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Before the pandemic hit, hotel lobbies resembled social clubs — places where hotel guests and locals could work and play. Designers transformed lobbies into multi-functional spaces. The traditional...

Hotel restaurants have become a big part of culinary or gastronomic travel. Caesars Palace Las Vegas has a Gordon Ramsay Pub & Grill and Gordon Ramsay Hell’s Kitchen. The Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills...

At the Hilton Cartagena in Colombia, a plexiglass divider keeps the masked guests and employees from getting too close. To compensate for that and add a personal touch, the hotel has displayed a photo...

“I’ve always liked having a job where you could produce something tangible,” David explains, referring to his early years at the drive-thru. In high school, he also worked as a deli sandwich maker and...

Las Vegas was one of the first U.S. cities to reopen hotels and casinos after the pandemic shutdown. After closing down in mid-March, casino resorts began welcoming back guests in early June with...

It’s been six months since the travel industry came to a near standstill as the COVID-19 virus spread across the world. In that time, hotels shut their doors as people could no longer cross borders...

There were early calls for New York City, America’s epicenter of the virus, to quarantine the sick in hotel rooms, and the city’s first step was for some hotels to provide rooms for non-critical...

"When my husband and I got engaged, we were talking about the things we wanted to do in our lives. We both had the idea of opening an inn or bed and breakfast as a retirement option,” George says. At...

Christine Fin and Nick Jacobs both had backgrounds in the restaurant industry when they enrolled at ICE’s New York campus to pursue hospitality careers. “ICE's hospitality program was a fantastic...

As part of the partnership, ICE will offer three scholarships for its Hospitality & Hotel Management program and one scholarship for the Culinary Arts program annually. America’s oldest hotel...

Take the history of hotel keys. First, they were actual mechanical keys, then they eventually became credit-card-like keys that needed to be swiped or inserted, and now they’re usually the same kind...

Single-use plastics are defined by the United Nations Environment Program as “waste products of a throwaway culture that treats plastic as a disposable material rather than a valuable resource,” which...