Scottsdale will be one of the first destinations to debut another hotel brand for the hip traveler. The first Cambria Suites is slated to open late this year in Boise, Idaho, said Robin Ferrier, spokeswoman for Choice Hotels International, parent company for the new chain.

A two-story Comfort Inn and Suites under construction in downtown Mesa will be the area’s first new hotel in a generation.

An official grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held Thursday at the Best Western Legacy Inn & Suites, which is the first Best Western-branded hotel in Gilbert.

Mesa has a history of attracting low-budget motels, but that trend is about to change.

Chandler could land an Arizona exclusive — a Renaissance Club Sport, hotel giant Marriott International’s newest concept.

The new, moderately priced James Hotels will have a lot of the same features as the hip but pricey W boutique hotels — and that’s no accident.

Camelback Inn kept its five-diamond rating for the 32nd year in a row, and The Phoenician snagged a record double dose.

The elegant Hermosa Inn in Paradise Valley will get a little more so with a planned redevelopment effort that will nearly double the value of the property.

A new hotel is headed to Warner Road and 56th Street in Tempe.

Marriott International CEO Bill Marriott on Wednesday celebrated his 76th birthday and touted the partially completed $45 million makeover of Camelback Inn, his favorite hotel.

In one day, Gilbert nearly doubled the number of hotel rooms it offers.

As one hotel prepares to open in Gilbert, two others have been removed from the drawing board.

Travel guides point to Mesa as the budget motel capital of the East Valley, but the higher-quality hotel drought that has plagued the city for about eight years is starting to let up.

Acrobats flipped between two poles and over a cozy Hyatt Place hotel bed Thursday as Gilbert ushered in a new but long-awaited era - of having hotels.

December 31, 2004

There’s not a guest room to spare at the 730-room Westin Kierland Resort and Spa on the Scottsdale-Phoenix border today, and there won’t be any available until Tuesday.

Valley hotels overall show a major boost in business in September, with both occupancy — the percent of available rooms actually filled — and average daily rate racking up big increases, U.S. lodging industry trackers Smith Travel Research reports.

As progress in Apache Junction steams ahead to pave the way for urbanization, it also leaves in its wake the last sepia-toned vestiges of the wildest Western town in the East Valley. The Grand Hotel — which once drew to Apache Junction the likes of John Wayne, Audie Murphy and Elvis Presley — will be razed by its new owner, Apache Junction Town Centre, LLC.

Like Eloise, the fictional little girl who resides at The Plaza in New York, or Howard Hughes, who spent his senior years at the Las Vegas Hilton, people want to live in hotels. Now they can. What was once a celebrity extravagance has become a new national norm in luxury housing.

In 2004, East Valley hoteliers saw profits inch upward after several years of back sliding, but the recovery didn’t gain much steam until this year. Nationwide, hotel revenue hit an all time high of $113.7 billion in 2004, according to a report by industry trackers Tennessee-based Smith Travel Research.