Luxury Hotels

5 luxury hotels to open in Taiwan in 2024 | Taiwan News

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan’s travel industry expects inbound tourism to recover, providing impetus for five new luxury hotels to open in the first half of 2024. Each luxury hotel is either owned by a domestic construction company, an international hotel chain, or overseas business groups eager to enter the Taiwan market. The five hotels expected to open soon are the Sotetsu Grand Fresa Taipei Ximen, voco Chiayi, Wen Wan Resort, InterContinental Taichung, and Episode Daan Taipei, per UDN. Among the new hotels, the largest is Voco Chiayi, with 370 rooms. Meanwhile, the hotel with the… Read More
Luxury Hotels

Boutique Hotel Pipeline Is Growing Fast – but Forecasts May Be Too High

Skift Take If all the US hotels planned in the lifestyle and soft-branded segments between 2024 and 2027 actually get built, it would mean 29% a year of pipeline growth on average. Color us doubtful. Sean O’Neill US hotel groups and developers have a red-hot interest in lifestyle hotels, soft-branded hotel collections, and independently-run boutique hotels. A new report suggests just how hot — even if actual development may not meet the loftiest goals. Developers and hotel groups have proposed nearly 60,000 branded lifestyle and soft-branded boutique hotels to open between mid-2023 and 2027, according to an analysis by The… Read More