Articles tagged “hotels”

India’s homegrown hotel brands are no longer content to play only on home turf. As travel demand rises and global hospitality markets diversify, they’re stepping onto the world stage.

MENA travelers are redefining global tourism — blending faith, family, and cultural identity with digital fluency and a growing appetite for authentic, experience-led travel.

Covid-era staycations were not just temporary for Indian travelers. They showed Indians a new way of traveling where accommodation is the preference, not an after-thought.

Loyalty programs are the biggest marketing avenues for the new-age Indian traveler, and ITC Hotels has decided to take things up a notch by incentivizing long-term loyalty.

India's ancient wellness remedies have evolved from being traditions to becoming major revenue generators, and hotel chains are leaning into this demand.

For football icon Lionel Messi, the partnership allows his hotel brand to scale without the burden of direct management. For Meliá, there's a potential to turn athlete branding into long-term global growth.

Airbnb's bid to vastly expand its hotel business will be labor intensive and a years-long effort. The job openings it is advertising are just the start.

Numa specializes in a stripped-down model of apartment-style hotels. That may work in the mid-market. But as it moves upscale with its new brand, Native by Numa, can it appeal to premium guests who may expect more?

Wyndham's got a side hustle in what you might call frontier markets. While rivals crowd familiar ground, it's planting flags in the Caucasus and Central Asia, and chasing gaps in branded residential.

The IPO space in India is heating up as more travel players are looking to raise funds to support their ambitious expansion plans.