Villa Passalacqua on Lake Como is one of Preferred Hotels & Resorts' new additions for next year. The hotel, which opened in June, was formerly an 18th-century building once owned by Count Andrea Lucini Passalacqua, and is a partner of the renowned Grand Hotel Tremezzo. From Napoleon Bonaparte to Winston…

After a difficult two years for the hotel industry a&o Hostels is relaunching in Italy with the opening of a hostel in Florence in the second quarter of 2023. With 140 keys and a total of 500 beds it follows the two properties that opened in in Venezia Mestre in…

There has always been a fatal attraction between the world of fashion and the hospitality industry. Now it’s the turn of German fashion designer Philipp Plein, who has just announced that his first hotel in Milan will open in the middle of next year. The news follows that of his…

The new formula of the long-stay hotel by Sweetguest allows travellers to the northern Italian city of Trieste to stay for longer periods of time in designer apartments with the comforts of a 4-star hotel and with office space too. Four different sizes of apartment There are four types of…

Smy Hotels, the Logitravel Group’s hotel management chain has added a new hotel in Ostia, the seaside town near Rome, to its Italian properties. Acquired under a rental contract, the Smy Aran Blu Roma Mare is a 4-star hotel on the seafront 300 meters from Ostia’s little port. On five…

Bluserena, founded in 1985 by Carlo Maresca, manages a portfolio of 13 hotels (eight of which it owns) in the main Italian tourist destinations including Sardinia, Sicily, Apulia, Abruzzo, Piedmont and Calabria. The Bluserean portfolio of over 4,200 rooms in eleven 4-star hotels and two 5-star resorts, has now been…

The first Italian W Hotel opened its doors a few days ago in Rome. The W Hotel Rome which has 162 rooms in two adjacent 19th-century buildings is located near the Spanish Steps. The property is owned by alternative investment firm King Street Capital Management in partnership with developer Omnam…