hotel giant, which faces stiff competition from Hilton and Airbnb, uses the lab to get insights into the smallest details–from the shape of wall sconces to the location of electrical outlets.
The TWA hotel at JFK is open, and it looks amazing
The famous airport terminal designed by Eero Saarinen in 1962 for Trans-World Airlines is alive once again thanks to hotelier MCR Development and our collective fetish for mid-century modern design.
On the mats
To manufacture the sofas, which thrive so strongly on the materials and shape of upholstered leather, Aisslinger turned to one of the most famous German makers of upholstered furniture, namely Rolf Benz in Nagold, in southern Germany.
How France’s hotels are rethinking style and space
Design has long been important to the hotel industry as a way to attract new guests and turn them into repeat visitors.
Marriott Unveils Ambitious Growth Plan: 1,700 Hotels In 3 Years
Thinking selling furniture into the hospitality market? Marriott International, already the largest hotel company in the world, said it will open more than 1,700 hotels worldwide over the next three years, totaling between 275,000 and 295,000 rooms.
Meet the man who creates today’s coolest hotels
Why coworking is coming to hotels
It’s not just offices that are adapting to new, flexible ways of working and an increasingly mobile workforce.
USM: Hospitably versatile
With its new brochure, USM shows the potential the Haller modular furniture system offers the hospitality industry.
ASID releases new research on connection between Hospitality Design and Well-Being
Hotel properties worldwide are focused anew on enhancing the well-being of their guests, with a particular focus on their sleep experiences.