Hotel Openings

🏨 Hyatt launched Hyatt Select for budget-conscious travelers, featuring amenities like complimentary breakfast and high-speed internet. Room counts range from 70 to 200, focused on secondary and tertiary markets. The brand provides a lean operating model for reduced labor costs. Hyatt Select joins Essentials portfolio, complementing Hyatt Studios, which opened its first location in Mobile, Alabama. Hyatt Studios, introduced in 2023, has over 50 deals in the pipeline, targeting long-term stays. Hyatt Select will start in the Americas and then expand globally.

🏨 Radisson Hotel Group introduces the Radisson Blu brand to Bergamo with the launch of Radisson Blu Hotel, Bergamo ChorusLife in Italy. The hotel, positioned in the ChorusLife Smart District, offers 107 rooms and suites, a rooftop restaurant with 360-degree views, and 373 square meters of flexible event space across seven venues. It also features sustainable event options, contemporary accommodations, and proximity to UNESCO-listed Venetian Walls, Bergamo-Orio al Serio Airport, Milan, Brescia, Lombardy lakes, and the Orobian Alps. This marks the group's 13th hotel in Italy and the first in Bergamo, enhancing the city's mix of history, culture, and innovation for both business and leisure travelers.

🏢 BWH Hotels acquires the former SleepBeeOne, rebranding it as Best Western Conference Airporthotel Mörfelden in Mörfelden-Walldorf near Frankfurt Airport, with marketing starting in March 2025. Managed by Beepartment GmbH, the 299-room hotel features 25 meeting rooms, a 300 m² event space, and will complete sauna and fitness area renovations by summer 2025. The hotel's facilities aim to cater to business professionals and event organizers, offering an Italian restaurant, shared "Community Kitchen," and networking spaces. The partnership with Best Western seeks to enhance international visibility, leveraging the upcoming opening of Terminal 3 at Frankfurt Airport.

🏨 NOVUM Hospitality and IHG Hotels & Resorts to open a dual-branded hotel complex in Leipzig by 2028 at 44-52 Berliner Straße, comprising a Holiday Inn with 200 rooms and a Candlewood Suites with 80 apartments. The partnership, initiated in April 2024, denotes their seventh and eighth joint projects. The complex supports Leipzig's role in trade fairs and will be developed with Hamburg-based Peters Development GmbH. Alongside 108 NOVUM hotels opening by 2028, this expansion is part of IHG's plan to double its German presence to over 200 hotels in nearly 100 cities, adding around 15,334 rooms.

🏕 Nardo and Luis, highline enthusiasts, launched OVO Patagonia after a three-year effort involving architects, engineers, and mountain experts. Four 200-square-foot pods, constructed in Buenos Aires, were transported 1,400 miles to their cliffside location. The installation included a three-stage elevator system for transferring the pods, capable of operating in 10ºF temperatures and 70 mph winds. The pods' safety system boasts two tensile structures with 9 anchor points each, tested to 35 tons, ensuring a 126× safety margin.

🏨 In Paris, Texas, a new dual-branded hotel with 51-suite TownePlace Suites and 62-suite Fairfield Inn & Suites has opened, managed by Peachtree Group for TEKMAK Development Company. The property features a full bar, outdoor pool, fitness center, complimentary breakfast, and 535 square feet of meeting space. It's near major airports like Dallas/Fort Worth International. Peachtree's portfolio includes 107 hotels across 27 brands in 26 states, with 33 under third-party management.

🏡 Houston's historic Scanlan Building, dating back to 1909 and boasting 87,000 square feet, will become a 140-room Canopy by Hilton hotel, expected to open in summer 2027. Frontera Hotel Group, in partnership with real estate firm SLTX Capital, will manage the hotel, incorporating features like a restaurant, bar, rooftop garden, and fitness center. The redevelopment is set to honor Houston’s heritage while enhancing the Main Street Promenade area.

🏨 Premier Inn, since entering Germany in 2016, has opened 61 hotels and has 37 under development. The brand invested £1.1 billion and plans to open its first hotel in Potsdam by 2027, featuring 208 rooms and an underground parking with 82 spaces. The Potsdam hotel will be on Babelsberger Straße near the central station and include serviced apartments by COSIMO Investment Group. Additionally, Premier Inn aims to expand in Berlin's Köpenick district with a 157-room hotel by the end of 2027, on a 2,674 square-meter plot with outdoor parking and a total gross floor area of 5,300 square meters.

🏨 Hospitality ON's editorial team tracked new hotels opened worldwide in the last 10 days, focusing on groups and chains. They presented a map with color codes: yellow for hotels opened this week, blue for announced openings, green for rebrandings, and orange for signed projects set to open in the future. The article provides locations, photos, and essential information to quickly grasp the hospitality industry's recent activities.

```html 🏗 ``` Corinthia Hotels, in collaboration with Dubai General Properties, is developing a 500-metre-tall mixed-use skyscraper on Sheikh Zayed Road near the Museum of the Future in Dubai. The two-tower structure, connected by a sky lobby 200 metres above ground and designed by AtkinsRéalis, will host the five-star Corinthia Dubai hotel, serviced penthouses, and apartments. The property boasts the world's highest outdoor pool over 500 metres, multiple pools, five restaurants, bars, a private club, and a 330,000 square metre event space with panoramic views. Completion is targeted for 2030.