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    IHG tops luxury with Six Senses

     InterContinental Hotels Group has paid Pegasus Capital Advisors USD300m for Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas. IHG said that it expected to expand Six Senses from 16 sites to 60, through management contracts, including moving into urban destinations. Keith Barr, IHG CEO, said: “Six Senses is an outstanding brand in the top-tier of luxury and one [...]
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    Whitbread to return GBP2.5bn

     Whitbread CEO Alison Brittain told analysts that the company’s mission was “to be the world’s best budget hotel business”. The CEO confirmed that the group would return “at least” GBP2.5bn to shareholders, subject “to any other more value-creating alternatives”. Brittain said: “Scale is fundamentally important. There are attractive long-term structural growth opportunities in UK & [...]
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    Hilton lusts after luxury

     Hilton used its fourth-quarter results to reiterate its focus on the luxury market, with the launch of luxury collection brand LXR Hotels & Resorts aiding growth in conversions. The group saw a quarter-on-quarter decline in development pipeline, which CEO Chris Nassetta attributed in part to an end-of-year “clean up”. Nassetta said: “At the end of [...]
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    New entrants support investment

     New investors targeting the hotel sector will help to maintain transactions volumes in EMEA, according to JLL. The broker said that yield-driven investors were likely to look to secondary markets, with “a record level of dry powder” targeting hotels. JLL said that overall investment volumes across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, were expected to [...]
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    OTAs look to hotel growth

     Expedia Group said that it would continue to pursue a more targeted global growth strategy after seeing a slowdown in international room night growth. At Trivago, the company said that it had seen a recovery after its reorganisation last year and was looking to drive more direct business with hotels. Expedia Group reported 12% year-on-year [...]
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    CMA pulls up OTAs

     The Competitions and Markets Authority has the agreement of Expedia, Booking.com, Agoda, Hotels.com, ebookers and Trivago that they will not engage in practices including pressure selling. Expedia Group welcomed the new standards, highlighting the importance of them being applied across the sector, not only by the OTAs. In July last year the CMA identified a [...]
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