The union representing many of Boston’s hotel workers announced that employees are walking off the job at four new hotels in the city amid an ongoing dispute with ownership about working conditions and pay.
Some 10,000 hotel workers represented by the UNITE HERE union walked off the job Sunday at 24 hotels in eight cities, including Boston, demanding higher wages and a reversal of service and staffing cuts.
“Unless something shifts, I think there will be a significant disruption in the hospitality industry over the fall,” a top union leader says.
Dismissed as an obsolete money pit by former Gov. Charlie Baker, the revived Hynes Convention Center is forging new relationships with Back Bay hotel owners to ensure future meeting attendees can find convenient lodgings.
Our outlook remains optimistic for the Boston market, fueled by group and convention travel, as well as an increase in global tourism and the absence of any significant new hotel developments.
Harvard Allston Land Corp. CEO Carl Rodrigues sees the mass timber conference hall and 250-key hotel rising as key differentiators for the company’s four-building development rising rapidly in Allston.
A recent survey of banking and business contacts around New England found tourism to be a bright spot in the regional economy, one with a “very bullish” outlook for the remainder of 2024.
Boston’s limited number of hotel rooms makes the city one of the country’s most expensive convention destinations, state officials were told last week. That information could weigh on an in-limbo process to redevelop parking lots near the city’s biggest convention center.
A hand-drawn mural, a toy closet for young guests and a new restaurant are among the updates to the older of Boston’s two Four Seasons Hotels, recently completed by Shawmut Design and Construction.
Shuttered hotels and skeleton-crew staffs are fading into distant memory as the Boston lodging market approaches a full financial recovery from the depths of their pandemic plunge.
A 15-story hotel approved for site near Boston’s North Station in 2014 but never built is being resurrected by its developer.
The new owners of the former Loews Boston hotel will spend $20 million on updates and renovations of the 225-room property following a $117 million acquisition.
Online arts magazine Vanyaland will produce a series of live performances and has curated playlists from local musicians in the common areas and private function rooms at Somerville’s newest hotel.
Northeastern’s attempt to rent hundreds of rooms in the Sheraton Boston can make a difference reducing pressure on working families’ rents by taking students out of the market. Then why aren’t NEU students supporting it?
Rubbery chicken and a burger used to be de rigueur for menus at hotel restaurants. Now, those old concepts being replaced by chef-driven ventures that act as amenities for upscale properties.
Boston was amongst the hardest hit regions during the pandemic. And the slow return of corporate, group and international travel has lengthened area hotels’ road to recovery.
Martha Sheridan, CEO of Greater Boston’s Convention and Visitors Bureau, has a new source of funding at her disposal to shore up the battered hospitality industry as 2022 opens with uncertainty.
Buoyed by a passenger surge in July, Massachusetts Port Authority officials are optimistic that the return of air travel through Logan International Airport is outpacing their earlier projections even as the Delta variant portends a forthcoming slowdown.
As the downtown economy reopens, Boston is set to absorb nearly 2,200 additional hotel rooms this year. The additional 5.5 percent in room supply is the largest in 20 years, and it hits a market that suffered the nation’s second-worst financial performance after New York City in 2020.
The pandemic upended hotels’ business models and forced owners to rethink their strategies for operations, branding and property upgrades. Beverly-headquartered CHMWarnick and its president Chad Crandell step in.
