Creative Restaurant Group (CRG), the London restaurant group behind Michelin-starred venues Endo at the Rotunda and HUMO, has promoted Milena Floyd to Chief Executive Officer as of September 2026. The appointment follows eighteen months at the helm as Managing Director, a role she took on in 2025 after joining the group in 2023 as Head of Operations. She will now take charge of the group's overall strategy and development trajectory across its full portfolio.

British group THE PIG Hotels has unveiled its tenth property, THE PIG-on the farm, due to open in summer 2027 on the historic Walton Estate in Warwickshire. Built around the restoration of a Grade II* listed manor house and its farm buildings, the project marks the restaurant-with-rooms group's most northerly and most ambitious development to date. The brand, which has owned the estate since 2022, began construction in January 2026 after several years of heritage groundwork.

🔎 Today's trend: hospitality is thriving on major events and mega-projects. Between a room rush in Montreal for the UCI Road World Championships, a $1.3 billion complex in Accra and the revival of a historic boutique hotel in Monaco, this week confirms hospitality's role as a global economic and tourism barometer.

Olinda Leung has been named Vice-President and General Manager of Sands Macao, the flagship property of Sands China Ltd, effective September 2026. The appointment caps a thirteen-year career within the group, built entirely around gaming operations at its integrated Cotai resorts.

Hotel group Ennismore, in partnership with real estate investor Propreal Capital Partners, announced on...

Rosewood will cease managing Rosewood Le Guanahani St Barth from 1 October 2026, ahead of a reopening announced for 1 November under the name Airelles Le Guanahani. The island's largest hotel property thus joins the collection of businessman Stéphane Courbit, who had expressed interest in Saint-Barthélemy as early as 2019. The deal marks Airelles' first foray into the Caribbean.

On 17 September 2026, Louvre Hotels Group presented progress on its renovation plan across three French regions: Brittany, Île-de-France and Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Backed by a national investment of more than €400 million, the programme aims to modernise 80% of the network by 2028, across both company-owned and franchised properties.

Ennismore, Accor's lifestyle joint venture, has appointed Llewellyn Wyeth, an Accor veteran, to the newly created role of Vice President of Operations for the Pacific, a position designed to support the group's growth in the region. Based in Australia, the former General Manager of the Pullman Adelaide brings more than twenty years of hotel leadership within Accor's Pacific network. The appointment comes as Ennismore builds out its regional organisation around a portfolio of five operating hotels and two further openings planned by 2027.

Soneva Group has announced the appointment of Pieter Van Der Hoeven as General Manager of Soneva Fushi in the Maldives. The hotelier takes up the role with more than three decades of experience leading luxury resorts across Asia and the Indian Ocean, including a recent term as Managing Director of Wafaifo Resort Hoi An in Vietnam. The appointment places a proven hand in destination design, opening and operations at the helm of one of the founding properties of Maldivian luxury hospitality.

Radisson Hotel Group and GDS-Movement have unveiled a guide in Brussels for associations and professional congress organisers (PCOs), designed to turn sustainability ambitions into measurable action. The document draws on GDS-Index data and offers practical frameworks for embedding sustainability into event planning, delivery and reporting. The initiative responds to a persistent gap between associations' stated interest in sustainability and its real-world implementation.

Minor Hotels has signed a management agreement with Trading Construction Works Organization for the Avani+ Hanoi, a 310-room hotel in the Bach Mai neighbourhood, at the heart of the Vietnamese capital. Scheduled to open in 2028, the property forms part of Hinode City, a large mixed-use development combining retail, leisure and residential space, and marks the group's entry into one of the country's principal metropolitan areas.

Journey Beyond, Australia's leading experiential tourism group, has announced the appointment of Jo Boundy as Managing Director, Resorts & Lodges. The former Chief Marketing Officer of Commonwealth Bank and Qantas Group will take up the role in Sydney from 9 November, leading a recently expanded division that brings together the group's full portfolio of accommodation assets. The appointment comes as Journey Beyond enters a phase of strategic restructuring amid continued growth of its resort portfolio.