Chapter Four

News

Openings, acquisitions, operators changing hands. Short items, filed as they happen, with the names and the numbers the source gave.

News · 27 July 2026

Aman Group Appoints Victor Clavell as Chief Operating Officer

The luxury group has hired the former Urban Resort Concepts chief executive to oversee global operations across Aman, Janu and its branded residence and lifestyle businesses.

News · 26 July 2026

Iberia Sees a Busy Week: Extendam Buys Three, IHG Signs 653 Rooms, Wilde Opens in Porto

Extendam has taken three rebranded Spanish hotels off Eurazeo, IHG has signed three Holiday Inn Express projects with Tikehau Capital's new Selecto platform, and Wilde has opened its second Portuguese aparthotel.

The Dispatch

Letters from the road, delivered quietly.

A monthly correspondence of new destinations, hotel openings, and slow reflections from our editors. No noise, only the essential.

One letter a month. Nothing else, and nobody else.