Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide plans to open two Indianapolis-area aloft hotels in late 2009. The aloft Venu will be located in

Peggy Myers-Smith was named executive director/CEO of the Greater Morgantown (W.Va.) CVB in early December. Myers-Smith previously worked as

Delta Air Lines is adding five new flights from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) to the Caribbean and Central America in

Plans are in the works for a new Hotel Indigo here. The property, scheduled to open in early 2010, is expected to house 164 guest rooms, 15,000

The Amstar Group, Sage Hospitality Resources and Inland Pacific Companies acquired the Westin Westminster [Colo.] for an undisclosed amount. The

InterContinental Hotels Group plans to convert the Holiday Inn Denver International Airport into a Crowne Plaza early next year after a $10 million

Starwood Hotels & Resorts plans to open an Element hotel in Vintage Park, a shopping district in Houston, in spring 2009. The hotel is slated

The Hyatt Regency Mission Bay Spa and Marina, located here, plans to unveil its $60 million makeover Jan. 16. As part of the facelift, the hotel

Sonnenblick-Eichner Company purchased Portland’s Hotel Fifty for $19.3 million and plans to invest $7 million into renovating the property

The Ashman Court Hotel, located about 30 miles from Saginaw in Midland, Mich., was renamed H Hotel, a Dolce Hotel and Conference Destination, and is

Lumiere Place, a $507 million casino and entertainment complex in downtown St. Louis, opened Dec. 19. The mixed-use development includes a 75,000-

The Embassy Suites Tampa Brandon opened recently about seven miles from downtown Tampa, in Brandon, Fla. The hotel offers 147 guest suites and 3,

The Homewood Suites by Hilton Toronto-Markham opened Dec. 12 about 30 miles from Toronto in Markham, Ontario. The hotel houses 101 guest suites

San Francisco’s Crowne Plaza Union Square was reflagged Hotel 480 Dec. 15. The hotel offers 403 guest rooms and 10,000 square feet of

The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma plans to begin expanding its Choctaw Casino & Resort in January. The project, estimated to finish by the end

RockResorts opened The Landings, a 19-acre resort on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, Dec. 8. The condo-hotel resort debuted its first phase

HEI Hotels & Resorts, a Norwalk, Conn.-based hotel ownership and operating company, acquired the 234-suite Embassy Suites Tysons Corner in

The Hotel @ MIT here was recently converted into the Le Meridien Cambridge. The property offers 210 guest rooms and 7,700 square feet of meeting

The Le Meridien Philadelphia is scheduled to open in late spring 2009 near the city’s soon-to-be-expanded convention center. The property

The Connecticut Grand Hotel and Conference Center, located here, was reflagged a Holiday Inn Dec. 18. Construction is under way at the hotel on a