Reading Time: 3 minutes In this series, “JJ”, SAN’s very own secret hotelier, brings us the ups and downs he encounters in his most ambitious challenge to date, the launch of a new aparthotel brand. Here he recounts how an encounter in a swimming pool got his career in the industry up and running.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Rahim Amidi, co-founder of US brand TENTEN, talks to SAN about providing all-inclusive properties that cater to new ways of living and working.
Reading Time: 10 minutes SAN editor George Sell looks at some of the key trends that will shape the global serviced apartment and aparthotel sector in 2020.
Reading Time: 7 minutes UK: Imagine walking into the lobby of a stunning boutique hotel. You’re surrounded by plush, luxurious soft furnishings, all dark, comfortable and welcoming. The staff at the front desk seem friendly, all wearing the various protective gear they can, not to mention their impeccable dress sense. But something seems off. You have a seat and wait while the team works through your check-in. And you realise that you can only hear the tapping of keys as your name and info is put into the computer. Beyond that, silence.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Simon McGrath, CEO of Accor Pacific, tells SAN about the company’s The Sebel serviced apartment brand.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Serviced Apartment News · SAN Podcast 38 – Ben Harper, Beach Retreats and Watergate Bay Hotel
Reading Time: 3 minutes Each month “JJ”, SAN’s very own secret hotelier, brings us the ups and downs he encounters in his most ambitious challenge to date, the launch of a new aparthotel brand.
Reading Time: 4 minutes UK: Scheduled fortnightly on Wednesdays at 2 pm BST, International Hospitality Media editor-in-chief George Sell is hosting a webinar series focusing on the changes in urban living, in support of the Urban Living Lite series.
Reading Time: 7 minutes Chris Graham, managing director of Graham Associates and author of Branded Residences: An Overview, tells SAN about this evolving asset class.
Reading Time: 3 minutes UK: Scheduled fortnightly on Wednesdays at 2 pm BST, International Hospitality Media editor-in-chief George Sell is hosting a webinar series focusing on the changes in urban living, in support of the Urban Living Lite series.
Reading Time: < 1 minute UK: Developer North Star (York) Ltd has entered administration, leaving its York serviced apartment project without a roof.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Albania: Philipp Plein, fashion designer and CEO of the Plein Group, has signed a multi-year agreement with real estate company X One LLC (S.H.P.K.) to develop a luxury hotel and serviced apartments in Tirana.
Reading Time: < 1 minute UK: Operator Staycity has taken on the lease of eydn’s Kingsland Locke aparthotel in Dalston, London.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Ireland: Lifestyle aparthotel brand The July has begun construction on its Dublin property, located on Capel Street.
Reading Time: < 1 minute US: Corporate housing company Reside has appointed Walter ‘J.R.’ Dembiec as its brand president of Reside, a Wyndham Residence.
Reading Time: < 1 minute US: Everhome Suites, an extended stay brand under Choice Hotels, has opened in North Carolina and Wyoming with construction underway at a property in Tennessee.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Serviced Apartment News reflects on the most notable stories and interviews of 2024.
Reading Time: < 1 minute UK: GMS Estates has received planning permission from Camden Council to convert the Holborn office Kingsway House into a 58-unit aparthotel, operated by Beyond.
Reading Time: 2 minutes UK: Planning permission has been submitted to the Lake District National Park to convert the Grey Walls Hotel in Windermere into a 17-unit aparthotel.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Romania: French property group Catinvest is expanding in Oltenia with the opening of Aparthotel Craiova.