Reading Time: < 1 minuteWorldwide: Digital travel platform Agoda has launched long term stay feature for its users.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Trade association UKHospitality (UKH) has called coronavirus an “existential threat” to the hospitality industry in a letter to Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Reading Time: 3 minutesUK: The winners of the fifth annual Serviced Apartment Awards celebrated in London last night, at a gala dinner presentation at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel Kensington.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAustralia: Ascott Residence Trust (ART) has bought Quest Macquarie Park Sydney for A$46 million.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteGermany: i Live Group has sold a serviced apartment project in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen to HanseMerkur Grundvermögen.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: Extended Stay America (ESA) has promoted Judi Bikulege to chief investment officer.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Speaking to fellow MPs in the House of Commons, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced an abolition of business rates for any business with a property of a rateable value less than £51,000 for the coming financial year.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: Chatham Lodging Trust, a hospitality real estate investment trust (REIT) that invests in upscale extended-stay hotels, has announced that chief investment officer Peter Willis is stepping down from the company.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Wythenshawe hospital in Manchester is set to be redeveloped in to a “health village”, including a rebuilt hospital, affordable housing for nurses and an aparthotel for patients.