Best Western has opened its first hotel in Laos. Enjoying a prime location in the capital city Vientiane, it is the first property in the chain’s plans for a network of hotels around the beautiful country.

Cedar Court Hotels, Yorkshire’s largest independent hotel group, is investing £20m in a five-star project in York to create the Cedar Court Grand Hotel & Spa.

The Rezidor Hotel Group, one of the fastest growing hotel companies worldwide, announces the Park Inn Lipetsk in Russia. The new hotel featuring 237 rooms is under construction and scheduled to open its doors in 2012.

When the beaming smiles of the doormen at Four Seasons Hotel Beirut dazzle their very first guests, the city will take another quantum step forward in its renaissance as a 21st century metropolis. There are few in Beirut who won’t share the uniformed front men’s sense of pride; ten years in the planning and five years under construction, the Hotel opens as a gleaming statement of intent for the whole country: Come experience warm, genuine Lebanese hospitality.

The Rezidor Hotel Group, one of the fastest growing hotel companies worldwide, has opened their very first hotel in the Spanish Capital Madrid: The Radisson Blu Hotel, Madrid Prado truly raises the bar for boutique-style luxury in the heart of town.

Regal iClub Hotel, Regal Hotels International’s latest and the sixth hotel property in Hong Kong, has soft opened.