From 2020, Hilton is making its partnership with social enterprise Clean the World – which recycles used hotel soap for communities struggling with disease – a brand standard
Setting the trend for luxury bunk rooms, emerging boutique hotel brand Life House will be unveiling its third property in Miami in February, with another four US locations to follow in the first half of 2020
From Air New Zealand to Mandarin Oriental, airlines and hotels around the world are working to eliminate single-use plastic to make travel more sustainable, as public appetite for eco-friendly alternatives increases
Coming to Japan in spring 2020, the Ace Hotel Kyoto will be part of a larger cultural hub and hipster hangout in a city famous for its Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines
Hoxton hotels are encouraging guests to arrive and depart whenever they like with a new 'Flexy Time' concept, allowing free 24-hour flexible check-ins and check-outs
Space may be the final frontier but it looks soon to be conquered thanks to Californian start-up, the Gateway Foundation, which wants to put a hotel called the
The North Pole Igloos hotel is a luxury pop-up camp that will be installed for one month only on the North Pole in 2020. Only accessible by helicopter, it will
Up until recently, visitors to Tokyo mainly had the choice of business hotels, traditional ryokans, capsule hotels and Airbnbs, but now the trendy Trunk House a
Music streaming platform Tidal has partnered with hospitality group sbe to create bespoke playlists for the hotels under its SLS, Mondrian, Hyde and Delano Hous
From an artist-in-residence programme to high-end vending machines, the Bankside hotel in London has a number of innovative features, demonstrating there is sco
Described as a 'sustainable city sanctuary', the new flagship 1 Hotel West Hollywood is decked out in salvaged pine, has beehives, an organic vegetable garden,
Named after the average human lifespan, 700,000 Heures is the world's first 'wandering' hotel, opening every six months in a new place before disappearing forev
Marriott International is opening a series of new luxury all-inclusive resorts between 2022 and 2025, proving that even wealthy travellers don't like paying for
A trendy Jo and Joe hotel is opening in an IKEA store in Vienna in 2021, where young people can sleep, socialise and shop for furniture. Anthony Pearce reports
A new sister brand to eco-luxury 1 Hotels, the Treehouse hotel will open in London this November, complete with resident horticulturalists, 'farm-to-glass' co
Trendy hotel chain The Standard has a dedicated social networking app called Lobby that allows guests to communicate with one another when they check-in. It is
After a soft launch earlier this year, the remote eco-paradise of Islas Secas will be opening as a full-service, off-the-grid resort in December 2019. It will
Have you every dreamed of staying the night in an furniture showroom, slipping into a comfy bed on the shop floor? Now, US furniture design studio Stephen Kenn
From kelp jerky to Moon Juice adaptogens, the new Equinox Hotel in New York has reimagined the minibar as a source of super-healthy goodness rather than shamefu
Luxury hotel group Aman Resorts has announced its first venture into Saudi Arabia, suggesting the country will be opening up to tourism, at the same time as loc
Inhabit, a new hotel brand with a homelike feel, has opened London’s first mindfulness boutique property in Paddington with anti-pollution filters, food-waste i
Casa Cook is a trend-conscious boutique hotel brand from package holiday company Thomas Cook. It opened its fourth property in Ibiza this summer. Jenny Southan
With an increasing number of travellers cooking their own meals in Airbnbs or ordering food to their room via apps such as Deliveroo, how can hotels continue ju
