CA License #01216856
New Gaylord Pacific Resort boosts room openings count With 1,600 keys, the Gaylord Pacific Resort & Convention Center in Chula Vista is the largest hotel to open in California during the first half of the year. (CoStar) By Bryan Wroten | CoStar News | July 11, 2025 | 6:38 AM The number of hotel openings in…
Hotel is an East Bay landmark By George Avalos | gavalos@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News GroupUPDATED: July 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM PDT OAKLAND — A lender has taken ownership of Oakland’s biggest hotel through a foreclosure that underscores the ailments and price nosedives that plague the Bay Area’s sickly lodging market. The Oakland Marriott City Center hotel was taken…
By John Gittelsohn | July 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM PDT French luxury giant LVMH Moët Hennessey Louis Vuitton SE is selling its only US hotel, the El Encanto in Santa Barbara, California. The 90-room property — in a coastal getaway northwest of Los Angeles — is being purchased by a partnership of brothers Justin and Tyler Mateen and Culver…
By Roger Vincent – Staff Writer July 8, 2025 3 AM PT The five-star El Encanto resort in Santa Barbara, a Hollywood getaway for more than a century where rooms cost north of $1,000 a night, has been sold to Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen for $82.2 million. Mateen bought the historic hotel in one of the city’s…
The conversion of the office building on Broadway to a hotel is believed to be the largest in California in recent memory By Lori Weisberg | The San Diego Union-Tribune | PUBLISHED: July 4, 2025 at 6:00 AM PDT A now vacant office high-rise in downtown San Diego will be transformed into a 560-room Hyatt hotel, marking what…
Developer J Street partners with Hyatt on $250 million hospitality complexBy Lou Hirsh | CoStar News | June 26, 2025 | 3:30 P.M. Developer J Street is planning what it calls one of the largest office-to-hospitality conversions ever undertaken in Southern California as owners around the country try to shift workspaces into a wider variety of…
Two of the properties are owned by the Wyndham hospitality group. Veronika Bondarenko | Updated: Jun 17, 2025 6:06 AM EDT n the tourism and hospitality industry, the first six months of 2025 were dominated by a number of high-profile airline bankruptcies. Following a wider restructuring that will take the budget airline private, Spirit Airlines (SAVE) emerged just four…
In response to a new wage hike for hotel and certain airport workers, a group of business leaders plan to bring the issue to voters. By Howard Fine | June 16, 2025 Employers in L.A.’s tourism sector are trying to overturn the city’s newly enacted hike in the minimum wage for hotel and private sector airport…
Opportunities and challenges await ‘beautiful ‘ old South Bay hotel By GEORGE AVALOS | gavalos@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News GroupPUBLISHED: June 1, 2025 at 5:00 AM PDT SAN JOSE — As it celebrates its 120th anniversary, the historic Hayes Mansion continues to navigate the tricky currents of the post-COVID economy and set itself apart from…
by advertising April 4, 202570 Gambling is an incredibly popular pastime in California, with many punters either using online casinos or visiting their brick-and-mortar counterparts to feel the thrill of the game. As such, the state is a prime location for casino hotels, with many of these institutions regularly welcoming gamblers from across the globe. Although…
Downtown San Jose shows recent strength in hopeful indicator By George Avalos | gavalos@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group UPDATED: March 31, 2025 at 7:30 AM PDT SAN JOSE — As Bay Area hotels remain well below the lofty levels of success they had achieved before the onset of lockdowns to combat the spread of COVID-19, some lodging hubs in…
SFGATE contributor Randy Diamond recaps the latest in San Francisco hotel news for the column Get a Room The Ferry Building in San Francisco during sunset. This week in Get a Room, SFGATE’s roundup of news on hotels, we start by examining 2024 hotel openings across California.Joe Daniel Price/Getty Images By Randy Diamond, Freelance Writer |…
Atlas Hospitality Group, which specializes in the sale of California hotels, was founded by Alan X. Reay in 1997. Since its inception, Atlas has sold more hotels in the state than any other brokerage firm.