2 FEB: Room service now comes with a very different smell at a chain of hotels in the US.

24 NOV: A Copenhagen hotel will continue to offer a floor exclusively for women, despite a recent ruling that doing so is discriminatory and illegal, it said on Tuesday.

22 NOV: The upmarket Peninsula Hotels chain will stop serving shark fin in recognition of the threat to global shark numbers, its parent company announced in Hong Kong yesterday.

26 OCT: A UK hotelier is suing TripAdvisor after the hotel was accused of featuring fake reviews on its website.

25 OCT: The first property in the new Virgin Hotels chain will be in Chicago, USA Today reports.

19 OCT: The Ritz hotel in Paris is going to close for more than two years for what management calls an "unprecedented renovation project".

7 OCT: The landmark Westin Bonaventure hotel in Los Angeles has completed the biggest renovation in its 35 years of operation.

6 OCT: A hotel in the US is facing an unusual racial discrimination lawsuit.

5 SEP: Hotel investment company M Waikiki LLC has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a move which it says allows it to reorganise in an effort to protect its investment in the 353-room Waikiki hotel The Modern Honolulu.

5 SEP: Britain famous Cliveden stately home hotel is about to change hands for more than £57m, The Guardian newspaper reports.