Articles tagged “real estate”

Hotels

Starwood will unload $3 billion in real estate, focus on management contracts

Starwood believes the timing is right to get out of the real estate business to a great extent as it joins Marriott and InterContinental in focusing on management fees as the more stable and lucrative revenue stream.

Zainab Fattah, Bloomberg | 11 years ago

Tourism

Property tourists after “safe havens” seen as bright lights in London economy

Angela Monaghan, The Daily Telegraph | 11 years ago

Hotels

Sri Lanka bans land sales to foreigners: There’s goes a villa on Bay of Bengal

Sri Lanka isn’t interested in the small boost in tourism it receives from private homes built on its plentiful beaches when that land could be turned into massive moneymaking resorts.

Reuters | 11 years ago

Hotels

Companies and visitors are trying harder than ever to get into Hawaii

Everyone wants a piece of Hawaii's success right now, and it owes this return to popularity both to its relationship to the western U.S. as well as China and Japan.

Nadja Brandt, Bloomberg | 11 years ago

Tourism

World’s most unlikely tourism and property buying booms

The world's old rich as well as the newly rich are seeking new vistas to live, retire and holiday in, and are going far and wide to some unlikely places.

Skift | 11 years ago

Tourism

Behind the $400 million-a-year nudist vacation industry in the U.S.

There's nothing like stripping it all off to embrace the day. Unfortunately for nudists trading real estate, there are some buyers who don't want to look behind the curtain.

Drew Harwell, Tampa Bay Times | 12 years ago

Hotels

Young billionaire hotelier shifts focus to offer international options in Singapore

Singapore hotels are some of the priciest in Southeast Asia so the market is wide open for RB Capital's plan to build hotel brands that foreign budget travelers will recognize and trust.

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

The world’s largest owner of hotel rooms wants to unload some real estate

Although Blackstone is only publicly speaking about commercial real estate now, it's hard to imagine that the private-equity giant won't look to unload a few of its 185,000 rooms -- or even the Hilton chain itself.

Skift | 12 years ago