New Year celebration time at Denver Marriott was highly disturbed by the chaos that started among the New Year guests at the hotel on noticing that their room keys suddenly stopped working when the clock struck midnight.

The malfunctioning of the keys locked the guests out of their rooms until 3 am.

On Tuesday, the world’s largest hotel group by rooms, InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (IHG) revealed that its first-quarter profit has increased by 28%. The hotel has almost 650,000 rooms in the Americas. InterContinental also owns hotel brands such as Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn, Hotel Indigo and Centra.

The historical Carlton Hotel in Christchurch, which was around 105 years old, was demolished on Saturday evening. The building was pulled down because of the February’s earthquake.

CEO of InterContinental Hotels (IHG. L) Andrew Cosslett announced unexpectedly that he would step down from his position as of June 30, and that Finance Director of the company Richard Solomons would replace him in the role. IHG. L, the largest hotelier in the world, said that there would be no change in the strategy of the company once Cosslett stepped down.

There are reports that the oldest hotel and strip resort would close down after May 16. Sahara Hotel and Casino, the oldest in Las Vegas would finally have its curtains down on May 16 after the owners have decided not to go for the redevelopment of this place.

Travelodge, the budget hotel chain will be reporting of a thirteen per cent sales growth for last year, with a forecast for further expansion this year.

The chain will be announcing today of a like-for-like growth of 6 % led by eleven per cent growth in London, and a total of 7.2million room sales, with thirteen million customers, up twelve per cent from the previous year.

A conglomerate has purchased the Hooters of America Inc. based in Atlanta and its restaurant chain.

One of the nation's leading hotel groups, Marriott International, stated that it is pulling access to adult movies from new hotel rooms that it will open in the years to come.

Luxury hotels in Melbourne happen to be the best around and why not? It is one of those cities in Australia, which is brimming with cosmopolitanism. However, if you have been at a hotel in Melbourne you also need to be informed that the room that you stayed in might not have been that clean.

One-upmanship is something very common in this town and it witnesses the opening of a new costly casino every year so the addition of another casino named Cosmopolitan worth 3.9 billion dollars to become the thirty fourth casinos in Las Vegas on Wednesday was not very surprising.