Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Manchester has become the first city in the UK to introduce a tourist tax, which will cost an additional £1 per night for accommodation stays.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIreland: The planned aparthotel is near the Coombe Hospital in Dublin and would offer preferential access to staff and the families of patients.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteExtended Stay America has entered into an agreement with Bask Development for eight new Premier Suites in Florida.
Reading Time: 2 minutesEMEA: Accor has appointed Paul Stevens as COO for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa, taking responsibility for the group’s premium, midscale and economy division in the region.
Reading Time: 2 minutesroom2 Southampton wins a £10,000 prize from Drax Electric Vehicle event at the Energy & Environment Alliance’s summit.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Blagden Property has submitted plans to transform an Edinburgh city centre language school into a seven-bed aparthotel.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIreland: Planning permission submitted by Peninsula Suite Holdings for a 37-bed Dublin aparthotel in Liberties has been rejected due to an “over concentration” of hotels in the area.
Reading Time: 2 minutesEMEA: Accor’s urban aparthotel brand Adagio will open 11 hotels across five countries this year, including the brand’s sub-Saharan African debut in the Ivory Coast.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUSA: Hospitality management and development company Method Co., in partnership with real estate developer Bedrock, is opening the ROOST Book Tower in Detroit, Michigan later this spring.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUAE: Lifestyle hospitality company Ennismore has announced the opening of Mondrian Abu Dhabi next year, the brand’s first location in the UAE.
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