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...The US short-term rental group is a top-level sponsor of the games....
...The deal marks the end of CPI Property Group’s ownership of the resort....
...Reddit expects to launch an IPO this year, after lodging a confidential filing to go public with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in December....
...After years of criticism for its light-touch approach to moderation, Huffman has slowly sought to temper the dark underbelly of the platform — once a hotbed for far-right and misogynist groups — though this...
...In the US, occupancy rates and room revenues are nearing pre-pandemic levels, according to the American Hotel and Lodging Association....
...Rising inflation may drive more families to become Airbnb hosts, its co-founder and chief executive said, as investors raised concerns over limited supply on the lodging platform as demand returns....
...Bad education A global group of elite international private schools cater to the future-Davos crowd....
...The private equity group has teamed up with Starwood Capital, sometime creator of Starwood Hotels, to acquire the mid-priced hotel chain....
...In March, US lodging chain Extended Stay America announced that it would be acquired by a partnership that included Blackstone for $6bn....
...In February 2014, White Lodging Services Corporation, a hotel management company, reported a breach that began the previous year and affected Renaissance and Holiday Inn hotels....
...Morgan Stanley has a note out today arguing that Airbnb is less of a threat to the lodging and travel industries than they thought just a year ago....
...Importantly, Mr Khosrowshahi has seen at first hand what happens to industry-leading groups that suddenly become also-rans....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on July 13, 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Accommodation has “consolidated, couch to castle”, he adds, referring to the different types of lodgings now available on the same platform....
...• Shiva Iyer is rejoining Eaton Vance, the $34bn US asset manager, as a senior global income trader. Mr Iyer, who will be based in Singapore, previously worked for Goldman Sachs....
...But if a group led by Chinese insurer Anbang has its way, those plans will not only unravel but also establish a new challenger in the global lodging industry with ambitions to grow rapidly through acquisitions...
...(The UK pharmaceuticals group may appeal against the ruling.) No company wants to give up a profitable position in its market. Leadership is often hard-won....
...Calls to the lodgings in the city’s Pudong district went unanswered. An automatic ringtone identified one of the premises as the Vienna Shanghai Disney....
...The San Francisco-based group has fought back in recent months, lodging complaints with the commission aimed at the French, German and Spanish governments, which have tried to limit or ban the service....
...Hilton is selling the Waldorf Astoria New York hotel, a Manhattan landmark, to Chinese insurance group Anbang for $1.95bn....
...Around the flickering flames of an outdoor fireplace, cold beer is flowing and salty epithets are flying as a group of nomadic American oil workers rue the fickle price of a barrel of crude....
...Huawei, the Chinese telecoms equipment group, has publicly labelled this practice “unfair”....
...At a trade conference in New York this summer, Richard Solomons, IHG chief executive, demanded a “level playing field” on regulation, and accused Airbnb of “doing nothing to create jobs in the lodging industry...
...For example, China Lodging Group [the budget hotel chain with more than 1,000 properties in China] listed on Nasdaq in 2010, in spite of being very much based in China.”...
...Blackstone, meanwhile, owns a giant chunk of Hilton, which it took public in the biggest-ever lodging IPO last year....
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