Number of Rooms Canât Meet Surging Demand
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As if the sagging dollar and soaring oil costs werenât enough to dent travel budgets, hotel room rates are expected to surge in the coming year.
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Business & money: The rush to beat the information packs deadline means thousands of homes put up for sale are suddenly available to let, writes Andrew Moody.
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We consume more every year, and the building industry is no exception. But more complex buildings are creating bigger problems when it comes to dealing with waste.
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A new visitors' center is years overdue and hundreds of millions over budget. Why is that not surprising?
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With the growth of small-business and independent employee travel, booking sites are scrambling to serve this market.
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The airwaves that carry billions of calls, text messages and e-mails have become one of the hottest corporate properties. Not only are they in demand  by a nation of 240 million mobile-phone users, they are also in short supply.
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BEIJING  - It's the ultimate in home repair: hundreds of rooms, a century of fire damage and neglect and steadily mounting wear and tear from seven million visitors a year.
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There looks to be more room for healthy growth.
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Robert L. Johnsonâs calendar has become very crowded, thanks to a high-powered push to start and buy several companies.
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At the hotels where most business travelers stay, room service has not gotten the kind of attention that has been lavished on fancy spas â at least not yet.
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Seeking a higher profile and more visitors, the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum is proposing an expansion that would create three new floors.
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Two years ago, at the height of the housing boom, developers realized that hotel property had fallen out of favor. Residential property was worth more, and travelers weren't willing to pay top dollar to stay in fancy hotels.
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New figures suggest buying to let - a phenomenon of the housing boom - could be waning.
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The government's pledge to build an extra 3m homes by 2020 will not be enough, a housing agency warns.
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For the past six years, the convention and tourism industry has warned that the new Washington Convention Center would not live up to its promise without a $750 million, 1,400-room hotel right next door.
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Two gigantic halls, 300 elevators and escalators, and a bill of six billion euros (7.9 billion dollars): future Terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport, whose building site was opened Thursday in west London, must handle 100 million people every year.
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Business & money: Packs blamed for drop in number of four-bedroom homes on market.