A thousand little decisions, from the brightness of the lights to the placement of trash cans, go into the layout of hotel rooms. WSJ's Andrea Petersen discusses Marriott’s innovation lab, where ...

Ben Schlappig, a 26-year-old travel blogger and consultant, has spent more nights in hotels than many people will in a lifetime. So he knows firsthand about the changing design of guest rooms ...

His own pet hotel room peeve as a traveller is poor lighting design which he describes as the "biggest sticking point in almost any hotel design because different operators have different visions".

It's rare to patent a new hotel room design. None of IHG's competitors in this space, including Accor and Marriott, are thought to have applied for or received comparable patients. Similar room-of ...

A rising trend in hotel design is to only have glass walls separating the main room from the bathroom.Credit: Alamy It's generally considered a nice thing when the walls come down in a relationship.

Michelin-starred chef Massimo Falsini has worked in hotels for over 30 years. Falsini told BI that whether a hotel is vertical or horizontal completely changes your room service. Luxury vertical ...