American Express Global Business Travel (GBT) has launched Travel Vitals, a travel briefing platform that gives travelers and travel managers a single source for all the information they need before, during and after a business trip. Data is aggregated from hundreds of sources, allowing users to search travel guidelines by destination, airline, airport, hotel chain, train operator and ground transportation provider.

Opening in early 2021, Pan Pacific London hotel is touted as what will be the city’s new landmark tower just across from Liverpool Street Station. A highlight of the property will be the 5,000-square-foot Pacific Ballroom, the hotel’s largest and most flexible event space—and one of the largest hotel ballrooms in the Square Mile.

High George, the rooftop restaurant and bar at The Blake Hotel in New Haven, CT, has reopened with a springtime garden with seasonal greenery and décor to align with award-winning chef Anderson’s new spring dishes and drinks. The hotel touts the space as an "ideal New England destination for small meetings and events."

ITC Hotels, the first and largest chain of hotels in the world with maximum LEED Platinum Certified Properties, has been accorded another accolade: Welcomhotel Amritsar becomes Punjab’s first LEED Certified Hotel under the aegis of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). Spread across eight acres, Welcomhotel Amritsar has achieved a Platinum rating under LEED 2011 for India NC (New Construction) program within just seven months of its launch.

In accordance with directives from Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak and the Nevada Gaming Control Board, Caesars Entertainment Corporation resumed gaming and hospitality operations at Paris Las Vegas from June 18.

MGM Resorts International announced that Delano Las Vegas is set to reopen July 1. Delano will join the Bellagio, MGM Grand, New York-New York and Excalibur, which opened earlier this month, as well as Luxor (opening June 25), Mandalay Bay (opening July 1) and ARIA (opening July 1).

The business travel sector is showing higher levels of optimism of late, according to new research by the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA). Domestic and essential business travel will likely resume first, especially with industry standardized health and safety standards.

To continue to understand the effects of the coronavirus’s on business travel, GBTA conducted its eighth poll among membership from June 9 – 14, 2020. GBTA received responses from 1,708 member companies throughout the world.

To lower the risk for event planners and to add a layer of security, Kempinski Hotels is enhancing its set-ups for meetings and events by focusing on health and safety protocols, social distancing arrangements and adaptations in food and beverage service.

MGM Resorts International announced it will reopen Excalibur Hotel & Casino Thursday, June 11 following its closure earlier this year amidst the COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis. Excalibur joins MGM Resorts’ Bellagio, New York-New York, MGM Grand Las Vegas and The Signature, which all opened their doors in Las Vegas June 4.

What started as an in-room entertainment upgrade available at Florida Hotel and Conference Center in partnership with technology provider SONIFI Solutions, has turned into a safety platform through the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic.