Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: Wyndham president and CEO Geoff Ballotti has announced a raft of new initiatives including dual branded Hawtorn Suites and la Quinta properties.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Quest Apartment Hotels has opened its Liverpool aparthotel – its first property in the UK and its first outside Australasia.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: My Place Hotels has opened its 50 and 51st properties in South Dakota and Nevada respectively.

Reading Time: 4 minutesSingapore: The Ascott Limited is investing US$202.2 million in a freehold serviced residence in the Central Business District of North Sydney.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Victoria Hall in South Shields could be converted in to an aparthotel under new plans from Property Developments Ltd.

Reading Time: 2 minutesThailand: Bangkok-based ONYX Hospitality Group has signed a management agreement with leading Thai real estate company Ratanakorn Asset for three new hotels in Eastern Thailand.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Plans to convert the upper floors of the former House of Fraser department store in Hull in to apartments have been given the go ahead.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Andras House director Rajesh Rana, who owns a series of Belfast hotels, is planning to build an aparthotel on Bedford Street.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAustralia: Accor’s Sebel serviced apartments brand is set to open in Moonee Ponds, north-west Melbourne.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Serviced apartment agent SilverDoor Apartments has hosted the first of its partner engagement days in London.