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Changing times: When a premium brand, such as City Lodge Newtown, leaves a historic CBD site, it usually points to deeper issues. Photo: City Lodge

City Lodge bows out of Newtown

Once seen as part of Newtown’s revival, City Lodge’s closure points to deeper concerns about Johannesburg CBD’s viability for investors, visitors and hotel operators

A general view of solar panels on top of the Hemp Hotel in Cape Town on April 25, 2023.  (AFP)

World’s tallest ‘hemp hotel’ to open in Cape Town

Hemp bricks are becoming increasingly popular in construction because of their insulating, fire-resistant and climate-friendly properties

Courtyard Hotel WaterfallCity-TheHighline

Where to from here for the hotel and hospitality industry?

Innovation is the metronome to the rhythm of survival and triumph

Daycations

You deserve a break

Wander List

Africa’s first sleep rooms are designed for better sleep

Let’s get some rest

Wander List

Regency Hotel Group (Photo Archive)

Regency Hotel Group

Trailblazing Leadership

Birchwood Hotel (Photo Archive)

Birchwood Hotel

Trailblazing in the conference sector

Capital Hotels (Photo Archive)

Capital Hotels

Trailblazing the Apartment

US President Donald Trump speaks next to Vice President Mike Pence while meeting with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi at the White House in Washington, US, December 11 2018. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

China embraces love hotels

The country is witnessing a sexual revolution and business is booming for romantic short-stay hotels.

Laps of luxury: Stylish hotel, beautiful pool, sparkling seas and the lighthouse to match. (Supplied)

A good life on the rocks

Time stands still on the North Coast when you’re watched over by Umhlanga’s two-tone sentinel.

Marriott buys rooms to manoeuvre

The US hotelier hopes its deal with Protea will ‘jump-start’ its interests across the continent.

Ignatius Chombo has asked the city to pull out of the Hilton project.

Harare council told to abandon hotel project

Minister Ignatius Chombo has ordered Harare to withdraw from a partnership to build a $145-million hotel and to focus on service delivery.

The Elangeni and Maharani hotels in Durban where executive chef Shaun Munro and his team produce a never ending array of fine food for hungry guests. (Supplied)

Elangeni: The bed & breakfast of champions

The biggest hotel in the country with a lot of sporty mouths to feed. Matthew Burbidge undertakes a study of consumption.

Turned on in the city

Sean Hunter Christie takes an urban pilgrimage to Braamies, the historical ‘spring of brambles’ turned fountainhead for local creativity.

In bed with the best of them

Cat Pritchard beds down on the conservative side of a R300 000 mattress at the Taj hotel and finds herself waking up slightly right of centre.

Hotel staff clears alien vegetation

Adopt-a-Plot Project by the Vineyard Hotel & Spa is the runner-up in the Community Conservation Award.

Hotels look to cash in on World Cup

Hotels look to cash in on World Cup

About half of hotels, lodges and other accommodation in South Africa will charge premium rates during the World Cup.

Water-themed resort boosts Dubai’s tourist aspirations

Dubai boasts a new resort billed as unique in the Middle East: the ocean-themed Atlantis, where a night will cost up to $25 000.

Dubai ups the ante with $1,5bn hotel

It’s the latest word in Gulf excess — a sprawling ,5-billion resort boasting a 000-a-night suite and dolphins flown in from the South Pacific.

North Korea’s ‘Hotel of Doom’ wakes from its coma

Once dubbed by Esquire magazine as ”the worst building in the history of mankind”, the North Korea’s Ryugyong Hotel is back under construction.