Tag: "Hotel"

Luxury hotel brand Six Senses with 57 guest rooms and suites and 21 residences will be developed in Myoko Suginohara Ski Resort area in Niigata Prefecture. The construction will begin in April 2026.

The average occupancy rate of 113 hotels in Kyoto City was 76.8% in August 2025, and ADR was down 6.7% to 16,863 yen. DMO KYOTO has forecasted that the occupancy rates are expected to be 86.2% in October.

Michelin Guide unveiled 128 Michelin Key 2025 hotels and ryokans in Japan. 3 Michelin keys go to ‘Asaba’ in Shizuoka for the firs time (promoted from 2 key) in addition to six hotels selected last year.

Prince Hotels Worldwide (SPW) will acquire all stocks of Seattle-based lifestyle hotel brand Ace Group International LLC (AGI) at up to $90 million. SPW is going to accelerate its global business development strategy.

LOTTE Holdings, a Japan-Korea conglomerate, launched ‘LOTTE HOTEL JAPAN’ in order to expand the hotel business in Japan to 4,500 rooms of 20 hotels in the next decade.

OMO Hotel, a Hoshino Resort brand, expanded local-based nightlife event ‘Local Rhythm Night' to 11 hotels nationwide in Japan. It is an event that guests enjoy original cultures in a destination.

Mercure, an Accor brand, and Tokyu Stay, a Tokyu Resorts & Stay brand, will open double-brand hotel ‘Tokyu Stay Mercure Hiroshima’ in May 2026.

Airbnb Partners and Daiwa House are developing the next generation apartment ‘Sumu powered by Airbnb Partners (Sumu)’ in Taito, Tokyo, for which CCC provides indoor contents.

The Tokyo Shoko Research survey finds that unit price of 15 budget city hotel brands of 13 listed companies kept rising in March 2025. The highest growth was seen in ‘Tokyu Stay’ at 20.4%.

Klook formed a partnership with Hoshino Resorts to encourage Klook users to visit local cities in Japan for decentralization of inbound tourists to Japan.

LIINE Yahoo, a Japanese communication app, has begun offering a new function that generative AI summarize word-of-mouths for accommodations on Yahoo! search.

Daiwa House Industry, a Japan’s leading house maker, signed a comprehensive partnership agreement with Airbnb Japan to launch a new brand ‘Sumu powered by Airbnb Partners’ for longterm stay.

Hoshino Resort, a Japanese hotel operator, launched a new brand ‘LUCY’ specializing in mountain tourism as its sixth brand. ‘LUCY Oze Hatomachi,’ will open in Oze National Park, Gunma Prefecture on September 1 2025.

(PR) ‘Digital Travel APAC 2025,’ an event for the digital travel industry in Asian and Pacific region, will open for two days from August 12 2025 in Singapore, where over 50 experts will discuss the Future of Travel.

International guest nights in January 2025 were up 34.8% year on year to 15.2 million in January 2025, and the growth rate was higher than 22.9% in December 2024.

Hyatt Hotels launched a new upper-middle short-stay brand ‘Hyatt Select,’ which offers effective and reasonable stay, keeping basic comfortability.

The number of international guests in December 2024 was up 22.9% year on year to 15.4 million. The ratio of those staying in local regions expanded from 28.2% in December 2022 to 33.6% in December 2024.

IHG Hotels & Resorts announced that its opened hotels in Japan have reach 50 in total, as three new brands of Six Senses,’ ‘Vignette Collection’ and ‘Garner’ recently entered Japan for the first time.

Hotel Okura, a Japanese prestige hotel brand formed a strategic alliance with Plataran Indonesia, a resort hotel brand of Indonesia, for business collaborations. They saw many common grounds in management philosophy.

The occupancy rate of hotels in Kyoto City was 78.5% in 2024, 5.1 higher points than 2023. The average daily rate (ADR) was record-high 20,195 yen, higher than 17,403 yen in 2023 or 15,610 yen in 2019.