Its 6, 000 clients range from tiny outfits to Alaska Airways, Las Vegas Hotel Group and Ebay.
Cheng has just listed hotel-management firm Renaissance Hotel Group on the New York stock exchange.
This is three-star Michelin Chef Pierre Gagnaire's U.S. debut and his second restaurant within the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group.
But no amount of planning could have prevented the bad luck that befell the Metropark hotel group last week.
Mr. Gordon formed Rubicon in 2011 after stepping down from his post as president of Morgans Hotel Group Co.
The French hotel group Accor began adding Chinese television and Mandarin-speaking staff.
The Marriott hotel group, for example, sends its sales representatives to China for a crash course in local culture, USA Today reports.
Colony has had greater success with Accor, a hotel group in which it holds a 17.5% stake jointly with Eurazeo, a private-equity fund.
To that end, it announced a number of partnerships with big consumer brands, including InterContinental Hotel Group, Bass Pro Shops and Shell Oil.
The loans had originally been made to the Maybourne Hotel Group by two Irish banks to fund the acquisition of the hotels in 2005.
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C. offers modest pickings when it comes to luxury digs, but Capella Hotel Group (run by former Ritz-Carlton President, Horst Schulze) aims to change that.
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Steve Pinetti, senior vice president of the hotel group, explained how sound environmental practices are now much more commonplace than when Kimpton began its sustainability program.
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The chain is joining competitors racing to expand in the region, including Hilton Worldwide Inc. and Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group, owner of the Radisson Blu brand.
Honeywell ( HON - news - people ), restaurant and hotel group Carlson, hair salon franchiser Regis and a large U.S. mining company.
Joe Germanotta, chief executive of GuestWi-Fi, Wi-Fi provider to hotels such as Crowne Plaza and the Intercontinental Hotel Group, doesn't see a problem with Wi-Fi rates.
The 100-employee company has signed up close to 50 customers, including Honeywell, restaurant and hotel group Carlson, hair salon franchiser Regis and a large U.S. mining company.
He has launched several more airlines, a mobile phone company (which he sold for well over a billion dollars), a cola, an entertainment content company, and a hotel group.
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Acapulco, home to hotels operated by major hospitality companies such as InterContinental Hotel Group, Starwood Hotels, Wyndham Worldwide Corporation, has seen its reputation damaged by ongoing security problems.
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The flagship of the ultra-luxury Peninsula Hotel Group, this icon has been famed for its white glove service, opulent public spaces, fine dining, and fleet of custom "Peninsula green" Rolls Royces since it opened in 1928.
In Acapulco, the blue water of the bay gives way to a skyline dotted with closely packed tall white hotels operated by major hospitality companies such as InterContinental Hotel Group, Starwood Hotels, Wyndham Worldwide Corporation, and Global Hospitality Investments.
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Part of the African Pride Hotel group, the Melrose Arch Hotel has redefined urban chic in a city which I have come to fully embrace for its diversity and rising self-confidence, finally emerging strong from many years of its turbulent past.
Opened in 1789 as a bakery and restaurant, today the 170-room Traube Tonbach is a member of the Relais and Chateaux luxury hotel group, and has expanded to include a spa and fitness centre, a 25-person chapel, indoor and outdoor pools, a wine bar and four restaurants.
"Given the constant re-investment and the constant drive with new technology coming in much faster than most of us can adapt ... we're at a point where we take any bit of profit and continue to re-invest in the technology, " says Monika Neger, chief information officer for the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group.
As usual, Four Seasons has brought in a seasoned veteran to run the operation: GM James Kostecky comes from the same position at frequent award-winning sister hotels, Four Seasons Resort Chiang Mai and Four Seasons Tented Camp Golden Triangle in Thailand, and prior to joining the company, he worked in Kenya with a local hotel group.
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Dreaded by many neighbors because of its out-of-scale height (25 stories) but anxiously-awaited by insatiable luxury-hotel fans, the glimmering glass Mondrian Soho tower opened to the public Tuesday, and I popped in yesterday to see how it measured up both to downtown fears and to other fanciful properties of the Morgans Hotel Group, otherwise known as the original chic-boutique hoteliers.
Later, after Italian food at the Palms hotel, the group repaired to the Playboy Club.
Subrata Roy Sahara, chairman of the Sahara Group, said the hotel was a part of the group's "major expansion plans".
His company, a global sales operation with an association of independently owned four- and five- star hotels, secures hotel buyouts for group business meetings.
"Realising the danger they were in, they started to run towards their hotel but the group caught up with them at the corner of Garibaldi Street and Piazza Garibaldi, " he said.
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