Articles tagged “starwood”

Following this trend, there may soon be customized amenity packages for Brazilian, Russian, and Indian guests at all major hotel properties as the groups compete to gain brand awareness with the growing and lucrative customer base.

The W brand has a knack for taking more design risks than the average corporate hotel chain, as well as implementing designs that don't sacrifice usability for bling.

The Philadelphia airport hotels aren't marquee properties in Starwood's quiver, but the latter's willingness to put the hotels up for sale speaks to the desire for hotel companies to rid themselves of real estate and focus on management.

The reliance upon a card that Aloft must send you in the mail seems like a step back rather than forward for all but the most frequent and loyal customers. Here's hoping Starwood expands this across all their brands for a much more useful service.

Rival execs mocked Starwood's decision to relocate, but the brand's leaders are definitely learning more on site than they are mulling over spreadsheets in a corporate campus.

Starwood spots a market where domestic and international tourism is on the rise, but will minimize entrance costs by converting smaller brands’ properties.

Starwood's rivals said its Dubai move was a gimmick, but the gimmick has concrete results, especially for its Le Meredien brand.

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.

Starwood has said Asia is where it wants its future to be, and China has to figure there in a big way.