Need a hotel room? Lots of new options await

By Joe Brancatelli

Four in ten hotel rooms are empty on an average night, which means the lodging industry has too much supply and too little demand. But that’s not stopping the major hotel chains from continuing to open new properties. So get ready for latest newbies.

• Marriott opened the first of its Edition hotels, the brand it’s launching with Ian Schrager. It’s located in what once was the Ala Wai Tower of the old Ilikai hotel just outside of Waikiki in Honolulu.
• On another island, the Staten Island borough of New York, Holiday Inn Express has opened a 95-room property. Elsewhere in New York, Starwood has opened a 369-room Sheraton on Canal Street, where three Manhattan neighborhoods meet.
• Also from Starwood: a 222-room Four Points by Sheraton in Lagos, Nigeria, and a 150-room Four Points near Tucson Airport.
• The Palace Kamp Hotel at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport has been rebranded as the Hotel Glo. That’s Palace Kamp’s new boutique brand. The Glo is the only hotel locatedinside Vanta’s terminal building.

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