IHG Hotels & Resorts will operate the Athénée Palace hotel owned by Romanian ANA Hotels under a management contract, starting from 2023. Following the rebranding process, Athénée Palace Hilton will become InterContinental Athénée Palace Bucharest. 

The first Marriott Hotel in Brașov will open in the mixed-use scheme Urban Plaza that will include apartments, offices and commercial areas.

The Julius Meinl family has opened a new hospitality project in Prague with 168 accommodation units. Designed by architecture and design firm Matteo Thun & Partners, The Julius Prague has been created to cater for both short and long-term stays. Spacious communal areas, relaxing lounges and professional co-working spaces enable guests to network, meet like-minded people or unplug.

A new five-star Radisson Blu Hotel has opened in Cluj-Napoca, Romania’s second largest city that is one of the most popular leisure and business destinations in the country.

IHG continues the expansion of its luxury & lifestyle growth in Europe with InterContinental Tirana set to open in 2025.

Equinox Nepremičnine d.d., the first public limited company on the Ljubljana Stock Exchange to engage in real estate leasing and development, has just negotiated a strategic 20-year lease on Grand Hotel Union, uHotel and Hotel Lev in Ljubljana. The deal was signed with world-renowned Hotusa Group, for a cumulative rent exceeding €110 million. The operator search was exclusively organised by Cushman & Wakefield.  

The hotel will be erected on Hungaria Boulevard and is an investment of Europa Investment Property, which belongs to the Premiot investment group, Építészfórum reports.

Riga-based hotel operator Mogotel announced its debut in Hungary via LinkedIn. With the cooperation of Accor and the financial support of state-owned development finance institution ALTUM, Mogotel is bringing Novotel Budapest Centrum into its hotel family.

French group Accor will open a new Mercure hotel in Alba Iulia in the second quarter of 2024. The new Mercure Alba Iulia Cetate hotel will feature 112 rooms and apartments and facilities such as a restaurant, SPA and conference room. 

Radisson Hotel Group announced the debut of its luxury lifestyle Radisson Collection brand in Croatia, with the opening of Grand Hotel Brioni Pula, A Radisson Collection Hotel. This follows an extensive £30 million repositioning of the legendary Hotel Brioni, one of Croatia’s best-known hotels, by Radisson Hotel Group’s partner PPHE Hotel Group and its Croatian subsidiary Arena Hospitality Group.