Overlooking the Arabian Gulf, the four-star hotel has 465 guestrooms and will have five food and beverage point of sales, nine meeting rooms, a business center and a host of leisure facilities.More>>

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Sofitel hopes to open two or more additional hotels in Australia, bringing its total to at least six. This according to CEO Robert Gaymer-Jones, who was in Australia last week. He ruled out Perth as an option, but said Sydney or Melbourne would be good...More>>

While India continues to be a compelling destination for developers to build hotels, a gauntlet of red tape and provincial entangles makes it a very tough proposition. However, savvy hotel operators are turning to conversions instead of ground-up development to expand in the countryMore>>

The company signed three new build hotels in Myanmar. The MGallery Hotel in Naypyidaw and the Novotel Hotel in Yangon will open during 2013, while the Novotel in Mandalay is scheduled for a 2015 opening.More>>

With the addition of Pullman Dubai Deira City Centre to the company’s global properties, the Pullman network currently counts 78 hotels in 23 countries. Accor is eyeing to manage 150 Pullman hotels worldwide by 2015 to 2020, among which 15 will be in key destinations.More>>

Until the end of the first quarter of 2014, Accor, as part of its "Pullman Paris Live" program, is updating the interiors of its five Parisian hotels assisted by eight architects. The overhaul will involve 30 months of works, the renovation of over 2,500 rooms and reinvention of nearly 280,000...More>>

GMR Group has put its Rs 300-crore Novotel Hyderabad Airport Hotel India at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport up for sale as it realigns its assets, reports say. This will be the third property that GMR has put on sale this year in line with the group's asset-light strategy. Sources say the...More>>

With 255 guestrooms, the cosmopolitan hotel will renovate all of the guest bathrooms and upgrade room furnishings, while the lobby and part of the historic Field House Restaurant will receive a makeover.More>>

Accor, a major player in Europe's hotel scene, is planning to cut costs, expand in emerging markets and move towards franchising or managing hotels for others in a bid to boost profit margins and cope with weak trading in its main markets. The strategy would involve the restructuring of 800...More>>

Sofitel is set to open properties in Wellington, New Zealand, Bali, Indonesia and Shenyang, China by mid-2014.More>>