Hospitality and Travel News

Hotel Chatter : To dispense or not to dispense? We're talking about hotel toiletry dispensers, that is. We (and a few of our readers) ha...

Hotel Fitness Center MSNBC : If you’re staying at a hotel or resort in the coming months, Bjorn Hanson has a little advice: “Before you...

Chicago Tribune : Thinking of taking a dip in the pool while on vacation? Even if you choose not to, you could get charged $40 just for havi...

Jaunted: Browsing winter vacation deals yet? Drooling over JetBlue Getaways offers like $359 per person for a 4-day escape to St. Lucia? T...

Club Lounge at the Sheraton Baltimore City Center CNN: Move over, room upgrades. There's a new hotel perk in town, and it might be w...

Reuters : Hotel chains are delivering everything from yoga videos to recumbent bicycles to guests who prefer to work out their jet lag, or s...

USA Today: Hotels are starting to replace mini plastic toiletry bottles with larger bottles as consumers demand greener options, and it...

USA Today : When it comes to choosing a hotel, which of the following is most important to you: Location? Cleanliness? Security? Rate? Onl...

Wall Street Journal : Cheryl Cortez tells people to stay at the W chain of hotels. It isn't the room décor or the customer service, it...

The Denver Channel : That bar of soap you used once or twice during your last hotel stay might now be helping poor children fight disease. ...

Venus Room at the VenusGarden Hotel Hotel Chatter : Hotels are not ones to shy away from sex what with all the sex kits we've seen in...

USA Today : Forget Pringles chips and Snickers bars. Hotels are increasingly replacing mainstream candy, chips, beverages and other mini-bar...

Miami Herald : Mouthwash. Comfy robe. Sewing kit. BMW? Hotels increasingly are offering a new amenity: access to luxury cars.  The Ritz-Ca...

New York Times : In the lavish days before the recession, there was an amenities arms race in the hospitality industry, as hotel chains repl...

Gettysburg Wyndham shower Wal Street Journal : Hotels are hitting the showers—with crystal chandeliers, glass walls and even hammocks. ...

Los Angeles Times : The new hotel amenity is the gas card. That seems to be the trend as regular gas in California hovers around $4 a gallon...

Hotel Chatter : Every year's end we round up the best and the worst of the year that was, including the Must-Have Amenity, whatever hot ...

Aromatherapy Associates Room 77 : Road warriors confess to amassing a treasure trove of toiletries from their travels. There are those wh...